In the violent explosion, Liang Hai felt dizzy. He couldn't hear what the people around him were saying, or even the sound of the explosion. He only felt like he was on a small boat, rocking back and forth.

, the flying shrapnel was flying in the choking whistle smoke. When he saw Songjia's hada running, the shrapnel scratched his stomach, and his stomach dripped instantly, but he was still running away in panic, no matter what

It was dragged on the ground by its intestines, and then the whole person disappeared in the smoke cloud of the explosion.

Ming Gou’s cannon is too powerful!

Not to mention Liang Hai who was exposed to the artillery fire, even Turg was stunned by the smoke-filled battlefield. Previously, Minggou's bombardment was only concentrated one or two miles away by the river, but now they are attacking everywhere.

of cannonballs.

Hundreds and thousands of shells!

Those shells are not iron lumps that can only hurt people, but explosive shells that explode when they fall on the ground and can blow people into pieces.

However, when the Ming army's gunboats fired, the Qing army's artillery team also fired back at the river. For a while, the guns from both sides were firing back and forth, making the water surface as lively as a boiling pot.

However, it is very regrettable that due to the distance, the results of the Qing army's artillery bombardment were almost ineffective.

The Qing army's red artillery can only shoot from a horizontal range of four to five hundred meters. Without a sight, at a distance of 450 to 600 meters, can it hit a ship on the water with a smoothbore front-loaded cannon?

Goals actually depend on luck most of the time.

Especially when those fleets are facing the enemy from the bow, the target itself is very small, and the water column is hit by the cannonball, and the waves raised by the water column make the ship heave extremely violently, and it is difficult to hit the target.

It's more difficult.

As a result, despite the roaring noise on the river and the land, the continuous sound of cannons, and the towering water jets on the river, no Ming army ship was seen for a long time.

In contrast, the Qing army's casualties continued to increase - the Ming army's gunners did not aim at all, they just fired the shells, and then everything else was left to gravity and, of course, luck. But in

Most of the time, the Ming army was lucky. The steel fragments produced after the explosion would always take the lives of several people.

In fact, to put it bluntly, everyone relies on luck, but luck is greater on the Ming army. After all, there are differences in technology.

Shelling!

The bombardment continued from day to night! It seemed like it never stopped.

Although the Ming army's shelling became sparse after nightfall, the shelling still continued. During the day, the Qing army saw white smoke trails falling from the sky, but at night, they seemed to be witnessing

It's like a fireworks show, because the burning fuses of the cannonballs fired at night spray out sparks. These sparks make the cannonballs look like meteors with flaming tails in the night.

But when the meteor hits the ground, a huge cloud of smoke will immediately explode...

Of course, the current Ming army's artillery bombardment has no effect - now the Qing army has withdrawn beyond the range of the Ming army's gunboats, and only a few troops are still ahead, including Cao Eryu's heavy camp. However, after nightfall, the heavy troops

The battalion's red-coated cannon no longer fired - it was a waste of shells. They didn't think so at first, but after fighting for a long time, they had fully realized what despair was. It means that one shot out of every hundred hits, or even

Yu also lost several cannons in the opponent's counterattack, so he simply stopped fighting.

But despite this, Cao Eryu was not idle. Taking advantage of the Ming army's concentrated bombardment in the distance, he arrived at the front camp that had been bombarded into ruins. He held a torch and searched in the front camp.

"Uncle, what are we looking for?"

The slaves following Cao Eryu nervously looked at the fireworks overhead. When the explosions in the distance came, they would always be frightened. But even so, they had to follow their master. After all,

The masters have taken risks to find that thing. If they don't follow, they will not be able to bear the blame from the masters.

"Look for iron balls, iron balls that haven't exploded!"

Cao Eryu looked back at the slaves and gave instructions.

"Whoever finds it will be rewarded twenty taels of silver!"

When the slaves heard this, their eyes lit up, twenty taels of silver! For these dozens of taels of silver, it was worth dying.

A dozen slaves hunkered down and searched with torches, and soon they found a few iron balls. Looking at those round iron balls, Cao Eryu's breathing seemed a little quick.

"Dad, my son has made a great contribution to his master this time!"

The reason why he was so excited was because he knew that the Ming army's explosive bombs must have something special about them. He just had to take these unexploded explosive bombs back, find out how they exploded, and then follow the gourd drawings.

Take a ladle and make that thing. It will definitely be a great achievement by then!

Such merit is rare. In fact, this is where he is smart. In other people's eyes, they only see the danger of exploding bullets, but in his eyes, he sees opportunities.

When Cao Eryu carefully put the artillery shells he picked up into the bamboo basket, in front of a courtyard far away from the river bank, Abatai looked into the distance with a pale face. There were temporary tents set up everywhere on the snow - several

All the large camps were hurriedly abandoned by the Ming army's shelling. It was not that he was willing to give up, but that those large camps were within the range of the Ming army's shelling. A single shell fell, and as many as a dozen people could be killed.

, up to dozens of people’s lives. If we don’t evacuate, people will be blown up before Minggo even gets ashore!

Such a battle would be lost without even having to be fought!

"Damn it!"

Abatai cursed bitterly. This was the first time he had encountered a battle like today, and Ming Gou didn't even give him a chance to fight back!

Just so far away on the river, they kept bombarding them with cannons!

Fortunately, artillery can't hit here!

Compared to his master's anger, Hou Fangyu was more grateful that he could survive the fierce gunfire, and countless people lost their lives.

When had the army's artillery been so sharp?

There was doubt in his heart, but in the minds of Abatai, Turge and others, there was a mixed feeling. Originally, they could rush into Nanjing City at any time and kill and rob, but now, they were attacked by Ming Gou.

The gunboats were so bombarded that they couldn't find the north. What was even more annoying was that they could only passively be beaten here. Unless they also went to the boat to have a water fight with Ming Gou, otherwise, other than that, they could only watch helplessly.

Watching Ming Gou attack him.

"Master Beile, if we continue to fight like this, it won't work. If we can't repel these bright gunboats, we will be trapped in Nanjing City. If we continue like this, let alone force the people in Nanjing to sacrifice the city.

I'm afraid we are all trapped here and can't even move!"

"Yes! Master Baylor, procrastinating like this is not an option!"

Listening to Turge and the others talking to each other, Abatai, who was in a irritable mood, asked in reply.

"Then what do you think we should do? Is it possible that we really go to the water to fight Mingguo? How many of us can swim?"

Abatai's rhetorical question made everyone dumbfounded. Not many of them knew how to swim. If they sank into the water...

"Master Beile, I'm afraid we can't just talk here. No one understands water warfare. Otherwise, we should find someone to ask!"

The so-called search for someone was Geng Zhongyu, the brother of King Geng Zhongming of Huaishun. Among the many people under Abatai, he was the only one who knew how to fight on the water, including the large armies traveling to and from the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, and the fleets were all crossing under his command.

River.

"Master Beile, in fact, what Hou Fangyu said today is not unreasonable. The dogs are in the water. If they are determined not to come ashore and just bombard us like this, we won't even have room to fight back. We can only watch.

Watching them beat us, if we want to beat them, we have to get on the boat."

Faced with Lord Baylor's question, Geng Zhongyu gave him a straightforward answer.

"Otherwise we can just stand here and watch them shell us."

What Geng Zhongyu said was direct. No one wants to stand there and be beaten without being able to fight back. That's what happens with technology. They also know their own shortcomings.

"But most of the officers and soldiers in the army don't know how to swim!"

It is true that many of them cannot swim or swim. How can such people have a water fight?

"It doesn't matter if you have water. Water fighting does not necessarily require you to be able to use water. To put it bluntly, if you fall into the water during a water fight, you will definitely be dead, even if you are wearing armor.

It has to sink. After all, water battles are fought on boats. As long as we have a boat, we can join the gang and jump on Ming Gou’s path to kill Ming Gou.”

Geng Zhongyu didn't know. More than ten years later, the Qing army sent the Eight Banners to the ship because of his views. Speaking of which, he was wearing such thick armor. Even if he could swim, he would still be a lump if he fell into the water.

, it suddenly became too heavy to be seen.

When he said this, everyone thought that this was not the case. It seems that whether there is water or not is not an important thing.

"Having said that, what if it's them who bombard us on the water?"

Geng Zhongyu smiled at Lord Baylor's question, and then said.

"Master Baylor, they really don't necessarily have cannons, you see..."

Geng Zhongyu pointed at the shooting stars in the sky and said.

"Master, you see, today I have been looking at the Ming army's gunboats. Their guns seem to be unable to shoot flatly, so if we want to defeat the enemy, I'm afraid we have to do it here."

Facing Master Baylor, Geng Zhongyu said proudly.

"If they have cannons that can hit us flatly, they probably won't use such cannons to bombard us. If my estimate is correct, their cannons seem to be powerful, but they must have
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