Hongwu Daming: Why hasn't my son rebelled?

Chapter 93 This is Black Technology!

On the surface of the turbulent sea, one after another sea boats are riding the wind and waves.

General Zha Yihu, who was wearing willow-leaf armor, was yelling for the archers to get ready. Looking at the approaching Daming Fleet in the distance, Zha Yihu's palms couldn't help sweating.

Just like most of the generals of the Yuan army who were scared by the Ming army, they would tremble in their calves when they saw the Ming army.

However, he knew that this was a naval battle, not a land battle that the Ming army was good at, or a water battle. Whether it was weapons and equipment or the quality of the sailors, he must have an advantage on his side. It was as if courage had come.

"Archers ready! Gunners ready!"

The flag bearer began to wave the flag, and then he heard shouts from the sea ships.

"Archers prepare—!"

"Gunner aiming—!"

Zha Yihu stretched out his hand and grasped the wooden railing on the upper ship. The Daming Fu ship in front of him was getting closer and closer, and would soon enter the shooting range. He thought that the two armies would be like the naval battles they had fought before, bow to bow. Charge each other, then shoot a salvo of bows and arrows, a round of artillery shelling, followed by ramming ships and fighting gangs.

But the Ming army fleet in front of them suddenly separated from the formation, and then saw the outer ships, changing the direction of travel, of course, not forming a long snake formation.

Zhu Qi also wanted to use the "T-shaped" battle line bombardment tactics, but first of all, the craftsmanship of the cannon was not enough to support the range required for the "T-shaped" tactics, because the essence of the "T-shaped" battle line bombardment war book, It is to widen the distance and move in a zigzag pattern so that the left and right sides of the ship can alternately shell repeatedly. If there are still enemies who are not dead, then the battle will be carried out at this time.

In addition, the maneuverability of the ship is not enough to support the implementation of this tactic. Whether it is Fuchuan or Guangzhou Ship, the steering is too cumbersome. After all, one of the shortcomings of hard sailing ships is their dexterity in the ocean environment. Seriously inadequate.

At least the Karak four-masted sailing ship that created the age of great navigation in the [-]th century, or the further Galen sailing ship, must be developed to have enough dexterity and maneuverability to support the "T-shaped" tactic.

However, with the existence of turtle ships, it doesn’t really matter whether there are T-shaped tactics. Anyway, according to the tactical understanding of today’s naval warfare, turtle ships are really black technology 100 years ahead of the times.

In just one household, ten medium-sized ships rushed out of the Ming army fleet at an extremely fast speed, but the styles of these ten medium-sized ships were very strange. They looked like a flat box, with Like a centipede, it stretched out two rows of oars and was paddling over at an extremely fast speed.

Zha Yihu's eyesight is already very good, but when he saw these things at first, Zha Yihu was still confused, wondering if he had misread, this ship didn't even have a deck?
After the turtle boat approached, Zha Yihu really confirmed that it was really a box boat with an iron sheet on the outside, which looked like a turtle with a shrunken head.

Liu Yi on the Beiyuan flagship in the distance naturally also noticed the situation here. After seeing the shape of the turtle boat, he was a little confused for a while, and then he laughed loudly:
"What does the Great Ming Liao King mean? Why did he send ten turtles here? His fleet is still circling around. Doesn't it mean he doesn't want to fight our army?"

The military eyeball on the side rolled and said with a smile:

"My lord, it must be that King Liao of the Ming Dynasty saw that he couldn't beat our huge fleet and couldn't run very far, so he simply pulled these ten turtle ships to serve as the rear! My lord, don't hesitate to attack directly, we will take it all in one fell swoop. If these ten turtle-headed turtle boats go to catch up with the Great Ming Liao King, it will be a matter of success or failure!"

Liu Yi also patted his belly happily, and then ordered the whole army to attack!

As a vanguard general, Zha Yihu naturally also saw Lord Pingzhang's command flag. Although he felt strange and vaguely had a bad premonition, he still cleared out the slightest premonition in his mind. For the Beiyuan Marine Division, it is extremely beneficial, and logically there are no variables.

This is a naval battle, not a land battle, and there can be ambushes. As the saying goes, whoever has the most ships in a naval battle is the one who has the best ships!No need to look at it, the Great Ming Navy is no match for the Great Yuan Navy.

Zha Yihu wanted to order the firing, but judging by the speed at which the ten turtle ships approached, it was unheard of. The artillery would definitely miss it, and there were only a few guns on the bow, so don't waste shells and Save your strength for later to fight the flagship of King Liao of Ming Dynasty.

So they let people shoot arrows immediately. Of course, in this weather, the arrows are all fire-igniting arrows. Although sea ships will do a lot of fire prevention treatment, it is very difficult to ignite them, but if they can ignite the sails... um, the opponents The boat seems to have no sails? !

Forget it, no matter, in short, shoot the arrow first, what if you can set the opponent's hull on fire?
Soon, on the ten large ships on Zha Yihu's side, a cloud of rockets shot towards the ten turtle ships.

Naturally, it is impossible to set fire to a turtle boat. Turtle boats do not have sails, and the battle is all about approaching the opponent with oars. In addition, the turtle boat is the same as other sea boats. When it is built in the dock, it is Sufficient fire prevention measures have been taken, and in addition, a layer of iron sheet is pasted on the outside of the turtle boat. Although the iron sheet is extremely easy to be rusted, it is necessary to replace the layer after rust occurs. To put it bluntly, it is just for money In exchange for combat power.

If you can set this thing on fire, the thing that shoots out is probably not a rocket, but a high-temperature furnace, right?

Naturally, it is impossible to ignite. A large number of rockets shot at the "turtle shell" of the turtle ship, without even a flame. Not only that, but also the defense of the turtle ship No way.

But in just a moment of shooting arrows, these turtle boats have already rowed to the side of the big ship.

Zha Yihu frowned, he didn't expect these ships to be so powerful, but it doesn't matter, sea battles are only for fire prevention, they just hit the ship's equipment, and his side is full of big ships, and he knocked them over!

"Order, strike with the bow! Prepare to jump to fight!"

The order was conveyed quickly, Zha Yihu's side of the dozen or so big boats also advanced at full speed by the wind, seeing the turtle boat getting closer, and the huge collision angle at the front of the turtle boat also made Zha Yihu Huo felt his heart congeal.

This collision angle won't sink your own ship, right?It shouldn't be possible, right?

But just thinking like this, there was a loud noise, and then the boat that Zha Yihu was sitting on shook violently, as if the whole boat had hit a hill!
Logically speaking, in naval battles, big ships must have an advantage, but for a flat-bottomed boat with a low center of gravity and a special ramming angle like a turtle boat, it is another matter. It is a sharp-bottomed boat, although it also has a ramming angle, but the ship is so huge that the ramming angle cannot hit the turtle boat at all.

And the ramming angle of the turtle boat just happened to be able to hit the bottom of the curved bow of the sharp-bottomed boat. Good guy, the speed of the turtle boat was very fast under the sailors' paddling. , and hit the bottom of the bow of the Yuan army's large ship straight at the impact angle, the destructive power is naturally needless to mention.

In an instant, all kinds of wooden debris were rampaging, and the turbulent sea water was also poured into it.

One of the large ships was seriously injured, and even began to sink directly by the bow.

Fortunately, in recent years, the watertight cabin technology of Zhongyuan Shipbuilding has been very mature. Even if a section of the cabin is flooded, as long as the next section of the cabin is sealed, the ship will not be completely silent, and it will still be able to fight.

But if it's just that, this turtle ship is not considered a black technology.

There are many movable small holes on the turtle ship. As long as these small holes are opened inside, weapons can be protruded, such as long guns, firecrackers, artillery, etc., and of course - Molotov cocktails!

This is naturally an epoch-making thing, this distilled spirit is so skilled, Zhu Qi won't give you the whole Molotov cocktail?That's really the face of sorry for the traverser!

As for how to do the incendiary bottle, it is even simpler. Make a bottle, then fill it with flammable high-concentration alcohol, put it in a burn-resistant igniter cloth, stuff it into the bottle, seal the bottle mouth, and throw it out directly. It's over.

Soon among the turtle boats that crashed into the big ships of the Yuan army, they saw burning bottles smashed out one by one. With the sound of bang bang bang, from the cabins of those big ships, flames burst into the sky.

The frame materials of these sea-going ships have indeed taken various fire prevention measures, but many of the crew's belongings, temperament, clothes, gunpowder, etc. in the cabin are all flammable and explosive items, plus their own Alcohol is arranged, no matter how difficult it is for you to catch fire, you can still burn for a while, as long as you burn it long enough, the stone can be burned for you, let alone a ship?

Zha Yihu stood on the deck, listening to the sound of shouting from below his ship, and then someone came over and shouted:

"The general is bad! Our ship is on fire!"

"what?!"

Zha Yihu never expected that he did not set the opponent on fire, but the other party set himself on fire instead, but Zha Yihu is indeed a veteran of naval warfare, and he immediately ordered to make a hole wherever it caught fire, and then Close the cabin immediately.

As long as there is seawater pouring in, this ship is not easy to be ignited. Anyway, with the airtight cabin technology, even if the bottom of the lower ship is completely filled with water, as long as the middle and upper decks are fine, you can still fight!

While ordering like this, trying to control the fire as quickly as possible, they began to organize a gang fight while setting up a household.

Because he saw that many of the turtle boats that had been pierced by him were already planning to change direction. This could not make them run away. They don’t have any sails, so they don’t think about ocean voyages at all. They are born for naval battles from beginning to end. During short-term battles, whether it is speed or maneuverability, they are all sailing ships now. No, even if they are pushed back For two hundred years, no sailing ship can match it!

Of course, after the advent of the Galen ship, the range and accuracy of the artillery are getting higher and higher. This type of turtle ship, which focuses on close combat, is definitely not practical, because it was sunk by salvos before it got close. Certainly not.

But at least for now, the turtle ship is invincible on the battlefield!
Zha Yihu also knew the seriousness of the situation, and he had to paralyze the combat power of these turtle ships as soon as possible. Otherwise, these turtle ships would rely on their own flexibility to collide again and set fire everywhere like before. Can't stop doing this.

Soon there were soldiers from the Northern Yuan Dynasty who tried to jump to the gang to seize the ship, but other people’s ships still had decks. This is a turtle ship with sails. The deck has nothing, just an iron shell as a roof, just as alive A coffin at sea.

But this coffin is not for the Ming army, but for the Beiyuan Navy!

I saw those Beiyuan soldiers jumping on the turtle boat, and eagerly began to look for the passage to enter the interior, but the interior passages were locked from the inside, it was impossible for them to enter, relying on the knives and guns in their hands to hack It is absolutely impossible to destroy the defense of the turtle ship covered with iron.

It was really like jumping on a tortoise shell, and I lost my temper at all.

And this time was when the Ming army was in full swing. Before the Yuan soldiers could react, they saw the top of the turtle boat under their feet, and many small holes opened at once, followed by long spears, and from the small holes It was thrust out suddenly, and some people who responded quickly and were lucky might be fine, but most of the Beiyuan soldiers were pierced through the soles of their feet in an instant.

There was a huge pain from the pierced soles of the feet, making it impossible for these Beiyuan soldiers to stand firm. Those who jumped into the sea on the edge of the turtle boat might still have a chance of survival. As for those in the middle Those who didn't jump into the sea, or those who fell directly on the turtle boat, were pierced by the spear that came out of the bottom in the next second.

All of a sudden, the ten turtle boats were like meat grinders. Beiyuan soldiers jumped off one by one, and were stabbed to death in an instant. Two batches came in a row, and the rest didn't dare to jump at all.

It's a fart, it's okay to be hacked to death by the enemy, this kind of death, you don't even know what the enemy looks like, you are simply going to die!
They don't jump ship, it doesn't mean that Turtle Ship has nothing to do with them.

And the next tactics of these turtle boats are not at all what Zha Yihu thought, and they will distance themselves and hit again.

This is of course possible, but after all, the turtle boat is not powered by steam, but by manpower. After finally bumping into the big ship, why bother to pull away and then charge again?

If you don't want to come up with eighteen ways to sink your big ship, then you will underestimate the black technology of Turtle Ship.

After setting fire, the turtle boat quickly pulled away from the big ship again, but it was not to collide again, but in such a state that it was almost close to each other, black muzzles protruded from the side of the turtle boat. , facing the unsuspecting part of the big ship approaching the bottom.

When Zha Yihu saw the protruding muzzles, his face turned green.

There is only one thought in his mind, this time - he is dead!

【boom--! 】

【boom--! 】

【boom--! 】

【boom--! 】

A series of roaring fire snakes resounded across the Bohai Sea among the warships gathered together!
(End of this chapter)