Chapter 260: The Yellow Sparrow is Behind (Part I)

"General Barr, based on our current pace, we need about 17 hours to enter the Strait of Malacca." At this moment, the French fleet, completely unaware that it was about to enter the ghost gate, was gradually approaching the encirclement of the British.

"Well, order the fleet to be ready for reconnaissance, and in addition we will not stop in the Strait of Malacca, but directly through the Strait of Malacca, and then stop in our colonial port in India." Barr nodded calmly and spoke.

"It's the general." The deputy immediately turned around and walked outside, unbeknownst to them, a ghost-like unmanned reconnaissance plane hovering over their heads.

"Depending on their speed, it would take about another hour and thirty minutes before they made contact." Liu Zhiwen said quickly.

At this moment, Liu Fei has changed the ship, leaving the main destroyer in the rear, like this kind of war, there is no need for such a destroyer to appear, the cannon of this era, the range is only about 3000, and most of them are smoothbore front-loading guns, the attack speed of this kind of artillery is slow, and the accuracy is low to death.

Although Liu Fei's ship has been camouflaged, the guns on the ship are all modern 125 mm modern guns, with a range of more than 50 kilometers, this is not a level of battle at all, to put it bluntly, Liu Fei can fly a kite and kill them, not to mention, Liu Fei uses a kite there, just at a range of several thousand meters, Liu Fei stands and lets them fight, it is estimated that they may not be able to hit half an hour.

But what about Liu Fei's side, the modern optical sighting system and the computer as an aid, even the test firing is not popular at all, coupled with the powerful power of modern artillery, those wooden sailboats can withstand the shooting of modern artillery? Don't be funny, don't be a 125-mm modern howitzer, even an ordinary 60-caliber mortar is estimated to be many times more powerful than the artillery on the opposite side.

The gap between this is simply too big, and there is no comparison at all, so Liu Fei is not afraid at all. "Well, keep up, is the flag ready?"

"Ready." Liu Zhiwen nodded and said.

"Alright, let's put it on." Liu Fei waved his hand lightly.

Liu Zhiwen immediately commanded a t800 to replace the pirate flag, looking at the skulls fluttering on it plus a big fork, Liu Fei felt strange in his heart, Nima, is it not destined to do good things when Lao Tzu comes to this world? This first became a god stick, and then even a pirate, and none of the things Liu Fei wanted to do next seemed to be a good thing.

When Liu Fei's side was slowly approaching, the British fleet and the French fleet were about to meet, and the observation distance on the sea surface was far greater than the distance involved in the current naval artillery, but fortunately, the current optical telescope was not very thoroughly studied, so it was already great to be able to find the enemy at a distance of about 10 kilometers.

Now the encirclement of the British fleet has almost encircled the French fleet, and the distance between the two sides has immediately entered the range of 10 kilometers, while Liu Fei is about 30 kilometers outside the British fleet, and there are two drones on their heads to record the whole process.

"Report! General Barr, several ships were spotted ahead! Barr was sitting in his captain's cabin drinking coffee when his lieutenant burst in from outside.

"Ships? Can you determine what kind of ship it is? Barr's expression immediately became solemn, although it was not very strange to meet ships on the sea, especially when they were still on the route, but the goods transported this time were not simple, a full 100 tons of gold, and 600 tons of silver, all of which were gold mines and silver mines mined by France in Thailand and Vietnam in recent years, as well as the income from opium trafficking in China.

This gold and silver did not allow any mistakes, if it were not for the fact that the main fleet of the French Empire in the Asia-Pacific region was not enough, and they did not dare to send a large-scale fleet to escort them, it would not have been possible to have only three capital ships to accompany these three cargo ships. Barr knew very well that at sea they were the most threatened by the British.

If the British knew about this shipment, the British would never let the more than 100 tons of gold and more than 600 tons of silver be transported back to France, and above the sea, anything could happen, if the main fleet of the British knew about it and caught them, then at that time, even if the British robbed them of their gold and silver, they would not be able to transmit the news back to France.

So along the way, although they were still on the course, they had actually deviated from the course for a distance of about 40 nautical miles, and they followed the course above this distance.

"The distance of the other party is very far, and it is impossible to determine for the time being, but it should be a merchant ship, and other ships should not appear here." The adjutant spoke immediately.

"Merchant ships, how many can you confirm so far?" Barr immediately asked.

"There are only two." The adjutant nodded.

"Very well, catch up, if it's a merchant ship, and confirm that there are only two, take them out." Barr pondered for a moment, then spoke viciously.

"But." The adjutant asked, somewhat surprised.

"It's nothing, we can't afford any mistakes in our escort mission this time, so whether it's a merchant ship or not, we'll kill them all." Barr spoke immediately.

"Including the merchant ships of the British?" The adjutant immediately asked.

"Including the merchant ships of the British, but on this channel, there should be no merchant ships of the British, if there is, it must be ulterior motives, most of them should be Chinese merchant ships, those Chinese monkeys, dead and dead, no need to sympathize." Barr waved his hand.

Liu Fei looked at the picture on the screen coldly, although he saw the other party's expression, but these guys who claim to be civilized people in the West are just a group of jackals, a raccoon dog. The British are no better to go, and the French are no better to go, but from the words of these people, Liu Fei immediately knew that these three ships were indeed loaded with good things.

"General, we have found a few more ships, and they are surrounding us." Ten minutes later, the adjutant yelled in horror.

"Damn it! Pass the order, everyone get ready for battle! Barr immediately cursed, then spoke loudly.

"It's the general." This adjutant immediately passed the order, and at this moment the British fleet on the sea level obviously increased its speed, and it could be seen that the six British capital battleships were directly surrounded from three directions, and the naval battle tactics at this time were simply impossible to pull the distance so far, so what T-line did not make any sense at all.

"It's a big ship! It's a battleship! They fly pirate flags. Soon the adjutant rushed back directly, at this moment Barr had already seen the shape of the ships in the distance from the telescope, Barr's face could drip water gloomily, "Let everyone be ready for battle, it's the fleet of the British." ”

"The fleet of the British?!" The adjutant's face turned green, if it was really the British fleet, then it meant that these British were absolutely ready, and ninety percent of them would not return home alive.

"It's the fleet of the British, pass on the news, and tell our boys that if the British came for our gold and silver, they wouldn't be able to let us go, but we also can't let them take our gold like that, and let the damned British, see our French boys, and tell the British, who is the overlord of the ocean." Barr spoke loudly.

"It's the general!" The adjutant gave a military salute directly, and then turned around and ran out.

At this moment, the three French cargo ships carrying gold began to slow down, while the three French battleships began to accelerate and formed a battle formation.

"Sir, the French are ready for battle, they are starting to accelerate." At this moment, on the flagship of the British, Edward's adjutant quickly put down the telescope in his hand and spoke.

"Pass the order down, battle formation, since they want to die themselves, then fulfill them, let the French see, our British boys are powerful, the royal fleet of the Sun Never Sets Empire is not something they can defeat, tell them, and tell them that we only need the three cargo ships behind them, if we hand over those three cargo ships, we can let them go." Sir Edward, waving his cane, shook the wine glass in his left hand and spoke.

"Yes!"

"General, the British have come over with a banner, and if we give them the three cargo ships behind us, they will let us go."

"Tell them, fuck off." Barr roared directly.

Liu Fei is sitting on a chair at the moment, with his two feet on the command platform, looking at the big screen next to him, Liu Fei has a little pain, the naval battle in this era is really hard, and it takes half of the flag alone. Finally, after the fire was fired, Liu Fei was even more painful, because a cannon was blasted out, looking at the water column that came out, Liu Fei felt that it was not as big as the movement of the modern fireworks that were more powerful than the explosion.

However, the two sides finally began to exchange fire, although the British brought the pirate flag, but in fact, from the beginning, the French obviously knew who the opponent on the opposite side was, and the British also knew who the opponent on the opposite side was, and the warships of the two sides quickly began to exchange fire, and Liu Fei, a person from another time and space, was regarded as a spectator of this naval battle that was not estimated in history.

There is still a big difference between the current naval battles and the naval battles of the giant ships and cannons of the First World War, and the distance between the two sides is about one or two kilometers before they begin to bombard each other, and each of these warships is equipped with at least 80 guns, and each side of the guns is more than 40 guns.

However, the power of these cannons is not great, so even if they bombard a wooden battleship, the injuries that can be caused are extremely limited, but even so, with the sound of cannons, the smoke of gunpowder filled the entire sea area, and Liu Fei was still very excited to watch.

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Today, only the guarantee has been updated, and I haven't been home yet, and I wrote it in my brother's notebook. Not at all easy. Ask for a monthly pass!!

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