"Boom, boom!"
On the side of the warship, the guns roared one after another, spewing orange cannon flames and white smoke.The gunners of the naval division need to be on the move, and it is much more difficult to hit the same moving targets than the infantry artillery.Therefore, the time required for the formation of combat power by the naval division is several times longer than that of the infantry army.Although the number of warships of the Qing army was large, and the number of artillery was equal to that of the Ming army, the sailors and gunners were much worse.The artillery of the Ming army kept firing, although it was fired after the Qing army, but the damage was several times that of the Qing army.The two fleets on the sea fired at each other, and one after another the Qing warships were sunk and turned into a pile of driftwood, and the sea was full of Qing troops struggling to swim."
Junmen, Haikou's artillery is too accurate!"
In the rumbling cannon, the Qing army general shouted urgently, "The Liaojia has been sunk!"
”Not far from Shi Lang's ship, a Xiyi gunboat was smashed into a thousand holes, the hull of the ship was seriously tilted, and the Qing sergeants rolled down the deck and fell into the sea.The three-masted gunboat sank, and the Qing troops who fell into the water desperately scavenged, but there were still many people who were sucked by the whirlpool caused by the sinking of the ship and struggled to sink into the sea.Gunpowder smoke rose on the sea, like a thin cloud, and in the artillery bombardment between the two sides, the Qing army soon lost more than 30 lucky ships, a three-masted gunboat, and even more wounded ships.On the side of the Ming army, there were less than six silent warships, and the wounded warships continued to fight.Shi Lang looked at the battlefield and was extremely shocked to see that the Qing army had lost five warships before it could sink a Ming warship.Shi Lang repeatedly wrote to the Manchu court, claiming that the sailors still needed time to train and could not fight a decisive battle with the Haikou.However, the internal turmoil of the Manchu Qing Dynasty made Dol Roll unable to allow the Qing army to fail outside the pass, let alone let Zhao Ming kill Shengjing, so he did not take Shi Lang's suggestion, but sent the Manchu Qingshui Division out of the port to protect the grain.Seeing the Ming army's double horizontal formation, the warships filled with gunpowder smoke, firing artillery in turn, flickering cannon flames, like a galaxy, Shi Lang's face turned hideous, "Concentrate firepower and bombard the Haikou gunboats!"
”At this time, Shi Xian on the side shouted urgently: "Military gate, you can't hit the Haikou gunboat!"
”As the naval battle progressed, the distance between the two sides was rapidly shortened, and the hit rate of the Qing and Ming artillery was greatly improved.Shi Lang frowned, puzzled in his heart, but when he looked up, he immediately understood what was going on.The warships of the Ming army lined up in a double horizontal formation, and the warships were lined up in two vertical rows, forming a huge "two" on the sea surface.The three-masted gunboats of the Ming army, located in the second row, when they opened fire, they accelerated the speed of the ships, came to the gap between the first row of ships, and fired artillery bombardment from the gap between the two warships, the stern and the bow, as soon as the shelling ended, the three-masted gunboats immediately reduced their speed, hid on the side of the first row of warships, and used the hull of the first row of Fu ships to cover most of the shells.This requires the sailors to have extremely high sail control skills and control the speed of the ship, so as not to collide with the ships in front and behind, and the Qing army warships obviously can't do this.Shi Lang gritted his teeth, "Hit the lucky boat first!"
”The Qing warships opened fire in unison, splashing columns of water on the sea, and the two ships were severely damaged and gradually lost their speed.At this time, as the Fubune slowly reduced its speed, the three-masted gunboats in the second row were exposed.However, at this time, the Qing army had just finished firing the cannon, and the Ming army had already completed loading.Guo Zhong continued to order without hesitation, "Bombard the first enemy ship!"
Grab the front!
”Zhao Ming watched the battle nervously on the sidelines, staring at the battlefield and understanding Guo Zhong's intentions.The warships of the Ming army have always set fire to the first warship of the Qing army, and have knocked out a large part of the head of the Qing fleet.At this time, the Ming army was already downwind, and the head of the Qing army was frustrated, and the two armies turned out to be a fallen "eight", and the first part was about to meet, but the navigation rules at this time became a "T" word, and the Ming army was about to seize the "T" head position.Zhao Ming bowed slightly, and did not interfere with Guo Zhong's command, because if it was him, he would also arrange it like this.The five gunboats opened fire again, and the Qing warships sailing at the forefront were immediately torn apart by shells in the water column.A cannonball hit the mainmast of the Qing flagship, and the huge mast was suddenly broken by the chain bullet, and it fell suddenly, smashing on the deck, and the sailors below immediately scattered in terror.The flagship mainmast was broken, destroying the sail line, so that the flagship of the Qing army was blown away from the course by the northwest wind, and the ships behind could not dodge in time.At this time, Shi Lang got up and saw that the Ming warship had successfully seized the prefix "Ding".Nearly 100 warships of the Ming army, in front of the Qing army's route, lined up in a "two" line, each warship on the side of the first warship of the Qing army.That is to say, the side guns of nearly 100 Ming warships of the Ming army can fire in unison and bombard the Qing warships in the lead, and the bow of the Qing warships is aimed at the Ming army's front, not only the side fire can not be played, but the ships behind are blocked by the ships in front, and they cannot bombard the Ming army.This created a situation in which dozens of Ming warships were killed and a few warships of the Qing army were defeated."
Boom, boom!"
A loud noise came, and Shi Lang, who was in shock, saw that the few Qing warships in front of him were instantly smashed into a pile of floating broken wood by five or six hundred iron bullets shot by the Ming army.In this way, if the Qing army continued to sail forward, the ships in the head would be sunk and injured by the Ming army in turn, as if there was no divine calculation.In an instant, Shi Lang's face was hideous, and he gritted his teeth and immediately said, "Give the order, and the ships will retreat immediately!"
”The flagship's mainmast was broken, so the flag could only be hung on the foremast, and when the Qing ships saw the flag, they immediately turned their sails and made a big detour on the sea, preparing to evacuate.Unlike an infantry army, a warship needs to maneuver its sails and rudder and make a circle on the surface of the sea if it wants to turn around.The Qing army's movements were immediately captured by Guo Zhong, and he immediately raised his arms excitedly and exclaimed, "Don't let the Qing dog escape!"
”The Ming fleet immediately began to adjust its direction, and compared with the Qing army's U-turn and 180-degree turn, the Ming army's ships turned around very little, and directly fired their guns while rushing towards the Qing army.At this time, a Qing army warship had just turned around, and a Ming army warship had already arrived in front of him, and the Ming army musketeers standing on the side of the ship rushed to the side of the ship, and the muzzle of the gun stretched out of the shooting hole, and in an instant a "bang" gunfire rang out, and white smoke rose.The sailors on the deck of the Qing army were caught off guard, and immediately their chests rose with clouds of blood mist, and they suffered heavy casualties.At the same time as the musketeers opened fire, more than a dozen guns on the side of the Ming army opened fire in turn, and the close shelling immediately smashed the entire Fu ship to pieces, and the soldiers on the deck wailed.()