Chapter 198: Voyage Home (Text)
On the sea, several boats leaning together were fighting, and in the middle was a typical large civilian ship, on the felled mast, the sails were only half burned, and the people like ants were using this as a springboard and ladder, desperately climbing and fighting.
It's not a bloody human body that falls like a dumpling into the turbid sea.
On the other hand, a few smaller clippers cruising around the periphery kept making irregular arcs along the current, throwing burning arrows and stones and other things into a large ship with a wide body, splashing more fire points and screaming and shouting.
A two-masted schooner, with all the strength of the wind, made an arc sideways, and rushed towards us, and the other ships also approached, desperately controlling the direction, trying to cut into the possible trajectory of our big ship.
"Damn, I'm going to kill it directly"
I burst into a foul mouth
"What a daredevil"
"It's about touching to see that we are weak, let's test one or two"
Xin Jiaxuan said with a frown
"Temptation? I rushed over without any intention of negotiating."
The bow of the ship
"The other party is only afraid that there will be too many boats, and he has the idea of seizing the ship and destroying the mouth"
"Like an extinction? And I don't know whose eloquence it is."
I cracked my mouth and sneered
"Level 1 Combat Readiness Process"
With the sound of whistles and shouts, the soldiers poured out of the hatches and storerooms, and suddenly began to gather troops on the deck
Then there is the handover of passwords
"Gun Queue Preparation"
"Spears String Ready for Cover"
"White Soldiers Deck on Standby"
"The rest are stationed in the cabin and the exit to prevent the thieves from climbing"
"Preparation of fire prevention measures and repair tools"
"The artillery team and the time has come for you to come in handy"
On our return voyage, in addition to the motley regiments of our own family, there were seven "new" ships that had joined, two light fighting ships, five baggage ships, and a bunch of merchant ships that followed far behind.
It was only because of the wind and waves and the error of judgment that the boat I was on and the other baggage boat found that I had run a lot ahead of me at the end of the night, so it seemed a little lonely.
However, my boat is not alone at all, as the first part of the model model in the army, most of the members and equipment, as well as the corresponding artillery team and a small number of platoon bombardiers are on this ship, as long as there is no problem with the ship itself, it is really necessary to fight on the sea, and it is not without backhand.
And the other big ship that pulled away was also equipped with some of the men and horses of the fourth and sixth parts and their personal equipment, as well as the Yizhou Yicong under Genjiulang, and in a certain way, they were more suitable for this kind of naval warfare.
As the sailors and boatmen, young and old, desperately manipulating the sail cables, slowly adjusting the direction and speed of their own ship, passing through the flying waves and the steaming mist of the sea, the unknown enemy on the armed clipper ship has appeared in my mirror barrel.
They are almost shirtless and short, or simply shirtless, revealing sweaty oily bodies, and their tanned skin makes most of them look like they have poured out of a mold.
They carried things in their hands, and the metallic reflections in the scattered sunlight showed that they were not good people, and they were not here to talk well.
"Closer, Nearer"
The sailors and boatmen shouted.
"Hold on to the fixtures"
"Beware of Collision"
Almost at the moment of passing by, a heavy vibration came from under our feet, an indescribable feeling, which made people want to jump up and then fall to the ground.
Immediately, many soldiers who were not used to it fell on the deck with a wail, and then more than a dozen people were helped down with their heads broken and bleeding.
My mouth was also pounded hard by my teeth, and there was a fresh smell of patina, and after a brief miscarriage.
Then the rampage of the second armed clipper came, swaying and leaning heavier than before, and slamming into our faces as the waves bounced high over the side of the pole.
The spicy saltiness and wetness made me feel bad.
But there was no order, still no one got up, no one shot the gun, they just continued to hold on to the clinging object, fixed the weapon with their bodies, and silently waited for the final command, during which several people fell or stumbled on the hard object, and temporarily lost their combat effectiveness.
Looking at the fresh blood on the deck, I swallowed the desire and impulse to give orders again, and at this time, the heavy hull, which is the quality of the military, finally had its due effect.
I could only hear the tooth-aching creaking and the constant bouncing of debris and wood chips, and standing high above the aft tower, I could clearly see that the whole bow of the armed clipper, which was facing us diagonally at the angle of impact, was rapidly breaking apart as if a cannon had suddenly lit a cannon out of it.
Standing on it, whether it was a human body or an object, it was as if it had been thrown by some invisible force, and then it slammed down on our boat, sending out some kind of ripple.
By this time, the ship had been castrated, and the squeezers threw the opponent away, leaving only the armed clippers who had begun to lean forward and backward in place, and the survivors who were scrambling to jump into the sea.
"The general can rest assured."
At this time, the bow of the ship also came to its senses and spoke to me
"This ship is below the waterline, but it is a bottom shell clad with iron and copper."
"Waiting for the idle ship to hit us"
Then another dark shadow enveloped us again, but a third armed clipper also approached in parallel, even much faster than us.
As the two boats got closer and closer, I watched as they rained down, and the dense nails landed on our hulls.
Some of the men standing in the middle of the clipper had already begun to shoot arrows at the tail tower where we were, and they were falling like a sparse light rain, but there were no casualties.
The two ships met again, and with the reinforcement of the fixtures, a certain synchronous deceleration began, voluntarily or unwillingly, and the sailors and boatmen looked at me again nervously, but some of them could not help but take up arms.
After a brief deathly silence, we rose above each other's poles and suddenly erupted in bursts of shouting and roaring in various accents and tones.
"Up"
"Kill and take away"
"Chickens and dogs don't stay"
There was still no discernible movement on the deck, until I took a deep breath and finally gave the order.
"Lower the bevel angle four six, three rows of forward out"
The spear officer shouted the order
"Kill"
In an instant, those short-haired, ecstatic and hideous faces suddenly turned into a kind of astonishment and horror, for above them, there were clusters of spearheads, like pufferfish's freshly bulging thorns, and like peacocks' blooming feathers.
Poked out of the top of the ship's side and through the holes in the drain, and in an instant they used their splatters of blood and their bodies to stain one side of the hull with a large blood-red spot.
These spears, even if they didn't hit, were quickly withdrawn, and then stabbed out again with the password, like mowing grass, these half-climbed figures, stabbed in batches, even if they dodged left and right on the bare hull by ropes, they could not escape, and after the others were killed and wounded, they became the target of concentrated stabbing.
"Kill"
"Kill"
"Kill"
As a few syllables were shouted in batches, there were no more human bodies on the boat gang that could be hooked, only a few wounded people who were dragging blood and still struggling to swim in the sea.
But there were many more pirates, gathered on the side of the pole, and before they had time to climb up, they looked at these brave pioneers in amazement, and in the blink of an eye, they withered like the autumn wind carried the fallen leaves.
They screamed and roared in exclamation, beating their chests and wailing, and then finally someone remembered to fight back with a bow and arrow, or throw their weapons in anger.
Then, aimed in their direction, it was not a sharp spear that stretched out again, but a row of fiery guns that fell diagonally.
"Ready... Put"
The sudden spray of smoke and lead rain from the side of the ship enveloped and swallowed them.
After a few moments, only one of the few armed clippers that backed us, under the control of a few frightened remnants, desperately cut off the hooks and fixations, and stretched out half of the sail full of holes, and finally broke away crookedly in the send-off of my volley.
During this period of fighting, the high freeboard that we were defending played a role between the fortified bunker and the city wall, and we used the hull as a defensive line to fight a positional battle that we were better at.
And due to the limitations of the sea, the direction in which the enemy can attack will always be only those two wide planes.
At this time, the remaining few larger ships, which were under siege, also realized that something was wrong, and despite the fact that the battle had not yet been completely over, they stretched out the side of the ship, raised their sails and pressed towards us.
It was also a large ship, and it had been modified and painted in some way, and it was almost covered with bloodstained armed men, and with the sound of some kind of machinery, a dozen or so suspicious stones rolled and threw over from the other boat, smashing into white sprays in the vicinity.
The most recent one of them only grazed the side of the pole and made a gap, but it was the other party's ship that looked like stone cannons, crossbows and other projectile weapons.
But for me, who has just made a snack, it is the best material, after all, the space on the ship is limited, and as a melee hand-to-hand combat unit, they have too many stations, especially for the headquarters with a large number of firearms.
The gun crews fixed in the bow and stern also added the firing sequence, these are experienced gunners borrowed from the sailors, and it may still be a matter of probability to shoot at long range, but there is no problem with shooting shots at close range.
With a huge roar.
Those who held canisters of incendiary goods, or shortbows and crossbows, or even shorthooked spears and scimitars, broadswords and other strangely variegated blades, and held up signs and hanging ropes, seemed to freeze in an instant.
Under the intensive baptism of lead bullets at close range, the position above the opponent's waterline, along with the people and objects on the deck, became a variety of flesh and blood stumps against the background.
As the hull of the ship tossed and swayed, the blood and debris that had not yet solidified turned into pink foam and dirt under the wash of the waves, and flowed down from the incomplete pole and side like a waterfall, which was particularly miserable.
After only a few rounds of attacks, there was no longer any standing figure on the opponent's ship, and I was quite satisfied with this, as the result of the battle and training between Tiannan and Tanjung Dazhou, even on a ship that was not so accustomed and familiar and still shaking, it was able to exert the basic effect and power of volleyfire.
In fact, as soon as the cannon sounded, the other party obviously realized that something was wrong, and the remaining two pirate ships, like frightened rabbits, disregarded a single cut off, leaving behind their companions who were entanglement on those target ships, desperately trying to operate the ship to escape.
The problem is that without the right wind direction and currents, it is not so easy to turn around and speed up.
It turned into a slow practice of target shooting and chase, and after finally killing a sail with a cannon before the sun went down, leaving one behind again, they abandoned the ship and jumped overboard, desperately swimming to the shore before darkness fell.