Chapter 198: Steady

In the era of cold weapons, the difficulty of human living conditions was usually directly proportional to the degree of combat bravery.

The poorer the mountains and rivers, the more brave and good they are, until they enter the prosperous land and lose their harsh environment, this courage will also become a legend along with the ancient tradition.

This law applies to most, but not to the Central Plains, which often had extraordinary organizational skills, metallurgical technology, and agricultural technology during periods of stability, and could not be compared with their surroundings.

You use a spear, I use a spear, you win, well, this is bravery.

You use a bronze arc knife, wear leather armor, I have an iron ring at my waist, I wear iron armor and an iron armor, and I hold an iron halberd on the ground, and I take off the well-wound rhubarb ginseng crossbow from behind my back a hundred meters away...... If you dare to fight me, you're already very brave.

But how can I prove that I am brave? I can't prove it.

No one wants to be brave, but they are more willing to buckle the hanging knife at Wangshan, and the crossbow string is lightly shocked, and you are dead.

But the White Mountain Camp warriors in the Caribbean have a chance to prove it.

When the Jiazi and Calais warships were on the wrong side, the two battleships fired their cannons at each other almost at the same time, and the wrought iron Franc machine loaded on the Calais ship was instantaneous, and the cannonballs the size of children's fists rained down on the board of the Jiazi ship, but their ships were too low and the caliber of the guns was too small.

What's the use of raindrops? The thick side planks blocked all the shells, and one by one the shells beat the side of the ship like a hornet's nest, and there were shells embedded in the planks everywhere, but none of them could penetrate the planks.

The height of the two floors also allowed them not to land on the deck and hurt the bannermen.

The situation of the Jiazi ship's cannon firing was different, more than ten guns on the side of General Zhenshuo's two-layer artillery deck fired in turn from front to back, and the shells were not as good as the Franc machine in the rapid continuous fire, but the victory was in the strong sinking, and it was also better than the accurate hit brought to them by the good training of the Beiyang Flag Army on the ship.

The shells almost lifted the wooden roof of the Calais into the sea, and Lamb could even see with the naked eye that a Franc cannon fixed to starboard was hit by a cannonball fired by the Ming battleship, smashed into the air, and then fell heavily on the stern, smashing diagonally through the stern gun shed.

One more round of artillery bombardment could easily bombard the pirate galleys carrying more than 400 men to the point of ineffectiveness.

But what Lamb couldn't figure out was that the Ming warships didn't seem to have this awareness, and after only one bombardment at the staggered time, they rushed at full speed towards the two Carrick galleons behind, and the captain from the Netherlands even heard the cheers of the pirates on Calais.

After a brief panic, the pirates threw the bodies of the sailors who had died in the shelling into the sea, and more than forty huge oars were shaken, and the speed of the longship increased sharply, and it went straight to the rear of the Fufu Formation.

Another operation that Captain Nedland couldn't understand appeared.

The only two gunboats in the Ming army's Fu ship formation, which seemed to be not weak, only fired a few cannons, and then followed the big battleship.

Left behind six ships with essentially no artillery, alone to deal with the onslaught of the battleships of Calais.

The two 400 shark ships were Korean soldiers from the Baishan Battalion, and they received an order to attack the enemy ships as a strategy in the battle between the Jiazi ship and the two enemy ships.

As a generation of people with new and new combat ideas, whether they are Nanyang, Beiyang, or Wutang students, these naval generals have strong contradictions in their mentality toward naval warfare.

On the one hand, they were superstitious about firepower, and in every battle there was little mention of seizing ships, and the most common order was simply to sink them.

On the other hand, every officer who dreams of becoming an admiral sails the seas on a warship loaded with more than 30 heavy guns, hoping for a feat of burning Chibi or crushing an enemy ship with a ship that follows the name of the ancients.

Now they were going to watch the Calais ram their ship with its sharp, sturdy bow.

The sailors were the White Mountain Battalion, and the crew of the small flag on board were all Nanyang Army, and Captain Lamb hurriedly grabbed the rudder and deflected to avoid the impact of the Calais, and turned his head to see one of the six lucky ships not dodging, but sailing straight towards the Calais with a large sail full of swan wings.

Moments before the impact, Lamb saw soldiers with long knives busily applying rudimentary armor to their chests full of tropical ulcers.

The armor was like a leather vest, only a round heart guard on the chest, not only relatively simple but also breathable, this was the armor they brought out from their hometown, at that time they all knew that Majiagang was cold, but no one knew about Caribbean heat.

To be honest, maybe Li Dan seems that everything can be fought at sea, but if Chen Mu is allowed to choose, he would rather send dogs and horses and eagles to let the Jurchen warriors gallop on the American continent than put them on a ship to look at the sea.

However, when the two ships collided, things turned out to be unexpected.

The Calais with its ramming angles almost put the bow into the Fuku, and the cracked hull allowed the sea water to pour in, but the ship did not sink further.

The two Fu ships that followed passed by the two ships that collided with each other on the left and right, and the huge sail bones were entangled and collided in the air until they broke together, and at the same time, more than 40 large oars of the Calais warship were crushed, which was the best speed bump of the Fu ship at sea.

The ships on both sides of the ship were crowded with people, and the sailors who had lost their oars and sails shot from the roof and oar windows with their weapons on both sides, and the soldiers with short spears, axes and long swords climbed onto the roof in an attempt to counterattack the ship with the 'superiority in strength'.

Troop superiority?

Inexistent.

Although the muskets were accurate and ruthless, after all, the rate of fire was slow, and the French pirates themselves were not equipped with many muskets, not to mention that the roof of the Calais ship blocked most of the space that could be fired, and there was no advantage at all in one photo.

However, their crossbows were more powerful than muskets at this time, shooting several White Mountain soldiers.

The soldiers of the Baishan battalion shot down with big bows on the sides of the three lucky ships, one came to surround on three sides, and the other came condescendingly, only ten steps apart, and it was the time when the bow was the most powerful.

It was not enough for the pirates, who were lucky enough to be unharmed, to retreat into the cabin, and the archers fired at the oars and the cannon holes one after another, and the dense feathered arrows were still fluttering at their tails, almost all of them were pierced around the oar windows.

At this time, Nala Kanguru, who was finally dressed in armor, pushed away the archers on the side of the ship from the left wing, and he stepped on the deck with both feet, as if he wanted the ship to shake, let alone four boats huddled together, even if there was only one, the boat could not shake.

So, Kangguru smiled happily and raised the Ming waist knife in his palm.

"Now we're safe, and the general's reward is known? Go, take the money, and take the armor! ”