Cheng Yu's lead ship first went diagonally up to grab the wind, then took due west and began to engage the Dutch below.

Songk secretly chilled that the other party's ship was fast enough!

The sixth-rank cruisers of the Southeast Fleet have seized the upper hand!

Their warship was appointed by Yan Changwu, removing the cumbersome big butt (stern) and big RU room (stern) (in fact, there is still a stern, but it is relatively low, and the previous galleons made the stern and bow towers towering in order to show their majesty, so the ship is streamlined, and the speed is naturally fast.

Songke sighed slightly and ordered: "Order the fleet to unfold!" ”

When the Dutch saw the banner raised by the flagship, they first marched, then rejoiced, and took action one after another, and several clippers stood out in the brigade like wild horses, and went straight to the southeast fleet.

The other side disbanded the battle line!

Cheng Yu on the head ship also had beads of sweat on his head in the cold wind, watching the other party's four ships swoop towards him from four directions.

What am I going to do?

Lacking experience, he was a little at a loss, but the sound of drums from the rear made him understand: "Keep the battle line!" ”

The training of the Southeast Fleet is very comprehensive, what to do if you encounter a melee on the other side, Cheng Yu also hesitated for a while, and immediately continued to charge, and was immediately bombarded by four Dutch warships!

A series of shells shook the head ship from side to side, and a column of water rose around it, and the splashing waves baptized the officers and men on the open deck of the head ship.

The guns on both sides of the head ship opened their bows left and right to meet the enemy.

"Can you withstand it", Cheng Yu felt worried, but his boatswain was a bold ship boss, he looked down on life and death, and said happily: "It's too hard, I can go back to show off to my son that labor and management have gone through the rain of bullets!" ”

Cheng Yu calmed down and shouted, "A point on the starboard side (compass point)." "Command the battleship to the north and then turn west.

The lead ship broke out of the circle of fire and bombarded the enemy ships to the south with its port guns, but luckily the enemy only knocked out two gun emplacements on the port side due to the high speed, and seven twelve-pounder guns against the enemy.

The captains of the four Dutch ships, which were initially divided into the lead ships, were skillful and always maintained a circle of fire, trying to concentrate their firepower on the southeastern warships that had entered the circle.

They have superb manipulation skills, and they will make the Akito who enters the circle of fire suffer enough.

At this time, the Southeastern Fleet immediately divided into three lines, forming three columns to flank the Dutch in turn, but their battle line remained unchanged.

The South-East cruisers, made of cedar (lightweight), had a good streamlined shape, and the unrivalled loyalty and well-trained crews on board, who in turn surrounded the four Dutch ships that had left the Dutch fleet in turn, subjecting them to firepower, and one after another the southeastern ships passed by them, so that the hapless "Ian Wright" fell to the fire of the fifth-class battleship "Beigang I", which quickly capsized on the sea, and the remaining three Dutch battleships were scarred, Had to withdraw from the battlefield.

The scene began to be chaotic, the ships of the Southeast Fleet tried to maintain the battle line, and the Dutch tried to cut off the orderly battle formations of the Southeast Fleet, leaving them to fight on their own, and the experienced Dutch were confident that they would crush the Southeast Fleet.

At this time, the advantages of the head ship of the battle line are reflected, and the captains of each ship look at the flag of the head ship, drive their own battleships to follow it, and fire their guns while running, never love war!

Even if you see that one of the battleships on your side is blocked by the enemy, the other friendly ships will all make a detour and fire guns from the side to support the battleship (the military order still needs to save the flagship).

"Fire! Fire! ”

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! "The artillery fire continued, and the Dutch were shot one after another.

That's right, the hundred-year-old navy, no matter how hard we try, we can't compare to these visitors from the far Atlantic, we have a certain gap in ship technology and combat skills, and if we start a melee with the Dutch, we will fall into its trap, they have the ability to form a superior situation of one more fight, or cut our army formation, anyway, they have many methods.

He is strong, he is strong, the breeze blows on the sea, he is horizontal, the sun shines on the sea, he is ruthless, he is evil, I am a battle line!

The artillery roared, and the Dutch had no choice but to fight hard, and everyone bombarded each other.

There are also Dutch people who do not believe in evil, the captain of the "Brent" Van der Veld is a master of swordsmanship, he uses a blade such as a small plate (that is, the length is not as good as the Oriental knife, the width is three times that of the Oriental knife), his crew are strong and powerful, especially good at hand-to-hand combat, so he caught the Kaohsiung 17th ship, the two ships in parallel, constantly firing guns at a distance of 100 meters, without giving in, obliquely approaching, and finally next to each other.

Fearing the escape of the enemy ship, the crew of the "Brent" threw the barb and tightly connected the two ships together.

Van der Velde personally led the charge, and with his famous blade, he jumped over the enemy ship!

Then he saw everything in front of him, and he was dumbfounded, and his subordinates were dumbfounded.

Squatting in a row, the Akito standing in two rows raised their guns to shoot at him together, some Akito held a pistol in each hand, and some Akito were double-barreled trolls!

Poor Van der Velde was covered in blood and fell to the sky!

The Akito, who had fought a round, immediately changed his guns, shotguns and pistols at the same time, and in the roar of the guns, the Dutch fell in rows, and then the Akito changed their guns again, and then the Dutch were frightened, and retreated to the ship, cut off the hook, and immediately opened the distance.

Although the shelling is unpleasant, the melee combat is even more terrifying!

They can't help but run away, because the Akito still has grenadiers!

Throw gunpowder canisters over here

Van der Velder's death was very unworthy, and the other Dutch ship, the Upper Ethel, was even more ridiculous, breaking into a cloud of gunpowder smoke in the chaos of the battle, and then discovering that it was blocking the way of the "Taiwan".

The Black Warrior Siresma crashed into it without hesitation!

The British man-made warship was made of fine oak, strong and heavy, and it followed the wind, and the force of the collision was more than ten thousand pounds, and for a moment the sawdust flew, the Dutch ship sank sideways, and half of the people on the open deck fell into the water.

When it was righted by the force of the keel, its bow boom, its foremast midmast, foremast and mainmast upper masts, and all the rigging in her front were damaged.

The Taiwan flew away, leaving the Upper IJssel in a messy ......

The sun slowly sank in the west, and the air was filled with a choking smell of gunpowder, and the sea breeze could not blow away the smell, and the raging flames rose from a half-sunken Dutch ship, sending thicker smoke into the air, and there was a faint chaotic sound of people shouting that the ship was burning.

As twilight fell, the Dutch withdrew from the battlefield and headed westward under the cover of the wind, and the South-East Fleet returned, and the curtain fell on the naval battle.

Together with the previous losses, the Dutch sank a total of three, thirteen out of battle (eight were really disabled, and five slipped away on their own), while the Southeastern Fleet sank one, five disabled.

With 37 ships left, Songk no longer holds out any hope of victory!