157 The hunter strikes
"Sir, in the east a thousand years ago, there was a general named Cao Cao, who was all northerners, and in order to attack the enemy, he had to take a boat. In the wind and waves, his men were seasick, so the general came up with a way to connect countless ships together, and then the enemy burned countless soldiers to death...... "Thomas obviously knows a lot about the history of the East.
actually knew about the burning of Chibi.
Shen Jiu looked at him, smiled, and did not speak.
"If they all know history, why bother? I heard that the Ming warships are particularly powerful in attacking with fire! Kent was even more surprised.
"Their ships have a higher center of gravity than ours, and only by connecting their ships together can they withstand the wind and waves, and avoid silence or capsizing. Even if our boat is too stormy, it will sink sometimes...... "Thomas said. "In the face of such an enemy, we will soon be able to end the fight."
When it came to the fire attack of the Great Ming Water Division, Thomas was terrified.
In the face of the fire attack of the Daming Naval Division, no matter how powerful the battleships in Europe were, they did not dare to let them get close.
"Shen, will you attack with fire?" After speaking, he turned his head and asked Shen Jiu, who couldn't see his face clearly in the dark.
Shen Jiu shook his head, "Don't attack with fire, just get on their ships, kill the soldiers, and capture these ships." These ships require a lot of silver to build, and they cannot be burned in one fire. My young master said that these boats can be sold to you! ”
Hearing Shen Jiu say that he could sell the boat to them, Thomas and Kent both frowned.
Although it would allow them to transport more oriental luxuries back to Europe.
"Shen, we have a lot of soldiers participating in the battle, and the spoils should be divided equally." Kent questioned Shen Jiu dissatisfied.
They were two hundred.
"Most of them are mercenaries of my young master, and they take my young master's money and are raised by my young master, so they naturally have to fight for my young master!" Shen Jiu said, "Now is not the time to discuss how to divide the results of the battle, you have to kill them first. Otherwise, we won't get anything! ”
The Spaniards also knew that Shen Jiu's words were useless.
Even if they rob these things and run, don't think about coming to Daming again in the future, not to mention that Shen Yue needs to prepare goods for them.
The people of Shen Qi's fleet, under the action of the wind, quickly approached and lowered the sails, and the speed gradually decreased, and the pirate fleet was connecting the ships with rope hooks.
When the distance was less than a hundred zhang, the sails of the other party had been completely lowered, and they were basically connected.
"Beat the drums, light the fire! Surround them! Lean in! When Shen Jiu gave the order, the distance between the two sides was less than thirty meters.
"Boom!"
In the darkness, a thunderous drum suddenly sounded.
When all the boats got the signal, they quickly lit their torches, and the fire on the torches was about to be extinguished by the growing sea breeze.
"Boom! Boom! Knock ......" was followed by a rapid drum beat.
"What's going on? Who's beating the drums? Zhao Wugang ordered someone to arrest Wang Fat Pig's little concubine who had not yet had time to enter the cave room, and was ready to replace Master Wang, and spend candles in the cave room with the beautiful little lady, but when he heard the drums of attack outside, he couldn't help but be extremely angry.
"Boss, the official army, the official army has been killed!" One of his subordinates pointed to the warship that had spread out in the distance, less than thirty feet away, and was approaching quickly, and said in horror.
Hearing the sound of drums, the pirates who had just relaxed on the boat, opened the wine jar, and were about to pull out the beautiful maids of the Wang family to relax, immediately panicked.
"Where did they come from? How can it be so fast? Why didn't I get any news before? What about Hitute? Wang Heizi was furious.
The other party took advantage of the fact that they had just connected all the ships together and completely lowered the sails, and if they had just arrived, he did not believe it at all.
"Raise the sails! Quickly hoist the sail ......"
"My lord, it's too late!"
"Prepare for battle!" Wang Heizi is also ruthless, knowing that even if he unhooks the hook now, it is impossible to raise the sails quickly, and the wind is getting stronger and stronger.
"Fire, aim at their masts, lean in, hook them!" Shen Jiu had no experience in naval combat, but his command was orderly.
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”
Receiving the order, the Fluns fired first.
"Bastard, don't hit the side of the ship, if we sink it, we will lose a lot!" Shen Jiuyi couldn't help but be furious when he saw that all the guns of the Fluence were aimed at the side of the ship not far away.
At such a close distance, it is strange that you can't hit it accurately.
"Order, let the Fluence not fire any more cannons." It's all silver.
And it was filled with silver.
You can't afford to lose.
The drummer's drum beat changed, and the news was delivered on the Flens' Zhang Jia Minzhuang.
"Prepare the firecracker, put it!" When there was still less than five zhang away from the approach, and the ship had already crossed the line, Shen Jiu gave the order again.
"Bang bang bang!" A series of fires flashed, and then the pirates who were preparing to fight on the periphery were suddenly scattered.
"Put!" After releasing the gun, Minzhuang instantly dodged away, gave up his position, and went to the back to load the propellant and projectile, and the people waiting on the side quickly stepped forward with the firecracker.
In this way, the distance between the two sides was close to within three zhang.
"Turn the rudder!"
The drum beat again, and the sails of the huge warship, with the efforts of the men and helmsmen, turned quickly, and rushed straight to the passing warship, seeing that the ramming angle in front was about to be loaded into the hull of the opponent, but turned to the side to see how it passed.
Many brave men climbed the ropes of the sails with their teeth and jumped over as soon as the ship approached.
"Firecracker, where are you dead?" Wang Heizi saw that the other party kept approaching, and at the same time, the fire bolt kept firing, and dozens of people died in this instant, and he was furious.
His musketeers were still loading the firecrackers with propellants!
In the panic, many people didn't even find their weapons.
The other party's attack was too sudden, where could he react.
"Brothers, we can't let them steal the first credit! Rush over! "Xu Jiao has always been dissatisfied with Shen Yue for letting Shen Jiu be the commander this time, all his subordinates are masters, and they must not let the Shen family led by Shen Jiu take the lead." Rush up and hit hard with the ramming angle! ”
In the midst of the ships of the bandits, there were six small boats of 400 materials on the periphery.
Xu Jiao's Qianliu warship was more than a zhang higher than the 400 material boat, and under the impetus of the increasing wind, the sharp collision angle in front of the Qianliu ship smashed through a 400 material warship.
Regardless of the danger, Xu Jiao, who was holding a sword in his hand, turned over with a harrier and lightly jumped into the deck of the four hundred warship......
Seeing that Xu Jiao in the distance had already killed the enemy ship, Shen Jiu was also a little anxious.
"Boom!" The wind was too strong, and the warship, which had not yet completely turned its bow, rammed the enemy ship diagonally.
Shen Jiu didn't consider himself as a commander at all, "Kill!" Wielding the Pu knife in his hand, he jumped to the bow of the opponent's boat first.
Behind him, ten members of the Shen family also jumped over, and for a while, the pirates were killed.
Thomas and Kent were dumbfounded......