The Yangtze River is wide, and there are more than 120 Mengchong ships on the river, rushing in the front, and nearly 1,000 large and small ships and rafts behind, breaking the waves and rushing straight to the south bank.

At this time, nearly 200 Ming warships had sailed out of the water village and crossed the Chen River.

Gan Hui looked at the fleet on the river, and his face showed joy, "Sure enough, as the general expected, the Wei thief really got on the ship from Yangzhou." ”

The lower reaches of the Yangtze River are very wide, Zheng Sen put up a pergola in his hand, looked north, and saw that on the river, nearly a thousand black dots were moving towards the south bank.

"Bring the clairvoyant mirror!" Zheng Sen put down his hand, turned his head and ordered the soldiers around him.

At this time, he took the clairvoyant mirror and put it in front of him to watch, observing the Wei warship led by the circular vision, and his brows immediately furrowed.

The exterior of these ships was dark and the draft was very deep, the sides of the ships were encased in guards, and the oars on both sides slid like a hundred sharp arrows fired at the same time, rushing towards the south shore.

"It's a bit like a Mengchong ship, and it's a bit like a turtle ship and a Japanese Ataka ship!" Zheng Sen put down the clairvoyant mirror and frowned.

This kind of ship guard is like a city, and in the past, in the water war, it had a great advantage, but with the equipping of the ship with artillery, they gradually withdrew from the stage of history.

The guards on both sides of the ship, such as the castle, not only cannot protect the ship, but also cause splinters and splashes after being hit by cannons, injuring their own personnel, and at the same time, the guards are also easy to ignite by rockets and other objects.

Zheng Sen wondered why the Wei army wanted to build such an outdated warship, but he still drew his sword, raised it in his hand, and shouted loudly: "Column double horizontal formation, side artillery, fire!" ”

Two hundred Ming naval warships were connected into two horizontal formations, and the gap between the first row of ships did not cover the muzzles of the second row of ships.

In this way, the firepower of each warship of the Ming army on the side of the side can be brought into play.

At this time, the warships of the Ming army's naval division were like two lines of infantry on the ground, while the warships of the Wei army rushed over were cavalry.

On the three-masted gunboats, the flags of artillery bombardment were raised, and the gun windows on the side of the two hundred warships, large and small, were opened, and the soldiers struggled to push the loaded guns out of the gun windows, and the dark muzzles were held high, aiming at the oncoming Wei ships.

"Put!" Zheng Sen observed with a clairvoyant mirror, and suddenly roared.

The warships of the Ming army have gun windows on the side sides, and there are more than 20 gun windows for more than 10 guns, and there are four or five for the few, which are equipped with various large and small artillery such as Hongyi cannons and thousand-pound Buddha Lang machines.

At this time, the Wei fleet had only reached the center of the river, and the distance was still far away, and it first entered the range of the Hongyi cannon.

The three-masted gunboat of the Ming army was on the side of the ship, aimed at the Wei ship, and the non-commissioned officers with torches on the deck stood next to the artillery, and they heard the order, from left to right, leaned the torch towards the fire gate in turn.

The power of the Hongyi cannon is huge, the recoil is also amazing, and the ship is not as good as the ground, if more than ten guns on the side are fired at the same time, the huge recoil is enough to shake the ship apart.

Therefore, the artillery of the Ming army did not fire together, but started from the lower deck and fired one after another.

At this time, the lead was ignited by the torch, and the flickering sparks crept into the medicine room, "Boom, boom~" In the loud sound one after another, the gun body and gun carriage retreated violently, the deck trembled, and the side of the ship rose up a cloud of white smoke, and the river was filled with gunsmoke.

The Hongyi cannons of the Ming ships opened fire in turn, and the pitch-black shells, breaking through the thick smoke, one after another, roared and smashed into the Wei warships.

Gao Chengxun, the general of the clan who was transferred from the Huguang Water Division to the Beiyang Water Division, saw the Ming army firing, and ordered in a cold voice, "Fire back and continue to charge!" ”

The Ming artillery shells were close to the surface of the river, whistling and smashing, and some of the shells flew lower and lower, and finally fell into the water, splashing a column of water three feet high.

Other shells, from both sides of the Wei warship, fell into the rear, and some shells hit the front of the Wei warship, the huge impact of the cannonballs smashed the iron plate of the bow of the ship, causing the entire bow to deform.

In the clairvoyant mirror, Zheng Sen saw the Wei warship, charging in the splashed water column, the ship passed through the water column one by one, continued to move forward, an iron bullet, smashed the bow of the ship, and there was no scene of broken wood splashing, the impact force of the cannonball was shared by the whole iron plate, the bow of the ship was deformed, and the cannonball was stuck in the iron plate.

"Boom!" The bows of the Wei ships on the opposite side spewed out a cloud of white smoke, and one after another, with a scream, swept across the river between the two fleets and smashed into the Ming warships.

"Wow!" With a sound, the Ming army splashed in front of the array.

When Gao Yihuan was renovating the ship, there was no gun on the side of the ship, and only one was installed in the bow.

The role of the Wei ships is to rush forward, no need for any tactics, whoever stands in the way to bombard whom, the sailors in the cabin, don't care about anything, just keep rowing, provide speed to the ship, and let the ship rush to the south shore.

The bow of the Wei army was aimed at the Ming army, the bomb area was small, and the cannonballs could only hit the front, and the power of the ship was mainly provided by ten oars on both sides of the ship, so it was not afraid of the Ming army's chain bombs and burning the sails.

With a "bang" sound, a cannonball hit the front of a storming ship again, completely smashing the deformed bow of the ship, just like the scene of a car accident.

However, the sailors in the cabin of these ships hit by the cannonballs were not seriously damaged, the hull was wrapped in iron sheets, especially after the bow guard was strengthened, the defense was greatly increased, and they still charged forward completely.

Seeing this, Zheng Sen's face changed, "The two wings are outflanked and bombarded the side of the Wei thief's ship!" ”

The Ming warships on the front continued to use the side guns to block the Wei warships, and as the distance was shortened, the power of the red-coated cannons increased, and various other small cannons also fired in turn.

The Ming warships at both ends adjusted their sails and sailed to the side, making the Ming army's front change from the word "one" to the shape of the word "concave".

The Ming ships on both wings appeared on the sides of the Wei ships, and continued to fire artillery bombardment, the shells splashed the water column, and the sides of the ships were smashed into depressions, but the Wei warships did not fight back, but rushed forward like wild boars.

These Mengchong ships, equipped with thin iron plates, in order to reduce weight, only put a gun in the bow, no guns on the side of the ship, and no gun windows, the hull of the ship is like a turtle shell, the bottom cabin of the ship is the sailors who oar, and the deck is full of Wei soldiers.

"Bang!" With a loud bang, a cannonball hit the side of the ship, smashing the Meng Chong ship to one side, and the Wei soldiers on the deck staggered.

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