As for the Furlong cannon, everyone should be more familiar with it! He has a separate gun that can be pre-loaded with gunpowder and projectiles, and in battle, he can speed up the fire rate by quickly changing the gun! The downside is that the intimacy is slightly less. If you are not careful when casting, it is easy to burn the gunner when firing.

And the centipede ship of the Ming army was a copy of the Portuguese sailing boat. This type of boat is about 13-20 meters long, and the ratio of lengths is 5:7. It is a bit larger than a traditional Chinese sailing boat. The internal structure of this type of ship is similar to that of traditional Chinese ships, which are generally divided into two tiers. The bottom layer is placed with ballast goods, and the upper layer is used for living warehouses and warehouses.

And an artillery platform was also set up, capable of loading two guns. As for the oars, they are generally between 16 and 40. The vast majority of galleys are equipped with twin masts, but there are no lookouts. The speed of such a boat in windless and offshore areas is much higher than that of ordinary sailing boats.

The disadvantage is that there are more people, not to mention that people occupy a lot of space, and they also have to provide additional food and drinking water, which further compresses the space for carrying goods. This was not good for pirates who drifted at sea for a long time, so the pirates did not adopt sailing boats at all. Merchants will not adopt it, because it will greatly increase their labor costs and reduce the volume of freight.

Therefore, basically no one will use this kind of ship in the civilian sector, and only the navy that pursues speed will use this kind of ship. So when the pirates saw the two rows of oars suddenly stretched out on the sides of these six ships, they forgot about their movements for a while, and just watched the oars quickly insert into the water and shake rapidly, and the speed of the ships began to change from slow to fast!

Fortunately, Kang Duyan is still a little clear, and he is the first to wake up! He slapped his thigh and shouted, "What are you doing in a daze? Smash the rocks! ”

Hearing his shout, the pirates roared again and pulled the ropes and launched the stones! I have to say that these pirates must have rehearsed, and two huge stones smashed into the center of the fairway one after the other!

Unfortunately, due to the sudden acceleration of the opposing ship, both huge rocks were missed! One stone fell into the sea between the second and third ships, and another stone grazed the port side of the third ship and fell into the sea, splashing even higher than the mast!

When they saw the stones coming over, the officers and soldiers on the deck of the centipede ship were also very nervous! In particular, the officers on the ship kept their eyes rotating with the trajectory of the stones, until they saw the splash falling, and the officer wiped the cold sweat on his forehead and said loudly: "These dogs are really accurate!" I'm afraid I'd get hurt if I used a regular boat! ”

Another officer beside him also said with a happy expression: "Yes! And judging by the landing point, they are aiming at the first ship! As long as the first ship is injured and stuck in the channel, it will not be able to rush in! ”

The officer who spoke earlier gritted his teeth and said, "That's what these dogs are going to do!" Tell the brothers to speed up and use all the strength to feed! Just rush inside and you'll be fine! ”

Not only did the officers of this ship give the order to speed up, but the officers on several other ships were also desperately encouraging the soldiers to paddle and speed up the ship! Since most of the power of the boat at this time comes from the oars, they even lowered the sails to reduce the drag!

So by the time the second round of stones fell, they had already run a long distance, and although they were still within the range of the trebuchet, the stones would not pose a threat to the ship at all! After all, pirates practice slow sailboats, and have no experience with such fast galleys!

After firing four rounds of stones in succession, seeing that the expected situation did not appear, the frightened Kang Duyan pulled out his waist knife and shouted at the frustrated pirates: "What are you waiting for, waiting for the officers and soldiers to come and cut it?" Hurry down the mountain and defend the halfway up the mountain, otherwise the officers and soldiers will all die when they come up! ”

At this time, one of the pirates said, "Great boss, what about the brothers down there?" ”

Kang Duyan gritted his teeth and said, "I can't take care of it, let's survive first!" ”

Just as the pirates were gathering towards the fortifications, the first centipede ship had already passed through the narrow channel and entered a small lake in the middle of the island! There are two pirate ships parked there inside the lake, and there are still some people on deck, and they are ready for battle! They could even see that the two guns in the bow of the pirate ship were aimed at them!

It seems that these pirates know that the lake is too small and that it is useless to raise the sails, so it is better to rely on the ship's artillery to fight to the death!

Sure enough, as soon as the first centipede ship appeared, two guns were fired one after another! It must be said that sufficient preparation time gave both guns a fairly high accuracy of fire!

A cannonball grazed the foremast and entered the ship, but there was no one in the building, so it didn't cause any damage! Another cannonball hit the female wall on the bow deck, shattering a section of the female wall! Immediately three of the soldiers behind the female wall fell to the ground, two of them screamed loudly, and the other remained motionless, not knowing whether he was alive or dead!

But this was the pirate's last fight back. While they were loading their guns, the first centipede ship had already rowed with all its might and crashed into it! Before the impact, the guns in the bow of the centipede ship were the first to fire! As if their artillery was full of iron sand, it was lethal to shoot at close range! Knocked over five pirates in a straight way!

Then the two ships collided! Due to the ramming angle in the bow, the bow of the centipede ship is embedded directly into the pirate ship! The huge impact force knocked all the pirates on the ship to the ground, and then the officers and men who had been prepared for it rushed onto the pirate ship along the place where the two ships were connected with shields and knives and began hand-to-hand combat!

The pirates on the other pirate ship didn't end well either! The second ship rushed over and fired first, and then the sailors jumped on it for hand-to-hand combat! The pirates who dared to resist were completely disadvantaged in number, and they were killed in a single sight!

Then the other five ships docked in turn, and the sailors on board roared excitedly and rushed towards the mountainside with their weapons. The pirates who are gathering there are targets!

Although the pirates said that they had built fortifications on the mountainside, and even prepared rolling wood and thunder stones, their numbers were too small, and they were divided into two groups of men and horses on the left and right by the middle channel, so that the number was even more disproportionate!

Moreover, these pirates did not understand the essentials of land warfare at all, and the sailors, under the command of the officers, only made a fake charge each, and lured the pirates to push all the rolling wood and thunder stones down! As a result, not a single person was injured, not to mention, and completely disarmed!