Hu Huiqian, who had always been fearless, felt his heart pounding at this moment. He never thought that he would be so unlucky that he would run into a Western-style sailing speedboat!
The western entrance to the Strait of Johor is also quite wide, four to five miles wide. Where can't this Western-style galley go? Why did I meet him so impartially?
Of course Hu Huiqian knew that most of these Western paddle boats were specially built to deal with rocket boats. These warships are not only equipped with sub-cannons with slender barrels that can quickly reload ammunition, but also 6-pound cannons that can shoot shotgun... Look at the size of that Western-style galley. The total number of sub-cannons and 6-pound guns equipped on one side must be more than ten!
But Hu Huiqian only had a pair of fists that he could use to deal with this Western-style galley!
Can you hit a battleship with your fists?
Thinking of this, he could only shout: "Ignore your mother... you will die! Add an oar and charge forward! The bounty will be doubled when you go back!"
"Got the order!"
The group of pirates paddling below didn’t know how powerful this Western-style galley was, which was specially used for speedboats. Pirates generally wouldn’t rob warships, and in windless areas like the Strait of Malacca, galleys couldn’t be faster. Malayan Clipper. Therefore, ordinary pirates have never fought against galleys...and those pirates who have won the jackpot and have actually fought against galleys have generally passed away, so there is not much about Western style. Rumors came out about how powerful the galleys were.
Eighteen "Popeyes" worked together, and the speed of the Malayan clipper suddenly increased. The pointed bow broke through the waves, and the clipper rushed forward like a flying boat. It was connected by hundreds of fishing boats. A blockade formed together.
Hu Huiqian also brought a deputy, surnamed Li, who was a "martial arts enthusiast" who liked to fight and was known as "Fist Li". He was also a serious navy man. Of course he knew that the sub-cannons and 6-pound cannons on the sailing boats were not good. deal with. But he still approached Hu Huiqian with an unlit torch and asked: "Zheng Ling, do you want to light the torch now?"
The torch is of course used to ignite the bottle of fire oil.
According to the plan, Hu Huiqian's task is to clear obstacles for the following fleet...burn the iron chain when encountering it, burn the pontoon bridge when encountering it, and burn the chain ship when encountering it. Therefore, the twelve Malayan Clipper ships brought by Hu Huiqian were equipped with many bottles of fire oil!
"Nod to you!" Hu Huiqian glared at him, "Don't you have eyes? That's a galley... designed to hit us!"
"Then if you don't light a torch, how can you use fire oil bombs?" Fist Li asked.
"Don't worry about the fire oil, bring your fists..." Hu Huiqian thought for a while, "Let's go hit that galley!"
"Do you really want to use your fists?" Fist Li clenched his fists tightly and looked at the Western-style speedboat that was approaching him quickly, his eyes almost bulging out.
This speedboat is not small. According to the classification of the Dynamic India Company, a ship with a load of more than 200 tons can be called a speedboat. And the boat in front of me seems to be such a "boat"... It seems a bit difficult to hit with fists!
When Fist Li Zheng was feeling embarrassed, Hu Huiqian suddenly shouted: "Listen to my order...Brothers from Bintan Island, dive into the water when you are hit. Swim to Temasek Island first, and everyone can turn around." Great reward!”
"Got the order!"
The rowing "Popeyes" responded loudly, and their paddling speed increased a lot.
Hu Huiqian had already squatted down at this time, holding a rope tightly with one hand, and a fist with the other hand...an iron fist!
After getting the Iron Fist, Hu Huiqian shouted to Fist Li again: "Fist Li, if it's about to be touched, squat down!"
"Got the order!"
Fist Li quickly squatted down, holding the unlit torch in his hand. Then, like Hu Huiqian, he grabbed a rope with one hand and an iron fist with the other.
Soon enough, there was only a loud "bang" sound, and the Malayan Clippers on which Hu Huiqian and Fist Li were riding had hit the wooden rafts on the chain boats!
On the sea surface, the waves rolled, and the raft and the fishing boat were suddenly arched in half, and the bow of the Malayan Clipper was also broken off, and the remaining part was still deeply stuck in the wood. Row inside.
The water splashed with pieces of wood, and the "Popeyes" on the Malayan Clipper jumped overboard one after another. The water splashed on the sea like dumplings. Hu Huiqian and Fist Li grabbed a rope at the bow of the Malayan Clipper and tried their best to prevent themselves from falling into the water from the Clipper.
There were several bottles of fire oil placed on the bow of the Malayan Clipper. When the collision just occurred, some of the bottles had been broken, and the thick fire oil flowed out, and the air was suddenly filled with a pungent smell. The smell of kerosene.
"Fist Li, jump gang..." Hu Huiqian roared, released the rope with one hand, and held the iron fist with the other hand, then straightened up, climbed up with his legs and feet, and flew into the air He stood up and jumped from the Malayan Clipper that was stuck in the raft to the raft. Then he held the iron fist and ran along the rickety raft for a dozen or two times. Ten steps.
"Boom boom..."
At this time, a loud noise came from behind Hu Huiqian, knocking him down. His feet suddenly slipped, and he lost his balance and almost fell into the sea. He quickly stabilized his body, knelt on one knee on the raft, and then looked back and found that there was a raging fire behind him! It was the Malayan Clipper that started the fire, and the roar just now should have come from the cannon on the Western-style galley!
It was probably the sailors on the Western-style galley who discovered that the Malayan Clipper hit the defense line composed of fishing boats and wooden rafts, and then opened fire with the ship's sub-cannon and 6-pounder cannon. As a result, the hot projectiles hit the wooden boat. Sparks rubbed off the hull of the ship, igniting the fierce fire oil that had been spilled.
Through the raging fire caused by the fierce fire oil, Hu Huiqian saw the Western-style galley again. The galley was very close to him, only thirty or forty steps away, and it was completely within the range of the Iron Fist anti-ship rocket launcher!
Hu Huiqian knew that this was his best and only chance to use the Iron Fist anti-warship rocket launcher... The Iron Fist anti-warship rocket launcher was very heavy, and he could only carry one with his strength.
Gufen
And he is now within the opponent's fire coverage. Whether it is a flintlock gun, a multi-cell cannon, or a 6-pounder cannon, he can be easily killed!
Thinking of this, he ripped off the yellow phosphorus cable on the tail of the Iron Fist rocket launcher, then put the rocket launcher on his shoulders, pointed it at the Western-style galley warship, and finally tore off the yellow phosphorus cable on the head of the rocket launcher. ...
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"Sir...anti-ship infantry!"
Some sailors from the Dutch East India Company discovered Hu Huigan carrying a rocket launcher and preparing to launch it!
John Tropp, the captain of the Dutch Flying Fish, thought it was ridiculous when he heard the name "anti-ship infantry"... He had served the Dutch Navy and the East India Company for so many years, starting from an ordinary sailor. The captain of the Holland Flying Fish, in his twenty-year career at sea, never thought that infantry would one day become the nemesis of a battleship!
This thing sounds ridiculous, but it actually happened during the negotiations in Mrauk-U before the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded India. A British armed merchant ship was hit by a rocket launcher by the Wu Jiajun's "anti-ship infantry", opening a large hole in the ship's deck of the gun room. Since then, "anti-ship infantry" has appeared on the military stage as a special unit. Later, the concept of more mobile "anti-ship cavalry" also appeared. Although Western countries are facing a shortage of sugar and medicine and cannot afford to equip a large number of sugar and medicine weapons, they still find ways to form some anti-ship infantry and anti-ship cavalry as mobile units to guard the inland rivers at seaports. Unexpectedly, the Ming Dynasty would actually use "anti-ship infantry" in naval battles between ships.
At this time, John Tropp had already used the firelight to spot a strong man wearing boxer briefs, holding a rocket launcher and half kneeling on the burning raft. The rocket launcher on the man's shoulder was facing his head. Dutch Flying Fish!
"Damn..." John Tropp cursed. Before he could think of what to do, he saw a cloud of fireworks ejected from the tail of the rocket launcher on the shoulder of the macho man. The spindle-shaped head of the rocket launcher It flew towards him at a speed visible to the naked eye. John Tropp subconsciously wanted to draw his gun and shoot, but before he could pull out his pistol, the spindle-shaped "arrow" had already hit the shell of the Dutch Flying Fish with a bang.
The iron fist of this anti-ship type has a steel spike at the end, which can easily penetrate the wooden shell of the battleship and then nail it to the wooden shell!
"It's going to explode!"
John Tropp knew something was wrong, so he shouted quickly, and then he didn't take out his gun. Instead, he reached out and grabbed a railing on the side. As soon as he grabbed it, there was a violent shaking under his feet, and there was a sound in his ears. At the same time, a roar was heard.
"Hit!"
Hu Huiqian cheered loudly, but at the same time he also discovered that the Western-style galley did not seem to be seriously injured. It only had a hole on the left side of the ship amidships, and two or three oars were blown off.
"You're such an old mother..." Hu Huiqian cursed dissatisfiedly.
This rocket was going to hit the side of the gun deck, which might cause the ammunition to explode or cause a fire, but it hit the rowers' deck, killing a bunch of worthless native rowers at most.
"boom!"
Just when Hu Huiqian was not satisfied with the result of the battle, the Dutch Flying Fish's butt was hit again, and a ball of fire rose up. This should be the rocket fired by "Fist Lee" hitting the target!
"Wan Sheng!"
There were cheers on the sea at the same time, and Hu Huiqian knew that this was the arrival of the other Malayan clippers under his command.
These boats are here to set fire!
Therefore, Hu Huiqian did not dare to stay on the raft for a long time, so he quickly plunged into the water and swam towards one of the Malayan Clipper boats.
While Hu Huigan jumped into the water to escape, the "naval grenadiers" on the Malayan Clipper approaching the wooden blockade began to throw Molotov cocktails at the blockade composed of wooden rafts and fishing boats.
Dozens of burning bottles filled with fire oil, cloth strips at the mouth of the bottle, and already ignited fire bottles drew arc-shaped parabolas in the air, and then one by one they smashed into pieces on the wooden signs and fishing boats, making a clattering sound. The sound ignited a fire that reached the sky at the same time!
The fire quickly spread throughout the raft blockade, and at the same time illuminated a large area of the nearby sea as if it were daytime!
The Dutch Flying Fish and several other galleys of the Dutch East India Company were soon exposed due to the fire spreading at sea, and became living targets for the assault boats and river-sea galleys that followed the Malayan Clipper. .
The Dutch Flying Fish, which was hit by two iron fists, was the first to be exposed, so it attracted the most firepower. Five of the assault boats that rushed to the front aimed their six-pack rocket launchers at the Flying Fish. But he didn't fire immediately, but all the way forward - he had to get closer to hit accurately!
When John Tropp saw the five assault boats approaching him quickly, he felt like he was surrounded by despair. He just shouted in horror: "Paddle, paddle quickly...we have to get out of here!"
But no matter how much he screamed, the oars underneath could not move faster. It was not that the indigenous oarsmen were unwilling to work hard, but that the iron fist fired by Hu Huiqian hit the outer side of the oarsman's deck amidships. Although this "anti-ship iron fist" is not very big, it is filled with sweet gunpowder that is several times more powerful than black powder. How can wooden ship planks withstand it? A big hole was blown out in an instant, and the shattered pieces of wood were carried by the air waves of the explosion and flew around the entire rower's deck. The rowers inside were immediately in trouble. They were all shirtless and had no protection at all. The wooden block scratched across their bodies, leaving a long bloody gash immediately! About one-third of the oarsmen were rewarded for these flying wooden blocks, and the entire oarsmen's deck was filled with screams. The remaining paddlers who were not injured were so frightened that their hands and feet became weak and they no longer had the strength to paddle.
The Dutch Flying Fish, which had lost most of its power, became a floating target. It could only rely on the continuous firing of the sub-cannon and 6-pound cannon on one side to desperately resist the rapidly approaching enemy assault boats.
But those assault boats were hidden in the darkness, and their outlines could only be vaguely seen, and they could only fire a few random shots. However, the Dutch Flying Fish was brightly illuminated by the burning rafts and fishing boats nearby. It looked like a real target. It was not such a good target during training!
The five assault boats fired thirty rockets at once - this thing is much more powerful than the anti-ship iron fist used by a single soldier!
In just a few breaths, six of the thirty rockets had already hit the thin hull of the Dutch Flying Fish at extremely fast speeds, and three of them had penetrated directly through the wooden planks of the ship. Inside the hull. John Tropp, who felt the deck under his feet trembling six times, already knew that something serious was going on. He hurriedly ran to the side. As soon as his body leaned against the side fender, the deck under his feet suddenly started to jump, and then It was the roar that shook the earth... Tropp couldn't keep his balance, so he fell headfirst into the sea water from the exploding warship!
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