Perfect shot!

After only enduring two rounds of shelling and firing two incendiary bombs and a high-explosive bomb, the "Dawn" completed the lore of the sea ship!

And all this, starting from the sound of the opponent's cannon, is just a cup of tea.

Looking at the Haicang ship that burned more and more, and the fire made the sea and the sky red, Yang Dijiao was deeply shocked.

Occupy the upper hand, cut in from the side of the enemy ship, gradually turn when entering the range of the 300-step 6-pounder Franc gun, and then pass behind the enemy ship, and after going around in a circle, launch another attack on the same route, which was led by Yang Dijiao, and now it seems that there is no need to launch a second round of attacks at all.

The reason why Yang Dijiao chose such a tactic was to give full play to the speed advantage of the "Dawn" to the greatest extent and at the same time expose himself to the least extent -- according to the practice of naval warfare, 300 paces is the distance of the first round of shelling, and the "Dawn" at this time was exposed to the enemy only with a bow; Even by the time of the second round of shelling, the "Dawn" was exposed to the enemy's guns only on an inclined side.

The timing of the ballista firing was set by Chu Fan, and at a distance of about one hundred and fifty paces from the enemy ship, this was the farthest "effective range" of the ballista that Chu Fan had found after testing many times - this new term Chu Fan understood as soon as he explained it to Yang Dijiao, that is, the maximum distance that could ensure the accuracy.

According to the judgment of the winding time, from the time the ballista entered the effective range of the ballista to the time when the "Dawn" sailed behind the enemy ship, the two ballistae could each fire twice, especially the next shot was more accurate.

Actual combat proved that this set of tactics and the timing of the ballista firing were very effective - the stern ballista did not even have to fire a second time, and the Haicang ship was already burned into a large torch.

"Yixian, the bow ballista is launched for the first time, and it is a good stroke to choose the mainsail," after returning to the watchtower from the deck, Yang Dijiao said to Chu Fan, "The mainsail has a large target, even at a long distance, I don't worry about missing the shot." ”

"That's right! This could later be written into the code of conduct as a standard procedure for naval warfare. Chu Fan nodded, under the oncoming north wind, his clothes fluttered, and the streamers on the back of his head danced with the wind, making him more and more chic and dignified - I don't know if it was intentional, Chu Fan didn't even change his clothes.

"Drill?" Yang Dijiao didn't react for a while, and was stunned.

"Uh...... It is to tell how naval battles should be fought...... Book. Chu Fan thought about it for a while, and then explained in the simplest words what the drill code was.

Yang Dijiao chewed on this sentence carefully, but his slender eyes became brighter and brighter - in the past, the inheritance of naval warfare was passed down by word of mouth, and the experienced ship boss had to bring several apprentices to each other, and it took several years to get a qualified new ship boss; If there is this drill code, wouldn't it greatly shorten the training time of the new ship boss?

These days, Yang Dijiao has been suppressed many times by this Dengzhou Xiaoxiucai who is clear and beautiful, looks like he is killing people, and can't fight with eight poles - it is obvious that he doesn't know anything about naval warfare, but he can figure out so many unbelievable ideas, and he can make his eyes light up when he hears it!

Now that Chu Fan said this drill code, Yang Dijiao was even more excited-think about it, if you can quickly master the skills of naval warfare, then the new ship bosses will emerge in batches, wouldn't it be a few years, and the East China Sea will be full of ships with the "Chu" flag floating?

Their Yang family, after several generations and decades, has only built a fleet of thirty or forty ships, among which the lack of qualified ship bosses is a very important constraint.

My dear mother, how did this little showman's head grow? Why is it that a problem that seems unsolvable in our hands can be easily solved in his hands?

Yang Dijiao was thinking about it, the "Dawn" had already come full circle, the bow of the ship pointed to the northeast, and it was struggling to move forward in the northwest wind, which was to prepare for launching a second attack -- it was necessary to seize the upper hand position in order to give full play to the speed advantage of the "Dawn".

At this time, the rumbling cannon began to sound in the northeast again, and the Guangzhou ship began to approach Cangshan Iron, and the two sides began to shoot each other.

Yang Dijiao's heart suddenly plucked again-judging from the position of the three boats, he knew very well that his uncle was on the Cangshan Railway; And through the clairvoyant mirror, he also saw that Cangshan Tie's right waist rudder had been knocked off, and he could only go northwest when he was going against the wind.

Fortunately, the "Dawn" was fast, and it did not take long for it to turn to the northeast of the Canton ship, and it turned around and was ready for battle.

However, at this time, the pursuing fleet also reacted from the shock of being sunk a ship, and the Cangshan iron behind the Guang ship and a large net shuttle turned the bow of the ship and pounced violently towards the northeast direction of the "Dawn".

"Concentrate your firepower and knock out Cangshan Iron first!"

Seeing that Cangshan Tie obliquely entered the range of three hundred steps of the bow ballista, Chu Fan leaned out of the watchtower and ordered loudly.

The sailors who operated the two ballistas in the bow and stern of the ship were shocked - the clean and neat execution of the Haicang ship just now greatly boosted the morale of everyone, and now they were quite disdainful in the face of the smaller Cangshan Tie.

"Tom! Tong! ”

As soon as the words fell, the Cangshan Iron began to fire, and two fist-sized iron balls flew towards the "Dawn" at a speed visible to the naked eye, one left and one right fell into the sea behind the Dawn, stirring up a high column of water.

Yang Dijiao didn't care to watch how the bow ballista attacked the main sail of Cangshan Tie at the moment, but turned his head to look at the rear of the ship - the news from his big net shuttle yesterday was that Li Guozhu and their main fleet were about forty or fifty miles behind the "Dawn"; Now that the fighting is so fierce here, how can the main fleet hear the movement, why is the sea still empty?

When he turned around, the "Dawn" had already rushed to a hundred steps away from Cangshan Iron, and Yang Dijiao could clearly see the busy figure of carrying water to extinguish the fire on the Cangshan Iron Deck - the first shot of the bow ballista was an incendiary bomb, which did not hit the mainsail, but hit the high tail compartment of Cangshan Iron.

"Whoosh~~"

The bowstrings sounded, and the stern ballistas fired, this time again high-explosive shells, and the iron and porcelain shards fired everywhere swept across the small deck, and the dense crowd was empty, wailing and lying down.

The two ships staggered at a distance of about 50 paces, and the two ballistae in the bow and stern fired one more each, and finally ignited the mainsail of Cangshan Iron, but the "Dawn" also suffered substantial damage for the first time since the beginning of the war -- someone on the Cangshan Iron, who had suffered heavy casualties, actually ignited the Franc machine gun, and the cannonball hit the front of the "Dawn", tearing a hole about three feet on the starboard side!

The flying sawdust stabbed several people at once, and the corners of Chu Fan's mouth twitched.