Chapter 82 Sweet Harbor Storm - Battle of Juhua Island (2)
Section 82 Sweet Harbor Storm - Battle of Juhua Island (2)
Xi Yazhou looked at his watch. It was exactly 20 minutes since the second telegram was sent.
"You guys are so damn good every second!" Xi Yazhou cursed and felt relieved, only to realize that he was covered in cold sweat.
"Mate Le, send the sailors to get ready to board the ship. Pay attention to safety!" He took off his helmet. There were several marks on it from being hit by hard objects. It seemed that this thing was still useful, otherwise his brain would have been damaged.
As soon as my body and mind relaxed, I suddenly felt a pain in my leg. When I lowered my head, I saw that there was a large amount of blood on my pants. If I moved even a little bit, the pain would be severe.
"I'm actually injured——"
Hearing that Xi Yazhou was injured, Lelin hurriedly brought the health worker over. Although Xi Yazhou had great doubts about the indigenous health workers, she couldn't be picky now. The health worker tore open his trousers and put a hand on his calf.
There was a blood groove, the skin was torn and there was a lot of blood, probably caused by a fragment. Seeing the hygienist skillfully using a pair of chopsticks to hold an alcohol cotton ball to disinfect him, Xi Yazhou couldn't help but think of the plot he saw in Bethune's novel
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The hygienist looked at the wound and thought that nothing had entered the body. He just put some medicine on it and bandaged it. No sutures were needed. Xi Yazhou himself felt that his legs and feet were fine. He just didn't know if there was anything like tetanus on the shrapnel.
He felt a little weak. Although the health worker applied some medicine to him, he didn't know what it was. Xi Yazhou knew that the Ministry of Health and the biological laboratory under the Agriculture Committee had set up a pharmaceutical factory together. They were not only producing traditional Chinese medicine reagents, but also preparing
Manufacturing western medicine. He was very doubtful about whether the things made in Shi Niaoren's pharmaceutical workshop were reliable. Xi Yazhou made up his mind to go to the hospital for examination when he returned to Lingao, and even if it didn't work, he would have to get a tetanus.
some type of……
Although he thought this, there was a determined expression on his face, although the alcohol stimulation when cleaning the wound made him grin a little.
The operation to drive the enemy into Juhua Island went smoothly. The fishing boat did not operate at full power, but just followed the fleet in pursuit. The six pirate ships were desperately trying to escape under the "pursuit".
The two fishing boats following behind followed them leisurely. The commander followed the original plan and sent the fleet to Juhua Island. They could not be allowed to escape midway, so the pursuit was not urgent.
"Boss, those two 'demon ships' are still behind -" his subordinate reported in panic.
"The ghost lingers!" Gu Dachun spat, he had already run away, why are these Australians still chasing after them? Even if they are officers and soldiers, the few boats and people on them that were abandoned just now are enough.
They went to ask for credit and reward.
"It's okay! We will enter Juhua Island in a while. No one can get past that Chaos Bay Ecstasy Formation except us." Gu Dachun felt relieved when he saw that although the other party was chasing closely, he would not be able to catch up with them for a while.
Gu Dachun personally drove the boat and was the first to rush into Juhua Island. This place was familiar to him. He knew clearly where there were rocks and where there was sand.
On the artillery position at Maotiaokou, Ying Yu saw in the telescope the fleet reported by telegraph a few minutes ago, six single-masted or two-masted sailing ships, traveling at a very fast speed among the rocks, bays and waterways.
His skill in maneuvering a ship even when it was dangerous was astounding to him. If it weren't for the ambush plan proposed by Wu De, the navy would not have been able to pursue him.
Now on the islets and rocks near Maotiaokou, the artillerymen have arranged four positions, with a total of ten artillery pieces. The position he is in charge of was personally surveyed by Wu De - the conditions are relatively good: the area is large and the terrain is flat, so
The heaviest 12-pound cannon is deployed, which is personally controlled by Ying Yu. The headquarters is also located here.
Three days ago, the Navy, under the leadership of Wang Dabeard, transported the disassembled artillery pieces here on light ships, and then moved the artillery pieces onto the islet one by one based on the survey results. With the help of temporarily installed booms and pulleys, the sailors and
The artillerymen overcame the difficulties and transported several tons of artillery parts and ammunition to the four reefs. They then built positions on them and arranged camouflage. Then the long wait began.
"Attention all gun positions!" Ying Yu saw the enemy ships getting closer and closer, and grabbed the walkie-talkie, "Get ready to fight!"
Ying Yu watched the direction of the ship closely, and they were getting closer and closer to the trap they had set. These four artillery positions intertwined a net of death at Maotiaokou, and all the terrain in this area were referenced
The objects have been carefully ranged and calibrated.
Gu Dachun looked back and saw that the two iron clippers did not follow him in, which made him breath a big sigh of relief.
"Humph, you're quite sensible! If you dare to pursue me, I'm afraid you've hit the rocks by now." Gu Dachun is no longer worried about his own safety. The only trouble is how to reply to Mr. Zhu - for this transaction, he
But it was a huge loss.
The sea wind gradually became stronger and the waves began to surge.
"Lower the sail!" he ordered. If the sail is used here, the speed of the ship will be difficult to control and it will easily hit the rocks. Fortunately, the Maojiao mouth is not far ahead, and the towering and rugged rocks are already in sight. Here
There were several places of dark sand, which were constantly changing. Gu Dachun worked hard and held on to the rudder firmly.
At this moment, he saw a ball of fire emerging from the reef not far away, and then the sound of cannons was heard.
As Ying Yu personally aimed and fired the first shot, the cannons from each position were fired one after another at intervals of a few seconds, so that the observers could accurately judge the impact point of the artillery. Gu Dachun's boat, which was leading the way at the front, came under concentrated fire.
The grenade fired from the 12-pound howitzer directly hit the deck, splinters of wood flew randomly, and there was a cry on the ship. It was during this shelling that Gu Dachun was hit by a piece of hot iron and died.
"Pay attention to correcting the target!" Ying Yu used a telescope to observe the impact point of the artillery shells. This is really an excellent hunting place: the maximum distance between the reefs serving as artillery positions is less than 500 meters, and the smallest is only nearly 100 meters.
The water channel here is narrow and there is almost no room for turning. The maze that the pirates have always used to escape has become their desperate end. After the artillery fired a few shots at first, they quickly made corrections according to the impact point and the surrounding reference objects.
Although the white smoke during the launch affected the observation on the position, concealed observation posts should be arranged on other nearby reefs as early as possible, and the impact point of the shells was communicated by walkie-talkie.
After the smoke dissipated, the sea area of Maotiaokou was already in a bleak state. All six ships were hit by bullets and caught fire. The ships that lost control were crowded together, and some had been stranded. The decks, masts and sterns of many ships had been damaged.
The shells were destroyed, and some were burning. Bodies and ship fragments were floating on the sea. A broken mast was floating on the sea, and the sail on it was still burning. The whole scene was terrifying and spectacular. Ying Yu didn't care.
The outcome of the battle - this was already determined. What he was more concerned about was, which shell would do the most damage to enemy ships?
The result was as he expected. For common ships in Chinese waters, grenades are much more effective than solid bombs. Because these ships are rarely made of hardwood, and even if they are, the thickness of the hull is relatively small and filled with black powder.
The grenade can easily explode the ship's planks, which is much more effective than the solid round bomb that simply makes holes in the hull, and is also much more effective in killing people.
The bombardment lasted for a full twenty minutes. Ying Yu ordered the firing to stop. All six ships that rushed into the ambush circle were paralyzed on the sea. From the beginning to the end, no ship had time to fight back. The rain of shells destroyed them almost instantly.
resisted all.
"Send the navy to search for it?" someone suggested.
"It's too dangerous." Ying Yu looked at the burning ships, "According to Big Whale's telegram, there are three ships with cannons, and I don't know how much gunpowder is on them. It's not a joke if it explodes. Wait a minute.
It'll be fine in a while." He then gave another order, "Let the sampan rescue the pirates who fell into the water at a safe distance, and fish them out as long as they can swim to the side of the ship."
When the sailors finally boarded the wreckage of the stranded ships, they had already picked up about forty survivors. There was no loot worth mentioning on them, so the navy removed all the ironware on the ship.
In accordance with Xi Yazhou's request, Ying Yu picked up all the corpses floating on the deck and in the sea, and asked the prisoners to identify one by one, which ones were the leaders, and then cut off the heads and put them in boxes filled with lime. This kind of medieval
This approach made Ying Yu very uncomfortable.
The sea has returned to calm. The Great Whale is anchored at sea and is repairing the mast and sail gear damaged in the battle. The sailors are washing the deck. In order to reduce the burden, part of the sandbags on the ship have been discarded, and the deck looks much empty.
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In this battle, eight people on the Great Whale were killed and twenty were injured. The corpses of the dead were wrapped in white cloth and placed one by one on the deck beside the ship. Each corpse had a hand tied to its feet.
A cannonball.
"It's a pity that we don't have a national flag yet, otherwise we should give each of them one." Xi Yazhou said with emotion. Although there will be casualties as long as there is a battle, it is still a little sad to see the soldiers trained by the time travelers themselves killed in battle.
"Blow the trumpet!" As the mournful bugle sounded, the corpses were thrown into the sea one by one, and all the sailors and artillerymen saluted together.
The two fishing boats came back from Juhua Island and saw a burial at sea on the Great Whale. The fishing boats sounded their whistles one after the other.
"Report!" The signal soldier ran over and saluted: "Yu No. 1 sent a flag: 'Salute to all the officers and men on board the Great Whale!'"
"Answer: 'Salute to all the officers and men of the glorious Navy!'" Xi Yazhou said,
Two fishing boats, one behind the other, escorted the big whale and sailed towards Lingao. Behind them, there was the black smoke of the pirate fleet on Juhua Island that was still burning.