Zhang Jiace stood on the top of the acropolis wall, looking at the thief ship on the sea, his pupils shrank suddenly, and then he and the officers and soldiers in the city heard the sound of cannonballs whistling, and then heard a roar from the sea.

The officers and soldiers suddenly fell short in unison, and everyone unconsciously squatted down, as if trying to dodge the shells flying towards them.

I saw more than 20 cannonballs of all kinds, drawing smoke marks in the air, and falling towards the Acropolis, some of the cannonballs accurately smashed directly on the Acropolis wall more than a foot high, and some cannonballs fell in front of the Acropolis wall, and more cannonballs flew over the Acropolis city wall, smashed heavily in the city, and suddenly raised a piece of debris dust in the city.

Almost all the officers and men exclaimed in unison, because most of these officers and soldiers had participated in the Battle of Penghu last year and had seen the power of the Hongyi artillery of the red-haired people.

Today, when they saw the cannonballs flying from the thief ship, they recognized them almost immediately, these cannonballs should be cannonballs fired by the Hongyi cannons, and they were definitely not the range that the messy tiger squat cannons, bowl guns, and exterminators they had on hand could reach.

The cannonballs that smashed on the city wall stirred up pieces of rubble, leaving holes in the city wall, although they could not penetrate the city wall, but they still made the officers and soldiers standing on the city wall feel a wave of vibration under their feet.

At this time, the officers and soldiers were a little panicked, and they realized that the legend was not false, these sea wolves did indeed have a lot of Hongyi cannons, and today they were able to completely taste the power of these Hongyi cannons.

The accuracy of the first shelling was not very high, but most of the shells were not missed, and many of them hit the Acropolis, and the one-eyed dragon used a monocular to observe the landing point of the shells, and his black face was red with excitement, making his face black and red, and he applauded again and again.

"Fight beautifully, give the order to go down, the ships shoot in a hurry, just like that! Let the officers and soldiers taste our awesomeness! Ha Lu Ha! Fire, fire! ”

The gunners of each ship endured the pungent smell of gunpowder smoke in the cabin, and quickly alternately used various tools to clean the gun chamber, and began to reload the gun chamber, although the loading procedure of the front-loading smoothbore gun was cumbersome, but as long as the gunner was fully trained and closely cooperated, the loading speed was not very slow, and it took almost a minute for the gunners of each ship to complete the loading in this quickly, and struggled to drag the cable pulley group of the towing gun carriage, and dragged the cannon back to the gun window, and once again pointed to Puxi City.

The sea outside Puxi City was like a boiling pot, and the sound of cannons began to be continuous, one after another, and one after another, the cannonballs roared out smoke marks in the air, and smashed heavily into Puxi City.

The inside and outside of Puxi City also became lively, and the cannonballs rained down on the inside and outside of the city, stirring up patches of gravel and sand.

Zhang Jiace's face changed greatly, leaning over under the protection of several pro-soldiers, squatting under the female wall, his heart was full of shock, this time they really underestimated the ability of the sea wolf, but they didn't expect that the sea wolf did have so many Hongyi cannons, and they couldn't raise their heads when they hit directly.

"Fire! Fire! Hurry up and fire! Sink those thief ships! Zhang Jiace was a little panicked at this time, although he had seen a lot of big scenes, but today because of the underestimate, he still made him confused for a while, squatted under the female wall and screamed loudly, and ordered the officers and soldiers on the city wall to fire back.

Therefore, the officers and soldiers stationed on the city wall did not dare to slack off, and quickly got up to operate the cannons on the city wall, and began to bombard the sea surface.

But to the dismay of the officers and soldiers, their counterattack looked very ridiculous, because the cannons on their walls were basically all kinds of old open-made artillery such as the Killing Cannon, the Bowl Mouth Gun and the Tiger Squat Cannon, and the range of these cannons could not hit the thief ships hundreds of meters away.

Although many cannonballs flew to the surface of the sea, they fell into the sea at a great distance from the sea wolf's ship, and did not do any damage to the sea wolf's warship, at best, it gave them their own courage.

The Chinese-style artillery of the Ming Dynasty, the wall of the cannon is thin, and the casting is simple, the barrel is not carefully bored, the thickness of the barrel is uneven, and the front end of the barrel is large, and the deflation is serious, so that the gunpowder can not play enough to push the role of the shell, most of it is leaked from the gap between the shell and the chamber, so the effective range is quite short, and the gun body has no aiming thing, all based on the experience of the gunner, coupled with the lack of training of officers and soldiers, so that the long-distance shooting accuracy is really a bit ridiculous.

Most of the cannons on the official acropolis can't even hit a distance of 200 meters, and even if they can hit the cannons 200 meters away, the accuracy is really pitiful, and if you want to effectively hit the ships of the sea wolves, unless God helps.

When the seawolf troops on the ship saw the shells fired by these officers and soldiers falling on the sea, many of them burst out laughing on the spot, especially those who were idle for the time being.

The gunners, however, did not have such leisure and elegance at this time, and one by one they used all their skills to operate their cannons in the smoke-filled cabins or decks, laboriously pushing the gun mounts to the gun doors or gun windows, and then shouting: "Reloaded, please fire!" ”

The captain of the soldiers, who was in charge of the gunners, waved his small flag and shouted, "Shoot!" ”

A series of cannon shots followed, and the hull shook violently again.

It turned out that the 1,000 officers and soldiers gathered outside the acropolis originally wanted to give the pirates a head-on attack, but at this time, they were attacked head-on by the sea wolves, and their positions happened to be within the coverage of the sea wolf's artillery.

The cannonballs roared and landed on the place where the officers and soldiers gathered outside the city, and now it is winter, the weather is dry and rainless, the ground outside the acropolis is dry and solid, and after the round solid cannonballs land, they can be effectively bounced up and continue to fly forward, producing a ricochet effect.

As a result, several shells fell into the crowd, and in an instant, a bloody alley was opened in the densely assembled official and military formations.

Wherever the shells passed, the flesh of the officers and soldiers could not stop them at all, and even if they were torn apart one by one, the stumps and severed arms were suddenly mixed with the blood mist and flew up, and the state was unbearable.

Seeing that the situation was not good, these officers and soldiers gathered outside the city dispersed violently, and immediately became a chaotic rabble, and they turned around and fled into the acropolis, using the walls to hide from these shells flying from the sea.

The sea wolf's cannonballs continued to smash on the walls of the acropolis, kicking up pieces of rubble and smashing out craters one after another, which made the officers and soldiers in the city tremble.

Occasionally, one or two cannonballs were quite lucky, and they hit the female wall on the wall, and the female wall was not as thick as the wall, and these six-pound and twelve-pound shells smashed on the wall, which had little effect, but once they hit the female wall and the battlements, they could immediately destroy a section.

The destroyed women's wall instantly turned into a flying stone, like a piece of scattered bullets, flying on the city wall, and many officers and soldiers were immediately beaten to the head and bleeding, broken muscles and bones, and fell on the city wall and let out a miserable howl.

Although Zhang Jiace has seen a lot of such scenes, he can't help but be frightened, and his heart is even more furious, they were bullied by the cannons of the red-haired people, but they didn't expect to be ravaged by the cannons of pirates today, this is simply too deceitful!

He turned his head and saw the two Hongyi cannons that had just been placed on the city wall and were imitated by Fujian on both sides of the city wall, and immediately roared angrily: "Why don't you let go of the Hongyi cannon? Shoot Ben General at the thief ship immediately! Sink them here! Fast! ”

In fact, he didn't need to order, the officers and soldiers had already thought of these two big killing weapons at this time, and some officers and soldiers were busy operating these two imitation Hongyi cannons there at this time.

But the design of the gun carriage of these two cannons is really unreasonable, in order to transport, these cannons were disassembled and assembled on the ship, the gun carriage is fixed, after arriving here, it was hoisted down from the ship, and it was painstakingly made to the city wall, for this purpose, it was specially made a slipway for these two cannons in the acropolis, and it was forced to pull by manpower to get the cannon to the city wall.

Neither cannon was mounted on a four-wheeled gun carriage similar to a naval gun, like the Seawolf's shore defense guns, and there were also rope pulleys to reduce recoil to tow the gun mounts, and they had not yet mastered this pulley block system, so they used thick and clumsy fixed gun mounts.

This clumsy gun carriage, although relying on friction to reduce recoil, the recoil directly transmitted to the ground, but the operation is very difficult, themselves they cast these imitation Hongyi cannon is bulky and unbearable, once a little careless, it is possible that the cannon sounds, the gun carriage will be overturned, and it depends on manpower to reset it, it is very difficult to operate, time-consuming and labor-intensive.

Once the Seawolf's shore guns are operated by skilled gunners, they can basically reach a rate of one fire per minute, but the two cannons of the officers and soldiers rely on manpower to reset, and it will take at least seven or eight minutes or even ten minutes to complete the aiming and firing.

Therefore, at this time, the officers and men were busy tinkering with these two cannons, and they also had to beware of the shells flying from the sea, and they were in a mess, and in addition, they did not use fixed charge packages to fill the propellants, and it was all based on the gunners' estimates, which slowed down the loading speed, and they did not complete the loading for half a day.

After hearing Zhang Jiace's roar, these officers and soldiers and gunners were even more anxious, and desperately loaded the shells, as for aiming, their aiming methods were basically the same as those of the sea wolf, at the end of the gun, leaning on the skids below, to adjust the elevation angle of the muzzle, but it was obvious that the officers and soldiers did not have a gun table at present, and the amount of charge was uncertain, even if there was a light door and a crosshair, it was estimated.

Hearing only two huge roars, two blazing flames erupted on the walls of the Acropolis, and the momentum was quite majestic, and many officers and soldiers immediately stretched their necks and hurriedly chased the cannonballs with their eyes to look towards the sea.

Even Zhang Jiace didn't care about the danger at this time, stood up from the city wall, and looked towards the sea.