The skilled New Spanish helmsman was the first to learn of the rudder destruction and informed the captain, and the uninjured sailors climbed up to the mast from the lower deck, lowered the sails with all hands and feet, and sailed at the slowest speed towards the friendly ship, beckoning the nearest ship to drag them over with a hook.

There were no collisions in the whole process, just a little unavoidable confusion.

But this was enough for Ishiki, the ships in front of him were deflected to avoid the damaged merchant ships, and the warships behind were slowed down by the merchant ships, and the neat and orderly formation was forced to separate, and this was Shiqi's chance.

The five shark ships walked in an arc, always facing the departing ships with their starboard guns, and the guns were fired out in a rhythmic sequence from the front and rear hulls.

Their captain Luo Di Shusheng was a more honest person, he was less ruthless and meticulous in his work, and even nailed huge logs off the coast of Xiangshan during the daily training of the flag army, so that every gunner on board fired a cannon when the porthole passed the log standing in the shallow sea.

This kind of training, which simply trained the gunner to obey or, to put it bluntly, was useless, but his gunner fired at almost the same intervals in naval battles.

In other words, every gun on the ship fired roughly the same position, the rear gun shattered the smoke of the front gun, and the back gun continued to repeat.

The angles of the cannons are almost the same, the positions of the cannons are almost the same, the targets are almost immobile at sea, and the accuracy is almost the same.

The guns on the Shiqi ship can basically be fired accurately; The aim was not accurate, and all the guns of the whole ship were emptied.

From the standardization of artillery casting molds to gun sights, from artillery drills to the gunner's scientific training of artillery angle sights, coupled with the progress of telescopes and distance measurement, it was determined that they were originally the most accurate gunners of this era.

Fifteen ten-pound cannons, twelve cannons.

Twenty Zhenshuo general cannons, fourteen cannons.

Twenty-five two-pound guns, twenty-one cannons.

Of course, the role played by the two-pound cannon in the artillery battle of a warship of this level is far less than hurting people, and hurting people is less than frightening, if it is not a fluke to hit the gun window or hit the deck, it can only be embedded in the hull of the ship.

Sometimes it can't even get into the planks, and it is useless to leave a noise to startle the sailors in the boat, and then fall into the sea.

If you can't break the hull, it's useless to hit accurately.

Even so, Ishiki, who was standing on the side of the ship, could clearly see that the enemy ship had suffered heavy damage, that the hull of the ship near the bow of the ship on the port side had been completely smashed, and that the sailors running on the lower deck were busy pushing the bodies of the gunners who had been killed into the sea.

The battered New Spanish ship slowly turned its rudder, and the two bronze stone guns in the bow of the ship made a loud noise, and at this distance, the stone cannons were accurate, and the boulders flew and screamed, one smashed on the side of the stern ship of the Shiqi team, and the huge impact even caused the hull to shake violently, and the stone projectiles fired from the other side caused waves higher than the side of the ship not far away, splashing the sea water directly onto the deck.

The craftsmen in the ship shouted loudly on the lower deck and ran before and after.

The deformation was only secondary, according to the strength of the hull of the 500 shark ship, it could not withstand this kind of heavy artillery bombardment, although it was not smashed out of the hole at this time, the consequences were worse than being smashed through - the inner ribs and the girder supporting the upper deck were cracked by the heavy blow, and the support column that the next person hugged was also knocked crooked, and it was making a heart-wrenching sound at this time.

If the beams and columns are broken, the large upper gun deck that supports them will collapse directly, the hull structure will also be destroyed, and the ship may even shatter itself into large sampans on the rest of the voyage.

The captain of this ship is Zheng Cong, who has been diligent and diligent for six years since he supplemented the old man Zheng's military household, and has never made great contributions, even if others want to promote him in Chen Mu's old department, he still relies on Lin Feng to Nanyang last year, and there are bandits on the sea, and the bandits have made meritorious deeds before they have been promoted from one hundred households, and they are now the deputy thousand households of Luzon Zhongwei Macheng.

This time to attack the island, in the end, is to attack more dangerous battles, Shi Qi originally meant to let him follow Chen Luan's army to delay, not to take the lead with Deng Zilong's two hundred and five, but Zheng Cong had to follow, so he got the position of captain from Shi Qi's men.

Just like Deng Zilong and Shi Qi, the two little commanders, led nine ships, only the vanguard army had this specification, but the captain couldn't take Zheng Cong's turn.

Five hundred shark boats, the number of officers and soldiers on the ship is one hundred and two, at least sixty-four, the captain is either a hundred households or a general flag, plus eight boatmen, where can it be the turn of the deputy thousand households to be the captain?

Deputy Qianhu is in Chen Luan's army, and they are all captains who lead at least three ships.

Shi Qi knew that Zheng Cong felt that he was not worthy of his merits, and he wanted to fight in the front and kill the enemy, otherwise even if he led the five grades, he would not be able to raise his head in front of his colleagues, and his subordinates would look down on Yang Fengyin and disobey the great.

As a result, before it landed on Guam, the ship had already suffered heavy damage.

Zheng Cong didn't care about feeling uncomfortable at all, just now the hull was hit hard by a cannonball, and he hit the stern from starboard to port when he ordered him to go up and down, and he was not thrown out of the boat barricade, if it weren't for the improved ship type that only left the symbolic low stern, he would have been thrown out to drink water.

He was so stumbled that he heard the hull of the ship suffer a heavy blow before he could slow down his injuries, and he staggered down the deck to see the crooked pillars, which made him gasp, "This, this can't bear to be fired." ”

"Qianhu, I can't hold it anymore." The old shipwright was busy asking the apprentice to nail the cracks in the hull with wooden planks, and said to Zheng Cong: "If the heavy cannon is released, the ship will disperse, tell General Shi to quit." ”

The hull is not damaged, and the inside and outside are intact; The hull was punched out of a large hole, at least the internal structure was intact; But the internal structure was broken, and the ship could not hold the backseat of the shelling, even with an artillery carriage.

The draft of the ship was improved, and the hull was under great pressure, so it was necessary to have a solid internal structure to ensure safe navigation, but now that the internal structure has been destroyed, it is impossible to participate in the war.

"Retreat? It cannot be returned. Zheng Cong picked up the fallen skull, and pointed heavily at the crooked pillar, "Let him stand for me, the ship does not sink, it can't fall!" ”

"The heavy artillery at the bottom can't be put down, and the two-pound cannon on the top will continue to fight."

With that, Zheng Cong led his troops back to the upper deck and said to the helmsman, "Keep up with the fleet." ”

He can't go, this will withdraw from the fleet, which will inevitably affect the morale of his own fleet, and the five 500 shark ships are already weaker than Deng Zilong's four 1000 ships, and he can't withdraw.

He couldn't understand the overall situation, but the number of ships could still be counted, the battle between us and the enemy was scorching, and it could barely be regarded as evenly matched, if not counting those annoying small ships, and even they still had the upper hand in the number of large ships, the competition was who would flee first.

He Zheng Cong can not make meritorious contributions, nor can he be the first to run away with his tail between his legs!

"The ship is sinking!"

Just when Zheng Cong made up his mind to be beaten to the end, the flagship's Shi Qi smiled, and he could see that the tail ship had suffered a heavy blow, but the ship was still following, indicating that there was no big problem.

What really pleased him was that the enemy's lone battleship was finally pierced under the waterline after two salvos in succession, and in the blink of an eye the sea water overflowed the lower deck, dragging the stern and falling down, and the sailors all ran towards the bow of the ship, apparently sunk.

"Prepare for pursuit, the enemy has only five big ships left, it's time for them to withdraw!"