Using the "Enterprise" to take the lead against these small ships with a displacement of less than 100 tons is really a bit of a murderous knife, even if it is not attacked by shipboard artillery, the metal angle of attack of the bow alone is enough to easily tear the hull of these small boats, and even its keel is broken. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 However, compared to the simple and crude attack method of ramming, the visual and auditory impact of artillery fire is obviously greater, and it is simply a lore for those pirates who have the idea of gang jumping - in the face of such a dense artillery fire, the possibility of rushing to the side of the "Enterprise" and carrying out gang jumping operations is very small. Unless the attacking ships can only be three or four times larger, relying on the numerical superiority to force the cannonballs to go up. Of course, the Sand Gang can't afford to pay a heavy price for this type of engagement.

Immediately behind the "Enterprise" were two expedition-class warships that had only been equipped with steam propulsion before departing from Sanya, and their original task was to protect the flanks and rear of the "Enterprise" on the battlefield, but in the current one-sided combat situation, the two ships had automatically changed the escort mode to the mending mode, and carried out a second strike against the enemy ships that had been damaged by bullets in the front.

As the coalition command had predicted before the battle, the sudden attack made the Haisha Gang at a loss for a while, although their vigilance and reaction speed were commendable, and they launched ships out of port to resist at the first moment of the enemy's attack, but because they were not aware of the identity of their opponents, and it was difficult to form organized resistance in a hurry, this move to charge outside the harbor was more like sending themselves to the guns of the Haihan warships as live targets.

Some of the ships that were not so fast found that the vanguard had suffered heavy losses in the back, and immediately began to turn around, they had never seen such a powerful warship in their lives, and they were only thinking about how to avoid this group of sea evil stars in fear, and now the exit channel of the harbor has been blocked by the pirate ships and coalition fleets that capsized in the water, and the only escape route is the Liuheng Island behind.

Ma Ling lay on the side of the ship and shivered under his feet, this kind of situation of naval artillery warfare, he also encountered it for the first time, and while he was shocked by the power of the artillery fire, he was also secretly glad that he chose to join the camp of the Haihan people. Based on the way he saw this kind of warfare, he could be sure that even if a large number of naval divisions stationed in Nanjing and Hangzhou came to the East China Sea, it would be difficult for them to win favor in front of such a fleet. As for the pirates on these six horizontal islands, unless God can now set off a monstrous wave in the East China Sea to sweep away the fleet of the Haihan people, their end will probably only be as determined in the battle plan of the Haihan people, and it is unlikely that they will even have a chance to struggle.

Twenty minutes after the start of the battle, more than 10 ships had been damaged and capsized in the three bay access channels, and even more had returned to the harbor after being damaged. Although a few ships desperately escaped from the harbor through the cracks, this does not mean that they can escape, and there are dozens of warships waiting to pick up these fish within two nautical miles of the outer sea. In addition to great luck, it would take a speed of more than ten knots and a hull at least three times stronger than the present one to escape from the vast nets of these predators, which were obviously impossible to achieve.

The fighting in the waters between the eastern side of Rokhyung Island and Wonsan Island was even more one-sided, with most of the Haisha Gang's armed boats and fighters concentrated in the southern harbor, and most of the fishing boats and damaged boats waiting to be repaired were docked here, and the resistance was almost zero. However, some of the fishing boats operating in this area immediately fled north after discovering that the coalition fleet was coming. Although according to the pre-war arrangement, there should be sea ships of the Sanlin Gang to assist in blocking the fleeing ships in that direction, it is difficult to say whether they can do it without leakage. The main task of the warships assigned to this direction was to control the coastline of this area, so they did not continue to pursue north for a few small shrimps.

The Sand Gang concentrated most of their armed sailing ships in the westernmost of the three bays in the south of Rokuyo Island, thinking that in the event of an eventuality, the commanders of the island could gather their surface forces to resist the invaders in the shortest possible time. However, it is precisely because of this that the attack on this small harbor at this time is also the strongest among the three harbors.

After cutting horizontally from the east side and heading west to indiscriminately bombard the ships sailing out of the two commercial ports, the Enterprise took the last small harbor reserved for the Haisha Gang as its final target. Accompanying its operations was a temporary formation composed of two expedition-class and more than a dozen exploration-class warships, which were divided into two layers, inside and outside, and tightly sealed the access channel of the small harbor. If there is room for small fishing boats to escape in the other two bays to the east, it is unlikely that the blockade will be so strong that even if you want to swim out.

Ma Ling, Xu Ke, and Lin Xing silently watched the Haihan fleet bombarding the harbor, and they could no longer make any comments on the combat performance of the Haihan people. This way of fighting is beyond their previous understanding of naval warfare, and they really don't have much role to play as a leading party, they just need to quietly watch the coalition fleet crush the weak struggle of the Sea Sand Gang. The three of them all had a little doubt about the value of their existence at this time, the Haihan people were so powerful, did they really need the Guiding Party to assist them in completing these battle plans?

Of course, there was another group of people who were a hundred times more gloomy than the three of them at this time, and that was the members of the Sea Sand Gang who were trapped in the harbor. In fact, when Lin Xing went to Shipu Port to take the initiative to meet the Haihan people, the Haisha Gang also received news about the change of ownership of Shipu Port. Sadly, however, neither the great boss Li Luotou nor the second boss Shinobu Motegi paid enough attention to this news, believing that the Haihan people had not openly opposed the official army and the local government in Fuguang for many years, and there was no reason for them to travel all the way to Zhejiang to attack an irrelevant guard. In addition, although the geographical conditions of Nashipu Port are good, because it is far away from the central area of Ningbo Prefecture, there are no necessary conditions for the local area to be overwhelmed by the Haihan soldiers. To put it bluntly, even if the Haihan people came to rob, the local area was almost all fishing villages, and there were no targets worth looting.

Therefore, they thought that the Haihan people might have a fleet of ships that arrived at Shipu Port, and maybe even there was some kind of misunderstanding and friction with the local Ming army, but if they wanted to say that the Haihan people attacked Shipu City, occupied and blocked the local harbor wharf, they refused to believe it, because they really couldn't think of the motive of the Haihan people for doing such a thing.

It wasn't until yesterday morning that Gomez, the third master, came back from Zhoushan, and when he heard the news, he shouted that it was not good, and hurriedly summoned Li Luotou and Shinobu Motegi to discuss countermeasures.

Speaking of this, we have to start with the current immigration policy of the Portuguese in the Far East, because the Haihan is extremely strict in controlling the immigration of the West to Hainan Island, except for merchants who have paid a deposit and representatives authorized by the Goa Governor's Office or the Macau Council, it is difficult for other Portuguese people to be allowed to settle on Hainan Island for a long time, lease land, or buy real estate. As a result, immigrants to the Far East often have to stay in Sanya for a short time, and if they do not choose to become naturalized Haihan Angelos, they must leave the country within 15 days. And a small number of these Portuguese immigrants who transit through Sanya will also come to the coast of Zhejiang, and many of them will join Gomez because of their sense of identity. In addition, there were also some Portuguese merchants who achieved indirect trade with countries in Northeast Asia through the Haisha Gang, where Gomez was located.

Because of his Portuguese status, Gomez obtained much more information about the sea and Han through Portuguese immigrants than these two leaders, even more than most of the smugglers in the East China Sea. Gomez is generally aware of the main movements of the Haihan in recent years, so there is a very important item in his possession that the other two do not know - the Haihan people have gradually turned their attention to the north after settling the 18 Zhi in the Fujian Strait last year.

Gomez noticed that the Haihan people were indirectly involved not only in Zhejiang, but even beyond Zhejiang to Jiangsu, Shandong and other places further north, and more and more Fujian merchant ships continued to bring back shipwloads of war refugees from the north, and it is said that the destinations of these refugees were all colonies developed by the Haihan people in the past two years, including the Penghu Islands, which changed hands last year, and the newly opened port of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Most of Gomez's men were from distant home countries, and he knew how difficult this long journey of sea migration could be. If he were the person in charge of the task, he would definitely find a way to build a transit point for migrants in the middle of the way, so that these people can better adapt to the destination where the climate and environmental conditions change greatly. If conditions are right, such a transit station could be expanded into a new colony, as the Haihan people did in Panyu, Guangdong.

The Zhoushan Islands are undoubtedly an excellent choice, which is almost the midpoint of the route from Fujian to the northern Shandong Peninsula, and is a wild land that is difficult for the government to really govern. Gomez even considered that if the Haihan people planned to do this one day, then he must go to the Haihan people to discuss cooperation as soon as possible. Among the Portuguese merchants he knew, many of them had traded with the Haihans, and he could also introduce the relationship in the middle.

However, Gomez's idea was still in his mind, and before he could put it into practice, the Haihan people had already hit their doorstep. Unlike the other two masters, the armed action taken by the Haihan people in Shipu Port was, in his opinion, a harbinger of a big move along the coast of Zhejiang. It is true that the Haihan people have no record of attacking the Ming army in Fuguang Province, but Gomez is very clear that the Haihan people's methods of snatching Hainan Island from the Ming are not so open-minded, and he has been told that the Haihan people also used force to achieve this goal, and then put all the responsibility on a group of pirates who do not exist. The Guangdong government was afraid of the force of the Haihan people, and received a lot of benefits, so it has always turned a blind eye to this matter.

Gomez thinks that the Haihan people can completely try this almost domineering mode of operation in Zhejiang again, as long as all the people in the Shipu Guard are dealt with, they can completely push this on the head of an unlucky force in the East China Sea afterwards. At that time, the Haihan people could once again enter the East China Sea in the name of assisting the government to suppress bandits, and then rely on strong force to occupy an area here as a foothold.

Gomez told Li Luotou and Shinobu Motegi about his speculation, but the two were still skeptical of his opinion, after all, Gomez's speculation did not have any real evidence, and the advice he gave was to let the Haisha Gang take the initiative to join the Haihan people as soon as possible, which made it difficult for the two to accept.

Although the Haisha Gang is not the strongest armed force in the East China Sea except for the Ming official army, it is at least ranked first, and no one dares to criticize the Haisha Gang throughout the East China Sea. When Fujian Shibazhi had not yet withdrawn from Penghu, he came to Zhejiang to buy food and materials, and he once politely asked for help from the Haisha Gang. Even Zheng Zhilong's younger brother visited Liuheng Island, and he never mentioned the topic of asking the Haisha Gang to be loyal to Eighteen Zhi. Although this Haihan people are extremely famous in the south, they don't seem to be strong enough to make the Haisha Gang fall into the wind.

Gomez himself is actually not sure of the true intentions of the Haihan people, and can only hope that the Haihan people do not take Liuheng Island and the Haisha Gang in their eyes. But just in case, he still suggested that the other two leaders strengthen the early warning range and defense of their own territory during this period. This was not to resist the possible attack of the Haihans, but in case such a situation really happened, they could still rely on these means to delay time so that they could evacuate the island and escape.

Although Li Luotou and Shinobu Motegi felt that Gomez's plan was too exaggerated and thought that the Haihan people would not come to the door, they had also heard all kinds of rumors about the Haihan armed fleet, and they were not afraid of 10,000 just in case, and they should still be guarded against, so Gomez made some adjustments to the island's defense deployment. But this temporary measure can achieve extremely limited results, Gomez only managed to convince the other two yesterday, and before the various remedies in his mind could be implemented one by one, the fleet of the Haihan people had already hit the door.

Although Gomez had never seen the Haihan fleet, he had heard Portuguese immigrants describe the appearance of the Haihan warships, especially the red and blue Haihan flags fluttering on the top of the mast, and the true identity of the fleet could be identified from a long distance. (To be continued.) )