The Zheng family's Fu fleet was first sailed from north to south.

After discovering that the enemy was coming from the opposite side, Fufune changed course in time and fled in the direction of the western continent. When the task force caught up at an unheard-of speed, Zheng Zhilong, who found that he couldn't escape, changed the entire formation back to a stormtrooper formation from north to south.

In the season of late June, there is a price to pay for moving from north to south: headwinds.

Whether it is the charge of Fang Cai, or the current scattering and fleeing, in fact, the lucky ships are in an unfavorable wind direction.

However, these are no longer important. The Fu fleet, which had suffered heavy casualties and had slowed down due to the flooding, was now splitting into two strands like an outstretched palm, trying to escape from Cormorant Island in front of them.

The task force, which had already circled to the rear of their flanks and was firing its guns with all its might, detected the opponent's attempt to disperse and run away in time. At this time, if the wolves don't pounce on and bite hard, they won't have a reputation.

As a result, the three destroyers immediately assigned tasks through walkie-talkies: the destroyer "Xingangxi" with the port number 303 was responsible for chasing and killing the two ships from the east of Cormorant Island, while the other two destroyers were to pursue and kill the three enemy ships where Zheng Zhilong's flagship was located.

Zheng Zhilong's flagship is very recognizable, because the flag on it is different from others. In addition, the tracker in the hands of the traversers has accurately marked the location of the pocket watch when the two sides are close to the 5-kilometer range.

So the ships No. 301 and No. 302 pursued the target without hesitation, and quickly narrowed the distance between the two sides to a range of 200 meters: there was no cannon in the stern of the ship, and there was no chance to kill the rifle back.

Guns and cannons.

At a range of 200 meters, the army soldiers on the destroyer finally came into play: the platoon of guns knocked the pirates into the water like wheat harvests. In addition, taking three shots at this distance is no different from shooting at the top of the head, and in the roar, there are iron balls hitting the stern of the opponent's ship in each round.

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After today's actual battle, the battle over the caliber and rate of fire that existed in the navy will come to an end.

In the era of iron ball guns, the damage effect of 12-pounder guns and 24-pounder guns was not as big as imagined.

The caliber of the 12-pounder gun was 117 mm, and the 24-pounder gun was 148 mm. In other words, although the weight of the iron ball bullet was doubled, the diameter of the bullet increased by only about 3 centimeters, and if it also hit the enemy ship, the 24-pounder gun would be nothing more than a slightly larger hole to be cut.

However, the requirements attached to heavy artillery can be much higher: additional reinforced decks and gun shafts, additional auxiliary reloading systems, additional gun mounts and slides, additional crew members, and so on......

In short, the huge total weight of the system and the increased requirements for the firing platform are a bit of a frustration in terms of the damage that heavy artillery can cause.

In addition, if it were to hit a dense crowd like today, there would be no difference between the effect of a 24-pounder cannon and a 12-pounder gun: they were all carved out of a bloody alley, and an iron ball 3 cm larger could not kill a few more people. But while the heavy guns were slowly reloading, the 12-pounder guns had already fired a few more rounds of shells - the overall effectiveness was higher than that of the light guns.

...... At the present time in the 17th century, smoothbore guns had another flaw that was extremely unfavorable to heavy artillery: the way they sighted. The result of the tragic trajectory and observation method of the iron ball bullet is that whether it is light artillery or heavy artillery, the hit rate is quite miserable in long-distance shooting of about 1,000 meters.

There's no way to cross the crowd.

At most, they used various eyepieces to measure the distance and angle, but they could not equip the Iron Ball Cannon with the Gun Commander's laser ranging sight, the Gun Commander's day and night sight, a digital-analog hybrid fire control computer, a target angular velocity measurement device, and various ballistic correction sensors......

If it's worse, the traversal crowd is currently the first in the plane, but if it's stronger than the farther one, everyone is about the same...... At close range, the high rate of fire of the 12-pounder Napoleon gun, and the resulting comprehensive damage effect, are more than those of the 24-pounder cannon.

The premise of the phrase "caliber is justice" is that half a catty can be stuffed into the shell...... 3 taels of explosives...... Iron ball cannons are not included. Therefore, the heavy artillery party will die down from today, and the light artillery rapid-jet stream will be the mainstream configuration of the passing fleet in the future.

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Back to the battlefield.

Soon, under the intensive artillery fire of the two destroyers at close range, a fortune ship that fell at the end and was hit by an iron ball began to slowly sink. The sailors on the boat jumped into the water, some swam to the Fukubune in front of them, and some swam towards Cormorant Island. And Liu Zhe, who saw this scene, picked up the walkie-talkie and began to shout: "Go around in a circle, fight from the outer circle, allow the remnants of the enemy to go to the island, and do not allow escape from the periphery!" ”

So the soldiers on the three destroyers shot at the pirates who tried to swim to the open sea, forcing them to swim to Cormorant Island.

The lucky ships, who had already sensed the coming of the apocalypse, made a final struggle: the two ships in the east saw that only one destroyer was chasing them, so the two ships parted ways, trying to run away from one in the chaos.

However, the 303 is no ordinary ship - there are large insects on board.

The next moment, the 303 lowered its full sails, turning the ship into full gas-powered propulsion: the propeller power provided a steady output, was not affected by the wind, and could be finely maneuvered.

The destroyer, which slowed down, soon glided smoothly past the tail of a fortune ship. At this time, the distance between the two sides was deliberately adjusted by the destroyer to only about 40 meters, and the pirates on the opposite ship were now clearly visible even their beards.

Then, a big man in camouflage trousers and a two-finger vest stood up from the side of the boat. At the same time as this person flicked a Yuxi cigarette butt into the sea, a soldier with a large birthmark on his face at his feet quickly took out a set of RPGs from an aluminum alloy box and handed it to the boss.

Wei Yuan's feet were not at the same time, and he stood firmly on the somewhat shaky shipboard: after a loud "bang", accompanied by the violent fire coming out of the tail of the bazooka, the stern of the opposite Fu ship also exploded at the same time, and the fireball and smoke accompanied the wooden blocks and helmsmen flying into the sky, the sound was amazing, and the scene was cool.

Seeing that the Fuchuan began to burn violently after close contact with the high-explosive incendiary warhead, the No. 303 ship immediately threw down the dead body, began to increase speed in a short distance, and went straight to the other guy who tried to run away.

And the people on that ship weren't stupid, they didn't know what an RPG was, but they just needed to understand the effect of the thing - a large number of sailors began to jump overboard, and the ship became the first trophy captured by the Navy since the beginning of the war.

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At the same time that the 303 side was bombarding the sea and organizing people to board the ship, the main force on Liu Zhe's side also forced the two Zheng family ships to a dead end. The platoon of guns and platoon guns within 200 meters made Zheng Zhilong, a generation of heroes, finally give the final order: to rush the beach.

Cormorant Island is a small island the size of a palm.

Cormorant Island, located off the coast of Putian, is 10 nautical miles from the mainland and covers an area of less than 2 square kilometers. There is no fresh water on the island, and there is no treacherous terrain to defend on, and the only thing that can hinder the task force is probably some beautiful corals and sea trees.

Of course, there are limits to the obstacles these corals pose: Cormorant Island has a natural deep-water bay called "Eagle Head" for 10,000-ton ships.

So the fleet is organizing a landing in the big bay of the island at the moment.

Landing will take time, after all, the destroyer cannot just wash up on the beach like the two lucky ships that have run aground on the beach, ignoring the damage to the bottom of the reef and coral.

The situation is as follows: two warships are circling Cormorant Island and killing all the pirates who are still on the sea. The No. 301 destroyer has already assembled all three small boats of the fleet in Deep Water Bay, and the landing operation personally presided over by Marine Corps Commander Qian Tieshan is underway.

The first assault was the most important, so a commando team of 22 men divided into three small boats began to seize the beach.

The small number of marines is currently used as a special force by the crossing people, so the team members are all well-equipped and highly skilled. THE TEAM OF 7 PEOPLE IS EQUIPPED WITH A VARIETY OF INDIVIDUAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT, THE MAIN EQUIPMENT IS MK17 rifles and M9 pistols, and the M60 squad machine gun with 7.62MM NATO ammunition is also in the hands of Qian Tieshan.

After the Marine Corps was quietly established, the Crossing Army carried out a weapons deployment program.

In view of the fact that the "import" mode of materials of a certain force is hellish, the consequence is that all firearms and weapons are eventually limited to a few models and bullet calibers, so that the parts can be exchanged to the maximum extent and ammunition can be used.

Through that internal transfer, all the MK17 assault rifles purchased by Cao Chuan in the early days were all assigned to the Marine Corps. This is a mistake: the expensive rifle that Cao bought at a high price is actually the best special warfare weapon today. The U.S. imperialists can't even afford to use the Navy SEALs, and only the 1st Airborne Special Operations Team is equipped with this advanced assault rifle.

In this way, the weapons that the army and navy that cross the forces and navy are routinely used to suppress the formation have been unified into AK47 assault rifles. THESE THREE MAIN BATTLE GUNS, INCLUDING SEVERAL M60 SQUAD MACHINE GUNS, ARE COMMONLY USED WITH 7.62MM BULLETS.

In addition, there is only one type of pistol for the general purpose of the army: the M9 pistol with a point of 45 inches. The intelligence services and a part of the civilian crossers used two types of pistols: the P226 and the HKP7. THESE TWO EXPENSIVE LAW ENFORCEMENT PISTOLS ARE COMMON TO THE NATO 9MM PISTOL CARTRIDGE.

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The landing craft, carrying MK17 and M60 machine guns, quickly rushed to the beach in the middle of Cormorant Island. At the same moment, the pirates, who had been cornered, saw the opportunity to fight the enemy hand-to-hand for the first time - which brought tears to their eyes.

As a result, there was no need for the big bosses to instigate a wave of charging proverbs, and more than 300 heroes who had been aggrieved for a long time and had not been on the island for a long time automatically rushed over from all directions. Even though the water on their bodies was not dry, and even though many were without weapons, they still followed closely behind their companions, expecting to pick up a steel knife and plunge it into the chest of their enemy.