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Chapter 877 Flying Daggers ([-])

Compared to the fire ships that flowed down the river, the 'Congreve rockets' that slid into beautiful arcs in the air and hit them head-on were faster and caused damage to the Yin army.

In Yuanhai, which was leading the way, there was still more than a kilometer away from the nearest fourth-class battleship.

The fastest rocket was about to hit the ground or fall into the water; the remaining 200 or so rockets also fell one after another in only about ten seconds.

The specific results achieved by these rockets are generally quite good.

The reason for this is that if you count carefully, this is the third time Hu Biao and the others have made this thing. It can be said that they are already quite experienced.

Although there is a shortcoming in accuracy, there is currently no way to completely solve it.

Therefore, of the 235 rockets sent out in total, about [-]% hit the target, and many of the others were either far away or very close, and I don't know how far they missed.

However, the kill parts of these rockets cannot hold up because they are filled with a lot of content. Except for a small amount of gunpowder, the rest is vegetable oil mixed with sugar.

This thing only needs a temperature of 190 degrees to ignite, and the burning time is relatively long.
The most critical aspect is the delay fuse installed on the rocket. In terms of production technology, the current team already has a pretty good level.

That is to say, the error is within ten seconds and will not appear too outrageous.

Therefore, the 30% of the rockets that did not miss were almost all exploded in the air at a height of several meters to [-] meters above the battleship.

At the moment of explosion, the gunpowder in the warhead ignited the vegetable oil.

And the shock wave generated dispersed the burning kerosene.

In the eyes of the people watching the battle on tiptoe, they could immediately see a group of flames covering an area of ​​more than ten square meters or even larger, covering the battleships and transport ships of the Yin Army below. past.

Compared with the fireworks set off during the New Year Festival, I don’t know how much more spectacular and lively it is.

But in this spectacular and beautiful scene, it caused astonishing damage to the Yin Army warship below.

A group of warships from the Yin Army would usually fold their sails when they were anchored; but in the past few nights, Hu Biao and the others had been frantically harassing them.

In order to be able to move quickly at critical moments and avoid the fire ships that threaten the most,

The Yin Army did not stow all the sails, but left a considerable part in order to allow the stopped warships to move faster to avoid them at the critical moment.

So when these balls of fire exploded in the air and fell like rain, they immediately ignited the sails of the fifteen or sixteen ships below.

It burned violently in a very short period of time, turning all the mast positions into like big torches.

In addition, there were many sparks that landed on the wooden deck and hull of the Yin Army warship.

It also sticks to it and burns, causing the fire point to continue to expand.

Because too many places were burned, not long after the rockets were launched, the entire surface of the White Goose Pond was illuminated brightly.

The huge fire can be seen clearly from a long distance away.

It has to be said that Da Yin has been able to become a powerful empire on this planet that never sets in the past hundred years, and it still has its own merits.

If it were Daqing's navy, the sailors on the ship would definitely dive and run away under such circumstances.

There can be a commander-in-chief who wipes his neck or dives into the water to be loyal to such a court.

But at present, in many aspects such as the professionalism and combat effectiveness of naval personnel, the Dayin fleet, which can definitely be regarded as the strongest on the entire planet, has a very outstanding performance.

These days, there are no dedicated damage control teams on battleships.

However, a considerable number of Yin Army sailors took axes and frantically chopped down the burning mast, or slashed at the side of the ship.

Under their almost frenzied cutting, the thick mast was broken in a short time.

And it poured towards the Pearl River on one side of the ship, letting the river water extinguish the burning masts and sails.

There were more sailors holding buckets, mops, manual water pumps and other fire-extinguishing tools, trying to put out the flames on the deck.

Their fire-fighting effect was pretty good. Many of the fires that were burning on the wooden deck and hull were quickly extinguished.

The main reason for such a scene was that this mission was too hasty. Hu Biao and the others were unable to obtain some suitable oil in a short while.

After all, it will take more than twenty years for industrial oils such as kerosene to be imported from foreign countries.

In the southern region of Guangdong, there is no oil at all. It is too late to get it from other places.

Therefore, Hu Biao and the others can only use vegetable oils such as rapeseed oil. Even after adding sugar, these vegetable oils are still less capable of sustained combustion and water resistance.

Of course, no matter how professional and powerful the Yin Army sailors are, no matter how bad the rockets made by netizens are.

Facing such a sudden air attack, it is not so easy to withstand it.

While the Yin Army sailors were putting out the fire, there would be a huge explosion from time to time; the sailors who were originally putting out the fire were immediately knocked down.

It was a powder barrel placed by the Yin Army on the deck to provide powder for the deck artillery. It was ignited before it was successfully transferred; the black powder exploded immediately after encountering the fire.

Such an explosion that occurred on the deck was not enough to directly sink a ship with a displacement of at least 600 tons.

Even the displacement can reach thousands of tons of warships.

However, in addition to knocking over many sailors, it also tore out obvious large holes in the wooden deck; making the formation of the Yin army warships now even more chaotic.

For a time, the entire Yin Army fleet used cannon fire and intercepted firepower to evade the fireships' actions, which had a considerable impact on the fireships moving down the river.

In short, this Yin army fleet on the Yangcheng battlefield originally had a total of 35 ships.

A few days ago on the 9th, in the artillery battle to open the channel in Shishiyang, after two steam paddle-wheel warships were directly destroyed, there are now 33 ships left.

In this round of Congreve rockets, although none of them were directly sunk.

It also caused a full [-]% of the ships to be more or less on fire; and soon after, the warships with the Yin Army began to sink.

These Yin army warships that sank quickly were not burned by fire ships.

To be more precise, it was when Yuan Hai took the lead and rocked the oar desperately, so that the fire ship under control was still about one kilometer away from the nearest warship.

Suddenly, a group of sailors who were busy weighing anchor, putting out fires, and firing cannons suddenly felt two loud noises coming from underwater.

In such a loud noise, it was a small thing that they almost fell due to the violent shaking under their feet.

The key is that in the few seconds before and after, a fourth-level battleship and a steam paddle-wheel battleship suffered great misfortune.

Amidst the loud noise, the two ships immediately jumped up from the water as if they were grabbed by an invisible big hand.

After the bottom of the ship jumped out of the water, the surrounding sailors could see in the firelight that there was a terrifyingly large hole on the side of the ship.

After one of the fourth-level battleships fell into the water, its keel was blown off and it was broken into two pieces.

The remaining steam paddle-wheel warship was in a slightly better situation because it had a layer of steel plate on the hull, but it was only a little better.

Because of the waterline position on the side of the ship, the hole that was blasted was a bit too big, and it might not be as big as the table tops of several Eight Immortals tables.

After such a large hole opened, the rolling water from the Pearl River immediately poured into the hull of the ship at an astonishing speed and flow.

Because the speed was so fast, it was too late for the surviving sailors on the ship to do anything; closing the hatch and relying on fire from the watertight cabin to keep the warship from sinking was a joke.

Anyway, by now, these two ships can be considered to have been killed.

So for Hu Biao and other netizens, as well as the common people under his command, there are still 31 Yin ships that they need to kill...

*****
Carrying a pair of burdens far beyond those of ordinary people, the imperial concubine immediately took a deep breath after emerging from the water.

The two underwater explosions just now were actually her work.

To be more precise, it was the work of her and AT.The original plan for all the veterans in the team to use their strong internal strength to hold their breath for a long time to install mines on the bottom of the Yin Army's ship was canceled due to some irresistible reasons.

Specifically, it was because the mines they made had shells made of wood.

Tung oil and beeswax were used to make the gaps waterproof; in order to ensure sufficient power during the explosion, fifty kilograms of black powder were packed inside.

But this, coupled with some designs to ensure buoyancy, resulted in the size of the mine being too large.

The big pile of mines is too big to fit into the 0.5 cubic meter space baggage; such a big pile naturally cuts off the possibility of a group of old birds pushing and diving all the way over.

what to do?Of course, put it into the space ring, dive all the way there, and then take it out.

But now that the team has arrived, there are only three space rings in total; Hu Biao has one with a capacity of 10 cubic meters, and AT and Xu Feng each have one with a capacity of 2 cubic meters.

As a result, during the teleportation of this mission, the teleportation of the immortal Xu Feng failed.

With only two space rings left, the two of them could only carry out such an operation of secretly planting mines.

The reason why they have the girl Guifei in their team is because she is in the modern dimension and has an international diving OW certificate, so she is considered an underwater professional.

You can even be qualified to take the AOW, a more advanced certificate.

However, it is said that because of the extremely dangerous behavior of swimming with wild sharks, he was blacklisted by relevant agencies, so there was no hope at all.

So this girl grabbed an action spot, but Hu Biao didn't have the slightest objection.

What made Hu Biao dissatisfied was that he originally had someone use fish skin to make a very tight water support for the imperial concubine, so that she could wear it for movement.

However, after wearing it and going into the water once, the imperial concubine made some random cuts, and the waist turned into a three-point bikini style.

The reason given was that she was too big. If she didn't cut it, water would accumulate in the middle of the water, causing the whole person to sink to the bottom with too much weight.

Damn it! This was the first time Hu Biao had heard of the term 'stagnant water', so he could only let the imperial concubine act like this.

Of course, this doesn't matter at all.

The important thing is that after the imperial concubine and AT were dispatched, they took advantage of the moment when the fireship led by Yuan Hai was dispatched; they began to use long coffin nails to nail the mines to the ship one by one. side of body.

The reason why I want to take advantage of this opportunity is because there is a lot of movement when driving nails.

There were so many people on the Yin Army ship staying up all night to guard, and if they didn't take advantage of their attention being attracted, they might actually be exposed in advance because they heard the movement.

Or maybe the whole process was seen by sailors on other battleships.

After all, Baietan is just the middle of the river, unlike the harbor where there is cover from the sound of waves.

In this way, after the two of them installed a total of eight mines, although there were still two mines that were not installed in the imperial concubine's space ring.

But she and AT coincidentally moved away from the Yin Army fleet as quickly as possible, as if they were being run over by a dog.

Because the delay fuses of these mines are designed to detonate the gunpowder 5 minutes after the fuse is pulled.

Although it is just some black powder, is the weight of fifty kilograms child's play?

After the two of them planted the seventh and eighth mines respectively, there was not much time left for the explosion of 5 minutes before the first and second mines.

If you don't want to be blown to death or shocked to death, it's best to run as far away as possible.

Taking all of the above into account, it means that the explosion on these two battleships was just the beginning, and six more mines would explode before they had time.

Remove these six warships, which are destined to have no good end.

So seriously counting, there are only 25 Yin army warships left that they need to deal with.

It was just the imperial concubine and the AT, who were breathing in the fresh air on the water more than 100 meters away from the Yin army's chaotic fleet.

But his eyes did not look at the warships that were equipped with mines but had not yet exploded.

Instead, they all looked in the direction of the upper reaches of Baietan.

Because at such a time, Yuan Hai and others, who were driving fire ships to attack, had also reached the most critical and dangerous time. Whether they could burn a few ships would soon be known...

With a sound of "Bah~", Yuan Hai spat out a mouthful of bloody river water.

no way!Even if the continuous noise caused by rockets, wooden shell mines, etc., it involves a large part of the energy of a large number of Yin army fleets.

However, the firepower of the Yin Army fleet is too strong; even if only a part of it is greeted, they can still rush over, which is extremely difficult.

Dense shells continued to fall around them, causing casualties to the fireship troops he led.

Just now, a shell landed at his position around 7 o'clock, hitting a fire ship. Without any suspense, the ship was blown to pieces on the spot.

At the same time, there were shock waves and water splashes rising into the sky.

Not only was the boat on which Yuan Hai was sitting, it was also hit so hard that it almost capsized.

A wet ship plank flew up and hit his left cheek so hard that the left side of his face was now swollen.

The only thing I can be thankful for is that it's now time.

He is less than 400 meters away from several warships on the outer edge of the Yin Army fleet. Now they still have almost ordinary fire ships surviving.

With the speed at which they were going down the river and swinging the oars like crazy, they would only have a minute at most to rush over, violently collide with those battleships and set them on fire.

But even so, Yuan Hai didn't dare to be careless at all.

Because he knew that as the distance to the Yin Army fleet got closer, the opponent's artillery would be able to fire more accurately, and he would even have to face the firepower of the sailors on the ship.

Therefore, the real test for them has just begun.

Things developed just as Yuan Hai expected.

The one minute that passed after that was still an extremely painful memory even for him, a veteran who had participated in his third mission and had experienced many fierce battles.

At a distance of 200 meters to 300 meters from the Yin army fleet.

Amidst the deafening rumbling sound of artillery fire, almost every second or two, a fire ship was directly blown up, or the hull was torn apart and overturned by a near-missile bomb.

In order to cross the 100 meters, nearly twenty ships were reduced in number; the crew on board had no chance of surviving.

Among them was Mai Yusheng, an indigenous guy he was already familiar with.

After Yuan Hai felt something at that time, he turned around and saw Ma Yusheng. The boat he was on had been completely broken into two pieces.

It is sinking rapidly under the pressure of heavy firewood and oil tanks.

Relying on his good water properties, Ma Yusheng is still flopping on the water, but all his efforts will eventually be shattered by the chains on his anklets.

But before he was dragged down by the iron chain, there was no fear of death in this young man's eyes.

If there must be something, it is only the unwillingness of a group of people who failed to break through the fire blockade of the Yin Army and set the battleship on fire to avenge their families.

And after meeting Yuan Hai's eyes, he suddenly felt a strong look of pleading.

"Don't worry, don't you just want to burn down Yinren Guiguo's ship? I, Yuanhai, am the one who's going to do it. I'll help you finish your part."

Yuan Hai, who understood what the other party was praying for, responded with such a look in his eyes.

Then, after receiving such a look from Yuan Hai, this young boy named Ma Yusheng stopped struggling and flopping on the water.

With an indescribable calmness and calmness on his face, he sank to the bottom of the water and disappeared from his sight...

(End of this chapter)