Li Dan hung up too fast, so fast that the other people watching the battle on the sea shrank in their hearts, and even colic. Fan Wencheng stayed on the deck of the 'Amsterdam', staring at the whirlpool about two or three nautical miles away. He recognized Li Dan's ship and Li Dan's owner's flag. He also tried to win over Li Dan, hoping that this sea merchant would contribute to the Jurchen.

But now this rampant big man is finished in an instant.

When the Liaodong made a high-speed turn, the captains of all the ships on the sea were frightened, as if they saw a monster emerging from the deep sea choosing a hunting target. When the 'Liaodong' approached Li Danza's ship, everyone breathed a sigh of relief at the same time. Although the strength of the two ships was very different, naval battles have always been known for taking a long time. Everyone felt ......

Since this uneasy battleship is eyeing Li Dan, the battle will not end for a while. Perhaps the two sides will have to bombard the sea at close range for a long time - a hundred-ton ship is actually a rather difficult object to destroy compared to artillery shells. Hundreds of shells are often fired at ships, and the hull is unrecognizable, but it can still float on the sea.

But Li Dan's ship was destroyed after only one round of shells.

The big ship of 2,000 materials, Li Dan's ship is well-made, sturdy and durable, and it is by no means a crude parallel goods made by the 'revolutionary army' with pine planks in order to save trouble. This kind of ship is a top-notch ship along the southeast coast, but it was killed with one blow!

After the hull was shot, wooden debris flew up in the sky, and the large-caliber projectile opened six large holes in the side of the ship, and even two holes were below the waterline. The projectiles fired into the hull of the ship destroyed a number of watertight compartments, shattering the keel and the ship's ribs together, which was the real reason for the rapid sinking of the Li Danza ship.

This also shows that Zhao Ze spent a lot of money to design and manufacture, and the large-caliber naval guns that fired high-speed shells had unexpected power. This power was so great that even Zhu Chengxiu, who commanded the operation, was very surprised, he had test-fired his own naval guns during the sea trials, but he had never encountered such an effect.

"Luck, luck, it's all luck!" Zhu Chengxiu, who got off to a good start, didn't feel that the pressure was reduced, after all, there were still a large number of enemy ships and enemy ships waiting for him to fight. He could only encourage his subordinates and say, "Look, these scum don't seem to be difficult to beat." ”

As soon as these words were spoken, hundreds of large and small artillery pieces were firing at the 'Liaodong' from far and near. All of a sudden, a large number of shells rained down within a few hundred meters of the ship's hull. The entire sea surface is like a boiling cauldron, and countless splashes are coming out of it.

Zhu Chengxiu immediately trembled in his heart, and ordered with a roar: "What are you stupid? Not running yet?! ”

The fall of Li Dan made all the ships of the Puppet Ming and Roy fleets feel a strong threat of death. Rabbits bite when they are in a hurry, not to mention these sailors who play with their heads at sea. In these years, all the people who came out to run the sea were outlaws, none of them were good, and they had to struggle a few times before they died.

Shells rained down. What cannons, small cannons, earth cannons, and foreign cannons, whether they are enough or not, all of them are bombarded towards the 'Liaodong'. The sailors on the 'Liaodong' had just sunk a ship, and they originally wanted to be proud, but they could see such a scene that caused public anger, and it was false to say that they were not afraid.

The captain of a boat is the largest, and everyone must obey orders and work together in the same boat. If the ship is finished, no one will want to live. On the 'Amsterdam', Fan Wencheng was forcibly asked to go on deck as an assistant, responsible for pulling a rope for a cannon to help reset it.

Sir Roy was in command from the deck, and he stared at the white-painted battleship in the distance, and ordered viciously: "Five degrees to the left rudder, turn around." The ship was too nimble and too fast to go around in circles with it, and we had to take advantage of our numerical superiority to approach it. ”

The thousand-ton Amsterdam had hundreds of crew on board, all of whom were engaged in intense battles. They were all staring at the terrible 'White Devil' in the distance, at its strange chimney, at the mighty six main guns on its deck.

The Liaodong rushed out of the chaotic barrage and began to focus its attention on the seven sailing ships from Taixilai. Zhu Chengxiu just made a sharp turn in order to go around the stern of the seven ships, and now the other party is adjusting the course, or wants to resume the horizontal formation again, aiming at it sideways.

"Five degrees on the right rudder, let's pick a weak one first." Zhu Chengxiu is still very confident in the speed and flexibility of the Liaodong. Seeing that his opponent wants to get close to him downwind, he runs to the upwind position after turning to get close to the enemy, making the opponent incapacitated. "Everyone, be careful, those guys on the other side also have cannons."

The enemy not only has artillery, but also a lot of artillery.

At the tail of Roy's fleet was the Cape of Good Hope, a 500-ton armed merchant ship with more than two dozen guns in its cabin and on the deck. Although its firepower was far inferior to that of the 'Amsterdam', it was also a sharp weapon such as a 24-pounder cannon. This is already a big guy that weighs two tons, can hit up to five kilometers, and belongs to the level of 'red-coat cannon'.

The bow of the 'Liaodong' split the waves and quickly approached. The lookout on the Cape of Good Hope could only watch as the enemy scurried to the stern of his ship. Even if it is an armed merchant ship, the bow and stern of the ship have artillery. But this position is only a cannon at most, and it is still an inconspicuous little guy.

Seeing the 'White Devil' lying behind his ass, the crew of the Cape of Good Hope was in a state of confusion. No matter how they turned the rudder and how they changed the sails, their hull could only turn around at a very slow pace.

At this time, the 'Amsterdam' in front had already led the team to turn first, and when he saw that the opponent had run to the tail of his own fleet, Sir Roy immediately shouted fiercely: "Open the cannon, fire the cannon quickly!" ”

The first mate of the 'Ah' ship hurriedly reminded: "Your Excellency, this angle is not good for us, and the probability of hitting the 'Cape of Good Hope' is even greater. ”

"Hurry up!" Sir Roy's face contorted, not changing his orders in the slightest, "That ship must be made aware of our will to resist, or we will only be sent to the bottom of the sea by it." ”

The roaring sound of artillery once again shook the sea, and dozens of guns on the side of the 'Amsterdam' continued to fire. Fan Wencheng stupidly accompanied a group of gunners on the deck of the ship who did not know him. If someone asks him to pull a rope to pull the cannon, he will just hold on. When the cannon fired, the huge recoil pulled the rope, and the rough rope surface immediately rubbed his hands with blood.

Ah......, Fan Wencheng let out a terrible scream, and his hands trembled in pain. He didn't expect the power of the back seat of the cannon to be so great, and only after suffering a big loss did he realize that everyone else had gone to pull the rope after the cannon had been fired.

"Don't stand stupid, reset the artillery." An ugly sailor shouted at Fan Wencheng, and he didn't care if the man with the long braided hair could understand Dutch or not, anyway, after scolding, he whipped it - this time Fan Wencheng immediately understood.

Fan Wencheng had never suffered this as a slave to Huang Taiji, but after he was whipped, he still had to use his bloody palm to grab the rope that had worn his flesh and skin. And because he didn't grasp hard enough, he was whipped several times one after another. The people on board completely treated him like a slave.

Just as Fan Wencheng exerted his strength to feed, gritting his teeth and pulling the rope of the artillery reset, an amazing wail sounded on the deck of the ship. Even the Dutch sailor, who was beating him viciously, stopped and stared blankly at the stern of the fleet—the Cape of Good Hope had been shot. From the point of view of the bullet, it was hit by one of its own people who had already completed the turn.

And what about the 'White Devil'? It flew to the stern of the Cape of Good Hope and fired a volley, then quickly ran away with its high speed. It was this salvo within 100 meters, six shells hit two, all of them in the stern. The stern of the Cape of Good Hope was blown to pieces, and although it was not fatal, it lost its ability to turn.

Unable to turn, the hapless Cape of Good Hope was then hit by its own men, especially the 48-pounder gun, the largest of the 'Ah', destroyed one of the guns on the side of the Cape of Good Hope in the indiscriminate fire, and detonated the powder keg on the gun emplacement.

The explosion of the powder keg set off a chain reaction, killing or igniting all the gunners and gunpowder on several nearby gun emplacements in one fell swoop.

Not far away, on the 'Amsterdam', almost everyone could see a burst of flames on the poor 'Cape of Good Hope', and the merchant ship sailing from Europe turned into a bonfire at sea. The ship's crew is desperately jumping into the sea. But in this weather, people can't last a few minutes in the sea.

Fan Wencheng is lamenting the demise of a big ship. Sir Roy didn't have the time to spare. He ran from the port side of the ship to the right chord and again ordered: "Turn back, ten degrees to the right chord." ”

The first mate had to remind again: "Your Excellency, this will not work. That ship is much more nimble than we are. We turned to the right because of the headwind, and we couldn't turn around. ”

Sir Roy looked up at the sails, judged the direction of the wind, and said, "Then disarm the formation and fight separately." Let the priest pray for us, we need more strength and wait for a miracle to come. ”

As soon as he had finished saying this, the lookout on the mast issued a tearing warning: "Captain, the ship is coming towards us, straight towards us. ”

What's going on?

If you want a miracle, you really want a miracle!

The 'White Devil' spun in a big circle but did not move away, but accelerated closer to the right side of Roy's fleet. Far from increasing, the distance between the two sides is shrinking, and they are relatively parallel. Sir Roy was both delighted and puzzled by this. But he couldn't do so much, and immediately ordered all the guns of the right chord of the whole fleet to aim at the target and fire.

And Zhu Chengxiu would lose his temper at the helmsman in his own bridge and shout: "What the hell? Turn the rudder! There are more cannons on the opposite side than us, and the hard fight is to find death! ”

The helmsman was sweating profusely, and desperately turning the rudder was useless. He had to cry out with a sad face: "Commander, the auxiliary transmission of the rudder seems to be out of order, and the stern rudder seems to be stuck at an angle." We're afraid we'll have to use manual steering. ”

The 'Liaodong' is used for too much black technology, which is too advanced and too immature. There were countless problems during the sea trials, and now there are also problems in the war.

Zhu Chengxiu heard that the servo failed, and a cold sweat immediately broke out. He hurriedly drove the helmsman to the cabin to manually steer the rudder, and asked people to find a way to repair the auxiliary transmission of the rudder. But the observer inside the bridge was reminding, "Commander, we seem to be in trouble. ”

Zhu Chengxiu scolded angrily: "From the beginning of the war to the present, we have been in trouble. ”

"But now we're in big trouble."

"What's the trouble?"

"It looks like we're about to collide with the enemy's biggest ship."

What the?

Heaven will die for me!