148, water battle, control distance [1/3]

I heard that there were less than fifty "bow soldiers" on the Yifang ship. Yi Yun had two big heads. He saw the water bandits blew up the bow and arrow, preparing to use the bow and arrow to deal with the Yifang. However, the soldiers of the Yifang were all stupid and walked around with shields. Yi Yun came without fighting and cursed: "What are you waiting for? Drive the boat to hit the enemy, jump to the gang, and fight melee!"

"Yes!" Several sailors ran over to raise their sails in a hurry. The Shengtang Piaotian, a registered literary member, recommended this work.

But the white sail had just risen, and a rocket was shot from the robbers on the opposite side. Without shooting anyone, the sail was shot first. The turbulent oil on the arrow was stained on the cloth sail. Although these cloth sails had been fire-proofed to a certain extent, after the oil on the rocket flowed up, even the fire-proof cloth sail could not withstand the toss.

Several large holes burned out on the sails. When the wind blew, several holes leaked together, and the ship speed could not be raised at all.

The seven water bandits' warships ran fast. It was obvious that the water bandits' carriage were first-class. They did not approach them, but rotated around the wide river surface, surrounding Yi Yun's five large ships, maintaining a distance of 150 meters. The "bowmen" took their bows and arrows and shot at Yi Yun's ship.

Yi Yun Khan, so many "bow soldiers" shot volleys, that would kill people. Last time in Jiangjin Oasis, Yi Yun saw a third-level "military general" being "precisely shot" by a hundred "bow soldiers" and killed directly. What should we do if these guys shoot at him?

However, Yi Yun was worried in vain. The sailors on the ship surrounded him together. A large group of "guards" set up shields and surrounded Yi Yun tightly. The sailors just now did not lie. This time, they protected Yi Yun to the south of the Yangtze River. The sailors in the fleet chose "guards" in large numbers, which would be effective at this time.

The rockets roared, and the "guards" shouted "shield block", and then Yi Yun heard a "bumping" sound around him, and many arrows were blocked. ("Piaotian Literature Registered Member Recommended This Work")

More than a hundred enemy "bow soldiers" were shooting arrows at the sailors on each ship, but it was impossible for them to shoot at Yi Yun as a salvo. Therefore, only thirty or forty arrows were used to deal with Yi Yun at the same time. In the "guard" formation guarded like an iron barrel next to Yi Yun, it was impossible to cause damage to Yi Yun.

Yi Yun calmed down and shouted: "Don't just defend, where is our 'archers'? Fight back!"

A few splashes came from the side of the ship: "Yes."

Yi Yun saw that there were more than a dozen bowmen lying on the side of each ship on his side, holding bows and arrows to fight back at the other side, but their number was too small. Without shooting a few arrows, they were suppressed by the other side's rain of arrows. Several slightly radical "bowmen" were shot into hedgehogs because they leaned out from the side of the ship.

"Prince, our sails are burned and cannot catch up with the speed of the enemy ship and cannot get close!" A soldier reported loudly: "What should I do?"

"What can I do? Use a rocket to shoot the opponent's sail!" Yi Yun shouted: "If the opponent's speed is also reduced, you will be unable to control the distance."

"Prince...we...we don't prepare for the Rockets..."

I was so fainted. The military preparations of this cute country were really bad... Yi Yun was seriously unhappy.

All five ships on Yi Yun's side were suppressed by arrow rain. The soldiers could only defend against shields. Many feathered arrows were quickly inserted into the deck and the side of the ship. Some of them were rockets and burned with wooden hulls. The sailors had to use buckets to put out the fire under arrow rain. The situation was chaotic.

An Qian, An Jing, Li Chengyu, Lu Xi and other combat-capable girls were on the deck, helping the sailors put out the fire. The temperature on the boat began to rise, and the heat made them sweat all over. ("Piaotian Literature Registered Member Recommended This Work")

Yi Yun gestured for a while and found that the enemy ship's control of the distance was really perfect. His Five Elements Taoism was only 100 meters in range and could not hit... An Qian, the quiet sword energy was even more inaccessible. At a distance of 150 meters, they could only be passively beaten.

Is there any way to make up for this range disadvantage?

At this time, Li Chengyu happened to run past Yi Yun. He looked at her red armor and suddenly woke up. By the way, Li Chengyu and I discussed a question of a cute domestic cannon a few days ago. There are Folang machine cannons on these warships. But in order to disguise the merchant ship, I moved the cannons to the bottom cabin. Later, I forgot to move them out again. Now is a good time to use them.

Yi Yun is from later generations, and no one knows better than him that the king of water war is cannons! Things like rockets are backward weapons that were only played in the Three Kingdoms era. In the era of great navigation in his own world, water war has become a reliance on cannons to decide the outcome. The kingly waterway is to use large ships to small ships, and many cannons to few cannons... As long as there are cannons, all bowmen will turn into gray.

"Come on, go to the bottom cabin and bring the cannons up!" Yi Yun said loudly.

The sailors quickly divided up more than a dozen people to drill towards the bottom cabin, and at the same time issued flag words to the other four ships. The five warships all had cannons, each with one on the bow and stern. Now these cannons are all in the bottom cabin. As long as they are moved out and used, they will definitely be able to reverse their disadvantages.

The bandit leader Luo Lemao was standing on the bow of his ship at this time, looking proudly at the officers and soldiers in front of him being besieged. He had already cheered up from his fear of officers and soldiers. Looking at the officers and soldiers who were shot to death by the rockets, Luo Lemao felt very happy: "Hahaha, there is nothing scary about officers and soldiers. Let's play slowly with the rockets until they burn them to pieces, and then get close to the past to harvest spoils, hahahaha."

"Boss, the officers and soldiers on the opposite side seem to be moving something out from the bottom cabin..." A sailor pointed at Yi Yun's ship and shouted: "Look, many guards have come out with shields to protect something."

Luo Lemao curled his lips and said, "Maybe it is valuable goods. Do you want to bring the goods out and hand them over to us and ask us to spare their lives? Whatever he does, concentrate his firepower and shoot down the "guards" to see what it is inside."

"yes!"

A group of archers shot arrows desperately at the "guards" carrying cannons. For a moment, the arrows were like rain, and several sailors protecting the cannons were immediately shot to the ground.

Yi Yun Da Khan, surrounded by many guards, but few of them were going to protect the cannons, and quickly shouted: "Don't protect me, hurry up and protect the cannons and gunpowder. If the enemy's rockets hit the rocket barrels, we will all be bombed into the sky."

The sailors were so scared that their bodies were full of excitement. Although it was important to protect the prince, if the powder barrel exploded, the prince would still be bombarded to heaven. More than 20 people were quickly assigned to the guard formation, rushed over and set up shields, and protected the cannons, shells, and powder barrels.

Luo Lemao saw the guards here rushing over one hundred meters away to protect the things that were being moved from the bottom cabin. He couldn't help but wonder: "What are you carrying?"

At this time, the "guards" finally dragged the cannon to the bow and then protected it more tightly with the shield wall. Yi Yun was very interested in playing cannons, so he came over and saw the sailors re-fixed the cannons on the cannon stand at the bow, and then began to rush to load shells inside.

By the way, it must be mentioned that the method of installing shells by the Flang machine cannon is very simple. It is a short-barrel cannon that is loaded afterwards. The usual usage should be to open the lid at the back, put the gunpowder and shells in, and then ignite the fire... However, in order to improve the loading efficiency and increase the firing rate of the cannon, smart craftsmen adopted a method called the mother-child gun.

This method is to prepare several iron pipes slightly smaller than the caliber of the cannon, and put shells and gunpowder in advance. When you want to fire the cannon, you can directly plug the iron pipe into the cannon, fire a gun, immediately pull out the iron pipe, and then plug a second iron pipe in. This way, it saves the cumbersome loading steps and can increase the fire rate of the cannon several times. This iron pipe is called a sub-gun. Each Folang machine cannon is equipped with five sub-guns, which means that you can fire five cannons at a fast speed.

In addition to the soldiers who fired the cannon, a few soldiers were specially arranged next to each cannon to load the sub-column, clean the ones they had just used up, and then stuff the shells and gunpowder into the sub-column for the next round of cannonage. So once the Folang machine cannon fires, it will be like the gun body and the endless life. The only pity is that the cannons of this era are of poor quality and are prone to explosions, so they can no longer be used if they cannot fire many cannons... Therefore, the endless life cannon can only be theoretical.

What Yi Yun saw was that several sailors washed the cannon's bore first, then stuffed it into a sub-branch. Even if the loading was completed, the sailors turned the cannon heads together and aimed at the armed merchant ships of the water bandits.

Yi Yun was very interesting: "Oh, it's fun! It's the danger of the explosion that makes me not do it myself, alas!"

Several sailors began to ignite the fire, Yi Yun blocked his ears and retreated far away.

At this time, Luo Lemao was still looking at what the other party had brought out in curiosity. The guard formation at the bow of the ship finally dispersed. The shield wall retreated a few steps away as Yi Yun took, and then retreated from afar. As soon as the view on the bow of the ship opened, he could finally see clearly what was there.

Luo Lemao widened his eyes and looked at him, "Oh my mother!" A black cannon was pointing at the direction he was in with a bowl-thick muzzle. There was a red spark leaping at the tail of the cannon, which obviously had already ignited the lead.

"Oh my mother!" Luo Lemao roared: "Cannon, the officers and soldiers have cannons."

After the roar, he didn't care about his image as a gang leader, lying on the deck of the ship, hugged his head with both hands, and pressed his whole body against the deck. Then... a loud "boom" sound came from the opposite side, and the Folang machine cannon roared.
Chapter completed!