I heard that there were less than fifty "archers" on the ship, and Yi Yun had two big heads, and saw that the bandits were opening their bows and arrows, ready to use bows and arrows to deal with them, but the soldiers on the side were all dumbfounded, walking around with shields, Yi Yun was angry and scolded: "What are you waiting for?

"Yes!" a few sailors scrambled over to raise the sails.

But the white sails have just been raised, and a burst of rockets have been shot on the opposite bandit boat, no one has been shot, the sails have been shot first, and the fire oil on the arrows has been stained on the cloth sails, although these cloth sails have been treated with some degree of fireproofing, but after the oil flow on the rockets, even the fireproof treated sails can not help tossing.

A few bucket-sized holes were burned in the sails, and when the wind blew, several holes leaked together, and the speed of the ship could not be raised at all.

The seven water bandits' warships ran very fast, obviously the water bandits' level of handling the boats was first-class, they did not come closer, but rotated around the wide river, around Yi Yun's five big ships, maintaining a distance of one hundred and fifty meters, the "archers" opened their bows and arrows, and fired at Yi Yun's boat.

Yi Yun Great Khan, so many "archers" fired a volley, that is to kill people, last time in the Jiangjin Oasis, Yi Yun saw a third-order "general" by a hundred "archers" together "accurate shooting", directly killed in seconds, if these guys shoot at themselves, how can it be good?

However, Yi Yun was worried in vain, the sailors on the ship surrounded him together, and a large group of "guards" set up shields and surrounded Yi Yun to death, the sailors just now did not lie, this time to protect Yi Yun to the south of the Yangtze River, the sailors in the fleet used a large number of "guards", and at this time it will be effective.

The rockets roared, and the "guards" shouted "shield block", and then Yi Yun heard a sound of "bumper bumper" around him, and he didn't know how many arrows were blocked.

More than a hundred enemy "archers" were shooting arrows at the sailors on each ship, but it was impossible for them all to shoot at Yi Yun in a volley, so there were only thirty or forty arrows against Yi Yun at the same time, and it was impossible to cause damage to Yi Yun in the "guard" array guarded by Yi Yun like an iron bucket around him.

Yi Yun froze and said loudly: "Don't just defend, what about our 'archers'? Quickly return fire!"

There was a few sparse voices from the side of the ship: "Yes." ”

Yi Yun saw that there were more than a dozen archers lying on the side of each ship on the side, holding bows and arrows to shoot back at the other party, but their numbers were too small, and before they could shoot a few arrows, they were crushed by the rain of arrows from the other side, and a few slightly aggressive "archers" were shot into hedgehogs because they leaned out too much from the side of the ship.

"Lord Wang, our sails have been burned, and we can't catch up with the speed of the enemy ship, so we can't get close!" a soldier reported loudly: "What should we do?"

"What can I do? shoot the sails of the opponent's ship with a rocket!" Yi Yun ordered loudly, "Let the opponent's speed also slow down, and you will not be able to control the distance." ”

"Lord Wang...... We...... We didn't prepare rockets......"

I fainted to death, the armament of this big cute country is really enough...... Yi Yun was seriously upset.

The five ships on Yiyun's side were suppressed by the rain of arrows, and the soldiers could only defend with shields, and many feathered arrows were quickly inserted on the deck and side of the ship, some of which were rockets, burning with wooden hulls, and the sailors had to fight the fire with buckets under the rain of arrows, and the situation was chaotic.

An Qian, Jingjing, Li Chengyu, Lu Xi and other girls with combat effectiveness were all on the deck, helping the sailors to extinguish the fire, and the temperature on the ship began to rise, and the heat made them sweat profusely.

Yi Yun compared the distance and found that the enemy's control of the distance was really perfect, and his Five Elements Dao method only had a range of 100 meters, and he couldn't hit ...... An Qian's quiet sword qi was even more out of reach, and at a distance of one hundred and fifty meters, they could only be beaten passively. ...,

Is there any way to compensate for the disadvantage of this range?

At this time, Li Chengyu happened to run in front of Yi Yun, he looked at her red armor, and suddenly woke up, by the way, a few days ago, Li Chengyu and I also discussed the problem of a big cute domestic cannon, these warships have Franc cannons, but in order to camouflage the merchant ship, I moved the cannon to the bilge, and then I forgot to move it out again, now is a good time to use them.

Yi Yun is a person from later generations, and no one knows better than him that the king in water warfare is a cannon! Rockets and other things are backward weapons that were only played in the Three Kingdoms era, and in the era of great exploration in his own world, water warfare has become a battle that relies on cannons to decide the winner...... As long as there are cannons, any archers will have to turn to ashes.

"Come on, go to the bilge and bring the cannon up!" Iyun ordered loudly.

The sailors hurriedly divided a dozen people, drilled into the bilge, and at the same time issued flags to the other four ships, all of which had cannons, one in the bow and one in the stern, and now these guns were in the bilge, and as long as they were moved out and used, they would inevitably be able to reverse the disadvantage.

The leader of the bandits, Luo Leg Mao, was standing on the bow of his boat at this time, proudly watching the officers and soldiers in front of him being besieged, he had already cheered up from the fear of the officers and soldiers, looking at the officers and soldiers who were burned by the rocket, Luo Leg Mao was very happy: "Hahaha, there is nothing to be afraid of the officers and soldiers, let's play slowly with rockets until they are burned to pieces, and then get close to the past to harvest the spoils, hahahaha." ”

"Chief, the officers and soldiers on the other side seem to be moving something out of the bilge......" one of the sailors shouted as he pointed to Iyun's boat, "Look, there are a lot of guards, and they are coming out with shields." ”

Luo Leg Mao pursed his lips and said: "Maybe it's some valuable goods, do you want to move the goods out and hand them over to us, and beg us to spare their lives? ”

"Yes!"

A group of archers desperately shot arrows at the "guards" carrying the cannons, and for a while the arrows rained down, and several sailors protecting the cannons were immediately shot to the ground.

Iyun Khan, who was surrounded by many guards, but there were few people who went to escort the cannons, hurriedly shouted: "Don't protect me, go and protect the cannons and gunpowder, if the enemy's rocket hits the rocket barrel, we will all be bombarded into the sky." ”

The sailors were frightened all over, although it was important to protect the prince, but if the powder keg exploded, the prince still had to be bombarded into the sky, and more than 20 people in the guard array were quickly separated, rushed over to set up shields, and protected the cannons, shells, and powder kegs.

Luo Lemao was more than 100 meters away and saw the guards here rushing over one after another to protect the things that were brought up from the bilge, and couldn't help but be surprised: "What are you carrying?"

At this time, the "guards" finally dragged the cannon to the bow of the ship, and then used the shield wall to protect it more tightly, and Iyun was very interested in playing with the cannon, so he also leaned over, only to see the sailors re-fix the cannon on the gun carriage in the bow, and then began to hurriedly load the cannonballs inside.

It must be mentioned here that the method of installing shells for the Franc cannon is very simple, it is a reloading short-barreled gun, the usual usage should be to open the lid at the back, put gunpowder and shells in it, and then ignite...... However, in order to improve the loading efficiency and increase the rate of fire of the cannon, the clever craftsmen adopted a method called the Son-Mother Gun.

This method is to prepare a few iron pipes that are slightly smaller than the caliber of the cannon in advance, stuff the shells and gunpowder in advance, and when the cannon is to be released, the iron pipe is directly stuffed into the cannon, and a cannon is released, and the iron pipe is immediately pulled out, and the second iron pipe is plugged in, so that the cumbersome loading steps are omitted, and the rate of fire of the cannon can be increased several times, and this kind of iron pipe is called Zigong. Each Franc cannon is equipped with five guns, which means that it can shoot five guns at a fast speed. ...,

In addition to the soldiers who fired the cannons, there will be a few soldiers next to each cannon who are responsible for loading the subsystem, cleaning the subsystem that has just been used, and then stuffing the shells and gunpowder into the subguns for the next round of shelling. So once the Franc cannon fires, it is really a continuous cannon body, endless. The only pity is that the cannons of this era are not of good quality and are easy to explode, so they can't be used anymore if they can't put a lot of cannons...... Therefore, the endless life can only be theoretical.

What Yi Yun saw was that several sailors first flushed the barrel of the cannon, and then stuffed it into a system, even if it was loaded, and then several sailors turned the head of the cannon together, aiming at the armed merchant ship of the bandits.

Yi Yun was amused: "Yo, it's fun! It's the danger of exploding the borehole that makes me not do it myself, alas!"

Several sailors began to ignite, and Iyun blocked his ears and retreated far away.

At this time, Luo Legmao was still curiously looking at what the other party had moved out, only to see that the guard array on the bow of the ship had finally dispersed, and the shield wall had retreated a few steps with Yi Yun, and then retreated far away, and the vision on the bow of the ship was opened, and he could finally see clearly what was there.

Luo Legmao's eyes widened, oh my mother! A black hole cannon was pointing in the direction where he was with the thick muzzle of the bowl, and there was a red spark dancing at the end of the cannon, obviously the fuse had been ignited.

"Oh my mother!" Luo Leg Mao roared: "Cannon, *** officers and soldiers have cannons." ”

After yelling, he didn't care about being a gang leader, and leaned on the deck of the ship, holding his head in both hands, and his whole body was close to the deck, and then ...... There was a loud "boom" from the opposite side, and the Franc cannon roared.

A black iron egg, with a tongue of fire, erupted from the barrel of the cannon, drawing a beautiful arc in the sky, and with a terrifying whistling sound, it smashed down towards the ship with the legs......

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