Yuan Laoba was already angry, and he finally caught the mistake of a warship in Hongtang, and how could he be willing to let this warship get away again.

I saw one hundred and ten chains rising into the sky, and they all landed on the deck of this Hongtang warship, covering the entire warship like a net of heaven and earth, which made the faces of the soldiers on this Hongtang warship change dramatically, and they hurriedly raised their swords in shock, trying to cut off these chains that were attached to the hull and restricting the speed of their ships.

More than ten other Hongtang warships shot one after another, firing cannonballs like money, intending to block the speed of Yuan Laoba and his gang of pirates, but they underestimated the determination of the pirates at this time.

The first few pirate warships were smashed by the Hongtang cannon fire fired at close range, but they still stood firm in front of them, blocking almost all the shells for the latecomers. The pirates have always been selfish, but when Yuan Laoba wanted to trouble Hong Tang and asked for help from other pirates, he naturally stood up and let his warship die in the first row, avoiding the losses of other pirates.

In addition, on the Hongtang 400 warship, in addition to the huge power of the bow guns, only a few guns with the power of a thousand catties of Franc machine guns can be placed on the gun positions on the left and right sides due to the defects of the warship, and the lethality is not obvious when it hits the modified pirate ship.

Seeing that the pirate warship was gradually approaching, the members of the team on the Hongtang warship who were surrounded had a desperate aura on their faces, and then under the captain's roar, they were encouraged again, tightened their weapons in their hands, and prepared to fight to the death with the pirates who were forcing forward.

"Hold on!"

Suddenly, a roar came from the left side of the thief ship, attracting everyone's attention, but it was the six "Yang Fan-style" warships led by Zhao Xingdou who rushed up from the flanks with strong acceleration, brushing the side of the besieged Hongtang warship, and rushing away a lot of chains tied to the besieged warship by speed.

Of course, it is inevitable that the besieged warship will also be damaged because of such a rude behavior, and the ship's side baffle will make a stabbing sound from time to time, which makes people sideways and worried.

Under the traction of the reaction force, the chains of some pirate warships did not break because of the violent movements of the "Yang Fan-style" warship, but followed the momentum and rushed towards the Hongtang warship and the "Yangfan-style" warship faster.

"Boom! Boom! ”

The power of the artillery on the "Yang Fan" warship is not as powerful as the thousand-pound Franc cannon on the Hongtang 400 warship, it can be said that the most powerful artillery in the entire Hongtang is now placed in the "Yang Fan" warship, and as the first six warships to serve, the artillery equipped on it is naturally the best among them.

The ultra-close distance naturally brings a more accurate shooting angle, as well as more powerful artillery power, just a round of artillery fire, there are three pirate warships with various degrees of destruction, one after another violent earthquakes seem to make these warships scatter, and then tilt in one direction, slowly capsizing towards the sea.

At the same time, under the action and reaction force, the chains that were still entangled in the Hongtang warship and the "Yang Fan" warship either jumped or slipped from the source, and it was no longer possible to restrict the footsteps of the Hongtang warship.

It's just that it's a little late at this time, and Yuan Laoba and his brigade have already rushed forward, blocking the way and retreat of the six "Yang Fan-style" warships, and letting them fall into the encirclement network of nearly 30 pirate warships. On the contrary, the Hongtang warship, which was pinned down at the beginning, with the help of the "Yang Fan-style" warship, broke free from the chains on its body, and sailed away from this dangerous sea area with the shape of the pirate warship before the pirates bypassed and blocked the retreat.

Of course, there are also pirates among them who have given up the relationship with this small fish because the big fish of the "Yang Fan" warship was surrounded, but how do they know that the six "Yang Fan" warships that are falling into their nets are not big fish, but sharks.

Zhao Xingdou, who was surrounded by people, did not have the slightest worry although they were surrounded, and while adjusting the formation, they were preparing to break through in a hurry. The price of the pirates surrounding Zhao Xingdou was very high, and the damage caused by the first round of shelling alone sank three thief ships, not to mention the subsequent shelling.

Under the cover of powerful artillery fire, although the pirates surrounded and slowly compressed Zhao Xingdou's activity space, they were unable to get close to the six warships.

It wasn't until Yuan Laoba gave a death order that the pirate warships in his gang ignored the losses, forcibly blocked the artillery fire of Zhao Xingdou's warships and pressed them up, and when they finally approached the sides of the six "Yang Fan-style" warships, they also had seven or eight warships in tatters, and they could only barely float on the sea.

However, after pressing Zhao Xingdou and their warships, it can be regarded as completely allowing Yuan Laoba and them to give full play to their numerical advantages, nearly twenty warships formed a circle, with six "Yang Fan-style" warships as the center, and formed a floating island with warships in this sea area.

The dense pirates shuttled flexibly from one warship after another, killing the target in the middle, bringing great pressure to Zhao Xingdou and them.

However, the pirates focused on Zhao Xingdou's six warships, and the encirclement of the remaining dozen or so Hongtang four hundred warships was naturally lighter, and it was not easy for the ten thief ships that had been divided to contain the Hongtang warships, and soon let the Hongtang warships break through and launch a fierce attack on one side of the battlefield.

Although because of the power of the artillery fire, although the fragments of the Hongtang 400 warships were flying all over the sky in a salvo, there was not a single thief ship capsized because of their artillery fire for half a day, but one or two stray bullets occasionally fell on the route of the pirates' charge, bringing many casualties to the pirates.

However, directly attacking the place where the pirates gathered, it is not a small danger for the Hongtang warship at this time, as mentioned above, the firing angle of the artillery in naval battles is generally only a few degrees, so as to ensure the accuracy within hundreds of zhang, and if it is fired at an elevation angle, it is very likely that the six friendly ships surrounded in the middle will be accidentally injured, but it is not beautiful to help the pirates solve the target faster.

This is the limitation of this era, although the artillery fire is fierce, but the actual operation of accurate shooting is still a very difficult problem, even if today's Hongtang professionals absorb advanced knowledge from the West, by calculating the amount of gunpowder in each can, the caliber of the shell, etc., supplemented by mathematics and geometry and other disciplines, the final parabolic shooting accuracy still can not reach more than half of the accuracy.

(End of chapter)