open sea

Chapter 349 Attack on Hong Kong
The Minister of Nanyang ordered to harass Cebu Island, which cheered the pirates entrenched in southern Luzon.

But their leader, Lin Afeng, was just the opposite. He was not happy about this, but fell into deep worry.

Lin Feng has been trying to get the lives of his subordinates back to the 'right track'. It is not the normal track of picking up a hoe and farming, but as a pirate, acquiring a lonely overseas land. There is no law and no tax. They are their own army, protecting own land.

He thought that following Chen Mu Nanzheng would bring him closer to this right track, but the result made him feel that he was getting further and further away.

Chen Mu let Lin Feng see more, seeing the big ships of Xiyi, seeing the blunderbuss artillery of the Ming army, and seeing the lonely place overseas that he thought was vulnerable to the Ming army fleet.

This severely hit Lin Feng's confidence.

"Damn it!"

Leaning against the ship's side, the pirate chief fidgeted with his hair covering his eyes, turned around and kicked away the boxes piled up under the mast, and asked, "Is this the armor and firearms that Chen Shuai rewarded us?"

Zhuang Gong, who was wearing a breastplate and his outer shirt was bulging, nodded, raised his hand to signal Lin Feng, and said, "There are ten boxes in a boat, there are armors and guns."

Some of the wooden boxes contained single-sided breastplates, and some were equipped with matchlock guns. Now Chen Mu’s direct troops have replaced them with flintlock guns, and there are thousands of matchlock guns piled up in his hands. Opportunities to change outfits for subordinates are repacked and sealed.

It was originally prepared for Suleiman's men, but now that Lin Feng needs to strengthen his force, he first allocated [-] guns and [-] single-sided breastplates for him.

Lin Feng originally had a large number of guns and birds in his hand, all of which were bought after selling the spoils with Chen Mu in the past.

The changes Master Chen brought to this pirate team were too terrifying.

Before getting to know Chen Mu, Lin Feng's brothers were also equipped with a lot of firearms. Of course they had matchlock guns, but they were the most precious firearms. There were only a dozen of them. The most equipped ones were from various guards and smugglers Then get the firecrackers, for example, Tianzi handguns.

At that time, he dared to attack the government's ports and cities, and then he died down because he had reached a moral alliance with Chen Mu and promised him that he would no longer cause harm to the local area.

As for now?

Lin Feng took out an almost brand-new bird gun from the wooden box, held it up in his hand to try it out, looked around and asked, "It's considered a fire gun, how many are there?"

Zhuang Gong understood what Lin Feng meant, without blinking, he said, "There are still more than 200 archers."

"That's more than 2000 guns."

Lin Feng turned around, casually threw the blunderbuss to his subordinates, pointed to the wooden box, leaned back to the side of the boat, looked at the sea and sky and the unknown island in the distance, and turned his head after a while and said: "Anyone who knows how to use blunderbuss Put on the blunderbuss, those who don't know how to use blunderbusses take the sword and spear, take the shield, and put the armor on board."

"Let's lift the anchor, Lin thinks that this Cebu Island can be attacked by force."

More than 30 big blessing boats raised their butterfly sails, and the flagship pirates heard the words of the leader, and each fired their guns to the sky, screaming for a moment, and headed towards Cebu Island in a mighty way.

Chen Mu moved slowly because he knew that Legaspi had built a well-defended bastion in Cebu Island. If he wanted to go there, he had to make full preparations. He would not only attack the next port, but also destroy the bastion together. .

Lin Feng didn't have this kind of worry, or the pirates never had these thoughts - if they win the fight, they will take all, and if they can't win, they will withdraw, thinking so much, so tired.

Don't care if it works or not, just give it a try first.

Cebu Island is not far from the southernmost tip of Luzon Island where Lin Feng’s army is stationed. The wind direction is normal and it only takes one day of sailing. Lin Feng, who departs at noon, crosses the sea like a ghost at night and arrives at the northeast port of Cebu.

Sailing at night allowed them to avoid the smoke of the small island. Although a few Xiyi on the shore fired guns at them while they were sailing along the coast, neither the enemy nor the enemy knew that the guns could not hit that far.

The smug Lin Feng folded his arms and looked towards the brightly lit small port in the distance, looking forward to the battle with the defenders at the nearby port, when he saw several pieces of light suddenly burst out in the distance, and then the sound of artillery came from a long distance away.

Like thunder rumbles before the rain falls in the sky that has been stuffy for a long time.

"Listen to the sound, the four cannons are not small. They are in front of the port, on the left and right sides, are they far or near?"

Lin Feng frowned and looked towards the shore. After the artillery fired in bursts, there was silence again. Except for the lights of the port, there was no other movement. He stared at the direction in which the shells fell into the water and said, "Look at the distance, it's not far away. As for Chen Shuai So afraid? Hmm... what happened to Mr. Zhuang?"

Shore cannons generally hit farther than ship cannons. This is a consensus at sea, even in Daming. It's just that in the past, except for the land under Chen Mu's jurisdiction, Dafa's guns in Daming didn't hit very far.

But Lin Feng had seen the cannon tubes of the San Pablo when it was docked at the port, and expected that the anti-corruption guns on the Central and Western coasts should be heavier, but he didn't expect that the range was only three or four miles.

This distance is not close, but Lin Feng seems to be close to scaring him, Chen Erye's boat cannon can poke his butt up so far!
In front of Lin Feng's flagship, there are eight Fuchuan Guangchuan led by Duke Zhuang. It can be said that these are Lin Feng's vanguard generals.

However, at this time, six of the eight warships under Duke Zhuang's command veered from the central army to the left and right wings, and all of them lowered their sails a little, only two of them still sailed forward.

The pirates on Lin Feng's boat looked at each other in blank dismay, no one understood what Zhuang Gong was doing.In just a few moments, the two lucky boats drove hundreds of steps towards the port at full speed according to the previous wind force. The following fleet was blocked by Zhuang Gong's three swaying ships and slowed down. We could only see the two lucky boats rushing towards the port alone. past.

Three or four miles away, the port suddenly burst into flames, and the entire port was lit up one after another. I didn't know how many artillery shells roared out at the same time. spray.

The two Fu Chuan fluctuated as if caught in a storm out of thin air. Lin Feng could even hear the terrified shouts of the sailors on board. Both the front and rear masts were blown off, and the steering caused by inertia could not drag the heavy hull back at all.

The mast hit the deck with a heavy sail, and the sailor who was entangled in the sail rope was thrown up like a monster in the sea, and screamed until his body sank to the bottom of the sea.

Fu Chuan, who had escaped by chance, could hear the panicked shouts of the pirates from a long distance away. Seeing the sails dwindling little by little, Lin Feng knew that he had lost two warships in a blink of an eye.

When the pirates approached the fleet, they jumped into the sea one after another, and swam towards this side with all their strength, and were picked up one by one by the boats released by Duke Zhuang in advance.

Afterwards, Duke Zhuang's fleet circled along the east coast of the island. Before Lin Feng could react to the shock of the artillery on the shore, he ordered the fleet to follow. Got a cannon?"

"Ranging test."

After boarding the flagship, Duke Zhuang's face was equally ugly, and he said to Lin Feng: "Li Dan told me that he watched Chen Shuai's cannon drills, and first fired a few cannons to test the distance, then adjusted the angles of the other cannons, yes, the angles, and then fired in salvo. "

Damn it, why did Xiyi learn it!

Lin Feng's surprise attack was frustrated, and he ordered angrily: "They moved all the ship's guns ashore, bypassed the port, and walked dozens of miles before landing!"

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)