The left flank of the Mo Jiazhou Division, on the Yuhuang.

This main building ship, which was originally subordinate to the South China Sea of Qifu, is now the far left wing of the fleet.

The bronze cannons on the top floor have been loaded, the drums are beating, and the oarsmen are conserving their strength, making the already slow building ship even slower.

Not far in front of the Yuhuang, there were three small boats, which were like small fish around the big fish, mainly to prevent the arson boats on the opposite side.

The arson ship is very fast, the boat is small, and it is the most suitable to deal with such a large ship, although nine times out of ten it will die halfway, but as long as it succeeds once, it will be earned.

So to deal with this kind of arsonist ship, the building ship must be followed by some extremely fast boats.

If you find that something is wrong, you have to hook the arsonist boats in advance, or drive them away, or cut the sails, or blow them up.

However, the Yue people did not use the arson boat, but chose to pounce on it, wanting to use the abundant martial arts of the nobles to meet the brave and win.

The lieutenant colonel was on the top floor of the ship, with musketeers on his side.

When the ships of the Yue Kingdom were only 150 paces away, the guns at the front of the ships began to fire, and the accuracy of the shooting was very low under the overturning of the waves.

But there were still two small boats of Yue Guo that were hit, and the boats behind had to avoid the bow and subconsciously dodge to the sides.

After two shots, the Yue ship was already very close, the drum beat became rapid, and the Lou boat, which had been slowly advancing, began to speed up, and with the help of its huge body, it crashed into a small Yue boat.

Several small Yue boats approached, and the extremely low hull compared to the Lou ship made it difficult for the Yue soldiers to form an effective threat to the top of the Lou ship.

The musketeer held his breath and pulled the trigger when the Yue boat approached forty or fifty paces.

The musketeers on the second deck were still using heavy obsolete arquebuses, fastened with brackets, so that they could shoot farther.

Most of the small boats of the Yue Kingdom bypassed the Yuhuang, because even if they were not smashed by the collision angle, they would be entangled by the hooks and ladders above, and the gap in numbers was too large, and it was a back-attack, so there was no chance of winning at all.

The only chance for the Yue Kingdom to win was to face the artillery fire, break into the back of the Lou boat, and confront the small boat of the Mo Jiazhou Division.

If you can completely destroy the small sailing oars on the left wing of the Mo family, then relying on the speed advantage, there may still be a chance.

The quantity and quality of artillery were not enough to become the main force of the sailing and galleys in water warfare.

The thumping sound kept coming, and the truly brutal hand-to-hand combat had begun.

The boats of the Mo family boat division began to speed up, forming a small plum blossom array around the Lou boat, and with the help of the fire cover on the Lou boat, they started hand-to-hand combat with the small boat of the Yue Kingdom.

A small sailboat of the Mo family at the rear of the side could not avoid it and was stuck by a small boat of the Yue Kingdom.

The soldiers on board shouted loudly, firing muskets from one side and returning fire with bows and arrows from the other side.

After a boom, the two small sail oars hooked together, and the officers of the Yue Kingdom wanted to get close to hand-to-hand combat, and the Mojia boat, which knew that it could no longer be avoided, also chose to meet the hand-to-hand combat.

At the beginning of the engagement between the two ships, more than 30 people on both sides had already lost their combat effectiveness.

More than a dozen Xiliu sergeants of the Mo family were shot at close range by the Yue people's bows and arrows, and the Yue people were also killed by muskets, and they were also sprayed at close range by the small hemp rope cannon that was close behind, resulting in a large number of casualties.

The building ship not far away can no longer use artillery, the distance is too close, the slightest bump may hit their own people, and Sishang attaches importance to the army, the best gunners are in the army, and the hit rate of the building ship is not very high.

The lieutenant colonel was actually a little confused at this time, he had never really fought this kind of big battle, although he usually learned a lot of things, but he was still a little confused when he actually fought.

The flags on the flagships of the fleets farther away were to maintain the formation and fight, and according to what was learned on paper, by this time the ship had slowed down, relying on the firepower and numerical superiority of the ships to provide cover for the friendly ships around it; The friendly boats around them have to find a way to force the boats of the Yue Kingdom between the boats and their own boats.

However, the reality that came into his eyes at this time was not the case at all.

The small sailing oarboats of the Mo family boat division are also some novices, and they are a little messy when they are rushed by the Yue people who grew up in the water, although the officers know in their minds that they will seize the position and force the Yue boat into the shooting range of the building boat, but the nobles of the Yue country are not stupid.

Their years of water warfare gave them a wealth of experience, and a few artillery shots at the beginning of the engagement allowed them to identify the advantages and disadvantages of the ship.

The fire is very fierce and the speed is very slow, and the best way is to desperately rush the small galleys behind and engage in a scuffle.

So they steered the boat nimbly, and the oarsmen paddled quickly to the sound of the drums, jamming the slightly hesitant Mojia paddle boats, and sticking them when they found an opportunity.

The lieutenant commander could only give the order first, let the musketeers shoot support, stabilize the situation, and see. Since the flag said to let them stay in formation, then according to the predetermined plan, the building ships were used as mobile fortresses to cover those small boats to fight.

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The Vietnamese Navy is there.

Xu Zhizhi also looked worried.

It's not confusion, but a worry when the gap in strength is too big.

The Chinese army was already engaged in the battle, and before the engagement, a single artillery shot of the Mojiazhou division destroyed more than ten small boats of the Chinese army in Vietnam.

The ships that were not afraid of death and rushed past avoided the building ships of the Mo family's army, and inserted them backwards, choosing those small boats to fight.

It seems that there is some chaos in the formation on the Mo family's side, but the Yue country does not have much advantage in the real fight, at most, it destroys the Mo family's formation advantage, but the final hand-to-hand combat Yue people did not take much advantage.

Xu Yan could see that the Mo family's boat master was inexperienced, and although he was the initiator of the attack, he was actually fighting the tactics of self-defense and attrition.

The coordination of the three armies was very problematic, so he gave up the offensive coordination of the three armies, and instead learned from the king eight turtles, maintained the formation, and moved forward little by little.

It's hard for him to fight.

If he wants to win, he needs the Mo family to make mistakes, especially mistakes such as not obeying orders and taking the initiative to pursue and break away from the main force to expose the flanks.

The Mo Jiazhou division has the advantage of strength and firepower, so it is okay to move like this and fight without being impatient, but Xu Jiazhou can't fight like this, he can't afford to fight.

In fact, he could see that the right wing of the Mo family had missed an opportunity, and after the fleet on the left wing of the Yue people seized the upper reaches of the hydrology, they could not capture the four building ships, so they could only choose to melee with the boats behind.

He didn't deploy too many troops on the left flank, so even in such a melee, the Mo family actually had an advantage.

If the four ships had abandoned their rigid formation, chosen to bypass the melee area, seized the upstream at full speed, went around to his flank, went down the river, and rushed into his central formation with artillery and ramming, he would have to consider retreating by now.

However, the right wing of the Mo family did not seize the opportunity, and the four building boats were still rigidly cooperating with the small boats to surround and kill those small sailing boats of the Yue Kingdom.

But this only gave Xu a chance to continue fighting, but it didn't give him a chance to win.

The plan conceived at the beginning now seemed impossible to realize, and the left flank of the Mo Jiazhou Division was already fighting with his right flank, and those huge building ships were not ready to change formations as he had imagined, but were learning from the turtles, and placed there as a mobile fortress to cover the battle of those small boats.

The building ship where Xu was located had been hit by shells three times, but fortunately, these broken iron pellets could only smash the wood of the building ship, and did not cause irreparable damage to the building ship, and it was still within the bearable range.

The flagship on the opposite side was hidden behind the Chinese army, covered by small boats, and as the flagship, it did not take the initiative to attack to give full play to its advantages, but shrank there little by little to destroy the small boats of the Yue people who were approaching, so that Xu Yan had no chance to go straight into the Chinese army and capture the flag.

Xu Yan sighed, and said in his heart If I have this fleet, I am afraid that I will win now.

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The left flank of the Mojiazhou Division, near the Yuhuang.

A Vietnamese paddleboat was burning, and many oarsmen ran out of it and jumped into the water, either clutching on to a plank or trying to hold on to a fallen mast.

There was also a small boat of the Yue Kingdom not far away, and the Yue nobles on the boat witnessed the terrible scene just now.

The Mo family boatmaster is very stupid, and he is not as good as them in the flexibility of rowing, and the small boat of the Yue Kingdom that is burning now took advantage of this opportunity to stick to the side and pull the Mo family's boat on the opposite side with a hook.

However, as soon as it was hooked, the short and clumsy small cannon on the Mo family's ship, with a range of only a few tens of meters, opened fire, and a large amount of gravel and iron sand sprayed on the sailors who were about to jump into hand-to-hand combat on the Yue Guo ship.

Immediately afterwards, someone on the Mo family's ship threw an iron mine, which was completely undisciplined and unfatal.

This nobleman had heard that the hand-to-hand combat sailors on the Mojiazhou division were all trained by the elite city guards under Mozi back then, and the soldiers on the land were trained by the first battalion grenadiers in the Sishang army, but he didn't expect that the two divisions were of the same origin but divided into water and land The troops used similar means.

After a few explosions, the sailors on the Mojia ship actually took the initiative to jump onto the Yue country's ship, and squeezed many Yue people into the water by taking advantage of the chaos, and they actually chose to attack with short swords and small shields.

Although two Yue ships seized the opportunity to move over, forming a three-on-one situation, those people on the Mo family's ship actually destroyed one of the Yue people's ships in this chaos, and seriously injured half of them.

In the end, the Mo family's ship was captured, but the problem was that the Mo family's forces were already superior, and such a desperate one-for-one style of play was a disaster for the Yue country.

Those people may be inexperienced, and they may even be trained according to the melee drills on land, even if there are oarsmen, but the awareness of paddling is not enough, but they are extremely brave, and they are not intimidated by the Vietnamese sailors who have broken hair and tattoos.

In the battle just now, there was also a small boat of the Mo family next to it, and after seeing his teammates being surrounded, he actually chose to support from behind, rather than quickly beating the drum to let the oarsmen quickly seize the inside.

He thought, if he was someone from the Mo family's side, in that situation just now, as the ship next to him, he shouldn't have rushed over and wanted to support, but quickly cut to the inside, blocking the retreat and then attacking from both sides.

But even if they made such and such mistakes, the Vietnamese side still did not control the situation, but instead formed a loss of nearly one for one in the melee.

In fact, this is very humiliating for the Mo family's equipment, firearms superiority, numerical superiority, and the level of hand-to-hand combat training, which proves that they have not controlled the mutual cooperation between small boats at all, and their lack of experience is much worse than their tactical level on land.

But this was of little use to the Yue Kingdom, and the Mo family's small sailing boats, which were more numerically superior, were coming from behind and constantly engaged in the battle.