Chapter 578: The Despair of the End (2nd Update)

The combined fleet of 15 European countries successively mobilized 157 warships to fire a full 6,000 or 7,000 shells at the forts, wharves, and trenches in the port of Shengzhou.

Such a density of firepower is unprecedented, these mercenaries and pirates thought that they were not coming to collect corpses, or mend knives, but what they didn't expect was that the soldiers they saw in the whole family army actually looked like they were not damaged.

These pirates were unbelievable that the soldiers of the whole family army were surprised that they were not frightened and dared to hold their ground, but Maeda Mitsutaka, who was in charge of the raid, did not take it too seriously.

Maeda Mitsutaka has a blood feud with the whole family army, he is under the protection of domestic servants and loyal samurai, he took refuge in Zheng Zhilong, and became the leader of the Japanese dead soldiers, in his opinion, such fierce artillery fire, a hundred times more powerful than the whole family's artillery, these family soldiers, should be like the Japanese samurai of the Kyushu Domain, on the surface can still hold on, in fact, they have long been frightened out of their courage.

Actually, he was wrong, very wrong.

It is not said that the whole family army did not suffer losses, one of the observation posts was hit by a chain bullet, and the three soldiers of the whole family army did not even have time to scream, and they were directly beheaded by the chain bullet.

More than a dozen soldiers of the family army had withdrawn from the battle after suffering minor abrasions or sprains from dodging shells.

However, it is still too far from losing its combat effectiveness.

"Revenge, shame!"

As Mitsutaka Maeda's katana pointed forward, hundreds of Japanese samurai took the lead in leaping out of the formation and rushing towards the docks.

"Look for death!"

The soldiers of the whole family were not in the habit of pity for the enemy, in fact they had long been accustomed to the enemy running straight up and sending them to death, and they had a good time pulling the plate machine and hitting the flint with a hammer.

The splashing spark detonated a small amount of mercury on the wool, and the heat generated by the explosion instantly turned the cotton wool into a ball of hot gas, and the hollow bullet was propped up by the hot gas, embedded in the rifling, and spun out at high speed along the rifling, all in a fraction of a second.

Eighty paces away, the Japanese samurai seemed to have been buried in the body with a large number of firecrackers and then detonated, the head, chest, and abdominal cavity burst open, spurting out a large stream of blood, dozens of Japanese samurai fell to the ground and wailed at the moment when the blood splashed, and they were already dead before they even fell to the ground.

Maeda Mitsugao's pupils shrank involuntarily, the muskets of the whole family army were so terrifying? How can it be more powerful than when I was in Kyushu?

No one answered his question, and Quan Xu invested an astronomical amount of money in order to let the Ming craftsmen develop muskets and artillery. Stimulated by money, those R&D technicians, who are working to improve muskets almost every moment, already have ready-made examples.

The Gun Bureau, with the mature five or six half, five or six punches, and M70 can be used as a reference, that kind of rifle is the rifle that Quan Xu needs, and their strength in making that kind of rifle is not enough, the meal must be eaten one bite at a time, and the road must be taken step by step.

Maeda Mitsutaka found that he had underestimated the enemy, but now even if he found out that the situation was wrong, there was nothing he could do, and they were now almost in front of the guns of the whole family!

The soldiers of the whole family army behind the breastwork handed the empty musket back, and then took the loaded musket from the hands of the comrades in the back, pulled the plate machine again, and the whole action was completed in a few seconds, and another row of bullets roared, and the Japanese samurai wailed again and overturned a large piece!

Maeda Mitsutaka didn't know that their troubles had actually just begun, and as the muskets rang out one after another, the Type 105 mortar began to speak.

The mortar shells pulled a high parabola in the air and slammed down in the middle of them!

"Boom... Boom ......"

More than a dozen black-red flames swelled among the Japanese samurai, and more than 100 Japanese samurai pirates and mercenary soldiers were black, either torn to pieces by the blast wave or smashed into a sieve by high-speed shrapnel, with the explosion point as the center, there were two more flesh and blood blurred circles among the Japanese samurai, which was miserable.

Before they could react, another round of shelling was repeated, and this time sixteen shells caused even more casualties, and more than three hundred pirates and Japanese samurai and mercenary soldiers were overturned, never to get back up.

In this era, everyone still stayed at the stage where the solid shot put ball rolled through the broken limbs, and they did not know anything about the lethality of high-explosive shells.

With the escalation of the lethality of artillery, it is constantly evolving, and now that this stage of exploration has not yet begun, naturally don't expect European pirates and mercenaries and Japanese samurai to understand this, in the face of shells planted from high altitudes, the only thing they can do is to be in a daze, and then be blown away by clusters!

The battle turned into a one-sided slaughter.

In Reilly III's telescope, he was shocked to find that the artillery of his army was actually the same as the naval guns, and yet, the flames that rushed high seemed to hit his chest like a heavy hammer.

Now, the British Army infantry is exploring linear tactics, that is, the guns are lined up to be shot, and he can imagine that if the British face the shelling of the whole army, the scene may not bear to look at directly.

Now European countries have begun to explore the flowering bomb, but the power is quite touching, and the ability to produce more than a dozen fragments is a big explosion of character.

At present, the main function of the flowering bomb is not to kill and injure the enemy in large numbers with explosions and shrapnel, but to intimidate the enemy and shake the morale of the army by relying on the loud sound and fire of the shell explosion.

However, the artillery used by the whole family army ruthlessly refreshed their understanding of the flowering shell, where is this cannon staff, it is clearly an invincible weapon for killing people and goods!

While everyone was watching the battle on the docks, they didn't realize the danger they were coming.

That's right, the battle on the dock, in fact, was just an appetizer, a real hard dish, and it was the blow of the battery to their warship.

The 130-mm guns of the battery, in order to prevent damage from enemy naval guns, moved to the anti-artillery holes, and after the transfer, it took a certain amount of time. Now all the batteries have been prepared, and they have all found their targets.

Hearing the sound of the preparation of the various gun positions from the walkie-talkie, Wang Zhongning ordered: "Open the gun!" ”

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

A series of fierce cannon sounds rang out, and the guns suddenly erupted with smoke and flames, and the ground shook, and 16 130-mm smoothbore guns and 160 160-mm cannons were aimed at a large warship with a displacement of more than 1,500 tons.

Thirty-six shells flew over in rows, and the sea suddenly boiled as if a pot was boiling, and columns of water rose into the sky, and the water mist rushed and exploded like thunder! This sudden attack shocked all the 15th Combined European Fleet.

Aren't they surprised at the sharpness of the artillery of the whole family army, they fired six or seven thousand shells, and as a result, the battery in Shengzhou Port did not have any?

This result is difficult for them to accept.

Although it was the first time to shoot at the gunners of the combined European fleet, the Shengzhou port battery, after two years of training, they had to fire at least three shells a day, and even the barrel was broken.

Unlike in naval battles, where hundreds or thousands of shells could not hit a single ship, this salvo resulted in at least four ships two thousand meters away being directly hit.

In fact, there was one of them in Mongolia, because it was only a medium-sized warship of about 400 tons, and as a result, the 160-millimeter cannon was fired down, and the warship was immediately blown apart.

There is also a 1,200-ton armed merchant ship belonging to the Capes family, the "Holy Maiden", although the Holy Maiden is an old merchant ship, but it is only five years old, and it can be used for another twenty or thirty years.

Hit in the first blow, the fatal cannonball pierced the deck like chopsticks and exploded in the cabin, the terrifying force of the explosion that blew two walls into billions of sawdust that shot at a blast speed, and dozens of sailors into sea urchins. The sulfur from the inside of the shells flew out with the explosion, sticking to the hull coated with waterproof grease and asphalt, and burned violently, almost in the blink of an eye, and the cabin was on fire.

Those poor sailors had never been in such a terrible situation, and they turned pale with fear as they watched the fire spread wildly in the cabin, some screamed in fright, some tried to escape, others tried to extinguish the fire, and the whole battleship was like a stabbed ant nest, and the whole ship was in chaos.

At this time, like the sailors on board the Virgen, the combined European fleet was in chaos, and in the first round of artillery hits, four warships were hit, one of which directly disintegrated, and three exploded and caught fire, and there was no possibility of rescue at all.

The other warships all wanted to get out of this demonic and dangerous area.

It's just a pity that this idea is unanimous.

You huddled and collided with each other, and before the second round of artillery bombardment was launched, four merchant ships had collided together, one of them slowly sinking, and three were seriously wounded.

The benefits of the whole family army enduring the shelling of the European Combined Fleet were apparent, and a large number of warships were crowded into the entire Katsushu harbor, and even Sir Reilly's warships were within two kilometers of the port, which means that more than 200 large and medium-sized warships were crammed into the entire port.

What's worse is that such a dense number of warships is very chaotic, and it makes the European Combined Fleet desperate, and there is a sharp howling sound from the air.

Two fifteen-mounted rocket launchers began to be fired, one after another with a long tail flame flew towards the dense European Combined Fleet, and then eighteen 130-millimeter 28-caliber naval guns and eighteen 160-millimeter cannons also joined the covering strike range.

"No ......"

Reilly screamed in shock.