Chapter 30: The First Appearance of the Soldier
It is equivalent to that after Xiaotian said these words, it already represents that he has made up his mind, and he is determined to take Nangantang, and his subordinates have no opinions on his decision, after all, they have just experienced a big victory, and their morale and self-confidence have been high to the extent of bursting.
In the next day, the only two Hongyi cannons in Yu Xiaotian's hands were placed on the bows of the two strongest Fu ships, and the muzzles of the guns were aimed at those in the bay and began to bombard.
These two Hongyi cannons were obtained by the Shark Gang when they defeated the official army, the cannon is nearly two meters long, and the caliber exceeds 100 millimeters, if compared with Western artillery, it should be roughly regarded as an eight-pounder gun, and the weight is 800 catties, if compared with the current Western naval guns, these two cannons may only be regarded as small guys, but now for pirates like them, they are already big killers!
Previously, the Shark Gang put these two cannons on the island to defend the water village for use, but Yu Xiaotian felt that this was a violent Tianzhen, so he ordered the two cannons to be placed on the ship of him and Wang Hong, and at the same time strengthened the deck at the bow of the ship, in case the recoil collapsed the deck when the cannons were fired, which allowed the two cannons to get on the ship.
During the first battle of East Itch Island, these two guns played a good role, not only accurately, but also ruthlessly, as long as they hit the enemy ship, at least they could open a big hole in the enemy ship, but the battlefield was chaotic at that time, and everyone did not pay too much attention to the role played by these two guns.
Now Yu Xiaotian ordered these two cannons to fire in turn, and did not hesitate to take out all the reserve shells to bombard the ships of the mixed river dragon in the bay.
The gunners of the two guns were now busy, and used all their strength to feed, constantly loading, firing, and reloading the two guns......
The distance between the outside of the bay mouth and the inside of the bay is about eight or nine hundred meters, and other old Ming Dynasty artillery cannons can't hit the bay at all, but there is no problem with the range of these two Hongyi cannons.
After Yu Xiaotian's actual test on Nanri Island, if these two cannons use ordinary powdered gunpowder, the maximum firing range is about two miles, and when using high-quality granular gunpowder, the firing range can be increased to more than three miles, that is, a distance of 1.5 kilometers, but it is far from the distance that Ming Dynasty officials boasted in history, which can hit a distance of ten miles.
However, there is not much problem with the ships of the mixed river dragon hiding in the bay, and the Hongyi cannons are equipped with a light door and a crosshair, which provides the possibility of accurate aiming and firing, but in the case of hitting such a distance, it has exceeded the effective range of these two guns, and the accuracy of the shells can no longer be guaranteed.
And now because the ship is in an unstable and swinging state, after more than four hundred meters, even the target of the Hongyi cannon is basically not much.
Therefore, they shelled the ships of the mixed river dragon in the bay outside the bay, which could only be an approximate and could not ensure an accurate hit, which is also the reason why many Western countries in history stipulated in this era that when fighting at sea, the distance of the cannon should not exceed 400 meters.
Because 400 meters is already the longest distance that can guarantee the hit rate when fighting at sea.
However, now Yu Xiaotian is not pursuing too high accuracy, such an artillery operation is just a deterrent shelling, the purpose is just to put pressure on the mixed river dragon hiding in the bay, as for where it falls, whether it can beat the boat of the mixed river dragon, it is all up to luck.
So at the end of this day, the only two Hongyi cannons stopped and stopped, and after a few rounds of each cannon, they had to stop to cool down, otherwise the cannon body would be too hot, and even if the cannon body could withstand it, the shells and gunpowder would be too wasteful.
At the end of the day, these two guns did not achieve much, after all, the distance was too far, most of the shells hit the sea water in the bay, and only a few shells hit the ships in the bay.
But even so, it scared Chao Jianglong and his subordinates a lot, they didn't expect that Yu Xiaotian would have such a powerful killing weapon in his hands, and he could still hit their ships from such a long distance.
So they realized that Yu Xiaotian must have a Hongyi cannon in his hand, and he couldn't fight back after being beaten like this, presumably everyone knew that everyone on the side of Chaojianglong was aggrieved to death, for fear that a cannonball would fall on their heads in the next moment.
If a person hangs up suddenly, there is nothing to be afraid of, but if people are under high pressure for a long time, I don't know if the road will hang up in the next moment, this feeling can make people crazy.
Mixed Jianglong claims to be a hero on the sea, and his psychological quality should be better, but he can't guarantee that the psychological quality of his subordinates is as good as him, and after a day, the morale of his subordinates has completely fallen into the crotch of his pants, and most of them are hidden in the cabin, holding their heads like ostriches and being beaten, and no one is interested in watching the ships of the sea wolves outside on the deck anymore.
After the evening, Chaojianglong found that his subordinates were no longer usable, he gave orders, basically no one carried them out, and the bay became lifeless, even the cooking guys were not interested in cooking, almost everyone sat or lay down with dull eyes, and they couldn't even feel hunger.
Finally survived the night, and some of the people under Chaojiang Long persuaded Chen Jiu to accept Yu Xiaotian's conditions, and now they don't want money, as long as they can leave here.
But the person who tried to persuade was immediately slashed by the angry knife of the mixed river dragon, and the others were so frightened that they didn't dare to say anything more, and in the morning, suddenly someone shouted to the mixed river dragon: "Big boss, look, their ship is going to dock!" ”
Mixed Jianglong was shocked, and hurriedly rushed to the side of the boat to build a pergola and looked out of the bay, and sure enough, several sea wolf boats had actually reached the southeast corner of the bay mouth at some point, and when they found out, these boats had put down their sampans, and many people were squeezed into the sampans, and they were paddling hard, rushing towards the shore.
The heart of the mixed river dragon sank suddenly, and before he could turn around, he shouted: "Quick, send someone to stop them!" Can't let them go ashore, all the boats will fire at Lao Tzu to block them! Fast! ”
Mixed Jianglong knew his situation very well at this time, although he had a stockade on the island, but he couldn't control all the places, once these sea wolf people were allowed to go ashore, they only needed to grab a place on the shore, unload the two Hongyi cannons from the boat, and then it didn't take too much effort to destroy these boats in his bay.
At first, he thought that this Yu Haiwolf was blasting into the bay with a cannon, but it was just to put pressure on him, trying to force him to agree to the conditions he proposed, but now that he saw such a scene, he didn't think so anymore, Yu Haiwolf was clearly going to kill him all!
So he didn't dare to be slackened any longer, and hurriedly sent people to disembark from the boats, and also transferred out dozens of people guarding the stockade, and rushed to the place where the sea wolf tried to land, and tried to beat these guys back into the sea before the sea wolf could gain a firm foothold.
However, the movements of the mixed river dragon were still a little slower, and they found out a little late, and by the time they had gathered their men, a hundred and ten sea wolf tribes had already dismounted from the sampan, landed on the shore, and began to line up on the beach, advancing towards the shore.
A few of the boats in the bay began to move, trying to bombard the sea wolves who landed on the shore, but after they adjusted the boats, they found that the sea wolves were very cunning, and the place they chose to land was outside the range of their artillery, and if they wanted to fire their cannons, they had to go to the area around the mouth of the bay, but in that case, they put themselves under the noses of a large group of sea wolves outside, and became the target of others.
Therefore, the mixed river dragon and his subordinates on the boat in the bay could only stare dryly, but they did not dare to move towards the mouth of the bay, and could only watch as these sea wolf tribes went up to the island safely and steadily, and lined up an array on the shore.
On the contrary, several of the sea wolves' boats were in the sea behind them, very close to the sea, and the guns on the ships were just enough to reach the shore, and they could directly bombard the shore.
At this time, one of the cronies of Mingjiang Dragon also rushed to the shore with one or two hundred people, stopped from a distance, and looked at these sea wolf tribes on the shore.
When they looked up, they saw that the sea wolves were different from those on the other ships, each wearing a thick leather armor made of unknown leather, some of them holding a skin shield, some of them holding spears, but many more of them were holding muskets, and some of them could tell at a glance that they were holding bird guns.
The quality of such equipment makes people a little worried, because even the officers and men are not necessarily much better than their equipment, and even the quality of their equipment is much inferior.
It's not that these subordinates can't understand it, in fact, these one hundred and ten sea wolf tribes who went ashore are the soldiers specially selected by Yu Xiaotian, these people are not fixed on a certain boat, and they usually don't participate much in the training on the ship, and the main time stays on Nanri Island, and follows Li Dazui to receive training in land combat.
Yu Xiaotian attached great importance to these people, and took out most of the firearms on hand and handed them over to use, so the amount of firearms and equipment of these people was close to more than thirty percent of the total number, and the rest of the people were also equipped with swords, guns and shields, and they were not equipped with bows and crossbows and other things separately.
In the early days, these people were all on Nanri Island all day long to receive land drills, this time Yu Xiaotian brought people to Dongitch Island to fight with the Mixed River Dragon, and also brought them over, but during the naval battle, these people stayed on the East Itch Island, and waited until Yu Xiaotian led the fleet to defeat the Mixed River Dragon at sea, and then sent people to the East Itch Island to transfer them over.
They came on a few captured ships, so they arrived relatively late, Yu Xiaotian asked them to come as a backup, if not, let them act as a vanguard, go to Nangantang to fight with the Mixed River Dragon's men on the island, and capture the Mixed River Dragon's stockade on the island.
I didn't expect to use these guys this time, and after that, the current captain of the battle team, Li Dazui, and the deputy captain Meng Fei were very excited, and when they secretly approached the coast with the boats, they suddenly put down the sampans of each boat, and rushed to Nanri Island with people.
(Thanks to the STDX brothers for their tips!) )