Chapter 103: Breaking through and asking for help
The Seawolf's current main artillery, the largest is the twelve-pounder gun, that is, the No. 5 gun in the Seawolf artillery system, which is mainly the standard No. 5 gun, and some are short-barreled mountain howitzers, with a short range and small power, when dealing with peers, these cannons can be called sharp weapons, but when dealing with the Spaniards' large plywood ships, these cannons are not powerful enough.
In addition, the Seawolf has not yet replaced the No. 3 gun with a large number of No. 5 short guns, that is, six-pounder guns, which are also the main guns of these light warships, and when dealing with the Spaniards' large plywood ships, they are even more powerless, and can only pose a threat to their personnel.
Coupled with the small tonnage of the ships stationed here, and the number of guns equipped on the ships was also small, it was naturally impossible to be the opponent of the Spanish fleet, and after several battles, the ships of the sea wolves in Jilong Bay suffered losses, one of the ships was outside the bay, and was beaten into a sieve by a volley of cannons from the Spaniards on the spot, and immediately sank in the sea, and lost twenty or thirty sailors.
So the black head completely understood that with his current water strength in Chicken Coop Bay, he would not be able to defeat these dry silk people, and even if he gave up the idea of trying to use water strength to tear through the blockade of the other party, he just sent the Feizi clipper out of the city, broke through the Spanish blockade, and rushed to Nanri Island for help.
Although the pigeon is a quick means of transmitting information, after all, when the pigeon flies on the way, it will face many uncertain factors, and there is a certain uncertainty about whether it can return to Nanri Island smoothly.
In addition, the letters it can carry are only a few numbers, it is impossible to explain the situation too clearly, just an emergency means of communication, so Yu Xiaotian even after the establishment of the carrier pigeon contact method, still requires all the strongholds, after the release of the carrier pigeon, or to use ships and manpower to transmit the message, on a double insurance, in order to avoid the situation that the message can not be effectively transmitted.
Because Keelung Fort is very important to the sea wolf, the first batch of Feizi clippers were obtained, and they served as patrol ships and messengers for Keelung Fort here.
This Feizi clipper did not live up to the trust of the black heads, and after sailing out of Jilong Bay, it immediately accelerated and rushed towards the sea.
The two Spaniards immediately struck at the Flyer and tried to destroy or capture it, for Anthony was very curious about the suspicious Western-style dhow and wanted to capture it to see who had it.
But the sailors on this flying clipper did not give West Bank (the Dutch translate the Spaniards and Portuguese as West Bank, in Dutch, there is the meaning of bacon slices, and it is estimated that it is a curse word) The sailors on this ship, in front of these West Bank, showed their superb boat skills, flexibly operated the ship, and rushed to the sea quickly.
This ship relies on the flexible operation of the steering wheel device, this thing in this era, but absolutely advanced things, Westerners have not invented this steering method at present, still use the rudder operation mode, and the steering angle of the rudder rod at the helm is very small, only about five degrees, making the ship operate on the sea surface is very inflexible, this steering wheel device, but greatly beyond them.
Therefore, this flying clipper, with a dazzling maneuver, constantly adjusts the course on the sea, and its own simple and flexible sail is also easy to maneuver, without the need for sailors to climb to the mast to retract the sail or adjust the sail angle of the wind, these things can be done on the deck, so the flexibility is very strong.
The two Spanish warships tried to flank the flying clipper, and began to bombard the flying clipper, but the ship was too flexible, constantly maneuvering on the sea, dodging left and right, and the cannonballs fired by the West Banks fell around it one after another, but they were never able to effectively hit it directly.
On the contrary, this Feizi clipper, while constantly maneuvering, also began to fire back, and they often began to fire the moment the ship remained balanced, but they firmly beat the two warships that tried to flank it.
The firepower of the Feizi Clipper is not weak, although it is not as powerful as the large Western-style battleships, but it is equipped with a twelve-pound cannon, and the range power is still acceptable, as a result, the two Spanish warships did not hit the fox, but caused a commotion, each of them suffered two or three shots, the hull was dug out of a few holes, and several sailors on their ships were injured.
In the end, the Flying Clipper was largely unscathed, except for a hole in the sail, and in the stunned eyes of the Spaniards, it broke through their blockade on the sea, and then made a gorgeous arc outside, as if to demonstrate to the Spaniards, before turning away.
Anthony and his captains and sailors all looked very bad, they had never been teased by a group of Chinese pirates like today!
When they encountered Chinese pirates in the past, they either easily defeated them, or the other party had an absolute numerical advantage and fought to the death with them, but even so, it was still difficult for the Chinese pirates to succeed, and they often paid a lot of money, but they could only return with heavy losses.
And today they have so many ships, only dealing with a small ship of Chinese pirates, but not only did not take it down, but they were beaten a few times, after teasing them, swaggered to break through their blockade, Yang Fan went away, and the speed of this ship is very fast, although they have the intention to pursue, but they can't catch up with this boat at all, they can only follow behind, they can't even smell people's farts, and watch the boat disappear in front of their eyes.
This time, Anthony felt a little bad in his heart, although they did not suffer a loss in these few encounters, and also sank one of the sea wolves' warships, but through such tentative exchanges, he found that these Chinese pirates who called themselves sea wolves were very different from those Chinese pirates they had seen before.
These sea wolf tribes are not like the Chinese pirates they have seen before, like a rabble, without any rules at all, but with their so-called courage, they use their rudimentary weapons to rob the sea.
And these sea wolf troops, after his observation, found that these people are very strictly trained, the sailors on the ship have a strong discipline and will to fight, although in the face of their Spanish fleet, these sea wolf troops are at an absolute disadvantage, but they are not afraid of this, but one by one bravely operate the ship, and fight against the Spaniards, who are many times stronger than them.
Normally, if the Chinese pirates were in a situation like today, they would only collapse immediately, and they would each have been fighting their own nonsense, but these sea wolf tribes did not do that, and after being ordered to attack, they rushed towards their enemies like beagles, without flinching or holding back because they were at a disadvantage.
This made Anthony a little shocked, and even a little worried, because the sea wolf tribe showed this will to fight, made him think of their enemy, the sailors and captains of the British fleet, before the Anglo-Spanish sea battle, in fact, the British sea power was not very strong, but the British had a group of sailors and captains with a strong will to fight, they dared to use smaller ships, in a disadvantaged situation, to attack the enemy, and the will to fight is very strong, like to seize the upper hand, Put yourself in danger from which you cannot retreat and attack your enemies.
Often, British captains and sailors could take advantage of their unhesitating will to fight and defeat their opponents to win the battle when they were at a disadvantage.
At this point, the Spaniards also had to admit that the English sailors were the best sailors and the bravest sailors in the world.
But today, when they met this group of Chinese pirates who called themselves sea wolves, they seemed to see the shadow of some British sailors in these Chinese pirates, and the fighting will they showed was almost the same as that of British sailors.
This is really admirable and at the same time a little shocking, which shows that this group of Chinese pirates who call themselves sea wolves are not as unbearable as they imagined, but a group of good sailors who have received rigorous training, completely subverting the image of Chinese pirates in the minds of these Spaniards.
At the same time, Anthony also found from these tentative encounters that the quality of the equipment of these Chinese pirates was not as inferior as he thought, although most of these sea wolf warships were still Chinese-style Kron ships, but these ships looked much cleaner and neater than those of their peers, and they were obviously well maintained.
And the firepower of these ships is not as weak as they think, these sea wolves are equipped with guns of different sizes, and these guns do not seem to be like the tattered old rags used by their peers, but more like Western-style artillery.
Although the caliber of these guns is a bit small and the power is not great, the range is not short, and they can actually cause certain damage to the ships of their fleet, and even pose a great threat.
What's even more terrifying is that the gunners on these sea wolf warships have a high level of artillery, which they have never seen before, these gunners are very disciplined, and when they are engaged, they will never appear like their counterparts, and the two sides have not yet entered the combat distance, so they began to fire their guns indiscriminately, and the shells did not pose any threat to the enemy's ships at all, and they fell into the sea one after another.
And the gunners on these seawolf ships, every time they are approaching within the distance of the firefight, they fire together, and the accuracy of the artillery is also very high, and the firing rate even exceeds the firing rate of the guns on their Spanish warships, and it is not a half-star, he just saw that the other party had fired twice in a row within a minute, and at this time, the gunners on the Spanish ship only completed one launch, and the opponent's shelling speed was more than double that of them.
This further shows that these sea wolf tribes are by no means a rabble, they have definitely received very strict training, and they know the performance of the weapons in their hands very well, otherwise, they will definitely not be able to fight like this.
At this time, Anthony's heart began to sink slowly, and he knew that this time they had seriously underestimated these Chinese pirates who called themselves sea wolves, and could he still take this chicken coop bay next? The sense of foreboding in his heart began to grow stronger and stronger.
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