Chapter 15 Pirate Attack
When Alka and Sigurd came out of the captain's room.
Many sailors have gathered on the deck.
Seeing the captain coming , everyone made way for him.
"What happened?"
As soon as Halls asked, a middle-aged man who was also well-dressed in leather clothes came over with a serious expression on his face.
He gives people a sense of majesty without even getting angry. He is the first mate of this ship.
"Captain, pirates spotted."
As he spoke, he pointed toward the sea.
Several people immediately looked in the direction indicated, and saw a sailboat slowly approaching there.
Because there was a light fog on the sea and the distance was too far, it was not very clear.
Holmes immediately took out a monocular telescope from his pocket, stretched it out, squinted his eyes and looked carefully.
"It's pirates. They should be the ones that have been roaming around this sea area recently. It's really unlucky."
Then he immediately turned around and shouted to the sailors behind him: "What are you still standing there for? Are you expecting them to let us go?"
Hearing the captain's shout, everyone started to move.
Alka couldn't help but hold the dagger at his waist.
Sigurd patted Alka on the shoulder as he looked at him. “Don’t panic. Don’t you see that these sailors are actually very calm?”
"It's normal to encounter pirates while sailing on the sea. There are too many dangers on the sea. Are you ready to see blood?"
As he said this, he pulled out the sailor knife from his hand and held it in his hand.
"Follow me closely, don't worry."
Arka nodded, feeling a little nervous, and then looked at the ring on his thumb.
He also pulled out the sailor knife from his waist.
Looking at the pirate ship that was quickly approaching them.
That ship was obviously smaller than the one he was standing on. It also had two masts, but it was smaller and thinner.
It seemed that the wind was favorable for him at this time, and it looked like he would be rushing over soon.
Then one crossbow cart after another was pushed out from the plywood and lined up on the side of the ship, facing the direction of the enemy ships.
"In the days before gunpowder sails?"
It was then that Alka remembered what he had not noticed, that was that the ship had no cannons or gun decks at all.
Shipborne artillery can be said to be the most effective attack between ships in the sailing age.
It is also the most iconic weapon.
If there were no artillery, the two sides might only be able to fight by ramming and boarding.
While Alka was thinking this, Captain Hols raised the long knife at his waist and shouted, "Where's my baby? Pull it up for me!"
After he finished speaking, several sailors worked together to push a heavy object from the cabin to the deck.
artillery?
This thing is almost the same as the artillery that Alka had seen in some materials.
The only difference is that the appearance has changed from pure black to dark gray, but it can be seen that it is still made of metal.
But it looks more sophisticated than artillery.
The barrel is a cylindrical tube about three meters long. There is a bracket under the barrel that can rotate left and right, float up and down slightly, and is equipped with four wheels.
It can be seen from the bracket that the gun barrel is not as heavy as one might imagine.
Or the technology may be more advanced.
But it should be a cannon anyway.
Sigurd obviously recognized it and couldn't help but cheer.
"Uncle Halls, you are really willing to do it. When will we have a fight?"
Halls looked a little smug, as if showing off his treasure, and said, "It's been a long time, but I rarely have time to use it, so you don't know it."
Then he turned around and said to a skinny man, "Tassi, this thing is for you to use. Hit it well and hit it accurately."
Tashi rubbed his hands together and made a gesture to show that everything was fine.
"Leave it to me, Captain. I will definitely give these pirates a beating, hehe!"
Then he took a palm-sized cylinder from the leader's hand. It was inlaid with gold edges and looked very valuable.
With the joint efforts of several people, the cannon was pushed to the side of the ship.
A sailor holding a wooden barrel placed the object in his arms heavily next to the cannon.
Tassi commanded the sailors to stuff fist-sized objects into the barrel one by one, which seemed to be ammunition.
Didn't add anything in there, just stuffed the ammunition in there.
And the ammunition stuffed in there are all smaller, fist-sized, so many, are they shotgun shells?
Sigurd moved Alcala aside, about four or five meters away from the cannon.
"It's going to be a good show. It doesn't look like it will be too dangerous this time."
"What is that?"
"The rock-shaking cannon, a very expensive weapon with great power."
"Do you know what it's made of?"
"I don't know, and not many people know."
It seems that Sigurd doesn't know much either.
“Get ready!”
Tassi said something, and the four sailors on both sides of the stone-shaking cannon held the cannon in place.
Alka looked into the distance and saw that the enemy pirate ship was about 600 meters away from them.
Can you shoot accurately from such a distance?
"fire!"
With a roar, Tassi slammed the pillar handed to him by the captain hard on a palm-sized platform behind the cannon.
As the knocks came, Alka clearly felt the ship vibrate slightly.
However, there was no loud noise like firing a cannon.
It's a very dull sound.
I watched as several fist-sized objects cut through the air, making sharp sounds.
They hit the enemy ships hard, and some of them even hit the deck directly.
Accurate hit!
"Hit it, hurry up, keep pretending."
It takes about 30 seconds to fire.
Every time it was a precise hit.
Alka discovered that it was not because of Tassi's good skills, but that the hit rate of this artillery was extremely high, and the distance of about 500 meters was almost a straight line.
The effective range will only be longer.
This is obviously not an ordinary artillery.
As the ship approached, the crossbow carts also fired crossbow arrows.
However, after launching it once, I never considered continuing the installation.
After the cannon fired four or five rounds, the enemy ship, although a little damaged, still sailed to their side.
But it was not intended to sink enemy ships.
The use of this kind of shotgun should be to better kill the pirates above.
"The enemy is about to board our ship. Take out your weapons and teach these gutter rats a lesson!"
Tofu roared, then drew the sailor knife from his waist.
One after another, ropes with grappling hooks flew over and either caught on the side of the boat or got entangled in the cables.
Sigurd just stood beside Alka.
Many sailors were already using their long knives to chop the flying grappling hooks.
At this time, several arrows flew up and hit the two sailors accurately.
As the battle progresses.
Many pirates came aboard.
There were many more people than they thought.
The two pirates saw Alka and his companion and rushed over, waving their sailors' swords.
Sigurd immediately rushed forward and kicked one of the pirates to the ground, and used his sailor knife to block the attack of the pirate next to him.
The short knife swung with force, pushing away the enemy's blade and cutting the enemy's shoulder.
He used his right foot to trip the enemy and chopped the enemy's neck with the knife in his hand.
Blood spurted violently.
Sigurd was experienced and his head turned slightly.
The blood did not blur his vision, but simply sprayed on his neck and cheeks.
He rolled backwards and avoided the attack from the pirate who had been kicked down by him and then stood up again.
Watching the blood splatter and the sword fight, Alka's heart beat faster and faster, and his breathing became heavier.
All I could hear were screams and angry roars.
A cold touch was transmitted to his brain, reminding him that he needed to stay calm.
He suddenly saw something and shouted, "Be careful!"
My body couldn't help but move.
