The sun still rose that day, and the sky was clear, but the morning glow looked like blood, which made people feel quite unhappy when they saw it, which was not a good sign.
The two huge fleets in the east and west have begun to revive.
The sailors kept shouting and were busy walking on the rope ladder.
Countless sails slowly rose, and the fleet began to move slowly.
Zhang drummed and controlled the vanguard warships to move towards the east.
He knew that today was the day of the decisive battle, and the Polu Army navy could not afford to delay.
After all, the Polu Army was fighting on two fronts.
Of course, there have been some changes in the forward fleet today.
Some early patrol ships and older warships such as Fu Ship have been interspersed with each other.
The fleet that was still very neat and powerful yesterday is now a bit scattered and the momentum has dropped a lot.
At the beginning of today, dozens of vanguard patrol ships and Tang-class warships rushed eastward, while more than 200 warships followed, and even merchant ships were dispatched to move forward intermittently.
Lan San's Li Daozong was also the vanguard of the entire army, with more than ten patrol ships in front of his battleship.
Lan San received a message from the boat sent by Mr.
Zhang Gusheng before dawn today.
Today is the day of the decisive battle, and everything will proceed according to the original plan.
Also because of this plan, a large number of Chinese ships and some captured Japanese ships and Western ships appeared near the Li Daozong and other ships in the van.
Of course, due to the appearance of these miscellaneous troops, the might of the entire fleet has almost been lost.
In addition, the speed of the fleet has also dropped significantly.
Now the speed of the fleet is half of the usual speed.
After all, the speed of Fuzhou is still a lot slower. .
Lan San got up very early and inspected the mainmast, gun deck, armor, etc. one by one.
He knew that these might be used today, and even the armor that rarely had a chance to take over the battle might see blood.
The barbarian warships in front were already vaguely visible, covering the sea in the east, and they were quite menacing.
Lan San knew that he was a member of the vanguard of the entire army.
This job was very dangerous.
After all, look at how many Xiyi warships were ahead.
As a vanguard, he often experienced salvos from multiple enemy ships.
This is the most dangerous place, as it is most likely to be damaged by the enemy's heavy artillery and eventually withdraw from the battle.
Heavy artillery projectiles don't have eyes.
He, the captain, like other sailors, is likely to die in this place far away from home.
Being killed as a member of the navy means being buried in the lonely sea, not even a corpse.
Return to hometown.
However, Lan San can see clearly.
In Zhang Huan's words, they are worth it.
From a small fisherman with nothing to the captain of a huge ship, he has conquered the Japanese country in the east and the Western Yi in the south.
A man will not hinder this in his life.
Instead of To die in obscurity in a remote fishing village, Lan San would rather die in battle and enter the Shidao Martyrs' Shrine, so that future generations will always remember him as a heroic ancestor.
Watching the enemy's warship slowly approaching, once again more than two miles away, the enemy's warship began to turn again, and the inherent tactics of fighting the enemy sideways appeared again.
Lan San sneered as he watched the Xiyi warship turn and then open the gun windows.
Well, it was the same old routine again.
Unfortunately, the Polu army did not follow this routine this time.
Today, Sanders is commanding the vanguard of the coalition forces.
They take turns serving as the vanguard.
One person or one force cannot always be in this more dangerous position, otherwise no one will do it.
They are brought together by interests, not military orders.
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From this perspective, their European bloodiness is not as good as Zheng Zhilong's pirates.
Since interests are entangled, we can only pay attention to balance and relative fairness.
For example, Sanders was given the position of forward leader today.
When he was more than two miles away from the Polu Navy warships, Sanders began to turn the warships to change formations in preparation for today's artillery battle.
It was still the old method yesterday, which was to engage in long-distance artillery battles to avoid Akito.
Advantages of battleships.
Long-range artillery battles intercept Akito's battleships and reduce their own losses, as long as Akito's battleships are not allowed to reach Anping.
This strategy is to delay the decisive battle and let the Ming Dynasty rush to the rescue.
If they make a mistake because of their impatience, their fleets and Zheng Zhilong's fleet will attack the Ming Dynasty's fleet and defeat them in one go.
Considering the speed of the human warship, Zheng Zhilong's warship is really of little use.
Today, when it was still far away, Sanders observed the situation of Akito's fleet.
What made him confused was that there were many Akito's old-fashioned lucky ships, Haicang, among them.
What was the reason for this.
The Fuchuan Haicang was a target in the artillery battle.
If the opponent was also a fireship, these ships were still larger and not as agile and fast as the small boats.
Sanders thought about it for a long time but couldn't figure it out.
Since he couldn't figure it out, he didn't think about it.
He decided to change his formation and fight the enemy sideways.
It would be clear when Akito made a move.
When most of the coalition warships turned broadside to face the enemy and the cannons on the broadsides began to prepare, the Ming warships continued to move forward strangely.
Sanders believed that this was because the Ming army wanted to get close to within one mile and use heavy artillery for a decisive battle.
He did not order the fleet to turn southeast.
Boom boom boom, more than a hundred cannons of the coalition began to roar.
In fact, according to the broadside firepower of more than thirty battleships, there should be more than three hundred cannons, but the enough range is only more than a hundred and less than two hundred.
Others Forget about the nine-pounder or twelve-pounder gun, it's really useless.
Lan San didn't pay attention to the splashing water jets and the whistling projectiles.
He looked at the mainmast of the Li Tingzhi behind him.
There were no other flags there, which was to continue moving forward according to the plan.
The two patrol boats at the front passed through the splashing water column, but miraculously they were not hit.
They just continued to move eastward with traces of sea water splashing everywhere.
The leading warship of the Polu army was one mile away from the enemy's warship.
At this time, all the warships on the sea were moving like a thick T-shape.
One side faced the enemy's advance from north to south in a step-by-step broadside, while the other side rushed forward from west to east regardless of the opponent's artillery bombardment.
The two sides' fronts were only one mile away, and they would soon have a fierce collision.
Boom boom boom, the second salvo of the blue army's warships began.
Of course, it was only the three warships facing the Polu warships.
The other warships did not have this angle.
The two mainmasts of the frontmost patrol ship were hit, and the mainmast staggered down.
One was wrapped in the rope ladder, and the other brought the rope ladder down.
It was almost lying in the middle of the ship.
This patrol ship staggered down.
The ship began to tilt and spin on the sea, and the only option was to withdraw from the battle.
The bow of another patrol ship was hit twice, and one of the projectiles even broke through the planks and entered.
Although the image in front is a bit miserable, it does not affect the warship's continued movement.
Two dizzy warships came on the scene.
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These were captured Dutch warships built by the Japanese.
They were exactly the same as the Dutch warships opposite.
They were extremely similar no matter how you looked at them, like twin brothers.
But now they are fighting on two sides.
The Polu warships approached to only half a mile away from the opponent's line.
At this time, large plumes of smoke and fire appeared from the sides of the two Spanish warships that were coming up.
At the same time, the several Polu warships in front of them The bow cannon in front also began to roar, of course it was just a few bow cannons.
The two captured Japanese warships in front were hit hard.
The bows in front were almost broken, and large piles of wood chips flew out, even killing many sailors near the mainmast.
However, these two ships demonstrated strong survivability and were worthy of being the masterpieces of sea coachmen.
They continued to bulldoze towards the coalition warships half a mile to the east.
The Polu army warship brigade pierced the iron shield of the coalition artillery line like a sharp spear, and the two sides were about to meet.
Just now, when the Polu troops arrived at the vicinity, they had not yet turned the bow of the ship to confront it with the broadside.
Sanders had already noticed that something was wrong.
Akito did not want an artillery duel like yesterday.
They wanted to fight desperately.
In other words, , what they had foreseen last night, the situation where Akito forced his way into the battle after several days of helplessness, was now happening.
He immediately notified the fleet to prepare for Mingren's attack.
After all, Mingren was about to cut the coalition's formation in two.
Then he sent a small boat to inform Fan Peni and Zheng Zhilong in the rear formation to stop leisurely behind, the time for the decisive battle was coming.
At this time, the Polu army's warships had arrived a hundred steps away from the allied warships.
At this time, the two 500-ton Dutch warships approaching were facing two of the same clan that were struggling to move forward. brother.
Boom boom boom, at a distance of a hundred steps, dozens of heavy cannons roared on the sides.
The fronts of the two captured Japanese warships were almost shattered by ten projectiles.
The front faces were almost completely shattered, exposing the cabins below.
But the cabin below was empty.
Several more projectiles destroyed the sails and mainmasts of the two captured warships, and these items fell into pieces.
The two warships could no longer hold up and began to spin in the sea.
But their mission has been completed, and several Polu warships that flashed out from behind them have already faced the enemy with their broadsides.
Seeing this situation, a Dutch warship immediately evacuated to the southeast without saying a word.
However, another Dutch warship saw that heading towards it was a patrol ship of only about 200 tons, but it did not evacuate immediately.
As a result, an artillery battle broke out immediately between the two ships.
The exchange of bombardments at a distance of more than a hundred steps was, needless to say, not good.
The sides of both ships were almost completely smashed, with big holes after big holes, and projectiles swept across everything they encountered with a shower of wood splinters.
It is not unusual for the two ships to be in such a situation, but the most strange thing is that the side of the 500-ton Dutch warship was more severely damaged.
Six or seven huge irregular holes appeared on its side, and the projectiles almost penetrated the inside.
All artillery and personnel destroyed.
One of the projectiles ignited the pile, and the ship burst into flames with a roar of disembowelment
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