"Dangdang!" The clear and clear bronze bell woke Xu Mo who was sleeping. He opened his blood-stained eyes and looked around blankly. However, Xu Mo quickly woke up, turned over and got out of the hammock and ran out of the cabin. He was too excited last night, but he fell asleep very late.

When he ran to the deck, Xu Mo breathed a sigh of relief. The naval battle had not begun. When he walked to Gerhart, Xu Mo asked softly: "His Excellency Gerhart, how is the ship opposite?"

"It is indeed a merchant ship of the Hansa Alliance. The sign should belong to the Shupaiya Chamber of Commerce in Copenhagen. The admiral had just ordered the flagbearer to warn them of stopping the ship." Gerhart said, handing the monocular to Xu Mo.

Xu Mo raised his telescope and looked at the merchant ship not far away. He saw that the merchant ship opposite was about the size of the Vestalos, and was also a three-masted sailboat. The people on the ship were wearing coarse cloth sweatshirts, and a lot of cargo covered with canvas were piled up on the deck. They were running around and manipulating the sails, trying to stay away from the Swedish warships.

Looking at the situation in the telescope, Xu Mo frowned and felt something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what was wrong. Xu Mo knew that he had too poor experience in naval combat, but when he thought of Geerhart and Hedram, he felt relieved. These two buddies are not sea war birds like him, so he should not remind him of anything.

As the warship gradually approached the merchant ship, the loud sailors on the warship began to shout loudly with the roll horn, demanding that the merchant ship break down and stop sailing. The people on the opposite merchant ship were vaguely visible. Looking at the faces of the many sailors on the opposite merchant ship, a trace of inspiration suddenly flashed in Xu Mo's mind, and his face changed and he turned to look at Gerhart.

Unexpectedly, Gerhard also turned to look at him at the same time, his face extremely ugly. Both of them instantly confirmed their thoughts from each other's eyes. They immediately turned around and shouted at the sailors beside them, "Prepare for battle!"

The two of them discovered at the same time that the merchant ship of the Hansa Alliance opposite was an armed merchant ship, not an ordinary merchant ship they thought at first. However, the reasons for the two of them were different. Xu Mo felt that the sailors on the ship were too calm and did not have the awareness of becoming prisoners at all, but Gerhardt discovered an abnormality from the many cargoes covered with canvas on the deck of the ship.

Armed merchant ships are different from ordinary merchant ships. They are like warships, and they also carry many artillery and armed sailors. Of course, there is still a difference between armed merchant ships and warships. The difference is that in order to carry more cargo, armed merchant ships will not equip heavy artillery.

Most of them are equipped with short-barrel artillery. These cannons are light in weight and have a short range, which is incomparable to the range of cannons or long-heavy artillery equipped by warships. Moreover, because armed merchant ships are equipped with a lot of cargo, they have a deep draft and slow speed. Once they encounter warships, they are generally unable to fight with long-range artillery.

But the situation is different now. The Vestalos is extremely close to this armed merchant ship, and the biggest gap between the warship and the armed merchant ship has been filled. Moreover, in order to board the merchant ship, the Vestalos is not following it, but almost began to parallel it, which further facilitates the artillery attacks of the armed merchant ships.

In the blink of an eye, the characters of prey and hunter were exchanged, and the Vistalos was in danger.

Hedram's reaction was very fast. Since he was standing on the back deck, he did not take the situation of the opposite merchant ship as carefully as Gerhart and Xu Mo did. However, if he was still confused, he would not be worthy of the word Admiral.

"Swish!" Hedram pulled out his sword and roared at the entire ship: "All members are ready to fight, the deck cannon is ready to fire, and sink them!"

Ben Rambo Sean smiled coldly. The Swedish warship opposite seemed to have noticed the strangeness of its ship, but it was too late now. The difference in preparation between the two was enough to let them open fire first. As long as a close-range round of artillery can break the main mast of the warship, they will become living targets and will undoubtedly lose.

Ben Rambo Sean was once a mercenary of the Danish Navy. He had excellent artillery skills, and had been the stormtrooper captain of the main Danish warship. He had rich experience in naval combat. After retiring, he was recruited by Shupaiya and became the captain of this armed merchant ship. His mission was to carry out trade in the North Sea and attack Sweden's weak maritime forces.

"Tap, tap, tap..." The gun doors of the armed merchant ships opened one after another, the short heavy cannons on the ship were pushed out one after another, and the black holes pointed at the Vistalos.

"Boom, boom, boom..." The sound of cannons sounded one after another. As the cannons came out of the chamber, flames came out of numerous muzzles, and several meters of white smoke were sprayed out at the same time. The strong smell of gunpowder immediately enveloped the two ships.

The right side of the ship's ship was broken and broken wood flew across, and more than a dozen large holes appeared on the side of the hull.

"Bang!" The side of the ship where Xu Mo was standing suddenly exploded, and wood chips rushed towards his upper body. Xu Mo only felt a shock under his feet, and immediately stood unsteadily, fell to the ground, and his forehead hit a piece of wood on the edge of the deck.

Xu Mo supported his body with both hands and looked around blankly. His mind was blank, and his dispersed pupils had no focus. His ears were buzzing, and people around him were full of people, and he couldn't see clearly. It seemed that a sound came from a very distant place, and it was not very real to hear it.

After a few seconds, Xu Mo's consciousness seemed to return to his body, his vision and hearing became clear again, and his mind began to move rapidly. The Vistalos was a warship, with many combat sailors on the ship. Even if they were fired first by armed merchant ships, they still had no advantage in fighting on the sidelines, so they could only continue the artillery battle.

However, armed merchant ships cannot defeat the Vestalos, unless they can use the T-head to exert all their firepower, and Vestalos can only fight back with the bow or stern guns. Then it must first defeat the Vestalos, and to defeat a ship and seize the T-head, there are two ways: one is to destroy the stern rudder of the stern rudder so that it cannot turn, and another way is to interrupt its main mast.

Now the Vestalos is in parallel with the armed merchant ship, and it is not feasible to destroy the tail rudder, so they only have... Thinking of this, Xu Mo looked up at the main mast and saw that the main mast of the Vestalos was bumpy and full of bullet marks, but it had not broken yet!

"Protect the mainmast!" Gerhart, who had already stood up on the other side, roared at the deck sailor.

Xu Mo saw that a sailor was already rushing towards the main mast with a sandbag, and turned his head to look at the armed merchant ship again. After a sudden look, Xu Mo's pupils shrank. The armed merchant ship had just carried out a round of artillery attacks, and it took time to load them again.

Armed merchant ships are different from warships. In order to make up for the lack of firepower, some armed merchant ships would also place several light guns on the deck of the ship. At the beginning, in order to conceal these guns, the armed merchant ship divided them on the sides of the merchant ship and covered them with canvas, which was one of the reasons why Geerhardt found something wrong.

Now the guns on the left have been fired and are loading. They are pushing several 8-pound guns on the right side of the ship deck toward the ship. At the same time, there are several sharpshooters on the mast of the armed merchant ship. They are shooting at sailors who are protecting the main mast of Vistalos with sandbags. The sailors on the Vistalos covered their bodies and fell on the deck.

The Vistalos is in danger!
Chapter completed!