Chapter 215: There are too many boats, and it's hot

In terms of shooting level alone, although Zuo Shaoqing has practiced his marksmanship hard during this time, compared with Li Xian, there is still a long distance that cannot be underestimated, not to mention that Li Xian also has various pupil skills to assist. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Zuo Shaoqing only used a gun to attack all the enemies he saw, but Li Xian was much more leisurely, carefully observing his surroundings and judging that a sailor's actions would cause actual damage to himself or his own personnel before raising his hand to shoot the enemy down.

Captain Jack hid behind the thick mast and tried to shoot the sailors who had been transferred in one after another with his spear, but Li Xian noticed that a shot hit Captain Jack in the foot, and then hit the opponent in the chest when Captain Jack bent over in pain, causing him to fall in a pool of blood.

"Monsters, they're all monsters!" Seeing that the bullets fired from his side were blocked by the first pirate to jump with their shields, and discovering that these two men were extremely accurate in their marksmanship, the crew of the Cambridge collapsed, and their morale fell to the bottom.

The level of science and technology in Europe far surpassed that of the Qing Kingdom, but the number and level of martial artists were not as good as those of the Qing Kingdom, and with their knowledge, they could not understand the high combat power of the Grandmaster Realm martial artists.

At this time, Wang Xiaoming, Chen Guangsheng and others also jumped from the Portuguese ship, taking advantage of Li Xian and Zuo Shaoqing to attract most of the enemy's attention, and each occupied favorable terrain to fight against the foreign sailors on the Cambridge.

Li Xian's attack on the Cambridge was fully prepared in advance, and the watchtowers of the masts of the Portuguese ships were arranged with the best rifled gunners to suppress the sailors on the Cambridge condescendingly.

The guards who jumped onto the Cambridge were mainly armed with repeating rifles such as air pistols and revolvers, which also had an advantage in terms of rate of fire.

Li Xian used three ships to hunt the Cambridge this time, with a total strength of nearly 300 people, while the sailors on the Cambridge were only more than 60 people, and the weapons equipped were only ordinary single-shot pistols or smoothbore guns, and they were more than one and a half points worse than the escort in terms of the level of weapons and equipment, the number of personnel, the combat ability of individual soldiers, and even the level of military discipline, organization, and training.

Less than half an hour after Li Xian and Zuo Shaoqing jumped onto the Cambridge, the foreign sailors on the ship were wounded or killed, and in the end, only a few sailors ran under the cabin to resist stubbornly, and the entire deck was occupied by the escort.

"Wang Xiaoming, Chen Guangsheng, you lead people to guard the deck and find a way to start the ship. Li Xian gave an order to the two men, and then took Zuo Shaoqing to the bottom of the cabin to chase down the sailors who had escaped.

"Yes, battalion commander. The two men said yes loudly.

During this time, the escort team took turns to learn how to control Western ships, in order to sail back to Leizhou after capturing the enemy's ships and maximizing their benefits.

It was not an easy task to hunt down sailors who were familiar with the terrain in the narrow cabin, but Li Xian and Zuo Shaoqing were both powerful warriors, and they used their shields to defend and simply wipe out a few diehards, and the remaining few surrendered after a bad look.

If it weren't for the fact that in order to protect the cargo on the ship from loss, Li Xian had always insisted on not using grenades, otherwise this battle would have been much easier.

In this battle, more than 60 sailors on the Cambridge were either wounded or captured, and the casualties paid by the escort team were only five or six, which was almost crushed throughout the whole process, which made Li Xian sigh with emotion.

The proportion of casualties on both sides was so disparity, firstly, the escort team was caught off guard, and the people on the Cambridge did not expect to be attacked on this safe route, but the escort team had two grandmaster-level combat forces, Li Xian and Zuo Shaoqing, who had the initiative in the battle from the very beginning.

Li Xian couldn't help but sigh in his heart, the most suitable thing for a warrior to deal with ordinary people is special warfare, especially for a battlefield like a ship where the number of enemies is limited and it is difficult to use high-power weapons such as artillery.

However, when Li Xian came out of the cabin with Zuo Shaoqing, Wang Xiaoming reported a new piece of information to him, which made Li Xian's good mood disappear all at once.

"Battalion commander, there seems to be another foreigner's ship over there. Wang Xiaoming reported to Li Xian.

Li Xian looked in the direction pointed by Wang Xiaoming, and sure enough, he saw a ship coming from the Lantau Strait, which was very close to the Cambridge and the three ships on Li Xian's side.

"Damn, it's still a British ship. After Li Xian saw the ship's national flag, he couldn't help but curse fiercely.

According to the intelligence, there is no other ship from Macao to Hong Kong today, except for the Cambridge sailing from Macao to Hong Kong.

However, Qian Dafu had a clearer understanding of the situation in Macao, and was relatively inferior to the Hong Kong side, so he did not even know that there would be a ship coming from the Hong Kong side to Macao.

"It's another fat sheep, one beats, and the two don't fight too. Battalion commander, let's do him another vote. Wang Xiaoming didn't know how powerful it was, so he was eager to try it and asked Li Xian for battle.

"It's not fun. Li Xian cursed.

If there was a choice, Li Xian did not want to directly rob the British ships, the strongest maritime power at that time, with warships on the side of Guangdong, and a large number of merchant ships to assist, how could it be easy to fight, not to mention that within a few months, a large number of regular navies would arrive in the waters of the Qing Kingdom from Britain and start a great war with the Qing naval divisions.

In comparison, the United States was weak at this time, and it was almost impossible to send warships to support its own merchants, making it an ideal target for piracy tactics.

Li Xian did not think that the Americans would have the strength to go to the East China Sea Island to conquer in the short term, and they probably would not have this ability for a long period of time foreseeable.

Therefore, Li Xian said to his subordinates and Zuo Shaoqing that he was going to fight the British ship, but in fact he was going to the American ship, as for the people who said after the war, they actually hit the American ship, and then as long as they said lightly that they didn't see it clearly, they made a mistake, and there was no need to explain more, and it is estimated that the Guangdong officials headed by Governor Lin could not do anything about themselves.

Even the escort team does not care whether they are fighting an American ship or a British ship, they only care whether they are fighting a foreigner's ship or not, as for which country's foreigner it is, in fact, it is secondary.

At this time, seeing another British ship coming, Li Xian felt a headache.

Let this British ship pass, the ship has actually seen that there are pirates robbing American ships here, but it is only because the strait is too narrow to turn around, so it will come over and want to break through the blockade of the four ships and run to Macao.

Li Xian could not attack the British ship and let it run to Macao, but then many ocean-going merchant ships on the Macao side would rush over in groups and chase after his own fleet.

Although it is said that turning around and going to Leizhou now will have an advantage of two or three hours over the possible pursuers, after all, the escort team is not particularly familiar with Western-style soft sailing ships, and I am afraid that they may not be able to run past foreign merchant ships that have been sailing for many years, and it would be bad if they were caught up halfway.

Even if these situations did not happen, the British ships saw that there were Portuguese ships involved in piracy, and when they reported the situation in Macao, they would be reminded of their previous ship purchases, and understand that it was Leizhou's mixed fleet that robbed American ships.

Although Li Xian is not afraid of this, if it is exposed too early, it will greatly affect the strategy in the future, and it is difficult to continue the robbery, which is also not in the interests of the escort team and Li Xian.