For example, the preset range of each battery can only cover a key limited area, after all, only eighteen guns can't cover everything, and these four Western plywood ships are taking advantage of the spacing and dead angles in these areas to avoid artillery bombardment and start a counterattack, and each ship has no less than 20 guns, how can it be regarded as having a firepower advantage over the battery.

"The day before yesterday, those fleets came to find out!" Li Haiou shouted, he suddenly figured out this, the reason why those ships rushed in was to test the artillery, to measure the firing range and landing point of the guns on the battery, and then delay the people in the port to relax, and then kill by surprise.

At the beginning of this first round of shelling, you can see that the sails of the four plywood boats are rising, and they begin to accelerate with the help of the wind, and then quickly lower the sails.

As soon as the charge stopped, the single column of the four plywood ships moved inward again, and the four ships were within the firing range of the battery, and likewise, the battery was also within the range of the ship's guns, and the three ships behind opened fire at the same time at the moment when the sails were lowered, and at this time, the loading of the harbor garrison battery was not yet completed.

The artillery roared continuously, the shells whistled and smashed into the forts in various positions, Li Haiou no longer dared to take it on the lookout, the ship's guns fired inaccurately, but more than a dozen dozens of guns on this side fired a salvo, the damage must be huge, the only thing that can cover is the stone fortifications of this fort, such a dense thunder roar, even the family members in the fort are shocked, and stop loading for a while.

"Get down!" I don't know who is screaming, because I can hear the whistling of shells, and this battery is about to be hit.

When Li Haiou came here, he was trained, and knew that he had to lie down at a critical time, so as not to be hit by the debris and debris flying by the cannonballs falling to the ground, and many of the Li family disciples with him thought that this was unnecessary trouble, but Li Haiou was very interested in artillery, and he followed these drills meticulously, and when he heard this shout, he subconsciously lay down, and then the ground shook, and he didn't know anything in an instant

Even if he lay down, Li Haiou's cheeks were still scratched by the flying sand and stones, and his ears were buzzing, he subconsciously felt that it had been a long time, but he knew that it was actually an instant, and in a trance, he heard someone shouting at him in the distance, and he shook his head to see that the deputy of the fort where he was in his ears, and the vibration and roar just now made his ears hear things clearly.

"Get up and help! Shoot the fuck! Hurry up! The deputy of the team shouted and kicked him, Li Haiou jumped up subconsciously, the fortifications of the battery had been opened half a corner, there were several corpses on the ground, flesh and blood could be seen everywhere, the team was lying on the side of the gun, with a few pieces of gravel embedded in the body, and the blood had been left all over the ground.

At this moment, only to hear another roar on the sea inside the port, everyone in the fort subconsciously shrank back, estimating that the first ship had finished loading and began to fire.

"Quick! Fast! I'm going to sink them! The ship artillery still dares to fight with our shore artillery, missing the eyes of the heart for eight lifetimes! The deputy of the team shouted hoarsely, the family members were still a little stumbling when they were busy at the beginning, and then they moved neatly, and some guns were already smashed, but there were two spare sets near the fort, and the more this time, the more the steps of operating the guns could not be omitted.

The wet brush first cleans the gun chamber to extinguish the Mars, and then the dry brush goes in to transfer the residue and moisture out, and then rotates it with the rifle hook once, and then roughly estimates the start of the charge, determines the charge with a ruler, tamps the gunpowder, and then puts in the shell.

After finishing these, Li Haiou and everyone shouted together to put the gun in position, this twelve-pound gun is not easy, the deputy of the battery team began to measure the range and estimate the angle of fire at the gap, and constantly reported the number, with the shouting of the deputy of the team, the remaining family members nailed the inclined wooden wedge into the position between the gun and the gun mount, and constantly adjusted the muzzle.

The target of these four ships in the sea of the harbor is too big, there is nothing that cannot be missed!

"Fire!" Lighting the fuse, the family members avoided both sides, they all covered their ears, the whole battery trembled, Li Haiou didn't even bother to pack up the artillery, hurriedly pounced on the gap but looked, he desperately hoped that this cannon would hit the enemy ship!

"Hurry up and reset Lao Tzu, go quickly!" The deputy roared angrily and pushed Li Haiou back, but before that, they had already seen that this cannon had failed, stirring up a column of water on the sea next to the second ship, and they could also see that on the gun windows on both sides of these enemy ships, the muzzles of the guns were stretched out again, this was about to carry out the second round of shelling, Li Haiou's heart was cold, and then he gritted his teeth and ran back, thinking that this life was a big deal!

But at this time, he heard the deputy roar of the team, and the roar was clearly a cheer, and Li Haiou boldly looked back, but saw that the second ship of the enemy ship column had been punched a big hole.

In most of the Ming Dynasty's forts, the artillery is just blocking the most important position, as long as the position is passed, the artillery is powerless, want to readjust the artillery angle of fire, the time spent is to use the hour as a unit of calculation, do not need to pay attention to it, the adjusted artillery is not accurate, the correction is a joke, but the Xuzhou artillery equipped with Haizhou Port is different, he can quickly adjust the angle of fire, the accuracy has also been greatly improved,

Several enemy ships on the sea inside the harbor could not have imagined that the artillery reloading interval of this harbor battery was so short, that they could make adjustments, and that they could counterattack so quickly and resolutely despite heavy losses! There were still eleven batteries to fire, and the first to hit the enemy ship was a sixteen-pounder gun!

Twenty pounds of shells entered from the side of the ship, but it hit one of the guns in the ship, which was just fully loaded, and the violent collision caused an explosion. Broken pieces of metal and sawdust swept across the cabin on this level, and then pierced the other side, four of the guns on the turret missed, but the rest all hit!

The Western Galen ships with more than two dozen guns were huge, and they were very good targets, but from beginning to end, they thought they had dodged the shelling, they would not be targeted, and they would not be shot!

At this time, the people on the four Galen ships were already panicking, and they were hit by large-caliber shells, whether it was the damage of the ships or the casualties of the sailors, it was an unbearable loss, not to mention, the battery would definitely not have only this every accurate shot!

The guns on the four ships began to fire, but in the panic there was no such damage as the last time, Li Haiou and the gunners braved the flying mud and gravel, and pushed the guns forward, and the deputy of the team was smearing a wooden board with thin mud, and then stuffed it into the barrel, pushed it into contact with the medicine bag with a rifled stick, and then picked up a red-hot cannonball from the brazier with an iron tong with a wooden handle, and put it into the barrel with great difficulty and care, and then corrected the lower angle again, and ordered the cannon to be fired.

When this cannonball went out, Li Haiou's teeth were clenched, just looking forward to hitting the enemy ship, as long as this kind of red-hot cannonball can hit, the wooden structure of the enemy ship will catch fire, the ship fire is a catastrophe, let these red-haired and green-eyed ghosts feed the fish!

The cannonball did hit, and Li Haiou was about to cheer despite the reprimand of the deputy, but the next moment his cheers stopped abruptly, and the ship hit by the cannonball actually exploded, and the whole ship was on fire.

"Hit the warehouse where the gunpowder is stored!" Li Haiou knew what was going on and roared excitedly.

Looking at the Galen ship burning on the sea, the surviving seamen and sailors on board jumped into the sea one after another, and they could see people covered in fire, this cannon frightened the other three ships, and they couldn't care about maintaining the formation of the column, and began to disperse, the sea surface in the port area was relatively cramped, and it was difficult to move the full sails, but at this time they couldn't care so much.

But several of the batteries in the harbor had gone mad, and another Galen ship was hit by a cannon, and the shell swept across the deck, breaking the two masts directly, and the ship slowed down at once, and the other two began to turn around while firing their guns, ready to rush out of the shelter of this battery.

As soon as the formation was not maintained, as soon as the sails were raised and the two ships were separated, the hit rate of the battery guns began to decrease, and the shells kept falling on the sea around the ships, or grazing the deck, but there was no such result as before.

But at this time, the bell on the harbor lookout kept ringing, and some people looked at the place where the harbor entered the sea, and found that there were ships full of people entering, and those ships had lowered their oars and were rowing forward, but at this time, these ships were also turning around, and everyone could see the fate of the four plywood boats.

"Quick! Fast! "There were also people shouting on the dock, there were four cannons being dragged up, each cannon needed to be dragged by a dozen oxen and horses, the iron wheels of the gun carriage ran over the gravel ground, the stones on the ground were crushed, not only the cattle and horses were moving, the family members were shouting and pushing the gun carts, and they were sweating profusely in the cold weather.

Pushed directly to the right position on the dock, unloaded the cattle and horses, set up the artillery, loaded the ammunition, and someone shouted: "Such a cannon will affect the merchant ships in the port!" ”

"No matter, compensate them afterwards, open fire, and shoot at these foreign ships at sea!" The answer was also hoarse, and the following suddenly agreed, and the person who answered shouted at the other side: "When the cannon stops, you will go to the sea and release the boat, otherwise you will be bombarded!" ”

The four heavy guns to be distributed to the Third Brigade were aimed at several Galen ships on the sea on the dock, and the accuracy of the fire was very high, and it was easy to reset and reload, the order was given, the four guns were fired one after another, and the ships moored in the harbor were swept by the shells, the masts were broken, and the ship's side was cracked, but the hull was fine, and the cannonballs containing great momentum whizzed and flew past.

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