The two southeastern ships stopped firing their guns, and used shotguns and bombs to clean the open deck of the pirate ship, so that no one on it was facing upright.

Chen Qiu, deputy captain of the Kaohsiung No. 72 ship, asked excitedly, "Have you boarded the ship?" ”

"No, don't go up there, sink it!" Officer Hong has no interest in capturing the pirate ship at all, and now human life is important, in case the other party blows himself up!

It takes a lot of time to sink a sailboat with solid shells, and it doesn't always work to run out of shells, it depends on luck.

Arson attacks are a good solution to it, so the oil jar smashes over, and the flames rise on the pirate ship with the sound of the pottery shattering.

Now the pirates are in a hurry, and they have stood up from everywhere to put out the fire, when the Chinese shotguns and muskets are vegetarian?

As soon as he showed up, he was beaten, and the pirates who were fighting the fire fell one after another.

In the screams, the fire grew bigger and bigger, and they could neither escape nor fight, and the pirates could only watch their ship catch fire, the flames grew bigger and bigger, and black smoke rose into the sky!

The wind fuels the fire, and the fire borrows the power of the wind, and it is out of control.

The Southeastern Army did not have time to celebrate the victory and immediately counted the losses.

The battle just now was quite fierce, the losses of the two cruisers were still acceptable, and half of the supply ships were killed!

The pirates' artillery is so fierce that even the best armor is in vain.

So with the addition of the men and men who were taken away by Costet and the officers and men killed in the cruiser, the remaining people were just enough to make up the two cruisers.

The Yaksha XII was in a state of disarray, its mast was broken, its limbs were broken everywhere, it was as tattered as a hundred clothes called Hanako, the bow was crooked, the stern was crumbled, and especially the officer's cabin in the stern was as miserable as a typhoon.

The two cruisers did not suffer much damage, only scratched their skins, and the soldiers were busy repairing them like worker bees.

The three chiefs, Hong Xuguan, Yan Zhang, and Hao Sizhong, discussed together, and Yan Zhang said: "We are not far from the mainland, and it is still okay to go back to the mainland for maintenance!" ”

Hao Sizhong glanced at him and said, "And then he was robbed by the pirates again?" ”

"I should be afraid of them this time......" Yan Zhang thought.

Hao Sizhong shook his head and said, "There should be a lot of things, what if six pirate ships, or even more pirate ships, come to attack us?" ”

"This time it's lucky, the other party doesn't know what we are capable of, they come less, and their strategy is wrong, just want to rob me and don't want to fight with the cruiser, and the pirates who fight with the cruiser are not happy, and we have a chance to win after escaping. Are there fewer pirates in the red-haired fan? It's not a lot at all, and it's not a thing at all to concentrate on one vote at sea! ”

He was reasonable, everyone nodded, the order of the Hongmao Fan countries was chaotic, and the conversion of merchant ships into military ships and pirate ships was just a matter of concern.

"It's just that the words of two boats ......"

Hong Xuguan thought nervously, and said categorically: "Abandon the ship, don't go back to the mainland, and immediately go to the new continent!" ”

"What do you think?" He asked.

"Agreed!" Hao Sizhong raised his hand.

"I agree!" Yan Zhang said.

I asked a few more senior officers, and they were all the same.

It was too risky to return to the European continent for overhaul, so could it be necessary to ask the Spanish fleet to escort them?

Without returning to the European continent, it is almost impossible for the rest of the pirates to rob again.

So all the personnel urgently mobilized and transported the wounded, valuables and necessary supplies on the supply ship to the cruiser, and then held a sea burial for the officers and men who died in battle.

In the mournful sound of the trumpet, a wrapped corpse fell into the sea.

Everyone had solemn faces and expressed their condolences to the comrades-in-arms who died in battle.

Their military horns and personal belongings are kept, and when they return to China in the future, they will be sent to the martyrs' shrine for worship, and their personal belongings will be returned to their families.

Not long before the ceremony took place, the badly wounded supply ship also caught fire, and the pirate ship went the same way!

Again added some oil to the two boats to make them burn a little more vigorously,

It's really burn-resistant, and when the southeast ship leaves, they are not yet sinking.

When the two brigs arrived in the back, they saw two large torches on the sea, as well as the pirate chief Dick, who had escaped by chance!

The southeastern army did not get on the ship to clear the fire, set fire to it and left, and as soon as they left, the remaining pirates saw that they could not save the fire, so they jumped into the sea and jumped to their lives.

As there was some time in the fighting, enough brigs arrived.

Dick soaked in the water, rescued by his accomplices, and still palpitated when he talked about their tragedy: "Their firepower is very strong, they must fight two to one, otherwise it will be difficult to win." ”

Now the brig is not interested, before the four to three, the pirates were all beaten away by them three ships, sunk one, and the other party only lost one ship, and two were warships, catching up, their own confidence is not big.

Moreover, against the army, it is still a high-quality army that dares to fight, and even if the other party has a lot of wealth, it must have a life to enjoy.

If there are more ships, it's better to say, two to two, forget it!

So they waited in vain for the Chinese ship to turn back, and wanted to concentrate their men again, and dared to fight if there were many ships, but unfortunately the Chinese ship was nowhere to be found.

……

Across the Atlantic!

The formation invited three Hongmao pilots, and the reward for them was ten catties of gold per person, which had been given before sailing, and they would be given another ten catties of gold when they returned to the East!

Human life is important, tasks are important, what is money!

The Chinese have also set up embassies in various countries, and they are not afraid of what the three red hairs will do.

So the navigators did their best to guide the way, first along the upper part of the west coast of Africa (Morocco), diagonally downward, and then made the final supplies in the Cape Verde Islands, and then embarked on the voyage across the Atlantic!

The navigator Joseph was a young man of nearly forty years old, and his income was five catties more gold, because he had completed the round-the-world voyage and had run the Atlantic Ocean more than a dozen times. ”

Diagonally down from the Cape Verde Islands to Natal, Recife, Marseillo and other places in Cape de la Cape in eastern Brazil, it is the nearest route, and if you have a tailwind, you can reach it in 10 days!

Hong Xuguan nodded in agreement, for a sea voyage, ten days is really not a thing!

The waves of the Atlantic Ocean are blowing in their faces, and the Chinese are happy to accept it.

The officers kept a logbook, noting down the bits and pieces of the voyage, but all naval logbooks were much the same, the language of the logbook was half literary, half official, dull and boring.

Hong Xuguan left a lot of handwriting, which provided good material for later historians to study.

"On July 3, the wind direction was south-southeast, changeable, sailing against the wind, walking in a zigzag, the wind was moderate from 10 a.m., cloudy, put away the mainmast and sail, the weather was the same in the afternoon, artillery exercises, and the officers and men were busy with work."

"On Friday, July 4th, the south wind and the east wind were rising, the weather was clear, the artillery exercises, and the afternoon was busy oiling the thick cables. In the morning, the wind is moderate and cloudy, and the left wing auxiliary sail is retracted, and in the afternoon the wind is strong, and the square sail is rolled up from 4 o'clock and tied to the truss, and the wind weakens at 8 o'clock, and the square sail is raised. ”

"On July 5, it suddenly rained during the artillery exercise, and the exercise was stopped, because it was not transported in time, resulting in a barrel of gunpowder being drenched, and Senior Private Chen Yawang was responsible, deducting the bonus and detaining the small black house for one day."

"July 6,...... Convene all the personnel to read the "Navy Reward and Punishment Regulations" in groups and worship Mazu Niangniang. ”

……

"On July 15th, with the blessing of Mazu Niangniang, there were no waves on the way, and the navigator said that this was a rare good weather, and we had no loss, and we crossed the Atlantic Ocean smoothly and saw the coastline of the mainland!"

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