Late Tang Dynasty: I

Chapter 372 Japanese Revenge

The accuracy of the artillery is not very good, especially on a bumpy ship, and it is fixed with a wooden frame.

Xu Yanshi tinkered with the artillery, pouring in six packages of gunpowder per kilogram, stuffing some cotton, compacting it with a wooden pestle, and finally stuffing lead bullets into the barrel.

The installed mortars are different from the solid cannons. They use explosive bullets. The principle is the same as the heartless cannons used in the Northeast War.

The diameter of the copper mortar is much larger, reaching one and a half feet (45cm), and the length is four feet (1.2m). The cannonball is a five-pound compacted gunpowder bag with a lead. The innermost layer of the gunpowder bag is gunpowder, and the outer layer is pieces of stone and iron.

The propellant is three kilograms of black powder. Compared with solid bullets, one shot can shoot six or seven miles. The range of this mortar is a flaw. It can only shoot three to four hundred steps, which is far inferior to the eight-oxen crossbow.

But the mortar is so powerful. Once it is fired, everything within a radius of ten steps will be destroyed, and no man or horse will be left.

But there are also shortcomings, that is, it is difficult to control the detonation time of the artillery shell, and the fuse of the propellant pack needs to be ignited before firing.

During the test, there was a situation where the charge pack was ignited but not fired. The result was tragic, so a gun was equipped.

"General, it's done!"

"Can you hit it?"

"It might work!"

Xu Yanshi didn't have much confidence. His Majesty the Emperor gave him a parabola calculation method. That thing was too difficult. Coupled with a trigonometric function method to measure distance, it was simply hell.

Precision shooting is not yet ready. If you want to hit a person five or six miles away, the probability is lower than winning the lottery, but if you say a ship wall composed of two or three hundred ships, the difficulty is much easier...

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More than 200 years ago, in the first year of Longshuo (Tang Gaozong), the Tang Dynasty attacked Goguryeo and Baekje. The prime minister of Baekje, Gushi Fuxin, asked Xiao Baga for help.

At that time, Xiao Baga sent a thousand warships and more than 4 Xiao Baga troops.

It is also at this place, the outlet of the Silla Han River.

Liu Rengui, the famous general of the Tang Dynasty, led more than 100 warships and more than [-] men. He beat them fiercely and won all four stations. The Tang army's eight-niu crossbows, rockets, and the Shanwen armor worn by the soldiers impressed these little Baga. profound.

They were no match for either distant or close combat. At that time, they were surprised to find that facing the heavy armored infantry of the Tang Dynasty, they needed ten small Baga soldiers to compete with them.

And the Eight Bull Crossbow is their nightmare. With one blow, all the people and ships are gone.

More than 1 Tang troops killed more than 4 Xiaobaga, leaving no trace behind.

Kangxi once said: "The Japanese country is the most capricious country. Its people are very humble and do not know the kindness in the world. They only rely on military power. Therefore, you must not have a good impression of it!"

deep impression!

Since then, Xiao Baga learned from the pain and decided to take the Tang Dynasty as his teacher. Over the past 200 years, he sent envoys to the Tang Dynasty nineteen times, each time with as many as 500 people.

What are they here for?
Learn the technology, system, and culture of the Tang Dynasty.

But now, Xiao Baga can build bigger and stronger warships, and can build the Banniu crossbow with a range no less than that of the Tang Dynasty. Their armor is even better than that of the Tang Dynasty. After they learn the Tang sword, It became their Japanese sword, their longbow rocket, which could shoot 150 steps away.

More than 200 years ago, their more than 4 people needed a thousand warships, but now they only need more than 200. Their warships have strengthened side protection specifically for the Eight Ox Crossbow.

The Xiaobaga even put siege engines on the warships. Their arrow claws could hijack the Tang ship in twenty or thirty steps. They installed springboards to quickly board the ship and fight in hand-to-hand combat.

The Xiao Baga are well equipped. They are not inferior to the Tang Dynasty fleet more than 200 years ago, or even stronger.

They want revenge, and they want to use the blood of the Tang people to wash away the shame of more than 200 years ago.

"Xingxi, the Tang people are getting weaker and weaker. I can't see the shadow of warriors in them. They will definitely be crushed by us." Watanabe Xiaobaga looked at Zhu Youwu's warship, which was surrounded by more than a dozen Japanese warships. Surrounded by groups, hundreds of people had already jumped onto the Tang boats. Tang soldiers fell one by one in front of his eyes, and he couldn't help but feel happy.

"Kill, kill them all, let the Tang people know how powerful we are!"

"General Watanabe, we found no oar windows on the Tang ship!"

"Hey, Tang people are driving against the wind, don't they need oars? It seems that I have finally found something that interests me."

"The Tang people are heading against the wind, we are following the wind. Tanaka, order all the ships to move quickly, prepare the eight cow crossbows and rockets, and shoot as soon as they are within range!"

Watanabe seemed to see victory beckoning to them. The advantage of tailwind was too great, and the bows could shoot farther than the Tang people. Although the Tang people had dozens more ships than them, their weapons and positions could completely eliminate this gap.

When Tang Jian's figure became clearer and clearer, Watanabe Xiaobaga felt his blood boiling.

"Full sail, full sail!"

"what!"

Watanabe suddenly saw two puffs of white smoke rising from the front battleship of the Tang Army. After dozens of breaths, he heard two muffled thunder-like sounds.

Bah...bump...plop...

Watanabe suddenly spotted a warship twenty steps away. The densely packed crowd on the deck was beaten to death, and there was a sudden heart-piercing scream. He didn't know what it was, and even half of the ship's building was collapsed. .

The other one hit the surface of the water, and the seawater burst out and splashed in his face, and most of his enthusiasm suddenly disappeared.

"What happened? What just happened? Does anyone know?"

"What it is?"

At this time, Watanabe was a little panicked, wondering if there was something he didn't know. He saw two puffs of white smoke rising from the Tang Army's warship, followed by two more thunderous sounds.

Bah...bump...plop...

The Japanese warships were too dense. Two shots were fired, and a line of blood was drawn. Everyone they encountered had limbs and legs missing. One of the Japanese soldiers, Xiao Baga, must have been shot in the chest. The thick blood hole was shocking. Xiao Baga of the Japanese country had not yet died. There was blood foam in his mouth. He kept opening and closing, and he didn't know what to say.
Watanabe Xiaobaga felt very sad. He was sure that it was a Tang Dynasty weapon, a weapon he had never seen before.

Seeing two more puffs of smoke, he was already numb, Xiao Baga was still bloody, so Watanabe pulled out his knife.

"Hurry, full sail, full sail, get close to the Tang warship and we will win."

"There are only two Tang people with this kind of weapon. Once we capture their warship, the weapon will be ours."

"kill!"

The Japanese flagship waved a letter flag, ordering all warships to attack quickly.

Five miles, four miles, three miles, two miles...

The Japanese warship endured the bombardment of Datang's new weapons and moved forward...

…We can’t fire any more cannons, they’re too hot.

"Quickly use a wet cloth to cool down! Change the shotgun!"

"Quick, change the shotgun!"

(End of this chapter)