The kinetic energy of the 24-pounder battleship heavy gun reached 2400, and the range began to decrease after more than half of the effective range, which was converted by the difference of 1200 meters between the two ships, after deducting the weakening of the armor, a shell can reduce the divinity value by 200~300 points, which is still the range that Chen Ye can accept, but every time the armor is weakened, a cannonball can reduce the divinity value by more than 600 points, which is really unacceptable to Chen Ye.

The Thunder Light was forced to retreat under the powerful firepower, but soon made a comeback, Chen Ye was not in a hurry at all, in the control of the Thunder Light, perhaps because of the "divine blessing", Chen Ye felt more handy, every order was issued, and a quick response could be achieved, of course, this was also thanks to the more than 40 skilled sailors on the ship and the high morale of the consecutive victories.

Just like catching a duck, every time the Lei Guang took advantage of the other party's turn, it quickly approached, and the opponent's artillery bombardment, and immediately slowed down or even retreated slowly, almost half an hour later, Chen Ye's Lei Guang actually cut close to the 600-meter position of the escort fleet, which is already a very dangerous distance, whether it is the escort fleet quickly surrounding, or Chen Ye continues to break through, it can make it difficult for the other party to escape.

At this time, the captain in charge of the command of the three frigates made a bold decision, they did not continue to retreat and wait for rescue according to Ross's instructions, but quickly separated the two wings and let the two frigates surround them, for the Thunder Light they were more troubled by the speed of a large cut beyond them, but if it was surrounded in a triangle here, then relying on the close blind spot shelling, the Thunder Light could be torn to pieces.

Chen Ye couldn't help laughing, he didn't know what the other party would do, but no matter what he did, he had a back hand, he found that he was too talented in commanding operations, the title of "military strategist" was blessed on the Thunder Light, not only has the characteristics of full ability +3, but also has the "Unknown as Yin" 3% full dodge, as well as the "flash" characteristic, which adds up to a full 15% physical evasion rate, even if the shelling at close range, as long as it is not a dense firepower network under the unified command of the previous one, Chen Ye believes that it will be 10 rounds 2~Shelling in 3 will have a lower hit rate.

When the two frigates surrounded the Thunder Light on the left and right, the two gun compartments of the Thunder Light had been waiting for a long time, and under Carter's order, they began to bombard the Thunder Light at close range of less than 300 meters, and naturally the frigate needed to return fire, but at the moment when the shells were fired, the Thunder Light rushed out of the fire zone at an unbelievably alarming speed, leaving only the huge shelling wounds on the two frigates, which were burning violently with thick smoke at this time, and Chen Ye's gun compartment only brought "fire oil bombs".

No one dared to believe that the Thunderlight was sailing so fast, it was simply a "swordfish", but when they saw a wire hook on the third frigate not far away, everyone immediately understood.

The long-range cannon at the bow of the Thunder Light can not only fire cannonballs, but also fire the "hook claw" commonly used in whaling, in view of the last Surut's play, Chen Ye brought a hinged eight-claw hook on the ship, but the length of the eight-claw hook is limited, only 600 meters, Chen Ye tried for a long time, and finally seized this opportunity, without considering that after being surrounded, it would cause huge losses to the Thunderlight, and shot out the eight-claw hook in a desperate shot, "whoosh", and the powerful kinetic energy directly penetrated the steel armor of the frigate, talking into the depths of the cabin.

The tail end of the hinge was wrapped around Surut's body, and the bottom was deeply embedded in the steel frame of the bow of the ship, Surut slammed his force, and the huge steam box behind him began to operate "boom", "boom", "boom" non-stop, providing Surut with more powerful power, stretching the hinge straight, the Thunder Light had no time to equip the winch, but Surut itself was more reliable than any winch, and the eight-claw hook was pulled back with force, which immediately triggered the mechanism in the front section, and the eight hooks opened, directly buckling the inner bulkhead of the entire frigate, insisted on taking the frigate as the focus point, and rushed over with the lighter entire Thunderlight.

With the cooperation of the Thunderlight's full speed, it reached an unprecedented speed of 10 seconds and 300 meters, which was not like a ship, but as fast as a bolt of lightning, not only giving the two frigates strong fire damage, but also getting out unharmed and directly hitting the third frigate.

With a sound of "Peng", the Thunder Light and the frigate were together, and the powerful impact caused both ships to shake violently, Chen Ye immediately jumped on the deck of the frigate with Surut, and launched a one-sided white-knuckle battle with dozens of navies on the frigate.

In the face of 6000 points of health, the strength is as high as more than 40 points, and it is also equipped with "steam-mechanical exoskeleton armor", for these naval soldiers with an extreme value of up to 15 points, it is simply a human armor, Surut a "wild boar charge" with "heavy push", directly emptied a small half, as more than a dozen sailors on the Thunder Light rushed over, the situation was quickly controlled in just a few minutes, and the captain on the frigate was thrown directly into the sea by Surut without even saying a cruel word.

The remaining two frigates emitting black smoke were frightened, when they spent a lot of effort to turn around and force them again, the Lei Guang had already left at full speed with the frigate, when the frigate was controlled by Chen Ye, and the Lei Guang piloted, the two frigates that were damaged by the shelling wanted to intercept them, but they couldn't do it at all, so they could only watch the Lei Guang snatch a frigate, and then put down the boat to save those companions who were still floating in the sea and shouting.

After a full ten minutes, the two convoys were late, they had judged that the convoy had been attacked half an hour earlier, but the two convoys were harassed by the Pearl and the Tiger Shark respectively, so they came slowly, and in the face of this tragic loss, they could only escort the damaged frigate back.

Ross didn't lift the table angrily, Chen Ye didn't care, when he got to the safe area, the first thing was to dismantle the 8 heavy guns on the frigate and install them on his Thunderlight, and then replenish a large amount of ammunition, and there was food and water on the frigate for nearly a week, which was also an accident, and the other 8 12-pounder mechanical guns that were dismantled were directly disposed of to Jack Scott.

After all, Jakescott is still a pirate, and he is still very happy to grab a naval warship, so he doesn't care about the heavy artillery and supplies on it, who can guarantee that there will be no losses in the process of looting? Although he is mainly engaged in the operation of a warship on the Pearl, it does not mean that he cannot dispose of the loot to the other two guys, whether it is Shore or Zheng Shi, they are willing to give a good price to this almost intact frigate, of course, according to what was said at the beginning, he and Zhou Dong split the sale money in half.

In a good mood, Jack Scott actually held a drinking party on his Pearl this night, not to mention, the rum on the Pearl did taste very good, but for Rose, it was definitely not a pleasant night.

Before thinking of a better way, the escort fleet can only continue to narrow the detection range, maintain rapid contact with each other, and reduce the detection range to 1.5 nautical miles outside the Golden Treasure Ship, this distance, as long as the battleship is equipped with heavy artillery, just sprint casually, you can put a few cannons at the Golden Treasure Ship, and then leave calmly, because it is a "fire oil bomb", only need to hit the rate, and there is no need to consider the kinetic energy destruction effect, so the Thunderlight, the Pearl, and even the Tiger Shark are equipped with 24-pound battleship heavy guns, The three pirate ships began to sprint in turn to harass the Golden Treasure Ship, although it did not slow down the "Golden Treasure Ship", but accelerated a little, but it successfully destroyed a large number of food and fresh water supplies on the other side, Carter had already seen through the scope that the deck of the Golden Treasure Ship began to use fish to replenish food, and even used steam machinery to make "fresh water", but only a dozen steam machines could not meet the needs of thousands of people.

In the early morning of the eighteenth, the Pearl in charge of rotation reconnaissance came with the news that there were a large number of soldiers' corpses on the sea, all from the golden treasure ship, as Chen Ye guessed, the crisis of lack of food and fresh water had already made the other party confused, if it was Ross, he would never use this means to curb consumption, which was tantamount to "killing chickens and taking eggs" and "digging his own grave", but now the supreme commander of the other party is a royal family, a high-ranking nobleman who regards the lives of ordinary people as nothing, and uses excuses such as disadvantage in battle and lying about military information, Slaughtering the lives of nearly 300 soldiers, Chen Ye believed that this was just the beginning, and now there was still a full ten days of sailing from the "Lekin Strait", and under their attack, this time would be shortened to eight days, because they were reducing their weight every day, and the speed of the voyage would naturally increase.

Zhou Dong looked extremely excited every day, although he had developed rapidly this year, he had never thought that he would be able to defeat the Imperial Navy head-on, although the Banya Empire was not known for its naval strength, and at this moment, it was time for Chen Ye to tell him that he was going to start reaping the results.

Judging from Zhou Dong's behavior, being able to gather 100 million francs of wealth in a short period of time and hand it over to the empire without hesitation proves that he is not a person who particularly likes wealth, and at the same time, it also confirms Chen Ye's view of him, this is a man with great ambitions, and he is more interested in the growing power and the rights he can control.

On the night of that day, a small boat departed from the Golden Treasure Ship, full of survivors of previous battles and prisoners that the prince intended to execute, and Rose could not bear to see his soldiers fall victim to the prince's desire to reduce the consumption of supplies, so he turned a blind eye to their absconding.

A total of 31 naval soldiers were discovered and captured by the pirate ship used by Zhou Dong to cruise, and under Zhou Dong's coercion and temptation, they joined Zhou Dong one after another and became a pirate, and from then on, the glorious navy had no chance with them.

Chen Ye was the first to get this good news, which proved that the morale on the Golden Treasure Ship was even lower than he imagined, and the prince's thirst for killing and cold-bloodedness had ruined their last glimmer of life, for which Chen Ye could only sincerely admonish: "Stop in moderation, although the captives are good, they will also consume our supplies, and even you can't guarantee their sincerity." ”

Zhou Dong obviously listened to Chen Ye's words, and the dozens of naval soldiers on the boat the next night, he didn't leave any of them, and killed them all, and it was the naval soldiers who had just been under his command the night before, who dared not to do it, he was the first to die, relying on his moody temperament, Zhou Dong made more than 200 people under his command fearful.

After another 2 days, the attack of the pirate ship also stopped, and the "fire oil bombs" brought by it had all been used up, seeing that it was only a few days away from the Lekin Strait, Jack discussed with Zhou Dong, leaving only Chen Ye's Thunder Light to continue to star, and they all turned back to the nearby islands for replenishment, and then gathered together in the Lekin Strait and swallowed this piece of fat completely.

Although there are still 30 frigates on the Golden Treasure Ship cruising, Chen Ye knows that they are already at the end of their crossbows, and the captives last night have already sold the latest information to them, just for a piece of black bread, including the prince, now everyone on the Golden Treasure Ship only has a bowl of fish porridge that can only wrap their stomachs every day, if it weren't for the fact that they would be able to return to the Imperial Continent in a few more days, with this glimmer of hope, they would have already collapsed.

"Actually, I didn't understand, it's already so difficult, why don't you get close to the border of the Italian and French empires? I suppose if they were willing to pay a high price, those border soldiers wouldn't mind selling some supplies, would they? Carter said with some confusion.

Chen Ye shook his head and responded: "It's not that they don't want to, but someone doesn't let them think, this prince is the heir of the Panya Empire, do you know what it means?" It means that others may have a way to survive as long as they surrender, but he will definitely die, and he will die ugly, because he is afraid of this, he is using his power to curb every chance of survival of these soldiers...... Your own safety is always above others! This is how those royal nobles survive."

Because there was no related task, Chen Ye killed these naval soldiers, and he couldn't get kill points, and the ammunition inventory was running out, so Chen Ye didn't bother to intercept and kill those fleeing soldiers, but just drove them to the open sea, not close to the offshore area, and left them to fend for themselves.

The speed of the golden treasure ship is getting faster and faster, and on the 26th day, they finally arrived at the "Lekin" strait, seeing the high cliff wall of the strait, everyone on board cheered, as long as they crossed the strait, there was another half a day's voyage, they could reach the nearest port city of the Banya Empire, but before they could wave their raised hands, one pirate ship after another shuttled out of the strait, and soon filled the entrance and exit of the strait.

With the size of the golden treasure ship, it is impossible to pass by four boats in parallel, only to untie the iron cables, one by one, along the way, which means that they will no longer be able to use the "fortress tactics", the golden treasure ship will suffer from the opponent's all-round blows, in the case of the combat personnel has been halved, less than 10 of the 30 frigates can fight at full capacity, and each of them is yellow and thin, and they have not eaten a full meal for a week, and the arms carrying ammunition are trembling, such soldiers, let alone fighting with these pirates, They didn't have the courage to fight.

Zhou Dong and Jack also rushed over at this time, the four pirate leaders gathered together, surrounded the golden treasure ship, Zhou Dong and Jack who were located in the rear seemed very relaxed, according to the plan, when they arrived here, their task was basically completed, and the rest of the matter of guarding the entrance and exit of the strait was the matter of Xiao Er and Zheng Shi's family, and Rose would never turn around unless his brain was in the water, because it would take more than ten days to enter the port city at the earliest, and they would starve to death on the sea.

Chen Ye is still a little worried, these days the other party's commander has used all kinds of naval combat tactics to the extreme, it can be seen that he is not a mediocre talent, what he is most afraid of is that the other party also raises a death squad, no need for more, as long as 100 people are enough, if you cut down on food and clothing, save 100 people two full meal rations, let them drive 4 frigates to rush forward at this time, and then the rest of the frigates all give up, set up the battleship heavy guns on both sides of the golden treasure ship, and rely on dense firepower to disperse the many pirate ships on both wings, Avoid encircling and then entering the white-knuckle battle, so that they still have a high probability of rushing into the strait, pirates are still pirates after all, "Send you to death, I will make a fortune!" "That's what everybody really thinks in their hearts.

After entering the strait, the last golden treasure ship was blocked at the mouth of the strait, preventing Zhou Dong and Jack from chasing and attacking, and with the courage of a strong man breaking his wrist, he passed through the strait in one breath, and then threw gold and silver treasures along the way, which could not only reduce weight and increase speed, but also make the greedy pirates stop the pursuit and salvage the treasure, which was the only way for Chen Ye to imagine the other party.

Of course, Chen Ye also thought of the corresponding countermeasures, so he took the initiative to ask Ying to assist Zheng Shi's guard the entrance to the strait, as for Xiao Er on the other side of the strait, that is the last hole card, if the golden treasure ship really enters the strait, then his Goddess of Victory will nail the golden treasure ship in the strait with a charging ramming angle, and then start a fierce white-knives battle, but in this way, the Goddess of Victory is likely to be unable to be saved, and it is very likely to sink together with the golden treasure ship.

In view of the excellent performance of the Lei Guang in this raid, Zheng Shi expressed his friendliness to Chen Ye, almost treated him as if he were the next pirate king, and personally invited him to board his own Jewel, which was a broad-bellied and thin-bottomed iron frame ship, with a strong oriental aesthetic color, the main mast was inlaid with various colored gems, and it was said that there was a gem mine on the island occupied by Zheng Shi, and it was on this that she gained a lot of wealth and quickly expanded her power.

The characteristics of the Jewel are that it is light and fast, the sides of the ship can be unfolded more than 5 meters long flank steel blades, as long as it passes from the side of the merchant ship, the steel blade can be stuck on the merchant ship, as a springboard for landing ships to engage in side operations, for some small ships, even all two pieces, so the Jewel does not set up a gun cabin, but in order to protect against shelling, the hull is inlaid with the hardest gems, plus its special design and body length of less than 40 meters, it is difficult to be hit by shelling, that is, in the mission, the shell contacts hard gem particles, It can only be bounced away, and it will not cause damage to the hull.