Daming pirates

Cyclops almost cried. For a while, after he took over the boat, he felt proud of his boat. Looking at the sea, there were not many boats that could rival him. Basically, he could go sideways.

The last time he led the fleet to participate in the battle of bombarding Puxisuo City, the battle was hearty and enjoyable.

But when he met the Spanish fleet today, he realized that his ship was not really a powerful character. It was just a mere encounter, and his ship was beaten into such a bad shape.

, the hull of the ship was basically beaten to pieces, and even a mast was broken on the spot. With a click, the ship fell down with the sails and was slapped in the sea water.

At this time, the entire ship had begun to sink slowly due to a large amount of water, and it also tilted. The internal structure of the hull was damaged due to the load-bearing structure, and the stress changed in many places. Some wood continued to crack on its own, making crackling noises.

There was a snapping sound, and it seemed that the ship was hopeless.

"***, left rudder! Exit the battle and prepare to abandon the ship! Don't block the ships behind! Tough luck! Move quickly and rescue the wounded!" Although the one-eyed dragon was reluctant to give up, he still had to give the order to turn the rudder and abandon the ship.

Ships should sail away from the battlefield as much as possible, firstly to avoid further attacks by the opponent, and also to avoid affecting the route of their own ships behind them.

The ship struggled to sail away from the battlefield. After sailing a few hundred meters, the last sail was cut off with a roar, and the sail rope fell. The hull was temporarily stabilized, and the side of the ship was

The two hanging small sampans had their cables cut off and thrown into the sea.

The Sea Wolf Navy has clear regulations that before the captain abandons the ship, the wounded must be rescued first. The wounded must be put into the small sampan first before others can follow and abandon the ship. The wounded must not be abandoned easily, and the captain

He must be the last person to leave the ship, otherwise, even if he returns alive, he will be punished severely in the execution hall. The lightest punishment is to be thrown into a hard labor camp. In serious cases, he may be hanged directly.

So although the ship was about to sink, the sailors on the ship still put some of the wounded people from the ship into the sampan under the command of Cyclops. Only then did the others leave the ship. Cyclops took one last look at his own with tears in his eyes.

The boat shook its head and patted the side of the boat hard before jumping into the sampan.

After a while, the boat slowly sank into the water. All the living sailors on the sampan were full of tears, watching the scene of the final sinking of their boat, and in the sight of the one-eyed dragon

Amidst the orders, everyone saluted the ship. After the ship completely sank into the water, they paddled the sampan towards Jilong Bay. This battle was doomed for them to no longer be able to participate.

Went down.

This situation happened one after another. Under the intensive artillery fire of the Spanish fleet, four more Sea Wolf ships were destroyed because they were hit by too many bullets, and the people on board had to abandon the ship and escape.

Two of the ships didn't even have time to withdraw from the battlefield, so they capsized and sank in the sea water. One ship disintegrated directly on the sea, and the sailors fell into the sea water one after another.

Fortunately, Sea Wolf also had many small boats with the fleet, and they immediately launched rescue operations on the battlefield, salvaging the sailors who fell into the water one after another, so that they would not drown in the sea water.

But on the surface, it seems that the Spaniards have taken a big advantage, but in fact, the Spaniards are also having a hard time. They don't like this kind of fighting method. There are too many ships on the other side, and they are simply too busy to handle them.

He said that the other party was obviously not someone to be trifled with. Although the firepower of the single ship on their ship was weak, there were many ships, and the power of the cannons on the ship was not much weaker than theirs. When they passed by the side of their ship in single file,

He also kept firing at them.

The Spanish warships are tall and are also very good targets. There is basically no possibility of losing in a battle at this distance. Therefore, when the two sides started fighting, each of these Spanish ships also suffered a lot of shells.

, the starboard side of the hull was hit like a hornet's nest.

Fortunately, their hulls were relatively strong. Although they were hit by many bullets, they were not destroyed. However, many people inside the hull were still killed and injured.

This is a situation they have never encountered before when they fought against Chinese pirates. If the fight continues like this, although they may seem to have the advantage, in fact, they may not be able to escape unscathed in the end.

What surprised them even more was that the artillery shells used by these Chinese pirates were not just single solid artillery shells. They were actually equipped with a lot of chain bombs.

The main function of the chain bomb is to attack the mast, rigging and sail. After the chain bomb flies out of the gun barrel, it rotates under the action of inertia and centrifugal force, sweeping everything along the way. As long as it catches the sail rigging, it will be cut off immediately.

Once the mast is hit, it will be destroyed. Even if the mast is not hit, it will at least cause huge damage to the mast. As for hanging the sail, even if the sail can be torn off, at least a large piece will not be torn off.

A bit of a problem.

Therefore, in the naval battles of the sailing era, chain bombs were a very important artillery shell. They were widely equipped on warships in European countries, but as for their popularity, they could not be said to be popular.

After all, this kind of chain bullet is quite troublesome to produce and the production process is complicated, so the manufacturing cost and purchase cost are much higher than ordinary solid bullets. One chain bullet can buy a lot of solid bullets, so even if you are wealthy,

The Spaniards only had a small amount of equipment on their ships, which could not be used in large numbers.

But today they discovered that these Chinese pirates had a lot of such chain bombs in their hands. From the beginning of the battle, the other side began to use these chain bombs to continuously attack their Spanish warships.

The flying chain bombs flew across the Spanish warships, completely tearing apart everything that blocked them along the way. As a result, several Spanish large plywood ships suffered heavy losses.

Although Western-style sailing boats have many advantages, they also have some disadvantages. First of all, their sails are very complicated, and naturally they are also very complicated to operate. After ordinary people get on the boat, just seeing these forest-like sail ropes on the boat, it is estimated that

I'll get dizzy on the spot and don't know what to do.

Therefore, Western-style sailboats have very high requirements for sailors in terms of sail operation. Sailors often have to climb to very high masts and walk on the crossbars with bare hands in harsh sea conditions and weather, and their bodies have to swing violently.

While maintaining balance on the mast of the ship, the sails must also be manipulated.

Therefore, some people say that sailors are the bravest people in the world, which makes sense. However, the complicated sail ropes have also become their weakness. These sail ropes, like forests on the ship, are easily hit by chain bombs.

Destruction, even if the mast is not broken, can still make them incapacitated as long as enough of their sail ropes are cut off.

In the age of sailing ships, if the sails and masts were damaged, it would be like a woman being stripped naked and tied to the bed. She could only wait to be fucked.

Today, the Sea Wolves clearly knew that their cannons alone could not easily destroy these Spanish warships, so they spared no expense and used a lot of chain bombs to specifically attack the sails of the Spanish warships.

Although Anthony was quite satisfied with the results they had achieved at this time, he also realized that the danger had come. He found that the masts and sails of each ship in his fleet had been damaged to varying degrees.

If he continued like this, his fleet would probably turn into super large rowing boats, so he felt fear. This group of Chinese pirates seemed to know their Western ships and tactics very well, and they caught them as soon as they came up.

Attack their weakest sails and masts at all costs.

Moreover, the opponent is obviously fully prepared, as if they have been waiting for this day for a long time, and have prepared so many chain bombs in advance as their last resort.

How is this possible? It is impossible for these Chinese pirates to know that the Spaniards are here in advance, but the various behaviors of the enemies these days seem to indicate that they have actually known it for a long time, and they have been there for this reason.

Make preparations.

They first built complete defense facilities in Jilong Bay and built an unusually strong fort. Then within a short period of time, a large number of fleets came to support them, and then prepared so many chain bombs to attack their ships.

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If they were unprepared in advance, Anthony really couldn't figure out why they could do so well, but it didn't make sense! How could these Chinese pirates foresee their coming in advance? Are they really like the legends?

Like, do some people have the ability to predict the future?

Anthony shook his head and threw this idea to the back of his mind. How could this be possible? This must be an unrealistic idea that he had suffered from successive setbacks in recent days. There was no way that the Chinese pirates would have such a prediction.

future capabilities.

He must seize the time to defeat this fleet. Although at present, the captains and sailors in his fleet are doing a good job. The cannon fire is very fierce and accurate, and has destroyed many ships.

There were only a few enemy ships, but the problem was that the enemy was not as vulnerable as he thought. Their resilience was so strong that they could persist in fighting despite suffering such losses.

So he ordered the fleet to change course, led by the warship at the front, cut into the local fleet, disperse the fleet, give full play to the firepower advantage on both sides of their hulls, and try to kill and damage enemy ships as much as possible.

Try to defeat it as soon as possible.

Apart from that, he couldn't think of a better way. Fortunately, their ships had a strong hull structure. At worst, they could use ramming tactics, using artillery and ships to crash their ships.

(Thanks to Brother Huluhulu and Brother Nail in Daihua for the tip!)