Late Tang

Seeing that the pirates who rushed to the front had successfully 'captured' the fleet docked at the pier, the pirate who was manipulating the cannon couldn't help shouting, "Master, let's do it!" Yellow Beard crouched on the pier leaning on his sword On the huge wooden mountain on one side, the situation in the harbor can be seen clearly.As soon as the enemy ship entered the port, some people couldn't help shouting to fight, but he has been holding back.

"Wait a little longer!" I don't know how many times Yellow Beard has waited a little longer. By now, the pirates of the Cyclops have already occupied the ships in the port.Yellow Beard personally sits at the pier to direct the battle, but Red Beard and Black Beard are nowhere to be seen. There are only a dozen or so ships docked in the harbor, and none of the other ships are seen.

"Show me how many of the Daxiezhai battleships in the back have entered our range?" Yellow Beard was calm on the surface, but he was also very disturbed in his heart.Seeing the one-eyed flood thieves roaring excitedly on the deck of the dismounted ship, and the tall warships in Daxie village behind were getting closer and closer, he couldn't help feeling nervous.

"The forward of the enemy fleet has entered the firing range!"

"Only forwards? Then wait, at least half of them are within the range." Although he has a secret weapon in his hand, it is the first time to use this thing, and there are not many of them. Lure the enemy closer and fight again.Even if all the ships in the harbor were lost for this reason, it would not be the same, anyway, those are some old merchant ships.

The waiting time is always long and full of anxiety. After waiting for as long as half a lifetime, seeing that the pirates have already started to brave the sparse arrow rain to land on the beach, Yellow Beard finally agrees. The gunners, impatiently waiting, gave their orders.

"put!"

The cannon shooter commander Pirate who finally got the order turned around excitedly, and shouted at the cannon shooters who were about to doze off: "Let it go, let it go, let it go!"

The one lurking behind Mudui Mountain requires 200 people to twist and wind, and under the super cannon that can load [-] rounds at a time, [-] cannonballers raised their heavy axes at the same time, and slashed fiercely on the ground. The general cannon on this wheel is tied with a rope that weighs a fifteen-pound Shenhuo pottery pot.

Twenty altars of Wrath of the Sea God immediately flew into the sky with a whistling sound, and there was an orange tail flame behind them.This is the ignited fire pot, dragging a long flame tail and flying towards the battleship in the harbor in a beautiful arc.

Their target was not the pirates at the front, but directed at Feng's tall battleships.There is no need to calibrate the target at all, each of these cannons has been tried many times, and all angles in the harbor are clearly marked. In the harbor, those floating wooden stakes that Feng Ming has been neglecting, In fact, it is a predetermined shooting target, tied to an anchor and fixed in the harbor.All are numbered, and the gunners only need to adjust according to the predetermined angle when firing.

General Lu Pao took the lead in launching the first wave of counterattacks, and their target was the battleship Rage, the biggest target on the left.

Twenty clay pots flew towards them whistling, and hit the side deck of the huge three-story battleship very accurately, breaking apart one after another amidst loud bangs.The commanding lieutenant of the battleship Rage was pleasantly surprised to find that this wave of extremely dangerous blows did not cause any damage to the ship's armor.However, he was experienced and immediately saw what was splashed out of the clay pot.It was a dark but slightly transparent viscous liquid, like oil but dense.

"Come forward with the pump, and prepare to put out the fire!" The experienced captain immediately judged that the thing inside must be kerosene, and immediately called the sailors on the ship who were in charge of fire fighting to come forward with the pump.

More than a dozen fire-fighting sailors rushed forward with a pump each. The pumps used long bamboos to open the water, wrapped the water rods in wadding, and pumped water by themselves.It can not only absorb water, but also discharge water, and can spray very far. It is a very good fire extinguishing tool on warships.The firefighter holds the pump in one hand and pushes the water rod with the other to spray the water in the tube onto the deck of the burning ship.

The jet of water sprayed onto the flames, not only did not extinguish the flames, but instead rose suddenly, and the fire became even bigger.The firefighters were astonished and pushed the water pole harder. The water jets poured on the flames, and the fireworks rose up and rolled onto the deck of the ship. Suddenly, the archers who were standing behind the parapet, who were unprepared, burst into flames. Engulfed by the flames, the whole person burned into a huge fireball, howled and ran around, and finally was stabbed into the sea with a spear by the soldiers around him.

The soldier's spear also caught fire, and the sight terrified the soldiers on the deck, who finally had to throw the spear into the sea.

At this moment, more cannons began to drop bombs one after another, those hidden in the pier and on both sides fired one after another, and more heavy crossbows also started firing.For a time, the sky above the entire harbor was full of roaring clay pots and wildly flying crossbow arrows.

The Rage, which was attacked first, encountered a concentrated fire attack at this time. In addition to the general's wheel cannon to lock it, there were also several catapults and ballistas locked it.A huge crossbow arrow as thick as an arm directly hit the female wall of the Rage, directly blasting a large hole nearly human-wide in it.The huge crossbow directly penetrated the chests and abdomens of the two sailors, and the flying fragments also directly knocked down several people.

"This is an ambush by the enemy." Half of the deck of the Rage was already on fire, billowing black smoke straight into the sky, "We have fallen into the trick of the enemy!" The captain of the Rage looked desperate Watching this huge fighting ship about to sink.This battleship was loaded with [-] soldiers and [-] sailors, and it was the only full-staffed large ship in the fleet. However, it was unexpectedly encountered before even a single arrow could be released. With such a dense and terrifying blow, he didn't even have the chance to retreat, seeing that half of the ship was already on fire.

"Abandon ship!" He yelled helplessly, the kerosene in these clay pots thrown by the enemy was too strong, the water wouldn't extinguish it, but the more it poured, the more momentum it became...

There were too few small boats on board, and there was no time to move slowly at this time, so the five hundred soldiers and three hundred sailors had to jump into the sea like dumplings.Before jumping off the boat, he looked around and found that black clay pots with orange tail flames were flying everywhere in the sky, and the hit rate of these pots was astonishingly high.One after another, the battleships in the harbor were hit and shattered, and then burned.He estimated in his mind that there was at least a [-]% to [-]% hit rate. This result shocked him.

"Lieutenant Zhang, get on board quickly." The sailor on board the Xiaoheishan stretched out a spear to him, and pulled him onto the frigate that originally belonged to the Rage, but now, the Xiaoheishan Zou Ge no longer has anyone to guard.When he turned his head, he just saw the huge battleship Rage slowly tilting under the water. It won't take long for this huge battleship to sink completely.

After climbing aboard the Xiaoheishan, Captain Zhang looked around in the smoke for the building where Feng Ming was, and everything was as he expected.Feng Ming's huge five-story ships became the next targets after the Furious Wave.

Countless clay pots fell by the side of the boat, a few of them had hit the hull, and several flames were igniting.

Just watching, a huge iron crossbow bolt with a length of one foot and eight feet hit the front deck of the Xiaoheishan with a whistling sound. Just less than two feet away from him, the crossbow bolt was deeply nailed into the deck. Among them, the body of the crossbow was still trembling.

On the pier of the harbor, Captain Zhang saw countless soldiers suddenly pouring out from behind the wood piles on both sides. They held up large shields and lined up as a shield wall and rushed to the pier to form a shield formation, chasing down the pirates who were about to rush onto the pier. They blocked it firmly.The pirates occupy a small piece of ground on the pier, rushing desperately, but at this time, behind the shield formation on the pier, there are actually countless small clay pots flying out. It's the same thing.

Sure enough, one after another, the clay pots were hit and burst by the pirates' formation, and then countless pirates began to be sputtered and burned.Some pirates wanted to help their companions put out the fire, but they got burned and set themselves ablaze. This horrible result made the pirates lose their souls, and lost their last hope of dying.They started backing away, turning and running, trying to get back to the boat.

At this moment, there was a passionate drumbeat from the pier, and then he vaguely heard a loud roar from the pier.After that, dozens of black shadows flew over the pier, and finally landed on the ships that were docked at the pier and occupied by the pirates.

Little by little orange flames rose up, and after a while, it turned into a continuous fire.The more than 20 ships actually started to burn, and his expression changed drastically.No matter how fierce the enemy's fire oil is, it will not have such an effect. This is because the cabin has long been equipped with flammable fire starters such as sulfur.He knew that those thousand pirates would never come back, and even their warships would become wrecks at the bottom of this harbor.

"Turn around!" Captain Zhang roared loudly, his face pale.The paddlers rowed towards the Lingbo boat, and he shouted: "Don't go there, just go to the left and leave the battlefield!" The Lingbo boat has become a target, and has already hit dozens of times A clay pot, but they seem to have found some way to deal with it. Instead of watering it, they covered it with sand.But even so, the speed of Limbo with its sails down was almost the slowest in the entire fleet, and it was impossible for them to escape.

The Zhenhai has also turned its bow and is evacuating. She was lucky, and was not hit by the terrifying clay pot attack.The walking boats and boats following the Zhenhai were the fastest, and the boats were also small, and the boats were specially covered with thick rawhide, so they were not damaged.However, two of the five Seafalcon ships rushing to the front were set on fire at this time, and the terrifying flames swallowed them quickly at an unimaginable speed. Under the sealed deck cabin, even the soldiers on board are half surrounded by the deck.Usually, this situation can protect the crew to the greatest extent, especially the unarmed sailors, but at this time, they didn't even have time to escape, and they were directly engulfed by the flames on the ship. None of the more than 40 sailors on board escaped in time.

Many people were unable to escape, struggling and running with orange fireworks on their bodies, and finally jumped into the water, but they still couldn't extinguish the fire, they could only let out inhuman howls.

In the earthen pots all over the sky, Captain Zhang found that the entire fleet had no command at all at this time. From the beginning of the attack, he had not received any command and dispatch.The pirates broke away from their formation at the beginning. When the fleet encountered an attack, some warships continued to move forward, trying to follow the pirates to the pier.Some were retreating, trying to avoid the fierce attack. In order to avoid those terrifying cannonballs, the entire fleet dispersed and lost its formation.

Amidst the black smoke and orange fireworks in the sky, Captain Zhang caught a glimpse of the building ship Lingbo finally not exiting. The entire five-story building ship had now become a huge fire, emitting raging flames. All around, there are countless human heads undulating in the water.He didn't know if Feng Ming was among those people, but he prayed in his heart that it would be best for him to be among them.

Although the ambush on the pier was formidable, if Feng Ming hadn't forcibly seized Captain Wu's command, with Captain Wu's experience, the fleet itself was also equipped with many long-range weapons such as catapults and ballistas, so it wouldn't be impossible to fight The opponent fights.It's a pity that the great fleet was ruined.Even if they were ambushed and made a decisive decision and the entire fleet retreated immediately, the result would not be the same.It's really a dandy who doesn't accomplish enough, but fails.

The battlefield situation in the entire harbor is almost completely one-sided towards Zhendonghai, and the battle is smoother than expected.No one thought that such a huge fleet of the Feng family would be completely beaten without courage and demoralized by a single ambush.The command on the battlefield was chaotic and terrible.

"Drive all the remnants of the one-eyed dragon into the sea to feed the fish!" The tension and worry on Yellow Beard's face was gone at this time, and the battle had reached this point, and it was time to close it.

At this time, less than two-thirds of the thousand pirates were left, and they were trapped on the pier, with no way to retreat and no way to advance.Their own boat and the previously "captured boat" on the pier behind were all burning in the wind, with black smoke billowing.Even if they wanted to escape by jumping into the sea, there were blazing flames behind them, and countless crossbowmen behind the shield wall in front, so they would only die faster.

Among the pirates, Zheng Me, who had a smoky face and the smell of burnt hair all over his body, looked back at the Lingbo and Rage, which were sinking slowly, and other large and small warships that were desperately fleeing backwards. , and then looked at the shield wall that was constantly squeezing in front of him, his face was full of bitterness.Gritting his teeth, he shouted loudly behind the shield wall: "We are willing to surrender, we are willing to surrender!"

"Surrender, don't kill, throw away weapons, don't die! Throw the weapons to the left, and lie on the right with your head in your arms!" Before Huang Beard gave an order to refuse to surrender, Duan Shan jumped out immediately and shouted loudly.Yellow Beard took a look at Duan Shan, and had no choice but to swallow back his plan to kill him, and nodded in acquiescence.

(To be continued)