Troubled Times: Start with 800 Dead Soldiers

It is no exaggeration to say that this should be the most advanced warship in the world at that time!

The battle started in the afternoon, and the location was only about three or four nautical miles to the southeast of Pinghai.

This is the first time Su Xia has commanded a large-scale naval battle. Compared to the last time, he was like a hunter hunting rabbits with Du Kang and Wang Ying's group.

This time, it’s a real naval battle!

The fleet attacked the enemy in a Z-shaped formation. Su Xia's first purpose was to drive away this group of pirates.

Su Xia, who had already been equipped with a telescope, could observe the battlefield situation from a long distance.

He found that the number of pirates was not small. There were forty or fifty large and small boats in Wuyang Yang. It seemed that the Japanese pirates were out in force!

As for the first and second detachments of the naval force, in addition to its own ship, the Chaoyong, it has four main gun ships and only twenty other warships.

Although one's own warships are much better than those of the Japanese pirates, the number of warships is not superior, and it is certainly not possible to completely annihilate the enemy.

Judging from the previous situation, although this group of Japanese pirates also had cannons, they were very few.

Estimating that the distance from him was only 1 kilometer, Su Xia ordered the warships in the formation to immediately line up in a single line and change from a "pin" shape to a wild goose formation, with Chaoyong as the head of the wild goose.

The leader of the Japanese pirates, Yamamoto 57, looked blankly at the Ping Haijun who was approaching from a distance, and looked at the huge battle body of the Super Brave!

He couldn't help but tremble in his heart.

One of the pirates' eyes widened, "General, look at it, it seems to be the Song Army. It should be the Ping Navy!"

Yamamoto 57's eyes also widened. Seeing such a large warship, he felt that today's Ping Haijun was not easy to mess with, and he muttered silently, "Turn around, retreat quickly, the rear team becomes the front team, retreat!"

The pirates didn't understand, "General, what about Ping Haijun? It's not like we haven't fought against them before!"

Yamamoto 57's face was distorted, "Stop talking nonsense! Let's go!"

"Sir, they seem to be running away!"

On the flagship of the "Super Brave", Ling Zhen, standing next to Su Xia, shouted.

Su Xia also saw the enemy turning from the telescope and ordered: "Go full throttle and pursue with all your strength!"

Ling Zhen suggested from the side, "General, do you want our clippers to pass through and catch them off guard?"

"No, our warships rush into the enemy's formation. Although we can destroy the enemy, the losses we bear are too great."

Of course Su Xia understood what Ling Zhen meant, and used a small group of troops to harass and bite these pirates.

The small warships of the Pinghai Navy are very fast. As long as they speed up and go around the flanks, they can easily drag the pirates' warships, and then let the main battle gun ship and Chao Yong use their artillery fire to eliminate them to the greatest extent. pirates.

But the result of this is that the troops responsible for harassing and blocking the enemy will suffer greater losses.

Maybe dozens of casualties are nothing to other troops, but for Su Xia, in the initial stage, he didn't want this.

The soldiers I am training now are absolutely elite soldiers! A little loss is a big loss for you.

However, now that we have met these pirates and bit each other, we have at least eaten some meat.

The corner of Su Xia's mouth curved in half an arc, looking at the fleeing pirates, an inexplicable feeling of contempt arose spontaneously, "Order each ship to fire immediately to disrupt the formation of their warships!

Concentrate your artillery fire and bite the fleet behind them! "

Ling Zhen suddenly understood Su Xia's fighting method.

Su Xia's intention was to disrupt the enemy army and divide and destroy one part, rather than to eliminate the effective force of this pirate force to the greatest extent possible.

"Attention, all guns, target the enemy warship and fire on your own!"

This is the first time that the Weiyuan gun developed by Ling Zhen has participated in actual combat.

Although it was their first time to participate in actual combat, the artillerymen had been trained for a long time and their techniques were almost uniform.

Although they were at sea, these 30 newly forged Weiyuan guns still showed amazing combat effectiveness.

The Weiyuan cannon is not heavy, and each Weiyuan cannon can be operated by three people.

An ammunition soldier is responsible for loading, an aimer is responsible for aiming, and another is responsible for igniting and cleaning the barrel. One of the three is the gunner. The artilleryman is equipped with a waist knife as a self-defense weapon.

As Su Xia commanded the cannon fire, all the small boats that had been hiding behind the main battleship also came out.

Although these Japanese warships had already turned around, seeing more Song warships appearing made them feel numb.

Their doom has arrived.

A loud thunderous noise resounded in the sea.

"Dong dong dong dong dong!"

"Shhhhhhh!"

In an instant, Su Xia felt her ears ringing like a mountain crashing and the earth was cracking, along with the sparks bursting out from the cannon barrel.

The evacuation formation of the Japanese pirates suddenly became chaotic.

Su Xia continued to order: "Concentrate your firepower and hit their middle connection for me. I must separate their fleet!"

"Yes!"

At this point, Ling Zhen fully understood Su Xia's combat intention. He used artillery fire to prevent the enemy's retreat, and then concentrated on making dumplings!

Sure enough, this Japanese pirate adopted the method of cutting off the tail of a gecko.

Those warships that were blocked were abandoned.

Taking advantage of the artillery fire, the Chaoyong also bit the tail of the Japanese pirate warship.

Although the firing speed of the main gun Jinlun Cannon is very slow, and it may only fire one or two rounds during the whole naval battle, it is still very powerful.

Ling Zhen even fired the cannon himself. With a bang, one cannon directly hit several Japanese warships at the rear.

Almost instantly, at least three small boats were smashed to pieces.

The dozen Japanese pirates on the ship should have all been sent to the West.

Because the distance was so close, Su Xia could almost see the fragments of the hull torn apart by the cannon without a telescope!

The artillery fire continued to attack without stopping.

This naval battle was more intense than the last time.

Although Ling Zhen's newly invented Weiyuan Cannon is moderately powerful and has a moderate attack range, the longest range is less than two kilometers.

However, the Weiyuan Cannon's rate of fire is much faster than the previous Combo Cannon and Golden Wheel Cannon, and it can fire one shell per minute on average.

Now, Japan's pirates have been cut off in the middle.

Yamamoto 57 could never understand why Ping Haijun would become what he is today.

"General, what should we do?"

"Their ships are small and our big ships cannot catch up. Concentrate all your artillery fire on me and sink all these pirate warships within our range.