Chapter 764: Blow it up
This is the first naval battle of real significance in human history, but the military strength of the two warring sides is completely unequal.
There are more than 40 wooden warships on one side, which can be regarded as extremely strong sailors in the entire Tang Dynasty, plus more than 40 warships carrying more than 20,000 Dongying warriors, and the strength is definitely one of the best in this era.
On the other side, there is only one warship, and there are hundreds of women and children on board, and the whole ship can be put into battle with no more than 200 men, which is really worrying in comparison.
However, the situation in this naval battle was crushing.
When it was, but seeing that the Dongying side was preparing to use suicide tactics, the country seemed to have been good at suicide since ancient times, and the prince of Dongying ordered all the warships to speed up desperately, ready to sacrifice some of the ships to rush through the fire net of the giant artillery.
The so-called advantages of naval warfare, this era is about fighting more and fighting less.
More than forty warships rowed their oars desperately, and sailed desperately like crazy. The speed at which the two sides approached was very fast, and every breath could be close to a few tens of meters.
The main guns of the ironclad have stopped.
This giant cannon is absolutely invincible, but unfortunately it can only fire four shots in a row, and it must be stopped after four shots, otherwise the hot barrel will not be able to cool.
Although a single shot of a cannon can blow up a warship, and the wood chips that blow up are flying all over the sky, this giant cannon can only fire four shots in a row, even if they all hit.
The ironclad also had four side guns, barely forming a blockade fire network after the giant cannons stopped.
However, the four side guns could not suppress more than 40 warships, and the distance between the two sides was still approaching rapidly, and the faces of the opposite side could already be seen between Datang and Dongying, and the ships on both sides were only one or two nautical miles apart at most.
The prince of Dongying was full of ecstasy, and he even began to hope that he could defeat this game.
"If this prince captures the ironclad warship of the Tang Dynasty, my power will definitely take off quickly, not only dominating the entire Dongying Sea Kingdom, but also deterring the entire Liaodong Sea. Even if the emperor's father has to look at me, I will become the most powerful man of this era......"
Thinking of this, his eyes shot with a thick greed, and he couldn't help but roar loudly again, shouting excitedly: "Rush, rush over to me, board that ship, and snatch the spoils, and if any samurai can board the ship, this prince promises a heavy reward of ten thousand gold, and rewards him with a family domain, so that he can establish a noble shogunate......"
This product is worthy of being from the royal family, and he knows how to stimulate his subordinates during the war. As a result, more than forty search warships galloped even more frantically, getting closer and closer to Han Yue's ironclad ship.
It's close!
It's closer!
The fighters on both sides can already see each other's faces clearly!
When the distance between the two sides was less than a nautical mile, suddenly the artillery fire on the ironclad ship stopped strangely, and the whole thing suddenly became silent, like a ghost ship drifting on the ocean.
"Huh? What's going on? ”
Prince Dongying was stunned at first, then laughed wildly, and shouted excitedly: "Kill it, kill it quickly, their cannon is gone, the warriors hurry up and kill me, ahahaha......"
People of this era have no understanding of artillery.
The reason why the Dongying people know about the ironclad battleship is because Jia and Yaxiu continue to send letters back from the Tang Dynasty to inform them.
But this thing only knows that there is such a thing as a cannon, but in fact, I don't understand what the concept of a cannon is. Therefore, he spoke very strangely, and when he saw that the artillery fire had stopped, he would not say that the shells were gone, but would only guess that the cannon was gone.
The artillery fire has indeed stopped!
But the big killer of the ironclad battleship has appeared!
……
Just a few blinks after the artillery fire stopped, a leisurely voice suddenly sounded on the ironclad ship, only to hear Han Yue smile faintly: "Hello Dongying Sailor, goodbye Dongying Sailor......"
This sentence was the second time Han Yue said it, he said it once when he first fought, and now he said it again with a smile!
The second time he said this, it was the real urging sound.
The prince of Dongying was slightly stunned, and for some reason there was a bad feeling in his heart, he subconsciously looked at the sea in the distance, but found that there was no danger around.
However, just as he wanted to breathe a sigh of relief, he suddenly heard a huge explosion between heaven and earth, and the sound was so loud that even his eardrums pierced.
More than 20 of the more than 40 warships exploded at the same time, but this was a real explosion, and the warships directly exploded into a group of burning fireballs.
The huge waves on the surrounding sea rolled, but they couldn't suppress the huge fireballs, and the explosion of more than 20 warships was not the end, followed by more than 20 warships also exploded.
It seems that it is just a blink of an eye, and this Dongying Water Division has been destroyed by ninety percent.
Of the remaining warships, only four remained......
There were about 2,000 samurai on board, and all of them were terrified, as if they had seen the end of the world.
At this time, the sound of the explosion gradually disappeared, but there was a strong smell of feet on the sea, and more than 40 warships on fire continued to jump into the sea, mixed with extremely painful screams.
The prince of Dongying trembled, and the surviving warriors under his command also trembled, and these people only felt that their minds were blank, and only one thought was still circling around.
"What kind of killing weapon is this, and why is it so powerful?"
In fact, not only the people of Dongying were frightened, but even everyone on the ironclad ship was stunned, from the emperor Li Shimin, to the retainers of the princes, everyone stared at the fire on the sea in a daze, and everyone thought that everything in front of them was a dream.
After a long time, Lao Cheng stupidly pulled Li Tao next to him to ask, he subconsciously shuddered before asking, and then his mouth trembled and asked: "What kind of weapon do you say this is, it doesn't look like it's man-made, there are more than forty sailor warships, and all the kung fu is gone in the blink of an eye?" ”
Li Tao couldn't answer, and there was a deep shock on his face.
At this time, the giant cannon of the ironclad ship sounded softly in the rut again, and then the muzzle of the cannon slowly pointed to the last four surviving ships of Dongying, and a voice suddenly sounded faintly, answering the confusion in everyone's hearts.
The person who spoke was still Han Yue, he stood at the bow of the ship and shouted coldly: "I have a torpedo, the world is invincible, from now on, the ocean will be my mining territory, no matter who wants to go to sea, you have to ask me to nod first......"
How arrogant!
How domineering!
How big is the ocean? and the land in a ratio of seven to three!
However, Han Yue said this proudly, relying on his extremely strong confidence.
In naval battles, the fiercest is not the ship's machine guns, and the fiercest is not the ship's giant cannons. There's only one really fierce weapon, and it's called a torpedo.
That's right, torpedoes.
In later generations, a torpedo charge will be at least 600 kilograms, not to mention wooden warships, and steel will blow you up.
Han Yue's ironclad ship is a product of the store, and when he bought it, because the price was too high, he had no choice but to choose a simplified version of the torpedo, which only has a one-tenth of the charge of a normal torpedo, and it is not a real torpedo strictly speaking.
However, the sixty-kilogram charge is also very strong, so fierce that any wooden warship in this era can not carry it, and the simplified version also has an advantage, that is, an ironclad ship can carry hundreds of torpedoes.
If it is a regular torpedo, it will be loaded with 30 at most, because any more will increase the load of the ship, and the gain in a naval battle will outweigh the loss.
It is precisely because of the purchase of the simplified version that there is no threat of lack of ammunition at all, and Han Yue dares to fight with more than forty warships at the same time, relying on this kind of naval combat weapon.
"Surrender, we surrender......"
There was a sudden shout from the other side, but when he saw the prince of Dongying climb to the bow of the ship in horror, this cargo led hundreds of samurai on the ship to wave their hands and tremble to say that they wanted to surrender.
"Surrender?"
Han Yue held the bow of the boat in his hand, his eyes looked into the distance leisurely, and at this moment, the pupils of his eyes seemed to lose focus, staring at the vast sea level and losing his mind slightly.
Surrender?
Do I need you to surrender?
For some reason, a picture suddenly appeared in Han Yue's mind, it was a certain tear-jerking movie he had seen in his last life.
In the First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle, the whole ship ran out of ammunition and food, and the hot-blooded men of the Beiyang Naval Division drove the battleship into the enemy, wanting to use the last martial arts to die with the enemy.
However, a torpedo hit the battleship and shattered the dreams of the Chinese boys.
The torpedo was fired by the Japanese.
The last scene of that movie was frozen on the desperate face of the Chinese man, and on the rampant laughter of the Japanese.
"In the future, you bombed us, we should repay our debts today, God let me come to this era, why should I accept your surrender......"
Yes, why accept your surrender?
The next moment, Han Yue's eyes suddenly turned cold, he looked at the opponent's warship with a clear gaze, spit out eight words slightly in his mouth, and said coldly: "Ren Jingwu, launch the torpedo!" ”
Buzzing......
The iron-framed battleship shook obviously!
Then I listened to the sound of swishing and breaking the wind, and in an instant it became the sound of slamming into the water.
Han Yue's order was given, and Ren Jing obeyed, but when he saw that between the waves on the water surface, there were vaguely four white-flowered narcissus flying away.
This action is actually very short, from the frightened surrender of the other side, to Han Yue's confusion about the afterlife, and then to his cold eyes and ordering Ren Jing to launch the torpedo, all the time before and after added up to less than half a minute, and many people were even immersed in the shock just now.
But four torpedoes have already arrived at the Dongying warship.
Boom Boom –
There were four loud bangs, and the flames burst into the sky.
Han Yue didn't look there, he suddenly raised his head and shouted softly at the captain's room, and said, "Ren Jing drove the boat and approached Dongying ......."
"Obey, my teacher!" Ren Jing's answer was always so crisp, and she never hesitated to give all Han Yue's orders.
Han Yue turned his head to look at the fort area and deck area again, and shouted at the stunned retainers of the Duke of the Kingdom, and said loudly: "Quickly carry the cannonballs, ensure that the ammunition is sufficient, follow this king to promote the national prestige, let's blow up today!" ”