The second round of shelling of the Galen ship greatly surprised everyone!

At normal speed, it would take at most two minutes for the 18-pounder gun to be reloaded and fired, which was only enough time for the Golden Phoenix to approach about 800 meters away from the opponent; But in fact, it was not until the Jinfeng entered the 600-meter ballista firing distance that the other party made the first cannon sound, and the next four or five shells were also fired one after another, and the sparse landing was not at all presentable.

This made the sailors who were sweating in their palms on the Golden Phoenix overjoyed, and two crossbow arrows that had already adjusted the shooting parameters **** came out, and swooped down on the spinnaker and the rear mast in the bow of the ship respectively.

At this time, an even more surprising scene appeared, the orange-red fire not only exploded on the deck, but even the fire burst out from time to time below the deck!

But the sailors didn't have time to think about this oddity right now, and they had to use the few minutes that the Golden Phoenix had passed by the bow of the opposing ship to dump as many chainshells, shotguns, and even ballistas onto the deck of the Galen ship as they could.

By the time the Golden Phoenix slid past the bow of the Galen 200 meters, the deck of the Galen was in shambles: the ropes had been blown off, and the triangular sail of tattered rags was limp on the beams; The Dutch sailors, who were trying to hang their sails at the foremast, were gathered together, and two shotguns were smashed on them almost without waste, and the deck was suddenly filled with people who shouted loudly; It was even worse under the mainmast, where a chain bounced across the entire deck, wrenching the sails stacked on the deck, and harvesting the legs of seven or eight Dutch sailors, and for a time the middle deck was broken and flying sideways; The blow to the rear mast was smaller, the bottom quadrangular sail was torn in half, and the chain bullet that hit the rear mast was not strong enough to break the rear mast, but it wrapped a lot of ropes firmly around the mast.

Chu Fan, who was holding a clairvoyant mirror to carefully observe the results of the battle, was still lamenting the bloody naval battle in the Sail Era. I saw that the Dawn, which was closely behind the Golden Phoenix, also entered a 600-meter strike range, and the three ballistas fired almost simultaneously, all hitting the deck of the Galen ship, and putting down the sailors who had just climbed up from the deck.

And the strange explosions below the deck were still ringing from time to time, and Chu Fan noticed that the sailors who escaped from the deck were all panicking. It's a swarm of bees, it's completely unorganized, and it doesn't look like a well-trained professional soldier no matter how you look at it.

What the hell is going on below deck?

Chu Fan was puzzled, he decided to wait for the Golden Phoenix to go around in circles and charge again, and then jump to fight - he resolutely followed the principle of concentrating on fighting a war of annihilation, the meal should be eaten one bite at a time, and the ships should be knocked one by one, and he would rather give up the Galen ship that the other party had fled from, but also take down the ship in front of him completely!

But it's a matter of jumping. The Golden Phoenix didn't seem to have to do anything—after the Dawn, the task force ships followed the same trajectory one after the other, raining ballistas and shells onto the Galen at the same distance, and soon there was no longer anyone standing on the deck of the Galen.

When it was the turn of the Iron Harrier to appear, the battleship, which had been converted from a Canton ship, changed course and stuck to the already dumb side of the Galen, and countless flying grabs were nailed to the board of the Galen, and then the ape-like nimble sailors climbed up to the deck along the ropes. It then vanished below deck.

The die is cast!

Chu Fan couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief, but his heart was quickly filled with question marks.

Why did the Galen ship have a dumb fire? What's the deal with that weird explosion?

Just when the Iron Harrier jumped into the gang. The St. Paul's was already five or six miles away.

Van Oost was not ashamed of his escape, on the contrary, he felt that if he hadn't made a quick decision, the East India Company would have lost not only two Galen warships, but also the latest and most advanced warship of the St. Paul, which would have become a trophy of the Ming people!

In his mind, fighting to the death is not bravery. It's stupid!

So when the winged Golden Phoenix appeared in the camera, Van Oost gave the order to retreat with full sails and the wind - the other party also owned the Galen ship, which was enough to surprise him, and the Galen ship was also equipped with winged sails like those hard sails, which made him completely lose the confidence to resist.

Obviously, the reason why these Oriental schooners were able to compete with the Galen in speed must have something to do with the strange wingsails. And now that a Galen ship, also with an all-soft sail, has also been fitted with wingsails, wouldn't it be desperately fast?

Of course, the more important reason for his loss of confidence was that he couldn't understand why Akito could make adjustments to the battle situation again and again? Could it be that God was always informing these lucky Akitoshi of the changes on the battlefield? Why do you have more powerful warships every time you see the dawn of victory? This is really something that the old pirate can't figure out even if he wants to break his head!

Sure enough, the converted Galen swooped down on the Spirit, and a clean bombardment wiped out all the latter's efforts to resume sailing, and sent a chill down the old pirate's heart, who was at one point very worried about whether the St. Paul would survive in the face of the unparalleled speed of the other party!

However, Van Oerst was very fortunate that the other party then gathered in front of the enemy, and it was this half an hour that gave him a respite to hang up the sails and turn.

He was even more glad that he had made the wise decision to lower all the sails except for the spinnaker and tail sail.

As a result, the St. Paul suffered little damage against the Akito warship - the spinnaker was intact, and only one of the quadrangular sails on the stern was slightly damaged.

Van Oust still did not dare to be careless, and after thoroughly inspecting the back and forth, and confirming that the St. Paul was speeding at maximum speed, he returned to the aft command platform.

The rumbling of the cannon had stopped, and the old pirate leaned against the railing to look at the decisive horn, which had turned into a small black dot, and his face was gloomy, not knowing what he was thinking.

Suddenly, the sound of conches sounded again from the mainmast lookout, and Van Ouster was startled, and he pulled out the clairvoyant mirror from his waist and looked straight ahead, he was so anxious that he hung up a sapphire on the clairvoyant.

Fortunately, the ships of the Shimazu family and the Chen family appeared in the camera, and the old pirate breathed a sigh of relief - he was really frightened enough by those elusive Mingren!

"Ignore them and go through the middle!" After relaxing, Van Oost shouted, "Just let them help us get in the way!" (To be continued.) )