"Mr. Kevin, please think about it a little, we're not murderers...... This is a national war, an inevitable national war, and we are contributing to the final victory......"

"Put away that unseemly mercy in your heart! I know that you have high morals, and that you pride yourself in the spirit of nobility, but do you not want Prussia to be disgraced......?

"Oh, we understand, you are just like those pedantic and hypocritical Confucian students in our Qing Kingdom, shouting that the gentleman is far away from cooking, shouting that you can't bear to see the cattle and sheep die, and on the other hand, shouting that the meat is not proper and you don't eat it......"

"Hypocrisy, I figured it out, you just want to get the glory of Prussia after the victory, and you don't want to stain the blood of the enemy with your own hands......"

A group of young officers aboard the Zhiyuan were trying to persuade Kevin, the engineer and vice-captain, that the stubborn Prussian aristocrat was too difficult to serve, and that he had been drenched in rain for an extra hour when the Marshall Islands had first dealt with a French ship.

He finally opened his heart, and later he was greatly annoyed by the British merchant ship. Of the thirteen merchant ships, twelve were French, and one was the unfortunate British.

It is impossible to sail only French ships on the golden route of the Atlantic, and merchant ships from all European countries can pass freely, so the southward journey of the Zhiyuan is very cautious.

The Zhiyuan is hidden in five nautical miles apart in a large herringbone shape, sometimes flying the American flag, sometimes the British, French and even Dutch and Portuguese flags.

When encountering Prussia's own merchant ships, the fleet will lean up and try its best to purchase some materials, and require the other party to keep it strictly confidential, and if it encounters ships from other neutral countries, such as the United States, Italy and other countries with harmonious relations, they will also appropriately purchase some materials but will never let the Chinese show up.

If it encounters ships from Britain, Norway, Sweden, Russia, the Netherlands, etc., the fleet will immediately distance itself and will never have the slightest contact.

Only French merchant ships are fat sheep for military training, and God is obviously bless the Zhiyuan now, and the number of French merchant ships encountered along the way is indeed quite a lot.

The British merchant ship Wudu is a very unlucky guy, originally Zhiyuan didn't want to attack this merchant ship, but coincidentally when Wudu broke into everyone's sight, Zhiyuan was carrying out a massacre at sea, the merchant ship destroyed by Zhiyuan's main gun had sunk, there were wreckage and dead people's bodies floating on the sea, and the sailors were shooting the survivors with rifles one by one.

It's cruel, but for the sake of secrecy, these are the last resorts.

When the Wudu saw this posture, he was so frightened that he turned the bow of the ship and fled, how could the Zhiyuan let him escape, and chased westward with the splash.

The distance between the Zhiyuan and the Wudu is as much as five kilometers, which is a rare live-fire drill for the main gun to shoot at a long distance, and the maximum firing range of the Zhiyuan main gun is eight kilometers, but in fact, it is difficult to ensure the accuracy of the shells above four kilometers.

Now is an opportunity to gain experience in long-range shooting, and the Zhiyuan controls its speed and begins long-range training at a distance of five kilometers.

Boom Boom Boom ...... The monotonous cannon fire rang out over the Atlantic, and the Fog was like a frightened little girl, running helplessly under the pursuit of the pervert.

Sometimes the exploding splash was close at hand, only thirty or forty meters from the side of the ship, and sometimes it was three or four hundred meters away.

Lin Zhen is the gun commander on the Zhiyuan, and the weapon system is all under his command, so of course he has to collect the first-hand parameters, but when everyone is busy, Kevin, an old-fashioned guy, begins to lose his temper again.

He kept saying that Britain was not an enemy country, so it must not attack the other side, well, since you have to attack, then please don't hurt the sailors.

This is really a woman's kindness, now Britain is the hegemon of the seas on the earth, the Royal Navy is invincible in the world, and the importance of the navy is difficult for any country in the world to match.

Why did this British ship desperately want to escape, he just wanted to send the first-hand information of the Zhiyuan back home, all the British citizens up and down even a beggar know the importance of the navy to the whole country.

Without the navy, there would be no empire on which the sun never sets, and any budding threat to the Royal Navy must be strangled early, and now everyone from the captain to the sailors of the Fog has forgotten their transportation mission, and the precious cargo has been thrown into the sea, and they are doing everything they can to increase their speed.

The captain of the Wudu had also served in the navy, and he could see at a glance that the Zhiyuan had strong combat power, as well as the power to break the tradition, it was very likely that this was a new warship that was about to change the mode of human naval warfare, and this information must be sent back to China.

Expensive cigars, rum, coffee...... Hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of goods were thrown into the sea, tumbling up and down with the waves.

Throwing around the Zhiyuan even saw that the British ship even began to throw the cargo used for the ballast, the sail ship must have the cargo of the ballast when sailing, and the ancient sailors even directly put the ballast stone, the purpose is to increase the stability of the sea ship, and it is not easy to sink in the face of wind and waves.

In the Age of Discovery, merchants were more shrewd, and every inch of space on merchant ships was used to make money, and since then they have no longer been filled with worthless things such as stones and sand, but have been replaced by various ballast cargoes.

The best ballast cargo on the China route is, of course, porcelain, and the most common ballast cargo on the North American route is mechanically packed wool and cotton blocks. Don't think that wool and cotton are light, wool blocks compacted and bundled with mechanical force weigh no less than stones, and are definitely the first choice for ballast.

This treasure was thrown into the sea, Xiang Ying and they knew that they couldn't play anymore, and they would have a lot of dreams in the face of this kind of madman.

The boiler of the Zhiyuan was pressurized, and the four propellers under the water began to accelerate and rotate, and the speed of the battleship soon increased to 16 knots.

It was from that moment that Kevin came back to the momentum and actually imitated the Indians in an attitude of non-violence and non-cooperation. 、

Strike, Kevin chose to strike from that moment on, if the attack on the French ships was to prepare for the Franco-Prussian War in the near future, and France was Prussia's hundred-year-old enemy, there is still some truth in this.

But how can this be explained by attacking the merchant ships of the British? Is there still a war between Prussia and the British? What a joke.

The fleet sailed all the way to the vicinity of the Cape Verde Islands, but the stubborn engineer still did not resume his work, and Xiang Ying had no choice but to come up with the last killer move.

"Mr. Kevin, even if you are a rock, you should be hot after we have explained it for so long, right? If I can prove that Prussia will have a bloody war with England in the future, will you still strike?"

"What a joke! I won't believe you...... If Prussia really had plans to go to war with Britain, then of course your actions would be forgivable, but I will never believe your lies!"