The difference between a merchant ship and a warship is known only when the fire is actually handed in.

Large and small water columns stirred up in the semicircle around the merchant ship like rain, while several Daming cargo ships outside could only be beaten but could not fight back, seeing that the deck of the merchant ship next to him was broken a few holes, and more than a dozen sailors were crying and shouting for their mothers running around, Luo Yu's face couldn't help but show an annoyed look.

"Captain Chen, don't you fight back?"

This is a command error! If it is a Western merchant ship, it will avoid exchanging fire with the pirate ship anyway, use the escorted warship to cover the entangled pirate ship, and then let the merchant ship escape. After all, a merchant ship is a merchant ship, and its essence is still used to pull goods, not to mention combat effectiveness, all that is lost by a single shot is silver.

However, Chen Chuan was born in the navy after all, and the two rows of 24 cannons equipped with each ship also gave him blind confidence, you must know that in history, Zheng Chenggong's main force to recover Taiwan's big green ship, a thirty or forty-meter-long Fu ship only had two guns at the bow and tail, and this firepower has caught up with the level of warships in the old days, and he still has many people and ships, and if he doesn't fight a dozen, he is itching.

But now it's a tragedy, who would have thought that pirates would actually play this tactic, learn from the British, bombard with long-distance artillery, and have no temper at all, full of helplessness, he spread it in a cold sweat.

"Your Highness, the thief is equipped with a twelve-pound heavy naval gun, and our ships are equipped with Liaodong gunners, with a range of only about four hundred meters, and it is just a waste of gunpowder to fire now! If you hit the gun, you can't fight it!"

"But rest assured, Your Highness, the escort ship has been outflanked from the flanks, and the Overlord guns on the mothership are also being adjusted, and it won't be long before you can fire back!"

"Overlord Cannon!"

At the mention of this, Luo Yu's white and tender forehead couldn't help but puff up two points of green tendons, and Chen Chuan was weak and held up the telescope again.

No wonder he is weak-hearted, the two overlord cannons are not mounted guns, but shore defense guns, the black technology crystallization of the Ming Empire, it is said that it was originally to be installed on the ironclad ship that is being tested, and this time it is to be installed in the Bangkok Sea Fort defense while testing the data, and now it is urgent to assemble it on the spot, and lift tens of thousands of kilograms of heavy guys next to the artillery fire, isn't this a?

But for the time being, there is no good way, since the Anglo-Spanish naval battle, the British heavy artillery light ship, cannon-based naval warfare strategy has gradually been imitated by other colonial powers, especially the British rival Dutch, merchant ships are loaded, heavy, difficult to control, firepower is not dominant, rather than risk sailing to force a cannon battle with the opponent, it is better to hide in a relatively far distance, the hit rate is relatively poor distance and wait for the loading of cannons.

However, following anxiously looking at the Dutch warships that were constantly firing, and the binoculars swept over the floating pirate flags, Luo Yu still gritted his teeth fiercely, and suddenly turned around and shouted loudly at Chu Tian.

did not interfere with the battle command, but with Luo Yu's order, a moment later, the side of the entire merchant ship position facing the enemy suddenly burned with raging white smoke.

"Your Highness, what are you doing here?"

The smoke interfered with the line of sight, even if the Overlord Cannon was set up, it would not be able to fire for a while due to the lack of firing units, Chen Chuan shouted a little angrily.

But this time, like him, Luo Yu also held the telescope high and ignored him.

But a few minutes later, something unexpected happened to Chen Chuan, those Dutch pirate ships that were still firing their guns actually raised their sails again and put away their anchors, and the sharks pierced at the fierceness that was struggling in the cannon fire.

Merchant ships burn silk!

Historically, the military discipline of the British Royal Navy is the most stringent, the status between officers and sailors is extremely unequal, the slightest mistake of the sailor, will inevitably be beaten with a whip, and even shot to feed the sharks, but there are still countless young people moths to the fire in the navy, and enthusiastically go to sea to fight!

Because the navy is really too much oil and water, to strike at the enemy, every ship captured, every sailor has a cut! With a brave and warlike captain, two or three years is enough time to accumulate wealth that is difficult to earn for decades.

As the main competitor of the British, the Dutch naturally introduced this system, although the Dutch East India Company taught them the task of sinking as many Ming merchant ships as possible, but they also had to make money! The Ming people burned all the silk, what else did they rob!

As a small businessman, humanity is being exploited by Luo Yu here!

In Chen Chuan's incredulous eyes, those Dutch pirate ships fiercely pointed at their fleet with their ramming angles, and glanced at Luo Yu like a witch, and he shouted anxiously and excitedly.

"Beat the flag, order the mercenaries to prepare, and the fleet will fight!"

The naval battle is so cruel and cruel but very charming, in front of the heavy ship, the bronze angel face appears the sluggishness of a metal dummy, but a closer look gives people a sense of terror, thousands of tons of behemoths with unrivaled power straight towards themselves.

Just now, I couldn't hit the straight in a hurry, but now, facing the bow of the ship, the Ming gunner in the gun compartment was showing fear on his face, screaming in horror, a door and mother gun light cannon fired like flying, crackling cannon fire burst out one after another on the side of the ship of the Central South Division, crackling on the bow of the Dutch ship above the water, pieces of wood splashed up, and even several layers of planks were pierced, you can see the Dutch sailors behind the same fear and shouting, finally, there was a loud bang, The rampaging Dutch warship still slashed at the shorter body of the Ming merchant ship like an axe.

Click~ The tip of the ship cut through the deck of two or three meters, and in the cabin, the heavy Furlong cannons were knocked upside down and flew out, smashing into the gunners who were busy firing, causing a burst of screams, and an unlucky sailor was even directly slammed on the back deck wall by the tip of the ship full of scratches, and the whole person was stunned into two pieces on the left and right, and his eyes burst out.

"Haya~"

On the towering bow of the ship, the Westerners and pirates also let out a strange scream, excitedly holding their muskets and firing downwards, and the sailors who were running on the deck were shot down a lot, and after a round of muskets, these people were carrying pirate scimitars and rushing to the deck with big axes.

However, at this point, the Dutchman's three-plate axe was finished, in terms of level, the Ming United East India Company was not only not inferior to their Dutch East India Company, but also superior in scale and personnel, the Dutch East India Company was armed with as many as 10,000 mercenaries in its heyday, and the United East India Company, Mao Jue licensed 20,000 overseas mercenaries! In order to cope with the increasingly turbulent situation in Central and South China, the directors of the company gave Luo Yu the four regiments recruited from the Dashun Army.

For the time being, in order to cope with the defense of the vast coastline, the company's battleships are indeed a little less, but we have a lot of people!

In the incomprehensible gaze of the Dutch, dozens of harpoons shot out of the guns of the nearby merchant ships and pierced their warships, and then, on the side of the ship not far away, the Dutch pirates who had just landed on the merchant ships of the Ming army saw a dense row of muzzles.

Ping Pong~

The mercenaries of the Dutch East India Company came from most of Europe, and unfortunately, so did the Ming Dynasty! The guns rang out, and the Dutch pirates couldn't raise their heads, and the door of the rear building of the merchant ship suddenly opened, and groups of diminutive Japanese samurai mercenaries screamed like Dutch pigs were eating, and they rushed into the crowd with samurai swords taller than them.

In the clang, steel and steel collided together, bursting out of fierce sparks, a Dutch pirate just shook off the katana to cut, but immediately, his thigh was a sharp pain, another katana clicked into his leg nearly half, under his staggering, the Japanese ronin who had just been blocked was very chic with a backhand split, picking off his head.

But the deck fight was so cruel that before the samurai could excitedly pick up the head to exchange the reward, Weng slammed the axe on his back, and threw him into the sea like a golf game with his head.

Wearing a pointed helmet, more than two meters tall, and weighing about three or four hundred pounds, the Viking Vikings of Northern Europe are simply like savage monsters, wielding heavy battle axes, cutting leeks from one to the other in the samurai crowd, and his body strength is not lost, he simply ignores martial arts skills here, and the combined mercenaries who are hit by his axe must have cracked bones and vomited blood and flew out.

However, he didn't have long to do it, and an axe with the same strong wind actually slashed from behind, which frightened the Nordic soul and staggered forward to dodge the past, but the leather armor behind him had been cut, and a huge bloody cut was exposed.

Shocked, he pulled out the axe, and looked back with anger, and was pulling the axe out of the chopped deck, but it was a furry bear of about the same height and weight as him, bare-armed, revealing a hairy bear with big fat flesh.

In the north, the Ming Empire has already exchanged fire with Tsarist Russia, which is advancing eastward, and money can make ghosts grind, and the East India Company gives more silver than the Tsar, and there are actually many Cossacks or Russian mercenaries who have also jumped ship to join the mercenaries of the United East India Company, and this old Maozi is obviously one of them.

Seeing that Brother Gui was extremely red, and at the same time, the bear roared, and the two strong men raised their heavy axes together and slashed at each other fiercely.

On this end, the deck battle was still raging, and on the other side, the Dutch pirate ship that was heading straight for the flagship of the Indochina Fleet could no longer support it.

Even if it is more than two meters strong man, it is not easy to use, in the click sound, the sharp three-edged bayonet stabbed into the chest of a burly Viking Viking, the pain made the woolly bear roar an axe wheel over, several mercenaries from the Shun army suddenly vomited blood and fell out, but on the other side, it was a few mercenaries who rushed fiercely with bayonets, Lao Tzu is a lot of people.

Puff p

Now they understood what it meant for the Ming army to fire harpoons from the Fran cannons and nailed them to their hulls, and the sturdy cables were sturdy and smoking, pulling the Dutch battleship and five or six Ming merchant ships together, the creaking wood groaned, and the planks nailed to the keel were torn off alive, but as this behemoth struggled, more harpoons were nailed to their hull again.

In the midst of a loud roar, the blood-stained Japanese warriors, the red-eyed Shunjun mercenaries with knives in their hands, and the Mongol archers with bows and arrows on their backs climbed up the edge of the Dutch warship like zombies.

Fight back!