Zhou Rui's department, there are more than 100 large and small warships, such as birdtail ships and blacktail ships. Small boats such as guns and fast whistles are already doing their best to unload the people for the big ships, while those large and medium-sized ships have simply built a great wall on the river.

In this way, it is very unwise in naval warfare. For example, the infantry pays attention to no battle without formation, the cavalry is a detached soldier, and the naval division fights, and there are also certain rules. The fleet arrangement is one of them, but the more important thing is to accelerate, slow down, and turn at the right moment to avoid shells, find a more suitable angle and direction to hit the opponent, shell guerrilla fighting, jumping hand-to-hand combat. Like Zhou Rui, who used the ship as a battery to fight, and waited so stupidly for the Qing army to attack, it can no longer be described as rare.

On the Pearl River east of Nansha, Zhou Rui's fleet lined up, anchored and sailed, and blocked the front of the Mazu Temple in Nansha, like a guard. Seeing this, the Qing army also pounced on it like a pack of wolves predatoring.

At the beginning of the artillery battle, the Qing army set sail, and after sailing into the firing range, the ship's artillery crackled and poured out towards the "fixed target position" in the distance. In contrast, the ships of the Ming army were fixed on the river and remained motionless, so they could only reduce the estimated amount of targets on the basis of normal water warfare to aim at the Qing ships.

On the bow of the ship, Zhou Rui was still shouting a fierce battle, just like other warships, the guns on Zhou Rui's seat ship were also constantly firing at the Qing warship.

In the next second, at the moment when a piece of artillery of the Ming army was fired, a whistling cannonball in the distance hit the starboard side of the hull. The shock affected the firing of the shells, and they drew a steep parabola, and just after the normal range, they fell directly from the sky, and even the splash did not touch the Qing army for half a minute.

This is nothing at all, after all, it is much more difficult to hit a "moving target" than a "fixed target". However, this cannon was hit by the Qing army, and the vibration directly shook several people on the other side who were slowly moving from the boat, and only heard the sound of plopping and falling into the river like dumplings.

The surrounding boats handed over the oars and bamboo poles supporting the boat, and an old man who knew how to water jumped directly into the water to save them, and the scene was chaotic for a while.

And that was just the aftershock, the cannon that pierced through the wooden outboard and rolled around in the cabin. Zhou Rui was a sailor general, and the movement under his feet was like this, of course he understood the extent of the damage to the ship's hull, but before he could give the order, an experienced officer shouted loudly to avoid Zhou Rui's distraction.

"Take the bucket you just waited for, and go down with Lao Tzu to get water!"

The officer shouted loudly, and then rushed down with an empty bucket, and when he heard this voice, several strong men and strong women who were left on the boat also hurriedly followed with buckets and basins. Without even saying hello, one of the carpenters who was with the ship picked up the guy and ran to the cabin before they did.

The shells didn't break below the waterline, which was a good thing, but the cracks caused by the damage caused the river water continued to spray into the hull.

No one paid attention to the shell, which was still rolling with the undulation of the hull, and everyone got out of the cabin, and the officer leading the team stepped on the splash on the deck, picked up the bucket, bent down and scooped it, and then poured the river water out in one go. The people who came down with him also did the same, reducing the river water inside the ship as much as possible.

Here the carpenter fetched the water with all his might, and over there, the carpenter found wood and nails, and without saying a word, went up and began to repair the breaches, trying to fill the gaps and cracks with wood as quickly as possible.

Wooden warships, in the era of solid shells, as long as there is no fire, can be repaired and washed for a long time. Therefore, if there is no way to get the enemy ship to catch fire, then jumping into hand-to-hand combat to capture the ship has become a more effective means.

The shelling was still going on, and the officers and civilians in the cabin could easily feel the Ming artillery on the deck overhead, and the artillery of the Ming army was still continuing to return fire. A moment later, the gap had been repaired for nearly half of the time, and with a shock overhead, he heard the cheers of a familiar acquaintance above, presumably hitting a Qing warship.

However, this joy did not last long. Soon, there was another shock from the outside in, and another shell hit the starboard outer sheet. This time, it was at the edge of the waterline, and almost the moment the shell broke into the cabin, the river rushed in.

"Quick, go get water!"

In this way, the shelling lasted for a long time, the sailors and gunners of the Ming army were experienced, and the ships were generally larger, and the number of artillery was limited by the serious disadvantage of the number of ships, and it became a "fixed target", and the Qing army was hit a lot more.

At first glance, the Qing army's naval division seems to have taken a lot of advantage, but the Ming ships that really caused the ship to capsize and were engulfed in flames are still only a few ships, and more are just broken by cannonballs, pouring into a lot of rivers, killing and wounding a few soldiers, that's all. At the same time, Hong Xu's side was also doing its best to organize and coordinate the ships, and soon several armed merchant ships sailed out, just like Zhou Rui's department, and directly set sail and anchored, and integrated into the ranks of the Great Wall on the water.

There are more than 200 large and small warships, more than twice the number of Zhou Rui's department, Rao is Qing army's warships are far inferior to the Ming army, but it is also a miracle that they are consistently shelling in the distance, and they dare not come over and jump at all. And another strange event, a moment later, as the Qing fleet regained its distance from the Ming army, it suddenly happened in front of their eyes.

"Tartar this, ran away?"

The captain of Zhou Rui's ship rubbed his eyes, he couldn't believe what was happening in front of him, not to mention other ships, this ship was hit by the Qing army several times, and the speed of the water was completely unable to keep up with the speed of the river water inflow, all thanks to more sailors going down to the water, and the carpenters who accompanied the ship worked hard to repair it, so as not to sink. But under such circumstances, the Qing army not only did not take advantage of the situation to jump and complete the sniping of Zhou Ruiza's ship, but turned the bow of the ship and sailed away in the direction of the upstream.

"It's not that they ran away, they think we're a piece of chicken!"

As Zhou Rui put it, the Qing army was ordered to intercept the Ming ships and to take control of the docks in Guangzhou and the waters of the Pearl River. Shooting at Zhou Rui here can achieve the role of intercepting Ming ships and controlling the waters of the lower reaches of the Pearl River, but on the Guangzhou side, it does not have a very good effect.

After spending too much time here, Sheng Dengke was impatient to rush to Guangzhou to join the main force of the Qing army and complete the comprehensive siege of Guangzhou City. He simply sent Xu Guolong's Red Flag pirates to continue to monitor the Ming army and naval divisions under Zhou Rui's command, and he brought the more than 100 large and small warships directly under his command and the old warships that Xu Long brought from Huizhou that had undergone preliminary repairs and rushed upstream.

"Patriarch, it seems that the prince still values us."

Since being expelled from Chaozhou by Zheng Chenggong, the Xu clan of Nanyang Village has lived a hard life of wandering and wandering, so easy, keep the clouds open and see the moon, and live until the Qing army entered Guangdong, although it was once sent to Huizhou, but with Chen Kai's east wind, the Red Flag Sailor was no longer treated by the Qing army after the fiasco at the mouth of the Dongjiang River, and they became the new favorite of Shang Kexi. Even now, it is the Red Flag Sailor who continues to keep an eye on Zhou Rui's hard bones, and they go to accompany Sheng Dengke to pick up the cheap of Guangzhou City.

The city is all the territory of the feudal soldiers, and maybe the green camp can also get a piece of the pie. However, there are also markets on the wharf and Jiangxinzhou on the Pearl River, and you can always get a good catch.

The rain became heavier and heavier, and the lust of these people of Xu Long became more and more vigorous. Even Xu Long, at this point, couldn't help but begin to look forward to the capture of Guangzhou, the armies of the Pingnan Domain and the Jingnan Domain would go east, and they would follow him and return to Chaozhou. At that time, the Chaozhou thieves that Zheng Chenggong worked hard to clean up happened to make wedding clothes for him.

"The prince can afford us, and when we get to the city of Guangzhou, we have to sell our strength. can't look at Sheng Dengke and Xu Guolong like just now, and have a guard in his heart, for fear that he will damage his own strength, and he doesn't even dare to rush up and jump. It must not be like this again! ”