After arriving in the sea off Cape Guarico, everyone took a short rest and immediately threw themselves into the fiery battle of attacking and defending the fortress.

It was early in the morning, and the sun was rising, just enough to catch the gunners in the fort off guard, and it was a little obstructive for the gunners to aim.

As for why he said that he didn't take advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness last night to carry out a 'night attack on a military fortress'.

Wang Hao said that in ancient naval warfare, it was not a simple matter to carry out night raids. It would be a polite evaluation to say that the night attack is a double-edged sword, because it is simply playing with fire, and if you are not careful, you will burn your own bones and bones.

It is not for nothing that a single ship has successfully attacked chestnuts at night, Wang Hao has succeeded once before.

To put it mildly, a night battle with a single ship is much simpler than a night battle with a fleet. Because anyway, I know that except for the ship under my control, any ship encountered on the road is an enemy, and you can fight at ease at will, and anyone you encounter can directly open fire.

But if it were a fleet that went on a night raid, it would be complete death. If you want to approach the enemy quietly, you can only extinguish all the lights on the ship.

And in this era when the main information comes from the naked eye, without the guidance of the lights at night, it is impossible to maintain a formation along the way, and it is impossible to distinguish friend from foe.

A slightly larger fleet, at night in a state of drumming and lights out, the two sides will collide with their own men before the battle.

At night, the smear advance is generally to light the signal lights on the ship, such as 3 lights for the flagship, 2 lights for the battleship, and 1 light for the rest of the small boats, and all the ships follow the flagship. However, there is a problem with this, that is, it is easy to be detected by the guards, and the defending side has at least a few tens of minutes to more than an hour to react in comparison with the conspicuousness of the lights on the dark sea at night, compared with the speed at which the ships sail in the dark.

Not to mention that at night, the risk factor of the ship running aground and capsizing in the offshore area will be increased indefinitely.

Well, there's also the possibility that the defenders will play tricks and hang a lamp high up in some of the rocky spots. In the darkness of the night, unknown fleets will use it as a guiding light on the lighthouse, and crash headlong into the reef.

Pirates often use this trick to frame merchant ships and rob goods without blood, so of course they will be extremely careful in this regard.

So it's really hard to succeed in a night raid, which is the main reason why the pirates have come up with such a simple and crude plan.

Because as long as you use a little brain, it will be clear that this plan is indeed a very practical method, except that the casualties will be slightly higher.

The battle began very simply, not at all as complicated as expected.

The sea area in front of the fortress is endless, and the picture of expecting Wang Hao to drive the boat first to pass the first wave, and then the knife and axe men who are lying in ambush on the left and right rush out to finish off the enemy does not exist at all.

According to the firepower configuration of the fortress, by the time other pirates floated from the lurking place, Wang Hao's 'Equality' had already been completely bombed into slag.

So the real battle is something like this: select all your units, and then A goes over......

All the pirates assembled out of sight of the Naval Fortress and then scattered like locusts towards the Naval Fortress from all directions.

And the navy inside the fortress has long found a large number of unidentified ships gathering at the end of the line of sight. Before the ships could reach the range of the cannons, they fired a warning shot. However, it was useless, and the ships continued to rush to the fortress desperately.

As a result, the sirens in the fortress sounded loudly, and countless navies dressed in various equipment and stood ready for battle. The large-caliber cannons on the fortress were also already prepared, and as soon as the fleet came within range of the cannons, they would immediately open fire and destroy them.

Soon after, the pirate fleet uniformly raised its black sails before officially entering the range of shore guns.

Sure enough, as Wang Hao had predicted before, no one dared to hang their pirate flag on the ship.

Except for himself, because as soon as the mortar cannon is fired, no one will not know that this thing was done by his Thunder Pirate.

So, Wang Hao generously hung a banner of his own design - a skull of Bai Sensen, two white lightning bolts inserted from the skull's eye sockets, and then pierced through the jaw and crossed each other.

And the navy in the fortress, after seeing the black sail rising on the top of the mast, also completely abandoned other unrealistic thoughts, and began to fight the pirates wholeheartedly.

The raid started off very well, and in this kind of landing battle, the pirates used nimble and fast ships that were able to move at full speed in the current environment.

However, due to the limitations of artillery technology in the current era, the bulky shore artillery can only use the method of salvo fire of multiple guns to maintain the coverage of firepower within a range due to the problem of accuracy and rate of fire, so as to ensure that it can effectively hit the enemy.

Therefore, except for a few unlucky eggs who were directly smashed by the shore guns, the rest of the people successfully rushed into the perimeter of the fortress.

But then, the pirates weren't so lucky.

As the fleet got closer to the fortress, the encirclement became smaller and smaller, and the density of ships within the same area gradually increased. At this time, it was the turn of the shore artillery to be majestic. The pirates suffered a series of losses, often with a few ships getting a little closer, and then a barrage of bullets covering them.

Looking at the scene in front of him, as the commander, Black Mountain's eyes were split, and he hurriedly urged the standard-bearer to send a message to Wang Hao: "Second battalion commander! Where's your damn Italian cannon?! Pull it out for Lao Tzu! ”

Although Black Sam didn't know this stalk, it didn't prevent Wang Hao from understanding the meaning of his words, which was urging him to hurry up and suppress the fortress navy.

While the pirates suffered heavy losses, Wang Hao was certainly not idle. His mortar was already aimed at the fortress during the confusion, and then a loud 'boom' was heard, and a huge iron ball of red-hot iron was projected into the air, sliding a perfect parabola from above, hitting the fortress with precision. It's a pity that it's a solid shell, and if there is a flowering shell, this cannon is guaranteed to make all the cannons on the fortress lie down.

To be precise, this cannon actually did not cause any damage to the navy, at best it smashed a huge crater in the fortress, the shells bounced and rolled, smashed some ammunition boxes and the like, and did not even hurt a single person.

But this also puts a lot of psychological pressure on the Navy, because it means that they are no longer unscrupulous and unilaterally beating these pirates. Although only one cannonball has hit now, it also indicates that more cannonballs will be fired here in the future.

There was a slight disagreement as to whether the Navy would address its own threat first or continue to bomb the flotilla in the charge. Although the decision was made by the Fort's commander shortly afterward, it still bought the pirate fleet valuable time.

At this time, Wang Hao didn't expect that this cannon could play such a huge role. Because from his point of view, this cannon had no effect at all, and not even a corner of the fortress collapsed.

Therefore, he turned the rudder laterally and began to stop rushing towards the fortress, but kept moving laterally, trying to avoid appearing in a group with other ships to ensure that he was not locked by the shore guns. And while keeping themselves safe, they can fire their guns to support those partners who are charging into battle.