Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Chaotic War (10)

On the sea, when everyone's attention was still focused on those huge ships, these small boats, which numbered more than twenty people and as few as four or five people, suddenly erupted en masse, and the sailors suddenly sprinted at full speed towards the kobold warship!

The small boats clustered around the big ship, at least forty, suddenly accelerated and killed the kobolds' 'finless porpoise-class inshore gunboats'. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

Inexperienced traversers found that these inconspicuous boats were more or less loaded with some sundries, and some people were lighting torches in the daytime, which seemed to be going to 'burn the red cliffs'!

"Your sister!

Liu Jingtian couldn't sit still now, so he hurriedly took the dimensional cave and rushed to the three battleships like burning his buttocks.

Although there were a total of six 'finless porpoise-class' squadrons, they were divided into two detachments, the north and the south, because they had to block the waterway.

The previous battle of the pirates attacking the southern detachment had just ended, and the three 'finless porpoises' of the southern detachment were almost unharmed, and the sea was covered with the wreckage of various pirate ships, which was no longer suitable for the decisive battle of the fleet. So, now these pirates have changed the direction of their attack to the north, and dozens of small boats are swarming like swarms, rushing towards the kobolds' 'Northern Fleet'.

On the sea, the sound of gunfire was continuous, almost in a line.

The kobolds' 'northern detachment', all three boats were firing at full speed.

On the top deck, a group of 'human coolies' with muskets kept shooting at the boats below. These guys who are responsible for acting as the 'human flesh cylinder' are all selected from the 'Martian Knights' and the 'City Defense Army', and their shooting skills are carefully practiced. It's a pity that the range of the black powder weapon is really short, although everyone fights well, in fact, it can only start the effect of courage.

The main force of firing at these small boats was still to rely on the twelve-pounder and thirty-two-pounder cannons on board.

The target of these small sampans is too small, and solid bullets are not as good as scattered bullets, and they all rely on probability anyway.

The kobolds have replaced their artillery with grapeshot shells and are aiming and shooting with all their might. This kind of large scatter bullet has a range of more than 500 meters, which is far more reliable than a musket of 100 meters.

On the other side, the kobold occupying forces in the 'Fort Mogador' also knew that the battle at sea had reached the most critical moment, and under the command of Guan Renxiu, they dropped several cannons from other directions and fired at the sea with all their might.

However, because of the backward castle structure and some problems in the design of the gun carriage, the guns here cannot be adjusted left and right as easily as the navy -- the army uses two-wheeled light gun carriages, which are the same as the front-loading guns of later generations, while the navy is a bulky four-wheeled gun carriage with a grinding disk-like mechanism to adjust the horizontal firing range of the guns in a small area, so the flexibility of the naval and army artillery is not at the same level at all.

As a last resort, the only thing the artillery here in the castle can do is attack the five giant pirate ships, and there is really no way to track the 'moving target' like the small clipper.

There were small boats that attracted countless firepower, and five huge and bulky pirate ships entered the battlefield with the rumbling of cannons very smoothly.

Despite the interference of the distant castle, the five huge pirate ships still set up a column steadily, and then slowly crossed the hull of the three ships opposite the 'Finless Porpoise No. 4, 5, and 6', revealing the dense gun windows on the side - as if only for a moment, countless snow-white columns of smoke swarmed out of the side of the five giant ships like dragons out of holes......

Immediately afterwards, countless splashes of water were built around the three finless porpoise gunboats, like a small forest.

The muffled thunderous sound of cannons on the sea continued, and soon the eyes were full of gunsmoke, everything was in the fog, and in the distance, only the orange muzzle fire was faintly lit.

The three 'finless porpoises' did not care about the gunboats, and swept away the "fire attack ships" in the sea with all their might, and frantically poured tons of grapeshot into the sea, which were tied together by linen bags and ropes, and the moment they flew out of the muzzle, they broke free from all restraints, and the flying lead smashed the entire sea as if it were boiling a pot.

The five huge pirate ships took advantage of this opportunity to bombard the side of the 'finless porpoise' with shells of various calibers and materials. The pirates all know that there is only one chance to hit a fixed target, and the rabble below don't have the courage to launch a second fire attack!

Liu Jingtian reluctantly circled around the battlefield, and then went to find a suitable place to fetch water.

He wanted to throw a few powder kegs down, but now that the battlefield was full of smoke, he didn't dare to fly too low, and this powder keg could blow up people.

Someone flying around on the battlefield: "It's miserable, my boat is going to be bombarded, it's going to be burned, and there are naked strong men, jumping up...... Ahhh

Although the scene was very bad, and the rumbling cannons under him were more lively than the sound of firecrackers during the Spring Festival, I don't know if it was because of the change of body, Liu Jingtian's mind was very clear, and he didn't think about the problem at all, and he didn't know how thick his nerves were:

"Judging from the old man's experience, my small boat is not very afraid of bombardment, because the side of the ship is fed with material -- the iron pants are not a joke! But I am a little afraid of fire, this can not be helped, I can think of a way to build a ship next time...... In the end, it doesn't seem to be a big problem to jump gangs, and we have seen a lot of strong men...... That's right, you can call for Kim's thighs!"

So the Great Demon King tossed for a while: first flew to Mogador Fort, poured out the last few cannons and supplies in the Dimensional Cave, and then flew to a sea, dropped the Dimensional Cave, and asked the fishmen to help fill the Dimensional Cave. Finally, turn around and fly to the east, looking for reinforcements on the thighs of Tesfilkin.

Although the sea was full of gunsmoke, everyone had begun to engage in short-handed combat, and the battle situation became more intense.

Five or six small boats had already come over and slyly stared at the 'Porpoise No. 5' in the middle. However, they found that the arson was not very efficient - it took a lot of effort for the fish-men under the water to make a mess and only a few boats were fastened to the kobolds' boats with large nails and metal chains in the bows. Next, it's time to light the fire and leave.

However, it is completely impossible to jump with a boat - it is already difficult to jump from a small boat, and you need to drill the cannon window...... And the 'Porpoise-class' because the huge 'engine compartment' occupies too much bilge space, and the gun window is very high, everyone can only look at it and sigh.

On the other hand, the kobolds who were in a hurry didn't take advantage of anything. There were not many fishmen underwater, and the small boats that filled them with their eyes were too busy to take care of each other, so the situation of the 'Northern Fleet' became worse and worse - more and more fireships broke through, and among them, the hardest-hit 'Finless Porpoise No. 5' was surrounded by burning fireships......

The only good news was that the 'finless porpoises' had withstood the test of gunfire, and for a few minutes of their lives, only sporadic heavy shells had pierced through the side armor, and the rest of the shells, like herpes, had been embedded in the hull of the ship - kobolds sandwiched a five-millimeter wrought iron plate between the two layers of wood on the side of the ship......