Lord of the House - v12 Chapter 64

The enemy platform of Bailing Mountain was eleven or twelve miles away from the sea area. Ye Ji Baishi and Chen Quanchen stood on the enemy platform of Bailing Mountain and could clearly see the situation in the sea area.

It may be far apart. The forty-two naval guns fired in one salvo did not seem to have caused any tragic casualties to Jin Chengzong’s fleet in the waters off the southwest flank of Bailing Mountain. It was the first shelling of the fact that the two armies were four miles apart.

Is this the real firebow?

The Western Temple Supervisor had learned of the existence of the Fufire Crossbow from the intercepted writings of the Southern Dynasty a few years ago, and the Fu Fire Crossbow also aroused the infinite reverie of the Beiyan monarchs and ministers. Giant crossbow, body cast iron” such a vague message.

When General Zuo Si reformed the ancient method to create a flame-throwing crossbow, the monarchs and ministers of Beiyan all misunderstood that Huaidong’s fire-breathing crossbow should be like this. Just before this naval battle, Ye Jibaishi, Cui Quanchen and others also thought that the Huaidong Fufire Crossbow was a “sprayer” with a range slightly longer than twenty or thirty paces. Big killer?

Unfortunately, one of the warships was hit by the mast, and the mast was broken at the waist.

The masts of the medium-sized warships built by Goryeo are made of whole wood, which are extremely hard and full of wind.

Such a ship’s mast, even if a medium-sized catapult is smashed with a 30-pound stone bomb at close range, may not be able to be interrupted at once – the direct interruption of the ship’s mast at a distance of four miles also makes Ye Jibaishi, Cui Quanchen and others who were watching the battle on the enemy platform in Bailing Mountain could intuitively feel how powerful the bombardment of the Fire Crossbow was.

For a distance of four miles, it may take only a blink of an eye for a cavalry charge on land, but it would take at least two quarters for a warship to go up against the wind (one hundred quarters of day and night in the old system, ninety-six quarters in the new system, and a moment in the future the same clock time). In other words, even if the Huaidong warship did not move, it would take two quarters of time for the Goryeo naval warship to be able to connect with it. During this time, how many rounds of ambulances were enough for Huaidong’s warships to shoot?

Three rounds, five rounds, eight rounds, ten rounds?

Ye Jibaishi, Du Quanchen and other generals who were watching the battle at Bailing Mountain couldn’t hide the shock on their faces at this time, their faces were ashen, and they were at a loss for a while.

The ultra-long-range shooting distance is shocking, and the shooting power is shocking, but what is even more shocking is that the fire crossbow is so densely arranged on the warship.

The counterweight catapults made by Huaidong are also powerful, but the heavy counterweight catapults cannot be installed on warships. The weapons used by Huaidong warships are mainly bed crossbows and scorpion crossbows.

Huaidong’s ship formation at the southern mouth of the strait, from a distance, the six warships in the middle are quite small, and should be new-style warships of the Jiyun class, but it is such a medium-sized warship. Deploy six fire-bombing crossbows; in the waters outside Hejin Island, are there any newer warships that are heavier and equipped with more fire-fighting crossbows approaching?

Although the scorpion crossbow threw stone bombs and oil cans, which brought great casualties to the navies of Goryeo and Beiyan, one is that the navy of Goryeo and Beiyan now also have the ability to build scorpion crossbows for equal suppression. The distance the scorpion crossbow threw the kerosene tank was only 300 paces, which was already the distance for close engagement.

At this distance, the gap between the weapons can be compensated by the advantages of terrain and quantity.

The Fu Fire Crossbow first widened the distance between the two sides to four miles, making the battle of the sides extremely difficult; the advantage of distance completely suppressed the advantage of the number of warships.

Even if the generals are not afraid of sacrifice and have the courage to die to the last soldier without retreating, after ten rounds or more of bombardment, they can approach Huaidong’s new warships to take over and fight, and their own warships will return. How much fighting power is left?

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Ye Jibaishi, Du Quanchen and other generals were helpless on the enemy platform in Bailing Mountain, and Jin Chengzong, who directly commanded the battle on the battlefield, was a headless fly-he subconsciously thought of retreating to the Haigouzi on the inner side of Bailing Mountain. However, the water surface of the Hejin Strait is narrow, and if nearly a hundred warships of various sizes turn around and escape in a hurry, they will inevitably be killed by the Huaidong warships along the wind.

In addition, the enemy station of Bailing Mountain did not issue a clear military order, and Jin Chengzong did not dare to advocate fleeing back under the eyes of Ye Jibaishi and Du Quanchen.

If you can’t escape, you can rush forward, especially the roundabout flanking fleet on the two wings, which is closer to the Huaidong warship.

Jin Chengzong was also aware of the disadvantage of being too dense, but when he ordered to adjust the formation and continue to advance forward, the second round of artillery bombardment began; he was even more unable to contact the fleet on both flanks in time.

In this round of shelling, the six frigates spread out in the center of the battle line, and thirty-six broadside guns were fired in sequence; while the bow guns of the two-wing warships were aimed at the enemy ships flanking from both sides.

Due to the dense and large number of enemy ships, it is only necessary to aim at the designated sea area and cannot aim at a single target, so the shooting speed and hit rate are naturally greatly increased.

When the frontal enemy ship approached two miles away, the naval guns had already fired six rounds. Cao Wenlong stood in the command cabin and observed the shelling situation with a telescope. He did not go to Haizhou until late February to participate in the planning of the attack on Shaocheng. It was planned, but the large-scale maritime exercise in Haizhou in late February had ended, and Cao Wenlong had not yet had the opportunity to see the situation where several guns fired at target ships with new tactics.

At this time, although there was no hand-to-hand combat, it was really exciting to see the enemy ship under the bombardment of a solid iron bullet, the mast was broken, the wood splattered, and the flesh and blood flew. Boiling point, Cao Wenlong wished he could get off the gun bay immediately and have a good time with two shots.

The power of solid iron bullets is great, but the ability to kill enemies intensively is not strong, and a large and medium-sized sea ship, even if a heavy catapult is smashed at close range, wants it to fall apart completely, and it will not be able to perform in a short time.

After six rounds of artillery bombardment, although most of the Goryeo warships in the forefront have changed beyond recognition, unfortunately there are few warships whose masts were broken and capsized. Even though several warships have pierced through the seawater and poured into the cabins, the Korean warships also adopted a watertight cabin structure, and a single damage would not cause the entire ship to sink quickly.

The Goryeo navy commander seemed to see the hope of the close-side battle, relying on the ship’s many people to win, and for a while, he was a big hit.

Ge Yuan just calmly watched the enemy ship rush into the range of 1,000 meters, and ordered the ship’s first gun to load shotguns to prepare.

The frigate is similar in size to the old Jiyun-class battleship, but in order to install naval guns on the bow deck and reduce a set of masts, it adopts a double-masted rigging structure. When more sails were used, the speed did not slow down. However, installing the bow gun on the bow deck and adding two gun positions was the second most important thing, and the main thing was to make the frigate’s tactics more flexible.

In contrast, Jinhai-class and Lin Zhengjun-class warships can only use broadside shelling tactics at present, and they lack flexibility in close-range naval battles, and rely more on frigates.

The first to enter the shotgun range are enemy ships approaching from the left flank.

Although the old left-wing warships did not have a large number of broadside guns, the Jinhai-class warships were equipped with two 12-jin guns on the bow and stern, and an additional 24-jin heavy gun on the bow as the main gun. The firepower of naval guns is actually not much weaker than that of frigates.

Facing nearly 20 small and medium-sized enemy ships swarming from one side, the left-wing **** fleet consisted mainly of one Jinhai-class warship, supplemented by three Jiyun-class warships. Are there nine artillery pieces that can fire shrapnel at the same time?

The cone-shaped barrage reaches 300 meters away, and it has formed a rain of bullets that covers the sky and the earth. It will almost cover the first five warships of the enemy ship array that will ensure the impact force and maintain the cone-shaped array… …

Equivalent to the barrage formed by a salvo of 2,000 strong crossbows, the Goryeo navy generals have truly learned that long-distance combat is not heaven, and close-range combat is hell.

Including the Huaidong Naval Division, the complex and narrow structure of the mast and deck must be considered. Even in close combat, the use of heavy armor and long soldiers and heavy blades will be severely suppressed. Armor or combined armor and thin iron plate are mainly used. Although the protective power of leather armor and other light armor is inferior to that of armor, it is more suitable for combat with complex structures and narrow decks.

But in the barrage formed by the shotgun, Goryeo Naval Commander Yu can deeply feel how precious heavy armor is; In the battle, the navy generals have shields or just hold shields~www.mtlnovel.com~ At this time, they are gathering on the bow deck with shields and rushing to the Huaidong warship when they are ready to pick up the ship…

Although at a distance of 300 meters or more, shields can cover vital points such as the head and chest, but where the shield cannot cover, the lead shot is violently torn apart, and thin leather armor is difficult to form effective protection, as long as the naked eye can see, You can see the armor on the waist, arms, and thighs being shattered and beaten to a **** mess. Watching the lead pellets smashed through huge blood holes in the body, it suddenly turned into a purgatory on earth.

The Goryeo navy generals at a later position witnessed this tragic situation and saw that the five warships were paralyzed at one time, and they were thrown into human purgatory. They suddenly lost the courage to fight again and fled in panic.

The situation of the left wing outflanking the fleet, and asked Jin Chengzong to lead the main force of the frontal attack. Seeing that Jin Chengzong naturally did not have the courage to test the power of the barrage at close range, he urgently called the truce ship and fled in the opposite direction. The outflanking fleet, the vision was blocked by the Huaidong warship, and the situation on the left flank could not be seen. Although the main fleet retreated, it did not respond in time, and approached the right wing of the Huaidong warship according to inertia.

Seeing that the enemy ships were about to flee, Huaidong’s **** fleet on the right flank did not care to wait for a more favorable shooting distance, and fired shotguns in advance, paralyzing the two leading ships, and the rest of the ships also scattered like birds and beasts, heading towards the shallow waters on the right flank. escape.

Ge Yuan did not immediately order the pursuit. Even if the wind was favorable, it would take a while for the enemy ship to escape the range of the solid iron bullets. The pursuit would inevitably require adjusting the position of the frigate, which would reduce the firepower. Furthermore, chasing enemy ships at close range is itself a taboo in battle-line artillery tactics. As the commander of the task force, the specific tactical training required is to keep the enemy ships within range for artillery fire, and to get rid of the traditional and tactical influences of past close-in operations and even brutal collisions. My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter