"Given you such a fast boat, there are eight cannons on board that can hit two or three miles, but you have engaged pirates on several fishing boats? You're so capable! ”

Li Shi rarely used a mocking tone on the group of boys under him, and the heads of the three people immediately drooped.

"I made you navy! You're good! Use the ship as a city wall and continue to play the army! Only eight people were injured!? Your boats are like eagles, these cannons are like eagles' talons, and those fishing boats are like rabbits on the ground. You can blow them down one by one with a cannon from a distance, like an eagle pounceing on a rabbit, without losing a single hair! ”

Li Shi's words immediately caused Hu Hanshan and Zhao Hanxiang to look at each other, both of them were complaining about each other, one said why did you come up with such a bad idea, and the other said why did you use this bad idea.

"It was supposed to be zero casualties, but you played with eight times the casualties, I think you ......"

When Li Xian trained this, the three teenagers were suddenly sweating, and they thought to themselves, could it be that they were going to be thrown back to Yingde and continue to do their original work? It doesn't matter how you punish it, but when the navy is something they have won with great difficulty, they just go back in disgrace, and others are not allowed to laugh themselves to death?

"You have to practice hard!"

The verdict made them almost soft on the ground.

"Do you know what's wrong with you?"

Li Shi said in a deep voice, now he is serious.

"I told you earlier, what is the inscription of our navy?"

Without a moment's hesitation, the three teenagers read out in unison.

"Attack! Attack patiently! ”

Li Xi nodded.

"Very good, attack, you did it, but what about the back? Did you eat the rest of the story? ”

Hu Hanshan's forehead was sweating, Zhao Hanxiang frowned and gritted his teeth, and Meng Songhai's eyes widened. Li Shi's words smashed straight into their hearts like cannonballs.

"Patience! If you don't have a chance once, try ten times, a hundred times! Since it's up to you to decide whether you want to fight or leave, keep trying! Let you sail, you have to rely on patience to learn, and if you want to fight in the future, you have to rely on patience to fight! ”

The three teenagers were awe-inspiring, and Hu Hanshan gritted his teeth and engraved these two words on his heart.

In the sea off Quanzhou, looking at the shadow of the tall ship five or six miles away, Jia Hao on the deck, and Lu Hanshan in the gun cabin subconsciously shouted: "Guns and cannons are ready!" ”

Xiao Sheng was on the deck, Liang Deguang was in the gun room, and he hurriedly shook his hand at the same time, not saying that he wanted to fight.

"Prepare ...... beforehand"

Lu Hanshan scratched his head and said.

"Be prepared......

Jia Hao said perfunctorily, secretly regretting it, attacking...... The Director-General said that the navy is attacking, and every cannon and gun has to be fired, but now he has to pretend to be a grandson, which is really embarrassing.

The two ships were close to a distance of dozens of zhang, and Jia Lu and the others swallowed their saliva at the same time, they had all seen foreign ships, Guangzhou, Macao, and Lingding Ocean, but it was the first time they were so close. Look at this "honest man", it is a circle larger than them, its head and ass are raised high, and the middle side of the ship is more than twice as tall as them. Not counting the head and tail, there are eight gun doors on one side of the hull.

"If we really fight, we won't be able to please."

Xiao Sheng sighed, not mentioning the size of the cannon, just counting the number of cannons, the other party was more than twice as much.

"What the hell are they shipping?"

Jia Hao suppressed his churning battle intent and asked casually.

"Buy tea, what to sell...... Opium ......"

Xiao Sheng also replied casually, obviously having no concept of this opium. 【1】

"Opium?"

Jia Hao has no idea.

"A medicine that can be smoked even when cooked, just like the ancient Wushi San."

Liang Deguang went to the deck, heard the problem, and gave a general explanation.

Jia Hao shrugged his shoulders and didn't care too much, but regretted that he couldn't do it. After that, I went back to see Li Shi, and I couldn't regret it. At that time, as soon as Li Shi heard him say this word, his face changed, and he pointed at Jia Hao, his eyes showed a fierce light, and he looked like he couldn't wait to eat him: "Why didn't you fire at that time!?" ”

This Jia Hao wanted to open fire, but whether it was Xiao Sheng's advice or the opening of the cannon door of the "Honest Man", several stout cannons pointed out, which suppressed his urge to order the cannon.

"Whose flat-deck junk boat is that? What are they going to do? ”

On the stern of the Candid Man, Francis Popper raised his telescope with a grunt. This strange looking ship, like a large sampan, was discovered by the masthead early on. However, the mast of the ship was marked with the name of a Chinese ship, and when it approached, it did not occupy the wind position and fire the cannon door, so Captain Popper did not make any more vigilance than he ordered the usual guard.

In the binoculars, the figures of the two officers of the Qing Army's naval division were faintly visible, and Popper frowned, could it be the same last time...... The flat-deck boat was moored twenty or thirty feet away, and the tooth man shouted back and forth with a tall officer on the other side, and after listening to the tooth man's report, Popper sneered, the entangled spleen surname of the yellow-skinned monkey was really tiresome.

"Tell the officer that the last collision with the ship was their fault, and that the six sailors on that ship were inescapable of being responsible. Our ship's court, in the name of our master, has made a merciful decision to keep them on the Candid for two years, and after two years he will come back to pick them up! If...... If they're still alive, well, they don't have to let him know. ”

Popper impatiently said to the tooth man that his "Honest Man" was a merchant ship under the name of the British East India Company, and unlike other merchant ships, his ship previously belonged to the "British East India Trading Company", and when it merged with the "London Merchant East India Trading Company", the accounting accounts had not yet been cleared, so in terms of the assets of the merged "British East India Company", his ship was still a supernumerary member of the fleet, and he could do his own thing. 【2】

The reason why we are still waiting in the sea off Quanzhou is to keep the new tea. The Fujian merchants who did business with him had the background of governors, so they did not have to declare customs at all, and directly handed over the goods to the open sea. When he first arrived here seven or eight days ago, he was unloading the opium on the ship with the merchant, but he encountered a fleet of Fujian sailors, and the stunned young officer had to board the ship for inspection, forcing him to order the sailor ship that stopped at the bow of the ship.

Originally, he was not prepared to have any conflict with the local officers and soldiers, but the governor's "slave" said that there was no need to pay attention to them, and since they themselves said so, of course Popper wanted to claim his "justice". The hull of the ship was slightly damaged, and several others were injured, all of which had to be responsible, and the six sailors who had been scooped up had to be sanctioned. Of course, more importantly, he lacked sailors, and these six free laborers were just right.

The officer, who looked inferior to a slave, had retreated in disgrace, and now had come to the door again.

"That's Xiao Dusi of the water master, he said that if he didn't return the people, he committed a big crime in the court, and even the governor couldn't cover it up."

The tooth man kept a flattering smile.

"Huh? What he said...... Could it be true? ”

Captain Popper also muttered that he was dealing with a vast empire, many of which were incomprehensible, and that he could get into less trouble, provided that his dignity as captain of the Kingdom of Great Britain was maintained.

"Even if you are the admiral of the water division, you have to be respectful in front of the governor, let alone a small capital."

The tooth man replied with a smile, he only felt that there was this foreign master behind him, and he was very angry when talking to Nadusi, what is Dusi? Even if you come on a weird-looking ship, can you compare with the big ship of the foreign master?

"Then let him get out of here! Otherwise, I'm going to shoot! ”

Popper waved his hand like a fly, and through the local merchants, he had gained the trust of the "deputy governor", and he didn't have to pay attention to the clowns in front of him.

"Fire!?"

On the Golden Carp, listening to the shouts of the tooth man, Xiao Sheng's forehead burst into blue tendons.

"Open the gun! Let them see, we also have cannons! ”

Jia Hao made a suggestion.

This is the bright knives on both sides, listening to the deliberate disdainful shouts of the tooth man, not to mention Xiao Sheng and Liang Qiguang, even those Portuguese sailors are angry, really they are called Huazi who come to beg on a sampan?

The gun door on the side of the Golden Carp opened, and the four guns also pointed at the Candiman.

"Aim at the bow and stern!"

Lu Hanshan commanded the gunner, and he couldn't wait to get the order to fire the cannon in the next moment.

"That'...... What's that......"

Seeing that the flat-deck ship also lifted the gun door, Popper was speechless for a moment. After a while, he followed the crew into laughter, and behold, the muzzle of the cannon was only a nine-pound light gun, and there were only four on one side! Dare to show it out like this!?

In the laughter of the group, the local tooth man's shrill smile was particularly harsh, Popper plucked his ears, flicked his nails, and said elegantly: "Fire!" ”

They brought it upon themselves, Popper said in his heart, and although he was not a captain of the Royal Navy, as a captain, he would never accept such an ignorant and stupid provocation, and the frolic of the yellow-skinned monkey must be punished!

On the Golden Carp, Liang Deguang's eyes widened.

"They're going to ......"

Xiao Sheng grabbed Jia Hao, and while pressing him down, he shouted loudly: "Fire!" ”

In the gun cabin below deck, Lu Hanshan's voice changed a little: "Open the gun!" ”

As soon as the gunner of the No. 1 gun position on the left had lit the fuse, the thunderbolt roared, the sky was dizzy, and in an instant, almost everyone on the Golden Carp fell to the ship's board.

The first shot hit the second half of the Golden Carp, and the shells smashed a big hole in the side of the ship, and the gun doors under the side of the ship were also blown up, and broken wood and debris flew sideways. Xiao Sheng, who was holding down Jia Hao on the stern helm platform, let out a miserable scream, and his hand on the railing was hit by a piece of broken wood, and he was immediately drenched in blood.

This shell hit the hull of the Golden Carp and tilted outward, and then the shells continued to sweep straight over the deck of the Golden Carp with a storm, yes, it was a sweep. The freeboard of the Golden Carp was low, and the gunners of the Honest Man miscalculated, and although they did not miss, they mostly hit high.

But the luck of the Golden Carp was obviously not so good that it exploded, and the last shot was hit on the bow of the ship, blowing the deck under the bow mast to pieces, and several crew members standing at the bow of the ship immediately flew into the sky.

"! Hit back! ”

Xiao Sheng didn't care about the injury on his hand, and roared towards the phone on the helm platform.

The first shell of the Golden Carp had already been discharged, but the Lian Cheng Ren was filled with gunsmoke after a series of shelling, and it was impossible to see where it was hit. When the smoke cleared, I found that the stern of the Honest Man was in chaos.

Captain Popper straightened his hat with a hand that still felt it, and then looked at the two corpses not far away that had been blurred with blood and flesh on the upper body, and the wall of the ship behind him that had already broken a large hole, the respected British captain pushed away the support of his subordinates on the left and right, and cursed angrily: "Gad! Shet! ”

There were two loud bangs, and the hull of the Candid Man shook, and a cannon in the bow jumped up with a few gunners, and plunged into the sea, and at the same time saw a large mass of wood spewing out of the hull, which should be a cannon door that was blown in the middle.

"Full sails!"

Captain Popper shouted that he didn't want to fight this flat-deck junk ship just in place, and it was not the British captain's style to lose both.

"Full sails!"

On the Golden Carp, Xiao Sheng also shouted, Li Xi sent him such a ship, but he didn't let him use it like this.

"If you dare to spread wild on this sea, no matter who you are, you have to pay the price!"

Xiao Sheng gritted his teeth and muttered, only then did he have time to look at his left hand, it seemed that something was missing, forget it, he didn't have time to pay attention to it......

(To be continued)