Daming pirates

Zhang Jiace stood on the wall of the Acropolis, looking at the pirate ships on the sea, his pupils suddenly shrank, and then he and the officers and soldiers on the city heard the sound of howling artillery shells, and then heard a sound from the sea.

The sound roared.

The officers and soldiers suddenly dwarfed, and everyone squatted down unconsciously, as if they wanted to avoid the shells flying towards them.

More than twenty cannonballs of various types were seen, creating streaks of smoke in the air and falling towards the Acropolis one after another. Some of the shells accurately hit the wall of the Acropolis, which was more than a foot high, and some shells also landed on the Acropolis.

In front of the city wall, more artillery shells flew over the Acropolis wall and hit the city heavily, immediately raising a cloud of dust in the city.

Almost all the officers and soldiers exclaimed in surprise, because most of these officers and soldiers had participated in the Battle of Penghu last year and had seen the power of the red-haired people's Hongyi cannon.

Today, when they saw the cannonballs flying from the pirate ship, they recognized almost immediately that these shells should be cannonballs fired by Hongyi cannons, and they were definitely not the messy squatting tiger cannons and bowl-mouth guns they had on hand.

The range that the cannon can reach.

The cannonballs that hit the city wall stirred up pieces of gravel and left holes on the city wall. Although they could not penetrate the city wall, they still made the officers and soldiers standing on the city wall feel the waves coming from under their feet.

of vibration.

At this time, the officers and soldiers were a little panicked. Only then did they realize that the legend was not false. These sea wolves indeed had a lot of red cannons. Today they had a thorough taste of the power of these red cannons.

The accuracy of the first artillery strike was not very high, but most of the artillery shells were not considered missed. Many of them hit the Acropolis. Cyclops used a monocular telescope to observe the impact point of the artillery shells. His dark face turned red with excitement, making his face red.

Black and red, cheering again and again.

"It's a beautiful fight. Send the order and each ship fires quickly, just like this! Let the officers and soldiers have a taste of our power! Haha! Fire, fire!"

The gunners of each ship endured the pungent smell of gunpowder smoke in the cabin, quickly used various tools alternately to clean the gun barrel, and began to reload the gun barrel. Although the loading procedure of the front-loading smoothbore gun was cumbersome, as long as the gunners were fully trained and cooperated closely, the loading process could be completed.

The speed was not very slow. It took almost no more than a minute for the gunners of each ship to quickly complete the loading here. They also struggled to drag the cable pulley group that pulled the gun mount, dragging the cannon back to the gun window, and pointed again.

to Puxi City.

The sea outside Puxi City seemed to be boiling, and the sound of cannon fire began one after another. The shells roared and pulled out streaks of smoke in the air, and hit Puxi City heavily.

The area inside and outside Puxi City also became lively at this time. Cannonballs rained down on the inside and outside of the city, stirring up patches of gravel and sand.

Zhang Jiace's face changed drastically. He leaned over and crouched under the female wall under the protection of several soldiers. His heart was filled with shock. This time they really underestimated Sea Wolf's ability. Unexpectedly, Sea Wolf actually had

There were so many Hongyi cannons that they were hit so hard that they couldn't even lift their heads.

"Fire! Fire! Fire quickly! Sink those pirate ships!" Zhang Jiace was a little panicked at this moment. Although he had seen many big scenes, today's lack of estimate still made him confused for a while, squatting down.

The people below the female wall screamed loudly and ordered the officers and soldiers on the wall to fire back.

So the officers and soldiers stationed on the city wall did not dare to neglect, and quickly got up and fired the artillery on the city wall, and began to fire randomly on the sea.

But what discouraged the officers and soldiers was that their counterattack looked very ridiculous, because the cannons displayed on their city walls were basically all kinds of anti-Japanese cannons, old-fashioned Ming artillery such as bowl-mouth guns and tiger squat cannons.

The range of these cannons cannot hit the pirate ships hundreds of meters away.

Although many cannonballs flew to the sea, they fell into the sea water far away from the Sea Wolf ships. They did not cause any damage to the Sea Wolf warships at all. At best, they only emboldened themselves.

The Chinese-style artillery in the Ming Dynasty had thin walls and crude castings. The barrel was not carefully bored, the thickness of the barrel was uneven at the front and rear, and the front opening of the barrel was large and severely deflated, so that the gunpowder could not adequately propel the shells. Most of them

It leaks from the gap between the shell and the barrel, so the effective range is quite short. In addition, there is no object to aim at. It all depends on the gunner's experience. In addition, the officers and soldiers lack training, so the long-distance shooting accuracy is really a bit

ridiculous.

Most of the cannons on the official acropolis can't even hit a distance of 200 meters. Even the cannons that can hit 200 meters away have really poor accuracy. If you want to effectively hit the Sea Wolf's ship,

, unless God helps.

When the Sea Wolf tribe members on the ship saw the cannonballs fired by the officers and soldiers sparsely falling on the sea, many people burst out laughing on the spot, especially those who had nothing to do for the time being.

They had already stopped, and they all ran to the side of the ship to watch the battle, pointing at the scattered shells fired by the officers and soldiers, and laughing.

But the gunners were not so leisurely and elegant at the moment. Each one of them tried their best to maneuver their cannons like flying in the smoke-filled cabin or deck, struggling to push the gun mount to the gun door or

At the gun window, he yelled: "Loading is complete, please fire!"

Depending on the situation, the captain in charge of managing these gunners will wave a small flag and yell: "Fire the guns!" after all the guns on the ship have been prepared.

Immediately afterwards, a series of gunshots rang out on the ship, and the ship's hull shook violently again.

It turned out that the thousand officers and soldiers who had gathered outside the acropolis wanted to give the pirates a head-on attack, but now they were attacked head-on by the Sea Wolf. Their position happened to be within the coverage of the Sea Wolf's artillery fire.

, some gun commanders knew that even if their cannons hit the acropolis wall, it would not have much effect, so they simply targeted the officers and soldiers lined up outside the city.

The shells whizzed and landed outside the city where the officers and soldiers gathered. It was winter now, the weather was dry and there was little rain, and the ground outside the Acropolis was dry and solid. After the round solid shells landed, they could be effectively bounced up and continue to fly forward, causing

A ricochet effect.

As a result, several artillery shells fell into the crowd, instantly creating bloody alleys among the densely assembled army formations.

Wherever the artillery shells passed, the gunfire of the army could not stop them at all. Even if they were torn apart one by one, the broken limbs and broken arms suddenly flew up in the blood mist, and their condition was too horrific to be seen.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the officers and soldiers gathered outside the city dispersed suddenly, turning into a chaotic mob. They turned around and fled into the acropolis, using the city wall to avoid the cannonballs flying from the sea.

The Sea Wolf's cannonballs continuously hit the walls of the Acropolis, raising pieces of rubble and creating craters, which made the officers and soldiers in the city tremble with fear.

Occasionally, one or two cannonballs will be very lucky and hit the parapet on the city wall. The parapet is not as thick as the city wall. These six-pound and twelve-pound shells have little effect when they hit the city wall, but once they hit the parapet and

If it is a battlement, a section of it can be destroyed immediately.

The officers and soldiers hiding behind the female wall were unlucky. The destroyed female wall instantly turned into a piece of flying rocks, flying around the city wall like a fragment of bullets. Many officers and soldiers were immediately beaten to death.

Liu Liu, with his muscles and bones broken, fell on the city wall and let out a miserable howl.

Although Zhang Jiace had seen such scenes many times, he couldn't help being frightened by it, and he was even more furious. It was just that they were bullied by the red-haired man's cannon, but they didn't expect that they would be ravaged by the pirate's cannon today. This

This is simply too much!

He turned around and saw the two Fujian-made imitation Hongyi cannons on both sides of the city wall that had just been placed on the city wall. He suddenly shouted angrily: "Why don't you fire the Hongyi cannon? Let me aim at the pirate ship and fire immediately!"

Sink them here! Quick!"

In fact, he didn't need to give orders. At this moment, the officers and soldiers had already thought of these two deadly weapons. Some of the officers and soldiers' artillerymen were busy working on these two imitation Hongyi cannons.

However, the design of the mounts of these two cannons was really unreasonable. For transportation, these cannons were disassembled and assembled on the ship. The mounts were fixed. After they arrived, they were hoisted from the ship and pulled with great effort.

To get it to the city wall, a slide was specially built for the two cannons in the acropolis, and they had to rely on manual force to get the cannons to the city wall.

The two cannons are not mounted on a four-wheel gun mount similar to a naval gun like the Sea Wolf's coastal defense gun, and they also have recoil-reducing cable pulleys to pull the gun mount. They have not yet mastered this pulley system, so

A thick and cumbersome fixed gun mount was used.

Although this kind of clumsy gun mount relies on friction to reduce the recoil force and transmit the recoil force directly to the ground, it is very difficult to operate. The imitation Hongyi cannons they made are very cumbersome. If you are not careful,

, it is possible that the gun mount will overturn as soon as the gun fires, and resetting it completely depends on manpower, which is very difficult, time-consuming and labor-intensive.

Once the Seawolf's shore artillery is operated by skilled gunners, it can basically reach a speed of one round per minute. However, the two cannons of the army can be reset by manpower, which will take at least seven to eight minutes or even ten minutes.

Complete aiming and firing.

So at the moment, the officers and soldiers are busy tinkering with the two cannons, and they also have to watch out for the artillery shells flying from the sea. There is a lot of chaos. In addition, they do not use fixed-charge packages to fill the propellant. They rely entirely on the gunner's estimate, which slows down even more.

The reloading speed was so fast that it took half a day to complete the reloading.

After hearing Zhang Jiace's roar, these officers and gunners became even more anxious and tried their best to load the shells. As for aiming, their aiming method was basically the same as that of Sea Wolf. At the rear of the gun, against the

There are wooden skids underneath to adjust the elevation angle of the muzzle, but it is obvious that the army does not yet have a gun watch, and the amount of charge is uncertain. Even if there is a rear sight and front sight, it is still an estimate.

Just two huge roars were heard, and two blazing flames were sprayed out from the walls of the Acropolis. The sound was quite majestic. Many officers and soldiers immediately stretched their necks and hurriedly followed the cannonballs towards the sea with their eyes.

Look.

Even Zhang Jiace couldn't care less about the danger at this moment. He stood up from the city wall and looked towards the sea.