Daming pirates

Cyclops is also a hot-tempered guy with a kind of natural cruelty. He finally got a chance to show his face today. He was very excited. He stood at the stern of his boat and looked at Puxi City on the shore triumphantly. In the past, he himself

When working alone, I dare not say anything to provoke the officers and soldiers.

What's more, he knew that there were thousands of officers and soldiers in Puxi City today. Before, he could not avoid them. How could he dare to come here so arrogantly to cause trouble for the officers and soldiers!

But after following Yu Xiaotian to work in Sea Wolf, he felt that he was getting bolder and bolder, and the equipment was getting better and better. In the past, all he could do was to get a few shabby cannons, but now

Look at their ships, each one is equipped with polished Hongyi cannons. This majesty cannot be compared with before. It is really worth comparing people with others, and throwing away goods with goods.

Especially at the beginning of this year, after they defeated Chu Cai Lao, Sea Wolf's majesty trembled to the sky. Although he was not able to participate in the battle against Chu Cai Lao, he was sent to Shuangfeng Island at that time.

Sit in charge.

Several groups of pirates in the Zhejiang area heard that Sea Wolf had offended Mr. Chu Cai, which prompted Mr. Chu Cai to take action against Sea Wolf. At first, all of them were a little ready to move, hoping to wait for Mr. Chu Cai to overthrow Sea Wolf.

, took the opportunity and immediately joined forces to drive away the sea wolf from the sea in Funing Prefecture and seize the sea wolf's territory.

The groups of pirates who had been intimidated by Sea Wolf in the past began to frequently move around Funing. For this reason, it was not easy for Cyclops, who was stationed at Shuangfeng Island. At that time, he was commanding Sea Wolf's second-line warships, most of which were

There were some old ships, and there were not many new guns installed on them. When they were on Twin Peaks Island, they were under a lot of pressure.

But One-Eyed Dragon is an old pirate after all, and he has seen big scenes before. He knows that he will never give in easily at that time, so when he was on Twin Peaks Island, he took his ships to sea many times to find those dishonest colleagues.

And several times when he was in Funing, he caught his colleagues hijacking ships on their territory. The one-eyed dragon immediately rushed up with the ship. Some of his colleagues were frightened by the power of the sea wolf and retreated on their own initiative, but there were also one or two groups who went with them.

He believes that the situation of Sea Wolf is over this time and does not buy the blame of Cyclops.

So One-Eyed Dragon and his men immediately fought against them. With his fierceness, he was stunned to clean up the two groups of guys and fled in defeat. Finally, he stabilized Funing's side.

situation.

Later, the news of Sea Wolf's defeat of Chu Cailao came quickly, and spread quickly throughout the southern coast of Zhejiang. Those groups of pirates who were ready to make trouble immediately calmed down after hearing the news, and never dared to enter Sea Wolf's territory easily again.

The territory has moved, and now the Sea Wolf's territory in Funing has been completely stabilized.

After taking care of Mr. Chu Cai, Yu Xiaotian sent a group of ships back to Shuangfeng Island in Funing. One-eyed dragon immediately led the fleet to settle the accounts with the two groups of pirates who had attacked him, and even took away their pots.

Lao Lao, completely eliminate them, once again greatly shocked

I have attracted those colleagues in southern Zhejiang, so that in the past six months, they have been very respectful to Sea Wolf. When Sea Wolf's ships pass along the coast of Zhejiang, even Pang Sen often takes a boat to escort Sea Wolf when he hears the news.

The ships headed north, at least to the Zhoushan Islands.

Therefore, although One-Eyed Dragon failed to participate in the battle against Chu Cailao on Shuangfeng Island, it was highly praised by Yu Xiaotian, which completely solidified its position among the sea wolves.

One-eyed dragon felt extremely beautiful today, because this time he came here, he was actually cheap. Yu Xiaotian's instructions to him were very simple, which was to lead a ship to bombard Puxi City without having to land to fight the army head-on. So this

The task was extremely easy for him.

After leveling the fleet across the shore, Cyclops even ordered the ships in the fleet to drop their sails and even throw their anchors into the water, so that the ships could gain a more stable posture and increase the hit rate of the bombardment.

Following his order, the gunners who had already been prepared on the ship immediately began to open the ship's gun doors.

In addition to rushing to build new sloops during this period, Sea Wolf is also renovating old Chinese warships. Because of the limitations of the watertight compartment structure unique to Chinese sailing ships, when Sea Wolf installed artillery on the ship in the past,

, are directly installed on the deck, which has a great impact

The disadvantages are that the first is that the weight of the cannon greatly increases the center of gravity of the ship. The second is that it is also greatly affected by the weather. The sea is windy and rainy, and it often rains. The cannon is placed on the deck in the open, so it is not easy to maintain. Sometimes

Because the rain is too heavy, it will also make it impossible to fire.

Therefore, recently, the craftsmen of Yu Xiaotian ordered the shipyard to find ways to modify some large ships and move the artillery to the deck below the deck as much as possible. Although there are compartments below the Chinese-style ships, they cannot be transformed into

The cabins are open, but the space in the middle cabins of the ship is still relatively large. After the lower cabins and hull are reinforced, the artillery can still be placed in these cabins.

However, after placing the artillery on this cabin deck, it is necessary to open gun doors on both sides of the hull. This is a little more troublesome. A little carelessness may affect the structural strength of the hull, and a certain degree of modification is necessary.

OK.

In fact, ancient Chinese shipwrights did not lack wisdom and technology, but they were relatively conservative and liked to do things according to old traditions. Once someone gave them an idea, they still had strong problem-solving abilities.

With the joint efforts of the shipwrights, this problem was finally solved by them. When opening the gun port, they reinforced it around the gun door to ensure that the hull structure did not decline significantly and ensured the strength of the hull structure.

Open the gun window.

In this way, the artillery on the ship has a space that can protect it from wind and rain. Even when it rains at sea, it can operate in a dry cabin without being affected by the weather. At the same time, it also greatly reduces the

The ship's center of gravity allows warships to travel more safely in various sea conditions.

However, opening a gun window in the middle of the ship's side brings another problem, that is, in bad sea conditions, when the hull rolls, seawater sometimes splashes into the cabin from the gun window, which causes another problem to the ship.

It has some negative effects and needs to be drained continuously.

It is naturally not difficult to solve this problem. The shipwrights added a sealable window to the gun window on the ship. When the gun is not in use, these gun windows can be closed, or when the sea conditions are not good, the gun windows can be completely sealed.

Get up, so even if there is still a little water, it will not have much impact on the ship.

Of course, after such modifications, the cargo-carrying capacity of these ships has been reduced because the artillery takes up a lot of space.

Not enough. For Sea Wolf, this impact is not very big, because Sea Wolf's warships are relatively professional in work. They are mainly responsible for combat tasks. Most of the transportation matters are handled by full-time cargo ships. Warfare

Under normal circumstances, ships only undertake the task of transporting a small amount of cargo, so the remaining cargo space can still meet their needs.

Among the warships brought out by Ma Xiao today, some of them have been modified. After the modification, the number of cannons loaded on the modified ships has been increased, bringing the number of cannons loaded on several lucky ships to eight.

So many.

The seven ships lined up in a row on the sea outside Puxi City, anchored and lowered their sails. The gun doors on the side of the ship were opened by the gunners from the inside, and the loaded cannons were pulled to the front of the gun windows with cable pulleys. There was a dark hole.

The muzzle of the gun extended out of the gun window, pointing directly at the Acropolis hundreds of meters away.

"Brothers, take aim and fire! Fire!" After receiving the signals from each ship, the Cyclops knew that each ship was ready for bombardment, so he raised his arms and roared with excitement, and raised his arms downward.

He slashed and pointed heavily at the Puxi City in front of him.

Puxi City is just an acropolis. Although it is called a city, it is at most a small city with a side length of less than a mile. I am afraid that it will not even be large enough for a small town in later generations. It usually only has more than a thousand guardsmen stationed there. In fact,

There are currently less than 600 guards in Puxi City, and most of them are old and weak.

In this era, military households are no longer serious regular troops. They are just military slaves at best. Their combat effectiveness is not at all comparable to that of ordinary village warriors. Fortunately, this time

Two thousand officers and soldiers were mobilized, which greatly increased the military strength of Puxi City.

If the naval gun on the ship were to attack a point-shaped target similar to a ship at a distance of several hundred meters, it would probably not be easy to hit. But today, these Sea Wolf gunners were ordered to bombard Puxi City. In this way, there is no need to worry.

The shells will miss the target.

After the gunners of each ship visually measured the distance on board, they immediately adjusted the elevation of the gun body according to the requirements of the gun list, and pointed the muzzle at Puxi City in the distance. After hearing the captain's ear-splitting roar of firing,

The gunners immediately began to light the cannons one after another from front to back.

After the gunpowder in the fire door was ignited, a puff of green smoke hissed up, and in an instant, the charge in the gun barrel was ignited. Everyone felt a series of vibrations suddenly coming from under their feet, and the cannons on the ship came one after another.

One door dragged the cable of the pulley group backwards, recoiled quickly, and then was pulled by the pulley group to offset the recoil force produced by them, and stopped behind the gun emplacement.

Balls of flames suddenly spit out from the side of the ship facing Puxisuo City, and then balls of blue gunpowder smoke filled the entire hull.

Everyone's ears were suddenly filled with the roar of cannons. When each ship started bombarding, the hull vibrated violently with the recoil of the cannons, and began to shake slightly. Of course, it is absolutely impossible to appear as many as those equipped in later generations.

Like a battleship with a 100-millimeter heavy gun, when the muzzle of the gun is pointed at the side of the ship and a salvo is fired, it can push the huge hull several meters flat on the sea surface.

Even so, the scene of seven ships firing together after receiving the order to fire is quite shocking.