Chapter 452: The Great Fight at Sea (1)
Soon, the eight Fu ships attacked left and right, and rushed towards the headquarters of Sui Yuxing, the sea lord.
This time, Sui Yuxing was about to lead his men and horses to the sea, wanting to search for some "prey" on the trade route, but he didn't think that the three "spies" he sent out were served in one pot, and those enemies who took the initiative to find the door were swaggered and killed.
This made Sui Yuxing, who was used to rampant, angry, and immediately commanded the twenty-eight sea ships under his command to rush forward.
Sui Yuxing's twenty-eight sea ships are very miscellaneous in style, its flagship is a 600-material lucky ship, some ships are 3 or 400 smaller lucky ships, and most of the rest are horse boats, sand boats, etc., there are about 1,000 people on board, all of them are old bandits, and these people have human lives on their hands!
At this time, the fleets of the two sides were already approaching, Feng Xiang stared at the front with a hideous face when he saw this, and shouted loudly: "Open the cannon!" Fire! ”
At the same time, the eight Fu ships of the Dongping Island Navy also began to adjust their formation, divided into two columns on the left and right, and pressed towards the fleet of Sui Yuxing's department from both sides.
Sui Yuxing is also a sea lord who fights old battles, and when he saw the formation of the navy on Dongping Island at this time, he was also startled, and said in surprise: "Do they have artillery!" ”
didn't have time to think about it, Sui Yuxing had already seen the clues from the formation of the Dongping Island Navy, and understood that they didn't want to play broadside battles with themselves, but to shoot at them at close range!
"Shoot the arrows!"
Sui Yuxing roared loudly, his eyes full of horror, because Sui Yuxing had already seen on the left and right, one of the two lucky ships was equipped with artillery, and six swarthy cannons had stretched out from the muzzle of the guns, and they would open fire at any time.
"Bottle of Fire! Throw it at Lao Tzu! ”
In the blink of an eye, countless fire bottles roared and smashed towards the Dongping Island Navy, but the fire bottles thrown out by manpower could not hit the fleet nearly a mile away, and even the archers and firecrackers under Sui Yuxing could not hit, not because the range was not enough, but basically they couldn't shoot accurately!
Feng Xiang couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw this, and shouted loudly: "Fire!" Fire! ”
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”
The flagships of the two detachments opened fire at the same time, and the six guns fired at the same time at a distance of less than a mile, but the accuracy was still very poor, and only two guns concentrated the target, and each of the two sand ships made a large hole.
Like a fountain, the sea water quickly poured into the two sand boats, and the pirates on the ships screamed in horror and threw water out like crazy, looking for something that could be used, trying to plug the hole, but in vain!
Soon, the two sand boats sank to the bottom of the sea, and Sui Yuxing and the Haikou on the remaining twenty-six ships were extremely desolate, and could only watch their companions feed the fish.
"Rush for me! Broadside battles! Kill! ”
Sui Yuxing understood that if he and a group of his subordinates wanted to survive, they could only get close, and rely on their numerical advantage to fight with the other party, otherwise they could only let the enemy kill all of them with one shot!
Feng Xiang also saw Sui Yuxing's plan, and immediately ordered all of them to distance themselves from the enemy, and many years of plundering at sea allowed Feng Xiang to subconsciously respond, and these countermeasures were all life-saving.
Moreover, Feng Xiang originally wanted to take the lead in ordering the artillery, but before Sui Yuxing's headquarters could be posted, he fired another round of artillery.
But there was a round of salvo fire just now, and at this moment the gunners were busy cleaning the chamber and loading ammunition, and they didn't have time to fire at all, and it was too late to turn to fire with the gun on the other side, so Feng Xiang could only shout loudly: "Hurry up and turn ...... Right full rudder! ”
Soon, the two detachments drew a semicircle on the sea, and quickly distanced themselves from Sui Yuxing's fleet, and these eight ships were all newly built sea ships, which were far faster than Sui Yuxing's "old antiques" in terms of speed.
At this time, Sui Yuxing is facing a situation that he can't beat the opponent, can't run away and can't escape!
For a while, Sui Yuxing only felt full of despair, sweat instantly wet his clothes, and the subordinates around him also began to panic.
Suddenly, the Dongping Island Navy, which had adjusted its formation again, had already loaded its artillery, and there was another violent roar, and six shells whistled and smashed into Sui Yuxing's fleet.
With a thick burst of white smoke and a loud noise, six solid bullets hit three enemy ships one after another, and the hit rate increased relatively a little.
"Bang bang...... Bang bang bang ......"
"Firing at such a close distance is almost the same as firing at the other side with the chamber of a gun, and if the hit rate does not increase, these gunners can collectively wipe their necks!"
Looking at the results in front of him, Feng Xiang grinned and muttered secretly in his heart.
At this time, Sui Yuxing, who was standing on the deck, only felt that the deck under his feet shook for a while, and then something was broken and accompanied by a terrible scream, Sui Yuxing didn't need to look to know that his ship must have been shot.
Sure enough, when Sui Yuxing rushed to the side of the ship to investigate the situation, he saw at a glance that there was a basin-sized hole in the left side, and he could even see several of his subordinates lying in the cabin wailing.
"Shoot back now!"
Sui Yuxing, who was pale, gave the order to fight back.
The archers and firecrackers of Sui Yuxing's fleet opened fire and fired arrows as if they were crazy, and the rain of arrows and lead bullets hit them, but only a small part of them were able to hit the Dongping Island navy, and they could hardly do any damage to Feng Xiang's men, and only three or five unlucky ghosts were shot.
"Lower the sails, hang the sails!"
"Left Rudder Five!"
At this time, the Dongping Island Navy had already staggered with Sui Yuxing's fleet, and Feng Xiang immediately ordered the fleet to turn a second time and prepare for the next shelling.
I saw the sailors of the eight ships braving the bitter sea breeze climbing up and down the masts, and the gunners were trying to reload the shells, ready to fire again.
The gunners of the left detachment were on the move, some of them cleaning the chambers of the smoky guns, and some of them were busy resetting the guns.
After the chamber was cleared, a loader stuffed the chamber with a cartridge and a projectile in the shape of a long barrel wrapped in a thin iron sheet, stabbed it a few times with the strip, and said loudly: "Report, the shell is loaded!" ”
The captain of the gunner, who had been waiting anxiously, raised the small red flag in his hand high, and then waved it vigorously and shouted: "All the artillery has been reset!" ”
Liu Dongling, the captain of the flagship of the left detachment, immediately shouted to Feng Xiang not far away: "Control!" The artillery is ready! ”
At the same time, the two detachments had also completed their turn, and once again sailed side by side with Sui Yuxing's flotilla on the left and right, like a sandwich of sea ships.
Feng Xiang shouted loudly with extreme excitement: "Fire!" Call me! ”
"Fire!"
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”
Another salvo of six guns, this time, four shells hit the target, and three Fu ships in Sui Yuxing's fleet were "seriously wounded" and had already begun to sink incliningly!
At this time, the twenty-eight sea ships led by Sui Yuxing were already in chaos, and the remaining twenty-two sea ships had no formation and began to spin around the sea and fight separately.
Sui Yuxing knew in his heart that he was already in the general trend, and what he had to think about at this time was how to save his life!
So, Sui Yuxing asked his subordinates to hang up the white flag and prepare to surrender, although he and his subordinates were prisoners, but with his own men and horses, how could he be a leader on the other side, it was better than dying at sea.
Sui Yuxing calculated very well in his heart, and his subordinates kept waving white flags, but the Dongping Island Navy in the distance was indifferent, and even adjusted the formation again, obviously preparing for the next shelling.
"What's going on!"
According to Sui Yuxing's thoughts, it is normal for the various sea lords on the sea to fight each other, today I surrender to you, tomorrow you throw yourself to me, everyone basically will not kill you, but the enemy I met today didn't say anything, and fought to the death when I came up, what kind of routine is this!
At this moment, the Dongping Island Navy opened fire again, but this time it was not a solid bullet, but a chain bullet.
The so-called chain bullet is to use a chain to connect two small shells smaller than the bore caliber together, after firing a shell will drag the other shell centrifugal and fly out, so it will tear a big hole in the sail, or tear the rigging, lucky, can even tear off the mast and paralyze the enemy ship.
The fast-spinning chain bullet can easily cut through the enemy, which is a terrifying weapon, but because its effect is more reflected in the killing of masts and canvas, and the range is very short, it is rarely used in naval battles.
However, the current situation is different, now the fleets of the two sides are only less than a mile apart, and this distance is the best killing distance of chain bullets, so Sui Yuxing's face immediately changed for a while.