Chapter 155

"My lord, boat, boat!" Just as Wang An watched several pirate bird ships retreat, the sailors on the side shouted loudly.

Just in front of the lonely Ming army's big bird ship, one after another three-masted giant ships appeared.

Wang An swore that this was definitely the most exciting thing he had ever seen his allies, and even the hand holding the long knife trembled.

A lucky ship took the lead, sailing at the front of the fleet, and the three-masted sails looked majestic on the sea.

The sailors of the Ming army on the bird boat let out bursts of cheers, they advanced to the Ming sailors, and the Ming sailors came.

Muhanvili was also stunned when he saw the flag of the distant town of Marine.

He had just assembled a fleet and planned to attack Dayu Island, but the Ming army actually killed him directly.

Wang An's bird ship did not turn around but continued to rush in the direction of the Ming army's naval division, he did not want to become cannon fodder for the Ming army to clash with pirates.

Muhanvili's gloomy eyes stared at the Ming sailors who appeared on the sea in the distance, and the number of Ming warships was no less than forty.

And there are as many as 100 warships assembled on his side.

Compared with the two, the number of their own warships is far more than that of the Ming army's naval divisions, which also gives the pirates the courage to face the Ming army's naval divisions.

However, the previous record of the Ming army bird ship overturning three pirate bird ships made all the pirate leaders feel cold.

"This is our sea area, and the red-haired ghosts can't expel us, and these Ming people can't do it."

Seeing that the pirates on the deck were all chilling, Muhanvili shouted.

"Do you want to hide on a remote island and hide from the Ming people every day, shivering under the Ming people's warships, or use your steel knives to hack these Ming people to death." Muhanvili shouted.

"Sink a bird boat of the Ming army and reward 100 silver yuan, and sink a Ming army lucky ship and reward 1,000 silver yuan."

Muhanvili's words were instantly heard loudly by several pirate leaders beside him, and an earth-shattering shout rang out from the pirate ship.

The pirates and sailors are getting closer, but the wind is gradually subsiding, which is a good thing for both sides.

At least when the sea conditions are good, they can calmly face the enemy.

Soon, the pirates took the lead and couldn't hold their breath and opened fire on the Ming army, and several heavy buckshot bullets flew to the Ming army's naval division, but they hit the sea one after another.

"Firing cannons a mile away, these South Sea pirates still haven't grown." Xu Bin shook his head and smiled bitterly at the water column not far away.

Not all pirate ships fired, most of them were quiet, with gunners pushing their guns and sailors carrying powder kegs and buckshot.

More pirates sat coldly on decks or in their cabins, wiping steel knives and hooks, and some of the better pirates were pouring as much black powder as they could into their medicine bags.

The pirates had firearms, but not many of them, at least not as widely as the Luzon Ming Army or the Spaniards, and their firearms were either looted from wealthy merchant ships, or purchased from the underground black market, and of course there were pirates who copied them themselves.

But they didn't know exactly whether such a firearm would kill the opponent or suddenly explode after firing.

More pirates still had steel knives, hooks, and bows and arrows, and the most important thing in the next battle was broadside combat.

This is their best skill, and they have only failed miserably under the rain of bullets from the Spanish musketeers, but this time in the face of the Ming army, they have re-exposed their bloody side.

The big bird ships of the Ming army sailors rushed to the front with their speed, and they suddenly turned and scattered around the pirates when they rushed to the pirate about a mile away, and several large fortune ships in front of them, the galleon galleon, met them.

Almost at the same time, the Ming sailors and pirates opened fire at almost the same time.

The pirate's artillery is mostly falcon cannon, the firepower of this kind of firing stone projectile is quite heavy, and the power of the stone projectile fired at the same time is also quite amazing, the bow of a Ming army Haicang ship was directly hit by a six-seven-pound stone bullet, and the wooden bow was directly smashed out of a large gap, and the sawdust flew.

Most of the stone bullets and lead bullets fell into the sea, setting off bursts of water.

The three-masted ships in the pirate ship were in the center facing the Ming army's several galleons led by galleons, while some two-masted pirate ships full of pirates rushed over from the side.

With the help of the Ming warship's six-pounder artillery bombardment of the main pirate ship, it surrounded it like a swarm of blood-sucking flies.

The Ming gunners on the deck hurriedly launched the three-pounder Franc cannon, which was a small reloader gun changed to a Spanish rotary gun, which has always been a magic weapon for the Ming navy division to win in close combat.

Soon, one after another was loaded into the mother gun by the Ming gunners, and the muzzles of the guns continued to bombard, and bursts of white smoke rose one after another.

The Ming army covered his mouth and nose, his face was firm and fearless, and he did not mess up in the face of the pirate ship that was close at hand.

The pirate ship that rushed to the front was naturally crushed by the three-pound lead bullet, and several slightly broken pirate ships were directly disintegrated by the lead bullet, and the pirates on the ship fell into the water but still swam towards the Ming warship.

The pirates on the clipper ship were also unambiguous, firing at the Ming warship with the small guns on the bow, and due to the proximity of the distance, the accuracy of the pirate artillery also increased significantly.

Soon, several stone projectiles smashed into the hull of a galleon of the Ming army, smashing several large holes.

However, due to the high hull of the galleon, the guns of these clippers could not reach the deck at all, so that the Ming gunners on the deck could calmly suppress the pirate ship.

It has to be said that the Spaniards also had a hand in dealing with pirates, and the tall galleons made it easy for sailors to face the attacks of small groups of pirates.

Seeing that the small pirate ship could not threaten the galleon of the Ming army, several three-masted pirate ships that were engaged in the main ship of the Ming army rushed directly over.

On the deck of the Ming army, the constant bombardment of nine-pound and six-pounder guns in the gun compartment went head-on.

Soon, a three-masted pirate ship sailed directly to the sea not far from an armed galleon, and the artillery of both sides exchanged fires.

It was a lucky ship, presumably the ship of the Chinese merchants who went to the South Seas was looted and then taken by pirates.

The number of artillery on the ship was obviously inferior to that of the Ming army's armed galleon, and the ruthless pirate leader collided directly, and the bow of the ship was attached to the side of the right side of the galleon, and gradually approached the Ming warship.

"Hook, get the hook down." A squad leader stepped forward and was about to break a fishing hook that had been hooked onto the boat, but a bow and arrow shot directly into the squad leader's neck, and suddenly the blood in his neck gushed like a spring.

"Prepare the God Rocket."

Seeing that the pirate in front of him was about to board the ship, a deputy general of the Naval Division Town shouted.

On the deck, the soldiers of the Ming army carried more than a dozen narrow objects, placed them on the right side of the deck, and aimed them at the closed pirate ship.

The front half of these strangely shaped rockets are bamboo tubes, and the back half is wrapped in gong paper, and they are about a person tall.

After the front of the bamboo tube was aimed at a nearby pirate ship, the tail of the fire rope was lit.

As a burst of white smoke rose up, dozens of arrows shot out from the mouth of more than a dozen divine rocket bamboo barrels in an instant.

The pirates on the deck were caught off guard by the sudden arrows, and many pirates were shot in the arms and thighs, and blood continued to spill out.

But the rain of arrows did not frighten the pirates, and a large number of pirates still took to the deck to board the Ming warship.

The sides of the two big ships were about to be connected, and at that moment, the deputy general of the Ming army shouted: "Fire and thunder are ready." ”

The grenadiers held a jet-black iron ball in their right hand with a long rope on it, and the sailors held a wooden handle embedded in the ball, lit the rope, and threw it as the pirate ship approached the side of the ship.

The pirates were startled by the sudden orb of iron, and before they could see what it was all about.

A flash of fire and white smoke filled the deck, and the entire deck was filled with the screams of pirates.

"Prepare for the hundred." A co-chair ordered.

Several Baizi guns on the deck were also erected by Ming officers and soldiers, and they shot at the pirates on the deck.

The previous fire mine can only be said to have injured the pirates on the deck, but most of the pirates are safe and sound, and it is also strange that the Ming military mine is affected by the process and cannot produce fragments, although the momentum is huge, but it does not produce much damage.

But these lead sand bombs swept the entire deck like a barrage of death, a large number of lead particles shot at the deck at high speed, those wooden decks were hit by these lead sand bombs one by one small holes, a mess, and some of the sand bombs hit the pirates who were struggling in the white smoke.

In an instant, the pirates were blurred by the sand bullets, and fell straight to the deck, blood soaking the dark wooden deck.

A pirate leader had his hair up, and in only three rounds, nearly half of the brothers on the deck were killed or wounded, and the rest of the pirates were also so broken that they didn't dare to rush forward for a while.