Rebirth of The Deer and the Cauldron, Wei Xiaobao Becomes a God

At 7 o'clock in the evening, the Julong met up with three Fuchuan warships 12 nautical miles from the Diaoyu Islands.

At this time, the sky was gradually getting dark.

The Dragon shut down its steam engine, the roar of the motor stopped, and the sea returned to calm.

All four warships were in a blackout and the sea was completely dark.

Wei Xiaobao decided to launch the attack at dawn at five o'clock tomorrow morning.

At four o'clock in the morning, the sails of the four warships were all opened and they moved slowly forward with the help of the wind.

It was five o'clock in the morning and the sky was already bright. We were about 6 nautical miles (11 kilometers) away from the Diaoyu Islands.

The situation of the Diaoyu Islands ahead is clearly visible.

The terrain of Diaoyu Island is low in the north and high in the south. There is a port in the north with more than a hundred large and small ships docked in the harbor. These ships include Fu ships, treasure ships, turtle ships, Wu ships, fishing boats... a wide variety of ships.

The tonnage of the ship was a few dozen tons for the smaller ones, 300 to 500 tons for the larger ones, and the largest treasure ship had a displacement of 1000 tons, which made it stand out from the crowd when parked in the harbor. However, compared with the 2000-ton Julong, this treasure ship was still a level behind.

There are dozens of coastal defense guns lined up on both sides of the port along the coastline. These coastal defense guns are giant 220mm red cannons with a range of 5000 miles.

At the foot of the mountain behind the port, there are rows of bungalows, which feels like a market.

There is a castle built on the hillside in the middle of Diaoyu Island. Red cannons are placed on the castle walls, and soldiers can be seen standing guard. The castle is probably the lair of Liu Damazi.

The four warships lined up in a row and first attacked the pirate ships in the harbor.

At this time, an unknown pirate in the coastal artillery watchtower woke up and saw the unidentified fleet ten kilometers away.

I saw a huge ship called the Dragon parked in the distance, with a golden dragon flag flying.

The first thing the pirate thought of was that the Chinese Qing navy had arrived, so he immediately blew the warning horn.

"Woo, wooo"

This horn is made of a large cow horn, and the sound it produces is high-pitched and piercing.

Soon, the ships in the harbor began to stir, and the quickest sailors had already climbed up the masts to prepare to hoist the sails. The coastal defense guns in the harbor also began to remove their gun covers and load the guns with powder.

At this time, the Dragon had made preparations for war, with all three boilers running and the steam engine on standby.

The 280mm Krupp cannon on the bow fired first, and the 400-jin shell flew towards the port...

"boom"

A loud bang!

In the area with the most ships moored in the center of the harbor, the shells exploded, causing a huge commotion. The water column raised by the explosion was as high as 500 to meters. The ships in the center of the explosion instantly disintegrated, and the hull fragments flew everywhere. The waves in that area of ​​​​the water within a radius of meters rolled violently. All small boats under tons were overturned, and countless pirates fell into the sea and struggled on the surface of the sea.

101舰、102舰、103舰上的110毫米克虏伯大炮随即发射，由于木质船自身轻，每艘船每次发射只能同时发射2门大炮。

The four broadside guns on the Dragon adjusted the base slides and turned their muzzles toward the bow, and the four 110mm Krupp cannons also fired together.

Suddenly, a 280mm cannon and ten 110mm cannons opened fire at full power.

One salvo killed one third of the pirate ships in the harbor.

The wreckage of ships sunk by shells and ships overturned by explosion waves were scattered throughout the port, causing the port waterway to be blocked. The ships inside wanted to escape, but were unable to move at all.

The muzzles were raised, and the second round of shells flew towards the central area of ​​the harbor. This time, more ships were hit and overturned.

Some ships' shells hit the gunpowder barrels, causing explosions. From a distance, it looked like fireworks, which was spectacular!

After five salvos, there was no intact pirate ship left in the harbor.

Thousands of pirate corpses floated on the water.

Those pirates who managed to survive were covered in wounds, but those who were still able to move were swimming desperately towards the shore, ignoring their injuries.

At this time, the fleet of the Tiandi Army began to bombard the coastal artillery positions, and after the pirates' coastal defense artillery fired a few iron balls, they found that they could not hit the enemy ships at all, so the bandits who operated the coastal defense artillery all ran away.

"aim"

"fire"

"Reloading the Shells"

"Correction Ruler"

"fire"

……

The ship's gunners were operating the artillery in an orderly manner.

Wei Xiaobao looked with satisfaction at the gunners who were becoming more and more skilled in their movements and attacking their targets more and more accurately.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

Today's pirates have no pirate ships, and the shore defenses can't reach the enemy, which is like a tiger with its teeth pulled out, and they can only take a beating.

After the four warships fired ten rounds, they switched to firing from the stern to prevent the gun barrels from overheating.

In this way, they moved from the port to the coastal artillery base, then to the bungalow market, and finally bombarded the castle halfway up the mountain.

The bandit leader Liu Damazi had already stood at the highest point of the castle during the first round of attacks, observing the entire battle with a single-tube telescope.

When Liu Damazi was young, he was a small captain of the Fujian Navy of the Ming Dynasty. After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, he gathered people and became a pirate. Because he was ruthless and knowledgeable about naval warfare, he soon developed a group of over ten thousand people and became the largest pirate leader in the waters from China to Japan.

This Liu Damazi often went to Fujian, Zhejiang and even the coastal areas of Tianjin to rob.

The Qing Dynasty's navy also surrounded and suppressed Liu Damazi many times, but he always managed to escape. This was not only because Liu Damazi was familiar with naval battles and this area, but also because the Qing Dynasty's navy was too weak and had low combat effectiveness.

But today, Liu Damazi was confused. He had never seen such a huge and smoking warship that could attack from such a long distance. Its range was more than three times that of the Yi cannon, and they were all shrapnel shells. The power of the shells was unheard of.

The golden dragon flag hoisted on the enemy ship was blue on top and green on the bottom. It was definitely not the navy of the Qing Dynasty. The navy of the Qing Dynasty hoisted the yellow dragon flag. Liu Damazi had weighed the navy of the Qing Dynasty. The braid of the state chief was okay on land, but he was a rookie on the sea.

Japan, Ryukyu and the Zheng family in Taiwan do not have such strength. Could it be the red-haired devils?

The red-haired devils that Liu Damazi was thinking of were the maritime overlord Spain in the 16th century. Liu Damazi had fought against the red-haired devils before.

In 1580, the Spanish galleon San Martin was put into service. It had a total length of 57.3 meters, a width of 11.5 meters, a displacement of approximately 1000 tons, and was equipped with 48 heavy guns on the double-deck gun deck. At that time, it was considered a giant on the sea.

In the following hundred years, Spain built more than 130 such galleons, forming an invincible maritime fleet with 3000 naval guns of various types.

Thinking of this, Liu Damazi was certain that he had provoked someone he shouldn't have provoked, and this battle could not be fought!

"Raise the white flag and surrender!"

Those Westerners regarded Orientals as barbarians and called themselves civilized people. As long as they did not provoke them, they would generally not kill prisoners.

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