Chapter 17 The war broke out, and the artillery showed its majesty

In October, the South China Sea is not cold, the sea breeze is blowing, it is still warm and comfortable, but on the vast South China Sea, the sky is clear, but it is slowly becoming cloudy, is it a storm is coming. www.biquge.infoqb5

Zhao Lei looked up at the gradually darkening sky, frowned and asked a white sailor beside him who was familiar with the climate at sea, "Could it be that a storm is coming?" ”

"Nope! At this time, there will be no storms in this sea area, I think it is a short-term thunderstorm, the wind and waves have not risen, and the thunderstorm will not be too long! The white veteran beside Zhao Lei looked up at the sky around him, turned his head and said respectfully to Zhao Lei.

"It seems that God also knows that what will come will definitely be a bloody battle, and he can't bear to see the blue sea dyed red, so he summoned dark clouds to block its gaze!" Su Xun stood beside Zhao Lei and said to several flagship generals around him in a deep tone.

"They're coming, get ready!" Zhao Lei heard Su Xun's words, smiled slightly, and suddenly saw the dense black spots in the distant sea getting closer and closer, and immediately whispered to the herald soldiers beside him.

As the herald waved the command flag, the Great Song Naval Fleet, which had originally lined up in battle formation in the wide sea area, was once again finely adjusted, making the formation more reasonable and more aggressive.

Zhao Lei's flagship slowly retreated into the protective circle of the Great Song Fleet, while the Chinese fleet under Zhao Lei was sideways at the front of all the warships. The muzzle of the gun was aimed at the Mayi navy sailing from afar.

The Chinese fleet of the Great Song Navy was lined up in a neat long snake formation, leaving a wide space in the middle of the fleet, which was enough for the Shenwu artillery to lead the forward fleet to rush out of the array to fight against the Mayi Navy, while the left fleet of the Navy led by Zhu Sheng was lined up behind the Mahati fleet, ready to support the front battle.

The Mayi Navy is getting closer and closer. Through the monocular telescope, Zhao Lei could even clearly see the busy figures in the Ma Yi fleet and the excited expressions on their faces.

Just after the Ma Yi Navy and the Great Song Navy suddenly appeared on their route, the battle-hardened Ma Yi Navy quickly changed from a chaotic formation to a triangular formation, and the ship's sergeants shook the oars with all their might, and rushed straight towards the formation set up by the Great Song Navy.

Without a telescope, Zhao Lei had clearly seen the Ma Yi military flag fluttering on the Ma Yi Navy warship, as well as the flashing weapons in the hands of the Ma Yi Navy sergeants.

"The Mayi Navy is ready to disrupt our formation, directly bullying the more with the less, and our warships and non-commissioned officers are not as many as the Mayi Navy. Once the formation is disrupted, it may be very costly to defeat them. Su Xun looked at the Ma Yi Navy that was getting closer and closer, saw through their plan at a glance, frowned and whispered to Zhao Lei.

"Flag! Let the Chinese warships no longer need to save their strength, and the Shenwu artillery will fire with all their might. Don't cherish the shells! Zhao Lei, who had made up his mind to cherish the use of Shenwu artillery, immediately changed his mind and said to the herald beside him.

As Zhao Lei took the flagship to send the commander to play the flag, more than a dozen Chinese warships at the front of the Great Song Navy's formation were facing the hull of the Mayi Navy, and several hidden Shenwu guns were also pushed out. Thirty guns were aimed at the Mayi battleship that was coming in the wind and waves, and the huge weight pressed the battleship with artillery to tilt a little, if it wasn't for Zhao Lei's order to press the other side of the battleship with a boulder. I'm afraid that these warships have already capsized because of the center of gravity.

Ten miles! Eight miles! Six miles! Four miles! Under the nervous gaze of everyone in the Great Song Navy, the Ma Yi Navy battleship finally broke into the range of the Shenwu artillery.

"Shenwu artillery prepares! Adjust the scale, aim at the target, shoot! With the orders of the generals in charge of commanding the Shenwu artillery on the various warships, the roar of artillery was heard in the South China Sea for the first time in history.

Boom!

Thirty Shenwu artillery pieces were powerful at the same time, and after the earth-shattering sound, the 330-kilogram solid steel cannonballs were sent high into the air by the huge thrust of gunpowder and flew towards the Mayi Navy battleship. On the battleship loaded with Shenwu artillery, the pungent smell of gunpowder smoke filled the entire battleship, and white gunpowder smoke rose into the air.

Knock knock!

Thirty cannonballs in the air, drawing a graceful parabola, with a force of 3,000 catties, crashed into the wooden battleship of the Mayi Navy, and the huge momentum instantly smashed the fragile deck and smashed into the bottom of the ship.

The shells that did not hit the Mayi naval battleship rushed into the sea, bringing up a splash more than ten meters high, drenching the non-commissioned officers on the Mayi naval battleship with fishy seawater.

The Shenwu artillery on the Great Song Dynasty battleship did not bring a fatal attack to the Mayi battleship, and the existence of the sealed compartment made it impossible for the shells to penetrate the Mayi battleship, but not to make these battleships seriously damaged and sunk.

Although the shells fired by the Shenwu artillery could not bring a fatal blow to the battleship of Mayi, its effect was more useful than sinking the battleship.

Among the battleships of the Mayi Navy, several battleships were directly penetrated by artillery shells, and the swarming sea water greatly dragged down the degree of these warships.

There are also a few soldiers on the battleship were hit by cannonballs, the momentum of three thousand catties makes these cannonballs like the golden hoop stick of the great sage, hit to death, next to the wounded, the cannonballs smashed by the Ma Yi soldiers turned into a pile of meat sauce, it looked very miserable, the lethality of the shells immediately stunned the Ma Yi Navy soldiers, the unknown terrible lethality made the atmosphere of fear in the Ma Yi Navy soldiers slowly spread.

There were also a few Mayi battleships that were hit by shells on the masts of the mainmast, and the battleships with broken mainmasts also slowed down by clinging to those oars.

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Boom!

The Shenwu cannons on the Great Song Dynasty fleet were constantly mighty, and under Zhao Lei's orders, the few shells made by the military weapons were shot out by those gunners.

The target of the Shenwu artillery was the battleship at the front of the Mayi naval fleet, and in just three salvos, more than a dozen battleships at the front of the Mayi naval fleet were hit one after another, and the degree slowed down instantly.

On the flagship of the Great Song Fleet, Zhao Lei, Su Xun, Xiao Ruoruo, and Yang Jinhua, each holding a tube of monocular binoculars, carefully observed the situation on the battlefield, and kept talking about their views on the battlefield situation, exchanging opinions with each other.

Boom!

The Shenwu artillery fired another salvo, and finally a Mayi battleship slowly began to sink because of continuous bullets, serious damage to the hull, and serious leakage in the cabin.

The sunken Mayi battleship pulled up more warships, and the battleships behind it not only had to bypass it in order to advance, but its tragic situation made many timid Mayi battleship commanders subconsciously order the battleships to slow down.

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Among the battleships of the Ma Yi Navy, on an inconspicuous medium-sized warship, an old general with white hair and a solemn expression was standing in the captain's observation room with a shocked face, and beside him, the same old general Arroyo was also standing there in shock, this old general was none other than the legendary general of Ma Yi Kingdom, Lisa.

"Great Song's new weapon? It's terrifying, it's actually able to hit so far, and now that our army's shock formation has been destroyed by the new weapons of the Great Song Dynasty, what should we do? General! Arroyo looked at the legendary general Lisa with an anxious look on his face and said loudly.

"There is no way, under the blow of this terrifying weapon, the dense impact formation will only make the battleship the target of the mysterious weapons of the Great Song Dynasty, and the only way now is to fight hard with the Great Song naval fleet in a scattered formation." Although he is seventy years old, the old general Lisa, who is still old and strong, looked at the Ma Yi naval fleet that was a little afraid, and immediately adjusted his strategy in shock.

As the herald left the cabin to deliver Riza's order, Arroyo muttered for a moment and said, "General! We don't know anything about the Great Song Navy, except for the terrifying weapons just now, we don't know if the Great Song Dynasty has any more terrifying weapons, now is not the time to fight hard, are we temporarily retreating, and the Great Song Navy is on the sea! ”

"Dou, don't forget that the weapons of the Great Song Navy can fight far away, and Manila City is also in their range, if they don't go with us and turn around to attack Manila, what should we do?" Liza said to Arroyo with a wry smile.

"Then we can flank the Great Song Navy with the soldiers of the capital, and maybe we can defeat the Great Song Navy with the help of our geographical advantages!" Arroyo thought for a moment and said in a deep voice.

"Arroyo! You've been with me for over 30 years! Have you ever thought that if the Great Song Navy attacked Manila, how we, as admirals, would be dealt with by the royal family? Lisa asked with a look in her eyes full of vicissitudes.

"Royalty! What are they doing! Didn't we just ignore the royal family's orders back then and straddle the combined fleet of Boni and Sriwijaya alive at sea! The people of the royal family are all rice worms, and they don't know anything except eating, drinking, and playing with women, and if we all follow their orders, the Mayi Navy would have already finished playing. Arroyo pouted disdainfully.

"Now it's not as good as it was then, when we were alone, of course we weren't afraid of the royal family's retaliation, but now my children and grandchildren are full, even if I don't think about myself, I have to think about those children! Think that if we don't meet the Great Song Navy according to the royal family's orders, maybe going back will be the consequence of being full of beheadings, I'm old and don't want to take this kind of responsibility, so I have to defeat the Great Song Navy at sea and can't let them step into Manila! Lisa's eyes became sharper and sharper, and she said sharply to Arroyo.

Hearing Lisa's words, Arroyo was silent, and the two looked at the formation of the Mayi Navy warships that had become scattered, knowing in their hearts that this might be the last war that the two commanded.

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On the flagship of the Great Song Naval Fleet, Zhao Lei looked at the suddenly scattered formation of the Mayi Navy, smiled slightly, knowing that the Shenwu Naval Fleet had played a key role, seeing that the Mayi Naval Fleet was getting closer and closer to the Great Song Navy, and the usefulness of the Shenwu Artillery was getting smaller and smaller, Zhao Lei immediately called the herald and ordered Mahathi's forward army to immediately go out to fight.

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