Poof!

A fist-sized iron ball smashed into the grass on the shore, causing the bear to frown.

This was the first shell fired by the enemy's warship, three inches in diameter.

Xiong Chu frowned, of course, not because the enemy opened fire, nor because the shell was three inches in diameter.

First of all, when the enemy attacks on the opposite shore, it is necessary to use a large angle of upward fire, with a vertical drop of more than 30 zhang. Such artillery attacks along the river, coastal towns, and forts must be very threatening.

Secondly, the enemy's ships were still four miles away, indicating that the range of the enemy's artillery was superior to that of its own.

The three-inch cannon newly cast by the evil Taoist Meng Fan has a range of only three miles, but the enemy's ultimate range can reach four miles.

Thirdly, the enemy opened fire on the ship, but the direction was extremely accurate, and the target was the Tokuoka battery, which showed that the enemy's gunners were very skilled. It can also accurately hit targets while moving, which is much more powerful than the sailors he has just formed.

The enemy's first warship was a three-masted warship with two pointed ends and two warheads, about fifteen zhang long, which was equivalent to the five hundred centipede ships being built in the Xiongjia Military Shipyard.

Just now it was a cannon from the bow of the enemy's ship, but unfortunately the range had reached its limit, and it was just throwing the iron ball up, and only on the shore.

Such an iron ball cannot be smashed to death.

"The two cannons continued to suppress the enemy on the shore, and the ornithmen immediately picked up the enemy's war elephants. ”

The enemy's warship appeared, and Han Cheng came to the bay from the Deoka Fort and shouted, "The artillery continues to monitor the enemy's warship, and it cannot be fired for the time being." Push the rocket cart up in the back and get ready for the rocks!"

During the whole process, Xiong Chu didn't say a word, and Han Cheng didn't ask him, but was busy dealing with various battle details and issuing various battle orders.

Each performs its own duties on the battlefield, so Xiong Chu is purely a superfluous person.

Of course, the bear prince also knew that he was a superfluous person, so he would not interfere with the various tactical moves below, and his attention was all on the flotilla that was getting closer and closer on the river.

The enemy's second warship was still the same model as the first, a three-masted warship with two pointed ends and two warheads, and the people on board didn't know what it was called, and Xiong Chu couldn't understand half a word.

He spotted a guy with a boat-shaped hat, gesturing at this side with a slender canister, not knowing what he was doing.

The bear prince was still wondering why the enemy did not continue to fire on the shore, and Mandeli had already shouted: "Look, Childe, the enemy's flagship has appeared, it is a five-masted warship!"

Xiong Chu looked around and found that the enemy's third warship was a five-masted warship, about 1,200 yuan, and the length of the warship was about 24 zhang, which was the same grade as his own Dinghai class.

However, the curved sails used by the enemy's warships are very different from the stiff straight sails of the Xiong Jiajun, and there is a horizontal mast sticking out of the bow with a spinnaker hanging from it.

"The enemy is about to open fire, and the gun carriages on the batteries are ready to move places!"

As soon as Han Cheng's words fell, a roar of tom tom sounded one after another on the river, and then a series of thick smoke appeared.

"Childe, the enemy's first round is four cannon fire, and the target is still the Tokuoka Battery. Mandeli dodged and stood in front of Xiong Chu: "But it's still useless, it seems that the range of the enemy's cannon is more than four miles, and the caliber of three inches and four inches is the same." ”

Mandeli judged correctly, and the four iron balls quickly smashed into the grass on the shore, slightly larger than the first iron ball, which should be a four-inch cannon.

Xiong Chu's brows furrowed deeper and deeper: "Our artillery still needs to be improved, because our five-inch cannon can only hit more than four miles, the range of the four-inch cannon is only more than three miles, and the range of the three-inch cannon is only more than two miles." ”

Another roar came from the river, and the enemy's five-masted warship opened fire for the second time, but the four iron balls still fell in the grass, and it was still more than twenty feet away from the Tokuoka battery.

Xiong Chu suddenly came to his senses: the river was too narrow, and the bank wall was a vertical steep ridge, and the enemy's artillery could not raise its head at all, so it was simply wishful thinking to attack the battery.

This is not a problem of insufficient range of artillery, but of the superiority of the terrain.

"No wonder Zhong Guozhu wants to build the fort here, he should have calculated that the enemy's artillery cannot attack the fort. Mandeli finally breathed a sigh of relief: "The safety of the battery is no problem, let's see how Han Cheng cleans up the enemy's fleet." ”

"The rocket car was ready to ignite, but put the three ships in front of the enemy and concentrate on the three ships behind the enemy. ”

Han Cheng stood on the edge of the bay and stared at the enemy warships rushing over in the middle of the river: "It seems that the enemy doesn't want to entangle with us here, but wants to rush to Manmo City." The rocket car is ready to burn the enemy's sails and deactivate the warship. ”

The rocket car that Han Cheng kept shouting in his mouth was a ballista car newly developed by the craftsman battalion, and it was still a one-wheeled Kongming car, but the upper and lower layers of crossbow arrow slots were not copper crossbow arrows, but rockets wrapped in oilcloth.

This kind of Kong Ming rocket car is equipped with a total of 36 rockets and arrows. If you don't open it, it will feel like a two-tiered wooden box.

Xiong Chu found that the enemy most likely did not understand the terrain and did not know that the Irrawaddy River was a vertical bend in front, so the speed of the fleet did not weaken significantly.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the first warship had rushed to the surface of the river beneath the bay.

Xiong Chu was condescending, and when he saw the people on the enemy's warship, he screamed, and then quickly lowered the sails.

In just a moment, the enemy's first warship ran aground.

After half an hour of busyness, the enemy's five-masted warship also arrived under the bay.

The height of the enemy's mast was actually the same as the ground of the bay, and the distance was less than thirty zhang, which seemed to be within reach, and Xiong Chu even felt that he could jump on the enemy's mast.

By this time, everyone, including Xiong Chu, had already believed that this place was really the grave of the enemy's warship, and there was no suspense in this battle.

At this moment, Han Cheng roared angrily: "Release the arrows, attack the enemy's last three warships first, and completely block the river, Lao Tzu wants them to come and go today!"

The ballista cart has a range of 400 paces on the ground, and now it is condescending, and the range has reached 600 paces, that is, the distance of two miles, which is about the same as a three-inch artillery.

A row of four rocket carts fired arrows at the same time, and one hundred and forty-four rockets, that is, one hundred and forty-four fire ravens pounced on the enemy ships.

The enemy was scrambling to drop their sails and reduce their speed, because it had been raining heavily lately, and they did not expect to encounter fire here.

The rocket is an iron crossbow bolt wrapped in an oilcloth, and the penetrating power cannot be underestimated.

Although most of them fell into the river, the remaining dozen or so rockets were directly nailed to the deck and mast, and some even directly nailed to people and burned.

"Shoot the arrows!"

Han Cheng looked at the scattered flames on the enemy ship, and calmly gave an order, and the second batch of four rocket vehicles fired one hundred and forty-four rockets again.

Boom!

This time, half of the rockets fell on the enemy's ship, and landed on the sails, the fire could not be contained, and the scattered fires finally turned into a prairie fire, and suddenly the flames soared into the sky.

The bear prince drew his seven-stone bow from Hulei Leopard's back, then mounted the bowstring and mounted three wolf's tooth arrows, and shot at the enemy's five-masted warship, aiming at the rope of the sail.

Whoosh - Click!

The distance was less than thirty zhang, that is, fifty paces, which was not very difficult for Xiong Chu, and the rope on the enemy's main mast broke in response.

Shooting four arrows in one go, the bear prince had already broken all the sail ropes of the enemy's five-masted warship.

When it comes to archery, Xiong Chu and Captain Chige can't compare at all.

Xiong Chu's archery is not a clever archery technique, but the Shangqing heart method and the supreme internal force have played a role.

The soldiers didn't know how Xiong Chu shot arrows, but this kind of kung fu of passing through the Yang in a hundred steps was also rare, and naturally cheered loudly.

Han Cheng shouted excitedly: "The enemy's main warship has no power and has turned into a turtle in the jar." Roll the wood and stones, get ready, push them all down, and smash these grandsons to death!"

This one-sided battle lasted until Meng Mi's cavalry rushed over to annihilate the enemy's infantry army, and the whole process lasted almost an hour.

With the exception of the last two ships, which were burned and drifted down the river, all five ships that were stuck in the bay were captured.

The fundamental reason why the enemy was forced to surrender was because the Irrawaddy River had made a vertical bend here, and the river had recently risen sharply, and huge whirlpools appeared in the water of the Irrawaddy River one after another.

The five-masted main warship had no power, and there was a problem with its handling, and as a result, it hit the middle of the river, and the horizontal mast in the bow of the ship stuck on the cliff, completely blocking the entire roadway.

At this moment, the flagship of Admiral Zhong Guozhu, the Dangkou No. 1 ship, rushed down the river, and the four five-inch cannons in the bow of the ship bombarded three rounds, and the enemy was forced to surrender.

Han Cheng's rolling wood and stones played a huge role, and a centipede ship at the back was directly overturned, which also made a great contribution to blocking the channel.

According to preliminary statistics, more than 200 enemy sailors were stoned to death, and more than 600 enemy sailors were captured, plus four warships. There was another one that needed to be salvaged, counting five ships captured.

Captain Philip, a golden-haired fellow, was more than half a head taller than the bear prince.

When Philip was brought over by Han Cheng, he was still arrogant and invincible.

I didn't expect Mandeli, a Persian, to be able to speak a few words of British bird language, so after communicating with Philip, I understood a lot of things.

It turned out that it was precisely because of the strict closure measures of the Xiong family's military boat pond that the news of Xiong Chu's construction of warships was not transmitted.

Later, when someone wanted to figure out what was going on here, the outer defense line of Huolian Mountain had been initially formed, and the city of Manmo was surrounded by water, and it was impossible for outsiders to come in.

For example, Talon, the king of Donghu in Ava, once sent more than 300 people to know about the situation here, but in the end they found nothing.

Since Ta Long's grandfather has been fighting against the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, he should have a good understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Ming Dynasty army, so he made a huge mistake.

This mistake is a mistake in judgment, I didn't expect that Xiong Chu would cast cannons here on the spot, and I didn't expect Xiong Chu to be able to build ships.

Philip was brought in on his toes, but he was still dazed.

Because he volunteered to lead the troops in person this time, that is, he fought with the Ming army in Macao and Guangzhou, and the so-called sailors and batteries had all seen it, and it was not worth mentioning at all, so he had full confidence to win the battle.

Unexpectedly, this time it was not the fort that worked at all, just relying on the location, using a few stones and a few pieces of wood, Han Cheng, an eighteen-year-old little guy, let him be wiped out.

Without losing a single soldier, he completely annihilated more than 600 of the enemy's elephant army, and wiped out all seven ships of the Portuguese fleet.

It seems that a qiē is very smooth, it is simply too smooth, and even seven "clairvoyants" have been seized, and even the killer Xiong Chu has not found a place to pick a thorn.

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