"Poof!"

The iron ball plunged into the sea at a distance of more than 20 zhang from the "Dawn", and lifted a high column of water, not even a drop of water splashed on the "Dawn".

Seeing that this was an intimidation by the octopus pirates, the people on deck were relieved and began to hoist the auxiliary sails and wingsails in unison.

Soon all three sails were raised to the full sail position and firmly tied to the first position - the sail surface was divided into three positions: A, B and C, corresponding to the fact that the first position was 90 degrees perpendicular to the hull, the second position was 60 degrees, and the C position was 30 degrees.

The winged sails were rounded by the snowflake-laden wind, and the hunting sound seemed to break the rope and fly away at any moment.

The sail power of the sails on three sides is huge, and I don't know if it is a psychological effect, Chu Fan, who was standing in the observation pavilion, seemed to feel his body sit back slightly.

Looking at the rapidly increasing shadow of the turtle boat in front of him, Chu Fan rushed down the lookout pavilion in three steps and two steps, and took the escort to hide behind the chest-high wooden fence on the left side of the ship, took out the medicine bag and began to load the ammunition -- judging from the current course, the "Dawn" will pass by the right side of the turtle ship.

"Tom!" "Tom tom!"

As the distance between the two ships shortened rapidly, the gun windows on the side of the right side of the turtle ship were opened, and guns of various calibers began to shoot, and large and small iron balls or lead balls rushed towards the "Dawn" and smashed into the nearby sea, stirring up columns of water of different heights, and in an instant, the sea surface within a radius of 100 steps on the left side of the "Dawn" seemed to be boiling.

"Poof!"

There was an iron ball that could land a foot away from the port side, and the high column of water set off was all sprinkled on the left deck of the "Dawn", Chu Fan couldn't dodge, and was poured cold on his heart.

The icy sea water made him shiver again and again, and when he looked down again, the bird gun in his hand was all wet, dripping with water, fire rope? It was so early that it couldn't be extinguished anymore.

Not only Chu Fan, but also several other members of the escort team around him were the same, all of them were like chickens in soup, and the bird gun in his hand had turned into a piece of scrap iron - it seemed that the bird gun was basically useless in this naval battle, even if it was replaced with a flintlock pistol trial-made by Sun Yuanhua, if the problem of moisture protection could not be solved, it would be of little use.

Throwing away the bird gun in his hand, Chu Fan leaned on the wooden baffle in annoyance, just in time to see Liu Zhongwen at the stern of the boat squatting on the ground and starting to wind his two-stone big bow.

Chu Fan naturally thought of the naval battles he had seen in his previous life about the early sail era: because the accuracy of the cannon was too poor, it could only be used as a fire deterrent in the process of approaching, and the real battle was actually a gang jumper, which was officially started from the two ships connected, and the main weapons at this time were throwing weapons such as bows, crossbows, throwing axes, javelins, etc., as well as knives, guns, sticks and axes commonly used in hand-to-hand combat.

It turned out that he didn't quite understand why he couldn't see too many firearms in the gang jumping battle, but now he understands it, in this ** environment, it's strange that arquebuses can be used!

"Tom! Tong! ”

The cannon of the turtle ship became louder and louder, but the "Dawn", which was speeding like an arrow, could not do anything at all, and most of the projectiles were smashed on the surface of the sea.

However, as the distance quickly narrowed, the projectiles fired by the guns on the turtle ship were finally able to pass over the "Dawn" and fall on the sea on the right.

"Bang!"

A fist-sized buckshot slammed into the waist of the stern platform and went through the right side of the ship.

Although it didn't hit anyone directly, the crumbling wood chips still caused damage - one of the men under the mainsail was planted in his calf by wood stubble, and the other had countless small pieces of wood stuck in his shoulder, and the two of them cried out in the wound.

"Get down! Get down on your stomach! ”

Seeing that someone was injured, everyone on the deck was a little flustered for a while, Chu Fan hurriedly beckoned everyone to lie down, he knew that this kind of scattering was like the explosion of a cannonball in later generations, the straighter he stood up, the larger the bomb area - anyway, now all the sails are full in place, and there is no need for people to operate them, just rush straight forward.

The guns on the turtle ship were still pouring bullets without stopping, and the seawater splashed on the deck became more and more frequent, more and more, pouring Chu Fan's heart on fire.

It's so uncomfortable to be pressed and beaten and can't get your hands done!

Wiping his face, Chu Fan secretly swore that when this trip to Nagasaki was over, he would definitely rebuild this "Dawn" well, oh no, rebuild a larger and stronger ship, equipped with a streamlined bow and hydrofoils, and truly suitable for ocean-going voyages, and find a way to install twenty or thirty Franc machine guns when the time comes, and see who dares to fire at himself so unscrupulously!

Right! At least six pounds of guns, if it can hold twelve pounds, hmph, the turtle ship on the other side is afraid that it will have to slip away when it sees its own flag.

As for where to find the Franc machine, Chu Fan is not worried, there is an artillery expert who is his senior brother, so it's a big deal to prepare the raw materials, find more craftsmen and ask the senior brother to guide him to make it himself.

He was thinking about beauty, when Liu Zhongwen, who was nested behind the wooden baffle in his field of vision, suddenly glanced at it, and then put on a wolf's tooth arrow about three feet long, hey, and slowly pulled the string. Ling Ming, the head of the main sail next to him, blew the fire fold, and on the arrowhead that had already been soaked in oil, the black smoke fire ignited at once.

Liu Zhongwen waited for the fire to burn, then he got up suddenly, pointed diagonally at the sky and released his fingers that buckled the string, and that posture instantly made people feel very handsome.

Chu Fan was not the only one who was beaten by the guns, everyone on the deck was like this, and seeing that their side had finally begun to fight back, there was a burst of cheers on the deck, and everyone got up one after another, holding on to the wooden baffle and looking out.

Chu Fan also showed his head, watching the thick wolf's tooth arrow twist and shoot towards the turtle ship more than two hundred paces away--At this moment, the "Dawn" had rushed to the closest distance to the turtle ship--A little fire on the arrow flickered in the flying snowflakes, and finally stuck on the main sail of the turtle ship standing high, and burned.

Chu Fan's heart was as sweet as eating honey, and he couldn't help grinning when he saw the turtle boat staring at the turtle boat and pouring out the fire with a water gun.

Suddenly, a thought flashed through his mind, but he couldn't grasp it vaguely for a while, only knowing that it was related to bows and crossbows and naval battles.

Before he could think about it, a black spot in the air increased rapidly, Chu Fan secretly screamed badly, and threw himself to the side, before he could hit the ground, he heard a loud "bang" behind him, and then a terrible scream sounded, and when he looked back, it was a guy on the deck, who was holding his ankleless leg and screaming in panic!

The projectile continued to gain momentum, and it jumped across the entire deck and plunged into the sea, punching a gap in the wooden base of the right wing sail before jumping out of the deck!

Chu Fan's face turned pale all of a sudden, and his eyes were staring at the wing sail on the right side, for fear that the wing sail in the wind would fly away, but fortunately, the wing sail squeaked for a while and then stabilized diagonally.

Chu Fan breathed a sigh of relief at this time, and got up to take a look at the injury of the guy with the broken leg, but as soon as he stood up, he was pushed to the rear by a strong force.

"Bang!"

"Dawn", I don't know what it hit!

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