There are strings of wooden boxes floating on the sea, especially when people look at them, and it is really scary on the entrance channel that must be passed.

Even the most brainless gunners could not immerse themselves in the thrill of the bombardment of the reef that frightened the Ming army into swimming in the water, and they vied to watch from the bow of the ship, carrying muskets and spears to guard against the Ming army jumping out of the box.

There were no Ming troops, and nothing even happened when the bow hit the box.

Curious as to what exactly was in the chests, sailors hooked the heavy wooden boxes to the deck with ropes in the paddle boats, or tried to pick them apart with oars so that they would not interfere with the ship's navigation.

The huge wooden box was dragged up to the deck by the sailors with great effort, and the well-informed old sailor touched the gap in the box, put it between his nose and sniffed it, and said to the boatswain: "Oil and ash, the Ming people have made it waterproof." ”

The box was fixed very strongly, and it was not easy to pry open with a sword, and it was necessary to use an axe to smash the box, revealing the gravel and scrap iron inside, and the old sailor first took out a large stone from inside, and then felt a pebble for caulking, and even pulled out an iron horseshoe.

The sailors and gunners who came up looked at each other, wondering what the Ming army wanted to do by putting these things in the sea.

In recent years, people don't know enough about obsessive-compulsive disorder and matryoshka dolls, looking at the neat furnishings of the three layers outside the wooden box, I only feel strange, a big wooden box with a small wooden box, a circle of pebbles and scrap iron in the middle of the two boxes, a circle of larger stones inside, and a wooden box in the innermost, the whole big box weighs thirty or forty pounds, and it can only show a corner in the water, and it almost sinks.

However, just as the sailors were about to open the wooden box inside, a loud shock suddenly sounded below the waterline of the hull, which made the sailors on the deck unsteady and thought they had been shelled.

Some sailors ran up from the lower deck in a panic and shouted: "We don't know what we hit, the port side is cracked!" ”

At this moment, the old sailor, who was surrounded by people, put his nose into the large open wooden box on the deck, and looked at the gap in the small wooden box, his nose smelled some strange smell, and he frowned and said: "It's a bit like the incense used by the Spaniards, and it smokes......"

In fact, it was not the Spaniards who used incense, it was the Mingxi trade route that brought incense to Spain, and the Spaniards were undoubtedly enviable in these years, so how to say? The cigarette incense of the Ming Dynasty and the nutty food of the Shinra can be served by one person in the two empires, isn't this a creation?

The unfortunate man of England had not done so, and as soon as the old sailor had finished speaking, there was a brief snort in the small wooden box, and the next moment a loud bang broke out on the deck, and pebbles, scrap metal, and boulders became flying bullets and shells, which slashed the sailors who had gathered together into a pool of flesh and blood, and smashed the sails on the nearest mast to the ground.

Mines, more than 200 wooden boxes floating on the sea are all mines.

Because the offshore reef beach is too far away, can not use a more accurate rope ignition device, all mines are used to light incense to ignite, according to the estimated distance to determine the length of incense, after burning incense cover a small wooden box, and then seal the large wooden box on it, in order to avoid extinguishing, there are a few feathers in the box through the outside.

In fact, there are better anchor mines, which are placed facing the sky with a device similar to a small cannon and suspended in the water with buoyancy provided by wooden planks, which cause great damage to the bottom of the ship when they explode, but they do not have time and craftsmen to build more ingenious mines.

To put it mildly, they lack nothing but gunpowder.

Due to the different lengths of the mines and the sequence of deployment times, it is difficult for sailors to grasp the accurate explosion time of a mine, and it is even more difficult for the English royal fleet to master this kind of weapon that has never been seen before, but generally speaking, the mine group is detonated one after another when the fleet crosses the minefield.

For a while, the explosions were incessant, some mines were caught on the deck of the battleship and exploded, some in the crowd, some at the waterline on the side of the ship, some were blown to pieces by the small oars trying to pick them up, and of course many more were blown up without hitting the target.

The Iroquois dressed as soldiers on the shore looked at the sea and clenched their fists fiercely in cheer.

Don't look at the fact that they didn't have anything just three years ago, but in a short period of time, they were also contaminated with the problems of the Ming people - their general Du Keyu said, in our Daming gunpowder is cheaper, just make it casually, more than 5,000 catties of gunpowder as long as you can sink a ship of the enemy army, you can earn it.

In Du Kelu's mind, this was a mathematical problem, and the pension of the mercenaries of the Oriental Military Government was ten taels per person; Li Yuxi's pension for recruiting Makino Baojia was five taels per person, but when recruiting Baojia, their Miao soldier instructor demanded that the corpses of the soldiers must be brought back to Makino whenever possible, which actually cost more than the pension.

If you want to sink a ship of the enemy in a ship battle or a water battle, you have to pay at least twenty lives, and this expenditure is already more than two hundred taels of silver.

According to the price of gunpowder in the Ming Dynasty, 10,000 catties of gunpowder is only 240 taels, even if you don't mention the idea of benevolence and love people, you can use gunpowder to blow people and ships to death, it is definitely more suitable than fighting for human life.

In fact, in Oriental Asia, the cost of gunpowder is even lower to the point that it is difficult to convert their gunpowder into price, and basically the price of gunpowder is equal to the price of gunpowder.

The armor guards on the shore did not see any of the enemy's ships directly sunk, but nearly half of the ships were swaying in the sea, and it seemed that many of them were damaged, and the first two ships were on fire, so there was no doubt that this was definitely a good deal.

Drake still rode on his Golden Deer, which had accompanied him through a difficult period of hardship, and after returning to England it was refurbished and reinforced, increasing its draft and tonnage, and its displacement of more than 200 tons made it more capable of fighting at sea.

No matter how good the ships were, they were vulnerable below the waterline, and England's Galen was probably the best ship under the waterline in the whole world.

Just as the world was the first to realize the importance of air defense was the Mongol Khan's court that was driven to Warat by Qi Jiguang, the target enemy of the English was the Spanish Galen ship that was good at rampage, and the Iberian Peninsula was full of monsters who pounced on the face at the sight of the ship, so their ships specially strengthened the strength under the waterline.

Even so, it will still be blown out by dozens of catties of gunpowder to blow up the boulder that drives it, and the shipwright of the Golden Deer is frantically nailing planks in the lower cabin to repair the ship, but Drake's mind is not on this, he knows that Daming's 'cannonball' that will explode in the water can only cause him trouble.

What was really bad was that he kept staring at the two smoking boats at the front of the fleet.

The lookout, who was climbing on the mast together, heard the captain grit his teeth: "Why is my fireboat burning!" ”