The people below complained, but Imran Pasha turned a deaf ear, he didn't care: "If this battle is won, he is not afraid of what anyone says, and if he loses the battle, he is not afraid of what anyone says." ”

The news from the clippers came that the Chinese fleet was approaching, and Imran Pasha raised his fleet to meet it.

The battlefield chosen by the two sides is not near the sea, but in the sea, where there is more room for maneuver and can have a good fight.

I don't know if God sensed the murderous aura of both sides, the dark clouds on the sea of the Persian Gulf were low, the wind was fierce, and the waves were rolling.

On the Turkish fleet, the people of Raf were not accustomed to water warfare, and on the sea, the warships swung and could not stand on their feet, vomiting and nausea, and they were seasick, and some people vomited until they even came out with yellow bile water.

The captains of the ships threatened them, saying: "In today's battle, there will be victory and no defeat, if you are defeated, there will be no place for you to be buried!" ”

Everyone is bitter and helpless!

The situation is very clear, this ship is a thief ship, and only by working hard to win, otherwise you have to go to heaven!

When the two sides approached, the sea and the sky suddenly opened up, the wind blew, the waves were not prosperous, the sun was shining, and it became a good weather.

Soon, the lookout post on the mast of the "Southeast Asia No. 8", which was the flagship of the forward, spotted the traces of the Turkish battleship in the water and sky, and immediately reported: "The Turks were found, a lot!" ”

"How many? Commander asked! The sailors under the mast shouted to the sky.

"Fifty small gunboats!"

The sailor reported the answer to Captain Siresma, and he was relieved to receive this report, as a striker, he only brought twenty warships, and he thought that even if it was a dozen or two, there would be no problem in eating the other side, and he did not take the other party to heart, and said confidently: "Let's move on." ”

But he rejoiced too soon, and as time went on, new ones came: eighty, a hundred, a hundred and twenty!

The smile on Siresma's face disappeared, and he ordered the ship to slow down and wait for the warship in the rear to meet him.

There are so many warships on the other side, if he rushes into it, it will be delivered to the door.

Siresma is a brave general in the fleet, but he is by no means brave and resourceful.

On the ensuing Chinese army, Cheng Yu saw that the front stopped for a while, and knew that the enemy fleet was coming, and immediately urged the other side to follow up the front.

The two sides gathered warships, the distance was getting closer and closer, and the lineup was finally clear: there were nearly 200 enemy ships, and the sea was full of Turkish warships, although they were all small ships, but there were many.

The Turks relied on the large number of ships, and Imran Pasha divided his gunboat group into three armies, the left, the center and the right, the left army was led by General Feda, and the right army was led by General Chabir.

The oarsmen of the Calais were shouting and rowing hard, and they grabbed the upper hand on their right flank, clearly preparing to go around behind the South-East Fleet and outflank it.

Compared to the Battle of Lepanto in the last century, the Turks made some progress, they made a large number of small gunboats, the large ones with thirty guns, the small ones with twenty guns, mostly 12-pounder calibers and a few 18-pounder cannons.

Now that the South-Eastern Fleet had the upper hand to the east of the Turks, they began to line up their battle lines, facing the enemy on the port side and going north in a zigzag formation.

However, it seems that the Turks do not intend to play battle line with the South-East Fleet, and they are purely pointing at the South-East Fleet with the bow of their ships, and the officers and men on board have red eyes and are ready to fight a bloody way.

The situation is very obvious, the Turks are ready for a broadside battle!

They were not equipped with battleships, and only in broadside battles could they have a chance of winning, after all, they had some confidence in their hand-to-hand combat ability.

At this time, the southeast fleet went north, and the distance between the two sides finally approached the range of the firing, but the Chinese did not fire their guns, and when they reached two kilometers to three hundred meters, they only heard the horn blowing, and the speed of the Turkish warships suddenly accelerated.

The forward flagship of the South-Eastern Fleet, led by the first to fire, and the 32-pounder cannons on the battleships roared, attacking the Turks in the form of a platoon of guns.

The ships fired one after another, the sound of cannons echoed on the sea level, and the smoke of gunpowder was filled with high air!

Artillery shells splashed around the perimeter of the Turkish warship, stirring up a column of water that looked like forest trees.

As long as the Turkish warship was hit, the hull of the ship trembled and the speed slowed down.

Due to their density, several warships were hit, and the bow guns of the Turks returned fire fiercely, also with great success.

On the southeast ship, the officers stood tall and urged the soldiers to keep firing the artillery, while the soldiers of each artillery group were busy loading and firing the artillery.

One after another, the shells were fired, and everyone on the deck and in the cabin was fighting, and it was a hot scene.

Despite the ferocity of the artillery fire, the Turks continued to approach.

The shells were fired intensively, and the officers and men of the Southeast Fleet showed good quality, and each gun position poured shells on the Turks at an average speed of more than a minute, while the Turkish gunners clumsily fired back only a shot every three minutes, which was self-defeating, but the Turks didn't care, the last cabin in the bottom cabin, the officers walked back and forth, supervising the oarsmen to speed up the frequency, fast, fast, fast!

The Chinese shells hit the hull of the Turkish warship heavily, and the shells flew one after another, causing wood chips to splash all over the sky, and the debris hit the Turks to the ground, and some of the shells even blew people to the old height.

Bang!

There was a loud bang, shaking the audience, and both sides subconsciously looked there.

I saw a cloud of smoke and fire rising from the bow of a Turkish gunboat, like a huge mushroom, and a big explosion occurred.

It was not the Chinese shells that hit them, but the Turkish gunners who had not trained for a long time and made mistakes in their busyness, and the torches that ignited fell into their powder kegs, causing the gunpowder to explode.

The blow blew the bow of the ship, and the sea poured into the bilge in a raging water, and in less than five minutes the gunboat left only a mast on the sea, and the sailors who fell into the water drifted like duck boats on the sea.

The Turkish shelling became weaker and weaker, and many of the bow guns fell silent, and there were few return fires.

But they continued to approach, and on the deck and in the cabins, the officers and men with scimitars in their hands crouched low, ready for the attack.

Seeing this situation, the southeast battleships also adjusted their rudder positions one after another, and collided with each other with the bow of the ship!

"Pong! Disheveled! Disheveled! "There were many warships colliding, and the large hull of the southeast ship knocked the Turkish warship into a swaying and turbulent state, while the southeast ship was just shaking.

The Turkish battleship, which did not collide, quickly approached parallel to the southeast ship, and the Turks' eyes suddenly lit up, ready to rush to the opposing battleship, and when they straightened up, a piece of shotgun was carrying a dead wind, sweeping them!