Chapter 11: A staggering number of fleets
In this way, the other party will naturally think that Ye Feng and their side are the forces under the command of the Howling Wind Pirate Group, because of the relationship between the two pirate kings, the two sides naturally have scruples and dare not start a war rashly.
Therefore, the other party was naturally vigilant, after all, behind them, there were dozens of warships, so they would not have thought that the other party would dare to challenge the fleet of dozens with only these 6 pirate ships.
However, when the enemy ship and the fleet on the side of the night front were about to pass by, at this moment, several black shadows suddenly shot out from the deck of the Class I battleship on which the first mate was riding.
There was a soft "thud", and I saw an iron spear as thick as a child's arm piercing deep into the hull of the other party's ship, and behind the iron spear was a cable as thick as an arm.
A cable like this is very difficult to break even if it is chopped with a knife and an axe.
And its function is naturally to forcibly connect the two warships together in a way similar to the iron lock across the river, and the battleships in both hands can be said to be leaning together before the other party has cut the cable.
It is worth mentioning that the one who fired this iron spear was a backward giant crossbow in the eyes of others, and when the artillery had not yet risen, the giant crossbow was the main weapon of naval warfare, but when the artillery appeared, the giant crossbow was far inferior to the artillery whether it was shot through or powerful, so it was naturally quickly replaced.
However, although the giant crossbow is far inferior to artillery and the like in terms of power, it also has its own advantages, and it is difficult for artillery to fire iron spears like the current one.
Because the pirates focus on plundering the opponent's warships in the process of naval warfare, the Howling Wind Pirates specially arranged this kind of giant crossbow on the battleship, which is used in naval battles to tie the enemy ship to their own warship, and then send a large number of pirates to jump over to occupy the opponent's warship.
Because of the elbow liquid, the pirates on the opponent's battleship did not expect the enemy to attack blatantly, so it was not until the pirates who jumped past rushed into the enemy that they suddenly came back to their senses.
However, as the forces under the command of the Nine Great Pirate Kings, these pirates naturally have a lot to say about their strength and bravery.
Despite the sneak attack, they also quickly launched a counterattack, wielding sailor knives, sharp axes and other weapons, shouting and screaming towards the Night Blade's men.
After a while, the two sides were already fighting together, and it is worth mentioning that although Yefeng's side occupies the advantage in numbers, it is obviously inferior to the other party in terms of unity and cooperation, and there is even an embarrassing situation of killing the wrong companion in the melee.
But this is also a very normal thing, after all, these pirates originally belonged to different forces, there were members of the small pirate group that was first subdued by Yefeng, there were members of the Howling Wind Pirate Group who surrendered, and there were half of the pirates recruited, and these recruited pirates belonged to all over the world.
And they hadn't even fought together once before, and in fact, the time they spent together was even shorter than days.
Another point to note is that most of the members of the pirate group under the command of Mrs. Qing are mainly Asians, and it happens that the subordinates of the Howling Wind Pirate Group are also mainly Asians.
You know, in the eyes of many foreigners, we Asians actually look the same.
Therefore, it is inevitable that there will be accidental injuries.
Seeing that the pirate subordinates on his side were several times the number of the enemy, and they were still deadlocked, at this time, the fat consumption suddenly said eagerly: "Boss, why don't I help them?" ”
Although the output capacity of fertilizer consumption is not high, but with him in front of the battle line, the form of battle is naturally very different.
However, in this regard, Ye Feng shook his head unexpectedly and said, "No need! In fact, I deliberately let them solve this battle on their own, because the cooperation between them is so poor, once this situation occurs in a dangerous time, it is really a big deal, and now they have to face only this number of enemies, even if there are casualties, it is within the range of what we can bear. ”
"On the contrary, these pirates can take advantage of this skirmish to greatly improve the cooperation between the two sides."
"But in this way, in the face of Mrs. Qing's fleet, it seems that it is better not to send them, otherwise, judging from their current cooperation, even if they win the battle with my help, the casualties of the troops will be very heavy."
"I don't want to be exhausted by the pirates I've recruited like this."
"Oh! Got the boss! At this time, after listening to Ye Feng's explanation, Fat Consumption also quieted down obediently.
Subsequently, after more than ten minutes of fighting, with the appearance of casualties on both sides, the advantage gradually shifted to the pirates on the side of the night front, and the reason was very simple, it was still in the number of people.
You must know that Mrs. Qing's Class III battleship is itself positioned as a scout to investigate, so the number and quality of sailors on the battleship are definitely not as good as the main battle pirate ship.
Although at the beginning, with the good cooperation between their companions, they were able to block the enemy who was several times their own number, but when they suffered more than half of their own casualties, no matter how good the cooperation was without the cooperation of their companions, it was like a tree without roots.
And under such a virtuous circle, the pirates on Yefeng's side finally annihilated most of the pirates on the deck, leaving only a small number of live mouths to ask for information.
However, although they managed to capture the upper deck of the enemy ship, it was only the beginning of the broadside battle.
Because they also have to carefully search the cabins of ships with dozens or hundreds of small rooms, which is undoubtedly a very time-consuming thing.
However, for Ye Feng, he naturally didn't need to pay more attention to the things that followed, and at this time, he was questioning several of Mrs. Qing's subordinates who were brought over by the first mate.
For the pirates, you don't need to torture at all, and they can say almost anything when life and death are in the hands of the enemy.
Therefore, Ye Feng also got a detailed situation, dozens of nautical miles ahead, a total of 32 warships of Lady Qing were slowly driving in, and their destination was the home of pirates all over the world - the place of shipwreck.
It's also the place where the pirate convention is held!
It turned out that the song of the pirate uprising was sung throughout the sea, and all the pirates also knew that the Flying Dutch had been tamed by the British Navy, and with the help of the Flying Dutch, a large number of pirates were exterminated by the British Navy.
Although only a large number of scattered pirates have died so far, it is believed that the war will soon spread to the pirate kings.
Therefore, at the initiative of the Caspirate King Barbossa, the fourth pirate conference is about to be held in the land of the shipwreck, and Mrs. Qing's trip is to go to the place of the shipwreck.
It is worth mentioning that this route happened to be the only place they had to pass to go to the land of the shipwreck, which is why they met them so coincidentally.
Because the dispatch of the 32-ship Grand Fleet was too eye-catching, Mrs. Qing was naturally worried that it would trigger the early encirclement and suppression of the British Navy, so she also assigned the fastest scout warships in four different directions: front, rear, left and right.
It is worth mentioning that in order to pursue speed, these four scout ships only have two guns on the bow and stern, which naturally greatly reduces the weight of the battleship itself, and as for supply resources and the like, only a little is stored.
Anyway, it is not enough to easily get it from the fleet, plus the additional configuration of dozens of oarsmen, it can be said that these four scout ships in terms of speed, unless they are facing the Black Pearl, otherwise, they are very confident that they can throw off the enemy and return to report.
Because there is a buffer of dozens of nautical miles between the two sides, when the Qing Lady's fleet receives the information, it can also make a plan to fight or retreat according to the information.
It's just that this scout ship didn't expect that Ye Feng's side would dare to take a huge risk of offending the pirate king, and as soon as he made a move, he directly cut off the opportunity for the scout ship to escape.
When he heard that there were 32 pirate ships behind him, a trace of fear suddenly flashed on the face of the first mate, after all, this is not a few, a dozen pirate ships, but a full 32 pirate ships!
Even if there are only a minimum of 100 pirates on a pirate ship, this is equivalent to a full 3,200 pirate warriors!
The total number of people in their fleet is only about 750, and less than a third of them are necessary to control the battleship, and the other third are gunners who specialize in handling artillery, so the number of pirate warriors who can be used for battle is only about 300 people.
Facing an enemy ten times the number of his own, and the opponent must be much stronger than their improvised pirate group in terms of cooperation, so although Yefeng has the help of the dragon, the first mate is still very worried.
And his worry was also impressive, but he was afraid that if he was defeated before the battle, then he would be abandoned by Yefeng, after all, there were really many ambitious pirates like him.
But at this time, Ye Feng comforted him instead: "You can rest assured, you don't have to make a move for the next battle." ”
"After all, letting you face such a number of fleets now, it is no different from looking for death, I don't want the fleet I have built up with so many resources to be destroyed all at once."
"But then you can move all the guns on the decks of the other battleships to the Sea Dragon, and gather the best gunners here."
"As for the next thing, you can take a look from the sidelines, so that you can see the power that can dominate the entire pirate world!"
"But ......?" Hearing this, the first mate was also shocked in his heart, and then he also hesitated and said: "If you are going to transform into a dragon, then I am naturally not worried, but if it is with this battleship, then I am worried about whether I can survive the enemy's first round of artillery salvo?" ”
It is no wonder that the chief mate would say this, because according to the information he just got from those living mouths, it can be seen that of the 32 warships led by Mrs. Qing, there are 3 class I warships alone, 10 class II warships, and the rest are all class III warships.
As for low-level warships such as Tier IV and V, there is not a single one.
A top-tier Tier I battleship has a three-tier gun deck on it, and the number of standard guns is about 100, of course, for pirates, the number of guns is naturally not as good as the navy's standard.
But even so, 32 warships have thousands of guns!
Of course, due to the limitations of warships in this era, the guns of a battleship facing the same direction at the same time are at most half of the number of guns fired.
But even so, this means that a salvo of the enemy can bring hundreds of shells, even if the artillery of this era has a low calculation hit rate because there is no fire control system, but it can't stand a lot!
Hundreds of shells, which are concentrated in a salvo to one area, is simply a firepower coverage without dead ends!
I believe that under such firepower, even the fastest Black Pearl, as long as it is still within the range of firepower, there is no possibility of survival.
However, at this time, in the face of the first mate's worry, Ye Feng smiled mysteriously and said: "Don't worry, don't say that the enemy has a salvo of hundreds of guns, even if it is a few thousand, the ending will be the same!" ”
"Anyway, you just have to wait for a miracle to happen on the sidelines!"
Seeing Ye Feng's sworn expression, the first mate didn't continue to say anything, anyway, when it backfired, it wasn't them who suffered, because Ye Feng had also made it very clear that when the war started, they just had to hide and watch from a distance.
The captain has said so, what else can you do with the first mate?
In fact, if it weren't for the fact that Ye Feng's life and death were related to whether the first mate would be able to rule Singapore in the future, then he wouldn't be so worried? After all, he doesn't need to go to the battlefield, as for those gunners who are unfortunately selected, for him, his subordinates will die when they die, and it would be good to train a new batch.
Don't say anything kind to pirates, after all, pirates are essentially made up of a bunch of hooligans, bastards, and villains, although Pirates of the Caribbean movie glorifies the image of pirates as much as possible for the sake of artistic processing.
However, this does not change the true nature of these pirates, after all, the pirates are ruthless, cruel and lawless, and they are simply a bunch of complete scum.
The old pirates who have been able to live at sea for many years, each of them has a bloody hand on their hands, and every one of them has a reason to die.
Therefore, at this time, the selfish and cold-blooded first mate was actually already thinking about what he should do when the time comes, whether to take the remaining pirates and warships back to other pirate kings, or directly set up his own door, etc.