Chapter 155: Hand-to-hand combat
At this time, Zhong Bin's heart was already so cold that he seemed to have fallen into an ice cellar, his face was pale, and his hands and feet were trembling. , the latest chapter access: Π¨Π¨Π¨.79xs.Π‘ΠΎΠ . Although he used to be a big pirate on the South China Sea, and his subordinates were in charge of hundreds of ships at the most, but when he was fighting, he always hid behind and commanded 'chaos', and whether he could win or not basically depended on the fighting qualities of his subordinates.
Although it is said that he has fought more or less two naval battles after joining the Senate Navy, both of them have been one-sided naval battles with absolute superiority. But now he was suddenly taken advantage of the fog by the enemy to help, this situation has never been encountered, although it is said that there are various coping strategies taught when he participated in the training in the Naval Academy of the Senate, but now this situation is absolutely blank in his head, completely at a loss.
Without the command of the captain, the sailors on the destroyer were at a loss to deal with the Medeno sailors who jumped like dumplings, they lacked unified command and did not have enough weapons to deal with the enemy, so they had already suffered heavy losses in the first 'wave'. The deck of the destroyer was littered with corpses and seriously wounded men - the lightly wounded were still fighting with all sorts of things they could get their hands on and use as weapons.
"Captain!" The first mate next to him waved his saber nervously, poked over a Medeno sailor who rushed to the vicinity, and saw that he was temporarily 'life-free', so he hurriedly pushed Zhong Bin on the shoulder who was still in an unresponsive state. "Captain! What are we going to do? β
Several officers next to him didn't wait for Zhong Bin's order at this moment, and drew their swords or pistols and rushed down the stern to command the sailors on the deck who had not yet participated in the battle.
Zhong Bin was pushed, and suddenly came to his senses, of course it was bad to be helped, but if he lost his command and let others slaughter, it could only be worse, "Quick!" Marines on deck! He hurriedly shouted at the boatswain next to him.
"Ahh A Meedno sailor was 'swinging' from the ganged Medeno warship, letting out a vicious battle cry in the air. Seeing this, Zhong Bin hurriedly 'draws' a pistol from his waist and fired two shots at the "Tarzan of the Apes" in the air, the sailor screamed in the air, his hands were loosened, his body crossed an arc, and he smashed on the bulwark with a "bang" sound, and then fell into the sea.
The enemy is not hateful, and the ball is far from cool, and the ball is Moyang badminton
"Get down!" Before Zhong Bin could appreciate his results just now, he was pressed to the deck by several sailors. At the same time, there was a popping sound of bullets cutting through the wall of the helm compartment beside him, and the glass used to keep out the wind shattered to the ground with a thud, smashing heads and faces on the bodies of the sailors.
"Is the captain alright?" "Protect the Captain!" The sailors of the destroyer rushed over and repelled several Meedno sailors in the vicinity.
Zhong Bin got up and slapped him casually twice, "I'm fine!" Then he patted the shoulder of one of the nearest sailors on the shoulder and shouted, "Watch out for the enemy to 'shoot' at the enemy's fire!" Get the Marines on deck! Suppress enemy fire! β
There were only two entrances and exits to the upper and lower decks of the destroyer, one at the rear of the foremast and the other at the middle of the mast, and the battle on the deck was 'chaotic' at the moment, except for the sailors and marines in the lower compartments, no one went inside, and it did not cause congestion.
As more than a dozen Marines entered the battlefield with bayonet-mounted rifles, the situation on the deck was suddenly changed, and the rifles and bayonets were more effective than the daggers wielded by the Medeno sailors. And the phrase that the Marines heard the most during training was, "As long as you have the opportunity to shoot, you must not hesitate!" Therefore, when dealing with the enemy, the Marines often fire a shot first, even if they can't kill the enemy, at least they can scare the enemy, and then go forward and stab the enemy to get better results.
The Medeno sailors didn't pay much attention to the blue and blue uniforms at first, they had always considered themselves the bravest warriors in the world, and in the past, they would surrender and beg for mercy as long as they brandished these crude weapons and rushed onto the enemy's deck. But today they ran into a hard nail, these blue-clothed soldiers' skills in fighting stabs made them unable to accept it for a while, people are not fighting with you one-on-one, the marines are often in groups of two or three, covering each other and supporting each other. If the Medeno sailor is fighting with A, he will often stab B with a bayonet in the back, and even if he is lucky not to be killed, when he turns around to deal with B, C will 'pump' Leng Zi and stab you in the waist. The point is that A, B and C are all fighting at the same time, but as long as the enemies around them 'show' their flaws, they will perfectly 'insert' and give you a bayonet.
If it was just a stabbing fight, the Medenor sailors were not so afraid, what was terrifying was that behind the bayonets in the hands of these blue-clad warriors was a real musket. Sometimes they feel lucky to meet a one-on-one battle, and they are competing with each other to compete in strength, and suddenly there is a "bang" in the muzzle of the musket on the opposite side, and the residue of the 'shot' and 'medicine' is wrapped in a deadly projectile and directly lifts off half of their heavenly spirit cover. If you are even more lucky, the one who hit the 1628 shotgun is even more moldy for eight lifetimes, and forty shotguns can be 'shot' in a fan, accompanied by a large group of their own people next to them who are shot together, even if they are not shot and will die, but they basically lose their combat effectiveness.
The Marines were still pouring up to the deck from the lower cabins, but the Medenor sailors on the deck were beaten to the ground. A large group of sailors on the opposite side of the battleship brandished their weapons and roared loudly at this side, but not many dared to jump on the destroyer anymore.
The Marines chose their positions on the deck, raised their rifles and began to shoot at the enemy ships, and the Medeno sailors were caught off guard for a moment and fell to the deck with blood splattered on the deck. The sailors on the destroyer cheered as they picked up the knives that had fallen on the deck and slashed the ropes behind those grappling hooks with all their might, trying to separate the two ships.
"Get down! Get down! Zhong Bin suddenly roared loudly, but the sound did not come too far in the noisy battlefield, only a few soldiers closest to him lay down, and the people who were a little farther away just looked at him in a daze, and the officers and soldiers in the farther places did not even hear it, and were still standing there calmly loading and 'shooting' mechanically.
Zhong Bin was so anxious that he was about to go crazy at this time, and although the enemy on the opposite ship did not dare to rush over, the artillery on their deck had already begun to turn around and start aiming at the deck of the destroyer. At this time, almost all the people on the deck of the destroyer were standing, and if the enemy opened fire, it was difficult to guarantee that there would not be a river of blood immediately.
"Get down! Get down! Zhong Bin hurriedly roared loudly and rushed all the way down from the stern, slapping all the soldiers who passed by, "Get down!" βββ
"Boom, boom, boomβ" The cannon on the opposite side also spoke at the same time, and the smoke 'shot' came over, covering the entire deck of the destroyer for a while, and the flying shrapnel swept across the deck, and the debris of wood and metal flew sideways through the crowd, knocking out many soldiers who had not had time to lie down, and blood and stumps and broken arms were sprayed out from the other side of the deck.
"Ahh "The deck of the destroyer was for a moment muffled by cries for help and participation, and at this moment the Medenor sailors of the second 'wave' jumped gang also rushed over just right.
"Bang bang ......" The machine gun that had been loading the 'charge' on the stern finally opened fire, and the enemy and us were mixed up in the battle just now, and the machine gunner did not carry out the 'shooting' in order to avoid accidental injury, and at this moment the enemy who jumped the gang was rushing towards him viciously, while the sailors on their own deck suffered heavy casualties, so they chose to open fire.
The machine-gun whip swept past the charging and 'swinging' enemies, killing them and taking refuge in the cabins. The gunners on the deck hurriedly loaded the guns, trying to remove the machine gun fire point, but before they could finish loading, they had already been given priority by the machine guns, and in order to ensure that no one dared to reload, the machine gunners swept around the guns twice and made sure that every enemy who fell to the ground had taken at least two shots before it was finished.
The bullets from the machine guns pierced the barrels of gunpowder scattered around the guns, and the gunpowder fell on the red-hot forks and burst into flames in an instant, followed by skyrocketing flames, which instantly ignited the foremast and the sail line above. The fire burned rapidly upwards, roasting the lookout posts in the lookout tower to the point that they were not 'desired' to life, and those who ran fast jumped directly down the beams into the sea, and those who ran slowly were entangled in the rigging, and were roasted to tender inside and out in the screams.
The situation of the Medenor sailors hiding in the lower deck compartments was not much better, although the second floor was also an artillery deck, but this position was lower than the deck of the destroyer, and even the deck of the destroyer could not be swept, let alone the stern tower, which was higher than the deck. At this time, the upper deck was already on fire, and it was reasonable to have stepped forward to put out the fire, but there were machine guns with seemingly endless bullets there blocking the deck, and no one dared to run to the deck under the deadly rain of bullets.
The enemy is not a hater, the enemy ball catches the moon and the enemy
The enemy is not a hater, the enemy ball catches the moon, and the enemy "Boom-" The cannonball accurately hit the starboard side of the Gorgeous-class battleship, but it did not explode, "What's going on?" "Why didn't it explode?" The sailors watched with regret as the shell fell straight into the sea.
At this moment, someone on the starboard side exclaimed, "Enemy ship!" Come here! Zhong Bin hurriedly looked to starboard, and sure enough, he didn't know when a battleship that was one size smaller than the Victory class rushed out of the dense fog. He had read the enemy briefing and knew that this was a Gorgeous class battleship, which had a total of forty-two 'guns' on it, and at the moment it was facing him on one side, he could see that the gun windows were wide open at the moment, the muzzles of the guns had been pushed out, and the shadows of many sailors loomed near the windows, obviously aiming at themselves.
"Boom, boom, boom-" The gun windows of the Huali-class battleship spewed out gunpowder smoke and fire in turn, and one by one round shells flew in the direction of the destroyer, and many shells directly hit the destroyer's shell. Because the destroyer was repaired in a hurry, the destroyer's shell was not equipped with armor, and one by one the shells hit the shell, smashing out one big 'hole' after another on the starboard side. At this time, the big 'hole' was full of smoke, and through the mouth of the 'hole', you could see that there were many sailors lying in all directions, and they didn't know whether they were alive or dead.
The enemy is not the enemy, the sun hates the lonely grandson cold
The gunner, who was so overwhelmed by the explosion and debris that he didn't care about his own scars, got up and pushed the sailors around him who were still moving, and shouted, "Spring cannon!" Spring cannon! Reload! Beat him up as a turtle son! β
Although the sailors who got up at this moment were not all gunners, they all belonged to those who had never eaten pig 'meat' and had seen pigs run, and several sailors pressed the spring of the spring cannon to the bottom without a master, and the soldiers next to them immediately stuffed a cannonball into the muzzle. The gunner held on to the tail of the gun, took a slight aim, and directly pulled the trigger for the 'fire'.
The enemy does not enmity the lone ball, and the ball is so cool
"Boom-" The shell hit the starboard side of the Gorgeous class battleship accurately, but it didn't explode, "What's going on?" "Why didn't it explode?" The sailors watched with regret as the shell fell straight into the sea.
The enemy does not enmity the lone ball, and the ball is made by the cool old Ji "Captain!" "The first mate next to him nervously waved his saber, poked over a Maidno sailor who rushed to the vicinity, and saw that he was temporarily 'life-free', so he hurriedly pushed Zhong Bin's shoulder, who was still in an unresponsive state." Captain! What are we going to do? β
"Who installed the fuse? Is it installed? The gunner looked at the sailor who handed him the shell, and the sailor shook his head in confusion. The gunner couldn't help but shake his head, not all of these sailors have been trained to fire artillery, and it is estimated that this sailor stuffed it without even installing a fuse.
A sailor next to him hurriedly handed over another shell, "Gun Commander!" Is that okay? β
The gunner quickly took it, checked it carefully, the fuse was already in place, and nodded. The sailors behind him quickly pressed the springs, and the spring cannon was ready to fire.
The sailor carefully slipped the shell into the muzzle, removed the safety from it, and nodded to the gunner, who hurriedly began to aim.
Where would a sailor on the Magnificent class not know that this is an assault weapon? But as soon as I saw a small iron lump smashed against the bulwark, I didn't expect it to be such a terrible weapon, so I didn't pay much attention to it, and all aimed their guns at the destroyer's main mast, as long as the mainmast was broken, the destroyer would be 'meat' on a plate, and there would be no place to escape.
The shells of the "boom" spring cannon flew accurately from the gun window into the gun deck, and this shell fell into the scattered gunmetal barrels, and a violent explosion occurred in an instant, and a large "hole" was directly blasted out of the starboard bulwark of the gorgeous class, and the three "door" cannons were pushed out by the impact "wave" and fell into the sea, and it can be seen from the gap in the bulwark that the gunhot barrels inside have begun to burn. The shrapnel flew sideways in the narrow space, killing more than 40 gunners, and also burst out of a 'hole' of similar size in the port side bulwark.
The burning of the gunpowder was also tragic, and the flames soon set fire to the upper deck, and the sailors who were waiting to jump above them cried and cried out to the sea, and the damage pipes ran around the hot deck with buckets, trying to prove with their actions what it means to be a drop in the bucket.
The knot is not a single ship, and the hatred is cold far away
Zhong Bin knew at a glance that this gorgeous class had lost its combat effectiveness, and hurriedly beckoned his sailors to cut the cable of the grappling hook on his ship. As the cables were cut one by one, the distance between the destroyer and the Maidno boat began to widen.