Dai Liliang was also very moved to see the officers and men of the navy rushing to the beach in a tattered ship that might sink at any time!

Although these navies were timid and cowardly before the war, they fought stubbornly and with a spirit of sacrifice, and he was more sympathetic to the navy's efforts to storm the beach and not give up their ships easily.

Because it doesn't matter if the ship is beaten and tattered, and even the hull can't be repaired, because for the Tang Navy, or the Tang Dynasty, the armed merchant ships converted from these civilian ships, although their hulls are not cheap, but in fact they are nothing to the Tang Dynasty.

The Tang Dynasty did not dare to say how many such civilian ship hulls there were, but if necessary, a dozen or twenty ships could be recruited from the civilian fleet for modification at any time.

The hull of a civilian ship and the hull of a battleship, those are two concepts!

What really matters is actually the officers and men of the Navy who drive the ships and the guns on board!

These two things are extremely scarce in the Tang Navy, or the entire Tang Dynasty.

If the damaged warship can successfully rush the beach and run aground, then no matter whether the hull can be repaired or not, but the guns on the ship can be saved, and after the war, send someone to dismantle the guns and reinstall them on a new civilian ship, then the Datang Navy will be able to get a new armed merchant ship in an instant.

After the loss of one armed merchant ship, there were only five ships left of the Second Squadron, and most of them were scarred!

So they were forced to turn again, and then start to break away from the front and rear of the Franco-man's ships!

After the second squadron began to break away, these Francophiles on the opposite side seemed to want to continue the pursuit, but at this time, more than a dozen small boats appeared on the sea, which were still small inland boats of the Xijiang detachment.

And although these small boats look inconspicuous, they are loaded with gunpowder and even gunpowder!

Seeing this, the Francophiles, who had just suffered a loss on these fireships and connected the two large ships, seemed to have no intention of continuing to entangle, but let go of the pursuit, and instead began to salvage the two sailors who were forced to abandon the ship because of the fire was too large, and at the same time sent a small rowing boat to meet the sailors on the big ship whose mast had been broken and turned into dead fish.

When they hurriedly salvaged and received the personnel, more than a dozen small ships of the Tang Navy were also about to arrive at the battlefield, and at this time, the Francophile resolutely chose to retreat.

The mirrors have been lost, and there are still a large number of wounded on their ship, and now they are desperate to leave these and return to Malacca, as for revenge, that is for sure, but not now.

Who knows how many of these small boats full of fire-starting things will pounce on the Datang Navy!

Although the Datang Navy lacks those large ships of several hundred tons, these small ships of only a few tons and more than a dozen tons are a big handful!

Watching as the Franc began to sail away, leaving only two ships still burning on the surface of the sea and one ship that had been slowly sinking by themselves with the sea valve opened.

Dai Liliang sighed a little, the navy's artillery is still smaller, less!

If the second squadron of the Navy had a large enough number of artillery pieces today, maybe the results would not have been like this!

It is a pity that today's sneak attack and interception operation, which was almost deliberate and planned for a long time, and it was also a naval battle that seized a favorable position before the war and successfully launched an active naval battle, ended in a defeat for both sides.

There weren't even many dead or wounded on the side of the Franc man, it was just the loss of three ships!

On the side of the Datang Navy, it lost dozens of small ships before and after, and then lost one ship, and the other ships were also scarred, and the casualties were not small, and the artillery of the Franc machine man was quite fierce, even if the Datang Navy was six ships besieging the three ships of the Franc Robot, but in fact, the fight still could not suppress the artillery fire on the three ships of the Franc Robot.

Today's battlefield naval battle, in Dai Liliang's view, is not a victory, at most it is just a defeat for both sides!

However, the strength of the navy is so weak, it is already good to be able to fight like this, and the navy has done its best!

At this time, the second detachment of the navy also began to turn around, and then moved closer to the ships left behind by the Franc man, and those small boats began to salvage the overboard personnel on both sides of the sea surface.

In addition, he also saw the sailors of the Tang Navy begin to board the three ships abandoned by the Francophiles, but the two burning ships were relatively large, and he didn't know if he could extinguish the fire and save it.

However, the other big ship of the Francorobot, whose mast was broken, is slowly composing, but if the rescue is timely, there is still a great chance of being rescued.

Soon, a large number of sailors could be seen boarding the three large ships left behind by the Franc man, extinguishing the fire, closing the sea valve, and at the same time towing the three ships, which had almost completely lost power, and began to return to the Ho Jing Pier.

About an hour later, Dai Liliang also saw Colonel Zhou Zhifeng, the commander of the Second Squadron, who had just landed on the dock!

As soon as they met, Dai Liliang said to Zhou Zhifeng: "Congratulations to the navy, this time your navy has gained a lot, this time it has captured three big guys, I look at these three ships, I'm afraid there are three or four hundred tons!" ”

Zhou Zhifeng also had a look of relief on his face: "The two small ones are more than 300 tons, and the big ship with a broken mast is more than 400 tons, and it should be able to have almost 500 tons after repairing!" ”

Dai Liliang said: "Five hundred tons? It's so big! I remember that the largest ship in your navy is only more than 300 tons, and there is an extra 500-ton ship, and I don't think the damage is too big, so you can use it if you repair it, maybe it will be able to serve as the new flagship of your navy! ”

Zhou Zhifeng said: "The flagship is not, after all, this ship is not our ship, and although this ship is a little bigger, it is an ordinary Galen merchant ship of those foreigners, with a large tonnage, but the speed is too slow, and there are not many guns installed, I estimate that the guns on this ship are estimated to be dismantled and misappropriated to the Wuzhou!" ”

Wuzhou, is the first professional warship under construction of the Tang Navy, the name of the ship is taken from the armed merchant ship Wuzhou sunk in the Battle of Qiongzhou, the overall use of Western-style soft sailing ship layout, but it is also a little bit of adding many Chinese-style sailing ships, it can be said that in this era of the integration of the advantages of the two types of Chinese and Western professional warships, at the beginning of the design, the core design idea of the ship is: all the tonnage should be used for sea operations and services, in this era many warships will have a lot of space for the design of transporting goods, It is not at all.

However, although the hull is under construction, it is expected that the naval guns carried on the Zhenhai, especially the main naval guns, are still missing, because such a professional battleship is ready to carry eight nine-pound (12-pound) guns, eight seven-pound guns and four five-pound guns.

Secondly, there is the third-class cruiser Lianzhou under construction, whose name is also taken from the armed merchant ship of the same name that sank in the naval battle of Qiongzhou, this professional warship with a design displacement of 550 tons is also not used for other purposes, purely for sea engagement, and the main guns that the ship is expected to carry are four 14 catties (18 pounds) cannons, followed by ten nine-pound (12 pounds) guns, and twelve seven-pound guns, and four five-pound guns.

However, the above two warships under construction in the Tang Navy, the seven-pound and five-pound guns they need and the shotguns that are not included in the statistical table are naturally easy to solve, but the nine-pound or even fourteen-pound artillery is not so easy to solve.

However, among the three battleships that the Datang Navy had just captured, a large number of large-mouth naval guns were found, including fourteen catties of artillery and nine catties more.

So if nothing else, these guns will most likely be put on the decks of these two professional warships!

And this is also the reason why Colonel Zhou Zhifeng gave a death order to bring these three ships back, even if the upper deck of two of the Francobot ships was burned to the ground, and the hull was seriously cracked and flooded, but Zhou Zhifeng still dragged them back, and in order to let them come back smoothly, in the process of extinguishing the fire, the Datang Navy also paid several casualties.

The navy lacks artillery, especially large-caliber naval guns, and Dai Liliang also knows that not to mention the lack of large-caliber artillery in the navy, the army is actually also lacking!

Now the Ming army is becoming more and more obscene in the war, and most of the time they are hiding in the city, which makes the Tang Army have a very urgent need for large-caliber artillery, especially large-caliber artillery that can directly break through the city wall, that is, siege heavy artillery!

Some time ago, the army also issued a new bidding plan to the arsenal of the Ministry of Industry, requiring the arsenal under the Ministry of Industry to provide a large-caliber super artillery, which has no requirements for weight and range, but has great requirements for power, what do you want, knock down those damn city walls!

The artillery is heavier, the big deal is the slow transportation, the firing range is a little closer, the big deal is to put it at a distance of three or four hundred meters for artillery bombardment, but the power is no matter what, it can't be small, the siege artillery that can't break through the city wall, what use does the army want it?

In short, the thicker the barrel, the better, and the longer, the better!

Coincidentally, the Navy also needs such large-caliber artillery!