Chapter 251: Shelling from the Sea

The four big ships at the front - in fact, they can only be said to be relatively large ships, the side of the ship is already a lot higher than the opposite side of the small boat, and the condescending attitude can give people the most sense of security, although the sailors and sailors on Jiang Feng's four gunboats are all just trained to go into the water, and many people have only experience at sea before getting on the boat is fishing.

Only some of the sailors in Monk Li's house and the sailors of the previous ships under Jiang Feng have some experience in gang jumping, but the heavy firearms at sea, especially the artillery battle, are still the first meeting, because there is such a condescending safety and security, so these sailors are a little busy. But it wasn't panic, under the orders of the officer, reload and aim.

At such a close distance, the boat fleet that came down from Linjia Island paddled very quickly, the people standing in front of the boat were nervously holding shields in front of them, and the people behind them were preparing iron hooks and ropes, the battle between the small boat and the big boat, the most afraid of the other party's collision and the shooting of the bow and arrow, the shield in order to block the bow and arrow, as long as the iron hook was connected and fixed with the big boat, whether it was a boat or hand-to-hand combat, it was much more stable.

On Jiang Feng's ship, there was no flag, and the other party couldn't see anything from the style of the ship at all, because no one knew that Jiang Feng had snatched back a Spanish brig from Shuangyu, and the leader of the Lin family on the boat thought that some pirates had come here to prepare for robbery.

The leader looked at the ships on the opposite side and lined up sideways first, and there was no follow-up action, and secretly sneered in his heart, in such a close sea, what do you want to do with such a big ship, and it is very inflexible to turn or something, and when we block the first wave of arrows, we will go up and cut you down.

He held his shield in front of him and shouted at Jiang Feng's fleet:

"Brother from there, I don't know this is the Lin family in Laizhou......"

A series of thunderous voices suddenly sounded on the sea, and the body of the leader of the Lin family who shouted was pierced by two cannonballs, and suddenly the upper body had disappeared, and the shield, this kind of shield covered with iron skin, was immediately shattered, without any resistance.

The shield and the human body did not hinder the cannonball, and the remaining cannonball swept over the Lin family soldiers on the bow of the ship, and the flesh and blood flew sideways, and the spirit of the sailors who were desperately rowing collapsed in an instant, and almost all of them were when the cannonball fell behind the ship.

No matter what happens next, they jumped into the sea without hesitation, the Lin family has lived on the sea for generations, and naturally there is no one who can't know how to swim, but when many people jump into the sea, they don't know how to swim at all, their bodies are extremely stiff, and they just howl and drown.

The nervous spirit had made their bodies stiff, and there was no way to make any movements, in fact, in the first round of shelling, there were a total of fourteen guns facing the Lin family's dinghy team, except for a three-pounder cannon on the Spanish brig, the rest were some one-pounder and two-pounder cannons.

The result of the shells was to sink two ships and kill a dozen people, but the effect was amazing, no one had ever seen such a battle on the sea, many people did not even know that artillery fire could be used on ships, and more importantly, many people had not even seen artillery fire.

Seeing this effect, Ajaya directly ordered a second shelling, this time the large and small shells had a lot of accuracy, and more than a dozen high-speed lead bullets took the lives of many people.

Pieces of wood and equally scattered flesh began to float on the surface, but the remaining ones of the thirty or so dinghys that had rushed out were surprisingly fast, turning and rowing toward the shore in a very short time.

Instead of pursuing and firing cannonballs, the four large ships of the river peaks began to adjust their direction, and the medium-sized ships that were blocking behind began to row in front of them. After the Lin family's rout troops came ashore, they did not organize a defense on the spot, but ran towards the island without their lives.

Jiang Feng's fleet of ships carrying soldiers was not fast, and they always kept a certain distance from the big ships behind, slowly approaching the coast.

There seemed to be no reaction on the island, and there was no sound after those people ran in, and when the warships were still a few feet away from the dock, the originally quiet village, suddenly sounded drums, and many young and strong people with weapons walked out of the village.

These people are very different from the mobs during the Yanzhou rebellion, they are quite orderly with each other, faintly have the appearance of a military formation, and they are more or less protected by leather armor and cotton armor, and the shields and weapons are quite neat, these people are not in a hurry to charge forward.

It's just that under the rhythm of the drums, step by step towards the shore, Jiang Feng is already sitting on the warship, wearing leather armor with iron leaves, looking at the Lin family army on the shore, he is also quite surprised, sure enough, listening to Liu Twelve and those who are familiar with the Shandong Green Forest Sea Bandits, the Lin family has always trained their children and private soldiers with military regulations.

The Dengzhou soldiers sitting on the warship, the veterans are one-fifth, and the recruits see each other's momentum, which is different from the calmness of the veterans, and the recruits are already a little restless.

Zhang Liang was also nervously preparing there like Jiang Feng, but he noticed the emotions of the soldiers around him, and immediately approached Jiang Feng with some worry and said:

"Master, these recruits below are a little scared, so you don't need to transfer the veterans on the big ship down."

Most of the veterans stayed on the big boat, which was also Jiang Feng's arrangement. The system of the Dengzhou battalion is to behead military merits, if the veterans are with the recruits, the recruits will not have any chance to fight at all, Jiang Feng still believes that his phalanx has not been able to resist in the current land battle.

Simply lined up the recruits in the first line of the ship, Zhang Liang's worries were unreasonable, if in a Jedi like the coast, the confidence and courage of the recruits could not be maintained, and if they broke up in the battle, I am afraid the consequences would be disastrous, and the queue of the Lin family on the shore was getting closer and closer.

Jiang Feng frowned, and said to himself:

"It looks like there are really some doorways, no wonder you are bold enough to rush to assassinate Lao Tzu!"

After saying this, he turned around and smiled at Zhang Liang, and said:

"Apprentice, do you know what artillery cover means?"

Seeing that his master's frowning brows suddenly expanded, he smiled at himself, and said unfathomable and profound words, when he was stunned, Jiang Feng raised the big knife in his hand and slashed heavily towards the front, and some small cannons on the four gunboats behind him had already been carried to the bow.

For these one-pound and two-pound Furlong machines, although the power of the cannons is not too great, they are easy to move, and because the power is small, their recoil makes the hull bearable, but this time there are still a few fewer guns than the broadside shots of the square.

However, the Lin family queue on the shore was exactly within the firing range, and it was much denser than the boats on the sea, and the effect of the shells was even more amazing than at sea, although the shields in some people's hands seemed to be military equipment, but in front of the metal projectiles traveling at high speed, it was still not worth mentioning.

The formidable queue, immediately after the first shelling, was scattered. Speaking of which, the leader of the Lin family is also quite experienced, and when he saw the ships firing from the side of the ships in the naval battle, he thought that in the direction of the current bow of the ship facing the shore, the artillery could not move.

This is why this formation was put out with confidence, no one thought that the small cannon on the ship could actually be moved, this is also the application of Jiang Feng's limited modern knowledge as a traverser, the gun mount equipped with wheels, the weight of a pound gun is not too heavy, as long as the wooden tracks are pre-installed in all key directions of the ship, it can be moved.

After the second round of shelling by the Lin family's private soldiers on the shore, the queue that seemed to be quite impressive had already broken up, and the back was crowded, this situation was expected by Jiang Feng and Zhang Liang, if he could still stay still under such a blow, he would not be a private soldier, but the border army of the Ming Dynasty, or maybe the Yuejia army in the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty.

The ships transporting troops are close to the coast, and even if the Dengzhou battalion is a new recruit, they are also listening to the sound of guns and cannons every day in the barracks at the foot of Yantai Mountain, and this adaptability can be compared with the young and strong people of the Lin family, who have basically not been in contact with firearms except for firecrackers.

The recruits with long knives and shields jumped down from the boat one after another, wading waist-deep water towards the shore, the cannonballs on their heads flew whistling, and landed on the sand not far away, the soldiers of the Lin family were already constantly retreating backwards, but to the surprise of Jiang Feng's men on the boat, the other party still did not disperse, and the soldiers of the Lin family just retreated, such a will to fight was already quite amazing.

On the highest mountain of Linjia Island, the beacon tower has been lit, there is no wind now, the weather is also sunny, and the black smoke column goes straight into the air, which is particularly eye-catching.

Jiang Feng's recruits of the landing fleet accelerated their speed to go ashore under the loud urging and even kicking of the veterans, Jiang Feng was already standing at the front of the team, and the cannonballs fired just now had cleared the distance between the two sides for dozens of steps, and suddenly, an iron officer came from behind and hurriedly whispered:

"My lord, the Lin family has to wait for reinforcements on the shore after the tide recedes!"