Chapter 123: A Duel to the Death 4

Chapter 123 – Duel to the Death 4
“Prepare the muskets!”

“Grenades at the ready!”

“Prepare the cannon!”

The Navy’s six paddleboats were not equipped with large guns, but were equipped with cyclone cannons that could rotate flexibly.

The sailors on board were divided into two groups, one group was equipped with swords or axes, specializing in physical combat, responsible for dealing with enemies who jumped onto the ship, in addition they were each equipped with a few clay pot grenades.

The other group of sailors were armed with muskets, and they stood behind the fighting soldiers and were responsible for killing the enemies who were fighting with their own sailors at close range.

Considering the fact that the current water battles were still dominated by catch battles, as well as preparing for possible future street battles, the Ministry of Equipment had Herman and the others in charge of firearms research and development to specially build a musket with a large caliber, a shorter range, and the ability to fire scattering bullets (iron shavings).

This kind of soldiers called “big spray” musket is simply a hand-held cannon, hit the iron shavings can be twenty or thirty meters within a fan-shaped area of the enemy hit with blood, and because of the number of iron shavings and too small, embedded in the skin and flesh is extremely difficult to take out.

Sailors are equipped with nearly half of the musket is this “big spray”.

With the approach of an enemy ship, equipped with long-barreled musket soldiers first opened fire, the first wave of strikes to the pirates caused great confusion, forcing them to get down to avoid the attack of bullets.

After approaching to a certain distance, each of the six pirate ships bit into a warship.

“Throw the hook and rope!”

Some pirates risked the danger of being shot by muskets and threw a large iron hook on the warship, the end of the hook was tied with a cable, after hooking it on the side of the warship, they took advantage of the gap between the sailors loading ammunition to pull the hook and rope together with force, and the ships on both sides rapidly approached.

In the pirates pull the hook and rope, the sailors strive to throw the grenade to the enemy ship, as long as you can throw on the other side of the ship, the pirates even if they lie on the deck is also still bombed.

Fortunately, because of the weather they wear thick enough, with the current power of the grenade, as long as it is not hit by splinters and nails on the exposed parts, it will just feel a lot of pain, but there are still a lot of unlucky people were injured.

“Drop the boarding jumpers!”

One side of the thick springboard flipped over from the pirate ship, and the end with the iron spikes hitched onto the side of the warship at once.

“Charge! Finish them off!”

The pirates stood up in unison with a roar, stepped onto the diving boards and rushed over to the warship’s side.

“This is the time, fire!”

The cyclone cannons on the 6 paddle sailing ships opened fire one after another, hitting scattered bullets that swept away the pirates crowded on the diving boards, and all of them fell into the sea to feed the fish.

“Don’t stop! Charge over! Rush over and stick close to them!”

The pirate leaders shouted, and some even swung their allotment to lead a second charge at the diving board.

“Touch!” “Touch!”

The “big spray” used to block the enemy at close range opened fire, although the power was not as powerful as the cyclone cannon, but the wounds inflicted were enough to make a person suffer from pain and thus lose their ability to fight.

If it was on land, the situation would be better, but on the bumpy and unstable springboard between the two ships, the sudden and powerful blow made the pirates unsteady, and the second wave of pirates who tried to pass the springboard also fell into the sea with a wail.

Logically speaking under such a series of strikes, a normal pirate group would have long ago thrown up their hands and surrendered or collapsed, but Gaden, in order to strengthen his side’s fighting strength and salvage the unfavorable situation caused by the first four ships, he ordered his direct line of men to take the drug for the second time. Although the second dose was much smaller, many of them were already a bit delirious under the cumulative stimulation of the two drugs, and were full of eagerness to drink the enemy’s blood bitterly.

Those who barely remained sane also lost their fear of casualties and turned a blind eye to the misery of their companions in front of them.

The springboard was very short, and it took only a few seconds to rush over, which was not enough time for the sailors to complete the second round of ammunition filling.

“Brothers, finish them off!” The captains of the ships took the lead, leading the meaty sailors to swing their weapons and mingle with the pirates who rushed over to the ship, and because the situation was so chaotic, most of the soldiers equipped with muskets also drew their own swords and joined in the melee.

“Haa!” Captain Yarman bellowed, using his saber to parry the opponent’s longsword that was swinging at him.

Who would have thought that this block would have shaken his tiger’s mouth to the point of numbness, Captain Yarman was secretly shocked that there was someone with so much strength under the sky. He was usually quite proud of his own strength, but compared to the pirate in front of him, he was quite inferior.

Yarman force will be the other side of the knife block away, both hands holding the hilt and the other side of the circle up, a few rounds down, he gradually realized that the other side is just a big strength, moves are wide open, is a completely desperate fighting style.

The pirate fighting with him looked almost crazy, bare two arms veins exposed, as if to pop out.

“Come on! Blue Streak Dog!” The pirate shouted frantically, long streams of harangues dripping out of the corners of his mouth. He raised his long knife and once again charged towards Yarlman without a care in the world.

Yarman’s whole body was tense, but he didn’t raise his sword to block or avoid it, instead, he saw the opportunity to crouch down and swept his leg, and with a clang, the other party fell on the deck.

The pirate struggled to get up, but a sharp sword stabbed him from the back and pierced him through the heart.

The captain drew his own sword and took a breath before looking around to observe the battle.

Due to the firearms strikes before the gang jumping battle began, the pirates had suffered many casualties and were already at a numerical disadvantage compared to the navy, but it seemed that every pirate that rushed forward was of immense strength, and often it took two or three sailors to barely hold off a single pirate.

Yarman felt a hint of wrong, this situation is still the first time encountered, in front of this group of pirates are all Hercules?
The good thing is that this time to participate in the war sailors are no longer the previous group of rookies just enlisted in the army, weekdays strict obedience training and iron discipline so that they overcame the fear and panic in their hearts, generous rewards for war work stirred up their hearts exuberant will to fight, but also in the defense of the pirates in the process of the accumulation of a wealth of combat experience in the process of the addition of these factors, the Navy side is not overwhelmingly by the opposing party to fight! The navy side was not overwhelmed by the other side under the addition of these factors.

Moreover, they also have muskets!
Not all of the sailors equipped with muskets joined the physical battle, there were still some who continued to use muskets to shoot.

These shooters are carefully selected, they react quickly, aim quickly, each person is also equipped with several specially trained assistants in charge of loading ammunition, after a shot, the empty gun will be handed over to the assistants to load the next round of ammunition, the shooter is looking for the next target, while receiving another assistant to hand over the other gun that has been loaded with ammunition, and then raise the gun to shoot a new target, the cycle repeats itself, and continue to fire. and so on, continuously firing.

Not like some of the gunfighting movies show, the protagonist after being shot several times can still be alive to destroy the enemy one by one, the reality of the human body is often hit by a round of bullets will be incapacitated.

And this world does not have the Hague International Convention, Alda army bullets are made of lead, due to the lead is relatively soft, so after hitting the human body often all the kinetic energy released, the warhead serious deformation and even rupture, resulting in human tissue flared cavity, trauma area is hundreds of times the cross-sectional area of the projectile, coupled with the instantaneous blood circulation system of the human body produces enormous pressure, the damage caused by the The pain of the injured person is not limited to this, and if not all the fragments of the projectile are removed from the wound, it will also cause lead poisoning.

Although the pirates under Gaden’s command have seen explosive growth in their strength, endurance, and resistance to blows under the effect of drugs, they have not exaggerated to the extent that they can mutate their body tissues, and because of the accelerated blood circulation, once they are hit in the arteries, they will spurt out more than blood.

On the other hand, even if the current smoothbore gun’s accuracy at a hundred meters away is no longer touching, but at such a close distance on the deck, it’s still close to hitting wherever you point it, and the only thing the shooters have to pay attention to is not to accidentally injure their comrades who are fighting with the enemy.

With the continuous sound of gunshots on the battleships, one by one, the pirates who killed with red eyes planted on the deck.

Pirates hit in the heart, head and other vital parts of the pirates directly killed, hit in the thighs, arms of the pirates fell down and never got up, the sailors who fought with them will immediately make up a knife.

The balance of victory quickly tilted in favor of the navy.

(End of chapter)