Chapter 167: Shelling of Gangway Battles

Chapter 163 – Shelling the Portside Battle

Bone Eating Sharks are notorious but can live a good life, nature is not good to mess with, this is a stomach of anger, see the other side also dare to lean over to pick up the gangway, suddenly came to the spirit of the knife with a knife, gun with a gun, guns are also loaded, just waiting to give each other a good look.

Just from this point of view, the name of the Bone Eating Shark is not for nothing.

However, the Flying Fish is also not lacking in courage, even if the Bone Eater Shark’s ship is a bit bigger than the Flying Fish, in order to ensure the firepower is also stuffed with a lot of various types of artillery, but still do not hesitate to approach.

“Looks like we’ve been underestimated.” The captain of the Bone Eater Shark said with a cold smile.

“Little ones, aim the cannons at those softies, let’s blow these cowards away!”

With this shout from the Bone Eater Shark’s captain, the Bone Eater Shark pirates excitedly cried out strangely, and did not hesitate to pick up red-hot iron sticks to dislike into the cannon’s eye.

The gunpowder inside the cannon’s chamber was ignited, and a solid cannonball was pushed out by the expanding fiery gas, falling in an arc with tremendous kinetic energy, sending pieces flying from the side of the Flying Fish.

However, Owen had the men stack sandbags in front of the ship’s gun positions, blocking a lot of debris, and the foot soldiers in charge of firing the cannons were even more brazen, even if they were beaten and bloodied, they still insisted on staying in place and waited for the distance between the two sides to draw closer before igniting the cannons.

In fact, the people of the Bone Eater Sharks have been a bit panicked now, because the sea gun battle is the same as the musketry tactics of lining up to shoot, who first can’t hold on to the gun who suffers, who can endure the casualties and come to the front of the enemy dislike of the nostrils and pull the trigger of the real elites.

Just now their shelling is not small, but half of the shells fell empty, half fell in the inconsequential place, the real cause of death and injury is only two or three rounds.

If it is an ordinary opponent, some shelling down, I’m afraid that has long been panicked, they take the opportunity to load shells, and when the distance is close to come back to a shelling, will take advantage.

The problem is that the opponent did not panic, but also resisted the urge to open fire to close the distance, this time it is their turn to panic.

“Fire!” Watanabe roared, the foot soldiers who had been waiting for a long time immediately ignited the cannons, and after the sound of a cannon, they immediately took out the fired sub-guns and loaded the new ones in.

Owen couldn’t look at the original artillery, the accuracy wasn’t good, the rate of fire was also slow, it was simply worthless, so he exchanged a batch of sub cannons.

The cannons were divided into the mother cannon and the child cannons, the child cannons could be removed or loaded into the slot of the mother cannon, and replaced immediately after firing, so the rate of fire was much higher than ordinary cannons, only that more manpower was needed to load the child cannons.

Right now, it is similar to one side using a bird cannon and the other side using a Singijeon, although both are ancient weapons, the latter is more advanced and has a faster rate of fire.

Of course, there is also a flaw in the cannon, that is, the range and power is not as good as ordinary artillery, the problem is that most of the sea battles nowadays are face-to-face bayonet fights, these shortcomings are not shortcomings at all, whoever can fire more shells in the shortest possible time, who will be able to win.

As expected, a round of rapid shelling, even if there are only five guns on one side, froze the other side, did not even realize that the distance between the two sides has been close enough.

Iron cannon foot soldiers standing straight on the ship’s side, neatly firing lead bullets, hitting the Bone Eater Shark pirates standing on the deck could not raise their heads, but the Bone Eater Shark pirates really did not deserve their own murderous reputation, even so there are still people who stood up to counter-attack, a round of lead bullets you and I, it is almost impossible for those who were hit to continue to fight. Ordinary people are not the Northland barbarians, the heavier the injury the more frenzied, in fact, in the human body shattered lead bullets bring not only pain, there is also a continuous loss of blood, as for the lead poisoning afterward, that is the first to survive from the battlefield and then consider the problem.

“Use the flying hooks and lean in at once!” The Bone Eater Shark captain shouted frantically, if they continued to fight like this, they would lose, so they had to play to their strengths.

Some skilled pirates risked being hit by lead bullets, stood up and swung their flying hooks, and when the speed went up, they immediately threw them out and hooked them on the opposite side of the ship, and then three to five groups of Bone Eater Shark pirates couldn’t wait to jump over and try to seize the victory with a gangway battle, for this they were still very confident, after all, they could see the other side were all cannon fodder trained by the descendants of the savages, and it was useless to have a good shot with the musket, but in a physical fight, they could They can fight three with one.

“The time to serve the lord has come, all of you follow me to the death!” At some point Watanabe, who was wounded in the forehead, did not care about the injury, drew his katana and without hesitation, led the swordsmen to rush up to engage in a brutal white-knuckle battle.

The people of the Bone Eater Sharks are indeed a group of madmen, even if they are hit one after another they are still bloodthirsty, madly waving their pirate’s customary curved swords to set off bloody killings.

If it is an ordinary opponent, I’m afraid that the heart and soul has long been taken away from the morale of the collapse, but the system soldiers can be killed, can be confused by magic, but will not collapse, as long as the order is given, to the death of the implementation.

So even the iron cannon foot soldiers in the face of the pirate scimitar did not step back, in the Watanabe belt on the top, but also a board loaded ammunition, face shot the other side of the head.

Even if the Northland barbarians close range with the head to catch a shot of lead, it is impossible to get up and fight again, not to mention the pirates of the Bone Eater Sharks, the canopy flew, sprayed out of the brain with the smell of nitrous smoke.

Such a fierce battle, so that Abigail watching the battle from afar, her face is very grave, even the original arrogant soldiers behind her also put away their lofty expression.

The soldiers of the Queen’s Island were proud to die in battle, but they were still inferior to the Bone Eater Sharks and the descendants of the savages that they regarded as cannon fodder in terms of their fervor for battle.

Although the Queen Island’s soldiers have the advantage in terms of fighting skills, but in the chaos of the narrow boat, the main reason for victory is to fight for their lives, once the morale is taken away, the defeat is only a matter of time, so even if they do not want to, they have to admit that the other party’s combat power can not be underestimated.

“Luckily they were hired, luckily they are elite enough.” Abigail used two fortunate to describe it one after another, showing the shock in her heart.

But the time has come, the other Bone Eater Shark’s boat is preparing to return to help, they must seize the time to take advantage of the chaos to board the boat to save the hostages, and there must be to be fast, once the situation is unfavorable, the Bone Eater Sharks use the hostages to make an article is inevitable, so immediately lead the people to board the small boat, and rowed up the boat desperately.

At this time standing at the helm of the boat beside the Owen on the sea battle in front of the eyes to see is very interesting, at the same time sprouted after going back to the two boundaries of the river to set up a water army idea.

And the musket and artillery is not as useless as he thought, at least in the sea battle the use is still not small, more useful than the bow and arrow.

Unfortunately, there are too many strong people in the main world, and the limitations on technology are also large, even if he is determined to climb the technology tree, steam power will come to an end, basically it is difficult to break through to the level of World War II.

(End of chapter)