Congratulations to the Three Saints of Gusu for becoming the head of Mingyang World, and I bow to thank Brother Hongchen for his long-term support!
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"Son of a bitch Zheng Zhibao, I'm going to kill you! Kill you!"
Gu Rong roared angrily, and slashed hard at the bulkhead with the sharp command knife in his hand, bang! With a bang, he cut off a piece of wood, and then he was about to rush out of the command cabin with the knife.
Governor Zhang Mingzhen and several staff officers rushed up to hug him and shouted: "Admiral Gu, calm down, Zheng Zhilong and the others have indeed suffered too many casualties, maybe..."
"Maybe! This is a decisive battle. There is an enemy but no one. How can we back down? I'm going to kill him!" Gu Rong's roar was torn apart by the rumbling gunfire.
Bang! There was another loud noise, and a shell hit the deck outside the cabin. The wooden planks were shattered, and the hull was severely hit by the huge impact. Gu Rong and the others staggered and almost fell.
In the lower cabin, the roar continued, and the terrifying barrage sprayed out one after another, spraying towards the enemy boat a hundred steps away, as dense as raindrops.
The sea with a radius of more than ten miles was full of bombed fireships. The fierce fighting sounds were like the roar of the angry sea. There was a huge battlefield, countless warships, and the sky was covered with cannonballs and rockets.
Kalant's gunboats kept walking in a zigzag pattern, hundreds of artillery guns gushing flames endlessly, each barrage swept through countless marbles, shooting like a downpour at the eagle ships and bluff ships of the Qin army desperately rushing up. without resting for a moment;
The sails of many Qin warships were beaten into sieves. It was even blown to pieces, and marbles were everywhere on the deck. Like hailstones falling wildly, there was no way for the Qin army to rush to the deck to change the sails. No matter what kind of wooden frame it was supported against, the battleship lost power and drifted on the sea;
Under such fierce enemy artillery fire, the Qin army suffered extremely heavy casualties. More than 120 small and medium-sized warships were lost and nearly 40 were lost. The sea was dyed red with blood, and the surging waves nearby turned red.
Zheng Zhibao himself was injured, and seeing no hope of getting closer, he had to order a retreat. But he forgot that the coach said it before the war. This is a decisive battle, a decisive battle with the enemy but without us. His retreat will undoubtedly plummet the morale of the Qin army.
Calante had a total of 37 large gunboats, 7 of which were bombarded into huge torches, burning brightly on the sea.
Nine of Gu Rong's 32 gunboats were destroyed, and the enemy's small boats were like ants, desperately surrounding them. Once these ants approach from the blind spot of the artillery or are covered by thick smoke, a series of grenades will be thrown up, causing a wave of explosions.
The bloody battle between the two sides has entered a fever pitch, with majestic artillery fire raining down from the sky. The sound of killing spread like a wave for twenty or thirty miles.
Gu Rong finally calmed down and immediately shouted: "Order, raise the golden dragon flag! All the gunboats will rush over with me. Damn the lower boat versus the upper boat, let's fight it all!"
Because there is fierce fighting everywhere on the sea. The smoke is thick and the flags no longer work. All orders can only be conveyed through the sound of drums, dong dong dong! Boom, boom, boom! Boom, boom, boom! These three heavy drums repeated repeatedly shook the world. This was the decisive battle order for the Qin army to advance without retreating, and it was heartbreaking.
Gu Rong led the remaining twenty or so gunboats to attack Calante's column of Western battleships from the southeast corner of the battlefield.
boom! boom!
A gunboat in front of Gu Rong's flagship was attacked by an enemy boat in thick smoke. A series of grenades were thrown on it and detonated the propellant of the gun in the cabin;
Amidst a huge explosion, the entire giant ship was violently arched by a ball of fire. The upper decks were all blown away in an instant. Pieces of wooden planks flew up to a height of more than ten feet, and then hit the nearby sea like a thunderstorm;
After the huge mast was broken, it hit the enemy's sneak attack boat, bang! The small boat was smashed into two pieces, and the enemies on the small boat became burial objects.
The fire spread quickly and ravaged the entire gunboat. Gu Rong was so jealous that he punched the bulkhead again: "Turn the rudder! Turn the rudder quickly!"
The helmsman was already turning the ship in an emergency, and the ship was tilting to one side so much that it was almost unsteady. Because it was too close, after such a sharp turn, it narrowly avoided the bombed battleship in front. .
In the thick smoke, the enemy's small boats continued to attack. Gu Rong and the others opened their bows left and right, and the artillery fire on both sides roared endlessly. Each barrage was violently bombarded, blasting the approaching enemy ships like floating waves under a heavy rain. Same as Ping.
The ships in small countries like Sulu have thin planks. Under the rounds of bullets, the ship's planks were blown to pieces. Even the enemies hiding under the cabin were not spared. Some were violently blasted by the bullets. He cut his head, white brains splattered, it was too horrible to look at.
There were burning wooden planks lying on the sea surface, and there were floating and sinking corpses everywhere. Gu Rong and their gunboats plowed all the way over, and there were constant banging sounds from the bow of the ship.
Seeing Gu Rong coming, Kalant also ordered the remaining 30 Western artillery boats to turn quickly and attack from the southwest, hoping to seize the T-shaped crosshead. Gu Rong immediately ordered the fleet to turn north, with the two sides separated by More than two hundred yards, almost parallel.
The most heroic counter-bombing formation was formed. Everyone's hair stood on end and their scalps were numb. This was not just one or two cannons firing at each other. The remaining 22 gunboats of Gu Rong's group totaled 220 thousand-jin Buddha guns on each side. Cannon.
The remaining 30 Western warships of Calante had 600 artillery pieces based on the 20 guns on each side of each ship. The two sides fired at each other with more than 800 artillery pieces in total. You can imagine what a heroic scene it was.
Thick smoke lingered on the sea, the waves were turbulent, the roaring drums filled the air, and the murderous aura hit our faces painfully.
In the huge cabin, gunner Sun Wei had a wet cloth tied to his hand and was steaming. Amid the roar of gunner Huang Yang, he didn't bother to wipe the sweat on his head, quickly opened the gun lock, and took out the gun inside. Draw out the blunderbuss;
There are seven muskets for an artillery piece, three of them have been smashed, and the newly drawn muskets are also red. Huang Yang yelled urgently: "No matter what, shower it with water, quickly!"
Sun Wei didn't care to see if the sub-gun that had been soaked with water could still be used. He hurriedly stuffed the other loaded sub-gun into the mother gun and locked it. The comrades next to him immediately shouted and pushed the cannon towards the porthole. fixed.
Throughout the cabin, every group of gunners was desperately loading ammunition. There were roars and bustle. When the black muzzles pushed out of the portholes, the battleship basically completed its turn, and the enemy ships two to three hundred yards away gradually came into view. And it's still getting closer... .
"Aim all at the enemy's flagship." Gunner Huang Yang roared, "Fire!"
boom! Boom boom boom... ..
The artillery fire burst out one after another, roaring endlessly, and the huge solid bullets roared across the sky, like meteors chasing the moon. Almost at the same time, tongues of flame erupted from the enemy's shipboard, and countless shells intertwined in the sky. Some shells even collided in mid-air, making a thrilling loud noise.
Carrant's flagship, flying the handsome flag, withstood the baptism of the most artillery shells. In addition to the water jets stirred up by the side of the ship and the waves rolling, there was also a solid shell that accurately hit the bridge.
Bang! The cannonball hit hard, then bounced up quickly, first knocking a Dutch soldier to pieces, and then hitting the mast with another "Bang!" A mast clicked and tilted to one side.
"Down the sails! Down the sails!" The Dutch soldiers on the ship screamed and rushed forward, right here. Another solid bullet roared over and hit the deck, directly blasting a big hole in the deck. The shells rushed into the lower level, causing the gunner inside to scream in agony.
at the same time. The 21 gunboats of the Qin Army withstood three times the enemy's artillery fire, and the enemy fired a salvo. Five to six hundred artillery shells covered the sky. The scene was like dancing under a thunderstorm, which gave people a feeling of earth-shattering shock. The timid person would be frightened just by looking at this scene.
Countless cannonballs fell on the sea, causing rough waves. The spray rose more than ten feet high and poured on the ship like a mountain of waves.
Gu Rong's flag sail was also baptized by the most shells. The front deck was hit by two solid shells in succession, making loud bang bang noises. Two large holes were blasted out in the deck. The bow of the ship was actually hit and moved several feet away. The Qin soldiers who were fired fiercely with Type 68 rifles on the side of the ship fell down and screamed.
Before the fallen soldier could get up, the ship building behind was hit by another solid bomb, Peng! The entire ship building was blasted to pieces, and planks of wood shot up all over the sky...
The scene of the confrontation between the two sides was gorgeous and heroic, the continuous sound of artillery was deafening, the whistling shells filled the sky, the sea was surging, the gods were angry, and the sea was roaring! The situation is changing, and the sky is about to collapse.
The golden dragon flag has been raised. There is no enemy but no one. We will fight until death.
This is the dignity that the Royal Navy of Qin must defend to the death. At the moment when the Golden Dragon Flag is raised, anyone who flinches will be killed after the war and nailed to the rack of shame forever.
The remaining eagle ships and bluff ships of the Qin army also rushed forward one after another as if they were dead. The artillery fire was in the sky, the war drums were shaking the earth, and the killing sounds were like waves, one wave after another...
At this moment, Ke Chenshu's clipper ship arrived at this extremely heroic battlefield. Its astonishing speed made it look like it was flying on the sea.
"Captain, do you want to go back and inform Commander Di?"
"With or without notice, Admiral Di and the others rushed here with all their might. Didn't you see the golden dragon flag raised by Admiral Gu? Under this flag, who dares to retreat?" Ke Chenshu ordered loudly, and the flying shear immediately started to ring. The rumbling sound of war drums made my heart numb.
"Turn left, sail around the perimeter of the battlefield at top speed, and prepare all artillery on the port side."
Ke Chenshu issued orders quickly and sequentially. The clipper ship suddenly appeared, and a black Qin army flag on the tall mast rolled endlessly in the wind. The shocking speed caused the people on the north side of the battlefield to The enemy kept screaming, but the morale of the Qin army who was fighting was greatly shaken, and they shouted: "Reinforcements are coming! Reinforcements are coming!"
Ke Chenshu was right not to rush straight into the chaotic battlefield. He used his astonishing speed to circle around the outside of the battlefield. The 25 thousand-pound French cannons on the port side of the slender hull were aimed at the enemy like ants. A swarm of small boats blasted away, each barrage whizzing away, beating the enemy ships to bloody pieces, screaming and wailing...
Kalant has already occupied an absolute advantage on the battlefield. If the fight continues, it will only be a matter of time before Gu Rong is completely annihilated. Ke Chenshu, an unprecedented clipper ship, will kill him like a horse from a thousand miles away, allowing him to I was greatly shocked, and an ominous premonition filled my heart...
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