Chapter 126 A fresh move
"The courage is commendable, free shooting for two rounds!" Hong Tao could see through this small port city without a telescope. It was a city that was raised high, at most it was considered a town. n∈n∈, but there was a large population here. The houses started from the pier and extended to the west a mile, but they could not find any valuable targets to attack.
The residents of Parcelain have never seen such a fear. They were not too afraid of the big ships parked in front of the pier, but smoke suddenly appeared on the big ships, accompanied by the thunder, which was a little scary. What was even more scary was that thunder began to hit the shore, not only thunder, but also fireballs and debris flying around. The sudden blow made most people on the shore at a loss. Even if someone was injured, killed by shrapnel, and houses were ignited, they were still watching each other in a daze, and many people were kneeling on the ground and kowtowed to God.
"Ah...bang...bang..." But from the second round of artillery attacks, no matter how stupid people understand, it is not that God is sending punishment, but that three big ships on the sea are causing trouble. Although everyone is not clear about how this monster is done, the instinct of seeking profit and avoiding harm makes them run together, run home, and run west, the farther away from the big ship, the better.
People on the shore can still run, but the defenders who had just gotten off the boat had nowhere to run. They said they were free attacks, but half of the shells were all aimed at the two ships that had just left the dock. After laying an anchor in the calm harbor, the accuracy was increased many times. These two small sailboats with a displacement of dozens of tons seemed too thin under the attack of solid shells. Almost every time they were hit, a large hole or a large gap appeared on the hull, which was broken by the huge impact force.
The wood flew everywhere. I don't know who was so unethical that he actually shot a fire bomb into the hull, and it exploded inside. Now, the hole in the hull turned into cupping, smoke ran from above, and fire walked below. Soon the flames rushed from the hole to the deck. Most of the Javanese soldiers on the ship had not figured out what was going on, and the soul returned to heaven. The rest either hugged the disabled body and wailed helplessly, or jumped into the sea while they were still alive.
"The cannons are expensive, cavalry!" Swan had already put on his armor and stood on the stern stairs in a vague manner as an officer. He knew that the cannons were copper, so he thought that shells should be expensive, so he suggested that Hong Tao stop the shells and let the Marines and cavalry land.
"...Silly boy, people are more expensive than shells! For example, let me, how many shells do you think I can be worth?" Hong Tao knocked on the armor on Swan's chest and pointed at his nose.
"You are not a human..." Swan's Chinese is indeed not good at learning it.
"Hehehehe... That's right, Swan is right!" Wennan asked Swan to be happy, and was still messing around.
"You'd better get on the boat, don't disgust me here." Hong Tao knew that Swan didn't mean this, but he was talking nonsense with a person who didn't speak very well. The most hateful one was a person like Wen Nan, and some words had no other meaning. But someone happened to laugh like this, so he had other meanings.
Hong Tao has not issued a landing order, but let the Jinhe River go to the shore to play grenades. It is not that he is idle, but waiting for Java reinforcements to come. If so, how many reinforcements will be? If he doesn't see the form clearly, he will not risk releasing the only land attack power in his hand. As the saying goes, be careful, there is no big mistake. Hong Tao really didn't wait in vain. After about an hour, the lookout hand came with flags. A crowd appeared in the west of the port and was walking here.
"Stop shooting, replace them with flowering bullets. Target dock, listen to my command." After a while, Hong Tao also saw this group of people in the telescope. They looked similar to the soldiers they saw in the port of Malacca, with a population of about two or three hundred and had already run to the farthest residential area. Because there was a house blocking it, I couldn't see clearly in the future. These people were probably local reinforcements. As a port connecting Sumatra and Jawa Island, it was impossible to have no defenders. Some of them had to be arranged. Hong Tao was just waiting for them to appear.
Hong Tao saw the effect of cannon attacking ships, Hong Tao also saw the effect of cannon attacking buildings. Now he planned to see what the effect of cannons hitting infantry with flowering bullets. Hong Tao did not think that these Marines and Mamluk cavalry had any advantages to go ashore to fight street battles. They were not gods, and they would have to bleed even if they stabbed them with one knife, and if they smashed them with one hammer, they would have to break their bones and tendons. If there was any other way to kill the enemy, you could try it first, there was no need to fight head-on.
You should talk about this person, sometimes it's strange. These reinforcements must have inquired with the local people and knew that there might be something hurt on these four large ships, but they still didn't give up and held a row of door panels to squeeze onto the dock to demonstrate. This was exactly what Hong Tao wanted to see. As a result, a row of shells that had been aiming for a long time flew over, bombed and smashed, and fell down a large area, and the rest ran back. The wooden boards they were holding could not only save them, but became accomplices. They were hit by high-speed flying shells. The scattered wood chips were no different from shrapnel, and there was a blood hole everywhere they pierced their bodies.
"Old Wen, this move is very useful. Can you help me write it down? It is my tactic. Don't sneer. Just this move, can I use it for several years? And you don't believe it? And you can use it wherever you go, and you don't have any changes!" The harbor is relatively sheltered from the wind. More than ten cannons on one side fired together, using black gunpowder, which is used as a launching medicine. The lack of power and severe residues, and too much smoke is its disadvantage. If the wind direction is not right, you will be unable to see anything after a round of fighting, so you can only stare at the Lookout Hand. At this time, the Lookout Hand is useless, because there is also a piece of smoke on the dock, and he can't see anything. Hong Tao is not in a hurry to start the second round of shooting, and he plans to add another stroke of his invention.
"Do you have a name?" Wen Nan is now completely used to how to get along with Hong Tao, knowing how to distinguish which sentence he is serious and which sentence is nonsense, and can also answer a few words from time to time and tease him.
"Well... forget it, it's immoral to use murder to make fun of people. You shouldn't be such a person?" Hong Tao originally wanted to tease Wen Nan, but when he saw that he was not fooled and refused to tell him that the saints had been educated, he would tell him that the truth was on his side anyway, so how could he be reasonable no matter how he said it.
"Mining Zhu Zhe Chi... As a student, I shouldn't comment on the teacher's behavior." Wen Nan actually dared to curse people in a corner.
"But you can learn selectively, right? You have a clever problem again. If you want to learn, learn a trick, otherwise it is better not to learn it. It is not enough to take it out of context. Look, I will use the same trick again for you again, and they will still be fooled!" If a Southern Song literati becomes a terrifying thing, they have countless allusions in their stomachs and can say it for a long time without any repetition. Compared to them, Hong Tao believes that he is not his opponent, so he immediately changed his strategy and speaks with facts.
"My mercy, let Swan and the others get on the ship and start landing, and then inform the gunners to prepare for the next round of artillery."
There were not many small boats on the warship and it was impossible to make large-scale landings, but the salmon-class merchant ship specially brought a single-armored boat, which was specially used for landing craft. After seeing the signal flag on the flagship, the merchant ship began to swagger near the dock until the distance was less than 200 meters. Then, like a big bed bug shaking a small bed bug, he placed the boat down one by one from the ship, and then the cavalry in armor and the war horses began to board the ship.
The landing troops were thrusting on the sea more than 100 meters in front of the pier for more than half an hour, and did not take the Java soldiers hiding behind the houses on the shore seriously. They were like landing on a large cruise ship to visit, and lined up in a row to board the boat calmly, then gathered more than ten boats together before they began to slowly row towards the pier.
Such a big noise is not enough to use a telescope, and the naked eye can see it. If infantry landed alone, it may not cause such a big reaction on the shore, but most of the boats are equipped with horses and cavalry, which is a very fatal danger to the army. Once the cavalry is allowed to shore, the small-scale infantry will not have any effect. Even though the Javanese are not very good at cavalry combat, they obviously understand this truth.
If you understand, you have to act. So the soldiers who were originally hit by the first round of artillery and ran back to the residential area came out again and returned to the dock to block the landing cavalry and prevent them from getting on the shore from getting on the shore. The cavalry on the boat were all old fryers, so they knew very well what Hong Tao was going to do, so they cooperated very well, making the momentum very strong, knocking on armor and weapons, and making a twitch with twitches, which led to the soldiers on the shore shouting one after another. No one on both sides wanted to be suppressed by the other side. During the cold weapon combat, the morale of an army was very important. At this time, they forgot, or they did not realize that these cavalry actually did not pose a great threat to them, and the four ships floating on the sea were the worst!
"Hehehe... I'll see it. I'll call you a trick to eat all over the world. Be prepared to... aim and fight! Don't kill our own ship! Fire a gun!" Hong Tao is worthy of being the king of broken mouths. The next shot order is also provided with additional instructions, that is, he brought the sailors on the ship. If someone else comes, he probably doesn't know how to deal with the smelly and long orders he issued.
Chapter completed!