Wu Liang squinted at the Han warships lined up on the river opposite the camp.
He was not impressed by one of these tall warships.
When he first saw these giant ships a few years ago, he was terrified, but he soon discovered that these giant ships were nothing more than paper tigers.
Organizing hundreds of sailors to operate such a huge ship is a very complicated matter.
There are naturally not many competent sailors, boatmen, and helmsmen.
When there are too many of these giant ships, there is a shortage of competent shipwrights.
This is the real reason why Chen Youliang had to string together these giant ships with iron chains in Poyang Lake, otherwise they would all drift apart.
Luo Guanzhong, however, pinned the matter on Cao Cao in his Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Later generations who did not know the dynasty and generation of Luo Guanzhong used this to mock Chen Youliang for being a young man who had not read The Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
This is really ridiculous.
"It's strange why the Han army's warships are moored on the river without approaching."
Wu Liang muttered when he saw that there was no movement from the warships on the river.
Then he ordered, "Send my military order and ask the returning artillery on the turret to fire a few rounds on the enemy ships first."
The Han warships were still more than 500 steps away from the camp, which was just within the range of these giant turrets.
Wu Liang did not expect that the return artillery would hit the enemy warship, he just wanted to strike first and scare the opponent.
After a drum beat, there was a loud banging sound of arms twisting and colliding with wooden frames from the two turrets facing the river, and two huge stone bullets weighing hundreds of kilograms were thrown out.
When it fell on the river, it splashed up two water columns five or six feet high.
It was at least five or six battles away from the nearest Han warship.
At this time, Wu Liang suddenly saw a puff of smoke rising from the Han warships on the river.
I saw some small black dots flying rapidly, and after a breath or two I heard a deafening sound like rolling thunder during a summer thunderstorm.
"Damn, it's useless for the Han army to fire cannons and cannons from such a distance."
Wu Liang's words had not yet finished.
Several loud bangs were heard again, and several solid iron bullets as big as bowls of water were hit on the village walls and turrets respectively.
Only sawdust, masonry, and dust were scattered everywhere.
Wu Liang could feel the wall trembling and shaking under his feet.
He glanced left and right with his eyes in fear and found that the soldiers were also frightened.
What's even more terrifying is that the part above the chest of a soldier suddenly disappeared, and the cross-section was a ball of flesh and blood.
The body fell straight to the ground like a rotten log.
On several decks of the Han warships, hundreds of heavy cannons fired in turn.
The gunners constantly communicated and exchanged various shooting data and impact point data, and used these shared data to quickly adjust their respective gun positions.
On smaller warships, every time the heavy guns roar, the hull always shakes slightly.
Therefore, gunners avoid firing within a short period of time, otherwise they will reduce each other's shooting accuracy.
But this would not happen on a giant ship like the one Chen Li was riding.
Gunners can do whatever they want.
Iron bullets weighing hundreds of kilograms were fired at Wu Jun's camp at high speed, and the shots became more and more accurate.
The gunners on Wu Jun's turret were still sweating profusely as they turned the winch.
Suddenly there was another loud noise, and the entire turret shook violently.
Then they felt their feet missing and falling.
Under heavy artillery bombardment, the four corner towers collapsed one after another.
After destroying the four turrets of the camp, the Han army aimed their artillery bombardment at the walls of the camp.
The crossbowmen who were staying on the city wall fled towards the city wall in fear.
Wu Liang did not give strict orders to stop them.
After all, the Han army's landing troops did not come to attack the city, forcing them to stay at the top of the city and brave the shelling.
It has no practical significance.
Some Han warships began to weigh anchor and move southwest upstream and approached the shore.
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Apparently they wanted to find an angle from which they could bombard the southwest wall of the camp.
Now Wu Liang was also at a loss.
He seemed to be in a situation where he could only be beaten and unable to fight back.
He kept muttering: "How is it possible?
How is it possible that the cannon can hit farther than the return cannon?"
The general next to him trembled and said: "General, we can't go on like this.
Although the Han army's guns and artillery are powerful, they have a slow rate of fire, which may not be useful in close combat.
I have a way to use the fast boats in our water village.
Go hit them."
Wu Liang slapped his thigh and said, "That's all it can do."
He immediately ordered people to organize a death squad to ram the Han warships with small clippers filled with gunpowder, fuel, and firewood.
After a while, the water gate in the northeast of Zhuankou Camp opened wide, and dozens of fast boats sailed out.
They entered the Yangtze River through the Chaos River, sailed against the current and rushed towards the Han fleet with oars.
Chen Li used his telescope to spot their movements immediately, and immediately ordered the removal of the ships that were bombarding the southwest wall.
The remaining ships crossed the hull and aimed their guns at the river to intercept these clippers.
While they were still far away, rounds of solid bullets, chain rounds, and grapeshot fired from heavy artillery were fired at these suicide clippers.
Sure enough, as Wu Liang's general said, these heavy guns are really like cannons against mosquitoes against these small and fast ships.
The shells splashed water jets on the water, but very few hit the enemy ships.
Only four or five clippers were hit by heavy artillery.
Some of them cut the hull into pieces with a single chain shot, some of them missed the vital parts of the structure and the shells passed through the hull, and some of them penetrated the side of the ship or the bottom deck below the waterline. .
Wu Liang regained hope, but it was quickly dashed.
When the clipper approached the Han warship, the mother-and-son eagle cannons that had not fired quickly opened fire.
These prototypes were equipped with five pre-loaded child muskets for the Franco machine's mother-and-child eagle cannons, and because of Xuanyue City's Thanks to their sophisticated craftsmanship, these sub-guns can be used interchangeably between mother cannons.
In just thirty seconds, each Eagle Cannon fired five shots in a row.
Amidst the rumbling sound of the cannons, the suicide clippers were instantly beaten into honeycombs, and some were detonated by the high-temperature cannons and ignited the piles piled on the ship.
The entire ship instantly exploded into a ball of fire.
The soldiers on the boat screamed and jumped into the cold river water.
With a "rumbling" sound, the west wall of the Zhuankou Camp collapsed.
The Han infantry in the distance began to form formations and advance towards the camp.
Wu Liang, whose eyes were already red with rage, drew his sword and shouted to the soldiers in the camp: "Let's fight with the Han army.
Our guns and artillery are not as powerful as theirs.
We can't defeat them in hand-to-hand combat.
Follow me."
After that, He rushed towards the trench outside.
Soon, the Han infantry rushed a hundred and fifty steps away from the trench, and the crossbowmen behind the trench lined up and prepared to fire a volley.
However, the volley of guns of the Han army's fusiliers fired first.
In addition to the volley of guns, there were also double eagle cannons mounted on small carts.
Under the intense firepower, the unprotected crossbowmen, who were lined up in array, were killed and injured.
They were forced to jump into the trench to take cover, and fired back in the trench.
However, the crossbowmen distributed in a line cannot form a dense shooting effect and can only rely on their own shooting accuracy to kill the enemy
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