The "Boom Boom Boom ......" had just finished turning its rudder and was less than a chain away, when 16 iron balls shot out of the ship's guns, flew over more than 50 zhang, and splashed a column of water more than 10 meters high on the sea surface.

Hearing the sound of cannons, seeing the smoke of gunpowder, and seeing the column of iron balls and water, all the people on the Charger were stunned, they had never seen such a weapon before.

Not only the sailors, but even Lan Bing was surprised for a few breaths, his eyes staring at the water column at the stern of the boat, his little head running rapidly, and in addition to being frightened, Lan Bing breathed a sigh of relief.

It's a powerful thing, but it's not as scary as you think, and from the position of the water column, you can see that the accuracy of this long-range weapon is quite poor. Sixteen iron balls, launched from the same battleship, have a huge difference in position.

Lan Bing judged within a few breaths that this weapon relied on numbers to win, no matter how powerful it was, it was useless to shoot accurately.

The bed crossbow is naturally not so scary, but the range is farther and more accurate than the iron ball, and the reason why it did not start firing is to ensure the hit rate.

The bed crossbow on a battleship is very different from the bed crossbow on land, and this difference is not in the crossbow, but in the crossbow.

Unless it is a broadside battle, from a distance, the number of sailors on the ship is not large, and it is very scattered, so it is impossible to kill a few people by relying on the lethality of the crossbow itself.

The lethality of the battleship's bed crossbow mainly comes from the fire oil, each crossbow gun, there is a special oil tank, before firing, fill it with fire oil, ignite it and launch it, with the power of the crossbow gun, as long as it is shot on the enemy ship, it is not so easy to pull it out.

The crossbow spear, which is nearly a foot long, can be shot into the city wall several feet deep, and anyone can step on the arrow shaft to climb the wall, and three or five strong men may not be able to pull it out with all their strength.

The oil in the oil tank flowed down the oil tank to the hull of the ship, burning a raging fire, which was the greatest damage to the enemy ship.

The reason is very simple, the ships of this era, whether they are warships, fishing ships, or merchant ships, are all wooden, and even if the hull is brushed with a fireproof layer, the fireproof effect is very average.

"Keep going, get closer. Lan Bing gritted his teeth and ordered, in fact, at this distance, the bed crossbow could already be fired. The problem is that the northern navy is lax, basically has not been trained, and the charge has been living well in the past few months, although it is fully equipped, but the crossbowmen have not shot a few arrows, and Lan Bing is not at ease with them.

In addition, Lan Bing took the risk to try it and see the launch speed of the iron ball of the Austrian battleship, if the speed was too fast, Lan Bing would turn around and flee, but the Charge had been transformed several times, and I didn't dare to say anything else, when it was empty, the speed was definitely the fastest warship in the Northern Navy.

Judging from the reaction of the Austrians, she could see that people were unwilling to pay attention to him, and only divided three warships, and the Grand Fleet continued to rush towards the coastline, which was a rush for time.

Counting silently in his heart, Liuzi reminded: "Captain Xiaolan, there is an iron pipe in the cave that has been pushed out. ”

"Turn the rudder left and slow down. ”

The Charge is a member of the Northern Naval Army, and it is natural to talk about what to practice, but in the past six months, it has to go out to sea every day to fish, and the skills of operating the ship have not fallen, but have improved compared to when the old captain was there.

As soon as Lan Bing's order was given, the hull of the ship began to tilt, the bow of the ship was to the left, and the battleship seemed to be pulled by the tail of the Hercules, and its speed dropped by a cut.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

"Boom, boom, boom......"

This time it was two rows of iron balls, which flew past the bow of the Stormtroopers, and another ship of the Austrians also rushed over.

Half a pillar of incense, Lan Bing is more at ease, the speed of this iron ball is extremely slow, and there are obvious signs, as long as you find the iron pipe sticking out of the hole on the side of the ship first, you can prevent it in advance.

In fact, the iron cannon that fires solid bullets not only has a slow firing speed, but also has a very low accuracy, more than 20 zhang away, whether it can hit or not, half depends on the experience of the sailors, and the other half can only rely on luck.

Thirty zhang, this distance is okay.

"A single row of bed crossbows fired, the first and eleventh target enemy sails. ”

At the sound of an order, eighteen crossbow guns flew towards the Austrian battleship with raging flames. The bed crossbows on the battleship are large crossbows, the standard one crossbow has three guns, and six bed crossbows can fire eighteen crossbows at a time.

The distance of thirty zhang is already extremely close for a large bed crossbow, and the crossbowmen on the Charge are as out of tune as Lan Bing guessed, at such a close distance, only half of the crossbow guns are actually shot at the enemy ship, and as for the sails that Lan Bing cares about the most, they are all shot out.

"Right rudder...... Accelerate ......" Lan Bing stared at the enemy ship, and Liuzi observed the hole in the side of the ship, and when the iron pipe was pushed out, he immediately reminded him.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

The hull of the assault ship trembled violently, and several screams came into his ears, but Lan Bing couldn't bear it without turning his head to look.

"Twin bed crossbows are fired, damaged and rescued. "Growing up listening to stories of naval battles, Lan Bing was extremely calm at this time.

In fact, she understands that when she was a child, she listened to the stories of naval battles told by her father and uncle, in fact, they were all lies, Da Chu had never experienced a serious naval battle for three hundred years, and the most powerful enemy was the overlord of the North Sea one hundred and fifty years ago, in fact, it was just a guy pirate, and when he was the most powerful, there were only more than thirty warships, not to mention compared with the Southern Navy, even if the Northern Navy, he could easily destroy him.

Although these stories are fake, Kelan Bing has learned a lot from them, plus she has grown up on battleships since she was a child, and her understanding of the Charger is as familiar as her own body.

"Hit the ......" There was a cheer in his ears, and the sails of the Austrian warships were ignited, and the crossbow guns easily shot through the sails, but a large amount of fire oil was left behind, and the burning oil flowed down the sails.

In the era of sails, the sail was speed, and the speed of the Austrian warships was significantly slower by half.

"Bypass it. Lan Bing continued to order.

"Report the loss. "The second order was given.

The Charger began to pick up speed, making a perfect arc across the sea, rounding the Austronics with damaged sails.

There is not only one pair of sails on the battleship, one main and three officers, and eight small sails, burning the main sail can only slow down the battleship, but it doesn't matter, at this time, there are dozens of crossbow guns that hit the enemy ship, and the burning fire oil flows everywhere, this battleship has temporarily lost its combat effectiveness, there is no need to care about it.

"Eight iron balls were shot, the side of the ship was damaged, the waterline was fine, six people died, twelve were injured, four dogs were injured, I am afraid it will not last long. ”

Lan Bing's eyes turned red, most of the sailors on the ship were old people, all of them were uncles who watched her grow up, although they were usually noisy, she was distressed about the dead and wounded, no way, who made the Lan family a navy military household, the father died and the son inherited, and even her, a fourteen-year-old girl, supported the charge.

Is there no one in the Northern Naval Army?

There are really not many people, two-thirds less than the people on the roster of the Great Chu Military Department, and those who have a way have already run away, who is hanging here, and they can't even eat a full meal, who wants to live this day?

"Single-row reloaded!"

In fact, the rate of fire of the bed crossbow is not fast, it is about the same as the front-loading artillery, the bed crossbow on the battleship is slower than that of the land battle, not only to wind, but also to fill the oil with fire, this work is quite dangerous, a little careless, it flows to the deck, it is easy to burn yourself, even if you prepare sand, no one wants to burn yourself.

"Target enemy No. 2 stern and sail launch!"

"Right full rudder, top speed. Lan Bing gave an incomprehensible order, which had already bypassed most of the enemy ships, and when he saw it, he caught up with the enemy No. 2 ship, and the enemy No. 3 ship was still sixty zhang away, and when it was time to chase and fight, how did he turn the rudder.

A loud "......boom" was heard, and a fireball on the enemy No. 1 ship rose into the air, and the enemy No. 1 ship broke into two pieces and sank rapidly. The sailors on the ship jumped into the sea without hesitation, and swam desperately into the distance.

"God, Captain Xiaolan is God. ”

Lan Bing was stunned for a moment, she let the Charge turn the rudder, but she didn't guess that there would be such an explosion, she was worried that on the other side of the No. 1 ship, there were also weapons that could launch iron balls, who would have thought that the enemy No. 1 ship would blow up by itself.

Fire is very important for naval warfare, especially for warships that use gunpowder weapons, if they can't control the fire and ignite the powder keg, they don't need the enemy to attack, and they will be finished. The explosion of gunpowder is much more powerful than the burning of oil.

Lan Bing's luck is good, plus the Charger has been transformed several times, otherwise those iron projectiles will be able to make the originally tattered Charger lie down.

"Double-row reloading complete!" shouted the crossbowman, his eyes red, his voice broken, as they saw the tragic death of their brother and the results of the battle under the command of Captain Xiaolan.

After all, they were all naval soldiers, and after seeing the blood, they became murderous, eager to rush into the enemy's fleet and kill them all.

"The right rudder is full rudder, the coastline is parallel, full speed!" Lan Bing was very calm, she knew that it was time to escape, she could have such a result, the casualties were not very large, and she earned it this time.

"Boom ......" countless iron sand swept across the deck of the Charge, screaming one after another, and the sails were riddled with holes......

Liuzi's reaction was super fast, don't look at his ability to fight and kill the enemy is not strong, but he has good eyesight, quick reaction, and at the same time feeling wrong, he held down Lan Bing and pressed her under him.

The blood drenched Lan Bing's body, and when she struggled to get up, the Charger was like purgatory, and the sailors on the deck suffered heavy casualties, and almost everyone who survived was injured.

When the Charger tried to make a merit and withdraw from the battlefield, it ran out of luck, and three grapeshot shells swept across the deck at the same time, and even the command room was not spared.

At this time, the battleship, even the command room, was not fully enclosed, it was also a wooden structure, and its defense against shells was almost zero.

This is also a long distance, if it is ten feet closer, I am afraid that there will be few living people on the deck of the Stormtrooper.

Wooden sailing ships, even if they are battleships, have very few people under the cabin, and most of the personnel are on deck.

"Accelerate, evacuate at full speed. Lan Bing felt a burning pain in his arm, and what was even more terrifying was that Liuzi was lying there motionless, bleeding from all over his body.

It's like a fountain!