"One, two, three, four, five, six, six red-haired plywood boats! (The Caucasians are collectively referred to as the Red Maofan, and their transoceanic sailing boats are collectively referred to as plywood boats)"

"Three bigger plywood boats!"

"Five galleons, and a fortune ship......" The lookout post kept shouting, making Xu Xinsu and Yang Lu's faces look ugly.

They know about the galleon, it is a second-hand ship bought by the Southeast Prefecture, and it has been running business, and it is quite good to use it as a gunboat when they are not transporting goods, but it depends on whether their arson ship agrees or not!

If you fight in close combat, give the arsonist ship a blow, and the galleon will immediately become a big torch!

The three larger plywood boats were supposed to be from the Dutch in Orange City, but the total of nine plywood boats was a bit of a surprise!

"Hey, what kind of ship is this?" As the other party approached, Xu Xinsu and Yang Lu asked questions.

The same question arose with Piet Poznan and Mr. Van Rothmaren, who saw six sail warships that were out of the ordinary, they had almost no aft!

"A very peculiar battleship!" Pete Poznan muttered: "I haven't seen this kind of battleship, this should be a newly built battleship in the Southeast Mansion!" ”

"What's the good of that, can you see it?" Van Roth Mullen asked.

"That's the Clippers!" Pete Poznan shouted: "There is no tail tower, speed up, this is a gunboat specially designed for war!" ”

He pointed and said, "Do you see, they are not full sails, and they are as fast as our Galen, which is full sails and is coming from the upper wind!" ”

I couldn't help but praise: "It's worth the trip to be able to see such a battleship this time!" ”

Pete Poznan patted the board excitedly and said, "I didn't expect Akito to surprise us!" ”

What he praised was the "Kaohsiung No. 1" to "Kaohsiung No. 6" built by Kaohsiung Shipyard, these warships at the beginning of the construction, the blueprint was repeatedly modified, the main modification came from Yan Changwu, he said that the ship he built was used to fight, sink the enemy's ship, and besides, the merchant ship can always be found, it is really not possible to sink this group of red Mao Fan warships, hire another group of red Mao Fan merchant ships to transport goods!

The opinion of the southeastern province was thus unified, and the main warships they built were no longer with raised sterns, and gunboats of larger tonnage and more decks were made, which had a resounding name, "sail battleships!" ”

From the very beginning, the battleship construction of the Southeast Province went straight to the battleships of the sail period, without a single detour!

……

Seeing the nine red-haired plywood boats coming violently, Xu Xinsu and Yang Lu looked solemn.

If it weren't for the fact that they had seen the unique banner of "stars, mountains, and seas" in the Southeast Province, they would almost have suspected that the Red Hair Fan had been hired by the Southeast Province to beat them.

Yang Lu didn't wait for Xu Xinsu to say anything, and shouted directly: "Zuo Feng General! ”

Someone on a battleship next to him answered, "Chen San is here!" ”

Yang Lu ordered: "You lead your left forward team to seize the upper hand and prepare to set fire to them!" ”

Zuo Feng sent Chen San out loud and a series of orders: "Lift anchor, follow our ship, and move in the southeast direction!" ”

All the ships moved, and he took with him about twenty-five warships, which were basically small ships except for a few large ones.

According to the plan, they will seize the upper hand, and then set fire to the boat, turn it into an arson ship, and go to burn the warship of the Southeast Province!

As for the other ships, they also followed behind Chen San's fleet, but the speed was relatively slow.

For a time there was a great uproar on the sea, and the pirates' ships were dispatched, shouting loudly, and swarming.

……

On the back deck of the "Kaohsiung No. 1", where the position was slightly higher, Yan Changwu and Storm stood together, Storm took a step back from him, and the two were using binoculars to observe the enemy situation.

In their clothing, Yan Changwu finally did not dress himself and the senior officers as fancy peacocks, but put ribbons (banners draped diagonally over the shoulders) for the officers according to their ranks, and the officers' clothes and hats were different from those of the sailors.

The ribbon on the body is purple for the general, red for the colonel, blue for the lieutenant, and then according to the rank, the purple ribbon of the general is embroidered with gold edges, a one-star brigadier general has a gold edge, and so on, and a four-star general is four gold edges; The school officers embroidered purple edges according to their ranks, one was a major, and three were colonels; The officers were embroidered with red edges according to their ranks, one for warrant officers and four for captains.

If an officer wearing a golden ribbon appears on the ship, the enemy must not hesitate to shoot and fire at him, because he is a marshal!

Large ribbons are worn during war, and they are too "chic" to wear in peacetime, and small ribbons can be worn in the officer's regular uniform, and the military uniform can be hung from the chest/front pocket to the shoulder to show the respect of the officer.

Today, Yan Changwu wears a purple ribbon and embroiders two gold edges (Major General), while Storm wears two purple edges (Lieutenant Colonel) on a red ribbon.

"They're rushing to the wind!" Yan Changwu shouted.

"Give the order!" Storm said.

"Open the mainsail and turn the rudder to the right by 5 compass points!" Yan Changwu looked at the compass and shouted, and then released a series of passwords.

The helmsman turned the rudder, and the Kaohsiung No. 1, with the commander's flag, began to turn sharply, the stern spinnaker swung tightly to assist the bow turn, the foremast, mainmast, and aftermast sails rotated one after another, and the sailors pulled the sails smoothly, showing that the training was not in vain!

During these years, they have been training at sea every day, day and night, forming a conditioned reflex to the officers' commands, and basically doing what they can do.

The eight warships that followed him were almost the same in their movements, with neat and consistent course, fast and slow, forming a gradient, and slowly turning into an arc that cut diagonally towards the pirates, to the surprise of Xu Xinsu and Yang Lu, Pete Poznan and Van Rothmaren.

"Their boat control skills are very good!" Pete Poznan and Van Roesmaren of the Sea Coachmen both complimented.

A question ran through Pete Poznan's mind: "How can they do that?" ”

He knew that the captains of each boat had different skills, and that it was difficult to achieve consistent movements when the boats were controlled.

That's the benefit of being educated in the same textbook!

At the same time, the long-term joint training together allowed them to know what the main general wanted to do by looking at the flagship's flag, and the captains of the ships gave the same order, but there was a scene that surprised everyone, including Storm.

He said with a red face: "Good job! ”

In fact, it was to praise himself, this group of officers was taught by him!

The six Kaohsiung ships marched at high speed and reached the upwind port first, and the port gun port of the Kaohsiung No. 1 was opened, and the first shot was fired, breaking the silence on the sea!