"That thing!" Jiang Qin also had a little impression, wasn't that the bed crossbow that almost killed their master and servant under the city of Wan! At that time, Jiang Qin's war horse was shot in the head by an arrow, and Jiang Qin didn't want to have that kind of feeling of flesh flying all over the place again!
Now there are no less than five on each of these large ships, and there are more than one hundred of these twenty-odd enemy warships. "Isn't it just more than a hundred bed crossbows! He can only shoot more than a hundred giant arrows. If these arrows are fully supported, they will kill hundreds of his soldiers. Others can do the same!" Jiang Qin calmed down. Well, he is the current commander-in-chief of Sun Ce's army, so he can't panic! Besides, the aim of these bed crossbows is not very good. It is still a matter of whether they can hit the big river under the diffuse. .
But Lu Su next to him didn't have Jiang Qin's good attitude. This bed crossbow really can only shoot people! But Lu Su remembered that a huge arrow from them directly shot Jing Lan to the point where he collapsed. Although it hit the weight-bearing place, how could it be possible to shoot down the tall Jinglan without full power!
"It's time for you to try my anger!" Gan Ning took the command flag from the deputy general beside him, and all the orders issued by the bed crossbow were under this small command flag. Gan Ning had no orders, and no one else Qualified to pull the black cloth and shoot the ** bed crossbow.
"Shoot!" Following Gan Ning's order, the scene that Lu Su least wanted to see happened. The countless huge arrows and crossbows all broke the bowstring in an instant, and shot out The huge giant arrows that were sent out, the ones that were cut down from the embracing wood and poured with copper molten iron, and put on the prepared arrowheads in front, these are not the prototype machine in the hands of Liu Mang above Wancheng, but the real ones. The bed crossbow that can be used in water battles has been finalized!
"Swish, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!" There were more than 20 building boats lined up row by row, and the five bed crossbows on one building boat all shot huge arrows.
"Boom boom boom!" Sun Cejun's water army is about to be unlucky. More than a hundred giant arrows are not heading towards the soldiers but directly aimed at the buildings. Sun Ce's formation is relatively dense, although it can bring the enemy Huge psychological pressure, but don't forget that the consequence of the dense formation is that the giant arrow does not need to be aimed at all. As long as it is shot, it will definitely hit the building ship. The ship is not a horse or an infantry. It can be avoided. A navy fleet It's really not easy to change the formation, not to mention that the boat is easy to slip, just say that the current on the Yangtze River makes you not that sensitive.
More than a hundred giant arrows all pierced into the first row of the first row of Sun Ce's navy boats.
"What!" Jiang Qin and Lu Su's eyes really widened. These giant arrows are really powerful. He shot through all the places covered with a layer of iron.
The buildings on the outskirts were suddenly unlucky. It was okay to be shot at the superstructure. Even if they were shot through by the giant arrow, they only injured a few soldiers, but those who were shot in the hull were not so good! The huge arrows went directly into the belly of the ship. At this time, the ship does not rely solely on the sails for power. After all, the wind direction is related to God. If the wind direction is not good, why should it stop on the water and wait for the wind? So there are slides on top of the building. These are all manpower, so there are soldiers rowing in the cabin. The arrow not only pierced through the building, but also shot the soldiers who were rowing. , some arrows with huge strength go in from one side of the building and directly drill out from the other. Once the hull is shot through, the fun will be great, a lot of river water poured into the cabin, and now there is no For closed cabins, once the ship has a hole, it can usually be repaired quickly, but now it is in war or in the middle of the river, there is no other way except to watch the ship sink a little bit.
The building boats are okay, but the unlucky ones are those small warships, a huge arrow can kill a warship, and they have no room to defend against being shot directly into the river. Fortunately, those sailor soldiers They are all people who know water, and they can swim back after falling into the water.
"Let them choose to abandon the ship!" Jiang Qin decisively issued an order, and asked the surrounding ships to meet the sunken buildings that were shot through and those that had already sunk. The sinking of the boat into the bottom of the river may form a suction force to suck these sailors into it.
"Yes!" A flag was raised on Jiang Qin's flagship, and the boats behind one after another came forward to save people, and there were more than a dozen hanging on the side of a small boat!
"It's a pity!" Gan Ning's lieutenant on the side didn't have the panic and anxiety before, and the other buildings and boats were also normal. The basic style of water warfare in the Eastern Han Dynasty is that everyone sails on the big river, shoots random arrows at a hundred paces, and counts as many as they kill. After the disaster, everyone plays bumper boats, and then boards each other's boats. Whoever kills and sets fire, whoever has the most people and ships wins.
But now it's not yet a hundred paces, the arrows haven't been shot yet, and there's no boarding battle. Everyone is fighting each other! The scene in front of me appeared, under the volley of the guns of the Gan Ning Navy's building boats, the first five or six Sun Cejun's building boats suddenly turned into hedgehogs, and five of them had already fallen half into the water. , the remaining one was also drifting, and sawdust was everywhere in the river, so I had to abandon the boat. If Jiang Qin had lined up the warships just now, he might have lost more than six buildings!
"No regrets!" Gan Ning was also a little surprised at the power of this crossbow. He killed six enemy ships and dozens of boats in one encounter. It's just a dream to kill six other boats without touching you! There are nearly 2,000 sailors on top of the six buildings! It's just such a short time to send Jiang Xin to feed the bastard, do you really think the enemy is paper? And now those tall and mighty bed crossbows on this boat tell Gan Ning that this is not a dream, this is the first round of shooting, and most of the navy in Gan Ning's hands is Jiangxia navy and recruits. People who say they always bully themselves will inevitably not panic. Seven thousand is against thirty thousand. Gan Ning has no idea, let alone those ordinary soldiers. This volley can only be regarded as a test shot. The sticks were shot at random, without any calibration at all, so I could only let go of the bowstring of the bed crossbow based on my feeling and the fear in my heart, and let these giant arrows fly out.
But the result was not so bad. They killed 2,000 enemy sailors face to face. What if this was the second round and the third round.
Gan Ning really has a bottom line in his heart now, and he is no longer the mentality of a gambler before.
"Retreat!" Gan Ning gave the order, the lieutenant nodded, and the semaphore was sent out again, and the twenty-three building boats directly activated their manpower and swam upstream towards the direction they came from.
"Retreat?!" Jiang Qin had already prepared Gan Ning to shoot at each other. After the difficulty, he rushed to Gan Ning's flagship and rushed to kill him. But now Gan Ning actually retreated.
"General Jiang Qin, absolutely don't let them go! Quickly post it, post it!" Lu Su suddenly said seriously to Jiang Qin. Lu Su didn't understand naval warfare, but he knew that the bed crossbow needed to be reloaded. In time, although the bed crossbow is powerful, don't forget that the bed crossbow is very heavy. If a warship can hold 300 to 400 people, then a warship with five bed crossbows can only hold 300 to 400 people. With less than 200 soldiers, plus rowers in the cabin, there are only a little more than 100 real soldiers who can fight, and there are more than 300 people on Sun Cejun's tall ship. Paste it up and play a side-to-side battle with the opposite side, then Gan Ning is really doomed!
The advantage in numbers will quickly form a crush, and the twenty-three building ships will only have a dead end under the attack of nearly a hundred building ships.
"The whole army must speed up and catch up with Gan Ning!" Jiang Qin also understands this truth. It is very troublesome to load the bed crossbow, just like the bed crossbow on the city of Wan. The giant arrow mounted crossbow pulled the bowstring. This skill has been used for a long time. Because it consumes manpower and material resources, and occupies the space and displacement of the building, the bed crossbow was not used in the water battle.
From Jiang Qin's point of view, Gan Ning indeed gave him a huge shock at the beginning. Before he even touched a hair of the enemy, there were no six buildings and dozens of warships. How long did it take? , if calculated according to this time, the 30,000 sailors will be sent to the bottom of the river in just a cup of tea. And now that the building boats on the opposite side have shot out the bed crossbows loaded on board, then Jiang Qin's opportunity has come, catch up, stick them, hold these building boats, and buy time for the large troops. Then Gan Ning would not be able to escape.
What ship runs the fastest on the water surface, of course it is a boat! Also known as assault boats and speedboats, the outside is narrow and long, so it is called Mengchong, and it is also used to collide with enemy ships! His speed is extremely fast, because there are many oars on the boat, rows of soldiers can pick up swords to attack when they are fighting on board, and they are all oars when there is no fighting on board.
The building boats are big and tall, and although there are more people paddling than the boats, the resistance in the water is also much greater than that of the boats.
So under Jiang Qin's order, one after another rushed from the enemy's rear formation. Their speed was not comparable to that of the big boat, and they caught up in a while. Gan Ning's building boat, their purpose is to entangle Gan Ning and prevent Gan Ning from leaving, so as to buy time for most of the rest.
"You want to hold me back!" Gan Ning sneered, "I'm afraid I will disappoint you!" According to the general way of thinking, Jiang Qin's move is absolutely effective. It's also high. It's definitely not comparable to the Jiangxia soldiers and recruits in Gan Ning's hands. I didn't know the power of the bed crossbow before sinking six buildings. Now I know the power and the shortcomings of the bed crossbow. Gan Ning continued to use it.
"Raise your bow, send me some arrows to support our General Jiang Qin!" Jiang Qin sent out the scorpion to support Gan Ning, and Gan Ning also wanted to kill these annoying scorpions first. The scorpion is small and fast Hurry up, Gan Ning is really reluctant to let Gan Ning use the huge arrows of the bed crossbow, and what Gan Ning wants is to send all Sun Ce's navy into the river to feed the bastard. If you retreat, it will be difficult to chase after that time.
The boats quickly rushed to the center of Gan Ning's fleet. These small boats were moving around in the middle of the big boats at an extremely fast speed. The hooks quickly fell on the boats. The sailors of the boats were ready to climb Going up to the building boat, there are also some scorpions that directly drive the boat to hit the building boat. The front of the scorpion has a ramming angle wrapped in iron sheet, which is not enough to hit the building boat.
"Shoot!" Except for a few soldiers on the building boats who were shooting crossbows, the other soldiers drew their longbows and aimed at those scorpion boats with nearly 4,000 people in more than twenty buildings. The shooting immediately caused casualties on the scorpion, and there was no room for dodge. The Gan Ning army relied on the height of the building to hold the bow and shoot. Although the scorpion was wrapped in cowhide, it could not withstand the rain of arrows.
Forty or fifty boats are shrinking at an astonishing speed. Not only the arrow rain from the building boats, but also the boats from the Ganning navy are coming up. They couldn't go away, and only one mouthful was swallowed by the Gan Ning navy. This is nearly a thousand people gone, and Jiang Qin lost three thousand troops before the real war started, which made Jiang Qin feel all It was Huo Yan, and he stared fixedly at Gan Ning, who was on the flagship of Lu Bu's navy ahead.
"I have a big appetite, but you are not afraid to eat enough to hold on!" Gan Ning wanted to completely eliminate the marshalling team. Except for the rowers and helmsmen on the building boats, basically everyone attacked, but this caused The ending was that the speed of Gan Ning's fleet was pulled down, and was slowly overtaken by Jiang Qin's navy behind. Another thing was that in the eyes of Lu Su and Jiang Qin, Gan Ning had no chance to open the crossbow again. Bowstring continues to shoot that giant arrow!
"Come on, annihilate them!" The ships under Jiang Qin approached Gan Ning one by one. The decks and hooks were all ready in the hands of the soldiers, and they were waiting for the fleet approaching Gan Ning to pick them up. There was a side battle.
"I want to die so much! Then I'll send you off!" The bed crossbows turned around again, and it was only then that Lu Su and Jiang Qin saw that the bed crossbows they thought were useless were once again placed on the bed crossbows. On the giant arrow!
"You want to scare us!" Jiang Qin held on, he didn't believe that there were bowstrings on the bed crossbow, and it would take a dozen or twenty strong men to pull a bed crossbow, but from Gan Ning Jun shot the first wave of giant arrows and is now on the deck of the building. Jiang Qin didn't see anyone stringing the bed crossbow at all. The bed crossbow without bow strings is just something to scare people.
"No, no!" Lu Su shook his head violently. Lu Su stared wide-eyed at the bed crossbow on the opposite enemy warship. Although he couldn't see whether the huge arrow on the bed crossbow had been wound, but he But I can see that there are several giant arrows under the giant arrow that seem to be stacked together and rest on the bed crossbow. Is this completely different from the one on the wall of Wancheng? The giant arrow is the same as the bed crossbow The crossbow itself is separate, not stacked together as it is now.
"Aim well!" The generals on each of Gan Ning's large ships went up to the deck to supervise their soldiers. There were five bed crossbows on one of their large ships, each of which was made by The two soldiers were in charge of shooting. Some of these soldiers did not belong to the navy army. They were all selected by Liu Mang from Lu Bu's army. They were basically good at shooting. Although they can't be said to be marksmen, they can still do a hundred steps. Yes, one is responsible for shooting the bed crossbow, and the other is responsible for helping to observe the angle. This is a duo. These people have been training since the bed crossbow was manufactured, and their existence is to make the bed crossbow, an unfocused thing, more accurate.
The huge arrows shot by the first wave of bed crossbows were not accurate, that’s why they started the war. Everyone had no idea, and with the urging of other people nearby, they shot directly in a general direction as soon as they closed their eyes. Fortunately, The dense buildings and boats prevented those giant arrows from falling into the water.
But now it's all right, the first wave of arrow rain not only shot out the huge arrows of the bed crossbow, but also shot out the timidity of the soldiers on the building boats, didn't you see it! The enemy was sunk at the bottom of the river without even being able to touch his own hairs. The soldiers already had a sense of confidence in the power of this bed crossbow. This time, not only six ships were smashed! This time it was seven ships, eight ships, or even nine ships and ten ships!
"Aim at one ship!" Gan Ning was about to ask the lieutenant to pass on the order. A volley can form a large-scale rain of arrows, which is frightening, but the damage can only be concentrated on the few battleships in front. Not necessarily! They are now in the middle of the river, and the river across both banks is hundreds or even thousands of meters long. Gan Ning has been to the mouth of the general, and there is no end in sight, and the section of Wancheng is also It's not small and it's a full kilometer, and the width of a building boat is only about seven or eight meters. This time Jiang Qin's pursuit put nearly half of the building boats in the first row in order to form an outflank encirclement The trend made Gan Ning unable to get away.
"One ship aimed at one?" The lieutenant clasped his fists and said, "General, isn't this powerful enough?" Just now, the salvo sank six ships, so one aimed at one, this is to kill two at once. Dozens of ships! This is too out of bounds!
"Huh?!" Gan Ning was also pondering. When discussing these bed crossbows with the young master, in theory, five bed crossbows of a building ship can directly sink an enemy ship, but the premise is that They all hit, and they all shot through the bottom of the ship. If the giant arrow was shot high or missed, it might not have such power. "Two ships aim at one! Let them shoot by themselves!" Gan Ning revised his order for safety.
"Yes!" The lieutenant fired a rain of flags one by one. One warship may miss, but the hit rate of two warships has doubled. Even if only half of the arrows landed on the enemy ship, it still has to Sink for me.
Two ships aimed at one? The semaphore was sent out. Although Gan Ning's sailors had only been in the army for a short time, they knew how to cooperate. The two that got closer cooperated with each other. One will follow, and they will shoot whichever one is shot by the previous one.
"Whoosh!" The giant arrows took off again. This time, the aim of these giant arrows was much higher than before. The huge arrows pierced the air rapidly and made a buzzing sound towards Jiangdong. The navy took their lives and left.
With one of the first shooting arrows, the bed crossbows on the other Ganning navy ships also roared, and the huge thrust of the bed crossbows caused these ships to slow down involuntarily.
"How is it possible!" Both Lu Su and Jiang Qin's mouths were big enough to put an egg in, so they don't need to pull the bowstring bed crossbow? A bed crossbow capable of continuous shooting? This has completely turned into a nightmare.
"Boom, boom, boom!" The arrows pierced into Sun Cejun's boats one by one, opening big holes here and there, and the river water began to pour in.
It would be fine if it was only the penetration of the giant arrow. After all, only the sinking of the large ship would cause limited damage to the Jiangdong navy, but some generals on the large ship of the Ganning navy had their brains. There are hundreds of steps wrapped on it. This is not to show mercy to reduce the killing, but to ignite these hundreds of cloths and shoot them out with a bed crossbow.
Rockets have always been the best way to deal with warships in water battles. The warships in this time period are all made of wood. Once they are contaminated with fire, the fun will be great. Ordinary rockets are already a headache. Now, the fire carried by this huge arrow is even more frightening. It plunged into those buildings and brought a raging fire to the buildings. The fire was ignited by the wood and the river wind on the river. Suddenly it burned up, and the red fire boats were so dazzling on the river! (To be continued.)