Chapter 7 Nanri Water Village

The one-eyed dragon was staring at the acropolis with one of his eyes, when he suddenly saw two dazzling flashes of fire on the wall, and his heart tightened in vain, and then he saw two black dots whistling towards the location of their fleet.

But then everyone saw that one of the two black dots fell dozens of meters away from the sea wolf fleet, smashed heavily into the sea water, and seemed to have a ricochet effect, bounced on the water surface once, flew forward for more than ten meters, and fell back into the water with a pop, and then sank.

The other one hit high, flew straight over the sea wolf's fleet, and landed far away in the sea water more than 100 meters away from the sea wolf's fleet, stirring up a large wave of waves.

The one-eyed dragon breathed a heavy sigh of relief, but immediately scolded: "Grandma, this official army actually has Hongyi cannons!" Pass my order, the fleet lifts anchor and lifts the sails, keeps the speed low, and continues to fire cannons to Lao Tzu to bomb the fuck! ”

Zhang Jiace was disappointed with the results of these two cannons, but he couldn't reprimand those gunners, these Hongyi cannons were newly cast, and they were handed over to the officers and soldiers to practice a few times, and in fact, they only let the officers and soldiers fire a few cannons, and the officers and soldiers gunners were not familiar with such cannons, so it was unrealistic to expect them to hit the thief ship with the first shot.

"Reload quickly, and fight again! Destroy the thief ship! Zhang Jiace sighed and hurriedly ordered.

But by this time the sea wolf's fleet had begun to slowly raise its sails, and the anchor had been lifted out of the water by the Ikaku's shouts, and the ships began to move slowly again.

The gunners of the officers and soldiers began to pour water into the barrels in a panic, extinguishing the remaining burning gunpowder slag in the barrels, and began to clean the barrels.

However, their operation level is obviously not up to the level of the Seawolf gunner, and the coordination is not compact, which makes the reloading speed slower, but the gunner who was selected to operate the two Hongyi cannons is still a veteran, and he is still relatively experienced, although it is slow, but there is no mistake, and the cannon is reloaded step by step.

However, when the guns were fired just now, the strong recoil still shifted the gun carriages backwards a lot, and if you want to reset them, you need many officers and soldiers to work together.

At this time, although the Hongyi cannon had cannon ears, it was easier for the cannon to adjust the high and low firing boundaries, but there was no mechanism to adjust the left and right firing boundaries of the cannon, and if the cannon wanted to aim at the target, it was all necessary to move the gun mount by manpower to point the muzzle at the target.

With such a heavy cannon, it takes a lot of manpower to accurately aim at the target, and the one-eyed dragon saw that there were actually two Hongyi cannons on the acropolis, so he didn't dare to let the fleet stop on the sea anymore and bombard the acropolis as a fixed battery, so the fleet began to move.

At this time, no one knew that the road had to be preset in advance, and they only knew that the gun was aimed at the target, but when they finally aimed the gun at a certain ship, the boat slowly sailed out of the target area designated by their gun, so that the officers and men had to move the gun mount again.

After tossing for a long time, and not aiming at a boat, the angry Zhang Jiace couldn't wait to go over and operate the cannon in person, but as the main general, he would definitely not do such a dangerous thing.

What's more, the Hongyi cannon cast before really had several accidents with the explosion of the chamber, and he saw with his own eyes that when the tail of a cannon was blown up, several soldiers who operated the cannon collapsed and flew out, and two died on the spot when they landed, and the rest were also seriously injured, and then basically all of them died.

Therefore, he didn't have much confidence in the current Hongyi cannon, so even if he was in a hurry, he didn't dare to personally run to the Hongyi cannon to direct the cannon.

Finally, these two cannons were finally tossed and fired again, but with their level, if they want to hit a target in motion a few hundred meters away, let alone them, even if they are invited by the top gunner of the sea wolf, it is estimated that it will be difficult.

But no matter what, the two Hongyi cannons on the Acropolis still played a certain role, at least they forced the Cyclops fleet's fleet to stop on the sea and fire at the Acropolis, which also somewhat reduced the hit rate of the Seawolf cannons.

The two sides bombarded each other on the shore and at sea in Puxi, the shells came and went, and the fight was very lively, but the sea wolves were never close to the seaside, their target was a small city, and it was easier to hit the target than the official army, as for where to hit, the one-eyed dragon didn't care, and it didn't matter how many officers and soldiers were killed, in short, their goal was achieved, that is, through such an artillery bombardment, Zhang Jiace and his more than 2,000 officers and troops were completely contained in the acropolis, so that they had no time to separate, and rushed to Nanri Water Village to provide support to Liu Yinglong.

After breaking up with the one-eyed dragon, Ma Xiao led the rest of the fleet to go straight to Nanri Water Village, led by three sloops, after bypassing the ox head tail in the north of Meizhou Island, the ship's handkerchief quickly began to operate the sails, so that the ships gained more wind power, and the wind direction also turned to a tailwind state, so that the speed of their three boats suddenly began to speed up.

The three Feizi clippers broke away from the fleet and sailed quickly to Nanri Water Village as a pioneer, and after a short time, they rushed to the outside of Nanri Water Village.

At this time, the officers and men of the naval division in the Nanri Water Village were far from completing the preparations for boarding, and many officers and soldiers still gathered on the pier and jumped on the sampan to come and pick them up.

Only a few warships were leaning on the trestle, so the officers and men boarded the ship faster, and at this time the officers and men on board had already boarded the ship, and untied the cable and hoisted the sails, towed by the small boats, and were leaving the trestle, preparing to sail to the sea to prevent the sea wolf fleet from approaching.

At this time, on the sea outside Nanri Shuizhai, there were only two warships of 200 materials of the size of the officers and soldiers, because they were used as sentinel ships, they did not stop near the docks of Shuizhai, and they were able to leave the port at the earliest to meet the fleet of sea wolves.

Although the displacement of the three Feizi clippers was not large, their force should not be underestimated, and they were equipped with one twelve-pounder gun, four six-pounder guns, and two small Francophone cannons.

Even Western-style gunboats do not necessarily have stronger firepower than them, so as soon as the three Feizi clippers arrived outside the Nanri Water Village, they immediately began to launch artillery bombardments on the official warships.

The officers and men on these two ships also showed unimaginable courage today, knowing that their strength was not good, the ships were not good, the firepower was even worse, and the speed and wind direction were not superior, but the two officers and soldiers' warships still brazenly rushed towards the three sea wolves' flying clippers.

When the officers and men on the ship saw these three flying fast boats, they found that this kind of ship did not look like the ships of the Ming Dynasty at all, but rather resembled the sailing ships of the red-haired man or the Franc man, and the main sign was that they used soft sails that were never used by Chinese-style ships.

However, the sails of this kind of ship are different from those of Westerners, and they seem to be much more convenient to operate than those soft sails on Western galleons, and it is very convenient to adjust the angle of the sails, which is very flexible.

As a result, the officers and men naturally felt a sense of fear in their hearts, and hurriedly maneuvered their ships to try to block the three strange-shaped thief ships, and in a panic prepared the guns on the ships, trying to fire cannons to attack the three thief ships.

But before the two official ships could make a move, the three thief ships began to fire first, only to hear the sound of cannons, and a cloud of gunpowder smoke immediately rose on the sea.

Several shells flew towards these two official warships in an instant, and landed next to their ships, and the accuracy of the shelling was quite impressive.

Moreover, at this time, the distance between the two sides was still two or three hundred meters away, and the guns on the official ships had not yet reached the effective range, and the sea wolf's shells fell beside them, which shocked these officers and soldiers into a cold sweat, because they immediately understood that if these pirates really had a lot of Hongyi cannons, then they would definitely be unlucky today.

These officers and soldiers basically participated in the battle of Penghu last year, and they had seen more of the power of Western artillery, and in artillery battles with them, the Ming warships had no power to fight back at all, and could only win by numbers, desperately rushing towards them, and close to them to get some cheapness.

Today's leader is Feng De, who replaced Luo Xianbin to serve in the Clipper detachment, these two goods are a friendship, and they were choked by Yu Xiaotian at the beginning, but then the two goods actually became hardcore, first Luo Xianbin was ordered to take the Feizi Clipper, and then Feng De replaced Luo Xianbin and also arrived at the Clipper detachment.

Today, Feng De was also brought to participate in the war, and this guy personally led three Feizi clippers to Nanri Water Village at high speed, and immediately killed these two official ships.

From 300 meters away, they began to fire their guns, anyway, they had plenty of shells and a long range, but the hit rate was a little lower at this distance, but they had enough time to make two more shots before approaching the enemy ship.

The three clippers fought as they went, first cutting to the left to the east of the two official ships, and facing them with another cannonball, this angle could exert the strongest firepower of the three boats, hitting more than a dozen guns at once and firing at the same time.

Although the two officers and soldiers performed bravely, the difference in skill made their courage useless, and the Seawolf's clipper did not give them any chance to get closer, and caused them a lot of damage.

The twelve-pounder cannon was already equipped with chain bullets at this time, although it was not mature enough, but it could already be used effectively, in order to block these official ships as soon as possible, Feng De did not pity the chain bullets, and directly ordered the use of chain bullets to attack.

After a few chain bullets flew out, they immediately flew in the air and flew towards the two official warships, only to see that one chain bullet accurately cut into the mast of one of the official warships.