The soldiers that Chaohua Taiji can take with him are naturally 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 that, there were no other troubles, and the light rain would 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 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.
Because the opponent used armor-piercing arrows, two of the deck boatmen who were hit by the arrows were killed on the spot, and the remaining four were seriously injured. However, the unlucky guy 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 would usually not die, but at the very least, he would have to be unable to use force for a hundred days. And 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.
Servants are important "assets" for generals, and it takes money and time to train them. Of course, Zhang Wanbang didn't want him to end up "sadly retiring", 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 another round or two. 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 point... 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 said 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. The boss of the boat still refused to leave and went to pull him again. He said: "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...or you can 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 am happy to watch. Yes, let's make room for you... …Brothers, let’s go into the cabin to warm up, and wait to see Jinghua’s general show off his power!”
The "general" he mentioned here refers to cannon - the Ming Dynasty liked to call heavy artillery various "generals", and 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 the others left, the ship boss, although he was wearing armor, was obviously not as bold as Zhang Shourong and liked to dance on graves. He also quickly returned to the bridge command room and began to direct the ship to turn and prepare to fire.
Jinghua's maritime warships have already begun to develop 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 is impossible and unnecessary to fire all the artillery at the same time.
The boss of the ship meant 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 hull.
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, it was raining at this distance. Even if the rocket was not extinguished on the way over, it would be extinguished immediately when it hit the hull. It 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 simply 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.
Someone beside him suddenly frowned and said, "Taiji, what do you think this ship is trying to do? Why... they don't seem to be leaving yet?" From the look of his outfit, he knew he was an aristocrat from the Flower Club, and he was probably a junior as well. 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 how many people there are. 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 the question suddenly changed his expression and said in surprise: "No, there is a big general cannon on the bow of the ship! Taiji, leave quickly!"
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