Chapter 245
The waves hit the ship's side one after another, and the broken waves splashed everywhere. The wind and waves in October were a bit big, and Li Xiu stood on the jianqiao like a nail. Looking at Penglai Port under the moonlight in the distance, you can see three forts in the telescope, protecting Penglai Port in a shape.
This is the biggest obstacle to attacking Penglai Port. Chen Haixiao relied on these three support points to repel Tokugawa Katsurai's attack.
The background sound of the waves is very complicated, but Li Xiu could vaguely hear the barking of dogs. With the light of the bonfire, Li Xiu could even see the shadows in the port. According to information, there are 3,300 elite Chen family members in the port.
They not only equipped the muskets produced by Pidao, but also had mortar grenades. The first batch of people who landed would definitely suffer heavy casualties. When they thought of what Li Hu had to face, Li Xiu felt like a flame was burning in his heart.
The pocket watch dripped, and the sound of the sea water slapped the hull became louder and the hull shaking became more and more violent.
The tides were very punctual, and the sea began to become uneasy at 10 o'clock in the evening. The waves began to grow bigger, and the roaring waves seemed to be rolling over from the horizon. The moon was very big, but the sea in the distance was still dark. At this moment, the vastness of the sea made people scared.
"Enter the port! Artillery prepares, calculates the distance measurement of soldiers." Li Xiu began to issue an order. His flagship pulled up the iron anchor and slowly slid into the port with half a sail. Liu Laoliu followed, and the two ships rushed towards the port one after another with the tide.
"Left Ruler Three!" Chen Laohu looked at the sea conditions in front of him nervously. Penglai Port has been in and out many times, and he is very familiar with this place. But today, Chen Laohu was still nervous and sweaty in his head. The tide can flood many reefs, but if there is something wrong with the route, it may still touch larger reefs.
At this time, I never dared to make any mistakes. In order to capture Penglai Port, the leader sent his younger brother out to take the lead. It was a life-long life. If something went wrong here, Chen Laohu felt that it would be better to jump into the sea.
"Report, five miles away from the port." The rangefinder made a loud report.
"Left full rudder! Each gunners are ready, calculate the angle and start the test fire." With Li Xiu's order, the flagship has a left full rudder. A row of black holes aimed at the fortress on the shore.
"Start!" With Li Xiu's order, the hull began to shake violently.
The shells whistled and hit the fortress under the moonlight.
"How did you do it!" In the telescope, Li Xiu saw that only three or four shells exploded on the fortress. In other words, 70% of the shells did not hit the target.
"Second Master! It's already good. It's bad at night now. Even during the day, it's a bit difficult to hit the starting lineup." Chen Laohu curled his lips. It's already good to hit the starting lineup by 30%. This master is not satisfied!
"Recharge, turn the hull. Test the cannon on the other side!" Li Xiu gave the order indifferently.
The big ship began to turn the bow, and soon the artillery on the other side began to test the fire. This time the hit rate was better, reaching about 40%.
Seeing the fires flashing on the fortress, it seemed that there was not much damage. An idea suddenly flashed into Li Xiu's mind, "Fuck! Who is the fuck selling cement to..."
The following words were swallowed into my stomach. Who would dare to sell the cement without Li Xiao?
"Get closer, volley! Get closer, you can add some accuracy." The opponent's fortress was actually a cement brick wall, which made Li Xiu very worried about Li Hu's arrival. Now we have to see if the volley can cause serious damage to the fortress. If not, Li Xiu is already planning to ask Li Xiao for instructions to use the arsenal ship.
Only that thing can ignore the fortress of steel and concrete structures.
"Second Master! The other party has a cannon. If you get too close, you will be hit by the other party's cannon." Chen Laohu looked at Li Xiu in surprise. Could this second master be crazy?
"If you talk nonsense, throw you into the sea!" Li Xiu's face darkened, and Chen Laohu immediately did not dare to say anything.
The ship advanced forward, and the power of the volley was relatively high. A large group of shells hit the fortress like hornets. Each shell rose an orange flame under the silver moonlight.
The broken fragments were flying in the air, and Li Xiu could even see some people running around.
It seems that the elites of the Chen family are nothing more than this. When shooting this kind of shelling, the best way is to find a fortification and squat inside, rather than running around randomly. Running around during shelling is basically a desperate attempt.
The power of a group of shells was indeed great, and the strong fortress was blown up and riddled with holes. Suddenly, there were fire on the fortress. Li Xiu's heart immediately tightened, and he was very familiar with this kind of muzzle flash. In order to increase his hit rate, he had already gotten too close.
"Huang!" Just a hundred steps away in front of the flagship, the sound of shells entering the water was made.
Thankfully, the range of the Flang machine cannon is too low. I didn't get to Li Xiu's flagship, otherwise two holes would be penetrated on the warship at this time. Li Xiu was not afraid of hitting the ship's side, just afraid of hitting the mast. Losing power and being unable to sail is the nightmare of the warship.
Before Li Xiu could be happy for two seconds, a water column rose not far from the side of the ship.
"Fuck! Mortar!" The body was wet by the rising sea water. A big piece of it made a sound of "bang" and "bang" sounds from the side of the ship, and countless shrapnel hit the ship.
Fortunately, the mortar shell exploded in the water, and the power of the shrapnel was much smaller after the shrapnel came out of the water.
"Led southwest, go snake-shaped." With Li Xiao's order, the helmsman began to turn quickly. The ship began to move serpentinely to avoid the attack of mortars. Mortars are okay to hit fixed targets, but they mainly rely on blinds to hit moving targets. The ship's serpentinely moves. After playing with mortars for so long, Li Xiu is too familiar with this thing.
Liu Laoliu on the second ship was not so lucky, and the mortar shells roared on the deck. Two sailors who were debugging the sails were immediately blown into the sea by shells. The deck was blown up a hole the size of a washbasin, and the scattered wood chips and shrapnel caused secondary damage. Several sailors screamed and fell on the deck.
"Retreat, retreat." Liu Laoliu asked the helmsman to turn the rudder and retreat without saying a word.
"I hit it! Damn it, good, reward!" Chen Haibao raised the big ring knife in his hand and almost jumped up excitedly. It was originally a matter of a blind cat hitting a dead mouse, but he didn't expect it to hit it.
The gunners were so happy that they almost fainted. Mortar shells were precious. It would be great if a gunner could shoot three or two shots a year. Now they have hit the enemy's warships. I have to say that this luck is so good.
"Second Master! Liu Laoliu's ship was hit!" Mortar shells kept falling around, and Chen Laohu took the straw raincoat and put it on Li Xiu.
"No matter what they are, order the artillery to continue firing. Hit the northeast corner of the fort!" Li Xiu will not retreat now if he kills him. If he doesn't kill those damn fortresses, maybe when he sees Li Hu tomorrow, he will be an unconscious corpse.
"No!" Chen Laohu immediately got into the cabin and issued an order.
"The boss, Liu Laoliu's warship was injured and has now begun to retreat. Look, do you want a group of people...!"
"Tell Ao Canghai that the attack time of the first regiment was delayed by half an hour. Let the second and the others slam the bomb for a while, and I saw that the fortress in the northeast corner was about to collapse. There was a landing ground for a group. The fortress was over, and the casualties of a group would be much smaller.
Send a messenger to tell Tokugawa Katsurai that he had pierced the fence outside. No mouse is allowed to leak it out for me. This time I must be wiped out." As soon as the battle started, his main ship was injured. Li Xiao was sure that the mortar he sold to Chen Hailong should be almost all here.
With the power of a mortar, it is impossible to blow up Liu Laoliu's ship. The Dutch man-made warships are far stronger than the Japanese.
It is necessary to kill this elite force before Chen Hailong can react. Communications are basically roaring these days. Chen Hailong, who is far away in Jinan City, does not know that it is not the Japanese soldiers attacking Penglai now, but Li Xiao’s direct lineage of the Liaodong First Division.
Li Xiu kept ordering the warships to spin, not only avoiding artillery fire, but also using artillery on the side to counterattack. After three volleys in a row, the large fortress in the northeast corner finally turned into a larger ruin. The reinforced concrete was twisted like a twist.
"Switch to the southwest corner of the artillery shells!" Seeing that the fortress in the northeast corner had been destroyed, Li Xiu immediately ordered a change of course, and rows of cannons aimed at the slightly smaller southwest corner of the artillery.
"Hurry up!" Li Xiu took out his pocket watch and saw that it was already ten o'clock in the middle of the night.
"Second Master! The boss's message came, and the attack of the first regiment was postponed for half an hour. Please make sure to flatten the fortress in the southwest corner to open a gap for the first regiment." The messenger ran over and reported loudly.
"I understand! Scatter the southwest corner turret!"
There are many large ships on the sea now, which is funny to say. A few years ago, these large ships were Chen Hailong's transport ships, and Li Xiao relied on the head of the Tartars to exchange them.
A group of soldiers were climbing down the rope ladder, and artillery fire exploded from time to time in the distance. All the soldiers saw that their artillery fire exploded on the local artillery like locusts.
"Fuck, it's so damn exciting. But why do we wear this kind of iron hat?" Li Hu spitted, and was very dissatisfied with the iron bumps on his head. This thing has a very good steel mouth and is a bit heavy when worn on his head. However, the eldest brother said it can save his life, so there is no problem.
Everyone on the battlefield wants to gain wealth and money, and they have to bring money alive.
"What's the argument? Your elder brother asked him to wear it. What can prevent damage from fragments? Master Hu, just bear it." The black bull was the first to get down to the sampan. He was responsible for pulling him over every time he got down to the sampan.
There were hundreds of sampans floating on the sea, and there were gathered everywhere. There were eight or nine people sitting on one sampan, and some small 1,000-foot boats following behind the sampan.
Li Hu knew that those ships were filled with mortars. Although they looked harmless now, they would climb to the beach by themselves. The most important firepower guarantee comes from these ships.
At that time, the shells fired will hit you. Even if you don’t die, you will be disabled!
"Why is the boat not moving?" Li Hu suddenly realized that the boat seemed to be floating with the water flow, and the boss of the boat did not try his best to row.
"The command of the boss, our group delayed the login for half an hour. So, we had to stay in the water for half a day. What is the hour?" Hei Niu had never heard of the concept of hour.
"The scale on the pocket watch is about an hour. You can calculate the rest yourself!"
After hearing Li Hu's words, Hei Niu sat in the cabin and decided not to speak for this rich child!
"Woooooo...woooooo...!" The horn of charge blew up from the sea.
"Brothers, come on!" Hei Niu stood up suddenly, and his big hand, like a palm fan, swung forward suddenly, but was driven down.
Hearing the low horn sound, Li Xiu's nerves became more and more nervous. The southwest corner turret was very strong and relied on the convenience of the geographical advantage. Li Xiu gnawed it for almost an hour, but he couldn't collapse the turret?
"If you have another volley, you must have the turret collapsed." As Li Xiu shouted, a mortar shell flew over to the mast. Thankfully, it finally didn't hit the mast. If the mast is broken, the trouble would be great.
"Brother Xiao! Hu Zi has already reached the first echelon. Is it really a fight?" Ao Canghai walked to Li Xiao, and now it was the last chance to stop.
"What can I do if I ask them to see blood and know what real swords and guns are fighting, and always bullying people with weapons? Besides, the equipment we sell to Chen Hailong is not enough to equip three thousand people. Many people on the shore are now holding machetes. They charge forward and are good at forming formations, which is even more troublesome than Nurhaci of the Later Jin Dynasty."
"It's collapsed!" Master Hu pointed to the distance excitedly. The boat was already filled with thick wood.
Li Hu knew that this was something that the water ghost did. He lived a life of no matter how much he lived, probably the price of gloves was about the same.
"Help you paddle, we'll be the first to rush to the beach." Hei Niu roared, and everyone started paddling with everything they could use. The sampan was like an arrow hitting the beach, and he wanted to rush over the beach.
"Second Master! It's collapsed!" Chen Laohu's neck was now full of sweat.
"It collapses, what's the point of fuss?"
Li Hu knew that this was something that the water ghost did. He lived a life of no matter how much he lived, probably the price of gloves was about the same.
"Help you paddle, we'll be the first to rush to the beach." Hei Niu roared, and everyone started paddling with everything they could use. The sampan was like an arrow hitting the beach, and he wanted to rush over the beach.
"Second Master! It's collapsed!" Chen Laohu's neck was now full of sweat.
"It collapses, what's the point of fuss?"
Li Hu knew that this was something that the water ghost did. He lived a life of no matter how much he lived, probably the price of gloves was about the same.
"Help you paddle, we'll be the first to rush to the beach." Hei Niu roared, and everyone started paddling with everything they could use. The sampan was like an arrow hitting the beach, and he wanted to rush over the beach.
"Second Master! It's collapsed!" Chen Laohu's neck was now full of sweat.
Chapter completed!