With an hour to go before dawn, the harbor of Gainesburg, only five kilometres from the city of Bowline, was already full of fishermen preparing to go out to sea at the docks, busily washing their nets on their boats.

There were guards patrolling back and forth on the docks, the sea was shrouded in mist, and the hot and humid weather made none of the guards have the heart to look to the sea.

"Captain, ahead is Gainsburg. Nia's eyes flashed with a fanatical and belligerent glint "Ordered the cannon?"

Through the thin morning fog through her binoculars, she could see that the harbor was immersed in a quiet and peaceful atmosphere, like a woman sleeping without clothes, barely defenseless.

Tang Jie's fleet would even need to fire a salvo to make this harbor fall and then let the enemy ravage it.

But Tang Jie did not bombard the opponent with fierce artillery fire as soon as he came up like the shelling of Clarimu Port, and directly defeated the opponent.

"No!" Tang Jie categorically rejected Nia's proposal.

"Why?" Nia looked at Tang Jie with some puzzlement.

Tang Jie said in a deep voice: "This is not Clarimu, and there is no strong fort protection, you see that almost all of the fishing boats moored in the harbor are fishing. If we open fire, it will be a massacre! I don't want the blood of these civilians to pave Angel's way home. ”

Nia looked at Tang Jie and said with a smile, "My dear captain, you are becoming less and less like a pirate. ”

Tang Jie turned his face and looked at her: "Then what am I like?"

Nia smiled, "You're like a love saint!"

Tang Jie laughed and put his hand around Nia's waist.

Nia ducked, her cheeks flushed and she said, "Don't make trouble, the rest of the crew can see it!"

The Black Dragon King has been leading the way at the forefront of the fleet as the flagship, and the nearest battleship is less than three hundred meters away from it, although there is mist on the sea, but because the Black Dragon King's ship is huge and the bridge is high, Tang Jie and Nia are indeed easy to see at this angle now.

Tang Jie smiled: "Are you still afraid of being looked at?"

He made fun of Nia, but soon gave the order: "Tell Bill to spread out the battle formation, roll out the cannons, the cannonballs are loaded, the gunpowder is ready, and at any time he will be ready to attack at my orders!"

Nia snapped on her heels, picked up the red and white flag in her hand and waved the flag on the side of the ship.

In this world of swords and sorcery, communication problems will always be a big problem for many countries and forces, and fast horses, carrier pigeons, wolf smoke, beacon fire, and magic teleportation stations can be used to transmit signals on land.

But there is an extreme lack of ways to choose at sea, and there is almost nothing to show except for the language of lights and flags.

Although the lantern language is the most primitive expression of maritime signal transmission, the lantern language is often only used for the simplest joints, and the use time is extremely limited, and can only be used at night!

The most primitive flag language is to use various colored flags through different arrangements, and the flag is hoisted high on the main mast, which is used to transmit orders and signals to the surrounding ships.

It's just that this method is too slow, although sometimes the signal soldier will keep the flag arrangement that expresses a fixed order, but the ever-changing battlefield makes this flag language far from keeping up with the situation, and sometimes the signal soldier is in a hurry to arrange the flag order, and often the captain's order is changed immediately.

Therefore, once a large-scale naval battle begins, it is often easy to turn into a melee battle, and each fleet can only rely on the ability of the captains of each ship to exert its combat effectiveness, and the captain's command and grasp of the fleet will be weakened to an extremely low degree.

But because the flag language of the bicolor flag is too complicated, so that there are very few people who master this flag language above the sea, when Tang Jie left from Otrentia, General Cook came to see him off, and he played this kind of flag, but he was born in a famous navy, and several generations of his family are famous admirals, so it is normal to know this kind of flag.

Fortunately, Tang Jie has Nia, an "old sailor" who has been taught and nurtured by old Barr for a long time, and he also knows a little about this kind of flag language, and Tang Jie quickly realized the advanced and convenient nature of this flag language after seeing this kind of flag language.

The most convenient thing about this kind of flag is: Hurry!

The captain passed down an order, and often the signal corps could transmit it to other ships in less than a minute, which was many times faster than the most primitive flag.

Therefore, Tang Jie quickly ordered that every warship in the fleet must learn this flag language!

But Nia and Christina, who accompanied her, quickly asked: We can't do this kind of flag language!

Tang Jie laughed: A bunch of fools! Why should we learn other people's flag language? Can't we create our own?

Nia and Christina looked at each other, and soon their eyes lit up, yes, why can't we create a flag slogan of our own? Why can't we think of it?

They didn't realize what Tang Jie's words meant to the entire world's ocean fleet.

Tang Jie's words completely broke the monopoly of the navy giants on the advanced flag, and made the fleet under his command react as quickly as possible when it was attacked by the invincible armada, and then began to fight back with all his might.

This battle of sneak attack and counterattack made naval warfare enter an era of speed, ingenuity, and fleet coordination.

Of course, that's all for later.

After Tang Jie's order was faithfully carried out by all the warships, Tang Jie left the Black Dragon King and came to the Hell through the landing board connecting the ships.

"Bill, pick a clever one and ask him to help me deliver a letter to Gainsburg. Tang Jie said to Bill.

Bill took the letter handed over by Tang Jie and asked a little strangely: "My captain, why are you so troublesome? Isn't it okay to just bomb them directly? If these guys are scared, they will automatically release them!"

Tang Jie glared at Bill and feigned anger: "What's the matter, my order is not good?"

Bill grinned, turned his head, beckoned a sailor, and handed him the letter: "Listen, this is Captain Tangjie's letter, you must hand it over to Gainesburg!"

This sailor is quite short, but his eyes are extremely smart, and his eyes look at Tang Jie's dripping turn: "My captain, whose hands am I handed over to Gainsburg?"

Tang Jie smiled slightly: "What's your name?"

The sailor said, "Powell, captain. ”

"Powell, whoever is the boss of Gainsburg, you will hand it over. Tang Jie said.

The sailor took the letter and turned to leave.

Tang Jie called out to him: "Wait." ”

As he spoke, Tang Jie turned his face and looked at Bill: "Say hello to Gainesburg first, otherwise Powell will go and never return." ”

Bill laughed: "I love to do this! If you don't hurt these guys first, they will think that we are soft persimmons, easy to bully!"

Tang Jie advised: "Hit the turret, don't hit the dock, there are civilians there, I don't want to see too many civilian casualties." ”

Bill rolled up his sleeves and grinned: "My captain, don't you feel at ease with these bunnies I taught?

Tang Jie scolded with a smile: "Okay, I'll watch you, if you want to shoot crookedly, I'll hang you on the main mast!"

Bill grinned, turned his head and his face changed, and shouted at the sailors on the ship: "You lazy people, are you all watching the show? Didn't you hear what Master Tang Jie said? Move your stupid ass for me, move!"

Amid his high-pitched and high-pitched shouts, the sailors on board mobilized at high speed.

Bill was the most accurate pirate under Tang Jie's command, and at the beginning of the Alcatraz attack and defense, it was this guy who sank the opponent's two warships with three shells, which made the battle a major turnaround, and then helped Nia drag the battle until Tang Jie rushed back in time.

Tang Jie can have today, Bill is indispensable.

Under Bill's command, more than forty cannons of the Inferno were aimed at the main gun tower of Gainesburg.

It was a small turret only ten meters high, and the soldiers on duty on the turret only saw a flash of red light on the sea, followed by a whistling cannonball on the turret.

Immediately, the small turret was in ruins.

Gainsburg is not a large port, as can be seen from the ships moored in its harbor, there are hardly any large merchant ships here, all of them are fishing boats.

Therefore, the sudden shelling almost stunned the entire inhabitants of the area.

Geinsburg was the hinterland of the Shira Empire, and the enemy had to bypass the Sheila Empire's long defense line of thousands of miles to get here.

And it is absolutely impossible to go all the way north on the coastal defense line of thousands of miles without being detected.

But the people of Gainsburg have forgotten that the Sila Empire lost its main naval force in a crushing defeat at the Battle of Cameroca, and now the naval fleet of the Hila Empire is barely able to defend the capital and important cities of the Empire, let alone patrol and defend the far seas?

Therefore, Tang Jie's appearance was something that no one here expected.

This sudden shelling immediately blinded the soldiers and civilians of this small city.

Especially when the morning fog on the sea gradually disappeared, and the soldiers and civilians of Gainesburg saw a powerful fleet across the sea, and the guns were fiercely aimed at them, and their resistance was all gone.

Powell rowed a small boat and landed on the land of Gainesburg, his appearance was proud, he held the letter in his hand, and shouted: "I want to see the supreme governor of Gainesburg!"

Although a group of guards soon surrounded them, they did not look like they were arresting and escorting, but they were like stars and moons protecting Powell as they walked towards the city.

Tang Jie saw this scene clearly on the ship, and he suddenly felt a little emotional: Didn't the British and French rely on a fleet to blast open the gate of the decrepit and backward Qing Dynasty?

This fleet went from south to north, all the way to Tianjin, and the Qing government, which had millions of troops, fled the capital en masse.

Of course, there is the main reason for the self-decay of the Qing Dynasty, but this also reflects that if there is a strong navy to support him, even if he is a pirate who will be hanged as soon as he lands, he will be treated as a guest!

That's how powerful the Navy is!

"My captain, what's in that letter?" asked Bill, from the side.

Tang Jie turned his head and smiled slightly: "Ultimatum." ”

Bill said strangely: "Ultimatum? Why do you want to arrest them? Just kill all the way and snatch Princess Angel back? Is there anyone here who can stop us?"

The corners of Tang Jie's mouth turned up slightly, and his eyes flashed: "The lion also needs to use all his strength to fight the rabbit, although I don't know what kind of resistance I will encounter here, but the praying mantis catches the cicada and the yellow finch is behind, I have to watch out for possible attacks from behind!"

"So...... This letter is just a cover, my real backhand, in the back!" Tang Jie's smile was full of cunning and confidence.

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Sorry, the update is late~ This is the update on July 3rd, and I owe a change on the 2nd, and I will make up for it~