"Nima's! This group of dogs, they still want to escape? Will you be able to escape from our whole army? ”

"If you want to escape, don't say there are no doors, not even windows!"

The commanders of the East China Sea Fleet, Zhong Jixiang and Wu Xilin, just wanted to order the soldiers to catch turtles in the urn, but a change occurred.

Before the soldiers could start their actions, they spotted three large armed merchant ships, suddenly set sail, and rushed towards a gap in the encirclement.

Enraged, Zhong immediately ordered the ten Leopard cruisers at the rear to immediately pursue and intercept all pirate ships that wanted to escape from the periphery of the bay.

The ten Leopard cruisers that received the order ignored the other ships and rushed straight towards the three ships of Liang Yi, Wang Qiang, and Ma Zichen.

"! These strange warships are so fast? How can you escape like this? ”

Liang Yi and the three of them were immediately dumbfounded! Now if you want to escape with your men, under the encirclement and suppression of more than a dozen extremely fast warships of the enemy, you are undoubtedly asking for your own death!

"Get out of the fleet and accelerate at full speed!"

For now, the only way to do this is to rely on extremely skilled technology and go all out to control the warship and escape for your life.

The three large armed merchant ships, which had been at the forefront, broke away from the fleet in an instant, began to make a circle, and sped towards the edge of the bay.

This scene was in chaos and was not discovered by most of the pirates, so the pirates' resistance to break through and flee for their lives continued, and they did not collapse and surrender immediately.

"! Chase Lao Tzu! The officers and men on the ten great warships were furious when they saw it, and immediately accelerated and chased after them.

Facts have proved that no matter how skilled the pirates who control these three ships and operate the ships at sea, their pirate ships will not be able to outperform these Leopard cruisers no matter what.

The distance between the two sides is slowly closing, and the distance between the encirclement is getting farther and farther away.

However, it is obvious that in less than a quarter of an hour, the ships of these three pirate leaders will be overtaken.

In fact, if it weren't for the three big ships that wanted to capture the other side, the two sides would have been so close to each other, the soldiers would have opened fire and sunk them one by one, where would there be a chance for these guys to escape.

Seeing ten Leopard cruisers, they were already pursuing the enemy, and the other party could not run away anyway.

Zhong Jixiang did not delay any longer, and he immediately gave the order to fight.

A herald beside him immediately picked up the only +3 tweeter in the entire fleet and shouted at the sailman on the mast: "The forward squadron listens to the order, and the fleet cuts to the left into the enemy group!" ……”

He left it as it was, and conveyed Zhong Jixiang's order to the sail operator of the flagship.

The sailman, who was catting on the mast, immediately waved the two small flags in his hand on it, and conveyed the order in the form of flags.

The remaining twenty Leopard cruiser forward squadrons, all the sail pilots stared at their flagships, and when they saw the waving flag, they immediately shouted below them, and informed the captain of the ship of the orders they saw.

The ten Leopard cruisers of the forward fleet immediately began to turn slightly, and sped up at great speed, like a sharp knife, stabbing straight into a gap on the left side of the oncoming pirate fleet.

"The second batch of ten Leopard cruisers, ready to launch an attack and divide the enemy!"

At this time, Zhong Jixiang's order came again, and he obviously wanted to take the two hundred large and small pirate ships of this group of pirates to conduct an actual combat training.

Before heading south for a big battle, it is necessary to have a warm-up battle so that the officers and men of the East China Sea Fleet can personally experience a naval battle of a certain scale.

Otherwise, when they came up, the officers and men of the Royal Navy would have already fired cannons in unison, flooding this small bay with artillery fire.

As the flagship's battle order was issued, the ten Leopard cruisers of the Provisional Second Squadron also began to accelerate into the harbor, ready to join the battle sequence.

The officers and men of the first batch of battleships to enter the enemy's line immediately carried out their orders to the letter.

Led by a Leopard cruiser at the beginning, he spotted a gap on the left side of the group of pirate ships and plunged straight in.

The leader of the pirates at the front of the pirate ship was a big man with a beard, and he had just boarded the ship with his men.

At this time, he stood at the stern of the ship, staring at the Ming Imperial Court fleet that was rushing straight over, his scalp suddenly tingled, and his heart was lifted all at once.

Because he also saw this loophole in his own fleet, he stared at this gap when he saw the other party, and inserted it at once, leaving him no chance at all.

The result was obvious, the ships that were about to start a breakout would be immediately split in two if they were cut into by the large ships of the imperial royal fleet, and they would no longer be a whole fleet.

The part that was divided would become the key siege target of the other party without thinking about it, and they had just gotten on the boat to escape for their lives, and they were not prepared at all, so they could not rescue at all.

"Ahh Quick, fast hoist......"

The pirate leader exclaimed in surprise and immediately ordered the distance between the ships in the fleet to be reduced, striving to seal the gap, so as not to be cut and surrounded by the fleet of the Ming court. Keep your books in stock

When the time comes, my own fleet will not even be able to move, let alone escape.

The leaders of these bandits were only now hurrying to the pirate ship on which they were riding.

All of a sudden, everyone was scrambling to lift the anchor and raise the sails, and there was no time to respond effectively.

The Leopard cruiser at the head, under the control of the officers and men of the East China Sea Fleet, like a shark that smelled blood, had plunged headlong into the gap in the middle of their pirate ship.

"Boom!"

"Boom!" ……

I only heard a series of roars, and when I saw these bandits and pirates, they did not mean to raise their flags and surrender, and the soldiers did not grind and began to fire cannons.

The first few large warships, one after another, rushed into the fleet of pirates.

In the moment when each battleship was parallel to the warships of the pirates on both sides, they opened full firepower, and fired the Kamui general cannons that could be fired from the ships towards the nearest pirate ship.

This type of combat is somewhat like a battleship duel in the twentieth century.

However, it's just a bit like it, one side doesn't have a cannon, it's just being beaten passively, and it can't resist at all.

In the huge gap that was blatantly torn open by the imperial fleet on the side of the Haikou Kou, more than a dozen pirate ships in front of them that were listed as targets by the Royal Navy officers and soldiers were considered to be unlucky.

The Leopard cruisers that passed by them one by one at a rapid pace, barely giving the pirates any respite, and the heavy artillery fire was fired at them in waves.

Moreover, now that the two sides are very close, there is almost no possibility of a short.

Most of the seventeen or eighteen outermost pirate ships were blown up and sunk by a round of shelling, and the remaining two or three pirate ships, although not sunk, were so broken that they could not even sail.

With regard to the artillery techniques of naval warfare, the quick-witted Zhong Jixiang and Chief of Staff Wu Xilin, the two of them gathered the staff officers of the General Staff Department, and after repeated and unremitting research and experiments, they found that there are two types of artillery bombardment methods that are suitable for the naval warfare of their own fleets.

One is the most common, in which each gun on a battleship is aimed separately and is operated by the gunner of the respective gun position, commonly known as free fire.

The second is relatively rare, that is, one cannon is aimed, and the other guns are fired with reference to this gun, commonly known as quasi-salvo.

Because in this era, there is no high-tech equipment such as electronically controlled aiming, and it is impossible to fire a salvo at the same time, so it can only be called a quasi-salvo.

Free fire has high requirements for each gunner, requiring all gunners to be proficient in the parameters of shooting and be able to adjust them in time according to the target.

The requirements for quasi-salvo fire are relatively low, as long as an excellent gunner sets the shooting parameters, and the other gunners can all be copied and processed according to this parameter.

This way of firing greatly reduces the technical requirements for the gunner.

It will help to get the Royal East China Sea Fleet out of the lack of actual combat experience, the fact that the officers and men of the navy are still very immature, and the combat effectiveness is unstable, and greatly enhance the artillery power of the fleet.

Normally, a battleship with only three skilled gunners can basically meet the needs of the fleet for a salvo.

Thirty years ago, in the Armageddon between the British Royal Fleet and the Spanish Armada, Spain had far more skilled gunners than the British fleet.

However, in the end, it was the Spanish Armada, which suffered a crushing defeat to the British Royal Fleet.

One of the important reasons is that the British Royal Fleet adopted this method of quasi-salvo, which effectively made up for the quantitative and qualitative shortcomings of the gunners.

When the battle reached a stalemate, the effectiveness of the shelling was greatly reduced after the Spanish armada's gunners lost a part, while the skilled gunners of the British Royal Fleet suffered small losses.

The British Royal Fleet slowly gained the upper hand and finally won the victory.

The officer corps of the Ming Imperial East China Sea Fleet, after careful study, finally decided to implement the quasi-salvo firing method.

One of the most skilled gunners is responsible for setting the parameters, and the other gunners all shoot according to the parameters of this gunner.

In other words, the other gunners have no autonomy for the time being.

What they had to do was to make mechanical movements, setting the angle and direction of the cannon according to the firing parameters that the heralds and observers were constantly sending in.

Then just fire the cannon and shoot blindly.

As long as the first wave of artillery hits is found, the basic parameters are formed, and other cannons can be fired using this parameter.

Generally speaking, as long as the right shelling parameters are found, the hit rate of the fleet salvo can be greatly improved.

And the Ming Royal Fleet, which has absolute speed and absolute firepower, once it skillfully adopts this method of cannon salvo, it will be a huge advantage for the enemy of this era.

With the advantages of advanced artillery, flowering shells and range, under the continuous salvo fire of the Grand Fleet, it is estimated that not many enemy fleets can survive more than ten waves of continuous blows, and will collapse due to heavy losses.