Small Landlords of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 82 108. Zhou Yu beats Huang Gai

When Ma Dai and Ma Yunlu went south, Guo Jia felt as if he had taken a powerful diamond pill. The first battle of the navy started, and Sun Quan on the Yuhuang battleship looked constipated.

Zhou Yu is like eating Xiang. He is also a Mengchong battleship. Wang Hao's battleship can easily reach 15 knots, while Soochow's Mengchong can only reach 12 knots at the fastest.

Under such circumstances, the Jingzhou Navy can use kite-flying tactics to beat up all kinds of dissatisfaction with the Soochow Navy, even if there are always no strong warships, except for a few warships that are encircled, very few Jingzhou warships will be sunk.

The nautical mile is a unit of length in the sea. It originally refers to the length of 1 minute of latitude on the meridian of the earth. Since the earth is slightly ellipsoidal, the arc of 1 minute at different latitudes is slightly different, so 1852 meters is adopted as the standard nautical mile length internationally.

One section is 1.852 kilometers. Wang Hao’s battleships are all powered by steam engines. The speed reaches 15 knots, which is close to 28/km per hour, which is much faster than the warships of the Soochow Navy.

This is just a battle on a river, completely unable to reflect the extreme propulsion of the steam engine. In fact, the single-wheel sailing capability of Wang Hao's warship can reach more than 18 knots.

The speed is 30/km/h. If there is no preparation on the battlefield, the opponent will pass by in an instant. The poles on the building boats cannot be aimed at all. There is no threat of trebuchets, and medium and large warships rarely sink.

When Ma Jun designed the warship, he considered the consequences of high-speed collisions. The warships on Wang Hao's side had thick iron plates on the front instead of thin iron sheets. As for the shipwreck and death.

Wang Hao asked the battleship to be thicker to prevent collisions. With the keel, the hull's ability to resist blows and wind and waves was significantly improved. With the promotion of steam engines, the cost of manpower driving was greatly saved. The necessity of a thick hull.

The Soochow battleship also had a keel to enhance the stability of the ship and resist wind and waves. However, after the keel was added, the weight of the warship increased and the water level became deeper. More people were needed to drive it.

The decrease in sailing speed has become a problem for Soochow's shipbuilding industry. This battle has fully demonstrated that the large warship Gaihai in the Yellow Sea was crushed by Wang Hao's shield sea, especially when Wang Hao's shield sea joined the Liannu. A large ranged attack weapon.

The Gaihai battleship has a speed of 13 knots and can carry more than 7000 soldiers, including 3000 crossbowmen. The range of the bow and crossbow is [-] steps, and the throwing pole is [-] steps. It comes with ten Mengchong warships and twenty small warships. , This is already the top warship of Soochow.

The shield warship has a speed of 21 knots, can carry 5000 soldiers, and only 500 crossbowmen. The range of the large-scale continuous crossbow is 150 steps, and the range of the pole-throwing stone is [-] steps. The ship is used for landing and rescue.

In terms of statistics, Wang Hao's shield sea battleship is not as good as the Gaihai in the Yellow Sea, but its attack power far exceeds that of Gaihai.

After using the speed to catch up with Gai Hai, Wang Hao's long-range attack is ten times that of Gai Hai. Gai Hai can only use three rackets to throw stones to attack, and he has no other attack power within a hundred steps.

As long as Wang Hao's landing ship is not hit by the stone-throwing from Gaihai's pole, there will be no problem. The stone-throwing will not do much damage to Mengchong and Dunhai, at most the soldiers will be injured.

After Wang Hao approached the Gaihai with speed, he threw stones three times, plus five Mengchong large-scale continuous crossbows, and the giant javelin crossbow shot ten consecutive shots. Let alone how many soldiers he could kill, the small Gaihai battleship would definitely block it. Can't help it, Meng Chong will be praised if he is shot many times.

Gaihai wanted to hide but couldn't dodge. After all, the speed is not fast enough for the shield sea battleship, and it is impossible to get close to a little output. When the shield sea battleship sees the opponent approaching, it uses kite flying tactics. If it goes deep behind the enemy, it is afraid that the fire battleship will commit suicide. style attack.

"This is not a solution. Three thousand small warships were sunk today, and both Mengchong and Haochong suffered different damages..."

Zhou Yu sat on the left side and said with a sad face.

"So what, is it possible to surrender to Wang Hao?"

Huang Gai was also a little depressed. Today he was tricked by Wang Hao for a day and sank two of Wang Hao's landing ships. He didn't even meet the medium-sized Haochong.

"If you want to serve yourself and surrender, I will not give up even if I fight to the death."

Sun Jian's uncle Wu Jing stood up and said.

"I'm curious. We also have keel technology. Why is Wang Hao's navy so fast?"

Lu Su said with a puzzled face, he also saw today that the speed of Wang Hao's landing ship was comparable to theirs, but the speed of medium and large warships was faster than that of the landing ship. This question has been circling in his mind.

"Tomorrow's battle is not about defeating the enemy or capturing the opponent's warships. As long as we figure out this problem, with the technology of Soochow's shipbuilding industry, I believe it will soon..."

Zhang Zhao was very confident, but some people lost confidence.

"Go to you! My Gaihai needs repairs tomorrow..."

The Gaihai was hit by a stone on its main pole today, and Wang Hao's Mengchong crossbow pierced the left side. The two-meter-long arrow spear pierced through the hull, and several holes have been broken.

"This is an order, please don't rely on the old to sell the old..."

Zhou Yu became a little angry. It is normal to suffer some setbacks in war, but Huang Gai is playing a little temper here.

"Boy Zhou Yu, you didn't know when the old man fought against Wu Chenghou..."

Zhou Yu said that he relied on the old to sell the old, and Huang Gai really relied on the old to sell the old. He followed Sun Jian in the Southern Expedition, and later followed Sun Ce to pacify Jiangdong, and then assisted Sun Quan to build a foundation.

Huang Hai, Cheng Pu, Zhou Tai, Han Dang, etc. are the elders of the Sun family in the three dynasties, and the rising stars like Zhou Yu, Lu Su, Zhuge Jin and others climbed on top of them, among which Zhou Yu is the most important.

Relying on Sun Ce's entrustment, he not only gave advice on Sun Quan's decision-making, but also occupied the position of governor, controlling the officers and soldiers of the three armies of Soochow, and did not take them at all, the elders.

"You...you...very good! If you don't fight tomorrow, Huang Gai will be dealt with according to military law!"

Zhou Yu stood up with a flick of his sleeves, glaring at Huang Gai and not giving him any face of the elder.

"The old man won't go, Zhou Yu, what are you doing to me?"

As Huang Gai spoke, he dropped his teacup and stood up in front of everyone.

"Get it for me..."

Zhou Yu directly let the guards in this time, and was going to pull Huang Gai out for military punishment.

"The governor..."

A group of old courtiers came out to intercede, although Huang Hai saved his life, but the fifty army sticks who disobeyed the military order were indispensable, and Huang Gai could not get out of bed for at least half a month.

During the Battle of Chibi, Sun Quan ordered Zhou Yu to be the governor against Cao Cao. Zhou Yu and Huang Gai decided to use bitter tactics. So at the military meeting, Huang Gai pretended to disagree with Zhou Yu, and even made rude remarks. Zhou Yu was furious and ordered Huang Gai to be beheaded. , the generals begged for mercy, Zhou Yu put Huang Gai on the stick.

"What do you think, Feng Xiao?"

Zhou Yu's allusion to Huang Gai is used by Wang Hao today. Zhang Zhao, like Huang Gai, was a veteran of the three dynasties. The messengers were Zhang Zhao's sons Zhang Xiu and Zhang Cheng. Guo Jia almost got away with it.

Seeing Wang Hao's smile, Guo Jia didn't speak again. Now that Wang Hao has seen through this trick, Wang Hao must have a way to deal with it.

After the fall, the wind gradually picked up, but there was still some time before the north wind blows, and it might be unrealistic to attack with fire, so what did Huang Gai want to gain by setting up the tent?
Judging from today's battle situation, within half a month, the Soochow navy will give up the Danyang waterway in advance due to the excessive loss of warships. So Soochow lacks ships, which can be seen at present, but the lack of ships can be used to build ships!
"Soochow lacks warships, but they have a backup base to build their own ships. Could it be steam engines..."

Wang Hao and Guo Jia looked at each other and already had an idea in their hearts...

(End of this chapter)