Since deciding to plunder British merchant ships, Li Xian's side has a lot more choice, originally he had to look for American merchant ships with orders and a lot of cash, but later he turned into looking for foreign merchant ships with orders and valuable goods, and the scope suddenly expanded several times. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

When the two ocean-going merchant ships first disappeared, the merchants of Macao and Hong Kong were still relatively vigilant, and they had to travel in groups of two or three ships to travel between the two places, but after more than a month, there was no news from the two ships, and these merchants inevitably relaxed.

Qian Dafu has been mingling in the officers' clubs in Macao and Hong Kong these days, ostensibly doing some small business, engaging in the tea trade of several hundred or thousands of yuan, but his real intention is to grasp the whereabouts of the ships and the goods they carry, and then pass on the news to the East China Sea Island.

When he heard that there was a British merchant ship carrying a full load of tea and other commodities to go from Macao to Nanyang, and more importantly, there was no other ship to follow, but to act alone, Li Xian felt that the opportunity was rare, and took the ship to the waters near Macao.

The ship has an interesting name, it is called "Nemesis", and its displacement reaches one and a half hundred tons.

The ship was going from Macao to Luzon and then to Europe, and Li Xian inquired in advance about the ship's departure time and route (these Western ships did not think to keep their whereabouts secret, it was easy to find out), and then ambushed about 100 kilometers south of Macao.

In this battle, Li Xian's subordinates had the 400-ton Donghai and two flower butt ships that participated in the robbery last time, as well as the two 1,000-ton ships that were captured, which made Li Xian feel more confident than last time.

Being a pirate is like snowballing, it is especially difficult to rob a large ship when there is only a small boat, you must pay attention to camouflage, and then carry out a surprise attack.

However, when you have a thousand-ton ship in your hands and dozens of guns that you have looted or bought, it will become easier and easier to plunder merchant ships.

Li Xian asked the two big ships to disguise themselves as merchant ships heading south from Macao, wanting to get close to the Nemesis, but he didn't expect the sailors on the ship to be extremely alert, and he heard about the disappearance of the two ships, and when he saw the two ships coming, he immediately became alert, and also used artillery to warn the ships not to get too close.

Knowing that he couldn't get close with a stratagem like last time, Li Xian decided to come hard.

The speed and armament level of the Nemesis were originally similar to those of the Cambridge and others, but the Nemesis was fully loaded with cargo at this time, while the Cambridge and other two ships were loaded with artillery and necessary daily necessities, so they had an advantage in speed, not to mention that there were three small boats to assist.

Li Xian used the flag to order the three small boats to come forward to interfere, and not to get too close to the Nemesis, but to fire artillery from a distance, making a siege move, so that the Nemesis could not raise her speed, and was forced to turn many times.

Taking advantage of this gap, the Cambridge and the Oxford (another large ship, renamed the Oxford by Li Xian) went around behind the Nemesis and attacked its tail rudder from the rear, carrying out extremely obscene chrysanthemum stabbing tactics.

No matter what kind of ship it is, the bow is the strongest, the middle of the ship is worse, and the stern is the worst protected, because there is a rudder in this place, and it can't be reinforced if you want to.

Seeing two large ships approaching from the stern, the sailors on the Nemesis panicked and moved their guns to the stern in an attempt to attack the approaching ship.

Unfortunately, looking back from the stern, you can only see the extremely narrow cross-section of the ship behind, and the smallest area that can be attacked, even if it hits, the cannonballs will only fall on the strongest bow, and it is difficult to cause substantial damage.

Li Xian personally controlled the bow gun on the Cambridge and stabbed the chrysanthemum of the goddess of revenge.

When the bow of the Cambridge and the stern of the Nemesis were less than three hundred meters apart, Li Xian used the pupil archery technique, and a white gas shot out from Li Xian's eyes, drew a parabola, and landed near the stern of the Cambridge.

Li Xian immediately adjusted the angle of the cannon according to the prompts of the Hitomi Archery, and did not fire the cannon according to the prompts until the white gas shot by the Hitomi Archery hit the Cambridge.

Hitomi archery is originally a secret method used to assist archers, archers can send out pupil archery before archery, and then shoot after where the arrow will hit, which can greatly improve the accuracy of shooting, and is an auxiliary simulation method when there is no computer technology.

Li Xian's eyesight is amazing, and he has the assistance of many pupil techniques, he is one of the most terrifying sharpshooters in this era, if he only has commercial artillery in his hand, otherwise he can easily take down the Nemesis from a thousand meters away.

Naval warfare is different from land warfare, it is very difficult to hit the target with artillery at sea, that is, if a skilled elite shooter hits the target with one out of ten cannons, it will burn high incense, but with Li Xian's strength, as long as it is within the effective firing range, more than six out of ten artillery can hit the target.

In this era, the rate of fire of Western artillery could reach three rounds in two minutes for heavy artillery and two rounds for light artillery in one minute, which was more than ten times faster than that of Qing artillery.

Li Xian stabbed the chrysanthemum of the Nemesis from behind, and fired twenty shells in succession, not only smashing the cannon that the enemy crew had moved to the stern, but also smashing the stern of the ship.

Of course, the other Oxford also contributed a lot, running behind the Nemesis with the Cambridge, and then firing cannonballs under the command of Lin Pingzhi, making no less contribution than the Cambridge.

It turned out that before launching this attack, Li Xian invited Qiao Daqing to join this sea activity, and after thinking twice, Qiao Daqing decided to participate, on the condition that he could only join alone, but the rest of the boat gang could not go to the battlefield.

Qiao Daqing considered that he was strong in martial arts, and he could protect himself even if he participated in the war, but most of the members of the boat gang were ordinary people, and there would be many dangers to join the battle.

Moreover, Qiao Daqing personally doesn't want those simple sailors under him to participate in any murderous things, even if they can make a lot of money.

Li Xian was originally interested in Qiao Daqing's third-order level combat power, and the ordinary boat gang members really didn't like it, so they naturally agreed.

It's just that there were some mistakes when the two of them agreed, and they actually let Ling Huzhan and Lin Pingzhi, who are also from the Huashan faction, also get the news, and then strongly asked to participate together.

One of these two people has strong martial arts, no worse than Qiao Daqing, and the other has a good relationship with Li Xian, and is the most important ally of the Mixed Yuan Sect in Foshan.

During the battle, Li Xian commanded the bow guns of the Cambridge, and the bow guns of the other ship, the Oxford, were commanded by Lin Pingzhi.

Lin Pingzhi's archery skills are only a little worse than Li Xian's, and he freely cultivates the pupil technique, so he is the best person to command the artillery battle.

The Cambridge and Oxford attacked the Nemesis from behind, damaging the Nemesis' rudder and preventing it from moving forward, before it was caught from behind, one left and one right.

When the three ships approached, the sailors of the Nemesis still wanted to resist with smoothbore guns and cannons, but they were all suppressed by the rifled guns and cannons on Li Xian's side, and finally leaned forward and used special wooden ladders and poles to build up.

After that, Li Xian, Wang Jiuxuan, Qiao Daqing, Zuo Shaoqing, Ling Huzhan and other five grandmaster-level combat forces jumped over with huge iron shields, and suppressed the resistance of the sailors on the ship with muskets and swords, followed by Lin Pingzhi and the second-order masters of the Sanyuanguan on the ship, and finally the ordinary guards jumped over in turn to crush the resistance of the sailors of the Goddess of Vengeance.