"Boom!" A new round of salvo hit the pirate warship again. This time, it was different from the previous two times. The already embarrassed pirate ship was finally overwhelmed and began to slow down significantly.
In this salvo, a shell directly blew away the rudder under the watchtower of the pirate ship, causing the pirate ship to instantly lose its most effective steering method.
Although it is also possible to adjust the sail to achieve steering, the efficiency is obviously much lower.
After another shell hit the battleship, it penetrated the hull from below the waterline on the other side. This hole caused water leakage, making the pirate ship worse.
What made the pirates even more desperate was that another artillery shell hit their gun emplacement, completely destroying the only artillery piece on their side!
Now they had no room to fight back, and suffered heavy losses in personnel. The more than 80 pirates crowded on the ship were killed or injured, and the rest were frightened out of fear, and they no longer had the arrogance of the past.
"Hurry! Hurry up the white flag! Hurry!" Finally, a pirate who understood the situation shouted hysterically. He regretted why he had been stupid just now and why he had only thought of such a creative way now.
The old pirate captain did not object to his subordinate's self-assertion, and he even had the idea of surrender. He had even thought of the words to apologize. After all, experienced sailors can find food anywhere.
So, the pirates quickly climbed up the mast and hung a dirty white sheet on the top of their mast.
They were sure that the other party had seen this big sheet. Although it was patched and dirty, everyone knew what it meant.
"We surrender! We surrender!" The pirates shook their hands and frantically begged for mercy at the approaching warships on the other side of the sea.
What responded to them was the fourth round of ferocious artillery salvo. This time, because the distance had been shortened to less than 200 meters, the hit rate was visibly improved.
Five shells hit the pirate ship without any bias, directly shattering the remaining side planks and causing the ship to begin to sink slowly.
It was only then that these pirates realized that the other party really wanted to kill them all, and was not playing a game of catching thieves with them.
Opposite the sinking pirate ship, Bernard looked coldly at the dilapidated sailboat that had tilted sideways, and muttered expressionlessly: "I'm sorry, sir, I don't want pirates to take prisoners, so you can only die here..."
Listen to me, don't be a thief in your next life. You have done too many bad things and you can no longer be good people, so you can only die and atone for everything you have done..."
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"Wow!" Looking at the port in front of him, the captain of the merchant ship couldn't believe his eyes. He really couldn't believe that there was such a huge crane in this world.
It was a really, really huge crane. Just looking at the size, it was nearly 20 meters high. Standing in the port, it looked as majestic as a lighthouse.
Of course, the new lighthouse in Bunas seems to be more spectacular. It is on the other side of the port and is built on a towering cliff. With the more than 20 meters of cliff, it is as high as 50 meters.
It was built using locally sourced boulders and cement. It was unimaginably strong. A huge lighting lamp was installed on it and it used electricity.
Taking this opportunity, Tang Mo built the world's first electric searchlight and used this result on the new battleship being built.
Tang Mo's warship is now ready for night battles, because there are two large searchlights installed on both sides of the warship, which are exactly the same model as those used on lighthouses.
Moreover, during the construction process, through computer simulations, it was found that this battleship still had the problem of being light at the front and heavy at the rear, so the final modified style was no different from the Zhiyuan ship.
Its front triple-mounted 120mm caliber naval gun was reduced by one and turned into an honest twin-mounted main gun, while the twin-mounted 120mm caliber main gun at the rear was changed to a single-mounted main gun.
120 mm caliber main gun.
This is basically the number of main weapons of the Zhiyuan ship. They are arranged with two in the front and one in the back. It is a very classic and familiar arrangement.
The only difference is that the Zhiyuan ship's main gun uses a gun mantlet defense with an open rear, while Tang Mo's battleship uses a closed turret, although the armor thickness behind it is only 8 mm.
Moreover, this battleship uses the latest generation of steam engines. After modification, the power has been greatly increased, and it can definitely be regarded as a qualified battleship power.
When these sailors from the distant Kingdom of Dorne looked up at this huge crane, they were completely impressed by the magnificence of Bunas.
When unloading, they only need to move the iron ingots on their ship one by one into a huge fishing net, and then this huge crane directly lifts these heavy goods and then gently places them on the
On the dock.
This kind of efficiency has completely overwhelmed those small cranes on other terminals, and there are actually not many cranes on the terminals of this era.
Most of the time, sailors can only move goods one by one through the springboard. Small goods are okay, but for some large goods, they can only try again and again.
And like this, it is really rare to unload all the contents of a cargo ship in less than a few hours.
Although it is not impossible, this kind of efficiency is generally only available in large terminals. They are among the largest ports in the world, and their scale is not comparable to that of small Bunas.
What shocked these sailors who came from afar was more than that. After they completed loading and unloading in a daze, they were ordered to drive away the ship and anchor near the shoals outside. Then the crew used small boats to board the ship.
shore.
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Some merchants from the kingdom took notice and started frantically transporting supplies to Bunas.
Merchant ships of all sizes are crowded near the already very small Bunas Port, which directly overwhelms the terminal, and throughput has become a bottleneck restricting the development of the port.
In order to solve this problem, Tang Mo had to spend money to expand the port and build this huge crane on the port - it is powered by electricity, but most people don't know that.
This crane relies on a motor to control the counterweight. From a distance, everyone thinks it is an ordinary gravity crane, but only the user knows that it actually uses part of the electricity.
With this crane, work at the dock can be carried out quickly, which solves Tang Mo's material demand problem.
Now the throughput of Bunas has increased exponentially. Many ships are using the newly built port in Tangmo, and some ships are using the old Bunas port.
At the newly built port, the goods were secretly sent to a nearby train station, then loaded onto trucks and shipped directly to Factory No. 2.
On the wharf of the old Bunas port, the sailors from Dorne visited everything here with novelty, as if Grandma Liu entered the Grand View Garden, and they felt their own ignorance and insignificance.
They saw the new city hall built of cement and the new fountain square that had just been completed.
These sailors also tried the new vegetable burger, and the delicious ketchup made them almost swallow their tongues.
They were excited and carried by the crowd to the casino, and then saw the most fun games here. They stood beside the table selflessly, shouting the numbers with hoarse voices, and then each one wailed and beat their chests and feet.
Coming from Dorne, they had never seen anything so interesting before, and it was their first time seeing such an exciting game.
One of them used only one gold coin to win 30 gold coins and became a small rich man overnight.
There are also people who lose all their money in one night and are so poor that they can't even afford another vegetable burger.
Some sailors came to the bustling street. They were so shocked by what they saw that they could not speak.
They saw girls in gauze singing and dancing in the streets. The fragrant clothes brushed their cheeks, making them almost drool on them.
Then, a few minutes later, these sailors all remembered that they seemed to have a large sum of gold coins in their pockets that they had just earned through hard work.
Then, they risked their lives to return all the money Tang Mo had just paid them to Mr. Tang Mo.
"Thank you to the great gods for allowing me to find the real paradise!" A sailor, hugged by two women, squeezed his head out from between the two women, raised his wine glass and shouted loudly with an intoxicated face.
of cheers.
"For Bunas! Cheers!" His companion was no better than him. He had drunk too much and was trying his best to untie his troublesome belt.
Liveliness and indulgence are the main theme here, and happiness and unbridledness are the main tone here. The sailors, who were originally nervous and restrained at sea, finally understood what the source of happiness is.
Although when they wake up tomorrow morning, they will bitterly realize how crazy they were last night - they may not even have a single copper left of the gold coins they earned from a hard-earned trip to sea.
However, after seeing another side of this wonderful world, they will soon fall in love with Bunas, fall in love with this golden cave, and fall in love with such an unrestrained life.
Then they will send more raw materials to Tang Mo in order to get more gold coins here, and then squander these more gold coins here more freely.