Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 252 Jiangxia Water Battle

The navy on the left in front was commanded by Chang Deng, but the battle plan was submitted to Zuo Liangyu and Zuo Menggeng after he discussed with Xu Ensheng.

They were not prepared to use arson ships on a large scale, or mother ships (a special warship that carried explosives to attack enemy ships).

The main reason is that the navy on the left side of this water battle is in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and the recent winds have not been westerly, and there are even occasional east winds. The arsonist ship and the mother and daughter ship lack objective conditions for use.

The secondary reason is that the number of warships on both sides is about the same, and when it comes to warships of more than 200 materials, such as seat warships and cruise ships, there are slightly more warships on the left.

In the end, Chang Deng promised in front of Zuo Menggeng that he would capture the strange iron ship and dedicate it to him. Naturally, he would not think about destroying the enemy ship from the beginning.

In addition, the warships of the inland river navy at the end of the Ming Dynasty were not as good as those in the middle and early Ming Dynasty as a whole—because there were few places for naval divisions to be used, and the types of naval warships were not only few but also monotonous, and many types of warships only existed. on paper.

Not only the left navy is like this, the type of warships used by the Yangtze River navy under Zhu Yuxi is actually very monotonous.

Today's inland water warfare is mostly about shooting arrows, shooting guns, and setting fire when they are close to each other. Using trebuchets and cannons are relatively high-end inland water warfare methods.

The final decision of the outcome is often by boarding.

Therefore, whether it is the current Zuobu navy or the former Zhang Xianzhong navy, they are actually horse soldiers and infantry, and they are all "amphibious troops."

Of course, Aimee Zhu's Yangtze River Navy is actually considered an "amphibious force".

However, Zhu Yuxi's Yangtze River Navy will tell the left navy today that times have changed.

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Standing on the deck of his ship, Chang Deng said loudly: "Listen up, all the soldiers, the enemy's strange iron ship is fast and strong.

Therefore, dozens of our warships and cruise ships must swarm up to tie it up later.

Then we can seize the ship according to our previous tactics.Do you understand? "

"I understand!"

"Okay!" Chang Deng looked around like a cloud of warships, and waved his big hand in high spirits: "Pass me the general order! Beat the drums to meet the enemy!"

dong dong dong

The cowhide war drum on Chang Deng's boat was beaten vigorously by a tall and fat man with a bare upper body.

Flags were waved on the warships on the left, and countless oars and sculls came out, paddling the river, and went against the river to meet the warships of the Yangtze River Navy in the west!

Zuo Menggeng could see clearly with the binoculars on the Liubaishuai ship. When the warship of the Yangtze River Navy appeared, the distance between the two sides was about four or five miles.

Now hundreds of warships led by Chang Deng took the initiative to meet them, and the distance between the two sides shortened rapidly, but after a while, the distance was only two miles away.

The Yangtze River Navy is still led by three strange iron ships, but soon these three strange iron ships made a tactical operation that made Zuo Menggeng very strange.

"Strange, why did those three strange iron ships stop?"

stopped?

Xu Ensheng couldn't help frowning when he heard this.

"Young Lord, can you let the general take a look?"

"Look, not only the three strange iron ships stopped, but also the dozen or so large ships behind them."

Zuo Menggeng said so, but he still held the telescope, and he didn't mean to give it to Xu Ensheng at all.

This made Xu Ensheng speechless.

So I can only denounce the telescope again.

Only then did Zuo Menggeng hand over the telescope.

When Xu Ensheng looked through the binoculars, he saw three strange iron ships of the Yangtze River Navy in a row, and a dozen warships and cruise ships in the back were lined up in two rows. Drifting on the river.

Look at the left navy led by Chang Deng, and the distance from it has been pulled to more than one mile.

Immediately, a scene Xu Ensheng will never forget happened.

I saw nearly twenty warships of the Yangtze River Navy, including the strange iron ship, emitting a lot of white smoke almost at the same time, and then there was a series of cannons like setting off firecrackers!
boom boom boom

At one time, hundreds of shells bombarded the naval warship on the left more than a mile away at the same time!

Although these shells were all live ammunition, they were powerful and accurate. In just one round, more than [-] naval warships on the left were shot.

Some of them just had a big hole in the deck, and some of them were shot below the waterline of the hull, and immediately began to pour water, dumped and sank.

Others hit the crowd on the warship, and immediately led out a bloody passage, leaving behind countless howling soldiers.

"Why are there so many cannons on their warships?" Zuo Menggeng asked in a trembling voice beside him.

At the same time, he snatched the binoculars from Xu Ensheng's hand and looked at the river.

Xu Ensheng said: "The last general doesn't know...the sentry ship they chased and captured us before had never used cannons, no, they never showed cannons."

Zuo Menggeng and Xu Ensheng who were watching the battle from the rear were shocked, while Chang Deng, who had just experienced a round of shelling and was safe and sound, was immediately stunned.

He also didn't expect that the opponent's warship had so many cannons, and it could hit so far and so hard.

But he is also a veteran who has fought in the battlefield for 20 years. When he came back to his senses, he immediately shouted: "Send me the order! Let the ships spread out and move forward at full speed! Since they have cannons on board, we can only win by getting close as soon as possible!"

Chang Deng's combat thinking was correct, and the officers of the left navy on other warships also knew it well.

So the order was issued, and the oarsmen rowed desperately.

For a while, the naval warship on the left accelerated again.

Fortunately, it is not yet the flood season, and the current of the Yangtze River in Wuchang Prefecture is relatively slow. With the efforts of the oarsmen on the left, the warships of the navy quickly approached the warships of the Yangtze River Navy.

It was also at this time that the second round of shelling by the Yangtze River Navy came.

This time, more large ships followed suit, and one or two hundred shells fell.

Although the navy on the left dispersed and no longer hit as much as before, twenty or thirty warships were still hit, and several of them lost their navigation and combat capabilities on the spot, and even began to sink. Had to paddle to the river.

Zuo Menggeng and Xu Ensheng who watched the match were shocked again.

Zuo Menggeng said: "How can their cannons be fired so fast? Could it be that there was a batch of cannons that were not fired before?"

Xu Ensheng shook his head, "Impossible, the general can see clearly that there were only about twenty warships firing before, but hundreds of shells were fired.

It shows that each enemy ship is equipped with at least five cannons, which is already a lot.

Moreover, the power of these cannons is comparable to that of the red cannons, so they must be huge and heavy. Even a warship with [-] materials cannot install a few. "

Just when Xu Ensheng said this, the left navy was subjected to a third round of shelling, and seven or eight warships lost their combat capabilities again and rowed to the river.

Fortunately, after this round of shelling, the distance between the two sides was also shortened to within a hundred steps.

At this time, the few firearms such as Francophones, tiger squatting guns, and lifting guns in the left navy finally came into use.

It is a pity that the number of such firearms is very small, and it is estimated that there are more than 100 large firearms on dozens of warships and patrol ships.

Moreover, the accuracy of these large firearms during the fast sailing of warships is extremely impressive. Even if they were lucky enough to hit the strange iron ship at the front, at most they left a shallow mark on its body.

Immediately afterwards, the fourth round of shelling by the Yangtze River Navy came, but it fired a lot of shotgun shells with thick smoke.

I saw these shotguns with thick smoke with a strange color, falling like a witch scattered flowers on many warships of the navy on the left, and suddenly blown by the moderate east wind, it diffused towards the warships behind.

Chang Deng only took a sniff, then quickly covered his mouth and nose, and narrowed his eyes.

Immediately, he could not show his mouth, and shouted: "It's a poisonous smoke bomb, cover your mouth with a wet cloth, cough, cough, cough..."

As he said that, Chang Deng himself started to cough violently. He only felt a pungent feeling rushing straight to his throat, nostrils, and eye masks, making his nose and tears flow down.

"Damn it, it's all mixed with chili!"

As he spoke, Chang Deng didn't have time to wait for the soldiers, so he personally soaked the cloth towel he carried with him and covered his mouth and nose.

But there is nothing I can do about the eyes, so I can only squint first.

In fact, poisonous smoke is a common method of warfare in water warfare. It is just like the Yangtze River Navy, which uses cannons to shoot out a lot of poisonous smoke, but it is the first time for the left navy to encounter it. Such a big "injury" was directly beaten.

　Good night~
　　
　　
　
(End of this chapter)