Chapter 5 Shelling Puxi City

The one-eyed dragon is also a grumpy guy, with a kind of natural fierceness. Today, he finally got the opportunity to show his face. He was very excited. Standing at the stern of his boat, he looked proudly at Puxi City on the shore. In the past, when he worked alone, he did not dare to provoke the officers and soldiers.

What's more, he knew that there were thousands of officers and soldiers in Puxi City today. In the past, he could not avoid it. How dare he come here so arrogantly to find trouble for officers and soldiers!

But after following Yu Xiaotian into the sea wolf, he felt that he was getting bolder and stronger, and the equipment was getting better and better. In the past, he struggled to get a few shabby cannons, but now looking at their ships, they are all equipped with polished red cannons, which is fundamentally majestic It can't be compared with the past. It's really a death.

Especially at the beginning of this year, after they defeated Chu Cailao, they made the prestige of the sea wolf to the sky. Although he could not participate in the battle against Chu Cailao, he was sent to Shuangfeng Island at that time.

Several pirates around Zhejiang heard that the sea wolf had offended Chu Cailao, causing Chu Cai to take action against the sea wolf. At first, they were all a little ready to move. After Chu Cai Lao overturned the sea wolf, they immediately took the opportunity to drive the sea wolf from the sea of Funingzhou and grab the sea wolf's territory.

The pirates who were previously deterred by sea wolves began to move frequently in the Funing area. For this reason, it was not easy to sit on the one-eyed dragon on Shuangfeng Island. At that time, what he led was the second-line warships of the sea wolf, most of which were old ships, and there were not many new guns on them. At that time, when he was on Shuangfeng Island, he was under great pressure.

But the one-eyed dragon is at least an old pirate. I have seen the big scene, and I know that I must not accept it easily at that time, so when I was on Shuangfeng Island, I took my ships to sea many times to find those dishonest colleagues.

And several times on the side of Funing, he caught his peers who were robbing the ship on their territory. Even if the one-eyed dragon led the ship to rush up, some of his peers were deterred by the power of the sea wolf and took the initiative to retreat, but there were also one or two groups of colleagues who thought that the sea wolf had gone this time and did not buy the account of the one-eyed dragon.

So the one-eyed dragon and his men immediately fought against them. With his fierceness, he took off the armor of the two gang and fled, finally stabilizing the situation on Funing's side.

Later, the news of the sea wolf's defeat quickly came, and quickly spread all over the southern coast of Zhejiang. Those pirates who were ready to move suddenly became honest when they heard the news and no longer dared to easily enter the sea wolf's territory activities. At this time, the sea wolf's territory in Funing was also completely stable. Come on.

After cleaning up Chu Cailao, Yu Xiaotian sent a group of ships back to Funing Shuangfeng Island. The one-eyed dragon immediately led the fleet to go to settle accounts with the two groups of pirates who had done with him. They even took out their nests and completely solved them, once again greatly deterred those colleagues in southern Zhejiang and made them half a year. Come on, it is very respectful to the sea wolf. When the sea wolf's ship crossed the coast of Zhejiang, even the Ponson often learned the news that he had to take the ship to escort the sea wolf's ship north, at least to the Zhoushan Islands.

So although the one-eyed dragon failed to participate in the battle against Chu Cai on Shuangfeng Island, it was also highly praised by Yu Xiaotian, which completely stabilized its position among sea wolves.

Today, the one-eyed dragon is very beautiful in his heart, because when he came here this time, it was actually cheap. Yu Xiaotian's instructions to him were very simple, that is, to lead the ship to shell Puxi City, and there was no need to land to fight with the officers and soldiers at all, so this task was simply easy for him.

After flattening the fleet across the shore, the one-eyed dragon even made the fleet's ships drop sails and even threw the anchor into the water, so that the ship could get a more stable posture and improve the hit rate of shelling.

With his order, the gunners who had been ready on the ship immediately began to open the door of the ship.

During this period, in addition to building the new sloop, the sea wolf is also transforming the old Chinese warships. Because of the limitations of the unique watertight compartment structure of Chinese sailboats, when the sea wolves installed artillery on the ship in the past, they were directly installed on the deck. This is a big disadvantage. First, it is because the gun is significant. The center of gravity of the ship has been greatly increased. The second is that it is also greatly affected by the weather. There is a lot of wind and rain on the sea. In many cases, it will rain. The cannons are placed on the deck in the open air, which is not easy to maintain. Sometimes because of the rain is too heavy, it will make it impossible to fire.

So recently, the craftsmen of Yu Xiaotianling Shipliao have found a way to transform some large ships and move the artillery to the deck below the deck as much as possible. Although there are compartments under the Chinese ships, which cannot be transformed into a cabin, the space in the middle of the ship is still relatively large. After the cabin and hull are reinforced, the artillery can still be put into these cabins.

However, after placing the cannon on this deck of the cabin, it is necessary to open the guns on both sides of the hull. This is a little troublesome. A little carelessness may affect the structural strength of the hull, and a certain degree of transformation must be carried out.

In fact, ancient Chinese shipmakers did not lack wisdom and technology, but they were relatively old-fashioned and liked to follow the old tradition. Once someone gave them an idea, they still had a strong ability to solve problems.

With the joint efforts of the shipmakers, this problem was finally solved by them. When opening the gun door, after they reinforced around the gun door, they ensured that the hull structure did not decline significantly, and then opened the gun window after ensuring the strength of the hull structure.

In this way, the artillery on the ship has got a space to protect against the wind and rain. Even when it rains on the sea, it can be operated in a dry cabin and will no longer be affected by the weather. At the same time, it also greatly reduces the center of gravity of the ship, so that the warship can travel more safely under various sea conditions.

However, opening the gun window in the middle of the ship's side brings another problem, that is, under bad sea conditions, when the hull shakes, the sea water sometimes splashes into the cabin from the gun window, which has caused some negative effects on the ship and requires continuous drainage.

Naturally, it is not difficult to solve this problem. The shipmakers added a sealed window to the gun windows on the ship. When artillery is not used, they close these gun windows, or completely close the gun windows when the sea conditions are bad, so that even if there is still a little water, it will not cause too much to the ship. It affects.

Of course, after such a transformation, the ability of these ships to load cargo has been reduced because the artillery takes up a lot of space.

This impact is not enough for the sea wolf, because the sea wolf's warship is relatively professional. It mainly undertakes combat tasks. Most of the transportation matters are handled by full-time cargo ships. The warship only undertakes a small amount of cargo transportation under normal circumstances, so it remains The cargo space can still meet their needs.

Today, some of the warships brought out by Ma Xiao have been modified. After modification, the number of guns loaded on the ships has increased a little, so that the number of artillery loaded by several lucky boats has reached eight.

The seven ships anchored and stopped in a row on the sea outside Puxi City. The gun gate at the side of the ship was opened by the gunners from the inside, and the loaded cannon was pulled to the front of the gun window with a cable pulley group. The black hole gun mouth stretched out the gun window and pointed straight to the Acropolis hundreds of meters away.

"Brothers, aim and hit me! Fire!" After receiving the reply signal from each ship, the one-eyed dragon knew that each ship was ready for shelling, so it roared excitedly, split his arm down, and pointed heavily at the Puxi City in front of it.

Puxi City is just an acropolis. Although it is called a city, it is at most a small city with a side length of less than one li. I'm afraid that the area of a small town in later generations is not enough. Usually, only more than 1,000 guards are stationed there. In fact, the number of guards in Puxi City is less than 600, and most of them are old and weak. .

In this era, military households are no longer a serious regular army. At best, they are just some military slaves, and their combat effectiveness is not at all, and even the villagers in ordinary villages are not comparable. Fortunately, 2,000 officers and troops were transferred this time, which greatly increased the strength of Puxi City.

If the ship's naval guns are allowed to attack point targets similar to ships at a distance of hundreds of meters, it is estimated that it will not be easy to hit, but today these sea wolf gunners' gunners are ordered to shell Puxi City, so that they don't have to worry that the shells will not hit the target.

After measuring the distance on the ship, the gun captains of each ship immediately adjusted the elevation angle of the gun body according to the requirements of the gun table and pointed the muzzle at Puxi City in the distance. After hearing the captain's shocking gunshot roar, the gunners immediately began to ignite the cannons from front to back.

After the gunpowder in the fire gate was ignited, first a blue smoke, which ignited the charge in the gunboat in an instant. Everyone only felt a series of vibrations suddenly under their feet. The cannons on the ship dragged the cables of the pulley group back one after another, quickly recoiled, and then were offset by the pulley group. The recoil generated by them stopped behind the gun position.

A mass of flames suddenly spit out on the side of the ship facing Puxi City, and then a mass of cyan smoke permeated the whole hull.

Everyone's ears were suddenly filled with the roar of cannons. At the beginning of each ship's shelling, the hull vibrated violently with the recoil of the cannon and began to shake slightly. Of course, it is absolutely impossible for it to shoot at the side of the ship like a battleship equipped with several hundred mm of mm of heavy guns in later generations. At that time, the scene where the huge hull can be pushed several meters away from the sea.

Even so, the scene of seven ships getting angry together after receiving the order to fire was quite shocking.