"It looks like the rest of it is hard stubble."

Ma Qianhu was confirming the results through the binoculars, and he was very satisfied with this round of shooting, the pirates were killed and disabled, and the ships that rushed over also suffered heavy losses, two of them were hit below the waterline and began to sink, and the rest lost their ability to sail.

But the unease still lingered in my heart, because the sound of drums could be heard in the distance.

Those Haicang ships and grass skimming ships, which were larger than the pirate ships that had just attacked, were approaching this side, and they didn't seem to be affected by the counterattack just now, but were a little eager to try.

Just moments earlier, he had learned the identity of the other side from the mouths of two captives who had just been caught in the water, and the fish he had caught this time seemed to be larger. In addition to the cheap brother-in-law of Guo Xingshou, he actually brought out a big gang that was registered in Haidao.

Ma Qianhu had to admit that this Guo Zengfu was really a difficult opponent, if it weren't for the Senate, this plan could indeed be said to be foolproof.

But now that you know the ins and outs of the matter, it's even harder to be good.

"Raise the flag and get ready for battle!" Ma Qianhu shouted loudly, and the ship began to maneuver towards the waterway between Huaniao Mountain and Luohua Mountain, the hydrological conditions near Chen Qianshan were more complicated, and he hoped to use the unique reef terrain of this sea area to delay the outflanking of the opposite side, so as to delay the support when it came.

The red and white Polaris flag and the blue navy flag soon fluttered on the top of the mast, making the Daifuku ship look even more imposing.

But in the eyes of the bandits, they were a little uncomfortable, because a few of these people obviously knew the goods.

"Australia...... The Australians ......" A sea bandit cried out as if he had seen a ghost on a straw skimming boat in front of him, "Boss, that's the flag of the Australians." ”

Rong listened to the words of his subordinates, his face was cloudy, he had heard of the name of the Australian, and he had been in the sea of Fujian for a short time, so he naturally knew that the Australian's ships were strong and the guns were not false, if they knew the identity of these ships from the beginning, the gang would naturally not come out rashly. But now that the arrow is on the side, the people of the Zhang family in front of him have fought for a while, since this beam has been settled, I am afraid that it will not be easy to retreat, as long as these three boats are taken, there is no need to worry about the news spreading.

He looked at the few ships under Xianggong in the distance that were accelerating, so he also secretly made up his mind.

"This is an ordinary merchant ship, neither a rumored big iron ship nor an iron clipper, I think it's just a merchant who paid the Australians to buy the road, otherwise why didn't they fly this flag in the first place?"

Rong analyzed the situation for his subordinates, although the firepower on the other party's ship could not be prevaricated by ordinary maritime merchants, but those subordinates who were already a little lucky gradually gained courage. After all, they are all outlaws, there are benefits in front of them, there is no reason to be bluffed by a name, and with such a guard, the goods on the ship are also extremely valuable. The pirates finally picked up their guns and began to reload the ship's guns.

An hour later, the sun was gradually turning west, and the pirate ships were already very close, and one of the royal family's brothers, the ship nicknamed the Three Kings rushed to the side of the Daifuku ship first, and several cannons were fired at the same time less than half a mile away, stirring up several water columns around the ship, and several elders suddenly became a little nervous.

Xiao Yucheng commanded the artillery and sailors to return fire, and for a moment the sound of guns and cannons thundered, and the smoke dissipated, and the three kings were surprised to find that although their guns had caused several damage to the other party's hull, their own side had almost lost their combat power, and a piece of death on the deck was dead, and the mast was simply broken and smashed straight on the sail frame. A cannonball used by the opponent is fired in two halves, spinning at high speed with a chain connected to the middle, and anything it touches will be cut in half extremely quickly, whether it is a mast sail or a human body.

Shotguns were another nightmare for the pirates, and the 'bamboo bundles' learned from the Japanese were completely useless against these firearms, and almost all attacks from Daifuku's ships could easily penetrate the rudimentary defenses laid out by the three kings.

One clipper ship after another was defeated, but the Daifuku ship was obviously not easy, after three consecutive rounds of enemy 'charge', five sailors had been wounded, two of them were unlucky to be grazed by the opponent's shells, apparently not alive.

In the fierce battle, the snipers on the lookout post played a role in stabilizing the morale of the army, and whenever the enemy was ready to help, Zhang Daoyong could always kill and wound the enemy's commander in time, so that the offensive on the opposite side was slightly slowed down. Relying on this repeated tug-of-war, Daifuku ships pinned down most of the opponent's forces, blocked waves of enemy attacks, and even damaged several pirate ships, some of which were sinking.

But the more this happened, the more frantic the enemy attacks became, and it seemed that the pirates subconsciously felt that there was much more than cotton worth ten thousand taels on the ship.

According to Ma Qianhu's estimates, under normal circumstances, the Sixth Column should have arrived.

But it had already exceeded the agreed time for a quarter of an hour, and the shadow of support still did not appear, so Ma Qianhu had to hope that night would fall early, and that there would be more advantages on the night side, and at least eighty percent sure that the pirates could be thrown off.

The artillerymen quickly filled with gunpowder and shells, and fired as Xiao Yucheng commanded, the rhythm was a little more chaotic than when the battle began.

Wounded sailors were constantly being carried to the lower compartments for treatment, and sandbags piled up on the deck were full of breaches.

Around the gun emplacements, the protective steel shields are even more pitted, and those are the masterpieces of the pirates using bird guns and cannons.

In the distance, black smoke rose from two more sloops, which had been hit by chain bullets, and were now apparently in a panic when someone had lit gunpowder or other flammable objects on board, and people could be seen running around on the deck to put out the fires.

The twelve-pounder continued to sweep the deck of the pirate ship with his characteristic rhythm, and as more enemy ships got closer, all four cannons were reloaded with shotguns, and the hundreds of iron bullets sprayed with each shot washed over the hull like a rainstorm, and almost no one survived this close-range fire, if any, it was the work left to the musketeers.

On the port side was another round of offensive, when the heavy smoke dissipated, Ma Qianhu found that less than 30 meters on the right side of the place rushed up a clipper, because the hull of the ship escaped the baptism of artillery fire, at this time a large number of pirates gathered on the side of the ship ready to jump gang, some people were waving grappling hooks in their hands, wanting to throw to the deck of the Daifuku ship, and the rest also showed their hideous faces.

After a burst of automatic rifle fire, the pirates were killed, but then a ship came around from the other side, this one was larger than the others, and several guns were placed on its side, and after a salvo, the Daifuku ship suffered another casualty, an iron bullet pierced the sandbag wall, and the three sailors and a gunner hiding behind were killed and wounded.

As the distance became closer, the pirates' attack methods became more diverse, bows and arrows and throwing guns took turns, but before the broadside, the most threatening was the guns, but the approaching ships rarely had the opportunity to launch a second round of fire.

But Rao is so, and the pressure on the ship is getting bigger and bigger. The ammunition bottomed out, the casualties were still increasing, although several enemy ships had lost their combat capability, but the other side was obviously red-eyed, during this period even Ma Qianhu was hit by the opposite gun, fortunately it was just brushed, leaving a shallow pit on the steel helmet.

The sniper was also wounded, and due to nervousness and constant pulling of the trigger, the tiger's mouth had cracked.

The shouts of their own people, accompanied by the sound of guns and the screams of the enemy, made the atmosphere on the ship tense to the extreme.

'Double load!' ’

'Fire!' ’

'Hygienist, someone is hurt! ’

'What about the damage management team?' The deck is on fire! Fast! ’

It was the first time that Qian Suiting had participated in such a close battle so far from the 'Green Zone', and in the process of assisting Ma Qian on the deck, even though the protection of the patriarch was much higher than that of ordinary sailors, the sweat had already soaked the back of his clothes. But at the same time, the battle was accompanied by great pleasure, and in the heat of the day, he commanded several sailors to quickly dump several bags of sand onto the deck to avoid the passing combatants slipping, which also allowed him to calm down a little from the intense excitement, and in this calm moment, he found that the enemy who had just been attacking suddenly began to turn the bow of the ship, and even the pirates who were chasing the other two ships slowed down the speed of the ship.

"Look, support has arrived." Qian Suiting reacted, pointed to the north and shouted excitedly at Ma Qianhu.

Ma Qianhu followed what he pointed out and saw many ship shadows on the sea level in the northeast, which were particularly conspicuous in the setting sun.

'Damn, it's been a long time since I've been outflanking. He cursed secretly in his heart, nearly an hour later than the scheduled time, although it was to block the retreat of this group of pirates, but Ma Qianhu was still a little dissatisfied, after all, this was a joke with the life of the patriarch, to be able to make this kind of decision, I believe that only the veteran Huangshi, who was temporarily in the sixth column, would never dare to replace it with the real master of this fleet.

Wang Zhong and Wang Jin were originally surprised by the strong firepower on the Daifuku ship, but they also thought that their own ships wanted to drag the battle into the broadside, but now when a new fleet appeared in the north, the two brothers fell into an ice cave. The black-bottomed skull flags on those ships represent the master of this fleet, it is Liu Xianglao, who has been frightened in the Liangguang Sea recently, and the big gang has suffered several losses on them before, and now there are sixty or seventy ships in front of them, and they are still increasing, before they can judge the other party's intentions, the Wang brothers decisively signaled, and the remaining thirty or so large and small ships began to turn around, and continuing to consume with the Dafu ship is obviously not conducive to the follow-up response.

Liu Xiang's men and horses appeared in the ocean of Zhejiang for no reason, coupled with the Australian flag played by the Dafu ship, so that the leaders of Ruxiang Gong and Rong I Guy who have 'seen the world' suddenly understood that this time the matter was not as simple as it was said at the beginning, and it was not possible to take their lives in vain.

At this moment, on the largest four-hundred-hundred-masted ship in the north, Huang Shi is holding a telescope to observe the pirate fleet, this veteran has been a migration agent from Earth to Mars for a period of time in the original time and space, and the lowest profession is now able to command the pirate fleet with high spirits, and he has his own high spirits.

Behind him, there was Liu Xiang, who stood respectfully, the lord of the sea in the two vast oceans, and after Shen Yourong went north, his fleet soon entered the waters of Fujian. But he was able to obey the orders to support Songjiang's operation, in addition to the support of the Senate at the beginning, more of a fear of the Australian Song regime, which was the transformation of his fleet after the supply in Kaohsiung Port, since the post of river and sea patrol given by the Great Song Dynasty has been more cherished by the privateer certificate.

And beside him there is a young woman, who is Li Dan's baby daughter Li Siya. Since the establishment of power in Taiwan by the Great Song Dynasty, Li Dan also set up his own business in Kaohsiung, and the person in charge was Li Siya, who learned the purpose of Liu Xiang's fleet that day, so she took this boat to join in the fun.

In fact, at the beginning of the Luzon raiders, the powerful little girl of the Fubo Army had already seen it, but when it came to fighting, the crushing methods like the Senate were a little boring, but now such a 'traditional' naval battle is more suitable for her spleen.

Liu Xiang didn't have Li Siya's comfort, and said carefully: "All the boats are in place, please ask the chief to show you what to do." ”

Huang Shi smiled, "Liu Dabang doesn't have to be restrained, the Senate said that this group of pirates is useful whether they live or die, you just let go and do it." ”

"Then the villain has overstepped." He waved his hand, "Command the ships, attack." ”

At this time, in the sea area of Chen Qianshan, there were only more than ten broken ships left with the current, some of which were burning with raging flames, and the pirates on these ships were basically killed and injured, many of them were destroyed by the sail mast and rudder, even if there were still living people, the ship could not move again, and only the pirates cried and cursed in the sea breeze.

The remaining ships of the Wang family have turned to the east, but there are also more than 30 large and small ships there.

"Quick, hang the flag!" Wang Jin was still holding on to a fluke, but the cannon on the opposite side had already hit.

As the sun set, the elders treated the wounded and prepared their sails, and a massacre was taking place in the sea a few miles away, and the firelight reflected the setting sun.

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