The Sea Dragon is naturally the main warship of this encirclement and suppression of pirates, located in the position directly opposite the port, Li Hongyu witnessed the chaos in the port, and a sneer flashed at the corner of his mouth.

At this moment, those pirates who hurriedly boarded the ship would never have thought that the Daming Naval Division had deliberately put them on board, preparing to use the superiority of artillery to destroy the main force of the pirates at sea in order to reduce the casualties of the 6th battle.

In addition to the five Western sailing ships equipped with dozens of guns, such as the Sea Dragon, each ship of the naval division also had several to more than ten guns, and once the naval battle began, the pirates were at an absolute disadvantage.

In particular, Western sailing ships such as the Sea Dragon, a salvo can destroy several pirates from a distance, and they are an out-and-out weapon of mass destruction in naval warfare.

The sailors' ships were silently moored on the sea, and the soldiers waited for the signal of the Seawolf to attack, and they hated the pirates who had burned and looted, and decided to avenge the death of their comrades and compatriots.

In a luxurious mansion in the harbor.

"Boss, it's not good, the Ming army is taking revenge." A pirate leader came to the door of a bedroom and shouted out to him as he knocked on the door, looking panicked, he had never met such a formidable opponent.

"The Ming army is coming?" In the bedroom, a stout middle-aged man was sleeping soundly with a young woman in his arms, and he sat up and asked with a surprised expression.

"Boss, the Ming army has come with more than a dozen big ships, and they have blocked the port, it seems that they want to wipe us out." The pirate leader looked nervous and asked, "Boss, what are we going to do?" ”

"Damn." The stout middle-aged man's face changed suddenly, and while putting on his clothes, he said to the beautiful young woman on the boat, "Quick, get dressed and follow me." ”

The young woman did not feel panicked when she learned that the Ming army was coming, but seemed a little happy, and after glancing at the stout middle-aged man with great hatred, she got up and dressed, and obediently followed the stout middle-aged man away.

"Pass the order, don't fall in love with the war, break out of the encirclement of the Ming army and flee separately, the Ming army can't stay here all the time, and come back when the limelight passes."

This stout middle-aged man was Ada, and after going out, he said in a deep voice to the pirate leader waiting outside the door, it is not a wise choice to fight the Ming army's sailor fire now.

"What about the family on the island?" The pirate leader nodded, and then asked, this island is Ada's lair, where many pirate families and people are attached to pirates.

"Now that the crisis can't be managed so much, Daming is a state of etiquette, and he must not attack those family members." Ada's brows furrowed, and she quickly made a choice, the top priority was to escape from the encirclement of the Ming army's sailors.

The pirate leader bowed to Ada and hurried away, and Ada, surrounded by a group of men, rushed to the harbor with her family and the beautiful young woman, and boarded a ship that was parked there to escape.

The large and small pirate ships in the port left the port one after another, rushing towards the Ming ships outside the port, trying to break out of the encirclement of the Ming army in one go.

Ada's ship was located at the back of the middle of the many pirate ships, which was the best position to break out of the encirclement, and the ships in front would attract the attention of the Ming army when they broke through, and the ships in the rear would become the target of the Ming army's pursuit after the breakthrough was successful.

"God forbid!" Ada stood on the deck of the bow of the ship, looking at the huge ships outside the harbor and couldn't help but feel an inexplicable panic, so he folded his hands and prayed secretly, for some reason he had a sense of foreboding.

Bang bang bang......

Just as Ida finished praying, a dull sound suddenly sounded on the water in the distance, and it sounded like thunder from afar.

"Artillery!" Ada's face suddenly changed, and he hurriedly looked ahead, his eyes flashed with surprise, he had been crisscrossing the sea for many years, so he naturally knew that the roar was artillery, could it be that the Ming army sailors would fire the cannon now?

At this time, the forward of the pirate fleet was one nautical mile away from the Ming naval division warship, and he did not believe that the Ming army's artillery could hit so far.

Boom Boom Boom ......

But the next moment, Ida was stunned, and with this round of artillery bombardment by the Ming army, many pirate ships that rushed in front were hit, and the hull exploded one after another, sawdust flew everywhere, and blood splattered everywhere.

This round of shelling was naturally started by the five Western sailing ships in the Ming army's encirclement, and at the same time, the rest of the warships went to meet the pirate ships, preparing to narrow the encirclement and tighten the pockets of the encirclement.

Of course, these ships were not idle, operating their guns to attack the pirate ships, and the crossbowmen and musketeers standing on the deck were ready to kill the enemy at close range.

In addition to the five Western sailing ships, Forman also brought 3,000 flint rifles newly produced by France, which greatly simplified the process of filling ammunition and igniting, saving a lot of valuable time.

Bai Cheng couldn't put it down when he saw these flint rifles, these rifles were well-made and had superior performance, which were more advanced than the rifles of Portugal and other countries.

After all, the flint device has not yet become popular in Europe, and only France, which understands this flint device, is the first to equip it, and it is only partially equipped.

It is conceivable that in the near future this rifle with flint device will dominate the European theater and become the trump card weapon of war.

While the sailors attacked the pirates, the five sailing ships did not sit idle, continuing to bombard, causing the pirate ships on the sea to dodge like headless flies.

"How so?" Ida looked at the chaotic scene in front of him with a grim face, he never imagined that the ships of the Ming army sailors would have such powerful firearms, making the pirate ships on the sea become moving live targets.

"Scholar, no wonder you want to buy ships and firearms from the Red Hairs in the West, their warships and firearms are really powerful."

At the same time, on the Sea Dragon, Wang Hong said to Li Hongyu in a loud voice amid the roar of the artillery in the artillery compartment under his feet, his face full of admiration.

If he hadn't seen it in person, Wang Hong didn't think that the Western Hongmaoyi was so powerful, in his eyes it was just some barbaric and uncivilized barbarians.

But now after witnessing the great power of Western sailing ships and artillery in naval warfare, Wang Hong changed his opinion of Westerners, although he did not want to admit it, but those Western Hongmaoyi were indeed very skillful, and they were able to surpass the great masters in shipbuilding and the development of firearms.

"Our Daming is a little complacent, always looking at things in the outside world with old eyes, but we don't know that earth-shaking changes have taken place outside, and it is no longer the situation of the era of Hong Wuye and Yongle Ye!"

Li Hongyu couldn't help but sigh when he heard this, looking worried, thinking that the Ming army concentrated tens of thousands of troops in the Battle of Tuen Mun that year, and it took a lot of effort to repel the Portuguese, in fact, at that time, the Ming court should be vigilant, instead of continuing to dream of the heavenly kingdom.

"The university scholars are concerned about the national society, which is really the mainstay of my Ming Dynasty, and the lower officials are willing to saddle the front and back of the horse, and serve the dogs and horses for the university scholars, and reproduce the prosperity of my Ming Dynasty."

Wang Hong opened his eyes after going to sea this time and realized the potential crisis of the Ming Dynasty, so he admired Li Hongyu very much, and said solemnly after bowing to Li Hongyu.

"Brother Wang, you can kill me, you are the elder brother, I need your help, we will always be friends." Li Hongyu hurriedly waved his hand when he heard this, and said to Wang Hong with a smile.

Wang Hong also laughed when he heard this, he knew that what Li Hongyu said was from the bottom of his heart, although he respected Li Hongyu as an auxiliary minister of the Ming Dynasty, but Li Hongyu never put an official in front of him, but called him his brother, which made him very moved in his heart.

In fact, not only Wang Hong, but also because Li Hongyu was the youngest candidate for the examination in the 47th year of the Ming Dynasty, Li Hongyu was commensurate with his brother for the exam, which virtually narrowed the relationship between him and those lifters, so that those lifters naturally supported him.

After some scuffle, although many pirate ships were destroyed by the Ming artillery, there were still some small boats that managed to escape through the encirclement, and the remaining ships either fled back to the dock in embarrassment or were surrounded by the Ming warships.

"Ada looks like she's on that ship!" Li Hongyu had no interest in those small boats, and pointed to one of the pirate ships in the circle of Ming warships and said to Wang Hong.

Wang Hong followed Li Hongyu's gesture and looked, only to see a pirate ship surrounded by the surrounding pirate ships, it was very conspicuous from a distance, it was obvious that there were pirate bigwigs on that ship, nine times out of ten it was Ida, otherwise those pirate ships would not all gather around that ship.

"Let's go and see." Li Hongyu then gave the order, with the arrival of five Western sailing ships, it would definitely bring great psychological pressure to the surrounded pirates, who had just seen the power of the ship's artillery.

Seeing the arrival of the Sea Dragon and the Sea Wolf, the Ming warships in the encirclement immediately gave way to a road, the Sea Wolf was Bai Cheng's flagship, and Wang Hong was on the Sea Dragon, so they naturally had to give way.

"Shout to them and make them surrender, or we will attack."

Li Hongyu observed the surrounded pirates through the Qianli Cylinder for a while, and saw that they all looked frightened, knowing that these pirates had lost the courage to resist, so he wanted to give an order to an entourage standing on the side.

Soon, a middle-aged official from the Newport Comfort Division on the Seawolf shouted at the pirates in the encirclement in the local language, causing a commotion among the pirates in the encirclement.

However, perhaps because of Ada's presence, although the pirates looked frightened, no one surrendered to the Ming army, after all, Ida was fierce and brutal, and the pirates were afraid of him from the heart, so no one dared to act rashly at this time to avoid being retaliated by Ada.

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