Chapter 52: Destruction (1520)
Unfortunately, they did not have a flag signal, only a horn made of conchs. That thing can express the simple meaning clearly, but it only works in a quiet situation. At this time, the shore is killing in full swing. Who is stuck in his ears and listens to the sound of conchs? Even if someone hears it, it will be a very troublesome thing to pass it on to others. A distance of several nautical miles is only two or three quarters of an hour for the full sail warship. Before the sea surface, the ships in front of the dock have a defensive formation, and the six warships have approached in two columns.
"General, you can't start a war without any mercy. My Song Dynasty has always been lenient to people. These ships have not invaded us, so why should we attack them?" At first, Wen Nan thought that Hong Tao's fleet was just a defense, but when he saw the sailors on the deck began to move black iron balls one by one and lit the fuse, he knew it would be broken, so he immediately ran to the stern to ask Hong Tao to take back the order. For him, it was unwise to go to war with foreigners without any questions.
"I am not a Song Dynasty person, and the Song Dynasty's Lu can't take care of me. There is my warehouse on the dock. Look, it seems that all the war has been affected. Maybe all the crew members I left behind have been killed. I will hit anyone who hits me, including the Song Dynasty. Do you understand? Put away your set. I am telling you how to deal with the Mongols in the future. You should just put down your sheep policy. Standing behind me, watching honestly. If you talk too much, I can only lock you in the bottom cabin. Your job is to record with a pen, not a staff officer. Yaya, continue!" Hong Tao grabbed Wen Nan's neck like a little chicken and lifted him from the front of him.
"People on the port side gunner... shoot freely!" Weng Ya pushed her chest hard, took a deep breath, and issued an order that she would remember for the rest of her life.
"People on the port side gunner... shoot freely!" Hong Tao grinned, but there was no change, and conveyed Weng Ya's orders intact. Free shooting! This girl is a sadist and prodigal son! What is free shooting? It means no limit on the number of ammunition and no target. You can fight whatever you want, and fight whatever you want. Fortunately, the amount of ammunition he brought this time is sufficient, and it is still okay to waste it a little, but it cannot be considered a waste. This is a battle to establish authority, and the effect is better.
"Free shooting! Did you hear it? Waiter, cut the fuse a little shorter and blow it on your head. See you play with a flowery face, hahahaha..." The gunner on the port side was stunned when he heard the order of free shooting. In the past, he would pay attention to saving ammunition every time he started a war. He aimed at such a tail, and suddenly let them go and beat them for a while. Some of the old gunners were calm, and when they heard it, they immediately laughed. They were very interested in grenades. They usually trained with training bullets of similar weight. It was boring. Now they could be opened and beat them, and they were not as excited as setting off fireworks during the Chinese New Year. Men have a natural impulse for fighting, especially when they are not at all dangerous, they tend to be sadistic.
"Bang..." The first grenade was the port one gun position. Generally, the number one gun position on both sides was the most powerful gunner. They could serve as a metronome for the gunners behind when firing. As long as they hit, the gunners behind would basically hit. The first shell failed, but it was more powerful than the hit. It exploded between the two masts of an opponent's brig sailboat. Hundreds of pieces of broken iron were broken by black gunpowder, and flew towards the people on the deck with various decorations on their heads without any cover, easily tearing open their skin without any defense, and then splashed a blood mist.
"Bang...bang...bang..." Before the blood mist was blown away by the sea breeze, black iron balls flew over one after another. Some fell into the sea water, but they still exploded; some fell on the deck and exploded after bounced up; some hit people directly, and they had to explode after hitting one person. Some flew higher, and they did not go to the people on the deck, but to the sails. After these iron balls exploded, there were not many iron sheets flying, and it was directly a big fireball. The black viscous liquid splashed out was ignited by the fireball, and the flames were ignited wherever they were touched.
"Cut to 35 meters! This batch of grenade fuses is a bit slow..." It is said to be free shooting. In fact, everyone is following the target of gunner No. 1. The gunner No. 1 is usually a sail driver. He has a very strong ability to judge the fuze. After one shot, he has found a suitable distance. Not only does he know it, he also has to shout it out to the gunner next to him, and then the gunner next to him will pass it down.
The two ships intersected, and in total, only more than ten seconds, the gunners on the port side had fired two grenades. Because the distance was too close, less than 50 meters away, most of the grenades accurately hit the target. After the brig was bombed by more than 30 grenades on the 20-meter-long briber, there were basically no people standing there. Not many people were actually killed or injured, and they all jumped into the sea. Faced with such thunder-like weapons, those who were still in tribal state, holding a long sword in their hands, even if the main enemy sailors really didn't know how to defend. The deck had become a sea of fire and hell on earth, and there was only one way for them, which was to go into the sea. As for what the ship should do, what to do if you like, facing unknown things, humans are always fragile.
"Each ship can only shoot one round!" Hong Tao still couldn't stand it anymore. If he continued to shoot like this, the Quanzhou Grenade behind could not be fired. The three sailboats in front that were about to escape had to be killed by the Guangzhou Grenade. Although their sails were rising, they were not ready to drive the ship. The stone anchor had just been pulled up, and if they wanted to speed up, they would probably have no chance.
The battle situation on the other side was even more one-sided. The captain of the Haibo was Kong Pei, who should have much more experience in naval battles than Hong Tao. He had a clear calculation of what kind of ship is worth using grenades and what kind of ship is not worth a shell. Under his command, the thick bow of the Haibo was like a bulldozer in the sea. It drew an arc and a half of the arc along the front of the dock. What was left behind was broken wood on the sea. There were more than a dozen small wooden boats scattered and were not overturned. They were also washed back and forth by the warship's wake.
It became the impact target of the three warships behind. The Qiongzhou, which was driving at the end of the team, simply caught nothing. The Knight Carl couldn't help but disobey the order. He actually ordered the starboard gunner to fire two grenades at the dock at the farthest firing distance, and instantly blew the dock into a sea of fire. The soldiers on both sides who were landing and resisting landing, were affected, and like headless flies, they could no longer care about fighting each other. They either jumped into the sea with a bunch of flames or ran towards the city gate.
"Fuck! Can you fight so far? I'll forget it!" Hong Tao no longer interested in the battle on the sea. He was holding a telescope and paying attention to the battle on the dock. Before he could see clearly what kind of clothes the soldiers were wearing, a thick smoke and fire blocked his sight. This time he did not call Carl, the bastard, but was more interested in Carl's launch distance. The distance from Qiongzhou to the dock was definitely more than 150 meters. It seems that this big slingshot still has potential to dig.
The six warships did not stop continuing to massacre. After rushing from east to west, they fell one head in the wind a few hundred meters west of the port, and rushed from west to east of the port. They fell another head in front of the six Southern Song merchant ships, and then they lowered their sails and began to sing flags with the trainee officers on the merchant ships behind.
"Shou, my master said, let us put the boat down and rescue all the people who fall into the sea. We are not allowed to kill healthy prisoners!" The intern officer conveyed the orders sent from the flagship to the Southern Song Dynasty merchants on his ship.
"Ah! Oh, yes, yes, don't kill, don't kill... Brother, what is a healthy prisoner?" The people on the merchant ship were already stunned. There were at least thirty or forty ships, and in just half an hour, all disappeared, and one of them disappeared! No, there were three ships floating on the sea surface, but they were not as sunk and burned into a big torch. What's the point of floating or not? At this time, the boatmen of these marine merchants looked at the six sailboats in front of them, and they all looked at each other and quickly turned their eyes away, for fear that if they saw too much, there would be such bombardment flying over. They were also respectful to the three young men on their ship. They smiled before speaking, and then bowed before they dared to open their mouths.
"Healthy prisoner? He is not injured or disabled!" The intern officer didn't quite understand such easy-to-understand words, so he could not understand them, so he stared at him and explained again.
"What about those who are injured or disabled?" This maritime businessman is still a studious master, so he has to ask clearly if he doesn't understand.
"You can raise the injured and disabled people! We only need healthy slaves to work, no... You have asked too much! Whether to catch them or not is the order of our adults!" The child is a child after all, and he was exposed as he spoke. Fortunately, he had a companion behind him, and stabbed him, and then he swallowed the second half of the sentence. He knew that he had said too much, so he shouted in a piss.
Chapter completed!