There are many kinds of chain bombs. The 203 heavy artillery like this uses multiple lead balls connected by iron chains.
First put the propellant into the barrel, then put a cork board to seal the barrel, and then load a bunch of chain bullets into it. After being fired like this, the chain bullet will spin and hit the target.
There is a kind of chain bullet. In addition to two lead balls, there are several iron chains connected to a small crescent-shaped iron sickle. In this way, when the chain bomb flies onto the deck of the enemy ship, the rotating sickle will cut everything it encounters into two pieces. Be it masts or enemy sailors.
However, the range of spinning bullets such as chain bombs cannot be too far. So launch at a close range.
With the semaphore the command is conveyed. The three cruisers cut inward and began to approach the Japanese interception fleet at the east entrance of the strait.
Soon the cruiser was puffing black smoke from its chimney and reached a distance of 150 meters.
General Fujiwara was immediately ecstatic. He didn't know how to get close to them because they were too fast. Good thing now, they drove over on their own.
"Quick, quick, turn the sails, go up, go up. Join the fight, jump to help, quick, quick."
Fujiwara shouted excitedly and incoherently.
At this distance, they were still powerless because they lacked artillery, and their only long-range weapons were bows and arrows and iron cannons. Bows and arrows are thirty meters long, while iron cannons have a range of only fifty meters. Can't fight.
Dong Tianpeng saw that the distance was close, and immediately ordered, "All of them, all the heavy guns on the port side should be replaced with chain ammunition, and fire one round."
Following the order, the Hengshan took the lead, starting from the first gun window on the port side, boom boom boom!
A series of bombardments began. With smoke and flames erupting. Chain bullets flew out of the gun barrel one after another.
At present, these heavy artillery are fired using the kind of flintlock engine used on flintlock muskets. At the moment when the aim is good, you can use the match rope to pull the flintlock engine to ignite, and you can fire instantly.
If the fusiliator fails, the backup method is to use a grenade to pull the flame tube.
Put the fire hose into the fire door. If you pull it hard, it will instantly ignite and fire.
These chain bullets will be pushed forward by the propellant and the cork board, and the cork board will shatter at the moment of launch. The chain bullet flew three meters out of the gun barrel and then spun open. Spin towards the target
The densely packed Anzha boats, small morning boats, and Guan boats 150 meters away were swept away by fifty-four spinning chain bombs.
Kohayabune is a small military ship from the Warring States Period to the Edo Period. "Kohaya" means "small morning boat (seki ship)" in Japanese.
The number of oars in Xiaozao is less than 40. It does not have a general arrow store for storing arrows that Anzabune and Sekibune have, and its defense is poor. But its mobility is flexible, so it is mainly used for reconnaissance and ordering in war.
In addition, due to its flexible movement, it is also used to raid enemy troops. The general just gave the order, and a large group of small morning boats took advantage of the small size of the boat to turn around, and collectively turned around and swarmed up. Prepare to approach the enemy ship and board the ship for hand-to-hand combat.
These boats are similar to the ones we commonly see for dragon boat racing during the Dragon Boat Festival, except they are much wider and have fenders more than one meter high on both sides of the boat. People can hide inside and get cover.
On this kind of boat, rowers and combatants are arranged alternately from front to back.
Under the protection of the walls on both sides, the oarsmen rowed, and the combatants sat and used the shooting ports to fire iron cannons or crossbows. They also have long weapons such as cross spears and naginata. In addition, there are grenadiers on such ships.
That is, after approaching an enemy ship, throw a baked jade, which is a ceramic shell bomb tied to a hemp rope. It is filled with gunpowder and poison. It can both explode and create poisonous smoke. ap.
Although the boat is simple and lacks protection, it only has a mast and a pair of sails. But this is the smallest galley in Japan. Very maneuverable and flexible. There was a record of a famous general using a small morning boat to defeat the Oyasu boat during the Warring States Period.
Now Fujiwara has the same idea. Let the small morning boat take advantage of its fast speed and maneuverability to get up quickly. Fire the iron cannon at fifty meters and the bow at thirty meters. Throw baked jade from ten meters away. Then, while the enemy ships are exploding and the smoke is filling the air, they launch a surprise attack.
, forced boarding.
At this time, it depends on the skills of the warriors. They will jump to help and fight hand-to-hand with the enemy on the enemy ship.
If these small morning ships were raiding Japan's Anzhai ships, there would also be defensive means. That is, let the sailors control the oars and use them to condescendingly hit these small boats that are trying to get close to board the ship.
These sailors are all masters of flexibly using oars. They can hit the small boat accurately and create waves to overturn the boat.
As the leader of a small morning boat, Shinbei has seen clearly.
These three large white boats have no oars at all, so there is no need to be afraid of the slaps from the oars overhead. He smiled contemptuously. Although these enemies looked at the ship, they were very big. However, they had no means to deal with the small morning boats.
These offensive and defensive routines were all familiar to all the great names in the past Warring States Period.
These big white boats have bare sides and not a single oar.
In other words, they could not stop the approach of the small morning boat. As long as the small morning boat can reach it. They can climb up there. When the time comes for hand-to-hand combat on the ship, they feel confident.
Because they are all veterans who have fought the war for a long time. He is proficient in swordsmanship, flexible in footwork and agile in jumping.
The guns of the three cruisers were also pointed at these small morning boats rushing over. Who can let them rush the fastest and be in the front? According to naval maneuvers, priority is given to shooting at targets with the greatest threat on the battlefield.
Boom boom boom! There was a series of gunfire, and thick smoke sprayed out for more than thirty meters, and was blown away by the sea breeze.
However, the whirling chain bullets flew towards the small morning boats.
Shinbei only saw a dark mass spinning and flying towards him.
Before I could see clearly what it was, I felt that my vision went dark and I didn't know anything at all.
A burst of blood and flesh flew everywhere. Starting from him standing on the bow, a ship was emptied from head to stern by a spinning chain bomb.
Whether it was the high-speed rotating iron chain tightening the spinning lead ball, or the iron chain-tied sickle, flying and cutting, the two rows of people on the small morning boat were immediately cut to pieces.
The remains of human bodies and limbs were flying around, and the Japanese armor on their bodies was also cut into pieces by the sickle, and the armor pieces were flying around. Blood sprayed all over the ship.
The shot put and sickle rotating at high speed ignored the siding of the boat, the armor and bodies of the personnel. Whirl around and chop it all up. The walls on both sides where blood and flesh were sprayed out were stained red.
The person who was hit by this kind of chain bullet was very frightened. From the waist up, everything was broken into pieces.
Kinoshita Tokichiro was holding the rudder at the stern of the boat. He was instantly frightened. He watched as a black thing spun at high speed, flying towards it with a scream, and then there was the sound of flesh being chopped into pieces.
The small leader of their group, Shinbei, has a wooden baffle in front that can block iron cannon bullets. However, they were instantly destroyed by these whistling iron balls, and the long line of people behind them turned into blood mist and fragments and were thrown everywhere.
Kinoshita Tokichiro froze in fear and lost the ability to move. He watched helplessly as the chain bullets hit the people behind the mast after killing all the people in front.
Suddenly, there was a click, and the chain of the chain bullet was entangled in the mast.
Once the chain bullet is blocked by something, it will spiral around the thing. Just watch the chain bullet wrap around the mast. After spinning several times at high speed, with a click, the mast was broken and fell diagonally into the sea. There was a popping sound. Water splashed into the sky.
The few survivors in the back of the boat were so frightened that they almost collapsed. The water fell and drowned them like drowned rats.
