The seven pirate ships swooped down from the northeast towards the tail of the Han Tang Group's ocean-going fleet, and they had fully taken advantage of the northeast monsoon.

For a sailing ship like theirs, which had a crosssail as its main sail, was now sailing downwind, and their three-masted ship was getting faster and faster, and soon reached a very astonishing speed of six nautical miles per hour in this time and space, like seven wolves of different sizes pounced on a dozen lambs!

In two hours at most, they will be able to catch up with the Ming merchant ship, get up, and kill all the Ming people who ignore their flags!

William hung out a black red flag at the beginning, saying that he would only rob goods and not kill people, as long as the other party lowered the mainsail and stopped in place, which most of the pirates would abide by in order to reduce the cost.

But the Aketo merchant ships seemed to ignore them and continued to move forward quickly.

William immediately ordered the Skull Scimitar Banner to be replaced, indicating that if he caught up with them, he would not be left alive!

Don't the Ming merchants believe they can catch up with them?

From the discovery of the merchant fleet of the Ming Dynasty to the whole sail, to the start of the chase, it takes a certain amount of time, and it is impossible for them to hang the full sail and wait any longer.

But according to common sense, they really can't run away this time.

Captain William stood on the deck, his captain's hat was dirty, but he still wore it proudly on his head, and he wore a triangular captain's hat. He held up his binoculars and grinned, and in his round field of vision, the sailors of the Ming merchant ship ran around the deck in a panic.

His pirate ship was named the Black Pearl, and its long bow pillars hung diagonal spinnakers, and they were taut in the northeast monsoon!

That diagonal strut stretched out its long kiss like a wolf!

The prey is about to arrive, haha, the deputy of Azisha 61 Nuren Nahar is still nowhere to be seen, I really hope that after I grab it, I will see what their expressions will be!

The Arabic pirate ship was smaller, but not slow, and there were more people on it, and some of them couldn't wait to draw their Arab scimitars!

They raised their sailor's scimitars to the sky, and the scimitars glistened in the sun!

Captain William cried when he saw the Ming sailors in his round field of vision, and the Ming sailors fired a bright thing into the sky, and the thing also made two smoke marks in the sky, and he proudly lowered the monoculars, and after capturing them for a while, he saw what it was, and it could shoot so high.

"Empty card, empty card, empty card!"

Captain Sun Yu silently read the rhythm of a background music in the movie in his heart.

The sail is the only source of power for the sailboat, which converts the energy of the wind into the kinetic energy of the sailboat to sail forward. Adjusting the windward angle of the sail also changes the interaction between the wind and the sail, which of course changes the speed and direction of the boat.

If the sea is divided into 360 degrees, the northeast monsoon blows from the side of the sailing ship Haian 1.

The wind direction is about 60 degrees away from the direction of their travel.

At this time, due to sailing against the wind, the Anhai team members who were sailing felt that the wind was increasing.

This is because in addition to the true wind, you can also feel the movement wind that occurs when sailing a sailboat.

It's like when you're riding a bike at high speed, you can feel the wind blowing on the other side, even if it's a force zero wind. If there is indeed another gust of wind at this time, then the wind speed will increase significantly.

Hai'an No. 1 and No. 2 formed a column and traveled in a zigzag course, and their speed reached six nautical miles, and now they finally showed the progress they had made after training.

"Empty card, empty card, empty card!"

The pot camel machine has already risen to the highest pressure, and its output power is increasing.

With the help of the camel machine, the members of the sea security team kept adjusting the main control cables and support cables of many sails, striving to achieve the best angle, and the sailors' shawls behind their uniforms fluttered in the sea breeze!

"The wind direction is 135 degrees, and the big side is sailing!"

"The helmsman is 60 degrees, keep it steady!"

"Adjust the headsail and the wind direction is 120 degrees!"

The members of the Haian team were busy on the deck, and the 100-mm smoothbore guns on the foredeck were already raising their heads on the gun mounts.

At the bottom of this turret is a cylindrical gear track, and the gun body can slide left and right on the track, and the left and right firing ranges are 60 degrees each.

The main shooter is Wang Chi, and the artillery commander is still the gun commander of the original 37 cannon, and they are equipped with two additional assistants.

Four people can push the gun body to turn.

Not afraid of recoil, this is an authentic tube annealed artillery.

Wang Chi, the artillery commander and the two assistants were chewing gum quickly, and they could hear the sea breeze whistling in their ears, Captain Zhang Yu was screaming, and the weatherman was reporting loudly, in short, it was noisy.

Wang Chi said: "Why did you encounter pirates? ”

The artillery commander said: "If we don't encounter pirates, do we still have the meaning of saving zài?" ”

Wang Chi rolled his eyes and didn't speak, how boring what the gun commander said.

Captain Wang Cheng's Hai'an 2 followed Hai'an 1 a hundred meters behind, which was much closer than the distance between merchant ships, which were generally 500 meters apart.

The two sailboats are in high spirits in the sea breeze, and they will be able to arrive in a moment and solve the problem.

Is there anything in this world that they can't control?

But just after a moment of pride, a bad thing happened, and the observation post on the Hai'an No. 2 mast shouted: "There is a situation in front of the fleet!" ”

Captain Wang Cheng ran to the stern of the ship, and he could see Zheng Jiahai at the head without a telescope, and two signal flares were raised.

Each merchant ship in the fleet was given a flare gun to communicate with each other.

Captain Wang Cheng used the binoculars to see that there were really three pirate ships in front of him!

No way! Are Indian Ocean pirates so awesome? Even if you want to turn the tiger away from the mountain?!

Captain Wang Cheng was a little anxious, and his stomach hurt a little.

He immediately discussed it with Captain Sun Yu, and immediately turned around and attacked, damn it, did you give you face?!

Captain Sun Yu shouted in the duplex walkie-talkie: "None of them are left, all of them will be blasted into the sea, damn it, give a piece of heaven and earth to the future Ming merchant ships, the more flies, the more dead the shooting!" ”

"EMPTY-EMPTY-CARD, EMPTY-EMPTY-CARD, EMPTY-EMPTY-CARD!"

Haian 1 and Haian 2 rushed to their respective opponents in a rage.

The news that we are going to India to trade has not been blocked, and we can understand that there are pirates, which is also a very promising career, but they are going to kill them all!

Ten pirate ships came at a time, and it was supposed to be a delegate and a conference!! This nation of the Ming Continent is really evil, and it is very difficult to do something serious!!

But, here we are, you guys try again!!

On the contrary, Captain Wang Cheng was the first to take action, and when he returned to the sea, he sailed with a tailwind, and his speed was even faster.

Captain Sun Yu and Captain Wang Cheng overestimated the pirates in the Indian Ocean, and it was true that they were divided into two ways, which was what Azhisha 61 Nuren Nahar asked his deputy to do, but what gave way to the main force, and what to transfer the tiger from the mountain is a coincidence.

Due to the different locations of the ambush, the deputy of Azhisha 61 Nuren Nahar was only a little late when they discovered the Ming caravan.

As the two sides walked in the opposite direction, Captain Wang Cheng observed the three three-masted ships opposite, and felt that everyone was about the same tonnage, but the other party seemed to be stronger.

He knew that in this time and space, most of the shells of the wooden ships of the other party's tonnage were more than fifty centimeters thick, but if they hit below the waterline, they would all be sunk with one shot, and it would be bad if something happened to them.

Captain Wang Cheng decided to directly use a T-shaped tactic on the three pirate ships, and decided to kill the other party with the probability of artillery.

In the era of sail warships, because the direction of artillery fire could not be changed, only half of the guns on the side of the occupied side could actually attack the occupied side, and only a small number of guns on the side could aim at the enemy ship, not all the side firepower.

The preemptor did not have an advantage in firepower over the occupied, and increased the area of the opponent in vain. Therefore, in the era of sail warships, there was basically no T-shaped tactic, except for columns or columns.

It wasn't until the era of steam engine battleships that artillery could be turned in direction and could be fired with full broadside fire, that the tactic of seizing the T-head became popular.

But Captain Wang Cheng is doing it now, because he believes in the output speed of the guns on the Hai'an 2. Besides, if the artillery is hot, it's okay to run again and change sides.

Although he didn't understand the other party's behavior of rushing towards him, and he didn't understand why the other party was so fast, but he remembered Azhisha 61 Nuren Nahar's confession.

Of course, if he wasn't such a person, Agisha 61 Nuren Nahar wouldn't have made him the second-in-command of the pirate group.

As the two sides got closer and closer, the deputy of Agisha 61 Nuren Nahar had the flag hoisted, allowing the other two ships to let go of the Ming merchant ship and directly attack the strange ship.

He saw in his monoculars that the other party had opened three cannon windows.

Only three? Open so early? Scared? He smiled silently, revealing a mouthful of rotten teeth.

But the cannons on the foredeck of their bow are too strange, aren't they? Is that really a cannon?

He saw that the barrel of the cannon was too long, and it was swinging around.

Captain Wang Cheng shouted: "T-shaped, artillery is aimed freely, ready!" ”

The members of the Haian team on the Haian 2 quickly began to act, with the help of the pot camel machine, they adjusted the mainsail and the foresail to a position at a 30-degree angle to the wind direction through various control sail lines, at this time the tall mast made a squeaky sound, and the helmsman twisted the rudder vigorously at the same time, and the Haian 2 reduced its speed in the wind and waves, and slowly made a drifting action, forming a T-shape!

In fact, very few sailboats are able to sail at an angle of less than 45 degrees to the sailboat's heading, so this area is called the unsailable zone.

In unnavigable areas, the sailboat can stop for a little trimming or moored to the dock by inertia.

The Haian crew on the Haian 2 hurriedly adjusted the sails so that it was as little affected by the wind as possible.

Captain Wang Cheng immediately shouted, "Well done! It's up to you, gunners!! ”

Azisha 61 Nuren Nahar's deputy looked at it with a telescope, but his face became more and more solemn, and his mouth was closed.

The boat was all in uniform and strange in style, but they were all soldiers! My God, could it be that we are going to fight the Ming Navy??!

The boat slowly slowed down on the surface of the sea and made a beautiful left turn, what were they going to do??

The deputy of Azhisha 61 Nuren Nahar said to his first mate, "Jack, let's go forward too, I don't know why I'm a little worried......"

The first mate, Jack, had dark circles under his eyes, and he also laughed silently, asking for three boats against one boat, this obedient and timid fellow!

First mate Jack spread his arms, and the torn lace edges of his cuffs began to swing.

He shouted, "Brothers, lift the mainsail!" Let's go and eat them!! ”

The sailors on board laughed and began to get busy, some climbing the high masts deftly in the wind, others swinging thick ropes......

From the air, two small and one large three-masted ships rushed towards Hai'an 2, and Hai'an 2 was trembling on the sea like a frightened lamb.

PS: Thank you for the support of old friends who don't mess with sex after drinking, fat horse 123, and book friends 5698867.

Thank you Xiao Xu for sending a box of cigarette money to Alipay 15841539140.

It seems that I am not the opponent of Xuanfantasy and Xianxia Books on this month's monthly ticket list......