After more than an hour of pursuit and artillery battle (unilaterally), at this time, nearly half of the armed merchant ships of Preyra's fleet had been sunk or injured by the Li family fleet, and began to stay in groups of three or three or land on the sea behind, busy carrying out emergency repairs or saving the crew sailors who fell into the water due to the burning, blown up or sinking of the hull.

Afterwards, after half of the ships were sunk and injured by the "kite" shelling from the Li family fleet, the armed merchant ship fleet, which was only more than half, had to subconsciously slow down their ship speed and strive to get further away from the five devil-like ships of the Li family to prevent those terrible shells from falling on their heads.

Because during this more than an hour of naval battle (beating), they had already discovered it in despair. With their large and medium-sized brigs and the North Sea three-masted square sail merchant ships, they would definitely not be able to catch up with the five giant warships with long lines and many masts!

Even if you continue to force your pursuit, it will only increase casualties?

So, they began to slow down, and kept chasing behind them with a slightest pretext, gradually widening the distance and dispersing, no longer maintaining a tight formation, but instead watching the seven ships in front of them chasing after them, and the distance had already reached about seven or eight hundred yards of battleships.

So, the current situation becomes:

Five second-class North Sea three-masted battleships led by Malay Governor Preyra and two ships, also second-class battleships led by Swedish Navy Admiral Hedram, attacked the Li family fleet in two different directions, and were about to catch up and enter the appropriate bombardment distance.

According to the cannon performance of the seven battleships, they can fire a gun and fight back as long as they enter 600 yards. Although they cannot guarantee the hit rate and power of the shells, they can at least get rid of the situation where they have been passively beaten but cannot fight back.

Once you get close to four hundred yards, the shells of the seven battleships will definitely damage the five huge battleships of the Li family and cause considerable damage!

And when you get close to two hundred yards, it will be the final moment of the decisive victory!

At that time, once the Li family fleet is dragged by the seven battleships on its own, the remaining thirty armed merchant ships behind them can rush forward and completely surround the enemy ships with the advantage of being large in number of ships and people. At that time, whether it is siege, artillery or jumping, they are absolutely sure to win easily!

Yes, they just thought so. Whether it was Malay Governor Preyra, Swedish Navy Admiral Hedram, or the captains of the armed merchant ships behind them, they all thought so tacitly. After all, that was the only chance they could win.

“Eh?”

|?˙?˙)?

When the enemy's captain or governor all hoped that a certain battle plan would be successful, on the flagship of the Li family fleet, a bad little girl, Admiral of the Great, also discovered some boring conspiracy of the enemy on the flagship of the Li family fleet.

"Look!"

?(?ˉ??ˉ?)

"The large fleet behind them seems to have slowed down. Now only those seven warships dare to catch up!"

o(′▽｀)o

Anne saw it with a telescope, behind the left side, at more than 800 yards away were the two poor second-class battleships. The commander on it seemed to be the white-haired monster uncle who was snatched by her in Ji'adin?

And the one that is closer to the right, which may be only more than 700 yards away, are the other five warships. As for the commander above, she said she did not know any of them!

"Anne..."

"They are getting closer and closer, and there are so many artillery on them. What should we do?"

Song Yifeng also saw it in the telescope.

At this time, the warships that had escaped from the large fleet began to open their gun doors and unleashed those black artillery. If the distance was not enough, and now the three parties were moving forward with the crosswind in the northeast direction, they would not be able to turn, they were afraid that the other party would probably use the cannons on the side to bombard them.

"Great Admiral!"

"It seems that they want to attack us, do they need to accelerate?"

The first mate standing behind Annie and Song Yifeng of course also understood the enemy's conspiracy, so he asked directly.

Just now, because they needed to keep a distance and shell the large fleet of armed merchant ships, they did not turn the sails to the best driving angle. The speed of the ship is not the fastest, but if necessary, they can continue to accelerate and let the warships chasing behind them watch desperately as the distance between them becomes farther and farther.

Anyway, the first mate felt that they could accelerate further away first, then turn around and fire the opponent in a volley, then continue to accelerate and continue to turn to fire. In this way, in a few rounds, they would definitely be able to injure or sink the enemy ships that wanted to rush up to intercept and shell their enemy ships.

“Um…”

(??????)

"No need to be troublesome!"

|???ω??)??

"We will turn to the southeast and use the starboard cannon to defeat the five warships first, then turn around and clean up the other two, and finally the group of armed merchant ships that were slow at the end!"

?(ψ｀▽′)o

After thinking for a while, it may be less than two seconds before Annie quickly made up her mind.

"ah?"

"But, the Grand Admiral, in that case, the enemy ships will have a chance to open fire on us!"

The first mate seemed a little hesitant because he thought for a moment, and found that if they did not set aside the distance and accelerate before turning, after they bombarded the first round, they would definitely enter the enemy's starboard side of the enemy after they had bombarded the first round. At that time, two to three hundred shells would be likely to blast towards their Li family's fleet at a distance of about four hundred to five hundred yards!

Although he didn't know how the enemy's shelling was accurate, in his opinion, they had few ships and large targets, and simply fought with the enemy for consumption would be very, very bad and stupid. It would be better to continue fishing the enemy at a distance with speed as before, and eliminate the enemy's living power bit by bit until the enemy collapses!

"Don't worry, they don't have a chance!"

(?￣??￣??)??°

"Because this time, people have to personally direct the shelling!"

???(?)?????

As he said that, after giving the order, little Annie cheered and left the command post, ran directly to the gun position on the upper deck, and then began to scold the artillery soldiers, asking them to adjust the height of the muzzle as she ordered.

“…”

"Pass the Great Admiral's Order!"

"Switch! Southeast direction!"

“Go ahead at full speed!!”

There must be some risk in turning and shelling before the distance has been opened. However, the first mate didn't care about it at this moment, so he could only give Anne the order issued by him.

However, he also took the opportunity to make an order to move forward at full speed. Even if the enemy ship is bombarded with a round, they can quickly use a speed that is much higher than the enemy and skillfully get rid of the enemy ship.

"The whole ship obeys the order!"

"Turn southeast and prepare for shelling!"

"Turn southeast and prepare for shelling!!"

The order was conveyed layer by layer. Then, as the order flag was hung, under the guidance of the flagship "Xiang Feihu", the five warships changed from crosswind to smooth wind, and then drew a long white arc on the sea, and at the same time, their starboard muzzle gradually aimed at the five enemy ships who wanted to attack them on the right.

"Release the muzzle twice together!"

?(ˊ�ˋ*)?

"I don't know how many times it is?"

(*ˉ?ˉ*;)

"Just raise it a little bit, a little bit more, that's right, that's it, keep it and be ready to listen to other people's command!"

o(*'　〼')o

"On there!"

☆?(o*?ω?)?

"Your muzzle is a little bit to the right, just a little bit... OK! Don't move now!"

ε?(????)?з

Behind the row of cannons on the deck, a little little girl, the Great Admiral, left her post without permission and ran directly to the position of the artillery commander on this level, and directed the gunners to operate.

After she finished adjusting, she snatched the cannon commander's flag, stood straight onto a powder barrel, and began to wait for the enemy ships to appear on their side shelling line.

"preparation……"

!(;?o?)o

"Open fire!!"

o(*'　〼')o

Anne calculated the amount in advance, including the speed, angle, wind direction and the speed of the five enemy ships. Finally, after reaching a certain node, she gave a bold order. At the same time, the gunners who had already prepared the red iron signs stabbed the guy in their hands into the medicine nest.

Boom! Boom!

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

The deafening bombardment sounded. After the black smoke, flames and Mars stormed, the shells dragged the black trajectory and bombed the enemy ships one after another.

“!!”

"this……"

At this time, on the command platform, the first mate who was hesitant and Song Yifeng, who had been worried, were shocked to see that the shells, except for the gunners in the two-story artillery positions below, were shot in a scattered manner, and the nearly fifty gun shells on the deck on the top were accurately and pounced on the five enemy ships.

Soon, they saw that under the cover of shells, balls of fire, thick smoke and a faint cry of terrible sounds emerged from the enemy ships.

The first ship suffered the most shells. A huge hole was directly made by the shells at the waterline on the right front of the bow. Then the speed slowed down, and the main mast of the other ship was simply broken.

But, this is not the end.

Because, the remaining four ships following their flagship also began to fire one after another, causing the first round of 600 shells to bombard the enemy ships one by one, completely covering the other side in the overwhelming rain of shells.

“…”

At this time, the Swedish Navy Admiral Hedram, who was originally pursuing the left side of the Li family fleet, also saw the catastrophe of Preyra's battle fleet in the telescope, and saw dense shells smashing water around the friendly fleet, or simply bursting fires and splashing wood debris on the deck or hull.

"this!"

"The distance should be less than seven hundred yards. At this distance, their shelling seemed to have become more accurate and powerful..."

"It's over!"
To be continued...