The only thing that is more troublesome about naval warfare than land warfare is that the sea area is too wide, unless it is a real Jedi, otherwise the two fleets of equal strength are likely to chase each other for a month or two, and they may not be able to distinguish the winner or loser.

The strength of the six Western-style warships has been practiced, although they have always grasped the initiative situation, but when Kayama Hisataka finally admitted that his warships could not defeat Wu Daofu's six warships, and wanted to deal with Wu Daofu and them with the remaining warships, Wu Daofu and their desire to continue to destroy their warships was also a little difficult.

After all, the sailors of Hongtang have only been trained by Dutch sailors for more than half a year, and if they want to operate these Western-style warships like they operate a fortune ship, it is not possible to succeed in such a long time.

In addition, Kayama Hisataka is also a veteran, and after knowing that the performance of his own warship is very different from it, he no longer thinks about being able to get close to the opponent's warship and connect with the opponent. Looking at the other party's strategy and strategy, it is impossible to give them such an opportunity to connect, so Biryama Hisaka simply let a group of warships scatter and circle around the six warships, their intention is obvious, they want to drag the time until night, according to the dark clouds that are now full of sky, it is also the time for their fleet to get out of trouble at night.

Wu Daofu and the others can naturally guess each other's thoughts, but they can guess if they can guess, but to be honest, they really can't think of a good way to solve this problem.

Therefore, Wu Daofu and the others simply took advantage of the fact that the sky was still a little bright, intending to spare the warships of the people of Huashan Jiugao and re-kill the more than ten warships of the Wa Kingdom whose sails were damaged and their speed was greatly reduced.

However, their purpose was quickly discovered by Birch Mountain Hisada, Wu Daofu and they thought of a plan to avoid the truth, but how could Birch Mountain Hisakaka not seize this opportunity, take advantage of Wu Daofu's idea that they want to bypass them, and almost started a series of battles with six warships halfway several times.

The closest time, there have been three Japanese warships in a flanking situation, blocking a Hongtang warship that intends to pass in the middle, and in the end, Wu Daofu saw that the situation was not good, took the lead in leading the team to return to help, and forced away the three Japanese warships with powerful artillery fire, which can be regarded as helping the warship to break the siege.

After a few times, Wu Daofu and the others also found that the other party obviously knew their intentions, and in the end they could only give up and watch the more than ten slow-moving prey at one end of the sea gradually disappear.

On the contrary, Wu Daofu became more and more crazy with six warships and launched a ferocious attack on these more than ten Japanese ships.

The previous six warships were not to preserve their strength, they were really long-distance battles, Wu Daofu was not willing to consume too much ammunition in the battleships in a big battle, so although the artillery has been continuous, in fact, the artillery fire of the six battleships has been retained.

Now that there is a real fire, Wu Daofu gave an order, and the six battleships had nothing to reserve, and the overwhelming artillery fire slanted out from the guns on both sides of the battleship, hitting the sea surface within a range of tens of zhang undulating, and the water column surging in all directions.

At this time, the pressure on the people of Kayama Hisaka suddenly increased more than a point, forcing them to force back more than ten zhang before they could breathe. Even so, there were still two warships that were hit by continuous artillery fire, and the speed was greatly reduced for a while, and finally became the ghosts of the sea under the siege of six warships, and countless floating corpses and samurai who fell into the water were scattered on the surface of the sea.

By this time, more than ten warships led by Hidaka Kayama had been destroyed by six warships including Wu Daofu, and in the end, there were only nine warships trembling and entangled with Wu Daofu and others.

The remaining ships, including Kayama Hidaka, were also looking forward to the arrival of this dark night, and won the last chance for their evacuation.

Wu Daofu and the others had the upper hand here, and the huge fleet of more than forty warships in Hongtang over there also pressed the Japanese fleet that was shrunk into a ball on the opposite side.

It's just a pity that except for the power of the main guns on the more than 30 official warships of Hongtang, which can still deal a heavy blow to the Japanese fleet, other artillery fires such as the thousand-pound Buddha cannon have not made much contribution.

The kinetic energy carried by more than ten pounds of shells, in the face of the reinforced outer armor of ordinary warships, although it can hit a gap in the thickness of the bowl, but in general, the damage caused to these warships is not enough to sink or lose power.

On the contrary, it is the unconventional shell of the chain bomb, in the face of the dense formation at this time, the deceleration effect is remarkable, many of the warships of the Japanese Kingdom surrounded by a group, many sails are already a tattered piece, blown by the sea breeze, "thorned" and cracked into two sections, can no longer provide forward power, so that many sea ships have to give up the sail power, and instead use manual work, paddling, which can maintain the momentum of progress.

In this way, although the Japanese fleet was tightly condensed into one, with the power of the main guns of the Hongtang warships, from time to time there were still a few unlucky warships that were hit by the key points and gradually sank, and I saw that more than 40 Japanese warships were slowly shrinking under this powerless counterattack, forty, thirty-eight, and thirty-five......

In the end, this group of Japanese ships stayed up until it was completely dark and dark, and at this time, the last chance was in front of everyone.

Although the captains of the Hongtang warship had already known each other's thoughts in advance, they were powerless to reach out and hit the sea with their fingers at this time, trying to chase a group of enemies without the slightest image in the vast sea.

Fortunately, at the moment before it was dark, the Hongtang warship had already accelerated forward, rushed into the defensive circle of the Japanese fleet in one fell swoop, and used hooks and other utensils to firmly grasp the prey one by one, which was not without the slightest gain.

To be honest, even if Hong Tang connected with this group of opponents, he could actually gain the upper hand, but the losses were not as neat as the use of artillery fire to easily harvest the opponent's warships and sailors just now, and the losses were still few.

Now that Hongtang's economy has not recovered, and Li Tianyang and they also pay special attention to preserving their vital forces, and under selective conditions, they always prefer to have fewer results than damage their own combat strength, which is also an important reason why several warships, including Wu Daofu, have been using artillery fire to entangle with each other.

Until now, seeing that the other party was about to flee in the night, the warships of Hongtang's headquarters broke into the opponent's defensive circle at the last moment, seizing the last opportunity to give the opponent a vital blow, while the remaining many Japanese warships took the opportunity to flee in all directions.

(End of chapter)