Deng Yunchao, the deputy general of the Chenghai Association, scattered around with his seven or eight boats, just waiting for these two soft-sail clippers about the same size as Daqingtou to rush closer, and then surrounded them on all sides. Although the opponent's guns were sharp, he rushed to the front with a desperate rush, the fire pot fire bricks were on it, and at the same time he burned the sails of the opponent with a big crossbow rocket, and solved the two clippers, even if the battle with the white swallow was fruitless, he had already made a great achievement.

Eager to make contributions, Deng Yunchao made an unusual mistake and made his boat line up at the far corner on the left, so that when surrounded on all sides, his boat could approach the stern of the opponent's boat. The boat's firearms are more complete than ordinary ships, and there are more soldiers, and attacking from the stern of the ship should be able to achieve miraculous results.

The two clippers went down the wind, and in the eyes of Qing Bing, they were like birds skimming low on the sea, Deng Yunchao's eyes jumped straight away, this speed was far beyond his imagination, and it also made him faintly feel that his design would be deviated?

The waves had just turned in his heart, but the two clippers who were rushing straight to the battlefield suddenly turned their bows away, raised a white arc, and turned left and right.

Deng Yunchao's cold air was rising, too fast! Too flexible! He had never seen it in his life, like a big green head, at least a sea ship of four hundred materials, which could be like a fast sentry ship traveling with the wind, so light and sideways, no, more dexterous than a fast whistle!

What made him even worse was that his boat was originally on the far side of the outer circle, but a clipper turned around and swept down sideways, and the boat took the lead, and the distance from the other party was rapidly approaching, and on the other party's hull, four black and swarthy cannon doors that had been lifted were clearly visible.

Left ...... No, right-hand rudder! Right hand drive! ”

In a panic, Deng Yunchao almost screamed and gave the order to avoid the enemy ship rushing down to the right and left.

"Just two chances!"

On the Golden Carp, Hu Hanshan reminded the gun commander.

"Don't worry, the commander-in-chief, he has to be hit twice in two rounds!"

The gunner was the gunner who followed Xiao Sheng to fight against the Honest Man, and he slapped his chest and was full of confidence.

"Two cannons are not enough! I'll give you within thirty feet, and you must be sunk!" Gotta grab the jackpot! ”

Hu Hanshan glared and shouted, and the gun commander was so happy that his face was smiling, and he was within thirty zhang...... It's cool today, I used to fight against the honest man, and I had to stay away from it, otherwise it would be enough to be piggyback by the opponent's cannon.

It's a pity that the Qing soldiers don't have cannons, of course, Deng Yunchao's bow and stern are each a big tribute that is too old to look like a cannon, and it is also a breech cannon, but this thing is afraid that it has a history of seventy or eighty years, Deng Yunchao is just pretending to be on his own boat, and his appearance is still polished, and he doesn't know what the situation is in the chamber.

The Golden Carp approached thirty or forty zhang away from Deng Yunchao's boat, and recklessly collected half a sail, and the boat was still facing the wind, turning the rudder to the right like an old ox pulling a broken car. The Qing soldiers on the ship fought desperately, just like the cattle and sheep facing the tiger and wolf were howling loudly.

"Shoot ......"

Hu Hanshan gave an order, and then sat back and watched a good show.

Knock knock knock, four cannon sounds, with a very short interval of continuous roar, the Golden Carp is still the original eight-pound cannon, dealing with the previous honest man is not very effective, but against the Qing soldiers' big green head, the effect is completely different.

The water column was lifted into the air, Hu Hanshan raised his head, looked at the bits and pieces that flew into the air, his mouth was open, and he let out an exclamation of "wow".

Sure enough, it's a jackpot! There was no need to fire a second round of guns, and the distance was so close that the commander of the Golden Carp was still frustrated that he had only been hit by three of his four guns. One shot hit the stern of the ship, blasting the entire stern building into pieces, one hit the bow of the ship under the waterline, almost lifting the boat to the side, and the third shot was a fatal shot, bombarding the middle of the hull, penetrating from the port side to the starboard side.

"Row! Hurry up and row! ”

Deng Yunchao was dizzy and delirious by these bombardments, and when he was in a small sampan, his mind was washed by a thought of escaping quickly.

With a bang, the big tribute at the stern of the ship fell from mid-air, and it fell on the heads of him and a few of his own soldiers, and a few people smashed through the plank, and also broke the keel that was still struggling to maintain the integrity of the ship, and the huge four hundred big green heads were broken into two from it, and sank into the sea.

"Liu Bald! Attaboy! I'll give you credit! ”

Hu Hanshan shouted excitedly, on the battlefield two or three miles away, Bai Zhengli and Feng must be in the front team, taking in this scene, and chanting with their subordinates.

Then they cheered again, and the Silver Carp, which turned to the other side, also smashed a big green head to pieces, and spread it diagonally on the surface of the sea, and it was only a matter of time before it sank.

The Golden and Silver Carp went down in a diagonal line, straight into the side of the battle group of Bai Yanzi and Niu Ang, and roared the big green heads of the Qing soldiers all the way, and the Qing soldiers had no power to resist at all, but in a quarter of an hour or two, there were six or seven big green heads that became a pile of wood garbage on the sea, and two of them followed in the footsteps of Deng Yunchao's boat, and sank cleanly.

"Really...... Eagle Hunting Rabbit! ”

Bai Yanzi and Bai Lianren in the center of the battle group were already in a daze, they had followed these clippers before, and they didn't feel how sharp they were, but at this time they realized that it was because people deliberately slowed down in order to take care of the speed of their fleet. Nowadays, this style of play is directly bombarded dozens of feet away, and the Qing soldiers have no artillery, so it is like a target.

"If only I had a ship like this......"

Bai Yanzi's heart was hot, and he began to ponder, after this battle, he had to discuss with the Heavenly King, and he could also match himself with such a fast gunboat.

"Take advantage of the ...... Take advantage of the fast boat to turn around against the wind and quickly surround it! ”

Niu Ang was so frightened that he couldn't say anything, but he had a heart to fight, he actually didn't want to fight again, the opponent's ship was fast and the cannon was sharp, it was a real cannon, a red-coated cannon! At most, your own bowl will kick up a cloud of sawdust smoke on the hull of the opponent's ship, and it will not hurt the inside at all. He wanted to run, but looking at the speed of the other party, he couldn't run away, seeing that the two clippers swept past the battle group and were rowing a circle to turn around, it was the opportunity to help hand-to-hand combat, and he still wanted to fight.

After all, the Qing soldiers were still professional, and this opportunity was seized, and more than a dozen ships divided into two ways, went down the wind, and cut the inner circle to approach the Golden and Silver Carp head-on. Seeing that each ship was surrounded by five or six boats, Niu Ang nervously and excitedly gnawed his fist in his mouth, and the next one, the roaring cannon startled his mouth so hard that he almost broke his front teeth.

The Qing soldiers' ship was surrounded from the side of the bow of the ship, avoiding the gun door, but they did not expect that the boat was still supported by a small gun, which was specially loaded on the experience of fighting against Hong Kong Bazheng in the waters of Hong Kong earlier. In fact, it was a flying cannon with a thickened tail of the cannon, and each of the four guns fired more than 100 shotguns at one gun, and the lead spewed out, like a rain of lead, almost sweeping away the enemy platform and the Qing soldiers on the two ships more than 10 zhang away.

If Bai Yanzi's fleet was a hedgehog just now, then the distant and near bombardment of this clipper suddenly made the Qing soldiers feel that this was a tiger and leopard in the forest at all. Coming and going is like flying, cannons are like sharp mouths, as long as it is hit, it is the fate of the ship sinking and people dying, even if they rub the dead corner and get close, people still have claws, and one claw will tear people apart.

The Qing soldiers were all cracked, and the two ships approaching from the bow were so frightened that they turned their heads and retreated, but they happened to be the target of the gunside guns.

"Retreat! Withdraw! ”

I don't know if I was hurt by the mouth just now, or if I was scared and cried, Niu Ang beckoned his subordinates to retreat.

"Zongrong, there is a large sail shadow in the north!"

"It should be Shi Junmen, he finally didn't stand up for this battle!"

"There are also thirty or forty big ships in Shijunmen, let's gather our troops in one place, and we still have to fight!"

Just as he was about to give the order, his subordinates shouted.

"What if he's coming? Can he handle that monstrous Clippers? ”

Niu Ang still has tears in his eyes.

"Sure enough, it's a clipper cannon!"

On the boat, Shi Shibiao had a general overview of the battlefield at a glance and expressed such feelings. Faintly hearing a different cannon sound in the north, he knew that the target he was waiting for had appeared.

"No matter how fast the ship is, someone has to sail it, and no matter how good the cannon is, it has to be fired, don't think that there is no way to deal with you!"

Looking at the two white sails in the distance, Shi Shibiao smiled coldly.

"Okay, swarm! Battle, five plum blossoms! ”

He commanded his subordinates.

"It's Shi Shibiu!"

On the Golden Carp, Lao Jin reminded Hu Hanshan.

"Really here? Boss Xiao said that he must have a way to deal with our clippers, and he really wants to open his eyes. ”

Hu Hanshan muttered disappreciatively.

The Golden and Silver Carp abandoned Niu Angbu, whose backbone had been broken, and continued to draw a circle towards the northeast and northwest, in order to seize the upper hand and rectify Shi Shibi's fleet in the same way.

Then Hu Hanshan found that the enemy was really different, more than ten boats did not collide directly, but like a goddess scattering flowers, going up and down in the wind, no matter how he walked, he would stick to the routes of several boats on the other side.

"Those who are at the helm of the ship are good hands!"

Lao Jin exclaimed, and then was glanced at by Hu Hanshan.

"If you don't want to be sticked, you have to turn the bow of the boat and go down the wind and go around in a big circle."

Lao Jin hurriedly put forward a professional opinion, although Hu Hanshan still looked down on Shi Shibiu's tattered fleet, he still cared about Xiao Sheng's words, and didn't want to rashly fight melee with the other party, who knows what weirdness that guy will put in him?

But if he wants to go around in such a big circle, he is using the white swallow as a barrier, and he can't hold his face.

"Go up, let's see what he Shi Shibi is capable of!"

Full of heart to overcome his concerns, Hu Hanshan made a decision.

The Golden Carp continued to climb the wind, and the scattered fleet gradually tightened, and when the Golden Carp climbed to a high point and was about to turn to skimm, more than a dozen ships had surrounded it on all sides, and the way of encircling it was still very strange, all of them were diagonally towards themselves.

"Five-point plum blossom array...... Hehe, I saw the Qing soldiers and sailors practice at sea before, and I thought it was just pomp, but now I feel that this formation is really a bit troublesome to use against a fast ship like ours. ”

Lao Jin was a little worried, at this time it was a tailwind, and the difference in everyone's speed was not so big. He could see that these butts were facing their ship, one or two hundred feet apart, and they were all cutting at a small angle, and as long as the bow of the ship turned, they could gather at the same time, surrounding the Golden Carp on all sides.

Hu Hanshan's heart also began to grow, after all, there were more than ten boats, if he desperately surrounded them, how many could he smash? After that, although he could block the other party's help, the raindrops of fire pots and fire bricks were thrown over, and it was really enough to choke.

"Silver Carp, it's best to avoid ......"

Lao Jin was not very worried about the helmsman of the Silver Carp, and the captain Zheng Dangdang was also a fledgling boy, and then looked at Hu Hanshan, and sighed in his heart, this commander-in-chief of the Nanyang Navy is actually not much stronger.

"Rush out of their circle!"

Hu Hanshan didn't work hard after all, just as Xiao Sheng said, the enemy fights the enemy, and he fights his own, and the gold and silver carp rely on speed and artillery.

"The five-point plum blossom array is regarded by the world as a tactic created by Jinghai Hou, which is a fallacy! The five-point plum blossom array is the standard tactics of the former Ming Shui Division, and the later generations follow its roots, and each has some improvements and carries forward. ”【1】

In the distance to the east, the Jin Ao with the Yin Ao was breaking the waves, Xiao Sheng said to Lu Hanshan, Lu Hanshan was asking what was the beauty of the Shi family's five-point plum blossom formation.

"Measure the direction of the wind and the current, cut the enemy's front and back roads, so that you can surround yourself on all sides, which is the foundation of the five-point plum blossom array. On this basis, in the past, it was said that the bow and stern of the former Ming Naval Division each had a large tribute and a large franc machine, and the stern of the ship was used to face the enemy, not only to bombard the enemy ship, but also to grasp the convenience of maneuvering, and to adapt to the situation, so that the ships surrounding the enemy on all sides were facing each other, and it looked like plum blossoms blooming, so it was named the five-point plum blossom array. ”

Xiao Sheng's eyes were leisurely, he had also said these words when he chatted with Li Xian before, some of them were known to him, and some of them were known to Li Xian, the two of them really knew each other very well in this sea route military science.

"Relying on this tactic, as long as you dare to fight, even if you don't use fireships, there will be times when foreign giant ships will suffer, I just hope that Hu Hanshan will not fight hard with Shi Junmen with artillery profits."

Xiao Sheng was still a little worried, but Lu Hanshan smiled.

"When Boss Xiao arrives, he will naturally no longer be afraid of that Shi Shibiu, even if he is one foot taller, after all, Xiao Lao Dao is one foot taller."

Xiao Sheng also smiled, patted the side of the boat, and his heart was suddenly full.

"It's better to be the fourth brother's boat! The Gold and Silver Carp is too small, and I don't think this Gold and Silver Ao is worse than a foreigner giant ship, or even better! As long as you use it properly, deal with the five-point plum blossom array, and you can catch it! ”

(To be continued)