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Chapter 506:Artillery Barrage

The sky is gloomy, the moon is not light, it is a dark night.

Yina flaming her wings flew out, and it quickly turned into a small bright spot in the night sky.Zhou Qingfeng stood in the turret of a fortress gun, looking at the appearance from the position of the observation window.His eye has always been a sharp tool for spying on secrets, but it is not very useful in Goa, "probably too far from the Central Plains, lacking culture and population base."Or perhaps these white pigs have special features in the Tibetan outcry.”

Without the support of the powerful, the strength of the stronger individual is also limited.The only thing Zhou Qingfeng can rely on is the army and equipment he has developed with a lot of effort.He personally commanded a heavy gun at this moment, and the telescope in his hand had been following Yena's figure, searching for his target.

Compared with the test boat that died last night, the armed merchant ships of hundreds of tons are much larger and more dangerous.The eye can not see, the lighting rocket is not afraid, so Zhou Qingfeng let Yena go out to see up close.If it is close to enter the state of artillery warfare, it is a great threat to the fortress standing on the river.

The high wall of the fortress is one meter thick and is also strengthened by the magic.But facing the bombardment is still worrying.Zhou Qingfeng originally thought that the Portuguese would attack from the land first, so Wen Ruolan gave priority to lifting the second stone wall on the east side of the fortress, and raised the thickness of the high wall to three meters by filling the earth in the middle.In this way, the ability to fight heavy artillery bombardment is mostly large.

But no one expected the exploratory surprise with Zhuo to win an overwhelming victory, but also let the Portuguese become much more cautious.Instead of continuing to attack from the direction of the land, they came first from the surface of the water.

"I only killed one of their ships last night, and they dared to come."The northern wall of the fortress where Zhou Qingfeng is located has not been strengthened in time.Limited by the ability of migrant workers to dig up earthworks, the wall is still only one meter thick, and continuous heavy artillery bombardment can break it down.

The field of view in the telescope was too small, and Zhou Qingfeng soon lost Ye Na's figure.He had just put his hand down and stared, and suddenly found a light on the river about two kilometers away, and a huge cross appeared.

"These white pigs, I knew they wanted to sneak in."Zhou Qingfeng's spiritual link quickly linked the gunners of the three fortress heavy guns - because it was a hexagonal bastion, any point in the fortress shooting field could be aimed at by three guns.“Target me the broken cross.”No, aim at the cross below.Fill the egg-shaped round-headed solid-headed bomb.”

Two kilometers away, Father Melo of the Goa Inquisition was holding a scust and chanting the name of “Jehovah.”Together with several adjudicating priests, he rose from the gnashing of teeth to kill Ye Na, who had flown in the sky - this samurai with powerful holy powers was an unforgivable heresy, more hateful than the infidel!

“The Lord says, Take away the glory of your past.”Father Merlot’s scust radiated, and he wanted to cut off his opponent’s abilities.Only Ye Na, who was flying in the sky, split the two swords, not only split the light of the ruling of the opponent's joint attack, but also flew up and dropped a flame.

It was an arson bomb that could also shine a huge light.

Father Merlot naturally did not allow this to fall on the deck of his ship.He waved his hand, and a force field exploded the empty of the arson bomb.But with this bright light, the black shadow that originally shrouded the protection ship quickly dispersed, exposing the huge hull.

"About two thousand and two hundred meters away."The turret commander saw the topography of the river through the light of the strong light, and estimated a distance - the optical rangefinder is a simple principle of the workpiece can be too high on the lens and process, "Revolutionary Army" has been unable to do so.

Two thousand and two hundred meters has exceeded the effective range of the fort gun, and the accuracy of firing is very poor.Zhou Qingfeng in the turret calmed down, only faintly shouted behind him, "Jia Gang, you go to the two ships, be careful."

Behind Zhou Qingfeng, there seemed to be no one, but there was a clear word of "yes", and then a cloudy wind left from the turret.Zhou Qingfeng also ordered: "Let the hot air balloon on the watchtower come down, and the fire on the hanging basket is directing the enemy as a lighthouse."

Just after the expulsion of Yena, the shadow of magic once again shrouded two armed merchant ships.Father Melo at the bow of the ship, who was slowly descending and gradually extinguishing, was also very distressed—the enemy was not ignorant of the natives of the East, but more shrewd than the Europeans.Both sides are in the dark right now, and no one is happy.

The two ships were still slowly moving along the current, but the captain ran over and complained: "The dark environment is very dangerous to us."This is the mouth of the river into the sea, and the river is only a few hundred meters.Our boat is very deep and can easily run aground.”

A few tons of guns fell in half the way is a big trouble.Hundreds of tons of ships stranded, that is no joke.Father Michellho refused to rest, and he said, “I know you can measure the depth of the water to avoid running aground.”It's nothing more than a slower boat, and we're so close to the range of our guns 1,500 metres that we can't give up easily."

“That’s the maximum range of the gun, and the effective range is much shorter.”

“For a Fortress-like target, maximum range is sufficient.”

If it had not been forced by the governor, the captain of the merchant ship would not have taken his baby ship to fight.But now the priest of the Inquisition ordered that he could not do anything, but only hardened his scalp.

The water groaned, the ship was advancing in silence, and Father Melo stared ahead at the bow.Although he could see nothing, he knew that he was getting closer to the devil’s lair.He will order the ruling priest around him to fly out to determine the location of the enemy fortress, such as a fire on the shore or something, but he can turn back...

There was a turquoise glowing water on the outside of the bow, and the luminous water body was so dim that it could not be seen without looking closely.Especially on the hull that is high above the water surface, it is even more difficult to find.But this luminous body of water has been followed, like the denture of the bones.

"It must be the devil's means."Father Melo had just wanted to lift the scepter to expel this strangeness, but he saw three bright spots more than a thousand meters away at the same time.A few seconds later, the thunderous cannon sounded with the impact of the roaring shells.Three shells hit the side of the ship's hull, two rounds into the water lost, but one hit the bow below the bow.

With a bang, Father Melo felt a violent shock at his feet, and the wooden bow crumbled and could no longer stand.He had to let his body fly, turn his head and look at the hull under his feet, and a big mouth was cracked under the bow - the solid hull made of Goa teak wood could not resist the explosion.

“Return to fight!”The captain was responsible, and immediately after the damage was done, he commanded the damage and returned fire.Although only armed merchant ships are not specialized warships, but the ship's port position is still equipped with a dozen heavy guns - this year, the merchant ships without artillery are almost the same as running naked, waiting to be robbed.

According to the fire that had just been shelled in the direction of the fortress, the two armed merchant ships were immediately still in color.The three forts struck them, and at once a total of twelve large-calibre heavy guns on the sideboards were aimed at them, firing quickly—both sides were within their respective artillery fire, and now it was up to them who was more accurate and more ammunition to project.

"Don't worry, guys."A captain held up his command knife and loudly boosted the morale of the sailors on the deck, "We have twelve guns, but the opponent has only three."We are much stronger than them.

You are all the best gunners and you can shoot the best jab at the fastest possible pace.Let me see your power.When you're done, I'll ask you to go to the tavern all night long and sleep with the most beautiful women."

The sailors of this year were very rough, but long-term sea life gave them good discipline.The captain's words, with great authority, encouraged all the sailors to work hard.

On the side of the fort, the shelling group is being quickly loaded.The 200 mm heavy artillery fire rate is naturally slower, the burst rate is only two minutes and three rounds, and the continuous shooting rate is reduced to three minutes and two rounds.

With the instructions given by Jia Gang, Zhou Qingfeng fired first.But when the enemy counterattacked the fire, he knew that he was still slightly wrong, and the enemy's ship was 20 meters on the right side of the turquoise water body.Considering that the enemy's ship was still advancing, he ordered the right-handle of the gun.

Before waiting for the second round of tsets to prepare, the enemy's counterattack came.A dozen guns lit up on the surface of the water, and the roaring shells came in the dark - although they could not be seen, but everyone's scalp was tingling and knew that this deadly thing existed.The artillery of the Guards was formed for so long, and it was the first time to shoot at enemy artillery.

Also a few seconds later, the fortress wall was bombarded with 12 heavy projectiles.After a meter, the reinforced wall continued to vibrate violently.Some projectiles hit the bottom of the wall in the form of jumping, and there were also high ballistics directly bombarded on the wall stack.There were even direct jumps over the wall into the inside of the fort, destroying many buildings.

Zhou Qingfeng did not link the army to build a city defense to defend.Because for the power of the heavy artillery, the force of the wish in the fortress is too weak, it is better to carry it by the fortress itself.

“Continue.”Zhou Qingfeng stood at the observation port of the turret and turned to the slightly hesitant gunners and said, "Don't care about me, just sink the enemy's ship."

After the shelling began, Father Melo on the armed merchant ship was worried.The Navy does not easily fight with the fort gun, because the disadvantage is too obvious.He fell back on the deck of the ship, and was a little relieved to hear the captain's loud encouragement, and he prayed to the sailors, soothing their hearts, increasing their strength and reaction, and trying to make the gun battle smoother.

Less than a minute later, the sailors on board were still struggling to reset the guns, and the opposite fortress was on fire again, and a few seconds later the shells and gunfire followed.The shelling was more accurate, and all three forts were fired at a merchant ship - two of the three rounds, two shells entered the hull and directly into the cabin.

“How the hell did these Orientals shoot so fast?”Father Merlot had just performed his art, and he felt a great earthquake again under his feet.He could even think about how terrible it was in the cabin, which must have been a large number of broken wood scraps plus a lot of bloody casualties.

Compared to playing fast, the captain is more surprised at how the opponent plays so accurately?

He meowed in the night, so that a six-hundred-ton merchant ship would not last long.The captain immediately changed tactics and shouted, “Stop firing, let’s move the afield again.”Father Melo, remove the monster that is staring at us in the water."

The battle over the surface of the water grew fierce, and Lord Costa on land held his telescope to watch the battle.When the artillery of the fortress was focused on dealing with the merchant ships, the artillery under his opponent immediately ordered: "Hold up to carry out a fire raid, and give the Orientals a hard lesson."To fight them, like the natives of this Goa, keep a fear of us.”

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