About three hundred meters away from the Pearl River Estuary, two large ships were floating quietly on the river.
These are two giant treasure ships built by the Ming Dynasty Treasure Ship Bureau with 5,000 materials. They are 70 meters long, 15 meters wide, 6 meters deep, and have a displacement of 2,500 tons.
This giant treasure ship is comparable to the largest treasure ship recorded by Zheng He in his voyages to the West.
These two treasure ships were originally built by Zhu Yuanzhang to be used in ocean-going trade. However, with the opening of the late Qing Dynasty, the introduction of steam engines and various advanced technologies, these huge wooden warships will definitely be eliminated. of.
So Zhu Yuanzhang brought them into the late Qing Dynasty.
There is only one purpose for staying here at this moment, which is to block the way forward of the British naval fleet.
To be honest, it is not easy to achieve this goal.
Because if he drove straight past like this, he would probably be blown to pieces before he even got close.
Moreover, the British warships cannot easily block your way. Their ships are faster and can easily get rid of such slow big guys.
So Zhu Yuanzhang used some special means.
An invisibility talisman researched and produced by the deputy director of the Institute of Psychic Power under the Royal Academy of Sciences, Tsukinaga.
Of course, it is impossible to make such a large treasure ship disappear out of thin air with just one invisibility charm. There are a total of 1,087 invisibility charms affixed to the two treasure ships.
In order to achieve this achievement, starting half a year ago, Jin Yiwei began to collect several extraordinary materials used to make invisibility talismans throughout the Ming Dynasty.
At the same time, all the Taoist priests in the Sanshan Taoist sect who could draw talismans spent day and night in the Sumeru Illusion Realm for almost four months, which would take a full year in the outside world.
It is said that on the day after the painting was completed, Director Siyong vomited on the spot and said that he would never draw talisman again in his life.
Originally, Lao Zhu's request was to draw an invisibility talisman that could hide the entire fleet, but seeing this, he had to lower his request and now he has to hide these two treasure ships.
At this moment, Zhu Biao was standing on the bow of one of the treasure ships. All the people on this ship were his eight hundred personal guards, including Zhu Ping, Zhu Fan, and Zhu Di, his three biological brothers.
Looking at the British Royal Navy fleet approaching slowly from a distance, getting closer and closer to him, Zhu Biao's eyes flashed with a glimmer of light.
"Set sail!" he said softly.
Countless guards on the treasure ship began to get busy, and the treasure ship began to slowly accelerate down the river.
The British Royal Navy warships on the opposite side still collided head-on without realizing it.
To be honest, it doesn't matter even if they can see it at this time, because the distance between the two sides is close enough at this moment.
The reason why Zhu Biao set sail at this time was to gain a speed advantage.
Mu Ying was also standing on the bow of another treasure ship. There were also 800 people on board. These people were 120 people from the Tiger Camp, plus 680 elite guards.
"Something's wrong!" Pu Dingcha on the steel battleship suddenly said. Inexplicably, he felt himself suddenly panicking.
Of course he is not a supernatural being, this is just the intuition of a naval commander who has commanded battleships for a lifetime.
He raised his binoculars and looked carefully at the river banks on both sides.
The Pearl River Estuary is the narrowest place in the entire waterway. For a huge fleet of naval warships, such terrain is undoubtedly very dangerous.
Such narrow terrain is most vulnerable to fire attack.
The former British Royal Navy suffered countless hardships on this land.
Although the equipment is not as good as theirs, the favorite tactic of those Far Eastern pirates who are as numerous as locusts is fire attack.
If you are unfortunate enough to be surrounded by them, countless fire ships will bite and besiege you like ants, and the scene will be like hell.
His seniors had described the horror of this scene to him countless times.
But since the steamships were installed, this kind of thing has rarely happened, because the steamships are not affected by the sea wind, and if the ship speed is fast enough, it is impossible for the small fireships of the yellow-skinned monkeys to surround them.
This is also the reason why in the past twenty or thirty years, there has never been a giant pirate group dominating the sea in this area.
It was only after the installation of steam ships that the British Royal Navy truly began to gain the upper hand in this area of the sea.
But today he inexplicably remembered the pirates' fire attack tactics.
"They won't come up with this idea, right?" There was a hint of ridicule in the corner of Pu Dingcha's mouth.
If this is the case, then they have really lost their minds.
Relying on the speed of today's steamships, it is impossible for them to surround their fleet even in such a narrow terrain.
He would rush directly over and leave them with a trail of steam engine exhaust and countless cannon shells.
"Unless something suddenly appears and blocks the channel ahead." Pu Dingcha glanced at the empty river in front of him and said to himself jokingly.
Then with just this glance, his pupils shrank to pinpoints in an instant.
Because the two ripples on the river in front were slowly approaching his fleet, it felt as if something invisible was approaching him on the river.
"Oh, God!"
"What is that?" Pu Dingcha muttered to himself.
Soon he noticed something strange. Two invisible transparent outlines were slowly coming towards him.
Although he didn't know what it was, Pu Dingcha felt that it was definitely not a good thing.
"Turn the helm quickly...!" His shrill scream echoed throughout the fleet.
However, there was still no time. At this moment, the treasure ship was less than 200 meters away from their warship.
The distance of his shot is three thousand meters. For the huge warship, the distance of two hundred meters is like facing each other.
"ignition!"
"Burn the boat!"
Zhu Biao spoke.
Following his instructions, the torches in the hands of the guards behind him were thrown out without hesitation. The ground was already filled with countless fuels. When the torches came into contact, the entire ship burned with a bang in an instant.
"Everyone, we have no way to retreat today. If we don't kill the British Japanese fleet, we will have no choice but to die in the sea of fire together!" Zhu Biao said loudly.
"I am willing to accompany His Highness to death!" came the uniform response from behind.
"Haha, it's better not to die if you can!"
"So... punch through them!"
"Kill!" Zhu Biao pulled out the dragon-patterned black gold sword and jumped from the tall fortune ship.
Directly in front of him was the British Royal Navy flagship HMS Courage, which had collided with the treasure ship.
At the same time, countless small boats emerged from their hiding places on both sides of the Pearl River Estuary, lit fires on them, and quickly moved towards the British fleet that had been blocked there in the center of the Pearl River Estuary. They looked like a colony of ants. Wai Xiang.
"My British Empire's invincible fleet is over!" Pu Ding looked at the large treasure ship that had emerged from the void in front of him. He broke out in cold sweat and fell to the ground with his legs weak.
"It's done!" Xu Da, who saw this scene from a telescope in the distance, silently withdrew his gaze and turned to look at the British Army who had just occupied the front fort in Humen.
"Finally... I can take care of you!"
