Chapter 1072: "·Pirate War"

When you realize that you are a humble person, you are no longer a humble person.
-Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (one of the most outstanding writers in the history of world literature)
After the dangling Roman First Fleet arrived outside Sado, he no longer worried about the wind leaking Nams. After obtaining Wendel's consent, he released all the captains he had captured and let them take their own crew. Drive away on their own boat.
Unexpectedly, the captains who still had the opportunity to leave alive, first returned to their ships with the crew members cheering, and then actively offered a batch of food, fresh water, gold and silver jewelry to Nams before driving. The ship quickly left the sea.
In other words, Nams and Wendell have never seen such a conscious businessman; however, they did not refuse the initiative of the captains because they did not know their own army’s How long the offense will last.
Although the First Fleet of Rome added a lot of food and fresh water at the port of Mutsu, the limited hull load and the number of transport ships determined that Nams could only carry enough Governor Generals in his fleet to survive for a month. Food and fresh water.
If the battle is not smooth and the Governor’s Guard’s landing operation on Sado Island is blocked, then the first fleet of Nams will need to stay longer outside Sado Island; at the same time, the Governor’s Guard cannot consume from Sado Island Obtained, can only eat the food stored in the fleet.
Each double-row battleship carries 80 system crews and 100 long archers, and each three-row battleship carries 120 system crews and 150 long archers; these system crews and long archers The consumption is no less than that of the officers and men of the Governor's Guard.
Therefore, the Governor’s Guard, who is about to land on Sado Island, must ascend to Sado Island as soon as possible and ensure that enough food is collected to supply the Nams fleet within one month; otherwise, at most one month later, Nams The fleet can only withdraw Mu Mu.
The first fleet with twenty double-row battleships and thirty three-row battleships was grouped into a main fleet and five squadrons by Nams; among them, the most powerful main fleet consisted of the seven-tier battleship Empire It is composed of ten three-tier battleships and is left to protect the transport ship offshore.
The squadron composed of four three-tier battleships and four two-tier battleships was dispatched by Nams to the Sado Island to clear the possible pirate fleet; from the moment when he truly understood the strength of the Yamato Empire’s naval forces, Sado Island pirates are no longer in the eyes of Nams.
The first squadron of the first horse rushed into the inner sea of ​​Sado Island. Two three-row battleships sailed side by side at a very fast speed, followed by two double-row battleships; the flanks of these four battleships, then Each has a three-row battleship and a double-row battleship escort.
Less than ten minutes into the sea of ​​Sado Island, a small pirate fleet appeared in the field of vision of the first squadron; the commander of the squadron who saw the emergence of prey immediately ordered himself to command a faster double speed The battleships outflank the wings.
The reason why the commander of the first squadron sent four double-row battleships under his command for two-wing outsourcing was because he was worried that this weak pirate fleet would run away from the wind; but the truth is that the fearless pirate fleet is nothing. There is no meaning to turn around and run away.
Think about it too. How could the Sado pirates who had never seen a Roman battleship be afraid of the eight strange ships rushing by? In the eyes of these pirates who look like frogs at the bottom of the well, the eight battleships of the First Squadron are only eight ordinary merchant ships that do not know how to survive; they only need to lead the battleships to surround them, and they can easily seize all the goods and goods on the eight merchant ships. Gold and silver jewelry.
The fierce pirates of Sado Island are not the naval forces of Innoshima, Indo, and Tokushima who are proficient in development. They will deal with the Uesugi family of Echigo, just to better maintain survival; in other words In short, they are genuine pirates!
All ships that dare to be close to the sea outside of Sado Island are likely to be robbed by Sado Island pirates; even the Uesugi family's fleet has been looted by Sado Island pirates off the Sado Island. How many are they?
The Sado Island pirates who cooperated with the Uesugi family represent only the vast majority of pirate forces on Sado Island, but not all pirate forces; there are always some lawless little pirates who will do some uncontrolled things, This is also human nature.
In view of this, the outer sea of ​​Sado Island has never been a safe sea; as for the inner sea of ​​Sado Island, it is completely a pirate's paradise. No matter which family's fleet strays into this sea area, it will inevitably be madly patrolled by pirates. Looting.
This is the rule of Sado Island pirates. As long as the ship enters the inner sea of ​​Sado Island, it will be the prey sent to you; because the inner sea of ​​Sado Island is too close to the old nest of Sado Island pirates, this is already their prohibition, and no outsiders are allowed to enter Enter!
In order to avoid someone sneaking into Sado Island in this way and knowing their own truth; Sado Island pirates will take the most extreme method of plundering ships that break into the inner sea of ​​Sado Island. All ships will be burned and the crew will be killed. Do not leave any live mouth!
Looking at the pirate fleet that was rushing ahead, I felt that some inexplicable commander of the first squadron asked the flag bearer to order the other ships in semaphore, while letting the four double-row battleships continue to outflank from the flanks, while letting three three The battleship slowed down.
The early and closed ships of the pirate fleet, although the speed is not comparable to the double-row battleship and the three-row battleship, but it is not slow under the efforts of the pirates; to prolong the engagement time of the two armies, the squadron commander can only let The ships under their own control slowed down.
When the distance between the two fleets was shortened to 400 meters, on the four three-row battleships that had been stopped side by side, a full of 600 long archers simultaneously released the arrows on their bow strings, and 600 were burning The flaming rocket floated forward like a cloud of fire.
The distance of 400 meters is the standard projectile range of Lenghuai Longbow, but for pirates holding ordinary short bows, this is already enough to shock them. The unexpected pirate fleet has seven or eight ships on the spot. Early on, he was lit by the archers' rockets.
The reason why the rockets fired by the long archers would have such an immediate effect is not because the pirates of the pirate fleet will not use the sea water to extinguish the flames, but because the arrows shot by the long archers are wrapped with a layer of fire oil and a small amount of sea water Can't put out the oil fire at all!
The small amount of kerosene in the Roman city was brought back to Rome by Bailing ring when Bai Feng led his army to evacuate from the sunset fortress; this time Bai Feng took it out to Namus for the purpose of letting Namus Use kerosene to deal with the pirate fleet of Sado Island.
The pirate fleet, who had been stunned by this kind of flame-extinguishing special rocket, had not yet reacted, and its wings were attacked by the longbowmen’s rockets on four double-row battleships; the rockets flying from three sides gave way The pirate fleet consisting of sixteen small early and seven closed ships was devastated, and at least nine small early and three closed ships ignited a blazing fire!
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