The shells quickly magnified in front of Yang Lujun and exploded on the deck of the bird ship that rushed to the front.

Bird boats are small fast sea vessels of the Fukubune type. With a length of 10 meters and a width of 3.4 meters, the bird boat is a relatively common and numerous type of fast-attacking ship.

The second cannon was fired, and with a muffled sound, it burst open from the open deck, splashing sawdust in all directions, and because of the small size of the ship, a large hole was blown out, and two of the neighbors fell into the sea!

The deputy captain commanded on the Kaohsiung No. 1 was called Yan Donglai (again the Yan family), he was young, but he already had a few brushes, and the shell from the second cannon under his control actually passed through the first bullet hole in the bird ship and entered the cabin of the enemy's bird ship! (There are two ways of shelling, one is controlled by the gun commanders of each gun group, which is often carried out in chaos battles, and the other is fired one by one by the deputy captain or gunnery officer on the gun deck)

It's a miracle! At least a dozen lookout posts on the six Kaohsiung ships saw this miraculous blow through the binoculars, and immediately erupted into fanatical cheers: "Mazu bless!" "Our army will win!"

Soon, there were shouts on the six Kaohsiung ships, and everyone was overjoyed.

It has to be said that the shelling of Kaohsiung No. 1 was extremely accurate, and only one of the nine 12-pounder guns missed, but it also formed a close miss, and a large splash of water splashed on the bird boat.

All eight shells landed on the poor bird's boat, and it immediately went sideways and lost its mobility.

The successive shells fell on the group of Yang Lu's warships, and the whistling sound of the shells, the crashing sound and the exclamations of the people echoed on the sea, and their ships were shot one after another!

Although they struggled to advance, it was not easy to drive against the wind and at the same time suffered from artillery attacks, which caused Yang Lu's fleet to move an inch.

Then the ships No. 123 of Beigang arrived and joined the ensemble of shelling,

At a distance of three hundred meters, nine gunboats fired a second round of broadside salvos, and one of the guns from the bow to the stern of the guns was fired one after another, and the sound of the guns shook the sky, and a large cloud of white gunpowder smoke floated from the side of the ship, which was then blown away by the sea breeze and did not affect the field of vision.

Zuo Feng hated Chen San so much that the opposing gunboat actually turned the sails to no longer be affected by the wind, occupying the upper wind, and the cannons bombarded unscrupulously!

He commanded a Chinese military ship and a Chaozhou red-headed sea ship to rush forward and fire a counterattack!

However, their salvo failed to hit any of the warships in the southeastern province and watched as the shells hit the planes.

Aha, when gunboats in the sail period are bombarded, they are greatly affected by the position of the ship in relation to the direction of the wind, and it is difficult for upwind ships to open the lower gun doors, especially for large ships with three gun decks, and downwind ships are better at firing their guns (the side they face is raised by the wind).

But! Cannonballs fired from a downwind position tend to shoot high, pointing at the rigging, which is a sieve, and hitting or not depends on luck, especially when there are no chain shells and bar shells that break the rigging, the cannonballs hit the air a lot.

Shells fired from an upwind position hit the hull of the ship low, so it was a strategic purpose to determine what position the ship should occupy in battle, and even the outcome of the battle.

The Chinese military ships and the red-headed sea ships immediately attracted a concentrated bombardment of the warships of the Southeast Province!

The smoke of gunpowder was filled, and a series of shells hit the hull of the Chinese military ship and the red-headed sea ship, bringing constant damage to the hull and personnel operation.

Due to the upwind position, it was simply a "fist to the flesh", and the walls of the two ships that were hit were full of holes, and holes were opened everywhere, and every time they received a blow, they trembled.

Under the fierce attack, the planks of the hull of the two ships collapsed in several places, and the condition was deplorable.

Their counterattacks were getting weaker and weaker, and the artillery was dumb.

However, they attracted the attack of the opponent's gun deck, and let the small boat behind them approach the warship of the Southeast Province bravely!

100 meters away!

Yang Lujun was still quite hard, they worked hard to steer the ship, and little by little narrowed the distance between them and the warships of the Southeast Province.

Closer, the boat could set those warships on fire!

However, another burst of shelling dashed their hopes!

9 deck guns on warships fire!

A number of small-caliber guns on the open deck of the warship opened fire together, sweeping the rushing boat!

"Hahaha, he's cool!" Yan Changwu personally manipulated a small cannon to fire and landed in a small boat to make a hole.

The repeated shelling caused Yang Lujun's boat to stop advancing, and it was powerless to fight back just after being beaten.

Further on, a row of guns was erected on the warships of the Southeast Province, and they all shot at the people on the small boats, and several small boats were set on fire, but they failed to ignite the opposing warships.

The arson ship, going upwind, is the most effective, and it is quite difficult to burn the enemy ship against the wind.

The second-tier artillery groups of the upper and lower layers of the warships of the Southeast Province ruthlessly bombarded Yang Lujun's fleet, leaving them powerless to fight back.

……

"How many minutes?" On the Dutch ship, Pete Poznan asked Van Roesmaren.

"About two minutes!" Van Rosmaren was looking at the clock while counting: "Three shells in six minutes!" ”

"That's not slow!" Pete Poznan lamented that the British could not shell at a rate of about one shot a minute, and that the warships in the southeastern province had already shelled at a rate comparable to that of the Dutch.

What's even more rare is that the opponent's hit rate is quite high, and such a strong combat power surprised Pete Poznan.

You must know that the "hundred-year navy" is by no means empty words, the birth of a strong naval fleet does not know how many ups and downs it has gone through to be formed, it is a branch of the army that requires people, money and technology, and needs to constantly grope forward, a musket may be used after a few minutes of play, and the sail control on the sail battleship alone is complicated enough!

If you want to shell accurately, you have to spend huge military expenses: the cost of going to sea, ammunition, artillery depreciation, personnel costs, which are piled up in silver dollars.

Pete Poznan knows something about the Southeast Province, but it is just a combination formed by the rabble in the short term, but he didn't expect their fleet combat capability to be not weak.

It's a beautiful fight, it's a textbook attack!

……

Xu Xinsu and Yang Lu, who were still in the rear, had extremely ugly faces, "What should I do?" Yang Lu lost his opinion and asked Xu Xinsu anxiously.

Xu Xinsu was stunned, took a few breaths and said, "Retreat!" ”

So Yang Lu ordered, the fleet immediately set sails, let the sails eat the wind, and retreated straight to Xiamen Port.

The warships of the Southeast Mansion that were shelling Yang Lu's forward here noticed it, and also activated the sails to be windy, and the bow of the ship swung to pursue Xu Xinsu and Yang Lu.

Yang Lu's forward was already scattered, the largest Chinese ship capsized, the red-headed big sea ship flooded the deck, and the rest of the small boats either caught fire or sank, losing their combat effectiveness.

As the warships of the Southeastern Province passed by them, they fired a volley of muskets, killing the pirates who were still on board and in the sea!

"Shoot!" Yan Changwu shouted, while Storm shrugged his shoulders and said nothing in disapproval.

They generally don't shoot people who fall into the water, but considering that the marines on the ship need to see blood, let them shoot!

Die and pull down, who will turn them against us!