Chapter 43: The Attack on Hong Kong
The Minister of the South Seas ordered an attack on the island of Cebu, much to the cheers of the pirates entrenched in southern Luzon.
However, their leader, Lin Afeng, was the opposite, not happy about this, but fell into deep worry.
Lin Feng has always tried to get his subordinates' lives back on the 'right track', not to pick up a hoe and farm the land, but to get a lonely place overseas as a pirate, with no laws and no taxes, they are their own army and protect their own land.
thought that with Chen Munan's expedition, he would get closer and closer to this kind of right track, but the result made him feel farther and farther away.
Chen Mu let Lin Feng see more, saw Xiyi's big war ships, saw the Ming army's bird guns, and saw that the lonely place he thought was overseas was vulnerable under the Ming fleet.
It was a serious blow to Lin Feng's confidence.
"Hell yes!"
The pirate leader leaned against the side of the ship and irritably brushed his hair to cover his eyes, turned around and kicked open the boxes stacked under the mast, and asked, "This is the armor and firearms that Chen Shuai rewarded us?" ”
Zhuang Gong, who was wearing a cuirass and a bulging shirt, nodded, raised his hand to signal to Lin Feng, and said, "A boat with ten boxes, there are armor and guns." ”
Some of the wooden boxes were filled with single-sided cuirass, and some were filled with arquebus guns, and now Chen Mu's descendants have replaced them with flintlock bird guns, and they have piled thousands of arquebus guns on their hands at once, and they simply took the opportunity to repack and seal them all by changing the clothes of his subordinates in Manila.
Originally, it was intended for Suleiman's people, but now that Lin Feng needed to strengthen his force, he first allocated him 600 guns and 200 single-sided cuirasses.
Lin Feng originally had a large number of fire guns and bird guns in his hands, all of which he bought after using the loot to sell the stolen goods with Chen Mu in the past.
The changes that Chen Ye brought to this pirate were terrifying.
Before meeting Chen Mu, Lin Feng's brothers were also equipped with a lot of firearms, arquebus guns were naturally available, but they were the most precious firearms, only a dozen or so, and the largest number of equipment was obtained from various health offices and smuggler Jia Na, such as Tianzi handcuffs.
At that time, he dared to attack the ports and cities of the government, and later died down only because of the morality of reaching a similar alliance with Chen Mu, promising him not to be a disaster again.
As for now?
Lin Feng took out an almost brand-new bird gun from the wooden box, raised it in his hand and tried it, looked around and asked, "It's a fire gun, how many are there?" ”
Zhuang Gong understood what Lin Feng meant, without blinking his eyes, and said, "There are more than two hundred archers." ”
"That's more than 2,000 shots."
Lin Feng turned around, casually threw the bird gun to the subordinates next to him, pointed to the wooden box, leaned back on the side of the boat, looked at the sea and sky and the unknown island in the distance, and turned his head after a moment before turning his head and saying: "Those who can use guns will be put on guns, and they will not use guns to hold knives, spears and shields, and all the armor will be on the ship." ”
"Let's anchor, Lin thinks that this Cebu Island can be stormed."
More than 30 Daifuku ships hoisted their butterfly sails, and when the flagship pirates heard the leader's words, they each shouted to the sky, shouting for a while, and drove towards Cebu Island.
Chen Mu's slow movement was because he knew that Regasby had built a well-defended fortress on Cebu Island, and he had to make all preparations if he wanted to go over, not only to build a port, but also to blast down the fortress together.
Lin Feng didn't have this kind of worry, or the pirates never had these thoughts - if you win the battle, you will take it all, and if you can't win, you will withdraw, thinking so much and being tired.
Don't worry if it works or not, let's try it first.
Cebu Island is not far from the southernmost tip of Luzon Island, where Lin Fengjun is stationed, and it only takes a day to sail in the normal wind direction, and Lin Feng, who set off at noon, crossed the sea like a ghost at night and arrived at the northeastern port of Cebu.
The night boat allowed them to avoid the smoke of the small island, and although a few Xiyi on the shore fired their guns while they were sailing along the coast, it was clear to both friend and foe that the bird guns could not go that far.
Lin Feng, who was full of ambition, crossed his arms and looked at the small port with bright lights in the distance, looking forward to the battle with the defenders near the port, and saw several bright lights suddenly erupt in the distance, and then the sound of artillery came from a long distance.
Like the thunder of the long-stuffy sky before the rain falls.
"Listen to the sound, four cannons, it's not small, in front of the port, on the left and right, far and near?"
Lin Feng frowned and looked at the shore, the artillery wheel fell silent again, except for the lights of the port, he couldn't see any other movement, he stared at the direction of the cannonball falling into the water and said: "Look at the distance, it's not far, as for making Chen Shuai so jealous?" Well...... What's wrong with Zhuang Gong. ”
Shore artillery generally hits farther than ship artillery, which is a consensus at sea, even if it is the case in the Ming Dynasty, but in the past, except for Chen Mu's jurisdiction, the Ming Dynasty's Dafa Xi did not fight far.
But Lin Feng had seen the cannon barrel of the St. Pablo when it was docked in the harbor, and he expected that the Zhongxi Yi'an defense gun should be heavier, but he didn't expect that the firing range was only three or four miles.
This distance is not close, but Lin Feng seems to be almost close to scaring him, Second Master Chen's ship cannon can pout his ass so far!
In front of Lin Feng's flagship, there are eight Fu ships led by Zhuang Gongsuo, which can be said to be Lin Feng's vanguard general.
However, at this time, six of the eight warships under the command of Zhuang Gong were deflecting from the Chinese army to the left and right flanks, and all of them lowered their sails a little, and only two of them still sailed forward.
Lin Feng looked at the pirates on the boat, and no one understood what Zhuang Gong was doing. In just a moment, the two Fu ships had already driven hundreds of paces towards the port at full speed according to the previous wind, and the flotilla behind them were all blocked by Zhuang Gong's three sideways ships, and they could only watch the two Fu ships rushing towards the port alone.
Three or four miles away, suddenly the harbor was ablaze, and for a time the whole harbor lit up one after another, and I don't know how many artillery pieces roared out at the same time, and the sound of the shells falling into the sea was like a thunderstorm, splashing waves close to the height of the bow tower in the distance.
The two Fu ships were like falling into a storm out of thin air, Lin Feng could even hear the frightened shouts of the sailors on the ship, the Fu ship on the right quickly turned around in the rain of cannonballs, and the other also wanted to flee in the wilderness, but the front and rear masts were blown off, and the steering brought by inertia could not escape back with the heavy hull at all.
The mast smashed into the deck with a heavy sail, and the sailor, caught in the sail rope, was grabbed and thrown up like a monster in the sea, and screamed high until his body sank to the bottom of the sea.
The lucky ship that escaped back by luck could hear the pirates shouting loudly in panic from a long distance, watching the sails drop little by little, Lin Feng knew that he had lost two warships in a blink of an eye.
The pirates jumped into the sea as they approached the fleet, swam towards this side, and were met by the boats released early by Zhuang Gong.
Then Zhuang Gong's fleet circled along the east coast of the island, and before Lin Feng could react from the shock of the artillery roaring on the shore, he ordered the fleet to follow, and asked Zhuang Gong when he got closer: "How do you know that they still have artillery?" ”
"Ranging test firing."
Zhuang Gong's face was also ugly after boarding the flagship, and he said to Lin Feng: "Li Dan told me that he watched Chen Shuai's cannon drill, first hit a few cannons to try the distance, and the other cannons adjusted the angle, right, angle, and then fired a salvo." ”
Damn, how did you let Xiyi learn!
Lin Feng's surprise attack was frustrated, and he ordered angrily: "They have moved all the ship guns ashore, bypassed the port, walked dozens of miles and then landed!" ”