The sudden reinforcements made Yan Siqi silent and Zheng Zhilong frightened, but now that it is difficult to ride a tiger, they can only pull out the warships that are still entangled by Hongmen in their hands, in a vain attempt to drag the eight new "Yang Fan" warships from Hongmen.

After seeing the strength of Hongmen even if it does not have the advantage of artillery fire, the "Yang Fan-type" battleship that suddenly appeared behind him at this time is carrying the artillery fire that is rumored to wipe out the entire army of the Satsuma Japanese people, with the more than ten warships that Yan and Zheng can mobilize to entangle each other now, it is really not enough insurance!

However, the situation did not develop in the direction that Yan Siqi and Zheng Zhilong were worried about.

Li Tianyang was able to hide these eight "Yang Fan-type" warships without being exposed to the public's field of vision, because there were sufficient raw materials for building big ships on Dayuan Island, and the shipyard in the secret base of Hongmen also had enough time to accumulate and build big ships.

However, the firearms carried by the big ships are not so easy to produce, in order to prepare for the war in the East, Hongmen mobilized the financial and material resources of the entire team to build ten fully armed artillery "Yang Fan" fleet, and now how can it be possible to conjure up so many guns armed with these eight "Yang Fan" warships in a hurry!

Even among these eight warships, only two warships carried a total of twenty-three guns, which was still produced by the Bengang Cannon Foundry in more than a month, and even the dozen or so remaining cannons guarding the lair in the inner city of Bengang were unloaded and installed on them.

Zheng Zhilong and they are all slippery people, as soon as they engage in battle, they find that the "Yang Fan-style" warship has a flaw in vain, and there is no well-equipped artillery weapon, at least Zheng Zhilong has improved their confidence in interception, and they are no longer worried at the beginning.

As long as they can buy enough time for the main forces in the rear, which are fighting hard, to achieve enough results, it will be worth it.

However, after the "Yang Fan" battleship lost the weapon of artillery fire, it did not mean that Zheng Zhilong and the others were relaxed, and the reason why Westerners were able to rely on Western warships to crisscross the seas of this era was not just because of its firearms.

Except for the fact that Western warships are slightly more difficult to turn because of their huge size, they are much better than Eastern ships in terms of speed, sturdiness, and agility.

Strong and heavy armed armor, even if the artillery fire of Zheng Zhilong Feilong Gang was lucky to hit the "Yang Fan" warship, but it could produce a strong destructive power on the Hongmen 400 warship, but when facing the armor of the "Yang Fan" warship, at most it could only smash out a bowl of large pit walls, and the occasional water seepage was quickly blocked by the Hongmen soldiers, which did not affect its overall performance.

On the other hand, on the side of the "Yang Fan" warship, the bow of the ship has a collision angle that extends forward for more than a zhang, and the front end is wrapped in tough steel, exuding a dark and cold aura unique to metal, which makes people look awe.

The six "Yang Fan-type" warships, which did not have artillery and other long-range high-power weapons, made full use of the bow collision angle of this ship, and unreasonably rushed straight forward when they found a target, with the intention of dying together with the target.

However, if it really collides with the target, and finally there is a large-scale damage and collapse, it will definitely not be a "Yang Fan-style" warship with strong armor, strong ramming angles, and huge body.

It was this kind of tactic that was comparable to the desperate Saburo, which was very different from the art of naval warfare in the East, which blinded Zheng Zhilong, who had a good relationship with the Dutch and thought that he knew the tactics of naval warfare of the Westerners.

Westerners came from afar, and the ships that could reach the East were all well-prepared caravans or state organizations, and the ships of the people naturally had artillery that was common in the West.

And because they came from afar, every Western ship that came to the East was an important tool for creating infinite wealth, and even if they knew that their warships were hard and powerful, they would not take advantage of their sharp guns and superior performance, but clumsily used this extremely risky, and rude and untechnical tactic.

Hongmen's side was also helpless, because of the lack of manpower, this time the two thousand warriors on the eight warships, more than 1,500 were recruited from the alliance.

After years of cultivation, the indigenous warriors have been able to master all kinds of techniques in naval warfare, and they are also familiar with the boat, and they can barely be regarded as an ordinary sailor in the Oriental sea ships such as the Hongmen 400 material warships, after all, most of the sails of the Oriental sea ships use hard sails, which are easy to operate and require scarce manpower.

However, the "Yang Fan" warship's obviously Western-style sails are not something that the indigenous warriors can play with in a half-hung boat, even if there are many Hongmen skilled sailors to help, but it is still a little difficult to give full play to the performance of the "Yang Fan" warship.

Therefore, after discovering these problems when he was on the road, Wu Juren, the commander of the eight warships, simply decided to convince people with his strength, not to play those vain things, and directly use the excellent sturdiness of the "Yang Fan-style" warship to have a tough duel.

The effect was unexpectedly good, and the Flying Dragon Gang didn't expect the other party to be so disregarding those battleships that looked brand new at first glance and exuded a strong smell of tung oil, so they collided with their own warships like this.

Most of the Flying Dragon Gang warships were knocked out of a big hole on the spot, and they were provoked by the collision angle of the Hongmen "Yang Fan-style" warship that was much higher on the opposite side, just like a seven or eight-year-old child being pushed backwards by an adult strong man.

A few of the lucky two unintentional changes to the flexibility of the Oriental Warship at the critical moment, and finally passed by it, but it was still inevitable to be squeezed by the Red Regiment Warship on the side, and after the sharp and heart-wrenching friction sound, the side armor was slightly deformed in many places, and the inner compartment inevitably began to penetrate some slight water traces.

Of course, the "Yang Fan" warship is also inevitably damaged, this kind of tactic that is criticized by Westerners, unless it is desperate, when destroying the opponent's target, the powerful impact force is also not small damage to one's own warship.

It's just that in front of the armor of the Hongmen "Yang Fan" battleship, which is about two feet thick, the impact force generated by the collision with the opposite target, in addition to making the soldiers on the warship stagger, what can finally be detected is the slightly deformed sharp corners at the impact angle, and the armor with cracks in several places at the bow of the ship.

Immediately, it was time for the Hongmen warriors who were ready to stretch their hands.

(End of chapter)