Section 82 Sweet Harbor Wind and Cloud - Battle of Chrysanthemum Island (2)

Xi Yaya looked at his watch, it had been exactly 20 minutes since the second telegram was sent.

"You're still tmd!" Xi Yaya scolded, and his mood was relieved, only to realize that he was covered in cold sweat.

"First mate Le, send sailors to prepare to board the ship, pay attention to safety!" He took off his steel helmet, and there were several marks of being hit by a hard object, and it seemed that this thing was still useful, otherwise his skull would have blossomed.

As soon as the body and mind relaxed, I suddenly felt a pain in my legs, and when I looked down, I saw that my pants had been stained with a large area of blood.

"I'm hurt—"

Hearing that Xi Ya was injured, Le Lin hurriedly came over with a hygienist. Although Xi Ya has great doubts about indigenous health workers, he is no longer able to pick and choose. The hygienist tore open his pants, and there was a blood groove in his calf, and the skin was open and fleshy, and a lot of blood was brought, probably caused by some tear. Seeing the hygienist skillfully disinfecting him with a pair of chopsticks and holding an alcohol cotton ball, Xi Yaya couldn't help but think of the scene that Bethune saw.

The hygienist examined the wound and decided that nothing had entered the body, and that it was enough to apply some medicine and bandage it, and there was no need for stitches. Xi Yaya himself felt that his legs and feet were fine. It's just that I don't know if there is tetanus or something like that on the shrapnel, and my heart is a little weak. Although the hygienist gave him some medicine, he didn't know what it was. Xi Yaya knew that the Ministry of Health and the Biological Shiyan Office under the Committee of Agriculture had set up a manufacturing and pharmaceutical factory, not only engaged in traditional Chinese medicine and reagents, but also prepared to manufacture Western medicine. He was very skeptical that the things made in Shi Yuanren's make-medicine-workshop were reliable or not. Xi Yaya made up his mind that when he returned to Lingao, he would go to the hospital for a check-up, and if it didn't work, he would have to get a tetanus or something......

Although he thought so, his face showed a resolute expression, although the stimulation of alcohol when cleaning the wound made him grin a little.

The operation to drive the enemy into Juhuayu was very smooth, the fishing boat did not run at full power, but followed the fleet, and the six pirate ships were desperately fleeing under the "chase".

The two fishing boats that followed closely followed unhurriedly, and the commander sent the fleet to Juhuayu according to the original plan, and could not let them escape halfway, so the pursuit was not urgent.

"Boss, those two 'demon ships' are still behind-" The subordinates reported in a panic.

"The ghost is not gone!" Gu Dachun spat a mouthful, he had already run away, why were these Australians still chasing after him? Even if it is an official army, the few boats and the people on it that were left just now are enough for them to ask for merit and reward.

"It's okay! I'm going to enter Chrysanthemum Island in a while, and the chaos-bay-maze-soul array, except for us, no one has the ability to go over. Gu Dachun was a little relieved to see that although the other party was chasing after them tightly, he couldn't catch up with them for a while.

Gu Dachun personally drove the boat and was the first to rush into Chrysanthemum Island, which was a familiar place for him, where there were reefs and dark sands, he knew them clearly.

On the artillery position of Mao's Jump, Ying Yue saw in the telescope the convoy of ships reported by telegram a few minutes ago, six sloops or brigs, moving at a high speed between the reefs, bays and waterways, this kind of risky manoeuvring skill made him stunned, if it were not for the ambush Jihua proposed by Wude, the group of people in the navy would probably not have the ability to chase in.

Now on the small islands and reefs near Maojiaokou, the artillerymen have arranged four positions, a total of ten guns, and the position he is in charge of is personally surveyed by Wu De -- the conditions are relatively good: the area is large, the terrain is flat, so the heaviest 12-pounder cannon is arranged, which Ying Yue personally controls. The headquarters is also located here.

Three days ago, under the guidance of Wang Dabeard, the navy transported the disassembled artillery to this place in light boats, and then carried the artillery one by one to Xiaoyu according to the situation of exploration. With the help of improvised booms and pulleys, sailors and artillerymen overcame the odds and transported several tons of artillery parts and ammunition - to the four reefs. Then build a position on it and arrange camouflage. Then the long wait began.

"Attention gun emplacements!" Ying Yue saw the enemy ship getting closer and closer, grabbed the walkie-talkie, "Prepare for battle!" ”

The closer they watched the direction of the ship, the closer they got to the trap they had set. These four artillery positions weave a web of death in Cat Hop**, and all terrain references in this area have been carefully ranged and calibrated.

Gu Dachun looked back and saw that the two iron clippers did not follow in, which made him greatly relieved.

"Hmph, it's quite familiar! If you dare to chase in, I'm afraid that you will run aground now. Gu Dachun is no longer worried about his safety, the only trouble is how to reply to Zhu Sanye - this transaction, he has lost a lot.

The sea breeze gradually became stronger, and the waves-tide-began to surge.

"Drop the sails!" He commanded. If you use a sail here, the speed of the ship is not easy to control, and it is easy to run into the rocks. Fortunately, the cat jump mouth is not far ahead, and the towering and craggy reef has already appeared in the field of vision. There are a few dark sands here, which are uncertain, and Gu Dachun has been full of 120,000 points of spirit and firmly holds the rudder.

At this moment, he saw a fire rising from the reef not far away, and then there was the sound of cannons.

As Ying Yue personally aimed at the first shot, the cannons of each position fired sequentially at intervals of a few seconds, so that the observers could accurately determine where the guns would land. Gu Dachun's ship, which was leading the way at the front, was hit by a concentrated fire, and a grenade fired from a 12-pounder howitzer hit the deck directly, and the wood chips flew wildly, and the ship suddenly burst into crying. Gu Dachun was hit by a scorching piece of iron in this shelling and died.

"Pay attention to the correction target!" Ying Yue used his binoculars to observe the landing point of the shells, which was truly a hunting ground: the maximum distance between the various reefs that served as artillery positions was less than 500 meters, and the smallest was only nearly 100 meters. The waterways here are narrow, and there is little room to maneuver, and the labyrinth, which the pirates have always used to escape, has become their Jedi. Although the white-color-smoke at the time of firing affected the observation on the position, the sooner they should have arranged concealed observation posts on other nearby reefs and used walkie-talkies to transmit the landing points of the shells.

After the smoke cleared, the sea area of Mao's Jump Mouth was already bleak, all six ships were shot and caught fire, and the ships that had lost control were huddled together, and some had run aground. The sail masts and stern of the decks of many ships had been broken by shells, and some were burning. There were corpses and fragments of ships floating on the surface of the sea. A broken mast floated on the surface of the sea, and the sails on it were still burning. The whole scene is terrifying and spectacular. Ying Yue did not care about the outcome of the battle, which was already a predestined thing, but he was more concerned about which kind of shells would cause the most damage to the enemy ships.

As a result, as he estimated, the grenade was much more effective than a solid bullet for common ships in Chinese waters. Because these ships were rarely made of hardwood, and even if they did, the thickness of the hull was relatively small, and a grenade filled with black fire - could easily blow open the ship's plank, which was much more effective than a solid round bullet that simply made a hole in the hull, and was more effective in terms of anti-personnel effects.

The shelling lasted for twenty minutes, and the order to stop-shoot-fire, the six ships that had rushed into the ambush were all paralyzed on the sea, and from the beginning to the end, not a single ship had time to counterattack, and the rain of shells destroyed all resistance almost instantly.

"Send sailors over and search for it, right?" It was suggested.

"It's too dangerous." Ying Yue looked at the burning ships, "According to the telegram of the big whale, there are three ships with cannons, and I don't know how much gunpowder - there is - on them, in case they are detonated, it is not a joke." Just wait a little longer. He then gave another order, "Let the sampan rescue the pirates who have fallen into the water from a safe distance, and pick them up if they can swim to the side of the ship." ”

By the time the Zuihou sailors boarded the wreckage of the stranded ships, they had picked up about forty survivors in the surrounding area. There was nothing worth mentioning on it, and the navy dismantled all the iron on board.

Ying Yue did as Xi Ya requested, scooped up all the corpses floating on the deck and on the sea, and asked the captives to identify which ones were the leaders, and then cut off the heads and put them in boxes full of lime. This medieval practice made Ying Yue very uncomfortable.

Calm returned to the sea. The Great Whale is moored at sea and is repairing masts and sails damaged in battle. The sailors washed the deck, and in order to lighten the load, part of the ship's sandbags had been discarded, and the deck looked much emptyer.

In this battle, eight people were killed and twenty wounded on board the Great Whale. The bodies of the fallen were wrapped in white cloth and placed on the deck of the side of the ship, each with a cannonball tied to its feet.

"It's a pity that we don't have a flag yet, otherwise we should have given each of them one." Xi Yaya said with emotion. Although there will be casualties as long as there is a battle, it is still a little sad to see the soldiers trained by the traverser himself die.

"Blow the trumpet!" As the mournful trumpet sounded, the corpses were thrown into the sea one by one, and all the sailors and artillerymen saluted together.

The two fishing boats came back from Juhuayu and saw that the sea burial was going on on the Big Whale, and the fishing boats sounded their whistles one after the other.

"Report!" The signal soldier ran over and saluted: "Yu No. 1 sent a flag: 'Salute all the commanders and fighters on the Big Whale!'" ’”

"Answer: 'Salute to all the commanders and fighters of the glorious navy!'" Xi Yaya said,

Two fishing boats, one in front of the other, escorted the big whale and sailed towards Lingao. Behind him was the black smoke that was still burning from the pirate fleet in Chrysanthemum Island.