I was the emperor in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 958 Rampage
After defeating them, no one on the river would dare to confront them head-on.

It is almost impossible to encounter such a scene in a battle.

The third is that the prince and others have already decided to let Jiang Hao reorganize Yizhen Qianhu.

As for the Yizhen Qianhu House, if it wants to stand firm and truly get the approval of the court, it must have some credit.

Chen Hong admired Jiang Hao quite a bit, so he had to give him some capital to make meritorious deeds. If he cleaned up all the surface of the river with one brain, he would let others do more meritorious deeds in the future.

The last and most important thing is that the main duty of myself and others is to protect the safety of the crown prince. In fact, rashly dispatching to clear up the water robbers is already disobeying orders.

Although, I am doing a good deed, and it has also passed the authorization of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

But if it is really caught by someone with a heart, it will be a more troublesome thing.

So facing this possible last stop, Chen Hong didn't want to use the old, conservative style of play.

It is a safe way to bombard the opponent with artillery first, and then send the boat to harvest.

He wanted to be more aggressive and indulgent, to make this battle a hearty victory for himself and all the officers and men on the ship to remember for a lifetime.

Chen Hong raised his hand passionately to block the adjutant's proposal.

Loudly said to everyone,

"Send the order to raise the mainsail, all the helmsmen are in their positions, and charge forward with all their strength."

As soon as the order came out, not only Jiang Hao next to him didn't quite understand, but even the adjutants followed with a look of bewilderment.

"My lord, charge with all your strength, it is very likely that we will be surrounded by local ships, my lord, are you sure we really want to do this!"

Chen Hong said solemnly,

"Stop talking nonsense, I understand what I'm doing, so hurry up and send orders!"

The supreme commander has already issued an order. Even if it is unreasonable, as a subordinate, he must carry out the order.

There was no other way, the adjutant had no choice but to grit his teeth and wave the semaphore, ordering the whole ship.

Under normal circumstances, when the mainsail is fully raised and the rudder and oars are fully opened, it is the last resort to either escape from the storm or shells, or when it is impossible to fight anymore and die together with the enemy.

As soon as Chen Hong came up, he used this trick, which was obviously not normal.

You know, the ship is huge, if it is not for the strong wind, it is difficult to increase the speed.

If you want to speed up, you can only rely on the helmsman to shake the oars desperately to speed up the ship.

But the oars are shaken by people, and human physical strength is limited. Under normal circumstances, unless there is an emergency, it is extremely necessary for the crew to maintain physical strength.

Otherwise, when it is time to evade local attacks and avoid danger, the crew will lose their strength, which will cause serious problems.

It's not that Chen Hong didn't know about this situation, but he still did it.

There are no more than two reasons.

First of all, the number of people on the ship at this time far exceeds their previous number.

In addition to combatants, the number of personnel responsible for driving ships has more than doubled.

Accelerating and charging for a short period of time is actually not a big problem.

Secondly, the best way for a big ship to deal with a small ship is to hit it, which is much more effective than washing the ground with cannons.

On the opposite side of Wuyang Wuyang, a large group of small boats, if they are bombarded with cannons, when will they be bombarded.

Moreover, as soon as they come up, they will magnify their moves. If they are frightened and run away in all directions, how many of them can be stopped with such a small number of them!

Therefore, Chen Hong's move seems radical, but it is actually more in line with the current situation.

The order has been passed on.

All the crew immediately went into action.

On the deck, a group of shirtless and brawny sailors chanted neatly and pulled up the huge and heavy mainsail and jibsail.

After the helmsman tested the wind direction, he began to adjust the direction of the sail.

Just at this time, a gust of wind blew by, and the sail seemed to be filled with something suddenly, and it swelled up rapidly.

At this moment, the boat suddenly accelerated a lot.

However, no matter how strong the inland wind is, it cannot be compared with the hurricane at sea, and the speed is still limited.

Although everyone felt that it was fast enough, Chen Hong still felt that it was not fast enough.

"Not enough, not fast enough, let me row all the oars, pass the order down, let him row the boat as hard as I can, as long as they can last for more than half an hour, when the time comes, I will reward them with an extra [-]% .”

Under the so-called reward, there must be a brave man.

The crew in charge of paddling in the cabin, because they don't have to participate in the battle, so every time they are rewarded for their merits, their rewards are the lowest.

This time Chen Hong managed to be generous, even including them.

How can they not work hard.

Under the leadership of an adjutant, almost everyone's eyes were red.

With a thud, the crew members tore off their jackets, revealing the strong muscles that looked like small hills inside, roaring and shouting, and desperately shook the oars.

The oars of a big ship, relying on long oars alone, will not have much effect if they are shaken.

Those craftsmen who built ships had thought of this problem long ago.

So they designed the oars as a whole of linkage type.

The crew members who are in charge of shaking the oars only need to step on the pedals desperately or shake the rollers to drive the machinery, so that the huge oars on both sides of the hull move neatly and rhythmically.

Compared with paddling one by one with strength alone, I don’t know how much effort is saved (the oars of ancient big ships are almost three or four meters long, and the mouth of the bowl is so thick that a single person can’t shake it! This design actually It is also inevitable!).

Then, the oars on both sides of the boat broke through the water with a splash.

Provides a huge forward momentum to the ship.

The speed of the ship has clearly stepped up to a new level.

Coupled with the help of sails, although it still can't reach the speed of more than ten knots per hour and twenty knots of steam ships.

But in this inland river, this speed can be regarded as the limit they can achieve.

In the eyes of the rushing water pirates, this colossal monster constantly magnified in front of them at an extremely fast speed.

Before they could even react, they collided head-on with the ship.

One can imagine what the consequences would be if a heavy truck was loaded onto a bicycle at a speed of forty miles.

No matter the size or weight of the ship, it is far more than a heavy truck. What kind of picture will it look like if it is filled with such a huge monster?

(End of this chapter)