Chapter 12 Clearing the Remnants of the Enemy
After everyone was ready, the sand boat had already turned its rudder and crashed straight into the enemy ship. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć The pirates on the Info Ship suffered heavy casualties due to the previous attack by the Bowl Mouth. It is not possible to evade it in a short period of time.
Seeing that the two ships were about to collide, Golden Crown loudly reminded everyone to get ready. Before the words fell, only a loud "bang" was heard, and the two ships had collided together, shaking incessantly. Rao is everyone thought that they had found a fixed object in advance, and they were also shaken for a while.
Looking at the enemy's side, because the thief's trip was empty in order to pursue speed, the cabin was empty and shaking. In addition, the water bandits were unprepared, and they suddenly fell to the ground. A few of them were in a bad position, had no fixed objects to grab, and fell into the sea, and were embarrassed for a while.
As soon as he stood firm, he ordered his men to throw iron hooks to hold the two ships together and prevent the enemy ships from escaping. At the same time, prepare a springboard and prepare to board the ship to kill the enemy. Before leaving, he also promised a heavy reward, and the first person who killed was rewarded with five taels of silver.
Seeing that something was wrong, the thieves got up one after another and formed a formation to prepare for battle with the officers and soldiers. Some of them have already begun to look for firearms and prepare them for reloading. However, the impact just now was too violent, and the gunpowder and lead bullets he carried with him had already been scattered on the ground, and he was in a hurry for a while. When the bandits were in a panic, they only heard a few bangs, and the thieves in the front row were shot and fell to the ground.
It turned out that Ziren saw the density of the bandits, and hurriedly ordered his subordinates to attack. The two three-eyed guns each contained three lead bullets, and twenty bullets were fired at the enemy group in an instant. At that time, bursts of blood mist rose from the body of the thief, and there were heavy casualties.
In order to prevent the water bandits from falling into the water during the sea battle, most of them did not have armor on their bodies. No, once you fall into the water, it is not easy to escape in iron armor and cotton armor. Especially cotton armor, cotton has strong water absorption, once it absorbs enough water, it will drag people into the water and drown. And the two sides were less than ten steps apart, and Ziren and the others were almost unnecessary. Due to its strong penetrating power, the projectile shot by the bird gun also penetrated and injured many people, and the formation was immediately chaotic.
Seeing that there was an opportunity, the golden crown immediately led a group of soldiers to kill the enemy ship. Ziren and the others also put down the empty firearms in their hands and replaced them with cold weapons to kill the enemy together. Everyone thought that there would be a fierce battle after getting on the ship, but who would have thought that as soon as everyone got on the boat, many thieves abandoned their weapons and surrendered. Only a few fierce bandits, under the command of the leader, retreated to the stern of the ship and lined up with their backs to the sea, intending to resist to the end.
It turns out that the pirate warfare is somewhat similar to the modern apple seller. Tall and brave in battle, except for a small number left in the back row to supervise the battle, most of the rest stand in the front row. In order to break through the enemy position as soon as possible, and at the same time boost the morale of your own side. Just now, a burst of bullets killed and injured most of the thieves' elites. The remaining pirates were already frightened, so they disarmed and surrendered.
Seeing this, Ziren took Ding Bi and Ding Shoutie and immediately rushed forward. Ding Bi took a gun to the throat of a bandit, and the thief died immediately after dodging. At the same time, Ziren killed the water thieves with a knife in one hand. With the other hand, he took out a handful of lead bullets from his bosom and threw them out, shouting: "The thief looks at the dart".
The water bandits dodged one after another. Ziren took advantage of the enemy's distraction to kill it, and changed it to holding the knife with both hands and slashing over, and the sharp Qi knife cut off the hands of a thief in an instant. The man was unaware of it until he saw his hands holding the harpoon fall on the deck, and then he fell to the ground and rolled in pain.
As soon as they fought, the two of them were broken, and the remaining bandits were already in chaos. Wang Mingqiang didn't know where to pick up a broad-bladed broadsword, and went straight to kill the leader of the pirates, and after getting close, he held the knife in both hands and slashed directly at the opponent's heavenly spirit cover. The leader was quite alert, and hurriedly raised the Pu knife in his hand to resist.
Wang Mingjian has been bullied by horse bandits in the past few days, and he has long held back a breath of anger in his heart. As soon as I fought, I felt that the anger in my chest was like a torrent, and I had inexhaustible strength all over my body. This knife shocked the other party's hands numb, and the tiger's mouth hurt.
The leader of the pirates has not yet recovered his strength. The king's order was hard and the second sword was killed. At this time, the opponent was unable to resist with a knife, so he had to turn sideways in the hope of dodging the vital point. The knife was so powerful that it slashed heavily on the opponent's shoulder, and it went into the bone for three points. The leader of the pirates immediately fell to the ground and screamed, fortunately, the blade was wide, otherwise half of the thief's shoulders and arms would have been cut off.
Seeing the leader fall to the ground, the remaining thieves knew that the general trend had gone and no longer resisted. Seeing this, we did not want to kill the prisoners, so we sent men to keep a strict guard, and then began to prepare to enter the cabin and search for the remaining pirates. The interior of the sand boat is quite large, and the pirates hide in the shadows and are not easy to search. Inevitably injured by the thief's hidden sword, Ziren threatens to set fire to the ship at the hatch, and at the same time releases several empty guns as a threat. Seeing that the situation was difficult to return, the pirates in the cabin walked out of their hiding places one after another after a little consideration and gave up their stubborn resistance.
As soon as everyone began to prepare to clean up the battlefield, they heard a sound from their own cabin. Ziren thought that Youcai was still in the cabin, and he was afraid that he would be damaged, so he immediately led his men back to the ship to check.
After returning to his ship, Ziren and his entourage went straight to the cabin of the prisoner. I saw that the prisoner who was injured by Ding Bi before was lying on his back to the ground. A bullet entered its mouth, pierced its skull, and died of exhaustion. The rest of the prisoners knelt in place, squatting honestly and not daring to act rashly.
Ding Youcai held an overfiring firearm in his hand, and stood in place and cursed loudly. Wang Xuedao, who stayed in the room to recuperate, and the two soldiers sent down before, also looked nervous at this moment and tightly held the blade in his hand. Seeing Ziren and the others arrive, the expression on his face relaxed.
Ziren hurriedly called Youcai, and after talking with him, he learned what happened. It turned out that the prisoners began to move after discovering that the officers and soldiers had begun to fight with the bandits, but fortunately, the strict supervision of Youcai and others did not allow them to find an opportunity.
However, when the two ships collided, the hull shook violently, and the prisoners took advantage of the unsteady standing of the crowd to attack in groups. Fortunately, Aricai reacted quickly and fired in time to kill the leader. Wang Xuedao, who was resting in the cabin next door, heard the movement at this time, and hurried to help, and the four of them worked together to barely control the prisoners.
In this way, Ziren's previous worries were indeed justified. If it hadn't been for their early precautions, the prisoners would have taken advantage of the fact that our army was fighting with the pirates. Our belly and back contain the enemy, and a bitter battle is inevitable.
Although the battle lasted less than an hour, except for one eagle boat that escaped, all the other thieves were exterminated. Sixteen pirates were killed on the spot, six more died of their wounds, and 32 were captured alive, making a total of 54 people. Only a few of the soldiers under the golden crown on our side have hung the lottery, but they are not worried about their lives, and it can be said that they have won a catastrophe.
After some interrogation, it was found that these bandits were engaged in shipping business on weekdays. When encountering a lone sea ship, he will do some murderous and oversold business, so he doesn't even have a decent artillery. In the past, I had a lot of dealings with the prisoners detained on the ship, and this time I came to be bewitched by them. I felt that there were few officers and soldiers on the ship, and there were few guns, and there was an internal response, so I felt that it was easy to succeed. But I never thought that my wishful thinking was empty, and instead of being robbed, I gave my own life
The seizures are even more lucrative. More than 70 long and short weapons and firearms were confiscated, and a lot of gunpowder was also seized. More than 300 taels of silver and a lot of wine and meat were also found from the thief ship. The biggest catch was the capture of a sand boat of 3,000 stones, worth at least 1,000 taels of silver.
Jin Guan saw that the harvest of this battle was not small, and he was overjoyed for a while. Seeing that Ziren and his colleagues had made a lot of contributions in this battle, they began to discuss with them how to distribute the merits and spoils of war. Ziren thought about befriending him and taking care of him many times in the future, and he didn't account for the battle merits at all, as long as a hundred taels of silver were rewarded to his subordinates. At the same time, he asked for some gunpowder to replenish the consumption of this battle. Originally, he was going to give Wang Minggang and others some weapons at hand, but seeing that most of the bandits' weapons were not well maintained, they had to give up.
Seeing that Ziren didn't ask for much, Jin Zongqi was very happy in his heart, and naturally readily agreed to his request. He also sent someone to send some seized wine and meat as a reward, and Ziren and the thieves spent a lot of effort to kill them, and they did not refuse to smile and accept them one by one.