After the shot, the musketeer could only wait patiently for the smoke outside the shot hole to clear, so that he could carefully observe the situation of the shot, and when he saw the situation on the stern of the enemy ship, he showed a smile, and with satisfaction withdrew the flintlock pistol from the hole, and began to take out the ammunition and reload it again.

The captain of the Spanish ship, who was now directing the sailors on the ship to quickly turn and retreat, widen the distance between him and the battery, reduce the area of the ship and reduce the loss of the ship, did not realize that he was being targeted by the enemy's musketeers, and even if he knew that someone was aiming at him with a musket, he would not feel nervous, after all, there were still two or three hundred distances from the enemy's battery, and no musket could accurately hit him.

Just as he was busy yelling and shouting to turn around, he suddenly felt a sudden shock in his right chest, as if he had been punched hard, almost knocking him down on the spot, and then a sharp pain came from his right chest.

He looked down to see what he had been hit, but when he looked down, he saw a hole in his right breast, and something had penetrated his shirt and entered his chest, and he realized that he had been hit by a bullet from a musket.

And his first thought was not that the enemy had hit him, but that someone on his ship had taken advantage of the chaos to shoot at him, so he quickly looked up and searched for the man who had attacked him on the deck in front of him, but after scanning around, he did not find even a sailor with a musket.

When he looked down, the hole in his chest had turned dark black, and blood was oozing out of the wound under his clothes, soaking his clothes, until this time, he didn't think that it was the enemy who hit him with a musket, but the severe pain still made him bend down and shouted to one of the attendants beside him: "Someone shot at me, I'm wounded!" Find that bastard who sneaked up on me! Call a doctor! ”

Before he could finish speaking, as if he had been drained of his strength, he fell limply on the deck of the stern, and it was only by this time that his attendants noticed that their captain had fallen, and they hurried forward and carried him to the cabin, and someone immediately shouted and called to the ship's doctor to come and rescue the captain.

And the musketeer who shot the captain of the enemy ship was a sharpshooter among the Seawolf soldiers, and the flintlock pistol he held in his hand was not the smoothbore gun that the Seawolf had been equipped with in large quantities before, but the kind of wolf-tooth two-type rifled flintlock pistol that the freshwater gun had just begun to produce recently, referred to as the wolf-tooth rifle.

This kind of gun has not yet been put into production in large quantities for the time being, because there are still a lot of small problems with the simple machine tool used for rifling, and it needs to be continuously improved, so it is only temporarily produced in small batches.

In that box, there were five newly-made wolf tooth rifles, as well as hundreds of Minne rounds, which were sent to Keelung Fort and handed over to the blackheads to let them try out the new guns.

After trying it out, Heitou and Sun Baoqiang were very shocked by the performance of this new gun, and Yu Xiaotian carefully introduced to them how to use this gun for the time being.

Therefore, these new guns were handed over to the first-class marksmen carefully selected among the three Keelung Fort Soldier Musketeers.

These three first-class shooters are all very talented shooters selected from the assessment in ordinary training, and they usually like to practice shooting, so they became the first batch of snipers in Keelung Fort, and the other two wolf tooth rifles were temporarily preserved and prepared to be used as spare guns.

After the three of them got this wolf tooth rifle, as soon as they tried it, they immediately praised its performance, and each of them liked it and couldn't put it down, and began to hold them every day and train.

The effective firing range of this gun has been increased several times compared with the smoothbore gun they used before, and the way of aiming is very different, and their main practice is to shoot at long-distance targets within 200 meters to 300 meters.

However, due to the problem of barrel material, the effective service life of the barrel of this wolf's tooth rifle is not more than 200 rounds, or even as low as 100 rounds.

After the first 30 rounds, the rifling wears out quickly, and after more than 30 rounds, the accuracy begins to decrease and the range decreases.

Therefore, these snipers usually do not dare to shoot a large number of live ammunition, and can only conduct live fire once or twice a day, and more for aiming training.

However, long-term aiming training can still play a role in effectively improving shooting accuracy, and later PLA has the habit of saving training costs, and when soldiers train to shoot, most of the time is aimed training, and the number of real live firing is very small.

There are even some logistics soldiers who have been soldiers for a few years and have fired no more than 10 rounds of ammunition in the army.

Now because of the problem of barrel material, the barrel life is too short, and if you hit too much, the barrel will soon become a smoothbore gun, so the shooter can only try to save the barrel life, reduce the number of live shots, and improve shooting skills with high-intensity aiming training.

But they can still use ordinary Nanji-style flintlock pistols to do some auxiliary shooting training, and Yu Xiaotian will not be stingy on the issue of consuming ammunition, especially for these excellent shooters, he does not hesitate to use more ammunition, so that they can hit more accurately.

Even when a smoothbore gun is engaged in normal combat, it often uses a three-stage shot, and there are two ways to choose from a three-stage shot.

One is to divide the musketeers into three groups, stand in three rows, and the three rows of musketeers shoot side by side, and with each shot, they will step back and replace the musketeers in the back row and continue to shoot, so as to maintain the continuity of fire and prevent the enemy from approaching their formation.

The other is to pick out some of the musketeers with a higher level of shooting, the ratio is two to one, this good shooter as a full-time shooter, the remaining two people as a deputy shooter, standing behind him, loading for him, after loading ammunition, the gun is handed over to the full-time shooter, so that the firepower is maintained, the advantage is that the concentration is a good shooter, so the hit rate of concentrated shooting will be higher.

At present, in the battle of the sea wolf soldiers, the musketeers mostly use the three-stage strike method to shoot, and both three-stage strike methods are used, in the field battle, the first method is used more, and in the defensive battle, the second way of shooting is mostly used.

The musketeer who shot the Spanish captain in the battery today was one of the three snipers, and the other two were sent to the other two batteries.

All this time, the three snipers did not get the opportunity to fire with this new wolf's tooth rifle, but today they finally got the opportunity, from the beginning of the artillery battle, they lie down in the battery, choose the quietest place, the position least affected by the smoke of gunpowder, as their sniper position, and fire at the enemy ships close to the battery.

By this time, they had already made a gain, and they had knocked over two or three enemy ships on the enemy, but their precise aiming and shooting, in the artillery battle, did not attract enough attention from the enemy, even if a Spanish sailor was defeated, few people realized that it was a sea wolf's troops, who were shot with muskets, and they mostly thought that it was injured by shell fragments.

As the first time that this rifled rifle was used in actual combat, their effect was drowned out by the roar of the cannon, and few people noticed their existence at all, not even the sea wolf themselves, few people cared about what the three snipers were busy with.

Only with three observers can I really know the power of these three snipers.

In order to ensure the use of snipers, it is necessary not only to protect them, but also to help them search for targets, and to have someone to supervise their results, so that a few of them do not have to report the results of the battle.

The main thing the observer is currently doing is to observe the hit effect for them, and then use a charcoal bar, every time they hit effectively, they will draw a line on the wall, and the most difficult will be counted later.

The Spanish ship, which had been hit by concentrated fire, was in a hurry to withdraw from the battle after being hit by a cannonball, and the captain was inexplicably shot by the "rebels" on board.

And Anthony still doesn't know what to say, at this time the captain of the ship has already swallowed his breath in the cabin, looking at the ship that broke away from the array and withdrew from the battle, he is still very angry, now it is wartime, although the ship is a private armed merchant ship, but since it has been drafted, it must obey his command.

And this ship actually withdrew from the battle directly after being hit by the enemy's concentrated fire, it was obvious that this was a violation of military discipline, Anthony was very angry, the consequences were very serious, he decided to end the battle today, immediately go back and arrest the captain of the ship, and when he returned to Manila, he handed it over to the parliament for trial.

Today, after the Spaniards closed the distance of the shelling, the hit rate of the artillery was significantly improved, and the shells began to fall on the Heping Island battery in a dense manner, and the bricks and stones of the Heping Island battery flew wildly, and the battery was constantly shaken by the shells.

Everyone who is staying in the fort now is very grateful to Yu Xiaotian, because when they first came, Yu Xiaotian asked them to use the strongest way to build these forts, and they felt that it was a bit of a fuss at first, this fort was too strong to build, not to mention the labor, it was quite labor-intensive, and it was too hard to build.

But now no one still thinks like this, and everyone only thinks that the fort is not built strong enough, and they are afraid that the fort will be destroyed by the Spaniards, and if it is destroyed, they will all be stuffed in it.

(Special thanks to the Wandering Jiangnan, a drunken person, Fengxing 456, GZG1972, Hu Lulu and other old brothers for their tips, I didn't have the energy to pay attention to this in the past two days, I only cared about the fever and saw a doctor, and the people in the family were basically knocked down!) This time the flu is menacing! ）