"Continue to approach, close the distance, I don't believe that the ship of the Ming army is really invulnerable!" Facing the invulnerable Ming warship, Li Kuiqi gritted his teeth and gave the order to continue approaching.

Ang Kos looked at the Sun and Moon Flag hanging on the Ming warship and mast that were getting closer and closer, his face was also hideous, last time he had already been a prisoner because of the defeat, if it wasn't for Yang Feng to find someone to give Thornode a message, he didn't know where to mine now, if he was captured by the Ming army again this time, I'm afraid there would be no more good things.

"Quickly lean over and kill their crew with shotguns." Ancos eagerly grabbed Li Quic's arm and roared.

"I don't need you to teach me how to fight!" Li Kuiqi is not a good-tempered master, so he pushed back on the spot, and then turned his head and yelled at the first mate behind him: "Tell those rabbit cubs, give Lao Tzu a hard beating, use solid bullets, and be sure to break the turtle shell of Ming Dog!" ”

"Fire ......"

"Fire ......"

The pirates on the Fu ship were also red-eyed, and almost all the warships concentrated their firepower on the flagship led by them, and soon two more shells hit the third-class battleship on which Liu Xiang was riding. One of them hit the bow, the other in the middle of the left side of the ship's side.

The shell that hit the bow of the ship did not do much damage to the hull except for a large piece of sawdust that wounded several sailors, while the other shell that hit the side of the ship made a piercing and sharp impact and then ricocheted away.

Reality ruthlessly told Li Kuiqi that the opponent's third-level battleship was really too strong, and even if they approached a distance of two hundred meters, they still couldn't penetrate the opponent's armor.

In fact, what Li Kuiqi and Angos didn't know was that although this batch of third-class battleships manufactured by the Black Sea Shipyard was a wooden battleship, the layer of iron armor covered on the surface was not an ordinary iron armor, in order to satisfy Yang Feng, a big customer, Nikolast wrapped the military steel of modern warships to important parts, although the thickness was not very large, but it was not something that the Dutch could penetrate in the seventeenth century.

After seeing such a situation, Ankos, who was almost red-eyed, grabbed Li Kuiqi's collar and shouted, "Damn, do you want to kill all of us?" If you don't want to die, now you either have to retreat right now, or change your tactics, and I don't want to see your stupid bravery again. ”

Li Kuiqi's face was also blue and red, even if he was reluctant, he had to admit that the protection of this battleship was really the only one he had ever seen in his life.

Ankos pointed to the third-class battleship that was close at hand and shouted: "I noticed just now that although this battleship is incomparable in speed and firepower, it is very slow due to the increase in weight due to the iron armor on its side, so we can take advantage of this and use shotguns and chain bullets to attack its upper part and kill and injure a large number of its personnel, I don't believe how they can drive the ship without sailors." ”

"Okay!" Li Kuiqi gritted his teeth, as a habitual bandit, of course he knew that now was not the time to be vindictive, although his mission this time was mainly to test the combat effectiveness and weakness of the new warships of the Ming Army, but if his losses were too heavy, it would not be good to give an account to his own boss, so he had to give the order again.

"Order the gunners, load all artillery shotguns and chain shells in half, and fire at the flagship of the Ming army!"

"Understood!"

"Boom ......"

Just as the first mate was about to deliver the order, a cannonball hit the deck of the warship on which Li Kuiqi was riding, and for a time countless sawdust flew one after another, and the originally flat deck actually had a large hole the size of a table, and soon there was a burst of exclamations and screams in the cabin, and it turned out that the shell had actually drilled into the gun compartment after penetrating the deck and wounded several gunners.

After the cannonball hit the battleship, the whole ship began to shake under the action of huge kinetic energy, and the sailors on the deck were all bounced up and then fell heavily under the huge shock, and Li Quic and Angos were no exception.

"Eh!"

Uncos was also unlucky, as his right foot fell to the deck at an abnormal angle as he fell, and then he heard only a soft click, and then a sharp pain came from his leg, and the pain was so severe that he involuntarily let out a terrible scream.

"Ah...... My leg...... My legs ......"

Compared with Ancos, Li Kuiqi's luck was much better, he quickly stood up after falling on the buttocks, he first helped Ancos up, made him sit against the mast, and ordered a sailor to take care of him, and then he personally ran to the gun compartment and gave the order to open fire.

These pirates were also fierce, and although they had just been shelled and many people were killed and wounded, the gunners in the gun compartment still operated their guns and fired at the Ming warships.

"Boom ......" Shotguns and chain bombs flew towards the battleship 200 meters away.

"Everybody, get down!"

On the battleship, but after Liu Xiang saw a cannon flickering on the Fu ship that was close at hand, a slightly hoarse voice sounded, and with her shout, almost everyone on the deck lay down, and almost at the same time, more than a dozen guns on the opposite Fu ship also opened fire one after another.

With the roar, Liu Xiang, who was lying on the deck, only felt as if a hurricane was whistling overhead, and then a crackling sound sounded around, and a sailman who had no time to dodge was hit by a thumb-thick shotgun and his entire upper body disappeared, leaving only the lower body to freeze for a moment before falling off the mast and falling heavily on the deck.

But after Liu Xiang got up, looking at the messy deck, her pretty face turned a little blue with anger, although the damage caused by these shotguns to the hull can only be said to be very small, but for Liu Xiang, who regards the battleship as his life, this is simply an unforgivable crime.

"Order all gun emplacements to return fire at once!"

The Second Fleet's retaliation was not long in coming, the same shotguns and chain shells, but the power of the thirty-two-pounder gun was not comparable to that of the twenty-four-pounder gun, and with a roar, the ship where Li Kuiqi was located was soon damaged, and the deck of the ship was almost beaten into a sieve, especially the sail man, who was almost all knocked down under the shotgun in the sky.

"Hit ...... Hit me hard! ”

Liu Xiang's voice resounded on the battleship, and after two quarters of an hour of the battle, the fleet led by Li Kuiqi finally couldn't hold on after losing three ships, leaving two warships behind, and then fled the battlefield......