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Seeing that more than a hundred Mughal warships were inevitably rushing towards the center of their battle line, the enemy ships had long lost their formation, and their sails had been beaten like sieves by grapeshot, looking miserable;
However, they still crashed in with the wind. The ten clipper ships behind the Qin army were dragged and tangled with the enemy ships.
It is hard to imagine that there would be a fleet that would dare to suffer such heavy casualties to attack the enemy's battle line, because this is like crying and making a fuss about wanting to be reborn.
Ke Chenshu gritted his teeth and made an unexpected but reasonable decision. The two huge treasure ships turned to the northwest, drawing a crescent-shaped arc, and continued to attack the following Mughal warships.
The remaining twelve clipper ships that were not entangled, commanded by their flagship Captain Yu Bo, continued to sail at full speed in the east-west direction, striving to overtake the Dutch fleet sailing parallel to them, in order to eventually seize the T-shaped crosshairs.
This is a big gamble!
If the Dutch fleet turned around to attack Ke Chenshu's two treasure ships, it would be tantamount to actively giving the T-shaped head to the clipper ships led by Yu Bo.
What Ke Chenshu was betting on was that Vinaldo would not dare to do so.
An important factor that made Ke Chenshu dare to take such a gamble was that the two giant treasure ships were not only "aircraft carriers" that could take off and glider, but also breathtaking "super battleships".
In order to ensure the speed, the two treasure ships were equipped with fewer cannons, but its huge hull, which was more than 120 meters long, was easily equipped with 80 thousand-jin Portuguese cannons, with 40 on one side.
If the two treasure ships moved in the same direction and fired at the same time, the fierce firepower would be enough to make people thrilling.
Ke Chenshu personally commanded the two treasure ships to turn at a large angle. The eighty cannons on the port side of the two ships roared again, like the roars of the angry gods in the sky! Dazzling tongues of fire ignited the night sky, shooting out like a weave, smashing the Mughal fleet on the left like a storm, crushing people's will!
On the top of the warship, beams of light swept across the sea, and these beams of light also served as guides for the shells. Once the beams of light hit an enemy ship, shells would soon whistle away, blasting the enemy ship to pieces, a horrible sight!
Poor Plamor, poor Asan, both Ke Chenshu and Vernado thought they were extremely brave, but in fact, only they themselves knew how "brave" they were at the moment.
The Qin army's shells were like a rain of meteorites, unstoppable and willful. Plummer watched his warships being bombarded into broken wood and rotten boards one by one! What was even more frightening was the Qin army's shotgun shells, which came in an overwhelming manner, leaving no place to hide or avoid. The deck became a terrifying purgatory, and almost all the people who were still on the deck became corpses, and their lives were ruthlessly harvested!
Even Plummer crawled under the cabin to hide. To say crawled is not an exaggeration, it is a bit of an understatement. Because he was already so frightened that his whole body was weak and trembling. He could only use his hands and feet to crawl and roll. Image? What is that?! Who cares?!
Pramor swore to Allah that he had never dreamed of such heavy artillery fire and such a terrifying scene.
The cloths wrapped around their heads could not stop the Qin army's rain of bullets, and their heads were blown apart. Pu Weimo was splattered with the brains of the messenger next to him, and he was so scared that he rolled and crawled into the lower cabin.
After Plummer climbed into the lower cabin, he screamed hysterically like a madman, and could not control himself from venting the abyss-like, trembling fear in his heart; the soldiers who escaped with him knelt on the ground, praying for the blessing of Allah, their panic-stricken expressions revealed their incomparable piety!
After Plummer yelled for a while, his out-of-control emotions improved a little. He then realized that the cabin was noisy and smelly because some soldiers were so scared that they had urinated and defecated all over the place and had incontinence.
This scene seems ridiculous, but it is not surprising that people who face such terrible artillery fire for the first time would react like this.
The clipper ships that were intercepted by the Mughal fleet had already used their last weapon - the rocket. All the soldiers also rushed to the side of the ship with Type 69 flintlock rifles and thunder bombs, ready to engage in the bloodiest close combat with the "brave" enemy.
However, when beams of light shone on the enemy ships, the nervous Qin soldiers realized that they had worried for nothing. The Mughal warships coming downwind were like ghost ships, some even drifted sideways, with no one visible on them; there were no artillery fire, no arrows, not even swords and guns, nothing that could cause harm to the Qin army... ... ... .
What is going on? Can anyone tell us what is going on
The Qin soldiers could not see the figures on the enemy ship, which was very strange. Some people with rich imagination even had their hair standing on end. For them, no matter how strong the enemy was, they would dare to rush up to fight, but an invisible enemy... ... ... even a ghost... ...
"What are you standing there for? Boom! Sink them!"
"General Bai, we can't see any enemies. It looks like a ghost ship..."
"Bullshit! Even if it's a ghost ship, do you dare to let it crash into us?! Bring it here! I'll show you what it means to kill gods and Buddhas!"
Zhang Chongqing, the commander of the army, roared loudly, his beard like a halberd, just like the Yama of the Senluo Palace! He grabbed a rocket, aimed at an enemy ship that was drifting towards them, and suddenly pulled the trigger. Chirp! A dazzling tail flame cut through the night and hit the drifting enemy ship fiercely.
boom!
A ball of fire lit up the night sky, and the violent explosion was deafening, waking up many Qin soldiers.
Vernado looked from afar and saw flames rising up, like the tails of comets interweaving in the night sky. Balls of fire rose up on the Mughal warships, and soon many of them were burning, like huge torches, illuminating the nearby sea.
There was no desperate fighting as imagined, only one-sided slaughter. What happened? Where did the original courage of the Mughals go? Why didn't they fire back? Why didn't they fire rockets? Why... ...
At this moment, Vernado, who couldn't figure out the truth, had too many questions in his mind, because many warships were burning. He could clearly see that the Qin army's warships were moving briskly between the warships of the Mughal Empire, and some were almost passing through them, but the warships of the Mughal Navy did not launch any attacks... ...
This made Werner extremely confused. Although the Qin army's original artillery fire was fierce, as long as the ship was not destroyed, it would be impossible to kill all the soldiers on the ship, because there was always a cabin to hide from the terrible shotgun shells.
Finally he recalled the fighting spirit of the Mughals...
Werner's head was suddenly poured with a basin of ice water, and his whole body trembled. If the Mughals could really entangle half of the Qin warships in close combat, the situation would be very favorable to him.
But this is not the case now. The warships behind the Qin army are not entangled at all. They may follow the giant warship and insert themselves behind them at any time;
And in front, twelve slender clipper-type warships were sailing against the wind and waves, their speed constantly increasing, so fast that it was unbelievable.
At this moment, Vernado suddenly felt annoyed as if he had been deceived. He wanted to step hard on that damn Plamor, stomp on him three times, and crush him three times!
Although Plummer acted so "bravely" at the beginning, in the end he failed to fire a single shot or arrow, which almost dragged him into a desperate situation.
However, Plamor did not play a role at all this time. At least he had caused Ke Chenshu's fleet to be disrupted and divided into three groups. The twelve warships led by Yu Bo were rushing northeast, trying to seize the T-shaped cross section of Vernado; at the same time, the two treasure ships led by Ke Chenshu were turning northwest against the wind; in addition, ten clipper warships were rushed into by the Mughal fleet and were tangled together.
This was also a good opportunity for Vernado, so he decided to take a gamble. At his command, the dozens of Dutch ships that were originally sailing parallel to Yu Bo began to turn rapidly to the southeast. The target was obvious, it was for Ke Chenshu's two treasure ships.
These two treasure ships are huge and are the flagships of the Qin army. Vernado believes that as long as he does his best to attack these two treasure ships, as long as he can sink these two treasure ships, even if it costs half of his warships, it is worth it! (The novel "Ming Yang Tian Xia" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be a 100% lucky draw gift for everyone! Open WeChat now, click the "+" sign in the upper right corner to "add friends", search for the public account "qdread" and follow it, hurry up!) (To be continued..)
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