I was the emperor in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 867 Dying struggle?

Over the past few years, the original fishing village has less than half of its population.

Those are all fresh lives, they died in humiliation like this, those who are alive can still have a place to vent, but those who have died, who can tell their hatred.

Get off the speedboat, and move towards the shore smoothly and steadily at an extremely fast speed.

The so-called speedboat is actually a flat-bottomed speedboat with a pointed tip.

This kind of boat can only obtain forward kinetic energy by paddling with oars.

Because it is used as a spare boat for lifesaving, it is not too big in order to be hoisted, and each boat can hold at most ten people.

There is no more place to stand.

The oars can be used by single or double oars, four pairs, eight oars, if rowed at full speed, the speed is not at all slower than a sailboat under the wind.

This kind of ship can't sail far, but it is two ships at sea, and it is used as a sharp weapon for surprise attack or escape during close combat.

The overall design concept and function are actually similar to the function of small lifeboats on large ships in later generations.

This kind of boat can run as fast as you can paddle.

The fog on the river has not completely dissipated at this time, and the visibility is at most 400 meters.

They had been lowered into the water very early, so the enemies on the shore didn't even notice that they were actually approaching slowly and quickly from the other side.

Since the first cannon shot earlier.

In fact, the whole water village is already in chaos.

Although few people have seen things like cannons with their own eyes, they have heard of many things.

But bandits are bandits after all, and they are absolutely inferior to well-trained officers and soldiers in terms of organization.

A quarter of an hour has passed since the bombardment began until the ship sailed a distance that could be seen with the naked eye.

But for such a long time, the total number of bandits who actually went into the water to escape or prepare to fight was less than a quarter.

Just when the leader of the bandits yelled loudly, telling everyone to act as soon as possible.

There was another loud cannon blast in the distance.

Immediately afterwards, there were black spots all over the sky, from far to near, like a violent storm, pouring fiercely into this water village with a radius of only 300 meters.

In an instant, the outer fence was broken in half.

I don't know how many times the boat that was about to leave the gate of the village was overturned.

And more than half of the dozens of houses in the water village were destroyed by the earthquake.

This was only the result of one round of shelling.

The entire water village has been completely paralyzed.

In fact, Chen Hong and the others were afraid that too many shellings would injure too many innocent civilians. Otherwise, it wouldn't take long to plow this place thoroughly.

You know, the load capacity of a ship is very impressive, and several thousand or even tens of thousands of catties of gunpowder can be easily loaded.

If the weight of the cannon is taken into account and converted into the carrying capacity of the infantry, the firepower of one of their ships would require at least three to 5000 infantry to handle it.

It can be said that if the firepower of a ship is really fully fired, it is equivalent to the sum of all the firepower of an artillery regiment and may even be much higher.

An artillery regiment can easily blow a county with a population of [-] to [-] to the ground, but now a battleship is completely enough.

From this, it can be seen how terrifying the power of the battleship is to people on land.

Back then, when the Japanese invaded and injured, there were records saying that once the main gun of a battleship went down, a regiment of the national army would be reimbursed. This is not an exaggeration, but a real existence.

Judging from the effects that a wooden warship that is only four to fifty meters long and ten meters wide can achieve, it is understandable that a battleship with a displacement of 50 to [-] tons can have such terrifying combat effectiveness.

After a round of shelling, the people in the entire water village were completely stunned and frightened.

There were people running for their lives, yelling and terrified.

Seeing that the kingdom he had worked so hard to build fell apart in such an instant.

The leader was almost mad.

He suddenly drew out his treasured sword, and cut several times in succession, killing several deserters who were about to flee.

roared angrily,
"Stay safe for me, all of us add up, there are nearly 1000 people, even if their artillery fire is sharp, so what, there are too many ants and they can kill elephants.

Get off the boat for me, attack with fire, and burn that guy for me! "

Fire attack is the most effective method for battleships in this era.

When Zheng He was dealing with the largest pirate group in Nanyang, he had suffered in front of Huo Gong.

Later, he also used the fire attack to completely defeat the mighty Chen Yizu.

And because very few people on the river can use cannons, rockets, fire boats and other methods have become one of the must-kill skills of every family.

Although their water fortress can only be regarded as a mid-level among the many water fortresses, they have fought many large and small water battles. The reason why they can still live well now is because they play pretty well.

And the leader has not escaped until now, precisely because he still has this trick to turn defeat into victory, which is useless.

To escape before that, he would not be willing to say anything.

In the round of shelling just now, the fences and houses were the most damaged, and the casualties were not too many.

If they can organize quickly and launch a frenzied counterattack, they may be able to fight.

This leader is obviously quite intimidating. After killing several deserters in a row, he barely suppressed the situation.

All the water pirates, before they even had time to take their weapons, jumped onto the boat, preparing for a final decisive battle with the behemoth outside.

At this time, beside the leader, a man with the appearance of a dog-headed military division said to him,
"Boss, this ship is obviously a regular fleet of the imperial court, and I don't know why they appeared here today and launched an attack on us.

I figured there must be something weird about it. "

For a while, the big leader couldn't understand what he meant by these words.

Frowning,
"What do you want to say? In the current situation, who cares about what they are here for?"

The military master squinted his eyes with an inscrutable look, shaking the folding fan in his hand and said,
"If my expectations are correct, this ship should be the one that went down the river years ago!
Chief, do you still remember who was on that boat. "

The leader finally reacted at this time, his eyes lit up and he said,
"You mean, this ship is the car of His Highness the Crown Prince!"

But he immediately said with a bitter face,
"But His Royal Highness, why do you make things difficult for our water village? We don't seem to offend them either!"

(End of this chapter)