Chapter 276 Cannons Fall from the Sky
Saint.
George is the dragon-slaying warrior in Christian legend. His courage and piety once became a symbol of chivalrous spirit. Saint.
The rise of the George flag is to tell the opponent and the friend ship that he will fight to the end and never retreat.
Han Wu saw a blood-red pennant flag rising on the pirate ship, and the crew members on the two ships performed abnormally, and he immediately became suspicious. He did not understand the purpose of the pirate ship raising the flag, but guessed that it should be a flag sentence. He immediately signaled the ship to slow down and make a tentative approach.
As the commander of a unit, he can mobilize the emotions of the army and make the entire army crazy, but as a commander, he must always remain absolutely calm. This is the demands made repeatedly for the generals during the martial arts training of Yang Ling's Shenji Camp. The Han brothers have always been stable in their personalities and naturally think that they are right.
Han Wu was suddenly promoted to the admiral of the Navy. He became the commander of the South China Sea Fleet at a young age. He felt that he had to bear the heavy responsibility and reflected on himself all the time. Anyway, the enemy ship was surrounded, so he naturally refused to act rashly.
But Peng Xiaoyang didn't have so many concerns. Seeing that he was late, the three pirate ships were in full swing. I don't know if Cao Tianchong had been summoned by Tianchong. Anyway, his first achievements would definitely be gone.
Now there is a two-layer encirclement of Western warships. His warship is on the outside. It is estimated that the credit for defeating the Western warships will be taken away by Han Wu. Peng Xiaoyang is very impatient.
He had just equipped a new warship with a total of more than the ships led by Han Wu, so he was eager to show some results. At the same time, although Han Wu's official position was above him, he was Han Wu's master when he was in the Zhejiang Navy. He taught Han Wu step by step whether it was water nature or the ability to use ships. In addition, Han Wu is now a Fujian Navy and has no direct authority over him, so Peng Xiaoyang has less scruples.
At this time, seeing Han Wu slow down, Peng Xiaoyang immediately ordered his warship to speed up through Han Wu's four warships, and pounced on Fernando's "Golden" and "Adventure" like a group of hungry wolves.
"Oh no!" Han Wu was shocked when he saw this. He ordered the flag bearer to wave his flag words quickly, but Peng Xiaoyangdi's fleet ignored it. Han Wu had to ask his warship to turn the rudder and prepare for artillery fire to cover him.
Peng Xiaoyang had fought with the Shark King and the officers and soldiers who surrounded Putuo Mountain before, and knew how to win by skill when the firepower was insufficient to match the opponent. He ordered the four warships to take advantage of the weakness of the "Adventure" that had lost its ability to move, and try to get close to the enemy ships as much as possible, and use the pirates' best hand-to-hand combat.
The "Adventure" with a broken main mast can only attack the left and right wings, and the protection tasks of the head and tail must be completed by the "Golden". At the same time, the Golden is parallel to it, so it can complete the head and tail protection work of the "Golden" land.
However, doing this is just a delay, mainly for the premise that other friendly ships are fighting fire with enemy ships so that the enemy ships cannot attack them as much as possible. Now Spanish warships are surrounded by Ming warships, and this method is simply to turn naval battles into positional battles, wanting to fight with the Ming army until the last bullet and a soldier.
Peng Xiaoyang saw that in order to watch and help each other with Adventure, the range of activities of the "Golden" was limited, and the warships could not move out of the artillery cover area on the starboard side of Adventure. The radius of activity was extremely narrow. So he concentrated four warships to approach the outboard of the "Golden" in dense formations.
In this way, only one side gun can play a role. At the same time, due to its hull blocking, the Adventure behind was unable to provide firepower support to it. The firepower of the four ships Peng Xiaoyang completely suppressed the "Gold".
The unprecedented tragic shooting of the attack was that the "Golden" wanted to escape or abandon the "Adventure" to adjust the combat angle. It also had to endure the terrifying consequences of being bombarded by sixty or seventy cannons at the same time during the escape.
The trapezoidal sail of the "Golden" caught fire, the foremast was broken, the upper deck was bleeding and sweating, and the sailors who were shot in dense shots were lying on the deck. Han Wei's four warships were dead in the "Golden" artillery fire. They were leisurely moving and constantly bombarding the guns.
Under the cover of Han Wu's firepower, Peng Xiaoyangdi's warship finally approached the "Golden" at the cost of six holes being broken through the side of the ship, and the upper deck and canvas were bombarded with holes.
When there was still thirty feet away, the unique "flamethrower" of the Ming Navy came in handy. The flying nozzle shot hundreds of fire dragons across the sky, and flames suddenly burned on the upper deck of the Western ship.
The gunners were nervously loading ammunition. Under the scorching flames, they had to throw down their things in their hands and flee in panic.
"Boom! Boom!" Gunpowder was ignited. Although he had the belief that he would die, the flesh and blood of the pirates could not fight against the fire. The Ming army's warship avoided the fireside and moved to the bow and stern of the ship, and tugged the hook and quilt on the "Golden".
Peng Xiaoyang pulled out the ghost head and machete, and said with a grim smile: "Brothers, kill! Kill all the red-haired ghosts!"
The fierce hand-to-hand battle began. Peng Xiaoyang, naked, led the soldiers and the pirates on the "Golden" to engage in a direct face-to-face confrontation on the hook boards connected to the side of the ship. The pirates attacked with muskets and heavy hand axes. The Ming army fought back with muskets, bows and arrows.
People kept screaming and falling to the sea. Finally, the Ming army began to appear at the bow of the "Golden", and then more and more navy officers and soldiers rushed over. The Spanish pirates dropped their muskets and drew their swords to meet them.
The sailors on both sides intersected hand-to-hand, and the shouts of killing suddenly echoed through the sky. The hand-to-hand combat on the "Golden" directly affected the "Adventure". Without the firepower support of the "Golden", the "Adventure" was easily approached by the Ming army from a dead corner, and then a large number of officers and soldiers rushed to the deck of the pirate ship.
The cloaked Ferredo danced with a long and narrow Western sword, and the huge gold earrings kept shaking on his shoulders. The shaky sword blade had just pierced through the chest of a Ming soldier. He immediately pulled it out without delay and faced another single sword.
Anthony held a heavy battle axe in his hand and rushed back and forth on the deck, roaring, and was extremely fierce. The heavy battle axe took a great advantage in the Ming army's single sword, but then two sailors who jumped directly from the Ming army's battleship with black painted bamboo guns as poles, completely resisted him with light bamboo guns.
The battle axe that was standing in front of him had no opponent. The two Ming soldiers stood ten feet away, and there were only two red tassels with spearheads in front of Anthony. He waved the heavy battle axe in vain, and gradually felt his arms stagnant. He could no longer hear the exciting "puff sound" of the axe blade entering his body and the blood that saw the Ming army sprinkled into the air.
"Puff!" With just a sound, the sour and weak arm slowed down for a moment. A sound that was much shorter than the sound of his axe blade cutting through the human body was heard. Anthony felt a piercing pain in his chest. He lowered his head and saw the gun rod as thick as a child's arm, with a ball of red tassel exposed on his chest. The gun head was not visible. The sharp gun head, half a foot long, had completely pierced into his heart.
The heavy double-edged giant axe landed on the ground...
The pirates who are good at using muskets are not inferior to hand-to-hand combat. Fencing is a thing that top talents play. Most pirates are not good at. They are used to use heavy battle axes. When they fight, they cut their blades on both sides. The extremely sharp battle axes do not suffer the single sword against the navy. They often make a "kneel" sound, and the knife breaks the blade and fly. The sharp battle axes ravagely harvest people's lives.
However, the spear, which is usually not common in Western pirates fighting at sea, is a spear, and a tassel, which is one of the main equipment of the Ming army. This type of Jiangnan bamboo spear is soaked in oil and wrapped in hemp silk, and is light and tough, and the advantages of heavy axes cannot be exerted.
There were many soldiers in the Ming Dynasty, and Mizaza's spear was assassinated by the fierce Western pirates. The fierce Western pirates were like being played with puppets more than ten feet away. The pirates' courage to be motivated by the war flag gradually dissipated, and some began to retreat and run away.
Peng Xiaoyang waved the ghost-headed sword around looking for his opponent. His sword was thick and his nine iron rings jingled. When he waved the snow and snow, it was no less than the Western double-edged axe. With his martial arts, many pirates died under his sword.
While chopping and slaughtering the pirates, he took the time to observe the movements on the ship. He soon discovered a bearded pirate wearing Doufeng and a slender sword, which seemed to be a leader.
Peng Xiaoyang, covered in blood, immediately rushed towards him. Fernando had extremely rich fencing skills and combat experience. He went with the young and powerful Peng Xiaoyang and killed him into a group. At the same time, he used his sword light and familiarity with the situation on the ship, constantly jumping and moving, using the surrounding objects as cover, consuming Peng Xiaoyang's physical strength.
Peng Xiaoyang discovered his intention. As soon as Fernando passed around the compass, Peng Xiaoyang handed his left hand and stretched it into his arms. He raised it and threw a ball of white stuff out.
Fernando hurriedly retreated. At the same time, he raised his sword and stabbed him. Unexpectedly, the thing became bigger in the air. A sharp sword stabbed the sky with a sharp sword, and then a fish net covered his body. The lead sinker immediately fell, covering him inside. He raised his sword and made every step of the way.
Peng Xiaoyang smashed the sword in his hand with a "kneading" knife, then kicked him over to the ground, dragged the net and pulled the man under a mast, pulled the rope and tied it a few times, and pulled him onto the mast.
The pirates who noticed Fernando were captured alive and shouted in panic. The morale of the pirates fell sharply, and the entire ship suddenly showed a one-sided battle situation.
Han Wudi's warship also approached the pirate ship. At this time, he had guessed the general meaning of the blood-red pennant. Standing at the bow, Han Wu moistly observed the situation on the two warships and said, "Get my ground bow."
General Han took a rocket and put it on the string through the bow taken by his personal soldiers, then lit the arrow, aimed at the blood-red pennant flag and shot it. The rocket was on the front of the flag and nailed the battle flag that was flying in the wind to the mast. The fire started to burn, and the battle flag instantly burned into ashes.
Seeing this, the pirates who witnessed this love gave up their resistance and began to flee everywhere. However, where can they escape from the vast sea? Fernando saw this love and scene, so he had to shout loudly: "Genius General, I am their captain. Now I surrender to you on behalf of my warships and soldiers. Please stop your subordinates from continuing to massacre!"
Peng Xiaoyang laughed loudly, and the title of "General" made him a little fluttering, but when he thought of Cheng Qiyun's order to "kill everything and kill everything, kill every grass", he couldn't help but hesitate.
At this time, Han Wu also stepped onto the pirate ship under the escort of more than ten personal soldiers and said to Peng Xiaoyang: "Mr. Peng, as long as they stop resisting, please order your people to stop fighting."
Peng Xiaoyang rushed forward and whispered: "Sir, Mr. Cheng has given instructions to..."
Han Wu interrupted, "I know, Lord Cheng ordered all Cao Tianpeng's troops to kill them to deter the East China Sea pirates. These Westerners came suddenly. It would be better to take them back and hand them over to the Lord for disposal. It might be of great use."
He said this and lowered his voice: "Look, the ship is almost sunk, and this ship is seriously damaged. What if they are too anxious and they sank the ship?"
Peng Xiaoyang grinned and said, "Then go back to his own ship, hahaha. Sir, you are really..."
Han Wu glared at him and said in a low voice: "Idiot, look at how many cannons are there on this ship? After it sinks, you can catch them. If you kill them all, the ship will be finished. Now you have to truce up quickly and immediately drag the boat to the edge of Dulong Island. The two cannons on the ships are half you and half me. How about it?"
Peng Xiaoyang's eyes lit up and he slapped the back of his head and said, "Yes! I'm simply a pig! Yes, yes, yes, what the adults said."
He immediately turned around and shouted, "Armation! Armation! Accept surrender. Your grandma, stop chopping, these are all fat sheep!"
The battle was over. The pirates dropped their weapons. Two pirate ships with holes were dragged back to the shore. At this time, Cao Tianchong's warship was still burning. Look, it would take at least one day to finish it. However, the smoke was rolling everywhere on the ship, and it was impossible for people to stay there anymore.
Some pirates in the water either sank or floated with sampans. When the Ming army's warship passed by, they were shot to death without mercy. A few pirates who jumped into the boat and swam ashore were fled in panic. Cang Cang was fleeing.
As soon as the ship arrived on the shore, Han Wu ordered the officers and soldiers to go ashore to search, and at the same time, people were extinguishing the fire on the Western pirate ship and counting the number of artillery. Peng Xiaoyang had a large number of people, so he divided some to take care of the Western pirates, while the other part went ashore to catch pirates and women. He stared at Han Wu with his eyes and followed him, for fear that he would cheat and leave a cannon privately.
There were fifty Folang machine cannons, three of which were damaged in the ground artillery battle, and the two families were divided into twenty-three and one more. Peng Xiaoyang chased Han Wu and tried hard to get the cannon away.
It was not until Han Wu agreed to capture the woman that the Fujian Navy refused and handed over to the Zhejiang Navy to deal with. At this time, the women who were searched by the officers and soldiers were also taken to the beach one after another. Peng Xiaoyang stood on the side of the ship with his chin pinched his chin and looked at the fairies below. Then he looked at the extra cannon. He hurt for a long time before he agreed.
All the pirates found were executed on the spot according to Peng Xiaoyang's instructions. The three pirate ships that caught fire were also dragged to the shallow water on the shore before leaving them alone, so their purpose was naturally self-evident.
After all the useful land and artillery, guns, guns, sharp axes and other weapons on the Western ships were moved to the Ming warships, the thirteen Ming warships left Dulong Island and were on the shore with an arrow, the thirteen warships lined up in a row, aiming at the key points of the five pirate ships and fired. The most powerful pirate ship was broken up on the spot by artillery fire.
The complete destruction of the pirate ship was based on Cheng Qiyun's instruction. It was meaningless to annex the pirates themselves. The real meaning of this battle was that after the war was over, it was the "Stove-in Method" to lay out suspicious soldiers, leaving them for those who are interested to appreciate. As for the unexpected acquisition of fifty cannons this time, it was really a surprise.
The battle on Dulong Island really attracted the attention of those interested. The beauty Wang came, the sea dog came, the snow cat came, the white grass came, and Pedro, who had some unknown situation on Luzon Island, also came. Every group of people came, circled around the wreckage of the warships, looked carefully, and each faced solemn and said nothing.
The hull damage caused by the close range of thirteen warships is more serious than all the trauma caused in naval battles. Judging from the wound marks, the opponent's artillery is fierce, accurate, has amazing lethality, has dense landing points, and huge wounds. It makes people imagine how terrible firearms the opponent's warship is equipped with.
The four great bandits in the East China Sea knew a little about the power of Western artillery, especially sea dogs, snow cats and white grass. They were far away from land and fought with Western pirates more. Seeing this scene, they were all shocked. The incomplete rotten corpses pushed onto the beach by the tide and the pirates executed on the shore made them even more frightened.
As for Pedro, naturally no one knows the firearms and equipment on his warship better than him. Under the firepower of his warship, the opponent can cause such terrible trauma to his warship, and then calmly clean up the tragic situation. Drag the damaged water-incoming warship to the shore to dismantle the spoils, which shows that the battle ends very quickly.
What secret weapons did the Ming army have? Why did they never encounter them in previous contacts with the Ming army? Pedro, who lost two main battleships, had to start thinking about his situation in the East for a long time.
He picked up a cherry and threw it into his mouth, sucked all the sour and sweet flesh, and gently spit it into the next plate. But all this seemed to be an unconscious action. He leaned against the head of the bed, not knowing what he was thinking.
I only had a smooth, soft and plain white robe. I tied it loosely around my waist with a strap, and a large piece of skin was exposed on the collar. I just took a shower and cleaned my body. The bedding on the couch was a fine fabric. The touch was smooth, which really made me feel very relaxed.
"What are you thinking?" Cheng Qiyun wore a light-colored wide robe, sat sideways beside the couch, and asked Yanran.
Her long wet hair draped over her shoulders, making her pretty face look extremely gentle. She held a cow horn comb in her plain hands and gently combed her shiny hair.
"The four major bandits in the East China Sea and the Western pirates of Luzon have all been to Dulong Island these days. I wonder if the snow cat and the sea dog should have shown us? Well... it's almost time to send someone here.
In addition, the capital said that King Mantaojia would go to cry to the emperor from time to time. You also know that the emperor was arrogant and would not tolerate his vassal states being bullied like this. What's more, Mantaojia lost. More than 60 vassal states in Southeast Asia could not pay tribute to the court, so it was a matter of time to use troops. I hope that the battle on Dulong Island can temporarily curb the ambitions of Western pirates and give me enough time."
"Haha, haven't the secret agent sent to Mantajia yet? Besides, we have nearly fifty new cannons. Even if the war starts now, it's no big deal. But don't forget that the emperor cares most about Sichuan. The prince of Shu is like a monk, hiding in the Qingyang Palace all day long to cultivate one's character. I'm really worried that you can't find any help when you come to Sichuan."
Cheng Qiyun said, she had already combed her hair and scattered her hair behind her shoulders. Then she looked at her long and thin moon eyebrows, her eyes were so charming, her nose was delicate, and her red lips were raised. A kind of youthful and beautiful freehand painting on her face.
Yang Ling smiled and said, "Then I will become a monk and become an old Taoist. I will accompany the old fox to practice pills in Qingyang Palace."
"Sir... I also want to become a monk as a Taoist path? I wonder how many days I can stay in that place of suffering?" Cheng Qiyun's eyes flew away and said in a nickname.
She sat facing Yang Ling. The candlelight shot from behind, her clothes were transparent, highlighting her flawless and moving curves, and her eyes were charming and moving like cats.
Whether it was intentional or unintentional, her clothes were slightly open, and a touch of white skin appeared on her chest. Yu Xue's breasts were half hidden and half exposed. From the darkness, they were pink, trembling, and graceful, making people feel very wonderful.
Yang Ling was distracted and couldn't help but say, "If you only accompany the old fox, it will naturally be boring. If you, the little fox, will be with you, haha..."
"How about having me with you?" Cheng Qiyun smiled softly, "Can we try it?"
"What? What to try?" Yang Ling asked.
Chapter completed!