Chapter 311: The Yellow River Fu (Part 10)

"Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom." The other four battleships6 that followed them continued to open fire, and in the high gallop, they attacked the enemy with rifled guns mounted on the side of the city.

Because of the lack of production capacity, each battleship was equipped with only four rifled guns, two on each side, which was far from meeting the standard of installation.

But everyone on the battleship was confident of victory

With the experience of the last battle, the accuracy of the gunners has also been multiplied, and two of the ten shells fired in this round actually hit the target directly, and the two 200-stone cargo ships that rushed to the front were instantly reduced to a pile of rotten wood.

"There are no watertight cabins." "There was no reinforcement of the ship's ribs." "Grandma's, I don't even want to install the guard." The gunners, who had made a good start, shouted excitedly, quickly pulled the guns back to the cabin, wiped the bore, loaded the gunpowder, compacted the projectiles, and then quickly pushed the guns out of the firing port according to the standard procedure that had been practiced thousands of times.

The Mengyuan warship on the opposite side was in a mess in the face of the sudden disaster, not only the ship was temporarily forcibly recruited, and it did not have the qualifications to be a warship at all, but the vast majority of the officers and men on the ship did not know what water warfare was like, and the only relatively professional one was the gunner who was wrapped up by Li Siqi to throw himself into the enemy, but these gunners could not get the effective cooperation of the helmsman and sailor, and missed the best artillery time again and again, so they could only use cannonballs in vain to fight behind the Huai'an warship.

"Plus, add cut the outside line."

"Plus, add cut the outside line."

"Aim for the biggest one."

"Aim for the biggest one."

"Fire." "Fire." "Fire."

The battleships of the Huai'an Army, however, felt more and more they fought, and in less than a minute, they fired a second salvo, this time, they tacitly chose a thousand-stone ship that was struggling to turn around, and ten projectiles rushed over with a roar of death, splashing several huge white water columns in front and behind the target.

The guns on the Cao ship could not aim at the side targets, so they could only use bed crossbows and trebuchets to return the color, and three crossbow arrows more than one zhang long swept over a distance of more than 200 steps, two of which flew away, and the third "snapped" and chiseled on the side guard of the flagship of the Huai'an Army, and the fierce fire oil balls hanging on the front end of the crossbow arrows emitted billowing smoke.

"Extinguish the fire." Boatswain Ma Wu lifted the lid of the wooden barrel beside him, and poured a bucket of muddy water mixed with chalk powder from the top deck, causing the fire that had just jumped up to be extinguished in the bud in an instant.

The other two sailors, in accordance with the usual habit of training, picked up a sledgehammer and slammed it at the long pole of the crossbow arrow, once, twice, three times, and in the blink of an eye, the bolt flew out of the guard and fell into the river in vain.

More crossbow arrows flew, most of them lost their heads, disappeared, and occasionally one or two created a miracle, but the special iron wood guard on the Huai'an army battleship became a barrier that they could not break through, and the kinetic energy accumulated on the arrows could not cause fatal damage to the hull at all, and the Huai'an army sailors were already familiar with how to deal with rockets in their usual training, and they were very experienced in solving these small troubles completely.

"Boom." "Boom." "Boom." "Boom." "Boom." The third round of shelling, after a minute, was announced to have begun again, this time, more professional than the last, four six-pound projectiles, six four-pound projectiles, rapidly spinning and falling from mid-air, the surface of the hot projectiles in contact with moisture in the air, leaving a clear white parabola behind them.

At the end of most of the parabolas, there are murky rivers, but there are still three parabolas that successfully dock with the target.

With a distance of only more than 200 paces, the rifled gun's ballistic trajectory was stabilized, and the huge and bulky body of the rifled gun became the best aiming target.

Three projectiles wrapped in soft lead on the surface, one six catties and two four catties, wrapped in this huge kinetic energy, smashed successively on the side of the target, the foredeck and the aft building, causing the body of the boat to shake a few times, and then lost its balance in a blink of an eye.

Under the double pressure of the river water and the load, the keel of the boat began to make a seeping sound, "squeak, squeak", like a water monster rubbing its teeth under the surface of the river, and suddenly, the bow of the boat slammed into the water, the stern jumped high, and most of the hull was exposed to the water, twisting, struggling, "boom", and falling apart.

Hundreds of soldiers fell into the murky yellow water, struggling to survive, and dozens of soldiers were seriously wounded and bleeding.

The surface of the river near the wreck was dyed scarlet in the blink of an eye, and the other two large ships that were struggling to turn around and five other small cargo ships were huddled together around the red whirlpool, at a loss.

Just five minutes ago, the captain, adjutant general, escort team, and soldiers on the ship were all full of confidence, thinking that with the artillery and superior forces they had earned for nothing, they could easily destroy the prey sent to the door, but now, they suddenly realized that they were the stupid prey, and the opponent had already sharpened their claws and teeth.

The huge gap between the ideal and the reality made everyone confused, and the Qianhu Halik, who temporarily drove ducks to the shelves and served as the commander of the sailors, was unwilling to pout his ass and be beaten, brandished his scimitar, and ordered loudly, "Drive the boat, drive the boat, drive the boat back to the shore, and let the cannons on the shore shatter them." ”

"Sail, sail, sail to shore." The soldiers on the deck raised copper horns specially equipped for the generals of the Xuzhou Army and repeated the order loudly to the surroundings.

In the rumbling war drums and hoarse cries for help, their orders could not be heard by the people on the other ships, and the panicked ships were about to find their own way out according to their own ideas, or ordered the ships to pull their sails full of wooden sails and rush to the shore, or ordered the ships to rush downstream with the help of the current, and one or two of the lucky ones continued to adjust the bow of the ship, trying to aim their guns at the Huai'an fleet that had successfully cut to the upstream, and create a miracle with one shot.

Such a chaotic response, tantamount to self-defeat, occupying the upstream position of the Huai'an fleet skillfully turned its head, from right to left, diagonally cut down, under the dual effect of the current, the oars, the ship was as fast as a galloping horse, the fourth salvo was in the high run, smashed into Halik's ship, eight fell into the water, one hit the deck, and one, impartially hit the auxiliary mast, the thick mast directly into two upper and lower sections.

On the deck, flesh and blood flew sideways, and solid cannonballs smashed directly into the bilge, and then passed through the other side of the ship, taking the lives of several soldiers and sailors, and before the people on board could scream, the wooden sails of the boat had already fallen from mid-air, and more soldiers who could not dodge were slapped into meat sauce.

The battleship continued to gallop high, the red flag of the Huai'an army was waving in the wind at the top of the mast, and a two-hundred-stone cargo ship swayed and blocked the course, and the muzzle of the black hole hole was aimed at the flagship, spewing out a pig iron projectile.

The whistling projectiles came from the bottom up, smashing the armor on the left side of the bow and shattering the planks, and shot them in the faces of several nearby soldiers, causing them to fall screaming, rolling on the deck in pain.

The boatswain Ma Wu led several brothers to rush over, dragged the wounded into the bilge, and ran forward with the ship's carpenter carrying the plank, inspecting the ship, preparing for the emergency, "all lying down, lying down, pulling on the cable on the deck." Deputy Captain Sun De tightened the wooden handle on the side guardrail with one hand, raised the iron horn high with the other, and reminded loudly, "Prepare for impact." ”

"Keep course and prepare for impact."

"Keep course and prepare for impact." The helmsman strained the rudder with all his might, while the bottom oarsmen shouted loudly, paddling the oars twice before retracting the oars, holding firmly with both hands the cable that lay in the air at their sides.

The cargo ship that successfully fired a cannonball did not have time to check its results, staggering, staggering, desperately moving its thin body, trying to dodge the behemoth that was crushed from the upstream, however, this effort was doomed to be in vain, and the flagship of the Huai'an Army that was going down the river rushed to the front in a blink of an eye, and the metal corners on the bow of the ship flashed with a cold light.

"Boom." Fifteen hundred stones to two hundred stones, like a rhinoceros crashing into a sheep, the sharp metal horns did not work at all, but only made contact with the opponent's mast at the root, and then quickly separated, not a tall three-deck imitation Arabian dhow, directly ran over the low river cargo ship, and the sides of the ship were full of broken timber and corpses.

"The impact is over, continue to add." The oarsman was in the window of the bilge, clearly watched the whole crushing process, and then without hesitation, he raised the tin horn and gave orders to the oarsmen in the cabin.

The wide wooden oars went deep into the water again, the flagship of the Huai'an Army began to lift again, the soldiers on the top floor stood up from the deck, trotted to their designated warning positions, and the gunners on the second deck readjusted the muzzles and aimed at the next target as quickly as possible.

"Boom." "Boom." Two shells whizzed, smashing forty paces away, and a cargo ship, which was struggling to retreat, sent it to the bottom.

"Boom, boom, boom." More shells rushed to the enemy flagship, which had lost the ability to move, and killed the killer.

On the flagship of the Mengyuan Naval Division, which was full of holes, the commander of the Naval Division, Halik, wanted to cry without tears, raised the iron horn, and loudly ordered the nearby ships to come over to protect him, however, whether it was a large ship of 1,000 stones, or a small cargo ship of 200 stones, they all ignored the orders issued by the flagship.

In the face of huge casualties, the so-called honor and courage are thinner than the dead leaves in the autumn wind.

The battlefield of the Tanma Red Army was on the ground of 6, not in the water, and in an instant, almost all the generals on the ships had an epiphany.

Under their hoarse command, all the ships that could move quickly fled downstream and on both sides of the riverbank, preferring to face the guns of the Huai'an army rather than continue to struggle uselessly.

The warships of the Huai'an Army, on the other hand, rationally gave up their fleeing opponents, continued to concentrate their firepower, and launched artillery bombardments on the enemy flagships that were drifting with the tide.

"Adjust the course and go to the enemy water village." Chang Haoran, the captain of the flagship of the Huai'an Army, rushed to the deck and proudly pointed his sword upstream.

Under the slanting sun, his body looks particularly majestic.

Early summer has arrived, and the days are getting longer.

He has enough time today to let his opponent know that he can't call himself a sailor by putting a cannon on a boat.

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