Yan Kun left the captain's room, only feeling heavy.

As a soldier, it is his duty to obey orders, and he does not hesitate to go to the soup and fire.

Since he joined the army, he had to be prepared to face danger at all times, but it was strange and uncomfortable for a living person to disappear in front of him and never see him again.

He came to this warship, it was a small space, everyone met in the morning and evening, even if they were not relatives and acquaintances, but they ......

In the evening, he and Jian Wenyue were blowing the wind on the deck, and Jian Wenyue asked, "You didn't eat much tonight?" ”

"No appetite!" Yan Kun said lightly.

"Navy...... Fortunately, I heard from the instructors from the army that they had a meal next to their brothers who died in battle, and they not only had to eat, but also had to be full, otherwise they would not have the strength to fight! Jian Wenyue said.

"Don't worry about me, I'm fine!" Yan Kun said reluctantly.

"That's good!" Jian Wenyue said.

After all, he was young and did not have a deep friendship with the missing people, and after talking with Jian Wenyue, he soon became smiling and laughing.

However, the personnel on the warship behaved as usual, and their work was carried out step by step, and the turmoil of the two people killed on the ship hardly made waves, and it subsided like that.

The battleships 181 had been cruising and they had entered the African coastline, but they avoided entering the Mombasa area on the central coast of Africa, and they did not intend to attack Mombasa without using battleships.

Opinions within the Navy were quite divided, with some believing that the African coast should be attacked all the way to the Cape of Good Hope, while others believed that the current pace was too great and that the vast areas of the Indian Ocean had already been taken should be halted for the time being, so that the supply lines would not be stretched too long.

In the absence of a substantive decision, the Navy sent a patrol ship to attack the African Red Hairy Boat, and launched a fierce chase with them.

After thirty-seven days of absence, the battleship No. 181 was finally discovered.

At about four o'clock in the afternoon, Yan Kun was on duty on the warship, and he was the captain on duty, and he was responsible for directing the course, when the chief of the lookout reported: "Sir, I found the midmast sail of a ship in the direction of the three longitude points on the starboard bow!" ”

The 181 had not been lucky for this sortie, they had not seen a single ship in the open sea, so when they finally saw a suspicious ship close enough to see the sail in it and the corner of its sail from the deck, the crew's attention to it was extraordinary, and a dozen telescopes were pointed in that direction like long guns and short guns.

Looking at the coming momentum of the other side, both ships are going in the current course and will definitely cross over, but it is not yet known who will pass through whose wake.

If you are an objective observer, you will definitely notice that the hull of the battleship No. 181 is slightly tilted due to the crew being too concentrated on the starboard side, and then the crew suddenly erupts into a warm cheer, it is an armed merchant ship with red hair, although it does not have a flag, it is a red hairy plywood ship, it is confirmed.

The veterans pointed and pointed that the sails of the other ship's upper mast were hung very indecently, and the sailboats of the southeastern country would hardly hang like this.

The eyes of those veterans were vicious, and they saw that the other party was walking heavily, and it was obvious that the load was not small!

So they cheered, and it seemed that this time it would be good!

Yan Kun boldly asked Shi Lang for advice: "Captain, I heard the veterans say that the other party's ship has goods, how can I see it?" ”

"The goods are in the ship, and the ship will be steady; If there is no goods, light and floating, it will appear fast, and the other party's ship is not fast enough, which can be seen. Shi Lang told him.

Seeing that Yan Kun seemed to understand whether he understood or not, Shi Lang told him not to worry, and when he had experience, he would naturally know.

At present, it is far away, Shi Lang asked Ma Xinghua, a lookout with good eyesight, to see what is going on, so Ma Xinghua climbed to the top, got into the dense sail ropes, and seemed to watch with a telescope, at this time the 181 ship did not rush forward to intercept the incoming ship, but approached it in a way that the two sides were close to parallel.

Yan Kun saw Ma Xinghua keep his body balanced, he stretched out one arm to grab the sail rope, maintained a suspended balance movement, and used his other hand to adjust the focus of the telescope.

What caught his eye was the dazzling glow of the opposing ship in the sun.

6-pounder gun!

12-pounder gun!

It was deploying its lower sail, but it looked like it was having a problem with its bar.

Ma Xinghua descended to the deck like an agile monkey and reported: "Three-masted ship, there are at least 10 12-pounder cannons, and 6-pounder cannons!" There were guns on the front and rear decks, it is not very clear what caliber on the rear deck, and in the bow was an 18-pounder gun! ”

"Undoubtedly?" The captain asked.

"Eight or nine is not far from ten!" Ma Xinghua said confidently.

"Good, good!" Shi Lang nodded, compared to the other crew members, Shi Lang was not very optimistic.

It's getting dark!

There are still two hours to go into the dark, and if you want to catch up with each other, you must be two or three quarters faster than the other party, and maybe you can catch up with them at night.

In the chase battle of the battleship during the sail period, Shi Lang once organized a continuous 32-hour chase, which lasted more than 200 kilometers!

The speed of every meter is crucial, and it's a real nuisance.

At present, the wind was blowing from the coast and blowing violently on the rear of the port side of the battleship No. 181, allowing the battleship No. 181 to sail at a speed of seven knots, and thanks to the well-trained sailors, who quickly raised the top sails and auxiliary sails, the battleship No. 181 never pulled down the distance from the other side, and got closer.

"I hope I can keep going like this!" Shi Lang prayed to Mazu Niangniang for good luck so that he could catch his prey.

And the motley red-haired men on the British armed merchant ship "Emmons" are also praying to God for escape.

"Emmons" is a three-masted merchant ship acting as a pirate privateer, by roaring westerly wind to kill in Southeast Asia, some gains, on the way back, unexpectedly found a Chinese cruiser!

"This is their new class of cruisers, we've seen them before, 20 18-pounder guns and 16 12-pounder guns!" The boatswain's boatman, Raeder, was a German.

"Thank you!" The captain of the ship, the Englishman, said with his head, he looked at the sun through the gaps in the rough texture of the mid-mast sails, the heat of the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia had peeled off the decoration and paint of the hull, the belly and the boom were worn out, and the sail was still good to sail downwind, but to compete with the cruiser, the result would be a fiasco, and it was too late to cry, the two ships did not belong to the same grade at all.

They could only hope that the cruiser would not be able to catch up with them due to the heavy size of the gun, but they were doomed to disappointment.

The sails of the Chinese warship were in place, and it came with ease and haste and began to approach them.

It was difficult to tell at first whether this was the case, the ship was still far away on the horizon, and only three signal flags could be seen dancing in the wind on the top of the mast, and only when the ship was lifted by the waves, the black dots under the signal flags were faintly visible, but after an hour the full hull of the Chinese warship could be seen from the upper deck of the corsair, and Hart grimaced and asked the sailors to spread their old diagonal sails horizontally, so that the ship was tilted to one side by half a compass point, a little more distance, but soon the Chinese battleship caught up again.

The pirates are dumbfounded, this time it's big trouble!

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