"The secret of war lies in the mastery of details."

Although Hu Shoujin was not from the Navy, he fully grasped the details on the battlefield. While firing the rifle, the "flying hook" pulling the ship was cut off, but he did not leave the shore immediately, but

It is to use the boat as a bait to lure the opponent to attack.

bait.

In fact, they came to rescue Nanjing this time. Although they came with the determination to die, it did not mean that they would die in vain. So they made many plans, all of which revolved around one core - how

Kill as many enemies as possible!

Taking full advantage of weapons and equipment is of course one of them. However, just taking advantage of weapons and equipment is not the best choice.

The best way is to use your own weapons and equipment to dig a "trap" and then let the enemy crash into it. Only in this way can you kill the enemy to the maximum extent in this trap.

"There are only a few Jiu slaves, so there is no problem if we kill or injure 8,000 or 8,000 people. It is impossible to break our muscles and bones. But the Jiu slaves are different. If they kill and injure several thousand people, it will really break our muscles and bones."

. So our purpose in this battle is to break their muscles and bones."

On the way out of Yangzhou, Chen Junmen once said this. This is nothing new. The prince told them more than once - the purpose of war is to kill the enemy to the maximum extent. Only by killing the enemy in exchange for preservation

Only by yourself can you win the war.

kill!

For those invaders, the more they kill, the more afraid they will be. When they feel that invasion is not worth the gain, they will naturally not dare to invade again.

In fact, they are the same now. As long as the slaves are allowed to pay more casualties than they can bear, they will naturally retreat. After all, the strength of the slaves is very limited. It is absolutely impossible for them to fight just one at the cost of losing troops and generals under Nanjing City.

Nanjing.

So dig a trap for them to jump, and then kill them as much as possible! When they can't bear it anymore, they will naturally withdraw.

When Jiannu was approaching in front of him, he ordered the boat to move a little further away. In fact, it was not much, that is, two or three feet farther away. But the distance of five or six feet made Jiannu who rushed to the river dumbfounded.

"this……"

Darhan stared at the Ming army warship six feet away. He couldn't jump or rush across this distance. There was only a few feet of river water in between...

Even before he was dumbfounded, he saw the dark muzzle on the opposite side and the ferocious-looking Ming army behind the muzzle. The next moment, a ball of white smoke came out of the muzzle. Before the lead flew,

He could even feel the smoke coming towards his face. It was so close that when his head was hit by a bullet, the people on the boat could even hear a "pop" sound, like a ripe watermelon.

It sounds like the sound of being crushed by a fierce punch...

For a time, the bank became a slaughterhouse, and the Qing troops who rushed to the river completely became targets. They could not reach or jump. They just stayed there and let the bullets fall on them. When they fell,

, the scarlet blood flowed along the river bank into the river, dyeing the river water red...

The blood-red water spread rapidly along the riverside.

In the blink of an eye, half of the water surface was dyed red.

"Okay, the time has passed, let's withdraw..."

As soon as Hu Shoujin finished speaking, there was a sudden sound of artillery in his ears, and then he heard a "whoosh" sound, and the artillery shells whizzed past him and flew into the distance.

"careful!"

At this time, there was another burst of cannon fire, one after another, continuous gunfire, coming from a distance, and the artillery of Jiannu opened fire!

It was not the red cannon that fired, but the Fo Lang machine cannon. There were clouds of white smoke in the distance. Dozens of shells hit the Ming army warships on the river against the water. The missed shells hit the river.

A stream of water jets.

Although most of these shells hit the rolling river water, creating water columns on the river surface, there were still a few of them that luckily hit the bulwarks of the cannon. Immediately, three inches of the shells were hit.

The thick side plate penetrated, causing sawdust to fly, and a fist-sized hole was opened in the ship's side wall. The soldier behind the wall was directly penetrated through the chest, and then fell down heavily...

"Fire the cannon, fire the cannon, send these bright dogs to the river to feed the fish..."

Cao Eryu shouted and issued orders. Although the powerful red cannon had not yet been moved to the appropriate gun position, he still commanded the gunners of the Folan machine to fight back with the light and flexible Folan machine. The gunners moved their torches towards the platform.

The Franco machine gun on the mount lit the fuse.

Although the power of the Folang machine gun is average, its rate of fire is very fast. With every shelling, several huge iron pellets are ejected from the muzzle, flying hundreds of steps away, and creating huge splashes on the river.

. Occasionally, some projectiles will hit the side of the ship, opening fist-sized holes in the main side. Whenever the shells penetrate the side walls, they will always bring up countless broken flesh and blood.

Some shells would even hit the waterline without any bias, opening a hole as big as a fist in the side of the ship. The moment the cold river water poured into the cabin, the soldiers in the cabin shouted and used oilcloths, corks, laths, and iron.

The nails blocked the inflow of river water.

When the Qing army began to fight back, the ships, driven by the boatmen's poles, had already sailed towards the river, gradually getting further and further away. When the fleet withdrew, Cao Eryu still commanded the artillery battalion to fire bombs with Folang machines.

The bombardment rained down on the Ming warships in the river, but because of the low power of the Folan machine, it did not cause fatal damage to the warships.

And during this process, the Ming army seemed not to fight back at all... It's not that they didn't want to fight back, but because the mortars on the bow could only be fired forward. Due to structural strength, these can't be added to the sides of the requisitioned cannon ships in Yangzhou.

It is not possible to install artillery, even a nine-pound mountain howitzer with a small recoil.

However, while the fleet was withdrawing from the river mouth, the gunboats in the river still kept their bows pointed at the shore. Seeing that Jiannu had begun to fight back, Hu Shoujin ordered the gunboats in the river to cover through flags.

However, shelling targets on the shore in the river requires a high degree of skill. In addition, the unique curved trajectory of the mortar makes its accuracy very poor. Even if the gunboats in the river try hard to adjust their direction, the shells they fire will not

, did not cause much damage to the Donglu artillery on the shore, but the exploding grenades still killed many Qing troops on the shore. However, as the fleet needed to stay more than a hundred feet away from the shore, so in large

Most of the time, those shells landed outside the Donglu troops.

After seeing this scene through the telescope, Hu Shoujin thought about it and asked loudly.

"Sun Zhigang, can you hit the cannon farther?"

Sun Zhigang responded to the general's order without thinking.

"Okay, by doubling the gunpowder, the range can be increased to about 1,500 meters! However, in this case, the accuracy will become worse, and the flight time of the shell cannot be controlled, and the fuze timing must be set more

Long, the life span of the body tube..."

Regarding Sun Zhigang's explanation, except for the range, there is nothing that interests Sun Zhigang.

Three miles of shooting range!

Observing the target on the shore through the telescope, silently estimating the distance in his heart, Hu Shoujin said.

"Inform the fleet to double the gunpowder! Just hit the shore!"

How many can you hit?

Hu Shoujin doesn't care at all, because... this is not the main purpose!

In fact, the propellant charge of the 18-pound mortar was twice that of the nine-pound field gun. However, because the barrel was too short, a lot of gunpowder was wasted because it had no time to fully burn. However, in terms of momentum, it was quite amazing.

Now, following Hu Shoujin's order, they immediately increased the amount of propellant. The excess propellant even made the shells slightly exposed from the barrel. However, thinking of the earth-shattering sound of the cannon, the gunners' already blackened faces were exposed.

smiled.

After completing the loading, the gunners checked the artillery again. Then the gunner used a long awl to penetrate the fire door, pierced the cloth bag used to wrap the gunpowder, and then inserted a long match rope into the fire door.

While they were lighting the match, the boatmen tried to keep the boat pointed at the Qing army.
Chapter completed!