The sun is scorching and the blue waves of Qizhou Yangmalacca, a large fleet of hundreds of ships is slowly moving in the seas of hundreds of ships.

Since the recent rampant attack on the Chinese Empire merchant ships by the Viking Pirates, the Chinese Empire Trade Association has issued an emergency warning, requiring ocean-going merchant ships to prohibit action alone and must form a uniform fleet and act together.

In this way, hundreds of merchant ships were brought together, which also facilitated the Chinese Empire Navy to provide escort, unified management, and ensure the safety of the caravan.

For the Viking Pirates, this is the least desired result, because facing the huge ship team of the Chinese Empire, they must invest more pirate warships. However, if a large number of pirate warships are invested, the target will be too large and it will be easily reconnaissed by the Chinese Empire's navy and be encircled and suppressed.

However, if you give up, the pirates are unwilling to give up.

You should know that the merchant ships of the Chinese Empire are all rich and contain a large amount of goods from the Chinese Empire. They are sold as luxury goods in the European and American markets, especially the special medicines of the Chinese Empire, which are priced at gold, which make pirates jealous.

At the same time, most of these so-called Viking pirates were actually retired British Navy soldiers and had a very high hatred for the Chinese Empire. Especially the leaders of the Viking pirates regiment, these leaders actually followed the secret orders of the British Navy to lead these retired naval soldiers to deliberately attack the merchant fleet of the Chinese Empire. In addition to attacking the Chinese Empire's maritime trade and plundering financial resources, more importantly, they robbed the high-tech products of the Chinese Empire, especially the equipment on ships, which were urgently needed by the British Empire.

Therefore, with this ulterior secret, the Viking Pirates had to attack the ships of the Chinese Empire.

Several pirate ships suddenly appeared. Although they were wearing the Viking pirate flag, they could not hide the Victorian warship paint, which was clearly pretended to be the British Navy.

The whole world knows the shamelessness of the British government, but there is no direct evidence that it was instructed by the British government, because ordinary British sailors are not aware of it. Unless they catch the top leaders of the pirate regiment, only a few top leaders of the pirate regiment will know the truth.

"It's a pirate! Get the alarm!"

An Imperial Chinese Navy frigate serving as escort suddenly sounded the alarm, which immediately filled the airspace of hundreds of kilometers.

"The pirates are here, get ready!"

Hundreds of merchant ships were also prepared for a long time. They recruited some bodyguards and once they encountered pirates, they would resist to the end. They even buried slag medicine in the warehouse, preparing to die with the pirates.

It is logical that businessmen are most afraid of death and should not make such a decision.

But if we know that the Viking Pirates targeted the Chinese Empire, not only wanted to steal all the goods from merchants of the Chinese Empire, but also wanted to kill people, then we would not feel strange. Anyway, they are all dead, and the merchants will definitely not let the pirates get the goods, so they must die together.

However, these merchants are just preparing for the situation, after all, there are escorts from the Imperial Chinese naval warships nearby.

"President Lin, we will be fine!"

Some businessmen surrounded President Lin, looking nervous.

President Lin smiled slightly and said, "Even if you can't trust me, Mr. Lin, you have to believe in the Imperial Navy! Don't worry, if the pirates dare to attack, our Imperial Navy will take them all!"

"I hope so!"

"Of course we believe in President Lin!"

"Don't forget that President Lin has the most goods. The Lin family has a naval minister. If the Imperial Navy can't even keep the goods from the Lin family, then it's better to go home and take the children!"

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The merchants talked all the time, and this time they all came for President Lin's backstage. After all, Lin Jiyun from the Lin family was the first-rank official and a dignified imperial naval minister would not be able to save his life with the Lin family, which would be a joke.

However, they didn't know that this time President Lin was actually speechless!

The Lin family did have a naval minister, but this naval minister has always been strict with himself. The Lin family wanted to gain benefits from the imperial government under the banner of Lin Jiyun. On the contrary, Lin Jiyun was seriously demanded by Lin Jiyun not to compete for profit with the civilians, so as not to lose Lin Jiyun's face.

This is a good thing. Not only did the Lin family benefit not be mentioned, but they could not compete with the people for profit. It was not as convenient as ordinary merchants. It would be fine for ordinary families to walk on the back door. If the Lin family also walked on the back door, it would definitely not work.

The head of the Lin family was so angry that he wanted to drive Lin Jiyun out of the ancestral hall.

Recently, pirates broke out, and the Lin family planned to suspend maritime trade for several months, but Lin Jiyun went home.

The elder of the Lin family thought that Lin Jiyun had changed his mind and wanted to take care of the Lin family's business. In the end, he realized that Lin Jiyun went home because he planned to let the Lin family be bait, to hook up with the Viking Pirates Group, and cooperate with the Imperial Navy to wipe out the Viking Pirates Group.

The old man was so angry that he picked up the stick and beat Lin Jiyun out.

However, no matter how angry he was, the head of the Lin family still took the overall situation into consideration and finally agreed.

But what the Lin family never expected was that when the Lin family went to sea to go to business, the other maritime merchants were all red-eyed and begged to take the Lin family's fleet. So, the Lin family originally prepared twenty cargo ships, but when they went to sea, they turned into more than 300, which was a huge momentum.

At this moment, President Lin was calm on the surface and regretted it in his heart. If something happened, the Lin family would instantly offend hundreds of merchants. How could they do anything in the future!

Please, don't make any trouble. Are you blind, pirates? We are escorted by naval warships. Get out of here quickly!

President Lin prayed in his heart.

Unfortunately, the more you fear, the more you will be.

Two pirate fleets appeared in the southeast and southwest directions, each with three to five warships. Except for the one that leads to a dome cruise ship, the others are frigates.

These British frigates rushed towards the fleet very quickly.

The people who were responsible for this escort mission were the Chinese Empire Navy's heavy cruise ships, Dutch moon ships, laurel moon ships, light cruise ships, Mercury ships, Mars ships, and anti-submarine destroyers Heron and Grass Heron.

Two of the heavy cruisers were on the left and right, two light cruisers were on the rear, and two anti-submarine destroyers were on the front.

At this moment, on the bridge of the Heron, the second prince suddenly became excited when he heard the alarm sound.

"Where are the pirates! Where are the pirates!"

The adjutant hurriedly put down his telescope and replied: "Your Highness, the pirates attack the middle of the ferry, very far away from us!"

It was indeed far away, with more than 300 merchant ships forming a fleet, storming and stretching for dozens of nautical miles.

The second prince asked in confusion: "Then what are we waiting for? Go and support!"

The adjutant explained: "No, we have not received the order and cannot act without authorization!"

"Then we can't wait here, right? Let's see others kill pirates and make meritorious contributions?" The second prince was unhappy. He wanted to sink a pirate ship as soon as possible, so that he could complete the mission. He was not interested in joining the army, especially being a navy, which was too hard. He lived with the officers and soldiers on the Heron during this period, and knew about their hard work. He lived on the ship almost every year, and he could have a vacation every time he landed on the dock, but it didn't take long. Almost every time he went out to sea, it would take several months. If he encountered a big task, he would often float on the sea for half a year.

This kind of life is definitely not something that the second prince can bear. If his father had not assigned homework, he would not have come to suffer.

The adjutant immediately smiled bitterly and said, "Even if your highness goes there, it's useless. You don't know that our warship is called an anti-submarine destroyer. As the name suggests, it is used to attack submarines. It's not our specialty to deal with surface ships. If you go there rashly, you will be beaten up by yourself!"

The second prince was stunned and asked hurriedly, knowing which warship he had chosen to serve.

Damn, I was cheated by the third child!

The main function of the Great Egret class anti-submarine destroyer is anti-submarine. The maximum caliber artillery is only 128 mm. At best, it can compete with the frigate. If it encounters a cruiser with a caliber of 155 mm to 254 mm, it will definitely be beaten.

"A mere pirates can even be powerful in giant ships and cannons, which are mostly stronger than most of our regular navy warships. Is this still a pirate?"

The second prince finally found something was wrong. In his traditional thought, the pirates should be a group of shrimp soldiers and crab generals paddling with small sampans, but what he saw now was completely the opposite.

The adjutant rolled his eyes immediately, thinking that the second prince knew the mission goal and knew nothing about his relationship!

This requires a lot of science, otherwise something big will happen!

Thinking of this, the adjutant hurriedly explained: "Your Highness, this time the pirates are just nominally called pirates. What is the Viking Pirates Group, they are all excuses for the British. In fact, their ships are all warships of the British Navy, and they themselves are officers and soldiers of the British Navy. To put it bluntly, these pirates are all pretended to be by the British Navy."

ah!

The second prince inherited his mother's business wisdom, but knew nothing about military affairs and did not pay attention to it at all. He was too lazy to ask before coming.

Now that he learned that the Viking Pirates were pretending to be the British Navy, his heart was suffocating.

Damn! Can fighting pirates be the same as fighting the British Navy?

The second prince was suddenly a little scared and regretted it!

If I had known this, I should have learned from my elder brother. It would be safest to fight with the British Navy!

Third brother, I depend on you all, I will never finish my stay with you when I go back!

At this moment, the second prince began to complain about the third prince, completely forgetting that he chose it himself.

"Then let's be honest in anti-submarine!"

"By the way, is that pirate's submarine powerful?"

The adjutant then replied: "Don't worry, your highness, we have absolutely no problem with anti-submarines. Not to mention pirate submarines, even if all the submarines in the world come, we can easily discover them and then sink them!"

"That's good! That's good!" The second prince immediately breathed a sigh of relief and decided to honestly fight the submarine, sink a pirate submarine and quickly run away after completing the mission.

At this moment, the Holland and Guiyue ships on the left and right sides of the middle of the regiment had already exchanged fire with the Viking Pirates' warships.

The rumbling sound of cannons came quickly.

It was the first time that the second prince saw the naval battle. He was a little nervous and scared, but also a little excited!

Dongdongdongdongdongdong!

On the right side of the ship, the three 55-distance 203mm main guns of the Dutch-Moon ship opened fire fiercely and fired on the pirate cruiser that was rushing towards him.

There are four pirate warships opposite, headed by the Algae Dome-armored cruiser, which is an old British ship eight years ago. The British are not willing to convert their most powerful armored cruiser into a pirate ship.

The layout of the Algae artillery is still in front-facing fearless type, with three 254mm main guns, two bows, one stern, four ear tables on the ship, four 120mm single-mounted secondary guns. The artillery looks very fierce, but unfortunately the tonnage is too small, with only 1,450 tons of water displacement, and a typical small boat resists cannon.

The Viking Pirates, with the firepower of the Algae and the other three frigates, obviously could not beat the Heyue issue. After all, the Heyue issue is a heavy cruiser of 10,000 tons, and it is the most advanced fearless type.

As a fearless heavy cruiser, the 9 203mm main guns of the Dutch moon ship have a unified central fire control system. Each time the firepower is fired, 9 shells almost landed on a straight line, which makes it easier to calculate the bounce point, and only after three rounds of volleys are fired.

During the fourth round of artillery fire, five of the nine shells hit the Algae at the same time.

Bang bang bang bang!

Five 203mm shells exploded on the Algae at the same time. In an instant, Mars burst into flames, and the dark smoke rose into the air with a raging fire.

The Algae was hit hard in an instant, the bridge was blown up, and the hull was penetrated by two huge holes.

The Viking pirates pretending to be the British sailors were shocked. They thought that the thick armor of the Algae was enough to block the 203mm armor-piercing bomb attack, but they found that not only did not block it, but the injured part was terrifying.

"How is this possible? How can a 203mm cannon fire the lethal power of a 305mm shell?"

Captain Shui Algae had an unimaginable expression on his face. He clearly saw that the main gun of the Chinese Empire warship He Yue on the opposite side had a diameter of only 203 mm, but his hull armor was blown open with a huge hole with a diameter of nearly half a meter, and a shell completely destroyed multiple cabins inside the hull.

This terrifying power can only be achieved by 305mm naval guns, and such a huge explosion will not occur after the 305mm armor-piercing projectile penetrates the armor.
To be continued...