Daming pirates

The one-eyed dragon was glaring at him with one eye, staring at the wall of the Acropolis. Suddenly he saw two dazzling lights flashing on the wall. His heart tightened in vain, and then he saw two black spots roaring.

Flying towards the location of their fleet.

But then everyone saw two black dots falling dozens of meters away from the Sea Wolf fleet, hitting the sea water hard, and seemed to have a ricochet effect, bouncing on the water.

Once, it flew forward for more than ten meters, then fell back into the water with a pop, and then sank.

The other one shot high, flew straight over the Sea Wolf fleet, and landed far away in the sea water more than a hundred meters away from the Sea Wolf fleet, causing a large group of waves.

The one-eyed dragon breathed a heavy sigh of relief, but immediately cursed: "***, this army actually has red barbarian cannons! Pass my order, the fleet will raise anchor and sail, keep moving at a low speed, and continue to fire cannons at me.

Damn it!"

Zhang Jiace was greatly disappointed with the results of these two cannons, but he could not blame the gunners. Not long after these Hongyi cannons were newly cast, they were only given to the officers and soldiers for a few drills. In fact, they only let the officers and soldiers fire a few shots.

, the officer and gunners were not familiar with such guns, so it was simply unrealistic to expect them to hit the pirate ship with the first shot.

"Reload quickly and fight again! Make sure to destroy the pirate ship!" Zhang Jiace sighed and quickly ordered.

But at this time, Sea Wolf's fleet had begun to slowly raise the sails, and the anchors were raised out of the water with shouts from the sailors, and the ships began to move slowly again.

The gunners of the official army began to pour water into the barrel in a panic, extinguishing the remaining burning gunpowder residue in the barrel, and began to clean the barrel.

However, their operation level is obviously not up to the level of the Sea Wolf gunners. Their cooperation is not tight, which makes the reloading speed slower. However, the gunners selected to operate the two Hongyi cannons are still veterans and their experience is still high.

The relatively rich one, although it was slow, did not make any mistakes, and reloaded the cannon step by step.

But when the cannon was fired just now, the strong recoil still moved the gun mounts back a lot. If you want to reset them, you need many officers and soldiers to work together.

Although the Hongyi cannon at this time had lugs, which allowed the cannon to adjust the height and low firing range more conveniently, there was no mechanism to adjust the left and right firing range of the cannon. If the cannon wanted to aim at the target, it had to rely on manpower to move the gun mount.

, in order to point the muzzle at the target.

It takes a lot of manpower to aim such a heavy cannon accurately at the target. In addition, when the Cyclops saw that there were two red barbarian cannons on the Acropolis, he did not dare to let the fleet stop on the sea as a fixed

The fort shelled the Acropolis, so the fleet began to move.

This caused a lot of trouble for the gunners of the official army. At this time, no one knew about the advance advance. They only knew how to point the muzzle at the target. But when they finally pointed the muzzle at a certain target,

When they arrived at the ship, the ship slowly sailed out of the target area designated by their gun ports, forcing the officers and soldiers to move the gun mounts again.

After struggling like this for a long time, Zhang Jiace was so angry that he couldn't even aim at a ship. However, as a general, he would definitely not do such a dangerous thing.

What's more, the Hongyi cannons that were cast in the past did have several accidents with their barrels exploding. He saw with his own eyes that when the rear end of a cannon exploded, several soldiers who were behind the cannon flew out and died on the spot when they landed.

Two, and the rest were also seriously injured, and almost all of them later died of their injuries.

Therefore, he did not have much confidence in the current Hongyi cannon. Therefore, no matter how anxious he was, he did not dare to personally go to the Hongyi cannon and direct the firing.

Finally, the two cannons were finally finished and fired again. But with their level, if they wanted to hit a moving target hundreds of meters away, let alone them, even they were the excellent gunners of Sea Wolf.

Please come, it is probably difficult.

But no matter what, the two Hongyi cannons on the Acropolis still played a certain role. At least they forced the Cyclops fleet to no longer dare to park carelessly on the sea and fire at the Acropolis.

It also reduces the hit rate of Seawolf naval guns.

The two sides just started shelling on the shore and at sea in Puxisuo. The shells came back and forth, and the fight was very lively. However, the sea wolves never came close to the seaside. Their target was a small town, which was easier to hit than the official army.

The target, as for where they hit, Cyclops didn't care. It didn't matter how many officers and soldiers were killed. In short, their goal was achieved, which was to completely contain Zhang Jiace and his more than 2,000 officers and soldiers through such shelling.

He captured the Acropolis, leaving him with no time to spare, and rushed to Nanyue Water Village to provide support to Liu Yinglong.

After Ma Xiao broke up with the one-eyed dragon, he led the rest of the fleet towards Nanyue Water Village, led by three sloops. After bypassing the Niu Tou Tail in the north of Meizhou Island, the sailors on the ship quickly moved

They began to adjust the sails, allowing the ships to obtain greater wind power, and the wind direction also turned to a downwind state, causing the speed of the three ships to suddenly increase.

Three flying boats broke away from the fleet and sailed quickly to Nanyue Water Village as the vanguard. In a short time, they rushed outside Nanyue Water Village.

At this time, the naval officers and soldiers in Nanyue Water Village were far from ready to board the ship. Many officers and soldiers were still gathering on the pier and jumping on their feet to greet the sampan to come and pick them up.

There are only a few warships because they are leaning on the trestle, so the officers and soldiers board the ship faster. At this time, the officers and soldiers on the ship have already boarded the ship, and have unmoored and raised the sail. They are towed by the small boat and are leaving the trestle, preparing to sail.

Head to the sea to prevent the Sea Wolf fleet from approaching.

At this time, there were only two 200-meter-sized military warships on the sea outside Nanyue Shuizhai. Because they were acting as sentinel ships, they did not stop near the pier of Shuizhai and were able to leave the port first to meet the Sea Wolf fleet.

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Although the displacement of the three Feihao Clippers is not large, their armament cannot be underestimated. The ships are equipped with one 12-pound long and short cannon, four six-pound cannons, and two small Fran machine cannons. Such firepower intensity cannot be underestimated at the same level.

You will never see it on a Chinese-style ship with a large displacement.

Even Western-style gunboats did not necessarily have better firepower than them, so as soon as the three Fei-shaped clippers arrived outside Nanyue Water Village, they immediately began to bombard the official warships.

The first ones to bear the brunt were the two police sentry boats that came up first. The officers and soldiers on these two boats also showed unimaginable courage today, knowing that they were not strong enough, their ships were not good, their firepower was even worse, and their speed and

The wind direction was not dominant, but the two military warships still rushed towards the three sea wolf speedboats.

When the officers and soldiers on the ship saw these three flying boats, they found that these boats did not look like the ships of the Ming Dynasty at all, but rather looked like the sailing ships of the Red-haired Man or the Folangji people. The main sign was that they used Chinese style

A soft sail that is never used by ships.

However, the sails of this kind of ship are somewhat different from Western sails. They seem to be much more convenient to operate than the soft sails on Western sailing ships. It is very convenient to adjust the sail angle and appear to be very flexible.

As a result, the officers and soldiers naturally felt a sense of fear in their hearts. They hurriedly maneuvered their ships to try to block the three strange-looking pirate ships. They also hurriedly prepared the cannons on the ship in an attempt to attack the three pirate ships.

But before the two official ships could take action, the three pirate ships started to get angry first. A burst of cannon fire was heard, and clouds of gunpowder smoke immediately rose from the sea.

Several artillery shells roared towards the two military warships in an instant and landed next to their ships. The accuracy of the shelling was quite impressive.

Moreover, at this time, the distance between the two sides was still two to three hundred meters, and the cannons on the officers and soldiers' ships had not yet reached the effective range. Sea Wolf's shells fell beside them, shocking the officers and soldiers into cold sweat again, because they immediately fired

I understand, these pirates really have a lot of red cannons, so they will definitely be in trouble today.

These officers and soldiers basically participated in the Battle of Penghu last year, and had seen the power of Western artillery. In an artillery battle with them, the Ming warships had no power to fight back. They could only win with numbers, rushing towards them desperately, and getting close to them.

Instead of fighting in close combat, you can gain some advantages.

The person leading the team today is Feng De, who succeeded Luo Xianbin to serve in the Clippers detachment. The friendship between these two guys was very difficult to deal with at first by Yu Xiaotian, but later the two guys actually became hardcore. First, Luo Xianbin was ordered to take charge of the team.

After leading the Clippers, Feng De replaced Luo Xianbin and joined the Clippers team.

Today Feng De was also brought to participate in the war. This guy personally led three flying boats and sailed to Nanyue Water Village at high speed, and immediately killed the two official ships.

They started firing from three hundred meters away. Anyway, they had enough shells and a long range, but the hit rate was a little low at this distance, but they had enough time to fire two more times before approaching the enemy ship.

The three clippers moved forward and fired at the same time. First, they cut to the left to the east side of the two official and military ships, and then fired another round of shells at them. This angle could bring out the strongest firepower of the three ships, hitting more than a dozen of them at once.

The cannons fired simultaneously.

Although these two official warships performed bravely, the gap in technology made their courage useless. Seawolf's clipper did not give them any chance to get close and caused great damage to them.

The twelve-pounder cannon was already equipped with chain bombs at this time. Although it was not mature enough, it could be used effectively. In order to block these official ships as soon as possible, Feng De did not regret the chain bombs and directly ordered the use of chain bombs.

After several chain bombs flew out, they immediately danced in the air and flew towards the two military warships. Only one chain bomb was accurately hit on the mast of one of the military warships.