Chapter 686: Enemies in the thick fog

In the thick fog, a three-tier sailing warship belonging to the Great Yu State Navy was cruising the sea.
Since reaching an agreement with the Dutch to retake the coastal routes of Great Chongqing, the navy's warships have been responsible for ensuring the safety of the maritime routes and combating pirates' plundering of merchant ships.
It's just that the ocean is vast and infinite. Even so, sometimes merchant ships cannot be prevented from being looted, but for merchants this is already a rare occurrence.
"This sudden fog is really rare."
The third-tier battleship named "Dreadnought" was commanded by Captain Xie Yuan. After being resupplied in Jeranjah two days ago, he directed the battleship to the Kingdom of Three Mountains, which was exactly their cruising route.
First officer Ding Chang heard the words and said, "Yes, basically nothing can be seen from fifty meters away."
Xie Yuan frowned. He said, "Let the soldiers cheer up and stay vigilant. It will be very detrimental to us if we are attacked by pirates at this time."
"Yes, Captain." Ding Chang said, and then shouted to the soldiers on board: "Be vigilant. All the gunners are in the cabin and ready to fight."
The soldiers were ordered to enter their positions in an orderly manner.
After cruising the sea for a year, they knew that the sea was like a child, and their expressions would change. It might have been a clear sky just now, and a storm might come in an instant.
The same was true for the heavy fog this time. The sea was calm and the waves suddenly covered the battleship like a cloud wall.
After setting up precautions, Xie Yuan looked at the chart on the ship. They were still a hundred miles away from the dock of the Three Mountain Kingdom.
After confirming his position, Xie Yuan turned the hourglass upside down, and they used this thing to record time at sea.
While he was performing daily tasks according to regulations, suddenly a musical bell came from the sea.
Hearing this voice, Xie Yuan immediately went from the cabin to the deck, and he asked Ding Chang: "Did you hear it?"
"I heard it, it was a rapid bell." Ding Chang's face was solemn, and various terrifying legends suddenly poured into his mind, making him uneasy.
He had never seen such a weird situation in the sea for a year. Who would ring the bell in the vast ocean?
Like Ding Chang, the soldiers on the ship were also uneasy. The theory of ghosts and gods was not so easy to eradicate, and this strange fog made them more and more afraid.
When everyone was concentrating, suddenly the soldier on the mast observation platform shouted: "Is there an abnormal situation ahead?"
Xie Yuan immediately picked up the binoculars and looked at the thick fog ahead.
I saw that the sea water at this time was not blue, and it appeared cloudy and gloomy under the thick fog. At the moment Xie Yuan looked towards the thick fog, a huge black shadow suddenly appeared in the thick fog.
Without waiting for Xie Yuan's reaction, the black shadow suddenly noticed a burst of yellow light. Xie Yuan was shocked when he saw this. He shouted: "Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"
As soon as his voice fell, the roar of artillery came from the shadows, and the black shells flew toward the Intrepid like lightning.
"Boom..." The sound of shells penetrating the hull sounded, and the battleship was suddenly messed up.
Xie Yuan was a little undecided at this time. Only their navy was equipped with artillery in this area. Judging from the shadows, the opponent's warship looked very similar to them.
He very much suspected that this was the mistake of other naval warships treating them as enemies, but now he couldn't see the enemy clearly and he couldn't confirm it.
"Captain, what should I do?" Ding Chang asked. This round of shooting made the warship very embarrassed. Sawdust was flying everywhere. He roared, "Fire the gun first."
Ding Chang responded and immediately passed the order to fire the cannon.
At this time, a round of cannon sounded from the bottom of the ship's bilge.
After the sound of the cannon, the approaching black shadow seemed to fall into silence, and Xie Yuan had a glimmer of hope in his heart. When he was about to scold the captain who was not long-eyed who hit them by mistake, suddenly the black shadow lit up again. Fire light.
"Get down!" Xie Yuan pressed Ding Chang directly on the deck. At this time, his face was gloomy. This time, no matter who it is, he will fight back.
"Boom..." The cannonball hit the battleship again, Xie Yuan endured the pain of the sawdust hitting him and said, "I immediately counterattack."
"Fight back! Fight back!"
After this round of volley, he also exploded a bit, and if he didn't counterattack the Dreadnought, he would be sunk.
Dew began to appear in the cabin where the shell hit, and the carpenter immediately repaired the hull pierced by the shell with wooden planks and nails.
The artillery who had been ordered to reload at this time began to fight back against the black shadow in the sea.
"Boom boom boom..." The artillery roared, and the shells flew towards the shadow.
Xie Yuan watched nervously on the deck. As the two sides got closer and closer, he finally saw the opponent's warship clearly when the two sides were 50 meters apart.
This is a warship somewhat similar to the Intrepid, except that the flag hung on the warship has a rice pattern.
On the battleship stood a group of soldiers wearing red tuxedos, black leather shoes, white leggings and black hats on their calves.
This scene made Xie Yuan a little dumbfounded. He had seen some information about countries around the world at Bowen Academy. If the information is correct, they are now encountering a British warship.
Xie Yuan's heart sank. He knew very well how powerful this country's navy was, and Yue Yun sometimes talked about his experience of going south after drinking.
Although he was talking and laughing, they could hear the seriousness.
At the moment he was stunned, the red shirt army on the opposite side suddenly raised his flintlock and pointed it to this side.
After confirming that the opponent was coming with hostility, Xie Yuan immediately calmed down and once again let the soldiers lie down and hide.
After they got down, the battleship on the opposite side burst into flames, and flintlock bullets made a crackling sound on the battleship.
"Fucking, it's bullying on your father." Xie Yuan was angry, and he said to Ding Chang: "Beat me hard."
Ding Chang was almost hit by a bullet ~EbookFREE.me~ and was also enraged. He cursed: "I'm still stupefied about what I'm doing and don't fight back. This is not a pirate, but a red-haired ghost."
The soldiers lying on the deck immediately got up, they picked up the flintlocks and fired at the opposite side.
At this moment, there was another salvo of artillery on the opposite side, and the Intrepid was also still in color.
The two sides passed by in the shelling of the warships. At this time, the British warships disappeared into the dense fog again.
Xie Yuan stared at the surrounding sea intently. After waiting for a while, the British warship still disappeared.
"Captain, what should I do now?" Ding Chang asked.
Xie Yuan furrowed his brows, and the British appeared in this sea area very strange. After hesitating, he said, "Go back to Dengzhou immediately. We need to report this situation to General Yue Yun."
Ding Chang nodded when he heard the words and immediately ordered to return.
At this moment, the British three-tier battleship Duke was heading for the country, and the captain Wilson on the deck looked at the dense fog behind him and thought...