At a distance of less than a hundred yards, it was simply a bombardment in the face for the cannon of a giant ship. In such a close situation, even the sturdy hull of the Shaoxing could not resist the direct hit of the heavy artillery, and the hull was suddenly torn out several times.

Zheng Chenggong remained standing, knowing very well that this "Nelson method of warfare" taught by the Son of Heaven was extremely dangerous for the ships at the front of the column, and would withstand concentrated shelling from enemy ships on both sides.

You must know that in the Battle of Trafalgar in history, although the British fleet did not lose ships, their commander Nelson was killed by a cannonball because he was on the flagship that rushed to the front.

However, as long as they could hold out until the moment they were inserted into the enemy's battle line, the two detachments of the Ming army would cut the enemy fleet into three sections and form a T-shaped cross-head situation on the enemy ships. In particular, the enemy ships located in the middle section will also be attacked by the Daming Navy Division from the front and rear directions.

Soon, the Raozhou, which was closely following the Shaoxing, also entered the range of fire of the enemy ships, but the Helan people were obviously a little flustered by the Daming Sailors who rushed up like they were not killed, and the shells that hit it were far less than the ones that hit the Shaoxing.

At the same time, the bows of the Shaoxing and Guangzhou had been pasted on the battle lines of the Helan people.

It was only at this point that Beth finally panicked. Quite contrary to what he had expected, the enemy was very cunning and chose to break through at the junction of his battle line, so that not a single ship could fire at them with all its firepower. Moreover, the Dodrechet, which has the most powerful firepower on its own side, can only watch with a blank eye if it turns its head to help the battle at this time, except that it will disrupt its own formation and make the battleships crowd together, which will not play the slightest role.

At the same time, the Ming people were extremely decisive, and the full sail was inserted quickly, and they didn't care about the loss of the sail at all, so the cannon on their side only fired less than twenty rounds, and it was already rushed to the vicinity of the battle line by the enemy ships.

Coupled with the fact that the enemy's massive ship, which was not inferior to the Dodrechet, was unusually strong, it did not appear to have suffered a fatal blow. Even the ship at the front of the enemy fleet on the east flank, although covered with more than a dozen bullet holes, was far from being sunk.

He shrank in his heart, according to the current trend, in a moment it will be an enemy ship with the side facing the bow of his own people!

This situation had never been encountered before, and he had never even thought about it!

Cold sweat oozed from his forehead, but the situation did not allow him to think about it. After a moment, he turned to the herald and yelled, "Raise the flag." The front of the battle line turned around for reinforcements, and the rear team kept engaged! ”

"Yes!"

Just as the Dordrecht turned awkwardly with five battleships, the Shaoxing's side was already on the same level as Helan's battle line.

Zheng Chenggong coldly spit out two words, "Fire!" ”

"Yes!"

The drums on the Shaoxing were loud, and the gunners on the two-story gun deck seemed to have been suppressed for a thousand years, and immediately completed a series of actions such as aiming and shooting with the most skillful movements.

The twenty-five cannons on the starboard side erupted like volcanic flames in an instant, and at such close range, they were almost missed.

Seventeen shells accurately hit the stern of the nearest Mary, and the sky was filled with splinters of wood and flesh flying. The entire stern was blown away by the tremendous force of the cannonballs, and the third mast, along with the sails, fell on the deck, crushing more than a dozen sailors.

In a moment, a second round of shelling hit.

This time the Maria was extremely unlucky. A twenty-four-pound cannon shot along its longitudinal axis, shattering the winch that controlled the rudder, and burrowing into the second gun deck, bouncing the deck twice and crushing the gun bay with mud and blood.

The Shaoxing then veered slightly to the right, gave way to the angle of fire, and began to bombard the side and rear of the Maria.

Almost at the same time, the detachment on the eastern side of the Ming army also broke through into the Helan battle line. The damage of the Canton was much worse than that of the Shaoxing, and there were only four guns left on the starboard side, so it had to use the ten guns on the port side to attack the Erke at the tail of the Lan team.

The entire Helan battle line was blocked by people and could not continue sailing, and the warships behind either desperately slowed down or turned sharply to the sides, and suddenly crowded into a ball.

The battleships that lost their speed were no different from the target on the sea, while the Ming fleet was still a neat two battle lines.

As more Ming warships were inserted into the Helan battle line, in fact, it could no longer be regarded as a battle line at this time, the cannon on the sea shook the sky, and the firelight continued to shine like stars.

First, the Maria could not resist the heavy artillery fire of the Shaoxing, and began to tilt to the left, revealing the Ankewen and the Egret in front of it on its side. Shells immediately began to fire at their tails.

On the other side, the Hector and the Raozhou, two 30-gun battleships, began to engage in short combat, but the former used the bow to face the port side of the latter, and the outcome can be imagined.

Cesarneo desperately instructed his men to turn the ship, intending to aim the starboard side at the enemy ship, but before he could complete the turn, he was already eating a first-round shelling at close range.

Before the poor Helan gunners could show their virtuosity, several shells hit the helm of the Hector in succession, and another eighteen-pounder cannon fired a chain of bullets that screwed off his mainmast and third mast together, turning the nearly 500-ton battleship into a "giant wooden block" floating on the surface of the sea.

The seven ships that had been in the middle of the Helan battle line were completely incapacitated in less than twenty minutes under the front and rear attacks. The dense bullet holes in the hull made them like huge beehives, and the sailors on board were killed and wounded so many that they did not even have the ability to withdraw from the battle.

Immediately, the Shaoxing led the western detachment to the rear of the Helan battle line. After nearly half an hour, they finally completed the turn, and the seven warships that began to sail towards the rear team of Helan should actually be considered four, so that three of them were either depowered by the Guangzhou and the others, or were tilting badly, and were not far from sinking.

Of course, even the only four remaining ships were riddled with holes, but they finally aimed their side with difficulty at more than a dozen Ming warships such as the Guangzhou, ready to fight to the death.

However, at this moment, more than a dozen other warships of the Great Ming Naval Division passed by their south side, and the port side was facing their bow.

After several rounds of heavy artillery fire, the four scarred ships could no longer hold on, two of them had their mainsails destroyed and swirled on the water, and the other two desperately fled in a southeasterly direction. Immediately, four corvettes of the Ming army followed in pursuit.

By the time the Dreychett, the Tybert, and the Naarden, which had been at the forefront of the Helan line, had made a large circle at sea and were rushing to support their rear team as fast as possible, the battle there was basically over.

A total of 24 warships of 10 or 14 small units led by the Shaoxing have been rearranged into a neat battle line, and are waiting for the upwind to be ready for battle.

Brahm saw this scene in the telescope and looked at Bess with a pale face, "General, there are too many enemy ships, we ...... Let's retreat for the time being......"

"Retreat? Behind us is Fujian, and then north is Zhejiang, where can we retreat? ”

Bess straightened his collar and raised his head: "Order, battle sail, prepare for the decisive battle." ”

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