Chapter 429

On the broad river, looking around, countless small boats entangled together, hissing, screaming, gunfire, gunfire, one after another, occasionally mixed with one or two startling noises.

Burning boards and broken hulls, mixed with corpses, float on the river and can be seen everywhere.

This is a bloody, simple and rough water war. Water war is no better than land war. Even if soldiers want to escape, it is difficult to swim to the shore. Therefore, keeping the boat under their feet from sinking is the only way to survive, which makes everyone fight to the death.

When a small boat approached, the soldiers of both sides first shot at each other with bows and arrows and fire system. When they approached, the Chinese sailors threw thunder, while the Chu army threw fire oil tanks, and finally jumped onto the other ship to fight.

The number and size of small boats on both sides were the same. After a fierce battle, both sides were defeated and suffered heavy losses. The small boats of the Chu army could not get close to the warships of the Qin army.

Whenever Liu San wanted to take a big ship to hit the Qin army's boat, he would be severely bombarded by the gunfire of Qin Huan's warships. He had to turn the bow to avoid. Several of them were directly sunk before he had time.

After the war lasted for an hour, there were few boats left on the river. They either sank or chased each other into Dongting Lake.

Seeing this, Liu San had to escape into the Dongting Lake with a large ship. Qin Huan ordered ten warships to stay and salvage the drowning soldiers. All the remaining warships pressed against the Yuezhou water stronghold.

Looking at his own navy's defeat and fled to Dongting Lake, Li Dingguo also sighed, and then ordered with a solemn face: "prepare to fire!"

More than a dozen old general guns on the wall and hundreds of stone throwing machines in the Shuizhai immediately started. Soon, stones roared into the Qin army fleet.

This is also the only way for the city to carry out long-range attack on the river, but the surface is wide, and there is no accuracy for the catapult and cannon. It's just a blind cat hitting a mouse.

After a long time, only a few stones hit the warship. In addition to smashing a hole in the deck, it didn't play much role.

As for the hot oil, Liu Sanlang had already spent it. Otherwise, throwing it with a catapult would be more lethal than solid iron bullets and stones.

Looking at the Yuezhou tower a mile or two away and the nearby water stronghold, Qin Huan smiled and directly ignored the stones that fell into the water from time to time. He ordered: "order all ships to aim at the stone thrower in the water stronghold first and blow hard."

"It's the king!" As soon as Hou Er threw a fist, he immediately asked people to flag. Soon, warships aligned their sides with the direction of the Shuizhai, and the black gun tubes spewed out a deadly tongue of fire.

"Childe, it's too dangerous here. You'd better go into the cabin and hide!" Xiao Xinru saw a stone flying from a nearby warship, and the wood chips flying everywhere. There was a faint scream, so she immediately advised him.

"Yes, your majesty, your majesty and your wife are golden bodies. You'd better go back to the warehouse and avoid it. Let's give it to the last general and others!"

A group of generals also held fists and advised.

"Ha ha, the king is the son of the real dragon. How can a mere stone hurt me?"

Qin Huan waved his hand and laughed. If they could all be hit, it would be a miracle.

They didn't say any more. After all, the probability is really small and can't be any smaller.

"Why don't you go into the cabin, madam?" Qin Huan held up his telescope and looked at it for a while before he whispered to Xiao Xinru. Xiao Xinru shook his head and also raised his telescope.

Qin Huan didn't care. He believed that after a while, no more stones would be fired from the other party's water stronghold.

Indeed, there are more than 400 of the 60 warships, even if only one side of the cannon can fire. Moreover, due to the shell case, the Fran machine gun will not heat up after hitting more than a dozen gun barrels continuously, so the dense shells fell into the water stronghold like raindrops.

Although most of the shells fell into the water, a considerable part of them hit the buildings.

In a short time, thousands of iron eggs were launched. Even if the lethality is small, the water stronghold will be full of holes and beyond recognition.

The soldiers defending above and the Gunners operating the catapult could not bear it and fled to the shore one after another.

The defenders at the head of the city were numb. Their faces were as white as paper. There was no way. It was the first time for everyone to see such dense shells falling.

Qin Huan saw that the soldiers in the water stronghold had collapsed and all the catapults had been smashed, so he ordered the warship to approach again. This time, he killed directly outside the wooden fence of the water stronghold, only about a mile away from the city wall. The warship turned its head and aimed the other side at Yueyang City.

"Send someone to ask them if they will surrender or not, and let them see what is called a bullet shower later."

Qin Huan put away his telescope, shortened it and hung it back at his waist, hehe said with a smile.

If he didn't want to hurt the innocent in the city, he really wanted to open Li Dingguo's eyes and see what carpet bombing is.

When Qin Huan sent someone to persuade him to surrender, Li Dingguo did not immediately compromise. After all, he still had 50000 troops and horses in his hand. Moreover, the other party's artillery was fierce and could not attack the city directly.

However, due to the power of the other party's shelling of the water stronghold just now, they still sent someone to the city to inform the people near here and hide in the southeast. Many soldiers on the wall also withdrew and hid under the wall.

Qin Huan was not wordy either. He gave an order. The roar that had just stopped rang again, and the gunfire was more intense this time.

Iron eggs as big as children's fists crackled on the wall as if they didn't want money, but more fell into the city.

The Gunners on the warship were also barehanded, quickly loading, aiming and launching. They were busy sweating, but they were full of energy.

After cooling down, the beaten copper cartridge case will be transported to the cabin and filled with gunpowder and warhead again. A copper cartridge case can be used at least more than ten times before it needs to be returned to the furnace for recasting.

A cannon is equipped with ten cartridge cases, which means that as long as there is enough gunpowder and iron egg balls, a cannon can shoot more than 100 rounds.

Each of the 30 war ships is equipped with ten thousand kilogram Fran machine guns, eight five hundred kilogram small Fran machine guns, 40 small warships, and eight thousand kilogram Fran machines, six small Frankies, and 70 warships, which add up to 1100 cannons. The firepower is absolutely terrible.

But Qin Huan always felt that the thunder and rain were small. The movement of hundreds of cannons firing at the same time was really earth shaking, but the damage caused was a little embarrassing.

Because the killing surface of the shell is too small, the 1000 kg Frankie's bullets are only the size of a child's fist, and the 500 kg ones are smaller.

The shrapnel had a wide range of damage, but it could not reach that far. That was why Qin Huan was extremely disappointed with the artillery of this era.

The cost of thousands of cannons, even if cast with iron mold and made of wrought iron, is not generally large, but the effect is not directly proportional. It's better to throw hundreds of fire medicine bags with a catapult.