Blood from Daming

Chapter 497 Pursuit
Liya's chess could not last anymore. After the final resistance, Liya's situation full of loopholes began to send pieces frequently. Xue Yun's chess was full of complacency, eating the rooks and horses that Liya was forced to send along the way. , and embraced Liya's pawns and bishops. At this time, Liya's black chess pieces were only a few pieces left, while Xue Yun's white chess pieces were still full of men on the board.

After Liya reluctantly took a few moves, she just sat there dumbfounded and refused to move any more chess pieces. Xue Yun was also very gentlemanly, and just looked at Liya quietly without disturbing Liya at all. the meaning of.

The two of them sat facing each other for half an hour before Liya gave in with a long sigh. Xue Yun gently held Liya in his arms, but Liya was as stiff as a piece of wood. And with tears streaming down his face, Xue Yun had no choice but to hold Liya like this. Xue Yun was very embarrassed by Liya's appearance on the execution ground.

The two remained in a stalemate like this. Suddenly there was a knocking sound on the cabin door. Xue Yun knew that there must be something important, otherwise his subordinates would not have knocked on the hatch door of Liya's inner room. Ya lay on the bed and whispered: "The general will come to see you later."

Seeing that Liya's eyes were empty, Xue Yun lost interest in continuing to entangle with Liya for a while, turned around and opened the cabin door and went out; the outer cabin was where Wang Erwa was waiting, and Wang Erwa kept her head down when she saw Xue Yun coming out. The head said: "Master, the Second Fleet found three pirate ships, and our army is now chasing them."

Xue Yun came to the top deck of the "Yangtze River" three-masted battleship, walked to the bow of the "Yangtze River" three-masted battleship, and took the binoculars handed over by the governor of Wu Dahai. Xue Yun saw three small black spots in the binoculars. Xue Yun estimated that the three pirate ships were thirty nautical miles away from his "Yangtze River", and the second fleet was fifteen nautical miles away.

Xue Yun put down the binoculars and looked back at the governor of Wu Dahai, who said, "General, these three pirate ships are coming towards our Xue family army fleet, and they turned around to the south when they spotted our fleet at twenty nautical miles away. escaped."

Xue Yun secretly thought that these pirate ships should not have binoculars, otherwise they should have discovered their huge fleet long ago. Governor Wu Dahai said: "General, the speed of the pirate ships can only be caught up by the three-masted battleships "Yangtze River" and "Yellow River" of the navy. , as long as the three pirate ships are entangled, the Second Fleet will quickly catch up and join the battle."

Xue Yun looked at the ocean to the south. He had just repaired the three-masted warship "Yellow River", and it was indeed far away from the entire Second Fleet. Xue Yun turned his head and said to Wu Dahai: "Then what are you waiting for? Pirate Ship."

Wu Dahai said, "But General, you are on board."

Xue Yun immediately scolded: "How is my seat on the boat? My life is my life. Is it true that the lives of officers and soldiers are not their lives? This seat is here to fight, not to swim, and I still don't give orders to pursue them."

Wu Dahai was terrified by Xue Yun's scolding, and immediately ordered the "Yangtze River" to pursue the three pirate ships to the south with full sail. After a while, the "Yangtze River" hoisted its full sails, and the "Yangtze River" broke away from the First Fleet not long after. They braved the wind and waves to chase after their sister ship "Yellow River".

An hour later, the "Yangtze River" surpassed the Second Fleet, and was about five nautical miles away from a lone pirate ship. Xue Yun saw the panicked gangsters on the pirate ship through the binoculars, scurrying around like headless flies on the deck. Yun Anan lamented that the pirate ship that was rewarded and reconstructed had such a deep draft, and these pirates were so desperate for money that they refused to dump their cargo to reduce the weight of the ship.

When Xue Yun's "Yangtze River" sailed side by side with this pirate ship, the gangsters on the pirate ship held many hostages, drew knives on the hostages' necks, and threatened the lives of these hostages. Frowning at this situation, he ordered the Second Fleet to deal with the pirate ship, ordered the "Yangtze River" to advance at full speed, and continued to chase in the direction of the "Yellow River".

The "Yangtze River" traveled for about half an hour, and was still nearly ten nautical miles away from the two pirate ships. The "Yellow River" chasing ahead entered the shooting range, and the "Yellow River" aimed at one of the pirate ships. After the test firing, the first solid bullet hit the pirate ship a hundred feet away.

The second test firing of the "Yellow River" was less than fifty feet away from the pirate ship. The "Yangtze River" was still continuing to test fire. , the distance between the pirate ships. At this time, the two pirate ships, which were much smaller in size and firepower than the "Yangtze River" and "Yellow River", were somewhat at a loss.

It is impossible for these two pirate ships to escape the pursuit of "Yangtze River" and "Yellow River", but they directly ignored the semaphore of "Yangtze River" and "Yellow River" requesting to stop the ship, and even shot Xue Jiajun with the Fran cannon at the stern of the ship." The three-masted battleship "Yellow River" hit the seawater less than ten feet away from the port side of "Yellow River" with the latest shot, and the splashed water seemed to be flying to the "Yellow River" battleship.

After five rounds of artillery calibration, the "Yellow River" finally carried out its first round of shelling. Eleven rounds of solid bullets hit the pirate ship close to the "Yellow River". Three of the eleven rounds of solid bullets hit the pirate ship. Not entering the ship showed a hole, and the specific result of the battle is unknown; one piece hit the sail of the pirate ship, tore a big hole in the sail, and the speed of the pirate ship was suddenly slowed down; another piece hit the deck of the pirate ship It jumped several times in a row and knocked down five or six pirates. Three of them didn't move at all.

As the flagship of the pirate ship, seeing her sister ship being damaged, she also set up a horizontal position and fired at the "Yellow River" of the Xue family army. For a while, the two pirate ships jointly attacked the "Yellow River" battleship, but the "Yellow River" battleship chose to fight only Tactics of a pirate ship, rounds of artillery unleashed on the pirate ship with damaged sails.

After about ten rounds of artillery strikes, the pirate ship that was attacked by the "Yellow River" battleship had more than a dozen holes in its hull, dozens of pirates were killed or injured on the deck, and its sails were torn to pieces. It was basically impossible to sail. Possibly, it became the lunch of Xue Jiajun's navy.

The battleship "Yellow River" has paid a price for such a result. There are many places on the right side of the battleship "Huanghe" where the flagship of the pirate ship did not penetrate. , and damage to the mount of one of the guns.

The attack of these ten rounds of artillery made the "Yangtze River" quickly approach the battleship "Yellow River". Abandoning the severely damaged pirate ship, he closely pursued the escaped pirate ship flagship.

When Xue Yun's three-masted battleship "Changjiang" passed by the injured pirate ship, the pirate ship actually fired solid bullets at the "Changjiang". Seeing this, Xue Yun was very angry and ordered the gunners of the "Changjiang" to fire back, Order the launcher on the top floor of the "Yangtze River" to drop "incendiary bombs" on the pirate ship.

Fifty "incendiary bombs" were dropped on the "Yangtze River", and half of the "incendiary bombs" fell on the pirate ship. The entire pirate ship was burned into a fireball, and the pirates on board couldn't bear the burning fire, and began to jump into the sea to escape for their lives.

Wang Erwa said: "Master, there are still many good things on the boat, it's a pity to burn them like this."

Xue Yun glared at Wang Erwa and said, "These pirates are lunatics, and the casualties are too great for soldiers to jump into the gang. What's more, my young master's goal is Promincia Castle, so I don't have time to entangle with these pirates."

Wu Dahai asked: "General, we don't care about these fallen pirates."

Xue Yun said: "Wu Yang's "Yellow River" warship does not have a launcher for throwing. Let the "Yangtze River" warship catch up as soon as possible to support. These people and ships will be handed over to the fleet behind."

After Wu Dahai got the order, he commanded the battleship "Yangtze River" to chase after the battleship "Yellow River" and the flagship of the pirate ship. Apart from resenting the pirates' reluctance to surrender, Xue Yun was also worried that the battleship "Yellow River" and the flagship of the pirate ship would fight alone. Caused unnecessary losses, Xue Yun hoped that the "Yangtze River" battleship he was on could help the "Yellow River" battleship to destroy the pirate flagship as soon as possible, so as not to drag it down any longer and the sky darkened, allowing the pirate flagship to escape.

The "Yellow River" battleship commanded by Wu Yang became more and more sophisticated. It gave up attacking the vital parts of the pirate ship's flagship and focused on attacking the sail of the pirate ship's flagship. The shotguns of the battleship were riddled with holes, and the speed of the pirate ship flagship was getting slower and slower.

The battleship "Yellow River" kept a gunfire distance from the flagship of the pirate ship, and only used firepower to attack the flagship of the pirate ship.

In the place where the "Yellow River" battleship was also helpless, because the "Yellow River" battleship was launched too late, the throwing launcher that was originally planned to be installed on the top floor was not installed in time, but it was just placed on the top deck of the "Yellow River" battleship. It was installed in a stable place. Unexpectedly, there was a sea battle on the way to Promincia Castle on Taiwan Island. The "Yellow River" battleship lost a chance to attack pirates with a throwing launcher.

The battleship "Yangtze River" chased near the flagship of the pirate ship. The battleship "Changjiang" raised a sea semaphore, ordering the flagship of the pirate ship to surrender immediately, but the flagship of the pirate ship still fled on its own. The artillery attacked the pirate ship's flagship fiercely, and the starboard side of the "Yellow River" warship also aimed at the pirate ship's flagship. The slow-moving pirate ship's flagship fell into a critical moment of life and death.

(End of this chapter)