The Great Ming Dynasty Dominate Overseas

Yan Kun left the captain's room, feeling heavy.

As a soldier, obeying orders is his bounden duty, and he does not hesitate to go through water and fire.

Since he was in the army, he had to be prepared to face danger at all times, but a living person just disappeared in front of him and never met again, which made him feel strangely uncomfortable.

He came to this warship, it was a small space. Everyone met at night, even if they were not relatives or acquaintances, but...

In the evening, he and Jian Wenyue were blowing air on the deck. Jian Wenyue asked, "You eat very little tonight?"

"No appetite!" Yan Kun said lightly.

"The navy...Fortunately, I heard from the instructor from the army that they were eating right next to the brother who died in the war. Not only did they have to eat, but they had to be full, otherwise they didn't have the strength to fight!" Jian Wenyue said.

, "Don't worry about me, I'm fine!" Yan Kun reluctantly said.

"That's good!" Jian Wenyue said.

After all, he was young and didn't have deep friendship with the missing person. After talking with Jian Wenyue, he soon laughed.

However, the personnel on the warship were demeaned as usual, and the work was carried out on a regular basis. The turmoil of the death of two people on the ship was almost calm, so it calmed down.

Battleship No. 181 has been cruising. They have entered the African coastline, but they avoided entering the Mombasa area on the central coast of Africa. They did not intend to attack Mombasa without using battleships.

Opinions within the navy are very different. Some people believe that the African coast should be attacked up to the Cape of Good Hope area. Others believe that the current pace is too large and has already acquired a vast area of ​​the Indian Ocean. The continued attack should be temporarily stopped to prevent the supply line from being stretched too long.

When there was no substantive decision, the navy sent a cruise ship to attack the rambutan in Africa and launched a fierce chase with them.

After going out for thirty-seven days, battleship 181 finally found out.

At about four o'clock in the afternoon, Yan Kun was on duty on a warship. The captain was on duty and he was in charge of directing the course. At this time, the chief watchman reported: "Sir, I found the middle mast of a ship in the direction of three longitude points on the starboard bow. sail!"

During this dispatch, the luck of the 181 battleship was not good. They had not seen a ship in the open sea, so when they finally saw a ship close enough to see its mast and a corner of its sail from the deck. When the ship was suspicious, the crew paid special attention to it. A dozen binoculars were pointed in that direction like long guns and short cannons.

Looking at each other's oncoming situation, the two boats are driving on their current course and will definitely cross, but it is not yet known who will pass by whose wake.

If you are an objective bystander, you will have noticed that battleship 181 tilted a little due to the fact that the crew was too concentrated on the starboard side, and then the crew burst into a burst of enthusiastic cheers. It was a red-haired ship. Fan's armed merchant ship, although it did not play its flag, it was a red-haired fan splint, and it was confirmed that it was correct.

The veterans pointed and pointed that the upper mast of the opponent's ship was hung improperly, and sailboats in the southeastern country would hardly be hung like this.

The eyes of the veterans were harsh, and they could see that the other party was walking heavily, and obviously the load was not small!

So they cheered, it seems that this time is good!

Yan Kun boldly asked Shi Lang for advice: "Captain, I heard the veterans say that there is cargo on the other ship, how can I tell?"

"If the cargo is in the ship, the ship must be stable; if it is out of stock, light and floating, it will appear fast. It can be seen that the ship is not fast enough now," Shi Lang told him.

Seeing Yan Kun's seemingly understanding but not understanding, Shi Lang let him not worry, after experiencing it, he would naturally know.

At present, far away, Shi Lang asked Ma Xinghua, a good-sighted observer, to see what was going on, so Ma Xinghua climbed to the top, got into the dense sails, and looked at it with binoculars. Ship 181 was not in a hurry to step forward to intercept the incoming ship. Rather, it is approaching and sailing obliquely so that both sides are close to parallel.

Yan Kun saw that Ma Xinghua had maintained his balance. He stretched out one arm to grab the sails, maintaining a suspended balance, and adjusted the focus of the telescope with the other hand.

What caught his eyes was the dazzling light from the other ship in the sun.

6-pounder!

12-pounder!

It is unfolding its auxiliary sail, but it seems that there is a problem with its sling pole.

Ma Xinghua went down to the deck like an agile monkey and reported: "The three-masted ship has at least 10 12-pounder cannons and 6 6-pounder cannons! There are guns on the front and rear decks, and the rear deck is not very clear about the caliber. , The bow is an 18-pounder!"

"No doubt?" the captain asked.

"Eight or nine do not leave ten!" Ma Xinghua confidently said.

"Very good, very good!" Shi Lang nodded. Compared with the joy of other crew members, Shi Lang was not very optimistic.

it's getting dark!

There are still two hours to go dark, if you want to catch up with the opponent, you must be so two or three quarters faster than the opponent, maybe you can catch them at night.

In the chase of battleships during the sailing period, Shi Lang once organized a continuous chase for 32 hours, chasing more than 200 kilometers!

The speed of each meter is very important, it is really a trouble.

At present, the wind is blowing from the coast, blowing **** the port side and rear of the battleship 181, making the battleship 181 sail at a speed of seven knots. Thanks to the well-trained sailors, they quickly raised the top and auxiliary sails. Battleship No. 181 has never reduced the distance with the opponent, and has gotten closer.

"I hope I can continue like this!" Shi Lang prayed to Mazu Niangniang for good luck, so that he could catch the prey.

And the variegated red hairpins on the British armed merchant ship Emmons are also praying to God, hoping to escape.

"Emmons" is a three-masted merchant ship acting as a pirate privateer. It took advantage of the roaring westerly zone to kill Southeast Asia and achieved some gains. On the way back, unexpectedly found a Chinese cruise ship!

"This is their new class of cruise ship~www.wuxiaspot.com~ We have seen 20 18-pounder guns and 16 12-pounder guns!" said the captain of the ship, Raidel, who is a German.

"Thank you!" The captain of the Englishman Hartley said. He looked at the sun through the inferior midmast sail. The high temperature of the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia had peeled off the decoration and paint of the hull, the belly of the sail and the girder. It was dilapidated and could still be sailed downwind, but contending with that cruise ship, the result would be a miserable defeat, and it was too late to cry. The two ships were not of the same class at all.

They can only hope that the cruise ship can't catch up with them because of multiple guns, but they are doomed to be disappointed.

The sails of the Chinese warship were in place, and it came quickly and easily and began to approach them.

At first it was difficult to tell if this was the case. The ship was still on the distant horizon. Only three signal flags on the top of the mast could be seen dancing with the wind, and they could only be seen when the ship was lifted by the waves. The black spots were faintly visible, but an hour later the complete hull of the Chinese warship could be seen from the upper deck of the pirate ship. Hart's face was somber that the sailors splayed their old-fashioned slanted sails horizontally, causing the ship to deflect to one side. Half a compass point, a little distance away, but soon the Chinese battleship caught up again.

The pirates are dull-eyed, this time they are in big trouble!