From the Lion to the Hindustani, to the Jackal to the Clarence as a supply ship, the wooden-hulled sailing ships rocked unnaturally.

After all, the Lion and Hindustan are large, and they are not a big problem for a while, but the Jackal and the Clarence are faintly inappropriate. Despite the fact that there were guards and sailors on each ship who constantly pulled the trigger, the sound of gunfire knocked monster after monster into the water.

But the rest of the monsters had no intention of retreating, and in the blink of an eye, they were already approaching the Lion. This is a clear show of the carriage and horses, the scuttling of the boat is one case, and the gang jumping battle is another, anyway, it is all a fight, and it will definitely not make you have a good time!

In this era, although the application of firearms was extremely widespread, hand-to-hand combat still occupied the most important position on the battlefield. More than half of the entourage who accompanied Macartney were active military personnel, not to mention the sailors and sailors who went to the sea—who didn't know that the British Navy and armed merchant ships were almost a pirate in another way?

A few shells were hastily placed at the large group of monsters that were pressing around, and both artillerymen and sailors began to load their bayonets. The non-combatants, from the band to the count, all went down to the cabin, and although the hulls of the Lion and Hindustan were thick oak planks, it was still a threat to be scuttled by the monsters in this way, and it was better to plug the leaks with a little manpower than nothing.

While the British were trying to fight this group of monsters, the Dutch fleet, which had been following half-dead, also made a move. With a few cannon shots, I saw cannonballs fall one by one, splashing waves around the Lion.

But as these cannonballs fell, they brought about an even more violent reaction from these limbed fish monsters.

Captain Goyle could clearly see that those "cannonballs" were none other than the salted jerky that ocean-going merchant ships always stocked up, but absolutely no one wanted to touch. This food, which was as hard as a stone and could be picked up to kill people, landed around the Lion and Hindustan and immediately provoked the reaction of the fish monsters, and they gathered even more around the Lion and Hindustan.

And the two Dutch merchant ships took advantage of this opportunity and desperately turned around and left.

This is simply using the British fleet as bait to divert the attention of the fish monsters!

But at this junk, Captain Goyle didn't have the heart to pay attention to what those Dutch were planning, he had already drawn his command knife and plunged into this white-knuckle battle.

Two stones were struck against each other, leaving pieces of stone with sharp edges, tied to wooden poles with animal skins, which were stone spears.

The molten iron in the blast furnace is cooled and forged into a senlen short sword with a blood groove, which is attached to the barrel of the gun, which is a bayonet.

The stone spear of the Stone Age, when it met the standard bayonet of the British army in the eighteenth century, it should have been clear at a glance who won and who lost, but between the staggering, it was the warm blood of human beings that spilled out!

The sharp bayonet was aimed at the sticky and tough scaly skin, and it immediately deflected. On the contrary, the stone spear was unceremoniously smashed on the head, and in the blink of an eye, several lives were harvested!

What's more, some fish monsters are bare-handed, and they directly rely on their scales and armor, rough skin and thick flesh, so they directly pounce on them and hug their opponents, suddenly open their mouths, and bite their opponents' throats-

In the 18th century, the musket method of musket warfare, commonly known as "lining up to shoot", became popular, and the original knightly warfare in full armor was completely thrown into the garbage by Europa's military strategists. Generals and military scientists have all degenerated into third-rate accountants who calculate the number of killed, and the large number of deaths of soldiers is just a base number in the battle damage report, and the result is the complete elimination of armor, cavalry, infantry, and sailors are all lightly armed, and there will not even be a piece of leather armor outside of military uniforms.

But the musket salvo and white-knuckle assault tactics that were once extremely good for Indians, Indians, and blacks became a complete joke in front of these fish monsters.

The volley of muskets could not disperse these fearless aliens, while the melee hand-to-hand combat, scaly fish monsters could easily tear apart these British soldiers wearing only military uniforms!

If the 1730 dog-lock flintlock flintlock rifle of the Mission Guard were replaced by the Barrett heavy machine gun, which was once famous in the post-classical era, even the Lee Enfield rifle that had experienced World War I and World War II, at least it would not have fought so miserably. But in the face of the flintlock pistols of the eighteenth century, the fish monsters can be said to have the upper hand -

At the moment when the regimental guards were losing and retreating, between the sea and the sky, a little sail shadow suddenly appeared.

The white sails were like the peaks of the clouds rising in the wind, and even faintly glowing in the sun, speeding towards the Lion. The ship was slender throughout, with a bow like a sword, and white sails on four masts were several times wider than the Lion!

If someone who is familiar with the history of ship development sees it, they will understand that this kind of wood-hulled sailboat with a slender hull and a high mast and broad sail is the most famous clipper ship in the history of sailing development. Its long, sharpened bow can split the waves like scissors, and it can sail at speeds of more than fourteen knots. Before steam paddlewheels fully replaced sailboats, clippers were the undisputed scuds of the sea.

This type of sailing ship, which appeared in the mid-to-late nineteenth century, was replaced by ocean-going steamers, although it was only popular for less than fifty years. But its speed is enough to boast of the eighteenth-century wooden-hulled warships and armed cargo ships, and as for the common cargo ships on the southeast coast, such as the Fu ship and the sand ship, which seek stability rather than speed, it has to fall behind it and eat the ashes - oh, there is no ash on the sea, but there is no problem in eating the waves.

On the highest mast of this clipper ship, a blue flag is waving in the wind, on the flag, flintlock pistols and magic swords are intertwined, and the ears of grain symbolizing "Jiahe" are held below.

Captain Goyle, who had retreated to the cabin with his men, didn't understand what this flag meant, but it wasn't a skeletal flag for pirates!

Unlike the Dutch merchant ships, which were eager to flee the treacherous seas, the sails rose like clouds and approached the Lion and Hindustan like arrows.

The speed was almost suspicious, it was a white cloud in the sky, falling on the surface of the sea—

And the fish monsters who had already boarded the deck of the Lion, the big eyes of the cold-blooded creatures actually paused at the moment they found the white sails, and then jumped off the decks of the Lion and Hindustan with even faster action!

The uniform movement is reminiscent of schools of salmon that swim desperately during the spawning season.

But the crew of the white sailboat had no intention of letting them escape like this. On the bow of the ship, someone shouted: "The deflated calf is rotten sweet potato, grab half of it, and when you see our Feiyun, you want to run? It's not so easy! The little ones, pull out the cannon and prepare the cannon for the No. 2 Evil San! I said Lao Song, your business is on the door again, if you don't do it, I'll be done!"

Being shouted by his colleagues, the Taoist known as Lao Song straightened the scarf on his head, shook his head and said: "The most valuable thing about these krakens is nothing more than scale armor leather, and after they are seized, they will naturally be handed over for meritorious service." My mission is to observe the spread of these krakens. ”

"Come on, who doesn't know that your old Song has been ordered from above, and he is here to test new magic weapons on our Qiongya Road, don't hide it, give us an eye. Maybe in the future, your junior brothers and sisters will also come to our Feiyun and stir horses in a pot with my Lao Cai. You try to be ugly now, and we'll work together later!"

was robbed of white by "Lao Cai", and "Lao Song" was not annoyed at all, picked up his binoculars and confirmed it again, before nodding and saying, "You are right." Those foreign ships, flying the tricolor flag, should be the Dutch merchant ships, these people have caused endless evils in the South Seas, I am too lazy to care. But the one who flew the rice flag should be a warship of the British Kingdom. There is an explanation above, there should be a group of British envoys visiting these days, and we in the Xisha Coast Guard should pay attention to them, so they won't bump into each other so coincidentally, right?"

While speaking, "Lao Song" was not slow in his hand, and took out a silver ring from his sleeve, and the whole body was like a dragon head and tail together. He put the silver ring into the water, and suddenly there seemed to be a suction surge around the silver ring, and a wave rose in the silver ring, and it was hooped up by the silver ring, and it flowed endlessly.

Seeing the splashing of the silver ring, "Lao Song" nodded: "The spirit of heaven and earth in this place is quite lively, barely enough, Lao Cai, you tell everyone not to use the cannon powder that punishes the evil spirit, but instead use the batch of Xuanshui No. 2 I brought down." ”

"Come on, I'll listen to you, the Xuanshui No. 2 cannon is ready, and it will be released into the crowd of fish of Wang Bacao!"

In a few words, I saw that on this flying shear ship named Feiyun, several light cannons commonly used by the Qing army poked out of the muzzles, and there was a bang, but they splashed out with sparks from the canopy.

In the sunlight, you can still see the deep blue, almost black smoke, scattered with the bursting sparks. At first glance, it doesn't look like a warship firing guns, but a holiday flower is bursting!

Whether it was Captain Gower or the mission guards for the rest of Yukou's life, all the Englishmen who witnessed this scene were stunned.

This kind of fireworks cannon is purely a thing used for fun in the festival, and it is flashy to say. Why did that strangely shaped white sailing ship use this kind of thing to attack those terrifying sea monsters?

If they had basic arcane vision, they would have noticed that the inky blue smoke was launched into the surface of the sea, and quickly melted into the water.

The blue waters of the South China Sea, under the immersion of these inky blue smoke, turned blue and black in a blink of an eye.

There are also faint ripples of water swirling, as if forming small runes.

At this moment, "Lao Song" immersed the silver ring in his hand into the sea again, and suddenly a stream of water as thick as the silver ring condensed, rushing towards the water that was soaked in slightly blue and black!

Under the water, only the fish-people who have reached the extreme of sight and perception can feel a natural enemy aura that makes their hearts tremble, and it suddenly spreads, making all the mermaids' movements suddenly stiffen!

And right in front of them, a dragon with short horns, transparent body, exuding a cold air, which made the surrounding waters begin to feel solidified, with a smile that was about to feast on flesh and blood, looked at them coldly......

The people on the deck of the Lion did not know what was happening beneath the water's surface, from Captain Gower to Count Macartney, who heard the fighting outside and came out of the cabin, there was only another scene.

In front of them, in the vast expanse of water, the waves of water kept tumbling, like a pot of boiling soup. In the midst of this boiling soup, the large group of fish-men let out a silent cry of misery, and kept rushing to the surface of the water, and then they were dragged into the water by something invisible.

The stumps and corpses of the fish-men that had been torn apart by something continued to surface, gradually dyeing the blue-black waters into a deep red.

In such a scene, the white sailing ship that appeared suddenly had already sailed close to them.