Daming pirates

Waite's eyes widened and he looked toward the sea, hoping to see traces of the enemy, but he couldn't see any traces of the enemy on the dark sea. He could only roughly see that there seemed to be many shadowy figures on the sea.

The shadow of the boat was approaching them.

Waite then realized that they had been fooled today. The Sea Wolf was not actually trying to scare them without purpose, but was paralyzing them by sending out flares continuously, making them nervous at first, and then started to slack off, just like they had been doing all along.

They were already paralyzed by the cry of wolf, but it was at this time that the sea wolf really started to launch a night attack.

Waite's head grew a lot bigger. Night fighting was not a fighting method they were good at. Due to the restrictions of conditions in this era, very few people used night fighting at sea to fight, because it was too risky, difficult to control, and more likely to cause damage.

Chaos, so they rarely practice night combat at sea, and have insufficient ability to deal with night battles.

At this time, he could not judge how many enemy ships were coming, and he could not clearly see the situation on the sea. He could only deal with it passively and ordered several ships to open fire with all their strength to prevent the enemy ships from approaching them.

But at this time, the enemy attack came too suddenly. The sailors and gunners on several ships were thrown into chaos. In the dark cabins, it was impossible to see clearly. The sailors and gunners inside were all caught in a panic.

They were running around and bumping into walls, so it was impossible to organize an effective counterattack in a short period of time.

And just after they suffered the first blow, some more ships began to rush towards them downwind. The status of these ships could not be seen clearly in the darkness. They could only roughly see that these ships were heading straight towards them.

They rushed over.

The Dutch then hurriedly began to fire artillery to block these ships. However, because they responded in a hurry, they were unable to use full firepower. Only a small number of artillery started firing, which could not effectively prevent these ships from approaching. It was even difficult to effectively hit enemy ships.

Because there were almost no lights on the enemy ship, they could not carry out calibrated shooting in the darkness. They could only shoot blindly in the direction of the enemy ship. Taking advantage of the moment when the cannon muzzle spit out flames, they could more or less see the enemy ship coming.

the situation of enemy ships.

These ships are not big, but their speed is relatively fast. The Dutch themselves have been in a slow cruising state, maintaining a very low speed, wandering outside the mouth of the Tamsui River. Most of the sails are not hung up, but are furled.

Being guarded on top of the ship's mast, it was not easy to speed up immediately. What's more, Sea Wolf's first sneak attack just now had damaged one of their ships and destroyed a large number of sail ropes on that ship.

The ship was unable to operate its sails for a short period of time.

So although the speed of these rushing ships was not very fast, the large Dutch ships could not speed up to avoid them for a while, so these small sailing ships quickly approached the Dutch fleet and seemed to surround them.

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The Dutch could not see the details of these dozen light sailing ships at all, but they could see their condition from close range. These ships looked very ferocious, with large sharp iron nails scattered all over the hull.

Moreover, there are barbs on the iron nails. No matter where they hit other ships, they will immediately hook the enemy ships.

What's even more surprising is that these ships do not move alone, but use two ships as a group. There is a thick iron chain connecting the two ships, so that when they sail, the two ships are always parallel.

, separated some distance and tightened the iron chain, no one could get rid of the other, they could only act together.

And these ships separated from each other, forming an extremely huge sea, which followed the wind and covered the Dutch ship. The Dutch ship at the rear was immediately hit, and the two ships quickly caught him,

The two strange-shaped ships rushed over from both sides of it, and their speed was higher than that of the Dutch warship. There was an iron chain between them, and they immediately caught the Dutch warship.

After the ship that was sailing quickly was suddenly caught by a hook, it immediately began to meet in the middle involuntarily. As a result, both ships immediately hit the enemy ship from the side. The large iron nails on the side of the ship suddenly became

It was nailed deeply into the Dutch ship and stuck to the Dutch warship like a tarsal maggot.

The Dutch were frightened. The two ships came up too fast. They didn't have time to stop the enemy ship from approaching, so they were hit by the enemy ship. At this angle, their ship's artillery couldn't fire at them at all. Many Dutch hurriedly

They all held up muskets or swords and axes, ready to fight hand-to-hand combat against the enemy.

But what surprised them was that after the enemy ship hit them, they did not climb up and engage in hand-to-hand combat with them. Instead, one after another, the enemies jumped into the water from their ship and immediately began to swim away.

broke away from their ship.

Moreover, they saw that these sea wolf tribesmen were wearing a very strange tight-fitting clothes, which seemed to be made of leather, wrapping their bodies tightly, even their heads were wrapped, and only their faces were exposed.

After all, it is winter at this time, and the sea water is very cold. Anyone who falls into the water will quickly lose temperature and go into shock if he is not picked up quickly. Therefore, if you fall into the sea at this time, it is still at night, and you will basically have a narrow escape. However,

After colliding with the ship, these Sea Wolf tribe members couldn't find a way to climb onto the enemy ship and engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy ship, but they all jumped into the sea without hesitation, which is puzzling.

But for the sailors on these ships, they knew their tasks very well. Their ships were not fire ships, and their boss, Yu Xiaotian, did not require them to destroy enemy ships, let alone fight with the enemy.

It was a hand-to-hand battle, and their only mission was to find a way to ram their ship into the enemy ship and hook the enemy ship firmly, so that they could abandon the ship and escape.

However, in this season, jumping into the sea to escape without warmth is basically like committing suicide. Jumping into the cold sea water, if you are not rescued quickly, you will freeze to death in the sea water.

, or drowned in the sea.

Yu Xiaotian would never force his subordinates to commit suicide, so he would naturally be prepared in advance. Sea Wolf itself likes to use surprise attacks to attack the enemy. Surprise attacks can be used not only on land, but also on sea in this era.

Also use surprise attacks to attack the enemy.

Although there is no such thing as divers in this era, there has long been a theory of water ghosts. Water ghosts are actually sailors with excellent water skills. They can swim or dive for a short time to approach enemy ships under possible conditions, and drill holes into them.

Sink enemy ships or sneak into enemy-controlled areas to destroy them.

Naturally, Yu Xiaotian would not easily abandon such a force. Therefore, the navy already had an underwater special operations force that was good at water warfare. They were all selected sailors with excellent water skills, and

Their skills are quite good, and they are mainly responsible for combat tasks such as reconnaissance and destruction of enemy ports and docks.

For this reason, Yu Xiaotian also attached great importance to them and equipped them with some equipment owned by later generations of divers. Of course, he could not get modern diving equipment in this era, so he could only make some fins, water spikes, water supports and other things based on the shabby simplicity.

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Most of the ships carrying out such assault missions today are composed of water ghosts. The tight-fitting leather jackets they wear are actually water bodies, which can be regarded as a kind of diving suit in ancient times.

These wetsuits are made of shark skin and can cover almost the whole body. Since there are no zippers, they can only be replaced by buttons. The waterproof performance is not as good as that of later diving suits, but it can still play a good role in thermal insulation. In addition,

After wearing a sharkskin water support in the water, it doesn't affect your activities much, and you can swim faster and with less effort.

This place is not too far from the shore, only a few miles or so. The water ghosts on the boat have already put on water rafts and put on flippers on their feet.

The flippers are made of whale baleen as a support, covered with a thin layer of tough fish skin, and are very elastic. After wearing them, the water ghosts can swim much faster in the water and save a lot of effort.

, so although it seems that these sea wolf sailors jumped into the sea without hesitation, it seemed like a suicide act, but for them, relying on the water support and flippers on their bodies, they swam directly to the shore.

There is no difficulty.

Moreover, there were already people on the shore who were ready to meet them. Hot water, dry cotton clothes, and hot ginger soup were waiting for them, so that they could recover immediately after landing.

The Dutch were nervously waiting for a hand-to-hand fight with the pirates on the enemy ship that ran into them, but they did not expect that they would jump into the sea and escape. So they couldn't figure out what happened for a while, but now more and more enemy ships were approaching.

Then, it crashed towards them. It was only then that the smarter Dutch discovered the problem.

"They want to trap our ship! Hurry up and hold them back, don't let them hit us, fire, fire quickly!" Someone started shouting in panic.

Because they have discovered that the two enemy ships that hit their ship did not move at all when they used poles to push them apart, as if they were nailed to death.

The captain hurriedly sent some skilled people to go down to check. After going down, he discovered that these ships were indeed filled with large iron nails. After hitting their ship, they were immediately hooked to their ship. For a while,

It's impossible to take them off at all.

It was only then that the Dutch realized what had happened and began to fire desperately to prevent these ships from approaching them.

Several ships were quickly torn into pieces under the gunfire of the Dutch and were sunk in the water on the spot. However, a few ships eventually hit two Dutch ships and were firmly entangled.

The hook was attached to the Dutch ship.

As soon as these ships collided with the Dutch ship, they immediately cut off the sail ropes, lowered the mast, lost the ability to sail, and hung tightly on the Dutch ship, which immediately made the Dutch warship more clumsy.

The Dutch broke into a cold sweat at this moment. If these ships were all fire ships, then as long as the enemy lit a fire, their ships would be ignited together. However, they could not figure out why there was no firewood piled on these ships.

It was not set alight by the enemy, but hung on their ship so that they could not escape.

Waite was already a little confused at this time, because he found that shadowy enemy ships began to appear in all directions on the sea, completely surrounding them on the sea.