[No pop-up novel website] "The sky is connected with the clouds and the waves are connected with the dawn mist, and the stars are about to turn and a thousand sails are dancing... Among all Li Yian's poems, this one is my favorite."
Li Huamei, who was standing behind Lu Yuan, said softly, looking at the increasingly brighter sky. Perhaps only Lu Yuan on this ship could understand what she was talking about?
"got windy!"
The wind blew from behind, and Li Huamei's long hair was blown by the sea breeze and swept over Lu Yuan's cheek...
The force of the blowing became stronger and stronger, and the suddenly strengthened strong wind lifted up the milky white sea mist on the water layer by layer and flew towards the clear sky.
Directly in front of the "Elona" battleship, endless white sails emerged from the gradually thinning fog. Hundreds of warships, large and small, ranging from four-star berig ships to one-star battleships. They were scattered all over the "Elona"'s westward route, completely blocking her path.
Behind the "Elona", more than twenty magnificent one-star battleships in uniform paint, flying uniform national flags and military ensigns, led by a smaller silver-white battleship, gradually sailed out to sea. flat.
"Do you have any plans?" Seeing that the encirclement was about to be completed, Li Huamei couldn't help but ask.
"Just wait." Lu Yuan said quietly, holding the crystal ball in his hand. The crystal ball flickered on and off, constantly receiving messages from all parties.
However, the "Elona" he was piloting was still sailing towards the group of battleships unhurriedly. If he continued to move forward like this, a formal battle would begin within an hour.
Below the decks of the Aerona...
The gunners squatted in the dark artillery deck, guarding the loaded cannons, waiting silently. The only things moving in the room were the bright light bands leaking in from the gaps in the gun doors, and the dust flying in the light bands. …
The musketeers sat around the sailor's cabin. They arranged the loaded flintlocks and covered them with oilcloths. Edward picked up a musket and seemed to think of the past in Havana, feeling a little sad.
The stormtroopers were wiping their swords and preparing short guns, while the transport team placed the gunpowder and shells near the cannon and fixed them. Lilu wiped her sweat. Only when passing by the artillery deck could she take a quick look at Jin.
On the deck, except for Lu Yuan and Li Huamei, there were only Long Gou and the sailors he led. Long Gou silently checked every knot of the sail rope until there were no more mistakes. When he climbed up to the observation deck, Suddenly I miss Helena who is far away in Havana...
Everyone was waiting in silence.
"Plop la la~" A sea eagle flew across the sea. After circling the ship for a while, it landed steadily on the wheel rudder in front of Lu Yuan.
Lu Yuan took off the strip of cloth tied to its feet and stretched it out. There was only a simple sentence on it, "Surrender!"
Lu Yuan smiled. He held the piece of cloth and waved to the HMS Bellona behind him, then threw it into the sea...
Outside the British port of St. John's, the "Barbados" and the "Jackdaw" were waiting there with hundreds of pirate ships.
Off the coast of Tortuga Port, hundreds of Galen-style Spanish warships were divided into several groups, led by the "Tearer Squad", and sailed towards the predetermined target.
Outside of Port Royal, most of the pirates in Port Dundain and Port of Trinidad have gathered here. Within three days of Port Royal, no ship could successfully break through the siege and leave. Just when everyone was a little anxious At that time, the ship that everyone had been paying attention to, August's "Isabella", suddenly left the blockade and sailed towards Port Royal alone, so a group of pirates followed behind like a swarm...
The British were equally well prepared.
All British ports have been closed, merchant ships of different nationalities have been expelled or requisitioned, all turrets have been opened, sufficient manpower and ammunition have been arranged, and guards have stood on the city wall with muskets... I want to take down these weapons to the teeth. The port has no choice but to attack hard!
The Ming Dynasty fleet was secretly stationed in the Dutch colony of Grand Bahama. The Dutch, who had been completely subdued, did not dare to let out a single fart, let alone tip off others. Lin Nanxuan had enough fleets in his hands, and he could do it in one day Attacking any location in the Northeast Caribbean, he can attack any location in the entire Northern Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico within three days... It is like a tiger that has sharpened its teeth, hiding in the dense forest, carefully selecting the best. Target.
The Pirate Alliance fleet led by Morgan was hovering near the Cayman Islands. He seemed to be still hesitating and hesitating... He still couldn't make up his mind before the chess game was about to begin.
But at this moment when the war clouds were gathering and the war was about to break out, a merchant ship flying the Spanish flag quietly entered the Havana Port, which had also blocked the port, by bribing the port officials. The ship was anchored at the Governor's Palace and Morro On the center line of the fortress, all commercial activities at the dock have stopped today, and only a large number of guards were patrolling back and forth. So the idle crew members on the ship disembarked one after another, dispersed and quickly disappeared into the huge port of Havana.
Only in a secret room at the bottom of the ship, a magician disguised as the captain lifted off the canvas mixed with metal wires on the table, revealing the glittering crystal ball underneath. He poured magic into it, and the crystal ball suddenly turned purple! Then almost within a second, an unknown signal connected to the ship.
The connection between the two parties became stronger and stronger. Just when the magic power of the crystal ball was surging and was about to trigger Havana's alert, the connection suddenly stabilized. The magician quickly pulled up the canvas containing the metal wire and covered the crystal ball again.
The alarm in the Governor's Mansion came on twice and went out before it reached the alarm limit.
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Far away in the southern Caribbean, Clifford put down his pocket watch and breathed a sigh of relief.
"Target switching successful!"
"Then let's get started...I'll give you thirty minutes."
The crystal ball in Lu Yuan's hand was shaking, and he received these two messages. He tried to activate the active skill "Long Range Attack", and this time there was no obstacle. Lu Yuan gave up using the skill instantly. In other words, "Ai "The Lorna" is no longer the target of the 'hms. Bellona' from this moment on...
With the transmission of these two pieces of information, it can be seen that all the ships in the encirclement circle began to move. First, all the ships forming the encirclement circle shrank toward the center together, reducing the area of encirclement.
At the same time, from behind and in front of the "Elona", a total of four formations formed a battle line and slowly pressed over from four directions. This method of tactics is very simple - a, b The four small fleets, c and d, each guard one direction. Whoever the "Elona" is close to will be responsible for the main attack. As long as the battleships forming the battle line continue to take turns to bombard, they can be sure of victory. For the side with the few ships, there will be enemies in all directions. The space that can be moved is constantly being compressed, and there is almost no way to restrain it.
What's more, there is a larger encirclement on the outside. Even if something goes wrong, there is still a chance to remedy it. This is currently the safest and most efficient way to play.
Lu Yuan controlled the "Elona" and slowly reduced the ship's speed.
"Do you know? Hua Mei, this is not the first time..." Lu Yuan looked at the large-scale fleet attacking from behind and said with some sarcasm.
"What?"
"This is not the first time that the British have used me as their bait. Remember? The last time the British surrounded me in this way, trying to trick the Spaniards into being fooled, but they unexpectedly caught the tiger shark of the Ming Dynasty fleet... …hehe."
Li Huamei nodded, indicating that she knew which time he was talking about. That time was also the turning point of Li Huamei's fate. Her memory is profound.
"The British may become the most powerful country on the sea. I never want to provoke them. In fact, my goal has always been gold. But they have blocked me time and time again. From Pirate Morgan to the East Indies company, and then the entire British fleet..." Li Huamei listened quietly.
"There are many connections between me and Britain. For example, John and Humphrey were both former British officers, and Elizabeth, Misha, and Christina, their families are all traditional British aristocrats. Jacques, I once expected to send him to England to study. Of course, there is also Henrik Van Dyck...the British shipbuilder!"
Lu Yuan's face showed an angry expression for the first time!
"For the future lives of these people, I hesitated again and again... until these connections were severed by the British themselves!"
Lu Yuan waved his hand and dropped the crystal ball on the rear mast with a bang. The broken crystal reflected colorful light and fell towards both sides of the ship.
Edward's betrayal and the deaths of Jacques and John were all caused by the British.
"Huamei, how many battleships do you think we can destroy?" Lu Yuan suddenly changed the subject and asked.
"Ten ships... maybe twenty, this is the limit of what I can do." Looking at the enemy's formation, Li Huamei's palms were sweating, and she couldn't help but hold the hilt of the sword. The best thing about her and Lu Yuan is their personal strength. If there is If you have the opportunity to board an enemy ship, then anything is possible.
"Why don't you kill them all?" Looking at Li Huamei's widened eyes, Lu Yuan shook his head and said with a smile, "Just think I'm telling a joke." Li Huamei couldn't help rolling her eyes.
While others are so nervous, this man is still in the mood to joke... But Li Huamei believes that the encirclement of at least four teams will not be difficult for this man. As for killing all the battleships... there are nearly 150 large and small battleships present. .The current artillery shells are all solid shells. Based on the average size of the battleship, even if the "Elona" has a high hit rate and all hits near the waterline, it will take two to four rounds of salvos to sink a ship. Battleship.
Each salvo uses the artillery on one side, and the twenty-five artillery guns, two pursuit guns at the front and rear of the ship, and counterattack guns fire twenty-five 32-pound projectiles at once, which is 800 pounds and 363 kilograms of projectiles! So to sink all one hundred and fifty ships... it would take 8,003,150... 360,000 pounds of artillery shells!
First of all, the "Elona" cannot hold so many shells, and secondly, even if it could, the porters would be exhausted! Even if the porters were not exhausted, with a volley frequency of one every five minutes, it would still take two days and one night of shooting to complete the task, and the gunners would also be exhausted.
Not to mention the shooting life of the artillery. Four hundred and fifty consecutive firings is a fantasy... Li Huamei couldn't help holding her cheeks with both hands. What's wrong with me? I was so stupid that I calculated all this just because of his words...
"Then... let's get started! Huamei, go and inform everyone about hurricane preparations!"
"What did you say...?" Li Huamei asked in shock. She was still regretting that she foolishly followed Lu Yuan's train of thought, but she didn't expect him to mention hurricane... It's a sunny day, aren't you kidding me?
"Let's do it." Lu Yuan looked up at the clear sky, rolled up his coat sleeves, and revealed a gemstone cufflink sewn on it.
"In thirty minutes, the world will be different."
He raised his right hand, opened his five fingers and pointed to the sky, activating the magic attached to the cufflinks.
Endless magic power burst out from his body, from the "Book of Sea Monsters", extracted from the infinite vast Caribbean world, and then poured in surgingly. [,! ] into the gemstone of the cufflink, the whole process is violently accelerated...
In the clear sky where his palm was facing, a huge funnel-shaped tornado cloud suddenly appeared!
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