Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 988 Taiji Hurry Up!

The soldiers that Chaohuatai Ji Neng personally took away are naturally elite. There is no trouble at all in shooting armor-piercing arrows in the front line. If there is trouble, it is that the bowstring in rainy days is more effective than in sunny days It's worse, because the glued parts and even the bow itself will get wet.

Other than that, there were no other troubles, and the light rain would not affect their aiming and shooting, so the first wave of arrows shot out quickly.

Except for some deck crew members who cannot leave without authorization, the people on the ship are not afraid of such arrow rain. They all hide behind the solid and thick wooden boards. would be a threat to them.

Even including Zhang Wanbang and his fifty cavalry, since they had already fired four rounds of salvo (Duo's soldiers fired two more rounds during the period when they received the order and shot), in view of the shaking of the ship, this distance already There was no need to continue the salvo, so under Zhang Wanbang's order, he hid behind a bulwark nearly one person high to avoid the rain of arrows.

However, the number advantage of Duo's soldiers still played a role at this time. This wave of nearly covering three or four hundred armor-piercing arrows still caused some losses to the Ming army. The unlucky Zhang family Ding shot an arrow.

Because the opponent used armor-piercing arrows, two of the deck boatmen who were hit by the arrows were killed on the spot, and the remaining four were also seriously injured. Fortunately, the unlucky guy in the Zhang family's family was lucky. He was wearing cavalry armor, and that An arrow almost fell directly from the head and hit his shoulder-the shoulder armor blocked him, so only the left shoulder was injured on the back.

Zhang Wanbang, who is not far from him, has rich experience. He can tell at a glance that he has injured his shoulder blade. He usually won’t die, but at the lightest, he can’t use force for a hundred days. It's hard to eat this bowl of rice again.

Family members are important "assets" of generals, and it takes money and time to train them. Of course, Zhang Wanbang does not want him to end up "retired sadly", so he hastily ordered someone to take him to a safe inner cabin to take good care of him.

At this time, the boss of the boat did not know when he appeared from behind, already covered in armor, grabbed Zhang Wanbang's arm, and hurriedly said: "Zhang Shourong, the Tartars may still be able to shoot another round or two, maybe there are still Rocket, quickly follow me to the bridge for shelter!"

Zhang Wanbang waved his hands carelessly, and said, "Hey, it's okay, they can't do anything about me now... By the way, it's raining, and the wood is wet, so the rocket should be useless, right? Also, you are the boss of the ship, you Just go to the bridge command, old...uh, I'll just watch here, so they can't see it, hey!"

The boss of the boat couldn't help admiring him when he heard this, and thought to himself: This is really a general, no wonder the master regards him as a trusted confidant, and transferred him from Xuanda all the way to use him.

But the admiration is nothing, the boss of the boat still refused to leave, and went to pull him, saying in his mouth: "Shou Rong, don't blame the little talkative, although they can't reach us at this distance, but we can still reach them, little one This side is about to start shooting, you and the military men should go to rest first, and leave this side to us...or you can also go to the bridge to see how we deal with the Tartars."

"Oh?" Zhang Wanbang remembered that Jinghua's ship was a gunboat at this moment. He changed his mind, nodded and said, "Since it's going to be fired, I'd like to observe it. Well, I'll make room for you... …Brothers, let’s warm up in the cabin first, and wait to see Jinghua’s general show off his power!”

The "big general" he mentioned here refers to the cannon - Daming likes to refer to the heavy cannon as various "generals", even the quantitative unit, often not talking about a few cannons, but a few cannons or a few generals , Several generals like this.

After Zhang Wanbang and the others left, although the boss of the ship was wearing armor, he was obviously not as bold as Zhang Shourong, who liked to dance on graves. He also quickly returned to the bridge command room and began to direct the ship to turn and prepare to fire.

Jinghua's warships at sea have already begun to use double-deck cannons, but shallow-water ships on inland rivers obviously can't handle that kind of giant ship, so although this ship is already a big ship on the Liaohe waterway, the ship's There is only one No. [-] gun and four No. [-] guns, and they are all ordinary open deck guns.

In addition, the artillery fire these days cannot achieve the "central axis layout" of later generations, so unless it is surrounded, it cannot be done, and there is no need for all the artillery to fire at the same time.

What the boat boss meant was that since Zhang Shourong said he wanted to "observe and emulate", he was now representing Jinghua and waiting to be evaluated. In this case, he had to be aggressive in firing, so he chose to turn around and use the bow of the boat directly. The No. [-] gun, instead of the No. [-] gun on the sides of the hull.

At this time, a burst of rockets actually shot from the shore, causing a little panic—because at this moment, there were already gunners and co-gunners carrying cannonballs and gunpowder to the deck. The cannonballs were just solid iron balls. It doesn't matter, but if the gunpowder is ignited, it will be a big trouble.

Fortunately, as Zhang Wanbang said before, at this distance, and it was raining, even if the rocket was not extinguished during the flight, it would be extinguished immediately when it hit the hull, and there was no fire at all, and neither did Jinghua It was so unlucky that it was shot directly at the gunpowder, so this wave of rockets finally passed without any danger.

Of course, these gunpowders are actually double-layered airtight. The outside is a wooden box soaked in tung oil and painted with fireproof paint, and there is a layer of thick kraft paper inside. In fact, it will not be pierced and ignited by a light arrow rocket at such a distance. However, the panic of the boat crew and the gunner was only due to the subconscious fear of the flammable gunpowder.

Taking advantage of the distance and turning time, the gunners began to prepare.

On the other side, Chaohua Taiji stood on the bank with a gloomy face, gritted his teeth and looked at the Jinghua gunboat in the river, wondering what he was thinking.

A person beside him suddenly frowned and said, "Taiji, what do you think this ship wants to do? Why... don't they seem to be planning to leave?" This person knew from the clothes on his body that he was an aristocrat from the Huahua Department, and he was probably a junior. One of the chiefs.

As soon as Chaohua Taiji was reminded by him, he also pulled out of his thoughts, looked at the Jinghua gunboat that was turning, frowned and said: "They are pointing the bow at us? Why are they coming back to compete with us? ?”

Another general, who also seemed to be one of the little chiefs, said: "Whatever they are, how many people can fit in a ship? It's amazing, count him three or four hundred, if they want to come down to die, let's make it happen for them."

Chao Hua thought about it, and then snorted softly: "Then I want to see if 'that person' is really an old birthday star who eats arsenic—tired of living. Hmph, it's just relying on the advantage of firearms, how dare you pretend?" Heroic and fearless?"

But at this moment, the general who was the first to ask a question suddenly changed his face, and said in surprise: "No, there is a big general's cannon on the bow! Taiji, go!"
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