Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Fortress
The farther north the ship went, the more dense the cannon sounded.
For connoisseurs, what kind of cannon is fired by the stone plug on the shore can be heard by the ear.
There is no doubt that eighty percent of the flag officers of the Nanyang Military Government are experts in playing artillery, and the most used by these people in the two and a half years of the lecture hall is the existing artillery of the Ming Dynasty, and they are used to playing the seventy percent of the Ming Dynasty, and there is no cannon when they go to sea that they don't know.
The artillery that was put two miles away could only be regarded as an appetizer, and the real firepower of this fortress built by the Portuguese for Mang Yinglong still had to be seen at four or five hundred paces.
The influence of the Portuguese on Myanmar is only where it goes, and the women's wall, which is a mixture of Song and Yuan Dynasty and Portuguese craftsmanship and local Buddhist style, is the most erected open cannon.
The Shiqi fleet approached the coast for 400 paces, and the fortress could be described as full of flowers, and for a time the smoke of gunpowder filled the air with bursts of artillery, and hundreds of artillery pieces of all kinds bombarded with all their might, beating the coast like hail from the sky, and a large wave splashed on the bow of the ship.
The open artillery is divided into two stages, there is no Fran machine and there is a Fran machine, the era of no Fran machine is a large number of local artillery, with the largest number of artillery in the Hongwu period, and the most inflow into the surrounding countries is also this kind, like the poisonous tiger, tiger squat, Wankou, Fa Xi, the general, the second general, the third general, there are both strange poisonous cannons, and there are also powerful cannons sinking generals.
However, because most of the guns were completed too early, these guns were somewhat deficient in shape, or the walls were too thin and easy to explode, or the barrels were too thick and wasted materials, and it was difficult to say that they were perfect.
During the Jiajing period, the war exchange made a large number of Franco machines, the appearance of Franco machines is not unusual, just like the later Hongyi cannon, which brought the Ming Dynasty to the artillery-making process of the key is not a cannon or a form, but in the design of completely different angles, to the Ming people to open the skylight.
At this point, the cannon entered the era when everything could be used as a franc machine.
Shi Qi squinted, the small flag in his right hand was unfurled, and twenty-five warships were lined up on the sea with the rudder turning to the right, and the hideous port side of the ship's cannons was facing the fortress in the slow swimming.
One general has one style, Chen Mu likes to swim in four or five hundred steps, and Shi Qi prefers the safer three hundred steps, so it is not the best range in his eyes now, but it can only be so.
The cannonball screeched and hit the bow of the ship, bringing out the sound of wood slag embedded in the hull of the ship, and it was like rain of projectiles splashing in front of the ship.
At the end of the strong crossbow, you can't enter Lu Min; The decline of the wind cannot be feathered.
Further forward is different, the projectile will go over the board and hit the flag army.
There was another sound of cannonballs bombarding the ship's plank, accompanied by a popping sound, most of the scattered people were blocked by the gunwales, and there were also exclamations in which the big cannonballs smashed the big cards and rolled straight down to the deck, and the bowl mouth gun, which shoots large shells, could not stop anything at this distance, unless it hit the plank, which was more than a foot thick.
"Port gun correction!"
The iron winch on the gun is the same as that of the land field gun mount, which can be adjusted up and down and cannot be moved left and right, and there is no wheel in front of the square wooden gun carriage, and if you want to move left and right, you need to lift the tail and drag it forward, which is very difficult.
The new ship deck being built by the shipyard in the Xinhui area of Xiangshan is using deck wooden rails to preset the angle of gun movement, so as to offset the backseat and reduce the difficulty of movement.
But the seat of an old-school general like Shao Tingda obviously wouldn't use that construction too soon.
The situation was much better than Ishiki had imagined, he stood on the stern and gritted his teeth, the naval battle generals were not good at this, and it was clearly written in the code of conduct that whenever the ship was about to sink, the ship's master would stand in a fearless and fearless manner, standing until the enemy ship sank or was killed by flying shells.
The generals are standing, and the flag officers must also stand, and the flag officers must stand, so that they can reprimand the flag army and capture them back to their combat positions when they are so frightened by the exchange of artillery fire that they are crawling on the deck.
There is a stone village at the mouth of the Sancha River, seven artillery towers in the bay, and only nearly 100 large and small artillery.
Among them, there are very few artillery pieces that can kill and injure his subordinates at this distance, in fact, the number of this artillery is definitely not small, it is more than the artillery of the fifty-mile defense line along the Great Wall of Northern Xinjiang of the Ming Dynasty, but against the warships of the Nanyang Army, the artillery is not enough regardless of size or quantity.
The flotilla, which had been baptized by two rounds of artillery fire, finally set up a formation and calibrated the gun positions, and when the command of the commander Qi, the fourteen Zhenshuo generals on the port side of the general's seat ship let out an angry roar.
"Put!"
The small flag officer standing in the bow of the ship waved his saber, and the artillery roared from front to back, bursting a large area of gunpowder smoke on the sea, followed by 24 large and small warships, the large guns were General Zhenshuo, the small was 2 catties of guns, the most was 12 guns, and the least was 5 guns fired in unison, and the huge sound of nearly 200 guns exploded successively overshadowed everything, and the sound of the whole weight of 760 catties of shells was like thunder, roaring and smashing towards the fortress.
For a time, the female wall of the fortress was full of stone chips, and it was visible to the naked eye that half of the fortress banners were broken by cannonballs like autumn wind sweeping leaves, and the soldiers in the city were scurrying around, and nearly half of the artillery was blasted out in a hurry.
This fortress defending the pirates was no match for the artillery battle, and after only one salvo was suppressed by artillery fire, Ishiki immediately ordered the fleet to split into two formations, alternating between left and right.
Deng Zilong, who was holding a telescope, could see clearly in the rear, the artillery fire of Baigu Fortress was very strong, but it could break the Shiqi fleet, even if it was the board of a shark ship with a minimum of 200 materials, it would depend on a blind cat to meet a dead mouse.
In the same way, the artillery of the Shiqi fleet was monstrous, but this round of salvo could break the stone wall with few cannons, and even fewer killed and wounded the enemy. ”
But that's enough, the mission of the Shiqi fleet is to harass and suppress, as long as the enemy's shore anti-aircraft cannons can be nearly half extinguished, and the artillery fire is not dense, the death flag army that seized Shizhai can rush to the coast.
"You need to have a bigger artillery, write it down, and report to Chen Shuai when you go back, and you want to cast a bigger cannon and destroy the stone village."
As he spoke, the feather sound and drums roared, and the Chinese army led by the Chihai ship to advance to join the artillery battle, and at the same time ordered Shao Tingda to dare to die in the interval between the cannon and take the lucky boat to attack the stone village.
The Dafu boat rode the wind and waves, and was divided into three teams behind the Shiqi formation, and one team of three Fu boats advanced forward from the left, center, and right of the battlefield respectively, and in an instant, the Fu boat that Shao Tingda took was flush with his own ship.
When the ship was wrong, Shao Ting Dayan, who had fastened the brass god mask-covered armor, held a bundle of bamboo tubes high in his left hand, raised his right hand and waved it forward.
Then General Manghu threw the bamboo tube with the twist to his adopted son, drew the sword at his waist, and shouted: "Prepare to land and overturn this stone city!" ”
Roar!
The morale of the swordsmen and axes of the lucky boats was strong, but the enemy army was also prepared, several Burmese ships slowly sailed out from the Sancha River, and a large area of fire oil flowed out of the stern of the boat, and the Shiqi fleet charged, although it was crushed by the ship's cannon halfway, but at this time, there was fire oil floating everywhere along the coast in front of Shao Tingda.
Then, several torches were thrown from the fortress.
Rumble!
Fireworks at sea, burst into flames!