Kai Fu Han

Chapter 557
"What a talent!" Several people in the audience exclaimed in unison.

Bearings, gears, etc. all come from Xinghan League, and knowledge such as centrifugal force and parabolas must also come from Xinghan League.

Needless to say, the birth of the "rotary stone-making cart" is inseparable from Li Gang and Xu Han.

"There are even more powerful ones." Zhao Nan said.

Several people stopped the discussion and waited for Zhao Nan to continue.

"Nanzhao invented the 'rotary stone cart'. The wooden wheel is detachable and the base can be adjusted at ninety degrees. After shooting a wooden wheel, lay the base flat, remove the old wooden wheel, and install Wooden wheel, and then put the base upright, and then you can continue to charge and launch." Zhao Nan said while gesticulating.

"Awesome... This is equivalent to changing ammunition quickly, or twenty ammunition at a time." Zhao Liang admired.

It can be imagined that this replacement will definitely not take long, no more than ten breaths, and the rate of fire of the Xinghan League's artillery is almost the same.

But the artillery can only fire one shell at a time, and the rotating stone car can fire twenty.

"I can't imagine how terrifying it would be if this boulder cart was loaded with grenades, Molotov cocktails, or other trigger bombs." Ye Chuan was terrified,

Fortunately, the last time I blocked the river mouth, this kind of weapon had not been developed, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous.

"It's no wonder Nanzhao dared to fight against us at sea this time. I guess those warships are all equipped with this new type of 'rotating stone cart'." Zhao Liang guessed.

"It's true." Zhao Nan confirmed Gao Yuan's guess.

"Fortunately, the range of this weapon is only two hundred steps, and we still have a chance." In the end, it was Gao Yuan who looked far and was the first to discover the flaws of this weapon.

"Do you want to report to the alliance?" Zhao Nan asked.

"The report must be reported, but we still have to continue to do what we should do, without waiting for the next order from the League Department."

The general is outside, leading more than 200 warships, how can he be indecisive?

"If we go there tomorrow, the cargo ship can't follow us." Ye Chuan suggested.

It's past midnight, and there's definitely nothing we can do today.

"Indeed, the cargo ship used to be unable to exert force and its speed was still slow." Gao Yuan agreed.

Suddenly there were only 38 ships left that could participate in the battle, of which 26 were small boats.

……

On May [-]th, the sky was slightly bright, and the information had been sent back to Penglai, but there was no reply.

Gao Yuan did not wait, and directly led the two fleets to the Qiantang River estuary again. The two hundred cargo ships continued to retreat eastward for more than ten miles, far away from the estuary that might become a station.

A walking boat lowered its sails, and the crew stepped on the pedals hard, and the paddles on both sides turned rapidly.

This is the newly renovated gondola speedboat of Xinghan League.

Due to the small size of the ship, even if it is powered by human power, the speed of the ship can easily exceed that of a mountain-class battleship powered by a steam engine.

The clippers broke away from the team and approached the Nanzhao ship formation.

This ship was there for negotiation, and as usual, it was a try to see if there was any chance of the enemy surrendering without a fight.

It is a pity that the generals of the Nanzhao Navy guarding the seaport were very tough and did not give the Han Alliance navy a chance.

When the walking boat was a hundred steps closer to the ship formation, dozens of stone bullets flew out from the boat formation. The helmsman of the walking boat quickly swung the stern rudder and narrowly avoided most of the stone bullets.

Unfortunately, the stone bullets were too dense. In the end, three stone bullets hit the walking boat, and one stone bullet directly hit a soldier.

The soldier didn't even say a word before his head was hit so hard that his head was bleeding and he fell to the ground without breathing.

"Evacuate!" the captain of the barge shouted.

The stern rudder deflection angle was increased to the limit, and the boat drew a very small arc on the sea, turned around and quickly returned to the way it came, leaving the second wave of stone bombs behind.

Biubiu!The stone bullets hit the sea, splashing up water columns ten feet high, and the boat "speeded" in front of the water columns, creating a very exciting scene.

If the barge being "chased" and smashed in front was not the Xinghan League's ship, perhaps Gao Yuan and others could still appreciate this scene, but now they only feel worried.

The helmsman of the boat was very experienced. According to the training instructions for dodging artillery, the boat rowed in an irregular arc and moved forward in a zigzag pattern. Fortunately, it avoided all the subsequent stone bullets.

In the end, the Nanzhao warships at the mouth of the Qiantang River did not chase them out. They still stood in formation, waiting for the Xinghan Alliance ships to come forward and collide.

"He actually hurt our people, let's fire." Ye Chuan said angrily. He didn't know yet that the sailor who was hit by the stone bullet was already dead.

"No, I think Nan Zhao's warship did not intend to hurt our people. In fact, if we had not avoided it just now, we might not have hit it." Zhao Liang retorted.

"Why do you say that?" Ye Chuan was a little angry. This barge belonged to the Second Fleet. Zhao Liang's words made people feel uncomfortable.

"There must be more than just these stone-firing chariots in the Nan Zhao fleet. The other stone-firing chariots that were ready to go did not fire, which shows that there is actually talk of this naval battle." Zhao Liang guessed.

"What's the point of not letting the envoy pass when you want to talk?" Ye Chuan also couldn't figure it out.

"Just showing off muscles." Zhao Liang replied.

There is definitely a big difference between those who have no power to resist and those who have the power to resist.

"Since this is the case, how can we not be courteous and reciprocal." Gao Yuan interjected, wondering if he believed this guess, which made Ye Chuan even more angry.

All the mountain-class and state-class warships in the two fleets were gathered together, and the fleets formed a horizontal array and slowly moved towards the Nanzhao ship formation at the outlet of the sea.

It was close to a distance of about two miles. From this distance, the enemy on the opposite ship was as high as the palm of your hand.

Gao Yuan, with his warrior physique, could clearly see that those Nan Zhao navy were very nervous.

"Launch!" Ye Chuan ordered.

The artillery on one side of the battleship was fired at the same time, hitting all the first row of ships guarding the river mouth. More than half of the ships had a big hole blasted under the plywood, and began to gurgling with water.

"emission!"

"emission!"

...

The fleet kept firing outside the range of the rotating stone-launching vehicles, and Nan Zhao ships were constantly bombarded and sunk.

"Fortunately, the outlet to the sea is deep and wide enough, otherwise it is really possible that their sunken ship would block the channel." Zhao Liang said to Ye Chuan.

"emission!"

What answered him was Ye Chuan's order.

Suddenly, two plumes of smoke suddenly rose from the north and south seas on both sides of the station.

"what's the situation?"

After Gao Yuan saw it, he immediately asked loudly to the soldiers on the watchtower.

The soldier quickly swung the binoculars in his hand, and after a few breaths, he shouted loudly to several senior officials:

"It's Nan Zhao's fleet. There are a large fleet in the north and south, no less than the ships at the seaport. Our reconnaissance ship is escaping this way."

"We are being flanked." Zhao Liang said in shock.

"Nan Zhao has been prepared for a long time and is determined to defend!" Gao Yuan sighed.

Everyone understood, no wonder the enemy who just stepped forward was not focused on fire. It turned out that the naval general of Nan Zhao wanted to "defend", rather than "fight to the death" with the Xinghan Alliance.

(End of this chapter)