"Haha! These bastards, with those tattered weapons, come to fight me? ”

"Hehe, these pirates are holding those rags to resist, they simply don't know whether they are alive or dead!" ……

Some of the Royal Navy officers, watching the sporadic resistance of the pirate ships that were still fighting and not surrendering, couldn't help but laugh while shooting the enemy.

In this era, the pirates had a limited number of muskets and bows on their ships, and even if they were full fire, they would not be very powerful.

You want to sink the enemy's big ships with simple muskets, bows and arrows, and fire oil bombs alone, unless you are lucky with shit.

Otherwise, it would be difficult to rely on these rudimentary weapons and fire oil bombs to try to sink the enemy's big ship.

In ordinary naval warfare in this era, primary firearms have risen spontaneously, and ordinary pirates have no cannons at all.

Their most effective tactics were broadside battles and ramming battles, in which both sides fought more for morale and ship strength in addition to firepower.

For example, at this time, whoever has a stronger ship will take advantage of it.

I saw that a Leopard cruiser of the Royal Navy, after rushing into the enemy group, crashed headlong into a bird ship several times smaller than the Leopard cruiser.

Hearing a loud "clang", the unlucky bird ship was hit by the large warships of the East China Sea Fleet, and several large cracks appeared in the hull.

In an instant, the hull of the pirate bird ship began to pour into the sea water in large quantities, and slowly began to sink.

This scene shocked dozens of pirate ships that had just set sail nearby, and they had to quickly avoid it.

Next, the plan of the commander of the East China Sea Fleet, Zhong Jixiang, finally succeeded smoothly.

The detachment composed of 10 Leopard cruisers, like a quick knife, split the flanks of many pirates from the side, splitting the ships of more than 200 pirates in two.

As soon as he saw that this trick worked, he immediately commanded the remaining ten Leopard cruisers, immediately dispersed, formed an encirclement, and began to besiege the nearly 100 pirate ships that were isolated.

The more than 100 large and small pirate ships on the other side, which were almost crippled just now, were dealt with by the ten Leopard cruisers that had just cut the enemy apart, and quickly turned their bows to deal with them.

At this time, in this small bay, there was already a shouting of killing.

Countless ships have drawn traces on the sea, and from time to time cannonballs carrying flaming light have fallen into the sea, stirring up waves of waves.

The soldiers of both sides rushed to the side of the ship to start a scuffle amid the squeak of the ship's side.

The officers and men of the Royal Navy, while approaching and shooting pirates with muskets and repeaters, instantly threw several rope hooks and threw them onto the opposing ship.

"Click...... With a click, the rope hook hung on the side of the Haikou warship, and then several hook guns poked out and hooked on the side of the Haikou warship.

However, the warships of both sides maintained a huge inertia, and although the Leopard cruiser was much larger than the other party's ships, there were still some pirate ships that had just begun to accelerate and did not stop.

The sides of the ship were huddled together, still moving slowly forward, unable to stop the ship.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the pirates hurriedly swung their knives and axes, and tried to cut off the rope hooks and hooks that hung on their ships.

Some pirates, armed with spears at the same time, wanted to stab at the ship of the Ming Royal Navy on the opposite side to prevent the other party from jumping over.

However, in the face of the Royal Navy's officers and men, who had an absolute superiority in hand-to-hand combat, the counterattack of these pirates did not achieve any effect.

The moment they were about to rush back was they were knocked over by a dense stream of repeaters and muskets and fell to the deck.

The battle can be said to have entered the bloodiest state at this moment, and the soldiers on both sides launched a hand-to-hand battle on the side of the ship, although it was a one-sided situation.

One side wants to stick to it, one side wants to get rid of it, one side wants to attack the enemy ship, and the other side tries to stop the other party's gang jumping.

There was a barbaric shouting and screaming from the side of the ship, and more often than not, the guns and crossbows of the Royal Navy officers.

One by one, the bandits who wanted to resist were screaming and falling, and some of them were even shot off the spot by muskets, thrown overboard the ship, and fell to the sea.

As more and more hooks and hooks hooked the pirate's ship, the Royal Navy officers struggled to secure the rope, and the ship gradually stopped, and finally the ships of both sides were still entangled.

In this confrontation in the bay, at this point, the two sides basically fell into a melee, and every ship of the pirates was bitten by the big war ships of the Royal Navy, and the two sides fought inextricably.

In addition to the stark difference in the warships and armaments of the two sides, the obvious difference is the morale of the two sides.

The officers and men of the Royal East China Sea Fleet were all prepared in advance, and their morale was like a rainbow.

The people on Haikou's side initially had the idea of fleeing for their lives, but when they were besieged by the Royal Navy, they immediately panicked. Wen Ting Pavilion

The officers and men of the Royal Navy's East China Sea Fleet are fighting for the imperial court to defend the country and military achievements, and many pirates are here to fight soy sauce, who is more desperate, of course, it is clear at a glance.

As a result, from the beginning of the battle, the warships of various large and small pirates were completely suppressed and beaten by the large warships of the Royal Navy, and basically had no ability to resist.

After the fierce battle began, it only lasted for more than a quarter of an hour, and the victory or defeat of the enemy and the enemy was basically decided.

At this time, a royal navy commander led the soldiers to fly over the enemy ships, disarmed all the enemies, and killed all the pirates who refused to surrender.

The officers and men of the Royal Navy quickly took control of the situation on the battlefield and surrendered all the enemy's ships, large and small.

Now, only the three bandit ships that escaped first were left, and they were still flying away from the sea, ready to resist stubbornly.

The ten Leopard cruisers that were ordered to pursue were closely eyeing the ships of Liang Yi, Wang Qiang, and Ma Zichen, and the distance between them was getting closer and closer, and it seemed that they were about to catch up with them.

Seeing that he and the others couldn't escape, the ten big warships of the imperial court rushed straight and were about to come to his side.

Liang Yi knew that he and the others were not opponents of the imperial navy warships at all, and he was really starting to be afraid.

The three of them successively asked their subordinates to stop their escape operations, stopped the three large armed merchant ships, and before they had time to raise the white flag, they shouted at the top of their voices: "Don't open fire!" We surrendered! ”

The pirates on the three large armed merchant ships could clearly see that the black cannons raised high above the opponent's warships and aimed at them were frightened one by one, so they shouted more and more vigorously.

There is no way, don't shout louder, in case these imperial warships come with a round of cannons, wouldn't they die miserably?

It must be a place to die.

The officers and men on the Leopard cruiser didn't hear it at first, but they saw that the three bandit leaders were no longer running away, and the people on board were probing their brains and shouting something.

So, after getting some distance closer, the shouts of the three bandit leaders and their men were heard.

"Huh!"

One of the captains of the Royal Navy at the head chuckled, "Lao Tzu still thinks that you will resist to the end and not surrender to the death?" ”

"I didn't expect that you pirates and bandits, who usually kill people one by one without blinking, will be afraid of death now!"

He immediately ordered ten large warships to surround the enemy's three ships, temporarily stop the attack, and the soldiers put their weapons at Liang Yi and their three ships, ready to attack.

"If you want to surrender, why don't you drop the sails? If you don't drop the sails again, I'll send you to see the Dragon King! ”

A loud Royal Navy admiral, still very resentful, secretly cursed a few words, and then sharply ordered the other party's pirate ship to sail.

Immediately, after the sails of the three armed pirate ships fell one after another......, the soldiers approached and forced all the pirates to lay down their arms, and the violators were killed.

Then, under the strict vigilance of the soldiers, groups of Royal Navy officers jumped on top of the opponent's armed merchant ships and tied up all the pirates.

Some Royal Navy officers re-hoisted the sails of the three pirate ships and activated the captured enemy ships.

After a while, they returned to the queue of the Royal East Sea Fleet in the bay.

At this time, this premeditated naval battle had all ended.

After Prime Minister Zhong ordered that nearly 10,000 pirates be disarmed and bound, it was already dusk.

Since he still had to clean up the battlefield and screen prisoners, the commander of the East China Sea Fleet, Zhong Jixiang, simply ordered the fleet to rest on this island for one night.

It was not until early the next morning that he returned to the naval base in Jiaozhou Bay with all the pirate captives, villagers, and large and small ships.

After nearly half a month, the curtain finally came to an end.

In the waters of the 3,000-mile coastline of the Shandong Peninsula, almost all the pirate gangs, large and small, were swept away by the officers and men of the Royal Navy's East China Sea Fleet.

Two days later, His Majesty the Emperor will personally lead all the officers and men of the Royal North Sea Fleet to Jiaozhou Bay.

After the pirates were roughly cleaned up, the officers and men of the Royal East China Sea Fleet of the Guards not only did not relax, but became more and more busy.

Everyone was busy preparing for various expeditions, and they were all looking forward to the day when His Majesty the Emperor arrived.

It is said that at noon on the day of His Majesty's arrival, he will take the two major fleets to go on the expedition, and he will not waste even a day.

In the hearts of the soldiers, there seemed to be a fire burning, and everyone was a little impatient.