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Chapter 93 Killing Time
"Fail the sails and prepare to meet the enemy!"

Because the watchman knew that the opponent's ship had neither artillery nor muskets, he did not come down from the watchtower.He and the other two sailors fastened the ropes around their waists firmly to the mast, and then squatted into the thick wooden boards of the watchtower, reloading the muskets around them with peace of mind.

In the cabin, the gunner also ordered: "Attention all, the first shot is filled with solid shells!"

When the gunner saw that the cannon was loaded, he immediately lit the candle, and then lit the fuse in the gunner's hand in turn.Then put the candles into the glass lampshade to prevent the candles from falling and accidentally igniting the gunpowder on the artillery deck.

On the pirate side, they didn't notice the tall side of the tribute boat until they drove the ship to less than two nautical miles away from the tribute boat.Even though the Guan boats that the Teshima pirates ride are much taller than ordinary pirates, their ship towers are still half a foot shorter than the railings of the tribute boats.So in the past, the Toyoshima pirates had the advantage of fighting high and low in front of this big ship, of course, there was nothing left.

After all, what Baoer and the others are riding is a new-style lucky boat that was just launched a year and a half ago. According to the old boatmen, this is an out-and-out [-]-year-old boat, which is even bigger than the original Longshenmaru. two laps.But at this moment, this tribute boat not only gave the warriors of the mission a great deal of confidence, but also brought unprecedented oppression to the pirates!

"Don't be afraid! They have few people, so rush up to me!"

The bow of the pirate who intercepted the passenger ship seemed to be the supreme commander of the fleet. Although Bao'er couldn't see his face clearly, he recognized the big "Dong" character on his sail!

"How dare you write the word 'Dong' on the boat?" Bao'er smiled sinisterly, "I will let you see what the word 'Dong' stands for today!" Everyone said: "Did you see the ship with the character 'East' in the middle of the pirate ship?"

Everyone nodded, expressing that they saw it.

Bao'er suddenly showed an expression like a ghost, and demanded with everyone: "No one is allowed to take action on that ship, it can only be left to me alone!"

The crew nodded again.

"My lord, you can do it boldly in a while!"

"Leave the other boats to the younger ones!"

The warriors saluted one after another: "I wish Master Kongtiao prosperous martial arts!"

Although they didn't know how Bao'er was going to deal with a ship of pirates alone, they had already become fans of Bao'er, and they all chose to trust Bao'er unconditionally.

Only Hosokawa Fujitaka and Sakamoto Ryoma...

"Hey, Brother Ryoma, is Kujo-sama planning to ride into the enemy army?"

Ryoma subconsciously wiped the cold sweat that didn't exist on his forehead, and replied, "Probably...isn't it..."

"Master Kongtiao put himself in such a dangerous situation, isn't he afraid of being in danger?"

"Should... not be..."

Hosokawa was in a hurry, and asked, "Then why did you go over there and persuade him?"

Long Ma had no choice but to smile wryly, "Can I persuade you?"

But Hosokawa turned around and thought, even if Bao'er was going to single-handedly overthrow that boat of people, how would he get there?
"You don't have to worry about this." Ryoma explained from the side: "Of course he can fly over."

"Fly over?"

Long Ma nodded heavily and said, "Yes, fly over."

It was too late to say it, but the distance between the tribute ship and the pirates' ship was getting closer and closer.I don't know which sailor suddenly yelled "Use the bayonet", and all the sailors on the deck put a triangular spike about one and a half feet long on the muzzle of the musket.

Seeing this, Longma glanced at Bao'er in surprise, thinking that this "boy" even made a bayonet.

"Zheng!"

An arrow shot from the Guan ship was nailed to the side railing in front of the sailor, and this arrow was like a signal to start the war, which opened the prelude to the naval battle.

The sailor squatting on the watchtower suddenly leaned out and aimed a shot at the pirate in the watchtower.The lead bullet he shot seemed to be blessed by the god of luck, and it didn't deviate in the air, and it instantly toppled the pirate's skull.I saw the red leucorrhea in the head of the pirate splashed the whole face of another pirate behind him. The pirate who was about to shoot his bow and arrow was stunned, and the other pirates who were about to set up the springboard were also stunned!

"Fire!"

The bosun gave an order, and more than 40 sailors on the deck, including the captain of the tribute ship, raised their guns and fired. The pirates who were about to jump overboard instantly fell to the ground like straws cut by a sickle.

Although the warriors with bows occasionally heard of a weapon called "iron cannon" during this period, this was the first time they saw muskets, and it was also the first time they saw musket salvos.That scene is really exciting!

Even in the face of the competition of muskets, this group of warriors did not show any weakness. They raised their bows and arrows one after another, and started the legendary "middle door confrontation" with the archers on the Guan boat who flanked the tribute boat!But this group of warriors is really cheating, because they have tall shields beside them to resist the incoming arrows.And they often choose to shoot behind the shield, then suddenly take a step sideways to leave the shield, shoot a sword and return to the shield again!

It's like the enemy on the opposite side is targeting, but our teammates are a group of professional jump sniper players!Of course, they didn't know such coquettish tricks before, and this was naturally taught to them by Bao'er just now.

On the artillery deck, the gunner saw that the time had come, and immediately ordered: "Aim at the ship building, let it go!"

The gunners were ordered to fire the cannons in sequence according to their serial numbers.However, the pirates of the Toyoshima Eastern Army did not know that they were about to encounter a disaster.Even when they did not hear the sound of the cannon, they suddenly felt their bodies lighten, and then the six or seven people standing near the trajectory of the artillery turned into broken corpses, covering their companions.

Due to the shape of the ship, there are only 7 cannons in the artillery deck of the tribute ship, three on the left and right sides, and one on the stern.This round of salvo from the tribute boat directly pierced the two Guan boats that flanked them—6 gunshots, 12 holes were made, and nearly 40 people were killed.

The pirates were also confused by the sudden blow, until they saw the big hard and black iron pillars protruding from the side cabin from the hole that was punched out!

The gunner ordered again: "All artillery, fill the shotbags, and aim at the enemy!"

"No. 1 is filled!"

"No. 2 is filled!"

"number 3……"

"No. 6 is filled!"

The gunner ordered to fire again, and after 6 cannon shots, this time finally let the pirates taste the lethal effect of the so-called "hot weapons".Under the attack of 6 artillery pieces equipped with shotguns, almost the entire closed ship was included in the killing range by the shotguns.Under the bombardment of the shotgun, this group of pirates who hadn't recovered from the shock of the huge cannonballs instantly turned into a pile of large particles of human scum.When the smoke cleared, there was no pirate on the two boats who could stand up!

Of course, this scene on the pirate ship also deeply stimulated the sailors and warriors on the tribute ship.Although sailors knew about the small pellet cartridges called "shotguns," they never knew how effective they were on crowds.The pirates who were still fighting with them just now turned into a group of scum.Therefore, the sailors couldn't withstand the stimulation of such a dense scum, and couldn't help but spit it out just like the samurai.

Four minutes after the two Guan boats fought with the tribute boats, all members were wiped out!

(The author explained: The shells of the front-loading smoothbore guns are usually divided into four types in the early days. The first type is the most well-known, which is a solid large iron ball or stone ball. There is an iron chain in the middle of the cannonball. This kind of cannonball is used to hit the mast. Once the iron chain hits the mast, the mast will snap off, and the ship will lose power immediately and can only be slaughtered; Iron lumps of various sizes are put into a cloth bag, and then tied up with ropes to prevent the iron lumps inside from moving. When shot, the bag containing the shotgun will shatter, and the shotgun will kill the enemy in a planar shape; the last one is The very uncommon stick bullets are actually one or a bundle of wooden sticks or iron rods, which are specially shot at the gun ports of the enemy ship. Once the small stick is shot into the artillery deck, the stick will jump around in the cabin, killing people. The efficiency of the gunner is astonishing. Of course, there will be hollow-point bullets and flowering bullets in the later stage, but the author will not repeat them here. Interested readers can check them out by themselves.)
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