Chapter 23

Takahashi said, "before the battle, it is usually shooting with rifles, and then the two sides will fight with pistols at close range. Pistol bullets are loaded slowly. When they are empty, they can only use cold weapons.

Japanese Dao is the fastest. It can often cut off limbs with one knife. But the axe seems to be quite good. If it hits, the other party basically has no power to fight back. "

Wei Ran looked at Gaoqiao and saw that he looked nervous. He smiled and patted him on the shoulder.

"There's no axe. Give me one." Wei Ran changed the subject.

Takahashi took Wei Ran to a cabin. On the way, he met many sailors shouting back and forth. These sailors, like Takahashi, have a tense expression. Although they are not flustered and orderly, they still feel a depressed atmosphere.

Takahashi took a sailor and asked two questions before catching up with Wei Ran.

Takahashi introduced the situation: "we are not fully prepared for the naval battle this time to Nanyang. Although we have strong firepower, our mobility is not strong, and there is only one ship. There are four pirates chasing after them, which are like two bread sandwiches.

We can't solve each other at one time through artillery battle. When the pirate ship enters their range, it will form a counter fire. Such a battle is more difficult for people to take control of their lives than a side to side battle.

Because grape bullets and chain bullets come at random. If you are unlucky, you will die in it even if you are good at it. The reason why the brothers are nervous is that the next battle may cause heavy casualties. "

I entered an arms room. There were some boxes containing a lot of cold weapons, guns and ammunition.

Wei chose two hand axes and put them in a place easy to draw out behind his waist. Then he chose a rough double barreled shotgun. He used to play with guns when he was training in the United States. His shooting method was good.

However, considering the possibility of close combat, he chose a "rough man" with short range but wide coverage and great power, and then grabbed a shotgun bullet and a revolver.

Takahashi chose a short Japanese Dao and a sailor Dao. It seems that he is also a good hand in both hands. Then he chose a common bolt rifle and a revolver.

Ah San looked at all this. His legs were shaking.

Wei Ran looked at him helplessly. "You take the left reincarnation to the room, stay inside and don't come out."

At this time, I heard the roar of rows, which was very shocking.

Takahashi said with a dignified face, "the pirate ship has entered our range. We opened the fire first. I don't know what the outcome is."

Wei Ran said, "do you want to have a look on the deck?"

Takahashi grabbed Wei Ran and said, "master Wei, you are an important guest of the captain. The deck is very dangerous. As I just said, if the pirate ship enters their range, it will launch grape bombs to clean up the effective forces on the deck. "

Wei Jianqi said, "why don't you withdraw everyone on the deck to the cabin?"

"That won't work. The hull keeps moving and aims at the enemy with the sideboard, so as to fire and destroy them. It's not enough to adjust the direction just by the rudder. Sailors need to coordinate and control the three sails and grasp the wind direction in order to move in place quickly. "

So Wei Ran and a group of sailors could only wait under the cabin with weapons.

At this time, the black fish had begun to exchange fire with four pirate ships.

Zheng Hong steered the ship himself and loudly ordered the sailors to control the sails. His loud chief officer conveyed the order.

Although the black fish had cannons on both sides, the pirates wouldn't be so stupid to aim at him on both sides. Instead, the two sides are interspersed at different angles.

Zheng Hongxian chose the pirate ship on the port side. He accurately used the current and wind direction to quickly adjust the hull angle and calculate the advance.

A wave of salvo, 30 cannons on the port played the rhythm of death one after another.

Half of this wave of salvo used solid bullets and half used flowering bullets. Although the locked pirate ship tried its best to maneuver and avoid, it was still hit by the old Gunners on the black fish. It was hit by at least ten shells, with an amazing hit rate.

The solid bullet tore the weak hull defense of the pirate ship, put the flowering bullet into it, and exploded in the cabin under the action of the delay fuse.

The continuous roar only saw that the pirate ship lit a fire from the middle, slowed down, several lifeboats were thrown into the sea, and the pirate ship gradually began to sink.

After solving one on the port side, Zheng Hong wanted to find another on the port side, but found that it was located in a dead corner behind his side and was accelerating. If you want to turn the angle to deal with it, it will obviously waste a lot of time.

Although he now has the firepower of battleships, he has only one, which can not form maritime line tactics. Therefore, we can only turn around and look for the enemy on the right.

The two pirate ships on the right are far away from each other. The one in front desperately sails in front of the black fish, and the one behind also bites the dead corner at the side and rear.

Zheng Hong adjusted his direction to track the ship in front of him on the right, but he was also ready for a wave of volley from the enemy.

There was another wave of salvo. This wave of starboard salvo was not ideal. Only a few shots hit the enemy ship. It grabbed ammunition, filled the blank, and quickly rushed into their attack range.

The black fish has a huge hull and far less maneuverability than them. Most guns can only resist hard. These pirate ships were so smart that they didn't want to break through the black fish's armor with their tattered cannon guns.

But when it approaches a relatively close distance, it immediately launches a grape bomb. The sailors who are adjusting the sails on the black fish have suffered heavy casualties. Grape bullets are very dense. Although they can't wear armor, they are very effective for killing the crew.

Half of the more than 100 crew members left on the splint were killed and injured by the fire of three enemy ships.

These people were so angry that the chief officer urged the living to hurry down and mobilize the second wave of sailors.

At the same time, the black fish also launched a wave of salvo, this time it was close fire. The pirate ship in front of the right wanted to approach, but it didn't expect that the starboard side locked them so quickly. In the continuous roar of artillery, the hull of the pirate ship was directly cracked and slowly sank into the sea.

In addition, the two pirate ships on the left and right rear sides took advantage of this opportunity and quickly galloped over. Close to the stern, they fired a wave of solid bombs and a wave of grape bombs.

The sailors hiding on the sails and masts were baptized again, and the splints were full of broken limbs and meat.

Most of the solid bullets were empty, and some of the ones with a partial angle failed to penetrate the outer armor. Several solid bullets entered the gun door.

This time, the cannon inside was overturned, and all the Gunners next to the gun base were crushed into meat cakes and hit the wall. The flying sawdust killed a wider area, and seven or eight Gunners were overturned and screamed. For a time, the cabin was like a hell on earth, which made people dare not look directly at it.

Everyone in the cabin was struggling to endure such a painful moment.

This time, Zheng Hong didn't care so much. It was impossible to aim at the artillery accurately. He ordered the Gunners on both sides to fill the shells and fired a wave by rubbing the two pirate ships behind the side.

The hit rate is not high, but as long as it is hit, it will inevitably hit the cabin and give huge damage to the pirates hiding in it.

The pirate ship is small and more flexible. It turns and maneuvers continuously, avoids both sides of the black fish, and keeps firing guns at the stern.

Even the black fish was riddled with holes, and a cabin at the tail was pierced, killing many people.

But with rich experience, Zheng Hong gradually adjusted his angle and was about to catch them. Unexpectedly, at this time, the two pirate ships approached the black fish side by side.