In the Civil War, most Napoleonic artillery crews could easily achieve a rate of fire of two rounds per minute.

In the traversal plane, due to the bonuses of various black technologies, such as the existence of the most important "no displacement after launching" gun shaft, the maximum speed at which a three-person gun crew can fire shells can reach 34 rounds per minute.

The only thing that could restrain the crew's performance was the swaying deck and the hot barrel.

During the 10-minute rapid-fire period that night, the fleet had in fact reduced the speed of the ships to 2 knots to reduce deck shaking, and to cooperate with the artillery crews, due to the presence of engine power, the fleet could accelerate the departure at any time before a large number of enemies surrounded it.

As for the barrel, the Napoleonic cannon produced by the precision wrought iron cutting process now used by the fleet has far surpassed its historical counterpart, and a round of rapid fire has no effect on the barrel.

In short, technology changes everything. Faced with a fleet armed with high technology, the primitive pirates of the 17th century had no ability to fight back except to be beaten.

After the short 10-minute rapid fire time was over, the fierce god was blocking the wreaking havoc outside the port of Zhongzuo, and in an instant, it turned into a living ship and disappeared

The fleet, which had been shining with light and shining like stars in the dark night, suddenly turned off all the lights, and the stunned pirates heard only a series of fading engine sounds, and only the dark night was left in front of them. If it weren't for the fact that there were a large number of dead and wounded people and ships around, maybe some people would still think that Fang Cai was dreaming.

Crossing the crowd is naturally to retreat. The fire has also been fired, the cannon has also been fired, the passion has been shipped, why don't you hurry up and put on your pants and leave, what are you waiting for? So the fleet instantly entered the light control, picked up speed, turned around, and pulled out.

While running away, in view of the fact that the completion of today's combat goal is 120, which is much better than expected, two radio waves flew to Dayuan and Fuzhou in the middle of the night: reinforcements can appear.

In the early morning, Li Kuiqi, who was standing on the dock of the center left and inspecting the tragic situation in front of him, seemed to have gray hair overnight.

At least 30 ships were sunk in the harbor. The dumped belongings were only exposed on the water, with only masts or upturned bows, and a dense mass of debris and corpses floating around them, the scene was bleak. As for those lucky ones who only have a few more holes in their bodies after being shot, it can be said that there are countless of them.

You must know that a certain fleet fired 440 shells in the first round of long-range fire, and the amount of ammunition in the second round of rapid fire was more than twice this number.

In addition to material losses, there were also human losses.

Nearly 1,000 people died in the shelling and the ensuing chaos. This number may not seem like much compared to the big gang of more than 2 people, but at the same time, more than 1,000 wounded people are lying on the leaky bow of the ship and wailing on the beach

It was not only Li Kuiqi who jumped on the pier, but Zhong Bin, who was worried about his son-in-law, was the most nervous.

Since the small boats that were forcibly sent out last night were picked up by a certain fleet of oncoming troops, the Zhongzuo Institute was then shelled, and a large number of men fled to the shore, and the scene was extremely chaotic, no less than the legendary "camp roar".

In this case, Li Kuiqi couldn't even stabilize the Chinese military tent, so no one risked his life to go to Kinmen. It wasn't until about 5 a.m. that the trembling pirates, after making sure that their opponents were far away, sent their sentinel ships to investigate the situation.

In the end, it was not the sentinel boat that brought bad news, but a fishing boat that departed from Kinmen.

After the Pirate Cove was burned to the company's camp, all ships docked here were destroyed by the fire and hot winds. The few who escaped for their lives were in shock, and it was only at dawn that they found a fishing boat from a nearby fishing village and rowed to the center.

And when the fishing boat slowly rowed into the pier, the people at the bow of the boat were immediately stunned by the tragic situation around them, so that when many shopkeepers rushed to the bow of the boat, everyone was still in a daze.

"Say! What's going on with Golden Gate?! Zhong Bin, who rushed onto the boat at an arrow, grabbed a guy's shoulder and asked loudly as soon as possible.

"Poof", the guy knelt down: "Miserable, Second Master Zhong is all gone, all of them are gone, and all the fires are burned out." ”

When Zhong Bin heard this, his face turned pale, and his strong figure trembled slightly: "What about people? How many runs? ”

"Fewer than 300 Brothers Survived"

After Zhong Bin screamed, he raised his head and fell on the board.

Seeing that the second boss fell to the ground in phlegm, more than 10 big and small leaders who followed the boat hurriedly helped Zhong Bin up, and then pinched the person and fanned the wind, but he didn't dare to slap him.

And Li Kuiqi, who had already been mentally prepared for the situation, did not see any waves on his face at this time, and after dragging a guy over, he said with a cold face: "You can tell me in detail." ”

In the middle of the ring, when Li Kuiqi finished asking the survivors in detail for their confessions, he returned to the Chinese military tent without saying a word and began to dispatch people to organize the aftermath.

And not long after he began to "rescue the disaster", another fishing boat that escaped from the direction of Kinmen brought an important person: Chen Xinji.

Chen Xinji was the only leader in The Pirate Bay to escape with his life, but when the shopkeepers in the big tent saw him, they all gasped.

Chen Xinji was carried into the big tent: half of his body had been burned and covered with blisters, and his originally chubby face had already been peeled open and bleeding out.

Chen Xinji rushed out of the stern after the fire ignited, and he was about to be burned to death, but he was narrowly pushed into the sea by one of his subordinates, and then was picked up. After that, after enjoying the ice and fire, the shopkeeper Chen was put on the beach and suffered until dawn

The moment they saw him, everyone knew that this person's life had gone nine out of ten stops, and his eyes were closed at the moment.

Sure enough. When Li Kuiqi leaned over to hold his hand and said the words "Brother Zhenji" with a sad face, Chen Xinji, who had already been blind, rose to the last strength at this moment and shouted to the roof: "It's a thief!" Quirky will help me get my revenge! Then he died.

Later in the day, after gathering enough information about their opponents, the various shopkeepers quickly realized that the only way to escape the horrors of the night was to disperse. As a result, the pirate gang, which hastily cleaned up the mess, began to scatter their troops and stationed their troops in various parts of Zhangzhou Bay, and as for the wharf of the Zhongzuo Institute, it was left to Li Kuiqi's descendants.

At this time, the pirate gang who had previously scoffed at the news that Xiong Wencan turned around and appeased the big thief really understood the horror of crossing the crowd.

However, it didn't help to know, at least tonight, no pirate could have come up with a way to fight the Crossing Crowd. They are nervous, they are afraid, they don't know where the opponent will come out after dark. Therefore, they could only scatter and escape, and scattered their soldiers and horses all over Zhangzhou Bay with the mentality of dead friends and not dead poor people.

Of course, chivalrous and courageous, righteous and thin, the ships under his command are still arranged at the wharf of the Zhongzuo Institute, and there is always a small shopkeeper who stays with Li Kuiqi's descendants and horses called Hu Ba.

Hu Ba is a good brother of Comrade Du Dewei, who has abandoned the secret and turned to the light. After Du Dewei went north to Fuzhou, the two brothers broke up, and now Hu Ba is still staying in Li Kuiqi's gang and is loyal.

However, Zhongxin Hu Ba has been a little busy lately, because he has to send a small boat to go around the innermost Moon Harbor in Zhangzhou Bay every day, and he doesn't know what he is busy with.

At the same time as the chaos in Zhangzhou Bay, the fleet that crossed the crowd had already arrived at the official wharf outside the city of Quanzhou.

Quanzhou City, which is only 40 kilometers away from Kinmen in a straight line and less than 80 kilometers away by sea, is a supply point that has been predetermined before crossing the public. After bombarding Zhongzuo that night, the fleet did not drive at high speed for the rest of the day, but staggered northward, and came to the sea off Quanzhou before the early hours of the morning.

In the open sea, the fleet waited until the morning sun rose, and the fleet first sent out a liaison boat, and then slowly entered the Quanzhou wharf. The Quanzhou prefect and the Quannan guerrilla general, who had already received the governor's yamen letter, were already waiting at the dock at this time.

So the fleet was settled in Quanzhou.

After a full day on the docks, it was not until late afternoon that five supply ships arrived in Quanzhou. So early the next morning, a large number of porters began the transfer work.

After that, reinforcements began to arrive one after another.

There were three parties in the back-up: the Dutch, the Fu fleet of the Mawei military camp, and the officers and soldiers of the Fuzhou water standard. Except for the Dutch, because the other two sides had to receive supplies in Quanzhou City, the official departure of the whole army was postponed by one day.

The Dutch sent 10 armed merchant ships of the largest tonnage, led by Putmans himself.

The officers and men of the water standard, who had the weakest combat effectiveness, were led by the staff general Qu Dazhong.

As for the 30 ships that set off from the Mawei Water Camp, they were commanded by Liu Zhe, the commander of the navy who had rushed to Fuzhou with a large number of sailors not long ago.

The 30 boats were made up of pirate recruits and sailors who were mixed on the spot, and each boat was staffed by 10 Army soldiers armed with Type 28 rifles.

After the reinforcements arrived, the official operation to eliminate the Li Kuiqi group would soon begin.

Before that, the traversal first gathered the leaders of all walks of life and announced their battle plans.

Considering the extremely tragic battlefield movement ability of this era, the traversers did not dare to play any tricks, but honestly divided the reinforcements under their command into two blockade lines that were not subordinate to each other.

The first blockade line: the sea area between Kinmen Island and the northern mainland.

The second blockade line: the sea area between Kinmen Island and the southern mainland.

Zhangzhou Bay is an irregular flare, and in the center of the flare is Kinmen Island. The plan of the crossing is that the main fleet will enter Zhangzhou Bay to destroy the enemy army head-on, and all the reinforcements will be divided into two, with Kinmen as the fulcrum and the two blockade lines in the north and south as the rope chain, so as to completely annihilate the Li Kuiqi group in the encirclement.

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