However, at this time, Zheng Zhiguan already regretted it.

I knew that this fleet was so difficult, so I should have let someone else lead the fleet to the battle, even if it was Shi Langna, who was ordered to be spanked.

But there has been no substantive engagement yet, the capital ships have lost seven or eight, and the casualties of the soldiers are not known, but Zheng Zhiguan knows very well that most of the people who fell into the water will not be able to return home.

It's hard to survive in the dark of night, immersed in sea water all night.

The loss of seven or eight capital ships and hundreds of people, even if he is Zheng Chenggong's uncle, he can't escape the guilt.

This kind of guilty coercion made Zheng Zhiguan's heart rise on fire, the fire of longing for victory.

Because only victory can atonement be atonement.

Annihilation of this fleet, not guilty, and meritorious.

Thinking of this, Zheng Zhiguan no longer regretted it, the enemy was in front, rushed up, and killed them without leaving a single chicken dog!

……。

No one knows how this naval battle began, and even the parties on both sides of the war can't tell who fired the first shot.

Obviously, this no longer matters.

When there are so many casualties on both sides, all excuses don't matter.

Only the outcome of the battle is important.

At the end of the year and the beginning of the year.

Wang Yilin's sailors were in the eastern sea area of Pumen and were caught up again by the fleet led by Zheng Zhiguan.

At this time, the sky has begun to turn slightly white.

So, strictly speaking, this is not a night naval battle.

But Zheng Zhiguan never thought that his order for artillery would attract the evil star.

Zhang Mingzhen led the Wusong Naval Division in the direction of Taishan, because there was the sound of artillery and fire there at that time.

But in fact, whether it is Wang Yilin or Zheng Zhiguan, they have already gone north without looking back, the difference is that one is on the run and the other is chasing.

Therefore, when Zhang Mingzhen rushed to the waters of Taishan, he found that this was no longer a battlefield.

The shattered wreckage, the burning hull, the billowing smoke, and the hoarse wails of the soldiers who had not sunk to the bottom of the sea...... The tragic scene on the sea made Zhang Mingzhen sad, Rao is Zhang Mingzhen has also seen a lot of tragic scenes of slaughter by the Qing army in recent years, but he still can't bear to see death and not save him.

This caused Zhang Mingzhen to once again miss a good opportunity to reinforce Wang Yilin in time.

It was not until Wang Yilin, who was rescued from the sea, learned of the battlefield situation that Zhang Mingzhen ordered to leave some small and medium-sized boats to continue the search and rescue, and the Wusong Navy Division immediately went north to rescue.

According to post-war statistics, there were a total of 387 soldiers who were rescued by Zhang Mingzhen.

And the water soldiers of Wang Yilin's tribe are less than 100 people.

Fortunately, the three warships that were captured at that time had almost no casualties and were exchanged back after the war.

And Zhang Mingzhen's rescue has also become the basis for peace between Wu Zheng and Zheng Chenggong, otherwise, a war with an uncontrollable scale will really break out.

If war broke out, both sides would be unbearable, and in terms of foreign trade between the two sides, the harm would be fatal, needless to say, both sides were still facing the Qing army from the north.

Whether it was Wu Zheng facing the Qing army in Jiangbei and Jiangxi, or Zheng Chenggong facing the Qing army in Fujian and Guangdong.

……。

Half an hour.

After half an hour of artillery bombardment, when the second battleship was hit by artillery fire from the rear, Wang Yilin finally gritted his teeth and ordered, and the fleet met it.

Wang Yilin knew that there was more than one luck, and the contrast between the strengths of the two sides was too great.

There were only twenty warships on his side, and two of them had already been hit and lightly damaged.

The comparison of the capital ships is disproportionate, Wang Yilin only has two capital ships with 64 guns, and the rest are 48 gun ships.

The Zheng family's sailors pursued capital ships and medium-sized warships.

The number of capital ships was nearly ten times that of Wang Yilin, and the number of warships was also more than three times.

This battle can't be fought, even if the range is farther than Zheng Zhiguan, but a warship can't call several enemy ships at the same time.

But instead of continuing to flee north and endure constant shelling from behind the butt, it would be better to fight on your back.

Wang Yilin's order ignited the fuse of this brutal naval battle.

Wang Yilin's tactic was to change the direction of the fleet to the right, and while continuing to sail at full speed in the northeast direction, he used the right side of the gunsoft to obstruct and shoot at the pursuing enemy.

If the number of ships is about the same, even if it is slightly inferior, this way of breaking through is very effective.

Because the pursuing warship, with the bow facing the target, cannot form a gunsoft counterattack.

However, if there is a disparity in numbers, this will result in being outflanked and intercepted by the enemy.

At the same time, the enemy's warships behind him will also turn at the same time, and if Wang Yilin wants to always block with gunwales, then there is only one way, which is to keep turning right.

That is to say, once you start to turn right, you can't stop, and the final result will be a circle, and both sides are going in circles, both trying to turn their guns against the enemy.

But Zheng Zhiguan has a lot of ships, so he can divide some of them into half and move in a circle against Wang Yilin's fleet and insert them in reverse.

That is to say, open horizontally on the other side, wait for the rabbit, and wait until Wang Yilin's fleet turns half a circle and the bow is facing the ambush army, you can fire a salvo, and the consequences of such a volley are almost catastrophic.

The only way to crack it is to reverse it!

In other words, what was originally going to turn clockwise suddenly changed to counterclockwise, so that it could perfectly avoid the flank ambushes, but the tail and flanks of the entire fleet would be exposed to the aim of the gunners on the other side of the chasing enemy.

Both sound the same, but the results are different.

The flank ambush is on guard, the muzzle is already aligned, and once the salvo is fired, the accuracy will be greatly increased.

However, the guns of the pursuers behind them will not be able to guess when the target will change direction, and at the same time, because the steering time is too short, they will be caught off guard and even have no time to aim, and their accuracy will be greatly reduced.

Although Wang Yilin has no experience in naval warfare, he still has experience in naval warfare.

This set of tactics comes from Wang Zhiren's personal rumors, and according to Wang Zhiren's words, it is used to save his life.

Seeing that he was about to enter the range of the flank ambush, Wang Yilin gave an order, and the twenty warships suddenly reversed, like long snakes twisting around.

However, the fly in the ointment was that the two medium-sized warships that had been hit before were hit by the ensuing artillery due to damaged masts and sails that turned too slowly.

The power of the heavy cannon on the side of the Zheng family's warship is actually not large, and the 38-pound solid bullet, once hit, will smash a hole, at most it will be pierced.

However, if you are hit by more than a dozen or even dozens of shots at the same time, there is only one ending, and the side that is hit is like a leaky sieve.

In less than half a pillar of incense, that is, Wang Yilin's other eighteen ships could complete the steering action, and these two ships had already sunk.

More than 100 soldiers struggled and cried for help in the seawater, and it was unbearable to see.

But the eighteen warships that had already turned immediately launched a salvo at the pursuing enemy directly behind.