Chapter 31 Mantis Catching Cicada 5

In fact, telescopes are now very popular in the West. Although the price is high, they have long been used for astronomical observation and many military operations, especially nautical activities, because of their superiority.

Even in Daming, there have been telescopes, but because Daming does not have a glass industry at present, it wants to imitate unless it is made of lenses with very transparent crystals, making it extremely expensive, so it is only a reward for some high-ranking officials, but it is not popular among the people. Few people know it.

Sea Wolf now has its own glass industry. In addition, Xiaotian found a way to clarify the glass liquid with the earth method and obtained relatively good quality glass, which produced this kind of telescope and received a large number of equipment among the sea wolf.

And people who get binoculars are ordered to love this kind of thing like protecting their eyes. If they encounter an emergency and can't protect this kind of thing, they should immediately smash it or throw it directly into the sea to avoid leaving it in the hands of others.

Therefore, few people have seen this kind of telescope produced by sea wolf. Today, Chen Xun, as their big customer, was allowed to try this thing.

"Go on the order, and all the ships will sail. Let's meet them, pick them up, and return!" Yu Xiaotian took advantage of Chen Xun's interest in fiddling with the telescope and gave the order.

After receiving the order, the ships of the sea wolf, which had maintained a very low speed on the sea, pulled up their sails and began to speed up, speeding in the direction of rising smoke and facing them.

Chinese sails do have great advantages. Although it is difficult to lift sails, they are still relatively easy to operate with the help of wheels and pulleys. On the whole, Chinese hard sails have great advantages over Western-style soft sails in terms of the speed of sails rising and saving a lot of power. There is no need for the crew to climb to the mast. On the pole, take the risk to collect and release the sails.

The fleet gradually accelerated and sailed in the direction of smoke with a goose-shaped queue.

After the fleet sailed for a while, it suddenly made a warning sound on the top of the mast: "Many ships were found at the smoke in front of them, and the number was more than ten, and it seemed that there was a conflict!"

Yu Xiaotian immediately locked his eyebrows and shouted loudly, "All be on alert, get ready for battle!"

The sound of alarm bells immediately sounded on each ship, and the rapid alarm bell suddenly rang throughout the fleet. It turned out that the sailors and soldiers who were rested on the ship were resting. After hearing the sound of the alarm bell, they suddenly shook their spirits and rushed to their positions, including those resting in the cabin. The sailors and soldiers also immediately rushed from the cabin with their weapons to the deck.

All kinds of guns, ammunition, knives, axes and other things that were originally stored in the cabin under the deck were quickly taken out and sent to the soldiers and sailors who lined up on the deck.

The coat of a deck gun was lifted by the gunner, revealing the cannon below.

Chen Xun was anxious as soon as he heard this, and he didn't have time to watch the preparations of the sea wolf department, because he knew that Yan Siqi did not send many boats this time, and now there are so many boats on the sea, so there must be an accident.

So he quickly greeted someone and sent him back to his ship. Even Yu Xiaotian's telescope forgot to return it to Yu Xiaotian. At this time, the fleet began to accelerate, and the sea conditions were not bad. Chen Xun's boat quickly sailed while sticking to Yu Xiaotian's boat, Chen Xunguo What an old man. He flew on the side of the boat, jumped to his own boat, turned around and shouted to Xiaotian:

"There must be something wrong with the head of the family, and I hope the head of the family can help! Please be the head of the family!" Chen Xun's head was sweating in a hurry. When he begged for filial piety, his voice trembled.

Yu Xiaotian has also realized that there may be an accident today. In this place, a group of ships besieged Yan Siqi's ship, so it can basically be judged that someone learned the news and ambushed Yan Siqi's silver carrier here.

Although he was not as nervous as Chen Xun, he also felt very unhappy, because the silver was immediately all his. Suddenly, someone inserted a bar and wanted to take away the silver, which was almost the same as paying money from his pocket. Since he bumped into it, he would definitely not stand by.

"Brother Chen, don't worry, Yu came to pick up your brother's ship this time. Since he encountered such a thing, how can Yu sit idly by! All of them have it. Move forward at full speed and get there! Let's see who the mother is going to pull out his teeth!"

The sea wolf's fleet immediately began to accelerate and rushed to the scene of the accident. At this time, a rumble of gunfire began to come from the sea from afar, and smoke could be seen rising from all three boats.

"The smoking boats are all our boats. Someone wants to hijack the ship!" At this time, Chen Xun found that Yu Xiaotian's telescope was still in his hand, and quickly raised it and looked at the scene of the accident.

If it is only visual, it is not easy to see the location of the accident at this distance. No matter how good your eyes are, you can see it quite clearly with the telescope. Chen Xun saw through the lens of the telescope and see that their three ships were surrounded by more than a dozen boats on the sea. And the smoke has not completely dissipated.

Zheng python and Chen Zhongji did not talk, so they immediately wanted to see the dagger and began to take action. More than a dozen ships under Zheng Yiguan immediately began to fire randomly and bombard Chen Zhongji's three ships.

The messy cannons flew across the three ships where Chen Zhongji was. The canvases of the three ships were full of bullet holes, and the hull was also cracked by these cannons. From time to time, someone screamed and the bullet fell on the deck and splashed blood on the spot.

Chen Zhongji ran back and forth on the ship and ordered not to fire cannons until they came up. All Yan Siqi's men lay on the side of the ship to avoid the cannons flying around. They were both scared and angry.

In the past, they were also their own brothers, but today their brothers aimed at them and pointed their guns at them to kill them. No one will be happy to put this kind of thing on anyone.

Everyone hates gritting their teeth and can't wait to catch Zheng Yiguan and tear up this guy now. However, there are few people in their boats, and their firepower is definitely not their opponents, and they can only be temporarily suppressed by Zheng Python's men.

In addition to cannons, Zheng Python's men also used a lot of cold weapons such as bows and crossbows and began to shoot arrows at the three ships. However, because they wanted to grab the silver of the three ships, they did not want to burn all three ships, so they did not use a large number of rockets. Bows and arrows are like this. In the battle, it seems to be a little lacking in power.

Zheng's ship quickly approached Chen Zhongji's three ships. Chen Zhongji ordered his three ships to close together and hold them into a group to defend the enemy, so as to prevent them from being divided and surrounded by Zheng Python's men. In that way, both sides would be attacked by enemy ships, making them unable to resist.

After being encircled, even if they are surrounded, they only need to deal with the attack on one side of the ship's side and can hold on for a relatively longer time, hoping to have their own boats passing by or attract a fleet of sea wolves that may exist nearby to help them get out of trouble.

Zheng Python's experience is also very rich. Although there are many people in his boats at this time, Chen Zhongji's three ships formed a group, which made him have no way to bite hedgehogs. He immediately sent people to paste the words to pick up the ship. Because the other party's three boats were crowded together, they didn't rely on for a while, but they did not occupy it. Cheap.

So he ordered the ships to constantly bombard these Chen Zhongji's ships with cannons on the ship, and try to kill and injure more of their personnel first to lay the foundation for the next step of jumping and grabbing the ship.

Although Zheng Yiguan's cannons on the ship are also some old guns, and even Japanese-made iron cannons with different shapes and limited range and power, they have an absolute numerical advantage. When approaching the shelling, the chambers of these cannons are also filled with messy stones, broken iron and even Although these things hurt the gunbore, they don't care. When bombarded at close range, the power is also considerable. Although it is not very lethal to the ship, it will pose a great threat to personnel.

More than a dozen ships kept firing cannons around Chen Zhongji's three ships. The cannons flew on all sides of the three ships. Yan Siqi's men on the three boats could not raise their heads at all, and the casualties were heavy. From time to time, some people would be injured by the splashed cannons and fell into the pool of blood on the deck.

In desperation, Chen Zhongji had to evacuate some of the personnel to the cabin to avoid the cannon, hold his head and wait for Zheng Python to take the people to jump the boat, and then come out to fight with them, so as not to gather on the deck and be killed too much by their cannon, so that he has no strength to fight for a while.

The whole situation fell to one side of Zheng Python. Chen Zhongji's three ships were so pressed that they could not raise their heads. They could only accidentally launch some rockets at the nearby enemy ship, but they did not pose much threat to the enemy ships.

Seeing that there were fewer and fewer people on the deck of Chen Zhongji's three ships, many people had fallen into the blood pool on the deck. Zheng Python felt that it should be almost done, so he sent the ships to put them on, while ordering the boats to put down the sampan and use wolf tactics to besiege these three Yan Siqi's ships.

Many pirates under Zheng Python began to go down to the shamboard, rocking or rowing, and pounced on the three boats one after another, and several larger boats also pasted on them and began to prepare to fight a white-hand battle to seize the ship and grab the silver from the ship.

Chen Zhongji's forehead was injured, and blood stained most of his face, making him look ferocious, but now he couldn't take care of this. He gritted his teeth and insisted on commanding his men to resist. Seeing that these Zheng Python's men had been pasted, he knew that he was still embarrassed. The opportunity for sex has finally come.