Chapter 42: The Great Ming Water Master

"Turn the rudder 10 degrees to the right, maintain the battle formation, and the boilers are all started. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 info" Lu Ping ordered.

In order to save coal, these days are to turn off the boiler and use the sail power to drive the voyage, and now that there is a war, there is no longer any consideration of saving coal.

Smoke began to rise from the chimneys on the decks of warships, and the soldiers who mastered the sails also began to adjust their sails.

The reason why the Ming character battle flag was hung out was that Sun Hao also took into account that many Chinese in Nanyang escaped when the Ming Dynasty fell, and he could slowly recruit these Ming Dynasty dead people.

Sun Hao saw that although these naval soldiers were nervous and busy, they were not chaotic at all, and he was very satisfied.

Thick smoke was rising from the chimneys on the decks of the ships, and the fleet was heading in the direction of the pirates in full force.

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"Da Ming Shui Master! Heaven will not kill me! An old man on the Lin family's first armed ship used a telescope to see the battle flag hanging on the First Fleet from a distance, and shouted excitedly, and at the same time, his tears of excitement fell. The Daming Sailor has not met an opponent for hundreds of years, and it is the Western countries that have been terrified.

After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the Lin family moved to Johor in Nanyang with all their families, and after hundreds of years of development, they have formed their own business network and have hundreds of merchant ships. In Nanyang, the Lin family and the Li family are the representatives of the Han people in Nanyang.

"Da Ming Shui Master! Heaven will not destroy my Lin family! ā€

Lin Lao Er was already in tears, whimpering, raising his hands high, facing the sky on his back, and shouted loudly again.

"Where?" A young man next to him also asked excitedly.

After the Lin family's crew discovered the Daming Naval Division, at the same time, the pirates also discovered the traces of the First Fleet.

Clyde saw the dense ships through the telescope, and the battleship was hung with the five-clawed golden dragon "Ming" battle flag, and knew that something was wrong. Although the Ming Dynasty has been destroyed for more than 100 years, to this day, their naval achievements have been circulating in the West. Especially when Clyde saw the huge figures of the Qin Shi Huang, Li Shimin and the Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, his feet trembled slightly.

Hey! How can they have one or two cannon barrels on the deck of their battleship? Still black smoke coming from above? Could it be that a cannon? When Clyde thought that the chimney was a giant cannon, his heart suddenly cooled, a huge cannon of such a caliber, there would definitely be no scum left after one shot. Hey! No, the muzzle of the cannon should not be pointed at this heaven. Clyde didn't understand what the chimney was all about.

"Retreat now!" Clyde ordered loudly in horror, there are at least more than 50 warships of the Daming Naval Division, and if he does not retreat, he is completely looking for death.

"Withdraw!" The commander of the Great Golden Tooth also shouted in horror, praying to God in his heart, hoping that the Great Ming Sailor would not open fire.

Lu Ping, the commander of the First Fleet of the Navy, saw that the pirates wanted to escape, and a smile flowed from the corner of his mouth, according to Sun Hao's meaning, he wanted to sink all these pirates, but it was better to be able to force them down, and it would be better to get the wealth they had robbed.

"Pursue with all your might, surround it!" Lu Ping held a Type 1795 pistol in his hand and said loudly.

Sun Hao saw that those pirates wanted to escape, so he took out a cigarette and put it to his mouth, looking ahead indifferently. Wang Yan'er saw that Sun Hao wanted to smoke, so she quickly took out a lighter to help him light it.

After chasing for a while, Lu Ping saw that he had reached the best shooting distance, so he ordered to fire!

Rumble! Rumble! Qin Shi Huang, Li Shimin, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, as well as dozens of other warships, all opened fire one after another, and since these warships were refitted, not only were guns installed on the sides of the ship, but also two guns of 150 mm caliber were installed on the bow and stern, so that they could fire in all directions and increase the combat effectiveness of the ships.

The muzzles of the guns shone with orange-red flames, and shells flew out with a sharp whistling sound.

Clyde saw that the battleship of the Daming Naval Division was still at least about 5,500 meters away from him before opening fire, and he couldn't help but despise in his heart: "It seems that the commander of the Daming Naval Division's fleet is funny, the distance is so far, plus the ships are moving, can you fight?" Do they want to fry fish? Isn't this a waste of shells at all? ā€

But the cannonballs that flew with it exploded one by one next to the fleeing pirate fleet, and the violent explosion set off a huge wave of skyrocketing, and the pirate ship did not hit a single one, but many of the fish were killed.

Clyde, the Great Golden Fang, and the pirates were dumbfounded. It's no wonder that the current artillery technology, even heavy artillery can have a range of 5,000 meters, but the ships are not equipped with too perverted heavy guns, and the heavy guns are only installed in fortresses or on land. And their shells seem to explode? Did they use flowering bombs? Blossom bombs don't have such power, huh?

It's no wonder that these pirates are all equipped with hundreds to thousands of pounds of heavy artillery on their ships, and the largest is only 60-pound guns, plus the shells used are all solid shells, so they were frightened after seeing the shelling of the First Fleet of the Daming Naval Division.

The first round of shelling did not hit one of the pirate ships, and the gunners of the First Fleet were not discouraged.

"Up 1.22, 0.5 to the left." The observers quickly corrected the parameters based on the first round of shelling.

Rumble! Rumble! After the gunners adjusted their parameters, the second round of shelling began.

Cannonballs flew towards the pirate ship with a sharp whistling sound....

Lin Jiasheng was stunned at first when he saw that the pirates had stopped shelling and were fleeing for their lives. However, there was a thick cannon sound in the passage, and then, Lin Jiasheng was overjoyed, could it be that a helper came?

For! For! Lin Jiasheng ran to the highest ship, and when he saw through the telescope that the overwhelming ships were all hanging the Ming flag, his heart was shocked.

"My Da Ming Shui Master is mighty, and the sky will not kill my Da Ming!"

Lin Jiasheng excitedly held the monocular in one hand, and shouted loudly, and even more excited old tears were raised.

Seeing that the naval guns of the Daming Navy Division could hit so far, Lin Jiasheng was shocked in his heart, and saw that the cannonballs were smashed towards the pirates with a sharp whistling sound, and the violent explosions continued to sound, blowing up columns of water that rushed to the sky, and those pirates were fleeing for their lives, and his heart was a lot more happy.

Rumble! A cannonball hit a 50-ton pirate ship, and the violent explosion dismembered the ship in an instant, and the brittle wooden planks flew everywhere, and the pirates who were busy were also blown apart by the energy of the explosion, and their flesh and blood flew everywhere.