Troubled Times: Start with 800 Dead Soldiers

At this moment, Su Xia's Pinghai navy warship followed up, and the artillery on the warship fired like dumplings.

"Boom, boom!"

"Boom..."

Landslides!

Giving full play to the advantage of firepower is the advantage of military strategists in combat.

Wang Ying and others were so frightened that they jumped into the water and crawled towards the small island.

Behind them, they were worried that they would be stranded if they were too close to the sea.

The warships were lined up far away from the coast and shelled one after another!

At this moment, the seaside is like boiling water, with huge waves set off by cannonballs from time to time.

Some pirates were directly hit in the body by cannonballs, and their bones were instantly shattered.

The short-footed tiger Wang Ying and others who had a lucky escape rolled and crawled towards the island, trying to use the shelter on the island to resist the artillery attack.

In the small island, following the direction in which they fled through the telescope, Su Xia even saw the boats hanging by ropes at the dock. At a glance, there were about a dozen boats.

I immediately understood that this was the home of the short-legged tiger Wang Ying and Yeye's groom Du Kang!

Su Xia was overjoyed and immediately ordered: "Order the artillery fire to extend the shooting. The boats in the southeast are their nests! Hit me hard!"

Pinghai Navy Vice Admiral Ling Zhen was extremely excited at this moment.

In the past, when the government and the army fought, generals faced off against each other, and calling him to come was a trumpet blast.

The so-called trumpet gun has no lethality. It is a "cannon" that conveys military orders, similar to today's signal gun.

Ling Zhen developed various artillery by himself, but he never had the opportunity to practice them in the Tokyo Firearms Camp.

This is like a scientist who studies high technology every day, but his leader asks him to pick up the manure every day.

Now that Ping Haijun is here, he can use what he has researched. For a technical expert like Ling Zhen, the inner excitement is hard to suppress.

He stood at the highest point of the warship and commanded the artillery: "Every gun, pay attention. The target is a small boat in the southeast, five hundred steps away. Fire!"

boom!

"Boom..."

"Boom..."

Cannonballs rushed out of the barrel like raindrops and flew into the distance. Some landed on the uninhabited ground, splashing a piece of soil.

However, although Su Xia's Ping Navy warships have more than twenty naval guns, almost every time a shell is fired, it takes a long time to reset, re-clean the gun bore, aim, and charge.

It often takes a few minutes to complete a tedious process.

Therefore, the number of artillery shells is not dense, and the accuracy of the shells is limited.

Except for the unlucky "Yeye Bridegroom" Du Kang= and the boat docked at the dock were smashed to pieces by Ling Zhen's explosion.

Not many of the remaining pirates were killed or injured, but it frightened the souls of the pirates who were huddled here on the island.

"General, they are retreating deeper into the island. It is difficult for our guns to reach them."

Hongtian Lei Lingzhen hurriedly reported to Su Xia.

Indeed, as long as the distance exceeds 1000 meters, Ling Zhen's cannon will be inaccurate, especially the Golden Wheel Cannon. The accuracy of that thing is more than 1000 meters, which is not much better than winning the lottery.

"Order the sailors to wade into the water and attack. The main warships should not get close to the coast and be careful not to run aground.

The two main warships continued to install cannons, with Ling Zhen in charge of command and ready to provide fire support according to the flagman's signals. "

Vice Admiral Li Dong immediately directed the sailors in the boat to wade through the water.

In the waist-deep water, fragments of ships that had just been blasted by giant cannons and floating corpses floated from time to time.

Su Xia also jumped into the sea, accompanied by the county captain He Tao, who was a little afraid of water.

"Two people are here to help Captain He County."

There were about 200 officers and soldiers who disembarked from the ship. They immediately prepared for battle after landing on the beach.

Li Dong repeated this kind of training many times.

The Navy's forceful crossing of the beach from the Clippers is somewhat similar to the training outline of today's Marine Corps.

In the Pinghai Navy of the Northern Song Dynasty Forbidden Army, this was also one of the basic contents of training.

After arranging the troops, Li Dong looked at Su Xia.

"General, brothers are ready."

"Initiate an attack in combat formation."

The lair of pirate Wang Ying and others:

"Brothers, we can't survive. The officers and soldiers are already here."

"We can't survive, and we can't give them a way to survive. Anyway, if we are caught by the army, we will die, so we might as well fight."

"Yes, we fought!"

"My eldest brother is dead. He was caught by the government and just lit a sky lantern. If we fight hard, there may be a way to survive. Although the cannons of the government army are powerful, they are not good in close combat."

After several rounds of shelling, at least dozens of pirates were killed under the fire.

Shouting, the remaining pirates with less than a hundred people rushed out with a roar.

They are indeed outlaws, and they are indeed not afraid of death.

In the past, it was precisely because of this that they had repeatedly won battles with police officers and soldiers.

Even in the face of enemies several times his own, he was not afraid at all, and even broke through the encirclement many times.

But the fact is that what they faced in the past was an extremely ordinary Xiang army.

Today's situation is completely different.

More than 200 Ping Haijun who had just completed training watched nearly a hundred desperadoes rushing towards them.

They even formed a battle formation and didn't move.

Standing at the front of the team were sailors holding spears.

There are three rows of spearmen, with the first row carrying bamboo and rattan shields. The main weapons of the last two rows are long guns, and each person is equipped with a short javelin.

Immediately behind are two rows of archers, with crossbows as their main weapons and sabers as their secondary weapons.

The person standing in the last row is the swordsman in charge of the rear.

Su Xia looked at the rushing mob coldly.

Say silently:

One hundred steps!

Eighty steps!

"Fire the arrow!" Su Xia gave the order.

The three rows of spearmen standing at the front immediately squatted down.

Exposed to the pirates were the crossbowmen.

"Whoosh whoosh."

"what!"

"what!"

Two rows of crossbowmen line up to fire their crossbows

The dozen or so pirates who rushed at the front were hit by arrows and fell to the ground in an instant.

But these are desperadoes after all

Despite the huge losses, they still did not flinch and moved forward with all their might.

It was as if the tip of a knife was inserted into the tip of their noses, and they would not flinch at all.

This is the greatest advantage of desperadoes, but it is also the greatest tragedy.

Doing this in front of the regular army is completely inviting death!

Fortunately, he escaped three rounds of crossbow fire and watched as he broke through to only about ten meters away from Ping Haijun.

Su Xia calmly ordered: "Throw the javelin!"

The long gunners in the second and third rows immediately took out their javelins and threw them directly at the approaching target.

The accuracy of javelin throwing at such a close range was very high, but the scene was also extremely bloody, and the pirates lost another twenty people.

Su Xia ordered: "The whole team attacks!"

Lieutenant General Li Dong took the lead and "killed" them out. Command the pikemen to attack, and the crossbowmen immediately crowd behind them to provide long-range firepower output.

The swordsmen who followed behind completely eliminated the few pirates who managed to escape the attack.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Dwarf Tiger Wang Ying rolled and crawled back to his lair. Only a dozen of the nearly [-] pirates who had just clamored for an attack were now left.

Facing Su Xia and many officers and soldiers slowly surrounding them, Wang Ying, who was helpless, looked at the dozens of women who had been robbed, and suddenly had a plan in mind.