Ming dynasty grand dude

Seeing Heinrich rushing excitedly, Grandpa Zhang waved to him.

"Your Mightiness……"

Without waiting for Heinrich to speak, Grandpa Zhang said in a low voice: "Heinrich, have you... heard of 'Jackal'?!"

Chapter 821 Navy Titan Qi Jingtong, War Beast Jackal Wolf

When Heinrich heard the word "jackal" from Grandpa Zhang's mouth

He couldn't hide the panic on his face, Yu Chihu knew it just by looking at him.

Heinrich not only knew, but probably had dealings with them.

"How do you know jackals?!"

But he lowered his head and sighed, and asked softly to Mr. Zhang.

Yu Chihu smiled and waved his hands, without saying anything.

Heinrich lowered his head and said softly, "Actually, my grandfather was born as a jackal."

"Originally, my father also wanted to join the jackals, but my father thought he had a title at the time."

So he chose not to join, Yu Chihu was not surprised by this situation.

After all, jackals are mercenaries with a bad reputation.

Beasts of war, vicious dogs that tear at things with their employer's fingers, that's what they're called.

Unlike Huaxia, mercenaries have existed for a very long time in the history of Europa.

The earliest records of mercenaries appear in the 8th and 6th centuries BC.

An Ionian who served the Egyptian pharaoh around 664 BC.

In the famous Peloponnesian War in Europe, mercenaries were used in large numbers and participated in battles very frequently.

The Peloponnesian War re-split the power of the Aegean, and mercenaries began to be widely used.

There was even an army of Cyrus the Younger and his [-]-strong Greek mercenaries.

Sparta, Athens, Carthage, etc., all these wars are full of mercenaries.

The reason why Philip II of Macedon was able to conquer the then Persian Empire within ten years.

It is inseparable from the large number of mercenaries under his command fighting on the battlefield at that time.

However, his opponent, the Persian Empire, also hired [-] Greek mercenaries to fight him.

But with the establishment of the knight and noble system, the profession of mercenary began to be despised.

Although kings and lords still need to use mercenaries, this does not mean that they think highly of these mercenaries.

After Heinrich's father got the title, he chose to give up joining the mercenaries and cut off contact with them.

This is also a normal method of operation. After all, it is not a good reputation for a nobleman to have no clear relationship with the mercenary group.

It's just that the father didn't expect that his son would become a mercenary decades later.

"Fortunately, my father didn't do too much, and also helped them connect a lot of things."

As Heinrich spoke, he paused and said, "Actually, I am now a member of the Jackals."

Now it's the turn of Young Master Zhang to have a headache, jackal man!

He really wanted to get in touch with jackals, these people were very useful.

There are not many such mercenary regiments that can survive for many years, but their ability to survive shows that their abilities are not bad.

And in terms of reputation, it is absolutely excellent.

"Can I get in touch with your team leader?!"

Young Master Zhang pondered for a while, looked at Heinrich and said, "I have some business, I can talk to him."

Business? !Heinrich was a little surprised, Mr. Zhang is holding a heavy army now!

Even if he only needs to give an order, the old soldiers of his family are more tyrannical than jackals.

Under such circumstances, what business can he do with jackals? !

"Don't think too much, I do have business for jackals."

Young Master Zhang smiled faintly, and said softly: "Of course, I can't talk about this unless I see him."

Heinrich hesitated for a moment, and said softly: "In our team, there is a team of jackals."

"Captain Krona, he knows how to contact jackals."

Grandpa Zhang nodded, and a gleam of light flashed in the pair of red phoenix and peach blossoms.

"Just let him come to see me!"

It was also at this time that Qi Jingtong looked at the sea with a binoculars on Yuchihu's ship.

From a distance, the fleet could already be seen gradually appearing on the sea.

"Raise the battle flag! All battleships are ready! The sickle line is ready!!"

A series of orders were issued from Qi Jingtong, and the soldiers on the warship suddenly started to get busy.

The cannon was pushed out with a "click", and shells were stuffed into the barrel one by one.

The twister is fired, and the muzzle is adjusted as the watcher returns.

"You lunatics! Crazy! Why did you bombard that warship?!"

What Qi Jingtong didn't know was that a few white men on the opposite warship got into a quarrel.

"Damn it! That warship is probably Daming's, which means we've been exposed!"

At this time, a stern warning sound sounded.

Immediately, their quarrel stopped, and they rushed to the bow in a hurry.

Take out the binoculars and look at the dozens of warships on the sea

One of the white men almost lost his legs and sat down.

"Damn it! The Ming people's revenge is coming, look at the good deeds you have done!!"

Seeing the red eyes of the white man, he howled.

"I'm just going to do business, I don't want to start a war with them! But you goddamn people"

"It's meaningless to talk about it now. The firing on that warship already represented a declaration of war."

A white man next to him lowered his binoculars with a frivolous and mocking voice.

"What?! Are you planning to be hunted down by them and flee all the way back to Europa?! Or hang up the white flag and surrender?!"

These words directly blocked the yelling fat man in red shirt, speechless.

No matter what, he didn't dare to choose these two items.

"Get ready to fight!"

In the end, he could only say this sentence.

With the sound of the shrill bugle, the artillery on these western warships was slowly pushed out.

"Sickle line! Prepare!!"

Chapter 822 Navy Titan Qi Jingtong, War Beast Jackal Wolf

The Caucasian generals on the warship and the Ming battleship who watched from afar felt a little chilly in their hearts.

"Damn it! Heinrich didn't lie, these Ming people have bigger warships than us!"

At first they encountered only [-] battleships patrolling the ocean.

So they still felt that what Heinrich said about Ming having a huge warship was too bragging.

That's why the people below fired at the navy's battle cruiser.

However, what they didn't expect at all was that what was brought out by this round of guns turned out to be Daming's fleet!

There are more than sixty warships, the largest of which is the five thousand battleship.

When in the telescope, the gold-copper-colored cannon was pushed out to aim at them.

These Europa people were surprised, "Are these Daming people crazy?! Such a long distance..."

And Qi Jingtong on that battleship raised his binoculars and said in a low voice.

"Pass the order, the first volley after three fingers!"

The orderly who followed him immediately waved the flag to convey the order to the semaphore on the mast.

"Tom tom tom..."

In just a few seconds, the Daming Navy fired its first salvo.

Today, the Daming Navy is equipped with the latest "Hongzhi 15th Auxiliary State-level Halberd Type Eight-inch Heavy Anti-aircraft Gun".

The cannon is one foot long and weighs six thousand catties.

The shells use sand-cored steel-shelled conical bullets with a range of up to one and a half miles.

Naval battles are different from land battles, as warships rise and fall with the waves.

Not to mention this era, even in later generations, it is not easy for naval guns to accurately hit the target.

The farther the distance, the greater the deviation of the gun.

Even in the most prosperous era of battleships, the two sides in naval battles could only bombard each other by salvo and straddle fire.

If you want to hit, you really need a little luck.

The white nobles were laughing and watching the Daming navy fire the cannon, but when the shells flew towards them with a "chirp, chirp, chirp~"...

None of them can still laugh, what is replaced on their faces is the kind of panic that radiates from the soul!

"Oh, God……"

Even more terrified than them were the sailors on board.

They never thought that they would encounter enemies with more advanced artillery and larger warships than themselves.

At this moment, the screaming shells flew to make them terrified.

What's even more frightening is that their shells can't touch people.

It's just that they don't even have the means to fight back now, but the opponent has artillery that can destroy them!

"God! Save your people!"

At this moment, almost all the sailors on the battleship knelt down and began to pray.

Because there is nothing they can do now except pray.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!..."

Perhaps their god preferred the English, and the poor Gauls got a direct hit on one of their warships.

The conical cannonball whirled and hit the front face of the warship, and the steel shell exploded at the moment of impact.

"Boom~!!" With a loud noise, the entire bow of the ship was blasted to pieces.

The moment the steel shell of the shell exploded, the sand core inside sprayed the entire warship with high temperature.

With the high-temperature sand core, it splashed on the sail and ignited it.

Borrowed by the sea breeze, the entire warship was quickly engulfed in flames.

There were shrill screams and wailing sounds from the warship, and the sailors who were swallowed by the flames screamed in despair and jumped into the sea directly.

"Boom!!" The gunpowder on the ship was detonated, and the entire warship was instantly blown to pieces.

The warship, which was sinking slowly, didn't even have a chance to sink, and was directly blown into piles of broken wood on the sea.

Blood was splashed on the sea amidst desperate screams.

However, this should have been the smell that attracted sharks, but none of the sharks came close.