Chapter 52: Destroying the Withering and Decaying (1520 Monthly Pass Plus Update)
Unfortunately, they don't have a flag signal, only a horn made of conch. That thing can also express a clear and simple meaning, but it has to be relatively quiet to work, at this time the shore is in full swing, who has nothing to listen to the sound of the conch, even if someone hears it, and then pass it on to others, it is a very troublesome thing. The distance of a few nautical miles was two or three quarters of an hour's work for a full-sailed battleship, and before the ships on the sea and in front of the dock could set up their defensive formations, the six battleships had already divided into two columns and approached.
"General, you can't start a war without permission, my Great Song has always been lenient to people, these ships didn't intrude on us, why attack them?" At first, Wen Nan thought that Hong Tao's fleet was to defend it, but when he saw that the sailors on the deck began to move the black iron balls one by one and light the fire rope, he knew that it was going to break, and immediately ran to the stern tower to ask Hong Tao to take back the order. It would be unwise for him to go to war with foreigners without asking questions.
"I'm not from the Song Dynasty, and the Great Song Law can't control me, there is my warehouse on the dock. You see, it seems that they have all been affected by the war, maybe the crew I stayed behind have been killed, and I will beat whoever beats me, including Da Song, do you understand? Put away your set, I'm telling you how to deal with the Mongols in the future, and your sheep policy should be pulled down. Standing behind me and watching honestly, if you talk more, I will only put you in the bilge, your job is to record with a pen, not a staff officer. Yaya, go on! Hong Tao grabbed Wen Nan by the neck like a chicken, and lifted him behind him from front of him.
"Attention port gunners...... Free Fire! Weng Ya straightened her chest, took a deep breath, and issued an order that she would remember for the rest of her life.
"Attention port gunners...... Free Fire! Hong Tao grinned, but did not change it, and conveyed Weng Ya's order as it was. Free fire! This girl is a sadist and a loser! What is free fire? That is, there is no limit to the number of ammunition, and there is no limit to the target. Fight as you like, fight as you want, and hit whoever you want. Fortunately, the amount of ammunition I brought this time is sufficient, and it is okay to waste it a little, but in fact, it is not a waste, this is the battle of Liwei, and the effect is more sensational.
"Free fire! Do you hear that? Little two. Cut the fuse a little shorter, and if you want to blow it up, you will blow it up on your head, and watch my brother play with a full face for you, hahahaha...... "The gunner on the port side was also stunned when he heard the order to shoot freely, and every time he used to start a war, he would add attention to saving ammunition and aiming at such a tail, and suddenly let them go and fight for a while, and they were a little unaccustomed to it. Among them, the old gunner was relatively calm, and when he heard that he was open, he immediately laughed. They are very interested in grenades, and they usually train with training bullets of similar weight. That thing didn't blow up, it was boring, and now it can be played openly, and it's not as exciting as setting off fireworks for the New Year. Men have a natural impulse to fight, especially when they are not in danger, and have a sadistic tendency.
The first grenade fired by the "......" was the port side No. 1 gun position, and generally the port No. 1 gun position was the most powerful gunner, and they could play the role of a metronome for the gunners behind when firing. As long as they hit, the gunners behind will basically hit the gourd. The first shell missed. But it was more powerful than a hit, and it exploded in the air between the two masts of one of the opposing brigs, and hundreds of pieces of broken iron were shattered by black powder, and flew unobstructed towards those on the deck with various ornaments on their heads, easily tearing open their defenseless skin, and then splashing a mist of blood.
"Boom...... Boom...... "Before this blood mist was blown away by ......the sea breeze." One by one, the black iron balls flew over one after another. Some fall into the sea, but they will still explode; Some landed on the deck and blew up after bouncing; Some hit people directly, and they had to be blown up after smashing the next one. Others fly higher, they don't go for the people on deck. Instead, it flew towards the sails, and after the explosion of these iron balls, not many pieces of iron flew out, but it was just a large fireball, and the black viscous liquid that was sputtered was ignited by the fireball, and it ignited wherever it was touched.
"Cut to 35 meters! This batch of grenade fuses is a bit slow...... "It is said to be free fire, in fact, everyone is following the target of the No. 1 gunner, this No. 1 gunner is usually a sailman, his judgment ability of the fuse is very strong, and he has found the right distance after a shot, not only he knows it, but also shouts it out to the gunner next to him, and then the gunner next to him passes it down."
The two ships staggered, and in a total of just over ten seconds, the gunner on the port side had already fired two rounds of grenades. Because the distance was too close, less than 50 meters away, most of the grenades hit the target accurately, and after the less than 20-meter-long brig was blown up by more than 30 grenades, there was basically no one standing in sight. Not many of them were actually killed or wounded, and they all jumped into the sea, and in the face of this thunderbolt-like weapon, the enemy sailors who were still in a tribal state and had a long knife in their hands really did not know how to defend themselves. The deck has become a sea of fire and hell on earth, and there is only one way left for them, which is to go to sea, as for the ship, what to do with love, in the face of the unknown, human beings are always very fragile.
"You can only shoot one round per ship!" Hong Tao still couldn't stand it, if he continued to fight like this, the Quanzhou in the back would not be able to launch a grenade, and the three sailing ships in front of him who were about to escape would have to be killed by the Guangzhou. Although their sails were raised, they were not ready to sail, and the stone anchor had just been pulled up, and they might not have a chance to speed up.
On the other side, the battle situation was even more one-sided, and the captain of the Haibo who took the lead was Kong Pei, who should have much more experience in naval warfare than Hong Tao, and he calculated very clearly what kind of ship was worth blowing up with a grenade and what kind of ship was not worth a shell at all. Under his command, the thick bow of the Haibo was like a bulldozer in the sea, drawing a half-arc along the front of the pier, and all that was left behind was a sea of broken wood, and there were more than a dozen small wooden boats scattered that were not overturned, and were also swept back and forth on the sea by the wake of the battleship, which happened to become the target of the three warships behind. The Qiongzhou, which was driving at the back of the line, did not catch anything, and Karl, the knight, could not help but disobey the order, and he actually ordered the starboard gunner to fire two grenades at the maximum firing distance on the dock, which instantly exploded the dock into a sea of fire. The soldiers of both sides who were landing and those who were resisting the landing were all affected, and like headless flies, they could no longer care about fighting each other, and either jumped into the sea with a body of flames, or ran in the direction of the city gate.
"! Can you hit that far? I'm still undercounting! Hong Tao was no longer interested in the battle on the sea, he was watching the battle on the dock with a telescope, and before he could see what kind of clothes the soldiers were wearing, a thick smoke and fire obscured his vision. This time, he didn't scold Carl for being a bastard, but was more interested in Carl's launch range. The distance from the Qiongzhou to the dock is definitely more than 150 meters, and it seems that this big slingshot still has potential to be dug up.
The six warships did not stop slaughtering, and after rushing from east to west, they turned around in the wind a few hundred meters west of the port, and then rushed to the east of the port from the west, and then turned another head in front of the six Southern Song merchant ships, and then lowered their sails and began to exchange flags with the midshipmen on the merchant ships behind.
"Gangshou, my family said, let us let the boat go down, rescue all the people who fell into the sea, and don't kill healthy prisoners!" The midshipman conveyed the order from the flagship to the Southern Song Dynasty maritime merchants on his ship.
"Ahh Oh, yes, yes, don't kill, don't kill...... Little brother, what is a healthy captive? "The people on these merchant ships are already dumbfounded, so a large number of ships, at least thirty or forty, in just half an hour, all gone, not a single one is gone! No, there are still three ships floating on the sea, but they might as well sink, they are all burned into a big torch, what is the point of not drifting? At this time, the eyes of these maritime merchants and shipwrights were different when they looked at the six galleons in front of them, and they all looked at them twice and quickly dodged their eyes, for fear that if they saw too much, there would be that kind of bombing thing flying over. The attitude of the three young men on his boat was also respectful, smiling before speaking, and then bowing before daring to open his mouth.
"Healthy captive? It's just not injured or disabled! The midshipman didn't quite understand how someone couldn't understand such an easy-to-understand word, so he glared and explained it again.
"What about the injured and the disabled?" This maritime merchant is still a studious master, and he has to ask clearly if he doesn't understand.
"If there are injured or disabled, you can raise them! We only need healthy slaves to work there, not ...... You're asking too much! Fishing or not, this is our lord's order! "A child is a child after all, and he is revealing his stuff as he speaks, but fortunately he has a companion behind him, and he stabbed him, so that he swallowed the second half of the sentence back, knowing that he had said too much, he shouted a little angrily.
"Fish! Catch it now! If you hear it, let go of the boat, don't want the injured and the disabled! The merchant frightened the little midshipman, turned around with a smiling face, and shouted at the same stunned boatmen behind him, and thought that they were not fast enough, and ran up to pull up the rope and dragged the boat behind the boat. (To be continued.) )