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This salvo was relatively hasty, because although it was known in advance that there was a salvo, because of the lack of aiming time, it was only during the turn that there was an opportunity for artillery bombardment, and the artillery was immediately fired.

Therefore, this round of artillery bombardment is said to be a salvo, but in fact, it is a series of fires, the one in front of the formation fires first, and then the follow-up ships follow with the turn.

The accuracy of the shelling was poor, and it is no wonder.

But the results were remarkable, because the distance between the two sides was only four or five miles, and the three warships that were in the forefront of the pursuers were hit by a few or a dozen shells.

Different from the Zheng family's sailors, Wang Deren had already been equipped with new artillery, that was still to "thank" the Qing court for the firearms purchased from Hongmao, Wang Deren after the robbery, he first took it upon himself to replace the naval guns, and the remaining dozens of small-caliber guns were sent to Zhang Mingzhen to confess to Wu Zheng, although Wu Zheng was vigilant at that time, but he did not reprimand Wang Deren for this.

At this time, Wang Yilin's fleet used new artillery.

The difference between the new artillery and the previous Hongyi cannon is that, first, the caliber has a standard, and second, the shells have been different.

Although it is still a round bullet, it is already an iron-shell delay bullet, in fact, the essence is similar to the flowering bullet used in the Ming Dynasty, that is, it is filled with more than ten catties of gunpowder in a round shell weighing dozens of catties after surface treatment.

The characteristic of black powder is that the combustion rate is quite fast, more than twice as fast as yellow powder, and the combustion produces violent gas expansion, which is the biggest characteristic that yellow powder does not have.

Later, yellow powder and black powder coexisted, and finally yellow powder completely replaced black powder and became the mainstream.

The burning rate of black powder is too fast and difficult to control, resulting in incomplete combustion and too corrosive.

This is the main reason why black powder is easy to cause explosion when the chamber and chamber of the gun are too well sealed.

But at present, as long as the barrel is not cutting corners, it is basically unlikely that this kind of explosion will occur.

Because the shell is round, this is the process can not be very fine, a round shell, to smoothly stuff into the barrel, it is conceivable that the gap must exist, especially with iron bullets, lead bullets are soft, you can poke hard, iron bullets are different, hard, if too dense, you will not be able to poke in.

Therefore, at this time, Western Europe was able to lead the East in artillery technology, which was the reason for the unification of the artillery caliber.

The caliber is unified, and the same iron shells can be made on the assembly line, and the iron shells are of course much more powerful than lead, not to mention the iron-hulled flowering shells, the fuse that delays the explosion, and the explosion caused by the piercing of the wooden hull ship's plank, the threat to the warship is huge.

Therefore, Western Europe has begun to popularize quasi-ironclad ships with iron plates wrapped in key parts of the shell.

This round of salvo almost completely disabled the three Zhengjia Navy warships, and the three warships were on fire one after another, which made the Zhengjia Navy warships around and behind them frightened and turned quickly, so as not to be affected by the pond fish, this evasive action made several warships chasing Wang Yilin's fleet lose a good opportunity for shelling.

However, there were still many warships that were far away, and they launched a salvo at Wang Yilin's warship, causing a lot of battle damage, but compared with the shells of Wang Yilin's sailors, the Zheng family's shells were much worse, and they often entered the side wall of the warship and got stuck, and there were very few that could penetrate it.

Therefore, the casualties caused were also very small, and the movement of the warship did not have much impact.

And at this time, Wang Yilin gritted his teeth and suddenly gave a strange order - slow down, and then reverse!

This command is very strange because it is out of place.

At the beginning of this naval battle, Wang Yilin's troops fled north, and Zheng Zhiguan's naval division pursued them from south to north.

The tail was shelled, and Wang Yilin ordered to change to the northeast direction and block the enemy with gunwales.

Zheng Zhiguan's sailors then changed direction, and divided half of the warships, detoured to the west of Wang Yilin's department, and occupied a favorable position to wait for the rabbit, waiting for Wang Yilin's department to turn south to the end, and completely crippled Wang Yilin's department with a round of volleys. Three-two

At this time, Wang Yilin found that something was wrong, and ordered the reverse again, this tactical action completely avoided the ambush on the west side, because the range was not enough, and the direction was not right.

At the same time, Wang Yilin took advantage of this short opportunity to conduct a round of salvo blocking the pursuing enemy.

Although the side also lost two ships, the results were also large, and the enemy lost three.

At this time, if Wang Yilin continues to maintain the direction and take advantage of the advantage of the longer range of his artillery, it is still possible to continue to open the distance between Wang Yilin and the enemy while continuing to fight and retreat.

Of course, the possibility is very small, because the speed of the ship is inferior to the Zheng family's warship, and the enemy is several times that of his own, and the final result of fighting and consuming must be the annihilation of the entire army.

Therefore, there was no need for Wang Yilin to give this strange order, and it was reversed again.

In reverse, it is to return to the original direction of the channel, that is, to ambush the troops on the west side.

Although the distance is widened, it is in the same direction as before.

This is very dangerous, because although the ambush on the west side has slowed down and almost stopped (to improve the accuracy of the shelling), it is not a stopper ship after all, and it can accelerate at any time.

In this way, the distance may be in a pillar of incense, or even a shorter time, so that Wang Yilin's warship is within range.

Therefore, Wang Yilin's order is very strange, at least Zheng Zhiguan thinks so.

So why did Wang Yilin give such a strange order and throw himself into a trap?

In fact, it was very simple, Wang Yilin saw black dots that suddenly appeared in the distance to the south.

If there is no first reverse, then it should be Zheng Zhiguan who sees these black dots now.

But after the first reversal, especially a round of salvo from Wang Yilin's department, it caused a lot of confusion in the Zheng family's water division.

It was not a head-on encounter, with both sides lining up and firing at each other in columns.

The warships of both sides sailed in several long serpentine formations, and in such a tense battlefield environment, who would pay attention to the rear?

The rear is to the south, which is where the Zheng family's sailors come from.

Therefore, just such a few black spots, Wang Yilin decided to gamble, bet, it was Zhang Mingzhen's Wu Song Shui Shi.

Wang Yilin firmly believes that Zhang Mingzhen will definitely come to the rescue.

Because at this time, if you don't trust your comrades, the despair in your heart will make people lose their fighting spirit.

Calculating the time, Zhang Mingzhen should have rushed from the waters of Nanji Mountain to the waters of Qixing Island long ago, but now that the battle has been more than half an hour, Zhang Mingzhen is nowhere to be seen.

This kind of accident made Wang Yilin guess that perhaps because of the previous impact and shelling, Zhang Mingzhen was led to the waters of Taishan.

At this time, the black spot that appeared from the south was very likely to be Zhang Mingzhen.

In Wang Yilin's view, horizontal and vertical is a dead end, and there must be no escape, since this is the case, it is better to give it a go.