0523 Bloody Battle at Sea
As soon as Zheng Zhilong's side fleet moved this time, he gave the other two fleets the opportunity to go all out. The pirates on this side were deficient both in numbers and in their will to fight. So the other new fleet simply turned to following those pirate ships and firing guns! Beat the broken ships to the ground on fire!
Heavy artillery fire at close range is extremely powerful! The shell smashed into the side of the ship was a hole the size of a basin! The grapeshot bullets that flew out densely set off a bloody storm among the pirates on the deck! In particular, the flowering shells fired from the short-barreled cannon can often cause fires on the pirate ship, causing the pirates to cry wolf!
There was even a daring captain who rushed into the enemy ships and bombarded the enemy frantically with the guns on both sides, beating the two enemy ships in flames at once!
This crazy scene was applauded by the other captains, and then they followed suit! The opponent who fought for a while retreated step by step! Their frantic close-range shooting hastened the collapse of the pirates' mentality. Fortunately, the pirates are also desperately counterattacking with guns and cannons, and coupled with their large numbers, they have not been defeated for a while. But the right wing of the pirates began to waver!
Just when the right side began to waver, Wu Yizhou also felt the pressure relaxed. Wu Yizhou has already begun to fight the broadside battle at this time! In order to break through the previous blockade, the pirates frantically inserted themselves into the middle of Wu Yizhou's fleet. Because Wu Yizhou is a Chinese-style sea ship here, the density of guns is much smaller. Moreover, the pirates are afraid of the new fleet, but they are still confident in attacking the Chinese ships!
The pirates drove the ships into Wu Yizhou's circle, intercepted the two ships by colliding, separated them from the fleet, and then desperately besieged them. The first ship was surrounded by the largest number of enemy ships, four of them! The second ship came to rescue its comrades, but unfortunately it was also encircled!
Thankfully, the third ship arrived just in time! It crashes through a pirate ship and opens a passage for its companions! And with heavy artillery fire, the other two ships were forced back. Then two boats went to rescue the first boat that was surrounded.
However, neither ship could run at a faster pace, and they were besieged by more pirate ships. As a result, the two captains unanimously chose to rescue their companions! They struggled through the blockade, squeezed into the encirclement by ramming, and joined the encircled ships!
As soon as the three ships were huddled together, the already prepared sailors, dressed in armor and armed with knives and axes, jumped on the ships of their companions who were surrounded with a shout. Marines were firing firearms on the ship's floor to suppress the pirates who boarded the ship. At the same time, the ship's artillery is still bombarding the surroundings, trying to stop the other pirate ships from approaching!
It was only with the reinforcements of two other ships that the pirates who boarded the ship were expelled from the ship! But the pirates' retreat was temporary
More ships are gathering and surrounding them! The three ships simply pressed close together, gathering all the sailors and marines on the three ships to resist the frantic attack of the pirates!
As soon as the sailors on the three ships got a respite, more pirates used it! The firecrackers kept firing the firecrackers on the ship's floor, and the sailors fought in formation! However, the disadvantage of the number of people is an irreparable gap! If Liu Pei hadn't equipped them with plate armor, I'm afraid that under this impact, these three ships would have changed hands!
And because they saw the cheap, the pirate ships were gathering over. They boarded the ship by jumping into the sea boat gang entangled with their opponents, trying to win the melee with the advantage of numbers! Fortunately, Wu Yizhou also found out about the fierce fight here, and commanded the other ships to rush over desperately, and the guns were fired to block the ships that came over, but the fall of those three ships was only a matter of time!
Now the ship that was surrounded in the first place has become a gladiatorial arena where both sides are constantly throwing their lives into it! Cascading corpses cover the deck! The blood on the deck flowed like sea! But no one dared to give up the gladiatorial arena, and both sides were sending troops through entangled ships to throw themselves into the flesh mill! Now centered on the seven or eight sea ships crammed together by the enemy and us, both sides are desperately transporting troops! The pirates and Liu Pei's soldiers fought with swords and swords on the ship, and the sound of fire was endless! The corpses on the ship were stacked and killed!
Fortunately, Zheng Zhilong gave the order to the right, and the pirate ships that had already surrounded them were a little frightened when they saw that the fight here was very fierce! Only then did they retreat to the right, and only then did they save the three ships! But the sailors and marines on those three ships were almost gone! The ship is also wrecked!
Now the entire battlefield is divided into three places. One is that Liu Pei's fleet is being chased and beaten by pirates! The pirates are pressing towards the right flank with all their might. And Liu Pei is seizing the opportunity of the pirates' uneven line, and destroying the pirate ships rushing over one by one in the middle of the cruise! But more and more pirate ships are appearing, and there is already a momentum of being surrounded!
Secondly, Wu Yizhou's central battlefield is the most tragic! And the ships at the core of the battlefield are even more slaughtered! The sea around those ships was stained red with blood! But Wu Yizhou's desperateness makes sense! He successfully blocked the opponent's attempts to break through.
The fleet on the other side is the most relaxed! They desperately resist the unintentional opponent and shoot, destroying or igniting the opponent's ship, forcing them to keep retreating! At the same time, with the help of Wu Yizhou's fleet, they were forced to huddle together in the center, and they could not give full play to their advantages of having more people and more ships!
Now the whole
The scene has completely lost control, and it has become a mess! The sea is full of wrecked and burning ships! The thick smoke of gunpowder on the sea surface could not be dispersed under the blowing of the sea breeze! Not to mention the smell of blood that pervades everywhere! However, on the whole, Liu Pei has the upper hand. Because they gave full play to their advantage in dense firepower on the periphery, destroying ships several times their size!
At this time, Liu Pei's situation was not good. Dozens of pirate ships swirled towards Liu Pei's fleet. forced Liu Pei to take the S-shaped route, while staying away from the battlefield and constantly shelling the enemy. But he did not dare to throw off the enemy completely. Because this time it was all Zheng Zhilong's die-hard men and horses rushing up, he had to keep the speed as fast as possible to lure more enemies to move here, so as to relieve the pressure on the other two battlefields.
Although Liu Pei's fleet has more than a dozen ships and has strong firepower, in the case of dozens of ships surrounding, no matter how strong your firepower is, you can't repel them. After all, the shells used now are not high-explosive shells in later generations, and one shot at the wooden ship can be settled!
It takes a lot of effort to make holes in the ship with such solid shells! Fortunately, Liu Pei used all hexagonal cannons, and all the shells fired were pointed! At the same time, the short-barreled cannon is very powerful, otherwise it will be even more difficult to destroy the enemy ship!
There are more and more ships surrounding Liu Pei's fleet, causing Liu Pei's fleet to have less and less room to flicker! There was even a collision at the most critical time! Fortunately, Liu Pei's boats are all new and relatively strong. After crushing the bow of one of the opposing ships, the pirates did not dare to intercept it. But after Zheng Zhilong led a large team of men and horses to kill, the situation became extremely unfavorable!
Now there are two paths in front of Liu Pei. One is to get out as fast as possible. However, this will not achieve the goal of maximizing the destruction of pirates.
Another way is to form a formation in place and swim in a small area. But this situation can easily turn into a broadside battle! And this is something that Liu Pei is never willing to accept! Because the number of pirates is several times that of Liu Pei, it is not good for Liu Pei to fight.
At this time, the situation on the battlefield did not allow Liu Pei to think too much. He quickly decided on a strategy, running out for a distance to see how it went. Under Liu Pei's order, the fleet drew a large arc on the sea, instantly throwing the pirates away a short distance.
Liu Pei stood on the side of the ship and looked behind with a telescope, only to see a large number of sea ships tracking over. Liu Pei knew that he had made the right bet this time. Because he saw Zheng Zhilong's ship rushing to the front, rushing over with a large number of pirates. Although the fleet is said to be a certain distance away from the opponent, it is only a little farther away from the pirate fleet, and the pirates are still chasing after each other!