Zhong Bin was standing on the deck of the Chunxiao at this time, and as the first mate of the captain Yang Junbo, he couldn't help but feel a little apprehensive at this time. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoIn the past, when he participated in naval battles, he had to have a large number of ships under black pressure to dare to confront the enemy head-on, and he heard that this time it was the capital ships of the Medeno people who were going to fight, and there were four of them, to be honest, he didn't believe that this Chunxiao could win.

However, the Senate's navy did not attack the Chunxiao ship this time, but the several iron clippers that had beaten themselves to the ground a few months ago, the senators called them cruisers and destroyers, and they would all participate in the battle. These clippers were equipped not only with the spring-loaded guns that looked like ballistas, but also with new naval machine guns.

At this time, the fleet was sailing in formation, and in order to take care of the speed of the Chunxiao, the whole fleet was moving in a southeasterly direction at a speed of eight knots, and according to the battle plan, they would detour back to the tail of the direction of the Medeno fleet, and then block them in the harbor at low tide, so that they would have a chance to capture the enemy ships.

Although the Chunxiao is full of sails, the wind direction at this time is the west wind, if it is usual, it can only be taken slowly, but at this time, the naturalized civilian navy soldiers on the ship are rowing to speed up. Zhong Bin couldn't help but look enviously at the busy crowd on the cruiser two hundred meters away, they didn't have to rock, these boats had no sails or oars on their own, it really made his saliva drool.

"Don't be envious," Yang Junbo rubbed him on the shoulder, "If we capture those capital ships, we can be modified better than theirs, but ours is a battleship." ”

"Battleship?" Zhong Bin was a little stunned, he really had no way to understand the new words that would pop up from time to time among these patriarchs, but this name combined with the capital ship of the Medno people looked very powerful when he heard it.

"Yes, when the time comes, we will have to equip ourselves with heavy propulsion equipment, and we will be able to make better rifled guns after returning those smoothbore guns to the furnace, and when we get to sea, we will go sideways." Yang Junbo said with confidence, and couldn't help but feel like he wanted to look up to the sky and roar, without noticing that he was still on a medium-sized fortune ship like a sailboat in later generations.

Zhong Bin smiled and nodded, he now knew that although these elders were very loud and invincible in the world at every turn, these people were not just talking about them on paper, and they could make real results. Moreover, people never boast nonsense, saying that if they hit 700 meters, then they can hit at least 700 meters, and if they say that the explosion range is 10 meters, then they will definitely be able to effectively kill targets within 10 meters.

At this time, a light began to flash at the stern of the ship in front, and the naturalized soldier who was in charge of lighting the light hurriedly recorded it there, and soon he reported to the captain, "The flagship has signaled that it has reached the No. 1 navigation point, and is about to turn to the west, and from now on it will be lined up in an artillery array, with an interval of fifty meters and a speed of six knots." ”

"Speed down!" Yang Junbo ordered loudly, "Half a sail!" ”

"Half sails?" Zhong Bin was a little stunned, he used to order to turn that way, the speed was the ships of the fleet, and the ships were basically the private property of each shipowner. However, at this time, although the ships of the navy were of different types, they were still able to maintain a formation and move on the sea.

"Yes, it's a westerly wind now, and you can maintain a speed of six knots as long as you half sail." Yang Junbo explained a little. There were already a number of sailors on the deck of the ship running, and these soldiers, under the command of the boatswain, divided into groups, removed the fixed cables, and began to collect the sails as required.

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"Colonel, it's time for the tide to end." Carnesto said to Ston, looking at the position of the moon with an astronomical instrument in his hand.

"Yes, how are the people getting ashore?" Ston was dissatisfied with the speed of the landing of these sailors under his command.

The first mate replied, "More than 60 of the more than 100 people who landed in the first batch have been killed or wounded, but the pirates who attacked have retreated, our second and third groups have landed, and the fourth group is coming ashore. ”

Ston took out the monoculars and looked in the direction pointed by the first mate, and in the distance a torch lit up a large area of the beach, and the sailors who landed had already carried two cannons, although the caliber of this kind of cannon was not large, but it was lightweight, and the ordinary dinghy could be disassembled and carried ashore, and it was enough to bombard the city wall or something.

By this time, the Yaror and Carson had entered the harbor and began to carry the ship's sailors directly to the port facilities. It was now clear that several dinghys were filled with torch-wielding sailors, paddling to the nearest trestle, from where they were ready to land. Everything seems to be in order as planned, you must know that they have also fought with the Wu ** team, and the Wu ** team can only use the army to besiege them and cannot directly attack and destroy them. At this time, since they had sent all the cannons ashore, they were certainly not afraid of the attack of the army, not to mention that there were capital ships in the harbor in charge of covering. Even if the pirates were able to come up with a few strange weapons to surprise them, they were all ashore at this time, and the pirates had no choice but to fight head-on if they wanted to expel them.

At this moment, suddenly there was a whistle in the distance, this whistle was urgent and sharp, Ston couldn't help but chuckle in his heart, everything was so smooth at this time for the landing operation, could it be that the pirates had already set a trap for themselves to drill? Thinking of this, he suddenly laughed for no reason. Carnesto hurriedly turned around and asked, "The colonel doesn't know what's laughing about?" ”

"I laugh at these pirates, who don't know how to kill us if they intercept the sailors before they get ashore. Or rushing to cover up all the way when the foothold is not stable after landing, it will inevitably cause chaos to our army. But by this time our army had landed, and even the artillery had been transported, and even 10,000 pirates would probably not be able to drive us away. ”

"Hahaha, yes, pirates are always on the stage, they have only a few hundred people, even if they are coerced by the people, there are only four or five thousand people, how can they ...... with me" Before Canesto could finish speaking, he saw the fire flashing three times in the direction of the pirate camp. Then came the muffled sound of the cannons.

"Pirates also have cannons?" Ston was stunned for a moment, although the strange ship had sunk the Vincent before, but when they passed by, he clearly saw that the so-called cannon barrel on the strange ship was only the size of a whirling cannon, but the fire he saw just now should have been fired from a large-caliber gun...... Just a few seconds later, three explosions were heard on the sea, and a column of water suddenly rose between the boats of the Aror and Carson carrying personnel and supplies.

A dinghy was torn apart from the middle, and the men and supplies on it flew up with the shock wave, and Ston saw a sailor being lifted into the air, falling to the bulwark of the Carson nearly twenty meters away, and then falling heavily into the water.

"Turn!" The captain of the Carson stood on the command podium at this time, calmly and calmly. These pirates only had three cannons, and they had thirty-six cannons on one side of their ship, not to mention the Aror that followed behind. "Course due north, artillery fire, suppress enemy artillery."

The Carson quickly completed the steering under the towing of the dinghy, and the Aror behind it also began to turn, and the gun windows on the gun deck of the Carson were opened, and the guns that had already been loaded were pushed out of the gun windows to aim at the flash. Then one window after another roared and flashed fire.

Shells the size of bowling balls flew out of the muzzles and towards the artillery positions. However, the firing position of the thunder cannon responsible for providing fire support was 500 meters away, and it was difficult to estimate the direction of the flash in the night, so the shells simply fell on the temporary buildings in the port, many houses were destroyed, and all kinds of building materials flew all over the sky.

"Thankfully, the port area has been emptied." Li Zhen looked into the distance with a telescope, and at this time, the parameters from the calibration team came from the walkie-talkie, "One hundred meters to the left, sixty meters forward." ”

Li Zhen reported the parameters, Lin Quan adjusted the attitude of the cannon according to the parameters, and then Fan Han began to reload with another gunner on the side. Then Lin Quan checked the parameters of himself and the two cannons next to him again, and nodded to Li Zhen.

"Launch!" Li Zhen waved his hand heroically.

The roar of the flying thunder cannon sounded again, and the three shells were much more accurate this time, directly smashing into the middle of the boat, one of the three grenades exploded in the air, and two of them exploded into the seawater.

For a while, the capsized and exploded dinghy floated on the water, and the bodies of the sailors were also floating next to them, all with their mouths wide open and bleeding from their mouths in horror. The people in the dinghy that had not been sunk were frightened by the three shells, and turned around like crazy to row in the direction they had come.

"Why are they still firing?" The captain of the Carson shouted, "Hurry! Reload! ”

"The Aror has also fired!" The first mate pointed behind him and shouted loudly, and the captain looked in the direction of his finger, and sure enough, it was another feast of sound and light, and the muzzles of the guns that pushed out the gun windows roared one after another, and the smoke that erupted for a while obscured the Aror.

The Aror did not achieve a suppressive effect, and most of the shells still fell in the port area, except for the construction debris that had collapsed the Carson again, and even the farthest shell was more than 200 meters away from the thunder gun position.

At this time, the sailors who had already landed before were pushing their cannons in the direction of the flying thunder cannons, and in front of them were dark sailors, holding all kinds of weapons in their hands, long knives, short knives, long swords, daggers, spears, and firearms.

"Platoon commander!" A herald rushed to the hiding place where Zeng Zhigang and Liu Lihua were chatting and shouted, "After receiving the order, immediately attack, outflank the enemy's landed artillery and defeat them!" ”

Zeng Zhigang smashed the branch in his hand to the ground, lifted the rifle on the side, and shouted at his subordinates, "Two companies and three rows assemble!" Ready for battle! ”