When "Mr. Lu" officially pulled anchor and set sail in the evening, Yang Renyu shouted loudly very formally.

"Subordinates" Lu Chuanzong promised loudly, and also saluted a nondescript military salute.

"You give me a record, on the evening of June 18, the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the staff led a general soldier, divided into two ships, pulled anchor and set sail, vowing to break through the blockade of the Chongming Navy Division and expedition to Liaodong."

Yang Renyu spit out word by word, slowly and clearly, and his tone was firm and powerful, as if he had infinite power. After he said these words, he commanded loudly: "Set sail, target Liaodong"

"Set sail, target Liaodong" ...... "set sail, target Liaodong"...... His minions relayed his orders aloud.

The sailors on both ships, hearing the order, immediately got busy, and the two hammerheads struggled to turn the stirring plate, pulling the heavy iron anchor from the sea little by little.

Two chiefs and one of the chiefs respectively commanded their subordinates to shout trumpets and raise the sails together. Fubune is a typical rigid schooner, and the sail is a whole, unlike the soft sail of the West, which is divided into several sides, so it is very heavy. However, because of this, the sail is lowered quickly, which is something that soft sails can't do.

The two huge boats, which had started slowly in the process of raising the sails, were full on three sides, and the wind blew the sails up, and the ships went faster and faster, and soon reached the maximum speed of five knots.

The sea boat is different from the car driving route, it is not a straight line, but will sail diagonally due to the influence of the wind, so the big boat must always direct the sailors to adjust the sails, so that the ship will go to the other side, that is, take a zigzag road, in order to keep the overall course correct. At this point, the Chinese-style schooner is a whole sail, so the adjustment is very fast, so the range of the zigzag route is relatively small, while the Western-style soft sailing ship because it is a multi-sided sail, the adjustment is not timely, so it has to take a lot of detours, although its sails are more, the speed is faster, and it can reach a high speed of seven or eight knots, but the time to reach the destination is more.

The wind and waves on the sea are fast, far from being comparable to the Yangtze River, and the lucky boat is sometimes thrown to a high place by the waves, and sometimes falls to the bottom, which makes Yang Renyu's general flag soldiers and these landlubbers very uncomfortable, and they vomit one by one! , this time Yang Renyu was no exception, he vomited to death.

The more he sailed to the open sea, the stronger the wind and waves, when he just set sail, Yang Renyu, who was still full of confidence, was also less confident in going to Liaodong at this time, he felt like a fish resting on the beach, only to be slaughtered, whether he could survive to Liaodong, is still unknown.

The sea does not remember the time, the long-distance voyage, the movement is counted by the month, the vast sea, except for the endless water surface, there is no other reference, very boring, at this time the most want to see is the emergence of new things, even if it is a sea fish jumping out of the water or a hovering seabird feeding.

However, at this time, Yang Renyu did not want to see anything new, because it indicated that they would step on the patrol of the sailor fleet.

But sometimes, fate always likes to play tricks, Yang Renyu, who was standing on the highest floor of the shipyard and looking around, saw the sea in the distance, and several black shadows were faintly visible.

"Discover the sailor fleet," Yang Renyu subconsciously shouted loudly.

In fact, the experienced helmsman saw one step ahead of him that he had already operated the rudder to change direction and avoid it to the north.

The ancient shipwright was still using the ancient astrological technique because he did not have a sextant, and the helmsman knew the direction of Chongming Island with experience, and obtained the order of Yang Renyu to march to Liaodong, so he manipulated the sea ship to calculate a general northward direction according to the astrological technique and sailed to the open sea.

Therefore, at this time, the sailor fleet appeared in the southeast of his own fleet, and he turned the rudder to sail in a northeast direction, just to avoid the sailor fleet.

But it was so easy to avoid them, and the fleet of the Chaoting Navy Division also spotted these two suspicious sea ships, and they were turning around and chasing after the two ships.

The naval fleet is a warship, focusing on protection and speed, so the speed of the ship is fast, but it is also limited in speed, like a snail crawling, it is approaching little by little.

The two sides were originally separated by a distance, so it really took time to catch up, but Yang Renyu, who didn't understand this, was anxious, at sea, his own side was an absolute weak side, and there were cannons on the front deck of the officers and soldiers' warships, while his two merchant ships had no artillery, so they could only be beaten passively. He was afraid that he would die before his ambition was rewarded, and it was understandable that he was anxious.

"Quick! …… Fast...... Fast! Although Yang Ren kept whispering fast words in his mouth, and his heart was secretly intensifying, the distance between the two parties was gradually narrowing.

Tonight is a sunny day, cloudless, and although it is not a full moon, the sea is open and unobstructed, and the line of sight can be seen far away. Gradually, the warships of the officers and men became clearer and clearer from the blur.

The warships on the sea are very large, and what fell into Yang Renzong's eyes was a 400-material battle patrol ship and two 200-material battle patrol ships, which was the standard configuration of a small patrol fleet, and the dark and faint cannons on the bow of several ships made Yang Renyu's scalp tingle.

Yang Renyu's two ships insisted on fleeing to the open sea, which made the officers and men very angry, and although the two sides were still two miles apart, the officers of the naval division gave the order to load and be ready to fire.

Yang Renyu saw the movement of the officers and soldiers clearly, and he estimated that the officers and soldiers were about to be shelled, so he immediately ordered loudly: "All the personnel wear armor and shields, and prepare to defend against artillery bombardment." ”

As soon as his slaves passed the order down, the soldiers rushed down the deck to the bottom compartment to get their armor and shields.

It takes time to reload the cannon, and it takes even more time for your soldiers to put on their armor and hold shields, so it's a race against time. In fact, Yang Renyu should have ordered the soldiers to wear armor and shields, but when they arrived on the sea, there was no way to avoid it, and it would be extremely stupid to hide it again.

Yang Renyu made a fatal mistake, so he also accepted the bloody lesson, and two minutes later, as soon as the artillery was loaded, the officer of the naval division decisively gave the order to bombard.

"Bah...... Bang...... "The three warships of the navy division have fired cannons one after another, only to see a red flame erupting from the muzzle, which is particularly dazzling against the backdrop of the night, Yang Renyu and his soldiers have subconsciously raised their hands to cover it, they have never seen the scene of cannon firing, so they made a very funny evasion action, and did not think about it carefully, what is the use of covering it with your hands when a cannon comes?

The hit rate of ancient artillery was very low, so to speak, surprisingly low! So the first round of shells, all missed.

Fortunately, at this time, the two sides were far apart, and the officers and soldiers fired a large iron bullet weighing about three catties, which was a point kill, and if they missed, it meant that their side had no casualties.

Fortunately, the gun in the bow of the officers and soldiers is a Hongyi cannon, focusing on the firing range, the rate of fire is very slow, about two minutes or more a round, if it is a side gun, it is the Franc cannon, the rate of fire is very fast, as long as the replacement has already been loaded with a sub-gun can be ignited and fired, the first three shots even only take 20 seconds, the rate of fire of the modern cannon is not much different, very terrifying, and the Franc cannon is to fire scattered bullets, is a surface kill, if the two ships are close to each other, will be a dozen large pieces.

…… To be continued