Although there were four iron-hulled fishing boats parked on the coast, Sun Changmi decided to dispatch only two of them. This is not for the sake of saving fuel, but there is really no way to do it, but there are seven or eight people who have learned to drive a boat in the crowd, but there are still only two people who can say that the level is reliable. Of course, this argument excludes the North American gang entirely, although they can all sail boats, but when it comes time to dispatch iron-hulled fishing boats, it is more suitable for them to be a warrior with a gun rather than a captain at the helm.

Sun Changmi and Yue Zhiyun, who rushed to get the news, each brought three people on board, and half of the remaining people from the shipping department boarded the "New World", and the other half stayed in the fortifications of Base No. 1.

The military police department also moved quite quickly, and almost at the same time as the fishing boat started its engine, the team of the military police department also began to board the boat. According to the preset action plan of ten armed personnel on each ship, the six North American people were divided into two groups to board the ship separately, one group was four Chinese plus six members of the military and police department, and the other group was a combination of foreign doctors plus Gu Kai who was forcibly taken on board the ship and seven members of the military and police department, and there were too few people who spoke English, so Gu Kai could only be temporarily arrested. The rest of the Military Police Department will also work with the Maritime Department to defend the two strategic points of the "New World" and Base 1, respectively.

During this process, the report from the Yulinjiao outpost kept coming at a frequency of every two minutes: the other party had no intention of slowing down the ship or changing direction, and continued to sail straight towards the harbor of Shengli Harbor.

"Let's go!" Sun Changmi ordered, the diesel engine made a deafening roar, and the propeller stirred up a large splash of water, pushing the hull of the ship nearly thirty meters long and slowly sailing away from the barge.

In addition to removing some useless tools such as the Beidou navigation system, the foredeck side of the ship was specially raised and a number of shooting holes were set aside on the side of the ship, so as to provide better protection for the armed personnel on the deck, and at the same time, it was also convenient for them to use a more stable squatting posture to shoot on the windy and rough sea.

The only regrettable thing is that there are no more lethal ship guns available in the hands of the crossing people for the time being, and at present they can only rely on the rifles in the hands of armed men to carry out long-range strikes against targets. The actual effect of such a strike, whether it is for anti-personnel or for destroying ships, is relatively limited.

In order to compensate for this shortcoming, the shipping department has specially installed a strong steel ramming angle from the top to the bottom of the bow of the ship. Originally, the Ministry of Shipping and the Military Police Department were at a loss for how much of the actual effect of this kind of collision angle could be, but after capturing the Haicang ship, there were comparable examples, after professional calculations, this frantic wedge-shaped collision angle was enough to tear apart the Haicang ship with a thickness of four inches at a speed of ten knots, and even if it could not be directly smashed into two, it would leave a large V-shaped crack in the hull that could not be bridged, so that the person who was hit would lose the ability to move in a very short time.

According to the designer Sun Changmi, since these iron-hulled fishing boats can abuse the small boats of the Yue Monkey in the South China Sea after 400 years, it should not be a problem to hang ships with a tonnage smaller than themselves in this time and space, not to mention the existence of a world-destroying sea killer such as a collision horn.

Less than a kilometer from the shore, the iron-hulled fishing boat could already see the shadows of sails appearing on the distant sea. The sun was now setting in the west, and flocks of seabirds were flying over the bay preparing to return home, and below them, an armed conflict seemed to be on the verge of breaking out.

"According to the formation of the afternoon, sail past both sides of the opposing fleet and see how it reacts. Pay attention to keep a distance from the other ship!" Wang Tom stood in the wheelhouse, looked at the fleet in the distance with a telescope, and gave instructions to Sun Changmi and the other ship at the same time.

Of course, Sun Changmi remembered what Wang Tom said about the "formation in the afternoon", but he didn't express any dissatisfaction with it, but just responded gently. However, the first mate next to him, Xie Chun, snorted in his nose, and it was obvious that Wang Tom's words had aroused the fire in his heart that had not yet been extinguished.

As the two sides got closer and closer, Tom Wang could already faintly see the figures rushing back and forth on the sailboat through the binoculars. Two of the six ships were slightly larger brigs, while four smaller were sloops. The two slightly larger ships are indeed close to the Haicang ship in terms of volume, but they are different in size. The Haicang ship is pointed at the front and wide at the back, with both heads upturned and the tail towering, while the bow in front of you is long, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, and it shows an obvious V-shaped structure when viewed from the direction of the bow.

"It's Hirofune. Tom put down the binoculars and said calmly.

"Do you know Guangchuan?" asked Xie Chun next to him a little unconvinced.

"Fuguang Sand Bird, I still recognize the four ancient ships of China. Wang Tom had no intention of fighting with Xie Chun, and responded to his question with a smile.

Sun Changmi replied casually: "If it's really a Guangzhou ship, it's hard to say how much of a role our ship's collision angle can play." ”

Compared with the Fu ship, one of the great characteristics of the Guangzhou ship is that the materials are strong, and the benefit ship is mostly made of fir and pine, while the Guangzhou ship uses a large number of extremely tough wood such as iron wood as the main material of the hull. According to the Ming Dynasty Wang in the Jin Dynasty in the "Compendium of Coastal Defense" recorded, "the wide ship as the fortune ship is particularly large, its firmness is far beyond it, the cover of the wide ship is made of iron wood, the fortune ship is just pine and fir and the like, if the two ships in the sea impact each other, the fortune ship is broken, can not be the iron force of the strong." By the way, this benevolent brother was working as a secretary of the Ministry of Officials in Nanjing at this time, and he would be transferred to the Ministry of War soon after.

"If it's really pirates, we don't need to sink their ships, we just need to make them incapacitated at sea. As the distance got closer and closer, Tom Wang picked up the telescope again: "It seems that the other party has also noticed us...... The people on deck seemed to be flustered. ”

"It's strange not to be in a hurry! Our ship is running on the sea without masts and sails, and these people are bold when they see that they are not frightened. Xie Chun's love also gradually became excited. After all, the imminent involvement of a naval battle in the early 17th century was still unimaginable for a former maritime employee.

The fleets on both sides approached quickly on the sea, and seeing the two strange ships rushing towards their own fleet, the opinions of several sailing ships did not seem to be completely unified, some of the ships were still rushing straight forward, while some of the ships were trying to adjust their direction and avoid the strange ships rushing from the opposite side.

When the two sides were still about 100 meters apart, Wang Tom suddenly said: "Turn the rudder and go from the outside!

When Sun Changmi heard this, his heart suddenly stirred, and he hurriedly hit the left full rudder. Although the shipboard guns of this era were not very powerful, if luck almost hit the wheelhouse with glass windows on all sides, it was impossible to expect these glasses to block the shells.

Almost at the same time, several people in the wheelhouse had already seen a puff of white smoke rising from the bow of the ship opposite, and then there was a muffled sound of "bang", and it seemed that the other party really couldn't hold it back, and fired directly at a distance of 100 meters.

Sun Changmi and Xie Chun both subconsciously wanted to bury their heads in hiding, but seeing Wang Tom's motionless appearance, they felt a little ashamed of their timidity. In fact, Tom Wang did not move because he knew very well that at this distance, whether it was range or shooting accuracy, this inferior earthen cannon would not be able to hit his ship. During this period, except for the gunboats that some Western seafaring countries began to build, the naval warfare in East Asia still stayed at the level of gang jumping and fire attack as the main offensive methods, and the few ship-borne guns on the ship were basically used to listen to the sound and strengthen their courage, and the role they could play in actual combat was quite limited.

Sure enough, the place where the shell finally fell into the water was at least thirty or forty meters away from the iron-hulled fishing boat, and after this shot, there was no movement on the bow of the opponent's ship, but a few more firearms stretched out from the side of the boat, crackling a few times. There are also people with knives and guns in their hands leaning out and shouting and scolding, but they are too far away to hear the content of the other party's scolding. In Wang Tom's view, such an attack can only be said to be better than nothing, and the effect of scare is greater than killing. However, since the other party took the initiative to attack, at least it can be affirmed that the other party's identity is by no means good, so there is no psychological pressure on the crossers to do it next.

"I don't think they expected us to come out of the port to greet them. Wang Tom patted Sun Changmi's back: "The boat is handed over to you, I have to go out and teach them how to behave." By the way, contact Mr. Tao and tell him that our side has started fighting. ”

The armed men crouching on the foredeck had already set up their guns at this time, waiting for Wang Tom's side to give orders. Tom Wang walked to the foredeck with HK416, stood firmly, and said loudly: "Save bullets, aim and shoot, ten rounds per person, free fire!"

Because of the very limited ammunition they carried, the members of the Military Police Department had only fired live ammunition a few times before the crossing, and they had not even conducted live-fire training after the crossing.

In order to ensure the safety of the iron-hulled fishing boat, the two large ships that led the other team finally staggered past, and the distance between them was at least 30 meters, which was much farther than when the North American Gang ** rookie crew was this afternoon. Such a distance, combined with the bumps of the waves, is not ideal for the crossers who lack experience in live shooting. Despite this, the concentrated fire of hundreds of rounds was lucky enough to hit the target, because the screams were clearly audible from the deck of the opposing side, and it seemed that more than one person had been shot.