Traveling through history leaving a name

Chapter 87 Fierce Battle

At this time, the Youzhou has sailed to the third bend of the Jiajiang dish-shaped river.

When the Youzhou ship turned the corner and saw the scene in front of them, everyone on the Youzhou ship gasped.

It turned out that there was already a dense fleet of boats waiting here in the Jiajiang River.

As soon as these boats saw the Youzhou, they rushed over and rushed towards the Youzhou.

Accompanied by the sound of rumbling drums and loud shouts, Sun Quan's navy is like a rolling flood, making people feel so small.

"Quick, turn around and retreat, fighting while retreating."

Seeing such a situation, Zhang Chao, the captain of the Youzhou, could only order to fight while retreating.

There are too many ships on the other side, and the river is not too wide. If these ships are allowed to approach, the Youzhou will fall into a hand-to-hand combat situation. This is absolutely not allowed by Zhang Chao.

Just as the Youzhou was turning and one side of the ship faced the Sun Quan navy fleet in the river, the artillery on the side of the Youzhou opened fire.

The war is about to start.

Boom boom boom boom boom!

Thirty cannons fired one by one, and countless shells spewed out from the muzzles in an instant, flying towards Sun Quan's navy fleet hundreds of meters away with huge kinetic energy.

The next moment, the first few ships of the Sun Quan navy were hit by several shells in an instant, and several large holes were quickly pierced through.

Youzhou has extremely fast speed and extremely flexible turns.

After firing on one side of the ship, the Youzhou took a zigzag route, retreated about a hundred meters, and made a turn to point the other side of the ship at the enemy.

Boom boom boom boom boom!
Another round of shelling hit the naval ships in the front row again in an instant.

A few shells even hit the waterline, causing a large ship to start leaking rapidly.

After two rounds of bombardment, the distance between Youzhou and Sun Quan's naval fleet was also reduced to within 200 meters.

Under such circumstances, the Youzhou had no choice but to continue to retreat, relying on speed to open the distance and then turned around and shot again.

However, even with the retreat, the giant cannons on the bow and stern of the Youzhou did not stop firing for a moment.

This is a giant cannon with a shell weighing 25 catties and a weight of two and a half tons. It has a caliber of 150 mm and can hold five catties of gunpowder. The longest range of the shell can reach five kilometers.

"We hit it."

At the stern, when a gunner saw through the observation hole that the shells he fired hit the ship behind him, he immediately let out a cry of excitement.

"Calm down, recruit, there's nothing to be happy about, hurry up and reload." Seeing that the recruit was getting carried away, the veteran immediately reminded him.

The Youzhou retreated and attacked at the same time, because its speed was too fast and flexible, and the chasing Sun Quan navy ship was always at a distance from it, so it could only let it attack.

Boom boom boom boom boom!
The artillery fire continued to hit the chasing fleet, and the hit ship would immediately have a huge hole.

Don't underestimate this hole. It looks like a hole from the front, but the wood on the back will crack and splash in large quantities, thus killing the enemies in the cabin.

One of the main reasons why oak was used to build ships during the European sailing period was that there were no fragments of oak after being hit.

At the same time, the hull structure will be deformed at the parts hit hard by shells. If it is a European sailing warship of later generations, it doesn't matter if it can withstand a lot of guns.

However, the ships of Sun Quan's Navy are just plain inland river boats with a simple structure and a single-layer structure. As long as the hull is subjected to a few more shots, the structure of this kind of ship will fall apart, causing a lot of water leakage and sinking.

"Sink, sink."

After several rounds of shelling, one ship finally sank due to too much water in the cabin.

"Senior brother, it won't work like this. The efficiency is too low. It took half a day to sink a ship. Why don't you put in a little bit?"

On the Youzhou, a young man said to Zhang Chao.

"No, have you forgotten Senior Brother Niu Mang's lesson?" Zhang Chao refused.

"Don't look at the guys who shoot these guns. They usually shoot quite accurately, but they can't do it when they go to the battlefield. After all, they are still recruits and need more practice."

"However, if you continue to shoot inefficiently like this, the barrel will heat up."

"Don't be afraid, the worst thing is to delay the time, wait for the cooldown to fight, have you forgotten the guerrilla tactics, the enemy advances and retreats, the enemy camps and disturbs, the enemy is tired and fights, the enemy retreats and chases."

"Fortunately, our boat is powered by steam, so we don't need people to row the boat, so we can fight for a long time."

"Another ship sunk, well done."

On the other hand, Zhuge Zhi, the navy general who led the navy fleet to chase the Youzhou, felt a little uncomfortable.

"General, the casualties are too great." Someone said to Zhuge Zhi with grief.

Sun Quan's navy had too many and too dense ships. As long as the Youzhou fired its guns upstream, most of them could hit the enemy ships, either in the front row or in the back row.

Almost every cannonball can make Sun Quan's navy miserable.

In less than 10 minutes of fighting, the naval fleet sank several ships.

Fortunately, this place is on the big river, and the rescue of the boat behind was timely, so the situation that the soldiers and sailors were all destroyed would not happen.

"No matter how heavy the casualties are, we still have to chase. The iron chain behind should have blocked the enemy's back route. As long as we continue to chase for a while, we will be able to block it. At that time, I will capture this ship alive."

The two sides continued to chase and flee, while the Youzhou retreated and attacked. In just ten minutes, it sank several naval ships and caused countless injuries.

At this time, we arrived at the corner of the Jiajiang River, and the Sun Quan navy fleet behind us was slower.

When the Youzhou entered the Jiajiang River after the bend, on a hill not far away, the Youzhou appeared again in Sun Quan's telescope.

"It came back. It seems that it was chased and escaped."

"The river behind has been blocked, I want to see where it can escape."

"Such a powerful ship, it seems that it will be ours soon."

Seeing this scene, Sun Quan and everyone around him smiled.

It was an accident that the Youzhou was able to break into Moling City, but this accident will soon be eliminated, and judging by the current situation, I believe that it will not be long before my soldiers can capture that powerful Youzhou ship.

"Brother, it's not good, the river behind is blocked." On the Youzhou, a young man hurried to Zhang Chao and said loudly.

The people on the Youzhou finally realized that they were stopped behind.

"what?"

Hearing this, Zhang Chao was taken aback. He quickly walked a few steps to the side of the boat, and then looked towards the lower reaches of the Jiajiang River.

The next moment, Zhang Chao saw that less than 2000 meters downstream, several iron chains had blocked the entire river, and it was impossible for the Youzhou to pass through the chains.

"Brother, what should I do?"

Seeing such a situation, many people were anxious.

The reason why Youzhou is so confident is that it has absolute confidence in its own speed.

If it is blocked in the river and cannot move, no matter how powerful it is, it will be surrounded and beaten to death by Sun Quan's navy with many ships.

This is Sun Quan's territory. Even if hundreds of people on the Youzhou ship are all wearing armor on the deck to resist the attack of Sun Quan's sailors, the armor is not invincible. As long as the enemy is willing to spend their money, the high-intensity battle will only take half an hour. People in iron armor will also be tired to the ground.

Iron ropes block the river, which was used by the state of Wu to fight against the state of Wei during the Three Kingdoms period in history.

However, this incident happened in 280 A.D., which is still several decades away. I didn't expect Sun Quan to use this trick now in order to deal with the Youzhou ship.

PS: I don't want to talk.

(End of this chapter)