Daming pirates

At this time, Li Dazui put away the disdainful look on his face, yelled at his men, issued orders one by one, and moved some soldiers on the wall from time to time to move them to places where they were needed more.

Suddenly there was only a roar, and the wall on Yu Xiaotian's left hand suddenly shook violently. A lot of earth and rocks fell on a long section of the wall, and some people were even shaken so much that they almost fell down.

The ground, and the inside of the village wall that originally seemed quite solid, suddenly appeared many cracks.

Yu Xiaotian quickly turned around and saw that it was a shell fired from a Hongyi cannon owned by Chu Cailao, which finally hit the wall of Hailang Dazhai.

Projectiles weighing more than ten kilograms, carrying a huge impact at a speed of hundreds of meters per second, hit the village wall heavily. The thick logs outside the wall were immediately punched with a huge hole, and the shells penetrated deeply.

It was embedded into the wall of the village, just a little bit short of making a hole in the wall.

However, this shell still caused considerable damage to the wall. The earth and stone inside the wall were shaken loose, and many cracks opened.

Yu Xiaotian's heart suddenly tightened, but he immediately regained his calm demeanor and turned around to continue looking towards the battlefield.

Chu Cailao's two cannons began to feel a little better at this time. The first few shots they fired were either too high or too low. One of the cannonballs even landed in the crowd of their own people, accidentally injuring two people.

one's own person.

But after a few calibrated rounds, Chu Cai's gunners still found some sense and began to aim their cannon more accurately, and this was the first time they accurately hit the wall of Hailang Dazhai.

When they saw that the wall of Hailang Dazhai was hit by heavy artillery fire and a big hole was punched out, Chu Cailao's men cheered again, as if they had seen the wall collapse, one by one

All are once again full of hope.

When the cannonball landed on the wall, the psychological pressure on the Sea Wolf tribe increased a lot. Each of them knew very well how much this wall meant to them. So far, among them,

Therefore, the key to being able to fight smoothly and overturn those who were beaten by Chu Cai's old men was that they had the advantage of the geographical location, and could hide on the wall of the village and slaughter the enemy with confidence and boldness.

But once the village wall is destroyed, it is difficult for them to imagine that with such a small number of people, they can continue to block the crazy attack of this group of Chu Cai's men. Once Chu Cai's men are allowed to rush into the village, the consequences will be almost

I can't imagine it.

Some people started to feel a little scared again at this time, their hands were not as steady as before, their reloading speed also slowed down, and their shots were not as accurate as before.

"Tell Li Dazui that the shilling six-pounder cannon should be used to bombard Chu Cailao's two cannons. We don't care whether they can hit or not. We should first create some pressure on them and quickly bring the twelve-pounder cannon over! Hurry up!

"Yu Xiaotian ordered the guards around him on the watchtower.

Today he said that the battle command was given to Li Dazui, so he was not in a position to directly intervene in Li Dazui's command at the moment. Instead, he sent someone to give guidance to Li Dazui from behind.

After Li Dazui heard the order, he immediately sent someone to tell the gunners of several six-pound cannons, asking them to find a way to fire at the two Chu Cailao cannons in the distance. It would be best to hit them.

This order was really difficult for the gunners of these six-pound cannons. The effective range of the six-pound cannons was only about 400 meters. Although the longest range could reach the two Chu Cai Lao Hongyi cannons, they

The target of Chu Cailao's cannon is just a point at such a long distance. The target of Chu Cailao's cannon is a wide and long village. If he wants to hit those two cannons from such a long distance, it can be said that he can only rely on God's care.

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Although the gunners of several six-pound cannons knew that there was little hope, they immediately hurriedly raised the muzzles of the guns, adjusted them to a high elevation angle, and began to fire at the two Hongyi cannons.

Several cannons were fired one after another, and the shells roared out and flew across the battlefield towards the location of Chu Cailao's two cannons. The observer nervously observed the impact point of the shells.

"***, it's too low! It's too far! The shell landed at least thirty steps directly in front of the target!" An observer punched the wall fiercely, turned around and shouted to his companions.

"Load, hurry up! Push the gun back! Raise it up! Raise the muzzle a little higher! ***, this rear sight is almost useless! It's hard to aim!" the gunner ordered while muttering.

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The shelling effects of several guns were basically the same. The shells all landed far away from the enemy guns, basically not posing much of a threat to Chu Cailao's two guns. This result made these gunners very nervous.

Depressed, muttering and cursing, he quickly reloaded and adjusted the angle of the gun.

Not long after, there was another violent vibration on the wall, and a large piece of the upper part of the wall immediately collapsed. A shell from the Chu Cai Lao Hongyi cannon hit the upper part of the wall near the female wall.

Even though a section of the parapet wall on the village wall was demolished.

A member of the Sea Wolf tribe was right next to the impact point of the cannonball. As the cannonball hit, he was knocked away by the flying clods of soil. He fell into the wall of the village and landed on the ground with a thud.

His orifices were bleeding and he fainted immediately.

The Sea Wolf tribe couldn't help but turn their heads to look at the scene where the shells landed. They were all secretly shocked, but they didn't dare to delay any longer, so they quickly turned their heads again and started shooting at the bottom of the village wall.

At this time, the minions carrying the swarm of bees also approached the front of the stronghold. They spread out and arranged the boxes of bees outside the stronghold. They pulled out a twist of medicine from the box and removed the cover in front of the box.

The rocket has a honeycomb-like structure inside.

"Everyone lower their heads! Take cover!" After seeing so many swarm rockets deployed by Chu Cai's veteran men, the experienced Sea Wolf tribe members immediately squatted down and hid under the female wall.

The guards rushed up to the watchtower with a roar, and without any explanation covered the bodies of Yu Xiaotian, Lin Yiyang and others with their shields. They grabbed them and dragged them off the watchtower and hid under the village wall.

As soon as Yu Xiaotian stepped on the ground, he heard a whistling sound outside the village wall, and then a bunch of arrows flew past the wall.

The flight trajectories of these arrows are not stable. Some rockets have tail feathers burned by flames, so they can be said to be flying around in the air. No one knows where they will land.

But the more this happened, the more people felt frightened. Everyone hurriedly lowered their heads to dodge. In almost a few breaths, Chu Cailao's men successively lit ten boxes of swarm rockets. Each box of these swarms usually contained more than thirty rockets.

, there are also smaller ones that hold twenty rockets, but at the same time there is also a box that can be filled with hundreds of rockets, but a swarm of hundreds of rockets is already called a hundred tigers rushing together with arrows.

In order to conquer Dazhai, Mr. Chu Cai spared no expense this time and took out all the good stuff from the bottom of the box. In this first round, he ordered about ten boxes of swarms. After the medicine twist in the box was ignited, a

The cartridge on the rocket shaft was ignited by the twist of the medicine, and the tail immediately spurted out flames, driving the arrow shaft to fly out of the box.

At this moment, hundreds of arrows flew out, and it really felt like an overwhelming force. They whizzed and flew towards the sea wolf's stronghold. Of course, there were also some out-of-control rockets that flew over the heads of their own people.

The resistance of the Sea Wolf tribe was suppressed.

After this round of rockets passed, I looked at the wall of Sea Wolf Dazhai. It looked like a layer of reed flowers had bloomed, and it was covered with arrows from top to bottom.

However, although this kind of rocket looks very powerful, it is obviously not a very suitable weapon to deal with the Sea Wolf Dazhai. After all, the Sea Wolf tribe basically has support and can hide behind the crenels and parapets on the stronghold wall.

Except for a few injured personnel who could not dodge, most people were unharmed in the face of this rocket salvo.

It's just that some of the rockets flew over the wall and landed inside the village. Some of the rockets deviated too far and actually flew to a place where the islanders gathered, killing two islanders and basically not causing any greater damage to the sea wolf.

of losses.

However, these rockets still caused some trouble for the Sea Wolf, forcing the Sea Wolf tribe to squat down to guard against the arrows, which immediately suppressed their counterattack firepower.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Mr. Chu Cai's men below the village wall howled and began to erect the long ladders in their hands with all their strength, and put a pair of deputy long ladders on the wall.

A large number of Mr. Chu Cai's men began to swarm towards these erected long ladders. They scrambled for each other and began to climb up the long ladders towards the wall of the village.

"Fire your musketeers with bayonets! Brothers, take them down!" When Li Dazui saw the long ladder appearing on the wall, he pulled out the sword from his waist and raised it above his head, shouting loudly.

At this time, the fighting between the two sides began to reach a point of close combat. Countless Chu Cai Lao's men tried to climb up the stronghold wall through long ladders, while the Sea Wolf tribesmen on the stronghold wall began to think of ways to knock these guys down.

At this time, the cannons on both sides were not idle, and they were still firing at each other. The cannonballs were flying up and down the wall, and arrows and blunderbuss were passing by one after another.

The sea wolf's wall would shake violently every once in a while, leaving a deep crater on the wall. A shell from the Chu Cai Lao Hongyi cannon even directly blasted a large transparent hole in the wall.

The cannonballs penetrated the village wall and fell into the village.

It was only then that the twelve-pounder gun was transported here from the northeast corner with the efforts of everyone, and was placed on a fort again.

The gunner of this 12-pound long gun didn't have time to take a breath, and then he started to work wildly. The powder package was taken out of the box and put into the muzzle. Someone used a stick to pound it into the bottom of the barrel, and then someone held a

Cannonballs wrapped in linen

It was sent into the muzzle, and someone quickly pounded it into the barrel of the gun, and tamped the shells and the medicine bag hard. A gunner at the rear of the gun took out an awl, inserted it from the fire door, and pierced the oil paper of the medicine bag, causing the powder to pierce the eye.

It was poured into the fire door and prepared for loading.

With the joint efforts of more than a dozen gunners, the cannon was quickly pushed to the gun position. The gunner began to find the target position through the rear sight, and shouted loudly for people to lift the muzzle and insert wood chips.

"Okay! Get out of the way! Fire!" After the gunner found the target, he stood up and ducked to the side of the cannon, waved his hand to drive away the people behind the cannon, gave the order to fire, and at the same time opened his mouth widely.

A gunner had already prepared a torch, and after hearing the sound, he immediately stuck the torch into the gun's breech door.

Everyone only felt a violent vibration in their internal organs, and then heard a huge roar in their ears, which made their ears buzz and felt very uncomfortable.

After the twelve-pounder gun was fired, it produced a considerable recoil force, pushing the heavy gun carriage to recoil in an instant and retreated several steps before stopping.

"The shell deflected to the left and forward, and missed!" The observer stared at the target direction with wide eyes, and shouted loudly to report the impact location of the shell to other gunners.

Several gunners sighed heavily, with regret and disappointment on their faces, but they did not dare to neglect, and immediately pounced on the cannon, began to clear the barrel, reload, and a series of other operations...