Tian Li, the captain of the Flying Falcon, has a single name and a swallow character, and can be appointed as the captain, so he is naturally a person that Yu Guozhen trusts and likes. In fact, when he was in the Tiger Guard system, his position was similar to Tian Boguang's, and it was generally believed that if he had not been transferred to the Fishery Bureau, he would have been at least a brigade deputy now.

The time in the Fishery Administration Bureau is six years, and in six years, it is possible to train an excellent middle-level officer, but it is difficult to train an excellent captain. Li Yan's efforts in the past six years have been great, and the gains have been great, so when the Falcon officially went to sea, Yu Guozhen appointed him as the captain of the Falcon

Although it is only a 200-ton ship, those who know that Yu Guozhen attaches great importance to practical learning and technology understand that Li Yan will enter the fast track for promotion, and if the Fourth Fleet appears, then Li Yan will become the governor of the Fourth Fleet.

"The Dutch, as well as the Zheng family, they appear here at this time, and their only target is our Xinxiang!"

Li Yan stood on the first deck, the corners of her mouth were tightly pursed, and her eyes were unscrupulous.

The sailors around him shouted loudly, and they didn't pay attention to the ships surrounded by Mingxian in front of them.

The Falcon is a sister ship to the purely experimental Yellow Sandpiper, but it is different, on the one hand, the steam turbine has been improved, and the power is greater than that of the Yellow Sandpiper, on the other hand, the Flying Falcon has considerable armament, and the ship is equipped with eight guns, and these eight guns are different from the previous new artillery, it is a new generation of artillery, using front-loading rifled technology, so that the gun's firing speed, effective range and accuracy are better than the previous artillery. This is also a product of Yu Guozhen's proposal to concentrate excellent craftsmen on the Ordnance Research Institute after discovering that artillery did not have the advantage during the attack on Luzon last year.

Previously, Yu Guozhen also proposed many times that rifling should be carved in the chamber of the gun and musket, and he believed that the effect of the straight chamber is not too great now, so it is directly on the spiral chamber. However, after countless experiments, the results were not satisfactory, until a craftsman, while folding a cannon for his own boy, accidentally had a flash of inspiration, drew a diagonal line on the paper, and then rolled the paper flat to become a spiral pattern. If you engrave the pattern on the paper scroll on the stick and pass it through an iron ring with protrusions, the stick will rotate slowly according to the spiral pattern.

The next step is to load the knife on the other end of the stick, and then you can create a spiral trunking in the barrel bore.

The use of the steam engine, more powerful and more stable power, made rifling a very easy task. In order to increase the airtightness and make the warhead more accurate to shoot accurately, the shells used in this new type of artillery have also been changed from round bullets to pointed bullets.

And being able to rifle artillery and muskets is just a matter of raising hands, so the Tiger Guard Ding musket was born. It's just that considering that the recent army conflict is unlikely, the Tiger Guard has not completely changed its outfit at present.

This is Li Yan's confidence, although the number of guns on the Flying Falcon is not large, and the guns are not heavy artillery, but in terms of range, they will definitely not be inferior to these old-fashioned smoothbore guns, and in terms of accuracy, they are even better than them.

"I've done a game with these guys first, I've done a game!" The sailors next to him shouted one by one.

The Tiger Guards, whether on land or in the water, are not afraid of war, they are only afraid of not fighting, they are afraid of small battles, but they have never been afraid of many enemies, or strong enemies.

This is a tradition that Yu Guozhen has had since he took up the tiger guard, when there were only a dozen people, he dared to fight with dozens of thieves, and with a few hundred people, he dared to charge at two or three thousand thieves. It can be said that daring to fight big battles and fighting ruthless battles has been soaked in the bones of Huwei and has become the tradition of this army.

"Okay, let's fuck them, but everyone be careful, don't learn from the monk's idiot, I didn't watch the girl take a bath, but I was poured a foot wash water."

As soon as these words came out, everyone laughed. This is an allusion to the Huwei Water Master, a water master named Ho Shang sneaks to peep at people's baths while transporting female immigrants from Tamna, only to be caught and poured a head of bath water. Among the Tiger Guards, this is a big mistake, and He Shang was punished because of this, and his promotion was also affected.

Later, Luo Jiuhe's evaluation came to He Shang's ears, making him convinced of his punishment: "This monk, voyeurism is not a big mistake, but if you are caught peeping, it is a big mistake, and you will lose the face of our tiger guard."

No wonder the nickname is a monk, and he doesn't even have the ability to watch women take a bath, isn't it the life of a monk for a lifetime? ”

"Captain, you don't know which girl He Shang peeked at is now a monk's sister-in-law." Someone said something on the sidelines.

"What do I not know, when it comes to women, you perverts are energetic, go back to your place, first finish these things that don't know whether to live or die, and then go back to ask for you, where is there a beautiful girl, let's peep first and then hug to bed!"

Everyone dispersed, returning to their posts, just waiting for this encounter to happen.

Li Yan chose to fight with the other party first, and naturally had her own plans.

Obviously, the Zheng family colluded with the Dutch and wanted to attack Xinxiang. Xinxiang's garrison is no longer the same as it was when Liu Xianglao attacked, and the forts on Longmen Island were enough to destroy a small fleet. However, it is in a precautionary situation, and if you are caught off guard, you may suffer a big loss

If it's just Xinxiang, as soon as Longmen is attacked, Xinxiang will soon get the news, the key is that Longmen Shipyard is now very large, and it is a critical period for the production of steamships, it really gives this group of thieves who suddenly came to break through Longmen Island, and then injured some craftsmen and researchers, the loss will be difficult to make up, at least let Xinxiang's shipbuilding industry be delayed for two to three years!

"Boom!"

Since the range of the cannon is farther than that of the other side, the gunner is naturally not polite, and the first thing to do is to bombard it with one shot. However, at this distance, even if it is a rifled gun, the hit rate is really not high, but it only stirs up a column of water dozens of meters away from the opponent.

"The range is very long!" Dimen was surprised: "You can hit this distance so far...... It can't be luck, right? ”

"A ship that can sail without wind, and whose guns are still so long, Your Excellency, is a gift from God to us in the Netherlands! With it, in Batavia we can make more of these ships, and even bigger, with which we can even conquer Europe, so that both England, France and damned Spain will bow down! ”

Yunius was shouting again, he was equally zealous in proselytizing and misappropriating interests, and he could imagine what his position in the Church would be in the future if he had been present during the capture of the ship!

Therefore, he tried his best to encourage Dimen, for fear that Dimen would give up this opportunity because of fear.

Of course, Dimon would not give up, no matter how far the range of the guns on that ship was, it would be only one, and it was a medium-tonnage ship, and the number of sailors on it would not exceed two hundred.

Although they did not have a 1,000-ton battleship this time, there were 15 of them of 500 or 600 tons, and in particular, the Zheng family also copied two 800-ton giant ships equivalent to the Huaqing, plus frigates and armed merchant ships, adding up to more than 100 ships. The number of soldiers on the ship, Zheng Zhilong's side has not yet been counted by Dimen, but he knows the number of his own side, including 1,500 regular army reinforcements from Batavia, 1,500 regular troops from Dayuan, and 5,000 indigenous troops from Dayuan Island that Yunius found!

The total number of the two coalition armies should be more than 20,000. Although he knew that the Tiger Guard defeated Spain and his combat effectiveness should not be underestimated, Mendy still had the stubbornness and arrogance unique to Europeans at this time, and still believed that if it were not for the disparity between the outnumbered and the outnumbered, the Europeans would have an advantage over the natives of Asia.

This arrogance and arrogance are also soaked in the bones of white people, and it is impossible to change at all, even after hundreds of years.

"Adjust the course, target west!" After Li Yan fired two shots, he ordered the helmsman: "Sail at a speed, keep twelve, don't throw the other party off!" ”

"This is fishing, these boys usually only fish as a pastime, and now it's time to see their fishing level!"

Hearing the words of Hu Quan, the instructor next to him, Li Yan smiled and had no interface.

They first headed west, and it looked like they were forced to flee. The forty-mile journey ended in this chase and escape, and in the process, the problem of the combined fleet arose, that is, the speed of the ships was not equal, and it could not be seen when they were not sailing at full speed, but after sailing at full speed, the fast ones could catch up with the Flying Falcon, and the slow ones were gradually pulled away.

"Li Yan, look, it seems to be an opportunity, only two ships are relatively close to us!" Hu Quan keenly noticed this, but he was a little weak and lacked decision, so he pulled Li Yan's arm and said, "Can you give it a try?" ”

"Naturally, if a man can't, he will be ridiculed!" Li Yan laughed, and then ordered to slow down.

The fastest pursuers were two fast sailing ships, their tonnage was about eighty tons at most, and the Falcon was almost larger than the two of them combined. After noticing that the Falcon had slowed down, the captains of the two ships were in ecstasy, they had no idea that it was the Falcon that wanted to kill them, so it would take the initiative to slow down, and think that the other ship was malfunctioning.

After all, behind them, there is a huge combined fleet, even if the distance is opened now, in fact, it is two or three miles apart, more than ten minutes, and they can be reached.

"Observations, the other side should be using an eight-pounder gun, and the range is only about half of ours, so you can approach with confidence!"

For the Tiger Guard Naval Army, a very important part of observing the enemy's situation is to estimate the effective range of the opponent through the caliber of the opponent's artillery. Therefore, after confirming that the other two clippers were using fast short guns, they slowed down even more slowly, allowing the other side to get closer and closer, and the distance between the two sides was even less than 400 meters.

The other party began to fire, but the quasi-head really didn't dare to compliment, and the difference was very far. Li Yan frowned, with the strength of this group of pirates in Europe, it stands to reason that there will not be such a big deviation.

Immediately, he understood what the other party meant.

"They want to capture us alive, and also, if it were me, they would also want to capture us alive when they see such a sailless ship!" Li Yanxi said: "This is good, in this way, we can be unscrupulous!" ”

"You are the captain of the ship, and it is up to you to decide how you fight." Hu Quan said. (To be continued)