Chapter 182: The Battle of Daya Bay

After so many years of operation, the navy has already perfected the light language system of the simple signal lights used in the early days, and now the light language they have compiled is quite complete and can transmit quite complex information.

The artisan-made signal lights are much more sophisticated than ever before, with several fixed lights installed on each boat that can send signals in all directions.

The one-eyed dragon's flagship is equipped with many of these signal lights, and it has a group of very high signal light players to pass on the orders given to him.

Therefore, even at night, the Seawolf's fleet has a more complete and convenient way to transmit information than other fleets, and can accurately allow more ships to receive orders from the flagship.

At the order of the one-eyed dragon, the fleet began to move again, and now that the matter had come to this, there was no need to hide any longer, and the ships raised their lanterns to mark their positions.

The fleet quickly moved towards the open water, and it was necessary to get into the open water before the main pirate fleet arrived, so as to make the most of their firepower.

This battle is not easy for the sea wolf, because the enemy will definitely come to many ships this time, such a large-scale battle at sea, if you are not careful, anything can happen, so all the captains are wide-eyed, pay attention to the instructions issued by the flagship at any time, and constantly adjust the formation of the fleet according to the instructions of the flagship.

When the sea antenna in the east began to gradually turn white, the sea surface once again ushered in light, making the black sea surface begin to become much more visible.

At this time, on the sea in the southwest direction of the sea wolf, you can gradually see that the sea is densely covered with hundreds of ships of all sizes, and in Daya Bay, at this time, those fireships are still burning, many fireships have been completely burned down, only some wreckage remains, still drifting on the sea, billowing smoke.

There were a small number of corpses in the sea that lay along with the sea wolves, and these bodies were some unlucky minions on the fireboat, who failed to swim back to shore after igniting the fireboat and jumping into the sea, and were drowned in the water. Of course, there are also some guys, holding some broken wooden planks, floating on the surface of the sea, and from time to time making calls for help.

When the daylight continued to shine, Liu Xiang also saw the fleet of sea wolves, which appeared in a wide area of water at the mouth of Daya Bay, and then looked at the original sea wolf anchorage, Liu Xiang almost tilted his nose, in the original sea wolf anchorage, now there are only a few smoking fire ships, not a single sea wolf warship.

At this time, he had already realized that the plan they had formulated to attack the fireships had completely failed, and they had not caused any losses to the sea wolf's fleet at all, but they themselves had lost a large number of ships in vain, which was really discouraging.

But at this time, he wanted to retreat, but it was too late, so many of their ships rushed into Daya Bay, and it was impossible to retreat in a short time.

At this time, the sea wolf's fleet had already taken the initiative to sail to the open waters at the mouth of the bay, and it was impossible to block them in Daya Bay and beat them in groups.

Now it's not that they can leave if they want to, even if they want to go, Yu Xiaotian will definitely not let them go, so then they can only fight to the death and decide with Yu Xiaotian before they can consider the question of leaving or staying.

So Liu Xiang could only grit his teeth and order, all of them, and began to rush towards the fleet of sea wolves, and then there would be a tragic melee, and it would be up to the present to see who killed the deer.

When the sun jumped above the sea level, an earth-shattering roar began to sound in Daya Bay, and the guns began to spit out flames at this time, smashing the blazing cannonballs into their enemy warships......

In Daya Bay, the sound of artillery continued for a whole day, and it was not until the sky became dark again that the sound of artillery gradually subsided.

At this time, looking at the originally peaceful and beautiful Daya Bay, it has become a mess, and the sea inside and outside Daya Bay is full of messy things at this time, including half-sunken ships, burning warships, and countless hull debris and debris on board, as well as a large number of corpses and living people floating on the water.

This is definitely the most tragic sea battle that has taken place along the coast of Daming in many years, the number of warships invested by both sides is nearly 1,000, and the number of participants is more than 30,000 people.

But the result did not let Liu Xiang get his wish, the pirate alliance in this fierce battle, or finally ended in failure, and even as the leader of the alliance Liu Xiang himself, only two hours after the start of the war, was killed by the cannon of a sea wolf warship, his ship was also bombed into slag on the spot, more than 100 people on the ship finally survived only a dozen, and the rest were either killed on the spot, or drowned in the sea.

In the face of the sea wolf's super firepower, from two hours after the start of the battle, the pirates had already collapsed, and the reason why the fierce battle was until the evening was because the sea wolves were divided into several detachments in the following battle, and they intercepted the pirates' ships separately and blocked them back into Daya Bay.

The pirates tried their best to break through all afternoon, but only a few pirate ships were able to escape, and more than half of the pirate ships were blocked by sea wolves in Daya Bay.

Seeing that they couldn't escape, and they couldn't beat them, some pirates finally had a nervous breakdown and chose to drop their sails and stop their ships and surrender, and these pirates were driven by the sea wolf fleet to Dalajia Island and were taken under centralized care.

All the pirate ships that refused to surrender after being blocked were almost all sunk and destroyed by the sea wolf's fleet, and a large number of pirates were killed and wounded.

Among them, the pirates of Liu Xiang's headquarters suffered the worst losses, because as the main force, of course, they were the key objects of the sea wolf fleet, but there were many large groups of pirates who followed, and after this war, nearly half of the pirate leaders were either killed on the spot or captured alive.

In the end, after inventory, only Zheng Yiguan and other six large stock shopkeepers were able to escape in the fierce battle, but they all suffered a lot of losses.

Because the sea wolves have many fast flying clippers, these clippers play an extremely important role in the pursuit of the war, they are like wolves, constantly catching up with the fleeing enemy ships, waiting for the opportunity to bite hard, always dragging these pirate ships, so that they can not escape.

Some large warships of the sea wolf, in this battle, played an extremely important role, they gave full play to the firepower advantage of each ship, using melee tactics, intensive bombardment of the pirate fleet, often when the side of a ship is full of firepower, there will be a pirate warship disintegrated in response, even if it does not disintegrate on the spot, it will be bombarded with thousands of holes and unable to fight again.

Moreover, there are many types of artillery shells in the Seawolf fleet, and after the dispatch of the ship's gun captain, the advantages of these shells are fully utilized.

There are also some large-caliber Caron cannons, which are even more powerful and often a cannon past, can smash a pirate ship on the spot, and the worst can also disembowel it on the spot, sometimes the ship uses incendiary bombs, this incendiary bomb is actually a red-hot solid bomb, when using it to shell the enemy ship, use a high elevation angle to hang and fire, as long as it hits the enemy ship, the heavy shell will immediately smash through the deck, and the burning red cannonball will burn through the layers of decks after falling into the enemy ship, until the ship is completely chiseled through, and the bottom of the ship only needs to enter the water, The ship was essentially a death sentence.

Therefore, the sea wolf in the naval battle, always occupy the absolute advantage of firepower, the pirate alliance is a flow of fart, the technical generation difference, so that the pirates fully understand the horror of the sea wolf fleet, but also caused their rapid collapse, from the initial alliance state, soon scattered birds and beasts, each began to desperately flee the battlefield, but also made the sea wolf's fleet become fierce.

But for the sea wolf, this battle is not easy, the pirate alliance in the initial engagement stage, or play a not weak combat power, they rely on the advantage of the number of ships, swarmed to the sea wolf's fleet, although the face was the sea wolf's dense artillery fire hit the people on the back of the ship, but there are still many pirate ships broke through the fire blockade, rushed into the sea wolf's fleet.

In the initial stage, the pirates were quite desperate in order to survive, and after many pirate ships rushed into the sea wolf's fleet, they fired guns and guns at the nearby sea wolf's warship, and the rockets were splashed on the sea wolf's warship as if they didn't want money, and even some pirate ships simply rushed directly to the sea wolf's warship, and the warship attached to the sea wolf directly launched a white-knuckle battle on the side of the seawolf.

All in all, in the initial phase of the battle, the Seawolf's fleet also suffered relatively heavy losses, with more than 20 ships burned down by enemy points or divided and surrounded by the enemy, slaughtering all the soldiers on board.

This also leads to the seawolf's previous naval battles, the strictest zhòng losses, after the statistics, the sea wolf's naval generals, in this battle, more than 700 casualties, the number of completely damaged warships, as high as more than 20, accounting for almost one-tenth of their total strength.

According to incomplete statistics after the war, this battle does not count the number of pirate fireships that burned on their own, just sinking and destroying all kinds of pirate ships, the number is as high as nearly 200, and there are also more than 200 pirate warships captured, and the number of pirates killed and drowned cannot be counted, but the number of pirates captured alive is as high as more than 4,000 people.

It can be said that after this battle, several large groups of pirates in Guangdong were almost disabled, and there were still many pirates, even if they were wiped out, so this battle basically laid the foundation for Yu Xiaotian's next victory.