The Caravel with its bow facing the bow of the Flying Shark is called the Silverfish, and the one behind it is named Lina, an armed merchant ship financed by two aristocratic explorers whose mission is to protect the Clark of the Santa Caterina moored further afield.

It was a merchant ship belonging to the Portuguese royal family, preparing military funds for the kingdom's conquest of Africa, and was temporarily suspended in Mogadishu because the merchant goods were not fully purchased from the port.

At the moment of sight of the Flying Shark, several officers on board only took a very short time to weigh the pros and cons, and decided to seize this large and beautiful merchant ship, with only a few modifications, this ship from the Ming Kingdom was enough to be armed with twenty guns, carry forty sailors and seventy army troops.

Recently there has been news in the country that His Royal Highness seems to be preparing to go to war against the Moroccans and conquer the most formidable enemy in West Africa in one fell swoop, and the ship will come in handy.

As for whether the plundering of the Ming ship would affect the relationship between Portugal and the Ming Kingdom, and whether it would make the Eastern General Chen Mu angry, it was not within their scope of consideration - no one would be angry because of a merchant ship, not to mention, they were completely sure that they would not let anyone on this Ming ship go.

It would be a non-existent battle - if it were a merchant ship.

The captain of the Silverfish gave orders to the sailors who were about to jump, and several barrels filled with grease were pushed out and laid flat on the deck.

Skilled sailors with short spears and sailors' axes stood at the sides of the musketeers, and a few hooks were circled by the sturdy Portuguese sailors, and the captain lifted the cross hanging from his chest to his lips and bowed his head in prayer to the red cross on the stained and yellowed sail.

At the moment when the flying shark raised its sails, all the sailors on board the Caravel were ready to pursue.

There is no doubt that a merchant ship can raise its sails but to escape?

The failure of the Francophone swivel cannon on the side of the ship to penetrate the thick plank on the side of the ship, even the bronze cannon, made the captain of the Silverfish look at the flying shark more and more hot, but the cannonball that had narrowly penetrated the board seemed to have been bounced off after breaking the plank, which made him wonder - what could be placed behind the side of the ship to bounce the cannonball away?

There was another burst of arquebus, and the merchant ships would normally have surrendered at this time, because the Caravel ships were also very fast, and besides, they were always full sails, and at this moment they were flanked back and forth...... No, there were no front and rear strikes, and although the Shark Ship was slow to pick up its sails from the bottom up, unlike their bulky sails, it seemed to be on par with the Caravel at this point.

They did not intercept the Ming ship that turned the direction, and even the Ming ship that came first also turned the left side of the ship towards their warship, and in a blink of an eye, the distance between the two sides was less than 100 meters, and the silverfish was full of sails and sprinted, still being gradually equalized by the Ming ship, and the captain saw that the porthole of the Ming ship was opened, revealing the muzzles of several black holes.

"Deceived, this is a warship!"

Bang!

There are only three guns on the side of the Flying Shark Baihu, but the sound effect of scattering is played by the pirates, not to mention that the pirate gunner can't fire at the same time as Yang Ce, even if the cannon is fired at the same time, it is in vain, there is a hair Franc machine that is still loaded with scattered sons, the cannon sound sounds, and the iron nail fragment projectile sprays out a fan into the sea thirty steps to the left of the ship, like selling cute.

The most annoying thing was that Yang Ce also heard the gunner on the side of the cannon shouting loudly: "Mother, it's wrong!" ”

Yang Ce's cannon was also not accurate, the five-pound cannonball crossed the sea and hit the bow of the enemy ship in a blink of an eye, a sailor wearing a beige shirt rushed to the road where the cannonball must go, caught the cannonball with his head, the head was shattered in the blink of an eye, and the cannonball hit the adjutant next to the captain of the Silverfish unabated, blasting the cuirass through with great force to make the body fly upside down in the air, hitting the side of the ship hard, and the back cuirass was smashed out of the crack by the bones and cannonballs.

Minced meat and blood moistened the deck.

This cannon really frightened the captain of the Silverfish, the cannonball was only one person away from him, but the situation did not even allow him to hide, because the distance between the two sailing ships was approaching rapidly, and the Ming ship did not have the slightest idea of turning direction, and hurriedly ran to the rudder to command: "The enemy ship has a cannon, but it is not accurate, turn left with full rudder!" ”

After only one encounter, although they were frightened by the cannonballs fired by Yang Ce, the seasoned aristocratic officers could still see that the gunners on the Ming ship were just a rabble - did anyone shoot scattered shells from a distance of 100 meters?

Three guns were fired one after the other, only one of which landed on the ship, and the other could miss a hundred meters apart, and even though their deceptive tactics had seized the opportunity earlier, Captain Silverfish was still confident that he would be victorious in the light of the Lord: "When this ship is defeated, I will throw everyone into the sea to feed the fish!" ”

The helmsman immediately took the order, the rudder creaked overwhelmed, the brigs took the sails, and the Silverfish veered quickly to the left at sea to avoid the apparent deliberate impact of the flying sharks, and then the starboard loaded Frans and arquebuses returned fire on the rapidly approaching flying sharks.

Yang Ce's side was no exception, the belligerent pirates were ordered to hide behind the side of the ship until the battle, at which point each holding high the fire guns, arquebuses or flintlock guns to aim at the enemy ships, the bumpy and undulating sea made the firearms ineffective, but the small and dense firepower of both sides was shocking.

The flying shark with its huge crane wings outstretched looks like a sea butterfly, making the sides of the ship on both sides of it intermittently spew fire smoke, and there are even feathered arrows and fire arrows in between.

The flying shark didn't want to ram the silverfish, except for the port gunner led by Yang Ce, the rest of the control was in the hands of Sun Liu, who was full of meat, and his target was the Lina who was pursuing from the right.

As the first to join Lin Feng's command, Sun Liu had followed Lin Feng through naval and land battles, and had his own set of mature naval warfare theories.

The two enemy ships had no more than three or four guns on each side, and their caliber was not very large, and they had a huge deterrent power in battle, but in fact they had no ability to decide the outcome of the battle, and could only be used as a means to reduce the number of sailors of the opposing side.

And the broadside battle is precisely the weakness of the Hyakno, they can fight only fifty or sixty sailors, but the enemy's two warships have eighty or ninety, and the soldiers and armor of these pirates are inevitably not as good as each other, once they fall into a white-knuckle battle stalemate, they must lose.

Sun Liu wants to take advantage of the speed of the ship to deal with the Lina that the enemy is trailing first, and the rest, regardless of whether it hits the Silverfish or anything else - don't care!

"He turned? Good! And go over, put your ass at the enemy ship behind it, and let it eat shit! ”

The Flying Shark and the Silverfish were parallel to each other, and faintly surpassed the bow of the Silverfish, while the Rina that followed was too powerful to catch it, and was hoisted dozens of paces behind, and the sailors on board were struggling to push the two guns that had been arranged to the left and right towards the bow of the ship, hoping to help the Silverfish.

Sun Liu shouted to his thin younger brother, and the sharp-beaked monkey-cheeked Sun Jiuwei laughed, collected the bird gun on the side of the ship and handed it to the left and right, and walked quickly towards the stern cabin.

But for a moment, the stern waterline was warped, and the oil was poured out, floating on the surface of the sea with the flying sharks, and the Lina followed closely, not perceiving the change in color for a moment, until he saw a thin shirtless figure standing at the stern of the enemy ship and throwing a torch at the surface.

Rumble!

The raging fire, seeing the storm rising, passed through a distance of dozens of steps in a moment, and wrapped the Lina tightly inside!

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