Chapter 624: Cannon Fire

Mao Wenlong was not in a hurry to receive a request from his brother, thinking that Mr. Yuan was trying to scare you. I don’t know if the country is following the rules. How could a general in a town be killed just by saying that it is ridiculous.

Standing at the bow of the boat wearing a cloak, Mao Wenlong smiled and said, "This Western warship is indeed exquisitely made."

Beside him, a young navy general coughed and said, "Ship Mao, this bird boat, uh, was created by our Ming Dynasty, and it was founded in the Jiajing Dynasty."

Mao Wenlong accidentally showed his timidity and showed his eyes, and he couldn't help but feel embarrassed no matter how thick his face was.

Mao Shuai was naturally very thick-skinned and coughed dryly, "Is it true that our Ming Dynasty has such a powerful weapon for water war?"

The young navy officer smiled and said, "It's true, what Mao Shuai said is the most extreme. This bird boat was in the Jiajing period. Our Ming craftsmen imitated the style of Western warships, ranging in size.

, the bigger ones can go out to sea and carry dozens of cannons, which is extremely sharp for naval battles."

Mao Wenlong felt a little embarrassed and said seriously: "Ltd. Colonel Yu, our brothers rely on you in this battle."

The lieutenant colonel of the navy did not dare to accept his courtesy and hurriedly replied: "I dare not take it, I will do my best."

Dozens of advanced bird ships built by the Ming Dynasty, with their paddles flying up and down, causing splashes of water, dragging the mosquito boat upstream. Thirty miles away is the west side of the river bank. The bird ship is towed by the natural danger Crow Falcon Pass.

Ma Cheng also agreed with the idea of ​​pulling a mosquito boat. The light bird boat can carry four to six cannons, and the hull is very slender and close to the design of the streamlined hull in later generations. The Ming Dynasty was open to advanced Western technology and absorbed it.

a positive attitude.

After absorbing the advanced Western technology, the Ming Dynasty really created a lot of good things, such as the large bird ship used for ocean-going combat, which is equivalent to the Ming version of the sail battleship. The Ming Dynasty can also make sail battleships, but it is hard to use.

Sails are different from the soft sails of Western warships. If this idea continues, if the Ming Dynasty does not perish, the Ming version of the sail battleship formation will soon be developed, which may not be able to compete with the Westerners in the South China Sea, which is particularly a pity.

The Ming Dynasty's open and tolerant attitude towards the world started with Emperor Jiajing, and this was another wise ruler who was slandered.

In the evening, nearly a hundred small warships of all sizes sailed to the front of Yahu Pass, and a large number of auxiliary soldiers jumped into the cold river water and began to pile and fix the small warships. This was not the first inland fleet of Huangming, but it was the most powerful firepower ever.

The river fleet, equipped with a powerful river fleet with a large and large front-mounted smoothbore cannon and a maximum caliber of 150 mm, also created a brilliant beginning of the Ming river fleet.

The fleet stopped and the auxiliary soldiers began to drive piles along the river.

Mao Wenlong took a boat to the shore. Seeing his brother's bruised nose and swollen face hitting in front of the pass, he stood respectfully with his hands hanging down in front of him. Marshal Mao sighed deeply, then looked at the heroic and elated Officer Yu, and gently

Sigh, the world has changed. Now the world is the world of military students. Old officers who have never entered military science have become more and more difficult. After all, his younger brother is not a general.

Now it is not as good as before. The generals of the old Liao army were all ignorant of their own words. They all rely on a bloody courage to fight. Now, this war has to be strategic and tactical. After this war, they will take the initiative and sacrifice their strength after the battle.

This old face makes me want to be a wealthy man in the army and a wealthy man.

Before the pass, Mao Wenlong looked up at the dangerous pass, his mouth twitched. I don’t know how many years the cliff has been here, and the slope is straight up and down. How can I hit him? I realized that he had wronged his brother. I looked back and looked along.

More than a hundred warships docked by the river were shaking their cloaks. Now it is the world of warships and cannons, and the dangerous barrier is not enough to be a barrier.

It is not easy to drive piles in the river. At night, the auxiliary soldiers of the army were trembling in the river.

Mao Dashu was surprisingly approachable, taking a small boat along the river to comfort and boost morale. Mao Dashu was thinking clearly that these were all the navy's men. Now there are two types of people who cannot be offended, one is the gunner and the other is

It was a sailor, and it was stupid to offend these two gangs. They were both upstarts and prides in the army.

By dawn, more than a hundred warships were fixed in the river.

Lt. Colonel Yu was running back and forth in a small boat, trying to test the cannon. The front line retreated one after another, and they all lay on the ground waiting for the warships to fire the cannon. A mosquito ship began to load, lifting the canvas with a black hole, twenty-four pounds

The gun had a caliber of 150 mm and was carried by a four-wheeled cannon carriage. Hongqi waved the gunner carefully loaded half of the launching medicine, and then stuffed the shell weighing 20 kilograms into it.

The twenty-pound shell slid into the barrel, and the rolling sound made the vest cool. When the red flag waved again, the gunner pushed the four-wheeled cannon carriage to the bow along the slide rail, which was also frightened.

It's a life-threatening thing to fiddle with this thing. A small boat is equipped with cannons, and a short mule carries an elephant. If you are not careful, the boat will be destroyed and the people will be killed.

The black hole was aimed at the nearly stern Ya Falcon Pass, and the gunner closed his eyes and slammed the red drill.

With a loud roar, the four-wheeled cannon was pushed back violently, and it suddenly stepped back along the slide rail. It was pushed against a large iron plate at the stern of the ship. It creaked and the iron chain that fixed the hull was suddenly shattered.

Straightened, the boat swayed left and right on the river for a while, but it didn't overturn and held on.

Amid the sharp whistling sound, a huge and terrifying shell passed through the Crow Falcon Pass three miles away, and I don’t know where it went.

The cheers were thunderous, and the Ming army gunners jumped up one after another. Although they had practiced many times in advance, they were still worried when they were in actual combat.

Lieutenant Colonel Yu breathed a sigh of relief and whispered: "Prepare the flag, lower the cannons by two points, and fire volleys!"

The river was suddenly in a state of chaos. Ten mosquito ships and nearly a hundred large and small warships lined up in a row, loaded, adjusted the scale, and aimed the black hole's muzzle at the Crow Falcon Pass.

A quarter of an hour later, red flags were waving on the river.

Rumble!

Mao Wenlong and his personal soldiers had already covered their ears, and there were only those stupid and stupid generals of the Korean army, sitting on the ground by the sound of the sky and the earth cracking, with no one looking at them. The movement was too loud, the water splashed on the river surface, and the smoke filled the gunpowder.

I was unclear, but I couldn't stand firmly while stepping on the solid land. I was drunk and was shaken and staggered. This was naturally because the noise was too loud, which gave people an illusion.

A few miles away, on both sides of the tall and steep Crow Falcon Pass, the smoke columns soaring into the sky rose, and on the lush hillside, the smoke and dust quickly spread out. The trees, stones, and everything around the smoke column flew high,

The entire mountain seemed to be shaking violently. The powerful kinetic energy carried by solid shells was extremely high because of the extremely high chamber pressure, so the chamber was extremely fast, and its power was not weaker than that of the high explosives in later generations.
Chapter completed!