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When sailing downwind, the speed of a Chinese-style hard sailing boat is not as fast as that of a Western-style soft sailing boat. If you sail against the wind, a soft sail is not as good as a hard sail.

At this time, the southeast wind was blowing on the sea around Mindoro Island, and in order to get rid of the pursuit of the Dutch, Wang Guichen could no longer flee north towards Fusu City;

Nineteen Qin warships and five small boats of Loran, the prince of Sulu, were forced to turn constantly in an attempt to escape against the wind to the southeast.

Whether it was the commander of the Dutch Eastern fleet, Calant, or the commander of the Sulu Sultanate, Sanyanli, they were unwilling to let go of Wang Guichen's troops.

The Dutch figured out the detachment of Guò Wang Guichen and further figured out the combat skills of the Qin army. Prepare for the next decisive battle with the main force of the Qin army.

And Sanyanli, the lord of the Sulu Sultanate, saw that the ship of the second prince Luo Lan fled with the Qin army, and their main target was Luo Lan, where would they let it go?

On the sea, the Dutch fleet was divided into five squads, trying to encircle Wang Guichen, the high white sails looming in the smoke of gunpowder, and the artillery was still pouring endlessly.

Wang Guichen began to make mistakes in decision-making, and at this time, he could only brave the enemy's artillery fire and constantly turn, and the surrounding shells were getting closer and closer, and the water columns were stirred up several feet high.

Bang! With a loud bang, Wang Guichen's flagship deck was first hit by a cannonball.

Under the heavy bombardment, the foredeck was smashed like sawdust, and a soldier was shot in the front door by the splinter of wood, and his face was immediately covered in blood, and he fell to the ground screaming.

The other soldiers immediately rushed forward with shouts and carried the wounded back for treatment, and the shouts on the boat rang out, and the shape shì was very nervous.

Wang Guichen's flagship is undoubtedly the target of the enemy's artillery fire, and on the vast sea surface of gunpowder, one shell after another is like a meteor shower, which is thrilling.

"Command! Eagle boats and bluff ships are responsible for opening the way, and the gunboats are lined up to fight back! Wang Guichen roared hoarsely, and his inverted eyebrows almost stood up. On the thin and resolute face, the green tendons are bulging, and the murderous spirit is full.

The fleet is still turning, boom! A loud bang was heard not far away, and one of Loraine's small boats was hit by a solid bullet, and the entire bow of the boat was slammed into the water as if by an invisible giant hand, and the entire stern was thrown off the water.

The huge force of the impact shattered the bow of the small boat, and with the absence of a water compartment, the raging sea water poured in. The whole ship sank straight and straight.

Luo Lan's subordinates on the boat were thrown into the sea, screaming and struggling in horror, Wang Guichen didn't seem to see it, and even Luo Lan himself didn't dare to go to the rescue.

At this critical moment, if you can't complete the turn and get rid of the enemy army, everyone will die!

Farther away, the three hundred small warships of the Sulu Sultanate did not dare to get too close to the Qin army. Because the artillery fire of the Dutch was too fierce, and the shells did not have long eyes, even they could not avoid suffering from the fish in the pond when they came up at this time.

The Lord ordered 300 small boats to be divided into six detachments. Circled far away, trying to block the way of the Qin army to the southeast.

After paying the price of another bluff and wounded ship, Wang Guichen and the others finally completed the turn, and the four gunboats also completed the battle line arrangement.

The gunners who have been waiting for the fire in their hearts have long been coming. At this point, all the anger was stuffed into the barrel of the cannon, and it was poured out along with the cannonballs.

Boom Boom!

Boom Boom!

Four gunboats, a total of forty thousand-pound Franc cannons on the starboard side, opened fire one after another. Three hundred paces away on the right, ten warships led by the Dutchman Wilson were cutting diagonally, almost parallel to Wang Guichen;

The Qin shells whizzed away, and in the first salvo, one of the shells hit Wilson's port side, and the hull of the ship was knocked out several feet, and the Dutch soldiers on board fell into a ball.

Wilson's ten battleships were larger and had more artillery, and a salvo was nearly two hundred shells whizzing, and the firepower was five times that of Wang Guichen.

Mo Liang looked at the enemy's cannonballs in the sky, and shouted in a trembling voice: "No, general, the enemy's firepower is too fierce, we will be finished if we continue like this."

"After your mother's head, if you shout again, Lao Tzu will kill you first!" Wang Guichen's eyes were unfavorable, and his eyes were on fire.

Disheveled! There was another loud bang, and the building of a gunboat behind was hit, and the entire building was suddenly cut off in a large piece, and because of the continuous salvo of artillery, the smoke was filled all around, and it was impossible to see the casualties of the gunboat that was shot.

"Onward! Continue to the direct south and rush over! Wang Guichen shouted, heading south is headwind, which is not good for the soft sails of the Dutch, as long as it is supported for a while, it will be able to break away from the cover of the Dutch fire.

The gunners of the Qin army were struggling to fight back, and with a bang, after the first shot was fired, the gunners immediately rushed up to open the lock, took out the Zi Gong inside, and stuffed the other Zi Gong that had been loaded with ammunition into the mother gun and locked the lock.

"Don't worry, don't worry, the more you hurry, the more you won't hit the enemy." Zhao Yong rushed up and used the jumping eye method to compare again, and at the same time constantly asked the assistant to adjust the height of the muzzle.

"It's OK, shoot!"

Rumble!

The shell roared away with Zhao Yong's expectations, but it still didn't hit the enemy ship, not because he didn't aim accurately, but because the artillery fuse was delayed, and the hull continued to fluctuate with the waves, which would bring a large shooting error.

"Gun commander, get out of the way" Soldier Sun Shao suddenly shouted, pushing Zhao Yong away.

At the same time that Zhao Yong was pushed out, a cannonball flew in through the starboard window with a bang, and Sun Shao was completely knocked away, not human-shaped, and flesh and blood splashed all over the cabin. The shell then blasted a large hole in the port wall, and the planks broke and flew with a terrifying sound.

"Sun Shao!" Zhao Yong screamed and got up, looked around, and finally saw Sun Shao's upper body in the corner, his eyes were still open, and his blood was red, "Sun Shao!" Sun Shao! You can't fucking die, didn't you say that the second girl in the house next door is still waiting for you to go back and marry her, how can you fucking die! Zhao Yong yelled, holding Sun Shao's upper body and tears fell like rain, and the other Qin soldiers in the cabin also looked at the tiger with tears in their eyes.

"Fight back! Fight back! Kill the damn and avenge Sun Shao! Zhao Yong roared and rushed up to operate the cannon, and the cannon roared again, and the angry cannonballs came one after another, choking the whole cabin with gunsmoke and the wind could not disperse.

Boom! Boom!

Wilson's huge ship was hit by two shells, one hitting the bow and shattering the bow, and the other crashed into the gunwale, and one of the guns inside was knocked over, crushing several Dutch soldiers.

Immediately afterwards, another shell hit the mainmast of a battleship behind Wilson, only to hear a loud bang, the mainmast twenty or thirty meters high snapped and broke, and fell down with a huge white sail, which frightened the Dutch soldiers on board to scream incessantly, and the wolf rushed to the pig.

In this way, the two sides collided with each other at a distance of 300 paces, the smoke of gunpowder fascinated the sea, the sun was bleak, and the whistling shells flew like rain, stirring up waves and surging like fury.

The warships on both sides of the enemy and us were constantly hit, the ships were in a mess, and the howls of the wounded were drowned out by the rumbling artillery fire.

There was no way to retreat, and in the face of the encirclement and interception of the Sulu boats, the fifteen eagle ships and bluffing boats in front of them, like knights who looked at death as if they were at home, launched the fiercest charge against the enemy.

On the side of the ship, the soldiers of the Marine Corps fired continuously with 68-type rifles, and the gunfire continued to be continuous, and the Sulu people on the deck of the enemy ship were beaten all over with blood holes and suffered heavy casualties.

As soon as the two sides approached, the Qin army threw a series of earth-shattering thunderbolts onto the enemy ship, blowing the enemy ship beyond recognition, and the stumps and broken arms flew all over the sky.

Some bluffing boats, with their tall and sturdy hulls, ploughed directly from the enemy's boats, boom! The enemy's small boat was smashed to pieces like papier-mâché under the violent impact

For the first time, the Sulu people saw the earth-shattering thunder of the Qin army, and the overwhelming explosion could sweep away a boat in the blink of an eye, so frightened that they did not dare to lean again, so they could only fire arrows from a distance, and those who dared to take the lead were quickly shot down by the rifles of the Qin army.

Relying on this style of either you die or I live, the fifteen small and medium-sized warships forcibly broke through a bloody road, and the sea was full of Sulu corpses, and the blood flowed and drifted.

The four gunboats behind, with their speed faster than the Dutch in the headwind, although they were bombarded with holes, barely escaped the Dutch's pursuit and successfully rushed up.

The Qin army hated those Sulu boats, and they replaced them with shotguns and bombarded them violently, and a terrifying barrage roared towards the hordes of enemy ships, and those small boats were instantly bombarded like a sieve, and the sails collapsed over the wall, screaming miserably.

Karant saw the Qin warship rushing over, fleeing southeast with a boatload of gunpowder smoke against the wind, and he couldn't help but sigh when he saw that he couldn't catch up.

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(To be continued......)