1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 619 The Battle of Nanri Island ([-])
Of course Shi Diwen has full confidence in taking down Nanri Village, but he also knows that taking down this stronghold is not something that can be done with just a few words.Although the combat power of the pirates is relatively low, as long as they can't hold on, Haihan can only use a large number of artillery attacks to break through the fortifications of the outer wall.If possible, Shi Diwen still hopes to save a little bit of resources and time in the battle, for example, let the snipers shoot and kill the pirate leader who appears in the field of vision at a long distance, and use the "beheading" tactic to disrupt the opponent's attack. chain of command.

Of course, this is just a chance. No one knows whether the pirate leader will personally go to the wall to supervise the battle, and Shi Diwen and others will not really pin their hopes on this tactic.After the artillery positions are set up, the militia army will start to attack.

At this time, a military officer came to ask for instructions, which side's flag should be used on the battlefield.Shi Diwen glanced at Xu Yuzhuo who was slightly embarrassed, and responded with a smile: "Just use the flag of the Ming army!"

Xu Yuzhuo said: "From the perspective of the students, should we also use the flag of your army?"

"It's okay, we won't compete with the Fujian Ming Army." Shi Diwen waved his hands and said, "Of course, in the memorial you wrote to the imperial court afterwards, it's best to say something nice for us."

"This is a due courtesy. If Mr. Shi doesn't say anything, we will do it." Xu Yuzhuo quickly responded.

The Haihan military did not want the Ming court to pay too much attention to Haihan's military strength and development momentum, so the various bandit suppression operations in the mainland were finally given official credit to all levels of government.However, this military reward can be dispensed with, but a good reputation is more important to Haihan. The government will praise Haihan to create a group image of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism. It will also be easier to deal with the government.

At the same time, the atmosphere in Nanri Village was not as peaceful as that in Haihan's camp.The opponent set up artillery positions one mile away, and there were quite a few people with good eyesight in the slightly higher Nanri Village. However, the pirates seemed unable to come up with any effective countermeasures against such attacks. Come.

The artillery with the longest range in Nanri Village can hit a mile when filled with gunpowder. Several old gunners in the game did not dare to play like this.As for the other cannons, they can't threaten the enemy at this distance at all.

Some people think that the Haihan militia has a lot of artillery, and their own side should immediately fire artillery to deter the opponent so that they dare not attack easily.However, some people think that firing first is more likely to be targeted by the opponent. It is better to wait and see what happens, and wait for the Haihan people to launch an attack before choosing a countermeasure.Some people even think that they should take advantage of the fact that the Haihan people are not getting a firm foothold, and go out of the stronghold to charge and kill a wave first. The opponent's strength is not even half of their own. Are they afraid that they will fail?

"Stop arguing!" Finally, a leader couldn't stand it anymore, and stopped the quarrel: "Who the hell wants to take a flesh and blood body to the Haihan gun formation to die, go out and try it yourself! The head of the family asked you to guard The purpose of going to Nanri Village is to prevent you from dying too quickly!"

"Duan San, don't talk loudly if you are afraid of death, just say so if you are afraid of death!" At that moment, some people who were not convinced immediately retorted.

The leader known as Duan San immediately got up and responded: "I am afraid of death? If the head of the family does not allow brothers to go out to fight together, I went to the pier with my brother to ambush the Haihan people early this morning!"

As soon as Duan San said this, the person who attacked him just now stopped talking.In the morning, dozens of brothers went out to ambush Hai Han on the pier, but only two escaped back in the end, and Duan San's brothers were not among them.As for what happened on the pier, the pirates in Nanri Village had already guessed it from the sound of intensive artillery fire without the need for a detailed explanation by the two lucky ones who escaped.

Duan Sanhong said with eyes wide open: "Even if I risk my life, I will fight the Haihan people to the end! If everyone rushes out like this, wouldn't it be the same as sending meat to the chopping block? The head of the family also said that as long as we can guard In five or six days, the reinforcements sent by the family will rush to Nanri Island, and at that time, these Haihan people will be trapped on the island, and then they will slowly kill them!"

Duan San's words had a slight effect on stabilizing the morale of the army, but the pirates seemed to have forgotten one thing, even if they chose not to defend, they still couldn't avoid the Haihan militia's bombardment of Nanri Village.How to fight this battle is not something they can actively choose.

"Report, the artillery position has been deployed, please give instructions!"

Shi Diwen raised his hand and looked at his watch. It was five minutes before ten o'clock in the morning, and the preparations were completed 35 minutes earlier than the expected time for the general attack. It seemed that it was going relatively smoothly.Shi Diwen ordered: "The target is the gate of Nanri Village. First, conduct two rounds of school shooting. Be careful if the opponent fires and counterattacks, and use their firepower as the key strike point!"

Soon the roar of rumbling artillery fire rang through Haihan's position, and more than a dozen shells, large and small, fired towards the gate of Nanri Village in a gentle parabola.

The pirates in the village had already built the gate with stones last night, so the gate of the village was not the target of the school shooting, but the archery tower above the gate.However, in the first round of test firing, none of the shells directly hit the arrow tower, and they were all slightly off-point.

A shell from a 48-pound siege gun hit the wall of the village, causing gravel to splash, and a pit the size of a washbasin appeared on the wall, but it was not enough to affect the strength of the wall.Another smaller shell directly crossed the wall of the village and smashed into the stables in the village.The horses were not directly injured, but they smashed a pillar supporting the stable, and immediately a quarter of the roof collapsed, causing a lot of people in the village to fall on their backs.The other shells failed to achieve any substantial results, and basically hit the empty space.

But in the second round of test firing 2 minutes later, the calibrated artillery position quickly concentrated fire successfully, and two shells directly hit the arrow tower, and they came out through the tower, causing sawdust to fly horizontally.Although no one was injured, the pirate archers who were originally deployed in the archery building were already frightened and fled, not daring to stay in the building any longer.

"It looks good." Shi Diwen confirmed the results from the telescope, and then asked the artillery to fire three more rounds at the same target.After constant corrections, in the last round of shelling, more than [-]% of the shells hit the arrow tower.Although this watchtower hasn't collapsed yet, it has already been battered and crumbling, and it is certain that they dare not deploy any more people in it.

During this period, none of the cannons defending the village on Shibazhi's side were fired.This is also the order given by Zheng Zhihu. He also knows that his own weapons are at a disadvantage in terms of range and accuracy. If he wants to fight against the Haihan people at the current combat distance, it really won't take advantage of the slightest advantage, and it is very likely. It will also expose the position of one's own firepower.

The pirates had already seen the concentration level of the Haihan artillery from the process of bombarding the watchtower just now, and the pirate gunners did not have any doubts about Zheng Zhihu's order.Now the chance of hitting the opponent with a cannon is extremely small, but it may attract a concentrated fire, and the gunners are unwilling to take such an unnecessary risk.

Seeing that his opponent continued to remain silent, Shi Diwen did not immediately launch a counterattack, with some exceptions.During the battle at sea the day before, these pirates had already fired the earth cannon and bird guns they had installed on the ship, and it seemed that they could deter the Haihan militia by this means.But today, the combat style of the pirates has suddenly changed, and they are not in a hurry to use the long-range weapons they have on hand.

Shi Diwen thought for a while, and gave the next order to advance the position as a whole by 50 meters, and then conduct three rounds of shelling.If the pirates still can't fight back, then continue to advance until the pirates can't hold back.

Although it is a bit cumbersome to do so, Shi Diwen is convinced that the few long-range weapons in Nanri Village are the biggest threat to the Haihan militia, and the troops involved in this battle are very limited. Before the first line, clear away the firepower on the opponent's wall.And under the advancement layer by layer, the competition is who can hold their breath better.

Shibazhi has an advantage in military strength but it is difficult to use it. It can only wait patiently for the position of the Haihan militia to come within range of its own side.However, things were not as simple as they imagined. Starting from a distance of 400 meters, the Haihan artillery no longer bombarded the target of the city gate, but freely bombarded the front wall of about 150 meters long.And at this distance, even a 12-pound gun with a smaller caliber, the gravel flying debris produced by hitting the top of the wall is already powerful enough to hurt people.After ten rounds of shelling, there were more than 20 more wounded in Nanri Village, all of them were gunners on standby on the wall of the village, and three or four artillery positions on the wall of the village were also destroyed. In the exchange of fire, the combat power of Nanri Village has already been severely hit.

Although Zheng Zhihu did not directly board the wall to command and watch the battle, he also knew the passiveness of the current situation through the feedback information.If the Haihan militia were allowed to move over inch by inch, the wall of the village would have been directly bombed down by the intensive artillery fire before they reached the gate of Nanri Village.When the opponent really enters the range of one's own side, it's hard to say how many cannons can be fired on the wall.

"Order to fire!" Although he knew that the hit rate of firing at this time would be very low, but Zheng Zhihu also knew that if he waited any longer, he would just sit and wait for death, so he could only issue this inappropriate order against his will.

"Finally do it!" Shi Diwen secretly sighed in his heart.He immediately got information feedback from the watchmen standing on the high platform. The flag on the wall of Nanri Village changed, and the gunners pushed all the hidden artillery to the crenel. It seemed that they really planned to fight recklessly. .

But this kind of thinking is just the intention of the pirates, and the Haihan militia will not let the opponent get the chance to open fire so easily.After the snipers on each high platform reported the positions of the observed artillery, they began to use the sniper rifles in their hands to shoot at the pirate gunners who appeared on the wall.At the distance where the snipers were, the pirates had no means of fighting back at all, and it was completely a one-sided killing.In order to ensure the hit rate, a dozen snipers under Morgan's unified command focused on the same two targets each time they shot.

When the pirate gunners were knocked down one by one by the bullets flying hundreds of meters away, the people around even thought they were hit by the gravel splashed by the shells at first, but they soon realized that something was wrong. Because the position they are in does not seem to have been bombarded at this time.By the time they discovered that the wounded were shot by rifles, the snipers had already killed six or seven targets.The rest of the gunners also panicked because of this, and they did not dare to expose their heads or torsos outside the cover of the wall, because they had already discovered that the high platforms built by the Haihan people behind the distant positions were the The distance from the position of the evil stars who attacked.

"Fire! Why haven't you fired yet!" Zheng Zhihu found that after his order was issued, only two cannons fired on the wall, and they soon failed to fire again. This made him very dissatisfied, and immediately went to the wall Ask about the status.

Zheng Zhihu didn't understand what kind of situation he had encountered until the dozen or so gunners who had been shot were sent down from the wall of the village.Obviously, Haihan's long-range weapons are not just those amazingly powerful artillery pieces, but also some kind of long-range guns, which are enough to kill their own gunners at the same distance as the artillery range.

And this completely disrupted Zheng Zhihu's layout. He originally thought that even if his artillery was not as powerful as his opponent, at least he could fight the opponent to the death after entering his range.At that time, when the artillery is finished, relying on the superiority of our troops, it should not be a big problem to defend Nanri Village for a few days.But he never thought that his own artillery was not as good as the opponent's, and it seemed that it was difficult to get a chance to fight desperately. If the fight continued like this, the gunner would have to hang up before his own artillery could exert its power.

"Send 200 people out of the village from the left and right, harass the opponent from the outside, and the remaining gunners return to the gun positions and continue to fire!" Zheng Zhihu really can't think of any useful way now, since he can't be beaten with his head depressed, he just I can choose to take the initiative to attack again.Of course, he also knew that it was almost impossible to defeat the Haihan militia with sharp weapons on the frontal battlefield, so the order he gave was only to harass, not to confront the opponent.

"Shibazhi is impatient!" Shi Diwen saw through the binoculars some figures on the left and right of Nanri Village, and he had already guessed the opponent's plan.However, he was also prepared for this, and ordered two infantry platoons to line up on the left and right sides of the position to meet the opponent.

(End of this chapter)