Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 774 Bloody Battle at Wusongkou 4
"It's on fire, put out the fire!"

"The fire is coming to the cannon position, run away!"

"Fight back! If you can't stand up and be beaten, fight back!"

"Help! Help..."

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Chaotic and tragic cries of death came one after another, the rumbling cannons and thunderous explosions never stopped for a moment, coupled with the rushing fire on the sea, the sailors struggling in the water and the broken hull, it made people feel like they were in hell.The artillery of the Heluo New Army was unforgiving. Each cannon unleashed destructive power at a rate of five rounds per minute, and targeted at most three large warships at a time. It really put "firepower first, complete The words "suppress" are extremely powerful.Underestimating the enemy's carelessness, Zheng's fleet, which was densely packed in Wusongkou, suffered heavy losses. Those large warships were hit one after another. Once hit, they immediately ignited fires that could not be extinguished - a white phosphorus bomb exploded in the air. It was debris exploding in the wooden cabin, and any idiot knew what would happen next.Of course, white phosphorus bombs are so expensive, and no matter how rich the Heluo New Army is, they cannot use them all. Therefore, after achieving a head start, the Heluo New Army began to test a new type of artillery shell.

Fuel bomb!

The so-called heavy fire oil bomb is actually used to initially purify and thicken the oil accidentally discovered during mining in Tongbai Mountain, mix it with yellow phosphorus, sulfur and other flammable and explosive materials, and finally put it inside the shell. Once it explodes, the thickened fierce fire The oil splattered around like melted jelly, and burned wherever it got on, even if it hit a metal hull, it wouldn't be a hit, let alone a wooden hull.It didn't burn as violently as the white phosphorous bomb, but it burned longer, and it was even more deadly to the wooden hull. In a short period of time, four large warships were hit by it, billowing with smoke, and the flames soared into the sky.

Zheng Zhibao almost gritted his teeth.The Heluo new army of the dog day, they must have been reincarnated by Zhu Rong, or why they like to play with fire so much, once they fire, it will be either a white phosphorus bomb or a heavy fire oil bomb, or a heavy fire oil bomb or a white phosphorus bomb?

mean!

Shameless!
But the anger is the anger, Zheng Zhibao has to admit that this kind of shell is the nemesis of the wooden sailing boat, no matter how big the boat is, it is basically finished after one or two shots.Damn it, where did Yang Menglong get such terrible shells?I have never heard of any country equipped with this thing!
Zheng Zhibao calmed down, commanded the fleet to retreat, opened the distance, and then bombarded the fort with fierce artillery fire, trying to suppress the firepower of the Heluo New Army artillery. As for the Japanese samurai who were being beaten up by the Heluo New Army on the pier Alright, let's overturn those nasty cannons first!

The two sides launched an extremely fierce artillery battle at Wusongkou.

In terms of the number of artillery pieces, the Zheng fleet undoubtedly has an overwhelming advantage. Each of their large warships must be equipped with dozens or hundreds of large-caliber cannons. With dozens of such warships firing in a salvo, one can imagine the density of firepower. .However, in terms of the power, rate of fire, range and accuracy of the artillery, the Zheng fleet could only be beaten, because their opponent was a retractable breech-loading rifled artillery, which was close to the level of World War I artillery, and was ahead of them by a full three centuries. , it would be a ghost if he didn't get beaten up.Smoke spread overwhelmingly on the sea, iron bullets flew across the sky, and hot lead balls hit the fort like hail. Smoke erupted from the fort, and rows of cannonballs passed through the air like fireballs and hit the fleet on the sea. The gap was clear at a glance - ——The lead ball hitting the fort can basically only break some sandbags, and it is difficult to cause damage to the Heluo New Army. As long as one shell hits the Heluo New Army, their warships will be seriously injured!Of course, this does not mean that the Heluo New Army can survive such fierce firepower unharmed. Even though they have built fortifications with first-class anti-cannon effect in advance, people are still being carried down from time to time, some have their legs broken, and some have their legs broken. His head was blown off, and his bloody body was extremely horrifying.

But compared with the Zheng's fleet, their casualties are nothing at all-the Zheng's fleet fired hundreds of shells, which may not be able to kill one of them, and as long as they hit one shell, a warship That's it!When they hit each other, Zheng's fleet was astonished to find that the artillery range of Heluo Xinjun was two or three times that of theirs, and the accuracy was ten times that of theirs. A single artillery can be used at a distance of hundreds of meters or even thousands of meters. Directly fire at their warships, and when their cannons exceed 300 meters, shells are basically flying all over the sky.The typed out "information" almost exploded the lungs of the gunners. With their parents as the center and nine generations of ancestors as the radius, they greeted the immediate family members of Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Zhibao and others.You have no idea about the strength of the opponent, you provoke this terrible enemy, and you say that you can easily defeat these Yankees...you are fucking kidding me! ?
Battleships were constantly being hit and caught fire. The terrified sailors screamed and jumped into the sea like dumplings, leaving the battleships burning. As the artillery's hit accuracy declined again and again, the originally majestic bombardment gradually became somewhat feeble.

The hit rate of the artillerymen of the Heluo New Army is also declining. Their position has been covered by gunpowder smoke, making it difficult to see objects, and the barrels of the guns are also terribly hot, so they can only stop shooting first.The artillery commander took a deep breath of the air full of gunpowder smoke, stared at the white smoke, gave a bah, and called: "Raise the observation balloon! The signal semaphore is ready!"

This is a good idea. The balloon can rise hundreds of meters high, and the line of sight is wide and will not be obscured by gunpowder smoke. The entire fleet can be seen at a glance.So, with everyone's efforts, a big red balloon slowly inflated, and the signal soldiers who were familiar with the semaphore took their positions.The observer on the balloon will draw the observed position of the enemy ship, stuff it into the metal tube and throw it down, and then the commander will give the order, while the signal soldier will use the semaphore to convey the commander's order to each artillery position. It is a very advanced style of play, but whether it will be effective or not...it's hard to say.But you have to try, Zheng's fleet is almost covered by the thick smoke rising from the burning warships, and the direct-point shooting effect is very poor, so we have to let the balloons go up!
Zheng Zhibao's face had already been blackened by the thick smoke, his teeth were gritted, and his eyes were so red that he was about to spurt blood.He has never fought such a useless battle in his life. It is obvious that his firepower is several times that of the enemy, his military strength is several times that of the enemy, and he has the initiative. He should have fought heartily, but now it has turned into a one-sided embrace Beat the head, hell!In addition to being angry, he was also terrified. Up to now, nearly [-] warships had been sunk, and most of them were large warships over [-] tons. No matter how rich and powerful the Zheng family was, such a loss It's also a little unbearable.The losses of the Heluo New Army are still unclear, but judging from the firepower density of their counterattack, the casualties must not be large. In fact, until now, his fleet has not been able to destroy even a single artillery piece of the Heluo New Army... Continue If the fight continues, the losses will continue to rise. If the fight is stopped, Zheng's fleet will lose all vigor. What should I do?
The warrior couldn't help but hesitate.Although he was unwilling, he still had to admit that facing the Heluo New Army, the Zheng Group really underestimated the enemy. They should have blocked the Yangtze River with a fleet, cut off the supplies of Xue Siming's army, and forced Denglai Navy took the initiative to compete with them, waiting for an opportunity to annihilate them, and then used a fleet to attack Guangzhou and Chaoshan, cutting off the supplies of Han Peng's army, and then fortifying the walls and clearing the country, trapping them in the poor mountains and rivers of Fujian!If we follow Zheng Sen's instructions, even if we can't win a complete victory, we won't be so passive. However, the most correct strategy was thrown aside with a laugh by them.Now you are in trouble, what should you do?
Just when they were having a headache, a group of lieutenants screamed: "Look, general, what is that!?" The terrified tone was the same as seeing Sadako crawling out of the wall with disheveled hair and bloody eyes when she was rolling the sheets with a woman in her arms. , and stretched out his sharp claws with fingertips longer than a bayonet to fight...Zheng Zhibao was taken aback, and looked in the direction of their fingers...

It's okay if you don't look at it, but once you look at it, you almost go crazy!
In the sky blackened by the flames of war, a glowing red and huge thing slowly rises!

Empress Nuwa, what the hell is that!

This hellish thing has a ferocious and terrifying shape, like a lion or a tiger, with eyes like lanterns, teeth like rake teeth, a bloody mouth, bloody eyes, and an evil smile that makes people's scalp tingle just looking at it!This thing looked man-made at first glance. The problem was that no one had ever seen such a big flying object. Coupled with the terrifying shape, many sailors were immediately frightened to the point of peeing. They knelt down shivering and rushed. He kowtowed to the monster that was rising higher and higher, praying wailingly, terrified.In addition to being frightened, they also found a reason for why they were beaten so badly: those Yankees had ghosts and gods to help them, and now the ghosts and gods even appeared. They can only win because they are ghosts!
Zheng Zhibao's head hurt, and he just wanted to shout at the sky: "This is not scientific!" Of course, he didn't know who "science" was, so he couldn't shout this sentence.It is of course very unscientific to have such a terrifying-looking flying object appear on a battlefield filled with gunpowder smoke, but the unscientific flying object caused very scientific consequences. The morale of the sailors of Zheng's fleet was as low as the stock market crash. , each K-line falls straight in a waterfall shape, not the most fierce, only more fierce.This means that this battle cannot be fought, and there is no morale at all. What the hell?Zheng Zhibao gritted his teeth and ordered: "Retreat for twenty miles and prepare to fight again!"

The sailors, whose morale had plummeted, turned their bows and retreated one after another, throwing a large number of sailors who were struggling in the stormy waves with the broken hull to the new Heluo army.At this time, the artillery of the Heluo New Army opened fire again, and the flying artillery fire beat the two warships into flames, and sprinkled a thick handful of salt on the bloody wounds of the Zheng fleet.The sailors groaned in their hearts, hell, they are now 500 meters away from the fort, and the cannons are basically at the end of their strength when they hit here. How can the Heluo New Army still shoot so accurately!They were terrified and ran away one after another. In panic, they collided with each other and overturned many light warships. The sound of crying and cursing on the sea resounded through the sky.The artillerymen of the Heluo New Army took the opportunity to fire violently. Although the hit rate was very low, it further exacerbated the chaos. In order to avoid the artillery fire, the Zheng fleet even recklessly rammed into the friendly warships blocking their way, and some of them were even unlucky. The house crashed into the reef, and the sound of the huge impact and the cracking of the hull was creepy...

The entire fleet was defeated.

Yan Yingyuan was dumbfounded: "This... Is this the victory?"

Xue Siming glared at him: "Half of the shells are almost knocked out. If we don't win, we can only bayonet them!" He yawned, pointed to the wharf littered with corpses and said to a general manager: "Go , clean them up, let's go back to eat fugu and saury feast!"

Yan Yingyuan rolled his eyes...

Boss, is it really okay for you to be so arrogant?
(End of this chapter)