The enemy tower at Bailing Mountain was eleven or twelve miles away from the sea area where the battle took place. Ye Ji, Baishi and Chen Quanchen stood on the enemy tower at Bai Ling Mountain and could clearly see the situation in the sea area where the battle took place.
Perhaps they were far apart. A salvo of forty-two naval guns did not seem to cause heavy casualties to Jin Chengzong's fleet in the waters southwest of Bailing Mountain, but the real name was Ye Ji Baishi.
It was the fact that the two armies were four miles apart from each other for the first time.
Is this the real Fire Crossbow?
The Western Temple Supervisor had learned about the existence of the Fuhuo Crossbow from the intercepted writings of the Southern Dynasties years ago. The Fuhuo Crossbow also aroused the infinite reverie of the Northern Yan monarchs and ministers. However, the Western Sisi Supervisor sacrificed more than a dozen precious informants and only learned that the Fuhuo Crossbow "shaped like
Huge crossbow, barrel made of iron" is such a vague message.
When General Zuosi innovated the ancient method to create a flaming crossbow, the emperor and ministers of Northern Yan all mistakenly thought that the Huaidong Fuhuo crossbow should be like this. Just before this naval battle, Ye Ji Baishi, Ji Quanchen and others also thought that the Huaidong Fuhuo crossbow should be like this.
The crossbow is just a "spray" with a range slightly farther than twenty or thirty steps. Who would have thought that it would be a powerful weapon that can shoot at a distance of four miles?
Unfortunately, a warship was hit in the mast, and the mast was broken at the waist.
The masts of the medium-sized warships built by Goryeo were all made of solid wood and were extremely hard. The full sails were blown by the wind and could withstand lateral pulling forces of thousands of kilograms or even higher.
Such a ship's mast, even if it is hit by a medium-sized catapult crossbow with 30 kilograms of stone bullets at close range, it may not be able to break it all at once - that ship's mast was broken directly four miles away, and it would not be able to break it.
Ye Ji Baishi, Ji Quanchen and others who were watching the battle from the Bailing Mountain enemy tower could intuitively feel how powerful the Fuhuo Crossbow bombardment was.
At a distance of four miles, it may only take a blink of an eye for a cavalry charge on land, but it takes at least two quarters for a warship to go up against the wind (the day and night under the old system are one hundred quarters, and the day and night under the new system are ninety-six quarters, which is different from one quarter in later generations.
The clock time is the same). In other words, even if the Huaidong warship does not move, it will take two quarters for the Koryo Navy warship to connect with it. In this time, it is enough for the Huaidong warship's fire crossbow to fire
How many rounds?
Three rounds, five rounds, eight rounds, ten rounds?
Ye Ji, Baishi, Ji Quanchen and other generals who were watching the battle at Bailing Mountain could not hide the shock on their faces. Their faces were ashen, and they were at a loss for a while.
The ultra-long-range shooting distance is shocking, and the shooting power is shocking, but what is even more shocking is that the fire-fighting crossbows are so densely arranged on the warship.
The counterweighted catapult crossbows made by Huaidong were also very powerful, but the bulky counterweighted catapult crossbows could not be installed on warships. The war weapons used by Huaidong warships were mainly Chuáng crossbows and scorpion crossbows.
Huaidong's ship array at the south entrance of the strait, from a distance, the six warships in the middle are quite small, they should be new Jiyun-class warships, but it is such a medium-sized warship, with just one side on one side.
Deploy six ambushes and heavy crossbows; then in the waters outside Hejin Island, are there new warships that are heavier and equipped with more ambushes and heavy crossbows approaching?
Although the scorpion crossbow throws stone bullets and fire oil cans, it has caused great casualties to Goryeo, Beiyan and other navies, but the Goryeo and Beiyan navies now have to be able to make scorpion crossbows for reciprocal suppression, and the other
The distance between the scorpion crossbow and the canister of pyrotechnics is only 300 steps, which is already the distance for close combat.
At this distance, the gap in weapons can be made up by taking advantage of terrain and numbers.
The Fuhuo Crossbow first extended the distance between the two sides to four miles, making the boarding battle extremely difficult; the advantage of distance completely suppressed the advantage of the number of warships.
Even if the generals are not afraid of sacrifice and have the courage to fight until the last soldier without retreating, they will be able to approach Huaidong's new warships and engage in battle after ten or more rounds of bombardment.
How much fighting power is left?
Ye Ji Baishi, Ji Quanchen and other generals were hesitating at the enemy base in Bailing Mountain. Jin Chengzong, who directly commanded the war on the battlefield, was even more like a headless fly - he subconsciously thought of retreating to the trench on the inside of Bailing Mountain.
However, the water surface of the Hejin Strait is narrow. If nearly a hundred large and small warships turned around and fled in a hurry, the Huaidong warships would be killed by the wind.
Furthermore, the enemy station at Bailing Mountain did not issue a clear military order, and Jin Chengzong did not dare to advocate escaping back under the eyes of Yeji Baishi and his powerful ministers.
If you can't escape, you can rush forward, especially when the two wings are outflanking the fleet, getting closer to the Huaidong warship. As long as you can fight on the side, you can take advantage of the large number of people on board.
Jin Chengzong also realized the disadvantage of too dense a ship formation, but when he ordered to adjust the formation and continue to advance, the second round of bombardment began; he was even unable to contact the outflanking fleets on both sides in time.
This round of bombardment was dominated by six frigates spread out in a battle line in the center, and thirty-six broadside guns were fired in sequence; while the bow guns of the warships on both wings were aimed at the enemy ships outflanking from both sides.
Due to the dense density and large number of enemy ships, you only need to aim at a designated sea area instead of a single target, so the shooting speed and hit rate will naturally increase greatly.
When the enemy ship was approaching two miles from the front, the naval guns had already fired six rounds. Cao Wenlong stood in the command cabin, using a telescope to observe the shelling - he did not go to Haizhou until late February to participate in the planning of the attack on Shaocheng.
plan, but the large-scale maritime launch in Haizhou in late February has ended, and Cao Wenlong has not yet counted the ship's broadside guns firing salvos at target ships with new tactics.
At this time, although there was no hand-to-hand combat, looking through the looking glass and watching the enemy ship being bombarded by solid iron bullets, the masts were broken, the ship was cracked, the wood was flying, and the flesh and blood were flying everywhere was really exciting.
At the boiling point, Cao Wenlong wished he could get down to the gun cabin immediately and get his fill of shooting a few cannons.
The power of solid iron bullets is great, but the ability to kill enemies intensively is not strong. And even if a large and medium-sized sea-going ship is hit by a heavy catapult crossbow at close range, it will not be able to completely fall apart and break apart.
After six rounds of shelling, although most of the Koryo warships at the forefront were beyond recognition, unfortunately, their masts were broken and only a few capsized warships were left. Even though the front sides of several warships penetrated the seawater and poured water into the cabins,
Goryeo warships also adopted a watertight cabin structure, so a single damage would not cause the entire ship to sink quickly.
The officers and soldiers of the Korean navy seemed to have seen the battle coming close to the side, and relying on the hope of victory among the people on board the ship, they were all in high spirits for a while. They did not even dare to suffer huge casualties under the shelling, and wanted to rush up to the side to seize the ship.
Ge Yuan just watched calmly as the enemy ship rushed within a thousand meters, and ordered the bow cannon to load shotguns and prepare.
The frigate is about the same size as the old Jiyun-class battleship, but in order to install naval guns on the bow deck, one set of masts is reduced and a two-mast compound schooner structure is adopted. Even with the use of more set sails, the speed has not slowed down.
However, installing a bow gun on the bow deck and adding two gun positions is secondary, and more importantly, it makes the frigate's tactics more flexible.
In comparison, Jinhai-class and Hayashi-kun-class battleships can currently only use broadside bombardment tactics. They lack flexibility in near-side naval battles and must rely more on frigates.
The first to enter the shotgun range were the enemy ships approaching from the left wing.
Although the old warships on the left wing do not have a large number of side guns, the Jinhai-class warships are equipped with two twelve-pound cannons at the bow and stern, and an additional twenty-four-pound heavy cannon is installed at the bow as the main gun.
The firepower of naval guns is actually not much weaker than that of frigates.
Facing nearly twenty small and medium-sized enemy ships swarming from one side, the left-wing escort ship formation was dominated by one Jinhai-class warship, supplemented by three Jiyun-class warships. The battle was evenly matched, not to mention
There are nine artillery pieces that can fire shotguns at the same time?
The cone-shaped barrage reaches a distance of 300 meters, and has formed a blanketing rain of bullets, which will almost guarantee the impact, and the five warships at the head of the enemy ship formation that maintain the cone-shaped array will be covered...
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The barrage, which was equivalent to two thousand powerful crossbows fired at one time, taught the Korean naval officers that long-distance combat was not heaven, and close combat on the side was even more hell.
Including the Huaidong Navy, the structure of the ship's masts and decks must be considered complex and narrow. Even in close combat, the use of heavy armor and long soldiers and heavy blades will be severely suppressed. Therefore, the navy soldiers mostly use their skins to fight.
Armor or composite armor and thin iron plate armor are mainly used. Although the protective power of leather armor and other light armor is worse than that of heavy armor, it is more suitable for deck-side combat with complex structure and narrow deck.
But in the barrage formed by the shotguns, the soldiers of the Goryeo Navy could deeply feel how precious the heavy armor was; the large human-shaped shield that protected the heavy crossbow had almost been destroyed by the previous shelling, and the ship's side
As for the battle, the navy generals had shields or were just holding shields. They were gathering on the bow deck with shields and preparing to join the battle and rushed to the Huaidong warship...
Although a shield can cover vital parts such as the head and chest at a distance of 300 meters or more, the areas that cannot be covered by the shield will be violently torn open by the lead shot, making it difficult for thin leather armor to provide effective protection. As long as it can be seen by the naked eye,
You could see that your waist, arms, and armor were shattered to pieces, and you were beaten to a bloody pulp. You could see the lead pellets breaking open huge bloody holes in your body, and it suddenly turned into a hell on earth.
The officers of the Goryeo Navy who were at a later position witnessed this tragic scene and saw that five warships were paralyzed at once and sent to hell on earth. They immediately lost the courage to fight again and rowed away in panic.
The left wing was outflanking the fleet. Jin Chengzong personally led the main fleet to attack from the front. When he saw the situation, Jin Chengzong naturally did not have the courage to test the power of the barrage at close range. He urgently stopped the warships and fled frantically in the opposite direction; while the right wing
outflanking the fleet, the view was blocked by the Huaidong warship, and the left wing could not be seen. Although the main fleet retreated, they did not react in time and followed the inertia to approach the right wing of the Huaidong warship.
Seeing that the enemy ships were about to escape, Huaidong's escort fleet on the right wing did not bother to wait for a more favorable shooting distance, and fired shotguns in advance, paralyzing the two leading ships. The remaining ships also scattered like birds and beasts, heading towards the shallow waters on the right wing.
Escape.
Ge Yuan did not immediately order the pursuit. Even if the wind was favorable, it would take a while for the enemy ship to escape the range of the solid iron bullets. The pursuit would inevitably require adjusting the frigate's position, which would weaken the firepower. Furthermore, pursuing the enemy ship at close range is a battle line in itself.
The big taboo of bombardment tactics. As a commander of a task force, the specific tactical training required is to keep enemy ships within the range of the bombardment, and to abandon the past tradition of near-side combat and even brutal collisions. The tactical impact.g!.