Daming pirates

As the huge roar sounded, many people in the fort felt dizzy, but this did not prevent other artillery from continuing to fire. Multiple gun windows on the fort began to spit out balls of flames one after another.

, the black and hot shells roared towards the sea.

"Oh! Damn it! It's missing! The shells are deflected two degrees to the left. Visually, the enemy ship is 400 paces away. Reload! Quick!" An observer lay next to an observation window and looked toward the sea, observing the fall of their shells.

Click, cursed regretfully, and reported the data.

The gunners rushed to the cannon and cooperated with each other. They first poured some water into the barrel, extinguished the remaining powder residue and rags in the barrel, and then used something like a cork bottle screwdriver to hook out the remaining powder in the barrel.

The cloth piece of the bag was wrapped, and then a person inserted a wet brush soaked in water into the barrel of the gun the moment he pulled the hook out of the muzzle, twisted it hard twice, and then pulled it back and forth twice.

Pulled out the brush.

The other gunner also inserted a dry brush into the gun chamber just as the previous gunner pulled the wet brush out of the gun chamber, and wiped away the remaining water stains inside. Several people completed the cleaning of the gun chamber almost instantly.

This is the result of repeated training. Otherwise, it would take a lot of time to complete these actions alone.

At this time, the ammunition hand had already lifted the medicine bag up from the ground, brought it to the muzzle, and stuffed the medicine bag into the gun barrel. The two gunners held a large iron egg and quickly stuffed it into the gun muzzle.

Another gunner used a cannon rod to hold the cannonball, sent it to the bottom of the barrel, and pounded it back and forth several times.

Tamping the ammunition requires skill. Do not use too much force. Tamp the gunpowder in the powder bag too tightly, and do not make it too loose. Otherwise, it will affect the launch.

When the ammunition had just been loaded, another gunner used an awl to poke into the inside of the barrel from the fire door, broke the powder bag, and quickly poured some primer into the fire door. He turned around and shouted: "Loading is complete."

!Reset the cannon!”

A dozen local warriors were immediately ordered to pounce on them. They used all their strength, shouted loudly, pushed the heavy gun frame back to the gun window, and then the gunner took over and let them

Stand back and start operating the artillery, adjusting the muzzle pointing and elevation.

"Aim! Fire!" After confirming the aim, the gunner in charge jumped up and shouted loudly. When the rest of the people heard his roar, they also jumped away and drove the country warriors aside from behind the rear of the gun.

, when the provincial cannon recoiled, it killed some of them.

And Feng Twelve was always observing the operations of the gunners in the fort, silently calculating the time for their loading, reset and aiming. He saw that this group of gunners completed the entire operation of the gun very skillfully and very quickly.

He nodded with satisfaction, but what he wanted to see next was how well these guys were aiming, so he immediately turned around and walked to the observation hole and looked towards the sea.

The cannon vibrated violently again, and he sat back. A cloud of gunpowder smoke rose up outside the fort again. Through the spreading gunpowder smoke, Feng Twelve vaguely saw a black dot flying out of the fort.

It flew straight towards a Spanish warship on the sea. After a while, I could vaguely see a cloud of debris rising from the side of the Spanish warship.

"Effective hit! Beautiful! Hit the side of the ship! Beautiful! Haha!..." The observer of a cannon laughed wildly with excitement, and almost danced with his buttocks.

Feng Twelve also clenched his fists hard, shook his arms, and showed unconcealable excitement on his face. He turned around and shouted loudly: "Well done, brothers, just give me a beating and beat these foreign devils to death! Let them

Let’s taste the power of our sea wolves!”

The sailors on the Spanish ship stared dumbly at the fort built by Chinese pirates in the distance. They watched their cannonballs fall on it, but they basically did not touch the fort. Instead, the fort began to spit out water continuously.

There were streaks of cannon flames, and then one cannonball landed near their ship.

Experienced sailors immediately realized that these shells were not what they thought, just shells from some small cannons used by Chinese pirates, but shells from artillery that exceeded 12 pounds, and some shells were even larger than theirs.

Think bigger, the waves on the sea are quite big.

According to their experience, Chinese pirates rarely have such heavy cannons, let alone fire such a long distance. Originally, they all thought that at this distance, they would attack the Chinese pirate fort on the island.

Shelling is an extremely safe method. The Chinese pirates can only stare blankly at this distance and cannot even touch their sides.

This place is at least four hundred yards away from the fort. In normal times, the broken cannons owned by Chinese pirates can only hit a distance of a hundred or ten yards. Even if they hit farther, they will not exceed two hundred yards.

Today, their commander Anthony ordered to shell the fort at this distance. At first they thought Anthony was a little too careful.

Because at this distance, it happens to be the farthest effective range of their naval guns, and the hit rate is very low. They should be farther forward, so that they can shoot more accurately.

But when they saw the cannonballs fired from the pirate forts, they realized how wise Anthony's decision was, because the range of the cannons on the forts of these Chinese pirates was no closer than their naval guns, and was even farther.

, if they were closer, they would probably be shot one after another by now.

Some sailors who were smarter and quicker to react quietly retreated into the cabin after seeing this scene and found a safer place to hide. However, there were also some who were slow to react and still stood stupidly on the deck.

, watch the artillery battle between the two sides.

As a result, before they could realize it, several shells from the Sea Wolf Battery accurately hit their ship.

On the Heping Island Fort, five twenty-four-pound long guns have been deployed. The shells of these guns are no joke. They are by no means as powerful as the shells of the light six-pound guns. Even these Spaniards

Most of the warships were built using hard wood, but they could not withstand the bombardment of such heavy artillery shells.

The sides of the two ships were shot, and they were immediately disemboweled. A hole the size of a bathtub was made in the side of the ship. The shell penetrated the side of the ship and slammed into the cabin, immediately knocking out a gun in the cabin.

The cannon overturned to the ground, and fragments of the ship's planks flew in all directions, immediately throwing some gunners and sailors in the cabin into a pool of blood.

The overturned cannon jumped up and fell down, hitting a gunner, and the gunner's waist was hit hard under the cannon body.

The unlucky gunner's eyes widened in horror, and he desperately pushed the gun body that was pressed below his waist, letting out an extremely miserable scream.

When the cannon hit him, it immediately smashed all the bones in his pelvis. The severe pain immediately made the guy let out an inhuman scream, trying desperately to lift the bones that were pressed against him.

The cannon pushed away.

But this cannon weighed at least two to three thousand pounds. How could he push it with his own manpower? The guy screamed miserably and suffered severe pain. After struggling for a while, he fainted from the pain, but he didn't.

After a while, the severe pain woke him up again, and he screamed again.

At this time, he had realized that he could not survive. The whole body below the waist was crushed. Even if someone moved the cannon away from such an injury, he would not be able to survive. He felt the huge and intense pain coming from the lower half of his body.

, he stretched out his hands and shouted to the stunned companions next to him: "Oh God! For the sake of God, kill me quickly! Please, help me quickly, kill me, it hurts! I

I can’t stand it!…”

One of them really couldn't bear to see their companion suffer such pain, and saw that this man was completely hopeless, so he pulled out a sharp knife, walked up to him, made a cross on his forehead and chest, and looked for

Targeting the location of his heart, he closed his eyes and stabbed hard.

The injured sailor snorted, and blood immediately came out of his mouth, and more blood came out of his chest. He firmly grabbed the wrist of the partner who sent him on his way, and made a hehe sound from his mouth.

After a while, he rolled his eyes and took his last breath.

Anthony was also very shocked. He actually had some mental preparation. When he had a firefight with Sea Wolf's ship two days ago, he had already discovered that Sea Wolf's ship had some relatively good artillery. The shooting accuracy and speed were very fast, and the range was very high.

It's not too close, but it's mostly lighter artillery, so it doesn't pose a great threat to their fleet.

So he initially thought that even if the Seawolves had some of their Western-style artillery, they were probably not heavy artillery, and there were only some light artillery on the fort, which did not pose much of a threat to them. To be on the safe side, he ordered

The fleet launched a bombardment on the fort from a distance of 400 yards in order to reduce losses.

But what he didn't expect was that as soon as the artillery battle began, these Chinese pirate forts launched a fierce counterattack. The firepower was actually very strong. Relying on their solid forts, they fought very fiercely. What's more important was his wrong estimation.

Understand the opponent's firepower situation.

The Sea Wolf's fort was not just some light artillery as he thought, but their fort actually had heavier artillery, and its power was no worse than the heavy artillery in the fleet he led. It could completely give

They posed enough of a threat that none of them expected.

(Unfortunately, my son has not recovered from his illness, but I have also been infected! He is coughing so much that he actually has a low-grade fever! Even the old mother who helps me take care of my son is also sick, and she is coughing violently!)