"Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!" It was obvious that the pirates had been stimulated by the words spoken by their second master. For as much as 60% of the property, a fierce boarding battle was inevitable!
"Archers, come forward, prepare to launch rockets!" Seeing that the morale of his subordinates had been successfully raised, the second master was very satisfied. Then he turned around and gave the order to fire a rocket volley to the archers behind him who had been eager to try. ! And as soon as this order was issued, the dozen or so big-bodied pirate archers behind him immediately strolled forward and stood still, calmly opened their hard bows with rockets in their hands, and aimed at the people not far away. Enemy ship!
"Fire the arrow!" Looking at the enemy ship getting closer and closer in Thousand Miles Eyes, the second pirate leader decisively gave the order to launch!
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh..." The two sides were 60 steps apart and there was no test firing. The pirate archers immediately released the bow strings between their fingers after receiving the order from their second master! In an instant, more than a dozen black-smoking rockets were thrown by the hard bow and flew over the head of the jumping helper, flying towards the enemy ship not far away!
"The enemy has launched rockets. Everyone raised their wooden shields to defend themselves, and the auxiliary soldiers used nozzles to draw water to put out the fire!" From the monocular telescope, he observed that the pirates had begun to use rockets. Liu Lao, the general manager of Chiyang Fleet, Liu immediately ordered his sailors to raise their shields for defense and prepare spray cannons to put out the fire! It was only then that the commanders and the sailors under their command realized how wise it was for the boss to order the auxiliary soldiers to remove the excess gunpowder!
"The enemy ship is 40 steps (about 60 meters) away from me!"
"Tiger crouching cannon, matchlock gunners, step forward to suppress the enemy archers!" Facing the pirates' rocket offensive, the actual commander of the Chiyang fleet, Liu Laoliu, General Manager Liu, gently shook his head out of fear. Breaking out into a thin sweat, he began to issue counterattack orders to his subordinate musketeers!
"Brothers, let's fight with the fat sheep for the 60% of the wealth!" Correspondingly, looking at the pirates, because the wealth is so attractive, the pirates with guns and sticks no longer care about it. Despite the enemy's sharp fire and the unfavorable situation of heavy casualties among their own archers, they were so anxious that they began to loudly urge their crewmates to speed up the ship! Because in their opinion, as long as their group can get close to the enemy ship and launch a boarding battle, then the final victory in this battle will definitely belong to them, the Fierce Shark Pirates!
"Bang bang bang!" At this time, on the bird boat not far away, gunshots were still ringing irregularly! However, it seems that this weak resistance can no longer stop the pirates with high morale. They look at the enemy ship with a very clear outline 40 steps (about sixty or seventy meters) away, and some impatient guys have even begun to prepare. The springboard and hook gun for gang jumping are here!
"Bang!" So soon, the pirate warship with paddles and sails came close to Chiyang's bird ship with a dull crash! Then, the elite pirates with scimitars in their mouths fastened the springboards that had been prepared at lightning speed to the sides of the ships on both sides!
"Arquebusiers, fire!" Looking at the enemy who couldn't wait to jump on the springboard and charge towards his own warship with a machete, Zheng Nansheng, who was specifically responsible for directing the matchlockers in combat, immediately gave the order to fire a volley of muskets!
"Bang, bang, bang!" Then, the blast of the matchlock gun quickly rang in the small space between the bird boat and the Haicang boat. However, given that the propellant in the matchlock gun pot was blown by the sea breeze, Because of flying, more than ten matchlock guns were only half fired! Therefore, the pirates who had just jumped onto the springboard did not suffer much loss in this round of salvos. Only two or three of them fell in response!
"Brothers, our opportunity has come. It takes a long time to reload the enemy's muskets after firing. Let's take advantage of this time to rush up and kill them without leaving any trace behind!" Facts have proved that the pirates also They were very familiar with the matchlock guns equipped by Kang Lin's guards. Therefore, some of them immediately seized the enemy's brief opportunity to change the gun after the matchlocks were fired, and rushed towards Kang Lin and others in one go!
"Brothers in the front row retreat to the back to load the powder, and brothers in the back row step forward to prepare!" Zheng Nansheng saw that the pirates wanted to take advantage of the troubled waters when his own musketeers were changing their powder. He sneered in his heart and then ordered his subordinates. Alternately retreat to charge, and then continue to fire violently at the incoming enemy.
"Ready, fire!"
"Bang bang bang!"
"This damn idea hurts my hands, brothers, hurry back!" On the bird ship's springboard, the white gunpowder smoke caused by the volley of matchlock guns was slowly dissipating! This time, the pirates were obviously not so lucky. The dozen or so matchlock guns in the hands of the guardsmen's musketeers almost fired 80-90% of the time. In such a narrow and cramped place, there was almost no need to aim. The people standing on the springboard Most of the pirates were knocked down by the intensive volley of guns! Later, some pirates who were lucky enough to escape the fire from the matchlock guns were horrified to find that the firepower on the opposite ship was not only not weakened by their heavy losses, but on the contrary, some women in black were loading ammunition one by one. The muskets were handed to the companions in the front row who were struggling to shoot. With their help, the temporary arquebusiers of the Chiyang fleet had more fun, and the muskets kept shooting lead bullets with a ferocious look on their faces. The pirates were beaten so hard that they could hardly even lift their heads! Therefore, some pirates who did not want to use their flesh and blood to brave the enemy's musket formation immediately began to turn around and retreat when they saw that something was not going well. They were afraid. They were cruel by nature and were not afraid of close combat with the enemy or taking risks. They charged with arrows, stones and bullets, but they were really afraid of the continuous volleys of fire from the musketeers of the Guard. Isn't there an old saying, "Kill the old master with random punches?" No matter how brave and skilled they were, the opponent would not fight them. There is no way to deal with them face to face, so the only thing they think about now is to quickly retreat to their own ship! However, they never expected that their retreat would have been blocked by their companions who were following closely...
"Ready! Fire!" Zheng Nansheng saw that the pirates were at a loss and could not launch an effective attack on their own side for a while, so he lost no time in giving the order to fire!
"Bang, bang, bang!" Sure enough, as Zheng Nansheng expected, the power of the matchlock gun was perfectly demonstrated in this small space! The lead bullets flying everywhere once again easily knocked down five or six pirates who were unable to advance or retreat! When the pirates who were following them saw that the situation ahead was not good, they all took action and stopped moving forward!
"Left and right, send a few people to help me carry bowl-mouth blunderbuss and shoot them in crowded places! The remaining people, after hearing the sound of the cannon, immediately rushed to death for me. His grandma's, I won't return it. Believe it or not, our majestic and ferocious shark heroes will not be able to defeat these rookie brats who haven’t even grown their bird feathers yet!” On the Haicang ship, the second master saw that the attack was repeatedly frustrated, so he thought back to bragging in front of his eldest brother when he came out. After walking down to Haikou, I lost my usual composure for a while and started to get upset.
"Boom!" The two bowl-mouth guns loaded on the pirate ship quickly opened fire in accordance with the order of their leader. However, what they were helpless about was that the enemy seemed to have a lot of combat experience. After repelling their own attack, these cunning guys actually erected a wooden protective wall again! And under the protection of this reinforced wooden wall, the pirates' bombardment had no effect as it should! Of course, those wood chips blown away by the cannonballs don't count!
"Raise the flag, ask the side ships to turn around, and outflank the enemy's warships from the side!" On the Chiyang fleet's flagship "Flying Henanese", the fleet manager Liu Laoliu put down the monocular telescope in his hand and began to speak from the corners of his mouth. There was a hint of a smile, because he understood that after this battle, his opponent finally lost his temper, and Liu Laoliu was waiting for him to lose his temper!
"General manager, the flag has been sent from the flagship. Let us turn around with full sail immediately and attack the enemy ship together with the flagship!" At this time, in the observation post of the Chiyang fleet, the bored Wangshou who was watching the free war movie with a telescope suddenly saw After arriving at the flagship and sending the full-sail turning signal from the commanding officer, he immediately raised his voice and shouted to Gu Wenlai, the ship's steward below the mast!
"Okay, I understand! Come here, pass on my order, adjust the sail with your hands, and the helmsman will turn. Let's immediately outflank the enemy ship!" He still looked like he was wearing a turban and carrying a scimitar at his waist. After receiving the order from the flagship, Lai Zai did not dare to neglect at all, and immediately gave the order to his men to turn the full sail.
"Okay, steward, brothers, fill up the sails, turn around, and target the flank of the enemy ship!" Soon, with the full cooperation of the entire crew, the several large sails on the "Flying Hebei Man" bird ship immediately caught up with the strong blow on the sea. The south wind was blowing, and it was outflanking the enemy ship's flank at the fastest speed!
"Master, another enemy bird ship has moved. They are now approaching the flank of our ship with full sail!" Obviously, the pirates who were fighting fiercely with the flagship of the Chiyang fleet were not completely unaware of Liu Laoliu. With their intentions in mind, their watchers even immediately noticed the strange movement of the "Flying Hebei Man"! However, because the main force was tightly entangled by the enemy's flagship, they had no power to stop this from happening!
