534 The prerequisite for bravery is safety

After three salvos of nine naval guns, the lookout had only thirty seconds to determine the outcome of the battle to decide whether a fourth strike was needed, which was the content of the military regulations of a certain great power in the old world, and Gu Jin used this military regulation to train the crews.

Obviously, the scene in the telescope just now is the result of these three salvos, although only three ** and two high-explosive shells accurately hit the target area, but just this level of shelling, did the opponent's battery lose its combat effectiveness?

That's a bit of an exaggeration, isn't it?

The lookouts questioned each other to make sure that they were not dazzled, and after carefully observing them again, they immediately reported the situation to Captain Gu in each gun position and cockpit, so Gu Jin decisively ordered the naval guns to transfer the target.

The next object of shelling was the East Battery.

This process is actually very fast, when the West Fort was shelled, the soldiers of the East Fort were actually the same as their counterparts in the west, they were all looking at the huge and mysterious black shadow on the sea with a bewildered face, when the explosion of the West Fort came, most people thought that it must be a fool who blew up his own ammunition depot, or a cannon blew up, in this era, this kind of thing is a common occurrence.

The only thing they were a little surprised was that the rumbling of the cannon there was inevitably too violent, so many people were suspicious, especially a few experienced officers, who quickly picked up their monoculars and looked at the west battery.

About a dozen soldiers lay on the ground, most of them motionless, only a few squirmed on the ground, but the most bizarre thing was that the ammunition depot was intact except for the bronze cannons that had been shaken off their gun positions......

That means that the roar just now was not an explosion at the ammunition depot, but obviously the West Battery was shelled by an enemy from an unknown direction!

The officers immediately thought of this layer, so they subconsciously turned their binoculars to look at the black shadow in the distance, saying that it was too late and that it was too soon, and in their telescopes, a few flashes of light suddenly appeared in the dark shadow in the distance.

"Dodge shelling!"

However, one of the extremely experienced officers only had time to shout, and before he could turn around, he felt his body light, and flew silently into the air, and then fell to the ground again, unconscious.

At this time, there was already chaos on the East Battery, and it was not until people heard a whistling sound and suddenly exploded above their heads, tearing apart their comrades around, that the sluggish soldiers realized that they had been shelled.

The first round of fighting ended surprisingly quickly, as the two batteries lost all their combat effectiveness in a matter of minutes, and most of the soldiers, except for a few casualties, fled in all directions.

Thus, from the time Pimont's fleet appeared on the surface of the sea to the present, not a single shell was fired from the east and west batteries, except for the scattered more than half of the soldiers, only a small number of soldiers led by the officers took refuge behind the batteries, and they looked at the sea with trepidation, where a black shadow like a giant fortress gradually emerged from the fog.

Now, many people on the battery finally understood that the so-called fortress was actually a huge ship!

Although the two batteries in Dili City seemed to have lost their combat capability, in order to prevent a counterattack in case of a counterattack, Gu Jin once again ordered the two naval guns on the front and rear decks to continue to suppress the battery, and only then ordered the remaining sixteen naval guns to start supporting the battle on the dock square.

As for the vigilance of the sea to the west, leave it to the Portuguese galleon, although there are Dutch Galen ships, but since the other side has not taken the initiative to attack, we will ignore them for the time being.

Captain Gu's order was very popular, so before the captain's words fell, Xu Zhi led the crew to cheer and rush to the rest of the empty gun emplacements.

Obviously, this is not the brave and belligerent crew members, to be honest, in this case, everyone wants to get the opportunity to fire, this kind of one-sided battle always gives people pleasure, Captain Gu is a master with the crew, he knows to give this group of young people a proper opportunity to vent, and he also knows that this group of people are belligerent is belligerent, but the premise is safety, or "bravery" under the premise of safety.

In particular, the crew members who had not been shot for various reasons in the past finally got a good chance to enjoy themselves.

To tell the truth, relatively speaking, Gu Jin admires young people like Ren Ke in his heart, because they regard the army as their career, and in this era, the army is a truly cruel and high-risk profession......

Well, let's not go further from the topic, now back to the battlefield in the port of Dili.

A moment after Gu Jin's order was issued, there was a roar on the gun emplacements on the front and rear decks of the Nicole, and the crew was really in full swing, all kinds of shooting orders came one after another, and the gunpowder smoke continued to erupt from the muzzle, and was immediately blown away by the sea breeze, and the cannonballs flew to the dock with a whistling sound over the masts on the sea. The marina square in and around the port of Dili was soon enveloped in smoke from the explosion.

At this moment, the soldiers on the East and West Batteries are lucky, because the target of the giant ship is only the gun emplacements of the batteries, as long as you stay away from those gun emplacements and hide behind various obstacles, it is basically safe.

Unbeknownst to the soldiers on the two batteries, the pier square in Dili Port was already a purgatory-like scene, where the soldiers were being brutally baptized with iron and blood......

It was also at this moment, in the girls' dormitory on the top deck of the cockpit of the Nicole, that the four girls who were lying on the porthole and watching the excitement with the military binoculars that the men had "watched and played" for them were forcibly dragged out of the porthole by Her Excellency the Duchess Margaret and confiscated the binoculars in their hands.

Duchess Margaret told these girls with a serious face, don't look at it! No looking! Because it's not good for girls to witness that kind of bloody scene, otherwise you'll have nightmares at night!

Duchess Margaret was right, because at this very moment, the people who lived near the quayside square of the port of Dili were witnessing a bloody scene that they would never forget.

Moments earlier, on the top deck of the Pride, there had been a man who couldn't resist dancing with excitement - he was Pimont.

Governor Pi first glanced at Degus, who was standing silently next to him, and then nodded to several young men who operated machine guns, obviously they were acquaintances, when the east and west batteries exploded, Pimont saw the four crew members pointing the muzzles of the two machine guns at the phalanx in the dock square, and immediately pointed to the phalanx in the square and shouted excitedly:

"You stupid bastards! You also have today, hahahaha......"

So far, only Degus, who was standing next to him, had not felt anything unusual, and although he was also surprised by the sharpness and range of the Australian artillery, he wondered what Pimont's laugh meant, but after a few seconds, he also understood.