Wang Xinyu's battleship because it is Chen Peng's flagship, so it is relatively large, it is a kind of Dafu ship of the Ming army, this type of battleship is a fir structure, three masts and four sails, more than ten zhang long, the weight of the ship is about 700 materials, according to the later calculation, it is about 36 meters long, the displacement is about 350 tons, the armament is a 24-pound red-coated cannon at the bow of the ship, there are five 2,000-pound Franc machine cannons on each side, as well as a number of bowl-mouth guns, thunderbolt guns, bird guns, bows and arrows, and a number of bottles with national surnames.

The five warships that surrendered to the enemy were all standard Daifuku ships, with a cedar structure, two masts, weighing 450 materials, about 30 meters long, and a displacement of 220 tons, and were equipped with 24-pound red-coated cannons in the bow, three jack Franc machines on each side, and various melee weapons.

If it was against those Ming warships that had surrendered to the enemy, with the advantage of the ship's firepower and the flowering bombs, Wang Xinyu was confident that he would not suffer at least one enemy and three enemies. It's just that now the Ming soldiers on his ship have suffered a small number of casualties, which has seriously affected the combat effectiveness, and there are Qing army boats that have approached, and the situation is not too good.

"Raise the sails, turn around! Prepare the national surname bottle! Wang Xinyu shouted anxiously.

Someone was about to lower the green flag representing the green camp of the Qing army, but was stopped by Wang Xinyu: "Wait! Don't lower the Tartar flag first! ”

While he was talking, the Qing army's small boat had already come up, and a Qing army hand-to-hand soldier flew to grab the hook and hook the big ship.

"Up! Above! A Qing soldier in the dinghy shouted a small officer.

The Qing soldiers on the dinghy were about to climb onto the big ship, but they heard someone shouting from above: "Throw!" ”

Six smoky porcelain vases swirled and were thrown on the Qing army's boat.

"What's that?" The Qing soldiers were stunned.

An experienced veteran shouted, "Not good! Country surname bottle! Get out of the way! ”

Before the words fell, the explosion covered the shouts of the Qing veterans, and the bottle of the national surname that was thrown into the dinghy suddenly exploded into several fireballs, and the ceramic fragments mixed with the thistle terrestris shot everywhere, and the Qing soldiers who were hit screamed and fell into the sea.

The Qing soldiers on the dinghy were in a mess of casualties, and the Qing soldiers who were not dead were at a loss for what to do, and they were all stunned for a moment.

Wang Xinyu and the three personal soldiers had already taken off their bows and arrows, put on their wrenches, and went out from the big boat.

"That's you!" Wang Xinyu aimed at the commander of the Qing army, stretched his bow and set up an arrow, his fingers were lightly loosened, and a wolf's tooth iron arrow roared out.

The "whoosh" iron arrow penetrated the throat of the Qing army's green battalion commander, who covered his neck and wanted to shout loudly, but felt that his throat was blocked by something, and his consciousness was quickly lost, and an upside-down onion fell from the boat into the sea.

The three pro-soldiers also shot arrows, quickly taking the lives of the three Qing soldiers.

The Ming soldiers on the boat opened their bows and arrows one after another, and there was a flurry of arrows, and the remaining Qing soldiers on the boat jumped into the sea and fled for their lives, except for those who were shot to death.

Wang Xinyu personally walked up to a 2,000-pound Franc cannon, took out a loaded shotgun, stuffed it into the belly of the gun, and then personally manipulated the cannon, aimed at a small boat that was rowing, and ignited the fuse.

A cloud of white smoke erupted from the muzzle of the "boom" gun, and a torrential rain of shotguns swept through the Qing army's boat, and suddenly a blood mist flew in the air.

Just now, the Qing army and those surrendered Ming warships didn't see clearly the fight on this big ship, and now it is the sound of explosions and cannons, and all the Qing troops have understood that Chen Peng's henchmen on this big ship must have been killed, and the big ship that has just surrendered to the Qing Dynasty is going back!

Seeing that the big ship of the Ming army raised its sails and was turning the rudder to run, the Qing army Qian, who had occupied a Ming warship, shouted: "Hurry up and open the cannon!" Don't let Minggou run away! ”

The sailors on the surrendered Ming warships heard the Qing army shouting the word "Ming dog", although they felt very uncomfortable, but their lives were in the hands of others, so they had to honestly load the artillery.

The first battleship fired a salvo, and the shells flew from a mile away, but none of them hit Wang Xinyu's big ship.

"Ignore the big ship for the time being, let's go quickly!" Wang Xinyu shouted anxiously.

The sails had been raised, and the massive battleship slowly turned. At this moment, the battleship that had surrendered to the enemy also raised its sails and was turning. At the same time, the oarsmen on more than a dozen Qing army boats increased their speed and desperately rushed towards the Ming army ships that were trying to escape.

"Bowls, archers, birds to the stern!" Wang Xinyu shouted.

The stern without cannons is the weakest point of a battleship, and if it is approached to the stern by an enemy ship, if the rudder is destroyed by the Qing soldiers with a knife and axe, then it will die here.

In the process of turning the big ship, the Franc cannon on the side fired a salvo, and the solid cannonball hit a Qing army boat that came up on the side, and smashed several large holes in the small boat on the spot, and the shell killed several Qing soldiers, and the flying wood fragments caused secondary damage, and the flesh and blood on the boat flew sideways, and a large number of oarsmen who were paddling died.

In the distance, on the only battleship of the Qing army, Shi Lang was in a good mood and saw that the largest warship of the Ming army had surrendered and hung the green flag. Who knew that there was a sudden change, but the Ming battleship that had already surrendered suddenly opened fire, and the small boat that he sent over to prepare to take over the flagship suffered heavy losses.

Shi Lang picked up the clairhandie mirror and saw the green flag on the flagship of the Ming army fall again, replaced with the red flag of the Ming army.

Seeing this posture, Shi Lang secretly said in his heart: It seems that not only Chen Peng's henchmen were killed, but even the three banner people who passed here are estimated to be more than lucky. He thought it was very strange, those three banner men were strong in martial arts and had rich experience in actual combat, how could they be killed? Shi Lang didn't know that Wang Xinyu relied on the power of the sword and armor, and the combat effectiveness of the three Eight Banner White-armored warriors had actually decreased a lot compared to back then, so they were beheaded by Wang Xinyu and them.

"Full sails, catch up!" Shi Lang turned his head and shouted to his own soldiers.

One of Shi Lang's personal soldiers hurriedly hugged his thigh and begged: "My lord, don't do it!" There are flowering cannonballs on that thief's big ship, and the power is endless! Adults are precious bodies, and they should not be risked! ”

Because of the deception tactics, Shi Lang only had one battleship in Tong'an Bay, and this ship was much smaller than Wang Xinyu's ship, and smaller than those Ming warships that surrendered. This is a centipede ship of the original Ming army with sail and oars, no more than seven zhang long, more than one zhang wide, two masts and multiple oars, walking like flying. But the firepower was very weak, the first one each had a thousand-pound Franc main gun, and the two sides had six six-pound Franc machine small cannons. Using such a small boat to fight with the Ming army's big ships, isn't that hitting an egg against a stone?

"Humph!" Shi Lang sneered, "The Ming general on the big ship opposite must be Wang Yu!" This man is just a chick! Compare with Ben-sama in a water battle? He's looking for death! ”

Shi Lang knew that in terms of the level of naval battle command, he was only afraid of one king of Yanping, and the others, including Huang Wu, were all defeated under him. And that Wang Yu is even more of a chick! Although this thief has flowering shells, as long as he catches up with him, with his own naval combat skills, he will definitely be able to leave the thief ship behind!

Wang Xinyu's battleship had just turned halfway, and the battleship that had surrendered to the enemy had already turned around, raised its full sails and was killing him. On the surrounding sea, dense Qing army boats and ants poured up.

On the surface of the sea, white smoke billowed out, and the killing warships spewed fire, and a row of cannonballs smashed over.

There was a "pop" sound of wood breaking, and a cannonball hit Wang Xinyu's warship.

The shell hit the starboard side, a large hole was smashed into the female wall, and fragments of planks were splattered everywhere. Wang Xinyu saw with his own eyes that a Ming soldier couldn't dodge, and was hit by a flying piece of wood on his left arm, and was instantly slashed by a steel knife, and his entire left arm was torn off by force, and blood gushed out several meters away.

After visually measuring the distance of the enemy ship, which was outside the range of the flowering shell, Wang Xinyu shouted: "Prepare for the chain bomb!" ”

The enemy ship was facing itself at the bow, and the red-coated cannon in the bow was not as fast as the Franc machine.

The gunner on the starboard side loaded the sub-gun with chain shells into the Franc cannon, aimed it at the enemy ship that rushed first, and ignited the fuse.

The big ship fired five salvo shots, and a row of chain bullets flew out, one of which hit the sail of the enemy ship, and immediately tore off a large piece of the sail, ripped off the rope, and the sail fell, and the speed of the enemy ship immediately slowed down.

As long as the guns are prepared in advance, the Franc cannon can be reloaded very quickly.

The Ming gunners cleaned the breech, reset the cannon, and put it into the sub-gun.

The gunners of the enemy ships were also nervously loading, but the enemy ships with the bow facing the Ming ship had a red-coat cannon that could be used, and the loading speed of this gun was extremely slow, and the Ming army completed the loading, and the red-coat cannon of the enemy ship only had time to load the gunpowder, and even the shells had not been put in.

With Wang Xinyu's order, the big ship fired another volley, but this round of salvo failed to hit, and the enemy ship continued to approach.

A small Qing army boat had already come up, and it was only fifty or sixty paces away from the big ship.

"Put!" Wang Xinyu roared.

Behind the female wall, bowl-mouth guns, thunderbolt guns, and bird guns stretched out, and a volley of volleys hit the Qing army's boats.

The second Qing army boat followed closely, and seeing that the grappling hooks of the Qing soldiers were about to be thrown onto the big ship, a row of random arrows was fired from the Ming warship. However, the Qing army used wooden signs to cover it, and the arrows did little damage to the Qing army's hand-to-hand combatants, and only killed and injured a few unlucky guys.

Wang Xinyu saw a guy waving a grappling hook in his hand, ready to throw it on the boat. Several people around the Qing soldier were armed with wooden cards to help him block bows and arrows. Wang Xinyu didn't say much, took out an iron wolf's tooth sharp arrow from his quiver, and opened his bow to shoot the arrow. At the moment before the Qing soldier's grappling hook was about to be thrown, Wang Xinyu's fingers loosened, and the wolf's tooth arrow roared away with a strong wind, drilling through the gap between the wooden cards and the wooden cards, and an arrow pierced the chest of the Qing soldier, penetrated the light armor, and drilled out from the back.

The grappling hook that lost control fell into the sea, and the dinghy failed to catch the big boat.

Before the Qing army threw the grappling hook for the second time, the bird gunners who had completed the loading stepped forward, and a volley was fired, and the improved gunpowder pushed the projectiles, causing the wooden cards to be torn apart, and the Qing soldiers fell into the water one after another.

On the port side, a dinghy has come up, and the grappling hook hooks out of the big boat.

A Qing soldier grabbed the rope and had just climbed halfway through it, when one of Wang Xinyu's personal soldiers swung a knife to cut the rope, and the Qing soldier fell into the sea with a scream.

On the big ship, the Ming army lit the national surname bottle and threw it on the small boat below. Only a series of explosions were heard, and the Qing soldiers on the boat were killed and wounded.

The enemy ships that had already rushed to the "Boom" spit out white smoke one after another, and the shells fell into the water around the big ship, stirring up countless columns of water that rushed to the sky. A twenty-four-pound solid shell smashed into the deck, shattering the planks in all directions, and two Ming soldiers who could not dodge were killed and wounded.

The big ship had turned completely, the two sailors pulled the ropes, the sails were all raised, and under the force of the wind, the big ship suddenly accelerated, leaving behind the three small boats that had swooped down.

A small boat in front of it couldn't dodge and was hit by a big ship, which directly knocked the boat upside down. The bow shook slightly, and the rough boat ran over to the bottom of the sea.

The enemy ship was in hot pursuit, and the big ship suddenly lowered half of its sails, and at the same time the left rudder turned, and the speed of the ship slowed down again.

"Can you hurry up? Don't keep going around! Wang Xinyu anxiously urged the sailors, hoping that the sailors could drive the ship faster.

"Lord Wang!" The sailor at the helm replied, "We cannot retreat in a straight line, and if we do in a straight line, the enemy ships will bite our stern and attack us continuously, and we will not be able to fight back." We retreated in a zigzag to ensure that the broadside guns could counterattack. ”

The speed of the Ming battleship slowed down, and the first enemy ship in hot pursuit, which was chasing closer, got closer and closer, and the red-coated cannon in the bow fired from time to time.

The commander in charge of commanding the big ship never gave the order to fire back, but waited slowly for the enemy ship to approach.

The enemy ship was getting closer and closer, and the Qing soldiers on the enemy ship could already see the muzzle of the big ship's black hole, like a row of teeth bared by a shark, aimed at themselves.

"Left full rudder, speed down!" The Qing army always knew that the Ming army was going to fire at him, so he shouted in a hurry.

But the warship with full sails raised and galloping at sea is not so easy to control, and the distance between the two sides continues to approach. Moreover, the Qing army just exposed its huge flanks to the Ming army's guns.

When the distance between the two sides was less than 300 steps, the Ming army gave the general order: "Open the cannon!" ”

Five 2,000-pound Franc cannons on the port side let out a deafening roar, and a row of shells whizzed and smashed over.

It was so close that three of the five flowering shells hit, two of which exploded on enemy ships!

Looking from the big ship, I saw that the enemy ship exploded, the sails were swallowed up by the two flames that suddenly rose, and the whole ship suddenly burst into flames, and the sailors on board jumped into the water crying and shouting. Not long after, another violent explosion came, the fire burned through the ship's powder hold, the two-hundred-twenty-ton warship exploded violently, a mushroom cloud rose on the sea, billowing black smoke rushed hundreds of feet into the air, and the dilapidated warship sank in the firelight.

"Well played!" Wang Xinyu gave a thumbs up.

The commander in charge of commanding the battleship gave another order: "Right rudder!" ”

The warship straightened again and galloped in the direction of Takasaki.

The gunners on the port side cleaned the chamber and reset the gun. The gunners on the starboard side had already finished loading, but they were reloading with chain shells, because the enemy would not get too close to themselves once they were fooled. All you have to do now is to repel the enemy with a chain bullet and give yourself enough time to retreat.

The two enemy ships behind quickly approached with full sails, and the commander ordered again: "Right rudder!" ”

At this moment, someone shouted: "Clipper! Tartar Clipper! ”

Looking in the direction of the sailor's finger, he saw a centipede clipper flying the "Shi" flag in the distance, speeding up and catching up.