The enemy platform of Bailing Mountain is eleven or twelve miles away from the sea area of the battle, and Ye Ji Baishi and the minister of urging power stand on the enemy platform of Bailing Mountain, and they can clearly see the situation in the sea area of the battle.

Perhaps far away, a salvo of forty-two naval guns did not seem to cause any tragic casualties to Jin Chengzong's fleet in the southwest flank of Bailing Mountain, but what really made Ye Ji Baishi and Urging Quanchen tremble was the fact that the two armies were four miles apart in the first shelling.

Could this be the real fire crossbow?

The Western Temple Supervisor learned about the existence of the Fuhuo crossbow from the intercepted Southern Dynasty texts a few years ago, and the Fuhuo crossbow also aroused the infinite reverie of the Northern Yan monarchs, but the Western Temple Supervisor sacrificed more than a dozen precious eyeliners, and only learned that the Fuhuo crossbow was "shaped like a giant crossbow and cast in iron".

When the general priest innovated the ancient method to create a flame-spraying crossbow, the monarchs and ministers of Northern Yan were delusional that the Huaidong Fuhuo crossbow should be like this. Just before this naval battle, Ye Ji Baishi, Qi Quanchen and others also thought that the Huaidong Fu Fire Crossbow was a "troll" with a range of slightly farther than twenty or thirty paces, how could they have thought that it would be a big killer weapon that could shoot at a distance of four miles?

One of the ships had the misfortune to hit the mast, and the mast broke at waist length.

The masts of the medium-sized warships built by Goryeo were made of whole wood, which were unusually hard, full sails, and could withstand the lateral tension of thousands of catties or even higher.

Such a shipmast, even if it is bombarded with thirty catties of stone bullets from a medium-sized stone-throwing crossbow at close range, it may not be able to be interrupted at once - the ship's mast is directly interrupted four miles away, and it also makes Ye Ji Baishi, Urging Quanchen and others who are watching the battle on the enemy platform of Bailing Mountain intuitively feel how powerful the bombardment of the fire crossbow is.

At a distance of four miles, it may take only a blink of an eye for a cavalry charge on land, but it takes at least two quarters for a warship to sail against the wind (a hundred minutes of day and night in the old system, and ninety-six quarters of a day and night in the new system, the same as a quarter of an hour in later generations). In other words, even if the Huaidong warship did not move, it would take two moments for the Goryeo Navy warship to be able to meet it. In this time, how many rounds of fire crossbows are enough for the Huaidong warship?

Three, five, eight, ten?

Ye Ji Baishi and the generals who watched the battle in Bailing Mountain could not hide the shock on their faces at this time, their faces were as gray as ashes, and they were at a loss for a while.

The ultra-long-range shooting distance is shocking, the shooting power is shocking, but what is even more shocking is how densely arranged the fire crossbow is on the warship.

The counterweight stone-throwing crossbow made by Huaidong has a lot of power, but the bulky weighted stone-throwing crossbow cannot be installed on the warship, and the weapons used by the Huaidong warship are mainly bed crossbows and scorpion crossbows.

Huaidong's ship formation at the south mouth of the strait, from a distance, the six warships in the center are quite small, they should be new warships of the Jiyun class, but it is such a medium-sized warship, and six ambush fire heavy crossbows are deployed on the side of one side; In the waters off Kazu Island, are there any new warships that are heavier and equipped with more fire-fighting heavy crossbows approaching?

Although the scorpion crossbow threw stone bullets and fire oil cans, which had brought great casualties to the Goryeo and Beiyan sailors, one was that the Goryeo and Northern Yan sailors now had to build scorpion crossbows for reciprocal suppression, and the distance of the scorpion crossbow throwing the fire oil canisters was only 300 steps, which was already the distance of the near-port engagement.

At this distance, the gap in weapons can be made up by taking advantage of the terrain and numbers.

The fire crossbow first widened the distance between the two sides to four miles, making the battle extremely difficult from then on; The advantage of distance completely suppresses the advantage in the number of warships.

Even if the generals are not afraid of sacrifice and have the courage to die to the last soldier without retreating, after ten rounds or more of bombardment, they can only approach the new Huaidong warships to fight on the side, how much combat power can their own warships have left?

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Ye Ji Baishi, Qi Quanchen and other generals were hesitant in the enemy platform of Bailing Mountain, and Jin Chengzong, who directly commanded the battle on the battlefield, was even more headless flies - he subconsciously thought of retreating and retreated to the trench on the inner side of Bailing Mountain, but the water surface of the Hejin Strait was narrow, and if nearly 100 large and small warships turned around and fled in a hurry, they would inevitably cover up the Huaidong warships along the wind.

Moreover, the enemy of Bailing Mountain did not issue a clear military order, and Jin Chengzong did not dare to advocate fleeing back under the noses of Ye Ji Baishi and the ministers who urged the power.

If you can't escape, you can rush forward, especially the roundabout outflanking fleet on both wings, which is closer to the Huaidong warship, as long as you can fight on the side, you can give full play to the advantage of many people on board.

Kim Seungjong was also aware of the disadvantage of being too densely packed in the ship's formation, but when he ordered the formation to be adjusted and continue to advance, the second round of shelling began; He was unable to contact the flanked flanks in time.

This round of shelling was dominated by six frigates in the center of the battle line, and thirty-six broadside guns were fired in turn; The bow guns of the two-wing warships were aimed at the enemy ships flanked from both sides.

Due to the dense density and large number of enemy ships, they only need to aim at the designated sea area and cannot aim at a single target, so the speed of shooting and the hit rate will naturally increase greatly.

When the frontal enemy ship approached two miles, the naval guns had already fired six rounds, and Cao Wenlong stood in the command cabin, holding a telescope to observe the shelling situation--he did not go to Haizhou until late February to participate in the formulation of the battle plan for the attack on Shaocheng, but the large-scale sea firing in Haizhou in late February had ended, and Cao Wenlong had not yet had a chance to see several ships of gunwales firing target ships with new tactical salvos.

At this time, although he did not go into hand-to-hand combat, but through the looking glass, watching the enemy ship under the bombardment of a solid iron bullet, the mast broke and the ship cracked, the wooden night splashed, and the flesh and blood flew sideways, which really made people's blood boil, Cao Wenlong hated to go down to the gun compartment immediately and hit two shots to get over the addiction.

The power of the solid iron bullet is great, but the ability to kill the enemy intensively is not strong, and a large and medium-sized sea ship, even if the heavy stone-throwing crossbow is smashed at close range, if it wants it to completely fall apart and collapse, it will not be able to work for a while.

After six rounds of shelling, although most of the Goryeo warships in the forefront were unrecognizable, unfortunately a few warships broke their masts and capsized. Even though the front gunwales of several warships pierced through the seawater and poured directly into the cabins, the Goryeo warships also had a watertight cabin structure, and the damage of one place did not cause the entire ship to sink quickly.

The generals of the Goryeo Navy Division seemed to see the hope of winning the battle on the side of the ship and relying on the many people on the ship, and they were also in a big fight for a while, and they did not dare to suffer huge casualties under the shelling, and wanted to kill them in one go to pick up the ship and seize the ship.

Ge Yuan just calmly watched the enemy ship rush into a kilometer range, and ordered the bow of the ship to be loaded with scattered shells and ready.

The frigate was comparable in size to the old Jiyun-class battleships, but in order to be able to mount naval guns on the bow deck, a group of masts was reduced, and a two-masted double-sail structure was adopted. With the use of more sails, the speed did not slow down, but the installation of the bow gun on the bow deck and the addition of two gun positions were secondary, and the main thing was to make the frigate more flexible in tactics.

In contrast, the Jinhai-class and Lin Zhengjun-class warships can only use the tactics of sideside shelling, and they lack flexibility in naval battles when they are close to the side, and rely more on frigates.

The first to enter the scatter-shot range were the enemy ships approaching from the left flank.

Although the old warships on the left flank were not equipped with a large number of side guns, in addition to the two twelve-pound guns in the bow and stern, the Jinhai-class warships were also equipped with an additional 24-pound heavy gun in the bow as the main ship gun, and their firepower was actually not much weaker than that of the frigates.

In the face of nearly 20 small and medium-sized enemy ships swarming on one side, the left flank escort ship array was dominated by one Jinhai-class warship, supplemented by three Jiyun-class warships, and the battle on the side was also equal, not to mention that there were nine guns that could fire scattered bombs at the same time?

The cone-shaped barrage reached a distance of 300 meters, and an overwhelming rain of bullets had already formed, almost covering the first five warships of the enemy ship formation that would ensure the impact and maintain the cone-shaped array......

It is equivalent to a barrage formed by a salvo of 2,000 strong crossbows, so that the generals of the Goryeo Navy really understand that long-distance combat is not heaven, and melee combat is hell.

Including the Huaidong Naval Division, it was necessary to consider the complex and narrow structure of the mast and deck, and even in near-board combat, the use of heavy armor and long soldiers and heavy blades would be seriously suppressed. Although the protection of leather armor and other light armor is worse than that of heavy armor, it is more suitable for complex and narrow deck operations.

But in the barrage formed by the scattered bullets, the generals of the Korean Navy Division can especially deeply feel how precious the heavy armor is; The humanoid shield that protected the heavy crossbow was almost destroyed in the previous bombardment, and in the battle on the side of the ship, the naval generals had shields and only shields, and they were gathering on the bow deck with shields to prepare for the battle when they rushed to the Huaidong warship......

Although at a distance of 300 meters or even more, the head and chest can be covered with a shield, but where the shield cannot be covered, the lead pellet is violently torn apart, and the thin leather armor is difficult to form effective protection.

The generals of the Goryeo Navy Division who were in the later position witnessed this tragic situation and saw that the five warships were paralyzed at one time and beaten to purgatory on earth, and they suddenly lost the courage to fight again, and rowed and fled in panic.

The situation of the left flank outflanking the fleet made Kim Seungjong personally lead the main fleet to see from the frontal attack, and Kim Seungjong naturally did not have the courage to test the power of the barrage at close range, so he urgently called a halt to the warship and frantically fled in the opposite direction; The outflanking fleet on the right flank, the field of vision was blocked by the Huaidong warship, and the situation on the left flank could not be seen, although the main flotilla retreated, but the reaction was not timely, and it approached the right flank of the Huaidong warship according to inertia.

Seeing that the enemy ships were about to flee, Huaidong's escort fleet on the right flank did not care about waiting for a more favorable firing distance, and fired scattered bombs in advance, paralyzing the two ships led by them.

Ge Yuan did not immediately order the pursuit, even if the wind was favorable, it would take a while for the enemy ship to escape the range of the solid iron bullets, and the pursuit would inevitably adjust the position of the frigate, which would weaken the firepower. Moreover, the close pursuit of enemy ships is itself a taboo in the tactics of artillery bombardment on the battle line. As the commander of the task force, the specific tactical cultivation required is to keep the enemy's ships within the firing range and carry out artillery bombardment, and to get rid of the traditional and tactical influences of the past in close-quarters combat and even savage ramming.