Chapter 344 Sunday
Ma Xiaosan, Ding Wenchao and others were surprised, obviously not understanding what Sunday was. Ma Cheng simply explained that according to the Western calendar algorithm, the Red-haired man's Sunday was actually Saturday. Weeks are an important pillar of Christianity and Catholicism.
Every Sunday, the fleet, from sailors to commanders, must attend the service devoutly. Two days later, there will be at least one hour unprepared for Penghu.
Ma Xiaosan and others suddenly realized, embarrassed and ashamed, it was indeed like a mountain.
Only pirates who have been dealing with Westerners for many years understand the shortcomings of Westerners. If someone else is involved, they will not be able to find such an excellent fighter. The combined fleet that implements light control in the wind and snow will lie on the sea like a giant beast.
As waves rose and fell, exuding a solemn atmosphere. After waiting for two days, the joint fleet suddenly launched an attack. More than fifty strong medium-sized warships with horns suddenly rose up their sails.
The north wind appeared in the southwest of Penghu.
Penghu Island is very large, with two bays connected to one large and one small in the southwest. It is a natural safe haven, so it is called Pinghu. The bay is calm all year round and the waves are natural naval bases. Dutch warships are anchored in Penghu. Under the stunned gaze of the Dutch sentry
More than fifty medium-sized warships were used as pioneers, and they raised their sails and crashed into Pinghu Shui Village at high speed, dragging a black fire boat behind them.
The stunned sentry desperately issued an alarm, but it was Sunday that half a quarter of an hour later, Dutch sailors dressed in costume rushed out of the church, staring at the dark enemy ships on the sea. In a panic, many sailors were still getting off.
My wife, children and old men were crazy and rushed to the fort and towards the warships anchored in the harbor. Another half a quarter of an hour later, a fire lit up on the hundred fire ships, and scattered on the sea under the pirate ship, rushing towards the mooring wildly
Dutch fleet in the harbor.
Boom boom boom, the turret began to shoot wildly.
However, the guns in this era were all fixed at the firing angle. The heavy shore anti-aircraft guns weighing more than 3,000 kilograms could not adjust the firing angle. More than a dozen rounds of volleys only cut off the pirate fireboat's rear path, and more than a dozen were sunk.
The pirate ship. Most of the fire ships were still under the control of the dead soldiers and carried a raging fire. They crashed into the dense Dutch fleet. As soon as they contacted, they caused a big fire, swept the warships anchored on the periphery into the fire, and the thick smoke soared into the sky
As they rose, dozens of remaining medium-sized pirate ships set fire to fire.
More than a thousand pirates covered their mouths and noses with wet cloths, and the ship also took sufficient fire prevention measures. The small cannons and fire guns were hit by raindrops as dense as raindrops. Dozens of medium-sized warships flew in Pinghu Port, and thick smoke rose to most of the sky.
The sky was covered, and there was no need to send a message outside to know that the big thing was done. The second wave of attack forces gathered on the sea surface and slowly approached Pinghu Port. It was blocked by the port fort at the narrow part of the water village. More than ten gates on the shore were
The smoothbore heavy artillery opened fire like crazy. The huge iron ball fell from the sky and burst into water on the sea. After several rounds of artillery fire, an old Fujian Navy warship disintegrated, and the hull, which was more than 50 meters long, was hulled.
It was broken up all the time.
Instead, the pirate warships rushing in at high speed, escaped from the threat of heavy artillery on shore defense, lined up in Pinghu Port, loaded in a mess, fired volleys, and aimed the muzzle at the shore defense turret. The smoke was mixed with
With bright flames, the rapid-fire artillery of the Franc machine was fired into a circle of two miles away, and the civil-structured shore defense turrets were riddled with holes. I think the Dutch had just occupied Penghu and had not had time to build a solid artillery barricade.
The Franc's rapid-fire cannon fired three rounds, and the shore defense cannon was unable to resist, and a large number of colorful gunners fled to the cannon.
Suddenly, a Dutch warship burning with a fire exploded. A black cloud soared into the sky. Several warships affected nearby were thrown into the sky like toys, and then fell down quickly.
The warship formed a terrifying vortex on the water. Several nearby pirate ships rowed out desperately. After getting rid of the suction force of the vortex, they quickly left the battlefield and fled in all directions without looking back. At this time, the pirate battleships lined up in a row were loaded,
The Franco machine cannon was equipped with six sub-guns and turned its guns, aiming at the Dutch fleet, which was covered by fire, smoke and serial explosions, and bombarded violently.
An hour later, the Marines led by Ma Cheng personally rushed to the battlefield.
The Clippers towed away the wreckage of the warship that blocked the entrance. More than 200 large and small ships were loaded with fully armed Ming army infantry and slowly entered the port. When they entered the port, they suddenly found that Pinghu Shui Village had become covered by fire and smoke.
In hell, Dutch sailors on fire jumped into the sea to survive. Some warships wanted to escape from the sea of fire and pushed their hulls across and fought back with cannons in the side cabin, but they attracted the dense shooting of Ming warships.
Ma Cheng's eyes lit up, and Western warships also had fatal weaknesses. Although the firepower was strong, when firing, they needed to cross the hull. Therefore, the Westerners invented the battle line, but they were not without weaknesses, which was experienced.
The rich pirates grasped it firmly, and sent many small boats and clutches to shuttle through the sea like the wind. After approaching, they fought on the shore battle, making the powerful Western sailing battleships extremely passive. As expected, people thought of it, Macheng
I was a little surprised. The East China Sea pirates are not afraid of foreigners, and there is really a good way to deal with foreign warships.
The Dutch's fighting will was also tenacious enough, and the counterattack fire was organized in the raging fire. Suddenly, a four-masted warship rushed out of the thick smoke, and retaliated with the two heavy cannons at the bow of the ship. Dozens of oars below flew up and down.
, let the smoke-burning warship complete extremely skilled maneuvering. After getting more than a dozen guns, the warship still stubbornly crossed the hull, almost firing the cannon while sinking. The huge cannon shells fired by the smooth bore heavy artillery roared.
Flying towards the Ming fleet, Ma Cheng was frightened by just a volley.
A cannonball rubbed against Macheng's flagship and smashed heavily into the landing fleet. A lucky ship in the fleet that could not be avoided was hit by the hull. The cannonball carried powerful kinetic energy and forced the lucky ship to hit it.
After passing through, it fell into the sea and splashed a large splash of water, even the flagship of Macheng shaking. The left and right soldiers, the generals turned around and looked at the shocking hole on the lucky ship, looking at each other. The red-haired man's artillery fire was too sharp.
It's right.
Two miles away, the Dutch warship with superb combat skills finally couldn't hold on anymore, and most of them sank into the sea and the sailors jumped into the ship. The angry pirates rushed to the deck and shot Dutch soldiers who fell from the water with small cannons and heavy convex guns.
Chapter completed!