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For Shi Lang, being able to lead a division alone was indeed beyond his expectations, which also made him grateful for Wu Zheng's experience, compared to the grievances under Zheng Sen, it was completely different.

Beware and suspicion are the meaning of the question for him, then, use military exploits to eliminate it!

Shi Lang looked at the enemy ships that were getting closer and closer, and he ordered in a deep voice, "Seven ships will go forward to meet the battle, the Shanyin will lead the twelve ships to make a detour to the left, and the Cixi will lead the twelve ships to the right to make a detour to ......." ”

Coming out to fight?

This is another Lord who dares to disobey orders in battle.

Obviously, this is contrary to Wu Zheng's order in advance, Shi Lang is one of the three major naval division commanders who participated in the pre-war military conference, how can he not know the severity?

But he still disobeyed.

Generals who dare to disobey orders really have some skills.

……。

After Wu Zheng received the report, he was furious.

Why are all his subordinates disobedient?

It is necessary to punish and clean up after the war.

But at this time, Wu Zhengqiang endured the anger in his heart and changed his tactics, "Order Wang Yilin to lead his naval division to quickly turn to the northeast, seize the position north of the battlefield, and reinforce the Zhoushan Water Division at any time, so that Zhang Mingzhen led 30 capital ships and a number of battleships to immediately respond to the retreat of the Zhoushan Water Division...... Tell Shi Lang that this king is angry! ”

Wu Zheng was angry, and the consequences were serious!

This truth, even Jiang Quanyi, who has repeatedly disobeyed orders, knows very well, and when the time comes, Jiang Quanyi will be as well-behaved as a white rabbit, so Wu Zheng's threat is very good among the generals of the Northern Expeditionary Army.

……。

Naturally, communication at this time was not as flexible as in later generations.

But the ancients never lacked creativity, twenty miles of a herald ship, and the lookout post on the mast could convey orders with flags at any time.

In this way, the distance of 200 miles is not a distance at all.

However, Shi Lang still stubbornly disobeyed.

The naval battle was about to break out, and the Zhoushan Water Division fired the first shot of this naval battle.

Perhaps, the Fanren fleet did not expect at all that the Han people dared to fire the first cannon, although they had a longer range of artillery, although they began to slow down at a distance of twenty miles and prepare to open fire, but after all, they did not fire.

The ship's turn is not achieved overnight, and the ship's side is not facing the target, nor is it facing each other head-on, but at an angle of about 30 to 45 degrees to the target, that is, the ship is still advancing.

And Shi Lang ordered the seven main ships to go forward to meet the battle, although the formation was a triangle with the word "Pin", but the direction was also an angle to the enemy.

In this way, the actual straight-line distance between the two sides has actually been shortened, and it can be considered to be within the range of the main ships of the naval division.

In Shi Lang's department, there are a group of old sailors "dug up" from Zheng Sen, and they are familiar with the skills of operating cannons and rudders.

The wind direction assistance is even more handy, and the wind direction at this time is facing the enemy, so the range of the shells of the naval division is actually higher than eighteen miles.

Maybe Shi Lang saw that the wind direction was available, so he dared to disobey the battle, right? Of course, this is speculation.

The seven ships fired a round of test firing, and countless shells exploded one column of water after another around the enemy ships.

The enemy fleet was taken aback, but immediately fired back at the sailors.

In this round, both sides are test firing, that is, one side of the gun, each layer every one or two shots, in order to determine the landing point of the shell for correction before the next round of firing.

So, here's the problem.

At this time, the seven ships of the naval division are at full speed, while the enemy ships are slowing down, and the time required for large battleships to accelerate and decelerate is a bit long, and the hull is heavy.

In this way, most of the shells of the enemy ships fell behind the seven ships, but the shells of the naval division were lucky to form a straddle fire in this round.

Lucky?

No.

As the saying goes, luck often favors those who are prepared.

Shi Lang is prepared, the helmsmen, sailors, and gunners on these seven ships are all veterans.

He is even crazier than Wu Zheng, is this planning to reimburse the blood and blood of the Zhoushan Shui Master in one battle?

But how did I not know later, at this time, the seven ships of the naval division were ahead of the enemy, forming the first straddle shot.

The cross-shot is not to say that you will definitely be able to hit in the next round, but the probability of the south lane will become very large, but this is immeasurable for the morale and confidence of both the enemy and us.

Compared with the cheers of the officers and men of the seven ships of the naval division, the faces of the sailors on the enemy ships were a little gloomy.

Naval battles, there is no word retreat.

Defeated, captured or killed, there is no other way.

With this morale rising, a second round of shelling began.

The enemy's capital ship was three tiers of seventy-two guns, with thirty-six on one side, which was nine more on one side than the capital ship of the naval division's 54 guns.

However, when one of the enemy ships was shot during the second round of shelling, billowing smoke came out, the seven ships of the naval division were intact, and they were still approaching the enemy ships to a distance of 15 miles.

This caused a wave of confusion in the formation of the enemy ships, and many soldiers speculated that this was God helping the yellow people, otherwise, how could he give the yellow people just the right wind direction?

Of course, there were some people in the coalition who did not think so, such as Nabul, the commander of the Second Fleet of the Great British East India Company, who had risen from the Strait of Malacca to join in the fun, and he was an outlier.

At this time, in the European naval war, because the two sides participated in the warship of thousands of ships, sea communication was extremely inconvenient, so there was an unwritten method of warfare, that is, the two sides each lined up their warships, approached each other, and then shot at each other, and even dropped anchor to bombard. As a result, a kind of cannon is becoming bigger and bigger, and the number of guns on the side of the ship is getting bigger and bigger, such as the "Sea King Overlord", which almost created the highest record for the number of guns on a single ship, reaching more than 130 guns.

The battleships are lined up in a line, which is convenient for the commander to command and monitor on the ground, and it is clear who is not working, or passively slacking off, or even retreating.

Otherwise, on the vast sea, who can guarantee that every battleship is shooting at the enemy?

This method of warfare is basically the "queue shooting" method of warfare born from the European musketeers, and it is also the origin of the name "battleship".

England specially wrote the "Naval Warfare Regulations" for this purpose, which fixed this rigid and almost rigid method of warfare, which was imitated by other countries.

Nabuur is an outlier who likes to be different, for example, he doesn't like to have the upper hand, but likes to take the lower hand.

Anyone who has been on the boat knows that the upwind position is good, the downwind boat drives fast, the cannon hits far, and the accuracy is higher, and the most important thing is that if you can't beat it, shout "Pull", can't you slip faster than people?

But Nabul likes to seize the opportunity, he thinks that this is God as the overseer, forcing everyone to fight to the death together, otherwise they will die together. Isn't it a bit like a back-to-back battle in the art of war?

Moreover, Nabul prefers to deploy double or multiple columns to forcibly divide the opposing line and attack.

Obviously, Nable is definitely not popular with the tactically rigid Europeans, and the one who breaks the rules is the least popular.