open sea

Iron lock
Turn the rudder to starboard and row the oars to starboard.

The binoculars saved Chen Mu's life. If he didn't have this thing, he would have to wait at least five hundred steps to see the iron lock connected to the white ship. At that time, it would be even more difficult to avoid even a galley.

The centipede boat changed direction, and the white boat also changed direction. The pirates on board were more experienced than the flag army, and directly chose the direction to go after the centipede boat turned right.

Apparently they knew that centipede boats were fast.

But faster than they thought.

Even against the wind, the hard sails still cannot move forward slowly in a zigzag course. When the course is slightly changed, a dozen large sculls move at the same time to bring power far beyond the sails, and the speed of the ship is several times faster in a blink of an eye.

It was the first time Chen Mu saw such a tactic at sea, and he didn't know how to deal with it for a short time, but immediately opened his right arm and shouted to the flag bearer: "Let Deng Zilong go to the left, bombard his left boat!"

Zeng Ben’s method against slow-moving merchant ships has been tried and tested. Even if the speed is fast, there is no such thing as a telescope, which can prevent the enemy in advance. A ship with a large tailwind collided with it at the same time... No ship can survive in this era, not everyone.

Merchant ships are ships with a large cargo capacity, and Fuchuan also belongs to this category.

But Chen Mu, who relied on his speed to get out of the impact circle, was sailing on the flank of the enemy ship. When he felt the vibrations caused by the bombardment of the two Francophones on the leftmost side of the white boat with the broadside guns on the side of the ship, he knew how to deal with them.

"Aim to port—release!"

At this moment, Master Chen no matter what kind of two cannons lure the enemy, he is only less than a hundred steps away from the leftmost ship of the Tiesuo Baiji fleet, and the distance will even be further shortened in the future, he just wants to eat first Let's talk about Zeng Yiben's four big ships!

The seventeen gunners mounted on the side of the ship are all operated by the most experienced gunners in the flag army who handle ship guns. They have learned the insidious guiding ideology of their gunnery instructor Chen Ye, and would rather fire the guns than aim at them. Not bad hull, only hits man and mast.

Bang bang, bang bang!

He was used to the deafening sound of the guns being turned off during the land battle, and the sound of the Francophone's guns was honestly not interesting to Chen Mu, but in his eyes, the effect of this salvo was very good.

The distance between the ships is very close, and the white ship is slightly lower than the bow of the centipede. Chen Mu can clearly see the appearance of the enemy ship after being beaten. It is less than a hundred steps away from hitting something as big as a sail. It was much more rare. After a round of artillery fire, three holes were punched in the mat sail of the white boat, and two shells fell into the boat, knocking over three or four people.

"There are only so few people on board!"

There are more than a dozen people on the white ship, except for the few people who are necessary to operate the ship, they are the gunners, and there is not even a gunner!

This is a gang of death squads, making a lot of money by sinking a big ship.

"The gunner on the port side stands up, aims at the sailor of the enemy ship, and raises his gun!"

Zeng Yiben is really a talent, he broadened Chen Mu's horizons, it turned out that several ships can be used like this with iron cables!

Chen Mu decided not to beat them with boat guns. He wanted to kill all the pirates on these four ships, snatch them, and take them to Zeng Yiben, so that he could taste what it was like!
Previously, the musketeers listened to Chen Mu's orders and hid behind the side of the ship. Their minds were tense when they were about to fight, but the more tense they were, the more likely they were to make mistakes. After Chen Mu gave the order, they stood up very scatteredly, and some stood up first on the port side. The last one stood up, and someone on the starboard side also stood up, but Fu Yuan caught him and slapped him back.

"put!"

Boom, boom!

Forty or fifty steps away from Chen Mujun, he suffered a volley of bird guns. Every enemy he faced after Lord Chen led the general banner alone had suffered enough from this trick, let alone the mere sailors on the white boat. They didn't even have a chance to kneel down and beg for mercy under the volley of bird guns, and they were beaten into a hornet's nest by the bird guns.

Deputy Deng Qianhu, who was driving another centipede boat, did not have as many twists and turns as Chen Mu. Since the Shangguan ordered him to go around to the left and divide his troops to destroy the ships at both ends, Deng Zilong's goal was to attack the enemy. The shortest route for the white boat on the far right of the army is undoubtedly to pass quickly in front of the four white boats.

In this way, it was natural—the fronts of the four white boats were all within the range of the seventeen guns on the starboard side of Deputy Deng Qianhu.

After a round of bombardment, go to the right wing of the enemy ship for a round of gunshots, and also shoot down the sailors on the white boat on the right.Not only that, on the way to turn right from behind the white boat to meet Chen Mu, the starboard cannon blasted for a while, and the bird gun salvo shot over, directly clearing up the three white boats.

Chen Mu was still thinking about how to get rid of the Japanese pirates on the two ships in the middle, and Deng Zilong directly cleaned up the two white boats in the middle, and by the way, when the two ships met, the flag army shouted: "Qianhu! Zeng Yiben is gone! "

It's all about the next step!

It was natural for Zeng Yiben to take advantage of this time to run away, it was really not enough to fight, but it took only a moment to evade the collision, Zeng Yiben's fleet had already run two or three miles away.

Obviously, these four white scorpion boats and seventy or eighty Japanese pirates were Zeng Yiben's strong men who cut off their wrists. They were used to drag Chen Mu's two centipede boats, which seemed to be difficult to deal with. It would be best if they hit them. Can buy him some time.

Wanting to understand this, Chen Mu was not in a hurry, he simply asked Lou Qimai to lead the flag army to hook the boats together, unload all the cannons on the centipede boats, and then leave the four sailors necessary for navigation on each boat , explaining that they got stuck on the rudder of the ship and jumped into the sea as soon as they hit it, and then they chased Zeng Yiben unhurriedly.

The sky was completely dark, relying on the moonlight and the telescope, Chen Mu could continue to track Zeng Yiben two miles away, but Zeng Yiben obviously couldn't see him, because Chen Lin had already sent the nearest clipper and the Japanese pirates to narrow the distance to three or four hundred steps , this distance is almost the distance that can be hit by firing a gun.

The further south you go, the darker the sky and the heavier the clouds.

The quiet night at sea made the sleep-deprived Banner Army drowsy, and Chen Mu couldn't help wondering if Zeng Ben was so quiet, were those Japanese pirates sleeping on the boat?
The bannermen leaned against the ship's side and slept for a while alternately, and Chen Mu also dozed off at the bow.

The darker the night, the worse the visibility, the closer the ships are, the moisture on the sea rolls into mist, and there is a very small sound of thunder coming from the sky. It's raining."

Bored and bored, he raised his binoculars and looked forward routinely. In his field of vision, several groups of flames from small to large, reflected that several fire ships were ignited within dozens of steps to the right of Zeng Ben's fleet. Rushed away, on both sides of the fire boat, Zeng Yiben and Chen Lin's subordinates and many blessing boats opened fire!

The fire boat is useless in the rain, Chen Lin couldn't help it.

"It's fighting, it's fighting, everyone is up and paddling! Go around at full speed, small flags, arrows, and artillery are ready!"

Chen Mu stood up abruptly, shouted an order at the bow of the ship, and with the sound of drums, went to the firing fort to adjust the angle.

Riding the wind and breaking the waves, the cannon roared.

boom!
(End of this chapter)