The last three kingdoms

Chapter 1303 Gunpowder Crossbow

The arrows of the gunpowder crossbow are still equipped with arrowheads. This kind of arrow is relatively short and flat with barbs. The main purpose is not to hurt people but to fix the gunpowder crossbow. After the target, it can be nailed into the target, and then the fuse of the gunpowder burns out, and the gunpowder explodes.

Since the gunpowder loading capacity of the gunpowder crossbow is three or four times that of ordinary bamboo grenades, its power is much greater than that of bamboo grenades. If a gunpowder crossbow can hit the side of an enemy ship, it is enough to blow a big hole in the side of the ship. Come, sink a warship with ease.

In the past, the Han army also tried to use catapults to launch gunpowder shells on warships, but the hit rate of this method was low. If it was used in landing operations, it would work well. Catapults can carry out indiscriminate attacks on shore targets, but if it is In the case of water battles, the effect is not satisfactory.After all, the target of the opponent's warship is relatively small. If you want to hit the opponent with a trebuchet on the wide river, the probability is very small, not even one-tenth.

So this time, Liu Yin doesn't have to worry about building a navy and warships, just leave it to Wang Jun.However, Liu Yin took great pains in the use of firearms. The most powerful weapon on the warship is the cannon, which has a long range and is powerful enough. If Liu Yin can manufacture the Hongyi cannon similar to that used by the British Empire, Not to mention defeating the state of Wu, even sweeping the world is no problem.

But making cannons is a technical job, and it is indeed not easy to cast cannons under the current conditions, Liu Yin can only settle for the next best thing.

The accuracy of the catapult is not good. If it is equipped on a warship on a large scale, the efficiency will be very low. Just imagine that one of ten shots or even ten shots will miss. What is the meaning of such an attack effect?
Among the heavy weapons, only the bed crossbow has a high hit rate, and Liu Yin can only think of a way on the bed crossbow. The bamboo tube grenade in the past gave Liu Yin a lot of inspiration.The gunpowder crossbow designed by him this time also uses long, straight and moderately thick bamboo as raw material. After drying, the tip of the bamboo is filled with gunpowder three times that of the bamboo tube grenade, and after sealing, an arrowhead is assembled on the tip.

The bed crossbow it uses is also specially made, much larger than ordinary bed crossbows, and at least four soldiers with strong arms, long arms and strong physical strength are required to pull it open. Projected to a distance of at least one hundred paces away.

In water battles, the speed of the ship is fast. If there is not enough distance to carry out a long-range attack, the opponent's warship will rush up quickly, forming a close combat, so that the gunpowder weapon will lose its due effect.

Liu Yin provided the design drawings, and all other things were handed over to Gunpowder Workshop.This batch of gunpowder crossbows was also produced in Jiangzhou. After the production was completed, they were handed over to the navy for assembly.

Due to their large size, the gunpowder crossbows naturally occupy a large area. Except for large warships, small and medium-sized warships really cannot be equipped with them. Therefore, these gunpowder crossbows are equipped on the largest naval ships. Each building boat can be equipped with two gunpowder crossbows on the bow, and five gunpowder crossbows on the left and right sides of the building boat, that is, one building boat can be equipped with twelve gunpowder crossbows. It can attack in all directions at [-] degrees.

In this water battle, the light warships were naturally the first to enter the battle. Through the contact battle, Wang Jun also saw the gap between the Han army's navy and the Eastern Wu's navy.If the same Mengchong battleship is used, the combat power of the Han army navy is obviously inferior to the Soochow navy. This is inseparable from the training level and actual combat experience of both sides. The Han army navy wants to surpass the Soochow navy in terms of combat power. , can never be done overnight, nor can it be resolved through a few battles.

However, Wang Jun was full of confidence in the building ships equipped with gunpowder crossbows. He had every reason to believe that with these gunpowder crossbows, the Han army could easily gain an overwhelming advantage.

As soon as the red flag of the Han army was unfurled, the formation of the fleet changed immediately. The Mengchong fleet that was rushing to the front quickly retreated to the rear of the two sides at this moment, and the Louchuan fleet that was originally in the rear was aggressively pressing on.

Yuan Jian was triumphant at the moment. In his eyes, the sailors of the Han army were just a group of recruits. Whether it was the control of warships or the use of tactics, they were still very naive. It was impossible for them to be the opponents of the Dongwu navy. Can easily crush them.

Seeing the Mengchong fleet of the Han army retreating in embarrassment, a trace of mockery appeared on Yuan Jian's face. He wanted to fight Lao Tzu, and practice for another three to five years.

After the Mengchong fleet of the Han army retreated, the Louchuan fleet rushed up.Compared with the tall and mighty building boat, the narrow and low gumengchong warship is like a three-year-old child bumping into a ten-foot-tall giant man, and its size is not an order of magnitude at all.

However, Yuan Jian was still sneering. The Han sent Mengchong to fight against them, so they wanted to use the big boats to bully the small. This is simply a joke.Although the Louchuan is huge, it also has considerable weaknesses, that is, its slow speed and poor maneuverability. In Yuan Jian's view, these big guys have no other skills except rampage, Meng Chong Battleships can completely rely on the characteristics of maneuverability, flexibility and speed to attack in a roundabout way. If they are profitable, they will advance, and if they are unfavorable, they will retreat. They can advance and retreat freely on the river, and these large warships cannot do anything to them at all.

Seeing more than a dozen building ships of the Han army rushing up in a line formation, Yuan Jian chuckled, determined to make fun of them, and ordered the Mengchong fleet of the Wu army to go forward and pass through the middle of the building ships of the Han army. In the past, after an attack, they would pass through the rear wing of the Han army's fleet and disembowel them.

Yuan Jian still has a lot of confidence in this style of play. Although the Han army's building ships are so powerful, the distance between the building ships is too far, and there are no small warships in the middle to protect them, so the Wu army's warships It's easy to go around and intersperse, and disrupt the Han army's ship formation.

From Yuan Jian's point of view, the formation of the Han army's water army has no rules at all. A group of landlubbers dare to come here to fight with axes. If they don't teach them a good lesson, I really don't know how many eyes Ma Wang has.

"Rush!" Yuan Jian waved his command flag, and dozens of Mengchong warships rushed towards the Han army's building fleet like arrows off the string.

The building boats of the Han army still maintained an unhurried speed and sailed smoothly on the river.

(End of this chapter)