Chapter 83: The Eighth Plan of the Century
The ones coming were the advance team of the Nikan fleet, Yanagawa Yixing's squadron, and Chen Muzhi's two Swifts.
Since the Abukai Islands are hanged thousands of miles east of the South American continent, this is not the main channel and it cannot become the main channel. At present, ships in South America want to go to Africa and Europe do not need to pass here, and only those pirates looking for hiding in the corners know its existence.
Of course, there are also so-called "vacancers" who have explored here, named them after themselves and reported to their country. For any European country at this time, it suddenly has an archipelago as big as Abukai (nearly 10,000 square kilometers). Although it is desolate and cold, it is better than nothing. It is found that the "vacancers" here may be regarded as heroes by their country.
Therefore, when Mario and others discovered this place and occupied it, although there was another internal strife inside, they were ready to regard it as an important base for their second rise. In such a remote place, they would not have thought that anyone else could come.
So, when Chen Muzhi brought Lin Laifu, who had been here, came over with a strong west wind, and they didn't notice it at all.
For the Han Haijun, as soon as he entered this archipelago, in order to avoid reefs and accidentally enter a small harbor to make it easier to turn around, the steam engine was already started. The rumbling sound scared away all the walruses, sea lions, seals, penguins, albatrosses and cetaceans in the sea on this archipelago.
After Chen Muzhi's Swift discovered that there were other ships in the bay, he immediately notified Yanagawa Yixing's squadron.
After discovering these three ships in the telescope, Yanagawa Yikyu gave an order.
"Take three Peregrine Falcons into the cove and monitor them with artillery on one side, and the remaining two Albatrosses immediately build a dock on the south bank!"
There is a reason for him to arrange this.
As an advance team, the brigade that followed behind was only half a day away from them. If they fight with these three seemingly dilapidated ships now, although there is no doubt about the outcome, if it delays time to build a dock and build facilities on the shore, which makes His Majesty the Emperor unable to move in in time, it will be a great crime.
So, under the surveillance of three Peregrine Falcons, all the remaining ships entered the cove, and the remaining Peregrine Falcons were anchored at the exit of the cove.
When they did all this, the pirates on the three ships were rushing to lift their sails.
The flagship Golden Eagle, docked directly opposite them, was now facing the west side of the bay and the tail was facing the east side. Seeing that the other party had no intention of surrender, they immediately issued an order to bombard the enemy ships.
The two floors of one side of the Golden Eagle were all extended out.
The two Peregrine Falcons, which had been inserted on both sides of the Little Tiantian and Skull, were also exposed.
There is a reason why the three pirate ships face such a dilemma, because the archipelago is in the "roaring west wind belt" and has strong west winds all year round. The bay is east-west, and the exit is on the east side, not to mention that there is a large bay outside. In this case, it takes a long time for the ships coming from outside to storm or wait for the right gusts to enter here. When they finished storm and prepared to enter, they were discovered by the ships inside.
At that time, the ships in the bay will only face the wind, while the enemies coming from outside will always be against the wind. Whether it is the wind or constantly catching the gusts that can make the ship enter the inside, they will definitely be in a hurry.
Therefore, Mario and the others can stay at the pier without fear.
But what they didn't expect was a terrifying fleet of ships with only masts, no sails, black smoke emitting from their heads, and a "rumbling" sound!
Among the three pirate ships, Mario personally served as the captain, equipped with the most cannons, with six on each side, but most of them below twelve pounds, followed by the "Devil", with four on each side, Edmund's "Little Sweet" the most pitiful, with only two on one side, but he placed some small cannons that could be moved by two people on the first deck.
The three pirate ships all face the bows against the trestle, so the two Peregrine Falcons face the enemy ships with side ports, and the Golden Eagle is crossing in front of them, and naturally faces the sterns of the three pirate ships with side ports.
When the Peregrine Falcon on the side of the "Little Sweet" exposed nine heavy artillery guns, Edmund on the ship fired a white flag without saying a word. However, the "Skull" and "Devil" were not so obedient, especially the "Skull" that faced a Peregrine Falcon on the starboard position, actually fired a cannon before the Peregrine Falcon!
"Baga!"
Yanagawa Yixing cursed in his heart, but he did not dare to say such swear words in public, because His Majesty the current emperor hates hearing such words, so he immediately issued an order to attack in full swing!
In the middle of the middle deck of the Golden Eagle are four 24 kilograms of heavy artillery, and on both sides are four 18 kilograms of cannons each, and on the upper deck are four 18 kilograms of 8 kilograms of 12 kilograms of cannons. At that moment, half of the cannons were fired at the stern of the "Skull" and the "Devil".
All solid bullets!
At such a close distance and such a calm sea surface, almost all the shells of the Golden Eagle hit the stern of the "Skull" and were so close that the sour sounds made by the shells after drilling into the top with strong kinetic energy are clearly heard.
The Peregrine Falcon's ship gang on the other side was hit by a shell, which hit the baffle exposed on the deck. Although the baffle was not cut off on the spot, it caused the group of pulleys tied here to be reimbursed.
This is something that the Han Haijun cannot tolerate.
On such a calm sea, there is no need to let the other side fire empty guns to ensure the balance of the hull. Three eighteen kilograms and six twelve kilograms fired a salvo at the starboard position of the Skull. According to the habit of the Hanhai Army, when the first deck surface of the enemy ship is completely exposed, the two artillery in the middle must fire chain bombs to break the mast of the enemy ship and destroy its sails. Four of the two artillery close to the two artillery fired shots to strike the sailors who were driving sails, and the remaining artillery fired solid bombs to attack the ship gang or cabin.
At the same time as the Han Haijun is at such a close distance, the outcome of the "Skull" can be imagined.
The smoke of gunpowder had not yet dissipated, and the remaining round of shells of the Golden Eagle flew towards the tail of the "Skull". At this time, some shells actually drilled through the holes they had just caused!
In this world, no matter what country's sea ships are, the gangs are very thick, otherwise they cannot sail on the turbulent sea for a long time to ensure that they will not fall apart. Therefore, when a shell drills into the cabin, the strong kinetic energy will make the shell run around according to the obstacles it encounters, turning anything it encounters into pieces.
Just now, the shell directly penetrated the stern cabin and killed Mario, the "Blackbeard" standing near the main mast to command the battle on the spot!
The shells hit Mario in two pieces. At this time, he was not dead yet. His head had formed an angle of about ten degrees with his legs. For the first time in his life, his face was so close to his feet, and there was a thin layer of connection to his waist. His mouth was covered with blood foam. He looked at his feet helplessly. At the beginning, his hands still grabbed a blood mark on the black and greasy deck surface, and gradually stopped moving.
After the splash of bullets on the Peregrine Falcon just now, the skull was rushing to lift the sails, and most of the sailboats were knocked to the ground, and some even screamed when they saw the captain's miserable appearance.
The bombardment of the Hanhai Army occurred in a flash, and in an instant, the rapid bombardment saved the "Devil" in the middle. At that time, Frank was also preparing to bombard the Golden Eagle with the only cannon at the stern of the ship. However, when he saw the tragic situation of the "Skull", he quickly issued an order to raise the white flag.
A battalion of Marines took the lead in using a small boat to get ashore.
Not long after, all the surviving humans on the three ships squatted on the uneven dock with their heads in their arms, surrounded by Marine soldiers carrying bayonets and lead bullets.
At this moment, a scene that stunned the prisoners.
During the battle just now, the two albatrosses in the squadron ignored these things and instead carried out their own homework step by step.
I saw that the oil cloth wrapped in a raised object on an albatross was untied. It was a device shorter than the tallest lifting device on the ship. When some people tickled it, it seemed to connect to the steam engine below. The lifting device on it put an iron pipe about three meters long into the sea. An iron hammer was raised from the device. Under the operation of a crew member, the raised hammer hit the iron pipe.
Not long after, the iron pipe sank into the sea, but at this time someone used a lifting device to insert another iron pipe into the iron pipe that had already been sank into the water. At this time, a crew member of the boat was already close to the pipe to connect.
In this way, they built multiple such iron pipes in an hour. At this time, there were already about two meters above the water surface. Two iron pipes were in a group, extending from one on the shore to the depth of the water. The iron pipes were covered with wooden boards. The iron pipes were probably firmly linked together with smaller iron pipes and wires. A trest bridge that the pirates spent three days to build was formed!
During this period, sailors wearing black and slippery one-piece clothes and holding tools jumped into the cold sea water, probably to further link the iron pipes below the water surface.
On the shore, there was also a team of about 100 people busy, and they were leveling the ground. The south bank of Stanley Harbor was originally a flat land with an altitude of about twenty meters. These people did not spend much time to level a large piece of flat land.
Half a day later, when Nikan arrived with a large fleet of ships, a trest bridge about thirty meters wide and connected had already been formed.
On the shore, Han Haijun, who had arrived first, had already built many tents, and the black tubes on the roof of the tent had begun to emit black smoke.
Chapter completed!