"Why don't we think about attacking them at night? The night will be our best protection, the enemy will not be able to see our ships, we can take advantage of the cover of night to capture their batteries! An infantry officer spoke.

But the infantry officer was immediately attacked by the captains.

"Humph! Can you think of this solution? We have no idea what is going on below the surface of the water near the shore of Jonlong Bay, we don't know the depth of the water and the course of the water, and it is simply suicide to try to sneak up on their batteries at night under the muzzle of the enemy's artillery! Once a ship hits the reef or runs aground, I am afraid that there is no way to save it, and I can only wait to be broken to pieces by the pirates' cannons! ”

Anthony smoked quietly with a pipe in his mouth, listening to his subordinates, and when they had had enough of arguing, he knocked his pipe and put it on the table.

"Ladies and gentlemen! I've heard from you! Now let me put my thoughts on it! Anthony pretended to be as calm as he could, stood up and spoke to the people present.

When the crowd saw that Anthony had begun to speak, they all sat down and listened to him.

"As you said today, we really underestimate the firepower of this group of Chinese pirates! We didn't expect that these damn Chinese pirates would get so many cannons from somewhere, and they were so powerful!

Among their batteries, there are at least ten or more heavy guns, and the others are at least twelve pounds or more, and the number should be about thirty, such firepower is very fierce!

And today we have engaged them, and it is clear that we have not been able to destroy their batteries, which makes us realize that we can no longer take our opponents lightly, these Chinese pirates are completely different from the Chinese pirates we know before, they have received strict training, and they have a very strong will to fight, and their fighting skills are also very high, which can be seen from the speed of their shelling, even better than the gunners on our ships! ……”

When Anthony said this, the captains' faces were not very good-looking, they did not want to admit what Anthony said, but they had to admit that it was right, because they had also carefully watched the counterattack of the battery today, and the time between the two fires was very short in the same gun window on the battery, and it was indeed beyond the frequency of the gunners on their ship.

This fully shows that these Chinese pirates are by no means a rabble, but have undergone very rigorous training, and the gunners have cooperated quite well to operate the guns so quickly to shoot.

And the speed of their fire did not affect the accuracy of their shelling, and today they all saw that the hit rate of these pirates from a distance of four hundred yards reached about twenty percent, which was simply unimaginable.

At such a long distance, under normal circumstances, even if they let their artillery operate the cannon, the hit rate is difficult to exceed ten percent, and today the various types of artillery on their ships have fired a total of hundreds of shells, but the number of shells that directly hit the battery is basically only a handful, and the enemy in the case of the number of artillery is not as large as theirs, but they hit their ships more than 30 shells in a row, almost every ship suffered a few hits, causing not too small losses to their ships, One ship was even killed and wounded a dozen sailors, and one ship was almost broken with a mast.

Even if their platform for maritime artillery is not stable enough, they still find it unacceptable to be defeated by a group of Chinese pirates.

This is also the reason why some of them have proposed to shorten the distance to fight, at such a long distance, their artillery hit rate is too low, and the enemy's hit rate is too high, and they cannot effectively give full play to their advantage in firepower.

"But since this has come to this, we have been commanded to come here, and we cannot return here, and the Governor has given us the task, and we must complete this mission!

I have decided that tomorrow morning we will continue our assault on their batteries and try to destroy them, and that tomorrow we may tentatively send our infantry, called speedboats, to go ashore and try to take their batteries, and if that works, then we can break through their line of defense, enter the bay, and bombard their castle!

Presumably, these Chinese pirates, after losing the external line of defense, will be afraid! Maybe the surrender will be announced!

In another moment, we will send soldiers to reconnoitre, is there a land passage to reach Jilong Bay, if it really can't work, we can bypass the forts they built from the land and attack their castle directly, so it is estimated that it will also work! ”

Anthony continued, stating his plan.

After everyone listened to it, this plan was relatively safe, and basically adopted all the plans they put forward and integrated them into implementation, except for this, they had no better way.

So the flotilla rested at the temporary anchorage for half a day, and the infantry who came with the flotilla also sent personnel to reconnoiter along the coastline in the direction of Jonlong Bay, trying to find a way to lead to Jonlong Bay on the shore.

Early the next morning, the Spanish fleet sailed to the outside of Chicken Coop Bay again, and this time the two sides had nothing to say hello to, and the fight began with a bang.

The shells staggered across the sea and flew towards their respective targets, and patches of gravel and dust were constantly rising on the land, and from time to time there were clumps of spray on the sea.

This time, instead of placing their fleet a few hundred yards from the shore, as they had done yesterday, the Spaniards had sailed their fleet to a distance of about three hundred meters beyond the mouth of the bay, and engaged in a fierce artillery battle with several batteries at the mouth of the bay.

At a distance of 300 meters, for naval guns, although the distance of the sea battle is still a bit far, and they dare not guarantee the accuracy of hitting, they can already bombard the shore, and the hit rate and accuracy of the shells have obviously improved compared with yesterday.

The inside of the fort was also filled with an unpleasant smell at this time, the smell of gunpowder smoke choked people coughing, and spicy eyes, from time to time the fort was shot, it would shake violently, and when the artillery inside the fort fired, it would also cause the fort to tremble violently, shaking up a large area of floating dust.

However, after yesterday's experience, the personnel in the fort performed much better today, and they knew that their fort was strong enough to be difficult to collapse, so they were not too afraid, even if it was blown down yesterday, it was an accident, and it was quite safe to hide in the fort.

Everyone pushed, loaded, and opened fire with all their might, and some people lifted the powder bag from the lowest ammunition depot to the gun emplacement, and loaded it into the chamber like flowing water.

Today, Sun Baoqiang personally went to the fort to supervise the battle, because all the affairs of Keelung Fort have been arranged in place, and there are black heads in Keelung Fort to command in the center, so Sun Baoqiang does not need to stay in Keelung Fort anymore.

And Sun Baoqiang is also a little selfish, he knows very well that the most important thing to gain a foothold among the sea wolves is the military exploits, they usually stay in Keelung Fort, and there are very few opportunities to get military exploits, this time they finally encountered the Spanish attack, if you don't take the opportunity to get some military merits, it would be a pity.

However, in Keelung Fort, because there is Heping Island Fort and Wanjiao Fort as its barrier, under normal circumstances, as long as the enemy does not break through this defensive line, it is basically impossible to attack Keelung Fort, so if you want to reap the merits of war, then you can only have a chance to go to the front line and sit in the fort.

Among these three forts, the Heping Island Fort is the most critical, and it is also the main target of the enemy's attack, and the artillery fire is the most fierce, so Sun Baoqiang finally decided to go to the Heping Island Fort to sit in the town, as long as he repels several attacks by the Spaniards, this credit of directing the operation in person will definitely not be able to escape.

After the start of the war, Sun Baoqiang occupied the position of Feng Twelve's observation port, holding a monocular, constantly observing the situation of the enemy fleet on the sea.

And Feng Twelve could only frustratefully squeeze to the observation window of a gunner, observe the situation on the sea, and silently calculate the landing point of the cannonballs and all kinds of shooting elements.

"Feng Twelve! You fucking stupid! How can it be done like this? After observing it, Sun Baoqiang put down the binoculars and scolded Feng Twelve, who was not far from him.

Feng Twelve hurriedly turned around and said, "Please show Commander Sun!" ”

"See for yourself! The artillery here is fighting on its own, and you can choose your own target and fire at will, which is simply dispersing firepower! Do you understand?

The big boss has told us many times that in the case of our limited firepower, we must concentrate our firepower to hit an important target first to ensure effective destruction! Have you the fuck forgotten this? With such a piecemeal fight, when will they be able to sink a boat? I think you, the captain of the detachment, if you continue to do this, you should just go back and do what you want! Sun Baoqiang reprimanded Feng Twelve.

When Sun Baoqiang heard this, he really didn't care, although they had a good time here in the past two days, they really forgot about it, the gunners of each gun position were free to choose targets for shelling, although they also killed and injured enemy ships, but they did not seriously damage an enemy ship, let alone sink one of their ships.

After being reprimanded by Sun Baoqiang, Feng Twelve remembered that when they were training in the past, Yu Xiaotian had indeed told them some skills and principles on how to use artillery.

In a situation like today, it is better to concentrate firepower on a ship than to fight casually, and in the case that the enemy cannot be completely destroyed, the best way is to concentrate firepower to ensure that it is more cost-effective to effectively destroy one of the enemy's targets.

(I actually had a high fever yesterday afternoon, and it seems that taking medicine didn't work, so I had to run to the infusion in the evening, and I have to continue the infusion this afternoon!) I'm dizzy! ）