Chapter 203

The artillery used by Zheng's fleet is what Daming called the red cannon.

The so-called "red barbarians" include the Netherlands and Portugal. Therefore, many people believe that the red barbarian cannons were imported from the Netherlands. In fact, all the front loaded smooth bore cannons imported from the West were called "red barbarian cannons" in the Ming Dynasty. Officials of the Ming Dynasty often covered these cannons with red cloth, so they falsely called them red clothes.

They call it front loaded heavy-duty smooth bore gun here, and the standard is 18 pounds, and the small gun is nine pounds.

In terms of the use of red cannon, if it is used on land, it basically uses solid ammunition and grape ammunition. If there is another kind called chain ammunition at sea.

The so-called chain bomb uses a chain to connect two small shells smaller than the bore diameter together. After firing, one shell will drag another shell to fly out by centrifugal swing. Therefore, it will tear a big hole in the sail or tear the rigging. Fortunately, it can even tear off the mast and paralyze the enemy ship. It is mainly used to limit the action force of enemy ships. The principle is similar, as well as stick bullets.

Chain bullets are mainly used by warships of the same level on both sides during the battle. Now they are giant warships against some small sampans of the other side, so they all use grape bullets to attack the other side.

Grape bomb can make one artillery play the role of multiple artillery when attacking the enemy's effective power. In order to facilitate loading, several spherical iron bullets or lead bullets are installed in a cartridge case (barrel and box bullet body), or they are fixed together (similar to the shape of shotgun bullets, which is a large barrel fired by artillery rather than a small barrel fired by shotgun), Because it uses iron plates and other things to fix the round marble. There is no shell wrapped outside. It looks like a bunch of grapes, so it is called grape bomb.

Grape shells are mainly used at sea. In the naval battle in the era of sails and oars, the belligerents mainly use guns to bombard each other from a long distance. If they don't agree with each other after firing the guns, they are unhappy. If they don't sink their opponents, they often rush up and jump into the gang to attack. At this time, it's obviously too late for one or two shells to hit the opposite cabin, But it would be great if a super large shotgun could turn over a piece of sailors (or Pirates) ready to jump on the deck.

This also means that all grape bombs have a short range.

Today, they also took advantage of the fog on the sea and waited nearby. When the light fog dissipated, they found these giants opposite. After they wanted to turn the bow, it was too late. Although it took time for the boat to turn around, the other party was already ready to go.

The Ming fleet did not give them time. At Zheng zining's command, ten warships and 200 cannons fired at once, enveloping JianNu's navy in a large rain of steel.

These small ships can't resist at all. Such a fierce attack, I saw a large number of steel bullets sprinkled down like raindrops. The majestic fleet just now was bathed in a bloody storm.

Zheng zining, however, could not control so much. Once the other party entered the range, they ordered their ships to launch with all their strength and three rounds of grapes to bounce down. Just now, it was still a majestic fleet group. Now it is basically like being swept by a typhoon. There are sorrows everywhere. Countless ships' sails have been broken, their planks have been riddled with holes, and countless soldiers and sailors wail on the deck.

After her three rounds of grape bullets, Zheng zining ordered the ship to turn the rudder and then rushed straight to the other party.

This time, they raised their sails and rushed to the other party's fleet, but when they rushed, it didn't mean that they only used their bow to hit the other party, but continued to break into the other party's fleet. Use the cannons on both sides of the ship to attack the enemy.

For some reason, Kong Sifang rushed into the other party's ambush and was fatally hit by the other party's grape bombs, which immediately killed and injured them. These grape bombs fell from the sky and were a large area in a dozen. They not only fried their people, but also blew through countless holes in their deck planks, but they were not sunk.

Kong Sifang was almost scared to death. When he saw such fierce fire, he immediately ordered to turn the rudder. Seeing that the other party was so powerful, he dared not fight with the other party.

Who knows that before they finished turning the rudder, the other party's ten giant ships lined up and directly penetrated into his fleet. He thought the other party just wanted to sink them. Who knows that after the other party rushed into their fleet, he attacked them fiercely with cannons on both sides.

On one side of the Zheng family's warships, there are five 18 pound red cannons and 15 nine pound red cannons. They can fire 230 pound grape bombs (one side) at a time. Now they break into their group, and both sides fire at the same time. As a result, they are blown to pieces.

This time, they still used the grape bullets used in melee, which fell like raindrops.

When their fleet passed through the fleet group of JianNu Navy, the other party was badly hit. All the ships were baptized by lead bullets, either on fire or in pieces. Basically, there were few good ships. These ships were covered with grape bullets. Once they died, they were a large area. Most of the sails were broken, the ship plates were broken, and countless sailors were wailing.

The majestic JianNu Navy met the Zheng family's navy and was defeated in a few rounds. Moreover, the weapons they prepared, such as large clappers or giant bows and crossbows, were not used at all. They were bombed by the other party and suffered heavy casualties.

Kong Sifang, the commander of the other side's navy, was very brave. He commanded the ship to collide with the enemy ship in an attempt to burn the other side with fire. He was only turned into a pile of broken meat by a grape bomb. His men were scared to death. Some hid on the deck and some jumped into the sea.

It gives people the feeling that their majestic fleet has become a pile of rotten boards and garbage after being looted by the other party's rain of steel artillery.

Zheng zining did not order his fleet to turn around, but continued to rush forward. This time, she rushed directly to Lushun Port.

After they rushed into Lushunkou water stronghold, they readjusted the bow and shelled the Navy stronghold inside. This time, because the two sides were a little far away, it used solid bullets.

Forty red cannon bombarded his stronghold in each round of salvo fire. Every round of salvo fire bombed his stronghold with blood and flesh, causing heavy casualties. The water stronghold was ablaze with fire and thick smoke.

In fact, they used to use copper cannons in Daming, and the red cannons were transported over the past few decades. They were famous all over the world because they killed the old slaves. However, even in Daming, there were not many red cannons, that is, dozens of them. One round of Volley here was equivalent to gathering the red cannons of the whole Daming, but they were scared and killed and injured badly.

Kong Youde was originally standing on the commanding officer's platform at Lvshunkou and watching his fleet go to sea. He didn't go back for a while and a half. He knew that there were no results so soon. Who knew that his fleet had just gone out. Before long, someone reported that the fleet encountered an ambush and basically the whole army was destroyed.

Kong Youde was shocked. Just after he asked what had happened, the other party's ten giant ships sailed in through the wind and waves, drove directly into the sea two miles away from Lushun mouth, lined up in line and shelled them fiercely.

There were 200 cannons on one side of the ten giant battleships. A round of Volley fire, a large number of shells flew down, but they hit sand and stones. Seeing the other party's fierce artillery, Kong Youde was also frightened. He jumped on a horse and ran straight inside.

When the subordinates saw that the obedient king had fled, they dared not stay here, so they ran away with him.

JianNu was still majestic just now. The great stronghold of Lvshunkou division was heavily shelled here by 10 giant ships of Zheng zining. Within an hour, they were shelled into ruins and razed to the ground. There were ruins and debris everywhere. The fire burst into the sky, and the whole Shuizhai was basically destroyed.

At this time, Zheng Zhibao and his other ten capital ships also arrived, and then they divided their troops through flag language and attacked along the Straits on both sides.

This time, they not only leveled the other side's navy at Lushunkou, but also blasted all their military posts and ports along the Golden Coast, so that they did not dare to come here, so they immediately divided their troops into two ways to clean up.

However, JianNu had no navy at all. Their navy at Lushunkou was the only one. After the regiment was destroyed here, they had no other ports and docks.

When the Ming army's fleet sailed into Jinzhou Bay, they raided their cities and ports again. JianNu never saw such a huge ship and such powerful artillery. The enemy's artillery fired artillery at them five miles away. The huge artillery and shells falling from the sky made them jump like chickens, flesh and blood and jump like chickens.

So they ran away one after another. In addition to Kong Youde's troops, they also had three cattle records of JianNu. But they saw that even Kong Youde had fled. They knew they were not rivals and ran away.

When they were in Jinzhou Bay, they found that the other party didn't even have a battery. Originally, they passed the intelligence at the beginning, but they heard that the other party dismantled the artillery, installed it, and set up some battery to defend Jinzhou Bay, but when they really attacked, they found that the so-called battery was actually fake and installed it to frighten people, The real guns were transported by them to the gun camp.

Even mizhu was lamenting that he knew that he should send an elite infantry to shengshengshi commune, Jinzhou district.