Chapter 299: Clarymu's Artillery Bombardment
"Boom, boom, boom!!
The heavy cannon that came from the sea made the whole Clarimu tremble, and one huge cannonball after another slammed into the tower on the left side of the harbor.
Whether Tang Jie is in a large-scale war or a personal battle, if he is outnumbered, he likes to let go of his hands and feet, exert all his strength, storm one place, defeat the opponent with the overwhelming momentum of Mount Tai, and then turn the muzzle of the gun to clean up another enemy.
The commander of a unit will directly determine the character and soul of this force, Tang Jie's character is like this, and his subordinates will naturally carry forward this characteristic, eighteen heavy artillery shelled the tower of Clarimu Harbor at the same time, even if this tower is built extremely solid, it cannot withstand such a ferocious blow.
The soldiers inside the tower only felt the ground shake violently under their feet, and then the heavy tower was blasted out by an iron ball cannonball the size of a football, and the rubble flew everywhere!
The cannonball blasted through the walls of the tower, and the rampage of the cannonball slammed into the flesh and blood of the soldiers, tearing them to pieces, and the flesh flew sideways, turning into a cloud of blood mist, and the blood suddenly splattered on the blue-white walls, and the blood was still steaming and steaming!
The soldiers of the fort in Clarimu Harbor were completely confused, they did not understand who was attacking them, it was as if a man was yawning and getting up from a warm bed, and before he could open his eyes, he was slapped on the head!
This stick hurt so much that the whole Clarimu was dizzy and his eyes were full of stars!
The seventy-eight cannons in the tower on the left side of the harbor were suddenly blown away, and they were hit by the rocks and broke away from the gun position, and in a short period of time, there were as many as twenty or thirty cannons that did not return fire!
The most important thing is that the morale of the soldiers in the port of Clarimu was immeasurable as a result of this first shelling, and while they braved their waists in the towers, wailing and wailing to avoid the rocks falling overhead, the pirates adrift on the sea were sweating profusely and reloading their muzzles, preparing for the next terrible blow.
After a bombardment, the huge caliber of the bow gun emitted green smoke, and immediately some sailors came up, holding a gun bolt and a fire scratch to clean up the gunpowder ash in the gun chamber, although the bow gun was huge, but because its volume and caliber were much more than the cabin gun, so it was also a lot of trouble to clean up, just to clean up the gunpowder slag, it took nearly half a minute.
But if these gunpowder slags are not cleaned up, if they are allowed to remain inside, this barrel will be used a few more times at most, and it will have to be reimbursed, and a thousand gold coins will have to be lost!
After the sailors have cleaned the gun chamber, there are sailors who will pour gunpowder into the gun chamber, these gunpowder packs have been customized, the amount is distributed according to the number of miles of range, and they are usually stored in the marked dry wooden barrels, and when they are ready to use, the barrels are pushed out, and then split with a sharp axe, take out the gunpowder packs, and take the gunpowder bags according to the firing range.
When the gunpowder was filled, a strong sailor carried a heavy and large iron ball in both hands and poured it into the barrel.
This cannonball weighed seventy or eighty pounds, and a sailor with a little less strength could not hold it with one hand at all, and if he wanted to lift it and pour it into the barrel, even if he had a lot of strength, he had to use both hands, because the cannonball was too big.
When the cannonball was loaded, the cannonball rolled down the bore, making a low, rumbling sound, like thunder in the sky, and at this time the pirates completed the preparations for the second shelling.
At this time, Tang Jie stood on the bridge of the Black Dragon King, holding the dragon scale armrests on the bridge of the Black Dragon King with both hands, and quietly watched every move on the battlefield with the help of the Black Dragon King's unique magic * eye with farsighted effect.
In the thick fog, there is a vertical silver eye at the top of the sail flagpole of the Black Dragon King, this eye is surrounded by a faint blue light, its pupils are the same as the dragon, it is erect, from the surrounding eyeballs to the small eyeballs in the middle, it looks like countless sharp needles are gathered, the more sharp and compelling it is, full of boundless coercion, if ordinary people look at it, they will feel as if they have been pierced by ten thousand arrows, and they are stared at alive.
This eye stared at the burning battlefield without blinking, and its indifferent and majestic eyes moved left and right as Tang Jie's gaze shifted, as if the gods of the heavens were looking at the indifferent eyes of the common people.
Fiona, the demon queen floating in the sky, saw this scene in front of her eyes, nodded secretly in her heart, and compared its strange appearance with the content recorded in the ancient books she had read.
Although Clarimu's artillery battle had begun, she didn't take this battle to heart, she was more concerned about the Black Dragon King, this magical invincible battleship.
As for Tang Jie, although he also thought that he would definitely win the battle of Clarimu, he was still under pressure.
For him, this battle was to be prepared and unprepared, and a full eighteen warships were concentrated, and there were demon * legions and black dragon kings to suppress the formation, if he couldn't win, he simply smashed all the ships and sank, and he jumped into the sea and choked to death!
However, his own weakness is that he understands that there are actually not one of the old sailors who followed him to fight in the Sea of Nilsia, especially the elite pirates left under the old Barr before, and only Nia and Bill are left, and even William was killed in battle.
The current pirates can be said to be a well-deserved motley army!
There are black slaves from the Southern Continent, sailors from Sisis, and the noble Clumber family from the Pound Continent, as well as those children who have not grown their hair!
These guys are all together, isn't it a ragtag army? This is a ragtag army even more than a ragtag army!
Although Nia and Christina have been training day and night with this motley army, they are sharpening their knives...... It's really bottomless!
However, there is no bottom, this battle still has to be fought hard, when he Tang Jie first came to this world, the first time he faced the battle, didn't he just do it hard?
Moreover, Tang Jie is also worried that the second fleet of *Erko will not be able to work, although he is not worried that these guys will rebel in this scene, but whether these guys will grind foreign workers, then I don't know, he left the demon * queen Fiona and some of the soldiers of the demon * legion on the ship of the *Erko Second Fleet, just to deter this group of regular troops.
Tang Jie's hand holding the handrail of the bridge was as solid as a rock, and the roaring sound of the cannon shook Nia on the side who couldn't help but raise her eyebrows, but Tang Jie's face remained unchanged, like a rock.
"The firing speed of this ship's bow gun is still too slow!" Tang Jie said quietly to Nia next to him.
Nia also held up her monoculars and saw Bill and Christina on the Inferno and Demon roaring loudly, directing the sailors to carry out the next shelling.
Nia nodded: "Yes, but it didn't work out*, their speed is already very fast." ”
Tang Jie listened to it in his ears and didn't speak, he knew that Nia was telling the truth, what did she and Christina practice these sailors all day long?
It is nothing more than to let them fire their cannons faster, and teach them how to fight in hand-to-hand combat in naval battles, which is not a kung fu that can be practiced in a moment and a half, but this mechanized cannon action is different, whoever moves faster, then whoever can shoot more cannonballs, and whose chance of winning is a little greater.
Tang Jie's group of pirates may not be considered first-class elite pirates, but in terms of firing speed alone, they are already first-class.
But the first-class of this era is still very unpopular in Tang Jie's eyes, and he begins to miss the era of breech guns infinitely.
When the second* shelling of the pirate ship towards the port of Clarimu began, Tang Jie's thoughts flew out of the clouds.
He vaguely remembered that in the era through which he passed, the reform of artillery began with the appearance of breech guns, rifling and hollow shells.
The emergence of hollow cannons has officially entered the ranks of weapons of mass destruction, and it is no longer like now, when a shell bombards past, the spherical cannonball bounces little by little, hitting whoever is unlucky, and the lethality is extremely limited.
The appearance of breech guns and rifling has completely raised the range and rate of fire of artillery to a new level, and since then, howitzers, cannons and other powerful cannons have appeared on the stage of history.
However, the breech gun is good......
How?
Tang Jie put down the monoculars and made a sad face for a while.
Nia on the side looked at Tang Jie's face full of puzzlement, in her opinion, the battle situation in front of her was extremely smooth, but why did her captain look so painful?
"My captain......" Nia on the side couldn't help but ask, "Is there anything wrong?"
Tang Jie came back to his senses and smiled: "No, I just thought of other things." ”|
"Is there anything more important than the war in front of you?" Nia's eyes widened.
Tang Jie smiled faintly and said: "The war in front of you, this war is just a warm-up, Clarimu is just a hornet's nest, I will definitely be able to poke this honeycomb down at once." But after stabbing it down, countless hornets will definitely swarm and rush towards us, and then it will be the real battle!"
Nia nodded: "Yes, I just don't know if the main naval forces of the Shira Empire will come together, if they appear together, then we won't be able to carry it." ”
The main naval force of the Shira Empire except for the invincible armada, there are also one hundred **ten warships, these battleships are connected into a line, it is more than ten nautical miles long, and it scares people to death, although Tang Jie has the invincible battleship Black Dragon King, but he does not have endless magic crystals, if he really fights, his fleet will have to fight hard, not to mention, I am afraid that the magic crystals of the Black Dragon King will also be exhausted, and finally become a huge black sphere.
Tang Jie smiled, but as if he was not worried about this situation, he pointed in the direction of Clarimu Port and said, "Yes, I have knocked out one." ”
As he spoke, under the blow of the third* heavy artillery, the left turret of Clarimu Harbor finally collapsed with a bang, dust flew wildly, and rubble fell like a mountain.
But after this period of chaos, the fort on the right side of the port of Clarimu has eased up.
The city defense commander of the port brandished his shining saber and pointed at the battleship that had already revealed its hull and fangs on the sea, and roared: "Open fire, fire back!!"
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