Chapter 198: It's Long Overdue
As more Chu Cailao's ships rushed over, the small fleet led by Liu Yidao finally began to fall into a bitter battle, and gradually began to be surrounded by the other party, although they had a technical advantage, but at this time, this technical advantage had also been suppressed by the opponent's numerical advantage, just to take advantage of it.
Although Yu Xiaotian opened the golden finger and came up with this Western-style artillery cast by the iron fan casting method, this kind of artillery is only on a technical platform with the Hongyi cannon of this era, and it does not surpass the old artillery much, and it has not completely formed any technical generation difference.
If he came up with a rear-loading rifled cannon at this time, even if it was an old guy like a mountain artillery and some explosive grenades, he could beat these old Chu Cai ships into slag with only a very small number of artillery, and he could completely destroy these old Chu Cai ships without a few guns.
However, the skills of this era have limited him from drumming up this kind of weapon that is seriously out of the times, and he can only temporarily stop at this kind of front-loading smoothbore gun, although this has brought him a great advantage, but this advantage has not really become a thing that can influence the situation of the war, but only allows him to take advantage of some more.
Therefore, when the number of enemies reaches a certain level, their technical superiority can no longer continue to dominate the situation on the battlefield.
Looking at these old ships of Chu Cai surrounded on all sides, Liu Yidao looked into the distance and scolded: "Grandma, why hasn't Luo Xianbin shown up yet?" If we don't leave, I'm afraid we won't be able to leave! ”
After saying this, Liu Yidao reluctantly ordered, and the whole team began to turn the rudder and withdraw from the battlefield, giving up continuing to resist these Chu Cailao's fleets.
The ships of the sea wolves under his command immediately began to turn their rudders en masse, and once again fired at the enemy ships that surrounded them.
Two of Chu Cailao's subordinate ships, who were eager to perform, became victims this time, and were beaten into slag by random cannons on the spot, one boat was broken on the spot, and a hole was carved out of the hull, and the other boat was even more unlucky, directly disintegrated in the water, broke into two, and it didn't take long for it to be detained into the water, and it sank down with bubbles, leaving only a rotten plank and some minions struggling to swim desperately in the water.
Chu Cailao's subordinates were startled by the fierce artillery fire of the sea wolf, and instinctively paused, allowing Liu Yidao to lead his ships to rush out smoothly, although there were still two small boats at the end of the day because of damaged sails and failed to break out together, but they were already taking advantage of it today and playing the majesty of the sea wolf.
Just when Chu Cailao's subordinates raised their sails and accelerated, trying to catch up with Liu Yidao's fleet, in order to avenge the attack just now, a series of fierce cannon sounds came from behind them.
These Chu Cailao's ships were like being stabbed in a hornet's nest, and they suddenly became chaotic, and the upper bucket on the mast of Liu Yidao's boat suddenly put down the monoculars in his hand, pointed behind his back and shouted loudly to Liu Yidao below: "Deputy management team!" The Feizi Clipper Detachment didn't know when it would kill them in the back! Those guys are out of luck right now! Ha Lu Ha! Look! ”
After hearing this, Liu Yidao immediately turned around and ran to the stern of the boat, picked up the telescope in his hand and came to the front of him, and began to stretch the tube of the telescope to adjust the focus, and soon the scene in the eyepiece began to become clear, only to see a few flying clippers with soft sails, led by a brig, like a hungry tiger from behind the fleet of Chu Cailao.
These flying clippers stabbed obliquely from their backs straight into them, and maintained a high speed straight through, these flying clippers relied on their rough skin and thick flesh, along the way while firing frantically cannons, while carrying the cannonballs and arrows from the old ships of Chu Cai on both wings, with the various types of artillery carried on their ships to slam the old ships of Chu Cai that passed along the way, without stopping at all.
The armament of these Feizi clippers is much stronger than that of ordinary Chinese ships, the sloops are loaded with six-pounder guns, and the brigs are not too big ships, but they are only about 300 material ship types, and the displacement is only less than 200 tons, but the armament is quite strong, Yu Xiaotian did not hesitate to load it with as many guns as possible, and six twelve-pounder cannons were stuffed into the cabins on the lower main deck, and four six-pounder cannons were also loaded on the upper deck. Loaded with a twelve-pounder cannon in the bow and a twelve-pounder cannon in the stern, the ship had a total of twelve cannons, and the firepower of the Chinese ships of this era surpassed that of all Chinese warships of this era.
Therefore, the firepower of this brig schooner in this era, not to mention the large Galen ships of the Western style, compared with the Chinese warships, can be said to be very powerful.
The ship was staffed with more than 80 crew members, more than half of whom were gunners, and each gun had two full-time gunners, and the rest of the ship's idle personnel were assigned to these guns as auxiliary gunners during the war.
During this time, Luo Xianbin was appointed to serve as the commander of the Feizi clipper detachment, and led the newly launched schooner and four other sloops to practice at sea. The sailors themselves are selected from the elite of the fleet, and with a little training, they are all good! )。
Luo Xianbin had already been gearing up with the subordinates of his detachment, just waiting for Chu Cailao to attack, since the last time they were ambushed on Kinmen Island, after losing a Feizi clipper and dozens of brothers, Luo Xianbin was ashamed of this, gritted his teeth and vowed to take revenge on Chu Cailao, so that Chu Cailao could taste the power of their Feizi Clipper Detachment again.
This time, Chu Cai's old attack finally provided Luo Xianbin with a chance to take revenge, and these days, with his Feizi clipper detachment, he took the initiative to ask Ying to patrol the area from the south of Nanri Island to the sea off Meizhou Bay, taking advantage of their fast speed to provide more time for Nanri Island to give early warning.
Last night, Feng De rushed back to Nanri Island to report the news on his orders, so that Nanri Island was ready for battle overnight, and Luo Xianbin was not idle during the period before dawn, and continued to cruise in the south of Nanri Island with several boats of the detachment, and successively killed several forward ships sent by Chu Cai's old men to explore the way.
In front of these flying fast boats, these Chu Cai's old clippers are simply a dish, once they were discovered by Luo Xianbin, they didn't even have a chance to escape, so they were killed like chopping melons and vegetables, and even captured two enemy ships on the spot, Luo Xianbin was ruthless this time, in order to prevent the old subordinates of Chu Cai on the captured ship from resisting, he directly tied them into zongzi and threw them into the cabin, and sealed the cabin with a big iron nail, and arranged a small number of people to sail the two ships to Treasure Island.
But at dawn, they encountered a little trouble, they ran into a few boats under Chu Cai's old men, and they fought, for Luo Xianbin and them, it was not a big deal to clean up these boats, but unexpectedly one of the boats in his detachment was busy, and suddenly there was a problem with the transmission mechanism of the steering wheel, which caused the rudder to fail, and suddenly broke away from the fleet and began to spin on the sea.
This unexpected incident surprised Luo Xianbin, and in order to protect the broken ship, he had to give up the pursuit of the remaining enemy ships after killing the other two ships, covering the ship for repairs, which also delayed a lot of time.
The helmsman and the carpenter of the fleet on the problematic ship went crazy to carry out repairs, and finally it took half an hour to repair the problematic place and restore the maneuverability of the ship.
This is also the reason why they are late, but they finally rushed over at the critical moment, Liu Yidao happened to lead the team to withdraw from the battlefield, and the enemy fleet was also pursuing it, and at this time, Luo Xianbin led the team to quickly kill from behind Chu Cai's fleet, and Chu Cai's old men were caught off guard.
However, due to their delay, they also lost the opportunity to attack the opponent with Liu Yidao on both sides, so Luo Xianbin had to order to change his plan and rely on their speed advantage to directly attack Chu Cailao's fleet from behind, and no longer fight with them in this not wide water.
Therefore, as soon as they appeared, they quickly entered the enemy line in a column, giving full play to the fire of the guns arranged on both sides of the ship, and bombarding the enemy ships that overtook them along the way.
Their sudden appearance also completely ended the idea that Chu Cai's old men's fleet wanted to pursue Liu Yidao's fleet, and dozens of ships were like a hornet's nest that had been stabbed, and they immediately exploded their nests.
These Chu Cailao's subordinates, some of whom had encountered this kind of flying clipper before, knew their power very well, and as soon as they saw them kill from behind, they immediately exclaimed: "Ghost ship!" The ghost ship is coming! Oh, my God! It's all ghost ships! ……”
Because Chu Cai's old subordinates suffered too much from these ghost ships some time ago, so that they passed on the power of the ghost ships to their gods, and they couldn't explain why these ghost ships ran so fast and were so resistant, so they put a mysterious coat on these ghost ships, and some people even rumored later that these ghost ships were made by sea wolves who invited mages to do it for them, and invited ghosts and gods to possess them, which made these ghost ships so powerful.
This kind of rumor spread ten or ten hundreds, and the more it spreads, the more evil it becomes, so that later these ghost ships are about to become divine ships, and Chu Cai's old subordinates have basically heard various versions of the legends about ghost ships, and now almost all of them are afraid of this kind of ghost ships.
So as soon as Luo Xianbin and the others appeared behind them and entered their fleet at high speed, these Chu Cailao's subordinates were urinated at once, and they almost couldn't afford to resist at all, and even forgot that their number far exceeded these ghost ships, and some ships couldn't even get up with the idea of resisting, so they quickly turned the rudder and fled, and suddenly became a pot of porridge.
Some boats because they ran too fast, panicked, and collided with friendly boats, big boats hit small boats, one hit one accurate, and a lucky boat even hit a bird boat and overturned in the sea.
And Luo Xianbin led the team to rush and kill, and the fleet of Chu Cai's old men was washed into a mess, and he also took the opportunity to damage several enemy ships and destroy an enemy ship.
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