Ethelit didn't know that Huang Zheng alone had the ability to bring down everyone on the deck. But Xiao Chen instructed Huang Zheng not to intensify the conflict with the military, especially with Brudes's matchmaking, to set up an enemy for no reason.

That's why he gave a proposal to give it a try.

Although Huang Zheng's statement of the competition sounded a bit child's play, it moved Ethelit. From the point of view of his heart, he was still very curious about these people from the East. According to common sense, the sea conditions in the Devil's Sea are so bad, and the ships sent by the people of the Eastern Continent to cross the Devil's Sea must be their strongest and most advanced ships. The combat effectiveness of such a ship is of great reference value for the navy of the Western Continent and the entire Western Continent to treat these visitors from the East.

As a soldier, he was more curious about what level of military power that continent had reached. There are even some who look forward to how the so-called Devil's Power will help them in their battle.

Ethelit believed in the supremacy of strength, as did the military and even many politicians around him. If these guys from the Eastern Continent show that their strength is too weak, I am afraid that they will not be able to seek real help, but will only attract a group of hungry wolves.

The lookout on board the Red Cloud reported indeed seeing several pursuing ships at a great distance to the southwest. So he agreed to the competition.

Huang Zheng and the others stayed on the Red Cloud, and Esselit took them to the bridge because he wanted to direct the battle, and of course he confiscated their weapons and arranged for them to be guarded by soldiers with guns behind their backs. He didn't know he had arrived at his center of control with a humanoid bomb that could cripple the ship.

He also asked with interest how Huang Zheng received the message from Hou Yi.

"That's where magic comes in. You think of it as the power of the devil, but what we think about is how to use it against the real devil. Huang Zheng said with a bit of mystery, "As a soldier, you should understand how important this kind of information exchange is on the battlefield, this is not one of the demagogic tricks in your legends, but a kind of 'science' application." ”

"For the first time, anyone dared to associate science with the power of the devil. Ethelit said.

"I don't know how you guys here define science, but it seems to me that it's a way of discovering the laws of things and using them. It is not a scientific attitude to blindly attribute magic to the power of the devil. Huang Zheng said.

"Orientals, in the early years you would have tossed yourself to the stake. Ethelit said.

The Red Cloud turned around and headed south. To Ethelit's surprise, the two sailing ships did not turn at the same time, only one turned its bow and headed south.

Huang Zheng saw his thoughts and said: "Since it is a competition, of course, it is a ship against a ship that is convincing. ”

"Do you really understand the difference between my ship's guns and the old stuff on your ship?" asked Ethelit.

His ship's main guns were arranged in a zigzag pattern at each end of the ship. That is, attacking the enemy in the front and rear, at the same time there are three triple 280mm guns that can fire, and if it is an enemy on the flank, there are four triple guns that can fire. This is not counting the two units of eight 180mm secondary guns with the same caliber as the Houyi pneumatic guns.

Huang Zheng said: "Don't worry, you will have your own results in a while." Although he said this, he was still worried in his heart. After the final modification, there are only more than 20 guns on one side, and the caliber is only 200mm. Now we can only hope in the power of magic.

The speed of the Red Cloud is still relatively slow, and with both ships starting at full strength, the light Houyi is even faster.

It was about 1,500 meters ahead of the latter and reached the battlefield first.

The situation on the battlefield was already obvious, originally four pirate ships were chasing two merchant ships. These ships are all steamships, and the merchant ships are slightly slower, and they are about to be chased and surrounded by pirate ships.

But these were the two ships that came in diagonally from the north, but they caught the attention of the pirates.

The ship in front was an inexplicable sailboat, but the speed of the sailboat was higher than their common sense. And the latter one is the battleship in the navy of the Western Continent, the famous Red Cloud. There is no one who does not know this ship of pirates living in the nearby waters, it is the main force of strangling pirates, and I don't know how many pirate ships have been sunk by it in this sea.

The four pirate ships resolutely abandoned their prey in front of them, and fled in the opposite direction from which the two ships came.

The Houyi caught up with the two ships that had fled southwest. And the Red Cloud also began to pursue the two ships that fled to the southeast.

Ethelit was pleased with the situation, as he could see that the two ships he was pursuing were slow, and he was sure to catch up and kill at least one of them, and if the gunners were more lucky today, it was not unreasonable to take out the other.

Just as he was about to inform the gunner to calibrate the shot, the sound of artillery fire had already begun to be heard in the distance. The sound of the cannon was not quite the same as the cannon sound he was used to, and the sound was much lower. But the cannonballs still flew over a long distance to the pirate ship.

The ships of the Eastern Continentals were the first to fire. Ethelit picked up the telescope and looked at the sea over there, and now that several ships had not yet opened the distance, he could clearly see the landing point of the opponent's shelling, and it actually formed a straddle fire in the first round of attacks!

"This luck!"

"It's not luck. Huang Zheng said, "This is the use of magic precision. ”

The effective shots that followed fully proved Huang Zheng's point, and the landing point of the cannonballs was getting closer and closer to the corsair. The pirate ships also began to fire back in a hurry, but their shells fell miserably. And this kind of retaliation only slowed down themselves.

Hou Yi continued to move forward, constantly closing the distance between him and the other party.

Ethelit wondered, "Why get so close if you have such accuracy?" These pirate cannons, though mostly old, are lethal enough for a wooden-clad and iron-clad ship. ”

Sure enough, as he said, the two ships that were originally fleeing, after discovering that the chasing ship was a sailboat, simply stopped running, and they began to adjust their course and seize the T-shape. I'm afraid it's a plan to kill the chasing sailboat first, and then escape.

The three ships shelled each other, and they actually fought back and forth.

"What a stupid tactic, if your ship is sunk by pirates, this game will become a joke," said Ethelit. ”

Huang Zheng laughed secretly in his heart: If you don't use such tactics, how can you see the power of magic?