The pirate's lair was also a dangerous place that was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the pirates somewhere got four bronze heavy guns weighing five or six thousand pounds, and arranged an open-air battery on the top of the hill near the port. Although these bronze guns were front-loading guns and could only fire solid shells, they posed a threat to any ship entering the harbor.

Hu Zhen commanded the Huyang and Shiyang to tow more than a dozen pirate ships, slowly approaching the pirate port, after listening to Jiang Yunfeng's introduction to the island lair, he asked curiously: "Since the pirates have artillery, why don't they install them on the ship, in that case, our losses will be great, and we will only stay in the port and wait for death?" ”

"Pirates generally plunder galleons, and these merchant ships are very poorly defended, and they don't need artillery at all, and besides, these bronze cannons are so heavy that I think they weigh at least five or six thousand pounds. In addition, pirates rarely dare to fight the idea of steam-powered ships, but today the sky is full of fog, I don't know which pirate leader had a whim, wanted to get a steam engine ship to play, but unexpectedly ran into hard stubble, stealing chickens instead of eating rice! ”

Jiang Yunfeng was robbed by pirates three years ago on a Chinese merchant ship and came here, becoming a rowing slave for pirates, but he was a caring person, very observant, and knew everything about pirates. At this moment, he has been standing at the bow of the boat to lead the way, listening to Hu Zhen's question, and immediately answering.

Hearing Jiang Yunfeng's answer, Hu Zhen nodded and picked up the binoculars to continue to observe the pirate port.

Jiang Yunfeng said worriedly: "Will it be dangerous for us to approach the pirate port like this?" It's not worth it if you pay too many casualties! ”

Hu Zhen felt that this Jiang Yunfeng was quite interesting, so he turned his head and asked, "What do you think is the safest way to rescue the Chinese in the pirate's lair and minimize casualties?" ”

"The pirates' weapons are not very good, but in order to avoid unnecessary casualties, I suggest sending ships to make a detour of thirty miles, land on the pirates' flanks, take out the pirates' batteries from behind, and then launch a fierce attack from the front of the port to annihilate the pirates' lair in one fell swoop!"

"Well, this is a good tactic to flank and flank! Have you ever been at war? Hu Zhen clapped his hands and praised.

"I really don't hide it from your benefactor, my ancestor is the general manager of the Republic of Langfang in Borneo, Jiang Wubo, I and other descendants are incompetent, and the Dutch have fought several years of war, including several vicious battles, but in the end we still can't hold it, and the Dutch are wiped out, we plan to go to Europe to seek ways to save the Chinese, but we fell into the hands of pirates halfway, it is really better than death! If you don't meet a benefactor, you'll never see the light of day! ”

Hu Zhen was overjoyed when he heard this, he had already arranged for someone to go to Nanyang to find clues, in order to contact the remnants of the Lanfang Republic, but he didn't expect to be sent to him by a group of pirates. So he said: "I was looking for the people of the Lanfang Republic, and you came, this is really a nowhere to find the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get there!" ”

"Ah, benefactor, what are you looking for from the people of the Lanfang Republic?" Jiang Yunfeng suddenly fell into doubt.

"I'll talk to you about this matter later, but now we have to settle the pirate matter first." Seeing that the ship was already approaching within the range of the pirate battery, Hu Zhen didn't care about talking to Jiang Yunfeng about other things, but turned around and ordered: "Sniper, listen to my orders after entering the firing range, and kill everyone on the pirate battery!" ”

"Benefactor, isn't it a roundabout flank attack?" Jiang Yunfeng heard Hu Zhen say this, as a man who had experienced a hundred battles, he was very worried that attacking from the front would lead to large casualties.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I haven't told you my method yet, according to the information you provided, we don't need to waste most of the day to outflank and outflank, just attack directly from the front!" Hu Zhen is very confident in the weapons made by the graduates of the German ** school using nuclear submarines, and he does not plan to waste too much time with these pirates at all.

"This, this ......" Jiang Yunfeng was accustomed to the fighting style of cold weapons, firearms, and single-shot rifles, and he didn't know much about Hu Zhen's weapons, but seeing Hu Zhen's confident appearance, he couldn't say anything.

After Hu Zhen arranged everything, seeing Jiang Yunfeng's hesitation, he comforted: "Don't worry, you just watch how we sweep the pirate's lair!" ”

At this time, the black pirates on the fort saw two steam engine ships with black smoke coming to the sea, dragging their own sail wooden ships, and thought that the pirates who went to sea had plundered two steam engine ships for the first time, so they threw aside the bows and arrows and guns in their hands, excitedly took off their upper clothes, danced a hot aboriginal dance, and sang loudly a song with a grunt.

The pirates below the fort heard the news and joined in the dance in droves. For a while, there were more and more dancing crowds on the fort, not knowing that their death was near.

Everyone on the boat was stunned when they saw this, and they all turned their eyes to Hu Zhen.

Hu Zhen burst out laughing: "Okay, the pirates thought that their accomplices had won a big victory, and we should take the opportunity to speed up." Everyone, go and cut the ropes of those pirates' rotten wooden ships, and the Tiger Ocean and Shiyang will rush over at full speed! ”

The pirates on the turret were in high spirits, but one of the cool-headed pirates, quietly holding his pergola in his hands, carefully observing the irregularities in the fleet, immediately cried out.

With this exclamation, more pirates stopped dancing frantically and carefully examined the rapidly approaching fleet, and soon, a large group of pirates panicked when they saw the two steam-engine ships unhooked the cables of the sailboats and rushed at full speed. Some picked up bows and guns that had been thrown on the ground, and some rushed into the ammunition depot in a panic to bring gunpowder and solid shells to reload the cannons.

"Mortars, recoilless guns, heavy machine guns, sniper fire, suppress pirate batteries!"

After the visual inspection came into range of the sniper rifle, Hu Zhen decisively gave the order to fire. Suddenly, there was a burst of gunfire, bullets swept across the crowd of pirates on the battery, and dozens of shells shot up into the air and smashed towards the crowd of pirates.

The pirate's way of thinking about war is basically still cold. In the era of weapons, the fort was open-air, and even decent bunkers were not built, and when the bullets and shells arrived, they were only beaten. After a while, flesh and blood flew on the fort.

When did the pirates see this kind of fierce firepower, and the pirates who were not hit quickly scattered and fled. The front-loading cannon on the turret only fired two shots, but due to the panicked loading, the propellant was not compacted, and the amount of charge was not enough, and the shooting effect was greatly reduced.

A burst of bullets swept in, knocking over dozens of pirates crowded around the forts and docks to watch the excitement, and the rest of the pirates were so frightened that they hurriedly hid in all directions.

The Huyang slowly approached the pirate's pier trestle, put down the temporary pedal made based on Jiang Yunfeng's intelligence, and Hu Zhen personally commanded the cadets to rush over the trestle and occupy the pier trestle.

However, the pirates were not willing to be moved to raid their lair, and under the command of a few leaders, they gathered three or four hundred pirates and swarmed along the narrow road in the direction of the docks.

"Hmph, a rabble!" Hu Zhen laughed coldly and ordered: "First use the sniper's cold gun to remotely interfere with the approach of the pirates, buy time for everyone to quickly build temporary fortifications, and then put the pirates within thirty meters and fire together to achieve the greatest results!" ”

The sparse sound of gunfire knocked down the pirates who rushed to the front, and frightened the pirates behind to disperse. But under the shouts of the pirate leader, the pirates huddled together again and rushed forward tremblingly, but the speed of their advance was greatly slowed.

The sparse gunfire rang out continuously, and pirates were constantly knocked to the ground with flesh and blood flying.

The speed of the pirates was slow, and when Hu Zhen commanded everyone to set up a temporary position, the pirates were still two or three hundred meters away.

Hu Zhen ordered the snipers to stop shooting, but the pirates were still grinding, and Liang Kunri, who was so angry that he was about to kill with a heavy machine gun, scolded his mother.

However, although the turtle's speed was slow, it was still crawling forward, and the pirates, who were more than twice as large as the Chinese, slowly rushed to the docks.