Everyone was stunned for a moment after listening to Li Shaojie's words, Qiu Lei turned his head and said, "Shaojie, you mean that we hit their tail rudder?" ”

Before Li Shaojie could speak, Fan Bit said excitedly: "This idea is feasible, if our repeating firearms can really break their tail rudder, these 4 galleons will not be able to go anywhere." But we have to be careful with a couple of semi-long guns in the stern of the Spanish galleon. ”

Li Shaojie nodded and said: "Then first knock out the half-long guns on the stern of the galleon, we are equipped with five 12.7 mm anti-aircraft machine guns, all of which fire armor-piercing shells, and there must be no problem in suppressing a few half-length guns." ”

Qiu Lei thought for a while and said: "But in this way, our strength will be exposed, and the consequences will be unpredictable." ”

Li Shaojie thought for a while and said: "Then use smoke bombs, tie a few smoke bombs to wooden boards, and throw them on the sea on both sides of our ship, so that you don't have to worry about being seen by others." Now the surrounding artillery is constantly sounding, which can also hide the sound of continuous fire from 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine guns. ”

After listening to his words, everyone felt that it was feasible, so they began to prepare separately. First of all, the bases of the five anti-aircraft machine guns were placed on the bow side, so that when following the galleon, it would not remain in a straight line with it, but would try to maintain a certain parallel state with the galleon.

This is Van Pitt's opinion, and the advantage of this is that it not only invisibly increases the difficulty of firing the half-long guns on the tail of the enemy ship, but also the heavy guns on the side of the galleon cannot shell the "Black Pearl".

Then you have to make a smoke bomb that can float on the sea, and when you attack the stern of the galleon, throw it around the "Black Pearl", which will envelop the "Black Pearl" in a thick smoke and block the view of the people around it.

Everyone moved quickly, and in a short time five pedestals were installed on the left side of the bow, and five 12.7-mm anti-aircraft machine guns were installed, all loaded with armor-piercing shells. More than a dozen planks were also tied with smoke bombs, and they even tried to throw one into the sea, and the effect was not bad.

When the first qiē was ready, the "Black Pearl" began to sail behind a Spanish galleon on the periphery under the command of Van Pitt. The sea was still rumbling with cannons, the battle was already white-hot, and no one paid attention to the "Black Pearl" at all.

By the time the Black Pearl circled behind a Spanish galleon, even the Spaniards on board didn't care, and they were now desperately trying to escape. Although the pirate ships around are annoying, they can't cause them much trouble for the time being.

But when the Black Pearl came from behind, the sailors at the stern of the Spanish galleon became nervous. Hurriedly opened the gun window at the stern, pushed out several half-long guns in the stern, and several guns rang out one after another.

"Bang...... Bang ......"

Solid shells whistled and hit the "Black Pearl". Watching the shells splash on both sides of the hull, everyone was sweating. Fortunately, after entering the kilometer, the stern gun became more and more accurate because of the good angle with the "Black Pearl", and the accuracy of the gun became worse and worse.

"At a distance of 900 meters, it has entered the range of anti-aircraft machine guns, request to open fire......"

Li Shaojie raised his binoculars and looked at it, and shouted loudly: "Enter 500 meters, the No. 1 to No. 3 machine gun positions suppress the enemy's stern semi-long guns, and the No. 4 and No. 5 machine gun positions concentrate fire to attack the enemy's stern rudder." ”

The "Black Pearl" continued to move forward, and everyone waited nervously, their palms full of sweat. Suddenly, the naval staff officer observing from the front shouted: "600 meters away...... Distance: 550 meters......"

When Van Bit saw that the distance had reached 550 meters, he immediately shouted loudly: "Lower the half-sail ......"

As the boom fell, the Black Pearl began to slow down. Li Shaojie shouted loudly: "Drop smoke bombs ......"

Two tall Dutch sailors, round their arms, threw two wooden planks tied to several smoke bombs in front of the "Black Pearl", and in an instant, a thick puff of smoke rose into the air, enveloping the hull of the "Black Pearl" in smoke.

As the Black Pearl moved slowly, several tall Dutch sailors would constantly throw planks forward, each with ropes tied to them, and the planks would be dragged forward by the ropes, and once the smoke bombs burned out, they would be dragged aboard.

The five anti-aircraft machine gunners in the machine gun position also pulled the trigger after the smoke rose.

"Bang...... Bang ......"

There was a dull sound, and the first to suffer was the gunners behind the aft windows of the Spanish ships, who were now laboriously carrying the four-wheeled gun mounts, ready to reorient the muzzles and shoot the pirate ship hiding in the corner.

But thousands of pounds of artillery, how can it be so easy to move, and before the artillery is placed, their destruction comes. A dense burst of 12.7mm armor-piercing shells pierced through the planks and shattered the gunners.

In a short time, the sailors and gunners of the aft gun compartment of the Spanish galleon were slaughtered, and even the gun carriages of several half-long guns were smashed to pieces, and the entire aft gun compartment became a hell on earth in an instant.

Two other 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine guns also pulled the trigger almost simultaneously, and a string of hot bullets whistled and sprinkled on the rudder of the stern of the Spanish galleon.

Li Shaojie, Fan Bit and others picked up the binoculars and nervously observed the impact point, Fan Bit looked at it for a while, and suddenly shouted excitedly: "It's broken...... Broken...... Its rudder is broken......"

Only Fan Bit here knows the structure of the sailboat best, Li Shaojie put down the binoculars, turned his head and said: "Old Fan, you have seen the ......"

Van Bit laughed and said, "I swear in the name of God, the rudder of that ship must be broken, haha......"

Li Shaojie and Qiu Lei all laughed along, people in this era are devout believers, and it will definitely not be a joke for him to say this. Li Shaojie shouted loudly: "Stop shooting...... Old Fan, let's go pack up the next one, everyone hurry up and leave these big guys here. ”

With the rudder of the first Spanish galleon interrupted by them, everyone on the "Black Pearl" was full of confidence and began to chase the next Spanish galleon.

The effect of the smoke grenades was very good, completely obscuring the hull of the "Black Pearl", and when the anti-aircraft machine guns were fired, they did not attract the attention of other pirate ships, and the dull sound of continuous firing of anti-aircraft machine guns was also muffled by the constant rumbling of cannons from dozens of sailing ships on the sea.

For the rest of the day, the Black Pearl kept chasing the three Spanish galleons, constantly using armor-piercing rounds fired from 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine guns to interrupt the tail rudder of the galleon.

But when chasing the third Spanish galleon, an accident happened, a half-long gun in the stern of the opponent's ship, fired an 11-pound solid bullet, hit the port side of the "Black Pearl", a Dutch sailor and a Japanese daredevils were seriously injured, although the two survived, but the Dutch sailor lost a left arm, and the Japanese samurai lost a calf.

More than a dozen others were slightly injured by the broken sawdust, including three officers and men of the Admiralty. Fortunately, except for a large piece of the port side of the hull, it did not affect the navigation of the "Black Pearl".

But it also scared everyone out of the way, it was too hanging......

Captain Edwin is directing his galleon, heading in the direction of Manila. Suddenly, there was a burst of cannon fire from the stern, and Edwin turned around and shouted to the boatswain at the stern: "Rigoberto, what's going on behind us?" ”

The sailor shouted to him in a loud voice, "Sir, we are following a ship, and our aft gun compartment is firing at it." ”

Edwin immediately ran to the stern of the boat, picked up his monoculars and looked at the stern. He looked at it for a while, put down the monoculars, and said angrily: "What about these damn British species, don't worry about it, continue to shell." ”

With that, he left the stern of the ship, and went to the bow to continue the battle, the pirate ships were still pestering around them, and the galleons were annoying, but there was nothing too good to do.

Suddenly, there was a dull, dense sound from the stern, and then he felt the whole ship tremble. At this time, the shouts of the boatswain were heard from the stern.

"Captain, come to the stern ......"

Edwin hurriedly ran to the stern, and the closer he got to the stern, the more pronounced the tremor became, and there was a scream from the stern, which he knew was from the aft gun bay.

As soon as he reached the stern of the boat, he was immediately stunned by the scene before him. A thick cloud of smoke rose from the surroundings of the British fast-armed merchant ship, and several tongues of fire were frantically attacking the stern.

At this moment, a sailor ran up from the bilge in a panic, and when he saw Edwin, he wailed, "Sir, the rudder...... The tail rudder is out of order......"

Edwin's eyes froze, he looked at the pirate ship behind him hatefully, and closed his eyes in pain. Then he said resolutely: "May the Lord be with us, so that everyone may be ready for the last battle." ”

Sir Albert sat calmly in the luxurious cabin, although he looked indifferent, in fact, he was already anxious in his heart, but as a nobleman, of course, he could not be too flustered in front of others.

Suddenly, a servant hurried in and shouted, "Sir, the ship has stopped...... Captain Edwin asked me to inform you not to go out of the house anyway, they will protect you. ”

Albert's face suddenly darkened, and he knew that the current shape was already very critical. This time he came to Manila to complete a secret mission.

For their two ships were bound for Manila, and before they came they were loaded with silver ingots and commodities of the Empire and the New World, all of which had not been declared. I just want to take advantage of this time to make a good profit.

Once something happens to this ship, the entire empire will be earthquaked, and even if he returns to the empire alive in the future, he will definitely die without a place to be buried, and countless nobles and magnates will want to swallow him alive. R1152