The cannonballs are getting closer and closer, even if they are more than 400 meters away from the shore, the Russian cannonballs are getting closer and closer, the ships on the sea are hit by the cannonballs, the fire is soaring, the panicked atmosphere makes some small boats run away frantically, blocking the channel, Li Ya They have to brave the enemy's artillery fire to escape with difficulty, Li Ya has taken over the management of the entire ship at this moment, he once led the steam engine battleship, the more than 3,000-ton warship of the Chinese Empire, and the command of the sail battleship is no longer under his words.

There are nearly 1,000 ships from various countries in the harbor, and nearly 100 ships are fighting for escape in the panic, and other ships are also constantly starting, Romania's steam engine paddle steamer patrol boats began to pursue, constantly shooting from the boats, intimidating the fleeing ships around to make way, constantly firing guns to sink some small boats, clearing the road of pursuit.

On the road of pursuit, the 180-ton ships of Li Ya who drove out first were not the most popular, the most popular were some small boats desperately counterattacking, or some merchant ships, the Romanians opened fire like this, and a lot of fish were blown up at once, and many pirates who had been hidden panicked at this time, thinking that they were exposed, and shot one after another, which led to greater panic.

What was more tragic was the large ship in the back that was loaded with most of the mercenary regiment soldiers and another mercenary force and supplies.

At the beginning, they were hit by artillery on the bow of the ship, ignited a fire, laboriously extinguished the fire, set sail in a hurry, and left behind more than 300 people who were ready to board the ship, some of them fought back, some fled in all directions, some were squeezed into the sea, struggling hard, and they were met by the crushing and driving of other ships moored at the pier in a hurry, as well as the shooting of the Romanian puppet army.

Not far away, only three kilometers away from here, on the wharf of six miles, there was calm, only the slight sound of waves breaking through the water, five 2,000-ton warship-type merchant ships were slowly leaving the port, and at this moment they were in the middle of the channel, slowly sliding out of the port.

A Russian port official watched the five merchant ships leave the port from the dock, with a smile on his face, he made a lot of money this time, enough for him to return to China and retire, and become a wealthy manor owner, plus his own title of commander of the Russian port garrison, although he could not become a Russian nobleman, but at least he was no longer a depressed low-level officer who was assigned here.

With this money, he can buy a higher official position, maybe a major general, if he can...... Forget it, he didn't want anything to happen to these mercenaries, those Romanian puppet troops in the port were all dead, if it wasn't for someone to report the news, he didn't know that these people were so powerful, and they controlled the port for two or three days without knowing it, and they didn't even find out, if it wasn't for his whim to patrol, maybe these people would have fled.

Of course, there is nothing to escape, these people not only found him some merit, but also betrayed another group of mercenary bandits who wanted to escape from Romania, he has arranged for people to chase them, if those people say it well, they will easily or not much damage to capture some of these slaves who want to escape, there is money, and merit, this matter is good for him no matter how you say it.

He turned and stepped into his special carriage, followed by a group of Russian cavalry and another group of Romanian infantry running behind him, as he headed toward another pier in the harbor.

Wen Ruxin stood on the bow of the ship, looking at the dock farther and farther away, and looked back at the dock channel on another channel a few miles away that was bustling with fire, people, guns, and cannons resounding in the night sky.

The mood is a little lost, it's not that he doesn't want to save those people, but if he wants to escape safely, someone has to attract people's attention, he thinks far-reaching, the Chinese Empire will never allow so many people to escape from the Ascension, it is absolutely necessary to kill a large group of people, and then let them go, he is going to open up new territories, for the Chinese Empire.

As the newcomers of the Chinese Empire, the Ministry of Military Intelligence is also the commander of the Privy Council, especially the younger generation, and their desire for land cannot be contained.

He also chose the destination, as a mercenary, he knew that it was impossible to clash with the Chinese Empire in Asia or nearby, so he would die quickly, don't look at the Chinese Empire's various elite arms in recent years, all the elite arms have been sharply reduced, and the garrison army is not for the sake of maintaining stability in various places, giving all places a basic force barrier, and suppressing those careerists and thugs in the people who are trying to cause chaos, the Chinese Empire will definitely completely remove the garrison, the only purpose of the Chinese Empire now is to develop, catch up with Western science and technology, and surpass the West, Let the West tremble under them.

However, the military force is no longer the weapon used by the Chinese Empire, the weapon they are now using is economic development, a huge population base, and a huge imperial territory, which makes the Chinese Empire rich in resources and more abundant in human resources.

The five merchant ships sailed out of the port, pulled up their sails and sailed on the sea, leaving behind the chaos of the port, and they were going to open up new horizons, and as for Li Ya, who was betrayed by them as a substitute for the dead, standing behind them, worrying about the Russians and Romanians, they did not feel guilty, but were more excited, because after such a thing, Russia would pursue Li Ya and them, and they would not think of them, unless the Russian officer betrayed them.

Li Ya and they were in dire straits, and after launching a cannon to sink a merchant ship that did not know that country in front of them, the merchant ship pulled up its sails and rushed to the outside of the channel at the maximum speed, five knots speed, only by rushing out of the port, they could get a new life, in the channel, they could only be beaten passively, and the Russian artillery fire was getting more and more accurate.

The thousand-ton steam engine ship behind was struggling to line up the small boats on both sides, as well as the Romanian sailing ship that was intercepting, struggling to escape and ascend to the sky.

The Russian warships behind were setting sail, and the shore guns on both sides were firing fiercely at the ships in the channel, trying to prevent them from escaping by blocking the channel with the sunken ships.

"Boom," the rear deck of the steam engine sailing ship was hit by a cannon, but fortunately, most of the steam engine ships were iron camphor wood hulls, or thick camphor wood ship decks, and they still had a certain defensive power in the face of the enemy's solid shells and some less powerful earth gunpowder flowering shells.

Coupled with the power of the steam engine, their speed was much faster, the speed of eight knots, rampage, and after a while, they actually caught up with Li Ya and their ship, and almost overturned Li Ya's merchant ship, which was countless times smaller than this steam engine ship.

"Blow up the channel," Li Ya shouted loudly, a Romanian warship on the channel, a three-hundred-ton armed merchant ship is ready to use its hull to cross the channel, in this way, the channel of more than 50 meters will be occupied by them, plus other pirate merchant ships that fled in front, they will be blocked in the channel, maybe their 180-ton merchant ship can rush out sideways, but the steam engine ship has a deep draft, it will only be able to collide with it, or stop the ship to fight the enemy, and will eventually be sunk in the channel by the shore artillery with a large caliber.

"We can't let that steam engine ship that has overtaken them be sunk in the fairway, if that's the case, we can't run away, two or three ships are in the fairway, and we'll be blocked here."

Li Ya didn't care about this ship originally, but now it rushed in front of them, but its firepower was not as good as this merchant ship, and it was possible that it would be blocked by the enemy merchant ships and warships that surrounded it.

(End of chapter)