The steamer's whistle whistled for a long time, startling the officers and men of the Qing Army's naval division. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"Strange, aren't we ready for the Extreme Yin Thing? How can the barbarian fire dragon still roar? A Qing soldier asked suspiciously.

The Qing army general said: "Fool! The distance is so far, can the extreme yin thing overcome the fire dragon? If you want to defeat the barbarian fire dragon, you have to lean on it, surround it, and then use a bow and arrow to shoot the extreme yin thing onto the barbarian fire dragon ship! ”

The Ming army observer standing on the bridge of the steamer put down his binoculars, pointed to the dense Qing ships in front of him, and said to Emperor Hu Dedi: "Sir, the Tartar ships are all covered with white cloths with blood, and there are colorful women's belly pockets and the like, I don't know what the Tartars are going to do." ”

Emperor Hu Dedi sneered: "The Tartars have treated us as fire dragons, and they want to destroy my ship with extremely yin things!" In that case, let the Tartars see, their stuff doesn't work against us at all! ”

The black-pressed Qing army ships pressed up and rushed towards the mouth of the lake, trying to get close to the Ming army steamer and use the extreme yin on their ship to break the fire dragon.

The steamer of the Ming army slowly turned its hull at the mouth of the lake and turned sideways, so that the main guns on the front and rear of the ship could play a role, and the secondary guns in the middle could also play a role, so that the steamer could exert its maximum firepower.

"It's still two miles away, fire!" Emperor Hu De gave an order.

The main guns before and after the "boom" spewed fire, and the secondary guns in the middle also made a "bang" sound, and three high-speed rotating shells smashed at the Qing ships that pounced, two of which fell into the water, raising a column of water that soared into the sky, and one shell hit a small boat of the Qing army.

The high-speed rotating cannonball drilled the Qing army boat in half, and the middle of the shell was still hollow, after hitting the target, the shell drilled into the ship's board, irregular movement, the Qing army boat inside were torn to pieces, the Qing army sailors on the ship were bloody and fleshy, a huge hole immediately appeared in the bottom of the ship, the lake water poured into the boat, and the small boat that was shot began to sink in the flying sawdust and the pervasive blood mist.

The gunners cleared the chamber of the gun, quickly completed the loading, and with another push of the gun, the gun carriage on the rails was reset. In just twenty seconds, the ship's front and rear main guns were reset. The secondary gun on the side of the gunwale, the loading speed is faster, because the recoil of the auxiliary gun is small, the retreat distance is short, the shell is light, and the loading speed is fast, in less than fifteen seconds, the gunner has completed the loading of the secondary gun, and the muzzle of the secondary gun spews out a tongue of fire.

This cannon was very accurate, and one of the small sampans of the Qing army that rushed into two miles was shot, and the shell directly tore the boat in two, and the boat sank into the water in a blink of an eye.

Hundreds of Qing army boats rushed over desperately, and at a distance of two miles, the Qing army boats only needed about six minutes to rush to Hu Dedi's steamer. And in six minutes, the steamer's main gun could fire up to twelve rounds, and the secondary gun could fire about twenty rounds.

"Fire! Hit me hard! Hu Dedi shouted excitedly.

The steamer fired one cannon after another, and the high-speed rotating cannonballs with a piercing whistling sound accurately hit one after another the small boats of the Qing army that pounced on them. When the Qing boats approached within a mile, the steamers had already fired 21 shells, sinking five Qing boats in a row.

"The hit rate is still a little low, much better than the smoothbore gun, but it's not necessarily too accurate." Emperor Hu said to himself.

In fact, such a hit rate is already quite high, if you change to a smoothbore gun to shoot, twenty-one shells are fired, and it is not bad to be able to sink two Qing ships.

Seeing that the nearest Qing army boat was less than a mile away, Emperor Hu Dedi ordered: "Prepare to speed up, don't let the Tartar boat stick to us!" ”

In the engine room, the boilermaker pulled the wire rope, opened the gate, added a few shovels of coal to it, and someone pulled the blower a few times, and a stream of fresh air was sent into the furnace, and suddenly the furnace fire burned red, boiling the water in the boiler and producing more steam. The engineer then pulls the steam valve.

The steam engine roared, and the connecting rod crankshaft drove the flywheel to run at high speed, driving the propeller, and after changing the speed through the gears, the propeller rotated much faster than the speed of the steam engine, and the stern of the ship was flooded with white spray.

Several small boats of the Qing army have rushed to the front, and the small cannons on the small boats of the Qing army are at best bowls and mouths, and even the big ships of the Qing army only have a hundred-pound franc machine or a lighter tiger squat cannon on it, and the cannonballs fired from it cannot be penetrated at all when they hit the steamer.

On the small boat of the Qing army, the birds, guns, small cannons, bows and arrows fired in a volley, and the projectiles and arrows hit the steamer, only to see sparks splashing everywhere, and all the projectiles and arrows that hit the steamer fell into the water.

The three guns on one side of the steamer spewed out orange tongues of fire almost at the same time, and the cannonballs fired in a volley on a relatively large Qing warship about 60 zhang away from him. The Qing army ship with a displacement of about 100 tons was hit by three shells at the same time, and three large holes were immediately broken on the ship, and the shells drilled into the cabin, like cutting tofu, penetrating the bottom of the ship, and the Qing army ship that was hit by the bullet began to sink.

The steamer whistle blew for a long time, and the speed gradually increased. The steamer that was speeding did not turn its head and retreat, but faced the direction of the Qing convoy and went straight into the middle of the Qing convoy.

The Ming sergeant in charge of the helm turned the rudder, and the steamer made a sharp turn and plunged into the Qing fleet. Then the steamer slammed head-on into the side of a small Qing boat, and smashed the boat in two. Then the steamer continued to ram and sank a small boat of the Qing army.

The ships of the Qing army surrounded the steamer, and arrows and projectiles rained down, but not a single feathered arrow, not a single projectile could penetrate the target, and they were all bounced into the water.

The steamer accelerated and rushed through the middle of the Qing fleet, and the main guns and secondary guns on both sides of the bow and stern continued to spew out tongues of fire, and the Qing ships surrounding both sides of the steamer were shot one after another. The steamer continued to attack, and suddenly collided with a Qing army attack ship, and the fire attack ship was directly knocked into a large piece.

"Hurry up!" The Qing officers on the fire attack ship shouted anxiously.

The fire attack ship ignited a raging fire and rushed towards the steamer of the Ming army, looking like it was ready to die together. But the Ming steamers had already rushed over, and the wounded Qing fireships could not catch up with the steamers at all.

"Rush into the Tartar herd, remember, don't let the Tartars come up to us to engage in the battle!" Eddy Hood shouted.

The steamer is like a tiger entering a flock of sheep, shuttling and colliding between the ships of various sizes of the Qing army, as long as it is hit, the light one sinks into the water after a while, and the serious one is directly broken into two.