Young people just have this kind of sharpness, maybe Xiao Letian had such a calculation in his heart when he first ordered these young people.

Xiang Ying, Lin Zhen, and Jin Sanshun have an average age of twenty-two or three years old, and people in this age group have accumulated a certain amount of knowledge and experience, and it is the stage when they are full of destructive power to the world.

It would be better if there was a group of old people suppressing them in their position, but the ironclad cruiser like the Zhiyuan Ship was a completely new tool of war, even if Xiao Lotian wanted to find them some high-ranking ancestors to suppress, he couldn't find it!

Obviously, this maiden voyage across half the world has already doomed these young people to the position of their ancestors in the era of ironclads, because all the experience is accumulated by them, and even some of their unconscious tactics that just want to relieve hatred will be regarded as classics by others in the future.

Lin Zhen's proposal is exactly what everyone thinks, the rich Atlantic Ocean is full of fat sheep, and the Zhiyuan can become a lone wolf in the deep sea, a ghost in the Atlantic, killing all the way and sharpening the knife in his hand with the blood of the enemy.

Just do it when you think of it, and the buzzing heads of a bunch of people have turned into a delicious cake with the map of the Atlantic Ocean on the table.

"We have five clippers, and we have carried the flags of many countries before, and we can use these clippers as bait to lure pirates in the Atlantic to chase them...... Know that our Zhiyuan will blow them up!"

"No, we can't waste it! We've got to get rid of these bastards before we blow them up, do you know how rich Pirates of the Caribbean are? These grandsons love to save up for gold, and they have a lot of gold!"

"That's right, the clipper can not only be used as a bait for a pirate ship, but also as a reconnaissance ship, the fleet is arranged in a big herringbone shape from north to south, the distance between ships is controlled within five kilometers, and our Zhiyuan is hidden in the center of the two wings of the herringbone......"

"In this way, those enemy merchant ships can only see our clippers first, and then they will find the Zhiyuan...... What's more, all we brought this time was the most expensive anthracite, and it would be difficult for the enemy to detect our ......"

"Yes, yes, yes...... Although it is no longer possible to distinguish the flag for five kilometers, we still have fireworks signals, and we can use fireworks to transmit information......"

A group of warlike young men soon developed a plan for the battle, and a lone wolf ghost of the Atlantic, under the cover of five small sheep, carried out a privateering campaign that shocked the world at the end of the 19th century.

Once the young Chinese officers reached an agreement, the next step was to communicate with the Prussian sailors, although these soldiers were nominally at their disposal, but Xiang Ying and others knew that these Prussians were a group of friendly troops after all, and any plan had to be discussed in advance, which was a basic respect.

When Xiang Ying and the others discussed with the officers such as Steven and Daniel, they didn't expect this group of sailors to be even more fanatical than them.

"The Cape Verde incident is a disgrace to us in the whole of Europe, and there must be a war between Prussia......! Kill these French! Even the British can't let go! Privateer, privateer them!"

The Prussian nation was already warlike, and this time it was their century-old feud France, so they didn't need to mobilize for war at all, and these soldiers were already screaming and starting to prepare for war.

When Kevin came out of his cabin to get something to eat, he was shocked to find that the entire fleet had completed the formation, and under the reflection of the morning sun, the clippers had begun to spread into a herringbone shape, and firmly protected the Zhiyuan with its two wings.

The jackets of the front and rear main guns have been lifted, the six-inch Armstrong breech guns have also begun to rotate and reload ammunition, the soldiers have adjusted the angle of the Hatch Chase rapid-fire gun again and again and applied lubricating oil to the bracket, and the soldiers have trained to load and unload again and again......

Even the Rina torpedo launcher began to prepare for a simulated launch, and the sailors practiced the launch procedure again and again, except for not pressing the switch at the last moment, the whole procedure was completely close to actual combat.

"What's going on? What the hell are you going to do?" Kevin stomped his foot angrily. At this time, Jin Sanshun, the chief of internal affairs, actually held out a black skeleton pirate flag.

"Mr. Kevin...... From today onwards, the Zhiyuan will no longer fly the flag of any country, and at this moment we are a privateer ship in the Atlantic...... In the future, please call me the Drake Knight of the East!"

Kevin went crazy, and the notorious British privateer Drake actually turned into a respectable hero in the mouths of these young people, which made Kevin, who was born in the aristocracy, very sad.

He decided to go to Xiang Ying to protest, but he was dumbfounded by the young man's words: "Mr. Kevin, you are a respectable engineer, and I also know that your ancestors were members of the Teutonic Knights, and the honor of nobility flows in your blood, so I might as well do it!"

"But remember, in a way, this pride is also a shackle to the revival of your Prussian nation...... Learn from the British, when they were competing with Spain, hooligans did everything they could......"

"In order to crack down on Spain's maritime trade, the queen issued numerous privateer warrants, and even specially designed a kind of 'clipper' suitable for privateering, Captain Drake's Avenger was a typical example ......of this design!

"In the Anglo-Spanish naval battle of 1588, do you really think that God is blessing England? Is it the goddess of victory who lifted her pants? Wrong! In fact, before this war, the British privateering tactics had already damaged the vitality of the Spaniards!"

"Dear Mr. Kevin, chivalry deserves respect, but in the final analysis, the confrontation between countries still has to use some hooliganist means, and it is not okay to be too embarrassed!"

Kevin's face was red and white when he was said, and it was impossible for him to directly deny the historical facts that had happened, and the appearance of the privateer fleet was actually a very obvious national strength strangulation war.

Britain sank a Spanish warship, Spain's power will be reduced by one point, and at the same time, Britain's power will be more, don't underestimate the change in the number of one or two warships, if the privateering policy continues for a hundred years, then the final result is a complete reshuffle of the national strength of the two countries.

The same is true of Prussia now, if two French transport ships are destroyed today, France's national strength will be weakened by two points, and the gold and silver transported back from the Americas will not become weapons and ammunition to slaughter Prussians on the battlefield.

Kevin understands all these truths, but he just can't get over his knot, is the glory of the Teutonic Knights going to be extinguished?