Chapter 265: The Hole Cards Are Out
Chapter 265 The hole cards are out
The battleship of the Shu army crossed the hull in advance, of course, not to prepare for a broadside battle with the Dongwu Navy in advance, but to launch the "Angry Birds". Guan Gong took the initiative to attack this time, and the secret weapon he relied on was the "Angry Birds" of various types of large slingshots.
Now the "Angry Birds" on the ships of Shu can be roughly divided into three specifications: large, medium and small, which correspond to large, medium and small ships. The large warships that rushed in front were naturally used by the large "Angry Birds", and the size of this large slingshot was the same as that used by the Shu Army, and the power and range were naturally the same.
As soon as the Soochow ships entered the firing range, countless explosive ~ medicine packs on these ships were ejected ~ into the air and flew densely towards the Soochow ships. A "Angry Birds" only needs to occupy a width of about two meters, and it can be staggered to install, a large ship can install dozens of doors, a ship can project dozens of explosives ~ medicine packs at a time, dozens of such ships What is the concept?
In addition, "Angry Birds" is not like the fire ~ cannon, which has to clean the gun chamber, load ammunition, and cool the gun barrel every once in a while, "The Angry Birds are almost stuffed with explosive ~ medicine packs, and the bullet arm can be fired by elongating the bullet arm, and the firing speed is at least more than twice as fast as the fire ~ gun." The ships of the Shu Kingdom launched the "Angry Birds" with all their might, and in an instant, the sky was covered with dense black spots.
The Soochow Navy is too familiar with this kind of scene, and this is the kind of scene when they face two super warships, shells like locust plagues fall from the sky, and the disaster brought is definitely a hundred times more terrible than the real locust plague. And this time, these "locusts" were launched more and more intensively than the two super-battleships. This made the Dongwu Navy panic.
The panicked Dongwu naval army was running around on the boat, and no one even noticed that the Shu army had fired so many "cannonballs" this time, why didn't they hear the rumbling cannons? Of course, this silence lasted for a short time, and if you didn't notice it, it passed quickly, because these explosive~ medicine packs quickly smashed into the camp of the Dongwu Navy and exploded one after another.
These explosive ~ packets are also specially made, which has a certain protection for the leads, so that they can explode even if they fall into the water. Suddenly, columns of water soared into the sky everywhere in the Soochow ship group. These water columns lifted a large amount of river water and carried it into the air, and a lot of water was lifted to the ships of Soochow, pouring the sailors above into the cold, and many people became soup chickens.
However, they are all lucky, although the "Angry Birds" is a little worse on the head and the hit rate is not high, but the number is enough, even if it is a tenth of the hit rate, it is enough for the Soochow Navy to drink a pot.
Explosive ~ medicine packs are not like shells, heavy iron pellets can smash the ship through, but their charge is very large, much larger than the largest flowering bomb, and it is filled with some iron pieces and nails, as long as it explodes on the ship, it will always sweep down a large ~ piece.
Soon, the medium-sized ships also came up, and they crowded in front of the large ships and began to fire medium-sized "Angry Birds" as well. Since medium ships are much shorter than large ships, they do not block the view of large ships in front of them, nor do they hinder the launch of large ships.
This is a rehearsed array before the war, and countless drills have made the Shu Navy already know how to arrange various ships without interfering with each other, and can maximize the firepower output.
Medium-sized "Angry Birds" on medium-sized ships fired not explosive ~ powder packets, but ordinary thunderbolts. The medium-sized Angry Birds have limited ejection power, and can only fire small-sized things like the Thunderbolt. However, there are far more medium-sized ships than large ones, and there are many more medium-sized "Angry Birds" than large ones.
In this way, the results of the medium-sized "Angry Birds" are not at all worse than the large ones. After all, the lethality of the thunderbolt is not bad, and if it falls in the crowd, the killing effect is also very considerable. With the addition of the medium-sized Angry Birds, the black spots in the sky are even denser. The Soochow sailors were terrified and scurried around on the deck like headless flies, and many of them jumped into the river to escape without being able to withstand the pressure.
These sailors who fight the waves in the Yangtze River all the year round are people with excellent water ability, and if they are lucky enough not to be blown up by jumping into the water, they will have no problem swimming back to the shore. Thinking about the fact that the great man could cross the Yangtze River at the age of eighty, you know that as long as you are familiar with the water, crossing the Yangtze River is not as difficult as you imagined, at least for these strong guys.
When the army is in turmoil, the army is in turmoil, the soldiers are running around, the formation is scattered, there will be deserters, and even the army will collapse. The navy is in disarray, and the soldiers are in a hurry, and they may run away, but the ships will not be in a hurry, on the contrary, because there is no one to command calmly, because the rowers or the sails and helmers are panicked, and the ships are likely to move slowly, or even stagnate.
Once this happens, the situation gets worse, because if the ship stops still, it becomes a live target, more likely to be hit by the enemy, and takes more damage. The more severely wounded, the more panicked the sailors on board became, and the less immobile the ship became, creating a vicious circle. This is how the collapse of the Soochow Navy began.
However, Shu's attack methods were not limited to this, when the ships of the two armies approached, the ships in front of the Shu army began to throw mines into the water. This time, Guan Gong went out with enough manpower and materials, in addition to various models of "Angry Birds" and a large number of ammunition for them, there were also a large number of mines.
As mentioned earlier, the fishing net array of the Eastern Wu Army has been simply and rudely crushed and destroyed by the big boats, and there were still several layers of fishing nets between the Shu army and the Eastern Wu army, but Guan Gong arranged some "Angry Birds" to take special care of the net boats that pulled these layers of fishing nets, so that the last few layers of the fishing net array were also quickly destroyed.
This allowed the mines to finally go unimpeded. Due to the close proximity of the two sides, the lead of the mine was cut very short, and the mine soon floated into the Soochow fleet, and then exploded into the skyrocketing water column. The size of the mines is much larger than the explosive ~ pill packs ejected by the largest "Angry Birds", and their charge is also large, and the water column blown up is much higher than that blown up by the explosive~ pill pack.
If you are blown up by these mines, even a building ship will have to wear a big hole. Of course, the manufacturing process of the Soochow building ship is very advanced, and the design of the water compartment is widely used, even if some cabins are damaged, they will not sink for a while. However, it is very possible that the ship will move slower or even capsize. If you suffer a few more rounds, even the building boat will not be able to stand it.