Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Iron Lock
Right rudder, starboard row.
The telescope saved Chen Mu's life, if he didn't have this thing, he wanted to see the iron lock connected to the white ship, I'm afraid he would have to wait at least close to five hundred steps, and then it would be even more difficult to avoid even the galleys.
The centipede ship changed direction, and the white ship also changed direction, and the Haikou on the ship was more sophisticated than the flag army, and directly chose the direction in which the centipede ship turned right and went forward.
Apparently they knew that the centipede ship was fast.
But even faster than they thought.
Even if the wind is headwind, the hard sail still does not use the zigzag course to move forward slowly, when the course is slightly reversed, more than a dozen large oars at the same time to bring power far beyond the sail, in the blink of an eye the speed of the ship is several times faster.
It was the first time Chen Mu saw such a tactic at sea, and he didn't know how to deal with it for a short time, but then he opened his right arm and shouted to the standard-bearer: "Let Deng Zilong go to the left and bombard his left boat!" ”
Even if the sailing speed is fast, there is no telescope such as a pre-enemy object, and it cannot escape the ghost door and close the collision, and once it is hit by four downwind ships with a volume of twenty or thirty meters at the same time...... No ship survives in this era, not anyone.
Merchant ships are ships with a large cargo capacity, and lucky ships also belong to this category.
Chen Mu, who could rely on his speed to get out of the impact circle, sailed on the flank of the enemy ship, and when he felt the shock caused by the bombardment of the two Franc planes on the side of the ship at the position of the two guns on the far left, he knew how to deal with them.
"Port Aim Release!"
At this time, Chen Ye didn't care what two cannons lured the enemy, he was only less than a hundred paces away from the leftmost ship of the iron-locked white ship fleet, and even the distance would be further reduced in the future, he just wanted to eat Zeng Yi's four big ships first!
The seventeen gyroscope guns mounted on the side of the ship were operated by the most experienced gunners in the Banner Army, and they had learned well the insidious guiding ideology of their artillery instructor Chen Ye, and they preferred to fire empty guns rather than aim at the hull that could not be damaged, and only hit people and masts.
Bang bang, bang bang!
Accustomed to hearing the deafening sound of the cannon in the land war, and listening to the sound of the cannon of the Franco, to be honest, it was not interesting for Chen Mu, but in his eyes, the effect of this salvo was very good.
The distance between the ships is very close, and the white ship is slightly lower than the bow of the centipede, Chen Mu has an unobstructed view of the appearance of the enemy ship after being beaten, and the interval is less than a hundred steps to hit something as big as a sail, and it is much more difficult to miss than to hit, after a round of artillery fire, the white ship was punched out of the sail of the mat, and two shells fell into the ship, smashing over three or four people.
"That's all there is to the boat!"
There are a total of more than a dozen people on the white ship, except for a few people who are necessary to operate the ship, there is not even a single gunner!
This is a gang of death squads that make a lot of money by sinking a big ship.
"The port gunners stand up, aim at the enemy sailors, raise the guns!"
Zeng Yiyi is really a talent, which has broadened Chen Mu's horizons, it turns out that a few ships can still be used like this when they are loaded with iron cables!
Chen Mu decided not to attack them with boat shells, he wanted to kill the pirates on these four ships, rob them, and take them to Zeng Zeng, so that he could also taste what it was like!
Previously, the gunners listened to Chen Mu's orders, and they all hid behind the side of the ship, and their minds were tense when they were about to fight, but the more they were tense, the easier it was to make mistakes, Chen Mu stood up very scatteredly after giving the order, and there were people on the port side who stood up first and those who stood up later, and someone on the starboard side also stood up, and was caught by Fu Yuan and pressed back.
"Put!"
Bang bang, bang!
Forty or fifty paces away from Chen Mujun suffered a bird salvo, and every enemy who faced after Chen Ye led the general flag alone had enough of this trick, not to mention that now there were only a few sailors on the white ship, and under the forty bird gun salvo, they were beaten into a hornet's nest by the bird guns without even having a chance to kneel and beg for mercy.
Since Shangguan's order was for him to detour to the left and divide his troops to crush the ships at both ends, then for Deng Zilong, the goal was to attack the white-ship ship on the far right of the enemy, and the shortest route was undoubtedly to pass quickly in front of the four white-ship ships.
In this way, naturally, the front faces of the four white ships all came within the range of the seventeen guns on the starboard side of Deng Deputy Qianhu.
Bombarded with one hand, and went to the right flank of the enemy ship with a round of strikes, and also shot the sailor on the white ship on the right side over. Not only that, on the way to turn right from behind the white ship to join Chen Mu, the starboard ship cannon bombarded again, and the bird guns fired a salvo, directly cleaning up the three white ships.
Chen Mu was still thinking about how to defeat the two boats in the middle, Deng Zilong directly cleaned up the two white ships in the middle, and by the way, when the two ships met, he let the flag army shout: "Thousand households!" Zeng Yi ran away! ”
It's all about the next step!
It was natural for Zeng Yiyi to run away at this time, and it was really a battle of tea, but the collision and dodging were close to a moment, and Zeng Yiyi's fleet ran out of two or three miles early.
Obviously, these four white ships and seventy or eighty widows are Zeng Yi's strong men who broke their wrists, and they were used to drag Chen Mu's two centipede boats that looked difficult to deal with.
Thinking about this, Chen Mu was not in a hurry, and simply asked Lou Qimai to lead the flag army to hook the ship together, and simply unloaded all the cannons onto the centipede ship, and then left the four sailors necessary for sailing on each ship, and explained that they would get stuck in the rudder and jump directly into the sea when they were about to collide, so they chased Zeng Yiyi unhurriedly.
The sky was completely dark, and relying on the moonlight and binoculars, Chen Muneng continued to track Zeng Yiyi two miles away, but Zeng Yiyi obviously couldn't see him, because Chen had already sent the nearest clipper and the Japanese to reduce the distance to three or four hundred paces, which was almost the distance that could be hit by ignition and cannon.
The further south you go, the darker the sky and the heavier the clouds.
The quiet night at sea made the flag army who lacked sleep drowsy, and Chen Mu couldn't help but wonder if Zeng Yi was so quiet, did those wouldn't all sleep on the ship?
The flag army alternately leaned on the side of the boat and slept for a while, and Chen Mu was also napping on the bow of the boat.
The darker the night, the worse the visibility, the closer the ships were, the moisture on the sea surface rolled up mist, and there was a very small thunder in the sky into his ears, Chen Mu leaned on the cannon and muttered to himself: "The rain in the south is falling." ”
Bored, he raised his telescope and looked ahead, and several fires in his field of vision grew from small to large, reflecting several fireships within dozens of steps on the right side of Zeng Yi's fleet, and rushed towards the ship array by relying on their sails.
It was useless to get into the rain, and Chen couldn't help it.
"Fight, fight, all up and paddle! Go around at full speed, small flags, arrows, and artillery ready! ”
Chen Mu got up suddenly, shouted an order at the bow of the ship, and leaned over to the starting battery to adjust the angle with the sound of drums.
Riding the wind and waves, the cannon roared.
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