The captain of the Silverfish didn't even know what happened. He was directing the gun pistol player to shoot fiercely at the flying shark ship. Suddenly, he saw the enemy ship sailing suddenly catch a fire, and it almost spread to their stern.

Seeing that it was not too late to be happy to avoid the sea of ​​fire, the Lina was already trapped in the sea of ​​fire. The sailors on the ship shouted and ran around, and the helmsman quickly deviated from the route and dared not chase into the sea of ​​fire again. He turned to the right to avoid the Ming ship, which doubled the pressure in his heart.

He was already wondering how the farce would end.

Without the assistance of Lina, the Silverfish alone had more than 40 sailors, no, more than 30 sailors could not capture this huge Ming ship, and it was difficult to gain an advantage in the battle on the shore. But it was embarrassing that before the war began, they did not expect that the Ming ship was about the same length as Clark but could speed faster than the Calavell ship.

The biggest problem facing him now is that it is difficult to win the battle. If you want to exit the battlefield, you don’t have the speed of the enemy ship.

This made him look at the Clark ship, which was already hard to see clearly in the sea in the distance. If he could escape, he would definitely win.

The Santa Caterina is a large Clark sailing ship with blackened cruising, four main masts and bowsprits. It has served in the Portuguese royal family for seven years. It was the earliest short-distance ship that communicated between Lisbon and the Mediterranean. It was equipped with more than 30 large oars on both sides of the ventricular bleach. It is a veritable huge merchant ship.

With the rise of the Ming navy, not only did the huge investment of many Portuguese aristocrats in East Asia waste, but also shook the authority of their fleet in the Indian Ocean. The long distance and the lessons of the Spaniards made them unwilling to engage in naval wars with the Ming Dynasty, so they could only further exploit Africa's interests, causing the Caterina to be transported to Lisbon for re-transformation after the signing of the Ming Dynasty and Spain treaty.

To enter the battlefield, the red oar on the belly of this 37-meter-long sea beast was removed, and the lower deck was equipped with eight cannon positions. Eight roving cannons were fixed on the upper ship's side. Eight roving cannons were added under the main sail that could be detached when the wind was strong. The most advanced and sophisticated tools such as sail ropes were used, and the forecastle height was further lowered to facilitate long-distance navigation.

But now he fled to the vicinity of the Caterina with his ship and would definitely be scolded by the great nobles on the ship after the battle, which would damage his self-esteem.

Dodol

Just as he was still weighing the pros and cons, two light sounds and his subordinates' horror shouts reminded him that it was the sound of the crossbow on the Ming ship projecting the nail rope onto their ship. When the pirates on the flying shark boat shouted horns and turned the winch, the two already close warships closer quickly, and then the quilts that had not yet been thrown by manpower on the nail rope hooked their ship's side.

Those abominable Asian faces are close at hand

The expression of the captain of the Silverfish was always frozen in his shock when he looked at the flying shark boat. A lead ball accurately hit the wide eye between the iron helmet and the steel plate armor, and hit the back of the head from the right eye.

On the other side of the ballistic, the Baihu ship was only leaning over ten steps away. Yang Ce and his pirates dropped the bird guns together, held the gunpowder bundle and issued orders to his subordinates. During the approach, the gunpowder bundle was thrown hard at the Karaville ship. This kind of gunpowder bundle made by the phoenix of Tangmin Island was the most suitable firearm that Yang Ce could find under Lin Afeng's men.

Most of the weapons he had trained in the martial arts lecture hall here were useless, without rockets, grenades, mines, and heavy artillery. Even this simple-made gunpowder bundle is 50% less powerful than that of the Nanyang Army. Although it looks the same, this is not a prefabricated gunpowder bundle that explodes from all directions, but a large firecracker that can only spray lead balls in front and back.

After throwing out three bundles of gunpowder with their leader, the pirates, without having to issue orders, they both concealed their bodies behind the side of the ship. No one could control where the two ends were facing when the gunpowder bundles exploded. If one head was facing themselves, they were within the range of the scattered subs.

But at the same time, the sailors on the Silverfish also threw several big objects on their ships, shattering them as soon as they landed, scaring the pirates. Seeing that it was impossible to pick them up and throw them back, several pirates closest quickly turned around and leaned their butts towards the thing.

The loud explosion arrived as scheduled on the Calavere ship. Hearing the shrill screams, the pirates found that the tiles and grease were thrown to their deck.

The gunpowder bundle imitated by Phoenix was not enough to kill due to the problem of gunpowder ratio, but the smoke was very heavy. It was too late to sigh that the Portuguese threw this time compared to the Ming people. Several flying torches dragged flames and pierced the smoke and threw them at them.

The flames rose, and Sun Liu had already grasped the Ming army's standard sword and slashed out, and the man rushed into the smoke and slashed left and right, and then the shouts crashed into the ears of the pirates.

"Don't worry about fire for now, if there is one count, you will be able to capture and kill."

Torches and grease will not cause too much damage to the solid boat plates for a while. Similarly, their tincture is unlikely to burn the escaped Calaville ship directly. Sun Liu has always been concerned about the ship. Once it makes a comeback, they will be in crisis. Therefore, it is necessary to kill all the enemies on the ship before the other party is clear-headed.

The pirates following Sun Liu jumped onto the Caravel ship from three boat boards and sailing ropes. Yang Ce failed to squeeze onto the crowded boat boards, so he simply directed the boatman to put out the fire while taking the only four remaining gunners to the place where the enemy gathered at the head and tail of the enemy ship.

The battle process was much faster than they thought. The explosion of three large firecrackers on the deck caused the casualties to the enemy more than the sum of artillery and muskets. The enemies on the deck were killed in a blink of an eye. Some soldiers who surrendered were also killed by Sun Liu. Some of them fled into the lower deck, and several of them were forced to jump into the sea.

The fire on the Baihu was gradually extinguished. Yang Ce saw another enemy ship drifting away in black smoke. He relaxed a little, and followed him to the deck of the Silverfish. He met Sun Liu, who had just come from the cabin. He saw a new but not very suitable for his breastplate, nodding with a sailor who was carrying a Portuguese sailor axe.

The pirates coming out from behind successively dragged out several sailors from the cabin and were stripped to the end of their underwear and threw them into the sea.

Then boxes of supplies were carried onto the blood-stained deck.

Armor, weapons, gunpowder, shells, and a small amount of pasta and water.

There was not much spoil on this guard ship, and only the sailors could find some money, but they were still pitifully small.

The most valuable ones are five small-caliber bronze cannons of different lengths and thicknesses and four small Franco-machine circumference cannons on the side of the ship. One of the swelled bombs was placed in the bottom of the bilge as a ballast, and the pirates were also brought up.

Sun Liu and Yang Ce looked at each other and saw the dissatisfaction in each other's eyes, saying, "You know a lot, can you snatch that big-bellied boat?"

Yang Ce's eyes swept over the sailors who were killed and injured around him slowly shook his head. He had only less than fifty subordinates left, and only forty of them could continue fighting, which was not enough to engage in another major naval battle, especially against the Clark ship, which was huge in size and many soldiers.

What's more, the Clark was larger in shape than the one he was familiar with in the martial arts hall.

"Hundred Houses, hurry up. Install the cannons on the repair ship first, follow him far away, and send some people to drive the ship along the coast to sail to the West Great City. We have two flying sharks outside. As long as we can contact one, we can grab the big ship."

Yang Ce nodded slowly and said to Sun Liu: "It is impossible for them to hide in the port all the time. As long as they go to sea, we can catch him."
Chapter completed!