Chapter 618 Battle of Nanri Island (5)

The pirates on the island are not fools. They have long expected that the huge "Threat Signal" will not directly dock at the risk of running aground, so they also organized some archers and musketeers to use the limited few people on the dock.

He used a building as a cover and tried to conduct a sniper attack on the small coalition boats approaching the shore to check the water conditions.

Even if this tactic cannot prevent the coalition forces from landing, it at least has the chance to cause some casualties to the coalition forces, and it can still play a certain role in boosting the morale of the Shibazhi side. However, these pirates are non-professionals after all, and they fight this kind of ambush.

There was an obvious lack of experience. When the combined fleet sailed into the harbor, Shi Diwen had already spotted the sneaky figure on the pier through the telescope. It was obvious that these people had not received relevant training and did not know that Haihan could do this.

A weapon for long-distance reconnaissance. Before the two sides come into contact, they have already exposed their combat intentions, leaving too much time for their opponents to react.

Shi Diwen put down the telescope and asked Xu Yuzhuo next to him: "Did you encounter any resistance when you landed on Nanri Island several times before?"

Today, Xu Xinsu personally supervised the battle and led the Ming navy to deploy outside Nanri Island and take charge of maritime security. Therefore, he sent Xu Yuzhuo to act with the Haihan Militia. While observing, he could also coordinate the cooperation between the two armies nearby. Xu Yuzhuo responded: "Pirates

A defense line will be set up near the dock to hinder the landing. Our troops usually use shields as cover and shoot at them with bows, arrows and firecrackers."

Shi Diwen nodded and said: "But you are on a boat and they are on land, so your accuracy is a bit disadvantageous."

"Casualties are indeed unavoidable." Xu Yuzhuo readily admitted Shi Diwen's statement. Even if the Ming army's individual military quality was slightly better, it would be difficult to maintain accuracy when using long-range weapons on the ship. In this battle,

, the Ming army would suffer a small loss every time.

The Ming army suffered such a loss because they did not have strong fire cover, but the Haihan militia was different. It carried out fire strikes from sea to land and covered the landing of troops. This is one of the required courses for naval gunners. Shi Di

Wen gave the order, and the two smaller "exploration-class" warships slowly came across the harbor and aimed their sides at the pier. Then the gun window opened, and the black gun barrel reached the window and aimed at the pier.

One of the few bunker buildings on the planet.

Lieutenant Xie Li of the Navy served as the commander of the advance landing force. He had already served as the chief mate on the "exploration-class" warship when it was first put into use. Two months before this mission to Fujian, he had just been promoted to chief mate.

The captain of the "Red April", the fifth "exploration-class" warship, can be regarded as one of the higher-ranking officers among the naturalized civilian officers.

However, Xie Li is not particularly satisfied with his current position, because he joined the Haihan Militia later than him, and Wu Sen, an officer of Annan origin who is not so pure, had made military exploits when he followed the fleet to the South China Sea to attack the Ambuna Islands.

, has now been transferred to the "Dignity", the first ship of the "Dignity" class, as a senior officer. Although the two have the same military rank, Xie Li still has the position of captain, but according to the development speed and pattern of the Haihan Navy, in two or three years

After that, as the number of "Dignity-class" warships increases, there will definitely be naturalized officers serving as captains, and Wu Sen will obviously have an experience advantage over captains of inferior warships like Xie Li.

If he wants to catch up with Wu Sen's promotion speed, Xie Li must seize the current opportunity and make more military exploits. In yesterday's naval battle, the "Red April" he commanded hit the enemy ship with a total of twenty rounds.

The results were still very good. The attack on Nanri Island was another good opportunity for Xie Li to make meritorious deeds. Before departure, he had already asked the gunners on the ship to prepare for an artillery attack on the land. He would use the weapons on the battlefield

Excellent performance to impress your boss.

The battle plan drawn up by the Haihan Militia before the war was very detailed, so the time from Shi Diwen's order to the firing of the first artillery shell was less than two minutes, so fast that even the pirates who were ambushing on the dock did not notice.

Realizing what had happened, it was too late to transfer.

More than a dozen shells from the first round of shelling flew toward the buildings on the pier with a whistling sound, piercing through the wooden walls like a layer of tissue paper. The screams of people could be faintly heard amidst the splashing debris.

.These wooden wooden houses are just temporary warehouses for the pirates on the island to store the supplies brought in. They are somewhat effective in blocking arrows and lead bullets, but they are completely ineffective against cannonballs.

After three rounds of shelling, Shi Diwen signaled a ceasefire to observe the results of the battle. Several wooden houses were riddled with holes and were crumbling. It was difficult to call them bunkers. Two "exploration-class" warships lowered their small boats.

The soldiers rowed a small boat to the shore and lowered long ropes tied with lead weights to measure the water depth in various parts of the pier. This was to find a suitable berth so that the largest "power signal" could dock.

During this period, the pirates who were ambushing on the dock were unable to launch a sneak attack as expected, because most of them had been killed or injured in the shelling just now, and the few lucky ones who were unscathed were also

I just lay on the ground shivering, unable to muster the courage to show up again.

Several soldiers on the small boat had already climbed onto the trestle with rifles on their backs. Their mission was to check the trestle and the pier as soon as possible to see if there were any other troubles, and to clear the way for the next landing on the shore. The team walked to the end of the trestle.

When I was there, I encountered the first pirate who jumped out of his hiding place to fight. However, this unfortunate guy only had an ordinary waist knife in his hand. Therefore, before he could get close, the four leading soldiers picked up their swords.

The rifles fired at him from a distance of ten meters, two of which directly hit the torso.

This man was quite tenacious. He was shot twice but did not fall down immediately. He still tried to attack. The soldiers followed their daily training and did not reload at this time. Instead, they rushed forward with their rifles raised.

Knock the pirate to the ground with his bayonet.

The dozen or so soldiers who were the first to board the dock quickly cleaned up the shore and killed four or five pirates who resisted. Only one of them was injured by the arrows fired by the pirates, but his life was not in danger.

On the "Wei Signal", Xu Yuzhuo observed the whole process of the Haihan Militia's operation to clean up the dock through binoculars and the walkie-talkie at Shi Diwen's hand. This kind of operation method of artillery washing the ground and infantry advancing later, he used to be at the Shengli Port Military Academy.

When I was studying abroad, I listened to instructors explain it, but I never witnessed actual combat examples. Today, it was a small eye-opener.

Xu Yuzhuo couldn't help but ask: "If the defense on the shore has strong fortifications such as forts, how will we attack it?"

Shi Diwen explained: "If it is a fort, then the power of the artillery on the 'exploration-class' warship is slightly less powerful, but our ship does have large-caliber cannons specifically designed to deal with the fort. In fact, the core idea of ​​artillery operations is one

——Fire suppression, it is not too difficult for us to achieve this. Regarding this, you will feel it more intuitively when we attack Nanri Village."

After the infantry completed cleaning up the dock area, the "Prestige Signal" slowly approached the dock, unhurriedly unloaded the soldiers and heavy weapons from the ship, and began to prepare for the attack on Nanri Village. From the "Prestige Signal"

"On the high mast, the lookout can clearly see the situation of Nanri Village three miles away. Therefore, the Haihan Militia almost does not need to rush to deploy beachhead positions and defensive forces at the landing site, because the opponent has no intention of launching at all.

A battle in the village.

"You see, they have already given up before the fight started." Shi Diwen rudely belittled his opponent: "But it is a wiser decision for them to do this. If they want to pull us out and confront us head-on, they will only lose.

Faster."

From the landing dock to Nanri Village in the south, the terrain in the middle is very flat, and there are no scattered residential buildings on the island, so there are almost no bunkers for Shiba Zhi's people to set up a defense line. If Shiba Zhi dares

Assemble troops to this battlefield for a head-on battle, then Shi Diwen will use Haihan weapons to tell him what military technology crushing is.

After seizing the dock, it took the Haihan warship just over an hour to complete the landing of the baggage. However, this was already very fast. After all, these warships were not specifically used for landing, and there were no heavy objects hoisted on board.

A special crane was used to unload artillery pieces weighing hundreds of kilograms and tons of shells onto the pier, almost all of which was carried by human hands.

Fortunately, there is a dirt road from the dock to Nanri Village. Although it is only four feet wide, it is better than nothing. This will make it much easier to transport the heavy artillery outside Nanri Village.

Xu Xinsu thoughtfully prepared more than 40 mules and horses for this attack on the island, and specially used two boats to transport them from Dongqiao Bay to haul weapons and ammunition supplies used by the Haihan militia. During the landing

After the island troops completed their assembly, they began to march southward along the dirt road.

Nanri Village is located at the northern foot of a gently sloping hill. It is built according to the terrain and is divided into four layers of defense lines from bottom to top. The walls are all made of solid rocks, and there is even a gate on the outermost wall.

A small archery tower. Considering the military level of this era, this kind of fort is indeed a very strong island stronghold.

Of course, in Shi Diwen's view, Nanri Village is only as strong as it looks. This time they brought two of the latest 48-pound siege cannons, which are designed to deal with all kinds of dissatisfaction. This kind of cannon is currently

It had only been a routine target practice in Port Victory, but it was also the first time it had been used on the battlefield. The military also hopes to take this opportunity to accumulate some experience in the use of this new type of weapon.

About five hundred meters away from Nanri Village, the Haihan Militia stopped and began to set up forward positions. Although they knew that the opponent was weak, they still prepared rigorously in accordance with the combat regulations. The infantry was responsible for perimeter security, and the snipers were

They were assigned to the left and right wings of the position, built a simple high platform with a few wooden ladders, and began to look for opportunities to kill the pirates on the top of the city. The artillery, in order of heavy to light firepower, was deployed from the center of the position to both sides.

"Morgan, do you want to go and have fun?" Before the position was completely set up, Shi Diwen made a suggestion to Morgan who was gearing up.

Morgan responded with a smile: "You still understand me! Then I won't be polite. Maybe with luck, I can kill the bandit leader with one shot, and this battle will not need to be fought."

"Then I wish you good luck!" Shi Diwen patted him on the shoulder and blessed him.

Morgan carried his gun bag and walked to a simple platform that had just been built, and motioned to the soldiers here to give up their position to him. Although the platform was only about three meters high, the extra three meters of height could allow

The sniper's shooting field of view was greatly increased. Morgan slowly climbed up the platform, squatted down and opened the gun bag, and then pulled out his precious CheyTacM-200 from inside.

The original design of this sniper rifle is to kill soft targets at long distances while being as light as possible. The .408 ammunition it uses can maintain supersonic speed after flying 2,000 meters out of the barrel. Its huge kinetic energy ensures

It still has great lethality at long distances. Although the magazine capacity is only 7 rounds, in the low-intensity war conditions of the 17th century, users did not need to worry about the capacity being too small and requiring frequent reloading.

Trouble - in fact, because the ammunition is limited and cannot be replenished, Morgan has very little time to use this gun. The last time he used this treasure to kill an enemy was back during the Annan Civil War.

Morgan opened the gun rack and set up the rifle, slowly lay down on the platform, and then began to adjust the sighting device on the gun. He only brought ten rounds of ammunition with him this time, so he had to save a little. However,

When shooting at this distance, Morgan still has a lot of confidence in himself.

This was the first time Xu Yuzhuo saw this scene. Although he had gone to the shooting range to shoot live ammunition during his training in Victory Port, they were all models of Haihan mass-produced rifles. He had also seen the special rifles equipped by Haihan snipers.

.And the big gun in Morgan's hand obviously has many differences in appearance, and it looks very powerful.

"Mr. Shi, the gun used by Mr. Morgan is..." Xu Yuzhuo couldn't help but ask Shi Diwen.

Shi Diwen responded: "This gun is a unique high-level weapon. We brought it from our distant homeland. Its performance is very good and it can blow the target's head off with one shot from four miles away!"

"Four miles away!" Xu Yuzhuo was so frightened that his jaw almost dropped. In his understanding, Haihan's sniper rifle, which is not sold out, can shoot a range of more than one mile, which is already a very scary weapon. Unexpectedly,

There are actually weapons in this world that are several times stronger than it.

Of course, Shi Diwen would not tell him that what he said was only theoretical data. The probability of hitting the target on the head four miles away was actually very low, so low that Morgan would never waste his limited time pursuing such a shooting record.

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