Chapter 141 The trap
The sloop of the three sea wolves easily fell behind the ship under the old man Chu Cai's hand, and the distance was getting closer and closer again, making the old man Chu Cai's men on the ship like frightened birds, and could only desperately raise their sails and keep turning the rudder to try to get rid of them.
But their efforts are obviously in vain. In terms of speed and flexibility, their wide ship is far from the opponent of the sea wolves's sloop, so no matter how they toss around on the sea, the three sea wolves' boats always bite him to death, preventing them from giving them any chance to escape.
And at this time, the three sea wolves' boats also changed back to a zigzag formation. After falling into the boat under Chu Cai's old hand, they aimed at the ship with the 12-pound howitzer at the position of their bow and began the shelling.
Although the 12-pound howitzer is not long, its charge and projectile weight are much more than the six-pound gun, and the range has not been improved much, but the power in the effective range has been greatly increased.
Although the Guangzhou ship is generally made of exquisite materials and the hull is strong, this Guangzhou ship, which is used as bait, is a broken ship. Once it is hit by several 12-pound cannon shells, there is still no good fruit to eat.
The three sea wolves' boat forced the boat to sail to the eastern bay of Kinmen Island like a mouse. After a few shots, they made a big hole in the stern of the ship, which almost destroyed the ship's rudder and made it lose its navigation ability. It shocked the people on the ship to shout and died. Escaping like that.
Seeing that Luo Xianbin led the ship to catch up with the ship, he repeated his technique and destroyed it with a platoon gun, but at this time, he saw several arrows tied with flowers suddenly rising on the enemy ship.
In fact, this kind of arrow is a rocket. The arrow is still launched by the bow, but a relatively large flower is tied to the arrow pole. After the flower igniting, the arrow can fly farther and higher. In the Ming Dynasty, this kind of rocket has been quite popular, and a swarm of bee rockets have equipped a large number of the Ming army and become a standard martial arts. qi.
But today, the rockets launched on Chu Cai's old ship were a little unusual. After they were launched, they immediately sounded a harsh roar. It turned out to be a kind of sound. When it rose to a high altitude, it finally made an explosion and exploded in the air.
The harsh sound and the sound of explosion immediately spread a long distance from the sea. This situation couldn't help but surprise Luo Xianbin, because the enemy ship suddenly launched a hibitium, which was obviously not aimless. This kind of sound is generally used to transmit news or warning. Why? Will they release the sound of this at this time?
A series of question marks appeared in Luo Xianbin's mind, and suddenly looked up at the upper bucket on the mast and shouted, "Shangdou, immediately search for the situation in the nearby sea and the bay of the island!"
Shangdou also basically focused his attention on the fleeing ship just now, staring at it and preventing it from escaping. After hearing Luo Xianbin's order, he quickly agreed, raised the telescope in his hand, and immediately searched for the surrounding sea.
At this time, there is still a faint mist on the sea, which more or less affects their sight, but even so, with the help of the telescope, the observation distance of the upper bucket has been considerably improved. Soon the upper bucket exclaimed at the mast: "The Luo team! There are unknown ships around us!"
Luo Xianbin's heart suddenly tightened, and immediately picked up the monocular hanging around his neck and quickly looked at the nearby sea. Sure enough, in his lens, he soon saw starry boat shadows on the sea, some of which were from some prong Island. Some of them came from the sea.
Among these ships, there are different types of boats, including large sea boats and small fishing boats, but most of them are a large sampan called Allegro.
This large sampan has no mast sail, and the hull is narrow and long. There is a large rowing at the stern. This large rowing needs to be operated by two people. In addition to powering the ship, it is also used to control the direction of the ship. In the hull, more than a dozen people can be seated back and forth. Each person has an oar. If they row together By the way, the speed of this kind of sumpan is very fast.
In the coastal area, this kind of ship is basically used as a pirate ship by pirates, mainly on the coast and cannot enter deeper seas. Sometimes it will break into inland rivers and raid villages along the river.
Such tactical sea wolves are rarely used, but they are very common among many pirate groups in the south, so Luo Xianbin is not unfamiliar with these fast paddle boats.
But suddenly there were so many messy boats on the sea, which was not easy. Luo Xianbin immediately realized that they were in trouble today, so he shouted harshly, "Immediately give up the pursuit and get ready to pick up!" We were ambushed!"
The three sea wolves' boats immediately began to turn their steering, and the atmosphere, which was already very relaxed, suddenly became tense. After these sea wolves glanced around the surrounding sea, they also realized the seriousness of the problem.
At this time, the shadows of ships emerged from all sides of the sea, and they all surrounded them in the same direction. Obviously, they were in trouble today. The two ships under the old Chucai they chased just now were simply bait thrown by people to lure them to come. Bite the hook.
Now they have really bit it inexplicably, and now they have been dragged into the ambush circle of others.
The current situation can be said to have been completely reversed. They have changed from hunters to surrounded prey. As for their outcome, it depends on their ability.
"Grandma's! The brothers listened carefully. Today, this old man Chu Cai set a condom for us to jump. This is to put us to death!
Can we make him get what he wants? Don't forget what our big head told us that we must fight against the enemy! No matter how much they come, are we afraid of them? Luo Xianbin was quite demoralized. When he saw that the faces of the men on the ship had changed greatly and their morale was declining, he immediately shouted at them!
After listening to Luo Xianbin's roar, the sea wolves on the ship immediately cheered up again. These people were selected. When they came here to do this work, everyone actually knew that their situation would be very dangerous. They wanted to leave the waters they were familiar with and go to move in the enemy's waters. We also have to face the lack of supply bases and places to avoid storms to constantly attack Chu Cai's old ships, and at the same time, their identity cannot be revealed.
Before everyone came, they knew that they were likely to pay a huge price for it, but the reason why these people are willing to come is that in addition to their loyalty to sea wolves, another reason is that they can get high rewards by participating in this operation. In addition, you can also get a chance to get a promotion and coat them with gold.
Therefore, when Yu Xiaotian decided to send such a plunder fleet, he attached great importance to the selection of personnel. The selected personnel are the most loyal and resilient people. At the same time, these people can be called the elites of sea wolves, which is not an exaggeration. Now when they are facing danger Although he was a little flustered at first, these guys immediately cheered up after Luo Xianbin encouraged him a little.
The whistles of the leaders quickly resounded through the three ships. At this time, all the members took a deep breath and rushed to their respective positions. All kinds of weapons and damaged pipes were quickly removed from the cabin and placed in various parts of the ship, including the iron shells they usually did not like to use*. At this time Hou was also taken out by them, pried open the lid of the wooden box, revealing round and black guys.
A flectar gun was also taken out and quickly loaded and placed on both sides of the ship's side. As for the bow and arrows, they are not much used on the ship. Only a few crew members who especially like this weapon carry some by themselves. Most of their weapons have been turned into firearms.
A cannon was loaded again, including the hand, all of which were covered with whale skin armor and ready to fight.
The sails of all three ships were quickly raised. Under the command of the captain, the helmsman followed the handsome ship that Luo Xianbin sat on and immediately turned the rudder and adjusted the ship to a state of downwind. They temporarily gave up continuing north, but turned to the southeast and began to accelerate to prepare for the siege.
And what all the three ships did also fell into the eyes of Chu Cailao's men on the surrounding boats. These guys were really jealous of each other at this time. They shouted crazily one by one, and tried their best to speed up the speed towards the three ships.
Although the speed of large ships and fishing boats is limited, they seized the opportunity and blocked the way of Luo Xianbin's fleet from several directions, and the most worrying thing is the fast paddle boats. These narrow samp plates, driven by the pirates on the boat, are very fast in short distances, all like water. Flying up, he rushed towards the three ships of the sea wolf like arrows on the surface of the water.
If you look down from the sky on the sea, you can see dozens of large and small boats. At this time, with three elegant boats as the center, they draw white waves, like a beautiful flower, but this flower contains bloody and cruel beauty.
Luo Xianbin stood up and stood on the low stern of the stern, squeezed his lips tightly, and looked at these old Chu Cai's men and their ships surrounded in all directions. His heart tightened. There were several large boats across the road ahead, trying to intercept their way, making it clear that he wanted them all The bottom is blocked here, and I won't leave them a way out.
And the fast paddle boats rushed towards them like a group of wolves and quickly approached the vicinity of their three boats.
(Chapter 2 has arrived, brothers, who still has a monthly ticket? If you don't have it, red tickets and rewards are OK! Hey hey!)