Liu Rengui was calm: "After all, I haven't been training for long!"
"But there are quite a few pirate ships this time, enough for everyone to practice their skills!"
The other warships of the Royal Navy also aimed at the enemy ship and fired at the moment the flagship opened fire!
The young man in golden clothes held up a telescope and carefully looked at the Royal Navy ship opposite.
I saw a flash of fire in one of the small windows of the opposite ship.
A small black dot seemed to fly by itself and quickly enlarged in the field of vision.
boom!
Before he could react, a shell hit his chest!
The huge kinetic energy directly smashed his upper body into a ball of blood mist, and then hit the deck unabated, and then smashed through the deck!
The hull of the ship shook, and the warrior beside him fell to the deck.
When he got up and looked at the young man in brocade clothes who was only half of his body, the warrior felt his liver and gallbladder split apart:
"Master!"
By this time, there was a fire on the boat, and water had begun to leak from the bottom of the boat.
Everyone was in fear, running around the boat like headless flies!
Bang! Bang! Bang!…
The second salvo of the Royal Navy arrives!
The ship rocked violently again,
The samurai crawled over and tried to drag half of his young master's body aside!
At this time, the hull of the ship tilted violently, and the samurai fell into the cold sea water holding half of his young master's body!
Then the ship capsized and sank to the bottom of the sea!
At this point, the flagship of Xiao's fleet sank, and all 250 people on board died, including one of Xiao Yu's sons and several nephews.
At this time, all the pirate ships were in chaos. All the pirates had been frightened by the sudden and terrifying attack from the navy!
With several rounds of salvo fire, the accuracy of the Royal Navy gunners improved significantly.
A salvo from each warship can basically take away an enemy ship.
This is simply a unilateral massacre!
The range of artillery is several times that of trebuchets, and each warship fires at least twelve artillery salvos at a time.
The fragile deck and hull of the pirate ship were like paper in front of the artillery.
Hitting the side of the ship can sink a pirate ship with one shot!
The pirate ship couldn't get close at all and was sunk by cannons.
It’s not that there are no pirate ships trying to escape,
However, they charged too hard at first and almost entered the range of the trebuchet.
At this point it’s too late to turn around!
Besides, their speed is not as fast as the navy's cruisers, and they can't run away at all.
Moreover, the navy frigate that had lured the enemy earlier also came back and was quickly outflanking the enemy from both sides.
After three more volleys, all thirteen pirate ships in Xiao's fleet were sunk.
Xiao's fleet is just one of the pirate fleets, but the situation of other pirate ships is similar.
Bang! Bang! Bang!!
The sound of naval gunfire continued continuously.
But by this time the fleet had dispersed and was chasing the remaining dozen or so cannons.
Anyway, a pirate ship can't outrun a navy cruiser.
After chasing until it is parallel to the enemy ship, fire a salvo!
The enemy ships were immediately in full bloom!
"Commander! Leave one ship behind!"
Seeing that there were only a few pirate ships left, Cheng Chubi hurriedly said: "If we sink them all, what can we do to prove to His Majesty that we have won a big victory?"
Liu Rengui thought about it. There would be no witnesses or physical evidence, and it would be difficult to write a battle report!
As long as the ship sinks in a naval battle, the chance of survival of the people on the ship is very low unless one's own ships are on hand to rescue in time.
The aristocratic families have formed a pirate coalition this time and are about to be wiped out. Who will save them?
Moreover, Su Chen's letter also said that these are extremely evil and unrepentant people, and he should try his best to annihilate them all!
So Liu Rengui had no intention of saving those pirates who fell into the water.
"Just the northernmost one! Let the frigates go up!"
Cheng Chubi raised his telescope and took a look. The pirate ship had also been hit, but the hull was still intact, with only a hole in the upper deck.
After taking care of the remaining pirate ships, several frigates went up and surrounded the last pirate ship.
Throwing an iron hook to grab the side of the ship, the navy officers began to join forces to board the ship.
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The remaining pirates on the ship had long been frightened out of their wits and offered no resistance at all!
"Let the grain ship come back."
"We will escort the grain transport ship to the mouth of the Yellow River, and the frigate will continue to escort it for the rest of the voyage!"
"Let the frigate also tow that pirate ship to Chang'an!"
The pirate coalition formed by all the Tang Dynasty families was completely wiped out in less than an hour in front of the Royal Navy.
And there was no damage to the navy!
After receiving the battle report from Liu Rengui, Li Er laughed loudly at the small court meeting in Zichen Hall.
"Haha! The remnants of the clans formed a pirate coalition with the intention of robbing the grain transport fleet in Wuhu Sea, but the whole army was annihilated!"
"Sixty-two giant ships, sixty-one have been sunk, and the remaining one is being towed by the navy to Chang'an!"
There was silence in the hall.
Wen Yanbo's forehead was dripping with cold sweat. Among the sixty-two ships, there were two from his Wen family!
Wei Zheng had the most explosive temper. He took a look at Liu Rengui's battle report and said angrily: "They really plan to rob food, and they can actually gather so many giant ships at once."
"Liu Rengui said that these giant ships, the smaller ones are four to five thousand stones, and the larger ones are bigger than Su Chen's eight thousand stone ship. Where did they get so many giant ships?"
Li Erdao: "I have asked Su Chen, and he said that with the strength of the noble clan, it is not difficult to use some despicable means to obtain the blueprints, or bribe the master craftsmen of Yangzhou Shipyard to build an eight thousand stone ship."
Changsun Wuji frowned and said, "Even so, it's not that easy to build these giant ships. Su Chen has only built so many in these years."
"There must be multiple shipyards manufacturing them together. Your Majesty, it would be better to check the shipyards in Datang, lest they were wiped out this time and a group of pirates appear next time."
Li Er nodded: "From now on, ships manufactured by the shipyards of Datang must be registered with the government. I will assist you to implement this matter."
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After hearing the report of the Wuhuhai battle, Xiao Yu spurted out a mouthful of blood, his eyes went black and he fainted!
The whole Xiao family was in a panic. After a long time, Xiao Yu slowly regained consciousness after the doctor used a needle.
"Go and inform others and prepare the final plan!"
Xiao Yu, who regained consciousness, said calmly.
"Father, fourth brother and the others?"
"Besides, do you really want to give up everything and flee overseas?
How could that barbaric land be..."
Xiao Yu shook his head: "My Xiao family lost sixteen elite disciples this time. This matter must not be mentioned again in the future!"
"There is no longer a place for aristocratic families in Li Tang!"
Then he glanced at Xiao Rui: "You can continue to stay in Li Tang and be your consort,"
"My old bones won't last long!"
"But our Lanling Xiao family cannot just die, we must find a way to survive for future generations!"
Xiao Rui secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and then asked in confusion: "But how can that wild overseas land become a way of survival for my Xiao family?"
