Although the expansion of the Ming army in Luzon reached a limit, the expansion of the Ming army's navy never stopped.

Babuyan Strait,

A two-mast bird boat sailed in the waters near Fuga Island. With the expansion of the Ming navy in the northern waters of Luzon, the pirate power shrank. Especially after Li Tianyou, the leader of the Black Flag Gang, was killed by Muhanweili, the pirates in the entire northern waters of Luzon almost collapsed.

In response to this, Xiao Wu took advantage of the situation and took over the majority of the Babuyan Islands while the pirates were in chaos.

These islands were previously under the management of the Spanish, and pirates would secretly come down from the Spanish to wander among the archipelago and loot merchant fleets.

Now the Spanish are gone, but the new arrival of the Ming Navy showed its fangs.

Xiao Wu was actually prepared for Li Tianyou's murder.

As early as when he joined forces with the pirates, he had already smelled the smell of gunpowder among the pirate gangs. Xiao Wu was not surprised at all about the old fox killing the leader of the gang, annexing the Black Flag Gang.

Before long the Black Flag Gang and other pirates entrenched in the Babuyan Islands, the Ming Navy had already arrived and almost occupied the pirates and occupied most of the islands in the southern part of Babuyan.

More than two months have passed since the Ming army took over the Babuyan Islands, and the pirates are huddled in the northern part of the archipelago.

The Ming army's bird boat, which is responsible for patrol and alert, is also leisurely and free.

"Brother Wang, it has been a long time since a mainland smuggling ship on the land and sea were robbed in this sea area last month." A big man on the bird boat looked at the sea surface comfortably, as if he was enjoying the beautiful scenery on the sea surface.

"What do you know? Six ships in the four seas have disappeared in the past two months, and they are alive and dead, and they are not afraid to go out to sea alone now." An old sailor cursed angrily.

"Boss, black smoke was found in the southeast direction." A sharp-eyed sailor on the bow of the ship noticed the black smoke rising from the sea not far away, and immediately reported it.

This shocked everyone, and everyone looked at the sea not far away.

"That seems to be a ship, not small." A sailor with good eyesight muttered.

"Why are you still stunned? You can take a look while the wind has not turned yet." A navy chief cursed and pulled out a long sword from his waist and pointed it straight ahead.

Of course, everyone did not dare to neglect and quickly set sail to the sea not far away.

This bird boat is an ocean-going bird boat, a warship newly built by the Ming army in Lavague. Its body is eight feet long. "The head is small and the belly is swelling, the body is long and straight, and the tail is two sides. Two oars can be urged. If there is wind, you can sail and if there is no wind, you can row the oars. The turn is light, and the oars are fast, like a bird flying."

The most important thing is that ten artillery can be installed, with very strong firepower and was the main warship that the Ming army inspected on the coast.

With such a Clipper, the Ming army sailors naturally have the confidence to check it out.

Taking advantage of the strong wind, the Ming army's clutches quickly arrived at the nearby waters.

"It looks like a ship of land and sea." Xie Chang on the bird boat looked at the ship with black smoke rising in the distance, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

The merchant ship in front of him did not catch fire, and the black smoke rising seemed to be intentional.

"Two fast ships were found in the southeast direction." A sailor shouted.

All the sailors on the ship were alarmed at once, and the assistant chief hurriedly leaned to the left and looked at the two ships in the distance with a serious look on his face.

"These pirates, after being brave enough to eat the leopard, dare to rob the Ming ship." The assistant chief snorted coldly.

He finally knew why the merchant ships put black smoke on.

The merchant ship must have been chased by pirates. The sailors on the ship knew that the Ming navy was patrolling this area, so they let out wolf smoke for help.

"Come on, let these pirates feed the sharks." Wang An said viciously.

After a while, a column of water was raised on the sea.

Two pirate ships fired first, and a fire appeared on the bow.

"Everyone is calm, the Folang machine cannon is ready, press it up and beat me hard."

The two pirate ships dispersed and surrounded the bird ship from two directions. Fires kept appearing on the ship, and water columns were raised. However, they were a little distance away from the Ming army's bird ship. Only the raised sea water fell on the bird ship, soaking the Ming army sailor's clothes.

"If this kind of broken ship dares to fire a cannon from such a distance, these pirates will not be able to become a climate." The sound of artillery sounded, but Chief of the Assistant was calm and had no fear of the two pirate ships in the distance.

As the two ships became closer, the assistant chief responded calmly, commanding the ships to fight, and rushed forward while the two ships had not yet closed.

"The six-pound cannon aims at the target, don't fire the three-pound cannon first, get closer before firing." The assistant chief spoke.

The sailors on the bird boat were old and were not afraid. The gunners checked the shells and fuses, and the sailors helped to push the gunpowder.

"Boom," finally a six-pound Ferang machine cannon could not hold back and took the lead in firing.

A burst of black mist rose from the cannon body, and the huge recoil made the hull tremble. When the black smoke slowly blew away by the breeze, the gunners burst into laughter.

"Okay," Chief of the Assistant applauded when he saw the Clippers sail in front of him.

The pirate ship in front of him did not expect that the Ming army warship was fighting so accurately, and it was almost half a mile away. It actually destroyed their sails in one shot, and its speed dropped significantly.

Another pirate ship that rushed up from the right was also shocked and quickly turned its rudder and headed behind the Ming army warship.

"Don't worry about the flies behind. Rush up and destroy the pirate ship in front." Xie Chang shouted.

The pirate ship in front was obviously panicked, and several artillery pieces on the ship began to fire at the Ming army.

But it is obvious that the accuracy is not good either.

Several Fran machine guns on the Ming army bird boat also joined the fire business.

But under the storm, it is not as accurate as the previous shot.

However, compared with the artillery equipped by pirates, most of the artillery equipped on the Ming army bird ship are Folang machine cannons.

It was a post-loading artillery with a very fast fire rate. At the same time, only a few guns were fired on the pirate ship, but the Ming army's bird ship fired more than a dozen guns.

Soon, a shell hit a cannon on the pirate ship directly.

The hundreds of kilograms of artillery were directly knocked away by six-pound shells and fell into the sea.

Several pirates near the artillery position also wailed on the deck, covered in blood, obviously unable to survive.

The pirates on the pirate ship felt nervous. This time they kicked the iron plate and couldn't help but feel retrenched.

The officers and soldiers of the Ming army were not willing to give them a chance to regret it. Soon the Ming army warship rushed to a place only one or two hundred meters away from the pirates.

The three-pound Fran cannon on the warship also began to its anger.

Although its power is not as powerful as a six-pound cannon, it is far more than a six-pound Flang machine cannon at close range, both in both the rate of fire and the accuracy of the head.

Soon the pirate ship was beaten to the point of fire by the Ming army warship, and the cannons on the ship were obviously suppressed.

Seeing that the ships were no more than a hundred meters apart, Wang An sneered.

"Prepare the Hundred-Secret Gun." Soon several long muskets were mounted on the hull.

"spray,"
Chapter completed!