In this era, artillery was still an extremely rare item, and the average person's impression of it was actually equivalent to a trebuchet for siege.

It is cumbersome, cumbersome to drag, has a very low hit rate, and its production is not like a catapult that can be cut down everywhere for materials, so it has always been disliked by many generals.

Even because it is extremely rare, many battle-hardened veterans do not know that there is such a thing in the world.

The artillery made by the Baoyuan Bureau rarely appeared in front of the world, except for the previous use in the Japanese land to deal with the Japanese people. Even Li Jinglong didn't know that the Ming Dynasty's artillery had made such great progress.

Moreover, artillery is a match made in heaven with a sea ship, a sea ship is wide enough to carry a heavy ship cannon directly, and it is no more troublesome than transporting a cannon on land; Second, the recoil of artillery is generally very strong, and it needs to be used fixedly on land, and often after a few shots, the enemy is out of range, and the artillery on the battery is useless. However, the artillery placed on the sea ship did not have such concerns, and the cannon went with the ship and was used flexibly; Before there were no ship guns, most of them relied on slapsticks, arrows, and fireships to kill the enemy, and relied on the solid ramming of the ships themselves.

Now Li Jinglong has tasted the benefits of using artillery to fight naval battles. I saw that the smoke of gunpowder continued to rise from the sky above the Ming warships, and one after another shells poured towards the dense Fanren fleet, and the Fanren had no effective means of defense and counterattack, so they could only be passively beaten and made a mess.

Li Jinglong is not exactly a straw bag, in fact, even if he is really a straw bag, judging from the current situation, it can be seen that those people are being pressed and beaten by the Ming army. This surprised and excited him: there were only a few ships on his side, and the boats of the Fanren, although smaller, looked like they were covered with the sea. But looking at the situation now, is your own side actually dominant?

Can the battle be fought so easily?

"Chase, don't let them run, fire!" Under the prevailing situation, Li Jinglong finally stopped feeling uneasy and panicked, but became excited. Watching the fleet sink in pieces under the pouring of artillery fire, he felt the joy of mowing grass for the first time. Seeing that because of the chaos in the formation, the Fanren fleet began to retreat gradually, Li Jinglong, who was enthusiastic, felt that it was a good opportunity, and without thinking too much, he directly gave the order to pursue. Those Ming soldiers fought with the people on land all night, and when they returned to the ship, they were also holding their breath, but now they got the general's order, and they didn't care about it one by one, and they turned the bow of the ship and rushed to chase after them.

Even many Ming people have never seen artillery, let alone these people who have lived on the island for a long time. These big ships that can spray cannonballs and flames are already terrible sea monsters in the eyes of the Fanren, seeing the giant beasts chasing after the waves, where do they dare to resist, one by one they use their strength to row the boat, and scramble to do the birds and beasts under the pursuit of the Ming fleet.

"Hahahaha, happy, happy!" Li Jinglong roughly counted, his own more than ten ships sank more than 50 boats, and later when the pursuit was even more caused the boats to collide with each other, and even those people saw the Ming ships chasing and took the initiative to throw themselves into the sea, and the sea was chaotic like dumplings. Although they wanted to avoid the Ming army by swimming, how could the Ming army let them get their way? After a few rain of arrows, there were already countless floating corpses on the sea, but there were almost zero casualties on their side.

Such a big victory is my father, I'm afraid I haven't had it, right? What the fifth uncle said is really good, this battle at sea is really much simpler than on land.

If I only fight naval battles, maybe I can also become the god of war of the Ming Dynasty?

"Little grandfather, the morale of the fan people has been exhausted, what should I do next?" The soldiers were on the side, and asked for orders. At this time, Li Jinglong was imagining that he was praised by his father after his victory and the revitalization of his family, and he suddenly came back to his senses after hearing the instructions from the left and right. He wasn't really stupid, but deep down he was always afraid and wary of the dangers of the battle array. Now that I have seen the crushing power of artillery, that touch of fear has disappeared, and the whole person is no longer inferior to himself, and his brain has become active.

Since the range of the ship's guns is so long, why don't you line up your ships at sea and fire them at the people in the harbor? As soon as this thought came out, Li Jinglong suddenly felt that there was a lot to be done. He immediately ordered the ship to turn around and return to the port, turned its side at the port that had been occupied by the Fan, and began to bombard the Fanren in the port with artillery.

The cannon roared in unison, ten times more terrible than the fire. The earth-shattering momentum suddenly frightened the fans and hurriedly abandoned the port that they had finally captured, and the Ming army took advantage of the situation to wait for the port to go ashore, and drove all the people whose morale was exhausted out.

At this time, the sky was already bright, and even if the people still had the will to fight, it would definitely not be so easy to break through the front line of the Ming soldiers during the day.

"Good stuff! What a good thing! Seeing that he had won the first battle, Li Jinglongxi scratched his ears and cheeks, and he leaned over to the barrel of a cannon on the deck that was a little red due to the non-stop firing of cannons, as if looking at some peerless beauty, and his eyes were full of energy.

He really felt that he had grasped the trick of the Everbright Cao Guo Mansion.

“…… Fifth uncle, I have mastered the essence of this naval battle. ”

"Fighting at sea is all in these four words, 'ships are strong and guns are sharp'! No matter what kind of elite he is, he is a peerless general, it is not easy to use it at sea! As long as the cannon is thick enough and shoots far enough, it will be several times the enemy, and it will only be passively beaten by us. ”

"There is nothing in this world that cannot be solved by a single shell. If there is, then two shots! Fifth uncle, there is a little nephew guarding this big Ryukyu, so you can put a hundred hearts! If those people dare to come again, then look at the little nephew to bombard him! ”

A few days later, Zhu Su arrived at Daliuqiu with two lucky ships, and the dust had settled on Li Jinglong's side, and the soldiers were stepping up the time to repair and increase the city wall. Li Jinglong didn't even get off the boat in the past few days, and he ate and lived in the boat, and as soon as he saw Zhu Su coming, he couldn't wait to show him the results of the battle and preach his "art of war at sea." ”

"......" Zhu Su looked at Li Jinglong, who was excited and arrogant, and was a little speechless in his heart, this Ming God of War is really not a fuel-efficient lamp, he was afraid to die before, but now after a big victory, he directly turned into a belligerent.

Zhu Su, who felt that it was time to hit him, stopped Li Jinglong's impassioned preaching, pointed in the direction of the cabin and said, "Although what you said is also reasonable, isn't it a bit too much of your expense in this battle?" ”

"The so-called 'when the cannon goes off, the gold is ten thousand taels'. In this battle, more than a dozen ships were destroyed, and a full third of the shell reserves were destroyed, and even the ship's guns were destroyed due to overheating......"

"Those people have never seen the world, since they have fled, why bother to let people chase while firing cannons. When the bow of the ship was in pursuit, the projectiles fired by the guns on the side of the ship did not all fall into the sea? I can tell you, our ship cannon is my own initiative to get from the Baoyuan Bureau's trial products, but it has not been included in the military expenses for reimbursement, the cost of these shells is all from the Baoyuan Bureau on credit, and when I return from the sea, I will return the money for this cannonball to the national treasury. ”

"The admiral of each fleet is responsible for the use of each fleet. You are the admiral of this fleet, and the cost of this cannonball will be deducted from the proceeds of your trip to sea......"

(End of chapter)