Su Li had galloped on the sea with Zheng Zhilong for more than ten years, and he could be regarded as having seen some wind and waves, but he was absolutely sure that he had never encountered the huge roar of the Ming army's cannons in naval battles.

In the past, the largest artillery on the warship in the Ming Sea was the twelve-pounder gun on the bow of Zheng Zhilong's Daxi ship, but this time, the main warships of the Ming Army Navy Division were equipped with a total of twelve eighteen-pounder guns!

In the current naval battle with the Qing army, they are definitely the undoubted overlords!

The largest warship equipped by the Qing navy was less than three inches thick, and these heavy guns could easily break through it from a mile away like stabbing window paper. As for the smaller ships, they were usually bombarded with one shot.

The Sully people could only hear the screams and wails of their own ship in the bow, but they could not see the exact damage.

However, he could clearly see the thousand-material war ship with the name "Chang" behind the side, a hole more than half a person high two feet above the waterline on the port side, and the stubble of the wooden plank on the edge of the bullet hole was like the sharp teeth of a monster. As the hull of the ship shook back and forth, various utensils and corpses in the cabin continued to slide through the holes into the sea.

Another cannonball should have hit its tail, half of the stern has been blown away, and the bottom of the remaining stern is stained black and red with blood, and it is estimated that a few of the soldiers inside will survive.

The port side of the two ships in front of him, which had been bombed, was blocked, but judging from the wailing of the sergeants on the deck like headless flies, the damage must have been severe.

How can the artillery fire of these enemy ships be so ferocious?! Su Li's heart twitched a few times, it was just two rounds of cannons, and the largest warships in his hands had been bombarded to pieces, if it went on like this, how many ships would not be enough to fill the artillery shells of the Ming army!

He subconsciously wanted to order a retreat, but this time Kaha handed over the entire naval division to him for command, although it was a rare opportunity, but at the same time, it was also extremely risky.

If you win, you will be a high-ranking official in the future. Defeated, I am afraid that Kaha will not hesitate to join him and put all the responsibility for the disadvantage of the battle on him. If this is the case, it is light to dismiss the official and return to his hometown, and if he does not do it, he will fall to the ground......

And once he retreats as the coach, the rest will definitely flee with the wind. In the Kaha script, there will definitely be "avoiding the enemy's fearful battle, being followed and killed by the enemy, and suffering heavy losses......

Su Li wiped a cold sweat, and then his mind turned, his warship was still more than 400 steps away from the Ming army, and with the current situation against the current and headwind, it would take at least a meal to break through to the center of the enemy's horizontal formation.

For such a long time, with the terrifying firepower displayed by the Ming army, I am afraid that my ten big war ships will suffer heavy losses.

He raised his eyes and looked around, and immediately noticed that the Ming army's horizontal formation had turned to the southwest, and the first few large ships were less than three hundred paces away from the left front of his Chinese army.

There must be a ship of the enemy's commander in these big ships! His eyes narrowed, if his Chinese warship immediately turned left to the west to assault at this time, he would be able to borrow the north wind from the side of the sail, and the speed would be several times faster than going north against the wind.

If so, the distance of 300 paces can be about half a pillar of incense, as long as the Ming army carries two or three rounds of artillery during this period, it can cut into the enemy's formation between the big ships and disrupt its formation. At the same time, the bow of the ship can be used against the enemy, and the heavy guns in the bow can also return fire.

He looked again at the ships flanking him. The left flank was less than a mile away from the Ming army, and the right flank was only about a mile and a half away from the enemy.

Although the two teams on this flank had only four or five 700-gauge ships each, each team had nearly sixty small ships.

"Isn't it just more artillery?" Su Li gritted his teeth and said fiercely, "Damn, if you don't attack the middle road, Lao Tzu's nearly 200 warships will also surround you!" ”

Thinking of this, he immediately shouted to the adjutant general beside him: "Order, the Chinese army turns due west and hits the big ship at the front of the enemy formation!"

"The two-wing warships immediately moved closer to the Chinese army, and quickly approached the enemy ships for a melee!"

"Obey!"

It's just that he thinks he has no last resort, but he doesn't know that the vast majority of the Ming army's firepower, especially the heavy firepower, is concentrated on the four Galen warships at the front of the battle line.

If Su Li resolutely attacked the middle of the battle line regardless of losses, Zheng Chenggong would only be able to turn the four capital ships to reinforcements, during which the Qing army might have a brief opportunity to fight the Ming boats.

However, Su Li ordered the siege of the Galen warship at the front end of the Ming army, which was simply sent to the muzzle of the cannon himself.

Immediately, Su Li took the ship to order the flag to change, and the warships in the triangular formation of the Qing squadron immediately filled the rudder to the left, and then the sails quickly swung and tilted, and in only a very short time, the entire battle formation turned to the west.

This is the advantage of the Oriental rigid sail, which can be rotated along the mast, which can capture the best angle to the wind in an instant, and the speed of the ship can be greatly increased in a short time.

Zheng Chenggong saw the warship of the Jianyu Chinese Army turn sharply in the telescope, and heard the adjutant beside him say, "Lord Admiral, the two wings of the captives are turning to our side." ”

He raised his eyes and swept around, and he had a general understanding of the enemy's intentions, and immediately ordered: "Order, pause the firing." Left rudder of the battle line, course due south, and retract the sail after turning.

"Liu Guoxuan's troops turned south-south-east, passed through the rear of the enemy's central army, and then turned right due west to intercept the enemy's left flank. You don't have to fight with them, just hold them back.

"Zhang Guoxuan led the rear team of six small Galen and seven ships to break away from the battle line, and also turned to the south, south and east, intercepting the rear of the enemy's Chinese army."

South-south-east is a point of the compass method commonly used in navigation to mark the direction, about 20 degrees due south and east.

"Yes!"

Soon, the main warship of the Daming Navy Division turned a little clumsily to the left forty-five degrees, turning into a formation with a head south and tail north. The weight of the Galen ship and the fact that the sails could not be turned at will, in the process of all the main battleships turning sharply together, it was difficult for the less experienced sailors of the Ming army to keep the battle line as neat as before.

At this time, the Jianyu Chinese Army Brigade was coming westward, and the Ming army was crossing the route of its advance after turning left, and the distance between the two sides was close to about 100 paces.

In fact, with the safest tactic, the Ming army should turn right and face due west, so that the battle line continues to be parallel to the captured ships, and fire with the main gun on the port side.

However, Zheng Chenggong considered that the right rudder was in a countercurrent direction at this time, and the Galen ship was already turning slowly, which was likely to lead to the enemy ship rushing to the front before turning due west, so the southernmost Shaowu was at risk of being divided and surrounded.

Although the Shao Wu was not afraid to fight with the Qing warships, four or five enemy ships were engaged in a gang jump, and the sailors on the Shao Wu would definitely suffer great casualties.

The left rudder, on the other hand, is downstream and almost immediately turns due south.

Therefore, he simply gave full play to the advantages of the strong firepower of the Ming warships, and put four main warships and five small Galen in front of the enemy formation, and concentrated crossfire at a very close distance to defeat the captive ships at one time.

After the warships on the Ming army's battle line basically reached the port side to face the enemy, Zheng Chenggong decisively ordered: "Order, the whole army is free to shoot!" ”