Chapter 801: Mutual Attack
"Open fire with all the frontal guns. Let Japan understand the gap between them and us!"
Seeing that it was effective, Zhou Yu decisively ordered the bombardment to begin.
Anyway, they brought enough crossbows this time. No matter how useful they are, they will just fire a round at him before he gets close.
The naval guns on more than a hundred large ships opened fire in unison. More than a hundred steel crossbow arrows with thunder roared out from the naval guns, carrying red flames and purple electric light, and blasted towards the opposite Japanese fleet at a speed several times faster than the speed of sound.
This is the second-generation heavy crossbow developed by the Mohists, which can also be called the second-generation naval gun, which is different from the first-generation naval gun on Zhou Yu's main ship.
The second-generation naval guns still use a physical-based attack method, which is quite powerful, but the distance is greatly limited by the material of the crossbow arrows. The Mohist School also spent a lot of effort to develop a special crossbow arrow.
This type of crossbow can shoot arrows far beyond the visual range, but it can really only be used within the visual range because of its speed , the crossbow arrow basically travels in a straight line.
If it were a world where the earth is round and the sky is square, they might become the mainstream naval guns, but the shape of the earth is arc-shaped, and their attack range is inherently limited.
However, the visible distance at sea is quite large, and the straight-line attack range is actually not small.
However, the Mohists were not satisfied. They were researching naval guns that could bombard in an arc. Especially after learning that missiles had a lag, they tried to use the essence of heaven and earth technology to replicate the missile's attack method.
"Keep filling, and after the energy is fully charged, fire the second round!" Zhou Yu ordered calmly.
Naval guns are useful, but the charging interval is a bit disgusting, and they cannot be fired continuously, which can easily damage the gun itself.
"Speed up and charge forward. The Han army's crossbows have actually developed to this level. Without the Yunqi Group's defense, even my flagship can only withstand three or four rounds!"
Takeda Shingen, who was unharmed thanks to the Yunqi Group's defense, fell silent. He had originally planned to fight from a long distance, but the attack methods displayed by the opponent now instantly killed his idea.
The enemy's attacks were far beyond their reach. If they continued like this, not to mention the advantage, defeat would be imminent.
"Charge forward and use guerrilla tactics against the Han Dynasty!" After realizing the difference in firepower between the two sides, Takeda Shingen quickly adjusted his battle strategy.
"The enemy's soldiers operating the naval guns should have accuracy or other abilities. They can't just take the beating like this!" Takeda Shingen looked at the steam left by the sun and came up with a plan.
A legion attacked and landed in front of the Han fleet.
"Haha, you dare to shoot with such accuracy?" Zhou Tai laughed. This kind of attack was simply funny. It was still a long distance away from them.
But the following changes made Zhou Tai unable to laugh. After the sea water was shattered, a thick fog enveloped the Han fleet.
Zhou Tai subconsciously looked at Zhou Yu. In this situation, only these counselors who possessed spiritual talents could solve the problem.
"Disperse the water mist!" Zhou Yu's heart skipped a beat when he saw the large-scale water mist, and then he roared on the spot. The counselors in the fleet immediately began to blow wind at all costs.
However, the fog seemed to be blessed by some special power, and even with strong winds, it still couldn't dissipate.
Zhou Yu quickly analyzed the meaning of Takeda Shingen's move.
"Blocking the line of sight is to allow their fleet to avoid the attack of our naval guns, so they must be moving in other directions..." He soon figured out the other party's real intention.
"The fleet begins to disperse according to the numbers. The first column goes to the left, and the second column goes to the right to avoid this fog."
After the fleet rushed out of the fog, Zhou Yu saw that Takeda Shingen's fleet had been divided into four and was heading towards the Han Dynasty to encircle and suppress it .
"Is this the ability to change the celestial phenomena?" Feeling the wind blowing in his face, Takeda Shingen was a little surprised.
"The commander-in-chief reacts very quickly! But now your naval guns' advantage in attack no longer exists!" Takeda Shingen raised his eyebrows and said softly.
"All ships, get ready, and throw the stone balls out hard!"
Unlike those commanders who advocated ramming ships and then hand-to-hand combat, Takeda Shingen had his own unique understanding of naval warfare. He believed that the future of naval warfare must be towards long-range strikes.
Jumping ship battles are just a continuation of land warfare. The future of the navy is to directly sink the enemy from a long distance.
There is no escape in naval battles, and there is no need to stick together to hold the enemy, so it is necessary to increase long-range firepower.
He did a lot of research for this purpose, and integrated all his talents in Fenglinhuoshan into it, but still did not achieve much.
Before Oda Nobunaga completely delegated power, the resources he had were not enough for him to complete his research.
However, he still achieved some results, the biggest of which was the stone ball attack that replaced the catapult.
Relying on the expansion and contraction of the Yunqi Group's defense, it acts like a spring, smashing the stone balls out like cannonballs.
Because of the distance and the transmission method, these stone balls will directly convert kinetic energy into potential energy, allowing the stone balls weighing hundreds of pounds to explode with terrifying power.
Dozens of stone balls fell from the sky like meteors. Compared with the straight-forward fire of naval guns, the arc of the stone balls would reduce the hit effect a lot, but it still caused a good strike effect.
After dispersing, the fleet lost the advantage of group defense, and the cloud defense capability decreased significantly. Even though the power of the stone pill decreased significantly after penetrating the cloud, it still had some effect.
The medium-sized ships that were unfortunately hit had a huge hole directly created in them. Fortunately, the Han Dynasty's ships were large enough, so these holes did not cause the risk of shipwreck, but they still had a great impact on movement.
Even Zhou Tai's large ship was hit with a big hole. Although it did not capsize, Zhou Tai was scared. He quickly asked people to bring spare wooden boards to block the hole to prevent seawater from entering the warehouse.
However, the Japanese fleet only had this moment, as the Han Dynasty's naval guns were recharged again, and more than a hundred steel crossbow arrows with thundering sounds roared out from the naval guns again.
The Japanese ships, which had also lost their group defense advantage after dispersing, were not so lucky this time. Several medium-sized ships were hit head-on and began to sink.
"Keep moving forward, sprint in a straight line, prepare to activate the Cloud Qi Secret Technique, charge forward explosively, get close to them and kill those guys!"
Takeda Shingen simply gave up the idea of long-range attack and adopted the boat-jumping battle that he had despised the most in the past.
The technological gap between the two sides' ships still made him completely lose the confidence to continue the bombardment.
