Pirate Avenger

Chapter 71 Chase Battle
Things happened just as Spark expected. Seeing that the Huachang, who had been causing trouble to Lai Dao's family for several months, was about to escape, Lai Dao was furious and immediately ordered the accompanying Guan ship to pursue first. He did not want to win, but only Just entangle the opponent tightly.

Seeing the other party take the bait, the Huachang fully raised its sails and increased its speed again.

Lai Island is not a good-tempered person. If he loses his target here, the consequences will be disastrous.So Guan Ship naturally wouldn't give up, and also ordered to speed up.The oarsmen in the cabin showed their strength and paddled desperately.

After chasing for a period of time, the Huachang and the following ship Guan had separated a long distance from the armored ship, and they could only see each other from a distance.After estimating the distance and time, Spark believed that the time was ripe, and urgently ordered the big ship to turn around, and shot back.Huachang took advantage of its artillery to aim at the opponent's waterline and attack desperately.One round after another continued to cause great trouble for shutting down the ship.

Guan Chuan obviously didn't expect that the Huachang would dare to turn around and come back under such circumstances, and was caught off guard when he couldn't react in time.The damage to the hull at the waterline caused seawater to pour in continuously.In desperation, except for the archers on the deck, most of the crew began to desperately repair the hull in an attempt to plug the leak.

It's just that the Huachang's attack did not stop, and the act of shutting down the ship was futile.Before the ironclad ship could catch up, the Huachang quickly took down the opponent!
Seeing the sinking of the ship, Kuishima gritted his teeth angrily.I thought that this operation was doomed to return in vain, but unexpectedly found that the other party did not choose to continue to escape, but looked at him from a distance, as if he wanted to take down his ship in one go.

"Hahaha! Good! Very good! Since the day I got the "Sword Maru", I haven't seen such an arrogant person for a long time!
Thinking that you can ignore this old man by winning a few mediocre teams, stupid!
Hmph, since you're overthinking your capabilities, don't blame the old man for being cruel.

The old man just used your heads to appease the anger of the daimyo!

Pass the order down and lean over to me.Let the Iron Cannon Troops beat me hard!If you take down the opponent, the old man will reward you a lot! "

Seeing the ironclad ship approaching gradually, the entire Huachang was ready for battle.

If it was before, if the Huachang was allowed to face this iron-clad ship alone, most of the crew members would not want to risk their lives. After all, they are not soldiers and do not have the ambition to defend their home and country.What most people want is vegetables, rice, oil and salt.Although serving in the Li family's fleet, they would fight a few battles from time to time, but the casualties were limited. Compared with the generous salary, they were willing to bear such risks.But this does not mean that they will believe in such nonsense as righteousness.

But this time is different. If it is said that the proactive attack some time ago was driven by the pressure of the two gods of death, Spark and Xingjiu, to drive the ducks to the shelves, now everyone is jealous of their own spoils.

Successive victories have not only greatly boosted the morale and confidence of the crew, but also made their pockets better than before. Many people even have the idea of ​​retiring after earning a lot of money.

Greed is the best driving force that truly inspires a person's potential.And the greed of these crew members couldn't be more easily understood.

Although the scene of the five enemy ships going out at the same time just now caused everyone a little setback, but soon with the sinking of the Guan ship, the morale of the Huachang was once again bursting.At this moment, even if Spark asked them to attack the daimyo of Nagasaki, they would not hesitate, let alone a mere ironclad ship in front of them.In the eyes of everyone, the other party didn't seem to be a magical weapon at all, but a fat sheep waiting to be slaughtered.

But Spark and the others are sober, they know the danger of this battle, so at this time they want to create as many favorable situations as possible for the next battle.

Relying on the upper hand, the Huachang continued to bombard the opponent.However, the power and rate of fire of artillery in this era are limited, and the opponent's defense is really powerful, so they failed to achieve decent results.However, the Huachang did not stop because of this, and continued to attack, trying to find the opponent's weakness.

Contrary to everyone's expectations, James stood up at this time and played his own skills.After leading a few people to fiddle with a cannon, a cannonball with an obvious ballistic point was shot out. The cannonball drew a beautiful arc and went directly over the protective plate.It's a pity that the shell failed to hit the opponent in the end, and slipped gently from the side of the ironclad ship.

But this blow obviously gave everyone a lot of confidence.For a while, the crew of the Huachang followed suit and began to fiddle with it.Then various arcs flew out from the Huachang.Although the effect was still not good, as everyone gradually began to master the skills, some shells finally fell on the opponent's deck.

Huachang was boiling.It's just that Spark understands that this kind of solid bullet actually has limited lethality to personnel.It is best to use shotgun or flowering ammunition.

It's a pity that the procurement of shotguns is strictly controlled by the military. Even though Yang Xi'en spent a lot of effort, he still didn't get much.Good steel is on the cutting edge, and the only little stock in stock still needs to be prepared for the final battle, and it must not be wasted on such low-certainty test shots.

As for the flower bomb, it is estimated that only Spark in this world understands it, and it is estimated that it will take more than 100 years before it is invented.

However, it was a surprise to be able to achieve this unexpected effect through James' attempts and keep morale high.

On Tomaru's side, Kurushima was extremely annoyed at the moment.The enemy is clearly close at hand, but they just can't catch up.Not only that, but the other party's bombardment had been fruitless before. Suddenly, the style of painting changed, and the shells began to fall scattered on the deck.Although the lethality is limited, it is detrimental to morale.

Fortunately, most of the crew on the Tomaru were not the pirates who had been recruited, but the generals and soldiers who were under the command of the daimyo retainers before, and they were the real elite forces in the hands of the Kashima family.After the initial panic, it became orderly again.

This somewhat made Lai Dao look a little better.However, it is not an option to continue like this, Kuijima bit the bullet and ordered the paddlers to work harder.

Laishima doesn't believe that the opponent's shells are inexhaustible. As long as the Tomaru can go up, relying on the advantage of numbers, as well as the abilities of himself and his three masters, the opponent will definitely have no good fruit to eat.

"Hmph, let's see how long you can last!" Kuishima said angrily, gnashing his teeth.

Sure enough, after the stormy pear blossom-like attack wave, the Huachang's shells were basically exhausted.

Both sides are holding the idea of ​​​​taking each other down, so it is imperative to take over the board.

After confirming the situation of the Huachang, the Tomaru put down the defensive shield, and at the same time the iron cannon began to show its power.However, the power of the Japanese iron cannon is even worse than that of the Huachang, and it has little effect.

After a long pursuit and bombardment, the two warships finally came together.

There was a lot of voices on the Sword Maru, and all the pirates raised their weapons and rushed towards the enemy ship.

At this moment, Huachang fell into a strange silence.

　Thank you for a second-hand reward.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)