Chapter 220: Robbing the Pirate Ship
There was a clatter, a whirlwind, the deck of the enemy ship was thrown into disarray, the mainmast was broken, and because of the many cables that were pulling, it did not fall with a bang, but staggered and fell. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
The three guns had already seen blood, and several of the Japanese sailors on the deck had been killed or wounded, all of which had been hit by flying sawdust and iron pieces that held the masts in place.
Such a vermilion ship is too small, it can't be considered a warship at all, let alone a warship, at most it belongs to an armed merchant ship, and it is only equipped with four six-pound and four-pound copper-core iron cannons in total, which is worse than the pirate ship of Aoi Kumaji that Huang Sheng robbed last time.
Closer, the enemy ship had lost the wind, it was impossible to escape, they vomited blood with the paddle, and they couldn't slip away.
At this time, the power of the rifled gun is reflected, its advantage is not only the long range, the greater benefit is to hit accurately, Wang Lianfa wanted to capture the enemy ship, this time did not choose a solid bullet that was too damaging to the hull, but chose a flowering shell.
After three explosions, shmelnel covered the entire deck of the enemy ship, followed by several explosions, and the enemy's powder kegs were hit and exploded.
But it doesn't matter, if it explodes on the deck, it will not cause the ship to sink, the guns of the Zhuyin ship are arranged on the deck, and most of the Asian warships in this era are like this, unlike the Huang family's flagship In addition to the bow and tail guns, most of the other guns are on the two decks in the cabin room.
Seeing that this pirate ship had lost its resistance, and several would-be pirates with flower heads were fighting the fire, Zhao Shimin ignored him at all, and commanded all the power to follow one of the two vermilion ships that were chasing and fleeing.
He just wanted to see if in the naval battle, the Zhu Yin ship fled at full speed, and the Liaodong was fully driven to chase after it, whether it could be caught up as theoretically calculated.
The pirates on the ship that escaped had already seen the fate of their companions, and knew that this big ship was not something they could compete with, so they decisively decided to flee at full speed.
Like a centipede, the Zhuyin boat stretched out sixteen giant oars to paddle rhythmically, which shows that at least 32 people of the enemy ship are artificially increasing the power, which is not an easy job, and it takes at least two people to row such a huge oar.
Four men is the best, I am afraid that there are no sixty-four people on the pirate ship, and the pirates on the ship are rowing desperately, and they all see that their companions are finished.
As pirates, they know that the ship's mast has been broken, the sail has been knocked down, the gun emplacements have been knocked out, and the final fate is to be sunk or forced to surrender, and they beg for mercy.
Under normal circumstances, no one would choose to sink an enemy ship that has lost its combat effectiveness, it is all a vain attempt to capture it, but it is difficult to say whether the ship spared the pirates.
Experienced pirates naturally choose not to provoke the victors, hoping to save their lives. Even if you are sold into a slave in the mines, it is better than being buried in the sea! It's better to die than to live, and there's always a chance to live, isn't it?
All the pirates had already seen the battle flags of the enemy ships flying high, and saw that the embroidered flags might be the only Chinese character "Ming" they knew, and knew that those ships were not peers, but the Great Ming sailors, no wonder how powerful they were.
At this time, the pirates were fully confident that their warship could escape the pursuit of the Ming warship behind them, because they had never seen a warship of their size catch up with their own Zhuyin ship.
Every time they go to sea to rob, they chase and kill the armed merchant ships coming and going on their own warships, and the speed of successful robbery is a must, and the pirates are also familiar with speeding up the warships, and even the rhythm of the oars is quite reasonable.
The 'Liaodong' also used enough manpower to accelerate, which may be the reason why the sailors are not as skilled as the pirate ships, and they really can't catch up for a while.
This is also understandable, the pirate ship is familiar to those Japanese sailors, and the 'Liaodong' is the first time that the eldest girl has been on the sedan chair, although Zhao Shimin picks all senior sailors, there must be a run-in period and adaptation period.
The two ships chased and fled and kept the pirate ship out of the range of the twenty-pounder gun, it seemed that the speed of the two ships was similar, Zhao Shimin and Huang Mingdao were extremely depressed, it was useless to be anxious, and the eighty-eight soldiers who were ready to change shifts continued to stare at the fleeing pirate ship with binoculars.
Half an hour passed, and the Liaodong was replaced by eighty-eight soldiers of the second squad with increased power, and although the replaced people still had physical strength, they were all soaked as if they had been fished out of the water.
After all, it was August, the weather was still relatively hot, the power cabin was under the lower deck, the space was limited, and the eighty-eight men were sweating like rain even though they were pedaling with their feet, and the temperature in the cabin naturally rose sharply, and the soldiers were of course sweating.
At this moment, Zhao Shimin was happy, he found that the pirate ship was a beat slower, and the Huang family had several sets of team changes to increase the power, but the pirates did not have such good conditions, and after half an hour of rowing with all their might, the thirty-two pirate sailors gradually became physically exhausted.
This is the power of science and technology, the propeller came out 200 years in advance, and the technology of chain drive gear set makes the power provided by 88 people greater than that provided by 880 people to paddle. The same can catch up with the Zhu Yin ship.
The result of the long battle for manpower was that the speed of the Liaodong continued to decrease, and the enemy ships became slower and slower, and soon became slower, because Wang Lianfa had already reached the enemy ships with the three guns under his command that had been loaded.
He watched the pirate ship get closer and closer, and simply aimed closer and prepared to fire three cannons, the enemy ship knew the danger, they thought it was too terrifying, how could such a big ship be so fast?
The pirates panicked, and everyone who could use them went to help paddle hard, and everyone was so tired that they vomited blood.
It's just that I don't know if they are paddling so hard, and everyone is so tired that their hands and feet are weak before they engage in battle, so if they are able to hold their weapons when they are fighting, can they still shoot arquebuses?
Most of the pirates paddling are shirtless, where do they have any protection?
The answer will be revealed soon, and all the officers and men of the 'Liaodong' are waiting to see what happens.
The three guns in the bow of the ship fired, and six iron balls of chains landed on the deck of the enemy ship, causing no casualties among the pirates, because there was no one there, and they were all rowing in the cabins below deck.
The main mast of the pirate ship fell, the huge hard sail fell, and the enemy ship completely lost its wind, and it became even slower, and it seemed to be about to stop slowly, Wang Lianfa aimed again, this time loaded with flowering shells.
His idea was to give the pirates a fire cover when they resisted, inflicting a lot of casualties on the pirates.
At this moment, there was a shirtless flower head holding a crotch cloth, came to the deck and waved it desperately, no wonder the Japanese used this thing, it turned out that it was still of great use to save lives!
The enemy ship signaled surrender? Damn it! So can't help but fight?
Huang Mingdao guarded against the Japanese pirates and ordered all the officers and men of the Liaodong to be on high alert, the musketeers all lay in ambush to the side of the ship and prepared to shoot, and the heavy infantry of a small flag held steel shields to protect Ruan Dan, Shang Muming and a few students who were wearing helmets and armor came to the bow of the ship.
The pirate ship had no speed at all, as if it was drifting with the tide, and gradually stopped, and the Liaodong also stopped artificial power, and slowly approached the stern of the enemy ship.
This is also the content of the exercise, so close to the enemy ships that are ready to surrender, to keep our troops with attack power, artillery and flintlock guns, and to raise guns can cover enemy fire.
If the enemy plays tricks, at most they can secretly fire the arquebus, and the damage effect to our troops is negligible, and the arquebus cannot penetrate the steel shield, because the guns of warships like them are on the port side and cannot hit the stern.
Already bow to stern, Shang Muming shouted loudly in Japanese, and his students also parroted in unison, which means that we are the Ming sailors, those who surrender will not die, everyone raises their hands to the deck to gather, and the Ming officers and soldiers promise not to hurt anyone.
With the tiger skin of the Ming Dynasty sailor, it really took the light of righteousness, and those pirates chose to believe it after hearing the shouts, and ran to a position where the Ming army could see it with their hands raised one by one.
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