Hundreds of trebuchets were launched at the same time, and the scene was simply devastating. Countless shotguns were like a cloud, floating directly towards the Yizhou Navy.
"what is that?"
Zhou Tong, who was on the building boat, looked at the rain of bullets like dark clouds in the sky, his eyes full of doubts.
"have no idea."
The generals around him were also puzzled. To be honest, water battles have always been won by bows and crossbows. The most powerful weapon is just the giant crossbow placed on the ship. But what is this dark cloud of shotgun?
They have never seen this thing before.
"Everyone raises their shields to defend, and those who can enter the cabin enter the cabin."
Zhou Tong didn't understand, and neither did Gan Ning, but he knew that the enemy would definitely not come to give gifts, so he immediately ordered his soldiers who could enter the cabin to enter the cabin, and those who couldn't to put up shields at the bow of the ship to defend themselves.
"Peng."
"Peng."
"Peng."
Shotguns fell from the sky and hit the Yizhou Navy directly like a heavy rain.
The power of the trebuchet is very powerful, far exceeding the lethality of the giant crossbow. When the bullets hit the soldiers, all the soldiers hit were either dead or injured. Even if the soldiers were not hit, the bullets hitting the ship were still very powerful.
A wound as big as the mouth of a bowl.
The building ships and fighting ships were still able to withstand such injuries. Some of the smaller walking boats and mengchong were directly smashed in half. Countless soldiers fell into the water and were hit by bullets again and died in the Yangtze River.
This wave of bullets was outrageous, and it completely disrupted the lineup of the Yizhou Navy. Everyone was busy rescuing themselves, picking up the wounded, and repairing the ships. How could they attack up the river?
The dim rush.
"Order to continue firing shotguns to suppress the building ships and fighting ships on the opposite side, and order Meng Chong to speed up the attack on the iron chain. In addition, the entire army will move forward slowly. Once the iron chain is destroyed, the enemy will be destroyed in one fell swoop."
Cai Mao was dumbfounded when he saw the effect of shotguns. To be honest, although he knew that his side's trebuchets were very powerful, he had also seen the launch of trebuchets, but he had never seen the scene of hundreds of ships. It was simply too shocking. If
Now that I'm facing him, I probably don't know what to do anymore.
Just as Cai Mao thought, Zhou Tong on the opposite side was also completely stunned. To be honest, he had never seen such a strong attack, let alone seen it. He couldn't even imagine how he should fight now.
?
He really doesn't know anymore.
He was simply possessed by a lucky star. Of the scattered bullets all over the sky, only a few actually landed on his boat. Otherwise, once the bullets hit his head, the Fuling prefect might have returned to the west by now.
"Sir, what should we do now?"
The captain looked at the distance with horrified eyes at the capsized boats and corpses floating in the water, feeling a little at a loss for a moment.
"Every unit should not panic. Use the tower ships and fighting ships to spread out and do not gather together. Then launch the giant crossbow to prevent the enemy from destroying the iron chain."
Although he was confused, Zhou Tong was not mediocre. The rain of bullets on the opposite side was very terrifying and caused a lot of trouble to himself. But that was because he was in a battle formation and the ships were gathered too densely, so he immediately
He ordered the navy to disperse, and at the same time ordered the crossbow bolts to start shooting to suppress the oncoming Mengchong battleship.
Soon Zhou Tong's order was sent to all the ships and battleships in the form of flags. After receiving the order, the navy that had been gathered together dispersed like a goddess scattering flowers, and at the same time began to adjust their crossbows in preparation for the attack.
The Meng Chong battleship.
"Trebuchet, release."
Just as the Yizhou Navy was making adjustments, the second wave of shotgun rain was fired again, and the sky-covering shotguns hit the Yizhou Navy again like dark clouds.
"Hold up your shield to defend, take shelter behind the building ships and fighting ships, and be careful."
Seeing the second wave of shotguns coming, Zhou Tong directly ordered the small boats to move behind the big ship, because their small boat would be smashed into pieces if it could not take a lot of damage, and the big ship had a stronger resistance, even if it was hit by shotguns.
In the middle, the most likely result is injuries, and there will be no devastating damage.
For a moment, the boat accelerated like a swimming fish, dodging behind the tower ships and fighting ships, while the soldiers on the tower ships and fighting ships raised their shields and began to defend against the shotguns falling from the sky.
"Thunder crackle."
"Peng."
"Snapped."
Explosions like rain hitting plantains were heard one after another. Each soldier faced the torrential rain of shotguns, and their shields were directly smashed, causing heavy casualties. One fighting ship was even hit with half of its body in tatters.
The tilt started.
Just when the Yizhou Army was being smashed and turned upside down, dozens of Mengchong warships finally rushed to the edge of the iron chain.
"ignition."
As the team leader on the ship ordered directly to light the torch.
"call."
"call."
"call."
The torches that rushed up were lit in an instant, and dozens of huge torches looked particularly dazzling on the Yangtze River, while the thick iron chains began to slowly turn red as the flames burned.
"Water."
Seeing that it was almost time, the team leader directly ordered the soldiers to water the water.
Buckets of icy cold water were poured directly onto the iron chain, and thick white smoke instantly rose.
"Burn again,"
After watering, the team leader gave the order again, and the torch continued to calcine the iron chain.
The torch came close to the iron chain again and continued to burn the iron chain that had not cooled down just now.
"Water."
"Burn again,"
"Water."
Torch Mengchong was methodically calcining the Hengjiang iron locks, and Zhou Tong was extremely anxious when he saw the situation in front of him.
"How are the preparations of the various ministries? Fire the crossbows quickly, otherwise the enemy will break through the iron chain and be finished."
Although Zhou Tong was anxious, there was nothing he could do about it. Two waves of bullets directly disrupted their formation, and the giant crossbows were usually placed on the bow of the ship. After this rain of bullets, not only did great damage to the hull, but also the damage to the giant crossbows.
The damage was also serious.
Despite this, some fighting ships and building ships adjusted their situation and began to fire crossbows at Torch Mengchong.
Soon, Meng Chong was hit by a crossbow arrow, turning the soldiers above into bloody gourds.
"Don't be afraid, keep burning."
Although the enemy has begun to attack them, their mission is to burn the iron chain no matter what, opening the way for the navy to advance westward.
"Half of the loose bullets, normal heavy bullets, hit me."
Seeing that the opponent was attacking Torch Mengchong, Cai Hao directly ordered half of the trebuchets to be loaded with heavy bombs and half to be suppressed with shotguns. Aren't you going to use big ships to cover those small ships?
Then I will hit your big ship.
The flag signal was conveyed, and the trebuchets on the respective ships began to be reloaded. The heavy bombs were directly pressed onto the ammunition bags, and then soared into the sky and hit the Yizhou Navy on the opposite side.
"Defense, defense."
After Zhou Tong said this, he turned around and got into the cabin. These shields could not protect him completely, so it was safer to enter the cabin.
Zhou Tong didn't need to say anything, and all the ships naturally knew the situation. One by one, they began to maneuver their ships, evading and at the same time using their less damaged sides to resist the stone bullets falling from the sky.
