Waite's eyes widened, and he looked towards the sea, hoping to see the enemy's tracks, but the dark sea could not see the enemy's traces at all, and he could only roughly see that there seemed to be many shadowy ship shadows on the sea, approaching them.

Only then did Waite realize that they were still fooled today, and the sea wolf was actually not scaring them without a purpose, but was continuously sending out signal flares to paralyze them, making them nervous at first, and then starting to slack off, as if they had been shouting that the wolf was coming, so that they had begun to be paralyzed, but the sea wolf really began to launch a night attack at this time.

Waite's head is much bigger, night combat is not the way they are good at fighting, in this era because of the constraints of conditions, very few people take the way of night fighting at sea to fight, because it is too risky, it is not easy to control, and it is easier to cause chaos, so they rarely practice night sea combat, and the ability to deal with night combat is also insufficient.

At this time, he could not judge how many ships the enemy was coming, let alone see the situation on the sea, so he could only deal with it passively, and ordered several ships to open fire with all their strength to prevent the enemy ships from approaching them.

However, at this time, the enemy attack came too suddenly, and the sailors and gunners on several ships were in confusion, and in the black-lit cabins, they could not see clearly, and the sailors and gunners inside were scurrying around one by one, hitting walls everywhere, so in a short period of time, it was impossible to organize an effective counterattack.

And just after they had been struck the first blow, a number of ships began to rush towards them downwind, and in the darkness it was impossible to see the condition of these ships, only to roughly see them rushing straight towards them.

The Dutch then hurriedly began to fire cannons to block these ships, but because they were in a hurry to fight, they could not fire full firepower, only a small number of artillery began to fire, and could not effectively prevent these ships from approaching, and it was difficult to even effectively hit the enemy ships, because there were almost no lights on the enemy ships, and they could not fire in the dark, so they could only blindly shoot in the direction of the enemy ships rushing over, and only at the moment when the cannon muzzles spit out flames, they could see the situation of the enemy ships rushing over.

These ships are not large, but the speed is relatively fast, the Dutch themselves have been in a slow cruising state, maintaining a very low speed, loitering outside the mouth of the freshwater, most of the sails are not hung up, but in a state of retraction, are guarded on the mast of the ship, it is not easy to accelerate immediately, not to mention that the first round of sneak attack by the sea wolves just now has damaged one of their boats, destroyed a large number of sails on that ship, and made the ship unable to operate the sails for a short time.

Therefore, although the speed of these rushing ships was not very fast, the large ships of the Dutch could not speed up for a while to evade, so these small sailing ships quickly approached the Dutch fleet and seemed to encircle them.

The Dutch could not see the details of the dozen or so light sailing ships, but they could be seen up close, and they looked very hideous, and their hulls were covered with some large sharp iron nails, and there were barbs on them, and wherever they collided with other ships, they would immediately hook up with the enemy ships.

What is even more surprising is that these ships do not act alone, but use two ships as a group, between the two ships, there is a relatively thick iron chain connected, so that when they sail, the two ships are always parallel, separated by a distance and the iron chain is tightened, no one can get rid of the other, can only act together.

And the ships separated from each other, forming a huge net, and swept along the wind towards the Dutch ships, and the Dutch ship at the very end of the Dutch ship was hit, and the two ships quickly caught him, and rushed past its sides, and the two strange ships, which were faster than the Dutch ships, were connected with an iron chain, and at once they hung up the Dutch ships.

The ship, which was sailing rapidly, was suddenly hooked, and immediately began to meet in the middle, and as a result, both ships immediately crashed into the enemy ship from the side, and the large iron nails nailed to the side of the ship were suddenly deeply nailed to the Dutch ship, like maggots on the tarsal bones, and applied to the Dutch warship.

The Dutch were frightened, the two ships were too fast, and they did not have time to prevent the enemy ships from approaching, they were hit by the enemy ships, and at this angle their ship's artillery could not fire at them at all, and many Dutchmen hurriedly raised muskets or axes, ready to defend themselves against the enemy's jumping gangs.

But to their surprise the enemy ship, after crashing into them, did not climb up to engage them in a hand-to-hand battle, but one after another the enemy jumped from their ship into the water, and immediately began to swim away from their ship.

And they saw that these sea wolf tribes were wearing a very strange tight-fitting clothing, which seemed to be leather, and their bodies were wrapped tightly, and even their heads were wrapped, revealing only their faces.

At this time, after all, it is winter, the sea is very cold, anyone who falls into the water, if it is not quickly fished up, will quickly hypothermia and cause shock, so at this time falling into the sea, or at night, it is basically nine deaths, but after these sea wolves collided with the ship, they did not want to climb onto the enemy ship and engage in a white-knuckle battle with the enemy ship, but they jumped into the sea without hesitation, which made people puzzled.

But for the sailors on these ships, they are very clear about their mission, their ships are not fireships, and their boss is greater than filial piety, and they are not required to destroy the enemy ships, let alone ask them to engage in white-knuckle combat with the enemy, and their task is only one, that is, to find a way to hit their ships with the enemy ships, firmly hook the enemy ships, and then they can abandon the ship and escape.

However, in this season, jumping into the sea to escape without warmth is basically similar to suicide, jumping into the icy seawater, and if you are not rescued from the water soon, you will be frozen to death in the seawater, or drowned in the seawater.

And Yu Xiaotian will never force his subordinates to commit suicide, so he will naturally be prepared in advance, the sea wolf itself likes to attack the enemy by surprise, not only on land, but also on the sea in this era, to attack the enemy.

Although there was no such thing as a diver in this era, there was a theory of a water ghost, which was actually a group of sailors with excellent water skills, who would swim or dive for a short time to get close to the enemy's ships, scuttle enemy ships or sneak into the enemy's control area to sabotage them.

Such a force, Yu Xiaotian naturally will not abandon it lightly, so in the navy, there has long been an underwater special operations force that is good at water warfare, all of them are selected sailors with excellent water quality, and their skills are quite good, they are mainly responsible for reconnaissance and sabotage of enemy ports and docks and other combat missions.

For this reason, Yu Xiaotian also attached great importance to them, and equipped them with some equipment that later generations of divers had, of course, he couldn't get modern diving equipment in this era, so he could only make some flippers, spunlace, water and other things because of ugliness.

And today's ships on such assault missions are mostly composed of some water ghosts, and the kind of tight leather suits they wear are actually water support, which can be regarded as a kind of diving suit in ancient times.

These water rely on the use of shark skin zuò, almost can cover the whole body, because there is no zipper, so can only be replaced by buttons, waterproof performance is not as good as the diving suit of later generations, but it can still play a good role in heat preservation, in addition to wearing shark skin in the water, it does not affect the activity much, and the swimming speed can be faster and more labor-saving.

It wasn't too far from the shore, only a few miles or so, and the water ghosts on the boat had already dressed up and put flippers on their feet.

The fins are made of whale baleen as a support, covered with a thin layer of tough fish skin, which is very elastic, and after wearing it, the speed of the water ghosts swimming in the water can be increased a lot, and it also saves a lot of effort, so although it seems that these sea wolf sailors did not hesitate to jump into the sea, like a suicide action, but for them, relying on the water on their bodies, as well as flippers, they swim directly to the shore, for them there is no difficulty at all.

Moreover, there were already people on the shore who were ready to meet them, and they were waiting for them with hot water, dry cotton clothes, and hot ginger soup and broth, and they could recover immediately when they came ashore.

The Dutch waited nervously for a white-knuckle battle with the pirates on the enemy ships that had collided with them, but they did not expect them to jump into the sea and escape, so they could not figure out what was happening for a while, but now more and more enemy ships followed and crashed into them, and it was only at this time that the smarter Dutchman discovered the problem.

"They want to trap our ships! Hurry up and resist them, don't let them crash into them, fire, fire! Someone panicked and started yelling.

Because they had already discovered that the two enemy ships that had hit their ship, when they were trying to prop them apart with their poles, they did not move at all, as if they had been nailed to death with them, and the captain of the ship hastened to send his men down to inspect them, and when they went down, they found that the ships were indeed full of big iron nails, and when they hit their ship, they were immediately hooked to their boats, and for a while they could not take them off at all.

It was only at this time that the Dutch realized what was happening and began to fire desperately to prevent the ships from approaching them.

Several of the ships were quickly torn to pieces under Dutch fire and sunk in the sea, but a few eventually collided with two Dutch ships and hooked up to the Dutchmen's boats.

As soon as these ships collided with the Dutch ship, they immediately cut the sail ropes, lowered the mast, lost the ability to sail, and hung dead on the Dutch ship, which suddenly made the Dutch warship even more clumsy.

The Dutchmen were in a cold sweat at this moment, if these ships were all fireships, then as soon as the enemy set fire, their ships would be ignited together, but they could not understand why these ships were not stacked with firewood and were not ignited by the enemy, but they were just hanging on their ships so that they could not escape.

Waite was already a little stunned at this time, because he found that shadowy enemy ships began to appear on all sides of the sea, and they had completely surrounded the sea.