Chapter 7 Nanri Water Village

The one-eyed dragon was staring in one of his eyes and staring at the wall of the Acropolis. Suddenly, he saw two dazzling fires flashing on the wall, and his heart tightened in vain, and then he saw two black spots roaring towards the location of their fleet.

But then everyone saw two black spots falling dozens of meters away from the sea wolf fleet, hit heavily in the sea, and seemed to have a bounce effect. It bounced up once on the water, flew forward for more than ten meters, and then fell back into the water with a bang, and then sank.

The other one hit high and flew straight over the sea wolf's fleet and landed in the sea more than 100 meters away from the sea wolf fleet, stirring up a large wave.

The one-eyed dragon breathed a sigh of relief, but immediately scolded, "Damn, this officer also has a red cannon! I ordered the fleet to raise its anchor and sails, keep moving at a low speed, and continue to fire at me!"

Zhang Jiace was greatly disappointed by the results of these two cannons, but he could not reprimand the gunners. Not long after these Hongyi cannons were newly built, they were handed over to the officers and soldiers for drill several times. In fact, they only let the officers and soldiers fire a few cannons. The officers and artillerymen were not familiar with such cannons, so they expected them to hit the thief ship in the first shot. It's not realistic at all.

"Load it quickly and then hit it again! Be sure to destroy the thief ship!" Zhang Jiace sighed and quickly ordered.

But at this time, the sea wolf's fleet had begun to slowly raise its sails, and the anchor was also shouted by the handmen to lift the surface, and the ship began to move slowly again.

The gunners of the army began to pour water into the barrel in panic, extinguished the remaining gunpowder residue in the gun chamber, and began to clean up the chamber.

However, their operation level is obviously not up to the level of sea wolf gunners. The cooperation is not compact, which makes the reloading speed slow. However, the gunners selected to operate the two Hongyi cannons are still old soldiers and rich in experience. Although they are slow, there is no mistakes. They reinstall the guns step by step. Fill it in.

But just fired, the powerful recoil still moved the gun racks back a lot. If you want to reset them, you need many officers and soldiers to work together.

Although the Hongyi cannon at this time has cannon ears, which can make it more convenient for the cannon to adjust the high and low shooting boundary, but there is no mechanism to adjust the left and right shooting boundary of the cannon. If the cannon wants to aim at the target, it all depends on human movement of the gun racks to point the muzzle to the target.

Such a heavy cannon consumes a lot of manpower to accurately aim at the target. In addition, when the one-eyed dragon saw two Hongyi cannons on the Acropolis, he did not dare to let the fleet stop on the sea and shell the Acropolis as a fixed fort, so the fleet began to move.

This caused a lot of trouble for the gunners of the officers and soldiers. At this time, no one knew the problem of presetting the amount in advance. They only knew how to point the muzzle to the target, but when they finally pointed the muzzle at a ship, the ship slowly sailed out of the target area designated by their muzzle, so that The officers and soldiers had to move the gun racks again.

After tossing for such a long time, he didn't aim at a boat. Zhang Jiace, who was angry, couldn't wait to go there to shoot in person, but as the main general, he would definitely not do such a dangerous thing.

What's more, the Hongyi cannon cast before actually had several explosion accidents. When he saw the tail of a cannon burst with his own eyes, he flew out several gunners and died on the spot. The rest were also seriously injured. Later, all of them were basically Incurable death.

So he didn't have much confidence in the current Hongyi cannon, so no matter how anxious he was, he did not dare to run to the Hongyi cannon to command the firing.

After a long time, these two cannons were finally tossed around and fired again, but at their level, if they want to hit the target in the movement hundreds of meters away, not to mention them, even if the superior gunners of the sea wolf are invited, it is probably difficult.

But no matter what, the two Hongyi cannons on the Acropolis still played a certain role. At least they forced the one-eyed fleet to stop carelessly on the sea and fired at the Acropolis, which more or less reduced the hit rate of the sea wolf guns.

The two sides bombarded on the shore of Puxi and the sea. The shells came and went, fighting very lively, but the sea wolves were never close to the seaside. Their goal is a small city, and it is easier to hit the target than the officers and soldiers. As for where they hit, the one-eyed dragon doesn't care. It doesn't matter how many officers and soldiers are killed. Their goal was to achieve, that is, through such shelling, they completely contained Zhang Jiace and his more than 2,000 officers and soldiers in the Acropolis, making them have no time to split up and rush to Nanri Shuizhai to provide support Liu Yinglong.

After breaking up with the one-eyed dragon, Ma Xiao led the remaining fleet to rush straight to Nanrishui Village, led by three sloops. After bypassing the bull's head and tail north of Meizhou Island, the sails quickly began to operate the sails, so that the ship gained greater wind power, and the wind direction also turned to downwind. , which made the speed of their three ships suddenly begin to accelerate.

Three flying-shaped fastships broke away from the fleet and quickly sailed to Nanrishui Village as pioneers. Soon, they rushed outside Nanrishui Village.

At this time, the officers and soldiers in the Nanri Water Village were far from ready to board the ship, and many officers and soldiers gathered on the dock to greet them.

Only a few warships are leaning against the trestle, so the officers and soldiers boarded the ship faster. At this time, the officers and soldiers on the ship have boarded the ship and untied the sails. They are being towed by the boat and leaving the trestle and preparing to sail to the sea to prevent the sea wolf fleet from approaching.

At this time, on the sea outside Nanrishuizhai, there were only two 200-sized warships of officers. Because they served as sentry ships, they did not stop near the Shuizhai wharf and were the first to leave the sea wolf fleet.

Although the displacement of the three flying-sized fastships is not large, their force cannot be underestimated. The ship is equipped with one 12-pound long and one short gun each, four six-pound guns, and two Little Franco machine guns. Such firepower strength is absolutely invisible on Chinese ships with the same displacement.

Even if it was a Western-style gunboat, its firepower was not necessarily stronger than them, so as soon as the three flying-shaped fast ships arrived outside the Nanri Water Village, they immediately began to shell the officer warships.

The first to hit were the two sentry ships that met the officers and soldiers. The officers and soldiers on the two ships also showed unimaginable courage today, knowing that their strength was not good, the ships were not good, the firepower was worse, and the speed and wind direction were not dominant, but the two officers' warships still rushed to the three sea wolves. The flying fastship.

When the officers and soldiers on the ship saw these three flying-shaped fastships, they found that this kind of ship did not look like the ships of the Ming Dynasty at all, but quite like the sailboats of the Red-haired Man or the Frang pilot. The main sign was that they used soft sails never used by Chinese ships.

However, the sail of this kind of ship is different from that of Westerners. It seems to be much more convenient to operate than those soft sails on Western galleys, and it is very convenient and flexible to adjust the sail angle.

So the officers and soldiers naturally felt a sense of fear, hurriedly manipulated their ships, tried to block the three strangely shaped thief ships, and panicked to prepare the artillery on the ship, trying to fire cannons to attack the three thief ships.

But before the two official ships took action, the three thief ships began to get angry first. They only heard the sound of gunfire, and immediately a mass of smoke rose on the sea.

Several shells roared to the two officer warships in an instant and landed next to their ships, and the accuracy of the shelling was considerable.

And at this time, the distance between the two sides was still two or three hundred meters away. Before the artillery on the officer's ship reached the effective range, the sea wolf's shell fell beside them, which shocked these officers and soldiers in a cold sweat, because they immediately understood that these pirates really had a lot of Hongyi cannons, so today they must It's going to be bad luck.

These officers and soldiers basically participated in the Battle of Penghu in the past year. They have seen the power of Western cannons and fought with them. Daming's warships have no power to fight back at all. They can only win by quantity and rush to them desperately. Only in close proximity can they get some benefits.

Today, the team was led by Feng De, who took over Luo Xianbin to serve in the Clippers detachment. These two goods were friends. At first, they were cleaned up by Yu Xiaotian, but later the two goods actually became hardcore. First, Luo Xianbin was ordered to lead the Flying Clippers, and then Feng De took over Luo Xianbin and also arrived at the Clippers detachment. .

Today, Feng De was also brought to the war. This guy personally led three flying fast boats. After sailing to Nanrishui Village at high speed, he immediately killed these two official ships.

Three hundred meters away, they began to fire artillery. Anyway, their shells were sufficient and the range was far, but the hit rate at this distance was a little lower, but they had enough time to do two more shots before approaching the enemy ship.

The three fast ships fought as they walked. First, they cut to the east side of the two officer ships, and then fired another shell at them. At this angle, they could exert the strongest firepower of the three ships and hit more than a dozen cannons at the same time.

Although the two warships of the army were heroic, the technical gap made their courage useless. The sea wolf's Clippers did not give them any chance to approach at all, which caused great damage to them.

The 12-pounder gun has been equipped with chain bombs at this time. Although it is not mature enough, it can be used effectively. In order to block these official ships as soon as possible, Feng De directly ordered the chain bombs to attack.

After several chain bullets flew out, they immediately flew to the two officer warships in the air, and saw one chain bullet accurately cut on the mast of an officer warship.