Chapter 223 Naval Gun Fireworks at Night

The pirates' celebrating voices drowned out the soldiers' responding voices, and all the pirates were still immersed in the joy of celebration. new˙ɔoɯ

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A sudden gunshot caused all the natives to stop immediately, and time seemed to stop for a few seconds.

boom! boom! boom!

The soldiers of the Guards would not give the pirates time to react. They looked at the pirates in surprise and immediately opened fire.

Fortunately, the soldiers' usual training was very effective. In addition, because of the sudden incident, these pirates were unable to react for a while, and instead became a real fixed target.

"Protect all citizens!" the platoon leader ordered, leading all the soldiers to gradually approach the Australasian citizens who were tied together.

"It's our army? Thank God, thank Your Majesty!" Hearing the familiar voice and seeing the familiar army, the captured Australasians were ecstatic and began to thank God and Arthur crazily.

On the other side, the situation of the pirates was not so good.

The training of the Guards soldiers is not in vain. Everyone has to invest dozens of rounds of bullets every day.

Although there is no guarantee that all of them are sharpshooters, at least they can basically hit the target.

Although there may be deviations, firearms in reality are no joke. As long as they hit, they will be seriously injured. Not to mention losing the ability to fight, life safety may not be guaranteed. new˙ɔoɯ

"We are soldiers of the 1st Infantry Regiment of the Guards Division. We are here to rescue you on His Majesty's orders. You are safe!" the platoon leader smiled at these people while ordering the soldiers to untie them. said.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, long live Your Majesty!"

Every rescued Australasian said with joy.

"Are all of you here? Is there anyone who is not here?" the platoon leader asked.

"We're all here, Mr. Officer. These damn natives plan to execute us after celebrating today. You guys arrived just in time. If it's a little later, we will go to see God." The leader of the hostages said.

"Don't worry, you are safe now. There are still our fleet and more troops outside the island. The government and His Majesty are also very concerned about this matter and ordered the dispatch of troops to deal with all pirates." The platoon leader comforted.

For these people who are truly facing life and death, what needs to be done now is to comfort them as much as possible and let them get out of the shadows as soon as possible.

Now that all the captured hostages are here, the platoon leader is relieved and orders all the soldiers: "Everyone listen to the order and take everyone to the coast. Let people get on the warship first."

These pirates cannot escape if they stay on the island. The most important task at present is to protect the lives of these people.

The warship is naturally the safest. There is a fleet and many troops there for protection, and pirates are unlikely to pose any threat to the fleet.

Outside the island, after Minister Kent heard the gunshots on the island, he immediately ordered all the soldiers to take action. new˙ɔoɯ

Although the pirates on the small islands have not attacked Australasia, how can we ensure that they do not pose any threat?

The best way to protect citizens is to deal with all people or forces that may pose a threat to citizens, and these pirates are naturally one of the targets.

Of course, Minister Kent will not have the luxury of using soldiers to storm these islands. Who can guarantee that all these pirates are just a mob?

Any additional casualties to soldiers were unnecessary in Minister Kent's opinion.

Although the Australasian navy is all small and medium-sized warships, the warships' naval guns have a range of several kilometers, which is enough to carry out bombing around these islands.

Before this operation, Minister Kent asked all warships to carry enough ammunition for the possibility of bombing the islands.

Of course, troops would still have to be sent to land on the largest island. After all, there are not only captured Australasian citizens on the island, but also Guards soldiers who have sneaked into the island.

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Minister Kent's expression was a little solemn, because the gunfire on the island basically stopped after a short while.

This also means that there are two possibilities, either the Guards soldiers have successfully completed their mission, or the Guards soldiers have to stop firing for some reason.

If it is the second situation, then it will be a bit unfriendly to the current Minister Kent.

But Minister Kent is still willing to believe in the ability of the Guards soldiers. After all, they are the absolute elite of the British Empire Army. They have undergone a long period of training since coming to Australasia, and have conducted a lot of comprehensive research with German experts and soldiers. Training and combat capabilities are not inferior to Germany's elite troops.

Minister Kent also disembarked from the ship and followed the soldiers to land on the island.

In more than ten minutes, the soldiers of the Guards met with Minister Kent, and the news they brought made Minister Kent relieved.

Now that all Australasian citizens have been successfully rescued, Minister Kent did not have any worries and directly ordered everyone to board the warship and use the cannons on the warship to bomb all the islands indiscriminately until most of them were consumed. Until the cannonball.

The bombardment lasted for half an hour, and on average each island withstood at least forty shells from the Australasian fleet.

The largest island was even more disastrous and became the focus of the fleet's attention. After withstanding hundreds of naval gun shells, the appearance of the large island was directly changed.

Because it was night, the specific appearance of the island could not be seen clearly. But if it was daytime, Minister Kent could see that the originally lush island had turned into a yellow-black island of ruins, and the smoke that filled the island even gathered into clouds.

Soldiers are ordered to carry at least three hand grenades each. This is a weapon manufactured by the Royal Australasian Ordnance Factory. It is filled with gunpowder, steel balls and crushed iron slag. The explosion range is only 1 to 2 meters. According to the killing range But there are more than ten.

In fact, grenades have been around for hundreds of years, but they have become somewhat useless due to the development of firearms.

As the killing range of firearms becomes farther and farther, coupled with the gradual popularity of machine guns, this kind of weapon that can only be thrown manually is not adopted by armies around the world.

Hand grenades reappeared in the equipment orders of various countries during the two world wars. In order to deal with the enemy's large number of trenches and intensive charges, grenades, weapons of large-scale destruction, have reappeared and have been widely valued by countries around the world.

Naturally, Arthur would not wait until countries around the world paid attention to grenades before he started manufacturing grenades.

At present, hand grenade manufacturing in Australasia has begun to take shape, and the Royal Ordnance Factory also has two types of grenades, one is a wooden handle grenade and the other is an egg grenade.

Because Australasia has a sparse population, every trained soldier is very precious.

The soldiers were not familiar with the island's terrain and environment, which was also likely to lead to ambushes and ambushes by pirates.

In this case, grenades have become a good offensive weapon, which can cause good fire damage to the enemy in areas that large artillery cannot take care of.

Although it may cost more military expenditure, it is better than causing unnecessary casualties.

Under the leadership of Minister Kent, the soldiers re-armed and landed on the island again.

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