Lu Ming

Fuchuan, which was designed to transport goods flexibly and eat all kinds of wind, was not originally used to shoot broadsides.Don't say that these Fuchuan don't even have ship ribs. Even if enough ship ribs are installed, the "V"-shaped Fuchuan will capsize on the spot when the side is fired; It will turn into a park-style "pirate ship", throwing the sailors into the sea with a large roll.

In history, 20 years later, in the battle of Guo Xingye to recover the Dayuan Commercial Hall, the only ships capable of firing broadsides were still the "U"-shaped European-style ships purchased by the Zheng family.

And the ships built by the Zheng family, even the so-called "Daqingtou" with a strengthened hull structure, are essentially sharp-bottomed melee ships: only one cannon can be installed on the bow, and the longitudinal keel is used to eliminate the recoil of the cannon .When the artillery is shooting, you can't swing your head left and right, let alone shoot to the side. You can only shoot the bow at the enemy.

This is the case now.

The line of catching up from behind at high speed is almost parallel to the Fuchuan array, and the Fuchuan team has nothing to do... It is impossible for them to turn around collectively just to blast out an iron egg, let alone not be able to blast out: the current parallel distance between the two sides It is 1000 meters, and the party with the speed advantage is freely adjusting the distance between the two parties.

Five minutes later, the line of battle deftly adjusted the parallel distance between the two sides to 5 meters, and then the fleet began to lower the sails and reduce the gas delivery volume—too high speed is not conducive to launching, so everyone should move forward at the same speed.

…Seeing that the opponent actually lowered the sails in the naval battle, Zheng Zhilong is no longer lucky at this moment: he is now very aware of the speed difference between the tiger and the sheep, and having worked in both Dutch and Portuguese companies, he is very clear about the opponent's success. What to do next.

So he could only painfully issue an order that was close to giving up hope: turn to charge.

At the same moment, the iron bullets fired by the 12 naval Napoleon guns on the three destroyers also flew towards the Fu Fleet amidst the white smoke and roar.

The shelling was of course useless.

Even if the distance was only 500 meters, the iron balls fired by gunners who had experienced actual combat for the first time on the bumpy deck were all hit empty without exception. Some iron balls even deviated from the target by hundreds of meters, splashing one after another. Useless water column.

"Isn't this hit too bad? Doesn't it mean that the three cannons are more accurate?" The melon-eating crowd once again began to express their shock.Those who said this were ignorant, but the army and marines who knew how to do it were also surprised, as if they suddenly discovered that the navy was a moth of the people and a shame for time travel.

Liu Zhe was already powerless to argue with these rotten people. He was holding a walkie-talkie and giving orders to the entire fleet: "Left rudder three, keep the speed unchanged, and shoot steadily."

Following Liu Zhe's order, the Zheng pirates who had just turned the bow of the ship and made a difficult charge were surprised to see a beautiful tactical move: the three warships with white sails seemed to be equipped with springs. The battle lines moved 200 meters away in unison.

This uniform tactical action dealt a huge psychological blow to the pirates, because at the same moment, they fired the shells on the bow of the ship.

The five bow guns of Zheng's fleet have different calibers: from 12-pound to 16-pound guns.As for the aim... This kind of dosing depends on the brain to estimate, the distance is measured by the naked eye radar, and the aiming needs to adjust the entire ship to shoot perpendicularly to the opponent. At a distance of 700 meters, it is purely blind and has no effect.

The second round of artillery shells of the task force and the first round of artillery shells of the Fuchuan fleet were fired at the same time. The iron balls fired from the muzzles of the two sides crossed in the air. Except for a splash of water, no one achieved any results.

And the fleet's third round of artillery shells quickly smashed over.

In the Civil War, the skilled Napoleon artillery group fired four shots per minute.On sailing warships in the 1th century, the navy's basic requirement for gun crews was one shot per minute.This data will change in time with the sea conditions: under high sea conditions, every 17 minutes is also allowed.

Today's sea conditions are normal, the wind is a little bit strong, and other aspects are not bad, so the 12 artillery groups of the fleet fired salvos at the normal training speed of 1 round per minute.

However, this speed is a bit unreal in the eyes of the pirates on the opposite side.

You know, when they fired the first cannon, the huge recoil caused the various ropes and skids that bound the cannon to fly away. Just as the hard workers swarmed up to reset the cannon, the opposite side fired another five rounds. Shooting... There is no way, if you fall behind, you will be beaten. Who told the pirates not to have three-axis CNC machine tools and bearings, and can't process a custom slide rail system that allows the artillery to quickly reset...

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In fact, when the Napoleon gun fired to the fourth round, it had already opened.

A 12-pound iron ball skimmed over the deck of a Fuchuan ship, and made a bloody alley of pirates on the deck who were still dreaming of fighting the enemy hand-to-hand.

With the opening of the first shell, iron balls continued to hit the Fuchuan, either smashing a hole in the ship's plank, or killing the crowd on the deck, and the scene began to be tragic.

As for the five blessing boats charging slowly in a zigzag shape, the speed of the first three boats has slowed down due to continuous blows.A strange game scene appeared on the sea: five neat Chinese-style boats are heading south side by side, while three Western-style boats have drawn an arc and quickly bypassed the front of the Fuchuan.

"Brother, the momentum is not good, let's go separately." Seeing the opposite ship ignoring the wind direction and turning at high speed on the sea at will, no matter how dull the pirate was, he understood the essence of the problem: the sheep were being teased by the tiger.

This weird fighting mode makes the pirates who are used to jumping gangs at a loss.You know, even the Dutch, who were arrogant not long ago, also lost their armor and armor under the pirates' ant colony tactics and fled in embarrassment.

But today is different, today's ant colony has actually become a sheep.In the face of the opponent's incomprehensible speed and dense shells, the pirate ship suddenly found that he could do nothing. Even the speed of the inside U-turn was not as fast as the opponent's speed in the outer circle. It was purely a fighting posture of lying down and being hammered...

After hearing his brother's words, Zheng Zhilong, who was standing on the ship tower and kept watching, smiled bitterly at this moment: "I don't think these Kun people are not only good at guns, but also at boats. Today's defeat is not unfair. Sigh. , give the order, let's go separately."

Chapter 213 Killing the King ([-])

The Fu fleet of the Zheng family first sailed from north to south.

After discovering the enemy coming from the opposite side, the Fuchuan changed its course in time and fled towards the west to the mainland.When the task force caught up at an unheard of speed, they found that Zheng Zhilong couldn't run away, and changed the entire formation back to the charge formation from north to south.

In the late June season, going north to south comes at a price: headwinds.

Whether it was the charge just now or the current fleeing, in fact the Fuchuan were in an unfavorable wind direction.

However, these are not important now.There were heavy casualties, and the Fuchuan fleet, whose speed had slowed down due to water ingress, was splitting into two like an outstretched palm, trying to escape from the Cormorant Island in front of it.

The task force, which had circled to their rear and was fully firing, discovered the opponent's attempt to disperse and run away in time.By this time, if the wolves don't pounce on and bite fiercely, they will lose their reputation.

As a result, the three destroyers immediately assigned tasks through the walkie-talkie: the destroyer "Xingangxi" with the hull number 303 was responsible for chasing and killing the two blessing boats from the east of Cormorant Island, while the other two destroyers went to hunt and kill the Zheng Zhilong flagship. the three enemy ships.

Zheng Zhilong's flagship is easy to recognize, because the banner on it is different from others.In addition, the trackers in the hands of the crossing people have accurately marked the location of the pocket watch when the two parties approached within 5 kilometers.

So ships No. 301 and No. 302 chased after the target without hesitation, and quickly narrowed the distance between the two sides to a range of 200 meters: there was no artillery at the rear of the Fu boat, and there was no chance to kill the carbine.

Great guns.

Within a range of 200 meters, the army soldiers on the destroyer finally started to play a role: the pirates were knocked into the water like cutting wheat with a volley of guns.In addition, taking the three cannons at this distance is no different from shooting from the forehead. Amidst the roar, iron balls hit the opponent's stern every round.

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After today's actual battle, the battle between the caliber and the rate of fire that existed in the crossing navy is about to come to an end.

In the era of iron ball guns, the damage effect of 12-pound guns and 24-pound guns is actually not as big as imagined.

The caliber of the 12-pound gun is 117 mm, and the caliber of the 24-pdr gun is 148 mm.In other words, although the weight of the iron ball bullet has doubled, its diameter has only increased by about 3 centimeters. If it also hits an enemy ship, the 24-pound gun is nothing more than digging a slightly larger hole.

However, the additional requirements for heavy guns are much higher: additional reinforced decks and gun wells, additional auxiliary loading systems, additional gun mounts and slide rails, additional gun crews, etc...

In short, the huge total weight of the system and the increase in the requirements for the shooting platform are a bit tasteless in terms of the damage effect that heavy artillery can cause.

In addition, if it is to attack dense crowds like today, the effect of the 24-pound gun and the 12-pound gun is actually the same: they are all made out of a bloody alley, and the iron ball 3 cm larger cannot kill a few more people.But at the moment when the heavy artillery was slowly reloading, the 12-pound artillery had already fired several rounds of shells-the overall efficiency was higher than that of the light artillery.

... At present in the 17th century, smoothbore guns also have a flaw that is extremely unfavorable to heavy guns: the way of sighting and aiming.The tragic trajectory and aiming method of iron ball bullets lead to the result that whether it is a light artillery or a heavy artillery, the hit rate is quite horrible in long-distance shooting of about 1000 meters.

There is no way to pass through the crowd.

Most of the crossing is to use various eyepieces to measure the distance and angle, but they cannot install the gunner's laser rangefinder sight, gunner's day and night sight, digital-analog hybrid fire control computer, and target angular velocity measurement for the iron ball gun. devices and various ballistic correction sensors...

In terms of comparison, the crossing crowd is currently the number one in the plane, but in terms of strength and distance, everyone is about the same... At long distances, everyone has no idea. At short distances, the high rate of fire of the 12-pound Napoleon gun, and the resulting combination The damage effect is more than that of a 24-pound cannon.

The premise of the phrase "caliber is justice" is that half a catty can be stuffed into the shell...3 taels of explosives...Iron ball guns are not included.Therefore, the heavy artillery party will die down from today, and the light artillery rapid jet will be the mainstream configuration of the fleet in the future.

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back to the battlefield.

Soon, under the close-range fire of the two destroyers, the Fuchuan, which fell last and was hit by iron balls frequently, began to sink slowly.The sailors on board dived one after another, some swam to the Fuchuan ahead, and some swam to Cormorant Island.Seeing this scene, Liu Zhe picked up the walkie-talkie and started shouting: "Circle around, fight from the outer circle, allow the remnant enemies to go to the island, and don't allow escape from the outer circle!"

As a result, the army soldiers on the three destroyers shot at the pirates who were trying to swim out to sea, forcing them to swim to Cormorant Island.

The Fuchuan, already aware of the doomsday, made a final struggle: the two ships on the east saw that only one destroyer was chasing them, so the two ships parted ways, trying to escape one of them in the chaos.

However, Ship 303 is no ordinary ship—there are big bugs on board.

The next moment, the No. 303 ship lowered its full sails, turning the ship into a full gas-powered propulsion: the propeller power can provide stable output, is not affected by the wind, and can be operated delicately.

The destroyer, which slowed down, quickly slid past the stern of a lucky boat smoothly.At this time, the distance between the two sides was deliberately adjusted by the destroyer to only about 40 meters. The pirates on the opposite ship can now clearly see their beards.

Then, a big man wearing camouflage trousers and a two-finger vest stood up from the side of the ship.At the same time that this person flicked a Yuxi cigarette butt into the sea, a soldier with a large birthmark on his face swiftly took out a set of RPG from an aluminum alloy box and handed it to the boss.

Wei Yuan's feet were uneven at the moment, and he stood firmly on the shaky ship plank: After a loud "bang", accompanied by the intense flames from the tail of the bazooka, the tail of the opposite Fuchuan exploded at the same time, and the fireball exploded. And thick smoke accompanied by blocks and helmsmen flying into the sky, the momentum is amazing and the scene is cool.

Seeing that the Fuchuan started to burn violently after being in close contact with the high-explosive incendiary warhead, the No. 303 ship immediately dropped the dead body, began to speed up in a short distance, and went straight to another guy who was trying to escape.

And the people on that ship are not fools, they don't know what RPG is, but they only need to understand the effect of this thing-a large number of sailors began to jump into the sea, and this ship has become the most powerful ship captured by the navy since the war started. The first booty.

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While the 303 side was bombarding the sea and organizing people to board the ship, Liu Zhe's main force also drove the two Zheng's boats to a dead end. The platoon of guns and guns within 200 meters made Zheng Zhilong, a generation of heroes, finally give the final order: rush to the beach.

Cormorant Island is a palm-sized island.

Cormorant Island, located off the coast of Putian, is 10 nautical miles away from the mainland, with an area of ​​less than 2 square kilometers.This island has no fresh water, and there is no dangerous terrain for defending. The only thing that can hinder the task force is probably some beautiful corals and sea trees.

Of course, the obstacles caused by these corals are limited: Cormorant Island has a natural deep-water bay of "Eagle Head" that can accommodate [-] tons of giant ships.

So the fleet is currently organizing a landing in the big bay in the island.

It took time to land. After all, the destroyer couldn't just rush to the beach like the two lucky boats that had been stranded on the beach, ignoring the damage to the bottom of the ship from the reef and coral.

The current situation is: two warships are moving around Cormorant Island, killing all the pirates who are still on the sea.Destroyer No. 301 has assembled all three small boats of the fleet in Deep Water Bay, and the landing operation presided over by the commander of the Marine Corps, Qian Tieshan, is in progress.

The first wave of assault is the most important, so the commando with a total of 22 people divided into three small boats and started to grab the beach.

The Marine Corps, which has a small number of people, is currently used by the time-traversing crowd as a special force, so all the members are well-equipped and highly skilled.Every 7-person team is equipped with various individual protective equipment. The main equipment is the MK17 rifle and the M9 pistol, and one of the M7.62 squad machine guns using 60MM NATO bullets is also in the hands of Qian Tieshan.

After the Marine Corps was quietly established, the crossing army implemented a weapon deployment plan.

In view of the fact that the "import" mode of materials of a certain force is hell-level, the consequence is: all firearms are ultimately limited to a few models and bullet calibers, so that parts can be interchanged and ammunition can be used to the maximum extent.

Through that internal deployment, all the MK17 assault rifles purchased by Cao Chuan in the early days were all assigned to the Marine Corps.This is a mistake: the expensive rifle Cao bought at a high price is actually the best special warfare weapon today.The United States can't even use the SEALs, and only the First Airborne Special Forces is equipped with this advanced assault rifle.

In this way, the weapons routinely used by the army and navy to house towns have become the AK47 assault rifle, which shares 17MM bullets with the MK7.62.

In addition, there is only one general-purpose pistol in the army: the 45-inch M9 pistol.The intelligence agencies and some civilians use two types of pistols: P226 and HKP7.These two expensive pistols for law enforcement use the NATO 9MM pistol cartridge in common.

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The landing craft carrying the MK17 and M60 machine guns quickly washed up on the beach in the middle of Cormorant Island.At the same moment, the pirates who had been driven to a dead end saw the first chance to fight the enemy hand-to-hand-this made their eyes filled with tears.

Therefore, there was no need for the big boss to encourage a wave of charge proverbs. More than 300 heroes who had been aggrieved for a long time and had not been on the island for a long time rushed over from all directions automatically.Even though the sea water on their bodies was still wet, and even though many of them lost their weapons, they still followed closely behind their companions, expecting to pick up a steel knife and plunge it into the enemy's chest.

Chapter 214 Killing the King ([-])

Many people regard the B51 in "Counter-Strike" as the M60 general-purpose machine gun, which is actually wrong.

The B51 in CS is called the M249 squad machine gun.Because it fires 5.56 caliber bullets, this gun fires fast and is light enough for culture thieves to run around with it.

And this will be the authentic US military M60 machine gun that Qian Tieshan is setting up on the bow of the ship and is about to fire.

This is a general-purpose machine gun similar in shape to the M249, but uses 7.62MM bullets: the 17th-century crossing army does not need sissy 5.56MM bullets, because there are countless enemies who don’t know how to lie down and charge in dense formations. MM bullets go to penetrate, just like now.

随着钱铁山一声令下，三艘已经冲滩的小艇上顿时射出了一片弹雨。21把MK17和1把M60机枪同时射出的弹雨，只持续了1分钟。

One minute later, Qian Tieshan gave an order to stop shooting amidst the curses from the walkie-talkie—if the shooting continued, Comrade Liu Zhe, commander-in-chief of the fleet and commander-in-chief of landing, would faint.

Why faint?Because of this expedition, the bullets allocated by the big office are under the name of the navy.In other words, if copper-cased bullets are used less today, then the navy can save some and put them in its own small coffers in the future.

So Qian Tieshan, a bad guy who spends other people's money, was scolded. Now he can feel someone's anger across hundreds of meters of sea.But he doesn't regret it, it's... very cost-effective to use some navy bullets to shoot live ammunition for his men.

The shooting effect is of course perfect.

The charge of more than 300 pirates is meaningless in the face of 21+1 automatic weapons of later generations.In fact, the warriors had already begun to flee before the first magazine was fired: a series of scenes of head exploding face to face wiped away all courage.The pirates were not the allies who stormed Normandy, they didn't have the ability to charge with machine guns.

Watching the remaining dozens of bandits flee to the east of the island, Qian Tieshan did not order to pursue them. Instead, he sent a small boat back to pull them back, and at the same time ordered his men to stand guard on the spot.Now time is on the side of the traverser, Cormorant Island is just a little bigger than a palm, where can Zheng Zhilong with the locator go?

After a full hour, the fleet's leisurely landing operation came to an end: 90 reinforcement army soldiers and 10 or so cross-overs landed on the beach.

During this period of time, the high-speed motor sailing boats that took turns cruising the open sea had killed the pirates who were trying to swim long distances on the clear coral coast.

In addition, the three pirates who came to negotiate with the white flag were also shot in the head by Qian Tieshan himself from 200 meters away: the crossing forces have spent so much time and resources, why is this moment today?At this point, the only thing left is life and death... Don't you think it's too late to negotiate now?

Seeing that the envoys they sent were killed, the pirates headed by Zheng Zhilong had nothing to say, and retreated into the Ya'an area in the northeast corner one after another.

The cliffside area is composed of a mass of chaotic rocks.People who have traveled to Cormorant Island in later generations will know that there are stone caves on the cliffs there, and Zheng Zhilong is in the cave at this moment.

However, this is of no use.Walking to the end of the short cave, the sea is at your feet, and it is an extremely clear coral sea.In addition, the destroyer Newport Creek is less than 200 meters away on the ocean, so this is not a way of life, but a way of death.

The pirates knew this very well, and they also understood the ruthless signal sent by the crossing crowd before, so many of them chose to stand out from the chaotic rocks to make a last-ditch...or to die.

90 army soldiers wearing cowhide military boots have pulled out of the skirmish line at this moment, and are slowly sifting through the rocky area under the command of portable trumpets.These soldiers held the [-] caps with bayonets in their hands, and kept shooting the pirates who rushed out with desperate faces and roars with random guns.

Occasionally, a few nimbler pirates would jump up close, and they would be quickly shot to death by the marines scattered among the army soldiers with pistols. The marines have now carried their assault rifles and started using the M9 for close combat. pistol.

Half an hour later, the arc-shaped search net had killed all the pirates hiding in the reef area, and the soldiers began to gather in the direction of the cliff cave.And Zheng's last wave of charge also arrived as scheduled: more than 10 last pirates rushed out of the cliff cave with their knives in their hands while roaring.

Dozens of [-]-type rifles with beautiful mahogany barrels and laser-engraved patterns opened fire immediately, and the smoke filled the air. None of the pirates slipped through the net, and all of them were killed in front of the cliff cave.

At this moment, the mutants were born.

In the dense fog, a figure suddenly jumped down from the top of a large rock behind the soldiers.There is a natural groove on the top of this reef, which can only be seen when standing at the entrance of the cliff cave on a relatively high terrain.Therefore, Zheng Zhihu, who is only 22 years old but the man with the highest strength in the Zheng family, is here to ambush.

As soon as Zheng Zhihu's front toes landed, he used the momentum to grow up, swiped twice, and chopped down the two soldiers from behind in less than half a second.Amidst the gunpowder smoke, the soldiers who were focused on the front didn't realize what happened at all. The next second, the bright knife light flashed, accompanied by the looming figures, and two more soldiers were cut down instantly.

Just as Zheng Zhihu was about to use the last smoke to kill a few more enemies, there were several loud shouts from behind: "Turn around! There are enemies!"

Zheng Zhihu, whose eyes were already red, of course heard the warning sound at this moment, but he didn't care. He even hoped that the enemy behind him would shoot quickly—in the smog, aim at the pile of entangled people... definitely Can help him kill a few more.

As a result, Zheng Zhihu's usual mighty face showed a rare sneer.He raised his knife and pointed it at the neck of a recruit who just turned his head and saw him with a terrified expression, so frightened that he dropped his gun, and wanted to chop it off.

At this moment, Zheng Zhihu heard a "choking" sound of drawing a knife from behind; he, who had experienced many battles, immediately retreated and twisted his waist. The posture faced the rear and chopped down.

After a loud "dang", the two blades intersected.Amidst the tooth-piercing sound of metal rubbing, the two warriors were looking at each other with their arms stretched across the interlaced steel knives in front of them, their eyes facing each other.

It was a dwarf who took Zheng Zhihu's sword with his momentum.This person has a leopard head and eyes, dark skin, short stocky, holding a chrome steel short-bladed Tang knife that Cao Chuan had wholesaled to the bandits in Pingfengzhai, and was fighting with the tall and burly Zheng Zhihu.

This person is called Chen Huoding.