open sea

Chapter 510 Fortress
The further north the ship went, the denser the gunfire.

As far as experts are concerned, the ears can hear the same cannons as soon as they hear what kind of artillery is fired on the shore.

Undoubtedly, most of the flag officers of the Nanyang Military Mansion are experts in playing with artillery. During the two and a half years in the lecture hall, these people used most of the existing artillery of the Ming Dynasty, and they were used to playing with the artillery of the Ming Dynasty. There are no guns when they go to sea, which they don't know.

The artillery fired two miles away can only be regarded as an appetizer. The real firepower of this fortress built by the Portuguese for Mang Yinglong depends on four or five hundred paces.

The influence of the Portuguese on Burma is so far. On the female wall, which is a mixture of Song Yuan and Portuguese crafts and local Buddhist styles, the most erected cannons are still open.

The Shiqi fleet approached the coast for [-] steps, and the fortress was full of flowers. For a while, gunpowder smoke filled the air, and gunfire burst out. Hundreds of artillery of various types bombarded with all their strength, hitting the coast like hail from the sky, and large waves splashed on the bow of the ship.

Ming cannons are divided into two stages, without Frang machine and with Frang machine. In the era without Fran machine, there are a large number of local cannons. The number of artillery in the Hongwu period was the largest, and it was also the kind that flowed the most into neighboring countries, such as poisonous tigers and tiger crouching. , Wankou, Fafu, Great General, Second General, and Third General, there are both strange poisonous cannons and generals with powerful cannons.

However, due to the fact that most of the cannons were built too early, the shape of these cannons is somewhat flawed, or the cannon walls are too thin and easy to explode, or the cannons are too thick to waste materials, so it is hard to say that they are perfect.

During the Jiajing period, the war exchanges made the country manufacture a large number of Franglers. The appearance of the Franglers is not uncommon. Just like the later Hongyi Cannon, the key to the cannon-making technology it brought to the Ming Dynasty is not a Cannon or one form, but a completely different angle in design, opened a skylight for the Ming people.

So far, Mingpao has entered the era of all things can be Francophone.

Shi Qi squinted his eyes and waved the small flag in his right hand. Twenty-five warships turned to the right and lined up on the sea, and slowly swam to face the fortress with the ferocious port side full of guns.

Each general has his own style. Chen Mu likes to fire his cannon at four or five hundred paces, while Shi Qi prefers the safer three hundred paces. Therefore, it is not the best range in his eyes, but it can only be so.

The cannonball hit the bow of the ship with a scream, bringing out the sound of the wood slag embedded in the hull shattering, and more like rain of bullets splashed in the hundred steps in front of the ship. Shi Qi knew very well that it was the power of Baizi Cannon and Tiger Squat Jet Sanzi, this The flag army on the ship may have been hit by enemy artillery, but most of the direct shots will be blocked by the big boards erected on the ship's side.

At the end of the crossbow, you can't enter the land; when the wind is weak, you can't fluff.

Going forward is not the same, the projectiles thrown will cross the ship board and hit the flag army.

There was another sound of cannonballs hitting the ship's plank. Accompanied by the puffing sound, most of the scatterers were blocked by the slabs, and there were also exclamations in which the big shells smashed the big cards and rolled straight to the deck. The Chinese artillery can't stop anything at this distance, unless it hits the ship's plank more than one foot thick.

"Port gun calibration!"

The ship gun mounts are pushed hard by the gunner on the deck. The iron winch on the gun is the same as the land field gun mount. It can be adjusted up and down and cannot be moved left and right. It is very difficult for the gunner to lift the tail and drag it.

The deck of the new ship being manufactured by the shipyard in Xinhui, Xiangshan is using deck wooden rails to preset the angle of movement of the artillery, so as to offset the recoil and reduce the difficulty of movement.

But the ships of old-school generals like Shao Tingda obviously won't use that structure prematurely.

The situation was much better than Shi Qi had imagined. He stood on the stern tower and gritted his teeth. This is not good for naval commanders. It is clearly written in the drill code that no matter when, even if the ship is about to sink, the captain of the ship must pay his respects. Stand fearlessly until the enemy ship is sunk or killed by flying shells.

The general stood, and the flag officer also stood, and the flag officer stood, so that he could reprimand and catch the flag troops back to the fighting position when they were frightened by the artillery battle and crawled around on the slow deck.

There is a stone village at the mouth of the Sancha River and seven gun towers in the bay. There are only about a hundred large and small cannons.

Among them, there are very few cannons that can kill his subordinates at this distance. In fact, the number of cannons is definitely not small. It is more than the cannons along the fifty-mile defense line along the Great Wall of the Northern Xinjiang of the Ming Dynasty. No matter the size or quantity of artillery, it is not enough to see.

The fleet, which had been baptized by two rounds of artillery fire, finally arranged its formation and calibrated its gun positions. Under the command of the command flag, the fourteen generals Zhenshuo on the port side of the general's ship roared.

"put!"

The small flag officer standing at the bow swung his saber, the artillery roared from front to back, and a large amount of gunpowder smoke burst out on the sea, followed by 24 large and small warships. The cannons, at least five, fired at the same time. The loud sound of nearly two hundred cannons exploding one after another overwhelmed everything else. The 760-jin shells sounded like thunder and smashed towards the fortress.

All of a sudden, stone fragments flew from the female wall of the fortress, half of the flags of the fortress were broken by shells like autumn wind blowing leaves with the naked eye.

This fortress for defense against pirates was not their opponent in the artillery battle, and they were suppressed by the artillery fire after only one round of salvo. Shi Qi immediately ordered the fleet to divide into two formations, firing alternately from left to right.

Deng Zilong, holding a binoculars, could see clearly from the rear. The artillery fire from Baigu Fortress was very powerful, but to break Shiqi's fleet, even the planks of the smallest [-]-ship shark ship had to rely on blind cats to run into dead rats.

The same thing is, the artillery of the Shiqi fleet is overwhelming, but this round of salvo can break the stone wall, and even fewer can kill the enemy. He curled his lips and said: "Just suppress, kill the enemy I'm afraid there will be no more than thirty."

But this is enough. The mission of the Shiqi fleet is to harass and suppress. As long as the enemy's shore fire prevention guns are nearly half-extinguished and the artillery fire is not intensive, the death-defying banner troops who captured Shizhai can be rushed to the coast.

"Bigger cannons are needed. Write it down and report to Chen Shuai when you get back. You need to build bigger cannons to destroy Shizhai."

As he spoke, the sound of Yuyin drums rumbled, and the Chihai Ship led the Chinese army to advance to join the artillery battle. At the same time, he also ordered Shao Tingda's troops to dare to die and take a lucky boat to attack Shizhai in the interval between the sound of artillery.

The big blessing boat rides the wind and waves, and is divided into three teams behind the Shiqi formation. The three lucky boats are a team, and they advance from the left, center, and right of the battlefield respectively. In an instant, Shao Tingda's lucky boat was level with his own ship.

When the ship missed, Shao Tingdayan, who had put on the brass god's mask, held up a bundle of bamboo tubes in his left hand, and swung forward with his right hand.

Then General Manghu threw the bamboo tube with twisted seeds to his adoptive son, drew out the saber from his waist, and shouted: "Prepare to land and overthrow this stone city!"

Roar!
The morale of Fuchuan swordsmen was strong, but the enemy was well prepared. Several large Burmese ships sailed slowly from the Sancha River, with a large amount of kerosene flowing out of the stern, and rushed to meet the Shiqi fleet. Although they were bombarded by the ships halfway However, at this moment, kerosene was floating everywhere along the coast in front of Shao Tingda.

Then, a few torches were thrown from the fortress.

boom!
The fireworks on the sea exploded!

　Good morning, it's almost Chinese New Year
　　
　
(End of this chapter)