The shrill whistling sound was always followed by the dull roar of the cannonball, but the fall of the cannonball was already at sea before the whistling sound came, and it exploded on the ship, startling the column of water and the billowing smoke of gunpowder. The attacking side of the pen and the fun and the pavilion www.biquge.info faced the falling shells, and the falling shells did not stop for a while.

"Tell me...... How many cannons do they have? This powerful cannon with a super long range! The sweat on Lu Xun's forehead began to fall little by little, and after hearing the silent news of one battleship after another, and seeing the water columns and sparks from the falling cannonballs in front of him, he also couldn't help but show an anxious look, and he roared loudly. Did he think that his original layout was a deviation? Judging from the current situation, it seems that fast warships should be the main vanguard. After all, the enemy on the opposite side always attacked the warships in front of the formation of his own fleet, and these battleships were all the newly developed and powerful capital ships of the Jiangdong side. The combat effectiveness of these warships is strong, but the cost is also high, and the loss of each of them makes Lu Xun's heart throb for a while, which is millions of copper coins.

"It's estimated to be between three and eighteen!" The star calculator calculated the number of shells falling very accurately and gave Lu Xun a fairly accurate answer: "They don't have many cannons, but each cannon is very powerful, and their cannons are very accurate - in terms of the hit rate of a single cannon." ”

"Can you calculate the hit rate of their guns?" Lu Xun asked again, and he was angry and laughed back at the moment, but he was curious that Li Shengjun's cannon actually had such a high hit rate.

"It's about 20 percent. It's almost at the level of four guns and one hit! The star arithmetic officer was silent and calculated for a while, and quickly gave Lu Xun such an answer: "Their cannons are extremely powerful, and the range is extremely long, but it seems that they are in the same movement as us, and it is good to have such a level." ”

"Is that so? It's almost double the hit rate, which is really amazing. Lu Xun sighed, he didn't believe that this was the level that the other party could achieve, you must know that it is impossible for the current cannon to do this. He thought and looked up at the sky, and the skin above it was still floating in the sky. Lu Xun could see clearly, there were still people waving red flags above. "Maybe they're using the one above to scout the course of our fleet and guide them on the alignment of their guns." This is his Lu Xun's speculation, but it is very close to the truth. However, even if this is the case, Lu Xun himself has no way to solve this situation. The other party is in the sky, flying too high, he really has more than enough heart and strength, whether it is a bed crossbow or artillery, he can't hit so high.

"But...... OK! Although the opponent's artillery is extremely powerful and has a very short range gap, it is a small number, and the losses caused to it are always within the acceptable range of its own. Lu Xun, who had nothing to do about this matter, had to comfort himself in a whisper. This is a consolation, more than two hundred warships have lost more than 20 ships under the attack of the other party, which is absolutely nothing in terms of quantity, but it is very deadly in terms of quality, and it was bombarded by Li Sheng's shelling, but his capital ship of Dongwu, "damn it......" Lu Xun cursed fiercely.

However, although the other party was retreating, trying to keep a distance from himself by maneuvering, the distance between the two was shortening little by little under the surprise attack of the more speed-oriented Soochow naval army. Fast speed and heavy load, this is the special feature of the warships of the Jiangdong side, and it seems that only the Jiangdong side can build a warship that has the advantage on these two sides in the whole world. Compared with the Jiangdong battleships, Cao Wei's battleships were sturdy and heavily armored, while the battleships on Li Tang's side were powerful in firepower and had many guns. Although it seems that the three parties still have their own characteristics, the three characteristics in terms of the general direction illustrate the different understandings of the three parties on the warships used in naval warfare.

Of course, these are off-topic topics. The current situation is that as the distance between the two sides shortens little by little, the Jiangdong Army finally incorporated Li Shengjun's formation into its range after half an hour. At this moment, Li Shengjun has also completed the transformation of the formation, straightened the original wild goose line into the current battle line, and aimed his black cannon at the Jiangdong Army fleet that staggered with him. The real war was on the verge of breaking out at this time.

"Boom...... Long ...... "With a very orthodox cannon roar, the cannon sound that almost startled the Sea Dragon King suddenly rang out. At this moment, the two sides were no more than a mile apart, and it was within the reach of each other's main artillery. The Tang Army fleet, which had more than 100 ships, fought non-stop at the Jiangdong Army fleet of more than 200 ships, and the battle was also very fierce. From time to time, news of battle damage is reported to the ears of the commanders on both sides:

"Cruisers? Feather Yang sank ......"

"A third-class battleship? Zhenwu sank ......"

"Light battleships? South Ten Sunken ......"

"Heavy battleships? Fish intestines sink ......"

Different from Li Sheng's relatively modern division of cruisers, destroyers, and third-class battleships, the division of battleships by Sun Wu and Cao Wei was based on the original inland water army, and was roughly divided into: light ships of the destroyer class, fast ships of the cruiser class, heavy ships of the battleship class, temporary ships of the first class for contact warfare, fighting ships specially used for assault, and so on.

Time passed little by little, and the fierce artillery battle lasted for a full hour. It is true that Li Shengjun's side lost more than 30 warships under the constant shelling of the Jiangdong Army, and the Jiangdong Army also lost more than 50 warships under Li Shengjun's fierce counterattack. With both sides of the ship about the same size, and in close combat, the side with more guns and more firepower has far an advantage over the side with higher mobility, and it seems that it has completely become a fact that can be proved to be the truth. In the naval battle, the tactics used by Li Shengjun to concentrate a certain number of warships to attack the opponent at one point seemed to be much better than the method used by Lu Xun to bombard whoever he caught. This can be seen from the fact that Li Sheng's more than 100 warships caused far more than the Jiangdong Army's more than 200 warships. Although he was still a little conceited about himself in his heart, Lu Xun did not have to admit that if he had an orthodox artillery battle with Li Shengjun without using other special means and with equal strength, he would definitely lose himself.

"What is the distance between the two sides?" Lu Xun asked as usual. He simply turned a blind eye to the losses he had suffered. After seeing many battlefields, any surviving general has become like a stone in some aspects.

"One hundred and thirty zhang!" The star teller replied quickly.

"So it's less than a mile away?" Lu Xun's eyes lit up with the star arithmetic's answer.

"Yes!" The star reckoner nodded affirmatively.

"Then let's carry out the raid plan." Lu Xun thought for a while and gave an order: "The mother boat is released, I want to see what Li Shengjun uses to deal with the assault of our fireship under such circumstances." ”

The red flag was unfurled, the fighting ships were bowed, and those battleships, which seemed to be huge, swung sideways with unexpected lightness, and lowered the wooden planks blocking the bow. The belly of the giant ship was exposed, and more than a dozen small boats with only about 100 stones came out of it, but under the propulsion of the one-zhang circular water wheels on both sides, pulling a two-zhang high sail, they rushed towards Li Shengjun's battle line, and in an instant turned into countless sharp arrows dragging the trajectory.

"Avoid! The destroyer stepped forward to block ......! The commander of the Tang fleet, Shi Hong, shouted loudly. Despite the unexpected circumstances, he was the first to spot the deadly attack and quickly gave the right order.

But what he thinks is not as simple as Shihong thinks. Although he had reacted quickly, Lu Xun's timing was too accurate, so that even if he gave the order, he would not be able to stop the attack of those boats. However, at a distance of less than one hundred and thirty zhang, countless small boats passed by in an instant, but before the destroyers escorting the battleship arrived, they rushed into the blind spot of the battleship's range.

"Damn it!" Shihong slapped the railing in front of him fiercely, and let out an annoyed curse. At this moment, he had already discovered that something was wrong, and in desperation, all he could do was to do his last gift as much as possible: all ships were prepared to prevent collisions; The crossbowmen were prepared, and the second deck was all reloaded with shotguns.

At this moment, Li Shengjun's fleet was only less than thirty zhang away from the boats that were released. They want to crash into Li Shengjun's warship, but it's just a matter of a few breaths. In such a short period of time, it is obviously a bit whimsical to complete the orders given by Shihong, but just like all Shihong's own ideas of "doing as much as you can", these soldiers who have gradually grown up after several wars now also have the idea of doing as much as they can, and quickly began their own ways of coping.

"Boom......" The eight-hundred-pound mug cannon let out its own roar. Thirty-five muzzle cannons on a battleship were spewing out fragments of iron sand in their chambers almost at the same time, and these already very sharp things burst out violently under the thrust of the gunpowder explosion, scattering their own viciousness on the sea about three feet by two hundred zhang on one side.

Truth be told, shotguns are far less powerful and range than ordinary artillery shells, but they exist for their own purposes, that is, to strike small warships at close range and to strike at the personnel of warships.

Countless drops of death rained down, piercing the dinghy and its personnel under the powerful blasting thrust. Although it was the least powerful shell, it was not something that could be resisted by the flesh and blood of a few unarmored sailors. The rain fell, and the dinghy itself showed no signs of disintegrating, but it was beaten like a sieve, along with the ship and the people on board. Due to the fact that even if it turned into a sieve, it could continue to move forward, and the arsonist did not appear to be in the way, so the threat of attacking this battleship was naturally lifted under this blow. Maybe it's their own luck.

There are lucky people, and there are naturally unfortunate people. Not all warships are as lucky as they are to react properly. So after a few breaths, after the sound of the scattered bullets, an even louder explosion sounded, and the boat crashed into the battleship on Li Shengjun's side, which triggered the gunpowder on board. Many things on the battlefield are keeping pace with the times, take this arson boat as an example, it is called "arson boat", but in fact, the oil originally installed on the arson boat has long been changed to gunpowder, and in their opinion, gunpowder is indeed more capable of destroying the hull of a battleship in a short time than fire oil. And for Soochow, gunpowder is much easier to obtain than kerosene.

"A third-class battleship? Guangwu sank ......"

"A third-class battleship? Chengwu sank ......"

"Cruisers? Waiyan sank ......"

Under one blow, ten battleships were sunk under the attack of the arson boat, almost one-third of the battleships sunk by Li Shengjun's side in the previous hour, which could not help but move Shihong: "It's really strong!" That one...... Scholar! Shihong sighed, gritted his teeth and quickly issued an order: "The destroyer cruises, and all the upper decks of the battleship are reloaded with flowering bombs." Damn it...... Lu Xun actually got me this hand, if I don't finish the flowering bullets on the warship today, I will have your surname. Suddenly the other party came to such a hand, Shihong was also anxious, and naturally launched a ruthless attack.

Speaking of flowering shells, this shell, as the most powerful shell in Li Shengjun's army, is naturally not as powerful as Li Shengjun's ordinary artillery shells, which can hit as many as you want. Flowering bombs, which are difficult to produce in terms of current technology, naturally have a certain amount. Although among Li Shengjun's several major fleets, the Nanyang Fleet was the most widely distributed with flowering bombs, but after several years of war, the Nanyang Fleet was used more and faster, so that among all the fleets now, the largest reserve of flowering bombs has become Shihong's Beiyang Fleet. This is the result of Shihong's own savings. Although Shihong is a person from a family, he doesn't seem to be as good as Gan Ning when it comes to spending money lavishly. Although he himself knew that the best shells among all the shells were flowering shells, and every time he acted, he carried the most flowering shells, but in the process of action, he adhered to the principle of using less and using less as much as possible, and solved the problem with those ordinary shells as much as possible. “…… Careful and bold, quite economically minded! This is Li Sheng's nondescript view of Shihong, the general. Of course, this view is a bit ridiculous to say, but in another aspect, it also illustrates one of the characteristics of Shihong and his people: "Spend the money that should be spent......

Since it is said that the money should be spent, it means that Shihong's personality is thrifty rather than stingy. If he thinks he needs it, he will use all the power at his disposal to make a feast, as he is now. He thought that with his current strength, it was really impossible to fight with the Jiangdong Navy with ordinary shells, so he quickly ordered to use flowering shells to deal with the other party. He knew exactly what the damage could be to a ship like his own, which had no armor protection.

Under the order, Li Shengjun's soldiers were naturally busy again. Although the barrage was thin for a while, Li Shengjun sank two more warships in the process of converting ammunition in a short period of time, but Li Shengjun, who quickly loaded the flowering shells, scrapped the 16 warships on the Jiangdong side in one go with the powerful lethality of the flowering shells in the next round of shelling. Due to the adoption of the concentrated attack mode with guidance, Lu Xun in Jiangdong looked at the sixteen sunken warships and felt a heartache: nine heavy battleships, two clippers, three light warships, and one fighting ship - this loss is all the strength of his own naval army. "This is really ......," Lu Xun frowned anxiously.

What kind of calculation Shihong played, Lu Xun also somewhat understood at the moment. He knew that the other party had already calculated his own arrangement, and made a very targeted arrangement based on it. Shihong, for his part, intended to divide his fleet into two sides to deal with himself and Cao Wei. With the help of that heavenly skin, they must be able to see the arrangement of their own troops. "Since they didn't know exactly when their division would be able to complete the outflanking, or whether they would be able to eat themselves before the outflanking arrived, they made the decision to divide their troops in response to their own division. Not...... This is also a more orthodox countermeasure. But it's something we don't expect to see. Lu Xun thought so. If you want to win, you must complete the tactics of two bread closing. In other words, he must mobilize all the enemy's combat power, attract the opponent tightly, and then let Cao Wei's troops deliver a fatal blow to the opponent from the rear. This is difficult on the surface, and it is not very beneficial in terms of the final result. However, Lu Xun also understood that this was completely helpless, if he didn't do this, he was afraid that he would not even have a chance to defeat Li Sheng's navy.

"We must deal a greater blow to Li Shengjun's side, and we must make them realize that if they don't mobilize the other 100-odd warships in the rear, they will not be able to defeat us." Lu Xun understands this very well. It was because he was once again at a disadvantage after seeing that his side was indeed pressing on Li Sheng's side, and he couldn't help but hate twice, and then gritted his teeth and gave an order: "Send me all the fighting ships and temporary ships to charge, all the battleships will no longer implement the free attack strategy, but focus all the guns on the destroyers before clearing the local battleships." With my top and bottom of me, I want to see how the destroyers of the other side cope with the salvo of our heavy battleships. ”

"No!" This is a strong and powerful answer, and it is also everyone's oath. The warships that issued the Jiangdong Army in accordance with this oath also let out their own roar after briefly adjusting their formation. The heavy battleships, clippers, and light battleships simultaneously spewed out the furious flames on their guns, while the fighting ships responsible for the fire attack and the temporary ships in charge of the landing operations accelerated their speed and rushed towards Li Shengjun's fleet under the cover of such angry flames. For a moment, the sails were in unison, the water wheels were spinning, and the fighting ships and the temporary ships rushed straight up at a very amazing speed, quickly approaching Li Shengjun's fleet.

"Ping Pong ......" This is the sound of the ship putting the wooden plank on Li Shengjun's battleship. Boom ...... "This is the sound of the small boat rushing out of the belly of the fighting ship crashing into those battleships of Li Shengjun. Because the fighting ships released small boats at very close distances, Li Shengjun's destroyers had no way to do this at all—at a distance they could reach, they encountered the heavy armor of the fighting ships, and in the inner areas they could not reach, they encountered these small boats full of gunpowder. The dinghy crashed into them, and the ensuing explosion shattered their bodies in an instant. This is not to say that their bodies are too weak, of course, but that the gunpowder carried in the dinghy is too powerful. Even a battleship with a stronger hull could be destroyed by such a small boat, let alone a destroyer that was no match for a battleship.

If you hit it, you would die, and such a tragic fact was placed in front of Li Shengjun and others, which naturally caused a burst of chaos. Although Shihiro always put the obedience training of fleet captains first in his initial training, there were still some people who backed down on the imminent importance of this matter. They just didn't want to watch themselves die, but their actions caused confusion in the formation of Li Shengjun's fleet. As a result, disaster struck, and several Li Shengjun's battleships collided with the destroyers that evaded without authorization, sending out a "click...... Click! The voice came. Although such a close distance will only produce a small amount of kinetic energy, but the huge size of the battleship has increased this kinetic energy several times, and when it hits, both the battleship and the destroyer will inevitably suffer heavy losses, paralyzed over there and completely lose their combat effectiveness. This is an unfortunate accident for Li Shengjun, but it is also the inevitable result of countless causes and effects.

"Damn it...... Actually caused such a melee situation! Shi Hong said fiercely: "If those people are lucky enough not to die, I will definitely send them all to the Military Supervision Department......" He roared angrily, but did not lose the judgment that a general should have. Although the current situation is very critical, he still sticks to his original opinion: "Absolutely not! The fleet behind is dragged in......" He looked at the chaotic battle situation in front of him, gritted his teeth and thought about it, and spit out his order with difficulty: "The whole army is ready for close combat; Tell the 'Flying Heavens' to give the rear fleet an order to go directly to the enemy's outflanking fleet. ”

"This ...... Isn't this about sending us to death ourselves? Listening to Shihong's order, the captain of the flagship under him was suddenly stunned: he was already at a disadvantage, and the reason why he could still support it was not excluded that in addition to the effectiveness of the soldiers, he did not rule out the reason why he knew that he had reinforcements in the rear. And at this moment, Shihong wants to let these reinforcements leave and deal with the enemy's detachment, is it clear that he wants to cut off the delusions of his own people! Although it is possible to divide the fleet to destroy the opponent's front fleet and come to the rescue itself, but when will it be? I'm afraid that those of them are coming, and these people have already become the ghosts of the other party's knife. You know, even with the lesson of the last time, my side began to pay attention to close combat, and also equipped the battleship with some melee weapons, but these melee weapons are not as sophisticated as the Jiangdong Army, and their warships still have melee functions from head to toe.

"Lord Admiral, this ......" the captain tried to persuade Shihong. Because he clearly knows that it is a very disadvantageous act to let these people fight hand-to-hand with each other.

"I understand what you're thinking, but I don't think it's right. You must know that we rely on firearms to prevail, and Your Majesty has always given us the latest and best firearms. For now, all we have to do is use our firearms against those guys and defend our own warships. I don't think we need to beat them in the close game, we just need pure defense. Since there is no problem, it is completely possible for us to further delay the time. So we can wait until our own people come back! And it's not just a chaotic war. In some cases, the division of forces is not the same as the division of forces. Shihong said. As a general, he has a much longer vision than a ship captain.

"This ...... That's right! Seeing that he couldn't convince his commander, the captain nodded his head and agreed.

The order was quickly conveyed, and Li Shengjun's fleet naturally began to separate. Regarding this matter, Shihong naturally wanted to explain it to his family. Of course, he wasn't going to say that long list of words to the others. So, he sent his men a signal to everyone in his fleet: Break the cauldron and fight against the water.

"Breaking the cauldron and fighting against the water? Lord Admiral, is this asking us to fight hard? As soon as the order came out, all the people were stunned for a moment, and looking at the enemy who was swarming like ants, they immediately gritted their teeth: "Damn, since you all rushed to my head, and the Admiral ordered us to fight with you, then we will not be polite to you." "Although some of Li Shengjun's troops retreated and caused the current chaos, most of Li Shengjun's soldiers were very fleshy. Under Shihong's strict orders, they naturally plucked up the courage in their hearts and began to lay out their own battle plans.

To be honest, the fighting ships and temporary ships of the Jiangdong Army were not as tall and majestic as Li Shengjun's battleships, and using them to fight close to Li Shengjun's side naturally had to fight a back attack like a siege. The people of the Jiangdong Army are not unaware of the disadvantages of the back attack, but they have no solution. The fundamental focus of the fighting ship is not the firepower of the battleship, but the load and speed of the battleship - with a higher load, they can carry more soldiers; And with their greater speed, they can get closer to the enemy faster. In order to achieve these two points, an excellent keel is naturally inevitable, and the hull of the battleship has become more streamlined due to the need to increase speed, the height of the ship has been reduced, all the melee heavy equipment on the ship has been set up as a mechanism module hidden under the deck, the guards on both sides of the battleship are wrapped with iron sheets, and at the same time, short flying wings have been extended on the front and rear sides of the battleship to increase the speed of the battleship. The Jiangdong Army's ship is like a thick arrow, full of sharp aura, with extremely high speed, but it does not have a majestic hull. Therefore, they defeated Li Shengjun's side with warships for several years, and they were like sharks with sharp teeth, and they carried out a crazy group attack on Li Shengjun, a big whale.

The battle unfolded quickly, like a siege on land, with the side of the city desperately trying to climb the walls and enter the city, while the side of the city desperately wanted to prevent this from happening. Countless crossbow arrows were poured down from Li Shengjun's warship, and countless thunderbolts were rained down from above. And Sun Wu's side did not have any humility towards Li Sheng because of this, folding drainage, folding ladders, folding bed crossbows, Jiangdong Army showed their most exquisite combat weapons, and continued to attack Li Shengjun at a high place. In this place where they could see each other, the sounds of soldiers on both sides fighting, shouting, and the sound of arrows and crossbows breaking through the sky were mixed together, converging into the most majestic and tragic music between heaven and earth.