Wild North America 1846

Chapter 182
"Fire..."

"Boom boom boom..." A series of dense cannons sounded, and at the distance of two chains, the fierce artillery fire unleashed on the port side of the sailing battleship "King Quan" fired more than [-] rounds of red-hot shells, fiercely It hit the pirate ship "Black Pharaoh", setting off a bloody storm.

The red shells hit the hard side of the ship, and it was blown to pieces in an instant. The flying iron fragments and rain of bullets knocked down the pirates on the enemy ship row by row.

It broke the foremast, ignited the sails, and caused great damage to the pirate ship.

The shells destroyed the bollards, and the fastened sail cables immediately scattered, which caused the sails of the pirate ship to go for a ride in an instant, and lost most of its forward momentum.

The pirate ship "Black Pharaoh" slowed down visibly, and the distance between the two ships shortened sharply, entering the distance of the boarding battle.

The pirate captain "Vulture" Rodman, who had been pushed to the extreme, had a fierce light in his eyes, he held a sharp long knife in one hand, and shouted loudly with a double musket in the other;

"Brave and fearless guys, falling into their hands will only lead to death. Pray to the great sea god to testify, let us kill these orientals and grab the navy's gunboat. From now on, we will be the kings of Central America."

His crazy yelling ignited the ferocity in the hearts of the pirates, and they all screamed and climbed up the zipline with sharp knives, like grasshoppers densely packed on rice stalks, ready to swing by when the two ships meet, killing and robbing the ship .

"Raise the gun and fire."

"Clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap..."

On the "King Power" sailing battleship, the neatly lined up naval soldiers raised their Colt 1848 lever-action repeating rifles and fired fiercely at the pirates tens of meters away.

The hot bullets flew like a swarm of bees, knocking down the pirates on the mast, zipline, and sail one by one, and fell to the ground with a "crackling".

Round after round of bullet rain seemed endless. After the thick gunpowder smoke passed, the crazy pirates on the "Black Pharaoh" pirate ship had been wiped out. They were beaten down like more than 100 turkeys, causing a large number of casualties.

The iron flying claws with sharp barbs tightly clasped the side of the pirate ship, and quickly shortened the distance as the waves swayed, binding the two ships tightly together.

The "King Quan" sailing battleship has a large tonnage and a high waterline. The naval soldiers jumped onto the pirate ship with knives and guns in hand, and continued to pour bullets at the lying pirates, and finally made up the knife.

They quickly swept from the deck to the captain's quarters at the stern, wounded the vulture Rodman, and threw them on the sailing battleship "King Power" like a rag sack.

The battle is coming to an end
The soldiers swept across the bottom cabin from the deck, and the crisp gunfire gradually died down. The corpses of the dead pirates were piled up on the deck, and more than [-] wounded and captured pirates were tied up by the soldiers and forced to kneel on the deck.

So far, the overall situation has been settled.

The number of pirate ships active on the Central American route is not large, far less than the pirates in the Caribbean. This is because the trade routes between cities on the eastern coast of the United States and important countries such as Brazil and Argentina in Central and South America must pass through the Caribbean.

Besides
Most of the important ports in the cotton-rich southern states of the United States are located in the Gulf of Mexico, very close to the Caribbean Sea.

The prosperity of commercial routes in North America has made Pirates of the Caribbean, an ancient industry that has been rampant for hundreds of years, more and more prosperous, and its strength is far stronger than that of pirates on the east coast of the Pacific Ocean.

After capturing the Pirate King headed by the "Black Pharaoh", the rest are just some small fish and shrimps, and they only need to continue to clear up and consolidate the results of the battle.

Brigadier General Pan Hengchen glanced coldly at the captured pirates. In his eyes, these pirates were already dead, including "Captain Vulture" Rodman with a shiny bald head.

Speaking of being famous on the Central American route, all kinds of terrible legends describe it as miraculous, but after being caught, he collapsed on the ground as if he had been cramp. what?
Pirates are rampant only in lawless seas, and once they encounter a concentrated fire attack from a regular navy, they will be crushed to scum in minutes.

The "Black Pharaoh" pirate ship is a three-masted medium-sized schooner rebuilt from a ship that was originally robbed. This kind of ship is fast and flexible, and is very suitable for traveling in the complicated waters of Central America.

"Captain Vulture" Rodman has achieved great fame in the past ten years, but he has only accumulated 12 artillery pieces, which are already the most powerful firepower among Central American pirate ships.

It is safe to deal with ordinary merchant ships and immigrant ships, but facing the sailing battleship "King Quan" with a displacement of more than 62 tons, and the [-] artillery pieces equipped with the sailing battleship "King Quan", that is really not enough. .

What is especially bullying is that the Navy of the Kingdom of Tang is equipped with the sharpest Colt 1848 lever-type repeating rifle in the world today. The dense rain of bullets seems to be endless round after round, and the pirates who are holding weapons and preparing to fight on board are directly attacked. They slaughtered one-sidedly, without any suspense.

The expected hand-to-hand combat did not happen at all, and the fierce pirates were killed or injured.

"Order; Throw the dead pirates into the sea, scour the deck, collect weapons and swords, assign a part of the manpower to drive the Black Pharaoh, and arrange the sails to prepare to return."

Brigadier General Pan Hengchen issued a series of orders, and the officers and soldiers under his command immediately took action, throwing the dead pirate bodies into the sea one by one, and then used a bucket to beat sea water to clean the bloody and broken flesh on the deck.

This quickly aroused the restlessness of the sharks on the nearby sea surface. In a short while, hundreds of sharks gathered and frantically bit the pirate corpses near the sea surface. The surrounding sea area has been rendered bloody, boiling like a soup pot.

Brigadier General Pan Hengchen didn't care about these trivial matters. The captured pirates headed by "Captain Vulture" Rodman were tied up and left aside. Hanging to deter the remaining pirates and lawbreakers in the area.

As for the three-masted schooner "Black Pharaoh", Brigadier General Pan Hengchen has already taken a fancy to it. After being towed back, it has been repaired and can be included in the fleet of naval ships.

There is no way, the Tang Kingdom's navy is too weak, and there are not many ships that can be used. The main force is two old British sailing battleships of more than [-] tons.

Some other small-tonnage two-masted schooner frigates can only patrol not far from the seashore, and they are not strong enough to enter the deep sea.

The "Black Pharaoh" entered the Navy of the Datang Kingdom. It is the third capital ship with a proper displacement. Those broken wooden bulwarks don't matter. There are shipwrights in the ports near Central America, and they can be repaired soon.

After the Datang Kingdom's navy has solved the hidden danger of piracy on the sea, it should focus on land expansion...

Thought of here
Brigadier General Pan Hengcheng looked towards the mainland with complicated eyes. There is the vast and sparsely populated Panama region of Central America, and it is also a sensitive area that His Majesty the King pays close attention to. The vast Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean are only 65 kilometers apart, so the geographical location is extremely important.

(End of this chapter)