Lu Ming

Chapter 240 Trapped Beast
During the Civil War, most Napoleon gun batteries could easily fire two rounds per minute.

And in the plane of crossing the public, due to the addition of various black technologies, such as the most important gun well that "does not need to move after firing", the maximum speed of a three-man gun crew can reach 3-4 per minute. send.

The only thing that can restrict the performance of the gun crew is the sloshing deck and the hot barrel.

And during the 10-minute rapid-fire period that night, the fleet actually reduced the ship's speed to 2 knots to reduce deck shaking and cooperate with the gun crew - due to the existence of turbine power, the fleet can surround a large number of enemies at any time Speed ​​up before leaving.

As for the barrel, the quality of the Napoleon cannon manufactured by the fleet using precision wrought iron + cutting technology has far exceeded that of similar products in history, and a round of rapid fire has no effect on the barrel.

In short, technology changes everything.Facing a fleet armed with high technology, the primitive pirates in the 17th century had no ability to fight back except for being beaten.

After the short 10-minute rapid-fire time ended, the ferocious crossing fleet blocked outside the port of Zhongzuo, and instantly changed into a living ship and disappeared.
The fleet that was originally shining brightly and illuminated by beams of light, shining like a star in the dark night, suddenly all the lights went out, and the dumbfounded pirates heard only the pitch-black night before their eyes except for the sound of a series of engines fading away.If it weren't for the large number of dead and wounded people and boats around him, some people might think that they were just dreaming.

It is natural to retreat through the crowd.The fire has been set off, the guns have been fired, and the passion has been shipped, so why don't you just put on your pants and leave, what are you waiting for?So the fleet entered blackout in an instant, speeded up, turned around, what a joke.

While running, in view of the completion rate of today's combat target is 120%, the effect is much better than expected, so two radio waves flew to Dayuan and Fuzhou respectively in the middle of the night: the reinforcements can come out.

In the early morning, Li Kuiqi, who was standing on the pier in Zhongzuo, watching the tragic situation in front of him, seemed to have a lot of gray hair overnight.

At least 30 ships were sunk in port.These dumped belongings only exposed the mast or the bow of the boat on the water, and dense debris and corpses floated beside them, and the scene was extremely bleak.As for the lucky ones who only had a few more holes in their bodies after being shot, there are countless.

You know, a certain fleet fired 440 rounds of shells in the first round of long-range fire, and the ammunition volume of the second round of rapid fire was more than twice this number. The damage of 1200+ iron balls is so terrifying!
In addition to material losses, there are also human losses.

Nearly 1000 people died in the shelling and ensuing chaos.Compared to the 2-person gang, this number seems small, but at the same time, there are more than 1000 wounded people lying on the leaky bow and wailing on the beach.
Li Kuiqi was not the only one jumping on the pier, but Zhong Bin, who was concerned about his son, was the most nervous one.

Since the small boats sent out forcibly last night were cleared up by an oncoming fleet, the Zhongzuo Institute was bombarded next, and a large number of people fled to the shore. The scene was extremely chaotic, no less than the legendary " Camp Xiao".

Under such circumstances, Li Kuiqi couldn't even stabilize the tent of the Chinese army, so no one went to Jinmen in the dark.It wasn't until after 5 o'clock in the morning that the trembling pirates sent sentry ships to investigate the situation after confirming that their opponents had gone away.

In the end, it was not the sentinel boat that brought the bad news, but a fishing boat from Kinmen.

After the Pirate Bay was burned down, all ships docked here were destroyed by fire and hot wind.The few people who escaped were still in shock. At dawn, they found a fishing boat from a nearby fishing village and rowed to Zhongzuo.

And when the fishing boat slowly rowed into the pier, the people at the bow were immediately stunned by the horror around them, so that when many shopkeepers rushed to the bow, everyone was still in a daze.

"Speak! What happened to Jinmen?!" Zhong Bin, who rushed onto the boat, immediately grabbed a fellow by the shoulder and asked loudly.

With a "plop", the man knelt down: "It's miserable, Mr. Zhong. It's all gone, it's all gone. It's all gone in one fire."

Zhong Bin's face turned pale when he heard this, and his strong figure trembled a little: "Where are people? How many escaped?"

"Less than three hundred brothers survived"

After Zhong Bin yelled "Yeah", he threw his head up and fell on the board of the boat.

Seeing that the second master fell to the ground, the dozen or so bosses who followed the boat hurriedly helped Zhong Bin up, then pinched him and fanned him, but no one dared to slap him.

Li Kuiqi, who had already been mentally prepared for the situation, didn't see any waves on his face at this moment. After dragging a guy over, he said with a cold face, "Tell me about it."

After a while, when Li Kuiqi finished asking the survivors' confessions in detail, he returned to the Chinese military tent without saying a word, and began to dispatch people to organize the aftermath.

And not long after he started "disaster relief", another fishing boat fled from the direction of Jinmen, but brought an important person: Chen Zhongji.

Chen Zhongji was the only leader in the Pirate Bay who escaped with his life, but when the shopkeepers in the big tent saw him, they all gasped.

Chen Zhongji was carried into the big tent: half of his body had been burnt to death, his whole body was covered with scorching blisters, his chubby face was already torn apart, and blood seeped out.

Chen Zhongji rushed out of the poop after the fire ignited. He was about to be burned to death, but he was almost pushed into the sea by one of his men, and then picked up.Afterwards, Master Chen, who had enjoyed the ice and fire, was put on the beach until dawn
The moment they saw him, everyone knew that this person's life was nine out of ten stops. Closing eyes is the moment.

as predicted.When Li Kuiqi leaned over to hold his hand and said the three words "Brother Zhongji" with a sad face, Chen Zhongji, who had been blind for a long time, rallied his last remaining strength at this moment and shouted to the roof: "It's you!" A thief! Kuiqi will avenge me!" Then he died.

Later that day, after collecting enough information about their opponents, shopkeepers from all walks of life quickly realized that only dispersion is the most reliable way to avoid terrorist night attacks.Ever since, the pirate gang that hastily cleaned up the mess began to disperse their troops and stationed them in various parts of Zhangzhou Bay.

At this time, the pirate gang who had previously scoffed at the news that Xiong Wencan turned around to appease the big thief Kun finally understood the horror of the crossing crowd.

However, it is useless to know that, at least tonight, none of the pirates can come up with a way to counter the traversers.They are nervous, they are afraid, they don't know from which corner the opponent will come out after dark.So they had no choice but to disperse and evade, and scattered their soldiers and horses all over Zhangzhou Bay with the mentality that dead friends would never die.

Of course, there is always a small shopkeeper who is chivalrous and courageous, and who still arranges his men and boats at the pier in the middle left, and stays with Li Kuiqi's direct line soldiers - this person is called Hu Ba.

Hu Ba is a good brother of Comrade Du Dewei who has turned to the light.After Du Dewei went north to Fuzhou, the two brothers broke up, and now Hu Ba is still loyal to Li Kuiqi's gang.

But Zhongxin Huba has been a little busy recently, because he has to send a small boat to the innermost Moon Harbor in Zhangzhou Bay every day, and he doesn't know what he is busy with.

At the same time that there was chaos in Zhangzhou Bay, the fleet of the crossing crowd had arrived at the official wharf outside Quanzhou Prefecture.

Quanzhou City, which is only 40 kilometers away from Jinmen in a straight line and less than 80 kilometers away by sea, is the supply point that the crossing people have already planned before.After bombarding Zhongzuo that night, the fleet did not drive at high speed for the rest of the time. Instead, it wandered northward and arrived at the sea off Quanzhou before dawn.

Waiting in the open sea until the early morning sun, the fleet first sent out liaison boats, and then slowly entered the Quanzhou wharf.The prefect of Quanzhou and the guerrilla general of Quannan, who had already received the documents from the governor's office, were already waiting at the pier.

So the fleet settled down in Quanzhou.

After staying at the pier all day, the five supply ships that were busy with the wind and dust did not arrive in Quanzhou until the evening.So early the next morning, a large number of porters started the transshipment work.

After that, reinforcements began to arrive one after another.

There are three backup parties: the Dutch, the Fuchuan Fleet of the Mawei Barracks, and the official army of Fuzhou Shuibiao.Except for the Dutch, because the other two parties had to receive supplies in Quanzhou City, the official departure of the whole army was postponed for another day.

The Dutch sent 10 armed merchant ships of the largest tonnage this time, led by Putmans himself.

The water standard officers and soldiers with the weakest combat effectiveness were led by general Qu Dazhong.

As for the 30 Fuchuan teams departing from Maweishui Camp, they were under the command of Liu Zhe, the naval commander who had rushed to Fuzhou with a large number of sailors not long ago.

The personnel on these 30 ships are composed of pirate recruits and senior sailors on the spot. In addition, 10 army soldiers with [-]-style rifles are also stationed on each ship.

After the reinforcements arrived, the formal operation to wipe out the Li Kuiqi Group would begin soon.

Before that, the cross-traversing crowd first summoned the leaders from all walks of life and announced their battle plan.

Considering the extremely sad battlefield mobility in this era, the traversing crowd did not dare to play tricks, but honestly divided the reinforcements under their command into two blockades that did not belong to each other.

The first blockade line: the sea between Kinmen Island and the northern mainland.

The second blockade line: the waters between Kinmen Island and the southern mainland.

Zhangzhou Bay is an irregular bell mouth, and in the center of the bell mouth is Kinmen Island.The plan of the crossing people is: the main fleet enters Zhangzhou Bay to destroy the enemy, and all the reinforcements are divided into two, with Jinmen as the fulcrum, and the two blockade lines from the north and the south as the chain, completely wipe out the Li Kuiqi group in the encirclement.

(End of this chapter)