The next day, the sun rose as usual, and the two armies continued to face each other, of course, in the air. Please search (product % book ¥¥ net)!

The fastest updated novel because both sides have long-range weapons such as fire ~ artillery, and now the distance between the two armies is no longer the arrow used in the past war, but outside the range of fire ~ artillery.

At this distance, what happened in the enemy camp is nothing by the flesh ~ eyes, not to mention that as in the past, the lords of the two sides will shout at each other, or even scold each other.

This is the change in the form of warfare brought about by new weapons.

Yesterday, the Jingzhou Navy has cleared all the fishing nets outside the reef area, and today it is time to start cleaning the fishing nets in the reef area.

It's full of reefs, and it's impossible for a big boat to get into, but a small boat can.

The kind of boat that can be rowed with a single oar, even if it hits a reef, does not cause much damage.

Because there is only one oar to row, it means that the power is very weak, the speed is slow, and the force of the impact is very small.

Even if it is a wooden boat, it will not be damaged after hitting it a few times, let alone a hard cement ship.

Now in the Jingzhou naval army, even some of these boats are made of cement.

It is said that this kind of cement boat is particularly useful for launching fire attacks, because the hull itself is made of cement, so it will not burn badly, as long as enough fuel is piled up on the ship, it can be burned all the time, and it will not be like a wooden boat, burning and burning, the hull is burned out, and it may not be ignited by the enemy ship, and it will sink into the water by itself.

These boats are now used to clear fishing nets in reef areas.

This boat is smaller, more agile and safer than yesterday's ship.

The boat is usually equipped with three people, one of whom is responsible for rowing, and the other two are "water ghosts"

, responsible for launching the water to catch fishing nets.

Of course, they still recycle the nets and chains.

In order to be able to pull the iron anchor up smoothly, they fixed a winch on the ship, "Water Ghost"

When they enter the water, they first untie the fishing nets, then pull the chains onto the boat, wrap them around the winch, and then turn the winch together to lift the iron anchor.

It is a simple machine designed to make up for the lack of manpower, and it is a masterpiece of the Institution Academy.

Without this winch, it would have been quite difficult for the three of them to lift the iron anchor.

The Jingzhou Navy wantonly entered the reef area, and of course the Soochow Navy did not agree.

This is equivalent to someone attacking the city, and they are already climbing the city wall.

Now it's time for the defenders to throw the rocks.

The rolling stones of the Soochow Navy were cannonballs, and I saw that the eight gunboats yesterday were lined up and shelled the reef area, and suddenly thunder was rolling and the water waves were surging.

Countless shells landed in the reef area, stirring up countless waves, and the boats scattered in the reef area were suddenly damaged.

The Soochow gunboats fired solid shells, each shell was a big iron bump, and the huge kinetic energy of the carrier fell from the sky, even if these small boats were cement ships, they would still be overturned.

However, the benefits of small boats were manifested at this time, and these small boats were very small, and the word "Yiye flat boat" was used to describe this kind of small boat.

The boat is small, and the natural target is also small, and at such a distance, the gunner cannot even aim at such a small target.

Even if you aim it, it's useless, it's normal for a shell to fly so far and have an error of a few meters.

Therefore, the people of Dongwu are very sad to find that even if the enemy is much closer today than yesterday, they are still relying on luck to fight ~ artillery.

Whether the shells they fire~ out can hit those small boats that are as small as leaves in the field of vision, it is not at all something they can control.

It was for this reason that the crew members of those boats were not badly injured, and most of them were made into soup chickens by the splashes of the cannonballs.

This was harmless at all, only a very small number of boats were hit by shells, and the crew on it was of course unlucky, either dead or wounded.

However, there are only three people in a small boat, and at most two or three people will be lost.

Moreover, two of the three people often have to go into the water, and if the cannonball hits the boat, two "water ghosts"

They were all in the water, and only one person was in danger.

Compared with tens of thousands of people, a large war of more than 100,000 people, the loss of a few people is simply very slight.

Guan Gong believed that this loss was still within his acceptable range, so he did not order the boats to retreat.

The gunboats of Soochow saw that the Jingzhou naval army did not react, so they became bolder, and they got closer and closer to the reef area.

As the distance approached, the accuracy of the cannon became more accurate, and the casualties of the boat began to increase.

Guan Gong was furious, and he didn't threaten these people to treat him as HelloKitty, is this okay?

They must be given good because all the fishing nets in front of the reef area have been cleared, and there is no longer any need to worry about the propeller being entangled, Guan Gong brazenly sent twelve large cement warships to approach the reef area and the Dongwu gunboats to bombard.

This time it's terrible, yesterday the battleships were far away, and the shells fired ~ out by both sides were very scattered, and the hit rate was extremely low, today is different, the battleships on both sides are much closer, even if the shells will still be scattered, but it is much better than yesterday's situation.

The point is that today there were twelve warships, much more than yesterday's three.

Twelve warships fired a salvo, and in an instant 540 rockets appeared in the sky, what a spectacular sight.

With such a dense rain of bullets, the probability of hitting is very high, and the rocket artillery of the twelve battleships fired three rounds in a row, and 1620 rockets were consumed in this way, and at the same time a huge amount of wealth was burned, and only the big Han could afford this kind of consumption.

However, high spending has also paid off handsomely.

After just three rounds of shelling, almost every one of the eight Soochow gunboats was hit and emitted black smoke.

The sailors on the gunboat suffered numerous casualties.

Among them, there were three of the worst, and the worst of them was a gunboat that was hit by an ammunition depot.

The countless ammunition in the gunboat's ammunition depot was ignited in an instant, followed by a series of explosions, and finally the entire gunboat broke in two and slowly sank to the bottom of the water with black smoke.

The other two gunboats, which were particularly smoky, lost power due to heavy damage, and although they were not sunk for the time being, they also stopped on the river and could not move.

Soochow's gunboats did not use propellers as power plants, they relied on sails, and on the sides of the ship, a large number of huge oars were arranged, each of which required two people to shake at the same time.

Therefore, Soochow's warships actually adopted "dual power"

mode to sail.

Due to the large number of rockets in these two gunboats, almost all the giant oars were destroyed, and most of the sailors who rowed the oars died, which is equivalent to the energy efficiency of this ~ power system has decreased by more than half.

Another ~ power system sail is even worse, two of the three masts were blown off, and the remaining mast is still there, but the sail was ignited and burned to ashes.

If it is said that these two gunboats originally had ten percent power, now after the ravages of Jingzhou Navy rockets~ravage, only one or two percent of the power remains.

However, the hull was also damaged by Yanzhòng, and multiple water traps were flooded, which greatly increased the weight of the hull.

The remaining two percent of the power could not propel them at all, and they had to lie down gloriously.

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