"Bang bang bang!"

Fang He, Liu Dong and others, finding the right opportunity, kept pouring Mini bullets on the mast of the enemy ship. The shelling of enemy ships, at the beginning, did cause them a certain panic. After all, they had never withstood enemy shelling before. Later, they found that the enemy's shells had fallen on the sea, and they gradually calmed down. If the enemy doesn't change the type of bullet, the range is not as good as the Tiger Gun. Anyway, at the limit distance, the Tiger Ben Gun can hit almost 150 zhang (about 450 meters).

"Don't panic!"

"Keep shooting!"

Fang He and Liu Dong worked hard to calm the emotions of their respective subordinates.

In fact, the two of them are also new soldiers, and it is the first time they have encountered such a fierce naval battle, and it is also the first time that they passively accept the baptism of enemy fire. To say that the hearts of the two are not nervous and not afraid of death is false. However, since they are officers, they have to take responsibility. Whether you are nervous or scared, you must have the courage to set an example for your subordinates. Otherwise, what did Zhang Zhun want them to do as officers? Do you eat white rice?

"Bang bang bang!"

With the encouragement of Fang He and Liu Dong, the soldiers of the sailor detachment gradually returned to calm. They continued to fire methodically at the masts of the enemy ships, pouring as many mini bullets as they could onto the opponent's head as quickly as possible. As for whether they hit the target or not, it is difficult for them to detect it with the naked eye. They also didn't have time to check their results.

As both sides opened fire and opened fire, layers of white fog drifted on the sea. It is very difficult to find a target the size of a human body through these white mists. They could only vaguely identify the mast of the enemy ship, and then fired at the mast of the enemy ship. According to Zhang Zhun, as long as they continuously poured Mini bullets into the position of the mast of the enemy ship, they could be considered to have completed the task perfectly.

Zhang Zhun stared at the movement of the pirate ship's mast from the clairvoyant mirror. He could see that from time to time, there were pirate sailors who fell from the mast, because the distance was so far away that he could only see them falling, but he could not hear any sound, as if he was watching a silent pantomime. The attack strategy of Yang Guohua and others is still effective. As long as you take out the pirate's sailman, the next battle will be much easier.

The willpower of the pirates is relatively tenacious, and after falling down several sailors in a row, there are still more sailors who climb up and temporarily play the role of sailors, so the control of the sails is still relatively powerful. They succeeded in pushing back two pork belly boats. Under the threat of pirate fire, both pork belly ships had to temporarily retreat.

However, in the process of maneuvering with each other, the Marine's Tiger Gun continued to shoot, desperately shooting at the pirate's mast. The pirate's sailman, on the top of the mast, no one would be able to protect him, and as a result, people were constantly being knocked down. After a dozen sailors fell in a row, the other sailors, unable to hold on any longer, finally slipped down the mast.

Without the sailman's operation, the sail lost control, and the pirate ship's control immediately became problematic. Despite the helmsman's efforts to stabilize his ship, the pirate ship failed to steer. Although the pirate ship kept firing cannons, a little cannon hit the mosquitoes and asked. Suddenly, the pirate ship swung strangely, and the side side was actually in the direction of Tiger Beach.

"Squat!"

Zhang Zhun hurriedly shouted.

Everyone on the beach hurriedly squatted down.

"Knock knock!"

Sure enough, a series of cannon shots.

The direction in which the pirates fired was exactly the direction of Tiger Beach.

"Bang bang bang!"

Some of the shells landed on the beach, smashing holes one after another. Some fell into the water and splashed high waves. Depending on the situation, the pirates switched to solid bullets. The range of this kind of shell is very long, and it is completely no problem to hit seven or eight hundred meters, which is far beyond the control range of the Tiger Ben.

However, it is not easy to hit the target with a solid bullet. Especially on the shaky sea, the hit rate of solid bullets is really too low. Moreover, solid bullets hit the shore, which is simply a waste. If you can also be hit by a solid bullet on the shore, it is really unlucky. Fortunately, there are no such unlucky ghosts among the soldiers of the escort. However, being ravaged by the enemy's solid bullets, Zhang Zhun was actually very unhappy in his heart.

"Grass!"

Zhang Zhun scolded in a low voice.

Bullying Lao Tzu doesn't have a cannon with enough power?

When Lao Tzu has a long-range cannon, look how arrogant you are!

"Knock knock!"

The pirate ship smashed into [***] cannon again.

Zhang Zhun and the others had no choice but to continue to squat on the ground to avoid the shells.

Cursing is cursing, don't have heroic behavior, this is a real battlefield!

Due to the threat of solid shells from enemy ships, the fighters of the convoy could not stand up and shoot, and the fire of the Tiger Ben began to weaken. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the sampans full of pirates also turned around and retreated towards the pirate ship. The pirates also knew that there were defenders on the shore, and that the defenders' counterattack was still quite strong, so they could not attack at all, so they had to retreat.

Due to the fire of the pirate ship, it was quite fierce, and the navy could not get close, so they could only keep shooting at the pirates, harassing each other, and trying not to let the pirate ship act flexibly as much as possible. However, it is unlikely that they will be able to stop the pirate ship from reclaiming its own personnel. The sailors of the pirate ship are obviously good in overall quality, and after losing a large number of sailmen, there are still enough alternate sailors to go up to the mast to continue to control the sails and ensure the flexibility and maneuverability of the warship.

Of course, having been forced to retract the sailors who were preparing to land, and also lost dozens of sailors, I believe that the commander of this corsair should be quite depressed. In the course of the firefight just now, the pirates lost at least a few dozen people, but they did not even hit a single hair of the enemy. If the pirates wanted to attack Fushan, it was really stealing chickens and rice.

Yang Guohua and others are actually quite depressed. The artillery fire of the enemy ships depressed them. The enemy ship fired a salvo of eight guns, and a random hit was enough to inflict heavy damage on the pork belly ship. They simply did not have a way to get close to the enemy ships. If you are hit by a pirate's chain bullet or grape bullet, you may even suffer heavy casualties. Whether it is a chain bullet or a grape bullet, it is a large area, and the killing range is quite large.

Zhang Zhun raised the clairvoyant mirror and watched helplessly as the pirate ship withdrew its personnel. Although Fang He, Liu Dong and the others were very unwilling to keep shooting, and from time to time they killed one or two pirate sailors. Soon, however, there were pirate sailors who were not afraid of death, and continued to go up and adjust the sails. Due to the threat of artillery fire from enemy ships, the shooting effectiveness of Fang He, Liu Dong, and others was obviously greatly reduced.

In the process, the sixteen cannons of the pirate ship seem to have never stopped firing. The flames, the rumbling cannons, were simply a demonstration to him. It's a pity that he really doesn't have a better way to deal with it. Unless, he would rather pay a heavy price for casualties and die with the enemy.

Ending up together is certainly not Zhang Zhun's best choice. There's no need for that. Come and say Fang Chang! However, it must be admitted that being ravaged by the cannon fire of this pirate ship, Zhang Zhun's desire for cannons has risen to another level. It's just, damn it, if you want to cast a cannon yourself, it's not easy. Whether there are qualified raw materials for the time being, even if there are craftsmen who know how to cast cannons, he is not one now.

In his anger, Zhang Zhun suddenly found that the pirate ship actually turned around and began to retreat to the open sea. The pirate ship has escaped! He stood up and watched the pirate ship carefully. It turned out that the pirates found that their attack had not worked, and that the sailman had suffered heavy casualties, and had no choice but to retreat.

In view of the fierce firepower of the enemy ships, Yang Guohua and the others did not chase after them. With the current strength of the Fushan Water Army, even if they catch up, they can't eat the other party. Since you can't eat it, you have to stop chasing it. The distance between the two sides gradually widened. The battle, of course, ended.

Watching the pirate ship gradually disappear into the sea and sky, the soldiers of the escort team were a little stupid. Everyone packed up the tiger and the pig, and they were a little unwilling. Since the last time I cleaned up the tartars, everyone really didn't pay much attention to these pirates, but I didn't expect that on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, I was still disturbed by a group of pirates. Even though I killed dozens of pirates in the water, I still didn't feel like I was happy!

It seems that it is not enough to have a gun, there must be a cannon! Aren't these damn pirates just relying on their own artillery fire? If the convoy had its own cannons, how dare these pirates be arrogant? In fact, even the worst cannon has a range similar to that of the Tiger Gun, and its power is even greater than that of the Tiger Ben. For this, most of the fighters are aware of it.

Zhang Zhun faintly felt that this matter was still related to Ma Shiying. The owner of the Qinglou named Ji Yuqing should have been back in Jiangnan for a long time. Ma Shiying has a lot of plenty of time to react. Perhaps, this Yang Tiansheng was also called by Ma Shiying.

There is a Liu Xiang, and another Yang Tiansheng, this Ma Shiying, the relationship with the pirates is really familiar! Well, to be precise, in fact, Yang Tiansheng can't be called pirates, because they have already accepted the appeasement of the imperial court with Zheng Zhilong. Their current identity should be the Zhenhai Fleet of the Daming Water Division.

Zheng Zhilong hung the title of the chief soldier of the water division, and Yang Tiansheng and Yan Siqi hung the title of the deputy chief soldier of the water division. Although, their ships are still flying their own pirate flags. Actually, they have another flag. The tartar on the sampan just now, the yellow golden dragon Xu said that the flag was often hung by the Daming sailors.

"My lord, we've caught a couple of live pirates in the water!"

While thinking about it, Zhou Zhengyu suddenly came up to report.

"Alive?"

"Bring it on!"

Zhang Zhun pondered for a moment, and immediately ordered those pirates to be brought in and interrogated in person.

Soon, a total of five pirates were brought to Zhang Zhun. It turned out that after the pirates were shot by the tiger guns, in order to avoid being exposed on the sampan, they actively jumped into the sea and tried to hide. As a result, during the period, by mistake, those sampans withdrew and forgot to receive them. As a result, they were left at sea. When the enemy ship retreated, Yang Guohua and others checked the sea surface and found them.

These pirates obviously have no experience in counter-interrogation, and their bones are not very hard, Zhang Zhun asked them anything, as long as they knew, they all poured beans into a bamboo tube, and said it happily. It's just that they are all very ordinary armed sailors, that is, they eat with a mouth, and they don't know any secrets at all. The only thing that is certain is that they are indeed Yang Tiansheng's subordinates. As for why he came to Shandong, it is completely unclear.

"Who is your leader?" Zhang Zhun asked.

"Black Iron Head." One of the pirates replied.

"Real name?" Zhang Zhun frowned.

Five pirates, you look at me, I look at you, can't answer. Apparently, they really don't know the real name of the Black Iron Head. In fact, sailors of their level rarely even have the opportunity to meet Black Iron Head, so it is naturally impossible to know his information. Zhang Zhun had no choice but to let them be escorted down first, and then dealt with later.

"Black Iron Head? I know this man! ”

Fortunately, the five pirates didn't know the identity of the black iron head, and Shen Lingfei and Xue Zhidie both knew. His original name was Sun Ronglu, and he was a capable general under Yang Tiansheng. Neither of them expected that the black iron head would appear here. It does seem that things are getting a little serious. It's not good, even Yang Tiansheng will come.

"Come on!"

"Am I still afraid of him?"

Zhang Zhun said dryly.

Damn, what about you Yang Tiansheng coming in person? As long as you dare to come, I will dare to beat you! I don't believe it, Lao Tzu can't beat you at sea, and he can't beat you on land! If you have the ability, you will come ashore!

Of course, after the heroic dry clouds, it is a careful deployment. Strategically you can despise the enemy, but tactically you must pay attention to the enemy. Zhang Zhun asked the sailor detachment to continue to be on guard on the sea and closely supervise the movements of the enemy ships. At the same time, the fighters of the escort team have all canceled their vacations and are in a state of readiness. The craftsmen in charge of producing gunpowder also worked overtime to produce as much gunpowder as possible. As for the newly manufactured tiger guns, Zhang Zhun also sent people to mention all of them to the barracks, which could be distributed to the elite of the guerrillas at any time.

When everything was in place, it was already nightfall. At this time, it was just the beginning of the lanterns, and the Fushan City in the distance could already see the bright firelight. The feast of the Mid-Autumn Festival should begin. The military households of Fushan, for the first time in hundreds of years, entered the carnival of the full moon night of the Mid-Autumn Festival. The battle at Tiger Beach, although fierce, did not bother them.

Zhang Zhun looked at the sky, a full moon hung in the air, so bright, so kind, so gentle. If there were no fighting, no pirates, no artillery fire, tonight must have been a very peaceful and wonderful night. It's a pity that all of this was ruined by the damn pirates. Perhaps, the fate of soldiers is destined to be like this.

I don't know if the pirate ship has completely retreated, and if the other party is just cruising in the open sea, it may make a comeback. Therefore, the fighters of the convoy could only rest in the barracks. One thing is for sure, though, tonight, they are absolutely unlikely to come back. Therefore, tonight, the people of Fushan can have a comfortable and peaceful Mid-Autumn Festival.

With convoys and sailors standing guard, no matter what the enemy is, it is impossible to get up!

That night, Fushan City, all night party!

(To be continued)