The explosion caused damage to the warship and casualties of soldiers.
When it explodes, it will kill and injure the sailors of the Southern Song Dynasty. Their flesh and blood will fly everywhere. Those who are more lucky will be thrown away by the air waves generated by the explosion. Those who are more lucky will not die when they land on the deck. Not so lucky. It fell directly into the water.
Some large rockets are very lucky and can hit the mast of the ship. With a bang, the mast breaks, and it is difficult to say whether the ship can continue to fight.
Facing the Ming army's frequent shootings and serial explosions, the Southern Song Dynasty navy was really confused for a while. Instead of continuing to move forward, some warships in the front tried to go back to avoid the terrible explosions.
In this case, several ships with incompetent commanders even collided with each other.
Before it was sunk by the enemy, it was sunk by itself first.
Good guy.
At this time, Wu Chao, the general who commanded the naval operations, realized that if the situation was allowed to continue, the Southern Song Navy would be defeated early. Once the Ming Navy caught up, the Southern Song Navy would be in danger of destruction.
And what happened to the Ming army’s firearms?
Why is it so powerful?
In addition to the sound, can the explosion cause so much damage?
Wu Chao couldn't understand, so he could only forcefully ignore the problem, and immediately ordered the drums to be beaten, the command flag to be waved, and the navy soldiers to use the bunkers on the ship to protect themselves. The sailors set sail with all their strength and tried their best to get close to the Ming Navy.
As long as you get close to the Ming Navy and use hand-to-hand combat and gang-hopping combat, you can offset the Ming Navy's advantages in firearms and long-range weapons.
This is a desperate sprint, relying on the lack of power of the Ming army's firearms and the limitation of launch speed, trying every means to get close to the Ming army navy as quickly as possible, engaging in hand-to-hand combat and gang fighting, and pulling the Ming army navy back. In the normal state of water warfare, the advantages of the Southern Song Dynasty navy were brought into play.
After all, the Southern Song Dynasty navy was well-trained and technically sophisticated. Under Wu Chao's order, a fleet of ships was quickly organized. Withstanding the Ming army's indiscriminate bombing, they sprinted towards the Ming army navy at full speed. go.
The Ming Navy obviously noticed this, and the signal soldiers on the observation deck quickly conveyed the news to the flagship, letting Commander Zhou Mancheng know that the Song Navy had begun to charge, and the speed was quite fast.
This situation did not go beyond Zhou Mancheng's expectation.
Faced with a long-range advantage, of course, you have to find a way to entangle the enemy in close combat, so as to offset the long-range advantage. If it were him, he would do the same.
But this is not the time yet, the Ming army's firearms have not yet been fully utilized.
The big rockets continued to fire, hitting the sprinting Southern Song warships one by one, and a series of explosions rumbled. The Southern Song sailors were killed and injured one after another, and some were blown into the water. The casualties were relatively high. serious.
But there were still ships charging, showing considerable courage.
But these charging ships will also become targets, and they will be taken care of by the Ming Army's large rocket launch team. A ship rushing at the front was hit by four or five large rockets, and there were a series of explosions. The ship gradually disappeared. Continuing forward, I don’t know whether the hull of the ship was damaged and unable to move forward, or whether the sailors and sailors inside suffered too many casualties and were unable to move forward.
But it didn't sink for a while.
The navy of the Southern Song Dynasty was obviously very brave. After a period of confusion, they also discovered that although the Ming army's firearms were very powerful, they were not able to directly end the duel. The probability of hitting the warships was not high, and many of them fell directly into the water, so They believed that as long as they fought closely, there would be a chance to turn the tide of the war.
So under the order of the commander-in-chief Wu Chao, the Song Navy warships began to charge.
But the Ming Navy’s navy had a large reserve of firearms, so where did it go?
Whether I have you or not, of course I have to try my best to use firearms for long-range strikes, so as not to engage in close combat with you from the beginning, so Zhou Mancheng ordered the first-line fleet to increase the launch capacity of large rockets. One warship can launch five rockets at the same time. Big rocket.
Although there were not many Southern Song warships that could hit them, many Southern Song warships were hit, and many people were killed and injured.
It's not that they didn't counterattack. They also had long-range attack weapons such as bed crossbows, but they didn't have as powerful gunpowder as the Ming army. Just shooting the bed crossbows didn't have much effect, and the damage to the Ming army was really limited.
And they do not have mature large rocket launching tactics. The firearms they possess need to be within a certain range before they can be thrown and used. Now that the Ming army has fierce firepower, it is difficult for them to get close, let alone use their own advantages.
Half an hour passed in the blink of an eye. The first wave of death squads sent by Wu Chao basically died out. They either ran back in despair, were on fire waiting to sink, or stopped alone on the river without moving.
What was even more unlucky were the sailors who fell into the water but were not dead yet. Those who were holding wooden boards still had a chance to survive. However, they were swallowed up by the river in an instant. The sailors suffered heavy casualties.
Wu Chao was very anxious. Before the war started, he never expected that the Ming army would have such powerful firearms and such a range. His brain was spinning rapidly, but after thinking about it, there was no better way. He could only pass on more weapons to Lin. The ships charge.
Don't charge in a group, but divide into several teams and charge from different directions, and the speed must be fast. As long as the speed is fast enough, their firearms cannot catch up.
Advance at full speed, sprint with all your strength, and seize every opportunity to engage in boarding battles and gang-hopping battles with the Ming army!
The order was transmitted through war drums, horns and flags. Soon, the well-trained Southern Song Dynasty navy organized another wave of charges. This time it was a charge of three teams. The three fleets launched a charge separately, and each ship The team was moving at full speed with no delay at all.
The disadvantage of the Ming Army's firearms being insufficiently accurate was revealed in front of the Song Army's combat ships advancing at full speed. The hit rate dropped greatly. Although there were some good hits and explosions, the effect was much worse than the successful wave of blocking the enemy just now. .
After Zhou Mancheng learned of the situation, he realized that long-range strikes could only stop here. Firearms were not yet the mainstream of naval warfare. If he wanted to truly eliminate the Southern Song Navy, he still had to go head-on.
The navy of the Ming Dynasty was large in number and well-trained. Could it be that they were afraid of the navy of the Southern Song Dynasty?
Zhou Mancheng immediately sent an order and ordered the Ming Navy to take advantage of their numerical advantage and organize three counterattack fleets to meet the Southern Song Dynasty's attacking fleet head-on. After trying their best to maximize the advantages of firearms, the fleets of both sides finally launched a battle Traditional boarding battles and gang-hopping battles.
Both sides used crossbows, stones, and firearms to throw each other's ships at each other. The Song army used their firearms to shake the sky, while the Ming army used the more powerful thunder cannon. Both sides were attacked by the other side's firearms.
Only then did the Song Army discover that the most powerful weapon of the Ming Army was not the long-range rockets, but the Thunder God Cannon, which was "from the same family" as Zhentian Lei.
There was a loud bang, and the thunder cannon exploded. The lethality and impact it brought were several times that of a large rocket. If a thunder cannon was thrown on the ship, it would cause almost half of the Song Army sailors on the ship to lose their combat effectiveness. , and also indirectly lost power.
And their Sky-shaking Thunder cannot have the corresponding effect.
A Song Army warship was even worse. A thunder cannon hit the powder room where the gunpowder was stored, causing an even more tragic explosion. The warship was blown into two pieces in one breath and sank directly. All the sailors on the ship were killed. fish and microorganisms in the Yangtze River.
The Ming Army was not without similar risks. Some Ming Army warships were hit by Song Army firearms, which affected the place where the gunpowder was stored, causing a tragic explosion. The Ming Army soldiers also suffered a devastating blow.
But overall, the Ming army's thunder cannon is much more powerful than the Song army's thunder, both in terms of explosion sound and explosion power.
And when the two ships are really close enough to collide, the two sides will also engage in traditional boarding battles, such as hitting each other and slapping each other.
In addition to long-range strike firearms, the more common water warfare weapon in this era is the racket.
This kind of weapon is actually to tie a huge stone to the top of the mast, and tie it to a high place with a rope in advance. When approaching the enemy ship, the mast is suddenly lowered, and the power of the stone is used to smash the enemy ship - "It is made like a large mast A huge stone is placed on the top, a drill is made on the bottom, and a rope is passed through the top of it, and it is applied to the big ship. Whenever it encounters an enemy ship, if it is forced, it will hit it with a stick and smash it to pieces."
Larger battleships have paddles that can crush smaller enemy ships in one go.
When the Sui army went south to fight the unification war against the Chen Dynasty, they used a warship called Wuya, which was equipped with six rackets. When a Wuya launched an attack, it could continuously destroy more than a dozen Chen army warships. , Chen Jun’s warships had nothing to do about it.
There are even more outrageous examples.
When the Sui army besieged a waterside city, it happened to be a heavy rain and the river swelled. The Sui army's warships could sail directly to the city wall. It happened that the siege was difficult at that time, so the Sui army commander ordered the warships to sail to the edge of the city. Use the baton on the warship to slap the defenders on the city head.
Where had Chen Jun's defenders seen this kind of posture before? They were beaten to the point of being beaten by the huge racket and fled again and again, so the main force of the Sui army quickly captured the city.
The naval army broke through the city, and the battlefield was a spectacle.
The warships of the Song Army and the Ming Army both had close-combat ships equipped with large rackets. They were very tall, the hulls were very strong, and the rackets were very powerful. If an ordinary small ship ran into it, it would be smashed into pieces in minutes.
It is definitely not a pleasant experience for a big ship to be hit by a slap stick, unless the warship is really very strong - this kind of battle is actually a competition of the quality of the warships on both sides.
The warships of the Ming Dynasty were all made of real wood and built with real engineering. All shipbuilding craftsmen used sufficient materials and carefully built them.
As for whether the Song army's warships were like this, the Ming army certainly didn't know.
When the warships of the two armies came into contact, more than ten warships of the Song Army and the Ming Army collided with each other.
Either the Song warship penetrated the Ming warship's hull with its strong and sharp bow equipment, or the Ming warship pierced the Song warship's hull in a tit-for-tat manner, and then the two sides immediately started a hand-to-hand battle.
The battle between the Song army and the army was indeed overwhelming, but the navy's gang-hopping battle was very brave and not timid at all. Facing the Ming army, which has always been known to be brave and good at fighting, the Song army's sailors were not afraid.
The Song army sailors roared in with weapons brandished, and started a fierce fight with the Ming army sailors on the warship. Knife to knife, gun to gun. The Ming army sailors were also well-trained and strong in combat. The two sides fought, and the battle was very serious. fierce.
Bows and crossbows fired at each other, boulders flew randomly, and firearms exploded one after another with a sound like thunder.
On the other side, the racket fleets of both sides also engaged in close combat. The huge racket crashed down and directly hit the opponent's warship. The violent slaps caused heavy damage to the hull and knocked down the sailors on board.
This is very particular about who moves first and who moves second. The first mover has an absolute advantage, and the second mover may not have a chance to make a move. Neither party is willing to lag behind. For a while, you shoot me and I shoot you, and the racket stick is constantly raised and lowered. , lifted up and dropped, splinters of wood flying everywhere.
With the sounds of firearms exploding, soldiers fighting, and ships colliding, the battle on the Yangtze River was extremely intense.
Such a fierce battle will not only test the training and attack power of the navy on both sides, but also the battlefield command and psychological quality of the battlefield commander.
At this moment, any slight change may cause a change in the battlefield situation.
