Only one day away from the European continent, when it was dark, Hong Xuguan was awakened, and someone knocked on his cabin door and shouted: "Sir, sir! ”

"What's the matter!" Hong Xuguan got up and asked as he got dressed.

"We found six boats following us!" The man shouted.

"Oh!" Hong Xuguan answered, put on his clothes, and quickly went out.

He went up to the stern on the open deck, and the navigator Kong Chengcheng handed him the binoculars, Kong Chengdu was on the early morning shift, and his eyes were a little blood-red.

Officer Hong opened the binoculars and looked behind the ship.

Six boats!

Three sloops, three brigs, all red-haired plywood, followed them with an ominous aura.

The distance was still far away, and the quality of the telescope at that time was not good, and it was impossible to see the personnel and hull of the other party.

The Chinese formation sailed some distance again, and the other party still followed, and the situation was obvious, they were pirates.

The officers all went up to the deck, and the deputy navigator Shi Lang was active, and he said eagerly: "Hit them!" ”

Deputy Captain Chen Qiu didn't say a word, and immediately called two marines to come forward to listen to the order, and then said to Shi Lang: "You beat them!" ”

Shi Lang immediately wilted, and Hong Xuguan said, "Keep going!" ”

The long chase began, and it was the donkey or the horse, pulled out and kicked.

The officers and men of the southeast ship skillfully manipulated the sails and rushed forward in the wind, and sometimes the wind blew the boat, and the waves supported the bottom of the ship, and there was a feeling of jumping.

In the past, if there was no training, I wouldn't have been able to run at such a high speed.

Of the six boats on the other side, four of them have gradually narrowed the needs of the formation, showing that the control skills of the red-haired fan are not bad, Hong Xuguan thought.

They are the ancestors of playing plywood boats, and the Southeast Army also plays plywood boats, in addition to the intelligence of the Chinese, there is also diligence, and they seem to play well, but if they really want to meet experts, it is still a bit self-defeating.

If you rely on the wind to eat, there will be strong winds, light winds, as well as downwinds and headwinds, and sometimes there is no wind at all.

As the distance was narrowed, Hong Xuguan looked at the incoming ship in the telescope, and smiled dumbly, he understood the clue.

The other party's three dloops, similar to the sixth-class cruisers of the Southeast Province, have a streamlined hull, remove the bow tower, no tall stern, and the height of the ship is a little shorter, which should be one floor less.

The top of the sixth-level cruiser is the open-air deck, the first layer below the deck is the gun deck, which is mainly used to install cannons for fighting, and it is also the living place of the crew, and the next layer is the warehouse deck, that is, the cargo hold, which is relatively low, and people have to bow their heads when they go in, mainly to store materials, and the bottom layer is the bilge, where heavy things are placed, such as ballast sand, water tanks, wine tanks, projectiles, etc., and the gunpowder tank generally cannot be placed in the bilge, where it is the most humid and easy to let the gunpowder get wet.

If there is no cargo compartment isolation, the things placed in the bottom compartment are easy to get damp and the food cannot be used, but putting food on the gun deck will affect the battle.

And the cruiser pays attention to self-sustaining power, and must have material support, so the cargo hold is very necessary.

And the other side's dhow is obviously not so particular, after missing a layer of cargo hold, the height is shortened, and it is enough to row with a large oar, which has a gain, no wonder it can catch up!

When there is no wind, everyone stops, and they can still row with their oars, so they naturally close the distance.

However, there is also a single brig that can be chased without rowing with large oars, which shows the captain's command level!

The brig is also streamlined, at that time in the ship type conversion period, many of the ocean running on the big butt (stern) Galen ship, streamlined ship is the navy of the red-haired countries used more, the people use it, there is a suspicion of bad intentions.

Looking at the menacing four boats, Hong Xuguan narrowed his eyes and ordered: "Keep running!" ”

It was not a good time for combat, because there were two brigs behind the four ships, which were not completely distanced.

Then run, the other party is working very hard to sail, getting closer and closer to the three ships in the southeast, you can see that there are many red hairs on the ship, and there are also a small number of brown and black people!

By the beginning of the afternoon, everyone was close enough to see clearly, and the wild laughter of each other came!

The two brigs that had fallen behind in the distance had become small dots, and they couldn't catch up even when it was dark!

"Wait!" Hong Xuguan looked at the wind direction.

Now they are downwind, and the ship runs happily, but for the southeast ship that advocates fighting, they don't like the tailwind, because when they turn around and go back to battle, it becomes a headwind, and the muzzle of the cannon has been raised, so they have to destroy the enemy's mast and sail with chain bullets, and they can't enjoy the enjoyment of hitting the enemy's gunwalwales with their fists.

Although there were more enemies than ours, the trained Chinese officers and soldiers were not afraid.

They are bandits, we are soldiers, how can the army be afraid of pirates!

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Of the four pirate ships that were chased, three of the three-masted ships flew the Shark Flag, the Bull Head Flag, and the Sea Eagle Flag, while the brigs were skull flags.

They rode the wind and waves in a line, with the brigs slightly behind.

On the open deck of the shark-flagged dhow stood a stout, fierce red-haired man, none other than Captain Dick, an Englishman who specialized in robbing Spanish treasure ships and cargo ships returning from South America. The pirate next to him was a one-eyed dragon, bigger than Dick, like a Tarzan giant, a Norseman, but he was called Hercules (Hercules in Greek mythology), he held a large axe, which looked a little heavy, but he slapped his thick palm with the axe with a weight, and his face was impatient.

This time, the visiting fleet of the Southeast Province arrived in Europe, and soon there was a rumor that the Chinese were very rich in the illegal industry in Europe, which immediately attracted the serious attention of the pirates!

They even dared to rob the treasure ships of the Kingdom of Spain, and what reason did they dare not attack the yellow fleet.

Since the Chinese officers and soldiers did not deliberately keep it a secret, the various pirate groups knew that they were going to travel around the world, but it was not known where they crossed the Atlantic, and it was clear that Dick had won the jackpot.

Of course, whether you can bite or not is another matter.

Dick observed the situation on both sides with his binoculars, and suddenly he shouted, "Bow cannon, fire!" ”

"Boom! Rumble! "After two cannon shots, two shells hit the Yaksha 12 ship in the middle of the Chinese formation.

One of them turned into a near-miss, hit the side of the port side of the Yaksha 12, and shot a thick column of water, exploding a large cloud of water, drenching the nearby Chinese.

Another cannonball flew over the heads of the Chinese officers and soldiers in the stern, and the wind was as strong as a knife, so that everyone lowered their heads in unison to see that the shell had punched a hole in a canvas.

Hao Sizhong's pupils contracted: "18-pounder cannon!" ”

The battle has finally broken out!

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