Chapter 554 (1/2)
”Fire...” Qiu Wanjie orders fiercely.
All of a sudden, the war drum sounded and the flag waved.
When the Zhongzhou fleet was 80 miles away from the Western fleet, they ordered 100 gunboats on both sides of the Zhongzhou fleet to fire at full speed.
Twenty miles away, a hundred gunboats and thousands of guns were firing fiercely.
”Whoosh, whoosh...” thousands of shells shot out, whistling and curving towards the Zhongzhou fleet.
”Bang Bang...”
More than 90% of the shells fell into the sea and exploded violently.
Suddenly, the formation of 800 warships in Zhongzhou fleet was slightly scattered.
He hit more than a dozen warships with a half percent hit rate.
”Boom boom...”
Broken wood flying, fireballs skyrocketing, the soldiers on the deck, suddenly were blown to pieces.
If the Zhongzhou fleet is struck by a torpedo, it is almost fatal. In the most serious cases, it was directly broken at the waist. In the light cases, it was blown out of a huge hole, and then the sea water was poured in, directly sinking the warship.
Because each torpedo has several hundred jin, and the explosive in it also has several hundred jin.
But the shells are totally different, because at present, the medium-sized artillery can be used on the ship. Therefore, the weight of each shell will not exceed ten jin, and the explosive in it is less than half of the weight, and it will explode on the deck.
Therefore, the lethality of these shells is even less than one tenth of that of torpedoes.
In one day's naval battle, gunboats sank nearly 200 warships of Zhongzhou fleet. But without exception, they are all crystal fast ships of less than 100 tons, very small in size. But even so, it basically takes more than a dozen shells to sink a ship.
Today's Zhongzhou fleet is all big ships, all of which are more than 500 tons and even more than 1000 tons.
In this way, even if it is a flower bomb, I'm afraid it will take dozens of shells to destroy a ship.
However, the stone crossbow on the ship was destroyed very badly.
……
The Zhongzhou fleet moved on.
The gunboats on both sides, biting tightly, fired continuously.
Moreover, a hundred gunboats began to approach both sides of the Zhongzhou fleet.
As soon as it gets closer, the hit rate goes up.,
The casualties of the Zhongzhou fleet suddenly increased.
”Boom...” suddenly, a warship was hit by more than a dozen shells, directly tearing a huge hole. The sea is pouring fiercely, and the silence of this warship is absolutely only a matter of time.
Finally, the first real result of gunship's attack appeared.
A large ship of nearly 1000 tons was sunk by gunboats.
Seeing a twitch on Zhu Qingzhu's face, the Lord of Yingchao said, ”suzerain, do you want to send out the Golden Eagle army?”
Zhu Qingzhu's eyes were cold and said, ”I didn't go out when I lost the most. Did I go out at this time? Is my brain in water?”
Then Zhu Qingzhu said, ”these gunboats are very poor in accuracy, but they are frightening. Don't pay attention to them. They rush directly to the Western fleet and win.”
”Yes
……
The Zhongzhou fleet continued to rush to the Western fleet.
Eighty miles.
Fifty miles.
Forty miles.
The distance is getting closer and closer.
The gun fleets on both sides, intentionally or unintentionally squeezed, made the Zhongzhou fleet instinctively close to the middle, and the gap between the ships became tighter and narrower.
The bombardment of more than 100 guns and nearly 1000 guns caused more and more casualties.
The hit rate of artillery is getting higher and higher.
However, even if it is close to a distance of more than ten miles, no matter how high the artillery hit rate is, it will not be able to break through 15%.
After all, it's too difficult for mobile artillery to attack moving targets.
But even so, more than 100 of the 800 warships in the Zhongzhou fleet have been shot. More than a dozen large warships were directly sunk.
Nearly 10000 soldiers were directly injured or killed. The number of stone crossbows destroyed directly has also reached nearly 1000.
But Zhu Qingzhu gritted his teeth and insisted that he would not send out the Golden Eagle army. Even the Western fleet was surprised at this.
In Zhu Qing's eyes, these casualties are nothing at all.Yang Dingtian's submarine troops have been abandoned. He didn't pay much attention to these gun ships. As long as you get close to the Western fleet, you win.
And the most important thing is that now the Western fleet does not run away and is still motionless on the sea.
In the same sentence, Zhu Qingzhu used land war to fight sea war. In a neat line, and then rushed up, rolling, crushing.
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The Zhongzhou fleet is only 30 miles away from the Western fleet.
As long as you enter 20 Li, Zhu Qingzhu will order all the crystal crossbows to be launched.
Among the remaining 700 large warships, there are nearly 20000 giant crystal crossbows. Once it happens, it's enough to destroy everything.
So, to do is close, close!
In the past few days, the Zhongzhou fleet has lost more than 2000 warships. However, the main fleet has hardly suffered much.
A thousand large ships, equipped with giant crystal crossbows, are the main fleet of Zhongzhou. At present, there are nearly 800 ships left.
And the loss of the giant crystal crossbow did not exceed 25%.
At present, there are nearly 20000 more. It is enough to destroy the Western fleet.
As long as it's close, it's a one-sided massacre. So Zhu Qingzhu completely ignored the gunboats on both sides of the fleet, biting his teeth and allowing the bombardment.
Finally within 30 Li!
Yang Dingtian stood at the bow of the boat, pulled out his sword, raised it high, and yelled: ”all the crystal crossbows, ready!”
All of a sudden, 3000 huge crystal crossbows opened.
There are too few large ships in the yangdingtian fleet. Even if we count all the ships above 300 tons, we can only make 3000 giant crystal crossbows. The number is only about one tenth of that of Zhongzhou.
Zhongzhou command ship heard that the Western Legion now opened the huge crystal crossbow, and immediately sneered.
Is Yang Dingtian scared out of his mind? Thirty miles apart, start to open the crossbow?
The giant crystal stone crossbow can barely do it for 20 or 30 Li, but at the end of the crossbow, there is no strength, no lethality.
All the giant stalactites of the Western fleet have been pulled up.
The so-called crystal strong crossbow is a crossbow arm driven by crystal, which can not be pulled apart by ordinary force.
Then, burst out!
All of a sudden, the force of tens of thousands of Jin is enough to shoot dozens of Jin's Crossbow out of the sky.
”Creak... Creak...”
Under the power of crystal stone, three soldiers can pull a giant crossbow that is more than ten meters in size and tens of thousands of Jin in weight.
The so-called transformation of giant crystal crossbow is very simple and direct.
That is to transform the crossbow into a catapult. There is no difference in the weight between shooting a crossbow and shooting a fire oil barrel instead, except that the fire oil barrel is much more bulky.
In the harsh sound, three thousand huge crystal crossbows were all opened.
Then Yang Dingtian stood in the bow and looked at the Zhongzhou fleet ahead.
Originally, 800 warships were the most common 80 by 10 square array.
The horizontal distance between each two warships is more than a few hundred meters, and the head to tail distance is more than two or three kilometers.
As a result, 800 warships were deployed, covering a sea area hundreds of miles wide. In this way, it is quite disadvantageous to throw oil bombs.
Therefore, the artillery fleet of the Western fleet was squeezed intentionally or unintentionally.
All of a sudden, the width of the Zhongzhou fleet was squeezed nearly. But it is still tens of miles wide, and the distance between each ship is still over 100 meters. It's still a huge test for throwing a bucket of kerosene.
Alas, if only the submarine troops could take part in the war, the Zhongzhou fleet would have been destroyed.
Soon, Zhongzhou fleet, into twenty-five miles.
Yang Dingtian chopped down with a sword and roared in a low voice: ”let go!”
All of a sudden, three thousand huge crystal crossbows burst out.
”Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...”
Three thousand barrels of kerosene were hurled at the Zhongzhou fleet.
Zhongzhou fleet looked at the black spots flying in the air, listening to the huge whistling sound, suddenly extremely nervous.
It's twenty-five miles away. It'll be there soon.
”Bang Bang Bang...”
When it was very close, everyone could see clearly.
It's just a bucket.”Plop, plop...”
As a result, it was not unexpected.
The hit rate is quite low, even lower than that of artillery, less than half of Chengdu.
Hundreds of fire oil barrels smashed into dozens of warships and broke into pieces.
”Boom...” and then, burst open, instantly burning.
Hundreds of Jin of fire oil suddenly turned into a huge fireball, burning the whole area within ten meters.
When thousands of fire oil barrels smashed into the sea, they burst open, and the whole barrel was completely smashed to pieces.
There are hundreds of kilos of fire oil in it, which also turns into countless flames and burns thoroughly.
Two or three thousand powder barrels, full of hundreds of thousands of Jin of fire oil, fell on the sea.
In an instant, the whole sea was ablaze.
Looking at all this, I wish the green master shivered and cold all over.
After blowing up the fire oil warehouse in yangdingtian and forcing away the magic vulture legion, I thought that the fire oil tactics of the Western Legion were useless.
I didn't expect that they would use the giant spar crossbow to transform the kerosene bomb.
The Lord of eagle's nest trembled and said, ”Yang Dingtian attacks with fire. Our ships are all wood. It's very dangerous. The Lord will come out of the Golden Eagle army.”
Zhu Qingzhu didn't respond.
”Lord, come out of the Golden Eagle army.” The Lord of the eagle's nest roared.
All forces in Zhongzhou, kneel down and beg.
In fact, the first fire and oil attack of the Western fleet only burned more than a dozen ships, but everyone felt the fatal danger.
”No...” Zhu Qingzhu roared: ”rush over, full speed, as long as you rush in front of the Western fleet, you will win!”
All of a sudden, the Zhongzhou fleet completely ignored it and rushed to it crazily.
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”Release the speedboat...” Yang Dingtian gave an order.
All of a sudden, from the Western fleet, hundreds of smaller crystal fast ships rushed out. There was no one on them and they were tightly wrapped.
The speed of these crystal fast ships is extremely fast, more than 100 miles in an hour.
The moment it was released, it almost dashed towards the Zhongzhou fleet, and in a twinkling of an eye, it was several miles away.
”Put...”
”Put...”
”Put...”