Chapter 302: Fierce Pirate

The pirate fleet is like an arrow that has gone off the string and has no turning back, and most of their ships are as large as the warships of the Ming Dynasty, and their performance is not much different. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info, however, the pirate's artillery is a cut above the Ming's.

Judging from the range of solid bullets alone, the pirate artillery is nearly 100 meters farther than the Ming artillery.

"Bang!"

A loud bang came from the first ship at the sharp corner of the pirate ship queue, and after the muzzle of the long-range cannon placed in the bow of the ship burst into flames, a solid bullet the size of a human head threw an arc and smashed into the hull of the battleship of the Daming fleet.

"Bang, bang......."

After the first cannon sounded, other pirate ships also followed suit, and for a while, the whistling solid cannonballs rained down on the position of the Ming warship blocking the direction of the advance. Solid bullets are not as lethal as shotshots at close range.

But the solid bullet was not originally used to kill people, but directly damaged its hull. The hard wooden planks smashed a hole like tissue paper under the force of the solid bullet.

After a round of artillery bombardment, ten more of the Ming warships immediately lost power, and the battleships that were already unable to move immediately became living targets and became the preferred targets of pirates. After another baptism of artillery fire, the battleship was already in tatters and was about to begin to sink.

Fei Xin was indeed surprised by such sharp artillery fire, and he had been running at sea for most of his life, but it was the first time he had seen such sharp artillery fire. At this moment, the Ming warship faced the baptism of fire from the pirates, but could not return fire, because the pirate ship had not yet entered the range of the Ming battleship's guns.

The pirates destroyed ten warships of the Ming Dynasty in an instant, and now they were more confident and their morale was even higher. But the back-sinking battleship also became an obstacle for them to continue to advance, and they had no choice but to start changing formations. At this point, their forward momentum has also slowed down a lot at this time.

Fei Xin didn't want to miss this opportunity, and under Fei Xin's order, the battleship that had been gathering momentum for a long time burst into a dazzling fire from the muzzles of nearly a hundred guns, and fired back at the slow pirate ship with more intense solid shells.

The return fire of the Ming battleship can be described as earth-shattering, there are twenty battleships facing the pirate ship on the side, and each side of a battleship is equipped with nine guns. Twenty ships are 180 guns, and the simultaneous firing is not insignificant.

Unfortunately, the distance of the pirate ship was still a little farther, and less than half of the cannonballs hit the pirate ship, and the rest fell into the sea, splashing up columns of water two or three meters high.

Although the return fire of the Ming warship did not cause much damage to the pirate ship, this huge noise still received a good deterrent effect. After they changed their formation, they did not dare to rush straight as they had started, but seemed to approach cautiously, which gave the Ming warship a chance to react.

After a round of artillery fire, the distance between the two sides was close enough that it turned into a melee battle advancing in the same direction. At this point in the battle, the two sides competed to see whose ship was stronger and who could fire two more shots.

After several upgrades, the Ming warships were obviously stronger than the pirate ships, but the pirates' artillery power was obviously sharper than the Ming warships, especially their loading time was shorter, and the number of shots was more than a quarter more than the Ming warships.

The two anti-anti warships had their own advantages, and the battle immediately fell into a war of attrition, and more than forty warships of the anti-anti-anti sides bit each other and shelled each other until the ship of the other side sank.

A war of attrition is a result that neither side wants to see, and in such a state, even if one of the two sides wins in the end, it will still hurt the enemy by 1,000 and lose 800.

The pirates were the first to react, and the warships in the rear began to launch fierce attacks on the Ming warships with huge guns mounted on the bows. Fei Xin also reacted immediately, and five treasure ships began to dispatch, equipped with the latest Hongyi cannons, and also began to run against the pirate fleet.

At this time, the huge hull and height of the treasure ship showed its benefits, higher than the hull of any warship, and gave the Hongyi cannon a longer range. Although the treasure ship was hiding behind the battleship and firing, the solid bullet could easily hit the pirate's camp.

Tang Ming didn't let the snipers on the ship be idle, at this time he didn't care about letting Zhu Di see their skills, the distance between the treasure ship and the pirate ship was less than three hundred meters, and this distance was enough for the snipers to show their marksmanship.

Lee sledgehammer lay on the deck at the bow of the ship, and at the moment he was engrossed in the sniper rifle in his hand. From the binoculars mounted on the gun, he was already aiming at the sentry on the pole of a pirate ship directly in front of him, responsible for the communication.

Silently thinking about the distance between the treasure ship and the pirate ship, when he felt the right time, he kept his fingers close to the wrench and gently hooked it.

"Bang!"

Under the cover of the sound of artillery, Li Dazhui only heard a slight sound, and the sentry on the trick pole in the telescope immediately fell down.

As soon as the sentry on the treacherous pole died, the pirate ship was immediately blinded, and could no longer fight with its companions.

Li Dazhui was not happy with his marksmanship, but continued to calmly search for the next suitable target. Unfortunately, his men were not vegetarians, and when he fired the first shot, the others also chose their own targets to shoot.

In a single breath, a dozen pirate ships accidentally killed their sentinels on the poles, unable to communicate with their fellow companions and fighting on their own. The originally neat formation was also disintegrated in an instant.

At this point, the Ming warships regained their disadvantage and began to attack them in groups. The pirate warship's sharp offensive momentum was also suppressed in an instant.

On the battlefield where every second counts, such a thing suddenly appeared in the pirate fleet, and after a while, nearly ten of them were sunk by the Ming warships. The entire sea was now full of tattered planks and survivors who had escaped the shipwreck.

At this moment, they floated helplessly on the sea, and their desperate eyes revealed the breath of death. Floating on the sea on such a battlefield is no different from death, although their own ship is not far away, but they understand that in such a situation, their fleet will not stop the ship to save themselves in such a life-and-death situation.

In less than a pillar of battle, each of them had lost a dozen ships, and the sea around the wrecked ships was full of floating debris planks, and the lucky survivors grabbed the large planks and waited for someone to come to their rescue.

Unfortunately, the blood shed by their dead companions soon attracted swarms of sharks. The luck of the survivors came to an end, and they did not survive the fire but could not escape the shark's wide mouth, which became their mouth. (To be continued.) )