Late Tang

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On the surface of the Yangtze River in the northwest of Hu Douzhou, under the rising red sun, the First Fleet of the Lingbo Army led by Wu Qian was facing the Huainan Army led by Liang Zuan.

Compared with Wuqian's huge Wuya building ship, three-story big fighting ship, iron-clad sea falcon ship and other large ships, Liang Zuan's side is almost all small fishing boats and many Bian boats.From a distance, it looks like a group of ants rushing towards a group of beetles.

Wu Qian, who owns dozens of large warships and thousands of sailors, is not willing to give up the Qin army's water superiority, and takes the initiative to fight against the enemy.For the Qin army on the island, the water surface of the Yangtze River is the best barrier. If the Huainan army can easily land on the island, they will have to fight hard.

Although the Huainan Army's ships were small, they were many, so many that the sun was covered by the sky, and the river was blocked by thousands of sails.

But Wu Qian had no fear at all. Looking at the overwhelming ships, he couldn't help but think of the scene where he followed Feng Ming and led hundreds of warships to attack Li Jing many years ago.

Although Daxie Village's fleet was not as large as the fleet in front of it, its strength was much stronger than these fishing boats and sampans.But in the end, they were not defeated by Li Jing. Several times in a row, all of them were defeated.The reason is not that Li Jing's warships are bigger and more powerful, but that Li Jing holds the magic weapon of sea warfare, the Shenhuo.

Once the magic fire comes out, who will fight for the front?

Speaking of which, the navy has not really fought a naval battle for a long time. From north to south, from the Liaohai Sea to the East China Sea and then to the South China Sea, the Qin Army's navy is invincible.Having not fought for a long time, the Huainan army thought that they could deal with the commander's navy with a few small sampans, which is really ridiculous.

Although he only has one squadron in hand today, he can still give them a good lesson.

The fleets of the two sides are constantly approaching. Although Liang Yan is known as Gao Pian's number one general, he has actually fought hundreds of land battles, but he has never fought a water battle.Facing the more than a hundred ships of the Qin army, his tactic was very simple. He commanded the boundless ships to rush up, preparing for an ant to bite the elephant to death.

"The Huainan army is only mediocre. With these small sampans, they still want to compete with us on the water, hahaha." Wu Qian laughed. The battleships of the Lingbo army are all big ships, especially in the Yangtze River Estuary. On the extremely wide water surface, it can be said that it is like a fish in water.But the opponents are all small boats, and the difference is obvious.

"Wu Junzhu, the veteran of the navy, teach these stinky fish and rotten shrimps to kill chickens with a sledgehammer. Why don't you give them another chance and let them try the new and improved killer!" Deng Huan stood behind and laughed, as if facing each other. Those countless ships were already in his bag.

Wu Qian also knew Deng Huan's past, and knew that he was a lunatic, but he was a first-class expert in the field of firearms.Although he has a magic fire in his hand, he is unwilling to use it easily. Hearing that Deng Huan has a powerful weapon, he immediately smiled and said, "In that case, let's take a look at Brother Ziming's powerful weapon."

Deng Huan chuckled. He was planning to make cannons, but failed repeatedly. In the end, Li Jing pulled him out and asked him to change his mind.

At this time, he waved his hand, and immediately a group of soldiers lifted up a row of large iron cylinders and put them on the fifth deck of the Jianghai.

Each of these huge iron cylinders has a caliber of about one foot and a body of about three feet. The whole cylinder is very light. Compared with the [-]-jin bronze cannon that Deng Huan tossed at the beginning, it is really too simple.

Wu Qian also looked at these big iron cylinders with some curiosity, not understanding why he brought them up.

Deng Huan chuckled, pretending to be closed.

"Wu Junzhu will be able to see the power in a while."

A row of eight large iron cylinders made of fine steel had already been placed with their mouths upside down, and then soldiers put [-]-jin explosive packs into them.

There is also an observer holding a telescope in front of each iron cylinder, carefully observing the distance between the enemy and us.

Seeing that the enemy ship had entered within a hundred feet, there was a loud bang, and white smoke rose from the deck of the building ship, and then the whole ship shook.

Wu Qian grabbed the railing next to him, looked up, and saw several extremely high water jets flying up from the enemy ships in the distance, and it seemed that there were still ships that had been shot.

He opened his mouth wide, a little unbelievable, this is a distance of nearly a hundred feet.Even the big general cannons on the big boats are only so far away.But the general has to mobilize more than two hundred people at a time, and this iron cylinder is very light, and two or three people can operate it.

Ignoring the roaring sound in his ears, he quickly raised his binoculars to look forward, and saw that the round of ten cannons hit a boat just now, and it seemed that one of the cannonballs directly hit a boat, and the corpses of more than twenty people on that boat were directly smashed Yes, the blood stained the surface of the river red.Although the other nine cannons missed a direct hit, the huge [-]-jin explosive package exploded in the fleet, and the huge explosion impact it produced was also extremely astonishing.Almost all of the dozens of small boats rushing to the front were overturned, and even the ones that were closer were directly shaken and their seven orifices bleed.

However, this effect did not seem to satisfy Deng Huan. He walked over there personally, asked the soldiers to reload, then gave two thumbs up, and measured and aimed there.

The other gunners, like Deng Huan, were taking measurements with their thumbs, adjusting the upward angle of the gun barrel while measuring. After a while, Deng Huan ordered to ignite.

This time, not only this ship fired, but also the other building ship, the four fighting ships, and the eight sea falcons.

As many as dozens of large cannons fired deafening gunfire at the same time, and puffs of gunpowder smoke floated on the water, and then the densely packed boats that had rushed into the range on the opposite side were instantly wiped out. , with a large number of broken limbs flying up, and blood spattering.

In this round alone, one can clearly see that the huge fleet on the opposite side has lost a piece.

Wu Qian looked at those big tubes with fiery eyes. These things are more powerful than the poles and catapults on the boat.

It has a range of [-] feet and has the ability to shoot continuously. Although it seems inaccurate and consumes a lot of gunpowder, the effect is still useless.One round of shelling is enough to scare the enemy.Even if one shot hits one out of ten shots, that would be terrible. If one shot hits, there will be almost no survivors on the opponent's entire ship.

"Brother Ziming, what kind of new equipment is this that is so powerful?"

Deng Huan was extremely calm on the surface, but in fact his heart was full of turmoil. He didn't expect that in actual combat, this thing would be so powerful.

"Hey, this is called Feilei Cannon."

Wu Qian patted Deng Huan's arm, and repeatedly praised: "Brother Ziming's previous research on the Thunderbolt and Thunderbolt is already extremely powerful. I didn't expect that he would research such a powerful Feilei cannon. God man."

Deng Huan was a little embarrassed by the praise, and said: "Actually, I can't make these by myself. Just like Thunderbolt and Zhentianlei, it all depends on the king of Qin to guide Guan Jian, and finally I can make it out."

Wu Qian was stunned for a moment, but his imagination was also true. The Shenhuo Tianhuo that King Qin made at the beginning was no worse than this.

Liang Yan over there was completely dumbfounded, when had he ever seen this kind of play.

Nowadays, Feihuo is actually no longer a mystery, because Duli Town also had this formula at the beginning, and soon the imperial court and some big warlords knew about this formula, and developed it privately.Guan Jian is still an assembly problem.For example, the Shence Army of the imperial court has a lot of equipment.And Gao Pian's troops were also equipped with some equipment.However, they don't have such large-scale equipment as Li Jing. It's not that they don't know the power of this weapon, but they don't have enough iron ore, saltpeter, sulfur and other materials, and they don't have a complete set of mature production workshops, so they can't produce in large quantities.

But the navy's firing of all the guns just now still scared Liang Yan. At a distance of one hundred feet, even if there was a flying fire, it still had to be fired at such a long distance.But the catapults a hundred feet away are all big guys, where are they equipped on ordinary ships.

But the other party's sudden fire on such a scale just now was beyond his cognition.

However, Liang Yan was also Gao Pian's number one general, so he immediately came back to his senses and ordered loudly: "Scatter, scatter and rush over!"

No matter how powerful the flying fire is, its quantity is limited.The advantage of the Huainan Army lies in its numbers. As long as it can rush over and entangle the Qin Army warships, it can jump into battle and even seize the ships.

Deng Huan on the Jianghai ship chuckled, "I'll be afraid if we scatter, so I'll let you pay the goddess to scatter flowers again!"

"What is Tiannv Sanhua?" Wu Qian asked.

Deng Huan directly brought a large string of Human Torches, ten of them, each weighing two catties, and a string of ten equals twenty catties, which is equivalent to a bomb bag.

Those gunners simply put the Concentrated Thunderbolt into the big iron barrel, then took aim, and ignited the propellant again.

There was another loud bang, and the cluster of Thunderbolts had already flown towards the rushing ship. When the thunderbolts were about to fall into the water, they suddenly exploded in the air. Ten Thunderbolts exploded in the air above the water, and immediately countless fragments were like hail. General sputtering down.

The range of ten feet suddenly became the coverage area of ​​fragments splashing, and the boats below were basically unprotected. The sudden blow immediately swept away the sailors and soldiers on the ships within ten feet below.

There was a series of exclamations, screams and wailings, one after another.

With a wave of Deng Huan's hand, the war drums and horns sounded continuously, and every ship had to order the goddess to scatter flowers.

Although this blow was not as powerful as before, its killing effect was even stronger than before.

In the previous shelling, those who hit it with one shot would die, but this time the goddess scattered flowers, and the damage range was wider, but it was a large number of damage instead of killing.However, in this case, even if you don't die, you will not be injured in one place or two. In addition to immediately withdrawing from the battle and receiving medical treatment, otherwise, you will not last long, and you will die in the end either from excessive blood loss or from infection These.

Wu Qian swallowed, feeling a little parched, "It turns out that this is Tiannv Sanhua."

At this time when weapons are cold, the appearance of this kind of thunder cannon is really frightening. With a range of one hundred feet and easier operation, this heavy weapon has almost become an individual weapon.Especially at this time on the sea, no matter how scattered the ships were, there were dozens or hundreds of people on each ship, and a single shot would almost destroy the entire ship.

Deng Huan had a great time fighting, he waved the flag again and again to fire the cannon, and the Huainan army was crying for his father and mother.

Just when Liang Yan's face turned pale and he was about to retreat, the shelling on the opposite side suddenly stopped.

Wu Qian also held up the binoculars and shouted: "Brother Ziming, let's shoot again!"

Deng Huan chuckled a few times, and said with some embarrassment: "Mr. Wu, the bombs are gone, it's up to you next."

Fei Tianlei was indeed powerful, but it also consumed a lot of energy. Wu Qian and Deng Huan enjoyed the fight in such a short period of time. As a result, all the gunpowder they brought was used up, and even the Thunderbolt and Zhentianlei were all destroyed together.

Liang Yan quickly noticed the abnormal scene on the battlefield, and he vaguely guessed that there might be no shells.

The pale face just now couldn't help turning purple, staring fiercely at the Qin army navy who was not far away, and pointed forward viciously, "The enemy's flying fire is over, now it's time for us to perform, blow the horn, the first Whoever boards an enemy ship will be rewarded with a hundred catties of gold!"

"Kill!" Those Huainan soldiers who had just been beaten and cried for their fathers and mothers became brave men under the heavy reward at this time, and all of them rushed towards the Qin army's navy with red eyes and paddled desperately.