Chapter 493: The Battle of Thunder

While chasing, while fleeing, soon, the distance between the two armies reached more than ten meters, and this distance is the distance that is often said in those novels, where you can see each other's hair. However, for the Jingzhou naval army, the significance of this distance is that it is now possible to throw thunderbolts.

I saw countless iron bumps flying into the sky, and then falling one after another on the Soochow battleship chasing at the forefront and the surrounding water. "Boom, boom, boom" explosions sounded, and one after another Soochow warships were blown to pieces.

Countless Soochow sailors screamed and flew out of the ship and fell into the river. Seeing the tragic situation of the battleship in front, the Dongwu battleship chasing behind couldn't help but be stunned, obviously the rowing sailors were stunned and stopped the action of paddling in their hands, which made the boat temporarily lose power and slow down.

But soon, a rapid drum sounded from behind, which was the general behind who saw that the situation was not good, and ordered people to beat the war drums and urge the front to continue to charge. The Soochow Navy is a well-trained army, and it can even be said that it is one of the most powerful in the world, and the sailors who were so frightened that they temporarily stopped their movements heard the sound of drums, and immediately came back to their senses and continued to paddle with all their might.

The battleships of Soochow continued to chase the warships of the Jingzhou Navy at high speed. The Soochow battleships were constantly blown up, but more Soochow battleships rushed over like wolves, which was a bit of a sign of braving the enemy's artillery fire.

The fire ~ gunners on the Jingzhou battleship have all stopped shooting and threw thunderbolts instead, if it is on land, it is not enough to use thunderbolts completely, and the role of fire ~ guns is still very large.

However, in this kind of water warfare, when the distance is close to a certain extent, the role of the Thunderbolt is obvious. Because the enemies on land are all individual and can spread out from each other, it is often possible for a single thunderbolt thrown at it to kill only one person, while the other enemies are outside the blast range of the thunderbolt.

If this is the case, it is better to use fire ~ guns to fight, using fire ~ guns can save a lot of fire ~ powder than using thunderbolts. However, it is different in water warfare, because the enemy is crowded into a boat, and as long as one thunderbolt hits the ship, the whole ship will basically be reimbursed, and the killing efficiency is amazingly high.

And because there is a baffle, the lethality of the fire ~ gun is minimized, so at this time, the Jingzhou sailors decisively abandoned the fire ~ gun and threw thunderbolts instead. However, soon, the Jingzhou Navy discovered that the Dongwu people also had thunderbolts.

After all, Thunderbolt is a very low-tech thing, as long as there is gun~powder, it is not difficult to make it. The Dongwu people also took out thunderbolts, threw them at the side of the Jingzhou navy, and continued to rush at full speed to crash into the Jingzhou battleship.

The Soochow sailors had little experience in this area, and their training was far inferior to that of the Jingzhou sailors, so the results achieved by the two sides were very different from the same thunderbolts.

As a simple example, the lead of the Thunderbolt can burn for a few seconds, and these few seconds can do a lot of things, and an experienced Jingzhou sailor, after pulling the lead, will let it burn in his hand for a second or two before throwing it out.

In this case, as soon as the Thunderbolt flies into the enemy ship, the lead burns out and explodes, and the enemy will no longer be able to react. But the sailors of the Eastern Wu were different, the thunderbolts they used were still exposed and needed to be ignited with a fire source, and after they were ignited, they hurriedly threw them out, for fear that this thing would explode in their hands.

As a result, the thunderbolt thrown over has not exploded for a long time, and this time is enough for the Jingzhou sailors to do a lot of things, such as picking up the thunderbolt that has not exploded and throwing it back or throwing it into the water, using a shield to knock the thunderbolt into the water like a tennis ball, and some brave soldiers rushed over and lay on the thunderbolt, covering the thunderbolt with their own bodies, and sacrificing themselves to save other comrades on the same boat.

In this way, in the case of a thunderbolt attack by everyone, there is a big difference in the casualty rate of the two sides. In addition to the quality of the sailors, the difference in the level of Thunderbolt manufacturing technology between the two sides also had a great impact.

The Thunderbolt of the Soochow Navy is the most primitive version of the Thunderbolt, with the fuse exposed and needed to be lit with a torch. If such a thunderbolt falls into the water, the lead will be extinguished by the water at once, and the thunderbolt will definitely turn into a dumb mine.

After years of development, now the Han army's thunderbolts have gradually been replaced with bamboo-handled thunderbolts. The shape of this thunderbolt is close to the wooden handle hand ~ grenade ~ bomb of later generations, but because the explosive power of black fire ~ powder is small, so it has to be enlarged and equipped with more ignition ~ medicine into it, so it looks like a feeling of top-heavy, far less slender and good-looking than the hand ~ grenade ~ bullet of later generations.

Since the hollow wooden handle is not easy to process, the craftsman uses a bamboo tube instead of the wooden handle. The bamboo itself is hollow, and it can be used by simply cutting off the bamboo joints, completely eliminating the drilling process. The advantage of this thunderbolt is that the lead is built-in, and there is no need to ignite, as long as the rope is pulled, the flint inside can ignite the built-in lead.

This way, the throwing speed can be accelerated, and the key is that in water battles, even if this thunderbolt falls into the water, it can still explode. This kind of thunderbolt has a simple waterproof treatment, and it will not enter the water for a short time when it falls into the water.

Although these thunderbolts that exploded in the water would not cause much damage to the enemies on the ship, the splashes, sounds, air waves and other factors that exploded could still interfere with the Soochow sailors on the ship. Under the influence of various factors, this round of thunderbolt warfare between the Eastern Wu Naval Army and the Jingzhou Naval Army ended with the Eastern Wu Army completely falling into the upper hand.

Finally, some of the Soochow warships broke through the dense thunderbolt barrage and crashed into the Jingzhou naval warships running at the rear. However, to the horror of the Soochow sailors, although the opponent's battleship shook violently, the hull was not damaged at all, and the part of the collision with their own warship had become sparse.

The Jingzhou sailors would not give them a chance to calm down, and when they were unsteady on their feet and had not had time to jump over to fight hand-to-hand, they threw thunderbolts and spears.

Originally, the fire ~ gun was equipped with a bayonet, but after all, the length of the fire ~ gun was slightly shorter than that of the spear, and it was an inch long and an inch strong on this occasion, so the warships of the Jingzhou Navy were equipped with long spears, which could stab the enemy when the enemy ship was not completely close.

In addition to stabbing people, the spear can also push away enemy ships, making it impossible for enemy ships to get close. As long as one or two men poke their spears at the enemy ship and push them hard, even if all the people on the enemy ship row with all their might, they will not try to get close.

The length of the spear was more than a zhang, and it was impossible for the enemy to jump over and fight at such a distance. Even a world champion would not have been able to jump this distance without a run-up.