Daming pirates

In fact, telescopes are now very popular in the West. Although they are expensive, due to their superiority, they have long been used in astronomical observations and many military operations, especially navigation activities, which are inseparable from this.

thing.

Even in the Ming Dynasty, telescopes have been introduced, but because there is no glass industry in the Ming Dynasty, if you want to imitate them, you have to use very transparent crystal to grind the lenses, which makes them extremely expensive, so they only become the objects of appreciation of some high-ranking officials.

However, it has not become popular among the people, and few people know about it.

Now that Sea Wolf has its own glass industry, and because Yu Xiaotian found a way to clarify the liquid glass using local methods, and obtained glass of relatively good quality, he has produced this kind of telescope on his own, and equipped it in large quantities to the Sea Wolf Department.

among the crowd.

Moreover, people who get telescopes are ordered to take good care of such things as they take care of their eyes. If they encounter an emergency and cannot protect such things, they must immediately smash them or throw them directly into the sea to avoid being left behind.

in other people's hands.

Therefore, few people have seen this kind of telescope produced by Seawolf. Today, as their big customer, Chen Xun was allowed to try this thing.

"Send the order and raise the sails of each ship. Let's meet them, pick them up, and return!" Yu Xiaotian ordered while Chen Xun was playing with the telescope enthusiastically.

Sea Wolf's ships, which originally maintained extremely low speeds on the sea, after receiving the order, pulled up their sails and began to speed up, speeding up in the direction of the rising smoke and approaching it.

Chinese-style sails do have great benefits. Although it is more laborious to raise the sail, it is still relatively easy to operate with the help of reels and pulleys. Generally speaking, Chinese-style hard sails are faster than Western-style sails in raising and lowering speed.

The soft sail has great advantages and saves a lot of manpower. There is no need for the crew to climb to the mast and take risks to retract and lower the sail.

The fleet gradually accelerated and sailed in the direction of the smoke in a flying goose formation.

After the fleet sailed for a while, suddenly the upper bucket made a warning sound on the top of the mast: "Many ships were found in the smoke area ahead, more than ten in number, and there seems to be a conflict!"

Upon hearing this, Yu Xiaotian frowned and shouted loudly: "Everyone is on alert and get ready for battle!"

Alarm bells sounded immediately on every ship, and the rapid alarm bells rang throughout the fleet. The sailors and soldiers who had been resting on the ship suddenly became energetic after hearing the sound of the alarm bells.

With a shock, they quickly rushed to their fighting positions. The sailors and soldiers who were resting in the cabin also immediately rushed to the deck from the cabin, holding their weapons.

All kinds of guns, ammunition, swords, guns, axes and other items that were originally stored in the cabin below the deck were quickly taken out, sent to the deck, and handed over to the soldiers and sailors lining up on the deck.

The gun jackets of each deck gun were lifted by the gunner, revealing the cannon below.

When Chen Xun heard this, he immediately became anxious and had no time to watch the preparations of the Sea Wolf tribe, because he knew that Yan Siqi did not send many ships this time, and now that there are so many ships on the sea, something must have happened.

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So he quickly called people and sent him back to his ship. Even Yu Xiaotian's telescope was forgotten to be returned to Yu Xiaotian. At this time, the fleet began to speed up, and the sea conditions were not bad. Chen Xun's ship hurriedly

While sailing, he stuck to Yu Xiaotian's boat. Chen Xun was really a veteran. He stepped onto the side of the boat and jumped onto his own boat. He turned around and shouted to Xiaotian:

"Master Yu, something must have happened. I hope Master Yu can help me! I beg you, Master Yu!" Chen Xun was so anxious that his head was sweating, and his voice was trembling when he begged Yu Xiaotian.

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Yu Xiaotian has also realized that something may have happened today. At this place, a group of ships suddenly appeared and besieged Yan Siqi's ship. It can basically be concluded that someone got the news and ambushed Yan Siqi's silver ship here.

Although he was not as nervous as Chen Xun, he also felt very unhappy, because all the money was his immediately. Suddenly someone intervened and tried to take away the money, which was almost like taking money from his pocket.

, since he had bumped into it, he would definitely not stand idly by.

"Brother Chen, don't worry. Yu is here to pick up your brother's ship. Now that something like this has happened, how can Yu sit idly by and do nothing! Everyone, go ahead at full speed and rush over! Let's see who it is.

You’re going to pull out your fucking teeth from my tiger’s mouth!”

Sea Wolf's fleet immediately began to accelerate and rushed towards the scene of the accident. At this time, a rumble of gunfire began to be heard in the distance on the sea, and smoke could be seen rising from all three ships.

"The smoking ships are all our ships, and someone is trying to hijack the ship!" Only then did Chen Xun realize that Yu Xiaotian's telescope was still in his hand, and he quickly raised it to look towards the site of the accident.

If you just rely on visual inspection, it is not easy to see clearly the scene of the accident at this distance. No matter how good your eyes are, you can see quite clearly with a telescope. Chen Xun looked through the telescope.

Through the camera, we saw that their three boats were surrounded by more than a dozen boats on the sea, and there was still gunpowder smoke on the sea that had not yet dissipated.

Zheng Mang and Chen Zhongji did not reach an agreement, so they immediately took action and started to take action. More than a dozen ships under Zheng Yiguan immediately began to fire random cannons, targeting Chen Zhongji's three ships and started bombarding them.

A mess of cannonballs flew across the three boats that Chen Zhongji was on. The sails of the three boats that were hit were full of bullet holes. The hulls of the boats were also crackled by the blunderbuss. From time to time, some people screamed and fell down after being shot.

Blood splattered on the deck.

Chen Zhongji ran back and forth on the ship, giving orders not to fire cannons and waiting for them to close up before firing. All Yan Siqi's men lay on the side of the ship to avoid the cannons flying in all directions. They were scared and angry.

In the past, they were considered brothers, but today, their brothers are facing each other with swords and guns, aiming their guns at them, trying to drive them out. No one would be happy if this kind of thing happened to them.

Everyone was gnashing their teeth in hatred, wishing they could catch Zheng Yiguan and tear him alive. However, they had a small boat and few people, and their firepower was definitely no match for them. They could only be temporarily suppressed by Zheng Mang's men.

Hit.

In addition to cannons and blunderbuss, Zheng Mang's men also used a lot of cold weapons such as bows and crossbows, and began to throw arrows at the three ships. However, because they wanted to grab the money on the three ships, they did not want to burn all three ships.

, so a large number of rockets were not used, and the power of bows and arrows seemed a bit lacking in such a battle.

Zheng Mang's ship quickly approached Chen Zhongji's three ships. Chen Zhongji ordered his three ships to stay close together and form a group to defend against the enemy, in order to prevent being divided and surrounded by Zheng Mang's men. In that case, they would be attacked by enemy ships on both sides.

attack, making them unable to resist.

After forming a group, even if they are surrounded, they only need to deal with the attack from one side of the ship. Relatively speaking, they can hold on longer, hoping that their own ship will pass by or the ship of a sea wolf that may be nearby.

The team recruited help to help them get out of trouble.

Zheng Mang also had a lot of experience. Although he had a lot of people on board at the moment, Chen Zhongji's three boats were grouped together, which made him feel like a dog biting a hedgehog. He immediately sent people to join the ship and fight to seize the ship.

If so, because the other party's three ships were crowded together, they didn't have many ships to approach at the same time, so they didn't take advantage.

So he ordered each ship to continuously bombard these Chen Zhongji's ships with the cannons on board, trying to kill more of their personnel first and lay the foundation for the next step of jumping into gangs and seizing the ships.

Although the cannons on board Zheng Yiguan's men are all old-style artillery, and there are even iron cannons cast by the Japanese. They are of different shapes and have limited range and power, but they have an absolute numerical advantage. When approaching the bombardment, these cannons are

The barrel of the cannon is also filled with random stones, broken iron and even broken pieces of porcelain. Although these things damage the barrel of the cannon, they don't care. When bombarded at close range, the power is quite considerable, although the damage to ships is

Not big, but it will pose a great threat to personnel.

More than a dozen boats surrounded Chen Zhongji's three boats and kept firing. The cannons flew in all directions on the three boats. Yan Siqi's men on the three boats were so hit that they couldn't even lift their heads. There were also heavy casualties. From time to time, someone would be hit by the flying cannons.

He was wounded and fell in a pool of blood on the deck.

In desperation, Chen Zhongji had to evacuate some of the people into the cabin to avoid the bombardment. He held his head and waited for Zheng Mang to lead a gang to seize the ship, and then came out to fight with them in hand-to-hand combat, so as not to gather on the deck and be bombarded by them.

There were so many casualties that they soon had no strength to engage in a boarding battle.

The entire situation was tilted towards Zheng Mang. Chen Zhongji's three ships were so suppressed that they could not lift their heads. They could only occasionally fire some rockets at the approaching enemy ships, but they did not pose much of a threat to the enemy ships.

Seeing that there were fewer and fewer people on the decks of Chen Zhongji's three boats, and many people had fallen into a pool of blood on the deck, Zheng Mang thought it was almost done, so he sent boats to follow them and ordered each boat to put down the sampans.

Board, using wolf pack tactics, besieged these three Yan Siqi ships.

Many of Zheng Mang's pirates began to get off the small sampan, shaking or paddling, and pounced on the three boats, and several larger boats also got close to them, and began to prepare to seize the ships in hand-to-hand combat.

Grab the money from the ship.

Chen Zhongji was injured on his forehead, and blood covered most of his face, making him look ferocious. But at this moment, he could no longer care about it. He gritted his teeth and insisted on commanding his men to resist, looking at Zheng Mang's men.

They had already posted it, and he knew that the chance to retaliate had finally come.