open sea

Chapter 607 Artillery Battle
The captain of the Yinyu didn't even know what happened. He was directing the gunners and gunners to shoot fiercely at the Flying Shark Ming Ship. Suddenly, he saw a sudden fire in the place where the enemy ship sailed, and even almost spread to the stern of their ship.

Seeing that it was too late to be happy after avoiding the sea of ​​fire, he saw that the Lina had fallen into the sea of ​​fire, the sailors on board shouted and ran around, and the helmsman hurriedly deviated from the course, not daring to chase into the sea of ​​fire, and turned to the right to avoid the open ship, which made him feel stressed multiply.

He was already thinking about how this farce would end.

Without the assistance of the Lina, the forty, no, thirty sailors on the Yinyu alone would not be able to capture this huge bright ship, and it would be difficult to gain an advantage in the boarding battle, but the embarrassing It was because before the war, they did not expect that this open ship was about the same length as Clark but could be faster than the Caravel ship.

The biggest problem facing him now is that it is difficult to win a battle, and he wants to withdraw from the battlefield but is not as fast as the enemy ship.

This made him can't help but look at the big Clark ship whose outline was hard to see in the distance. If he could escape somewhere, he would definitely win.

The Santa Caterina is a large Clark sailing ship with blackened boards and four main masts and a bowsprit. It has served in the Portuguese royal family for seven years. It was first used as a short-distance ship between Lisbon and the Mediterranean Sea. Equipped with more than [-] large oars on both sides of the belly, it is a veritable huge merchant ship.

With the rise of the Ming navy, not only the huge investment of many Portuguese nobles in East Asia was in vain, but also the authority of their fleet in the Indian Ocean was shaken. Naval battles can only further squeeze Africa's interests, and the Catalina was transported to Lisbon for remodeling after the signing of the treaty between Ming and Spain.

In order to enter the battlefield, the red oars on the abdomen of this 37-meter-long sea monster were removed. Eighteen gun positions were installed on the lower deck, and eight swivel guns were fixed on the left and right sides of the upper deck. The jib is detachable in a hurry, the most advanced tools such as the sail rope ladder are used, and the height of the forecastle is further reduced to facilitate long-distance sailing.

But now that he fled to the vicinity of the Catalina with an open ship, he would definitely be scolded by the nobles on that ship after the battle, which would damage his self-esteem.

Dodo!

Just as he was still weighing the pros and cons, two soft sounds and the terrified shouts of his subordinates reminded him that it was the sound of the ballista on the open ship throwing nail cables on their ship, and when the pirates on the Flying Shark ship shouted loudly and turned When the capstan was winched, the two warships that were already approaching drew closer even more quickly, followed by more manpower-throwing hooks to hook their sides.

Those Asian faces with hideous expressions are up close and personal!
The expression of the captain of the Yinyu was always fixed on the shock he was looking at the Flying Shark. A lead shot accurately hit the eye between the wide-brimmed iron helmet and the steel plate armor throat, from the right eye to the back of the head.

On the other side of the ballistic path, on the side of the Baihu ship which was only approaching more than ten steps away, Yang Ce and the pirates under him threw down the bird guns, held up the bundle of gunpowder to give orders to his subordinates, and pointed the bundle of gunpowder towards the Caravel ship in the process of approaching. Throw it with all your strength—this kind of gunpowder bundle made by Tangmin Island Phoenix is ​​the most suitable gunpowder weapon that Yang Ce can find under Lin Afeng's hands.

Here, most of the weapons he had trained in the martial arts hall were useless. There were no rockets, no grenades, no mines, and no large-caliber heavy artillery. Even this simple gunpowder bundle was five times less powerful than Nanyang's. As a result, even though they look the same, this is not the gunpowder bundle of the Nanyang Army, which explodes in all directions with prefabricated fragments, but a cannon battle in which only the front and rear can eject lead pellets.

After throwing three bundles of gunpowder with their leader, the experienced pirates hid themselves behind the side of the ship when the two ships met—no one could control when the gunpowder bundle exploded. Wherever they are facing, if one is facing themselves, they are just within the range of the scatter.

But at the same time, the sailors on the Silverfish also threw several large objects onto their ship, which shattered on the ground, scaring the pirates so much that it was impossible to pick them up and throw them back. Turn around and face the thing with your butt.

The bang of the explosion came as expected on the caravel ship. Listening to the shrill screams, the pirates discovered that the opponents threw tiles and grease on their own decks.

The gunpowder bundle imitated by the Phoenix has a problem with the ratio of gunpowder, but the damage is insufficient, but the gunpowder smoke is very heavy. It is too late to feel that compared with the Ming people, the Portuguese throwing is very friendly. A few flying torches dragged the flames and threw them through the gunpowder smoke. .

As the flames rose, Sun Liu had grasped the military-style saber and flew out on the board of the ship. He rushed into the gunpowder smoke, slashing left and right, and the shout hit the ears of the pirates on the ship.

"Don't worry about the fire, one counts as one, capture and kill them all!"

The torches and grease will not be able to cause too much damage to the solid ship planks for a while. Similarly, their kerosene is unlikely to directly burn the escaped Caravel ship. Sun Liu has always remembered that ship. If they make a comeback, they will be in crisis, so they must kill all the enemies on this ship before the other party comes to their senses.

A group of pirates following Sun Liu jumped onto the caravel ship from the three planks and sail ropes. Yang Ce failed to squeeze into the crowded plank, and simply commanded the boatman to put out the fire while carrying the only four remaining guns on board. Shoot a volley to the bow and stern of the enemy ship where the enemy gathers.

The battle process was much faster than they imagined. The three cannons exploded on the deck and caused more casualties to the enemy than the sum of the cannon and the firecrackers. The enemies on the deck were wiped out in an instant. The army soldiers were also deliberately hacked and killed by Mrs. Sun, and some of the rest fled to the lower deck, and a few were forced to jump into the sea.

The fire on the Baihu was gradually extinguished, and Yang Ce saw another enemy ship drifting away with black smoke, he felt a little relieved, he also boarded the deck of the Yinyu, and had a fight with Sun Liu who had just come up from the cabin When they met each other, they saw the boatswain wearing a brand-new breastplate that didn't fit well, nodding while holding a sailor's ax belonging to the Portuguese.

The pirates who came out from behind dragged several corpses of sailors stripped down to their underwear and threw them into the sea.

Then boxes of luggage were carried onto the blood-stained deck.

Armor, weapons, gunpowder, shells, and a small amount of pasta and water.

There were not many spoils on this escort ship, and only those sailors found some property with them, but it was still pitifully small.

The most valuable ones were five small-caliber bronze cannons of different lengths, shorts, and thicknesses and four small Franco cannons on the side of the ship. One blasted gun was put on the bottom of the bilge as ballast, and was also brought up by the pirates.

Sun Liu and Yang Ce looked at each other, and they both saw the dissatisfaction in each other's eyes, and said, "You know a lot, can you take that big-bellied boat?"

Yang Ce glanced at the dead and injured sailors around him and slowly shook his head. He had less than fifty men left, of which only forty were able to continue fighting, which was not enough for another big naval battle, especially against a huge ship. Clark ship with many soldiers.

What's more, the shape of that Clark was bigger than the shape he was familiar with in the lecture hall.

"Hundred households are fast, put the cannons on the repairing ship first, and follow him far behind, and send some people to sail this ship along the coast to the west city. We also have two flying sharks outside, as long as we can If you contact one, you can snatch that big ship."

Yang Ce nodded slowly, and said to Sun Liu: "They can't hide in the port all the time, as long as they go out to sea, we can catch him."

(End of this chapter)