Lu Qi really couldn't understand why this elite of the official army would go to Dongying to do business with Wang Zhi, didn't the imperial court implement a sea ban at this time, and the elite of the official army actually went to Dongying to do business, what the hell is going on?

Could it be that this is the suspicious plan of Yang Cong, the governor of Zhejiang?

If this is the case, this guy is inevitably too bold, and privately sent officers and soldiers to "escort" Wang Zhi, the leader of the Japanese bandits, to Dongying to do business.

Lu Qi was inexplicably beaten away like this, although few of his men were really killed, but most of them were injured, and they would definitely not be able to recover for a while.

Hong Tiezhu did not order the pursuit, because there were not many people under his hands, and there were about two or three percent of the pirates on the opposite side who died to death, although most of the people were injured, and the remaining half of the number was still more than their men.

Besides, the battle on Wang Zhi's side is not over yet, so for the sake of safety, he should go and help others.

He glanced at the pirate ship fleeing in panic not far away, and then ordered: "Turn around, go to support Lord Wang, all the musketeers are loaded and ready to fight." ”

He and Wang Zhi were one to the south and the other to the east, and the two sides were almost more than ten miles apart, and there was only a row of small black dots faintly visible on the sea, and it was really impossible to see what the battle situation was.

To be honest, he is still more worried about Wang Zhi, he has also seen the earthen guns and earthen cannons on Wang Zhi's ship, that thing can't be compared with the new muskets they use, it is estimated that there will be no time to reload ammunition after firing a round, that is to say, Wang Zhi can use earthen guns and earthen cannons to overturn two or three hundred people at most, and the overall number is still at a disadvantage, and it is difficult to say whether he can fight when he takes overboard.

So, how did Wang Zhi's side play?

Hong Tiezhu's guess was actually a bit wrong, Wang Zhi's combat experience at sea was quite rich, and the earthen guns and earthen cannons under his hands did not release more than one round.

Because the east wind is blowing at this time, the ships led by Wang Zhi are traveling with the wind, and the speed of travel can be controlled, while the ships led by the pirate Shen Jiu are almost going against the wind, and the speed of travel is quite slow, as long as he orders his subordinates to turn the sails and slow down the speed of the ship, it will take a certain amount of time for Shen Jiu to rush up and connect with him.

Wang Zhi took full advantage of this, and as soon as the opposite pirate ship approached the range of the earthen cannons, he ordered all the ships in the fleet to adjust the direction of their sails and reduce the speed of the ships to a minimum, and then bombarded them in rows.

Immediately afterwards, he ordered his gunners to quickly reload the shells, and while the distance between the two sides was still a little far, another round of artillery came.

He had more than a dozen artillery pieces under his hands, and although the range and accuracy were not very good, he still shot several rounds after two rounds.

Among them, two shots directly hit two relatively small pirate ships, and that guy broke through the bottom of the two pirate ships in one fell swoop, and the two pirate ships soon began to tilt and sink into the sea.

The other few shots landed on the big ship, and although they didn't break through the deck of the big ship, they also caused a lot of casualties.

When the distance between the two sides was about 200 paces, he ordered the platoon guns that had been prepared to fire a salvo, which completely overturned more than 100 people on the other side, because the speed of the ships on both sides was very slow, before approaching the distance of 100 paces, the platoon guns were still ready for a second salvo, and the other side was overturned by more than 100 people.

In other words, he used earthen guns and earthen cannons to overturn three or four hundred people on the other side, and the gap between the two sides had narrowed to ten figures.

Shen Jiu was also a little stunned at this time, he lost three or four hundred people before he started fighting, and he also lost two small boats, this Wang Zhi is too powerful.

At this time, the morale of the army on his side was actually a little chaotic, and the other little pirates were all frightened by the might of the earth guns and earth cannons, if it weren't for the temptation of hundreds of thousands of taels of goods on the ship, they would probably have run away.

Next, the two sides came within a hundred paces and began to shoot crossbows.

At this time, Shen Jiu's side suffered a small loss, because Wang Zhi also had more bows and arrows in his hand than them, and Wang Zhi's ship was also equipped with a strong crossbow.

In short, in terms of long-range attacks, Wang Zhi's side has the absolute upper hand, and Shen Jiu's side is basically only beaten.

Speaking of melee combat, Wang Zhi's side actually has an advantage, because Wang Zhi has tens of thousands of people under his hands, but there are only more than 1,000 people who can come with the ship, which means that his side is basically selected from tens of thousands of pirates and pirates, and he can fight very well.

And Shen Jiu's side is a rabble of several pirates combined, and their physical fitness is definitely not comparable to the strength selected by Wang Zhi's men, and their hearts are not aligned, so they are naturally far worse than Wang Zhi's men when they fight.

Not long after the two sides fought, Shen Jiu's side was already a little unbearable, because Wang Zhi's men were too fierce, that guy, the pirates who jumped up to grab the ship were basically overturned, and Wang Zhi even organized people to launch a counter-robbery, and ran directly along the gangplank and rope to their ship.

Seeing that several ships were seized, many little pirates were so frightened that they began to flee in all directions, just kidding, hundreds of thousands of taels of goods are indeed tempting, but they also have to be grabbed, Wang Zhi's subordinates are obviously much stronger than them, and they also rob a fart, their ships are going to be robbed by others!

When Shen Jiu saw this scene, he also had the idea of retreating in his heart, but he couldn't withdraw immediately, because several boats under his command were climbed up by Wang Zhi's people, and if he retreated, those boats probably wouldn't be able to escape.

He was hesitating whether to organize men to take those boats back, when the lookout post on the flagship suddenly sounded an alarm, and he climbed to the top of the warehouse to take a look, and was immediately frightened.

More than ten ships sent by Wang Zhi to intercept Lu Qi actually ran back, and there was no shadow of Lu Qi's fleet behind them at all!

He didn't know what was going on on Lu Qi's side, he only knew that if he didn't run again, he might not be able to run away.

It's a fart, he can't do the more than 30 ships in front of Wang Zhi just in front of him, if he adds more than 10 ships, it will definitely be dead or alive.

He could only reluctantly abandon the few ships that were seized by Wang Zhi, and ran away with the rest of his men.

At this time, Wang Zhi naturally saw Hong Tiezhu's fleet, he couldn't believe his eyes, more than ten ships went to intercept more than fifty pirate ships were able to run back unscathed, and there were no pursuers behind them.

In other words, Hong Tiezhu has already beaten away more than fifty pirate ships that Nan Bread had copied over!

How is this possible?

He really couldn't believe this fact, but Hong Tiezhu led more than ten ships to run back unscathed, and the pirate ships that fought with him were also frightened and fled, and they didn't even want the more than ten ships that he had captured.

What the hell is going on with them winning so inexplicably?