It is based on the consideration of the strength of both sides that Li Tianyang made up his mind to support Gong Zhuyi, after all, compared to Zheng Zhilong's attitude towards the Bengang team, Gong Zhuyi and others have a much better attitude towards Bengang, and they are also more likely to be influenced by Bengang.

However, the final direction of the battle was still as Li Tianyang and the others expected, and they were very unfriendly to the Gongzhu Yi coalition army.

Zheng Zhilong is not very old, but it seems that he himself was born for the sea, and the things he deals with on the sea, his whole person is like a hanging, whether he is learning things or manipulating the fleet, he is so handy.

In the intelligence of Bengang's foreign guards, Zheng Zhilong himself has only been in contact with pirates for a few years, but the strength of the so-called Flying Dragon Gang under his command at sea is not even much different from the main fleet of Hongtang.

It is worthy of the henchman fleet of Li Dan, the lord of the sea, who is rampant in the South Seas, and as soon as the first day of the battle, the Gongzhuyi combined fleet received a big blow.

The ten artillery pieces that Li Tianyang supported Gong Zhuyi and the others, plus the fact that these pirate gangs themselves had uneven artillery, in Gong Zhuyi's mind, even if they couldn't suppress the other party, at least they could compete with them in terms of the number and specifications of artillery fire.

But the facts gave Gong Zhuyi a resounding slap in the face, Zheng Zhilong Feilong Gang took the initiative to find the Gong Zhuyi coalition army that came from the brigade when the number of warships on their side was not advantageous, and stopped Gong Zhuyi and others at the edge of the sea area that they actually controlled.

There were no other fancy declarations of war, everyone was a gangster at sea, licking blood at the tip of a knife, and they both knew that this time it was impossible to be good, just a few provocative words to each other, and the artillery fire between them was fired towards each other.

It's just that Gong Zhuyi never expected that the Flying Dragon Gang, which was originally more than a dozen ships less than his own number of warships, would suppress their coalition army with the number of artillery fire displayed at the first time!

The artillery fire is flying, and the number of artillery fires is just to suppress their own side, and what they didn't expect is that the artillery cultivation displayed by this Flying Dragon Gang is beyond the reach of this rabble.

In the first round of artillery strikes, among the hundreds of various shells fired by the Gongzhu Yi Coalition Army, very few really caused damage to the Wyvern Battleship, and more shells fell into the deep sea, returning to the high splashes on the sea.

On the side of the Wyvern Gang, there were also hundreds of shells, at least more than 30 shells hit the pirate coalition to stand out, and the most unlucky sloop, which was not too big, showed signs of falling apart after suffering three shells in a row to hit the ship's side armor, and a large amount of seawater began to pour into the inner compartment along the cracks in the armor, making the ship thieves tired to deal with.

When Li Dan became famous on the sea, Gong Zhuyi and the others were still small minions at that time, where did they know the strength of others, and when Gong Zhuyi began to do something, Li Dan had already shifted his focus to the Japanese country, and most of the ships coming and going to the South China Sea were his fleets.

With fame, even if Gong Zhuyi and the others don't know the true strength of Li Dan, but under the opponent's powerful ocean-going fleet and the morality of the rivers and lakes, they rarely have the idea of beating other people's fleets.

It was only now that they really saw how powerful Li Dan's fleet strength was and how he could secure his position as the lord of the South China Sea.

But fortunately, with the rise of Hongtang over the years, the artillery tactics that Hongtang relied on across the sea have long been well-known to pirates like Gong Zhuyi in these years, and in private, these pirates have not thought about how to deal with Hongtang's artillery tactical strikes.

After being caught off guard by the Flying Dragon Gang at the first time because they didn't know the details, Gong Zhuyi and the others soon dispersed the formation, and they could no longer provide Zheng Zhilong with the opportunity to play a concentrated attack.

No one thought that in addition to Bengang Hongtang, there were other non-governmental organizations that could get so many powerful artillery, just the first time, Gong Zhuyi and they found that the power of the opponent's artillery was obviously a few points higher, which was not comparable to their own small cannons mixed with a large number of tiger squat cannons, hundred-pound Franco machine guns and other small cannons.

However, if Gong Zhuyi and the others carefully studied the past of Li Dan and Zheng Zhilong, it would not be difficult to guess the reason why the other party could have so much artillery fire.

In fact, this is also expected by Li Tianyang, Li Dan is much earlier than Li Tianyang in the South China Sea, so the wealth in Li Dan's hands is not something that Li Tianyang can guess.

In this way, as the elite fleet in Li Dan's hands, he wants to place a few artillery pieces on each main warship that cannot be bought outside, for Li Dan, such an investment is not too much.

In particular, in recent years, because of the relationship between skin color and the Tokugawa shogunate's gradual control of the overall situation of the Wa country, the rejected Dutch wanted to continue to gain a foothold in the Wa country, so they needed to find a spokesperson in the Wa country as a channel of communication with the Tokugawa shogunate.

With such a relationship, outsiders, even including the Japanese officials, want to purchase Western artillery that is difficult to gain, for Li Dan, isn't that just a matter of taking the silver out and saying a few words to the Dutch?

It is precisely with this wealth inherited from Li Dan that Zheng Zhilong has such great confidence, and takes the initiative to find the Gongzhuyi Pirate Alliance and fight with them with real swords.

Gong Zhuyi and the others' response method was not incorrect, although it dispersed the distance between the fleets, but it also minimized the threat of the Wyvern Gang's powerful artillery fire.

However, Zheng Zhilong obviously also expected the other party's response, since the other party spread out the formation, then he would also calculate, but instead pulled the formation of his own fleet tighter, like an awl, from the center of Gong Zhuyi's scattered formation, forcefully inserted in, and suddenly divided the opponent's team into two sections!

The pirate coalition that was divided into two sections began to panic a little, originally everyone was just a group of rabble, and they had long been accustomed to fighting alone, such a large-scale battle was not something that all of them were good at, but this time they were separated, and they lost their echo and command, and many of them didn't know what to do when they stood out, so they could only rely on the flexibility of the warship to entangle with each other.

On one side, the Wyverns used artillery fire to resist the attack of one side and intercept the opponent on one side, while the other side seized the opportunity to launch a thunderous attack on the few ships that were isolated, and sank the opposing ships and sailors with maximum damage.

(End of chapter)