Chapter 329. Archers in Crash Bay
The slight sea breeze blew, making a faint fishy smell permeate the seashore, and the hideous faces of those pirates on the front boats were already intoxicated, inhaling the air deeply, which was a breath from the sea. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Cape Town is in sight, this group of pirates is already excited, the coming plunder, so that everyone's hearts can't help but rise a little bold, killing is inevitable, blood is flowing all over the ground, corpses are lying in the streets, a fire that can consume everything, this is the result they desire the most.
The hard bottom of the boat rushed directly into the beach, leaving a deep dent, and the thirty or so pirates on the small boat had already thrown away the oars in their hands, drew their scimitars and long swords one by one, and jumped onto the beach.
"Haha, there are still a lot of warehouses ahead!"
The sharp-eyed pirates smiled evilly, looked at the mills and warehouses on the homesteaders in front of them, and their eyes were even more greedy, and they shouted one after another: "There must be grain in it!" ”
"Grain? Ha! The pirate leader at the head lifted the hood on his head, stretched out his hand to comb the messy greasy hair, but his face was even more greedy, he spat at the side, and sneered and mocked: "You will also grab some food, Lao Tzu will rush into that cape town, and all the silver coins belong to Lao Tzu!" ”
"Head, Wise!"
The group of pirates behind him suddenly burst out laughing, and the greedy and coveted expressions on their faces became more and more serious, they lived on the tip of the knife all year round, in addition to longing for spirits and women, they were innumerable riches!
And now Cape Town, it is said that there are a lot of big silver coins hidden, and even according to rumors, the treasures of the thieves of the Ketufu River, nearly hundreds of thousands of large silver coins, and I don't know how many jewelry and luxury goods, are all occupied by the current Cape Town, otherwise how can such a big town be built?
"There's a wooden bridge there, let the brethren rush up first, don't let those Cape guys destroy the wooden bridge!"
The pirate leader glanced to the side, at the mills and warehouses where there was no movement at all, and laughed at the vigilance in his heart when he thought of his usual invincible plunder.
Who doesn't know just how ferocious the pirates of Crash Bay really are? If the Ketufu River thieves on the island are like ferocious hyenas, then the pirates of Shipwreck Bay who roam the sea and ride the wind and waves are the well-organized, strong steppe wolves, the fiercest, the most ruthless, and the most cunning!
No one dares to underestimate the pirates of Crash Bay, as their reputation has left on the merchants of the South and North Tsunami Seas.
Compared to the Ketufu River thieves who colluded with the officials of Gray Mist City and Samar City to survive, these pirates in Crash Bay are really self-reliant, and they belong to a powerful force, even if it is Gray Mist City, they must face it carefully, instead of directly tearing their faces and going to war openly!
There was nothing unusual on the north bank of the Fishbridge River, and the pirates didn't check it closely.
More than a dozen small boats began to dock one after another, and about three or four hundred people gathered on the shore, all of them were wearing light leather armor, holding scimitars, long swords and battle axes in their hands, looking at the city wall of Haijiao Town, which was only more than four meters high, eager to try, with a bit of disdain and mockery.
The city wall that is not even five meters is almost two or three people working together, and generally speaking, the city wall of this height is also the wall of a small village, a real town, which is not more than six meters high?
Even the three small cities in Crash Bay, although they are free trade ports, but the walls are all ten meters high and four meters wide, and the whole body is made of stones, although it is once the three outposts of the South Roaring Sea to attack the North Roaring Sea, but since it was occupied by pirates, it has also become a paradise for criminals and smugglers.
"That's pretty good."
The pirate leader looked at the more than 350 crash Bay pirates behind him, and nodded with satisfaction, these are all real warriors, and they belong to a living force that can directly enter the battle.
Compared with those peasants-born militia, these pirates of more than 300 people have no problem easily defeating more than 600 militiamen, which is also the experience they have accumulated in the past!
But looking at the seemingly nonexistent figure shaking on the city wall in front of him, the pirate leader couldn't help but turn his head, frowned and shouted to the back: "How many war bows did we bring?" Those who have war bows are all for Lao Tzu to come forward! ”
"Me!" "I brought it!" "Here, I brought it too!"
Suddenly, more than a hundred pirates stood up, took out the war bow hanging on their backs with their backs, quickly put on the bowstring, and walked out one by one with quivers, all with a bit of pride.
The pirate archers of Crash Bay, who can shoot at the enemy on the rocking deck, are not called marksmen, but it is quite easy to compare with the militiamen who have just learned how to shoot the bow!
"Go to the bridge, suppress them for me, and see if the rest of the people can rush to the city wall!"
The pirate leader's face was hideous, he glanced at the largest warship in the distance, and couldn't help but shudder in his heart, swallowed and spit, and said solemnly: "The boss is watching us on the ship, you guys should be careful, it really leaves a bad impression in the eyes of the boss, I don't think there is much to say!" ”
As the words fell, the surrounding pirates also stopped the previous noise, as if they were cold, and they all clenched their weapons one by one.
The more than 100 bow archers in Crash Bay at the front have also tightened their war bows and moved forward, reaching out to draw a few feather arrows from the quiver on their backs, looking at the front with vigilant eyes, on the city wall, they have also found the figures stationed there, this is the enemy they have to be careful of.
The war bow in their hands is the traditional Southern Trumming Sea war bow, with a range and accuracy of more than 150 meters, although the power is not as powerful as the heavy battle bow with a range of more than 80 meters in the South Trumming Sea, but in the hands of professional archers, it is quite deadly.
Hundreds of archers moved forward, scattered very widely, so as to avoid the enemy on the city wall to cover with a rain of arrows, and the more they stood apart, it was also convenient for them to shoot accurately, and at a distance of one hundred and fifty or sixty meters, it could still cause fatal casualties to the defenders on the city wall.
However, these archers in Crash Bay had a strange face, and although they had lined up and walked towards the wooden bridge of the Yuqiao River, they also found that there were no archers on the city wall.
On the contrary, behind the concave and convex retaining arrow wall of the city wall, more than a dozen black holes were slowly stretching out.
The faces of the pirate archers in Crash Bay were dazed, and the small black round hole didn't look like a ballista, a bed crossbow or anything like that, not to mention that they were now more than three hundred meters away from the city wall, which was not the main battle distance between the two sides at all!
"What's going on?" Almost all the pirate archers had some doubts in their hearts, although many of them guessed that it might be dwarven artillery, but they didn't care.
This is a distance of more than 300 meters, except for the super-heavy counterweight catapult, which can directly throw stones here, and it is difficult for ordinary large bed crossbows and ballistas to reach this range.
What's more, the power of the dwarven artillery is indeed amazing, but the range is not much compared to the ordinary catapult, and even these archers are scattered to shoot, with excellent shooting skills, they can even form a small area of arrow rain, suppressing the dwarven artillery that can only shoot directly!
"Bang-"
A slightly dull explosion appeared, and on the city wall in the distance, the fire flashed instantly, and the dense black-gray gunpowder smoke had already begun to fill, obviously discovering the pirates who had come ashore, and directly chose to open fire.
"Whoosh-" Solid cast-iron cannonballs tore through the air, with the kind of scream that could slip through the eardrums, and instantly appeared next to the group of pirate archers, slammed into the empty ground, smashed a small pit, and with the force of the rebound, flew in the direction of the sea.
"Hahaha, are these people blind?"
The pirate archers burst into laughter, for the cannon fire had caused them casualties, and had not even touched their ranks!
This kind of quasi-head is simply ridiculous like a stone thrown around, even if it has the ability to kill, but their more than 100 archers are standing very scattered, and the cannonball has no accuracy, what can it do?
"I guess that group of militiamen were so scared that they peed their pants and fired dwarven artillery casually!"
Many pirate archers thought like this, so they even puffed up their chests and walked forward, and at the same time put the war bows in their hands on feather arrows, and walked quickly, as long as they waited for the range they expected, hundreds of people with war bows fired at the same time, forming a rain of arrows, enough to cover twenty or thirty meters of the city wall!
But everyone's footsteps subconsciously paused, and their faces were a little surprised, because in their eyes, on the city wall in the distance, the smoke was slowly dissipating.
And it was precisely at the same time that the smoke dissipated with the sea breeze, more black hole dwarf artillery, the small cannon muzzles were all sticking out in the city wall, looking at the dense appearance, there were no less than thirty cannons, which really made these pirate archers in Crash Bay a little frightened.
They didn't know that the current 7-pounder light guns in Cape Town had at least fifty of them after being requisitioned!
In fact, they also didn't know that after the test firing just now, including the three 12-pounder bronze falcon guns on the hill of the Yuqiao River not far away, they had already adjusted their firing boundaries at this time, and they were arranging their muzzles in turn, slowly aiming at them!