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As a member of the Lu family fleet that has dominated Nanjiang for hundreds of years, the head of the army has stood on the lookout post for most of his life, and has never seen such an oppressive scene.

I saw dozens of boats approaching rapidly on the broad surface of the Nanjiang River.The ten ships driving at the front all had black cannons mounted on the bow and one side of the hull, like the fangs and sharp teeth of a beast, revealing a fierce murderous intent.

The shape of these ten ships is very strange, not to mention that they have no sails, and the hulls are also higher than ordinary warships, but they have no boat towers, and they move forward at an extremely fast speed in the river.

A fleet of this scale is actually incomparable to the momentum of the Lu family's dozens of building ships going hand in hand.But now the haze of the Nanjiang water battle has not yet cleared, and none of the sailors in the Nanjiangkou dare to underestimate these strange boats without sails.

Only two ships sank half of the fleet, most of them fell into the river, and their lives are still uncertain. Today, there are eight more ships. Is the Feng family determined to fight Nanjun to the death? !

woo-

woohoo-

The low-pitched siren sounded, echoing across the wide river, and the startled army regained consciousness in an instant.

He didn't care about explaining anything to his subordinates, he even climbed down the checkpoint, and rushed into the city to report to the higher authorities.

In fact, he didn't need to report, the residents on the South Bank heard the long voice.

Like a horn, and like a majestic warning, mixed with the howling westerly wind, it intimidates the ears and the heart.

There's going to be a war!

This is the thought that came to many people's minds at the same time.

Especially when they saw the black gun muzzles that had been loaded and were adjusting the shooting angle, a kind of uncontrollable fear filled their hearts.

It is said that because of these black objects, Bailing banners are hung every day at the East Forest Farm.

It is said that because of these black objects, half of the Nanjiang fleet sank to the bottom of the river.

Because of these, Donglai City was broken, the old capital was broken, and Mr. Shaolang was seriously injured and was bedridden.

The Feng family has won most of the country by relying on these black objects, and they will either die or be injured when encountering them, without exception.

This time, is it Nanjun's turn? !

Lu Tao who received the news did not have the slightest panic.

Dong Linchang has already produced artillery. He is a blacksmith who is conscripted into the corvée. After he couldn't make steel suitable for the body of the gun, he had an idea and switched to copper.Unexpectedly, it succeeded once.

Although the copper gun barrel is expensive, the ductility and heat dissipation of copper are better than iron, which at least solves the problem of blasting the chamber.

However, the artillery made in this way cannot fire iron projectiles.The barrel made of copper is soft and easily deformed when exposed to high temperatures. It is necessary to make the barrel shorter and thicker, and at the same time fill it with fire and thunder powder, so as to ensure that the projectile can be fired.

Iron projectiles, due to poor iron smelting technology, often burst when they just come out of the muzzle. They are not as stable as those made of stone, and the time and cost are not as economical as those made of stone.

The Lu family is not short of money, but that was in the past.

The Lu family invested a lot of supplies when they besieged Dingfeng City, but Dingfeng City did not bring the expected benefits. Instead, it became a bottomless pit because of the uninterrupted follow-up supplies, swallowing up a lot of the Lu family's wealth.

In addition, there have been continuous disasters in the past two days, and the climate in winter and summer is very abnormal. Even the vast expanse of fertile land in Nanjun cannot withstand rounds of droughts and floods.Not to mention that after a catastrophe, there must be a catastrophe. When the frontier town was plagued by the disease, Nanjun was not spared. Many people died, and many fields were almost wiped out in autumn because they were left unattended.

Casting cannons with copper is no different from casting cannons with money, but Lu Tao gritted his teeth and wanted to pay for the money, after all, it was related to the life and death of the Lu family in Nanjun.

But in other places, you can save as much as you can.

Stone materials are naturally easy to get, and there is no cost, and there are skilled stonemasons in the city, as long as the cannon is big enough, its power may not be lost to that boy Mo Zong!

As a result, the Lu family's cannons took on the shape of short copper cannons.In order to improve performance, the gun body and muzzle have been enlarged a lot, and it took a lot of effort just to transport it to the ship and install it.

Now, all the efforts are worthwhile, the few remaining small buildings of the Lu family are all equipped with huge bronze cannons.As soon as the boat left the port, all the people cheered, and the momentum was even fiercer than the wooden boats of the frontier army!

"Those military households in the border town are definitely not my opponents in Nanjun!"

A man from the side of the Lu family stood at the bow of the boat, looking coldly at the frontier gunboats lined up in front of him, and said arrogantly.

"Isn't today's water battle just better than a ship with a cannon? The ship I'm waiting for is bigger than him, and the cannon is stronger than him. What's so scary?"

"Exactly."

The servants he raised complimented him.

"The Lu family's guns are mounted on the ship's tower, condescending. One cannon is a 200-jin stone bullet, and any wooden boat has to be pierced."

"The frontier army is defeated."

Just as he was talking, there seemed to be movement on the other side.Another long siren sounded,

On the river, the originally stationary twenty ships suddenly divided into three formations, advancing side by side at an angle that almost blocked the river, quickly closing the distance with the Nanjiang fleet.

Boom—boom—boom—boom—boom—

The first round of intensive shelling began.

The ships of the frontier army were not as huge as those of the Lu family. The largest ships were only one-third of the size of the opposite building. But the moment the cannons were fired, the wooden hulls only shook slightly, and the displacement distance was not obvious. The stability of the boat is still maintained.

The few Lu's warships walking in the front were considered bloody bad luck, and were smashed by the rain-like offensive.

They didn't even have time to pull the cannons on the ship, and the hull was blown to pieces, becoming the first sacrifices of this great war.

"Fire! Fire quickly!"

Mr. Bangzhi's boat was not far from the first batch of unlucky guys. Seeing the gunpowder smoke blowing in his face, he quickly gave the order to attack.

The next moment, tongues of fire erupted from the Lu fleet, and the heavy stone bombs were pushed out with difficulty by the fire and thunder powder, drawing a short parabola in the air, and finally landed on the water directly in front of the frontier fleet , smashing out huge water splashes.

Missed.

On the Nanjiang River, there was a moment of silence.At this moment, neither the frontier army nor the Lu family continued to attack. Time seemed to stand still, and a short vacuum appeared.

Whether it was the branch lord on the ship, or Lu Tao who personally supervised the battle at the top of the city, everyone in Nanjun was shocked by this sudden result.

They never expected that the range of their own artillery could not reach the opponent's level at all, and they couldn't even touch a hair!

"The barrel is short, the power of the gunpowder is low, and the initial velocity of the cannon ejection is seriously insufficient."

On the largest steamship in the frontier army, Ning Zaozi put down the binoculars in his hand and gave a live explanation to the students behind him.

"When you handed in your homework before, I remember that a student designed this kind of gun, right?"

He looked around and smiled kindly.

"I said that this thing is not practical, and some students are still not convinced. After class, they came to me to argue for a long time."

He pointed to the Lu fleet on the opposite side.

"Look now, did I wrong him?"

"I told you in class that although this kind of gun body is simple in craftsmanship, it must use a lot of gunpowder, and even the gunpowder will fill the gun body, and the shells must be exposed near the muzzle."

"The ballistic trajectory of this kind of gun is like clouds, and there is no need to talk about accuracy at all, because the muzzle velocity is too low and the range is pitifully short. If you want to really use it on the battlefield, you have to stick to the base of the enemy's wall to bombard the target."

"What's the use of spending a lot of money to build this thing?"

Ning Zaozi's taunting skills were wide open, and the students behind him nodded repeatedly.Especially the student who had a brain hole with the craftsman of the Lu family, was so ashamed that he wanted to find a crack in the ground to sneak in.

At this time, the third cousin standing in the front suddenly raised her hand.

"Mr. Ning, you talked about the center of gravity in class before. I roughly estimated the weight of this cannon just now. They put the cannon on the second floor. Aren't they afraid of the center of gravity being out of balance?"

Hearing her question, Ning Fei immediately cast admiring glances.

"You're right, the center of gravity must be out of balance, because the Lu family doesn't make cast iron cannons, but copper cannons."

When he said this, the students suddenly showed indescribable expressions, and then they all lowered their heads and quickly calculated on the straw notebook.

It's not that they are so self-conscious, but that after following Mr. Ning for so long, they can more or less learn some of Mr. Ning's routines.He said it was copper, and he talked about the density problem in class, and then they probably asked them to estimate the weight and the position of the center of gravity.

In order to avoid not being able to answer when asked, embarrassing, it is more practical to do the calculation first.

Ning Zaozi watched with satisfaction as the little hamsters rustled and counted, and did not immediately give the order for the second round of shelling.

He wants to give the Lu family a chance to perform, let them use their own experience to explain why it is a tragedy for a small boat to pull a cannon, and it is only a matter of time before they are slapped in the face if they don't give the "recoil" card.

The ships of the frontier army have been standing still, this attitude gave Lu Tao the illusion.

He thought that Ning Fei was laughing at the short range of the Lu family's artillery, and he deliberately put on a fearless posture to humiliate him.

Thinking of this, Lu Tao on the top of the wall smiled coldly.

He can climb to this position, face is never an important thing, and the one who laughs last is the real winner.

Without moving his face, he calmly ordered the whole team to move forward, and leaned forward while the frontier uniforms that underestimated the enemy were pretending, so that they could also taste the feeling of being bombarded by artillery.

It doesn't matter if the range is short, as long as it reaches the range soon? !

As for the opponent's counterattack after regaining consciousness... the frontier army probably bet all their money on these twenty ships.His fleet is twice as large as the opponent's, and it is enough to sacrifice a few ships in the front row as cover.

The distance between the two sides was rapidly closing, and the frontier army seemed to have noticed something, and suddenly began to adjust the muzzle, as if preparing for the second round of shooting.

The few Nanjiang boats driving at the forefront suddenly lost their composure, and pulled the matchlock to shoot the cannon first.According to their estimates, the shooting range should be close to the edge. As long as they can get ahead of the opponent and sink the opponent, they will be considered safe.

This round of artillery fire was about to reach the opponent's bow.

The branch lord was overjoyed, and felt that if he moved closer, he might be able to grab the first place, so he immediately ordered people to load the stone bombs immediately, but he did not hold back at all, and the several artillery on the ship tower sprayed out stone bullets in unison. , Splashing towards the frontier army like a rain of flowers.

But what he didn't expect was that the recoil force from a salvo of more than a dozen cannons instantly destroyed the balance of the hull, making sailing, which was already unstable due to its high center of gravity, an impossible task.

With the long flames ejected from the muzzle, the big ship also capsized and fell sideways into the Nanjiang River.

Under the astonished gazes of everyone, the ship building and the heavy copper cannon fell in mid-air and hit the rear ship heavily.

boom--

The next Nanjiang is almost still a big stage for a farce.

The ratio of injuring the enemy to self-injury with the flamboyant Lu's cannons reached a ridiculous level. As long as the cannonballs were fired, the Lu family's buildings would shake violently, so there were not many ships that capsized in the river.

The people of Nanjun on the shore were dumbfounded.

They never imagined that the Lu family fleet, which has always been the light of South County, would capsize because of firing artillery!

Is this... this... Is this killing the enemy or suicide?Could it be that there are traitors in Lu's fleet?

The people on the shore couldn't understand it, but Lu Tao at the top of the wall knew it well.

He closed his eyes, knowing that the imitation artillery was completely defeated.That cunning abandoned son not only led him to follow the wrong principles, but also induced him to invest a lot of money, manpower and material resources in it!

In order to imitate artillery, the Lu family gave up the opportunity to go north, blocked a lot of resources, and killed and injured countless craftsmen. In the end, they just struggled in a dead end and created a half-like Xibei product, which became the laughing stock of the world!

But Mo Zong stepped on his face and showed his power. While he was buried in imitation guns, he was in urgent need of strength, and built a fleet that could turn the tide of the battle!

He should have thought about it a long time ago, with that person's cleverness, how could he leave a cannon for them before leaving, the ship was blown to pieces!

This is a trick, the most vicious revenge against his Lu clan.

One ebbs and another, the defeat of the Lu family is set now, and it is only a matter of time before the Lu family fleet is wiped out.That kid never thought of returning to the Lu family. From the beginning to the end, what he wanted was the result of destroying his family!

Lost, in the end is lost, one wrong move, the whole game is lost!

The more I thought about it, the more breathless I felt, as if a heavy stone was pressed against my chest, and a fishy-sweet taste gushed out of my throat.

Amidst the rumbling gunfire, Lu Tao's body fell down slowly. He could no longer hear the exclamations of his cronies and Chang Sui around him, and darkness enveloped his entire world.

At the end of his vague consciousness, all he could see was the extraordinarily blue sky over the Nanjiang River.

Blue, it's really blue, clear and transparent, just like the Mobei Grassland that he hated so much when he was young, it's unbelievably vast.

At that time, he was poor and struggling to survive, and he rarely had the opportunity to lie on the grass and watch the sky.

As a result, I struggled for a lifetime, and it seemed that it was no different from what I saw at that time.

It turned out, the same.