I was the emperor in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 961 Calling the curtain under artillery fire
Inspired by the temporary encouragement of the little bosses, the morale of the pirates ushered in a peak again.

The temptation of money and status made them temporarily forget the fear of being dominated by ships.

All of them roared and howled as if they had been injected with chicken blood, and charged again.

"Fire boat, let go!"

"Archers, prepare to suppress!"

"The hook lock is ready, the first time you get close, climb up, don't hesitate."

The shouts of killing from all directions made the officers and soldiers in full armor on the ship very nervous.

Facing the siege of thousands of people and hundreds of boats at a time, it was also the first time they encountered it. It would be a lie to say that they were not nervous.

The time was almost up, Chen Hong waved his hand lightly,
"The first order for the general offensive has been issued."

"Archers, musketeers ready!"

"The artillery is ready!"

An order spread throughout the entire ship at an extremely fast speed.

At this time, the water pirates rushing to the front had already started shooting arrows at the ship.

The power of their bows and crossbows is limited, more than forty or fifty steps, the power is already pitifully small.

But the sparse arrows still caused many soldiers on the deck to panic slightly.

"Hold on, just a few arrows will scare you. How do you usually train? Let me hold on. There is no law from the adults, no one is allowed to run around."

"Boom!"

As one of the ships rushing to the forefront hit the ship.

Chen Hong's slightly closed eyes finally opened, with a sneer on his face,
"The real good show is finally about to begin!"

"Prepare the artillery, don't need to aim, shoot quickly... I will shoot you to death, and you will not stop until you empty the ammunition!"

After the order was issued, the group of artillerymen who had been screaming for a long time were liberated.

With a sudden kick, the partition of the gun muzzle, a cannon that respected a thousand catties, was pushed out of the muzzle by the artillery teams one by one.

In the past, every time a cannon was fired, the gunner had to adjust the elements and adjust the firing range.

But now there are densely packed enemy ships around the ship, even if you close your eyes, you can still hit it.

There is no need for debugging at all, the shells are loaded, ignited, and fired, all in one go, without any lag.

"Boom,...Boom..."

From the first sound of the cannon, the entire water surface was hammered desperately by countless drumsticks like a drum.

In an instant, the originally calm water surface suddenly set off huge waves.

The sound of gunfire, screams, and wailing were intertwined.

All the water pirates who were originally excited and wanted to board the ship to make meritorious service were dumbfounded on the spot when they were frightened by the deafening sound of the artillery.

Many people have heard of artillery.

But very few people have seen it with their own eyes, let alone experienced it.

In this era where information is not very developed, regarding the power and combat effectiveness of artillery, unless it is a person who specializes in this thing, few people know what this thing represents.

Even in some remote places, the artillery is even described as strange rumors such as the wrath of the mountain god.

Not to mention this era, even in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the end of the Qing Dynasty, most people still don't know what artillery is.

I foolishly thought that I could resist it with my hard qigong.

As everyone knows, even the least powerful cannon is ten times, a hundred times as powerful as a musket.

Ordinary masters can't even resist muskets. In front of artillery, if they dare to resist, there is no other possibility except turning into fly ash.

Even if the city walls were to be reduced to powder under the bombardment of artillery, let alone ships made of wood and people made of flesh and blood.

The water pirates on both sides of the ship were completely unlucky.

Even if the cannonball hits no one, the huge water waves splashed by the cannonball can still easily overturn the surrounding boats a few feet away.

Some water thieves are more clever, seeing that they are not good, they jumped into the water with a plop, thinking that they could escape the catastrophe.

Who knows, how can the power of shells be avoided by hiding under water.

I don't know how many people, including the people and the boat, were overturned into the air, and they survived for a long time before falling back into the water again.

As for the unlucky ones hiding under the water, I don't know how many of them were blasted out of the water again by a cannonball. They were shaken until their bones were broken, and they vomited blood and died.

Although there was only one ship and dozens of cannons, it was hard for ordinary people to imagine the damage caused by the full firepower.

It was only the first round of shelling, and there was not a single intact enemy ship within ten feet of the ship.

Those water pirates who survived were already dazed by the sound of the huge artillery at this time, and they remained unchanged.

Even if he wanted to escape, he didn't know which direction to go.

In the distance, Liu Yin and the others who witnessed all this with their own eyes were completely dumbfounded.

"How is this possible? Thousands of people and hundreds of boats were beaten to pieces before they lasted for a quarter of an hour. I must be dreaming. How could such a thing happen?"

"It's over, it's over now, our water village is doomed this time!"

"Master, I'm sorry for you. I insisted on going my own way and harmed everyone in our water village!"

Liu Yin fell down on the deck with his eyes glazed over, no matter how others shouted, he never moved, as if his soul had left his body and became a living dead.

"Military division, let's run, if we don't run, it may be too late!"

"Military division, wake up, you should say something, what should we do!..."

On the ship, Chen Hong stared coldly at the water pirates who started to scatter and flee in all directions.

With a sneer,
"It's only now that I think about running away, don't you think it's over?"

"Order to block all ships in all directions, and not let any enemy ships go!"

The semaphore waved, and the ships temporarily lent to them by the Nanjing Ministry of War, which had been playing soy sauce in the back, finally had a place to use.

This kind of opportunity to beat the dog in the water and grab the credit, how can they let the veterans let go.

"Brothers, it's time to make contributions. Let's all move for me. We must not let any enemy go."

Although they were small in number, their fighting spirit was incomparably strong, and they surrounded the huge water village at an extremely fast speed.

Shengsheng forced the water village boats that wanted to escape back again.

The artillery was still bombarding unscrupulously, even though there were no intact ships on the water, it still didn't stop.

Jiang Hao couldn't help but shouted to Chen Hong at the top of his voice,
"My lord, stop the artillery fire, they have been completely defeated, there is no need to waste ammunition!"

Jiang Hao is really distressed, a cannonball costs three or four taels of silver.

In just this quarter of an hour of bombardment, 6000 taels of vain silver was shot out.

If so much money is saved, how many more soldiers can be fed!
(End of this chapter)