"The enemy ship is about two hundred steps closer to me!" Soon, Wang Shou's loud voice rang above everyone's heads again. At the same time, Kang Lin's ship also adjusted its position and was ready to launch again. The port side was aimed at the small sand boat that dared to come to rub the tiger's beard! But at this moment, on the sea not far away, the situation changed dramatically!
The small sand boat that took two or three shots from Kang Lin's ship suddenly turned its bow when it was about to approach Kang Lin's fleet, and then with the help of the big oar, it struggled to draw an arc on the sea. Heading due west of the bird ship!
"No, we were tricked by these bastards today!" Almost instantly, Liu Laoliu, who was well versed in maritime affairs, understood what kind of medicine these grandsons were selling in their gourds. However, at this moment, he clearly understood It was too late, because the towering mast of the Haicang ship in the distance had already appeared menacingly in front of everyone's eyes...
"Be on guard! Get ready to fire all your guns!" Liu Laoliu no longer had time to take care of the small sand boat that caused trouble, because the target he was focusing on at this time had successfully changed to the small sand boat that was following him. The coming Haicang ship!
"Boom, boom, boom!" Soon, the Haicang ship, coming against the wind with great momentum, took advantage of its taller hull than the bird ship and began to fire cannons at Kang Lin's fleet! However, in view of the poor shooting accuracy of the copper Hongyi bow cannon on the ship (a light artillery purchased or captured by the pirates from their Western counterparts, the shells weighed about five kilograms), the fired shells did not hit the ship. Any bird ship in the Zhong Chiyang fleet!
"The enemy ship is arrogant and menacing! Commander Yan, this time you will personally serve the modified Folang machine. When you get the opportunity, you will beat the old man to death on that Haicang ship with ill-intentioned intentions! Everyone , although the enemy ship is taller than our bird ship and equipped with more artillery than ours, but as the saying goes, 'the brave will win when we meet on a narrow road', as long as we respond calmly and kill the enemy bravely, then the old man believes that the final victory will definitely belong to us... ..." Faced with the sudden battle, Liu Laoliu, the fleet manager, did not panic, but loudly encouraged the gunners on the bird ship to fight bravely! But at this time, white smoke curled up from the Haicang ship, and the enemies had loaded their artillery and fired at them again.
"Calm down, everyone, calm down. Don't act rashly. We either don't fight later or we have to hurt these grandsons if we fight!" At a distance of more than a thousand meters (more than 500 steps), there is no certainty. Liu Laoliu, who defeated the enemy with one blow and did not want to waste the shells at the same time, commanded his ship to prepare for several rounds of shells from the enemy ship, hoping to shorten the distance with the enemy ship as soon as possible!
The reason that prompted Liu Laoliu to take this measure was that the effective range of the large Fo Lang machine equipped on the captain's ship was only a pitiful 200 meters to 500 meters. (In fact, this early breech-loaded artillery was airtight due to its airtightness. There are very few that can hit such a long distance. The shells fired from the Fran machine cannon are only powerful at a distance of 150 meters to 300 meters.) Therefore, before reaching the effective range of the ship's artillery, he, Liu Laoliu, was not prepared to make a loss-making deal!
A moment later, the distance between the two sides was shortened to more than 300 steps (about 540 meters) for the first time.
"Bang!" "Bang!" There was a flash of fire on the other side's ship. In the thick smoke, two iron balls weighing more than five kilograms were propelled by black gunpowder for the fifth time at a speed that could not be seen clearly by the naked eye. Kang Lin's ship hit hard!
"Wall of trees!" Seeing the thick smoke rising from the enemy ship, Liu Laoliu immediately gave a loud order to his subordinates who were still standing next to the ship's side to build a wooden protective wall! So in an instant, the temporarily put down wooden baffles were re-erected under the control of the bird ship sailors, forming a wooden wall that was not tall but looked very strong!
"Poof!" Although there was a wooden wall blocking it, a cannonball weighing more than five kilograms still caused a lot of trouble on the deck! Because, this iron cannonball not only luckily hit the bird boat where Kang Lin and others were, but also successfully penetrated the wooden plank in front of the peasants and soldiers at the guard station, and then kept rolling until it killed and injured several people. Stopped at exhaustion!
"Lei Huzi, hurry up and bring the injured brothers down for treatment!"
"Okay, Master." His eyes were full of moaning and wailing companions. Kang Lin's loud voice rang out on the deck at the right time. After hearing the order from his Master, the fleet's temporary ship's doctor Lei Huzi immediately carried Carrying a simple medicine box and several women from the logistics class, they rushed onto the deck and carefully carried a group of injured sailors to the cabin for bandaging and treatment. Looking at the broken wooden walls, the blood on the ground, and the scattered broken limbs, Kang Lin couldn't help but feel scared. Fortunately, he had followed the advice of Liu Laoliu and Yan Si and temporarily installed a new one on the ship. A simple wooden board, otherwise, the cannonball just now would definitely cause many more casualties than it does now!
"The enemy ship is less than 180 steps (about 297 meters) away from me!" The watchman on Diao Dou has no time to pay attention to the painful wails of his injured comrades below, because his current task is to observe the relationship between the enemy ship and his own ship. distance between them, and then report it to the commander, so that they can respond accordingly according to the enemy's situation! Therefore, when the enemy ship entered the effective range of the ship's onboard artillery, Wang Shou immediately notified Liu Laoliu on the deck with his nervous and slightly excited voice, so that he could respond in the shortest possible time. React accordingly.
"Port side Folang aircraft salvo!" The distance between the two ships was less than 300 meters, Liu Laoliu gave the order to fire; and not far away, another bird ship of the Chiyang fleet was also commanded by the messenger's flag. Turning the ship sideways, he aimed the two already loaded Fran cannons at the Haicang ship heading upwind!
"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" With a flash of orange fire, the four Fran cannons on the bird ship were fired by Yan Si's men. However, in view of the poor accuracy of the artillery in this era, Due to the rate and the serious air leakage of the Fran cannon, after several rounds of shelling, only one shell fired by the Fran cannon accidentally hit the wooden deck of the Haicang ship, while the other eight or nine shells all It fell into the sea water next to Haicang's ship.
"Folang machine gunner, speed up the replacement of muskets, and continue to fire salvos!" Looking at the Haicang ship approaching under the gunfire, Liu Laoliu did not command the bird ship to turn around to meet the enemy, but chose to maintain In the current situation, he asked the Franco gunner to speed up the replacement of the gun, thereby maintaining the bird ship's firepower output.
"The enemy ship is one hundred and sixty steps closer to me. Uh, no, they opened fire!" But just after the Fo Lang machine gun completed its Nth salvo, the watch hand on the Diao Dou suddenly pointed not far away. The enemy ship that was about to fire shouted loudly to Liu Laoliu, Yan Si and others who were standing on the deck!
"Don't worry about him. The Folang cannon continues to be loaded. Others will prepare sand, soil and water for me to prevent the enemy's fire attack and cause a fire..." Although the distance between the two sides has been shortened to more than 200 meters, Liu Laoliu He was not in a hurry at all. He even stood on the deck to direct the battle without any intention of evading.
"Xiaoguang, take a shield and go to Master Liu immediately to protect him. Please note that these guns don't have eyes. Don't accidentally hurt Master Liu..." Behind the wooden wall, there was silence all the time. Fatty Kang, who was paying attention to the battlefield situation, was really worried about Liu Laoliu, who was already within the range of the enemy ship's artillery bombardment, but he did not dare to send people to force him down, so he could only order his personal followers to go up with shields to help him. Block the cannons flying around.
However, at this moment, the cool electronic sound of the system that had not sounded for a long time suddenly rang in Kang Lin's ears!
"Dip, the system has released a sub-task of the required mission 'Looking for the first stop on the mainland - Donghai City', 'Destroy the pirate patrol ship'. After completing it, you can get 100 units of various resources, 350 merit points, and 5 matchlock guns. 1 flintlock short gun, 2 flintlock long guns, 5 rifle crossbows, 5 waist knives, 1 refined waist knife, 1 exquisite tiger crouching cannon, 1 exquisite Folang machine cannon, 2 soldier upgrade orders (militia level) , special recruitment once, random recruitment once, military branch, one-fifth of the fast ship (light) manufacturing drawings (five copies need to be collected to synthesize a complete manufacturing drawing), civil buildings, half of the residential construction drawings 1. One-fifth of the simple dock construction drawings! On the contrary, if you cannot complete this task, 600 units of various resources and 600 merit points will be deducted, and the difficulty of completing the required main task will be increased appropriately!!"
"Damn, this is just a fucking rush!" Conlin looked at the heated battlefield and thought of the sub-tasks just released by the system, and couldn't help but wail in his heart.
