"Looks like they're thinking the same as we do."

Yang Xin looked at the Dutch fleet that began to change formation in the distance and gradually laid out the battle line.

The Dutch fleet was drawn straight from the Dangan waterway, stopped north of Wailingding Island and west of Lamma Island, and relied on the Tai Xi Mountain to block the tide of the Pearl River estuary in the north at low tide.

Then land on the Stanley Peninsula.

They now needed a foothold, on the southern tip of Hong Kong Island, where they had to climb more than a dozen miles of mountains and forests by land.

At sea they have fleet protection.

In particular, there is fresh water in the depths of Tai Tam Bay, which is necessary for them to gain a foothold.

As long as they land there, and quickly use the local forest to set up a simple camp, they can confront Yang Xin for a long time, and now such a confrontation at sea is definitely not possible, even if the Ming army does not attack them, they will not be able to hold out for a few days without fresh water, they must land on Hong Kong Island. If the Ming army intercepts them, then it is better to go to war directly, in fact, they are instigating the Ming army to go to war, because the current strength of the Ming army fleet at sea is obviously inferior to them, but after a long time, they don't know how many Ming warships will come.

Now hit in their favor.

"Your Excellency the Governor, attack or not!"

Salazar said excitedly.

It was clear that he was looking forward to sending more heretics to hell again.

As for the fact that he was fighting for the infidels, the question was ignored, what a heretic, apparently the benevolent Governor.

"Order Chen Si to attack, order Fang Yifeng's naval division battleship to move forward at full speed and cross the middle section, order Luo Lie's centipede fleet to follow Fang Yifeng, as for you to take your two cruisers to reinforce Fang Yifeng, the other centipede fleets follow the Pontus Governor."

Yang Xin quickly gave the order.

Behind him, a rocketeer immediately lit the fuse.

Immediately after, the red signal rocket exploded in the sky above them.

At this moment, the farthest thing for the Ming army is Chen Si's reinforcement fleet, ten cruisers are in the west of the Dutch fleet, approaching them, although the distance is far enough, it is still enough to see this thing, after all, Yang Xin himself is on the top of a mountain two hundred and sixty meters high, and his signal flare is the largest, more than twenty kilometers away is enough to see this red smoke in the blue sky.

At the same time, the signalmen waved several large flags.

This is an order for Fang Yifeng, who led the old naval division warship between Changzhou and Shiguzhou, the distance is more than ten kilometers, and the signal flag here may not be visible with a telescope, so there is also a person responsible for forwarding on an island in the middle.

They were facing the Dutch fleet in the middle.

Although it is not tactically advantageous to rush forward in this way, the problem is that most of the heavy guns of the old warships of the Ming army are arranged in the bow, and only this attack is the most powerful.

As for Salazar with his two cruisers to attack the center in the same way.

As long as this attacking force could cut off the Dutch fleet, the cruiser fleet attacking from the back and forward would solve the remaining problems, and the Dutch made a small mistake, and their line of battle was indeed the easiest to use firepower, but it missed a problem. Their forward flagship and another large ship, plus a large part of the warships, would be obscured by Lamma Island, and they would not be able to turn to the rescue of the rear fleet with a tailwind and a smooth water.

As long as their tails are cut off, the Ming army will have an advantage in besieging this tail.

Of course, the premise is that it can be cut.

This tail is also not easy to cut, especially when there is a returning ship at the back.

As for Yang Xin, with the twenty centipede ships here, he attacked from between Lamma Island and Hong Kong Island, and went straight to the two big ships that started at the head.

Capture the thief and capture the king first.

Let's get their flagship out of it first.

All the orders were given, and Yang Dudu rushed down the mountain as fast as he could, and then boarded a centipede ship......

"Attack!"

He waved and yelled at the paddling Tanmen.

The Tanmin, who had become a die-hard believer in him, immediately rowed one long oar, driven by the sideways sea breeze and twenty long oars, with the help of the ebb waters of the Pearl River estuary, rushed straight forward like the ancient Greek naval battle scene in the movie, and behind them nineteen other same centipede boats moved forward. The bow of the twenty centipede ships was erected one by one with rocket launch slots, and the iron rockets made by Guangzhou Lihua craftsmen also had long poles at the tail, one by one on the bow rail, like spears in the air.

This is their weapon.

Nothing else.

Each Centipede ship has one slide, and four spare rockets, all in the dark compartment of the cabin.

Their tactic was to get close to the target at full speed, until it was twenty feet, and it was a group of twenty centipede ships moving forward, and then, at the closest possible distance, they fired rockets at the enemy's sails, all with special barbs in front of them, and they would hit the sails and hang in with the propellant behind them, and the rest was left to fate.

In short, run after launching.

Spare rockets just mean something.

This thing is definitely not as good as Congreve rockets, in fact, the range is less than five hundred meters, but it is extremely easy to manufacture, because at this time, the Ming Dynasty is most indispensable for all kinds of rockets, even including such iron shells, even shooting more than 500 meters, there are a bunch of messy rockets in the arsenal of the Ming army, including the naval division warships.

Yang Xin only improved this thing slightly, and at the same time proposed a new tactic.

But......

This tactic requires the soldiers to be brave enough.

They had to be sixty meters away, stop in the face of enemy fire, light the fuse and wait for the thing to fly out.

And just when Yang Xin's centipede fleet entered the East Boliao Strait, Fang Yifeng's sailor fleet had already begun to charge.

This motley army of hundreds of warships showed bravery.

Fang Yifeng's subordinates are in a standard Ming army water battle formation, the front sentinel ship with a small Furlong machine, the second line of the middle ship with a large Furlong machine, the two horizontal teams are staggered before and after, and finally the front sentinel ship, the middle ship can play a firepower, and behind the middle ship is the commander's seat boat, which has been equipped with Hongyi cannons at the bow of the ship. A formation is an attack combination, a total of four such attack formations lined up on the sea, and in the middle of the formation are the Tanmin centipede ships that cooperate with the battle, and these centipede ships rely on their speed to surpass the front in a blink of an eye.

The motley cards rushed straight at the enemy.

At the same time, the cruiser, which saw the order to attack, also moved forward at full speed.

The fleet also lined up, attacking from the rear of the Dutch fleet, and then engaged a large armed merchant ship at the rear, for the two sides were still more than four hundred meters apart, and the cruisers did not use short and heavy guns, but only nine pound guns and the opponent's twelve-pounder guns

In the blink of an eye, this battlefield, which dragged on at the back, became the most fierce battlefield.

The Ming cruisers, the Dutch armed merchant ships, all opened their guns and sprayed flames with one cannon after another.

Gunsmoke fills the blue sea.

In the whistling of the staggered artillery, the Daming Water Division ushered in the first battle line bombardment.

Behind them, more reinforcements appeared, except for three patrolling Yamen, four transporting rice to the north, and the remaining nineteen cruisers were all at the mouth of the Pearl River.

They are all coming to join the battle one after another.

Immediately after Fang Yifeng's miscellaneous firefight with the Dutch, their large and small furlong machines frantically sprayed flames in front, and the weak cannonballs kept hitting the Dutch armed merchant ships, and the results almost all bounced off without exception, but the generals behind them could still gain something, after all, their Hongyi cannons usually had a six-pound level, and this level of cannonballs could still impress the armed merchant ships.

But their opponents are almost exclusively at this level.

The four clippers that were charged directly by these miscellaneous brands, with more than forty cannons on the side combined, fired continuously, at least four pounds, and even twelve pound-level shells quickly caused killings in the Ming army, and in the blink of an eye, the two sentry ships sank in the shell bombardment.

But the others didn't slow down.

At this time, the courage of the Ming army sailors was not lacking.

Especially since they are all locals, not to mention anything else under the command of Yang Dudu during this time, first of all, this courage has improved significantly.

All the soldiers shouted, firing at the whirring of shells overhead.

Although the Furlong machine is not powerful enough, it is also a cannon after all, and the Dutch will be killed or injured if they are really hit, especially since this thing has a fast rate of fire, and the size of the Furlong machine that constantly sprays flames from a door makes the four Dutch armed merchant ships have to deal with it with all their might.

It was also at this time that the centipede ships launched a decisive charge.

The Dutch were clearly wary of them, and they did not understand what such galleys, which did not even have a Franco, were for.

But they didn't really look threatening.

At most, it's a gang jumper, and when you get close, you throw a hook and climb up.

So the Dutch, although they also divided part of their firepower and even sank two centipede ships, did not really pay attention to them after all.

In this way, most of the centipede ships still rushed to more than ten feet under the cover of the fire of the sailors, and adjusted the bow pointing, and then in the stunned eyes of the Dutch, the captains of the centipede ships lit the fuses one after another, and then all the Tanmin sailors ignored the cannon doors in front of them that were spraying flames, and all left the oars and crowded to the rear.

At the same time that the six centipede ships were sunk, rockets burst into the sky with flamethrows.

Four armed Dutch merchant ships screamed in terror.

Then they watched in amazement as the vast majority of rockets deviated from them high or low......

The Dutchmen on deck immediately turned to laughter.

Then, in their laughter, two rockets crashed into the sails of the two armed merchant ships almost simultaneously, and the Dutch smiles below froze instantly, and they watched in amazement at the things that hung on their sails, writhing and spewing flames.

The next moment their sails burned.

The next moment, the flames above their heads exploded......

"Rush, rush up and capture the enemy ship!"

On a Guangzhou battleship, Fang Yifeng brandished his knife and roared excitedly.

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