Take the warehouse back to the end of the Ming Dynasty

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There are almost 20 ships left in the port outside Ceylon Island.

At this time, the sky had gradually darkened, and the moon had risen into the night sky. The moonlight sprinkled on the sea surface, sparkling, and a gust of cold wind blew, and the moisture fell on the sailors of the battleship.

Naval battles are not land battles, and ships traveling at night are not as good as infantry traveling on the ground.

Now that there is no high-tech direction, it is easy to get lost on the sea at night.

So whether it was Anthony's fleet or the ships sent by Mao Chengzuo and Zheng Zhibao, they all slowed down, for fear that they would lose their way.

The ten ships sent by Mao Chengzuo and Zheng Zhibao sailed quietly on the sea, and they had already spotted the ships cruising around them.

These ten ships lined up two by two, led by an officer named Wen Xingran.

Wen Xingran stood on the front ship, he held up the binoculars and looked at the pitch-black sea with a calm expression on his face.

Wen Xingran didn't think Hong Yi was so powerful. From Wen Xingran's point of view, even if he couldn't do much harm to Hong Yi, Hong Yi couldn't catch him easily.

"If it wasn't dark, I really wanted to give you a shot!" Wen Xingran put down the binoculars in his hand and said viciously.

When Wen Xingran led the fleet to the waters outside Ceylon Island, he discovered the Red Barbarian warships cruising around.

At the beginning, Wen Xingran also wanted to attack these ships, and fired a few more shots, but after thinking about it, he felt that the distance was too far, and the artillery hit rate on the sea was very poor, so he gave up. this idea.

But with the deepening and the cover of the night, these Hongyi ships are getting closer and closer to the fleet led by Wen Xingran.

Although Wen Xingran couldn't see Hongyi's fleet in the dark night, but relying on his feeling, Wen Xingran felt that Hongyi's fleet was not very far away from them.

Anthony was sitting on a second-tier warship. Because there were very few first-tier ships, Anthony did not bring the first-tier warship with him.

In Anthony's view, the warships he led could completely swallow all ten ships.

Wen Xingran came to the deck when the first ray of sunlight shone on the sea.

He shouted loudly to the messenger behind him: "Let all the soldiers take their positions, let all the artillerymen take their places, and at the same time order all the ships to line up, cross over, expose the sides of the warships, and prepare to meet the enemy."

In the era of wooden ships, the warships were lined up with the sides exposed to maximize the firepower of the warships.

At this time, the fleet led by Anthony had not yet arrived here.

However, the ships cruising nearby also spontaneously gathered together and lay in front of Wen Xingran.

After about half an hour, Wen Xingran finally completed the turn.

Wen Xingran held up his binoculars and looked at the Hongyi ships not far from his fleet, his face was full of viciousness.

"Dare to attack our merchant ship, it's really a life-and-death thing." After Wen Xingran said, he turned around and looked at the orderly behind him.

"Give me an order to let all the ships land and get them ready to attack. This time, let's make a big fight here and let these red barbarians know what the fate of offending us is. .” Wen Xingran shouted at the messenger again.

The messenger hurriedly ran down with Wen Xingran's order.

When Wen Xingran's order spread to all the ships, the gunners on these ships began to make final plans.

The artillery installed on these ships led by Wen Xingran is 107 rocket launchers, mortars and some 40 fire.

As for the 152mm cannon howitzer, it is not installed. The caliber of the cannon howitzer is too large, its power is too great, and its recoil is too great.The wooden warships of this era may not be able to withstand such a huge recoil.

Besides, there are 107 rocket launchers, mortars, and some 40 fires, which are completely enough to deal with Hongyi.

The soldiers on all the ships were busy, and the rockets were loaded into the launchers one by one.

Hongyi's fleet didn't seem to be aware of the danger coming.

The fleets that fought against Zhao Wen's subordinates were Zeelandia City's fleet and Cohen's fleet, but these fleets, without exception, were almost wiped out.

Today, these ships cruising in the waters outside Ceylon Island have never fought against Zhao Wen's fleet, so they don't know how powerful Zhao Wen's fleet is.

These Hongyi ships were slowly approaching Wen Xingran, and among them, the ship of Wells was inside.

Wells stood on the deck, looking at Wen Xingran's fleet ahead, with a warlike and fanatical expression on his face.

Although Wells used to deal with Zheng Yiguan often, but when Zhao Wen launched an attack on Batavia, Wells was not in Batavia, so Wells only knew that Zhao Wen's fleet was powerful, and did not personally experienced.

The distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer. Because it was not land, Wen Xingran did not launch an attack immediately.

When the distance between the two sides was only about three miles, Wen Xingran put down the binoculars in his hand, waved his hand, and shouted angrily: "Fire, blow them up for me!"

Wen Xingran gave an order, and the roar appeared instantly.

"Chi la chi la chi la!"

The shrill cry kept ringing out, like a night owl in the dark winter night, it was shocking.

The Hongyi soldiers on the Hongyi fleet were frightened by the sudden sound for a moment.

They looked in the direction of the sound, and saw curtains with orange flames flying towards them.

The distance of three miles was too close, so close that before they could react, the shells fell.

"Boom boom boom!"

All of a sudden, there were explosions, and flames instantly enveloped them.

The accuracy of the 107 rockets is not accurate, but there are a lot of them.Under the overwhelming attack, even if the accuracy is not high, it is enough to scare these Hongyi.

"Oh!"

A rocket landed on the deck of a Hongyi ship, and the explosion instantly enveloped the deck.

The explosion blew a huge hole in the deck, and the flames ignited the deck at the same time.

The fire spread on the ship, and now it is summer soon, and the wind has increased, and the fire is taking advantage of the wind to spread everywhere on the ship.

The surviving soldiers on the ship wanted to extinguish the flames on the ship, but all of this was in vain. The flames had already burned, and it was not so easy to extinguish them.

The ship was gradually engulfed in flames, and then began to sink. The sailors on it were ignited by the flames and jumped into the sea screaming.

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Chapter 726 Anthony Lost Confidence

The sound of explosions is everywhere on the sea, and there are flames everywhere.

After the shells that fell into the sea exploded, a huge water curtain was set off, heading towards the nearby Hongyi ship.

The accuracy of the 107 rocket launcher is not high, but the advantage of quantity makes up for the gap.

Wen Xingran held up the binoculars and looked at the battlefield in front of him, his face was full of sternness.

From Wen Xingran's point of view, these Hongyi are all self-inflicted, even if they are all dead, it is not an exaggeration.

Anthony, who had not yet reached the battlefield, heard the continuous explosions, and his face was ugly.

"What's this sound? Cannon sound? Why does the cannon sound keep ringing, and the sound is so loud?" Anthony looked in the direction from which the cannon sound came, with a look of shock on his face.

Anthony had never fought against Zhao Wen's fleet, nor personally experienced the power of Zhao Wen's fleet, so he couldn't imagine what kind of weapon would have such power.

"The sound of the artillery is so dense? Could it be that the intelligence is false, and the enemy plans to attack in an all-round way? Otherwise, the sound of the artillery is absolutely impossible to be so dense."

Anthony is still thinking about the artillery of the Wen Xingran formation with the specifications of their artillery firing.

Although someone told Anthony a long time ago that the weapons of Zhao Wen's fleet were powerful, Anthony didn't take it seriously.

The artillery on the sailing battleships of this era is basically a black powder-driven artillery, which takes a lot of time to fire each shot.

Therefore, Anthony has a deep-rooted belief that the number of ships coming to their sea area is definitely quite a lot.

"Damn it, they're lying to me, they're definitely lying to me!" An Dongxi stood on the deck and slammed his fist hard on the nearby mast.

"According to this posture, it is impossible to have only ten ships. If there are ten ships, the artillery can't be so dense. The number of invading enemies is definitely not small."

Anthony didn't believe that there would be such intensive firepower with only ten ships.

"This group of people lied to me, this group of people really lied to me. If there are only ten ships, why is there such intensive firepower? I don't believe that there are only ten ships at all. This is not the power shown by ten ships at all .”

Anthony stood on the deck, looking in the direction of the gunfire and yelling non-stop.

All kinds of sounds from shells, all kinds of strange calls, and screams kept ringing in Anthony's ears.

Anthony began to panic when he heard these strange screams.

Anthony can also be called a man who has experienced many battles, but he has never heard such a strange cry, and he has never seen a cannon sound like this.

Anthony's eyes widened, he looked in the direction of the artillery fire, and then gave an order to speed up. Although the number of ships in Anthony's hand was not many, Anthony thought, go and have a look first, if something is really wrong, just run away road.

Besides, those ships cruising in the nearby waters can't be ignored, at least they have to cover their retreat.

The ships led by Anthony, and the sailors on these ships all looked in the direction of the artillery fire.

These people were a little frightened when they heard the sound of the artillery.

In the west at this time, there were also many large-scale naval battles, but such intensive artillery sounds were rare.

These sailors had never fought against Zhao Wen. In the past, they always felt that the people who escaped exaggerated the strength of Zhao Wen's fleet.But looking at it now, they found that what those people said was not wrong. This kind of density of artillery fire is already a good proof.

But they thought the same as Anthony, it is absolutely impossible for the enemy to come with ten ships now.

Not long after, Anthony brought the ship to the edge of the battlefield.

The place where they appeared was at the rear of the battlefield, but when they caught up, they found that many ships had already started to move backwards, started to run away, and started to run for their lives.

These fleeing ships were routed in a panic, and some ships were even crowded together, blocking the escape route.

Now there are flames everywhere on the sea, broken ships everywhere, floating planks everywhere, gunpowder smoke and flames everywhere.

Of the ships cruising in the nearby waters, one-third of the ships were destroyed, and the destroyed ships were emitting black smoke, either burning on the sea surface, being blown up, or sinking.

All in all, the current battlefield is a mess and one-sided.

Anthony stood on the deck, trying his best to see the front of the battlefield clearly, but the thick smoke and fire blocked his vision.

Anthony looked at the battlefield in front of him and kept cursing: "What the hell is going on? What the hell is going on? How did it become like this?

The current appearance cannot be caused by ten ships.Ten ships will definitely not have such a great power. "

Anthony really couldn't imagine that the scene in front of him was caused by ten ships. In Anthony's impression, to create such a terrifying scene, at least more than 40 first-class warships had to fire side by side to do it.

The fleeing ships frantically fled backwards. Even if the sailors on these ships saw the fleet led by Anthony, they did not choose to stop.

Some ships even passed by the fleet led by Anthony, and now these ships are so frightened that they dare not attack Wen Xingran's fleet at all.

The artillery fire is still ringing, and the launcher of the 107 rockets is still making a shrill sound. The 107 rocket flew across the sky and landed on the sea next to Anthony. The huge explosion caused tall water splashes.

The shells exploded continuously on the sea surface, and the explosions set off ripples one after another, and these ripples came towards Anthony's fleet.

Let Anthony's fleet sway, Anthony stood on the deck, looking at the front of the constant explosion, terrified in his heart.

"What kind of weapon is this, and why is it so powerful? Where did these weapons come from? How could there be such a weapon in this world?" Anthony kept shouting, his face was full of dullness, he couldn't figure it out Why is there such a weapon in this world, Anthony has never been exposed to this kind of firepower.

Wen Xingran held up his binoculars and looked at the battlefield in front of him. He had no mercy for Hong Yi.

The ships led by Wen Xingran continued to attack.

Explosions, flames, gunpowder smoke, and planks of broken ships kept appearing on the sea surface. These Hongyi ships were smashed to pieces by Wen Xingran.

The Hongyi kept fleeing backwards, and now they had no intention of fighting.Under the threat of this kind of firepower, they just want to escape as soon as possible, and they are no longer willing to face this kind of firepower.

Looking at the scene in front of him, Anthony knew that the current army had no way to organize an attack and could only let them flee back.

Anthony stood on the deck, in desperation, issued an order to withdraw the troops.

When the order to withdraw troops spread throughout the fleet, the red barbarians fled towards the rear like sheep seeing wolves.

The fleet led by Anthony has been frightened by the terrifying mirror image in front of them.

Gunpowder smoke was constantly filling the sea, and Anthony smelled the drifting gunpowder smoke, his face was full of horror.

"They are so powerful. From this point of view, the content of "Heavenly Creation" is not necessarily false, it may be true."

Anthony exclaimed: "My God, my God, if the content above is true, then what a powerful and terrifying existence this Eastern Empire will be?

God, I can't imagine, this Eastern Empire is really terrible. If the content of "Heavenly Creation" is true, if one day their army goes to the West.Then how should the West resist them, I am afraid that none of those countries in the West will be his opponent. "

Anthony patted his forehead, flustered, his eyes glazed over, and his hands were at a loss.

Anthony didn't believe in the contents of "Heavenly Creation" at the beginning, but the battlefield in front of him told him that the above contents were not groundless.

Anthony sat on the deck dejectedly, patted his thighs, and sighed.

The gradually setting sun, the sun shining on Anthony's body, this sunset is like the last glory of Hong Yi, about to fall into the sea.

At this time in history, Hongyi's national power is in a stage of rapid development. Without Zhao Wen, Hongyi's power in Asia will be further strengthened.

However, no matter who made them meet Zhao Wen, with Zhao Wen's existence, Hongyi's national power, which had developed with great difficulty, would fall like a meteor.