The transport ship is protected by a fleet of galleys and frigates, so it should be fine?
?More than a dozen man-eating ships rushed towards the transport ship.
Boom! Boom!
The guns on the galleys and transports opened fire.
These two types of ships are also equipped with naval guns, but only in small numbers.
But the firepower of six transport ships and six galleys exceeded that of one main gunboat.
After several rounds of volleys, only eight enemy ships rushed up. At this time, the distance between the two sides was less than 500 meters.
The galleys and frigates rushed out one after another, and fired another round of shelling, then came closer and fired a round of cannonballs, and then rammed into the enemy ship this time.
Gunboats don’t have ramming angles, but frigates and galleys both have them, and they’re still made of iron!
If you hit a large sloop that is much smaller and more fragile than your own, don't be too casual.
Avoid enemy ships quickly disintegrating and sinking to the bottom of the sea.
During the whole process, the transport ship was unscathed, a frigate was hit by a gunpowder bomb, and a galley was hit by an oil tank, but neither caused much damage.
At this time, the remaining twenty or so large galleys that were still entangled with the gunboats no longer had the courage to fight, and turned around and fled.
Not to mention that the galley is not slow when escaping at full speed!
"Send an order to the main gunboats, just leave four of them to continue chasing, and the rest will return to the rear to help Sun Renshi in the rear."
The escort fleet in the rear is still blocking the big cannibal, and the casualties are probably high!
"Leave two transport ships to rescue the sinking gunboat,"
"The galleys also go to support the frigates in the rear."
"The remaining four ships and two groups of frigates will also follow me to pursue! I want to see how long they can maintain high speed with their oars!"
The speed of a galley cannot be maintained for long, and the oarsmen's physical strength is exhausted very quickly, not to mention that they have already been through a fierce battle.
Su Chen's ship sailed forward for more than ten kilometers, and the water surface suddenly became wider.
"Commander, the big cannibals have scattered and fled!"
"Part of the westward direction should be to escape westward along the strait,"
"The other part turned south!"
Liu Rengui reported while holding a telescope.
"Let Cheng Chubi lead four gunboats to chase south, and the first escort fleet will follow! To the south are the Karimun Islands and the Riau Islands. There are islands and reefs everywhere. Let them be careful of being ambushed again!"
"The rest of the ships are chasing west along the strait!"
Su Chen led the fleet all the way west,
After chasing for forty or fifty miles, we were almost out of the Singapore Strait and entered the main section of the Malacca Strait, but we still couldn't catch up.
"Commander, these big cannibals have good physical strength!"
Liu Rengui admired it.
"Well, why did they go to the shore and want to escape ashore?"
Su Chen was also stunned. If the big cannibals really came ashore and got into the woods, it would be really difficult to catch them in this tropical rainforest.
After looking carefully with a telescope for a while, Su Chen ordered: "All ships, prepare for battle!"
"Marines! Prepare to land!"
At this time Li Chengqian also came out of the cabin and took a look with the telescope:
"Teacher, there is a cannibal camp on that shore, belonging to the indigenous people, and there is also a water village!"
"The big man-eater is flying the moon flag!"
"Moon flag?"
Li Chengqian searched carefully: "It's the same color as the leaves of the tree, so it's really hard to tell them apart."
"Don't worry about the water village for now, let me level the camp on the shore first!"
The gunboat aimed at the camp on the shore and fired a salvo.
Fences, wooden houses, and tents are all in a mess!
"How old is it, when all the people have fled and not a single one is left?"
"The Marines are going ashore to take a look."
Yuchi Baolin took the Marine Corps for a roundabout landing, and the two frigates also went to the nearby water village to have a look.
"Commander! He really ran away completely!"
"Commander, I found the traces left by their escape. Let me lead the Marine Corps to chase them!"
Yuchi Baolin’s clasping fist method.
Su Chen frowned: "The tropical rainforest is very dangerous, you have to be careful!"
"Two days! If you can't catch up in two days, give up!"
"You return here in four days, the fleet is waiting for you here!"
"Don't worry about them escaping. We are going to the Dashi Peninsula anyway, and the fleet can't be delayed for too long!"
Yuchi Baolin clasped his fists, agreed, and led his men after him.
Su Chen landed ashore and visited the cannibal's camp and water village.
"Commander, are they building ships here?"
"I said those suicide attack ships look so new. They were all newly built here!"
Liu Rengui frowned and looked at the simple dock in the water village and the pile of timber next to it.
Li Chengqian was very puzzled: "Teacher, didn't you say that the Dashi Empire is still more than 10,000 miles away from here?"
"Why did they come here to ambush us?"
"And from the looks of it, they have been here for quite a while."
Su Chen shook his head: "I don't know!"
"I still don't understand how they came to Malacca,"
"You have also seen it. Is it possible for them to sail across the ocean with just their sloop?"
Liu Rengui: "It's not impossible as long as it stays close to the coastline!"
"I have seen the ships that the Japanese invaded from the Tang Dynasty when they came to me, but they were not as good as cannibals!"
Su Chen glared at Liu Rengui: "Always stick to the coastline, go around the Tianzhu Peninsula, then pass through the Bay of Bengal, and then along the Indochina Peninsula and the Malay Peninsula to Singapore. Do you know how long it will take?"
Liu Rengui spread his hands and said, "Commander, the big cannibal is here. Apart from this possibility, there is no other explanation."
"And based on the ferocity with which the Great Eaters fought today, I have no doubts about their perseverance!"
Su Chen covered his head: "Until now, I feel like I'm dreaming. How could the Great Eater come to Malacca to ambush our Royal Navy of the Tang Dynasty!"
Li Chengqian said worriedly: "Teacher, this means that the intelligence we collected before may be wrong. This cannibalism is obviously a long-planned plan."
"It should be easy for them to cross the strait and follow the route we took to reach Guangzhou directly, right?"
"After all, they have already traveled more than 10,000 miles, and they don't care if they run an extra mile!"
Su Chen held his head and said nothing. Today's ambush completely disrupted Su Chen's understanding of the cannibal.
Liu Rengui frowned: "Our Royal Navy has only been established for more than nine months!"
"Judging from the current situation, the Great Cannibal set sail here shortly after the establishment of our navy,"
"They shouldn't have known at that time that our navy would go to the Dashi Peninsula and come here specifically to intercept us, right?"
"I, the deputy commander, didn't even know about it at the time."
Li Chengqian shrugged: "This is simply impossible. There were no more than ten people in Tang Dynasty who knew about it at first. I only found out about it when I came back from Guanzhou."
Liu Rengui: "Then, the purpose of this big cannibal coming here is very suspicious!"
