As mentioned last time, the Jingzhou carried out three rounds of shelling of the Dongwu fleet, and at this time, the watchtower reported that the "Chang'an" was hit by a total of 5 projectiles, and it was observed that the personnel on board were busy draining the water, and it was estimated that there was a possibility of water ingress; A total of 5 medium-sized vessels were shot, 2 of which showed signs of flooding. More than 10 small ships were sunk by the bomb.

Liu Hou was quite satisfied with this result, and a total of 141 solid shells were fired in the three rounds of shelling, sinking more than one-tenth of the total number of ships. Of course, most of them just hit the auxiliary car, and this result was achieved entirely because the Soochow ships were too dense, and they would not fail if they hit casually.

The real hit rate Liu Hou attaches great importance to it, and the hit rate achieved by these three rounds of shelling is obviously that after the first round of shelling, the gunners adjusted the muzzle according to the landing point of the first projectile, so that the accuracy of the back was slightly improved, and it was only slightly improved, after all, the ship shook very badly under the action of recoil, and the quasi-head was affected by Yan zhòng.

At this time, there was chaos on the "Chang'an", which was the flagship of the Eastern Wu Naval Army, and Sun Quan's camp was located here. Since a solid shell entered the hull diagonally from the side of the ship near the waterline, the shell landed directly on the bottom of the ship without being cushioned by the multi-deck.

The thick bottom of the boat was smashed into a large hole under the huge kinetic energy of the 12-kilogram iron bullet, and the water poured in at once. By the time the Eastern Wu soldiers found the damaged location, the water was knee-high. The Soochow Navy was also well-trained and experienced, and the damage control team immediately went into action, and immediately someone covered the broken part with a large wooden plank, and since it was impossible to drive nails in the water, they brought several bags of rice and pressed it on it.

In this way, a large amount of water that pours in like a fountain becomes a small amount of water entering from the plank. Fabrics, clothes, and even flags were brought in to plug the gaps around the planks to further reduce the influx of water.

Many more carried buckets to clear the bilge of the water. However, the bilge was very deep and the passage was so narrow that only one person could pass through the guò at a time, so everyone lined up in a queue and went up the ladder from the bilge to the second floor, and then to the nearest window on the second floor. Buckets of water were passed up through the human dragon of guò, and the windows on the second floor of guò were poured back into the river.

There are no pumps, no water wheels, and the primitive method of guò can be imagined how inefficient it is. Despite the best efforts of the Soochow soldiers, they could not exceed the speed of the water ingress, and the water level at the bilge was still slowly rising.

At this time, in Sun Quan's cockpit on the top floor, it was also a mess. The ministers were trying to persuade Sun Quan to leave the "Chang'an" immediately and move to other ships. Sun Quan refused to leave.

"I'm not leaving, I'm going to go, I'm going to stick to the command here. What the hell is this thing, how can it fly so far? Could it be a new trebuchet in Xishu? Who can tell me what kind of ship that ship is? Unwillingly, Sun Quan roared.

"My lord, judging from the flag, that ship should be called 'Jingzhou'. In addition, the ship also planted the 'Liu' flag, from before Lu Da ...... According to the news brought back by Lu Ziming, it was Liu Bei's son Liu Chan who was guarding Jingzhou City. From this point of view, it is very likely that this ship is Liu Chan's car. At this time, Lu Xun came out to answer the question.

"As for these big black balls, they look like iron balls, not stones, and I have never heard of a trebuchet that can fly so far and so powerful, and if there is, it must be too large to be mounted on a ship, and there are so many of them. According to the news brought back by Ziming, it is said that Zuo Ci made something 'thunderbolt' in Xishu, which can make a loud noise and is infinitely powerful. Therefore, Xun estimates that this is likely to be Zuo Ci's 'thunderbolt'. Lu Xun continued.

"Hmph, what are you doing with that useless guy?" Sun Quan said angrily, obviously very dissatisfied with Lu Xun's repeated mention of Lu Meng. He punished Lu Meng, and now it seems that a lot of the news that Lu Meng brought back before may not be fake, and his explanation may not be a shirk of responsibility, it is very likely that he is really reminding himself that Xishu has a very terrifying new weapon.

In this case, it is very likely that he blamed Lu Meng for being wrong, of course, Sun Quan was unwilling to admit his mistake so lightly, so Lu Meng was even more unhappy with Lu Xun in advance.

"Lord, now that the bottom of the ship is damaged and the river water continues to pour in, for the sake of today's plan, only by evacuating all the people who have nothing to do with the emergency to other ships and abandoning the burden on the ship, can the sinking of the big ship be slowed down, and the ship can be sailed to the shore at this time, and this 'Chang'an' still has the possibility of saving. If the lord insists on refusing to go, the 'Chang'an' will surely sink in the near future. Once sunk in the center of the river, we will lose the 'Chang'an' forever. ”

Lu Xun's words can be regarded as a blunt admonition, and these words bluntly said that if Sun Quan does not leave, it will cause the sinking of this super mothership that cost countless manpower and material resources to build in Soochow, such words are not something that everyone dares to say, nor can they be said to every lord. It depends on the wisdom and character of the lord.

If you meet a foolish lord who does not understand the meaning of your words, and thinks that you are disobedient to his meaning, then wait to be killed; When you meet a narrow-minded person who doesn't have a good character, and thinks that you will lose face by your outspoken advice, then you are waiting to be killed or put on small shoes by the autumn queen.

Fortunately, Sun Quan is not the two kinds of people mentioned above, and he is also one of the three heroes, neither stupid nor narrow-minded, he was sobered up when Lu Xun said this. He finally stopped insisting and made a sane decision. For now, it is true that only the method that Lu Xun said is the best, and only by doing so can the 'Chang'an' have a trace of vitality. If the "Chang'an" sinks because of his momentary unwisdom, then he is a sinner of Soochow and a faint king who does not know how to advance or retreat.

Now that the decision was made, Sun Quan and a cadre of civil and military officials quickly moved to the "Feiyun" to continue to command the battle. According to Lu Xun's plan, the "Chang'an" quickly docked while trying its best to drain the water. Finally, he ran aground on the shallows not far from the Jingzhou wharf. At this time, three floors of the Jingzhou sank underwater, revealing only two floors on the water.

Fortunately, all the crew members were evacuated safely, and although Liu Hou sank the giant flagship, he did not cause many casualties.

The other two medium-sized ships were not so lucky, not only were two crew members hit by shells and cut in two, but only one was able to run aground on the shore, and the other sank completely before it could get close to the shore.

Fortunately, the Soochow sailors were experienced and swam far away before the medium-sized battleship sank, so that they were not swept to the bottom of the river by the whirlpool formed when the large ship sank.

Needless to say, there was no need to think about whether or not to dock or not, and the crew had to abandon ship and swim to other nearby ships, except for a few who were hit by shells, most of them were able to escape with their lives.

In Liu Hou's three rounds of artillery bombardment, which was thunderous and rainy, the record was brilliant in terms of the number of ships sunk, but in terms of the personnel killed, it was simply not worth mentioning.

Just as Liu Hou was about to let the artillery crew carry out the shelling again, the Soochow fleet finally reacted. I saw more than 30 warships rushing out of Soochow's fleet and rushing straight toward the "Jingzhou."

Seeing this situation, Liu Hou secretly scolded the country, Nima, in the Battle of Chibi, how many ships did you dispatch to attack Cao Cao's fleet, and you actually dispatched 30 ships to deal with me, so you don't need to give it like this. Liu Hou couldn't care about the cannon anymore, and said to Li Qiu: "Run, all the way to the west." ”

Li Qiu nodded, turned his head and gave an order to the herald: "Raise the main mast, front and rear auxiliary masts, notify the power room, and the power is fully turned on......"

After the herald ran to the brass to convey the order, Li Qiu walked to the front of the steering wheel and personally took charge of the steering wheel to control the direction of the ship.

At this time, the whole boat moved, like a swarm of industrious ants, and like the cogs in a shrewd machine, rumbling and moving. On the deck, there was a crowd of people under the three masts, several of whom were pulling ropes to lift the huge canvas by brushing, and others on either side of the deck were pulling ropes and turning the sails to hold it in place.

The power compartment is the busiest place, the six spokes of the power wheel are covered with a cow, each cow has a soldier driving the power wheel forward, in addition, the gap of each spoke is filled by shirtless strong men, these strong men and oxen, pushing the power wheel to rotate.

The power wheels rotate slowly, through the guò transmission, the speed shifter, and the propeller at the stern of the ship becomes a high-speed rotation. The high-speed rotating propellers and the three huge sails propelled the huge hull forward quickly.

The boat does not go straight to the west, because in order to follow the direction of the wind, the boat first goes southwest and then turns northwest in a zigzag course.

Soochow's pursuers were unknown, but they also chased along this tortuous route. While escaping, Liu Hou ordered all artillery to look for opportunities to fire freely, especially the stern battery, which could always face the ships chasing behind, and always get the opportunity to open fire. Due to the Z-shaped route, many times the angle of fire can also be found on the side of the side, and it is possible to fire at the pursuing ship.

However, after two rounds of artillery, Liu Hou was depressed, firing guns in this kind of movement is purely a waste of ammunition, and the hit rate is too low, especially these ships are very small, and from a distance, it looks like a cannon hitting flies. Liu Houmo counted that the whole ship fired a total of no less than 100 shells just now, and only hit one stern in total, with a 1 percent hit rate, and he didn't know whether this hit was aimed or hit the ship next to him by mistake.

So, Liu Hou ordered to stop firing artillery, after all, this gunpowder and cannonballs were not obtained out of thin air, and their cost was not low, so it was not a way to waste it. In his previous life, Liu Hou once heard a joke: Why didn't the U.S. military use missiles to fight Afghanistan? Because the US military's missiles often cost millions, the value of the targets that may be knocked out is less than $10,000 if they go to that poor place in Afghanistan. Of course, the US military is not willing to do such an obviously uneconomical thing.

Liu Hou now has this feeling, against a small ship like Soochow, with such a low hit rate, the value of the ammunition consumed is likely to be higher than the target, which is really a very unworthy thing. Moreover, he only has one ship now, and the other side has thousands, and his gunpowder reserves are not enough to cope with the current situation, and once the ammunition is exhausted, this so-called super battleship will become a toothless tiger. Good steel has to be used on the blade, so let's keep the ammunition for important targets.

Not long after escaping, Liu Hou saw something come out, these ships are rowed by manpower, the manpower is uneven, there is a strong strength and small strength, and gradually these ships will be divided into winners and losers, just like the dragon boats seen in later generations, these ships gradually opened up the distance, and the fast ones are almost 200 meters away from the Jingzhou, and the far ones are still 300 meters away. This made Liu Hou see an opportunity.