Zheng Zhibao, who was lying dormant in the cabin and was extremely depressed, jumped out, brandished a tiger head knife and shouted: "Brothers, give me success or failure in this move!" ”

The imaginary scene did not appear, a few people came out of the bilge, probed their brains, and seemed to hesitate whether to follow the call of the three masters, and more people hid in the cabin below and did not dare to come out. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 The corpses on the info deck are piled up, and together with a few hesitant living people, they make an eerie picture.

Zheng Zhibao's heart sank, and these subordinates were all scared and lost the courage to attack. He took a deep breath and said aloud, "At this point, whoever wants to be a shrunken turtle, beware of the unjustified disaster that your family suffers!" ”

Hearing that the three family members were threatening, the pirates had no choice but to climb from the bilge to the deck one after another, ready to climb the ship and fight. Due to the blood flowing from the deck, many people were unsteady on their feet, slippery under their feet, and fell on all fours.

At this time, the Caron guns had stopped firing, and the enemy ships were already approaching, and they were in the dead end of the artillery fire, and there was no point in firing again. In the gun deck, the gunners were all gathered, each issued a Qionghai five-year pistol or Qionghai three-year rifle, and the first mate and the artillery chief urgently admonished: "The enemy is going to board the ship, if you don't want to be a ghost, take the gun to the deck to fight, and drive them down!" ”

Whether it is a Yongle-class or a Wuyi-class battleship, it is a pure gunboat, and in the face of ordinary battles, relying on its own powerful firepower is enough to deal with the threat, so it is not equipped with many full-time combatants. But today's battle was extraordinary, completely subverting the normal pattern of naval warfare, and the Zheng family invested hand-to-hand combat forces regardless of casualties, and the number far exceeded expectations, so much so that the frantic shelling of nearly a hundred Caron guns could not completely wipe it out. In order to ensure that the remnants of the pirates did not come on board the ship to rewrite the outcome of the battle, both the gunners in charge of the ignition and the sailors who raised and lowered the sails had to take up arms and fight in a way that they were not usually good at.

Although William was calm on the surface, he was a little nervous in his heart, and what he was most afraid of was that there was something wrong with Xia Nan's safety. Although judging from the observation just now, the pirate-born soldiers of the Zheng family have already shown a cowardly mood, but after all, there are too many people, and there are no serious infantry on the "Guangdong" except for the ten soldiers drawn by the Southern Guard in the summer - the guard team has been selected to attack Anping Town with the special combat team, not on this flagship. In order to ensure that nothing was wrong, he instructed the captain Van Bommel to organize the sailors to resist on the spot, and at the same time asked the heralds to give orders to the Wuxiang-class on both sides, and immediately moved closer to the flagship.

It took some extra effort for Zheng Zhibao to coerce and lure his subordinates to board the ship, and even had to threaten his family to organize a decent boarding battle, which bought time for the people on the battleship, the sailors came down from the lookouts and masts, and the gunners drilled up from the lower gun decks, gathered together, raised their guns, and prepared for battle.

The final battle began, and under the pressure of Zheng Zhibao's bullets, the surviving pirates howled and cheered themselves up, throwing their claws to hook the side of the ship, grabbing the rope and climbing up. The sailors on the battleship raised their guns and fired downwards to stop the attack. The sound of gunfire mingled with the shouting of the pirates.

Unlike the arquebuses of the Dutch, the flintlock pistols of the Qiongzhou battalion not only had a faster rate of fire because of the different ignition methods, but also used paper fixed bullets, which had greater friction than the smooth lead bullets, and would not fall easily even if the muzzle of the gun was obliquely down, so the pirates who hung on the ropes and thought they were hiding in the dead end of the musket shooting were hit by fierce musket blows and fell off one after another.

Even though the sailors had only received simple shooting training, and their shooting proficiency could not be compared with that of the army soldiers, relying on the advanced weapons and condescending superiority, the pirates did not have any effective means of counterattacking during the climb, and the balance of the battle between boarding and anti-boarding still fell in favor of the Qiongzhou battalion. Occasionally, the ropes of the claws were cut off, and strings of pirates fell into the sea, which made matters worse.

Zheng Zhibao felt a burst of despair in his heart, this Qiongzhou battalion, whether it was a cannon or a bird gun, all of them were sharper than red hairs, and the Zheng family was at a disadvantage in close combat, why didn't they kill it when their wings were not full?

At this moment, a familiar face probe on the side of the ship looked around, as if observing the battle situation, but was immediately pulled in by the person next to him. Zheng Zhibao's eyes were sharp, and he recognized that this was Xia Nan, the general of the Qiongzhou battalion, who was behind this naval battle. It turned out that his ship happened to crash into the flagship "Guangdong" where Xia Nan was located.

Zheng Zhibao's blood was boiling, under such an unfavorable situation, if he could kill the enemy chieftain, he would not only be able to turn the tide of the battle, but he would also make a splashing contribution, God This is a God-given opportunity in front of him!

He raised his tiger head knife and shouted: "Brothers, concentrate your men to attack this big boat, there is a big fish on it, if you can board the boat, you will be rewarded with two hundred taels of silver!" ”

You only need to board the ship to have a reward of two hundred taels of silver, which is unprecedented in the rewards offered by the Zheng family in the past. The pirates were squeezed out of the last bit of courage by the excitement of the reward, and Hulala rushed to the "Guangdong" and struggled to climb up.

At the height of the Yongle class, boarding the ship was no less difficult than the ant-attached siege, and the pirates struggled to climb up with a false fire, and under the blow of the muskets, no one could get on the deck.

Zheng Zhibao was furious, stuck the tiger head knife behind his back to fix it, pushed away the front few subordinates, grabbed the rope, and boarded the ship himself.

From time to time, lead bullets swept overhead, and Zheng Zhibao clung to the hull of the ship, using the pirates in front of him as cover to avoid the shots. Since the hull of the ship was not vertical, but wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, and a series of pirates hung from the rope, it was difficult for the people on board to hit those hiding below. Zheng Zhibao has a lot of experience, and made full use of the hull structure and the cover of human sandbags, and successfully climbed less than ten meters from the edge of the ship's side, and was about to hit the deck.

At this time, after successfully annihilating more than a dozen troop carriers trying to make a detour to the rear on both sides, the 16 Wuxiang-class patrol ships received the flagship's order and quickly approached them. In the face of a dense crowd of climbers, they know what to do.

The Caron guns on all Wuxiang-class patrol ships lowered their guns slightly and opened fire on the waterline of battleships such as the "Guangdong".

"Boom, boom, boom", raindrops of shotguns crackled and smashed over. The hull of the battleship was thick enough that the shotguns did no real damage other than the dent marks, and the pirates waiting to board the ship and hanging from the flying talon ropes were flesh and blood, screaming and falling into the sea.