At the sound of Zhang Pu's shouting, the Zhiyuan, which had been approached to less than 100 feet, opened fire first, and in the continuous spraying of the fire from the side gun doors, one after another 12-pound and six-pound or 9-pound and four-and-a-half-pound heavy shells roared through the sea, and instantly smashed into pieces of wood on this merchant ship.

A piece of broken wood was in the middle of Zhang Pu's face.

The piece of wood was no bigger than his little finger, but it pierced his cheek like an arrow.

Zhang Pu screamed and fell, and Yu Tengcang behind him was very interesting, and hurriedly dragged him back.

At the same time, several cannons on the deck of the merchant ship also opened fire.

In fact, in the definition of the Ming Dynasty, they are pirates, cannons, francs, turtledoves are all standard, and even the quality of sailors is more than that of coastal sailors. Coastal sailors don't have their experience in ocean sailing, they grab when they have the opportunity, do business seriously if they don't have the opportunity, smuggle if they can, get a license to trade legally, in short, as long as they can make money, there is nothing they don't do, and all those who go to sea are the same in these years.

There are no good people.

Just switch identities at any time depending on the situation.

Ignoring any laws.

Ignore any rules.

The only estimate that can restrain them is Mazu.

At this moment, the shells they fired back were even more accurate, and then they hit the Zhiyuan.

But they are merchant ships, they are warships, the thickness of the planks on both sides is different, and their guns and the Zhiyuan cannot be compared, that is, the three or four pounds of shells bounced directly on the side of the Zhiyuan, leaving only a bullet mark on the board, and at this time, the cannons of the Jingyuan opened fire, and a shell hit again, making a mess on the deck.

"Run, I'll give you 10,000 taels if you get out!"

Zhang Pu screamed in horror.

There is no need to say this question, now that he has fired, he can only be beheaded as a pirate if he is caught.

The sailors gathered on the deck, braved the constant cannonballs from the opposite side, returned fire with their less powerful weapons, and adjusted the sails to rush to the waterway with the help of the wind, for they were against the tide.

And Yang Huan commanded the two warships to fire constantly, and at the same time quickly closed the distance with the help of the tide push.

"Keep firing, sink if you don't surrender!"

He shouted.

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a sudden whistling of cannonballs above his head.

He looked up in amazement, then watched as a cannonball pierced the sail overhead.

"They've got answers!"

The observer on the mast shouted.

Just then, an identical armed merchant ship appeared in the waterway, its bow muzzle flickering, followed by another cannonball.

"Jack Furlong Machine!"

The captain beside Yang Huan looked at the water column on the sea and said.

But then they both cursed, for as they moved forward, they could see the inside of the waterway completely, and there were six armed merchant ships there, and all six armed merchant ships had lifted anchor and begun to cut the waterway under the impetus of the tide, and at the same time one cannon after another pointed in this direction. And the armed merchant ship on which Zhang Pu was riding waved the flag, and the largest armed merchant ship opposite waved the same flag, it was obvious that they were in a group, and these armed merchant ships should have arrived here yesterday, and they were also waiting for the tide.

At this time, Humen was not the place to completely lock the throat of the Pearl River estuary.

Because the land between Humen and Xiangshan has not yet been formed, the sea is outside Xiangshan County, to the north to Shawan, to the east to the two mountains west of Humen, and the middle is dozens of kilometers wide and all the sea surface, until the time of the old dog, Humen really became the only throat. These armed merchant ships must have traded in the Xiangshan area before turning around and heading for Canton, but they also had to wait for the rising tide to abandon trade and attack Yang Huan......

Now all the smuggling ships want to kill these minions of Yang Xin.

Yang Xin's fleet was across the mouth of the Pearl River, making all the smugglers grit their teeth, twenty-six warships plus hundreds of naval warships, and countless fishing boats of the Tan people, setting up an iron wall at the mouth of the Pearl River. No matter what status, as long as you are doing business, you can enter casually, but if you don't pay taxes, don't want to go out, no matter who goes out, you have to go to Macau to pay taxes first, and those who dare to break through without paying taxes will not hesitate to sink.

It's impossible to sneak out.

The Pearl River Estuary is indeed very large.

But it is separated by a bunch of large and small islands.

At a throat like Tuen Mun, two warships are blocked to the sea, and basically it is impossible to get through without desperately.

So in the end, all the smugglers, except for a very few who were able to slip out of this blockade line, had to go to Macao to pay taxes according to the goods, and even some of the smugglers who did not have enough silver were directly left behind part of the goods.

You must know that as the wind direction changes, the peak season for smuggling to the Japanese country has begun.

The smuggler's good days have arrived.

But Yang Xin's fleet was ahead of their good days, and they wanted to pluck their feathers.

All the smugglers gritted their teeth with hatred, and although Yang Xin also gave them the right to trade legally, these guys didn't think they had benefited.

They are inherently the same as legal trade.

Smuggling is only for the official, but for them and their bosses on land, their business is no different from legal trade, and they don't have to pay any taxes, but now that Yang Xin is collecting taxes, it is simply a clear robbery of their silver. These guys have long been unbearable, but Yang Xin's fleet is not easy to mess with, at least those in the Pearl River Estuary are not easy to mess with, in this case, this kind of lone is simply sent to the door, and killing them is almost the instinctive choice of these smugglers on the armed merchant ships.

At the same time that Yang Huan saw them, more artillery joined in the fire.

At the same time, the one that had escaped turned to drop its sails.

This waterway is inclined to the south, and the tide in the waterway is also pushed outward, and they immediately began to turn under the impetus of the oncoming tide after dropping the sails, and the six armed merchant ships hiding in the waterway rode the tide and rushed straight to the Zhiyuan 2 ship, the goal was obviously to rely on the tide to push to complete the help.

"Turn right!"

Captain Zhiyuan ignored Yang Huan's opinion and ordered directly.

"Liu Hu, take your people to the deck!"

Yang Huan yelled at the cabin.

Immediately after that, the infantry in the cabin rushed to the deck, armed with muskets and even spears, and began to prepare for battle.

At this time, the two ships were crossing the mouth of the waterway, and the six armed merchant ships that were almost lined up collided with each other under the impetus of the tide behind them, and the two ships of Zhiyuan kept firing shells at them in the turn, and the cannons in their bows also fired, and the two fleets seemed to converge to close the distance. However, the artillery of the Zhiyuan second ship is still small, and it is difficult for a twelve-pounder gun to sink such a large sea ship, and there are not many twelve-pounder guns, the most is a six-pounder gun, and the solid bullet is not a flowering shell after all, and it is okay to cause heavy damage, but if you want to sink it, you may have to sink a lot of shells.

These brave smugglers, too, were determined to kill them, and rushed forward regardless of the losses on their ships.

Yang Huan and the soldiers hid behind the bulwark, watching the armed merchant ships at the front close to less than thirty zhang.

The cannons on the Zhiyuan kept smashing and splashing wood on the opposite side.

The latter continued to approach in return fire.

At such a distance, their artillery was as powerful as a jack of furlongs, and the shells kept making gaps in the bulwark, splashing the flesh and blood of the soldiers behind them.

"Fire!"

Yang Huan roared.

All muskets burst into flames in an instant.

On the opposite side, muskets such as turtledoves also fired back.

At this time, the Jingyuan also exchanged fire with an armed merchant ship, and the other four armed merchant ships were no longer able to intercept them like this because they were lagging behind, but they swept directly from the rear under the impetus of the tide, and then went around to the other side to complete the flanking attack.

Because of its unfavorable position, the previous ship could only fire and harass horizontally in front.

Yang Huan didn't care about anything else, he himself took a musket, stood on the deck and shot at the opposite side, the armed merchant ships on the opposite side were still approaching, and all the cannons on the two ships of the same size were fighting each other less than a hundred meters away. The musketeers could almost see each other from a distance on the deck, and even soldiers on their respective masts fired at each other, and the cannon rumbled in the smoke of gunpowder, and the splinters of wood flew in the spray of fire, and the limbs broken by the shells flew in the screams of bullets......

"These madmen!"

Yang Huan said with some horror.

These pirate smugglers are much more ferocious than sailors.

Suddenly, he had an idea, and the guy threw the musket directly at a soldier, and then ran wildly to his cabin, and then walked out with a cylinder in his arms, and when he walked out, a cannonball hit not far away, and he fell headlong behind the bulwark......

"Get out of the way!"

He dragged one of the firing soldiers away, stretched the barrel out of the gap in the bulwark, aimed it at the sails of the armed merchant ship, which was a dozen feet away, and after sticking two supports into the deck, he snatched the musket from the soldier's hand and lit the fuse with the arquebus, and then without hesitation pushed the soldier with the powder pot at his waist down to the deck.

The moment the soldier fell, flames erupted from behind the canister.

A flare flew out from the front, dragging its flaming tail with a whistling sound, and instantly slammed into the unraised sails of the armed merchant ship, and the ghost was caught in the rope as if it were unburned, and the unburned propellant continued to spray like a demon spewing flames. With the frightened screams of the smugglers, their sails were ignited by the flames and quickly turned into flames, and then the rocket exploded, and the blazing sails turned into a rain of fire and flew in all directions......

"Boom!"

A loud bang shook the sea.

The powder kegs of their deck guns were detonated.

A massive explosion swept across the armed merchant ship, sending everything on deck to the surface with a wave of air pushed away by the smoke of gunpowder.

"Look, no matter how fierce it is, it's just an end to this matter!"

Yang Huan said proudly.

"Excuse me, the next time you send a rocket, you can shout a little, and our ship can be killed by you with one stone."

The captain said tremblingly.

"Huh?"

Yang Huan realized that the rope next to him had also been ignited, and several soldiers were busy extinguishing it, and their deck gun powder barrels were only a few steps away from him.