I saw two thief ships, one on the left and one on the right, approaching rapidly. It seems that www.biquge.info the pirates are preparing to use the eagle boat to get close quickly, and entangle with us to slow down the ship. Then wait for the sand boat to approach and engage in a gang jump battle to capture the boat.

At this time, the shortcomings of our sand boat were exposed, and the sand boat was commonly known as "square ship" in order to resist the wind and waves. Because the bow of the ship is flat, the water receiving area is large and the speed is slow. And we are fully loaded, and after a while, the other party will shorten the distance to less than a mile. It seems that there is no escape, and a bloody battle is inevitable.

Seeing this, Ziren hurriedly stepped forward to discuss with Jin Guan: "Brother Jin, it seems that the bandits are prepared, we must prepare early." I don't know how many firearms and soldiers can be used to defend the ship against the enemy. ”

Jin Guan was thinking hard about countermeasures at this time, and when he saw Ziren opening his mouth, he hurriedly replied: "On weekdays, this sea area is quite peaceful, and this ship is only used for transporting food and prisoners on a daily basis. Therefore, there were only two "bowl-mouth guns" on board, and only a small number of firearms were spray canisters, fire bricks and rockets. The bowl has just been opened, but it is too far away to have any effect.

(The "Bowl Gun" is a small artillery gun with no sights, a short barrel, a slow rate of fire, a short firing range, and a low hit rate.) There is a large bowl mouth cylinder cast in copper in the fifth year of Hongwu of Ming Taizu in the Beijing Military Museum, with a diameter of three inches and four minutes and seven inches, a length of one foot and one inch, and a weight of sixty-three catties. The inscription reads: "The left guard of the navy, the forty-second word of the word, the mouth of the large bowl." "It can be seen that this firearm has been used in water warfare)

On the side of the soldiers, there were fifteen soldiers and five sailors at their disposal. There were also more than 20 prisoners in the cabin. Brother Ding, why don't you let them help in the war? ”

After hearing this, Ziren shook his head and said, "Brother Jin's words are wrong, this group of water bandits is prepared. Maybe there is an internal cause among the prisoners, so they should never be given a sword. And it needs to be strictly guarded to prevent backyard fires. Now that our side is at a disadvantage in numbers, how to break the enemy still needs to be considered in the long run. With that, he set his sights on the Golden Crown.

Although Jin Guan is greedy for money, he is by no means a mediocre person. felt that Ziren's words were reasonable, so he immediately called his little flag officer, and the three of them discussed together. After some discussion, everyone decided to divide the army.

Ziren led his men to guard the eagle boat on the left, and if the thieves approached, they suppressed it with bird guns and fire bricks. Jin Guan led ten soldiers and two bowls to beware of the thieves on the sand boat on the right. At the same time, two soldiers were divided into two soldiers, led by Youcai, to guard the prisoners in the cabin. The small flag officer led the remaining men to respond in the center and assist the Quartet at any time. Sailors are not good at close combat, so they just need to sail well.

As soon as it was ready, the thief ship had already narrowed the distance to within two hundred paces. Fortunately, the thieves did not have artillery, otherwise firing at such a close distance, the sand boat target was very easy to be shot. The effective range of our bowl-mouth guns is less than 100 paces, and the accuracy is not even as good as the bird's guns, and we are powerless to stop the pirates from approaching. At this time, everyone could only seize the time to prepare to meet the enemy, and at the same time keep an eye on the enemy ship.

In less than a stick of incense, the eagle boat on the port side had already narrowed the distance to about seventy paces. The Golden Crown wanted to turn the bowl over and bombard the enemy ship. Ziren considered that the bowl mouth gun was too slow to reload and not very powerful. Most of the thieves hid in the cabin, and I am afraid that they will not be able to cause any damage. In case the starboard sand boat took this opportunity to come up, it was a small loss, so it politely declined.

When the thieves on the eagle ship saw this, they thought that the gunpowder of the officers and men had been exhausted. So boldly bring the ship close to a distance of fifty paces, hide in the cabin and put the gun. Fortunately, the firecrackers in the hands of thieves belong to the category of muskets, which need to be held in both hands with poor accuracy. And Ziren saw that the thief ship was approaching, and everyone had already hidden themselves, although a few bullets hit the side of the ship, but everyone was intact.

Take advantage of the gap in fire created by the thief's reloading of the firebolt. Ziren and Arimori leaned out and shot at each other's helmsmen with their birds. The two of them are good at firearms on weekdays, and the bird guns in their hands are all of the highest quality, and the two guns will kill the other party's helmsman in an instant. After his death, his body was pressed against the rudder, and the eagle boat began to turn right and began to approach the sand boat.

Seeing that the thief ship was less than thirty paces away from our sand boat, the remaining thieves on the eagle ship realized that something was wrong, and hurriedly sent someone to take the helm again, so as not to cause their own ship to collide with the sand boat and suffer losses. Seeing that the opportunity could not be missed, Ziren immediately ordered Wang Mingjian and Tang to continue to suppress the thieves with the three-eyed gun. Himself and Shoutie began to light the fire bricks, preparing to burn the enemy ships. Ding Bi was on guard to prevent thieves from taking advantage of the chaos to board the ship.

In order to give full play to the power of the Three-Eyed Gun, Ziren specially adjusted the length of its lead to play a continuous fire suppression. The two three-eyed guns fired six bullets in succession, suppressing the thief in the cabin for a while. At this time, Ziren and Shoutie's fire bricks were ready, and everyone got up together and threw them at the thief ship.

As the name suggests, the "fire brick" is specially used for arson, with iron nails on the surface to facilitate attachment to enemy ships, and arson inside, and the outside is tied with ropes, resembling a chain ball to facilitate throwing. The side of the sand boat is already higher than that of the eagle boat, and it is condescending and easy to throw. The distance between the two ships was close, and for a while the fire bricks hit one after another, and after a while, the thief ship was splashed with fire.

The thieves on the enemy ship had to put out the fire at this time, and they had to take the helm again to adjust the course, and they were already in a hurry. Seeing that the enemy ship was too busy to pose a threat, Ziren hurriedly ordered everyone to stop, reload their firearms, and prepare to meet the bandits on the sand boat. At the same time, the sailors were ordered to turn the rudder so as not to be swept by the fire on the Eagle ship. At this moment, he suddenly heard two loud noises behind him, and hurriedly turned around to check when he thought that the time had changed.

It turned out that Ziren was engaged in a battle with the eagle ship on the port side. The thief on the right had also approached within fifty paces in a sand boat and began to attack with bows and arrows and firearms. Two of Jinguan's men were hit, but fortunately they were not seriously injured.

The Golden Crown knew that the range and power of the bowl mouth gun were not good, so he kept holding back and did not fire, preparing to put the enemy closer before fighting. Seeing the thief ship approaching, the thieves also got up to attack, and felt that the time was coming, so they hurriedly ordered their men to return fire with a bowl. The distance of about fifty paces is just right for the bowl mouth gun to exert its power, and most of the guns are loaded with scattered bullets, and the enemy ship is instantly shrouded in bullet fog. Many water thieves were shot and fell to the ground, and there was chaos for a while.

At this time, the firearms of Ziren and the others had also been reloaded, and they hurriedly rushed to help in the battle. Jin Guan saw that Ziren had already repelled the eagle ship and rushed to reinforce him, and his confidence increased greatly for a while. At the same time, when he saw that his subordinates were injured, he was furious, and he found that the thieves were in chaos. After discussing with everyone, he immediately decided to fully rudder on the right, relying on his sand boat to be fully loaded, ready to ram the enemy ship with his tonnage advantage.

Taking advantage of the fact that the enemy's hull was shaking and unstable, Ziren led the people to open the way with firearms first. Then everyone killed the enemy ship together, and the result was this group of pirates.

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