At this time, Drake roared and issued an order: "Send all ships to turn the direction and follow the Revenge! Eat this group of galloping boats first! Don't catch the sidelines, sank them with artillery!"

The Revenge was one of the five warships Drake grabbed from Haidong Harbour. The Venetta Navy believed that there were only four. In fact, the fifth warship that fled to the sea was also captured by the Tanirians.

Although the warships with high freeboard and high towers have more advantages in platoon battles, Drake knew that the pirates under his command did not have the ability to fight with casualties, and they could only fight with the wind.

Once the enemy boards the ship and turns the naval battle into a cruel hand-to-hand combat, the morale of these pirates will immediately collapse.

The Tanirian fleet turned the bow and rushed towards the Venetta galley.

The sailing captains of Venetta were also launching an attack on the Tanirian fleet, and the distance between the two sides was quickly shortened.

The characteristics of the gallopy warship are like wolves, with iron heads, copper tails, and weak waists.

Because there are oars on the side, the sailboat can only attack from its bow. The hardest wood, the largest caliber heavy artillery and boarding springboards are all arranged at the bow.

The sidewalk is the most fragile part of the sailing warship, with only some small-caliber rotating cannons. This place not only has the weakest firepower, but also the most fragile part of the structure. A large sailing ship can break the sailing warship in the middle by a collision here.

The two fleets were heading forth, and the pirates rushed the gallopy with bow cannons as soon as the gallopy entered the range.

A shell hit the strong forecastle of the Golden Lion at a high angle and bounced away.

Another galleon, the White Eagle, was not so lucky. The shells were shot from the bow into the deck. They penetrated the four sailors and hit the fifth sailor before stopping. The warships next to them could hear screams from the forecastle of the ship.

A sailor with a terrifying flesh hole on his body did not die immediately, but cried heart-wrenchingly. The person next to him held him, but he didn't know what to do. The first mate of the White Eagle immediately drew out his knife and gave the sailor a pleasure. The scream disappeared, and there was no sound in the forecastle of the White Eagle except for the sound of war drums.

Although he suffered a round of artillery bombardment, the Venetta sailboats did not fire the guns and fought back. The drums rumbling, and the Venetta sailboats approached the enemy calmly.

Speyer did not stay in the safer stern like the other captains, he was next to the Golden Lion's bow cannon, holding the iron rod inserted into the charcoal furnace in his hand.

The Golden Lion had only one chance to fire, and Spear only believed in himself.

The warships on both sides were getting closer and closer, and the Venetta galley had entered the range of muskets. Gunshots broke out from the Tanirian ship, but the Venetta galley still did not fire.

"To the right! Have you seen the black flag ship?" Spear almost lay on the tail of the cannon, aiming at the direction of the muzzle without blinking, and said to his first mate: "I hate the black flag ships the most."

The flag on the right side of the ship building was pulled up. When the helmsman saw the flag, he immediately turned to the right.

At this time, the distance between the Golden Lion and the Black Flag ship was less than twenty meters, and the Venetta sailors could already see the Tanirian beards clearly.

The tail of the cannon, the muzzle, the big black flag ship, three points and one line.

"It's now!" Spear pulled up the red-hot iron rod and pressed it on the fire-inducing hole.

The two-ton cannon was pushed to the end of the slide rail by the recoil, and the hull was trembling. With a loud noise that caused all crew members to tinnitus, the bow was shrouded in smoke.

A huge stone bullet left the cannon chamber and flew towards the Black Flag ship.

The number of gun positions in the galleys is very small, and the power can only be used to make up for it. Therefore, the Venetta galleys generally have three to five heavy artillery arrangements at the bow of the ship.

But the Golden Lion only had one cannon - but its caliber is amazingly large. Speyer insisted that instead of bringing three cannons, it would be better to bring only one with a larger caliber.

This cannon placed on the bow of the Golden Lion ship is not an ordinary cannon, but an old-fashioned stone-firing cannon. This cannon is generally used for siege. It is not only extremely bulky and tiring to load, but also has poor accuracy. It can even lose targets as big as a city wall.

So Spear must be close enough to "press the opponent's forehead with the muzzle", so close to ensure that the shooting will not deviate before firing.

There are a lot of shortcomings, but this cannon has only one advantage: its power.

Even the city walls can be broken, what is the warship?

This stone bullet, which was nearly 200 pounds, was like an angel of death, whistling and shattering all the wood and human bodies that blocked him. The big black sailing ship was smashed into a big hole at the waterline, and another one was smashed on the other side when the shell left.

The sea water quickly poured into the cabin, and the black sail ship began to tilt with the screams of the pirates.

The sailors of the Golden Lion gave deafening cheers.

The Golden Lion fired a gun at the forefront, and the bow cannons of other galleys also roared.

The shells shot into the Taniria's bow and harvested life in the cabin. Another large sailboat was penetrated below the waterline, and the bow began to sink, and the sailors on the deck jumped into the sea to escape.

After a round of artillery bombardment, the Venetta Sailboat and the Tanilla fleet rushed into each other's formation and began a close-range battle.

Although the bow cannon just now had the upper hand on the Vineta people, in the battle of the shore, the disadvantage of the low hull of the galleon was fully exposed.

The towers of large sailboats were like city walls to galleys, and the Tanirians shot at the galleys from a high place.

On the crowded galleys, the Vinetta sailors had no place to stop and had nowhere to hide. They could only fight back with muskets and crossbows against the enemy's lead bullets.

The deck turned into land, the sailors turned into musketeers, and a duel of projecting weapons started above the sea.

Captains Venetta knew that the only hope of winning was to jump the gang. Continuing this kind of battle would be the morale of the galleys that would collapse first.

The officers on the sailboat urged the paddlers to row desperately, trying to approach the enemy's large ship as far as possible from the front, which was the weakest firepower of the large ship.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! The Taniria Sailboat tries to keep a distance from the galleys as far as possible, bombarding the galleys with artillery arranged on the side.

An armed merchant ship of Tanirians could not dodge and was caught by the hook rope thrown by the White Eagle. The Venetta sailors tried hard to pull the rope, and the distance between the ships was getting closer and closer.

The iron hook bit deeply into the side of the ship and could not be pulled down. The Tanirian sailor tried to cut off the rope, but found that behind the iron hook was a two-meter-long iron chain.

In order to prevent the hook rope from being cut off, the Venetta people specially replaced the rope two meters behind the hook with riveted iron chains.

A brave sailor climbed up the iron chain and tried to cut off the rope behind, but as soon as he poked his head out, he was killed by the musketeers on the White Eagle. Other Tanirian sailors slashed the ship's side with their axes, trying to cut off the iron hook and the ship's side fence together.

But it was too late. The boarding springboard at the bow of the White Eagle was put down. The iron hook at the end of the springboard bit the side of the armed merchant ship, fixing the two ships together.

A shrill whistle sounded, and the Venetta sailors rushed onto the armed merchant ship shouting, and a bloody hand-to-hand battle began.

At the same time, a galleon was being besieged by three Tanirian ships on the sea on the west battlefield.

Venetta's galleys are not only at a disadvantage in terms of ship type, but also in terms of quantity.

The cannons on the side of the sailboat roared and roared, and shells shot out of the cannon chamber, splattering wood chips and blood and blood flew everywhere.

The captain and first mate of the galleon have been killed, and the remaining adjutants and officers are not able to reorganize sailors in the chaos.

The living people built up corpses as chest walls, and only a few brave people were still firing and fighting back.

The paddlers no longer obeyed the command, but instead looked for all tools to untie the chains on their bodies.

Someone jumped into the sea and wanted to abandon the boat, but the people on the sailing boat did not intend to let them go, and shot them with muskets mercilessly.

On the sea outside the Lighthouse Harbor, a bloody and fierce melee is in progress. In the smoke generated by the burning of gunpowder, the sound of gunfire and the shouts of killing mixed together, and the sea is filled with residual limbs, corpses and wood fragments.

Speyer was not interested in those armed merchant ships, and only warships were given as opponents of the Golden Lion. The sea was illuminated by flames, and the figure of a tall warship was particularly obvious in the night.

Several armed merchant ships fired at the Golden Lion, but Speyer ignored them at all.

He immediately ordered the Golden Lion to adjust the direction immediately, and with the powerful maneuverability of the sailboat at a short distance, he found a way in the chaotic battlefield and pounced towards the tall warship.

The lookout for the Revenge noticed the sailboat approaching him, and Drake immediately ordered to turn southeast, put down his sail, and face the enemy with starboard.

The cannons roared, and more than a dozen shells flew towards the Golden Lion.

A scream came from the ship, but the Golden Lion just beat the war drum more and more, and the speed was even faster.

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Meanwhile, on the other side of the battlefield.

No one could have thought that Naresha was so crazy that he took the lead in forcibly breaking through the fire ship, not Taniria, nor did Venetta's Navy.

A small boat carrying flames came with the wind, setting up a wall of fire between the two fleets.

When a normal captain sees this scene, he will avoid the fire ship. Sail in the southeast first, wait until the distance from the fire ship is widened before looking for an airplane to return to the battlefield.

This is also the original plan to use fire ships to force the Venetta fleet to sail to the dangerous waters eastward, and its own fleet followed closely to eliminate the fish that had escaped.

Even if the unexpected twelve galloping warships broke out from Lighthouse Harbor, it would not matter, the Venetta fleet would still sail towards the reef under the pressure of fire ships.

And Drake can defeat one by one again, concentrate the fleet to eliminate the sailing warships first, and then strangle the main fleet of Venetta who escaped from the waters of death - if they can escape.

But Naresha is not a normal person, Naresha is also the number one gambler in the Venetta Navy. He directly chose the shortest route and took Drake's flagship "Revenge".

The raging fire is frightening, and what makes people more despair than the raging fire is that they take the initiative to walk into the sea of ​​fire. A dozen meters away, everyone on the deck of the Glory felt the scorching heat wave.

"God! Save me!"

"This is hell! We are going to hell!"

Someone was praying wildly on the deck, and some were kneeling on the ground and muttering words.

"You guys go back to work!" The vicious sailor blew his whistle and used a slap and wooden stick to drive the sailors who were just praying back to their posts: "I can't see you chanting scriptures in normal times! You can pretend to be pious at this time, you can use a shit! Just do your own work! The old kid Nick has never lost!"

Captain Wilson of the 100-man team of Contel also gave three warrant officers a look. Winters and Bud pulled the army soldiers tremblingly chanting scriptures from the ground. Andre was even more simple and crude. When he saw the soldiers who threw down their weapons and prayed, he punched the other party hard in the face.

The Army and Navy were reorganizing their morale, and the Glory was getting closer and closer to the fire ship. The canvas was dried by the heat wave. Before they could touch the fire ship, Mars, which rose with the hot air, ignited the forefasail.

The sailors ran to the bow of the boat and poured the sea water prepared in advance on the burning sails.

"Water the sails quickly! Don't stop!" The sail rope shouted at the top of his lungs.

"The 1000th team! Follow my order and assist the navy in getting water!" With Wilson's order, the three warrant officers and all the army soldiers were involved in the water withdrawal operation. The ship had prepared a pile of empty buckets in advance, and just put them down with a rope and fetch water from the sea.

The Glory rushed into the sea of ​​fire, and the bow of the ship ran into a sampan. With the sound of creaking wood breaking, the burning sampan was directly crushed into the sea by the Glory, leaving only a few charred wooden boards.

The sailors at the bow of the boat cheered happily.

But then, no one could laugh.

The fire ships that leaned against the Glory from the side of the bow were not only not caught in the bottom of the ship, but on the contrary, after hitting the Glory, they were tightly attached to the hull of the Glory, and were beaten by the waves without moving at all.

The bows of these fire ships are half buried with sharp iron nails one foot long. Once they hit the warship, the iron nails will pierce into the hull and firmly fix the fire ship to the warship.

The Glory hit three fire ships in a row, and the resistance of the Glory, which was facing the three fire ships, suddenly increased, and its speed was stagnant.
To be continued...