Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 1066 The Pirate Comes Blowing the Flute 3
Accompanied by the melody of the flute, the light of the stars gradually dimmed, and the dark night sky slowly turned gray.

A straight ray of light shot down from the sky, passing over the surging waves, and fell on the Ming fleet. The black tiger flag flew in the morning light. The black tiger bared its teeth and claws, as if it wanted to tear the battle flag into pieces and jump out. The pirates who dared to disturb Tai Sui were all torn into pieces.

With the morning light like water, he opened the binoculars, and the red beard clearly saw that standing under the banner of the black tiger was not a sailor with a frightened expression, but a soldier in black military uniform, helmet, and rifle.He was slightly startled, turned his head and asked the assistant beside him: "Jamal, have you seen this armed force?"

Jamal, with gray beard and face wrinkled like a dried orange, was also a little confused: "No... Neither the Mughal dynasty nor the navy of the Kingdom of Ceylon wore black uniforms and used black tigers as their flags. He frowned and pondered for a moment, making a guess: "Could it be mercenaries invited by Indians or Ceylons?"

The red beard said: "Mercenaries? If they are really mercenaries, then they will definitely regret why they took this business!" The coastal countries and towns were unbearable to be harassed by pirates, so they hired mercenaries to help them defend themselves against the pirates. Attacks by pirates are very common in Europe and South Asia. Redbeard has encountered them many times. Who told Indians to be rich?But he didn't pay attention to those mercenaries. All of his subordinates have first-class martial arts and first-class boat handling skills, as well as very sophisticated weapons and equipment. How can those mercenaries compare?Although the target of the robbery suddenly became several warships, this situation is indeed unexpected, but he is fully confident that he can kill the mercenaries with naval guns and machetes and snatch their warships!
Redbeard immediately commanded his fleet to kill this "mercenary fleet" as quickly as possible. The deployment changed rapidly, from encirclement on all sides to flank attack on both sides. He led the main fleet, a total of thirteen large ships. The air outlets are lined up, this position is very favorable, with their backs facing the rising sun, but the enemy fleet facing him has to face the sun, when the fierce battle is in full swing, when the sun comes out, the glare of the sun will make the opponent's gunners unable to open their eyes. With the eyes open, the hit rate of shooting is greatly reduced. This is his experience.

As he got closer, he could clearly see that the enemy warships had only a handful of guns, not to mention compared to his fleet, even compared to armed merchant ships.He just thought it was funny. How dare you become a mercenary with such a shabby firepower configuration and make a fool of the world?I really don’t know how to write the word “death”!
Han Suquan did not move. He watched the mobilization of the pirate fleet with great interest. Seeing that the other party moved quickly and cooperated tacitly, he generously praised: "This group of people still has real talents. No wonder they have been able to sail across the sea for decades!"

The guide almost cried: "Why... why... why didn't you fire? If you don't fire, they will rush over!"

Han Suquan said: "No hurry, no hurry, let them rush over! Our shells are very expensive and cannot be wasted easily."

The guide jumped on his feet and yelled, "We'll die if we let them rush! We'll all die!"

Han Suquan glanced at him: "If you continue to make such noise, you will die now!"

The guide trembled with horror, quickly shut up, hid in the cabin and prayed for the blessing of the Bodhisattva.He regrets it now, his guts are green with regret, if he had known that this trip would be so terrible, he shouldn't have coveted the generous rewards and volunteered to go to the navy to act as a guide!Well now, following a group of idiots and lunatics who watched the pirates rushing over and didn't know how to intercept them, he was considered dead, either thrown into the sea to feed the fish or cut into pieces by a machete, anyway, don't think about death!
But there is also good news: after his death, his family can get a settling-in allowance, which is enough to raise their children...

The calmness of the Ming fleet surprised Redbeard——under normal circumstances, the mercenaries would have fired wildly at a distance of 600 meters, trying to scare themselves away. Why are these guys so calm? Don't take yourself seriously?The red beard felt inexplicably uneasy. This was the uneasiness of a creature encountering a natural enemy. He had an ominous premonition: this time he might encounter a tough one!But Ming Jun's super-amateur performance didn't look like a battle-hardened force, and he didn't know where this sense of unease came from.Besides, now that the arrow is on the string, he has to launch it. His fleet is approaching only three hundred meters away from the opponent, so he can't retreat now and expose his butt to the opponent casually, right?He ordered grimly: "Show the port gun out and get ready to fire!"

More than a dozen pirate ships turned left in unison, and rows of black muzzles on the port side slowly pointed at the Ming army fleet.

Han Suquan smiled: "Each warship aims at an enemy ship and fires!"

He has never ordered to fire to intercept, but waited until the opponent was only 200 meters away from him and turned the rudder to reveal the broadside guns. At this time, the battleship was hit by the largest area of ​​bullets. With the artillery skills of the Ming army sailors Coupled with the accuracy of the rifled gun, there are almost no missed shots!
Boom boom boom boom boom!

The 120mm long-barrel naval gun fired suddenly, and a large group of blazing smoke was ejected from the muzzle. The air wave expanded, and the rumbling sound was like thunder, tearing the sky.The Arab sailors who were manipulating the steering of the battleship looked away in horror. They saw a large cloud of white smoke and flames rising from the bow of the Ming army warship, and there was a terrible whistling sound in the air. Bash yourself over!They were all dumbfounded, my god, what kind of ghost cannon is this, so terrifying!
The shells, which were not many but extremely powerful, fell one after another, stirring up thick and large water columns, and the rumbling sound was deafening.This round of volley was aimed at the school, and the hit rate was not high. Most of the shells were empty, but two Arab pirate ships were still hit by the shells and became the first victims of this naval battle.The high-speed shells easily smashed through the hull, penetrated into the interior of the battleship and exploded. The Arab pirates who were closer to the explosion point felt as if a small sun was expanding in front of their eyes, and then their consciousness was wiped out. The power of the 120mm caliber high-explosive bomb is undoubtedly terrifying. The explosion shock wave spread overwhelmingly, the wooden hull was torn to pieces, and countless wooden thorns mixed with shrapnel shot around at explosive speed. One by one extra-large hedgehogs!
After the explosion is the fire.The most disgusting thing about picric acid explosives is that not only is the explosion powerful, but it also has a violent burning effect. If you don't explode, you will burn to death!For sailboats, this thing is a nightmare, the whole ship is the best fuel, wooden hull, waterproof asphalt, ropes piled up in the cabin, paint on the hull... Once these things The fire was out of control, and the fire spread rapidly, and the warship that was shot was in chaos.

The red beard was shocked: "This... what kind of cannon is this, so powerful!?"

Jamal was equally astonished: "It's a bit like the Venetian's heavy naval gun! I heard from the navy that the Venetian has equipped a heavy fleet in recent years. It fires a shell that can penetrate into the interior of the battleship and explode. It is very powerful. After the explosion, it will It caused a big fire, it was very scary... Could it be that these mercenaries are Venetians?"

It's okay not to say it, but when I said it, many Arab pirates changed their faces on the spot.The Venetian Navy is a strong enemy of the Ottoman Empire. It has suffered a lot from the Ottoman Navy in the Mediterranean Sea. Many of them have fought against the Venetian Navy and have been beaten all over the place. If this mercenary army is really Venice People, then their trip can be regarded as kicking the iron plate!

Boom boom boom boom boom!

There was no time to think about it, and after about ten seconds, the second round of salvos from the Ming army fleet came again!After the first calibration shot, the hit rate of the second volley was greatly improved. Shen Lei rolled over, the sky fell apart, many pirates flew into the sky together with the deck fragments, flying all over the sky, and the pirate ships that were shot one after another The ship caught fire and exploded violently. Many pirates ran wildly covered in fire, and burned wherever they hit.The two pirate ships that had been shot before suffered another disaster, and they each suffered two or three shells. The thick smoke made it difficult to open the eyes, and there was no way to put out the fire!
Boom boom boom boom———

The pirate fleet opened fire, and more than 200 naval guns let out earth-shattering roars, and solid shot balls slammed over like a hailstone, hitting clusters of water jets around the Ming army fleet.The battleship of the Ming army was also shot, but... the effect made the pirates feel discouraged. It was completely incomparable with the effect of the high-explosive shell fired by the 120mm naval gun hitting the battleship!
The Ming army fleet simply ignored the damage to the battleship, and only cared about reloading and firing at the fastest rate of fire!They all graciously let go of those pirate ships that were shot and caught fire, aiming their guns at the ones that were not shot. When the pirates turned wildly and tried to launch a second round of attack with the starboard gun, the shells hit their heads. superior.Immediately, two more pirate ships were shot, one of them was unlucky to be hit four times in a row, and two hit the deck. The explosion shock wave swept away several pirates exposed outside the deck, overturned the main mast, and caused The sails burst into flames; one hit the stern and blew the stern to pieces; the last hit a gun emplacement, and the powder kegs piled up on that emplacement exploded, followed by the powder kegs of the nearby gun emplacements. , The battleship was struck by lightning, and the loud noise was as dense and terrifying as a thunderstorm, which horrified everyone!
The pirate ships that came from the back of the Ming army fleet were also bombarded by artillery fire. The firepower of the stern was weaker than that of the bow, but one pirate ship was shot and caught fire in the first round, burning blazingly.The Arab pirates desperately found that this fleet was like a hedgehog, with powerful naval guns on both sides of the bow and stern, no matter which direction they attacked from, they would hit the muzzle!They could only reload and launch at the fastest rate of fire, and smashed large and small solid shot balls at the Ming army fleet.It can be seen with the naked eye that the Ming army fleet has suffered a lot of shells under their intensive firepower, but...it is useless. For a warship with a displacement of several hundred tons, the weight of a three-to-four-jin shot put The damage caused is simply insignificant!

However, the naval guns of the Ming army basically hit the pirate ship with one shot, and if they were shot, they would be paralyzed even if they did not die!

Looking at the Ming army fleet constantly spewing smoke from the muzzle, and looking at their own warships that were constantly being shot and set ablaze, the pirates had ten thousand horses roaring past at six times the speed of sound.

As if the fighting was not lively enough, the Ming army sailors set up a simple rocket launcher, moved the rockets out, fixed them, then aimed and ignited them. Immediately, countless fire dragons shot into the sky from the deck of the Ming army battleship. He got up, pulled out dazzling arcs in the air, aimed at the pirate ship and plunged down!
Then there were more intensive explosions and more violent fires. The pirates felt that the sky seemed to be split, and the fire rain was pouring down, trying to turn them into ashes...

Redbeard took the lead and ordered to escape.This kind of battle can't be fought at all, he must be blind to have the idea of ​​looting a few warships with such powerful armaments!
As soon as the boss ran away, the pirates also followed the wind.Now they are [-]% sure that what they are encountering is the Venetian navy. Apart from the Venetian navy, it is difficult to find a second such professional and well-equipped fleet. As far as their abilities are concerned, they really cannot beat the Venetian navy. , unimaginable!Everyone scolded in their hearts: Damn Venetians, you actually came to India to roam around, you are riding on our heads to shit!You just wait for me, I will go home and call the elites of the Shanghai Navy to come over and clean up you, your mother is crazy!

(End of this chapter)