In the darkness of the night, the sudden blow startled the pirates, it turned out that the other party was not defenseless, I don't know if this shelling came from the ship, or from the destroyer, only the pirates at the highest level knew, the British helped them, the British destroyers would not move, maybe the Germans, others, still know, there are dozens of destroyers ahead.

Artillery has a great deterrent effect on a single pirate, and there is not much deterrent power at all for pirates who are swarming and like locusts, especially now, when the encirclement has been basically formed, there is almost no need to command, everyone knows that only by fighting bravely, even if it is a point of roulette, it may not be oneself that fails, and the fleet ahead is not just a fleet, but a huge treasure, tons of gold, not only in this era, even in any era, is enough to lead people crazy.

At the end of the first round of shelling, the pirates did not slow down, but accelerated even more, because they were afraid of attracting the attention of the fleet, many ships did not dare to drive to the highest speed, the closest ship in a straight line, and even slowed down, for fear that they would enter the field of vision and attract the attention of the other party, and the encirclement was not formed and was run away by the other party. Now that the left and right have been discovered, then go all out, and some of the fast warships at the front have increased their speed frantically and began to rush towards the fleet.

The artillery came and went, constantly attacking the pirates, and in the next few rounds, the effect was not good, the pirates were experienced, even if they were not within range, they began to evade, did not directly go in a straight line, changed the speed, and basically changed the speed in a zigzag. rushed towards the fleet, that is, the first round of mental calculations and unintentional. Knock out a few, and the rest of the battle is not fruitful.

Such a situation. The pirates were hopeful, but there was chaos on the side of the ship, most of the seafarers invited from Europe had never experienced a naval battle, and the situation of such a large-scale, thousands of ships, and countless pirates swarming was really frightened of their courage, and some even shouted for surrender.

A well-set fleet. The outermost ships were mostly operated by Chinese, and there were many personnel in the navy, and some foreign crews, under the slightest wavering, kept lighting up the machine guns, successfully stabilizing their hearts and looking dark. But the murder weapon that exudes a sharp weapon, at least these people are a little more stable, of course, they are also afraid of the fierce soldiers. Straight to the surprise of them. As for the interior, the dense group of boats makes it impossible for them to run even if they run. If there is no channel or passageway, you can't hit the ship. Really forced to run, the ship is not without Chinese.

Still, the chaos had a bad effect. In the next 3 minutes, there was no artillery attack on the side of the ship group, and the pirates also took advantage of the effort to move forward directly, the fast battleships in the pirates had crossed a few nautical miles, and in just ten minutes, they approached the place where the ship group was less than 2 nautical miles, which was already the firing range of the machine guns, and the soldiers on the periphery watched silently, slowly aiming with machine guns, to feel the trajectory of those ships, for the parabola, the long-range artillery, the speed of these ships was very fast, Without enough naval combat experience and artillery skills, it is difficult to hit them, for the machine gun with direct aim, it is another concept, not to mention the short range, direct aiming can also reduce a lot of evasion, at least he hits a line, when presenting a fan-shaped area, it is difficult for the opponent to avoid the fan-shaped area, unless he can fly.

Most of the gunners have great confidence in being able to hit the ships in the front, and none of them have made a move, and the plan established by the staff officers is to put some ships in to fight, and the pirates have one or two thousand ships, of which the capital ships may only be a few hundred, and most of these are capital ships, and it is better to cut off one of their fingers than to hurt their ten fingers, which is very crucial, only by beating the pirates and making them suffer a little, can they finally dispel their delusions, and even end the battle.

The reason why he is so confident is because there are not a few cannons on the pirate ships in front, which Xiao Jianfeng has already determined, there are 12 108 guns installed, all of them are absolute capital ships, all of them are together with ironclad ships, they constitute the most important shock fleet, the purpose, of course, is to deal with possible military ships, because there are British survivors, the pirates are very familiar with most of the ships of the ship group, 5 destroyers from Germany, is the focus of their attention, all heavy firepower ships and ironclad ships, a total of 57 large ships, all gathered together, including Xiao Jianfeng's ship, they were waiting for the German destroyers to enter the field before entering the field.

Put as many pirate fast ships as possible, with the help of a large number of twin 20mm machine guns on the periphery of the ship, in the first round, kill most of the fast ships, which is very critical to the elimination of the pirate power, only a large number of these living forces, annoyed pirates, will use the strongest forces, including the flagship, as long as they are dragged and given time to the German destroyers, Andrei will definitely do the best choice.

Time passed minute by minute, for high-speed ships, the average speed of more than 15 knots per hour ships, faster than most pirate ships, 3-4 knots distance, may only take 12 minutes to pass through, from the appearance of pirates, to now, almost half an hour, the pirate encirclement has been formed, into the machine gun range of 2.5 kilometers of ships, up to 700 ships, 12 red signal flares, almost at the same time in the sky above the ship group.

The scarlet color, in such a fierce situation, looks cold and bloody, even the pirates who have been on the battlefield for a long time and are accustomed to seeing flesh and blood are all overwhelmed, what is the other party going to do. Without waiting for them to think much about the current situation, countless tongues of fire appeared on the periphery of the ship, and the sound of da-da-da-da, not as fierce and explosive as the artillery, but in the eyes of the pirates, it was like death.

Some pirates who have been engaged in piracy all the year round, and even fought with the regular army, know very well that the strongest lethality for them is not those large-caliber naval guns, whether it is 8 inches, or 5 inches, 6 inches, they are all used to fight large ships, ships like them, any one is enough to break, but their rate of fire is too slow, one or two kung fu, enough for them to run away, for them, it may not be easy to run past the warship, just run past their companions.

Really calculated, I'm afraid the biggest damage to pirates, is this machine gun, the rate of fire of the machine gun is very high, up to dozens a minute, long bullet chain and good lethality, for pirates such as fishing boats, fast cargo ships and old ships, the lethality is extremely great, one may not be good, but in the case of five or ten, no matter how strong the ship is, it will definitely sink.

Now, at least 100 ships are on fire, and each one is quite a few, conservatively estimated, at least 500 machine guns, how can the ship regiment be equipped with this, the ships in front, I'm afraid it will be more than lucky.

The British destroyer squadron and Germany's Andre, who were watching the show, were also taken aback, they are naval professionals, of course, they know the role of 20mm high-explosive machine guns for unprotected and unarmored ships, especially Andre, really understand why Yang Yuanzhao was so confident when he talked to him before, he had so many machine guns, he also had confidence, it was a massacre.

In fact, it was really a massacre, the gunners who had already mastered the trajectory of the ships in front of them bravely aimed their machine guns at the ships to shoot, the unique structure of the double assembly, plus Yang Yuanzhao's choice of machine guns, and chose the most powerful and fastest machine guns, whether it was Andre or the pirates' estimates, they were slightly deviated, and the machine guns attacking were not 500, but 850 and 1700, at the rate of dozens of machine guns per minute, Just a minute of instantaneous moments is enough to tilt tens of thousands of machine shells.

The pirate ships at the front, the closest, were less than 500 meters away from the ship, and they couldn't see clearly in the night, but when the searchlights shone past, the hideous faces of the pirates were still relatively clear, and countless pirates roared and rushed forward frantically, just the momentum was enough to shock.

But now, this momentum, in the face of the crazy machine guns, abruptly stopped, ordinary cargo ships, four or five centimeters, or seven or eight centimeters of steel plates, and most of them are not homogeneous armored steel plates, may be able to block ordinary caliber Makqin machine guns, for extremely penetrating, extremely fast rate of fire machine guns, almost like paper. The speed of the high-speed sailing ship, in front of the machine guns aimed at it, is even more of a joke, casually posing a firing range of 15 degrees, or even 30 degrees, forming a fan, which is not something that ordinary ships can cross, even if it is a warship, at such a distance, it can only resist hard.

When a round of shooting is over, more than 100 pirate ships in the front row, as if they have been ploughed by something, on the surface all the pirates waiting for the broadside battle, are directly cleaned up, even if there are survivors, they are still seriously injured, as for the ship, it is enough to be choked, the shooters can let the machine gun hit the hull of the ship by pressing down slightly, less than 20 mm bullets, very light and penetrate the hull, Some of the explosions directly on the hull will even form a large hole of more than ten centimeters, or even larger, if this hole is underwater, this ship will soon sink.

In fact, more than 70 of the first batch of more than 100 ships began to sink directly, and the rest are not in good condition, let alone advancing, even if it is difficult to maintain the stability of the ship. The nightmare of the pirates did not dissipate, the cannon fire began to extend downward, the peripheral ships of the ship regiment were all relatively tall, a drop of several meters, maybe before, it was nothing for these pirate ships, but now, it formed a vertical fire from high to bottom, almost most of the ships within 2 kilometers, were within his shroud, after cleaning up the latest batch, the artillery fire directly extended, death and screams, in an instant, resounded in the night sky. (To be continued......) R1292