Daming pirates

When the Dutch fleet started bombarding, the scene was quite shocking. Starting from the bow of the first ship, the Dutch ships began to fire from front to back, and each time they fired, they could throw out a large number of cannonballs.

Originally, the sailors in Sea Wolf's fort were still confident before this and were waiting for a big fight with the Dutch. However, when they saw the Dutch's shelling, many of them began to turn pale because they had been

, all thought that their cannons were numerous and powerful, but when they saw the Dutch fleet arrayed and started shelling today, they realized that the firepower of these red-haired men's fleets was indeed very powerful, far exceeding what they had set up at the mouth of the river.

The firepower of the fort.

When they saw muzzle flashes starting to flash on the Dutch ships, the marines from all the forts immediately got into the forts.

After Yu Xiaotian established Tamsui City, he began to send people to build defense facilities here. In addition to building a navigation lighthouse at the mouth of the river, he also built several forts at the mouth of the river.

These forts all adopt the main structure of rammed earth with triple earth. It seems that this rammed earth structure is not as strong as the all-stone structure. However, the rammed earth structure of triple earth has its advantages, that is, the barriers of the fort are more elastic and can be moved to a certain extent.

It absorbs the energy of shelling, and the interior is not prone to cracking when it is bombarded, causing stone fragments on the inner wall to fly across and injure people inside.

Moreover, a thick layer of large stones was applied outside the rammed earth walls of the fort. These large stones effectively protected the fort. It was basically impossible for ordinary artillery shells to destroy the fort.

In each fort, there are usually three to five twenty-four-pound long cannons. In total, there are about thirty twenty-four-pound long cannons in the fort outside the river mouth. In addition, each fort

, there are also some light artillery, as a measure to prevent enemy infantry from landing and attacking the fort, forming a crossfire from both near and far, and the overall fortification is quite tight.

When the Dutch bombardment began, all the marines stationed at the forts hid in the forts, and hundreds of shells of various types fell like hail into these forts.

The whole fort was like a sieve, constantly trembling under the enemy's shelling, and dust kept falling from above, making the soldiers inside the fort look gray and gray.

Fortunately, their forts were built as semi-permanent forts with roofs, rather than open forts. Otherwise, it would be difficult for Seawolf's forts to survive such a bombardment by the Dutch.

Go down.

Although in this era, explosive shells, that is, grenades have not been put into use in large quantities. Even if there are explosive grenades, they are not very powerful with the current manufacturing technology of artillery shells and gunpowder. Therefore, the Dutch have not used many such explosive shells. Basically,

Also used are ordinary solid artillery shells.

But even so, the kinetic energy of twenty or thirty kilograms of artillery shells hitting the artillery fort is quite powerful. Every time a cannonball hits the artillery fort, the artillery fort will shake violently, causing the people hiding in the artillery to shake.

The Seawolf officers and soldiers inside the fortress were worried.

"***, fight me! Only use one cannon! Tell them not to be too arrogant!" The second lieutenant of the fort cursed and spat, and shouted loudly to the soldiers in the fort.

After experiencing the feeling of being shelled several times at this time, the gunners found that their forts were still quite strong. When the red-haired men's cannonballs landed on their forts, they failed to effectively destroy their forts.

, so they gradually felt at ease. Although the order from above did not allow them to use full firepower, they were still allowed to use 30% of their firepower. Therefore, they currently have three twenty-four-pound guns in their artillery base, and they can use just one to fight back.

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So the gunners, who had already been feeling uncomfortable, after hearing the order, all gathered around the cannon in the middle, quickly started loading, and quickly joined forces to push the cannon to the gun door, and the muzzle of the gun was exposed.

The door points to the sea outside.

"The enemy ship is three hundred steps away, take aim!" The observer yelled loudly after lying down at the gun door to visually measure the distance between the enemy ship and the fort.

The gunners immediately began to slowly rotate the gun body and adjust the elevation of the gun barrel, aiming it at the largest red-haired man's warship in the center.

From the flag, they could see that this largest warship was the enemy's handsome ship, that is, the flagship. Since they wanted to fight, they naturally had to choose the most important one to fight.

For these sailors, they have to conduct high-intensity gunnery training every day. Now, whether it is loading or aiming, they are already familiar with it. It does not take much time at all. Every few days, they will also conduct live ammunition

Shooting, so these gunners are quite confident in their own accuracy.

What's more important is that they have to conduct aiming and gunnery training at the target set on the sea every day. At what distance and how high should the gun body elevation be adjusted? They are already familiar with it and cannot be more familiar with it. Three hundred steps is exactly what they need.

This kind of twenty-four-pounder gun has the most accurate effective range, so there is basically no error, and there is no need for calibration. What's more, when they usually train, the objects they aim at are buoys made of small sampans. Now they change

With a big ship carrying two thousand materials, you don't have to worry about missing the target.

"Aiming completed!" The person in charge of aiming was the gunner of the gun. As soon as he finished aiming, he immediately shouted loudly. When the other gunners who pushed the gun heard the sound, they immediately rushed to both sides of the cannon, turned their backs and opened their mouths.

They covered their ears to prevent the huge sound of cannons from deafening their ears.

"Fire!" the second lieutenant commander of the fort didn't wait for the gunner commander's voice to fall to the ground, and immediately roared wildly.

A gunner had already prepared a red-hot torch, and when he heard the sound, he poked the fire door where the primer was installed without hesitation.

The inside of the fort immediately shook violently, and at the same time there was a huge roar. The mount of the twenty-four-pound gun quickly sat back far away, and did not stop until it was pulled by the pulley block.

The smell of gunpowder smoke immediately filled the entire fort, making people choke and cough loudly.

"Hit! Haha! Well done! Hit the bow of the ship!" A lookout at the lookout window on the fort immediately loudly announced the effect of the bombardment.

The gunner chuckled and said: "***, if you can't hit them at such a close range, I will be hit with a board! Reload! Hurry! Let's give them another shot! Haha! This time I will hit their stern!"

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The second lieutenant was quite satisfied with the performance of the gunners. The first shot hit, which was a very honorable thing and also fully demonstrated that his usual training of these gunners was qualified. Although he could not use full firepower today, with this

It’s no problem that the cannon’s effect can at least be rewarded.

At the same time as this fort fired back, several other forts also began to take concerted actions, and at the same time began to fire back at the Dutch warships outside the river mouth.

Due to the restrictions of the order, these artillery forts did not have full firepower. They only used one cannon or at most two cannons to counterattack, and basically the artillery fire accuracy was very high. This was inseparable from their daily drills.

, they are already familiar with the performance of cannons

They couldn't be more familiar with it. They already knew the relationship between the muzzle elevation angle and the range. Therefore, between three hundred and five hundred steps, if they want to hit a large ship that does not move very fast,

There is no difficulty for them.

In addition, they have recently received teachings from Spanish mercenaries, which has improved their artillery skills. Therefore, the gunners of each fort have very high shooting accuracy. Although some of the forts did not achieve the first hit, they still have some.

The close range projectile is already very close to the target.

The arrogant Dutch people did not expect to be counterattacked by the Sea Wolf artillery battery so quickly after they started the bombardment. Although the firepower of these Sea Wolf artillery batteries was visually not strong, and there were not many artillery fires, which made

They felt that the number of artillery pieces equipped in Sea Wolf's artillery fort was limited, but the artillery accuracy of Sea Wolf's gunners surprised them.

Not long after they dropped the first round of cannonballs on the shore, and before they had completed preparations for the second salvo, the Sea Wolf tribe on the shore began to fight back. Although there were only a few cannonballs, these few cannonballs hit very hard.

precise.

Immediately, Waite's flagship was hit by three shots, and two other ships were hit by one shot each. Even if the other two shells did not hit their ships, they were still close-range shells, very close to their ships.

With a little adjustment, it is estimated that the next shot will hit their ship.

What also surprised them was that these Sea Wolf's shore guns were actually Western-style large-caliber artillery. Judging from the ballistics, they should be snake guns, or semi-snake guns. They were very powerful. Originally, their warships were all

is made of solid hardwood, and the boat

The side plates of the hull are very thick. In the past, they could easily withstand the shells fired by the Ming army's cannons. However, in front of the Sea Wolf's cannons, their hull could not withstand it. The hull would be penetrated by the cannons even if they were hit.

Several shots were fired, but they had already caused casualties to them.

Waite's ship hit three shots in a row, all of which hit the side of their hull accurately. One shell penetrated directly into their lower gun cabin, killing several of their gunners on the spot and destroying them.

A naval gun.

Such shelling shocked Waite and his men, and they quickly ordered to speed up the shelling to suppress the Sea Wolf artillery batteries on the shore.

Not long after the first salvo was fired on the sea, I once again remembered a series of thunderous cannon sounds. The gunpowder smoke once again shrouded the Dutch warships, and was slowly blown away by the sea breeze. The air was filled with thick smoke.

There was a strong smell of gunpowder smoke, and the roaring shells once again fell between the various artillery forts on the shore like a gust of wind and rain.

The Seawolf's artillery fort once again trembled violently under the fierce enemy shelling.