open sea

Chapter 153 Bombardment
The centipede ship was very fast, and hundreds of bannermen chanted their chant and tried their best to steer the oars. Seventeen string cannons on the right side suddenly blasted out one after another during the rapid advance, causing a huge shock to the hull.

It was as if a thunderstorm sounded on the sea, and shells were fired one after another. Just as the terrifying whistling sound reached the ears of pirates who were loading looted property on the shore, the rain of bullets had already arrived.

boom!
Boom!

The shells flew in the air, some hit the moored Fuchuan and broke or embedded in the plank of the ship, and more bombarded everywhere, either directly smashing the pirates who were loading on the shore to a pulp, or frightening them. Running all over the place, the utensils wrapped in the boat cloth were scattered all over the place.

It was still too difficult for Chen Mujun's gunners to hit the target while the warship was moving fast. Thanks to the small guns like the Franji, the distance was close enough to keep the spread within a small range. The shelling successfully cracked the Fuchuan waterline plank.

"Left-string cannon, let it go!"

Chen Mu pulled the sail rope and leaned against the mast. Although the rear seat of the Francophone was slightly smaller, the simultaneous bombardment of the seventeen Francophones on the right still caused a slight tilt to the hull, followed by the swinging left-string cannon. The pirate Fuchuan, hoping to avoid the centipede ship, opened fire one after another.

When the flagship was bombarded on the left string, the second centipede ship led by Shi Qi opened fire on the Fuchuan on the shore again with its right string gun. Although there were only two warships, they relied on the large number of artillery to create the momentum of a fleet.

"Change the gun!"

Although the power of the Francois machine is small, the reloading speed of the mother and child gun has an advantage that other artillery can't match. The gunner puts the smoking gun next to the gun and loads it by the gunner. Later, the gunner proposed The whole process of reloading the new blunderbuss takes only a few breaths, which is even faster than reloading the bird blunderbuss on the boat.

Chen Mu's water combat drills are very easy. On weekdays, the small boats throw large pieces of waste from the sawmill to the sea in front, and the fleet circles the mirror in the back, and the front line of the Great Wall on the sea walks around the target. bombardment.

They practiced the same thing more than a dozen times, and now they are familiar with naval battles. After the two centipede ships bombarded for a round, they let go of the ferry and circled the lonely Fuchuan on the sea, and launched round after round of bombardment with the advantage of the fast guns of the Francophone.

The pirate's lucky boat is very pitiful.

There is a 200-jin small gun mounted on the bow of the ship, and on both sides are four old and new Francophones of different sizes. It is one of the two large ships of the maritime bandit Xu Jinmei. It is always unfavorable to plunder along the coast on weekdays. There are hundreds of sailors overloaded. He is fearless even if he is jumped by the officers and soldiers to join the battle, and he is considered a master in the coastal area where there is a lack of ship guns.

Last year they followed Zeng Yiben to attack Chaozhou Prefecture, even if they met Yu Dayou's navy, they were not defeated, and they fought evenly with the army, let alone the artillery battle.

The best gunners in all of Asia in this era are on pirate ships!

When were they pressed and beaten until they wanted to escape?
there has never been!

But what is this now?

Two centipede ships with 34 all Francophones, not counting the bow, circled around their ship. No matter how good the gunners were, it would take a long time for a ship with an inaccurate shot to reload the first cannon. This is what they can change. The case of ammunition, in fact can they?

It was only after a shot was fired that the bombardment of the Francophone bombarded the sky back and forth, and the head of the gunner who charged the powder was smashed to pieces. The four Francophones charged the powder quickly, but the side of the ship was smashed. The cannon slipped directly into the sea, and the charge would be useless as soon as possible!

This naval battle made Xu Jinmei's pirates understand a truth before they died, and they had been using the wrong machine.

In the past, I always blamed it. I blamed the power of the Francophone for being too weak. It couldn't damage the ship's plank at all against a gun like the Fuchuan of the Hongguan Army.

Only now did they understand that Franji was beating people.

The battle has not yet been fought, and the two centipede boats have bombarded the Fuchuan for two rounds. It is difficult to see people standing on the boat. No matter how you hit the watertight compartment, you won't be afraid of sinking... Wouldn't it be more uncomfortable if the ship didn't sink after death?
Going up, the flag army approached and bombarded with guns, and the last living people were killed, and an old blessing boat full of holes was seized.

"Put down the anchor and let it float, get on the boat first and clean up Xu Jinmei!"

Chen Mu was so angry that he was itching at the root, and a lot of bombardment could not calm his anger at all, so Xu Jinmei attacked Haojing before Xiangshan.

He just told many barbarians that the land would be protected by Daming after paying the tax, and in a blink of an eye Xu Jinmei gathered thousands of Japanese pirates to burn, kill and loot—this was a slap in the face.

More importantly, he knew what Xu Jinmei was here for, he wasn't here to grab something, this bastard was here to kill him.

To avenge his youngest brother.

"Brother on the surface." Chen Mu muttered disdainfully, and waved his hand to the flag army waving the flag and ordered: "Fire two more rounds of the string cannon, go ashore and slaughter those bastards!"

The hatred must be really deep in my heart, Xiangshan is such a chaotic place, and I sent a dozen black-hearted swordsmen to land from the wild beach at night in a small boat. No matter how closely the flag army patrols, it may not be able to stop it. Waiting for half a month near the yamen of thousands of households can always be done. Catch him when he's alone.

Do you still have to wait until you finish grabbing the mirror now before looking for yourself?
This bastard came here for revenge, but more for looting and making money.

Find the wrong place to play wild!

The centipede boat was circling on the sea near the port, and poured all the remaining three guns of the 68 Francophones on the chaotic Haojingao, and then anchored at the ferry. When I rushed to Haojing, I saw a large area of ​​continuous artillery fire erupted on Xiwangyang Mountain, and the shells flew over the heads of the Japanese pirates, and the big iron bullets plowed deep trenches on the ground.

The pirates, whose morale had been hit by the defeat of the warship, were even more terrified, and Chen Mu's army attacked from south to north, and they fled in all directions in the meeting square.

Even Xu Jinmei lost the vigor just now, and it was unimaginable that Chen Mu, a thousand households in Xiangshan, had thousands of well-trained flag troops in his hands. How could he have imagined that they actually had two ships with more than 30 artillery pieces? What about the centipede ship?
The tide is gone.

Not to mention the Chen Mu's banner army who came in formation with birds firing together and rockets exploding. Even if Chen Mu didn't lead his troops ashore, the Japanese pirates who were bombarded by the gun factory Lao Duolu's artillery would not be enough to deal with Deng Zilong's impact.

It doesn't matter if it's Pereira who is hiding in the city hall or the Francobots who are hiding in the church and the store, they all rushed out, chasing down the Japanese pirates in groups, almost at the same time as Chen Mu landed in Haojing. The battle entered the final stage of defeat.

Xu Jinmei looked at the scattered and defeated subordinates, stood in the center of the meeting square and smiled miserably, and walked slowly with a sword in her hand as if ignoring the marching banner troops.

"Xu Jinmei?"

He heard someone calling his name in the army formation. He seemed to have a feeling. He raised his sword and his face became grim. Then he must have lowered his head to look at the bloody hole in his chest.

Chen Mu casually tossed the gun to his attendant to recharge, tilted his head and muttered.

"kill me?"

　I don’t plan to read comments these days, I’m very confused when I write, and writing stories is not usually slow.

　　
　
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