Daming pirates

The smaller the ship, the weaker the force. Seawolf's current main artillery, the largest is the twelve-pounder, which is the No. 5 gun in the Seawolf artillery system. Among them, the standard No. 5 gun is the main one, and some are short-term guns.

Mountain howitzers with barrels are less powerful at short ranges. When dealing with fellow travelers, these cannons are powerful weapons, but when dealing with the Spanish large plywood boats, these cannons are not powerful enough.

In addition, Seawolf has not yet replaced the No. 3 cannon with the No. 5 short cannon in large numbers, which is the six-pounder. The six-pounder cannon is also the main artillery of these light warships. When dealing with the Spanish large plywood ships, it is even more inadequate.

, can only pose a threat to its personnel. On Western warships, this kind of gun is originally an artillery to suppress enemy personnel, and is not the main firepower of sea battles.

In addition, the ships stationed by the Sea Wolf here are small in tonnage and equipped with a small number of artillery guns. Naturally, they cannot be the opponents of the Spanish fleet. After several battles, the ships of the Sea Wolf in Jilong Bay suffered losses. One of the ships was at a loss.

Outside the bay, it was smashed into a sieve by a volley of Spanish cannons on the spot, and it immediately sank in the sea, with the loss of twenty or thirty sailors.

So Heitou completely understood that with his current water power in Jilong Bay, it was impossible to defeat these dry silk people. He immediately gave up the idea of ​​trying to use water power to tear through the opponent's blockade, and just used the water power to break the opponent's blockade.

A clipper named Tiao Fei was dispatched, broke through the Spanish blockade, and rushed to Nanyue Island to seek help.

Although pigeons are a quick means of delivering messages, after all, pigeons will face many uncertain factors when flying on the way. There is a certain degree of uncertainty as to whether they can return to Nanyue Island smoothly.

In addition, it can only carry a small number of letters, so it is impossible to explain the situation too clearly. It is just an emergency communication method. Therefore, even after Yu Xiaotian established the carrier pigeon contact method, he still asked various strongholds to

After releasing the homing pigeons, ships and manpower must still be used to deliver the message, providing double insurance to avoid the situation where the message cannot be delivered effectively.

Because Keelung Fort is very important to the Sea Wolves, it was among the first batch to obtain a Feihao clipper, which served as a fast ship for patrolling and delivering messages to Keelung Fort.

This flying speedboat lived up to the trust placed by Heitou and the others. After sailing out of Jilong Bay, it immediately accelerated and rushed towards the sea.

The two Spanish warships immediately attacked the Flying Clipper, trying to destroy or capture it, because Anthony was very curious about this Western-style triangular dhow with a suspicious origin, and was very curious about it.

I want to capture it and see who built this boat.

But the sailors aboard this fast ship did not give Spanish (the Dutch translated Spanish and Portuguese as Spanish). In Dutch, it means bacon slices. I guess it is

Taking this opportunity, the Sea Wolf tribe members on this boat showed off their superb boating skills in front of these Spanish sailors, maneuvering the boat flexibly and rushing towards the sea quickly.

This ship relies on a flexible steering wheel device. This thing is absolutely advanced in this era. Westerners have not invented this rudder method yet. They still use the rudder stick steering method, and the rudder stock

When ruddering, the steering angle is very small, only about five degrees, which makes the ship very inflexible when maneuvering on the sea. However, the steering wheel device greatly surpasses them in this aspect.

Therefore, this flying speedboat constantly adjusts its course on the sea with a dazzling maneuverability. In addition, its simple and flexible sails are easy to maneuver, and there is no need for sailors to climb up the mast to reef and lower the sails.

Or adjust the angle of the sail to receive the wind, these things can be done on the deck, so it is very flexible.

Two Spanish warships tried to flank the Feihao Clipper and began to fire cannons at the Feihao Clipper. However, this ship was too flexible and kept making maneuvers on the sea.

Dodging to the right, the cannonballs fired by the West Banks landed around it one after another, but they were never able to effectively hit it directly.

On the contrary, the Feizihao Clipper, while constantly making maneuvers, also began to fire back fire. And they often started to fire the cannon at the moment when the ship was balancing, but they beat the two solidly.

Several Spanish warships tried to flank it and fired several shots.

The firepower of the Feizihao Clippers is not weak. Although it is not as powerful as the large Western-style warships, it is equipped with twelve-pound long guns, and the range is still powerful. As a result, the two Spanish warships did not hit the fox.

They were scratched all over, each of them received two or three shots, several holes were dug out in the hull, and several of the sailors on board were injured.

In the end, the flying ship was basically unscathed, except for a hole left in the sail. While the Spaniards were stunned, they broke through their blockade on the sea, and then made a gorgeous arc outside.

The line seemed to be demonstrating to the Spanish, and then it turned and walked away.

Anthony and his captains and sailors all looked very ugly. They had never been teased by a group of Chinese pirates like they were today!

When they met Chinese pirates before, they either easily defeated them, or the other party had an absolute numerical advantage and fought them to the death. But even so, it was still difficult for the Chinese pirates to succeed, and they often had to pay a lot of money.

The price was paid, but he could only come back defeated and suffered heavy losses.

But today, with so many ships, they only dealt with a small Chinese pirate ship, but not only did they not capture it, they actually beat it several times. After teasing them, they swaggered through their blockade. Yang Fan

It was far away, and the boat was very fast. Although they wanted to pursue it, they couldn't catch up with it. They could only follow behind. They couldn't even smell other people's farts and watched the boat disappear in front of their eyes.

before their eyes.

Anthony felt a little bad at this time. Although they did not suffer any losses in these battles and even sank one of the Sea Wolf warships, through such a trial battle, he discovered that these self-proclaimed Sea Wolves

The Chinese pirates are very different from the Chinese pirates they have seen before.

These Sea Wolf tribesmen are not like the Chinese pirates they have seen before. They are like a mob with no structure at all. They just rely on their so-called courage to use their crude weapons to fight on the sea.

robbery.

After his observation, he found that these Sea Wolf tribesmen had received very strict training, and the sailors on the ship had strong discipline and fighting will. Although when facing their Spanish fleet, these sailors

The Wolf tribe was at an absolute disadvantage, but they were not timid because of this. Instead, they bravely sailed their ships one by one and fought against the Spaniards who were many times stronger than them.

Under normal circumstances, if Chinese pirates encounter a situation like theirs today, they will often collapse immediately and shout with their sails. However, these sea wolf tribes did not do that. After being ordered to attack, they were like little hounds.

, rushed towards their enemies, not flinching or holding back at all because they were at a disadvantage.

This made Anthony a little shocked, even a little worried, because the fighting will shown by the Sea Wolf tribe reminded him of their enemies, the sailors and captains of the British fleet. Before the Great Battle of Britain and Spain, in fact, the British

The maritime power is not very strong, but the British have a group of sailors and captains with a strong will to fight. They dare to use smaller ships to attack the enemy when they are at a disadvantage, and they have a strong will to fight.

He likes to seize the upper hand, put himself in dangerous situations from which he cannot retreat, and launch attacks on the enemy.

Often British captains and sailors can use their unhesitating will to fight to defeat their opponents and win the battle when they are at a disadvantage.

At this point, the Spaniards also have to admit that British sailors are the best sailors and the bravest sailors in the world.

But today, when they encountered this group of Chinese pirates who called themselves Sea Wolves, they seemed to see the shadow of some British sailors in these Chinese pirates. The fighting will they showed was almost the same as that of the British sailors.

Just like that, in naval battles, they are not afraid of death. Even if they are at a disadvantage, they dare to fight their opponents to the end.

This is really admirable and a bit shocking at the same time. This shows that this group of Chinese pirates who call themselves Sea Wolves are not as bad as they imagined, but a group of good sailors who have received rigorous training, completely subverting the Chinese pirates.

image in the minds of these Spaniards.

At the same time, Anthony also discovered from these tentative battles that the quality of the equipment of these Chinese pirates was not as inferior as he thought. Although most of these Sea Wolf warships were still Chinese-style Kron ships,

These ships looked much cleaner and tidier than their Kron counterparts, and were obviously well maintained.

Moreover, the firepower on these ships was not as weak as they thought. These Sea Wolf warships were equipped with artillery of different sizes, and these artillery did not seem to be like the shabby old ones used by their colleagues.

Junk goods, more like Western-style artillery.

Although the caliber of these artillery pieces is a bit small and not very powerful, their range is not short, and they can actually cause a certain amount of damage to the ships in their fleet, and even pose a great threat.

What's even more frightening is that the gunners on these Sea Wolf warships are at such a high level that they have never seen before. These gunners are highly disciplined and will never behave like their counterparts during battles. Both sides have not yet seen

Once they entered the fighting distance, they began to fire cannons indiscriminately. The cannonballs did not pose any threat to the enemy ships at all, and they fell into the sea water far away.

The gunners on these Sea Wolf ships often fired together and fired salvos only when they were within firing range. The accuracy of the artillery fire was also very high, and the firing rate even exceeded the firing rate of the artillery on their Spanish warships.

And it wasn't even half a minute. He just saw that the opponent fired twice in succession within a minute. At this time, the gunners on the Spanish ship only completed one shot. The opponent's shelling speed actually exceeded

They are more than double.

This further proves that these Sea Wolf tribesmen are definitely not just a mob. They have definitely received very strict training and have a very good understanding of the weapons in their hands. Otherwise, they will never be able to produce such effects.

At this moment, Anthony's heart began to slowly sink. He knew that this time they had seriously underestimated these Chinese pirates who called themselves Sea Wolves. Can he still win the Jilong Bay next time? The ominous feeling in his heart

The premonition began to become stronger and stronger.

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