Seeing this scene, the pirates were surprised and asked how the mast was broken. They would never believe that a cannonball would accurately hit the manufacturing mast! It was absolutely impossible then! For them to believe this, it would be better to believe that they accidentally dug out a box of gold when they were in Xiu's village!
At this time, a pirate shouted loudly: "I saw it! It was the spinning cannonball stuck in the mast, and then the mast broke!".
At this time, a naval officer who had been standing silently beside them said: "The cannonballs you are talking about spinning in the sky are called chain bombs! They are specially used to clean the deck and damage the sails! In fact, the chain bombs are just two iron bullets. An iron chain is connected to the middle of the ball. When the iron chain wraps around the mast, the iron ball will spin back and hit the mast. This is how the mast is broken!"
All the pirates felt even more chilled when they heard this! They had never heard of or seen this kind of shells! They are even imagining that when their home is besieged by the army, if a chain bullet comes and catches the mast, and then the mast collapses, and then there is no power, they will have to be beaten passively. !
But at this moment, another pirate shouted: "The ship is leaking! It's tilting its head!"
Everyone hurriedly looked at it again, and sure enough they saw that the stern of the target ship had sunk much lower than before, and the bow had begun to slowly tilt up! In actual combat, although the current situation does not affect navigation, the ship's speed will definitely be greatly reduced!
Moreover, at this time, enough manpower must be allocated to fetch water, so that there will be fewer people available for combat, and they can only be beaten more passively! Then the ship will be damaged faster! This is a vicious cycle! At this point, it's either surrender or death, there's no third way!
At this time, the soldiers on the warship seemed to have discovered that the target ship was gradually sinking, so they did not rush to fire. The warship began to circle around the target ship to confirm the situation. To the pirates, this scene looked like a shark preparing to hunt and circling around its prey to see if it had lost its resistance!
When the warship was twenty or thirty steps closer to the target ship, the warship suddenly started shooting again! But this time it was not a volley, but a slow single-cannon fire! And all the shots were shot!
The pirates all knew that this was the last time to clean the deck before boarding the ship, so they all stared wide-eyed to see how the officers and soldiers would board!
The warship circled around the target ship, and after sweeping the deck with shotguns from all directions, a soldier finally stood up and threw flying claws, and successfully detained the target ship! At the same time, the warship also lowered its sails and slowed down. It seemed that it was preparing for a boarding battle!
Seeing this, the spirits of the pirates were lifted again! For them, boarding battles are their specialty! They are not afraid of anyone in this regard!
But at this moment, a pair of soldiers holding firecrackers rushed out from the cabin of the warship. They did not organize their formation at all, but formed two horizontal lines at the end of their run! Then they quickly fired two rounds at the target boat on the opposite side!
Just as the firing of the muskets was completed, the sailors hiding under the side of the ship suddenly stood up and fired at the target ship with short muskets in hand! This kind of short gun is very light to hold. Each sailor holds one in his left and right hands, and can shoot two rounds in an instant!
Seeing this scene, the pirates' hearts that they had just cheered up sank again, and they sank deeper than before! Because they had calculated the time, the time when the other party fired the musket was the time for the pirates to join the gang! Being shot by four rounds of firecrackers without cover, anyone who jumps into the gang will basically not survive!
Then, under the frustrated eyes of the pirates, the soldiers and sailors on the ship launched a gang-hopping fight! The sailors threw away their muskets, picked up their axes from the ground and jumped onto the target ship! The two rows of soldiers at the back had already attached their muskets to their bayonets and followed the sailors in a leap!
After that, they quickly rushed from the port side to the starboard side of the ship, which was equivalent to occupying the entire target ship! Then they happily carried the half-broken mast on their shoulders and returned to their own ship as a trophy. The entire exercise was completely over! The Royal Navy defeated its opponents with an overwhelming advantage!
At this time, Liu Guangting said in a low voice, but loud enough for the surrounding pirates to hear: "Now you know why I took you to join Uncle Wu Ning, right? There will be more and more ships like this in the future, and they will gradually replace all the ships."
There are some old-fashioned warships. Do you have the confidence to defeat such ships? "
Li Feiyu, who was standing next to him, also said in the same voice: "What the hell! I think this ship can beat our six ships without any trouble!"
The old pirate also said with a bitter look on his face: "Yes, there are so many artillery pieces on this ship that we can't get close at all!"
Other pirates even raised their hands and said, "Big Dragon Head is wise!"
"Thank you, Big Dragon Head, for saving my life!"
"If Dalongtou hadn't brought us here, we might have been raided one day, and we wouldn't know how we died until we died!"
At this time, the pirates spoke in a much more sincere tone, and there was no doubt in their eyes. It seems that they were impressed by Liu Guangting! This made Liu Guangting even more proud!
The reason why he is so proud is that the pirates have basically settled down and can hold great power in the future! Another point is that these pirates didn't know that he took the initiative to send a ship as a target. It seemed to be to prevent the government troops from tampering with the original target ship, but in fact, he had already dug a hole in his own ship. !
The hole is not big. After digging it, plug it with cork. Once it is violently shaken, the cork will come out, which will quickly give the illusion that the boat is broken and leaking! Now it seems that this arrangement cannot be more successful! Three volleys of fire destroyed a ship until it leaked, which was enough to scare these pirates!
After a drill, the ship Liu Guangting and the others were on could be said to be a world of ice and fire! Ice is naturally the heart of these pirates! Because they had been frightened by the drill just now, and their hearts were filled with coldness! As for the fire, it is the enthusiasm of the naval soldiers and sailors on the ship!
When we saw the results, we were naturally elated and encouraged! Many soldiers and sailors deliberately loudly discussed next to the pirates what tactics should be used by two ships, and what about three ships? What about a fleet? It even made the pirates tremble in fear!
They learned a lot of information from the discussions of naval officers! First of all, they know that if this new type of warship is finalized, it will be named the patrol class! In other words, in the future, all warships with less than 50 guns will belong to the patrol class! To put it bluntly, it is the cruiser of future generations!
