Chapter 188: Bombardment of cannons in the face!
10 battleships, 32 guns on each side, 10 battleships for a total of 320 guns.
The 320 iron balls rubbed against the air and made a sharp whistling sound like a group of evil spirits crying.
The fishermen on the shore and the people of Ah San who were buying seafood were stunned by the sound.
"Lord Shiva, is this your punishment for not catching the murderer who killed the sacred cow?"
Many of the congregants were on their knees, oh, to be precise, almost all of them were congregants.
The guys knelt on the ground and kowtowed in the direction the shells were flying.
"Puff puff..."
The iron balls fell heavily, and the three people who knelt all over the dock were stoned to death in pieces.
And the astonishment is.
The people around him were smashed into pieces by the iron ball, and the three people who were kneeling next to them not only did not run, but continued to kowtow and pray sincerely.
Even if they were splashed all over their bodies with red and white things, they were still babbling and kowtowing.
"What a bunch of crazy people!"
Li Hu, who saw this scene in the telescope, sneered and shook his head.
When they came again, Zhu Zhangui gave them a general lecture on Ah San's beliefs and caste system.
At first, they didn't believe it, and they felt that even if a stupid person faced death, it was impossible for him to continue to believe in any god.
But today's scene completely subverted the idea in Li Hu's heart.
It turns out that fanatics are really scary and equally stupid.
Although the people of the Ming Dynasty also believed in religion, they were not obsessed to this extent.
To be precise, except for those who are really confused, the vast majority of Han Chinese are pragmatists.
If you are a god to me, then I will believe in you.
If you're useless, it doesn't matter if you say goodbye, but you want me to send a letter from the bottom of my heart, I'm sorry, and I'll talk about it when I need you, or when you want your spirit.
"It's good that they don't have to run around and waste shells."
Retracting the binoculars, Li Hu picked up the walkie-talkie and shouted.
"The whole ship is close to shooting, their navy has been crushed by our prisoners, there is no force threatening us along the entire coastline, don't be afraid to shoot directly in the face and shoot!"
The warships that received the order instantly let go of their hands and feet.
They slowly circled the surface of the sea.
This allows the guns on each side to fire.
Artillery fire rumbled, and screams arose from the shore.
Ah San, who knelt on the ground and kowtowed one by one, was frantically bombarded by the iron balls that flew wildly, and his body was smashed apart by the iron balls.
The stump was broken, and the intestines and internal organs were flying everywhere.
One of the guys, who was lucky not to be hit, was covered in blood and scraped flesh, but he didn't care, instead knelt on the ground and kowtowed frantically towards the sea. (Change)
"O Bishnu, please appease your wrath, we are willing to offer sacrifices, and please forgive us our sins."
He shouted loudly, his head thumping to the ground.
Even if his face was covered with the internal organs of the flesh and blood mold lake, he didn't care at all, he just kowtowed and prayed.
"It's the enemy, it's not God's punishment, go quickly..."
When the fifth round of artillery fire was fired, and the shore was bombarded with ruins and severed limbs, the management officials of the dock finally arrived.
Although they are also religious, they are not as fanatical as the general population.
To be honest, if it weren't for the fear of punishment from Shangguan, they really wouldn't have come to this hellish place.
Looking at the iron ball whistling wildly, the officials trembled in their hearts.
Thinking of the governor who fell into a rage because of the loss of his son, they gritted their teeth and rushed to the dock that was bombarded by artillery fire, shouting that the three who knelt and kowtowed to the ground should run quickly.
At the same time, he urged the hesitant guards to prepare to resist the enemy's invasion.
"Attention ships, the enemy army has arrived, concentrate my firepower and cripple them first!"
Observing the arrival of the enemy's army in the conning tower, Li Hu estimated it in his heart, and after making sure that the opponent was within the firing range, he immediately prepared all the artillery and prepared to knock them down in one round.
The ships, having received the order, immediately stopped firing and asked the fired guns to quickly reload their shells.
"The enemy has stopped, hurry up... Dig up a line of defenses at the docks and stop the enemy from landing! ”
The head of the official at the wharf, seeing that the artillery fire had stopped, his expression was tense, thinking that Li Hu and the others were about to land, and hurriedly beckoned the more than 3,000 soldiers gathered to prepare for defense.
Looking at the docks that had been bombarded to pieces, full of stumps and broken arms, flesh and blood viscera.
Ah San's guards couldn't help but swallow their saliva.
Who would dare to go to this Nima?
Is the enemy so ferocious to go up and send him to his death?
"What are you doing here, you bastards? If the dock is taken by the enemy, the Governor will blame you, and not only you will die, but your family will also die. ”
When the dock officials saw that the soldiers were reluctant to step forward, they angrily stepped forward and cursed.
India is known to be a caste race.
Although the head of the dock officials was not a large official, they belonged to the Kshatriya of the second rank.
And most of these ordinary soldiers are fourth-rank Shudras, and their status is only a little higher than that of slaves.
In the Three Kingdoms, being a low-ranking person is required to unconditionally obey the orders of the superior people.
If they dared to disobey the order, the superior could execute them at any time.
Although the head of the dock officials is not their direct superior, they also have the power of life and death over them.
Thinking of their families behind them, the soldiers gritted their teeth, stepped on the broken flesh and limbs everywhere under the angry whipping of the commander, walked to the ruined dock and erected their shields, set up their spears and bows and arrows to prepare for defense.
"Filth, filth..."
As soon as the three armies lined up on the ruined dock, there was another whistling on the sea.
Listening to the sound of a demon's cry, the soldiers trembled with fear, and their eyes were closed and they did not dare to look ahead. In my heart, I prayed to Brahma and Bishnu to protect them from their safety and let them survive this war.
It's a pity that their god doesn't know if he fell asleep, or was pressed to the ground and rubbed by the god from the east.
Their prayers had no effect, and a whistling ball of iron slammed through their array.
Screams and wails rang out incessantly.
The shield was shattered, the spear was broken.
The stump of the skull was whistling with iron balls, and it flew wildly in all directions.
10 warships fired in one round, and more than 3,000 A-San soldiers in the formation were directly swept by 1/4.
"Run, they're devils, we can't beat them!"
A soldier finally couldn't bear it anymore, shouted that this was the devil's punishment, threw away his weapon and turned to run.
"Poof!"
A spear pierced the chest of the fleeing soldier.
The officer, whose body was splattered with blood, looked at the other soldiers who were about to flee with vicious eyes.
"His family will be punished by the gods, his soul will be burned by the fire forever, this is God's punishment for his cowardice and incompetence, his family will be reduced to slavery, and his wife and daughter will become the most lowly singers!"
"Which of you is going to choose to be like him!"
Looking at the officer with a hideous expression, despair flashed in the eyes of the three soldiers.
These guys are going to let them die here.
"Filth, filth..."
Just when the soldiers were considering whether to run away regardless of their family's life and death, or sacrifice themselves to protect their families, the second round of artillery fire arrived again.
"Puff puff..."
"Ahh Oh my legs! ”
"Help me, help me, I don't want to die."
Flesh shattered and screams rang out one after another.
The officer was also directly hit by an iron ball, and his upper body was torn apart, and the remaining half of his body fell to the ground.
Seeing the tragic situation around them and the tragic death of the officers, the soldiers finally couldn't bear it, and they ignored the shouts of the officials hiding at the dock in the distance, threw away their weapons and turned to run.
And their panicked escape brought chaos into the city.
Look at the dilapidated docks, which are no longer visible, and the chaotic city in the distance.
Li Hu shook his head regretfully and withdrew the telescope.
"It's a pity that we didn't bring the army with us this time, otherwise we would have taken this city in one fell swoop!"
Wrapping the rope of the telescope and handing it to the adjutant next to him, Li Hu picked up the walkie-talkie and ordered.
"Attention ships, it's almost bombing here, turn the bow of the ship and go to the next place!"
The battleship turned around and slowly moved away.
The head of the dock officer, hiding in a ruin, looked at the distant warship and breathed a sigh of relief.
Then he looked at the broken ruins and the dock strewn with corpses, and knelt on the ground in despair to cover his head and cry.
He is not crying about these untouchables of the lower races, but crying that his official career is over.
The docks were destroyed, so many people were killed and wounded, someone must have been pushed out to take the blame.
It must be impossible on the Governor's side, the guard officer who rushed over just now has been bombarded to death, and he is the highest official here.
And the man behind him was the noble son of the governor.
In order to get this official position, he gave his wife and several sisters to the noble son.
Now that the noble son is dead, his wife and sisters have also been ordered to be martyred, and he has completely lost his backing.
Something so big happened, he is the only surviving high-ranking official, plus his backer has fallen, who will carry this black pot if he doesn't carry it.
When Li Hu turned to bombard other places, the detachment attacking Jaffna had also reached its position.
Jaffna, as an important pier on both sides of the river, plus the reason for the fighting that took place a few days ago, 5,000 soldiers were stationed here.
Han Fei and Ma Xun had a total of 4 warships and 3,000 marines.
Although they were smaller than Zhang Xian's team, there were fewer boats and men, but there were large troops behind them.
The main reason why Zhang Xian and Sun Xi brought so many people was that they acted alone, so there were more ships and personnel.
Han Fei and Ma Xun were followed by a large force, and if the attack failed, the main force could support them at any time.
"Brother, how to play, do you attack now or wait until dawn tomorrow!"
Holding a telescope to observe the dock that was a little lit up in the distance, Ma Xun asked Han Fei beside him.
There are rules for joint operations of the Navy and Army.
Listen to the navy on the sea, and the navy on land to listen to the army.
This rule is to prevent the layman from commanding the insider.
Han Fei glanced at the bright moon slowly rising in the east, exchanged views with an officer of the vanguard unit, and said directly: "Just attack now, the brothers of the vanguard team have been here and are familiar with the sea conditions here!" ”
"Besides, Your Majesty and His Royal Highness Taisun are still waiting behind, they have been living on the ship for a few months, and this is finally on land, if Your Majesty and His Royal Highness Taisun are still on the ship, it will be the incompetence of our subordinates."
"Besides, even if Your Majesty and His Royal Highness the Taisun can still insist, what about the Taisun Concubine and His Royal Highness."
"Our big man, it doesn't matter if you don't take a shower once in a few months."
"But Concubine Taisun and His Royal Highness have noble status, and they have not suffered from a long journey, so they have finally reached the ground, and it is time for them to rest and rest."
Ma Xun nodded.
"What my brother said is true, that's okay, I'll go down and beckon people to get on the boat and get ready for battle!"
Soon, the detachment began to prepare, and a Marine Corps soldier, under the illumination of a high-powered flashlight, climbed the rope net and descended to the boat.
The waves were a bit rough at night, which made the landing boat very bumpy.
But none of the Marines complained, but whispered with great interest.
"Third brother, you said that we would fight later, can Your Majesty see it!"
A small soldier who was originally a wolf pioneer, holding a spear at this time, kept looking back in the direction of the main force, and whispered to a flintlock gunner beside him.
The flintlock gunner, who was holding the side of the ship with his eyes closed, smiled and patted the soldier on the shoulder.
"Of course you can see it, Your Majesty is a real dragon, even if it is dark now, his old man's eyes are like day."
"And Your Majesty has clairvoyance and ears, and his every move on the battlefield can be seen clearly by his old man."
Patting the soldier on the shoulder vigorously, the flintlock pistol pretended to be serious.
"Little donkey, behave well later, if Your Majesty sees your bravery, maybe he will personally summon you, and then you will be glorious."
When the little soldier called the little donkey heard that the emperor could see it, his eyes lit up, and he asked the flintlock musketeer excitedly.
"Really, third brother, if I fight hard, the emperor will really summon me!"
The flintlock musketeer nodded vigorously, "When did the third brother lie to you, if you don't believe it, you can ask the captain." ”
Hearing this, the soldier looked at the captain, who was observing the sea.
Several of the other creeps also looked at the captain, expecting his answer.
A smile flashed in the captain's eyes, but he nodded solemnly.
"The third child is right, the emperor is a real dragon, his every move is in his eyes, as long as you fight hard and kill the enemy bravely, the emperor will definitely summon you when he sees your bravery."
"Great, then I must kill a few more enemies later, try to show myself, and then go to see the emperor."
"Yes, if I can see the emperor, Wu Laocai, who looks down on me in the next village, will definitely look down on me, and when the time comes, I will marry his daughter, maybe he will agree."
"Cut, what is there to be afraid of an old Xiucai, if you can get summoned by the emperor, let alone the old Xiucai in the village next door to you, even the daughter of the county commander in your county will marry you."
"Well, forget it, I've seen the daughter of the county order, although she has a beautiful face, but her body is so thin that she is to death, I guess I don't feel it when I hold it, I still prefer to be fat!"
"You know a ball, that's called beauty. But you're right, it's warmer to sleep in the chubby winter. ”
Seeing that the soldiers' mood slowly stabilized, they began to discuss interesting things in a low voice, not nervous because they were going to fight.
The captain and the third brother glanced at each other, smiled and nodded.
Both of them are veterans, and they understand that these soldiers will be nervous when they go to battle, so they deliberately find some topics to calm them down and divert their attention.
On the main battleship parked a mile away, the old man held a telescope in his hand and looked at the small detachment preparing to land in the distance.
"Looks like they're ready to attack overnight!"
Wrapped in the cloak that was blown by the sea breeze on his body, the old man looked at Zhang Fu beside him with a smile.
"Today's young people are no worse than we used to, and the wind and waves are so big in the middle of the night, they dare to attack in the dark."
Zhang Fu smiled and nodded, "Yes, this reminds the minister of the scene when we followed General Xu Da and attacked the city for hundreds of miles overnight." ”
"At that time, we were not afraid, we were full of meritorious service to kill the enemy, which felt like yesterday."
"Hahaha..."
The old man laughed, then sighed.
"It's been so many years in a blink of an eye, and I think about how bold I was at that time, but it's a pity that I'm old now, and my body is not as good as before."
"If I were 10 years younger, I would have followed the soldiers and rushed down to kill!"
Zhu Zhangui, who was listening to the two of them on the side, hurriedly interrupted.
"Gotta have it, you old man don't have this idea, this is the sea, not on land, such a strong wind, accidentally fell into the sea, not even a bubble."
Zhu Zhangui was really worried about the old man, and as soon as the blood came up, he got off the boat and rushed to kill.
When he came, his father wrote to him, asking him to take a good look at the old man and not allow the old man to charge into battle.
Of course, the more important explanation is to see his good grandson.
The waves at sea are big, the boat is unstable, if it hits something, Zhu Zhangui will have to clean up when he goes back.
There is an enemy on the sea, and Ah Sanmen has already discovered it.
Zhu Zhangui's fleet arrived at sunset.
The three men on the dock saw the fleet that came, and it was the flag of the soldiers they killed some time ago.
Instantly frightened.
They fought very several ships, and now there are hundreds of them, and they are desperate to think about it.
The three officers on the island sent people to the mainland for help, and at the same time gathered soldiers and civilians to tighten their vigilance and prepare to resist the enemy's attack.
"Lord Hart, the lights on the enemy ships are on, and many of them are still shining on the sea, and I can faintly see the shadow of a small boat, and they may be attacking."
Temporary Command of the Docks.
A San officer rushed into a house and hurriedly shouted at a middle-aged San who was grabbing his hair with a sad face.
"What, the enemy is going to attack, damn it, then what are you still doing here? Don't hurry up and call up the soldiers and those untouchables for defense. ”
"If the enemy is allowed to attack the island, they will definitely not let us go as far as we did some time ago."
"Tell the soldiers and the untouchables to hold off the attacking enemy, or we will all die, and it will be a terrible death."
"Yes, sir!"
The officer, who had been reprimanded, hurriedly responded, turned around and ran out.
"Damn, where is this enemy?"
"Those bastards on the land, I said a long time ago that these people are not easy to mess with, they just don't listen, now it's okay, trouble is coming to the door, what a bunch of damn sluts!"
Hart cursed in the room for a while, and finally reluctantly picked up his helmet weapon and ran out.
He wanted to run away, but now that the sea was dark, and the seashore was full of enemy ships, it was hard to say whether he could escape.
So he chose to resist, hoping that those bastards on land could come to the rescue before they were killed.
In order to increase the offensive force, Ma Xun applied to the main fleet for a group of small boats to assist in transporting soldiers.
Each boat carried a squad of 10 soldiers, and Ma Xuan's men were assigned fifty small boats.
One batch of deliveries could allow 500 soldiers to land.
Although 500 people are small, as long as the front is stabilized after going ashore, the follow-up troops will quickly support them.
"Han Fei Ma Xun, are you ready, in order to take down the dock as soon as possible, I will let the heavy artillery of the main ship assist you in the attack!"
Zhu Zhangui rang over the walkie-talkie.
Ma Xun, who was holding a lamp to ask if all the soldiers were on board, nodded at Han Fei after receiving the feedback from the light.
"Report to His Royal Highness Taisun, the first batch of landing soldiers is ready."
"Well, I'll start ordering artillery bombardment from my side, and let me know when the soldiers are about to land!"
"Yes!"
Han Fei answered, adjusted the walkie-talkie, and ordered to the captains of the other three battleships: "Attention all warships, the marines are ready to land, and the heavy guns of each ship are aimed at the direction of the enemy's shore lights, listen to my order, release!" ”
"Boom, boom..."
The four battleships lined up in a row, and the two heavy guns placed in the front, lit up with a deafening roar.
"Boom... Boom..."
As soon as the guns of the four battleships fell, the heavy artillery of the main fleet in the rear also joined the dance music of this bombardment.
On the side of the main fleet, in addition to the separate ones and the transport ships, there are 15 warships in the sequence.
As the flagship, the bow of the ship is equipped with 6 heavy guns.
40 heavy cannons roared together, like an ancient titan beating the earth-shattering war drums.
Huge iron balls, driven by the power of the gunpowder explosion, rubbed against the air and made a whining roar.
The three men who were defending on the coast looked blankly in the direction where the voice came from.
"Is it thundering, is it going to rain?"
A summoned man looked at the direction from which the voice came with a blank expression, and scratched his head in confusion.
"Whew!"
Suddenly, a gust of wind blew, and the upper half of the man's body disappeared without a trace.
And the seven or eight people lined up behind him, the first few of them were torn apart, and the last few were holding broken arms, collapsed chests, and howling in pain.
The chests were smashed, and they let out a muffled grunt of pain, and the blood in their mouths mixed with minced flesh spurted wildly.
The three are also unlucky.
In this round of heavy artillery shelling, at least 10 shells hit their phalanx.
The power of heavy artillery is not comparable to that of ordinary light artillery.
The huge iron ball, propelled by a strong power, is almost like a blood gourd, piercing a string.
"Oh my God, they're devils, run!"
Ah Sanminfu, who was frightened by this bloody and cruel scene, looked at his partner who was torn apart or had a broken arm, and his chest collapsed and vomited blood, he shouted in horror, threw away the weapon in his hand, and turned around.
"Whoosh!"
"Poof!"
A sharp arrow pierced the fleeing fellow, and Hart walked over to look at everyone with a gloomy face.
"Without my order, whoever dares to retreat without permission will be put to death!"
"Overseer!"
Glancing coldly at the frightened people, Hart shouted, and dozens of overseers with large knives stood behind the team.
"Whoever dares to run will cut off his limbs for me and let him die of pain!"
Killing the cowardly to establish a warlord's team, Hart's methods suddenly deterred those cowardly people.
After the soldiers had driven the soldiers to the front and stood up again, Hart said to the officer in command: "Take care of Lord Ben, if there are any more escapes, not only will they die, but you will also die!" ”
The officer in command was nervous and sweaty, and hurriedly nodded vigorously.
"Filthy ......"
Hart was just about to turn around to inspect the rest of the world when there was another humming sound in the distant sea.
Hearing this, Hart's face changed, and a dog eating fell behind a large rock.
The tragic situation of being hit by a cannonball, he could see it clearly just now.
As a noble and superior person, he didn't want to end up with no body.
Of course, it would be better if you could not die.
"Puff puff..."
"Ahhhh
Strings of blood gourds reappeared, and a cry of horror and pain kept ringing.
Such a tragic scene, not to mention those people, even ordinary soldiers can't bear it.
"The fire is a fire, put out all the fires, and put out all the torches!"
Hart, who was hiding behind the boulder, noticed the fire in the distance, suddenly understood something, and shouted for the soldiers to quickly extinguish the fire.
The officer, who had escaped his life by chance, hurriedly beckoned the soldiers and the people to quickly extinguish the torches.
Soon the docks were plunged into darkness.
Looking at the dark dock, the heavy artillery commander on the flagship hesitated for a moment, and said to Zhu Zhangui: "Your Highness, without the guidance of the firelight, if you fire again, it is easy to injure your own people by mistake." ”
The sea surface is different from the land, and it is not possible to fire at will if the angle is fixed.
On the sea, especially at night when the wind is high and the waves are high, after a round of firing, the artillerymen need to readjust the angle, calculate the distance.
Now that the Marines are landing, if they open fire rashly, it is easy to accidentally injure their own people.
If the distance is adjusted and the shells fired hit the clearing, then it will not be of much significance.
"Order the ships to stop firing and tell the Marines that the rest of the battle will depend on them."
"If it doesn't work, let them come back and fight tomorrow at dawn."
Hu Yu, who was next to him, received the order, and as soon as he raised the walkie-talkie to convey Zhu Zhangui's order, he was stopped by Zhu Zhangui reaching out.
"Just inform the ships that they don't need to fire their guns, and the marines have landed."