Chapter Seventy-One: Shelling, Three-Stage Strike

When Chen Zuyi heard the news, a mouthful of old blood spurted out, and the two brothers wept bitterly, their eyes were split, and they vowed to break the two Saito Suharto into pieces.

When everyone arrived at the camp on the shore, they smelled a strong smell of blood and shouts of killing from afar, the pirate group was worthy of the reputation of pirates, doing things absolutely, being ruthless to others, and being ruthless to themselves, in order to dispel the fear of Chen Zuyi among their subordinates, Saito and Suharto aimed their butcher knives at the Ming soldiers in the pirate group, promising that after killing them, all the property would be owned by Dongying and Nanyang, so the indigenous soldiers who beat the chicken blood attacked the Ming soldiers.

Ming pirates are not soft persimmons, long-term pirate career has developed a good habit of vigilance, after the initial chaos also reacted, spontaneously organized resistance, at this time the two sides are engaged in a fierce civil war,

Yang Pingfan flew to the camp to take a look, it was easy to distinguish which side was the Ming pirate and which side was the pirate who jumped back, and when he was struggling with how to help them, he saw the smoke and dust in the distance, hurriedly flew over, and saw the familiar flag, and immediately relieved.

The large camp on the shore of the pirate army has become a pot of porridge, and the three brothers of the Chen family rushed in with hundreds of troops, it is conceivable that these people who were originally Dongying and the natives could help him deal with his own people, and soon they collectively defected, and in turn wanted to tie up the Chen family brothers, but the three of them did not work badly, relying on the cover of only a few loyal subordinates, they actually broke through the encirclement and joined their own descendants.

But the situation is not much better, the commanders of the Ming lineage were all chopped up, even if Chen Zuyi and others returned, they could not effectively mobilize thousands of people, and could only be pressed and beaten by the rebels.

Chen Zuyi's department was organized in a hurry, without any long-range weapons, unable to break the iron wall, the anti-charge death squad was poked to death by spears one by one, and could only retreat step by step, seeing that they were about to be driven off the sea, suddenly bursts of piercing screams flew over their heads, followed by the rebels' formation, there were bursts of heavy objects falling to the ground and screams, the formation of the attack was stagnant, everyone turned back together, and found that it was the cannons of the fleet bombarding the rebels.

Saito and Suharto mutinied and purged all the Ming pirates who could cleanse them, but there was only one group of people who did not dare to move, and that was the gunners of the fleet. The cannons of the fleet only know how to operate them, which is also the reason why Chen Zuyi was able to suppress the two people before, Saito and Suharto also understand the importance of the gunners, without the gunners to operate the cannons, their fleet is no different from a tiger with minions pulled out, so they just tied up all the gunners and stuffed them in the cabin. Yang Pingfan was hovering in the air, and when he saw a figure flickering in the cabin, he looked over and knew the reason in three or two clicks, and released them all.

The cannonballs fired from the fleet constantly bombarded the rebels' formation, blowing up the opponent on their backs, and the fight was very lively, but the effect was not very ideal, the artillery of this era was still a front-loading gun, the range was limited, and it could only fire solid projectiles, the power was not great, Chen Zuyi's troops were huddled together, in order to prevent the bombing of their own people, the fleet could only use the main guns on the deck, and did not dare to use the side guns, the firepower could not reach continuity, and the shells rolled and bounced on the ground, just blasting out a few gaps.

The incident happened in a hurry, the remaining pirates on Chen Zuyi's side only grabbed melee weapons such as knives and guns, and there were almost no bows and arrows, on the contrary, Saito and Suharto had plenty of various weapons, and bows and arrows and rockets were thrown over like no money, and they also realized that the main force of the pirate army was on the shore, although the cannons of the fleet were lively, it was obvious that there were not enough people to drive them away, as long as Chen Zuyi was driven out of the sea and took over the fleet, then the real coup was successful.

In this state of mind, Saito and Suharto also let go, moved all the treasures in the camp to the front of the battle, and offered an amazing killing bounty, which was exchanged on the spot. The pirates suddenly rushed forward with the cannon regardless of casualties, and Chen Zuyi's formation gradually collapsed and began to collapse.

Yang Pingfan flew in the sky, watching the changes in the battle situation from beginning to end, and felt that it was almost over, so he took out the walkie-talkie, "Dr. Su, you can start." ”

Su Yu heard Yang Pingfan's news on the walkie-talkie, and said sweetly to Wang Jinghong beside him, "General Wang, it's time for you to make a move." ”

Wang Jinghong, who was beside Su Yu, nodded, he rode on his horse, raised his right hand high, and swung it down violently.

The next moment, the earth shook.

The artillery of the Ming army sang!

This is not the kind of artillery with short range and small power of the pirates, but the Shenji cannon and Dalian bead cannon drawn from the Yongle Emperor's Shenji Battalion, raining cannonballs into the rebels, bouncing and rolling cannonballs are dead when touched, and they are dead when they touch, and they suddenly open the rebels' butts.

The rebel attack formation was suddenly chaotic, Wang Jinghong gave an order, and the Ming army began to advance, which was also the first time that Yang and Su saw the Ming army use the "rotation" tactic pioneered by Mu Ying (that is, the Japanese three-stage attack).

The rotation tactics are not like the first row of fire, and then rotate with the soldiers of the second row, and the soldiers of the second row continue to fire, the Ming army is the first row to shoot first according to the interval of one person, and then the remaining part of the first row of soldiers continues to shoot.

The soldiers in the front row immediately handed the guns back to the soldiers in the middle row after each shot, and at the same time took the loaded guns from the soldiers in the middle row.

On the one hand, the soldiers in the middle row are responsible for taking the guns from the soldiers in the front row and passing them back to the soldiers in the third row to load the ammunition, and on the other hand, they are responsible for receiving the loaded guns from the soldiers in the third row and passing them forward to the soldiers in the front row. Such repeated rotations, each performing its own duties, saves the time of changing formations, ensures the continuous output of firepower, and the combat effectiveness is extremely strong.

The Ming army was methodical, shooting while advancing, cutting off the edge of the rebels like a steel knife, the rebels suffered from the enemy on their backs, and soon fell into chaos, Chen Zuyi deserved to be an old treacherous and cunning man, seeing that the rebels were beaten to the ground by the Ming army, he did not choose to counter-charge, but led the rest of the people to reflexively lean on the fleet, intending to take the opportunity to master the fleet.

When the Chen brothers led people to climb onto the warship happily, they were still snickering in their hearts, but after getting on the ship, they were all dumbfounded, their pirate brothers were thrown into the corner like piglets, and a group of sailors wearing Daming clothes were staring at them with interest.