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The Daming Navy Division has practiced how to deal with this "ship sea" tactic many times, and is extremely confident in the improved Franc machine gun.

Therefore, the Shao Wu only slightly adjusted its direction, and joined the 150-ton Yang Ye and Su Dingfang end to end to form a small battle line, and sailed diagonally towards the enemy's Galen ship from the upwind at the speed of a battle sail. The smaller Weiqing and Banchao guarded their north side to prevent them from being divided by captured ships.

Zheng Zhilong knew very well the horror of a plywood ship of Shaowu's size, but he was worried that the Ming army behind him would catch up with the attack, so he could only face the battle head-on, hoping that the gang jumping battle as a trump card could quickly capture the enemy ship.

The distance of two or three nautical miles was only two or three nautical miles away, and Zheng Chenggong hardly had to command too much, and his five warships skillfully cut diagonally to the starboard side of the captured ship in accordance with the provisions of the "Combat Manual" and kept moving in the same direction as it.

The Qing army's "Wei" warship was the first to open fire - this kind of naval confrontation was often the side with a lower level of training, and before it reached the best firing position, it first lost its breath and opened fire at will. The result was no surprise, more than a mile away, under the shaking of the sea, the shells did not even touch the hair of the Ming warship.

When the port side of the Shao Wu was almost completely flush with the easternmost "Zhengwei", the two rows of gun windows on the side of the gunwales spewed dazzling fire from front to rear. When two eighteen-pound shells tore open the tail of the enemy ship, one of them pierced the stern, while the other burrowed into the gun deck of the "Zhengwei" and crashed into a nine-pounder gun inside, causing chaos in the gun compartment.

The Shao Wu fired three salvos as it passed by one of the enemy ships at the rear, breaking the "Zhengwei's" backmast and opening five holes in its hull. Although the enemy ship could not be sunk because the bombs were slightly up, a large number of Qing soldiers in the cabin were killed, and with the loss of a mast, they had to leave the battle in a hurry.

Soon, the three ships, including the Shao Wu and Yang Ye, kept a distance of about two chains and traveled at the same speed with the enemy's main main ship. The two sides faced each other and began to shoot hard.

However, the Shao Wu was too strong for these "Wei" ships, and the most powerful twelve-and-a-half-pound cannon on board the captives could hardly break through its seven-inch-thick hull.

In addition to the smallest ten six-pounder guns, the other twenty-four guns of the Shao Wu could effectively kill the enemy ships. In particular, the eighteen-pound cannon was a huge black hole with a single shell, and five or six hits could almost destroy the hull structure of the 230-ton "Wei" brand, and at the same time, a large amount of broken wood stubble from the collapse took the lives of hundreds of captives.

As for the Qing army's three large ships, although they looked similar in size to the Shao Wu, they had the congenital defect of too few guns on board as the Dongfang Junk ship, each ship had two twelve-pounder guns and two nine-pounder guns, and the firepower was almost negligible.

Based on the experience of fighting with the Helan people, Zheng Zhilong had expected that he would not be the opponent of the huge plywood ship of the Ming army, but he did not expect the opponent to be so terrifying - the Shao Wu was built according to the eighteenth-century ship type brought by Zhu Linmiao, with a low hull, dense ribs, and more scientific gun emplacements, compared with the Galen ship of the same size in this era, the defensive ability and firepower were much higher. Although the tonnage of the two corvettes is smaller than that of the "Wei", the artillery equipment is not much worse, and under the cover of the Shao Wu, they also exert a lot of attack power.

Less than half an hour before the two sides exchanged fire, one of his boats had been forced out of the battle, one had broken rudder and was spinning in circles, and the rest of the boats were also scarred and could not hold on.

Until this time, the small boats outflanked by the Qing army finally surrounded them, a total of four ships, nine boats, and more than 40 shuttle boats and sentinel boats, and began to attack the Ming army in seven directions.

These veteran pirates seem to be back in the days of raiding the seas and licking their blood. These people are also extremely fierce, one by one with a single knife on their backs, standing on the bow of the boat, just waiting for the Ming army to get close to the warship of the Ming army and then jump into hand-to-hand combat.

According to their previous experience, even if the powerful warships of Hongyi are besieged by so many small boats, they will definitely lose one or the other, although many people will be killed by the cannons, but at least more than eighty percent of the ships will successfully approach the target.

However, the Helan do not have a large number of improved Franc cannons.

When a large number of small boats of the Qing army withstood the bombardment of the large-caliber naval guns of the Ming army, they easily reached a distance of more than 200 paces, and one by one they had already begun to wave the hooks in their hands.

At this moment, the warships of the Gojo Ming army let out a more dense cannon roar than before. Although the sound of these cannons was obviously not heavy artillery, the surrounding captives suddenly screamed miserably.

The hulls of these small-tonnage ships were not thick in themselves, but the Ming army's Franc cannon was able to exert a power close to that of a cannon. These forty iron balls weighing half to two catties could easily tear open the hull of the captive ship and kill the soldiers in the cabin.

Zheng Zhilong's pirate soldiers thought that the Ming army was attacking them with the ship's main cannon, so after a wave of shells, those who were not shot immediately began to show off their might again. They are very familiar with the time it takes for cannons to be reloaded, and at the current distance, the Ming army can still send out three or four rounds of artillery at most, and they can rely on the numerical advantage to jump and seize the ship!

But less than ten seconds later, the same intensive shelling as the last time came, and the outflanking captives were again a bloody storm. Ten seconds later, forty shells "arrived" as promised......

The Franc cannon used a preset sub-gun, and there was no process such as loading gunpowder, projectiles, and cleaning the chamber, and the rate of fire was the highest among all cannons in this era. The Qing warship only traveled a hundred steps and ate a full seven rounds of shells!

These experienced "pirates" were simply stunned - the Ming army's cannon was not only powerful, but also lightning fast, and although there were only five ships in front of them, they felt like they were fighting against fifty ships!

When a few steel claws were finally nailed to the side of the Ban Chao, there were only a dozen or so captive ships left that were still combat-ready, and the rest were either unable to move due to serious damage to the hull, or the non-commissioned officers on board were too injured to carry out the gang jumping.

The soldier on the only boat close to Ban Chao pulled the rope so hard that the two boats were attached to each other, and then dozens of planks were erected between them, and hundreds of captives rushed up the Ban Chao along the planks with swords.

At this distance, even the Franc cannon was no longer effective, and they seemed to have seen the scene of killing the crew of the Bright Army and seizing the ship to counterattack.

The next moment, they heard a neat shout from the Ming warship, "Aim!" ”

"Put!"