Traveling through history leaving a name

Chapter 90

The Youzhou ship was already in close contact with Sun Quan's naval division at this time, but fortunately the tall building ship did not catch up because of its slow speed.

But even so, it caused a lot of trouble for the Youzhou, at least they limited the speed of the Youzhou.

However, Youzhou is a hair-style steamship propelled by underwater propellers. When Youzhou increased the steam delivery, the speed of the steam engine quickly reached the fastest speed, and the underwater propellers even created a white spray.

In order to give the Youzhou more power, the oars that had been discarded were also shaken by the people on board.

Under everyone's gaze, the Youzhou made a sharp turn, and then rushed towards the last iron chain dozens of meters away at the fastest speed.

"Stop it, definitely stop it."

On the distant hill, Sun Quan was very anxious.

The Youzhou is too powerful, we must stop it.

Sun Quan watched with his own eyes that the Youzhou sank his ship like a massacre.

But what made him gratified was that such a powerful ship was blocked and became a turtle in the urn. His navy ship had a lot of people, and as long as he had some time, he could always defeat the opponent.

But now, the Youzhou broke several Hengjiang iron locks one after another in a way that he couldn't understand.

Now, there is only the last one left. He hopes that this last iron chain can stop it, as long as the boat behind it comes up to surround it, and those who wait for this boat will be captured.

Under everyone's gaze, the Youzhou rushed towards the last iron chain at a very fast speed.

The iron chain is three or four meters above the water, while the Youzhou is six or seven meters high.

Soon, the Youzhou came into contact with the last iron chain, and the iron chain was pulled by the Youzhou, and quickly deformed, as if someone pulled the bowstring.

"Add coal quickly to make the fire burn more vigorously."

In the boiler warehouse, coal workers quickly add wet anthracite mixed with water to the boiler, so that the wet coal can burn faster.

"Come on, give me all the sculls and rush over."

On both sides of the waterline, countless people slid and rowed quickly, trying their best to add some power to the Youzhou.

"Everyone hold on to steady. When the chain breaks, the reaction force is the greatest. Don't fall down and hurt yourself."

In the cabin, someone loudly told everyone to get ready.

On the deck, countless soldiers in plate armor clung to the side of the ship, waiting for the final moment.

If the Youzhou cannot break the iron chain, one can imagine their fate.

As the Youzhou continued to move forward, the iron chains were quickly bound tightly by the Youzhou.

And the speed of the Youzhou, like a sudden brake, quickly dropped from six or seven knots to a near standstill.

However, the people on the Youzhou did not give up. The fuel in the boiler provided the Youzhou with the most powerful kinetic energy.

The underwater propeller brought up patches of white waves at the stern, and these white waves gathered more and more at a speed visible to the naked eye.

jump!
After a moment of stalemate, a clear voice sounded. This voice was extremely beautiful.

"Broken, broken."

On the Youzhou, countless people shouted excitedly, and this voice even covered up the chasing and killing shouts of Sun Quan's navy officers and soldiers behind.

The moment the Youzhou broke the iron chain, the huge momentum caused the Youzhou to jump out quickly like a wild dog off the rope.

Between stillness and movement, the huge inertia made the people on the Youzhou almost lose their grip and fall to the ground.

Fortunately, everyone on the Youzhou was prepared so that no one would fall and get injured.

On the hills in the distance, seeing the scene just now, Sun Quan's hand holding the binoculars was full of veins, which shows how hard he was.

"Let it escape." After a while, Sun Quan sighed.

All the civil servants and military generals around Sun Quan didn't look very good-looking.

The Youzhou, which broke free from the shackles, was like an arrow leaving the string, and its speed was beyond the reach of Sun Quan's navy.

When the Youzhou was going upstream, its speed could reach [-] knots, but now it was going downstream, with the steam engine boiler running at full power, its speed quickly reached [-] knots.

What is the speed of twenty knots?The speed of one knot is 1.8 kilometers per hour, and twenty knots is 36 kilometers per hour.

This speed is several times faster than the fastest ship of this era, and it is also beyond the reach of Sun Quan's navy ship.

The reason why the Youzhou was able to break free from the iron chains was not only because of the powerful kinetic energy of the Youzhou, but also because the quality of the iron chains in this era was not good.

There was no good steel, and there was no way to weld the iron ring to death, so the iron chain broke quickly under the struggle of the Youzhou.

"Finally out."

"Brother, what shall we do next? Are we still fighting?" someone asked Zhang Chao.

"What should I do? Hit back and beat the mother." Zhang Chao looked at the Sun Quan navy fleet that had stopped chasing behind and said.

The officers and soldiers of the Sun Quan Navy stopped the pursuit immediately after seeing the Youzhou leave. They also knew that they could not catch up with their speed.

In just over a dozen miles along the Jiajiang waterway, Sun Quan's naval fleet was sunk by the Youzhou and sank more than a dozen ships, killing and injuring hundreds of people.

They are not sure how many more people will be killed or injured if the pursuit continues.

However, they didn't want to chase them anymore, but the Youzhou was not going to let them go.

Under everyone's gaze, the Youzhou made an amazing small turn, quickly turned the bow, and then continued to charge towards the Sun Quan navy fleet.

Boom boom boom boom boom!
The retaliatory attack started, and the gunners on the Youzhou all changed into flower bombs at the same time.

This time, the entire Sun Quan navy was in a mess. The reason why they were under pressure to attack the Youzhou at the beginning was because there was an iron chain blocking the river downstream.

Now that the iron chain blocking the river is gone, they can only be beaten.

After the Youzhou began its retaliatory attack, Sun Quan's naval fleet was finally in chaos, and countless ships began to flee crazily.

Many boats docked near the river, and countless people jumped off the boats and fled to land.

For more than an hour, Dang Youzhou's cannons were all red and hot, and could not continue to attack.After Sun Quan's naval officers and soldiers also fled in all directions, the Youzhou finally stopped attacking.

In this attack, the Youzhou sank at least twenty more enemy ships, but because there were too many enemies, most of the enemy ships escaped.

The Youzhou is only one ship, and if the enemy wants to escape, he has no way to pursue it separately. Even if he is covered in iron, it is difficult for him to drive a few nails.

"Go back, return to the team."

At this time, under the order of Zhang Chao, the captain of the Youzhou, the Youzhou finally started to counter-voyage complacently.

At the same time that the Youzhou ship was fighting against Sun Quan's navy in the Moling section of the Yangtze River channel, the Youzhou fleet also encountered trouble in the Guangling section of the Yangtze River channel.

Not long after the Youzhou fleet entered Sun Quan's sphere of influence, they encountered the Sun Quan navy fleet going down the river.

In order to deal with the Youzhou fleet, Sun Quan deployed two lines of defense. The first line of defense was the one in the Guangling section, with thousands of ships of all sizes.

Just looking at this number is really scary, but more than half of them are fire boats, and there are very few real warships, only one or two hundred.

However, when the people on the Youzhou fleet saw the huge fleet going down the river, their scalps tingled.

The Youzhou fleet has fifteen gunboats, and together with equivalent supply ships, there are only thirty ships.

Such a small ship is really not enough to face thousands of ships of all sizes.

At this time, Lin Yongsheng, the commander of the Youzhou gunboat, didn't know that these were worthless fireboats.

Many boats are even modified from cheap awning boats, with some fire-igniting wood and tung oil on them, as long as they are ignited and released downstream.

This kind of ship is a one-time weapon, which is gone after one use.

What's more, some fire boats are a row of wooden boats like bamboo rafts, with hay, firewood and tung oil piled on them.

"Brother Lin, these seem to be fire boats."

As the distance between the two sides gradually narrowed, the people on the Youzhou soon discovered the differences between these ships using telescopes.

In fact, Sun Quan's navy wanted to use these large number of very cheap igniting boats to burn the Youzhou fleet, so there was no cover at all, and they were directly exposed blatantly.

(End of this chapter)