Just when Xiao Lotian was completely enlightened, smashed all the shackles in his heart, and was ready to fly freely, he never thought that those closed disciples who were far away in the Atlantic Ocean would soon cause him a big trouble.

Of course, Xiao Letian knew what these daring children were doing, on the surface, the Zhiyuan had become a ghost lone wolf in the Atlantic, but in fact, the Prussian intelligence agencies could still receive messages from the Zhiyuan on a regular basis.

There were also many Prussian merchant ships in the Atlantic, and almost all of them had intelligence officers boarding during this time, and Xiang Ying would exchange the latest information every time he met with these merchant ships, and then the Prussian intelligence officers would report to Berlin and the Ryukyus in duplicate.

Although Xiao Letian doesn't know the specific location of the Zhiyuan now, he knows very well what Xiang Ying is doing in the Azores, and Xiao Letian still admires these bold young people from the bottom of his heart.

Isn't it just a few European merchant ships, which are sunk when they are sunk, and it is the work of smart people to train the enemy and even feed the enemy.

It's a pity that there is no 100% telegraph between Europe and Asia so far, and the information cannot be reached instantaneously, so Xiao Letian can't give a direct order to the Zhiyuan, which also laid the groundwork for the Sino-French and West African naval battles that shocked the world later.

Xiao Lotian never expected Xiang Ying to be so bold. Heading south from the Azores, the Zhiyuan was not as he imagined, but just cleaned a few European merchant ships on the way home, and Xiang Ying and the others actually took the initiative to look for prey on the golden route.

If the route of the Zhiyuan is marked on the chart, we can clearly see that the Zhiyuan took an irregular polygonal line, rather than going all the way south.

Soldiers are addicted to victory, when one after another British and French merchant ships sink to the bottom of the sea, when boxes of precious gold and jewelry become trophies on the Zhiyuan, these young people who do not know how to advance and retreat have become gamblers completely.

There used to be a Kevin who could spur them on the side, but when Kevin was also convinced, Prussia and the Chinese were completely united, and Kevin was even more belligerent than these Chinese.

There is also a resentment in the hearts of the Prussians that has been suppressed for a long time, they are all noble nations inherited from Europe for thousands of years, and they are all separated from the Middle Ages.

Germany suffered the most in the Thirty Years' War, Napoleon's hegemony in Europe also beat Germany to the death, the Russians in the north have been eyeing the tiger, and the British on the sea are even more smiling tigers.

This is really a perfect match, the elites of two repressive nations are in the same boat, and there is a steel battleship that is 20 years ahead of this era, this almost dreamlike configuration makes the ambition in their hearts grow wildly, impulse replaces reason, and blood fanaticism replaces calm and steady.

The sea west of Cape Verde has been completely transformed into a haunt during this time, and in just 12 days, five merchant ships have mysteriously disappeared, and the legend of the ghost ship has spread among the fishermen of Praia, and countless fishermen have sworn to God that they really saw the huge ghost ship like a mountain, and the huge cannon that only ghosts and gods can operate.

The Cape Verde Islands are extremely important as they are one of the most golden shipping lanes in Central and South America, passing through the shipping lanes between Northwest Africa and Brazil in South America. Since ancient times, the area frequented by pirates has naturally been a place where various ghost legends are concentrated, and the ghost ship is one of them.

For a while, everyone was in danger, and many merchant ships had no plans to anchor in the Cape Verde Islands, and at this moment they had to rest temporarily, not to replenish food and fresh water, but to set off in groups.

A small fleet of two ships did not dare to go to sea at all, and no one dared to leave the port without gathering more than ten ships. At this time, the Cape Verde Islands were not colonies, but official Portuguese territory, equivalent to an overseas province or enclave.

The Portuguese, of course, could not ignore the impact on trade, and several dilapidated sail warships began to escort the caravanserais, limited to a small area, of course.

Fortunately, the Portuguese had self-knowledge and did not arrogantly want to strangle the ghost ship, otherwise the Sino-French and Western African naval battle would probably be renamed the Sino-French-Portuguese naval battle, and the backward Portuguese navy at that time really had no sense of existence to be honest.

The Zhiyuan didn't want to clash with the Portuguese, and had been relying on its own high speed to evade it in the past few days, so it didn't show any traces, but Xiang Ying didn't expect that a cunning fox had already rushed over from the North Atlantic, and now it had arrived in the waters north of Cape Verde.

On the deck of the Glory, the topless soldiers were pulling a rope net hard, and there were four or five divers on the sea who were stepping on the water and looking up, "Higher, higher, good......"

The rope net was hoisted to the deck with seawater, and a cylindrical piece of tattered wood inside aroused Molière's interest.

"Oh God, this is a mainmast, and the new stubble on it shows that it was broken by the blast wave...... The most valuable thing is that there is a brand new shrapnel embedded in it!"

Molière raised his hand to get a pair of pliers from the adjutant and began to pull the piece of copper off with great difficulty, and when it was laid out on the deck, Rear Admiral Bruce exclaimed, "......My God! What caliber of the gun is this?"

Molière was also moved: "This should be the most advanced fixed-mount shell, with the propellant wrapped in a copper pillar and the projectile embedded in the front end...... Not afraid of bumps, not to mention the worry of moisture, and the charge is standard, so the commander can clearly calculate the range and angle of each shell, and the accuracy is greatly improved......"

"Oh my God, these shells cost three times as much as ordinary dispensing ammunition...... When did Prussia become so rich? I see, this is money given by the Chinese, and only Xiao Letian, a madman, would be willing to invest so much in armaments!"

"Adjutant, send a telegram to the country immediately...... We can't let those politicians slow down the upgrading of our French army's weapons and equipment, and tell our Emperor that if we are reluctant to spend money on the most advanced weapons and equipment now, then we will lose the next war!"

"Adjust the direction and target the west of Cape Verde...... Look at the direction of the currents and the direction of the wind, these wrecks are drifting from the southwest!"

"The battleships were separated by five nautical miles, lined up to search for traces of enemy ships...... Signal in the direction of Qatar and tell them we're coming!"

In the vast Atlantic Ocean, the French warships dressed in metallic luster began to change formations, and there were always scattered wreckage floating up and down in the waves.