Eunuch Zhang's lucky ship slowed down, and Cangshan boats and Haicang boats passed by one after another, rowing downstream. The half-burning firewood on the river surface released thick smoke. Ming soldiers leaned against the boat gang and used long bamboo poles or fiddled away the burning firewood piles, or directly smashed them.

Two feet away from the bow of the lucky ship, a pile of firewood with thick smoke was pushed away, but the smoke trapped the entire ship.

"Ahem~~"

After a violent cough, Eunuch Zhang cursed and said, "Damn the thief, fire the supervisor, and fire a few more shots to open his eyes!"

"Boom~~"

Less than ten seconds before the order was issued, a strong explosion suddenly broke out on the bow of a sea-descending ship. The narrow bow of the boat was shattered on the spot, and several bodies with missing arms and legs were thrown into the canal!

The sea is 20 meters long and less than four meters wide. A mine is enough to send it back to heaven!

I saw the sea-fall ship that was blown to the bow of the boat, as if it was grabbed by the big hand under the water. From slow to fast, it started to spin wildly on the river surface, and brought out a vortex from shallow to deep. Several crew members with quick hands and feet jumped into the water in time and escaped from the vortex range by luck. More sailors and gunners had no time to jump the ship, so they were screwed into the bottom of the river with the ship!

But the canal was only a few meters deep. The ship suddenly touched the bottom, and a burst of black mud and water surged up. The mud oars gurgled, swallowing up the floating broken wooden boards, and the crew members who were full of fear and shouting for help.

"What kind of cannon is this? How could the thief's cannon be so sharp?"

Beads of sweat the size of beans oozed out of Xu Kai’s forehead!

Although the Ming army neglected to practice, as a navy general, he had basic professional qualities. He never thought that a shell could sink a ship with one shell. If the shell landed on his lucky ship, although the lucky ship would be much larger, the result would be hard to say.

But there is also a doubt among them. The thief's boat was a small fishing boat with no cannon position. Even if the light thief's machine could not be installed, the large army of the thief was still behind, and the shells could not be fired from the land.

So, where did this shell come from?

The unknown is the most terrifying. For some reason, my ship sank into the river!

Eunuch Zhang also thought of this and screamed: "What's going on? What's going on? Why did our ship sink?"

Xu Kai said uncertainly: "Eunuch Zhang, it may have made a mistake in the gunner and detonated the ammunition himself."

"Zhi Ma, I was shocked by the supervisor and sent orders to all ships, so everyone was more at ease. Next time, I will never let you go!"

Eunuch Zhang thought about it, it was undoubtedly the most reasonable explanation. How could he sink inexplicably? He immediately came back with confidence.

But reality ruthlessly shattered his dream. The flag bearer was still waving the flag. Not far from the left, there was another loud bang, and several corpses soared into the sky. This time, an explosion occurred on the right side of a Cangshan boat!

I saw a hole half a meter radius blown out next to the water line, and the rolling river water rushed in. Under the pressure of the water flow, the wooden boards around the hole were torn and expanded like a pulp!

The boat was in chaos, and the crew rushed out of the rear warehouse like crazy, swaying into the river, but the hull capsized very quickly. Some people just climbed to a high place and rolled down the board, while others didn't even have the chance to climb to a high place, and slid into the water in a bunch.

"Crazy~~"

A splash of water surged, and the ship capsized, like a pot lid facing the sky, and corpses emerged from the water around the hull!

This was simply a thunderous bone. Xu Kai felt cold all over. If the sinking of the sea-fall ship could be barely explained that the sailor's improper operation caused an ammunition explosion, and the two ships successively exploded, how could it be possible?

Eunuch Zhang also felt chilling on his back, which was beyond human cognition. He barely supported the boat gang and called out in a trembling voice: "Who can tell this supervisor, what's going on?"

No one could answer that the two ships were sinking so strangely. Although the sun shone brightly, a chill surged from the bottom of my heart.

"Bang~~"

Just as the ship was in a dead silence, a muffled sound not far away broke the silence. Eunuch Zhang shivered violently. Could it be that another ship would sink? When he looked again, fortunately, there was no ship sinking, but his own side fired the cannon.

Lu Lu Jiji's cannon sounded a little calm, but the accurate head on the water surface really couldn't compliment. The Folang machine cannon was an auxiliary cannon. The main purpose was not to fire solid bullets, but to fire scatters. It was in line with the mother-child cannon equipped by the navy in the late Qing Dynasty. It was used to fire solid bullets. Due to the air leakage, the range was not much higher, and the accurate head was even worse.

Eunuch Zhang forced himself to stand up straight, but his eyes stagnated. At the bow of his boat, there was a wooden box floating in the water. His boat slowly approached it. The wooden box was yellow in color, with a length of one foot and a few strange touches stretched out around it. If you don't look carefully, it will easily be regarded as a broken wooden board floating in the water.

Eunuch Zhang hurriedly asked, "What is in the water?"

Everyone looked down and found wooden boxes one after another. Xu Kai waved: "Come on, take the box up!"

"Get orders!"

The two crew members took the bamboo pole and reached into the water to fiddle with it. The moment the bamboo pole touched the wooden box, a sudden change occurred!

"boom!"

There was no sign of any sign. A ball of fire bloomed on the water surface, stirring up a two-meter-high water column. Iron broken wood scattered with water splashes. The two crew members were beaten into sieves on the spot and flew out by strong air waves. They could not die anymore!

Suddenly, everyone was beating wildly, it was so dangerous. If it hadn't been discovered early and stabbed with a wooden pole, the consequences would be unimaginable!

Eunuch Zhang wiped his sweat and shouted in fear: "I understand that the culprit is this wooden box. Take care of all the ships, avoid the wooden box, or pick it up!"

As expected, there were scattered wooden boxes floating in the fragmented wooden boards on the river, which was difficult to find. You could even see the thief's boat retreating while releasing wooden boxes into the river!

The flag verbs were whispered out with shouts. Although they realized that hitting a wooden box would cause the ship to be destroyed, it was not so easy to avoid it.

Generally speaking, the rudder is installed at the stern, and the helmsman is behind. He cannot see the situation in front. He can only rely on the lookout to remind him that the ships in the late Ming Dynasty used tillers instead of rudders, and there was no concept of scale. The Ming army navy did not have systematic naval terms, such as the number of left rudders, the full rudder on the right, etc. The consequences of this were all called, which made the helmsman at a loss.

“Go to the right, go to the right!”

"I've passed, I've passed, I've turned around, hurry up and look back!"

"It's past again, go to the right, go to the right!"

Amid the faint cry, Li Xin turned around and said, "Do you dare to use a gun to shoot?"

Wu Changgong, who was temporarily trusted by Li Xin as the commander of the water army because of his good water nature, immediately said: "What are you afraid of? The official army's ship is in chaos. Our guns are made of new gunpowder, and the range has been improved. It should be fine to hit him with a loophole."

"good!"

Li Xin nodded and said, "Don't have too many people, mainly harassment, specializing in fighting the Ming army's soldiers who fiddled with mines. Each ship has one person on the bow, and two people behind the ship are responsible for filling ammunition. They can't stop in place or fight, do you understand?"

"Get orders!"
Chapter completed!