As members of the assault force, taking the enemy's attacks was practically inevitable. They had long since prepared themselves mentally and physically to withstand them!
Moreover, according to their experience, ordinary crossbow bolts and arrows were hardly capable of breaking through their double-layered defenses and threatening their lives.
Yet the attack from the other side came even more fiercely than they had expected.
In the face of the enemy's attack, the iron-plated tower shields were as fragile as cardboard, pierced through in an instant! Their safety suddenly lost every shred of protection!
Faced with such a situation, even some seasoned veterans could not stop fear from welling up in their hearts. A few recruits were so terrified that they lost their nerve on the spot!
After the first strike succeeded, the screams coming from the small boats in the distance gave the Great Zhou soldiers, who had launched the attack, a tremendous boost in spirit—especially compared with the enemy's panic.
On this battlefield, the enemy's panic was their rising morale!
"Second squad, advance! Keep concentrating fire!"
The rocking deck meant they could not smoothly execute highly efficient alternating volleys as they could on land. Still, once the soldiers steadied themselves, the results of their usual training finally began to show.
Squad after squad, the musketeers on the deck adopted an alternating-fire strategy, making up for their lack of accuracy with concentrated attacks.
After merely two rounds of concentrated fire, the enemy assault ship charging at the very front lost its balance while moving because of the casualties aboard and soon fell completely out of control.
The soldiers still alive aboard the ship, gripped by panic, directly chose to abandon ship, plunging headfirst into the seawater.
Seeing this, the Great Zhou officers had no intention of fixating on that assault ship,