Chapter 439 You have a bridge ladder, I have a TNT ladder
White seagulls flew across the blue sky, staring at the same blue sea, looking for traces of fish.
Suddenly, the seagull saw a giant centipede appear on the sea, three or four miles long from head to tail, several times longer than the largest whale in the ocean.
Of course the seagull doesn't know that the huge 'sea centipede' is actually made of human sea ships.
The ten large ships of the municipal fleet are connected end to end and lined up in a line.
Next to them are ten other large ships, including five Guangzhou ships and five Fu ships. These ten ships are also connected end to end, forming a line, and they are paired up with the ten ships of the municipal fleet, nestling closely together.
If you look closer, you will find that there are two thick crossbars between the two boats on the left and right, and they are connected by strong ropes.
A heavy wooden box is tied to the rope, and the two ends go around wooden pulleys hanging under the large iron rings of the two ships. The people on the right boat pull the rope, and the wooden box rotates with the pulley and slowly moves to the right.
The two crossbars are placed parallel under the wooden box, which can not only function as a track, but also share most of the weight of the rope. It can also protect the wooden box from falling into the water if the rope breaks.
At the same time, small boats were being lowered from the boat on the right, and many ragged and tortured men were sent to the boat on the left.
While counting the number of prisoners, Yu Tongyuan looked for his brothers, and finally saw Yu Tongjiang's figure among the last wave of prisoners sent. His hanging heart finally returned to his stomach, and he quietly gestured behind him.
The generals under his command immediately sent orders to the gunners to get into position and prepare to fire.
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On the other side, Chen Shanghai and his group were counting boxes. He had already ordered his men to attack immediately after getting a hundred boxes.
In addition to the ten ships that received the goods, the rest of their warships also took the opportunity to occupy a favorable position and secretly strangled all the Ming army's retreat routes, preparing to surround them as soon as the war started.
As the last boatload of prisoners arrived, the last box of gold was slowly sent over through horizontal bars and ropes.
"Up!" As soon as he caught the box of gold, the pirate leader shouted.
The jump gang immediately rushed out of their hiding place and ran towards the two horizontal bars. For people like them who live on boats, the two parallel horizontal bars are like spacious roads. What's more, there are still people above.
There is a rope as a precaution.
It can be said that Bai Fanzi's plan for the pirates was very good...
However, the moment they stepped onto the "road", the pirates suddenly saw the Ming army on the opposite side, and they unanimously tore off the wooden boxes on the deck and revealed shining bronze cannons.
"Holy shit, are you mistaken? Why are there so many cannons?!" The pirates were immediately dizzy.
In their understanding, a ship can at best have two cannons at the bow and stern, adding up to four cannons.
Have they ever seen such a dense formation of guns? Just one deck is installed... How many guns are there?
But it was too late to count, because at the same time as the wooden box was opened, the torch in the hands of the Ming army lit the fuse of the artillery...
In order to be able to fire the artillery as soon as possible, the soldiers of the Ming army loaded the artillery powder and shells, inserted the fuses, and then re-covered the wooden box before entering the battlefield.
So after receiving the order, open the wooden box and just light the fuse to fire!
The fuse hissed and burned, and white smoke rose from the cannon body. Then, amid the earth-shattering roar, dazzling tongues of flame were ejected from the muzzles of each cannon, ejecting the projectiles in the barrel.
Because the main purpose was to kill the enemy's effective forces, all the shotgun used in the first round of shelling... were actually small iron balls the size of grapes wrapped in silk.
After the shotgun shot out of the muzzle, it dispersed instantly. One hundred and seventy-six shotshells dispersed into tens of thousands of powerful 'black grapes', which covered the pirates' heads and faces like hail!
At such a close distance, all pirates exposed to the barrage will definitely not be spared!
Some pirates were hit in the head by the 'black grape', and their heads were blown off, with their brains splattered everywhere!
Some pirates were penetrated directly into the torso by the ‘black grape’, their internal organs were broken, and the blood mist filled the air!
Some pirates were hit on their limbs, and their muscles and bones were immediately broken, and their stumps flew everywhere!
Some pirates were hit in the lower body, and immediately... they were rolling on the ground howling.
More pirates were hit in several parts at the same time by the dense rain of bullets, and died without even having time to scream.
Of course, there were also a large number of 'black grapes' that were shot out of the air and flew into the sea. The projectiles that hit the hull of the ship exploded, causing sawdust to fly across the hull. The sharp wood chips flew around, pricking the pirates with blood all over their bodies...
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With just one round of shotgun fire, the pirates on the ten 2,000-mile-long ships basically lost their combat effectiveness...
Even the soldiers of the Ming army were stunned. They knew that the cannons were very powerful, but they didn't know that the power of one or two hundred cannons firing shotgun shells was terrifying!
In fact, shotguns are not a new thing, even pirates have them. Lao Liu also made a small improvement, which is to use expensive silk instead of kraft paper to wrap the projectiles.
Not because it has a lot of silk, but because the silk burns completely and there will be no residual sparks in the barrel. In this way, the gunpowder will not be directly ignited when loading the next round.
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Seeing the tragic scenes of blood and blood on the ten boats in front, the pirates on the boats behind were all stunned.
"Fuck me, fuck me!" After a brief shock, Chen Shanghai fell into rage. He was on five of the ten boats. And to be sure, all of them were his most capable men!
Most of the wealth left to him by his father and brother was lost in just one fell swoop!
"What do you think?!" Chen Shanghai looked around like an angry lion king, finally found the target of his vent, and roared at Bai Fan.
"I, I just looked at the gold..." Bai Fanzi said tremblingly: "I thought those wooden boxes on the deck were coffins for collecting corpses."
"Go to hell, you idiot!" Chen Shanghai slashed the white fan and his head into two pieces with a knife. "It's enough to collect your body!"
In fact, Bai Fan is quite unjust. In this world, there is no precedent for installing artillery on the side. Who would have thought that the Ming army would be so whimsical as to carry so many artillery onto the ship and install them on the side?
But when Chen Shanghai became so angry, how could he make any sense? He treated him as a disposable punching bag.
"Master, what should we do?" The rest of the men wanted to disappear on the spot, but in the extreme emergency, they could only bite the bullet and ask.
"What else can we do? Go ahead!" Chen Shanghai wiped the blood spattered on his face and roared: "Send a message to Fang Datong and come together! If we don't kill them this time, we will be dead in the future!"
"Yes!" His subordinates responded loudly, and then blew the horn.
On the other side of the ship, the pirates from the Fang tribe looked at their leader Fang Datong when they heard the sound of the promised horn.
"General, Chen Shanghai is going to fight for his life, should we follow him?"
"..." Fang Datong fell into silence. He was not as impulsive as Chen Shanghai. He even secretly hoped that the Chen Department and the Ming Army would both suffer losses first, so that he could reap the benefits.
But the horrific bombardment just now made him afraid to take it too seriously. He also realized that the top priority was to work together to destroy this terrifying enemy.
"Follow!" He finally made up his mind and hissed: "Brothers, risk your lives to fight them, otherwise you will be dead in the future!"
