Chapter 65: The White Flag

"What the hell is that?"

Kahlert. Lord Beckett could no longer maintain his so-called aristocratic composure, grabbed Captain Arnold by the collar, and asked hysterically.

It can't be blamed for his inability to keep his composure, because in just three minutes, he has already lost five battleships!

Five battleships!

This loss will definitely make King George II jump out of bed in anger.

Although Becket had already planned to lose five to seven ships, it was after the capture of Port Royal.

And now its own fleet is close to four nautical miles from Port Royal, and it has not even reached the maximum range of the ship's guns.

Without even seeing the enemy's face, his fleet has already lost a tenth of it, how can this battle be fought?

"Well, maybe it's a new type of artillery developed by the enemy?"

Captain Arnold wiped the sweat from his face, he had never encountered such a strange incident, obviously it had not reached the maximum range of the artillery, but the opponent's cannon could attack his own side, this was simply a supernatural event!

Not to mention the terrifying power of the opponent's artillery, it makes people's hearts furious.

It doesn't matter if it's a first-class battleship or a third-class battleship, as long as it is hit, it will immediately become a pile of broken wood floating on the sea!

Such a range, such a power, Captain Arnold never imagined.

The other party has such a weapon of war killing, and his party still wants to attack the other party, which is simply not knowing whether to live or die.

Now he can be regarded as having experienced what it means to ride a tiger!

"Damn it!"

Lord Beckett still opened Captain Arnold's collar, knowing that asking him would be fruitless, and quickly forced himself to calm down.

Being able to stand out from thousands of people and be appointed by George II as the new commander-in-chief of the Caribbean, Beckett's mind is quite flexible, and the gaffe just now is just because he suddenly encountered an unexpected situation beyond his comprehension, so his heart was panicked.

"Command all the ships to go full speed and directly break through the blockade of Port Royal and prepare for a white-knuckle battle!"

After silently calculating the firing speed and power of the opponent's artillery in his mind, Beckett immediately made the most suitable choice.

The opponent's artillery is extremely powerful and has a far longer range than your own, and now your only chance to turn the tables is to rely on the strength of the crowd and rush up to melee combat!

Judging from the current frequency and hit rate of the enemy's shelling, as long as all the ships are forward, then about a third of the warships will be able to reach the docks of Port Royal before they sink.

Even if there were only a third of the warships, that would be five or six thousand soldiers, and even if you count the pirates, Port Royal would not exceed two thousand.

Six thousand to two thousand, you can still fight.

Although the whole fleet would definitely suffer heavy losses in this way, as long as he could grab the still raging artillery, Beckett felt that it was still worth it!

If such a cannon with ultra-long range and superior firepower can be snatched up and handed over to the Royal Academy of Sciences for research, then the British Empire's world domination will no longer be a dream.

"The enemy seems to have a lot of courage!" Seeing through the telescope that the British fleet not only did not retreat and fled, but puffed up its sails and sailed towards Port Royal, Li Qingyuan nodded slightly and said.

"Although the British army is vulnerable, the navy is still very strong." Ramuel hurriedly agreed, but as a former British artilleryman who surrendered less than two months ago, your efficiency as a traitor is too high, right?

A creature like a traitor would be disgusting if it appeared under one's own hands, but if it appeared on the enemy's side, it would be very gratifying.

So Li Qingyuan just nodded silently and instructed Lamuel to speed up the shelling.

Governor Swan looked at the sinking warships in the courtyard, and then at the huge cannons that kept firing in front of him, and sighed in his heart.

The invincible fleet of the British Empire is now like a group of live targets, without even the slightest strength to resist.

Such a scene reminded him of the scene when the Spanish first landed on the American continent two hundred years ago.

The warriors of the Azkets and the Mayans, armed with stone axes, attacked the Spanish phalanx, armed with arquebuses and mortars, and were killed like prey.

And now, the British fleet was like the Azconts, whose courage was commendable, but it had no effect on the outcome of the war.

Li Qingyuan had already ordered someone to set up the table, and he was now enjoying his coffee in the breeze, watching those warships turn into brilliant fireworks one by one.

"Fourteen! Fifteen! ”

The British battleships had reached the range of the old guns, and sitting on the top of the hill could already clearly see those battleships with the naked eye, Li Qingyuan softly counted the number of sunken warships, and then asked Elizabeth beside him.

"Do you think it will take a few more ships to sink before those soldiers surrender?"

"British soldiers are the most elite existence in the world, so they will not surrender!" Miss Swan, who had been forced to sit in a chair, replied proudly.

"Well, what are these people?" Li Qingyuan casually pointed to Ramuel, who was directing his subordinates to adjust the angle of the cannon, and the gunners under him.

"They are not authentic British soldiers!" Elizabeth said without hesitation.

"Well, then I want to see how strong these soldiers from the British are!" Li Qingyuan smiled slightly and commanded at Ramuel.

"Order the other artillery to fire!"

Although he only modified one gun because of the cost of time and some concerns, now those British ships have entered the firing range of the shore defense guns, and there are still dozens of old guns left on the top of the mountain, where to put it in the sun is not a waste?

"Boom-"

In an instant, the roar of the cannons was deafening, and the power of these old-fashioned cannons was not small, but the noise was not small, and even the dining table on the top of the hill could shake from side to side.

"Sixteen! Seventeen! ”

With the sudden increase in the number of artillery, two more British battleships were sunk at sea.

Of course, these old-fashioned coastal defense guns could not do much damage, but the British troops who arrived first were already frightened birds, and suddenly heard so many artillery fires that they were so frightened that they had lost their most basic operations.

After all, all the way can only be pressed to the sea and explode, and there is no ability to fight back, which is completely beyond the scope of ordinary soldiers' cognition.

"Eighteen!"

When another ship was sunk, even though it was only two nautical miles away from the docks at Port Royal, the British ships did not dare to move forward.

In Elizabeth's stunned expression, white flags were hung directly on dozens of battleships!