Chapter Five Three Pirates' Night Attack
Kawaharada's hand couldn't help but clenched. Two months ago, his fleet was also attacked like this. There were not many pirates from the sea, but the sudden attack caused chaos on the ship and on the shore, and then it was subjected to a fire attack. The attack continued until the morning. Although he killed more than ten pirates and injured the pirate leader, he still could not escape the destruction. Most of his own party died in battle, and the sailors became prisoners, and the ships and merchants became plunders for the pirates.
"Even if I can't cross your blockade, I won't let such a thing happen again!" Kawaharada Hoi told himself gritted his teeth.
He quickly rushed into the bamboo forest and climbed the mountain quickly under the moonlight. Regardless of the stabbing of branches and the tearing of shrubs, he quickly climbed to the highest point of the hills. He took off his coat, took out the flint, and lit it, and then searched everywhere for hay and dead branches, burning the fire.
Woo woo woo woo woo!
The sound of the trumpet suddenly sounded, awakening Li Mingxun, who was sleeping in the straw pile. He held his hands tightly and grabbed the hilt of the knife before he felt relieved. When he ran out of the tent with his pants, David and Umu had already arrived. Umu pointed to the leaping flames in the distance and said, "Master, there is someone igniteing the fire there, I feel something is wrong."
"Maybe someone lives inhabited," David said, but he held a stern grenade gun that lit the fuse, and said sternly: "It's more likely that someone will attack."
Li Mingxun nodded and said, "It's not dawn yet. If you board the ship and leave, it will cause a change. Let the sailors return to the ship first. You must keep our warships, David, your team and my guards. With this pine tree as the boundary, I will guard this side, you will guard that side, and then talk about it after dawn."
"Very good, sir, you are right!" David praised, and then ran aside and kept calling him to gather. This time David brought two hundred people, one hundred of them, one hundred of them were elite musketeers of the East India Company, and the other hundred were spearmen composed of sailor volunteers recruited from three armed merchant ships.
With the order issued, the warship also entered a state of combat readiness. Song Luofeng stared at the shimmering water under the moonlight, looking for possible enemies. The sailors on the ship had all woken up. Half of them entered the artillery deck on the lower level to assist the gunners, and the other half were lined up behind the ship with a mezzanine gun.
Because the bay is really small, the three ships were all moored side by side when they were mooring, but now the sailors are not complete, and it is the second half of the night, it is even more dangerous to adjust the posture of the warship or leave the bay. When Song Luofeng was sure that the pirates had not yet entered the bay, he issued the first order: "Come the small boats on the three ships, don't move the other two ships, let the Golden Eagle be horizontal, and the Bald Eagle and the White Falcon should not use long cannons, so as to avoid hurting their own ships."
Several small boats leaned over and helped the Golden Eagle adjust their posture. On the artillery deck, the long cannon aiming outside had already begun to be loaded. Unlike the eighteen-pound cannons used by the first built Bald Eagle, the Golden Eagle and the White Falcon were set to use the twelve-pound long cannons booked from the British East India Company from the beginning, which allowed the Golden Eagle's gun deck to be equipped with eighteen-bottom cannons, far higher than the twelve eighteen-pound cannons of the Bald Eagle. When firing, there is no need to fire in order to protect the deck.
The gunners transferred from the Tiger Shark were cleaned up with the help of the sailors, loaded gunpowder packs, wooden blocks and grape bullets. After everything was ready, the muzzle was pushed out of the gun window, pointing to the pirates who had entered overseas one after another.
"Military Gunner, starboard array!"
"The gunner on the right is ready to shoot, and the next round is still a grape bomb!"
Song Luofeng's slightly hoarse voice resounded throughout the Golden Eagle. His eyes stared at the enemy ship through the gap, but only sixteen were paddle boats or sailboats. The ships were covered with pirates in various clothes, waving various weapons in their hands, and shouting in Japanese and Korean languages.
After confirming that most of the enemy ships entered the effective range, and after the contrailer was in place, Song Luofeng sounded the horn he wore with him.
Bang bang bang bang!
The dull sound of cannons came from the deck under his feet, and the sound of the shock of the boat board came. Balls of orange flames bloomed from the starboard side of the Golden Eagle, and then turned into a row of white fog walls, blocking Song Luofeng's vision. The bay was incredibly chaotic, and screams continued to be heard after the smoke of gunpowder.
Then, the enemy's counterattacks came, and various iron cannons, bird guns and small cannons attacked, but they only splashed water or left a not-looking mark on the beautiful teak boards of the schooner.
The smoke finally dissipated. Song Luofeng saw that two enemy ships had begun to sink. The enemy ships accelerated. The Bald Eagle and White Falcon on both sides had already received the enemy, and the guns were loud.
"Stand up, shoot!" Song Luofeng kicked the trembling sailor, and stood up first. The pistol hit a yelling Japanese pirate on the enemy ship, and then smashed a guy's head with a convex gun. At this time, an enemy climbed up with a rope. Song Luofeng didn't care about loading the medicine, took the spear from his hand, and pierced the man's throat. He looked down and saw that there was another person under the guy, but he was scared by Song Luofeng. He crawled into the cannon door of the artillery deck, exposing half of his butt outside. Song Luofeng threw the spear down directly, and the sharp spear tip pierced between his thighs, and a scream fell down.
"Cut off the grapple hook, cut off the grapple hook!" Song Luofeng ordered loudly.
He pulled out his long knife and cut off a rope, but found a sailboat on the starboard side. Song Luofeng picked up the circumferential cannon beside him, ignited the fuse, and pointed the muzzle full of lead at the ship's mud hands and Japanese pirates. With an explosion, the ship was covered with flesh and blood, and a bloody smell of energy rushed up.
However, the real victory was determined by the nine twelve-pound long cannons on the artillery deck. Their bombs were fired swept across the ships close to the Golden Eagle. The shells and bullets cleaned the decks of the pirates. The javelins thrown by the sailors were equally fatal. The battle lasted for a quarter of an hour, and the enemy ships had become living targets. The desperate pirates began to flee, some wanted to row and leave, while more chose to jump.
"Is this the legendary collapse of China? It's indeed a powerful weapon for the military." Kawaharada Hoeme, who was standing at the top of the hills, looked at the dilapidated ships in the bay, as if they were hammered by giants, and couldn't help but mutter to himself.
Before dawn, the pirates' attack had stopped. The pirate leader's plan was not successful at all. Their attack was exposed earlier. The fleet led by Yoshida continued to attack without receiving the order to retreat, and the entire army was destroyed. The unmoved of Li Mingxun and David made the pirate leader Shinha Sasaki feel helpless. After dawn, he saw that the fleet was destroyed, and the enemy had 400 soldiers on the shore. Shinha Sasaki regretted attacking the fleet.
Chapter completed!