Rise of Australia

Chapter 223 Naval Cannon Fireworks at Night

The voices of the pirates celebrating overwhelmed the voices of the soldiers responding, and all the pirates were still immersed in the joy of celebration.

boom!
A sudden gunshot stopped all the natives immediately, and time seemed to stop for a few seconds.

boom! boom! boom!
The soldiers of the Guards didn't give the pirates time to react. Seeing the pirates being a little surprised, they immediately opened fire.

Fortunately, the usual training of the soldiers was very effective. In addition, the pirates were unable to react for a while because of the sudden incident, and instead became fixed targets in the true sense.

"Protect all citizens!" The platoon leader gave an order, leading all soldiers gradually approaching the tied Australasian citizens.

"Is it our army? Thank God, thank Your Majesty!" Hearing the familiar voice and seeing the familiar army, the captured Australasians were ecstatic, and began to thank God and Arthur crazily.

On the other hand, the situation of the pirates is not so good.

The training of the Guards soldiers is not for nothing, each of them has to invest dozens of bullets every day.

Although there is no guarantee that everyone is a sharpshooter, at least they can basically hit the target.

Although there may be deviations, the real firearms are no joke, as long as they are hit, they will be seriously injured, let alone losing the ability to fight, I am afraid that life safety cannot be guaranteed.

"We are soldiers of the First Infantry Regiment of the Guards Division. We are here to rescue you under His Majesty's order. You are safe!" The platoon leader smiled at these people while ordering the soldiers to untie them Said.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, long live Your Majesty!"

Every rescued Australasian said ecstatically.

"Are all of you here? Is there anyone out there?" the platoon leader asked.

"It's all here, Mr. Officer. These damned natives plan to execute us after celebrating today. You guys are really timely, and we will go to see God later." The leader of the hostages said.

"Please rest assured that you are safe now. There are still our fleet and more troops outside the island. The government and His Majesty are also very concerned about this matter, and ordered the army to be dispatched to eliminate all pirates." The platoon leader comforted.

For these people who are really facing life and death, what needs to be done now is to comfort them as much as possible and let them get out of the shadows as soon as possible.

Now that all the captured hostages are here, the platoon leader is relieved, and ordered to all the soldiers: "Everyone listen to the order, take everyone to the coast, let people get on the warship first."

These pirates can't escape if they stay on the island. The most important task at present is to protect the lives of these people.

Naturally, the safest place is on a warship, where there is a fleet and many troops for protection, and it is impossible for pirates to pose any threat to the fleet.

Outside the island, after Minister Kent heard gunshots on the island, he immediately ordered all soldiers to take action.

Although the pirates on the small island did not attack Australasia, how can we guarantee that they have no threat?
The best way to protect citizens is to solve all possible threats to citizens or forces, and these pirates are naturally one of the targets.

Of course, Minister Kent will not have the luxury to use soldiers to storm these islands.Who can guarantee that these pirates are all mobs?
Any additional casualties to soldiers are unnecessary in Minister Kent's opinion.

Although the Australasian navy is all small and medium-sized warships, the range of the naval guns of the warships is several kilometers, which is enough to bomb the islands around these islands.

Before this operation, Minister Kent had all warships carry enough ammunition in order to bomb the island if possible.

Of course, the largest island still needs to send troops to land.After all, there are not only captured Australasian citizens on the island, but also guard soldiers who sneaked into the island.

Minister Kent's expression was a little dignified, because the gunshots on the island had basically stopped after a short while.

This also means that there are two possibilities, either the soldiers of the Guards have successfully completed the task, or the soldiers of the Guards have to stop firing for some reason.

If it is the second case, it is not friendly to the current Minister of Kent.

But Minister Kent is still willing to believe in the abilities of the soldiers of the Guards. After all, this is the absolute elite of the British Empire Army. The training and combat ability are not lost to the elite troops of Germany.

Minister Kent also disembarked and followed the soldiers to the island.

In less than ten minutes, the soldiers of the Guards met Minister Kent, and the news he brought made Minister Kent heave a sigh of relief.

Now that all Australasian citizens have been successfully rescued, Minister Kent has no worries, and directly orders everyone to board the warship, and use the naval guns on the warship to bombard all the islands indiscriminately until most of them are consumed. As far as the shells go.

The bombing lasted for half an hour, and on average, each island suffered at least forty shells from the Australasian fleet.

The largest island was even more tragic and became the focus of the fleet's attention.After withstanding hundreds of naval artillery shells, the appearance of the large island was directly changed.

Because it is night, the specific appearance of the island cannot be seen clearly.But if it was daytime, Minister Kent would be able to see that the originally lush island had turned into a yellow-black ruined island, and the gunpowder smoke permeating the island even gathered into clouds.

Order the soldiers to carry at least three grenades each. This is a sharp weapon manufactured by the Royal Australasian Military Factory. It is filled with gunpowder, steel balls and broken iron slag. The explosion range is only 1 to 2 meters. According to the killing range But there are more than ten.

In fact, grenades have been born for hundreds of years, but they have become a bit tasteless due to the development of firearms.

As the killing range of firearms is getting farther and farther, coupled with the gradual popularity of machine guns, this kind of weapon that can only be thrown manually has not been adopted by armies around the world.

The reappearance of grenades in the equipment orders of various countries was still in the two world wars.In order to deal with the enemy's large number of trenches and intensive charges, the grenade, a weapon of mass destruction, has reappeared and has been widely valued by countries all over the world.

Naturally, Arthur would not wait until all countries in the world paid attention to grenades before starting the manufacture of grenades.

At present, the grenade manufacturing in Australasia has begun to take shape. The Royal Military Factory also has two types of grenades, one is a wooden handle grenade and the other is an egg grenade.

Because of the sparse population in Australasia, every trained soldier is very precious.

The soldiers are not familiar with the terrain and environment of the island, and it is very likely to lead to an ambush and ambush by pirates.

In this case, the grenade has become a very good attack weapon, which can cause good fire damage to the enemy in areas that cannot be covered by large artillery.

Although it may cost more military expenditures, it is better than causing unnecessary casualties.

Under the leadership of Minister Kent, the soldiers re-armed and landed on the island again.

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