Chapter 120: Southern Expedition and Northern War (8)
Countless black guards piloted gliders, whistling past the pirate fleet, and a sharp whistling flashed in the sky from time to time. Of course, the sharp sound is not made by flying too fast, and it is impossible to bring a whistling sound at the speed of the glider, and the sharp sound is made by the glider pilot blowing a bamboo whistle.
Dressed in black with a black glider, coupled with a sharp whistle, these are specially arranged by Chongzhen, the black clothes and black glider are not easy for people to find out that the glider is manned from a long distance, and the sharp whistle is purely for intimidation. His own glider is the first and only flying force in this world, Chongzhen wants the black glider and sharp whistle to become the symbol of his flying unit, and he wants his flying unit to become the lingering nightmare of all enemies. Let the enemy tremble at the sight of the black wings, and hear the sharp whistling of the soul.
The mournful cry of "enemy attack" came from the mouth of the lookout on the bridge.
"Ming people, it's Ming people, it's Ming people who fly in the sky" The palm of the lookout hand was broken, and in that ignorant period, he suddenly saw a glider unit flying and mid-air for the fright of normal people, just like seeing a group of human beings with special functions flying out of thin air in later generations.
The sailors on the ship originally only found a group of black strange birds in the sky with a sharp whistling sound and flew towards them, and at first they only thought that this group of strange birds was just trained by the Ming people, a group of outlaws, how could they worry about the attack of a group of strange birds with guns and cannons.
It was only with the rapid approach of the two sides and the hint of the lookout that a group of people finally discovered that it was not a strange bird flying in the sky, but a group of Ming people. Someone finally reacted, in this time of war, a group of Ming Dynasty troops flew over, and the pirates didn't realize that the Ming people were coming with good intentions.
Just to prepare for the broadside battle of their own group of people in the hands of the long knife and the thin sword, on this big blade and the thin sword against the flying enemy in the sky really has no way, yes I and others are pirates who rob for a living, is equipped with a lot of firearms, but the pirates are equipped with the most artillery, muskets are very valuable, the captain in order to rob, in order to prevent the black from eating black, in order to meet the regular navy has a lot of power, so the family ((swing dàng) dàng) is equipped with a large number of artillery, However, the musket did not have the captain who would equip the low-level pirates with a hand, and the wear and tear of firearms was not something that ordinary pirates could afford.
Usually the captains and captains of the fleet are equipped with the necessary guns, although some officers will also form musket guards to surround their own security and suppress the pirates at the bottom, and the largest number of pirates can only fight with large blades (meat ròu). By the time someone figured out the bow and arrow, the glider had already flown over the pirate fleet.
A black glider approached Edwin's warship, lowered the nose and dived down, after approaching the target, pulled the plane, fixed on the left and right sides of the glider fell on both sides of each side, and the glider that threw down the oil tank, reduced the weight and pulled the nose flexibly out of the sky above the warship, and only then did a few weak bows and arrows and sparse gunshots fly from below, but they were greeted with burning oil cans.
The attacked battleship is the flagship of the fleet of the Governor Puttmans, as the flagship has the most powerful firepower, the defense has the protection of the entire fleet, and at the same time enjoys the highest glory, of course, it enjoys the right to bear its due responsibility, as a flagship, if there is a chance in the war, it is often the enemy's most priority target. This is not just a glider just left behind 2 canisters of hot oil, and immediately several gliders are eyeing it.
Two gliders flew horizontally over the flagship, the pilot moved the engine bracket, the oil tank turned out, the strong oil waterfall down, and the oil was ignited by the fire at the mouth of the tank when it turned out, forming a rain of fire falling, and below was the towering sail of the flagship, so big the target was inevitably ignited by the oil burning. The oil tank that fell before, the driver who left him obviously miscalculated, obviously missed, and finally smashed on the water, and the pottery tank (body shēn) was shattered by the tension of the water surface, and the fire oil in the tank flew away with the fire at the mouth of the tank, forming a sea of fire on the water surface.
"The sails are on fire, go and cut the cables" In a burst of shouts, the sails ignited by the rain of fire fell with the burning canvas as the cables broke, and the burning flames on the sea were quietly ((lick tiǎn)tiǎn) licking the boat (身shēn), and there was a sea of fire under the ship, and thick black smoke rose into the air, which could be clearly heard dozens of miles away.
The fire on the ship gradually broke out, countless pirates carried water to put out the fire or fanned wildly with broom clothes, but the viscous fire oil, how could these means extinguish, the broom clothes did not hit a few times, the oil and water soaked, followed by the fire, the water poured down, the oil floated on it, the oil followed the water, the oil followed the water, the oil was raging, and the fire spread.
When the battleship of the Daming Naval Division arrived at the battlefield from afar, what I saw was a pair, the thick smoke of the road rose, and countless pirate ships were crooked and slanted into a picture, the most painful thing in the naval battle was that the enemy ship lost power, whether it was in the past or now, the battleship that lost power could only be a live target, and the current situation Even if the Daming Naval Division did not intervene, it was not a simple matter for the group of pirates to extinguish the wooden warship ignited by the fire oil (情qíng), You must know that the sails of the warships of this period were not only woven of cloth, but also the hulls were all riveted with wooden planks, and the already flammable planks and sails were poured on the fire by the fire oil, which was sour and refreshing, but it was not something that ordinary despair could understand.
Seeing the pirates in a mess, he immediately commanded the battleship to start shelling the burning enemy ships, and after discussing the bombing and oil splashing of gliders, the enemy ships that were still intact were two or three big kittens, and this was because the pirate ships were too dilapidated or not equipped with a few cannons, and those who dared to show off were equipped with a large number of artillery and particularly powerful and domineering battleships. That's the easiest way to get a glider to take special care.
"Boom" did not wait for the Ming Shui Division to open fire, there was a thunderous explosion on the sea, followed by a strong wind brought by a shock wave, and the powder magazine of a pirate battleship was detonated by the fire.
With the constantly impressing flags on the Fuxing, the flagship of the Ming Army's naval division, along with this war drum statement, the military naval division began to sweep ((swing dàng) dàng) and chase down the surviving pirates who were messing around when the situation was not good.