Section 372 Victory in the first battle

The third volume sailed in the Ming Dynasty

Seeing that the situation was not good, the pirates on the ship could no longer care about the ship, and began to jump into the icy waters one after another, screaming and swimming desperately towards the friendly ship that had rushed over.

But in this case, how easy is it to escape for your life?

The battle is still going on, especially since they are at an absolute disadvantage, and the allies have no time to meet them.

Not to mention that Shen Shouchong drove a five-hundred-material fortune ship to run over it, and the sea water swept the nearby pirates into the bottom of the ship with a powerful whirlpool, and the free fire of the Dengzhou Wei Navy alone made the sea water in this sea area stained bright red.

Zhang Yun looked at all this in a daze, through this battle, he really felt the cruelty of naval battles and the tenacity of pirates.

Even if it was in such a situation, the pirates had already gone away, and Shen Shouchong ordered the standard-bearer to persuade him to surrender, but the other party's reply was that the ship was in the people and did not surrender.

At this moment, Zhang Yun had a new understanding and understanding of the Dengzhou Wei Navy and the Marine Corps.

"Solve them quickly!"

Shen Shouchong, who was in the helm room, saw the other party's reply, took a deep breath, and resolutely ordered.

He understands the pirate's affection for the ship, and the man who runs the sea all the year round basically takes the ship as his home, and has long had feelings. It's not about whether or not you're a pirate, it's a complex for all those who call the sea home.

"Molotov cocktails! Smash Lao Tzu hard! I can't grab it, and I can't fucking let him run! Burned it! ”

Since he couldn't get the ship, Zhang Yun roared loudly on the boat.

Another box of whale oil cocktails was opened, and the soldiers took one out of it, and in a few moments they threw it towards Scar Six's ship.

Immediately after the crackling sound, smoke rose from the pirate ship, and a raging fire rolled out of the smoke, which burned the pirates on board to the point that they were crazy to try to extinguish the fire.

It's just that the people also thought of this, and took out a small number of cans of fire oil and smashed them at them.

As a result, Zhang Yun didn't have time to be happy, and he was thrown a few cans of fire oil by the opponent on his ship.

With a pop, flames erupted from the deck of his ship, and the fire quickly began to spread under the splash of oil.

Shocked, Zhang Yun ordered people to continue the battle, and at the same time asked Wu Feng to command the soldiers on the ship to quickly extinguish the fire.

Bags of sand stacked on the deck were carried by the soldiers and rushed to the place where the fire was burning, and they were sprinkled on the fire with a hula la to cover the overflowing fire oil on the deck.

Then buckets of seawater were poured on it, but part of the fire was still not extinguished, and the flames continued to jump, and actually burned to the sail ropes stacked next to the mast.

Seeing that the fire was about to burn on the pile of sails, one of them forgot his usual training in a hurry, and raised his foot to step on it, trying to extinguish the fire.

This is good, he stepped on it a few times, but he didn't put out the fire, but his feet were also stained with oil, and the guy screamed all of a sudden.

He jumped to the side and stepped into a bucket with one foot, which extinguished the fire on his foot. But his calf pants were also burned at this time, and it was estimated that at least a lot of bubbles would be burned.

Wu Feng was in a hurry, so he hurriedly rushed into the cabin and brought a futon, splashed a few buckets of seawater, wet the quilt, grabbed it and flew up, and covered the quilt on the fire, which can be regarded as completely extinguishing the fire.

After watching the fire being extinguished, Wu Feng breathed a long sigh of relief.

Turning his head to look at the battle situation, at this time, after a fierce battle, the warships of the two sides had begun to gradually separate, ready for the next sprint.

The remaining five ships on the surface of the sea were either half-floating and half-sinking on the sea, or they were billowing in smoke and burning in flames.

It really hurt 1,000 enemies and 800 self-inflicted damage.

The naval battle is really cruel, Wu Feng shook his head, a little confused, is there only a simple way to fight for your life in naval warfare, such as ramming, arson, and jumping gangs?

If the powerful redcoat cannons on land were brought to the battleship instead of the less powerful artillery, could it change the way naval warfare was conducted?

At the moment, all these questions were hovering in his mind.

"What are you stunned about, you don't want to die, hurry up and adjust the muzzle of the cannon and stare at the point."

Zhang Yun didn't care about the overall battle situation at this time, but excitedly called and everyone to prepare for the next battle.

The situation is now very clear. The only two remaining pirate ships are already at the end of their crossbows, and they basically have no combat effectiveness.

The reason why they are still fighting, but they are just stiffening.

Moreover, even Zhang Yun, a novice on the battlefield, can see that these two pirate ships no longer cooperate with each other, and they are both fighting alone, I wonder if the bandit leader has died in the original shipwreck?

Now, Shen Shouchong's target is no longer a sailing ship that has been beaten to the same size, but another larger Guangzhou ship.

Daming's sea ships are basically divided into three types, namely the Canton ship type, the Fu ship type and the sand ship type. All sea vessels, whether civilian ships or war ships, basically belong to these three types of ships.

This time there are six pirate ships, all kinds of types.

In the battle just now, this larger Guangzhou ship was attacked by another ship of the Dengzhou Weishui Army and suffered several shots.

Originally, such shells basically did not cause much damage to their hull, and even the ship's board could not be broken.

Unfortunately, however, a cannonball hit the mainmast of the sail line and tore it off in one fell swoop.

The heavy sails fell with a whirl, causing them to lose their main power at once, leaving only the foresails of the foremast, which could only allow them to move slowly.

Speed and agility suddenly slowed down, and the pirate ship had to head out to sea, trying to get out of the fight.

But how could Shen Shouchong let him go?

After a short time with the other boat, he caught up with the Canton ship, which had lost its mainsail, clamped it one by one, adjusted the muzzle, aimed at the ship and began to bombard.

Shen Shouchong's ship had four cannons, two of which were big Buddha machines of more than 200 catties, and there were also two small Buddha franc machines weighing dozens of catties on the side of the ship, and their firepower was much more vigorous than that of another lucky ship.

Zhang Yun commanded the soldiers and fired a volley of artillery at the ship. The two small Furlong cannons had a faster rate of fire, and they kept changing their guns, and they were fighting hard at the pirate ship.

The other Fufune ship has a small light gun, but it is not far behind, although it cannot catch up with the rate of fire of the small Furlong cannon, but it can basically guarantee that it will be fired once a minute.

The two cannons cooperated with Shen Shouchong's ship, and they opened full fire without giving way, and kept blasting towards the pirate ship.

The pirates on the wide ship refused to be captured like this, and when they saw the two ships of the Ming Dynasty catching up with it, they also went crazy and began to fight back.

The Guang ship was smaller than Shen Shouchong's Fu ship, so the force was slightly weaker, and it was three cannons in total.

But they didn't know where they got a general cannon, which weighed four or five hundred catties, had five iron hoops on the body of the cannon, and had a relatively large caliber.

Although it is not a Hongyi cannon, it can be regarded as a relatively powerful cannon, and the other two are more common large bowls, and their power is more average.

The problem was that their general cannon was placed in the bow position, and the sail on their mainmast was knocked down, the ship lost most of its power, and it was impossible to turn around and fire at Shen Shouchong and another lucky ship for a while, so they could only use the two bowls on the stern to resist.

At the same time, the pirates on the ship also picked up various firearms and bows and arrows, and fired them at the two enemy ships approaching on both sides like crazy, trying to prevent them from approaching.

But their stubborn resistance did not have much effect, and the firepower of the two ships of Dengzhouwei greatly exceeded them, and after a few rounds of shelling, they were dumbfounded, and the stern tower was also destroyed.

It was getting dark, the sun was setting towards the horizon, and the battle was over.

After two hours of bloody fighting, the pirates, both who stayed and those who escaped, were eliminated or captured.

Because there is no gang fighting, many marines do not have the opportunity to fight, and can only do some aftermath work at this time, but if there is still resistance, then they can justifiably stain their war knives with blood.

Of the six pirate ships, only two were left in tatters, and the other four sank to the bottom of the sea. And the pirates, there is not much left.

The pirate team of one or two thousand people, only more than three hundred survived, and they were all concentrated in Shen Shouchong's cockpit, strung together by ropes, and driven to the lowest cabin.

In this battle, the most injured was Shen Shouchong's ship, which had two collisions with enemy ships in the battle just now, both of which were rubbed on the side of the ship, and the gunwales were somewhat cracked.

The ship was shot several times, a hole was punched in the upper part of the bulkhead of the fifth compartment of the ship, and a section of the starboard gangside was broken.

And the deck had just been thrown into a big tank of oil and caught fire, and the deck was charred and black, and a small number of spare saillines on the ship were burned.

Zhang Yun was distributed among the marines on seven boats, and after the first battle, 89 people were killed and more than 300 were wounded, of which 230 were lightly wounded and nearly 100 were seriously injured, which can be regarded as heavy casualties.

Of course, this also has something to do with their first time on the battlefield. After all, no matter how hard you train, there is always a difference between a recruit and a veteran.

But no matter what, although there were some losses, this battle was finally won!

And then it's time to enjoy the fruits of victory.