Sure enough, this time the Ming army didn't even go through the usual process of persuading them to surrender, and just started bombarding the wall with artillery! There were almost 50 artillery pieces on the two rows of warships that were firing fiercely at them. The fire was flying all over the place for a while, and the momentum was very terrifying!
I saw cannonballs raining down on the pirate camp. Some of the cannonballs hit the wooden wall and made a dull crashing sound, and then were bounced away. Some of the cannonballs passed over and hit harder and even reached the inside of the cottage. Only a few of them opened on the top of the wall. The damage caused by the English was not great, but the continuous shelling was strong and near the gun positions, but there were no pirates. It was quite difficult for the pirates.
The big boss, Great White Shark, who was standing on the wall of the village, was holding a knife in his hand. He was running on the wall with his waist bent, shouting wildly: "Fire back! Fire back!"
The pirates, who were already scared to death, no longer wanted to fire cannons at this time, and were looking for places to hide one by one! Some even jumped off the wall and ran to the rear! However, the two people who escaped were immediately hacked to death under the wall by the second master's gang. Only then did they stabilize!
Upon seeing this, Great White Shark bent down and rushed to the gun emplacement, pulled up a pirate who was lying on the ground, and shouted in his face: "Fire me now! Otherwise I will kill you!"
At this time, the pirate was already scared to death, but when he saw the distorted face of the Great White Shark, he understood one thing. If he fired the cannon now, he would probably be killed by the Ming army! Or be directly hacked to death by the boss! Faced with this situation, he still chose to possibly die!
He looked at the great white shark's blood-red eyes and nodded repeatedly. At the same time, he picked up the extinguished torch from the ground and pressed it on the tail of the artillery! Just a "bang" sound was heard, the artillery fire was fired, and the shells flew out, but no one aimed, the shells didn't hit anything at all!
When the great white shark saw this, he was so angry that he picked up his knife and hacked the gunner to death. He then grabbed the other gunner's neck and shouted loudly: "Stand up and fire! If you don't stand up again, I will chop you all to death!"
You, the pirate, have already seen the Great White Shark hacking the gunner next to him to death, so while shouting "I'll fire, I'll fire", he also pulled the other gunners to get up from the ground, gathered around the cannon and started Reload!
At this time, a newly loaded Ming army artillery shell passed over the gun position and smashed the heads of the two pirates! The headless corpse stood on the spot and twisted twice and fell to the ground, blood spraying all over the cannon! The remaining gunners were so frightened that they all screamed and fled away!
But the Great White Shark standing aside gave up! He raised his knife and slashed two people, and said sternly: "Don't run! If you run again, I'll kill them all!"
The escaping pirates were now frightened, and had to come back to reload their artillery as the great white shark stared at them! After a while, the artillery fire finally started, but it still didn't hit any ships, but this time the cannonball landed a little closer to the Ming fleet!
Inspired by the firing from this gun position, the other pirates also emboldened themselves and started shooting! But they only had four cannons, and when they counterattacked, their momentum was very weak, and the impact point of the cannonballs was also ridiculous! Even the impact points of these shells caused bursts of laughter among the naval officers and soldiers! In their opinion, these pirates don't know how to use cannons at all!
But in Liu Haojia's view, these naval officers and soldiers' skill in using artillery is also very poor! The impact point of the cannonball is also not satisfactory! It's just that the density of artillery is very high, and the opponent still has a fixed target, so it looks better!
You must know that before Liu Haojia took over the navy, the navy's drills were almost of a coping nature. Moreover, if they want to get the medicine, they need the consent of the guarding eunuch, and they even have to bribe him to get the gunpowder! As for training at sea, it is even more pitiful! They couldn't even get enough military pay, and they had already rented a boat for transportation. There was no time for training!
And now they are still using powdered gunpowder and don't know how to make granular gunpowder. They don’t even know how to weigh the gunpowder, and rely on visual inspection for each reloading. This makes the impact point of the shells fired each time very different! These advantages can be achieved now, on the one hand, the gunners are relatively experienced, and on the other hand, they rely entirely on quantity!
The artillery battle lasted for half an hour. The navy relied on the numerical advantage of artillery to finally defeat all four pirate forts! At the same time, the village wall was also filled with holes! Especially the upper part of the female wall is like a dog chewing!
Upon seeing this, Liu Haojia hurriedly said: "It's almost done, let the soldiers go up! There are also artillery, and the artillery must keep up!"
Li Wenliang responded loudly, and then asked someone to wave the order flag to convey the order. After receiving the order, the ships that were still shooting turned to the trestle near the wall. They did not move the original pirate ship, and just stopped one after another. The soldiers jumped from one ship to another, and finally boarded the trestle directly, yelling and screaming towards the beach. Rush over.
There were also warships that had received the order long ago. They put down the boat to load artillery and soldiers early. When the order was given, the soldiers in the boat rowed hard and headed towards the beach! For a moment, the sound of killing on the beach was loud! There was no sound on the pirate's wall, as if everyone had fled!
When the soldiers saw the silent people on the other side, they became even more courageous. They felt that the time to destroy the thieves was at this moment, so they rushed forward like a wolf! But just when they rushed to be thirty or forty steps away from the village wall, they heard a whistle from the wall, and thirty or forty people actually stood up!
These people had already prepared their bows and arrows, and they immediately fired them as soon as they stood up! There were also seven or eight firecrackers fired together! This suddenly reduced the number of soldiers running at the front to more than ten! Seeing this, the pirates' morale was greatly boosted, and they even rained down arrows on them!
The soldiers were a little panicked by the sudden attack of arrows, and the momentum of the charge was actually curbed for a moment! The soldiers could only retreat back with the help of shields! Fortunately, they brought back all the wounded when they withdrew.
Seeing this scene in front of him, Li Wenliang turned red with anger! He felt that he had lost his master in front of Liu Haojia! But Liu Haojia said indifferently: "It doesn't matter! Since this wave of pirates can gain some fame, they must have some skills at the time! It doesn't matter if the attack fails once, just try again!"
In fact, Liu Haojia really didn't feel there was any problem with being beaten back. On the one hand, when the navy was still a navy before its establishment, training was already insufficient. After its establishment, it attracted a lot of new recruits. After just a few months of running-in, it was impossible to train any elite soldiers, so it was normal for some minor problems to occur on the battlefield.
