"Huh! Now there are only 567 nobles in the whole of New Carthage! As long as I find one of these new continents, I will definitely be able to become the five hundred and sixty-eighth noble, and at least a marquis! Zhang Dahai said to himself silently in his heart, this time he got a lot of precious spices and minerals that continued in the local area, and of course, a large number of indigenous slaves, and he would definitely make a lot of money after he went back, and then he would be able to buy a dragon-class warship that had just been eliminated by the navy and carry out an ocean-going expedition that he had been preparing for a long time. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

However, just when Zhang Dahai was dreaming of his own sweet dream in his heart, the sentry in charge of the guard suddenly issued an alarm to the people below: "Be careful, two ships of unknown forces have been found ahead, which look bigger than the Qiulong-class battleship, and the speed is amazing, faster than our Jiaolong-class battleship!" ”

After hearing the sentry's words, Zhang Dahai and the sailors on the ship couldn't help but be surprised, the size of the opponent's ship was nothing, after all, the New Carthage battleship has never relied on size to bully people, but the size of the opponent's warship is larger than the Qiulong-class battleship, and the speed can actually exceed the Jiaolong-class battleship in the New Carthage Navy, which is known for its speed, this result has to surprise them.

Under Zhang Dahai's order, the sentry tried to use the flag language to get in touch with the other party, but the other party did not respond at all, but instead reversed course and approached their fleet directly, and its hostility was already very obvious.

"Everyone, get ready to fight!" After discovering that the other party was friend or foe, Zhang Dahai immediately ordered decisively, and at the same time put on his equipment properly, as a maritime merchant who begged for a living at sea, Zhang Dahai was different from those pot-bellied peers, he used to retire from the navy, and his skills were very good. Over the years, the pirates and the natives who rebelled against the uprising have not been degraded in martial arts.

It is precisely because of his military background that he and his subordinates are extremely well equipped, second only to the front-line troops of the New Carthage military, such as steel plate armor and various crossbows, heavy crossbows and other conventional weapons, not to mention, on the Jiaolong-class battleships he bought, even the original six naval guns have not been dismantled, although they are all some old-fashioned artillery that have been eliminated, but you must know that this is also a cannon no matter how you say it! The ruler who dares to fire cannons to the people under his rule is probably only Shi Jinshui, a crazy guy.

Therefore, although the performance of the enemy ships far surpassed their own warships, Zhang Dahai and they still met them without fear, and their fleet included a total of three modified Jiaolong-class warships and six armed merchant ships all equipped with ten ballistas. And on top of each armed merchant ship, fifty heavily armed caravans were arranged. Among them, the three Jiaolong-class battleships, due to the limitation of size, were only arranged with thirty caravan escorts, but these three battleships can be said to be the strongest in the entire fleet.

Under Zhang Dahai's order, all nine warships were quickly ready for battle, and hundreds of caravans escorted their swords out of their sheaths one by one, staring at the two enemy ships that were rapidly approaching their own with a look of war. In their opinion, those two battleships are so big, there must be a lot of good things on them, and after they defeat each other, they can go up and loot to their heart's content. As for whether it will be defeated, it is not in the consideration of these caravan guards at all, after all, there are cannons on their side! The three Jiaolong-class battleships add up to a total of eighteen naval guns, and perhaps just one salvo can scare the other side into raising a white flag and surrendering.

However, to the puzzlement of these caravan guards, the two enemy ships stopped advancing when they were more than 20,000 meters away from their side.

This performance of the other party made these caravan guards full of puzzlement, the other party only had two possibilities to do this, one of which was that the other party knew that there were artillery on their warship, so they did not dare to approach, and the other was that the other side also had ultra-long-range attack weapons similar to artillery, which could attack their side from a distance of 20,000 meters.

But the next scene that appeared in their eyes was for these caravan guards to realize that they had completely guessed wrong, and the other party did not know that there were artillery on their warship, nor that there were any ultra-long-range attack weapons on board. The other party actually wanted to drive a group of animals to attack them.

I saw that under the drive of some crew members on the two battleships opposite, some huge lizards about four meters long were driven into the sea one after another, and then swam towards them with their long tails. At the same time, some giant eagles with a wingspan of more than five meters were planted with some humans on the opposite ship and rose into the air.

"Damn it! The situation doesn't seem to be good, shoot at it now, and blast it at those big lizards! They must not be allowed to come near our ships! After Zhang Dahai saw this situation, he ordered his subordinates with a solemn face. As a battle-hardened veteran, he had an astonishing instinct for danger, and he felt a great sense of danger as soon as the unusually large beasts of the opposing fleet appeared. In fact, what he wants most to ask his subordinates to attack are those enemies riding giant eagles, because those guys bring him the strongest sense of crisis, but unfortunately the artillery on their ships are some old-fashioned guns, not anti-aircraft guns, the rate of fire and power are insufficient, and they can't do any effective damage to these targets that can fly at high speed in the air, so they can only retreat to let their subordinates attack those monitor lizards that are swimming towards their fleet.

The speed of those enemies riding the giant eagle was indeed very fast, and in less than a minute, they had already flown above Zhang Dahai's head, and at this time they could see clearly that those giant eagles were covered with iron-gray feathers, a pair of eyes were shining with a strange blood-red light, and the beaks and claws of the birds were faintly revealing the texture of metal, which was extremely sharp. The enemies on the backs of these giant eagles did not wear any armor on their bodies, but they were only covered in thin animal skins, but their faces were painted with all kinds of strange patterns, and they looked similar to the indigenous savages that Zhang Dahai had captured over the years.

But Zhang Dahai didn't think that this was a group of unintelligent savages, because as these guys continued to let out all kinds of shouts that they couldn't understand at all, the big lizards in the water quickly formed two neat queues, outflanking their fleet from the left and right.

These enemies riding giant eagles obviously belonged to the commander's class, so their number was not much, only six people, but those monitor lizards with a length of about four meters were more than seventy. Because there were too many of them, and those monitor lizards were all rushing forward in a neat formation at the same time, the gunners on the ship didn't know which one to hit first.

"What are you still doing! Hurry up! Kill one head counts as one! ”

In Zhang Dahai's roar, those gunners could only choose a random target and then fire.

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! Immediately after a loud blast of cannons, there was a splash on the surface of the sea, and when the splash fell, the gunners noticed that at some of the impact points, streams of crimson blood could be seen coming up from the sea. This expression was indeed a monitor lizard that had been hit by them just now.

However, before the faces of these gunners could show joy, the enemies riding the giant eagles suddenly let out a series of strange shouts at the monitor lizards, and then these monitor lizards dived deeper into the depths, so that the gunners no longer had a chance to attack.

"Damn! If the kind of depth charges that His Majesty spoke of had been developed, we would have been able to kill all these brutes in the water! Seeing that the enemy was so cunning, and immediately found a way to deal with it with just one attack, Zhang Dahai couldn't help but become more and more anxious in his heart. He had an intuition in his heart, these people were probably the armies on the other two new continents, but he didn't expect that it was not him Zhang Dahai who found the other party, but the other party took the initiative to find them. And this time, I'm afraid he won't be able to go back alive.

After a period of anxious waiting, the monitor lizards finally swam to their boat, and after swimming to their boat, they sprang up from the water and flew directly to their boat. Some of the caravan guards standing by the ship were caught off guard and were smashed to the ground by these monitor lizards on the spot. At this time, they were finally able to clearly see what these monitor lizards looked like, only to see that these monitor lizards had a long tail that took up almost half the length of their bodies, their bodies were covered with black scales, and there were rows of sharp white bone spurs on their backs, which looked particularly hideous.

However, although these monitor lizards looked very scary, most of these caravan guards were also veterans of the battlefield, so they were not intimidated by the appearance of the other party, and after a moment of stunned, these caravan guards launched an attack on these monitor lizards with swords in hand.

However, after these caravan guards slashed the swords in their hands on the bodies of those monitor lizards, they were surprised to find that the scales on these monitor lizards were surprisingly hard, and after their sharp swords were cut up, they could only leave a series of scar marks of different shades, but could not really hurt these monitor lizards.

And when those caravan guards were surprised and stunned by the enemy's invulnerability, these monitor lizards opened their bloody mouths one by one, waved their claws, and slaughtered these enemies. Because of the advantage in size, every attack of these monitor lizards was powerful, even if these caravan guards were all wearing solid steel plate armor, they were beaten by these monitor lizards one by one to vomit blood and fly back. The most terrifying of them is the long tails of those monitor lizards, these long tails that are more than two meters long are like steel whips under the flicking of these monitor lizards, with the sound of whirring through the air, pulling one caravan guard after another to separate their heads and splash blood!

"A bunch of fools! Don't get entangled with these brutes, stand back and use your heavy crossbow against them! Seeing his subordinates being slaughtered by those monitor lizards, Zhang Dahai was distressed, and with his rich combat experience, he immediately gave everyone the most correct order at this time.