The two sail warships facing each other frantically sprayed cannonballs at a distance where they could see each other's captains clearly with binoculars, and the blue sea was filled with gunsmoke and the cannonballs whistled, and columns of water rose into the sky, forming an extremely spectacular picture. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Portuguese battleships had more artillery and were more powerful.

But the distance cancels it all out.

The normal naval battle distance between sail warships is only a few hundred meters, and it is difficult to hit the target no matter how far it is, but now the combat distance between the two ships is more than a thousand meters, because there is no rangefinder, no flintlock, poor accuracy of smoothbore guns and other reasons, it is difficult for the Portuguese shells to hit the Flying Eagle, and even if they hit, a few spherical solid shells will not be fatal.

And the Flying Eagle has fewer guns.

But the Flying Eagle is a rifled gun with a higher level of accuracy, and the shell is still a pointed bullet, and there is also an optical rangefinder This kind of black technology level plug-in, it can use the shell at such a distance to far exceed the hit rate of the Portuguese, easily penetrate the opponent's thick plank, it can be said that almost every round of shelling will be harvested, but its shell is too small, seven and a half pounds of artillery is the European standard of ten pounder guns, with this kind of cannonball is not as big as a lead ball to sink a battleship with a displacement of nearly 1,000 tons.

That's a fantasy.

As for the flowering shells, this one can only destroy the superstructure, because it is much lighter than a solid shell, which cannot penetrate the planks on the side of the battleship.

Of course, this does not mean that the Flying Eagle has an absolute advantage.

"Mada, my ship!"

In the splashing wood chips when a thirty-two-pound shell hit the tail tower, He Kun couldn't help but wail, and then shouted impatiently to the intercom tube: "Lao Wang, have you finished it?" If you don't finish it, you should let people die. ”

"Okay, okay, it's not like you don't know that this cannonball is very troublesome to unblock!"

On the second deck below, Gun Elder Wang gasped and shouted.

"Fire, send them to the bottom of the sea!"

He Kun immediately regained his original arrogance and roared.

Immediately after that, the nine cannons suddenly erupted into flames, and the nine cannonballs whistled across the sea like meteors, and almost at the same time, the Portuguese forty-eight-pounder guns also fired, and a huge cannonball weighing thirty-six pounds smashed on the Flying Eagle, and the smashed wood chips flew like projectiles, and a piece of wood even pierced He Kun's face, but he didn't notice that he was staring at his opponent with all his attention, and on the deck of that battleship, like festive fireworks, countless sparks were scattered gorgeously.

He let out a sigh.

It's over.

That's white phosphorus shells.

"These ghosts are also very powerful, if there is no armor bullet, we are afraid that even if we can sink them, we will be crippled!"

The gunners climbed out of the cabin and stood beside him as he watched the Portuguese battleship blaze in the distance.

The Eagle was also hit by six shells, all of them from heavy naval guns, at least heavy enough for the thin-plated armed merchant ship, and it could also be said that it was scarred, especially the last forty-eight-pound shell, which almost smashed the tail tower into a pile of broken wood, and even killed and wounded a dozen sailors. The Ming Navy has bullied Kang Mazi's sailors over the years, and it is the first time to face the real navy, and it is also the first time that a warship has been injured like this, after all, Kang Mazi's sailor battleship, the cannon almost has no chance to hit the Ming warship.

"Nonsense, if any cruiser can destroy a battleship, those ghosts can still be a fart and salvage the ghosts at sea, what a good animal! Then immediately return to Changguo and report to the prince quickly, it is estimated that the prince will be very happy. ”

He Kun said.

"Uh, are others happy to provoke our prince?"

The gunner said in amazement.

"Believe me, the prince is now dreaming that someone will provoke us!"

He Kun said sinisterly.

As he spoke, he pulled the piece of wood from his face with great force, grinning in pain.

He guessed correctly, and when Yang Wang Ye got the news three days later, he immediately smiled happily.

"Order the Nanyang Fleet to set sail at once, target Macao, blockade Macao, and then tell the Portuguese that they must give an explanation for this atrocity, why their warships would savagely attack our Ming naval warships at sea? If their explanation is not satisfactory to the king, then the king will declare war on the kingdom of Portugal, but whether or not their explanation is satisfactory to the king, their right of residence in Macau will be revoked, and they will be given seventy-two hours to evacuate Macau, and they will no longer be welcome in the land of our Ming Dynasty! Seventy-two hours later, if they don't leave, then land and regain Macau, and then all the Portuguese will send me to work as coolies at various construction sites before the ransom is paid! ”

Yang Wang Ye said righteously.

Immediately afterwards, the staff officer next to him quickly drafted this order according to his meaning, handed it to him to read it, signed his name, and the seal keeper next to him stamped it, and then handed it to the waiting messenger to send it to Changguo in an expedited way.

"Lord Wang, what are the two merchant ships they escaped on?"

Next to the chief of staff of the Navy Han Wen said.

"What else can there be, arms, Jinyiwei recently got information, the fourth elder brother in the northeast seems to be very close to the church, one of his envoys is on a ship to Europe, we met on a merchant ship in Malacca, the merchant on the ship happens to know this guy, or a man with a yellow flag named Tu Lichen, accompanied by a missionary sent to us by the Holy See, so what is he going to do? The fourth elder brother, who has read Confucian articles since he was a child, can't he really seek spiritual refuge? Now it seems that his flattery is good! The order was given to the North Sea Fleet to immediately block the Korean Strait, and when they saw these two ships, they were immediately arrested, and if they dared to resist, they would be sunk directly! ”

Yang Feng said

However, it is difficult to say whether he can catch up in time, after all, it will take several days for his order to reach Weihai, and then rush to the Korean Strait, it is estimated that the two ships have almost passed early, but it is not a big deal, continue to go north to Vladivostok to arrest them. Anyway, they have nowhere else to unload the goods, it is nothing more than the Tumen River Estuary and Vladivostok, absolutely one catches one accurately, in fact, even if it is really munitions, and it is not a big deal to send it to Yinzhen, the Portuguese are nothing more than some smoothbore flintlock pistols, it is not as good as those short-barreled rifled guns that Dai Zi made for Kang Mazi!

"Lord Wang, the person you want has arrived."

At this time, one of the attendants said respectfully.

"Let him in!"

Yang Feng said.

Soon, a dark and sturdy man in his thirties walked into the command hall of the General Staff of the Navy, and then knelt down to him and saluted with a look of reverence: "Captain Yang Huai, captain of the battleship Zhuyuan of the Nanyang Fleet of the Ming Navy, see Generalissimo, King Wu Chitose!" ”

"Get up!"

Yang Feng said.

Because the size of the army is getting bigger and bigger, and the number of officers is increasing, the five-level military rank of the former commander and lieutenant is no longer enough, Yang Feng re-divided the four grades of the general lieutenant and the lieutenant into two grades, that is, the rank of general, major general, colonel, major, captain, second lieutenant, sergeant, and sergeant.

Yang Feng sat there and looked at the battleship captain.

The latter stood straight with his chest held high.

"Are you willing to die for this king?"

Yang Feng suddenly asked.

Yang Huai was stunned for a moment, and then said loudly: "The soldier dies for his confidant, and the prince has promoted his humble position from a framed death row prisoner to a general in the army. ”

"Good, but I don't need you to die."

Yang Feng smiled and said: "It's just that I need you to go to a far place, take a road that no one has ever walked, and it will take a long time, it is estimated that it will be difficult to come back for a year or two, and it is likely to encounter all kinds of hardships and dangers that you can't imagine along the way. ”

"Willing to do it!"

Yang Huai said.

"That's good, come here!"

Yang Feng stood up and said, took him into his office, then walked into a secret door, pointed to the huge world map on the wall and said: "I want you to set sail from Changguo and keep walking eastward, I don't know how long it will take, I only know that you will have to walk close to 20,000 li, and then there will be a big archipelago here, I call it Xiangshan." There are already some living beings there, and you can get in touch with them there, and get some silk, glass, porcelain, etc., to gain their favor, and then get supplies there to recuperate.

Then you have to go on east.

It should be said to go north-east, until you come to a real continent.

It was what the ghosts called America, they called it the New World, and they had been operating there for more than a hundred years, but they were used to being active on the east coast there, and although there were people colonizing the west coast in the past, there were not many of them. Your task is to go north along the coastline, to find this place, to find this bay, which I call Jinshan, and now it should be the territory of the Spaniards, of course, it doesn't matter, you can use the opening of commercial routes as a reason, buy it, show harmlessness, anyway, you really have no other meaning on this trip, that is, to establish the route, even if the king wants to rob it, it is not this time. ”

Yang Feng pointed to the location of San Francisco on the map.

"Do you understand?"

He then asked.

"The humble position understands, under the whole world, it is not the king's land, the shore of the land, it is not the king's minister, every inch of land that the sun shines on is the prince's, the prince wants to add the four seas, make the four Yi bow down, and the lowly position is the prince's pawn, to explore the way for the prince."

Yang Huai said.

"Okay, under the whole world, it is not the king's land! I like your words, I have the spirit of a Ming soldier! ”

Yang Feng patted him on the shoulder and said with satisfaction. (To be continued.) )