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Chapter 68: Scuffle

The self-preservation behavior of the Fusang No. 2 fleet is exactly what Gangzi wants to see, this kind of extreme range artillery bombardment can't talk about the hit rate at all, it depends on character, but once the other party forcibly leans over, he can naturally give full play to his firepower advantage, but the evasion action of the snake will also affect the speed of the ship, and the Fusang No. 3 fleet behind can chase frantically with the wind, and then the oncoming Fusang No. 1 fleet occupies the T-shaped head and bombards his bow, and his own black sail pirate fleet is really more than lucky.

Keeping a distance from the Fuso II fleet, the Black Sails Pirate Fleet sailed at full strength to save ammunition and slow down the frequency of shelling. The oncoming enemy No. 1 fleet, although it has reached the range of naval guns, the Fuso No. 1 fleet did not cross the hull to carry out artillery bombardment, mainly because the Black Sail Pirate Fleet is in a high-speed state at this time, the No. 1 Fleet only has two brigs, can not fight a few rounds of artillery bombardment, limited shells are not enough to give the Black Sail Pirate Fleet a heavy damage, once the pirates use the strategy of losing the car to protect the commander, fighting the destruction of the first ship and forcing the impact, but will be pirates from their own stern position to break out.

The commander of the Fuso No. 1 Fleet put down his binoculars and scolded: "Kawakami Koharu, a merchant from Osaka, is afraid of death and cowardly, and he does not have the samurai spirit of my Great Fuso Empire at all, if they lean on it just now, they can block the way for the pirates to break through from the northwest, and then we turn to the east to completely seal the encirclement, but now ......, immediately report the situation here to the flagship and ask for instructions." ”

On the Fuso flagship pursued in the south, Tanabe Shunsuke saw that Kawakami Koharu was afraid of the enemy's inaccessibility, and reprimanded him harshly, ordering him to immediately suppress the pirates and attack, slowing down the pirates' sailing speed so that the Fuso anti-theft fleet could complete the encirclement of him.

Kawakami Koharu did not dare to disobey the military order, and although he was still afraid that the pirates would outnumber him by more than twice his firepower, he still ordered the fleet to quickly cut in, and at the same time increase the frequency of fire from the ship's guns, forcing the pirate fleet to slow down and evade.

Gangzi also ordered the Black Sail Pirate Fleet to cut to Kawakami Koharu's Fuso No. 2 fleet, and the brave wins when they meet on a narrow road, and Kawakami Koharu's hesitation just now made Gangzi realize that Fuso's No. 2 Fleet's will to fight may be relatively weak, and perhaps this direction is an opportunity to break through. At the same time, Gangzi also learned from Liang Hong that the two Ataku ships owned by the Fusang No. 4 Fleet from the east were the deadliest existence for the Black Sail Pirate Fleet, which was deeply surrounded and lacked space for action.

Fuso is an island nation with a large population, and the advantage of the island is that it has a long coastline and has built a strong navy. But because it is an island country, there is no country that threatens it on land, so his army has become an ornament. Therefore, in order not to teach the army to eat food in vain, the Fuso military waved its hand, and the army got on board and fought a large-scale battle with the advantage of close combat.

Of course, ordinary warships could not accommodate too many soldiers, so the Fuso people modified the river boats. Inland river warships have tall superstructures, one is to be equipped with more soldiers, and the other is to shoot with bows and arrows, but the tall superstructure and sails on the sea are easy to be overturned by the strong sea breeze, so the Fuso people removed all the sails on the ship, and then changed to full slurry power by virtue of manpower advantages, so as to form the current Fuso unique naval warship - Ataku ship.

The tactics of the Ataka ship are to rely on the gunboat to limit the opponent's range of movement, and then quickly get up and rely on hand-to-hand combat to capture the ship. The style of play is simple and rude but extremely practical, and it is also difficult to beat neighboring Goryeo. So the Goryeo Kingdom studied the tortoiseshell ship, and the tight tortoiseshell protection shell cannonball can't be smashed, and people can't get in, so they rely on the head-to-tail collision angle to sink the local ship, and one thing descends one thing to create a more alternative warship like a tortoiseshell ship.

Gangzi didn't want to try the combat effectiveness of the Ataku ship, if it was an open sea, he still had the confidence to fight with the Ataku ship. But now in the encirclement, there is not enough space, and the Black Sail Pirate Fleet can't beat the Otaku ship, which has nothing but soldiers on board.

So Gangzi chose to break through from the junction of the Fuso No. 1 and No. 2 fleets.

The front pressure of the Fuso No. 2 fleet made the No. 1 fleet feel much more relaxed, in the face of the pirate fleet's route to the northwest, the Fuso No. 1 fleet did not rush across the hull to block, the hesitation just now made the No. 2 fleet lose the best opportunity to block the pirate fleet, if it turns to the east, the gap between the No. 1 fleet and the No. 2 fleet is too big to be connected and blocked, if the west turns to the west and the No. 2 fleet together to flank the pirate fleet, it may be like the commander of the No. 1 fleet just worried, If the pirate fleet abandons its lead ship to contain the Fuso 1st and 2nd fleets, and the main force suddenly turns to the northeast and is empty, then the two Ataka ships to the east alone will not be able to stop the pirate fleet from breaking through.

Fuso No. 1 Fleet continued to maintain course, and he planned to launch an artillery bombardment on the starboard side of the pirate fleet when the two fleets intersected, striving to inflict a certain amount of heavy damage on the lead ship of the pirate fleet, slow down the speed of the pirate fleet, and then turn to attack the tail of the pirate fleet, and it was estimated that the southern flagship had also caught up by that time. Six brigs were enough to oppress the pirate fleet and it would be impossible to escape, and when the Ataka ships arrived, they could annihilate the mighty pirate fleet that had swooped into the Fuso Sea.

The Black Sail Pirate Fleet and the Fuso No. 2 Fleet approached quickly, and the guns of both sides entered the range with a good hit rate, and at this time the battleship could no longer go in a straight line, because this simple march was easy to make the opponent's gunners stop and greatly increase the probability of being hit, so both sides invariably adopted a serpentine maneuver to avoid the shells.

The serpentine maneuver represents a decrease in speed, looking at the Fuso battleship chasing behind and intercepting in front, Gangzi ordered: "The Sea Lion leads the fleet to break through the siege, and I will stay to deal with the enemy's second fleet." ”

The ship is gone, it can be rebuilt, and the NPC captain can't be regenerated when he dies, so Gangzi decided to stay behind to contain the Fusang No. 2 fleet by himself, so that Liang Hong can quickly break out without dodging shells.

Without waiting for Liang Hong to answer, Gangzi ordered the Sea Monster to turn sharply and block the firing angle of the Fusang No. 2 fleet with his body. The sound of cannons was repeated, and when the Kraken itself was constantly being shot, it kept hitting its own shells on the hull of the Fuso No. 2 fleet, and the rapid firing speed and the artillery of a higher level, Gangzi temporarily relied on a brig battleship and two brigs to fight the gun, but the two sides still missed a decisive hit.

With Gangzi's containment, Liang Hong led the Black Sail Pirate Fleet to quickly cross the Sea Monster, and the Sea Lion, the Seal, and the Bangma sailed past in turn,...... What about the Mercury?

"Boom, boom, boom......"

Gangzi didn't expect the Mercury to follow behind him and fire at the Fusang No. 2 fleet.

"Xiao Li, didn't you tell you to follow the horse?"

Li Youtai's voice trembled but replied very resolutely: "Big brother, you also said that I will beat whoever you beat." ”

Alas...... What a man! Knowing that it would be sunk after the delay, he still followed, so Li Youtai is also a friend worth making at this point, and when the brother dominates the ocean in the future, he will definitely carry this little brother more.

"Roaring ......"

There was a burst of cheers on the deck, and Gangzi hurriedly looked at it, and one of the masts of the lead ship of the Fuso No. 2 fleet was actually broken!

"Who is it! Who fired that shot, the head of this regiment is highly rewarded! ”

"Report to the regimental commander, that shot was hit by the Mercury."

Damn, the emperor of character!

The newcomers on the Mercury from top to bottom of the water, a few days ago, were all sailors who drove small sailboats, and it was already difficult to control the brig, and the hit rate of the artillery battle was also miserable, but they couldn't stand the explosion of people's character and play a key blow. Not to mention the first hit at the beginning of the artillery battle, it is enough to say that this stroke of genius that broke the mast of the enemy ship can be used as a turning point in this battle.

The lead ship of the Fuso No. 2 Fleet was missing a mast, and the speed of the ship dropped significantly, and it was estimated that it would not be able to participate in the battle in a short time after replacing the mast and adjusting it. The other brig battleship, without the command of the lead ship, became fanatical, and crossed the salvo of the lead ship's guns and pressed towards Gangzi at a large angle again.

The main force of the Black Sail Pirate Fleet led by Liang Hong has already exchanged fire with the Fusang No. 1 Fleet. Seeing that the No. 2 fleet had been frustrated and pinned down by two two-masted warships, the Fusang No. 1 fleet was no longer able to interfere with the main force of the pirate fleet, so the Fusang No. 1 fleet closed its gun doors and resisted the shelling of Liang Hongsan's ships. When the two fleets staggered, the Fusang No. 1 fleet forced a full rudder turn, and the gun doors opened to push the guns that had been loaded with cannonballs out of the stern of the ship ready to attack Liang Hong's fleet.

The experienced Liang Hong had already anticipated their intentions when he saw that the fleets were staggered and that the Fusang No. 1 Fleet had not opened fire, so he immediately told the Bangma not to open fire, and immediately fired smoke bombs after the Fusang No. 1 Fleet passed. The rear of the fleet was immediately enveloped in thick black smoke, and the Fuso No. 1 fleet had a chance to open fire, but it was impossible to see the position of the pirate fleet.

Waiting for the sea breeze to blow away the smoke, the Fuso No. 1 fleet found that the pirate fleet had divided its forces again, and the first ship crossed the hull to the east towards the Fuso No. 4 fleet Ataka ship that came up, and the remaining two pirate ships still went straight and quickly left the battlefield.

The Fuso No. 1 flotilla reported the situation to the flagship.

Tanabe Shunsuke Shaozo said: "The pirate fleet has cut its tail again, the pirate's mind must be on those two ships, don't care about the pirate ship that broke away from the pirate fleet, our two Ataka ships are enough to deal with him, you pursue with all your might, come on, you must kill the thief in this battle." ”

Although the Kraken was still flying the flagship flag at this time, Tanabe Shunsuke thought that this was a pirate's strategy to confuse the enemy, in order to attract his own attention to cover the real flagship breakthrough, but this strategy was too naïve, and the trapped army broke through where there was a main general, this pirate was so stupid that he repeatedly divided his forces, but leaked out the real flagship. Shunsuke Tanabe was 90% sure that the pirate leader was on the fugitive brig.

The battlefield was divided into three places, Gangzi exchanged fire with the Fusang No. 2 fleet so that the Fuso flagship chased up from behind, who thought that the Fuso flagship did not exchange fire with Gangzi too much, leaving a brig battleship as a support for the second fleet, and the Fuso naval flagship quickly crossed from the edge of the battle to chase in the direction of the seal.

The Mercury's luck shot broke the mast of the lead ship of the Fuso No. 2 fleet, and Tanabe Shunsuke saw it in the back, no one can stop this kind of thing and can't say clearly, but the Mercury's next messy shelling still leaked the rookie's level, and was characterized as a slight threat by Tanabe Shunsuke. Although the pirate pseudo-flagship is strong, Tanabe Shunsuke still thinks that his two brigs can be suppressed against it, and after the Ataka ship destroys the pirate ship that is not self-sufficient, it can support and destroy these two remnants, and his task is to deal with the pirate's real flagship, "The pseudo-flagships are so powerful, presumably the pirate's real flagship is not something that two brigs can easily deal with." ”

Seeing that the Fusang flagship ignored him, Gangzi breathed a sigh of relief and told Zhou Geng about the situation behind, telling them to use smoke bombs to save themselves.

After getting Zhou Geng's response, Gangzi began to concentrate on dealing with the enemy in front of him. (My novel "The King of Online Navigation" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be a 100% lottery gift for everyone!) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner to "add friends", search for the official account "qdread" and follow, hurry up! )

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