Daming pirates

"It's the Sea Wolf fleet! Enemy attack! Enemy attack! Let off smoke! Fire cannons to warn!" A low-level officer on the ship, after being stunned for a while, suddenly realized the identity of this fleet and immediately shouted in shock

shouted.

It was only then that the officers and soldiers on the ship realized what they were doing and hurried to the side of the ship, where several braziers were placed and the smoke in the braziers was lit.

At the same time, they also had a trumpet installed on their ship. Someone immediately rushed over and lit the trumpet. They heard three puffs of gunpowder smoke coming out of their ship one after another, and three huge trumpet blasts were heard.

After the three trumpet blasts sounded in the calm Pinghai Bay, the calm was immediately broken. The sound spread far away, and the smoke from the officer's sentry ship also billowed into the sky.

Liu Yinglong, who was busy preparing for battle in Nanyue Water Village, heard the sound of cannons coming from the direction of the cow head and tail of Meizhou Island in the distance. He still didn't believe his ears and asked the soldiers following him: "You guys

Did you hear that? Why do I hear the sound of cannons in the northeast?"

The soldier's expression also changed at this moment, and he nodded repeatedly: "I heard it! It is indeed a warning cannon sound!"

Liu Yinglong was shocked and immediately ran straight to a watchtower in the northeast corner of the water village. After flying up to the watchtower, he set up a pergola and looked far into the distance, looking in the direction of the cow's head and tail.

At this time, the smoke on the sentinel ship had already risen in the sky. Liu Yinglong shouted in shock: "The enemy is attacking! Sound the gong to warn and send my order to all brothers to board the ship immediately to prepare for battle! The sea wolf is coming!

! Damn it, I guessed it right after all, these sea wolves are really going to take action first! Quick! Get on the ship quickly!"

An alarm gong sounded immediately in Nanyue Water Village. The officers and soldiers who were still busy in the water village suddenly panicked when they heard the rapid warning gong sound.

, which means there is an enemy invasion, and the sound of the gongs is so close, it also shows the urgency of the situation.

Nanyue Water Village, which was originally relatively orderly, fell into complete chaos almost instantly like a bee exploding its nest. A large number of officers and soldiers immediately lost what they were busy with and ran towards the dock. The officers even more

yes

While yelling and commanding his soldiers, he yelled curses at the officers and soldiers at the beacon tower on Meizhou Island, scolding his men for being like headless flies and scolding Sea Wolf for not being able to find the north at this time.

Came for a sneak attack.

In short, they cursed everything they could think of, and hurriedly called on their soldiers to quickly board the ship and weigh anchor to prepare for the battle.

When Sea Wolf's fleet collided with the military sentry ship that was about to sail out of Pinghai Bay, Ma Xiao put down his binoculars and sighed slightly. It seemed that the military was still prepared. At least he knew about the sentry ship.

The fact that the ship was placed on the sea to guard against sneak attacks shows that the officers and soldiers were not careless enough to think that the sea wolves did not dare to come here to preemptively strike.

As a result, their plan to go straight to Nanyue Water Village to launch a surprise attack was over. Next, they would head to Nanyue Water Village head-on and attack Nanyue Water Village.

However, Ma Xiao was satisfied with being able to reach this point before being discovered by the officers and soldiers. This place was not far from Nanyue Water Village. Even if the officers and soldiers of Nanyue Water Village were warned, they probably would not be able to react quickly enough.

You must know that for sailboats in this era, it takes a long time to lift anchor and sail and leave the dock every time. Especially if there are more ships at the dock, it will be more difficult and may even cause serious chaos.

The sea wolf defeated Chu Cai Lao's large fleet at Nanyue Island in one fell swoop. It relied on the same method. It suddenly appeared outside Houshan Bay and blocked Chu Cai Lao's fleet on the shore, leaving it without enough space.

He used the time to raise anchor and sail, and went out to Houshan Bay to have a fair duel with the sea wolf on the sea, and was finally completely defeated by the sea wolf.

It is estimated that the officers and soldiers will not be much better today. After arriving here, it will be enough time for him to launch an attack.

Ma Xiao nodded to the soldiers around him and said: "Let's start! The fleet starts to separate! Let Cyclops lead the team to Puxisuo, bombard Puxi Qianhusuo City, hold them back, and not allow them to rush to the water village to support there.

!The rest of the ships followed my ship and went straight to Nanyue Water Village to show the officers and soldiers the power of our cannons!"

Among the fleet of more than 30 ships, seven large ships were immediately separated and rushed towards Puxi Qianhusuo City not far away. The remaining more than 20 ships, led by Ma Xiao, went straight to

Head to Nanyue Water Village in the south.

As for the officer's sentry boat in front of them, Ma Xiao was not even interested in asking about it. At this time, the three flying speedboats had already rushed towards the officer's sentry boat. They only heard a blast of cannons.

Look at that no

The large official and military sentry ship was immediately beaten and debris flew around, and soon began to flood a large amount of water. It stumbled towards the Niutouwei Shoal on Meizhou Island, trying to grab the beach and ran aground on the shoal, saving a gurgling sinking.

Enter the water.

Sea Wolf's fleet rushed towards Nanyue Water Village without stopping. For them, they could reach the distance of several miles in just two-quarters of an hour.

But for the officers and soldiers gathered in Nanyue Water Village, these two quarters of an hour were too short.

Although Liu Yinglong had been wary before, he believed that the location of Nanyue Water Village was relatively good. Even if the Sea Wolf wanted to make a sneak attack, they would first bypass both sides of Meizhou Island and attack Nanyue Water Village from the north and south.

As the gateway to Nanyue Water Village, Meizhou Island has a beacon tower monitoring the sea. If Sea Wolf's fleet comes, it will definitely be discovered by the beacon tower first. As long as the beacon tower lights up, he will have enough

He would have time to take the Shuizhai fleet out. Even if he couldn't defeat Sea Wolf's fleet, he could still take refuge in Meizhou Bay. No matter how powerful Sea Wolf's fleet was, he probably wouldn't dare to go straight in.

Meizhou Bay.

So he wasn't very nervous about it, but today he found out that he was completely wrong. When the Sea Wolf fleet came, none of the beacon towers on Meizhou Island responded at all, and the Sea Wolf fleet was stunned.

It was only when we passed the head and tail of the cow that we were spotted by a sentinel boat and warned us.

As a result, Sea Wolf's fleet was already very close to them, leaving them no enough preparation time to deal with this situation.

So he cursed the officers and soldiers on Meizhou Island in his heart, but he did not dare to neglect. He rushed to the pier, climbed onto the medium-sized fortune ship he had docked next to the trestle, and ordered the soldiers on board to set sail immediately and prepare.

Fight against the approaching sea wolf fleet.

But other officers and soldiers did not have such good luck. The number of trestles in Nanyue Water Village was insufficient, and only a few warships could lean on the trestles. The other warships were moored in the berths outside the pier, and they wanted to board the pier.

The only way for the boat to ferry them across was to rely on a sampan.

But after all, the number of sampans is limited, and the number of people loaded is not very large. It will take a long time to send all the officers and soldiers in the water village to their warships.'

What's more, it's already late winter, and the weather here in Fujian is already very cold. During the Little Ice Age, even the Leizhou Peninsula in Guangdong had snow, which shows that the weather in this era was indeed cold enough.

The water was so cold that no one dared to jump into the water and swim to their boat at this time. Therefore, all the officers and soldiers on the shore crowded on the pier or the shore, shouting for the sampan to come over quickly.

They sent them to the ship.

But using sampans to transport people like this always takes time. It happened that Sea Wolf did not leave enough time for them. Many officers and soldiers could only jump to their feet in a hurry, but were unable to board the ship. They watched helplessly as a fleet headed towards them.

As they watched Nanyue Water Village rush towards them, as they got closer and closer, they could already clearly see the golden sea wolf flags floating on the top of the masts of the ships.

At this time, Nanyue Water Village was in chaos, and the sound of yelling filled the entire water village. But at this time, they heard a series of roars from the Puxi Qianhusuo City.

Voice.

The last time Cyclops was sent to Shuangfeng Island, he failed to catch up with the battle between Nanyue Island and Chu Cailao. This time, this guy had to participate in the operation life and death, so he was sent by Yu Xiaotian to work under Ma Xiao.

Listen to orders.

Before One-Eyed Dragon set out, he was ordered by Xiaotian. Before arriving at Nanyue Water Village, he led several large ships alone to Puxi Qianhusuo City, where he bombarded Puxi City and contained the people gathered in Puxi Qianhusuo.

The large number of officers and soldiers made them dare not leave Puxi City, buying time for Ma Xiao to lead his fleet to attack Nanyue Water Village.

This guy was very impressive today. The several boats he brought were all lucky boats, and each boat was equipped with twelve-pound guns and a large number of six-pound guns.

Although the range of these naval guns is not far in naval battles, it is only for attacking enemy ships during sea battles. Now let them bombard cities on land, and they don't have to worry about the range problem.

The One-Eyed Dragon led seven large ships, and after leaving Ma Xiao's fleet, they immediately rushed towards Puxi Qianhusuo City, which was not far away from them. When they were still one or two miles away from the Qianhusuo City, the One-Eyed Dragon gave the order boldly

Start firing.

At this time, the person in charge of Puxi Institute was Zhang Jiace, the deputy commander-in-chief of Fujian Province. Here he gathered nearly two thousand officers and soldiers, ready to set off to Nanyue Island to attack Nanyue Island Dazhai at any time.

For this reason, Zhang Jiace was ordered to bring several heavy cannons to Zhangzhou. These heavy cannons were some of the Red Yi cannons that the Fujian government had just summoned craftsmen to imitate in Zhangzhou last year. Although this batch of newly cast Red Yi cannons were not as good as those made by the Dutch,

The cannon's surname is powerful, but it far exceeds other types of cannons cast before the Ming Dynasty.

In terms of range, power, and accuracy, these newly cast Hongyi cannons have been greatly improved. However, there is a problem. When the Fujian government cast these red cannons, the craftsmen's skills were limited. The first few imitations of the red cannons were

When the Yi artillery was tested, there were frequent chamber explosion accidents.

Later, the craftsmen had to increase the thickness of the cannon wall to improve the safety of the cannon. They finally solved the problem of chamber explosion, but it had a negative impact. Although the Hongyi cannon they cast was only similar to a twelve-pounder or

It is an eighteen-pound cannon, but its weight far exceeds that of similar cannons made by skilled Western gunsmiths.

The heaviest Hongyi cannon even weighed five thousand kilograms, and the lightest weighed more than two thousand kilograms. Although cannons of later generations are casually heavier than these cannons, modern cannons of later generations include steel cannons.

It has a frame, a barrel retreat structure, and an aiming structure, but the cannon of this era is basically just a barrel.

Therefore, although the Fujian army acquired the ability to imitate Western cannons after the Battle of Penghu, this imitation ability is currently imperfect, resulting in the cannons they cast being of poor quality and very heavy in weight.

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