Chapter Ninety-Five: The Chain Bullet Strikes At that time, there were a lot of such chain bombs in the major naval bases of Datang, but some of them were sealed after the new guns were ejected, and some of them were consumed during target training - and the first method was chosen in Coconut Harbor.
Even better, because the chain shells were obsolete and mothballed, they were not placed with the shells, but in a separate mothballed arsenal, which meant that the munitions were not used up and are still in good place.
The mothballed chain bombs were quickly brought in.
"Hey, I didn't plan to use them in the first place, but speaking of which, this should be the oldest cannonball in our coconut port, right?"
Pointing to the cannonballs in the box, Sima said with a smile, because the problem was solved, he was in a very good mood, although he knew that the chain bullet could not completely defeat the enemy, and the two sides had to do it after all, but the appearance of the chain bomb bought them a little more time after all.
"It's a shame to think that I was forced to use outdated shells in the Tang Navy."
Although he proposed the chain bomb, Guan Hong's mood was very bad, they are the Datang Navy, but the world's first navy, surpassing the second place Datang Navy who doesn't know how many eras, and now he is forced to use this outdated old guy to delay the opportunity - how can he bear this strong and proud man?
Not only him, but probably all the navies think so.
Sure enough, as soon as he said this, the faces of all the navies present were not good-looking.
Sima Cuo, as the deputy governor of the navy, his face was also ugly, but he was still the captain of the Coconut Harbor City Defense Colonel, and he was the commander of the first army, and it was not easy to accept this unmorale-damaging remark, so he had to comfort and cheer everyone up: "Don't say this kind of thing, after all, Your Highness also said it, no matter whether it is a black cat or a white cat, the one who catches a mouse is a good cat."
There is no such thing as advanced or backward weapons, advanced shells can kill the enemy, but as cold weapons, swords, guns, swords, halberds have also not been eliminated?
As long as you can kill the enemy, what do you care about these weapons?
When it's really time to fight to the death, don't you still dislike your own weapons?
At that point, even if you bite with your teeth, you have to hand your mouth up. ” "It's also right......" was explained by Sima Cuo, and everyone's mood was much better.
"Okay, don't talk about this, the situation is urgent, hurry up and send these chain shells to the battery, and tell them that the number of chain bullets in this batch is not very large, let them save a little fight, it's best to aim at important targets and open fire, don't waste it on me."
"Yes."
Immediately, a soldier carried a chain of bullets to the fort.
The caliber of these chain shells was very large, and it was originally developed to be used to equip the main guns of battleships, so the caliber was 120 mm.
Although there is no naval fleet in Coconut Harbor today, fortunately, the shore defense guns on one of the battery positions are modified from the main guns of battleships, and the shells of the two can be used together, so there is no need to worry about the dilemma of having bullets and no guns.
"I hope this batch of chain bombs can do some good."
Although the chain bullet is known as the nemesis of the sail, and it is the best tool for Coconut Harbor to fight back the enemy today, but Sima Cuo is not naïve enough to defeat the enemy by relying on the chain bullet alone, first of all, the chain bullet can only destroy the enemy's sails, delay their speed, its own lethality is not very large, and it is far less powerful than the cannonball, which can only be regarded as an auxiliary projectile, if you really want to sink the enemy, you still have to rely on the real cannonball, which means that even if there is a chain bullet, it cannot be easily used, it is best to choose those important targets to shoot.
The second is the problem of quantity, Coconut Harbor did divide a batch of chain bombs at the beginning, but because the chain bombs were produced in a batch, and were also distributed to major military bases, the average number of each base is not very much, Coconut Harbor is an important location, and it is quite a lot, but it is about a thousand rounds - this number seems to be a lot, but compared with the number of dense enemy ships, it is nothing, and the average ship can only be divided into a little more than one.
Third, let's not forget that although the chain shell was also made to look like a shell, when it was made, the new artillery technology had not yet been developed, so it was made according to the old-fashioned shell technology, which belonged to the old-fashioned shell, and the accuracy was not very high, and the probability of missing was at least seventy percent.
Even if you are lucky, you may not be able to hit the sail accurately, if you only hit the hull of the ship or cause damage to personnel, then the lethality will not be high, and it is not as good as ordinary shells.
The fourth and most important point is that most of today's ships, whether they are warships or merchant ships, as long as they are large ships, use multi-mast structures, which can provide more thrust to the ship and make the ship drive faster.
At the same time, such a structure is also immune to the destructive power of some chain bullets to a certain extent - even if today's chain bombs are in a network structure, which greatly increases the damage area, but the cannonballs fly in a straight line after all, and the sails of multi-masted galleons are as many as several (usually three-masted galleons, but some ships are four-masted galleons or even have more sails).
This means that a single chain bullet can only destroy one or two sails at most, which can only be regarded as slowing down the enemy ship, but in order to keep them completely on the surface, it is necessary to destroy all the sails, and this is undoubtedly very difficult.
So Sima Cuo was very calm, and he was not really naïve enough to think that chain bullets could solve everything, if chain bullets were really so powerful, how could the navy not be equipped with a large number of them later?
Since the Navy did not choose chain ammunition, there is naturally a certain amount of truth. …… The chain shells were quickly delivered to the battery, and the enemy ships that were rushing forward were unlucky.
"Tear up!"
A crisp cracking sound sounded, the first test-fired chain bomb actually accurately hit the sail of an enemy ship that was moving fast, and it was very lucky to destroy the two sails in front of it at one time, and the speed of the whole warship suddenly dropped sharply - the front two of the three-masted sailing ship were generally hung with a crosssail, and the last mast was hung with a spinnaker, which was also called a longitudinal sail, which was a kind of sail that could be rotated back and forth, easy to operate, and could be used with a tailwind and headwind, and was less affected by the wind direction, and was not as good as a sail when downwind, but had a strong ability to sail against the wind, That is to say, the spinnaker generally only provides steering power, mainly for easy steering and sailing against the wind, and the main source of power to drive the sailboat still has to rely on the sail.
Now that the sails of the enemy ships have been destroyed, their speed is almost reduced by more than seventy percent, and they can only slowly row towards the port, and in this landing battle of rushing to the beach with heavy artillery fire, in the case of dense firepower and firing range is not as good as that of the shore defense army, a ship stays on the sea for a quarter of an hour, and there is more danger for a quarter of an hour, and in the case of losing power, their fate is almost doomed - no, as the speed of this warship decreases, several cannons are immediately aimed at it, and after a few roars, The ship was unable to evade due to the sharp drop in speed, and finally hit five bullets in a row, and was blown into fragments at sea, and not a single living person escaped.