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Chapter 1643
The poor Calaisian warship was overwhelmed by the siege of four enemy ships. Solid bullets, grape bullets, and chain bullets roared towards it, smashing it to be riddled with holes. Dozens of soldiers and oars hands down!
The high-speed rotating chain bullets tore the sails of the Calaisian warships, and the solid bullets even destroyed a mast of the Calaisian warships in the shelling.

Seeing this, the naval officers of the Ottoman Empire could not hold on, and ordered several Calaisian warships to withdraw to the port.

"Don't let them escape, all warships and merchant ships must be destroyed!"

Zheng Zhihu, Black and others finally used artillery to damage the warships of the Ottoman Empire, how could they easily let them go?

When the squadron chased out of the port, Zheng Zhihu, Black, Zheng Chenggong and others were completely stunned.

Except for the Turkish merchant ships and a few Calais warships that fled here, they actually saw nearly 100 armed sailboats and galleys in the port!Densely packed ships were moored in the port, and the soldiers and sailors in the port found that an enemy fleet was chasing the Calaisian warship, and they were in a mess.

A ship of this size is enough to cross the Mediterranean Sea before the coalition forces enter the Mediterranean Sea!

"My God, with so many ships, are we breaking into the enemy's lair?!"

Blake stared dumbfounded at the numerous Ottoman ships lined up in the port. There must be a secret shipyard here, providing warships for the Ottoman emperor's massive attack on the Mediterranean!

This is the territory of the Ottoman Empire. They have a lot of manpower and material resources. It is not surprising that several important shipyards are hidden in the Mediterranean.

"Colonel, Captain Zheng Zhihu of the Huaxia sent a signal, asking if we want to join forces to destroy the enemy's ships in the harbor?" Blake's adjutant asked him.

"Destroy nearly 14 armed sailboats and galleys with our 100 ships? They are really crazy..." Black hesitated for a while, and he saw that except for a few Calaisian warships that were fully manned, the others were moored in the port Many of the ships among them are new ships that have just been launched, and they never thought that there would be a coalition fleet haunting this island.

"Raise the semaphore, let's attack together!" Blake was determined.

He and the sailors involved in this battle will be honored for destroying a large and unprepared fleet!

"Captain, are we really going to break into the port?"

The naval cadets of Zheng He were very eager to make meritorious service, but this opportunity to make meritorious deeds came too suddenly and dangerously.

"Obey the order, the other party will be caught off guard, and we must win." Zheng Chenggong said.

"Yes!" The naval cadets responded in unison.

The 14 warships were like wolves entering a herd of sheep, the sound of artillery was rumbling, and a large number of shells were vented on the Turkish fleet that had not yet reacted in the harbor.

The sailors and crew of the Turkish fleet were not yet in place. Their gunners climbed onto the ship with hands and feet, and knocked down the deck and wooden boxes in the cabin in a panic, and solid bullets were scattered everywhere.

The secret shipyard and port also housed forts, but the Ottoman soldiers stationed there were at a loss as to what to do.

The fleet attacking the port was mixed with the nearly paralyzed Turkish fleet moored in the harbor, and the soldiers on the fort could not use sea artillery to bombard the enemy ships.They could only watch helplessly as the enemy fleet opened fire and set fire to the chaotic Turkish fleet.

It was the first time for a group of naval interns including Zheng Chenggong to participate in a close-range battle. Opposite them were densely packed Turkish ships, shells were roaring, and the Turkish gunners who boarded the ship in a hurry fought back in panic.

Once a shell flew directly over Zheng Chenggong's head and fell into the sea, making Zheng Chenggong break out in a cold sweat.

If the angle of the shell had been lower, he might have been killed by the shell on the spot.

The Zheng He faced chaotic artillery fire, and its own artillery would destroy enemy ships along the way, and solid bullets hit the hull of the Turkish warship.

Two Turkish galleys were on fire, billowing with black smoke, and their soldiers and sailors jumped into the sea in panic.

Because the distance between the two sides was too close, Zheng Chenggong even had to lead some naval students to use muskets to suppress the enemy on the deck of the Turkish warship.

The Turkish fleet didn't react at all, and was bombarded indiscriminately by a bunch of 14 warships.

The members of the Knights Hospitaller are obviously more adapted to the fighting style in the Mediterranean. They bravely rushed onto the galleon of their deadly enemy, trying to capture the armed galleon built by the Turks with great painstaking efforts.

These sailing ships that have just been launched are a precious treasure. After capturing the sailing ships, whether they sell them or use them themselves, they can make a lot of money!
"Captain, shall we also capture a galleon?"

The crew on the Zheng He was also a little tempted when they saw the Knights Hospitaller capture the enemy's warship, and wanted to capture one or two Ottoman ships back.

"We don't have enough manpower to operate these ships, but if we can capture them together with their sailors, then we can drive away their ships. Does anyone know their language?" Zheng Chenggong pondered for a while.

There are not many naval students on the Zheng He, and it is difficult to operate a single ship of the Zheng He and fight at the same time, let alone operate the captured sailboat made by the Turks.

"I can speak some of their languages. I can't speak them well, but I can give them the simplest orders, provided that we have 10 people who can control them." Hannah came from the lower deck, and she lived in the Mediterranean Sea. He has a very high talent for languages ​​and knows a little bit about the language used by Turks.

"It's too dangerous to control the captives of a large sailing ship with 10 people." Zheng Chenggong calculated the danger of this operation in his heart. A large sailing ship has almost 100 crew members. The enemy is extremely dangerous.

"Just keep the sailors and slaves, and the fighting Ottoman soldiers will drive them all off the ship. 10 people are enough to control the unarmed sailors and slaves." Hannah said.

"Okay! Then let's capture a Turkish galleon!" Zheng Chenggong was not a mother-in-law either. He made a decisive decision and immediately set his sights on a galleon moored in the port.

The sound of artillery still echoed around, and soldiers were injured or killed from time to time, and the Turkish fleet anchored in the port suffered heavy losses.

With a bang, the Zheng He was about to step forward to capture the target. Hannah had already led a team of naval crew to seize the galleon, but because of the sudden violent shaking of the Zheng He, he knocked down on Zheng Chenggong.

"Captain, we seem to be stranded!"

(End of this chapter)