Chapter 154: The Usefulness of Jewelry
If Cheng Kong gets closer, the iron cannon on the ship will roar, and Cheng Kong will turn around and flee.
Just kidding, to say that the range of the iron cannon is far greater than that of the bow and arrow, if the air reaches the shot, one cannon hits, and you will not be killed or injured.
However, at this time, the jewelry prepared before can come in handy.
As soon as Cheng Kong threw a piece of jewelry into the pirate's sight, the pirates were in a commotion, and at least no less than a hundred pirates jumped from the three pirate ships and came straight to the jewelry.
The pirate stared at the jewel with flames in his eyes, and the greed on his face was eerie, as if it were a show.
Well, whether it's the influence of the law or the greed from the heart, the pirates rushed over.
The jewel was about to be picked up by a pirate, but who knew that the jewel would move and fly away on its own.
With the dull limitations of these pirates' heads, they naturally didn't think of hitting ghosts or anything like that, so they shouted and chased after the flying jewels.
Naturally, Cheng Kong tied a string to the jewel when it flew up, and he dragged and ran in front, followed by a large group of pirates, their eyes fixed on the jewel.
But this jewel is only a mortal thing after all, and along the way, the stone hits the earth grinding, and after a certain distance, a string of jewels falls apart, and beads the size of an eyeball roll down everywhere.
The pirates pounced on the balls and snatched them up, and in a matter of seconds, the beads on the ground were snatched up.
The jewels fell apart and were snatched up by pirates, who were not yet satisfied. But there seemed to be a force that drove them to turn around and run back in the direction of the pirate ship.
Want to go? Although the bow and arrow could not attract them, Cheng Kong carried more than that string of jewels.
Soon, Cheng Kong dragged a gemstone bracelet. Lure the pirates back again.
After several times, the pirates were led to the pirate ship.
"Attack!"
As soon as Cheng Kong climbed onto the rope net, the five iron cannons suddenly opened fire, and the five cannonballs spewed out from the muzzles of the cannons with a string of firelight, and plunged headlong into the pirate group, cultivating five bloody paths alive.
In the blink of an eye, the pirates chasing the jewels were beaten by a burst of artillery fire.
After being beaten by the artillery fire, the pirates turned around. Planning to escape, who would have thought that on the side of the ship, Cheng Kong poured out a pile of jewels.
Suddenly, the jewels were shining in the sun. It reflects a unique light.
The pirate who fled in a hurry suddenly stopped, his mind was not under his control at all, and forcibly turned around, after seeing the light of the jewel. The pirates went crazy. Under the bombardment of the iron cannon, they desperately rushed towards the rope net.
Nearly 100 pirates were like moths to a fire, constantly falling under the bombardment of iron cannons.
Because the pirates were more dense than the previous ones, by the time they got close to the net, half of the hundred pirates had already fallen, and after being bombarded with grapeshotfire, there were only forty pirates left.
With the command of the pirate captain, Ma Laosan let down his responsibility of commanding the pirate gunners. Holding his spear and staring at the side of the ship, wait for the pirate to emerge from the side of the ship. He stabbed his spear through it.
Bearded, long-legged, and with eight spearmen standing on the deck, every time an iron spear is stabbed, a pirate will fall.
No matter how many pirates come, there are only more than a dozen who can climb onto the side of the ship at the same time, with Ma Laosan and Cheng Kong's investigation and filling in the gaps.
The battle ended sooner than Cheng Kong had expected.
The gunners scraped everything from the corpse and sent it to the alchemy circle to exchange it for gold coins, and then Ma Laosan exchanged the gold coins for iron cannons, gunners.
Two brand-new iron cannons soon appeared on the ship's side.
There are seven iron cannons, looking at this scene, Cheng Kong is a little envious.
In just two days, he has accumulated seven iron cannons and thirty-five pirate gunners, which is too fast.
However, the development of pirates is really not very promising, and if Cheng Kong is replaced, he will not invest gold coins in this.
"Boss Cheng, try it again, if you can't even attract jewelry, then it's a decisive battle."
Ma Laosan spoke, but there was a rare excitement in his eyes, this kind of look, Cheng Kong had never seen it when he was dealing with Ma Lizhi in County A.
Ma Laosan's words are really good.
When Cheng Kong lured the pirates for the second time, he threw out almost half of the jewels before attracting the pirates to the past, and the number of pirates attracted dropped suddenly, compared to the first hundred pirates, the second time was less than thirty, and halfway through, there were several pirates who turned around and left without asking even if the jewels were in front, without any nostalgia.
With so few pirates, under the shelling, there were only a few dogs and cats left in the blink of an eye, and they were killed by Cheng Kong.
In such a situation, there is no doubt that if Cheng Kong tries to lure him again, it is estimated that there will be no results.
If this doesn't work, then you can only take the initiative to come to the door.
With the efforts of the gunners and gunners, seven iron cannons slowly lowered from the deck.
Cheng Kong and Ma Laosan explored the road in front to prevent a surprise attack by the pirates who suddenly appeared, while behind them was a group of pirates, the spearmen silently dragging the iron cannons, and the heavy iron cannons pressed the river beach into deep ruts.
Ma Laosan's pirate ship did not have any pirates left behind at all, and they were all taken away, after all, with more than ten pirates, it was useless to encounter a strong enemy.
Approaching, on the river beach, three pirate ships lined up one after another, about 100 meters apart, due to being lured and surrounded by Cheng Kong many times, the number of pirates has shrunk greatly, so even close to the pirate ship There are no pirate patrols on the riverside.
They seemed to have discovered Cheng Kong's purpose, so they shrank their forces and retreated to the pirate ship.
Seeing this scene, Ma Laosan frowned, although he has seven iron cannons in his hands, but there are more on the pirate ship, the most critical problem is that the iron cannons on the pirate ship are erected in a high position, and the corresponding range is also increased.
What made Ma Laosan even more headache was the twelve iron cannons on each pirate ship, which could not be fought no matter how hard they worked.
Of course, if you want to put aside the iron cannon, the pirates on the three pirate ships are combined, and there are more than 200 pirates, which is enough to kill Ma Laosan and others.
There is a clever trick to discard all the jewels on the ground.
At such a close distance, the jewels were still useful, and at least half of the pirates could not resist the temptation, and they tumbled over the rope nets and were killed by the iron cannon along with the jewels, and were blown to pieces.
But that's the limit of jewelry.
At this point, the gunners on the pirate ships were not enough to operate the iron cannons, and there were only three or four iron cannons available for each ship. (To be continued......)