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Text Chapter 352 The pirates retreat

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    The army of the Song Dynasty!

    Quick, retreat quickly!

    The battle for the fort has ended. A squadron of 500 Army soldiers dispatched by Manhattan City completely defeated the pirates besieging the fort in one charge.

    When the pirates faced flintlock guns with fast shooting speed and high accuracy, their equipment disadvantages became highlighted.

    At the same time, during the charge and close combat, the flintlock guns equipped with bayonets caused great damage to them.

    The genetic soldiers formed an offensive formation according to the musket formation of the Napoleonic era.

    When the pirates faced this kind of hedgehog-like phalanx, they were simply helpless and unable to deal with it.

    So, after leaving corpses all over the place, they finally retreated.

    However, the geneticists did not let them go, but followed them and continued to hunt them down.

    The poor 2,000 pirates, God knows whether they will be able to go back alive in the end.

    You must know that the genetic soldiers of the Manhattan Army are taught to take no prisoners.

    And such a situation also occurred around the fort on Manhattan Island.

    Unlike the forts here in Manhattan, because the people on Manhattan Island are all Mohicans, the only ones who deal with the pirates are the militia teams composed of Mohicans.

    Although these pirates are not facing genetic people, they are also very miserable.

    These Mohicans will use various means to cause casualties to the pirates during the battle.

    ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Blow dart!

    Throwing axe!

    Flintlock guns and bottle bombs!

    And when pirates die or are seriously injured, their scalps will be cut off.

    Yes, it doesn¡¯t matter if they are dead, but most of the time the seriously injured pirates don¡¯t die immediately, but they will see the Mohicans with shining eyes walking towards them with daggers in their hands.

    ¡°The pain of having a large scalp cut off while alive is truly unimaginable.

    The disgraced pirates suffered the blow of serial rebellion.

    ¡°Whether it was the genetic army or the Mohican militia on Manhattan Island, they all created a miracle.

    That is the miracle of zero casualties.

    I have to say, this thing seems a bit weird.

    "Compared to the casualties in maritime battles, it is incredible that the Army can say these things.

    No matter what, the pirates¡¯ attacks on the fort were disrupted one after another.

    The battle on the sea, with the participation of one hundred and twenty iron fishing boats, began to develop in favor of Manhattan.

    "Sir, we don't have many rocket launchers left. Do we need to return now?"

    At this time, the commanders on several iron fishing boats who conducted the assault all encountered such a problem.

    Yes, although they achieved brilliant results, their copycat rocket launchers were consumed very quickly.  Therefore, the rocket launchers on their ship are now almost exhausted.

    If these rocket launchers are used up, they will become active targets.

    When they face the pirates, they will no longer be able to fight back.

    "Okay, let's return. Let's leave the next battle to the brothers at the back. They have plenty of weapons anyway, right?"

    After a brief consideration, the commanders of the iron fishing boat decided to retreat.

    "Anyway, if they continue to fight, it will not help the situation.

    After all, they have no weapons, right?

    But behind them, there are many companions.

    Therefore, the following battle will be up to them.

    And they can also prevent themselves from falling into danger and suffering unnecessary losses.

    Just like that, the iron boat ran out of rocket launchers and quickly turned around and returned.

    The iron boat in the rear took over their attacking position and continued to move forward to fight against the pirates.

    "Compared with the ease of the quick-response fleet, the pirates seemed a bit panicked.

    "Fire! Fire for me and sink these guys!"

    When he saw the iron boat with strange weapons approaching him, the captains on the pirate ship shouted orders one after another.

    Boom!  boom!

    The shells landed one after another at a long distance from the iron fishing boat.?There was no way to hit its hull.

    First of all, the hull of the iron fishing boat is very small.

    And the accuracy of the pirate ship's artillery is not very good, so it is normal that it cannot hit.

    It¡¯s like shooting mosquitoes with a cannon, it depends on luck.

    ¡°And the pirates¡¯ warships are double-decker warships on both sides, and they only have about twenty cannons.

    The warship with the most guns is Blackbeard Jack's flagship Deep Sea Ghost. This ship has thirty-six eight-pound guns.

    After all, this is only the seventeenth century, and three-decker battleships would not appear until the eighteenth century.

    At that time, the number of ship-borne artillery can be increased.

    These pirates don¡¯t have plug-ins like Zhao Hongyu, and they can build a heavily armed battleship with four decks and 108 guns.

    And if you calculate it this way, there are eleven or two cannons that can shoot on the side of a pirate ship at the same time.

    ??And most of these guns, which are mainly eight-pound guns or 12-pound guns, do not have a very long range.

    You should know that the bigger the gun is not the better, because the wooden hull must consider the recoil of the gun that it can withstand.

    Although large-caliber artillery is very powerful, the recoil problem cannot be solved, which is also very troublesome.

    When a cannonball is fired, the whole ship often shakes.

    If you encounter that inferior warship with cut corners, the deck may even collapse due to the recoil of the artillery.

    In that way, the entire ship was finished.

    ¡°If this situation happened in the Atlantic Ocean, it would have to be a disaster.

    Therefore, eight-pounder guns and twelve-pounder guns became the mainstream.

    After more than a hundred years later, Europe solved some of the keel problems of the ship's hull, heavy ship-based artillery was slowly installed on the ship.

    But that was more than a hundred years later.

    " Zhao Hongyu's four-deck heavily armed battleship is not included in this list.

    You know, he has solved a lot of problems with plug-ins.

    And 108 24-pound guns can definitely help him become an invincible presence at sea.

    "Captain, those boats are too small, we can't hit them at all!"

    The ships at the forefront of the pirate fleet continued to be attacked by rocket launchers.

    These pirate warships kept emitting flames soaring into the sky, and then slowly sank into the sea amidst the burning fire.

    Countless pirates jumped off the ship, wailing and burning, hoping to save their lives.

    At this moment, this sea area turned into a hellish Shura field.

    After the fleet of iron fishing boats joined, more than a hundred pirate ships were destroyed in just two hours.

    In this sea area, which is only fifteen nautical miles away from Manhattan, there are debris of battleships everywhere, as well as pirates who were lucky enough to survive.

    Some pirate ships are not silent yet, but they are standing on the sea with bright red lights, reflecting the surroundings red.

    The loss of more than a hundred warships is not a big deal for pirates.

    There is no serious damage here, it refers to complete destruction.

    Although the rocket launcher is a copycat, it can only be fired once.

    But the huge explosion power can completely destroy a wooden warship within five or six rounds.

    It is precisely for this reason that the pirates suffered such heavy losses.

    In the melee with the Manhattan fleet earlier, the pirates lost a lot of warships.

    Now after an attack by the iron fishing boat fleet, the pirates' losses are even greater.

    The pirate alliance, which originally had more than 400 warships, now has more than 280 warships.

    As for the iron fishing boats, more than 50 of them began to return because their rocket launchers were exhausted.

    But there are still more than 60 iron fishing boats left to deal with the pirates.

    "Jack, let's retreat. There are secret weapons here in Manhattan, and we are no match at all. If this continues, our ships will be destroyed."

    At this moment, someone has already begun to persuade Blackbeard Jack to retreat.

    This is different from the previous excitement. Now the pirates are filled with fear and regret.

    Yes, they lost too much this time.

    But they didn¡¯t even see the harbor in Manhattan.

    ??Blackbeard Jack had a gloomy face. The firelight on the sea in the distance flickered from time to time, and his face was looming in the firelight.

    Retreat?

    Blackbeard was a little reluctant to give up.

    After all, the fight has reached this level. If we retreat like this, wouldn¡¯t all our previous efforts be in vain?

    However, Blackbeard also knew that if they did not retreat, they might actually end up here.

    He had a premonition that something was wrong earlier, and now he finally knew that something was wrong.

    He originally thought about things too simply, thinking that Manhattan was an undefended and extremely wealthy city.

    He thought Manhattan would be like a Spanish colony in Central America, helpless in the face of his own attack.

    But he was wrong, very wrong.

    The people of the Song Empire were fundamentally different from those Europeans.

    They have terrible weapons that they don¡¯t even know they have.

    And they also have small boats that can sail on the sea without the help of sails and wind.

    None of this appeared in the early intelligence.

    It can be seen that the Song Empire does not know how many terrible things are hidden.

    In order to avoid long nights and many dreams, it seems that I have no choice but to retreat first.

    Now they have lost too much, and there is no way they can continue to pursue Manhattan in a short time.

    "Retreat!"

    After gritting his teeth for a while, Blackbeard Jack finally gave the order to retreat.

    The pirate ship in the rear began to slowly turn around and prepare to escape.

    Faced with such a good opportunity, how could the rapid response fleet let it go?

    They all know that turning around on sailboats in this era is very slow and time-consuming.

    And taking advantage of this opportunity, they can continue to destroy many pirate ships, right?  (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, the novels will be better and updated faster!)
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