Alchemy Greater China

"How many more shots?"

Benson was a little moved, but when he considered the quadruple loss, he hesitated: The cost of this bombardment is too high, I have to think carefully, maybe if I wait a little longer, it will collapse on its own?

"In recognition of your courage, and in solidifying our wonderful partnership..."

The cunning Fremantle immediately saw Benson's hesitation, and hurriedly said: "For the next shells, I will only charge you 2.5 times the damage fee for each shell. What do you think? This is a [-]% discount. What! I gritted my teeth and spent all my money on such a discount, and you will never encounter it again in the future!"

Down, down your bastard grandma's money!You are doing business without money, empty-handed white wolf, okay?

While Benson was cursing in his heart, he was really a little moved: I am paralyzed, anyway, four shots were fired in the front, and it doesn't matter if I fire a few more shots, as long as I can get the Earl of Beihai as soon as possible, and leave this place of right and wrong, how much It is worth spending a little money!

After much consideration, Benson finally nodded heavily: "Okay, let's fire another five...well, four more! This time, pick the place closest to the four warships of the Earl of Beihai, and I want the Earl, Really feel the horror of life and death! By the way, I still want to emphasize one point, don't hit the merchant ship next to you, General Fremantle, can you do it?"

Long Hao's four warships were all parked in the inner part of the harbor, and there were many merchant ships around. Now that Benson wanted to intimidate Long Hao directly, it undoubtedly raised the requirement for bombardment.

"No problem, I assure you by my badge, our sailors of the British Empire have always been miracle workers!"

As long as Fremantle cannon fires, he would not pat his chest for endorsement: "I have seen that there are still a lot of blank waters there, I promise. There will be no accidental injuries... By the way, little Benson, why don't you open the water?" How about the six cannons combined with the previous four cannons?"

"How can I have so much money, four cannons are four cannons, eight is also auspicious!"

"That's good. In fact, I personally think it's not bad to fire five cannons. It's ninety-nine to one..."

"Roll rough!"

The order for the second bombardment has been issued. This time, the battleship Gogol also "put into battle" in person. Fremantle ran out of the captain's room and personally directed the British sailors to adjust the barrel and correct the base. This time the bombardment However, the Gogol took on the arduous task of two artillery pieces.

Benson's fleet was preparing for the second launch, and the actions on their ships were of course reported to the harbor wharf.As a result, the maritime merchants panicked again: Look, look, the first-level combat readiness order is useful, if you don't hand over the Earl of Beihai, that crazy fleet will bombard again!This time, the shell will be so lucky to fall into the sea?Won't it hit our merchant ship?

"Still bombarded?"

Long Hao admired Benson's persistence.At this moment, he had stepped off the Zhenshi, and stood at a relatively safe place on the shore with the old Mayor Stevenson and others.And that poor Captain Kerim was taken aside.

Seeing Long Hao appear, Kerim, whose hands were bound, couldn't help shouting: "Earl Beihai, I see, this is the power of our fleet's artillery, are you afraid? Let go of me quickly. Come with me You will have a chance when our ships are put on trial!"

Long Hao glanced at Kerim disdainfully, and said with a smile: "Captain, thanks to you still thinking about me, don't you know? What kind of trouble will this bombardment bring to your fleet of unknown origin? ?"

"trouble?"

Kerim was taken aback for a moment, but then shook his head and laughed wildly: "Are you scared? How could we be in trouble? Under the power of the giant ship's cannon, if there is trouble, you are in trouble! Look, look, such a long barrel Lift it up, with a bang, the shells fly over, everyone here is over, haha, everything will be over! The battleship is invincible, long live the battleship..."

This man is crazy.

Long Hao frowned, sneered in his heart, threw a telegram from his hand, and threw it in front of the crazy Kerim: "Please read it, Captain Kerim! This is a statement issued by the White House of the United States an hour ago. You Captain Benson has been revoked from all his naval duties, and the fleet that bombarded our San Francisco harbor is not recognized by the US government... In addition, the President personally ordered you to retreat unconditionally within 24 hours, otherwise , at your own peril!"

Long Hao's words hit Kerim's heart like iron nails. Similarly, Long Hao said this sentence to the sea merchants next to him. A surprised smile appeared.

Desperately, Kerim picked up the telegram, read it hastily, and then cried out in disbelief: "Liar, this is a lie, a big lie! This telegram must have been forged by you, Yes, Earl of Beihai, you are so despicable, you even dare to forge the speech of the White House! You answer me, how could the White House know so quickly what happened last night? Ah, could it be... those reporters, those machines, God Kill it, damn it!"

The dull Captain Kerim didn't wake up until this moment, and understood the reason why Long Hao arranged so many reporters last night.

Limited by his vision, he couldn't imagine that those telegrams would send the matter of the large warehouse to the White House overnight, and the efficiency of the White House would be so high that they would punish their own fleet this morning! !

Ignoring Kerim's collapsed appearance, the impatient sea merchants next to him snatched the telegram, put their heads together and looked at it, and they all breathed a sigh of relief: "Phew, the president has spoken, hehe, San Francisco The crisis will be resolved, and our merchant ships will be saved!"

"Don't be happy too soon!"

Long Hao poured cold water on the heads of these happy sea merchants: "This is just a statement from the White House. It's hard to say whether the fleet on the other side knows it now, and even if they know it, it's hard to say whether they will abide by it...You guys Look, the gun barrels on their ships have been raised again, here, no accident, the second intimidating bombardment is about to usher in!"

Following the direction of Long Hao's finger, in the center of the line-up fleet opposite, a dazzling ball of fire exploded from the largest armored battleship. The main gun of the flagship Gogol was fired!

This time the shelling was even more ferocious, because the target chosen by the opponent was the waters closer to the harbor.The shells fell, and the sea water exploded one after another, bouncing towards the nearest ships like broken glass.

"Count, is that your warship?" A sea merchant exclaimed.

"Wrong, this is the battleship of the Spanish Viscount Savy, and it is just under my custody."

Long Hao turned his head.Seeing the Zhenshi and the three modified training ships in the water, his face remained unchanged: "The Spanish flag is flying on it, everyone should see clearly, if the next shell falls on it, you can help I testify that this war was first started by American gunboats!"

The Dragon Scale Navy on the four battleships had all withdrawn, and the four empty ships gave Long Hao the confidence to face Benson's 'intimidating' bombardment.

After the Gogol fired, the Pushkin and the Dadeban also fired their main guns. 'Boom', 'Boom', the deafening cannons descended on the commercial harbor again. At this moment, there were not many people on the pier, but even so, it still gave the onlookers a feeling of suffocation, tension and breathlessness .

The shelling this time seems to be more powerful than the last time!

This is inevitable.The Gogol and the Pushkin are a pair of 8300-ton first-class battleships, and the main guns on them are two-seater twin-mounted 14-inch barrels.Playing together now, the momentum will be bigger, and the loss cost will be even higher!

The two shells from the Pushkin and the Dadeban fell into the waters near the Zhenshi again. The waves they stirred up were bigger and the impact was stronger. The water waves crashed and creaked.It is conceivable that if these two shells directly hit a solid target, how much damage would it cause.

Seeing this situation, Long Hao couldn't help but secretly rejoice: Fortunately, when I left Zhenshi, I ordered Qianlong-1 to leave, and the dragon boat left with me.Don't stay under Zhenshi at the moment, otherwise, they will be more or less affected by these shells.

Three consecutive shells from the main gun landed in the blank waters near the harbor. In addition to the four shells fired for the first time before, the shells of Benson's fleet so far have all hit blank areas without ships. Let the imagination of smart people run wild.

"I figured it out! It's a threat, as the count said! A shameless threat!"

A sea merchant who participated in the shipwreck salvage project yelled as if he had discovered a new continent: "The navy on the other side didn't dare to bombard our ship at all, and they didn't dare to shoot the shells to the shore! Look, seven consecutive shots, They were all shot in the sea, if it is this kind of aim, those gunners can jump into the sea!"

"Yeah, you're right, Earl's eyes, this fleet is really just threatening us... We just have to persevere, and when the president's order reaches them, they will have to retreat in desperation!" Another Haishang clenched his fist and echoed.

"Hmph, these grandsons still have scruples..."

"boom"!

"Boom Chi Chi"! !

However, before the sea merchant could finish speaking, the Gogol was flickering again, and a main gun vibrated violently, firing brazenly!This time, the shell did not fall into the blank waters, but... fell onto a merchant ship moored beside the Zhenshi!

What kind of armor can a merchant ship have?

In game terms, it is a logistics unit with a defense close to zero!

Therefore, when the cannonball hit the merchant ship solidly, it immediately burst into flames!

Broken iron bars, flying parts, and burning goods flew around as if they had been swept by a strong wind!

When the biggest impact of the explosion passed, the poor merchant ship seemed to be smashed by a giant's hand. Ruthlessly pouring into the hull, this merchant ship is about to sink in the torrential fire!

It happened so suddenly that the witnesses were all shocked and lost their voices. Their mouths seemed to have a big goose egg in their mouths, and they couldn't close them at all. They just watched a merchant ship become the first bombardment of this time. victim.

There is no way, this shot was so accurate that one-fifth of the hull was cut off, and its sinking was an inevitable outcome.

"Hey, my ship... The Imperial Capital of Saya, I brought a ship of porcelain from China..."

Among a group of sea merchants who were still in astonishment, a fat yellow-skinned man suddenly knelt down clutching his heart, wailing and gasping for breath, as if he would faint at any moment.

Needless to say, he was the hapless owner of that hapless merchant ship.No one expected that Benson's shells really hit a solid target this time, and directly killed a living merchant ship with one blow!

At 1892:5 on May 24, 12, at this auspicious time, the shells of the Benson fleet 'finally' hit the target, and a merchant ship from Dutch Indonesia was hit very sadly.With one blow, the whole ship sank.

This cannonball also made Benson's fleet bombard San Francisco an established fact, completely forcing the captain of the navy to a point of no return.

According to historians, this gun broke the tranquility of the West Coast and the peace of the western United States. This gun was like blasting a Pandora's box.Unleashed many terrible things...

The instigator, Benson, has no time to assess the historical impact of this cannon at this moment. He also opened his mouth wide and his eyes protruded, as if he saw something incredible.

What?Hit the target?

What... what's going on?

Didn't you agree not to hit the merchant ship next to it?

God, what did I just see?

Wasn't it a merchant ship that exploded?

"Ferrymantle, you bastard, what are you doing!"

After waking up, Benson rushed out of the captain's cabin angrily.He is going to question Fremantle: Didn't you blow the British sailors' artillery skills to the sky?What's the matter with this gun tm?You agreed to shoot outside, how did you win the bid with one shot?

Wow grass.It was fun for you guys to shoot, and you will just pat your ass and leave as soon as this matter is over, but this winning bid will cause terrible consequences that I, Benson, cannot bear!

Well, does this count as 'receiver' and 'happy father'?

Fremantle, is the badge you swear by made of chocolate?

Still from behind the main gun mounts emitting heat.Benson didn't care about Fremantle's noble status anymore, he angrily pointed his finger on the nose of the British naval admiral: "Ferrymante, you have to explain to me why you hit a merchant ship What? Why, you bastard. Know it's going to kill me?"

Freeman pushed away the British sailors who rushed up to protect him, and said with apologetic expression: "Oh, I'm really sorry, I made a mistake and adjusted the gun range a little bit! Hey, who made that There are too many merchant ships moored in the waters, and this accidental injury is inevitable! Oh, there are precedents for sharp archers to miss the target, let alone the artillery on the battleship? People have mistakes, and horses have mistakes. This is also true. Excuse me, little Benson, don't you?"

Benson was trembling with anger, and said angrily, "I don't care so much, Fremantle, what about your guarantee? Do you British people fart when you talk? Mad, it's still garlic-flavored farts, I don't care!"

Benson scolded harshly, those British sailors pulled out their guns with angry faces, and Benson's guards did not show any weakness, they drew out their pistols one after another, loaded the bullets, and confronted each other... The fire was on the verge of breaking out!

"Who are you yelling at? American rednecks!"

"It's you who are scolding, how did you hit it? If you don't know how to hit it, go back and pee in the mirror, learn from your old lady, idiot British!"

……

Fortunately, the fire didn’t happen. Fremantle seemed to know that he was in the wrong, and he gave in first. He sighed, waved his hand and dismissed his subordinates: “It’s already like this, no one wants it, little... um, Benson Colonel, why don't I suffer a bit from this shot and only charge you the cost price of one shell?"

Damn it, it's all like this, you old man still has the face to collect money! ?

Benson was still angry. At this time, he really wanted to eat a pack of dried sweet potatoes and garlic, and then sprayed Fremantle with a series of garlic farts: You British guy, I can tell, you definitely did it on purpose !You hit that merchant ship on purpose, and you want to push me to the point of going to war with San Francisco!

Once a full-scale war is launched, can he, Freeman, fire more guns and charge more damage fees?

Black heart, really black heart!

If you are angry, you are angry, if you think about it, you want to understand it, Colonel Benson really can't turn his back on Fremantle now, and the six battleships still have to rely on this old man... So, he had no choice but to hold back the anger and put his imagination The serial farts in the movie were still swallowed in his stomach.

Benson calmed down as much as he could, and said, "Ferrymantle, you know what you do best. Now I don't have anything to do with you. Give me an idea. I just want to capture the Earl of Beihai as soon as possible!"

Freemante chuckled: "That's very simple, let me fire a few more shots, and I'll keep the broken warships that destroyed the Earl of Beihai. If that's the case, won't he surrender obediently after losing what he has?"

Without the battleship, just capture it without a fight? !

Oh, of course it is impossible for Benson to agree to such a suggestion that only brainless people would accept. He snorted coldly and first ordered all the British sailors on the six battleships to roll off their gun mounts. He vowed that he would never let these British sailors touch him again One shot of the cannon, with Fremantle's personality, and giving him the right to fire, I'm afraid he can really bombard San Francisco!

In that case, he would have no room for maneuver in the navy.

An accidental injury can still be explained. If you really tear your face and bombard you, Benson will have to hide in Africa for the rest of his life...

Now that the shelling and sinking of a merchant ship was a done deal, Benson, who had calmed down, would not miss this opportunity. After rectifying these disobedient British sailors, he once again raised a flag to the San Francisco harbor: "This shelling is the last If you continue to be stubborn and refuse to hand over the Earl of Beihai, the next time will be a full-scale bombing, and all ships anchored in the harbor will be bombarded indiscriminately!" (To be continued...)

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