The soldiers that Chaohua Taiji can take with him are undoubtedly elite. There will be no trouble in shooting armor-piercing arrows in the front line. If there is any trouble, it is that the bow string will be more effective in rainy days than in sunny days.
It is worse because the glued parts and even the bow body itself will get wet.
Apart from this, there were no other troubles. The light rain did not affect their sighting and shooting, so the first wave of arrows shot out quickly.
Except for some deck boatmen who could not leave without authorization, the people on the ship were not afraid of such a rain of arrows. They all hid behind the strong and thick wooden boards. Unless all the Duoying soldiers were equal, they would not be able to escape at all.
will pose a threat to them.
Even including Zhang Wanbang and his fifty cavalry, since they had already fired four rounds of volleys (the Duo soldiers fired two more rounds during the period when they received the order and fired), in view of the shaking of the ship, this distance had already
There was no need to continue firing volleys, so under Zhang Wanbang's order, he hid behind a bulwark nearly as tall as a person and squatted down to avoid the rain of arrows.
However, the numerical advantage of Duo's soldiers still came into play at this time. This nearly covering wave of three to four hundred armor-piercing arrows still caused some losses to the Ming army, including six deck boatmen and one
The unlucky Zhang family servant was hit by an arrow.
Since the opponent used armor-piercing arrows, two of the deckhands who were hit by the arrows were killed on the spot, and the remaining four were seriously injured. However, the unlucky one among the Zhang family's servants was lucky. He was wearing cavalry armor, and that
An arrow almost fell directly from his head and hit his shoulder - the shoulder armor stopped him, so it was only the back of his left shoulder that was injured.
Zhang Wanbang, who was not far from him, was very experienced. He could tell at a glance that he had injured his shoulder blade. He usually wouldn't die, but at the very least, he would have to be unable to use force for a hundred days. If he had bad luck or poor care, he would probably be in trouble for the rest of his life.
It’s hard to eat this bowl of rice again.
A servant is an important "asset" for a general, and it takes money and time to train him. Of course, Zhang Wanbang didn't want him to end up "retiring sadly", so he quickly ordered someone to take him to a safe inner cabin and take good care of him.
At this time, the boss of the ship appeared from behind. He was already covered in armor. He grabbed Zhang Wanbang's arm and said hurriedly: "Zhang Shourong, I'm afraid the Tatars can shoot one or two more rounds. Maybe there will be more."
Rocket, come with me to the bridge and take shelter!"
Zhang Wanbang waved his hand carelessly and said: "Hey, it's okay, there's nothing they can do against me at this distance... By the way, it's raining, the wood is wet, the rockets should be useless, right? Also, you are the boss of the ship, you
Just go to the bridge and take command, old... uh, I'll just watch here so they can see but not touch, hey!"
The boss of the ship couldn't help but admire him after hearing this, and thought to himself: This is really a general, no wonder the master regards him as a confidant and transferred him all the way from Xuanda University.
But he was impressed, and the captain still refused to leave, and went to pull him again, saying: "Shou Rong, don't blame the young ones for talking too much. Although they are almost out of reach of us at this distance, we can still reach them, young ones."
The artillery fire is about to start here, so you and the military officers should go and rest first, and leave it to us... Otherwise, you can also go to the bridge to see how we deal with the Tatars."
"Oh?" Only then did Zhang Wanbang remember that the Jinghua ship was a gunboat. He rolled his eyes, changed his mind, and nodded: "Since we are going to set off cannons, I would be happy to watch. Yes, let's make room for you...
…Brothers, let’s go into the cabin to warm ourselves up, and wait to see the great general from Jinghua showing off his power!”
The "general" he mentioned here refers to cannon - the Ming Dynasty liked to call heavy artillery various "generals". Even the quantitative units often did not say how many cannons, but how many cannons or how many generals.
, several generals are like this.
After Zhang Wanbang and others left, the ship's boss, although he was wearing armor, was obviously not as bold as Zhang Shourong and liked to dance on graves. He quickly returned to the bridge command room and began to direct the ship to turn and prepare to fire the cannon.
Jinghua's maritime warships have already begun to build things like two-deck guns, but shallow-water ships on inland rivers obviously cannot handle such giant ships. Therefore, although this ship is already a big ship on the Liaohe River Channel, there are still many problems on the ship.
There is only one No. 3 gun and four No. 2 guns, and they are all ordinary open-air deck guns.
In addition, the artillery fire of these days cannot achieve the "central axis layout" of later generations, so unless it is surrounded, it cannot be done, and there is no need for all the artillery to fire at the same time.
What the ship boss meant was that since Zhang Shourong said he wanted to "watch and learn", he was now representing Jinghua and waiting to be evaluated. In this case, he had to fire with great momentum, so he chose to turn and use the bow of the ship directly.
The No. 3 cannon instead of the No. 2 cannon on both sides of the ship.
At this time, a burst of rockets was actually fired from the shore, causing a slight panic - because at this time there were already gunners and gunners carrying cannonballs and gunpowder to the deck. The cannonballs were just solid iron balls, but
It doesn't matter, but if the gunpowder is ignited, it will be a big trouble.
Fortunately, as Zhang Wanbang said before, at this distance and it was raining, even if the rocket was not extinguished on the way over, it would be extinguished immediately when it hit the hull and could not light a fire at all, and Jinghua did not
I was unlucky enough to be shot directly with gunpowder, so this wave of rockets finally passed without any danger.
Of course, these gunpowders are actually double-sealed. The outside is a wooden box soaked in tung oil and painted with fire-retardant paint, and there is a layer of thick kraft paper inside. In fact, it will not be penetrated by light arrows and rockets at such a distance and ignite.
, the panic of the boatmen and gunners was just due to the subconscious fear of the flammable gunpowder.
Taking advantage of the distance and the time to turn, the gunners began to prepare.
On the other side, Chaohua Taiji stood on the shore with a gloomy expression, gritted his teeth and looked at the Jinghua gunboat in the river, not knowing what he was thinking.
A person next to him suddenly frowned and said: "Taiji, what do you think this ship wants to do? Why do they... don't seem to be leaving yet?" From the look of his clothes, he knew that he was an aristocrat from the Huahua Department, and he was probably a junior.
One of the leaders.
When Chaohua Taiji was reminded by him, he was also pulled out of his thoughts. He looked at the turning Jinghua gunboat and frowned: "They pointed the bow at us? What are they doing? They want to come back to compete with us.
?”
Another general, who seemed to be one of the small leaders, said: "Who cares about them? How many people can be carried on one ship? It doesn't matter if it's three or four hundred. If they want to come down and die, we can help them."
After thinking about it, Chao Hua snorted softly: "Then I want to see if 'that person' is really an old man who eats arsenic - he is tired of living. Humph, he is just relying on the power of firearms, what else do you dare to pretend?
Heroes are fearless?”
But at this moment, the first general who raised a question suddenly changed his expression and said in surprise: "No, there is a general cannon on the bow of the ship! Taiji, leave quickly!"
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