Chapter 65: Naval Battle
Two days later, at noon, there was a busy scene outside the earthen walls of Yulin Bay. www.biquge.info The dirt road has extended into the mountains in the distance, and some houses are rising on both sides of the road.
In the distance, three horses came running from the end of the dirt road, and the sound of horses' hooves was urgent, and they stepped on the billowing smoke, and immediately the two of them were already ragged and unkempt. The horse that was running in front of him rushed under the earthen wall, and the man on the horse pulled the reins, and the horse suddenly fell to its knees with its front hooves, neighed, and fell to the ground.
Xu Lang fell heavily from his horse. For 2 days in a row, the horses were changed without changing people, and 7 of the 10 horses ran away, and only the last three persisted to run to Yulin Bay.
Ye Da ran over from the side and helped Xu Lang up: "Master Xu, what's wrong with you, why are you back." ”
"Ye Da." Xu Lang recognized Ye Da, "Go find Jiang Beiming, find Liu Guannan, find Zhang Guodong, find anyone, go quickly." ”
Ye Da was frightened by Xu Lang's expression, and hurriedly arranged for his subordinates to help Xu Lang to the small room in the duty room, and ran to find someone by himself.
All the committee members and team leaders came to the conference room, and He Wenhuan was arranged to rest elsewhere. Xu Lang crossed his legs, wearing only pants and crooked on a small bed made up of several chairs, with thick bandages wrapped around his legs. After 2 days of rushing, Xu Lang's 2 thighs have been ground to flesh and blood, and Dr. Ouyang used 2 first-aid kits to give Xu Lang a simple treatment. Cheng Yiyi found a place where no one was there and cried.
"The situation is critical, we must be ready to fight, and by tomorrow at the latest, Liu Xiang and they will come." After Xu Lang finished prying the news out of He Laoliu's mouth, he added.
Zhang Guodong walked in front of Xu Lang and solemnly gave a military salute: "Xu Lang, although I have always had an opinion on you, but this time, thank you, you saved Yulin Bay." ”
Xu Lang nodded weakly and did not speak.
"Jiang Beiming, give the order." Fan Qiuming said, "According to the regulations, you are now in command of everything. ”
The bell of Yulin Bay rang again. The Pearl and 777 had two lines of defense built on their decks with sacks. The Bureau of Industry finally came up with a hydraulic boring machine, which actually appeared in Europe as early as the 15th century. The Bureau of Industry also improved it with modern steel dismantled from the Pearl. This has greatly increased the production of the ordnance group, and the Yulin Bay Marine Battalion is now equipped with two platoons of arquebuses and one squad of flintlock muskets. The new flintlock pistol developed by the Industrial Bureau has a firing range of up to 150 meters, and the effective killing is between 100 and 120 meters, which is much higher than that of the arquebus, especially the mute fire rate, due to the use of modern high-quality excitation steel sheets, the mute fire rate is less than one percent.
Two ships carrying a company of land forces and half a platoon of marines drove to the sea about 1,000 meters away from the Yulin Bay wharf. It's a pity that there is not enough fuel, so in order to prevent accidents, this battle can only be fought at home. The Pearl was not armed, because the attack was from the sea, Jiang Beiming ordered the 58 twin high planes to be moved from the machine gun position to the Pearl as the main weapon, and only 95 flights and half of the 03 rifles were retained at the earthen wall.
All the people were mobilized. The elderly, women and children were housed in the office building, which is the strongest building in Yulin Bay. All the young men were gathered, everyone was given weapons, and the worst ones were also given a stick, and more than 100 prisoners of war were re-imprisoned in the prisoner-of-war camp and temporarily handed over to the patrol house.
The two horses brought back by Xu Lang were requisitioned and ran to the Hetian Mine in Yazhou City respectively. Jiang Beiming's order is that once there is danger in the two places, all traversers must first ensure their own safety.
It was late at night. Xu Lang lay in the office building and fell asleep, and Jiang Beiming and several people from the Military Commission gathered around the sand table. The Military Commission felt that only the map could not analyze the situation intuitively, so it found someone to make this modern sand table as early as after the Spring Festival.
"Everything is arranged, everything that should be fortified is set up." Jiang Beiming said, "It's just that we have no fuel, and it is estimated that after this battle, the two ships will have to completely lie down." ”
"There's no way around that." Wang Hua said, "Let's finish the fight first." ”
"Is there enough ammunition on board?" Zhang Guodong asked.
"It's adequate." Jiang Beiming replied, "Don't worry about this, if you can't use 2 boats to hit them, I don't think Liu Xiang's boat can hit these 2 ships." The only thing I'm worried about now is that they're going to attack on both sides of the land, and that's not going to be easy. ”
"I don't think so." Han Wantao said, "Last time, He Lao Liu suffered a big loss on land, and we also destroyed the Wagang Village of the Leopard in the Cloud, and he should know the strength of the army." So this time he looked for Liu Xiang just to take advantage of the sea, after all, he robbed us of 3 ships of salt, and this account has not been settled with him. ”
Nothing happened overnight. Just as everyone's eyes were red, the bell rang again. All the people of the Military Commission ran to the fort of the Yulin Bay wharf, Jiang Beiming gasped with a telescope, and a group of black spots appeared on the sea, and there were thirty or forty boats of all sizes, which were rushing towards the two iron ships with their sails open.
"What are Zeng Guangxian and Wang Zhaoxing doing, why don't they fight yet." Zhang Guodong said to himself anxiously. Because Zhang Guodong and Qiu Peng have both left the Pearl at present, and Wang Zhaoxing used to be in the navy, the command of the Pearl was handed over to him.
"Don't worry, I guess they want to get closer and then fight, the 58 high-altitude machine can only hit 1,000 meters."
Zeng Guangxian put down the telescope in his hand and picked up the radio: "No. 777 calls the Pearl, Wang Zhaoxing, are you ready?" ”
"The Pearl has arrived, everything is ready to open fire." Wang Zhaoxing's voice came over the radio.
"Good. Wang Zhaoxing, in a while, No. 777 will concentrate all its firepower to destroy his flagship, your task is to use machine guns and rifles to kill and injure living forces, you must be careful not to let them jump to board the ship, if we fight hand-to-hand combat, we will suffer. ”
"The Pearl understands."
Zeng Guangxian picked up the telescope again, and the distance between the boat opposite was about 1,500 meters, and Zeng Guangxian could even see the faces of the people on the boat clearly from the telescope.
"Attention all turrets, aim at the largest lucky ship flying the Mazu flag, and try to sink it all at once."
The 37-mm guns and two 30-mm guns turned their turrets and aimed at the largest ship in front of them. This is the main battleship in Liu Xiang's fleet, with about 400 materials. Liu Xiang did not come in person this time, but sent more than half of the boats. Liu Xiang has been galloping on the sea for many years, and has never heard of a ship that can sail without a sail oar, let alone an artillery that can hit more than ten miles away, especially when he Laosan said that the people in Yulin Bay will use demon methods, and there may be a fire dragon out of the water. So he didn't dare to be careless, and basically sent all his capital ships.
"Fire!" Zeng Guangxian watched these ships enter a distance of about 1,000 meters, and the two words that were held in his mouth finally came out.
An earth-shattering cannon sound suddenly sounded on the 777, and the three naval guns concentrated their fire on the opposite Fuchuan.
The ensuing scene stunned everyone at sea, including on shore. The 400-material ship was hit by three naval guns in less than 2 minutes before a raging fire, and in a moment, it was shattered into a pile of planks.
"It's a horsetail battle." Jiang Beiming sighed.
"The Battle of Mawei lasted for half an hour, and it was less than 5 minutes." Zhang Guodong suddenly felt that it was a bit redundant for Xu Lang to rush back.
The remaining pirate ships saw that the largest flagship was unable to fight back under the blows of the other party, and in a moment they were buried at the bottom of the sea, and they all turned their bows to escape from this sea area, only a few ships fired back, and the shells fell in the sea a few hundred meters away from the 777, causing a wave of spray. A thought suddenly popped up in Zeng Guangxian's heart: "Pearl, Pearl, please answer when you hear it." ”
"This is the Pearl, please tell me. You guys played fantastic. Wang Zhaoxing was still excited about what he had just seen.
"I command." Zeng Guangxian's serious voice came from the radio, "The Pearl is blocking the dock of Yulin Bay, but any ship that dares to approach must be repulsed, pay attention, kill and injure the living force, and try to leave the ship as much as possible." ”
"Why are you going?" Wang Zhaoxing asked.
"Me, I'm doing something big." Zeng Guangxian put down the microphone, turned around and gave an order to No. 777, "I order, go at full speed, rush out, block all the enemy ships in Yulin Bay, none of them can be released, and all guns are free to fire." Note that the surrendered ship cannot be hit, and the disobedient ones are attacked. ”
The bow of the 777 split the sea and circled in Yulin Bay at a speed of 30 knots. The horn on the speedboat kept shouting: "Stop resisting, ensure the safety of your lives, resist stubbornly, sink immediately." ”
The three guns kept spitting out shells, and in an instant, several more ships that wanted to escape turned into planks. All the pirate ships have helplessly lowered their sails, let alone fight back, even if they can't run, this iron ship is simply the embodiment of the devil, this speed and this firepower, is this still a ship?
Jiang Beiming put down the binoculars and said to the other committee members with some loss: "Let's go, the fight is over." ”
"Why don't I think you're satisfied?" Han Wantao asked.
"It's boring." Jiang Beiming glanced at the sea again, "This is not a war, this is a massacre." ”
What was thought to be a thrilling naval battle ended with lightning speed. Yulin Bay captured 36 ships of all sizes and more than 2,000 pirates.