I was the emperor in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 864 The roar of artillery fire
In fact, the girl was not reconciled, so she threw herself into the river and died.

Immediately, he believed the young man's words, and followed him to row the oar vigorously.

Not far away, Jiang Hao and Chen Hong on the treasure ship were holding binoculars and looking around on the river.

Ever since Jiang Hao acquired this magical telescope, he hasn't put it down for a moment.

Along the way, he didn't marvel at the battleship, nor did he marvel at the excellent equipment of the fleet officers and soldiers.

Only such a small thing made him full of praise.

In fact, it is not that he is not interested in other things, but, whether it is a battleship or the weapons and equipment of the fleet officers and soldiers.

These things must always be returned after the war, even if they want to keep them, they can't keep them.

But this telescope was given to him by His Royal Highness, and it already belongs to him, so he can take it away.

With this thing, he will be able to find the enemy far away in the future, so as to take the lead in launching strategic deployment, which can be described as a supreme weapon to defeat the enemy.

Even in the case of unfavorable numbers, he can turn the tide of the battle by virtue of his first-mover advantage.

This thing will be of great help to his future work of suppressing bandits, how can he not be excited.

So he asked Chen Hong how to use this thing from the very beginning, and even how to maintain it, the protector asked clearly.

Since he took it, he has hardly stopped.

Suddenly, he found a small boat in the telescope, and a man and a woman rowing desperately on it.

Immediately afterwards, they discovered that behind the two of them, the boat that was chasing after them was about to catch up with them.

Jiang Hao immediately told Chen Hong about the situation, and Chen Hong followed his directions and soon discovered the situation.

"It seems that the two people in front are fleeing, and the people behind are chasing."

Jiang Hao immediately said,

"That's right, that's how it should be!"

"My lord, the bandits in the water stronghold are not all bandits, but many of them were forcibly captured by them.

It is precisely because of this that people often escape from the water village.

But the river is too big, and they can only escape from the river, but the big boats are under the control of pirates, so how can the small boats run faster than the big boats.

So very few people can escape successfully.

In order to prevent people from continuing to escape, they treated the escaped people extremely cruelly. "

"My lord, save them, if they are caught up by someone behind, maybe they will kill them on the spot!"

Chen Hong hesitated for a moment.

At such a distance, bows and arrows are designated not to work.

If you want to save people, you have to use cannons, but the sound of the cannons is like sending a signal to the water village.

In case they scattered and fled, wouldn't it be a waste of time for me and others to come this time.

However, in front of Jiang Hao, in front of so many military households and fishermen, he really couldn't say what to say if he refused.

It was too late to ask Zhu Zhanji for instructions.

He immediately ordered his men to be humane,
"Directly ahead, 400 meters, prepare for three quick shots."

The orderly, repeated his order aloud.

"Directly ahead, 400 meters..."

After finishing speaking, Chen Hong specially added,
"Pay attention to Lao Tzu, don't hit the small boat in front. Aim at the big boat behind and hit Lao Tzu hard!"

The gunners on board were all veterans who had traveled to the West with Zheng He several times.

The technique is very skillful, and the wind and waves on the river are much smaller than those on the sea.

With such a large ship sailing on it, it is no different from land.

This kind of experienced old gunner can still maintain a one-third hit rate on extremely shaky seas.

On the smooth river surface, not to mention the eighth or nine floors, there are always seventy to eighty percent.

Only a loud bang was heard.

The three shells drew a graceful curve in mid-air.

It roared and smashed towards the ship not far away.

The water pirate ship not far away also heard the rumbling cannon.

However, heavy weapons such as artillery are rarely used in water battles on the river.

So they didn't even think about what kind of noise it was.

The water pirate who said the ship was the god of the river earlier shouted in horror again,

"That's right, it must be that the river god master is angry, what can make such a sound except the river god."

The little leader's expression changed suddenly, and he was about to teach this chaotic soldier a lesson, when he suddenly heard the people behind him yelling in horror, pointing at the three black spots that were getting closer and closer in the sky,
"My God, what is that!"

"It's not good, it's the shells, everyone, jump quickly..."

In the end, someone still recognized this thing.

Unfortunately, he understood it too late.

Only boom, boom, boom, three consecutive loud noises exploded in their ears.

One of them fell into the water, causing a huge splash several feet high.

Of the remaining two, one hit the stern of the ship, smashing it to pieces.

And the other one happened to fall in the middle of the clothes.

It happened to hit an unlucky egg!
The shells in this era are all solid iron balls or shot balls. A single shell weighs thirty to fifty catties, and the light one weighs more than ten catties.

After being hit by a cannon for a distance of several hundred meters, the initial kinetic energy is added to the acceleration of gravity of the iron ball itself.

The impact it caused was extremely terrifying.

Not to mention the mere human body, the solid hull, and even the city wall made of boulders cannot withstand the bombardment of this thing.

That unlucky guy had his entire upper body smashed on the spot, but the power of the cannonball didn't decrease much, and it fell straight on the board of the ship, breaking the whole boat lazily.

In an instant, the middle of the boat suddenly sank, and both ends turned up very quickly.

The people in the middle were all thrown directly into the water, while the people at the two ends were directly thrown into the air by the huge impact.

Those who fell back into the water, even if they were not stunned by the loud noise just now, would be dazed by the water when they fell.

There were a dozen or so of them on this boat, and if five or six of them survived in the end, it was already God's blessing.

Three salvos were fired, two shots hit, and the other shot was only a hair's breadth away. If it wasn't for the fact that their boat was too small, it is estimated that the last shot could actually hit a steady hit.

Seeing that it was only one round of shelling, all the people on a ship were reimbursed.

Jiang Hao couldn't help shouting loudly,

"Well done, General Chen, your subordinates are really amazing.

With the Heavenly Soldiers in hand, not to mention leveling the mere river, even if it sweeps the overseas countries, it will be invincible! "

A look of pride appeared on Chen Hong's face, and he couldn't help but give a thumbs up to the artilleryman just now.

heart says,

"His grandma, I haven't seen you so accurate on weekdays. Today is really embarrassing to me. I hit two out of three rounds, and the boat is still such a small boat. Give them extra meals at night, and each of them will add three drumstick……"

(End of this chapter)