Chapter 207: Crush Them
The small harbor that fishermen and pirates call Iron Mountain Bay is turbulent and turbid.
The Limbo Wuyalou ship rode the wind, the huge sea breeze blew the sails rattling, and the huge hull swayed with the undulating waves. The Zhenhai and the Angry Waves, two fighting ships that were only slightly smaller than the Lingbo building, accompanied them on the left and right. There were five different Sea Falcons in front of and behind the three great ships, and the four converted Iron-walled Bew-beaked Sea Falcons were in the forefront.
More than a dozen of the pirates' ships were transferred to the forefront by Feng Ming and used as death squads to take the lead.
Seeing such a huge group of warships in such an orderly battle formation, Feng Ming's heart was full of pride. Sure enough, it is worthy of Da Xie Yan's long-trained sailors, although they have lost the command of Wu Qian, an experienced general, but only relying on their usual training, they can still maintain such a battle death at this time, which is amazing.
When the fleet entered the harbor, Li Jing's fleet was on the shore in front, and Feng Ming could even see from a distance that there was a panic on the temporary dock, some people were rushing towards the boat, and some people were running towards the dock. There were even a few dinghys that had already started and tried to escape.
The rumbling battle horns had sounded, the war drums and the horns were beating in unison, and there was no need to hide anything by this time. The sound of the trumpet pierced the sea, low and muffled, like the roar of the devil underground.
"Collect the sails!" Feng Ming ordered loudly, "Lower the mast, and draw the pulp by hand!" The herald behind him immediately passed the order on over and over again. The deck was busy, and the soldiers took their positions, standing behind the ship's women's wall. At this time, the sails were closed, and Feng Ming felt that everything was already victorious. He had succeeded in blocking Li Jing and his fleet in the small harbor. Li Jing has become a turtle in an urn. This time. All he thinks about is how to minimize his losses. to get even more brilliant results.
The sails were folded to prevent the enemy from being attacked by their rockets and other attacks on the sails to avoid igniting the ship.
Feng Ming looked like four Shipwrecks on the left, and the same as the one on the right, there were also four. However, the four ships on the right were the warships requisitioned by the other forts of Da Xie Yan, and the four ships on the left. But it was a ship belonging to Fort Montenegro. The commanders of these four ships were all Wu Qian's subordinates, and after Wu Qian was left on the building ship by him, those officers also came to inquire. These four ships were not many in number as assault ships, with forty sailors, fifty soldiers, and less than 100 people. Wu Qian was a seasoned naval captain, and the number of sailors and soldiers on his ships was equal, no more than fifty in all, and the soldiers were all light soldiers wearing leather armor and holding bows and arrows. This makes his ship. Keep up the fastest speed.
The drums of war sounded again, and Feng Ming ordered: "The whole army assaults!" ”
Accompanied by the rhythm of neat and huge war drums. All the slurry water skillfully beat the drum rhythm, hiding in the cabin under the armor plate of the battleship, rowing the ship in a neat and tacit manner. With each beat of the war drums, the paddlers paddled their boats.
The Zhenhai and the Angry Waves kept moving at the same speed as the Lou ship, and the rest of the warships, large and small, followed closely like wolves.
The pirate Zheng Mo was so anxious that he didn't need Feng Ming's command to lead more than a dozen ships and a thousand pirates to the front. Although their warships were inferior to Feng Ming's warships, they were desperately rowing at this time, but they left Feng Ming's fleet far behind. More than a dozen ships quickly approached the fleet on the dock, and the people on the dock seemed to be a little unresponsive when they saw them quickly killing.
When they came within a hundred paces, the ship did not react, and only vaguely saw many figures on the deck. On the contrary, the people on the dock had already rushed to meet the battle, and they hurriedly piled sandbags on the dock, pulled over a few ballista catapults, and began to shoot at them.
However, the scale of the shooting was too small, and most of the arrows fell into the sea in a sparse manner, and the stone projectiles thrown by several catapults in a hurry only smashed a few waves near the pirate warship.
"Climb forward, engage the broadside, and hop on their ship!" Zheng Mo roared loudly, his face was red and his neck was thick. There was anger and excitement in his eyes. The anger was because he knew that the nest of the Dao Dao must have been destroyed, and maybe everyone's family had been slaughtered. And the excitement was because there was a huge opportunity in front of him, and these damn Salmon troops had attacked their lair, and they hadn't had time to withdraw until now. And by this time, there were not many soldiers on their ships yet.
This is a good time to take advantage of their warships, if they can capture them, even if they are only armed and converted merchant ships, with these ships and the brothers behind him, it will not be long before they can pull up a new army. What's more, with the promise of protection from Feng Zhang, it is only a matter of time before the former glory is restored.
In the sound of the passionate war drums, Feng Ming suddenly remembered Wu Qian, and asked people to take him from the cabin to the fifth deck to watch the battle with him. He wants to let Wu Qian, who is always a little unruly and looks down on him in his eyes, not only he will command battles, he has also begun to learn the six arts since he was a child, learn military books and battle strategies, ride and shoot knives and guns, and even after arriving at Da Xie Yan, he also studied the command of a sea warship with an old warship captain assigned by Feng Zhang for more than half a year.
A brilliant victory is about to come, Li Jing can destroy the one-eyed Jiao in one battle, but so what, in the end, he is not defeated under my command. He couldn't wait to see Li Jing captured by his subordinates, and take a good look at his expression at that time.
Wu Qian stood on the deck and immediately looked around to see the situation on the entire battlefield. Although Feng Ming took away his command and put him under house arrest. But in his heart, he is still a soldier and a captain of the Navy Division after all. followed Feng Zhang for more than ten years, training, patrolling, and even suppressing bandits at sea. His familiarity with the command of warships is far greater than that of a gentleman like Feng Ming, and even in the early years, he completely relied on the hand-to-hand combat on the deck, and he had his current position.
The battle now made him feel strange and worried, they had never fought like they had fought before.
If it had been replaced by a soldier or he had commanded the battle, he would never have rushed straight over so recklessly. He would immediately block the harbor and then send a few ships to probe the enemy, but would immediately storm it. In Wu Qian's opinion, no matter what the enemy forces in the harbor are, as long as they block the exit of the harbor first, the battle will already be won. You don't even have to fight at all, you can trap them directly.
Wu Qian immediately raised his concerns and suggestions to Feng Ming, but Feng Ming just smiled and patted him on the shoulder, as if he was his subordinate. There was even more contempt in his gaze, as if to mock his courage.
Feng Ming has more than forty warships on his side, while the other party only has a dozen merchant ships converted into warships, Feng Ming does not have the slightest worry, he thinks that in such a comparison of strength, any caution is not necessary, and caution is just a manifestation of courage at this time. And he felt that the other party didn't expect their sudden appearance at all, now was a good time to take the opportunity to annihilate the other party in one fell swoop, if he missed this opportunity and waited for the other party to react calmly, it would be too stupid.
The bay was filled with the rumbling of war drums and trumpets, and the noisy roars of warriors, and the sound of countless ship pulps breaking the waves.
"Rush up, rush up!" Feng Ming shouted loudly, "The pirates have already fought each other, what are you still grinding behind, do you want to wait for the pirates to win all the victories before you catch up and help them clean up the horses?" ”
Seeing that the pirates had already faced each other, and the battle seemed to be completely on his side, the other party reacted hastily and was powerless to fight back. The pirates' ship was already approaching the opposing ship, throwing a hook and quickly climbing towards the ship.
Feng Ming felt that he was a little timid for the moment of hesitation in his heart just now, and he was annoyed by this. glared at Wu Qian fiercely, and said angrily: "The battle is about to begin, the ship is dangerous, Captain Wu should go back to the cabin to be safe." After speaking, he waved his hand, and asked the family to take Wu Qian, an eyesore, away.
"Woooooo
The loud horn sounded hurriedly, this was the horn sound of an all-out attack, and this horn sounded out, which already meant that even the formation of the fleet did not have to be too carefully maintained, and it was to let go of your hands and feet and kill forward.
Feng Zhang saw on the battleship that the pirates had not only successfully approached the enemy's warship, but also successfully boarded the opponent's warship at this time, and his heart was like a hundred scratches, and he wished that he could fly to the front now and become the first person to board the opponent's warship.
The ships in the distance and the dock were approaching, and the woods and crowds on the dock began to grow larger and larger. Iron Mountain Bay is just a small barren harbor, because behind the harbor, there are no plains and cities, there is only a dense and boundless forest, and this harbor is only inhabited by a few fishermen, and the other is that the loggers will transport the felled forests here and then go out to sea from here.
On both sides of the narrow wharf, there are several tall wooden piles, all of which are logs that have been harvested and transported, ready to wait for the trade winds to rise and be loaded on ships to Dengzhou and even further afield to Yangzhou, Yuezhou, and Guangzhou. Now, these piles of wood stand like tall forts on both sides of the pier.
The enemy ships on the dock began to have people retreating from the ship to the dock, Feng Ming's face was full of excitement, it seemed that Li Jing's fleet was not only blocked in the harbor by him, but also was directly captured by the pirates before he could go to sea. No, it was captured by him, and these pirates also achieved this victory under his wise command.
He paced back and forth on the deck, and at this point he regretted that he had taken the huge ship, and he should have boarded a sea falcon ship before the battle began, so that he could get to the dock as soon as possible, and hunt down that hateful fellow of Li Jing. (To be continued.) )