Chapter 40: Pirates

Sailing was lonely, especially in this era of extremely slow ships, when the fleet continued to sail along the route from the Indian Ocean to Australia after entering the Indian Ocean from the Bengal Sea. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

In the early morning of May 18, 1797, the warm sun slowly rose, bringing a touch of warmth to people. A faint layer of mist rises above the sea, which looks quite charming, with a few seabirds occasionally flying by, and a few chirpings from time to time.

Sun Hao got up early and practiced his fighting skills on the bow deck of the battleship Qin Shi Huang.

The fighting technique of the Marine Corps is similar to Bajiquan, which is a short-fighting boxing method that has been improved and integrated with modern sanda, and its movements are extremely strong. In terms of technical techniques, it is important to take inch by inch, and to hit hard and open. It really has the characteristics of suffering, helping, squeezing, leaning, collapsing and shaking as generally described. The force is on the heels, at the waist, and through the fingertips, so the explosive force is extremely strong and very rich in the characteristics of technical attack. Due to the strong, unpretentious, and explosive action of Bajiquan, there is a tendency of "shaking your arms and hitting the sky, and stomping your feet to shake Kyushu".

After years of practice, Sun Hao has achieved suppleness and naturalness in the process of accumulating strength and running with strength, fast but not stiff, soft and unremitting, only to see a fist shadow majestic like ten thousand horses galloping, or like rolling waves crashing on the shore, opening and closing the air, breaking the air like a dragon chanting and tiger roaring. Now every punch and kick Sun Hao makes every leg with the sound of whirring through the air, not only is it fast, but it is really powerful.

After Wang Yan'er saw Sun Hao collect his fist, he handed him the towel in his hand and said with a smile: "Xianggong, your boxing skills are getting more and more powerful!" ā€

Hehe! "It must be a little stronger, otherwise how can I conquer you two little goblins in bed."

"Xianggong, you are so annoying!" Wang Yan'er smashed her fist on Sun Hao's chest with a burst of powder, and said with her mouth crossed.

"Was you comfortable last night?" Sun Hao put his arm around Wang Yan'er's jade neck and kissed her lips with a big mouth.

"Xianggong, you are so annoying, you almost fainted our sister last night."

"Isn't it! You yourselves told me not to stop, but you told me to exert myself. ā€

"Xianggong ....."

The two of them frolicked in the bow of the boat, and several of the guards stood far away, for fear of disturbing the two of them.

After eight o'clock, the fog on the sea gradually clears, the sky becomes cloudless, and the warm sunlight is sprinkled on the body, which is very pleasant.

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More than 30 kilometers away from Sun Hao's fleet, a scene of chasing me is being performed, in front of which are more than 20 hard-sailed wooden ships of dozens to hundreds of tons, one of which is a fortune ship with a displacement of more than 500 tons, and the flag pole is hung with the flag of "Lin".

Behind are more than 10 Western sailing ships, ranging from two masts to three masts, these warships have soft sails on the masts, a skull flag is hung on the masts, the artillery baffles on both sides of the ship have been opened, and the gunners are ready in place, waiting for the order.

On a three-masted ship, a man with a sturdy and evil face, wearing a felt hat and a full beard, dressed in a red long-breasted coat and pantyhose tights similar to those of later generations, stared closely at the merchant ship ahead.

"Captain, give the order to fire! We've flagged them three times, but to no avail. The strong man standing beside Clyde said angrily.

Clyde nodded slightly, it is best not to waste cannonballs, it seems that this time it must be real, otherwise those yellow-skinned monkeys still don't know my Clyde's prestige, Clyde thought to himself.

In the late 18th century, there were countless pirates in Southeast Asia across the Indian Ocean, and Clyde was one of them. Clyde is a British navy, very talented, because he offended his boss and was dismissed, angrily gathered a group of people and began to do piracy business, 10 years of robbery of countless wealth, at the same time the team has also expanded to about 3,000 people, in East Asia and the Indian Ocean, famous, has been known to everyone.

Clyde has also been surrounded and suppressed by the navies of the Netherlands, Spain, Britain, France and other countries, but he has escaped by chance, and is still growing, and sometimes even the navies of some countries have been killed and wounded by Clyde, over the years, Clyde's reputation in this generation has been created.

In order to pursue speed, pirate warships were generally rarely equipped with heavy guns, and they were usually six-, 12-pounder, or 18-pounder guns, which was conducive to the lightness of the warship. However, such artillery does not have a long range, and it is also a major weakness of pirate ships.

After receiving the order to fire, the gunners began to line up the warship, which was conducive to firing, because the guns of this era were mounted on both sides of the ship.

"Fire!" A pirate commander with a mouth full of large gold teeth gave the order for an artillery bombardment.

Rumble! Rumble! The sound of artillery continued to sound, and one after another shells flew out of the muzzle and smashed towards the Lin family's merchant ships in front.

Today's artillery does not have a fire control system, let alone an aiming system, and if you want to hit the enemy, it all depends on the gunners' vision and experience. The current artillery range is very short, and the guns on the ship can hit about 4,000 meters, which is considered a long range. The guns on Clyde's fleet are all light artillery, and the range is only about 2,000 meters, and the Lin family's merchant ships are also exactly within 1,500 meters, but it is not so easy for pirates to hit merchant ships, unless they are within a range of several hundred meters.

The pirates' guns were fired at the same time as two or three, and then it was the turn of the other guns to fire, and they did not dare to fire a salvo at all. Today's warships are all wooden-hulled battleships, and after a salvo of artillery on the side of the ship, it is easy to damage the ship, or even disintegrate the ship immediately.

After the first blow, black smoke was everywhere on the sea, black gunpowder was used in this era, and after the cannon was fired, the smoke was very large.

After the first round of shelling, not a single shell hit the Lin family's merchant ship, but the gunners were not discouraged and continued to reload gunpowder in preparation for the second round of shelling.

The pirate gunners appear to be well-trained, and they are quick to clear the chambers and reload gunpowder and shells.

On one of the other party's merchant ships, Lin Jiasheng stood on the deck with a frown, he paid money to this group of pirates every year, but he didn't expect them to come and rob his merchant ship, this Captain Clyde was really untrustworthy, and he wished that he would be wiped out by the navies of other countries immediately.

"Boss, it's dangerous to go on like this, you have to think of something!" A middle-aged man who looked like a housekeeper standing next to Lin Jiasheng said.

"Steward Lin, can you come up with any ideas?" Lin Jiasheng looked at Steward Lin with sharp eyes and said, this Steward Lin is greedy for life and afraid of death, and he is also corrupt and bribery, if it weren't for the fact that he is a member of the Lin family, he still has some talents, Lin Jiasheng would have wanted to kill him with a knife.