After the Ming army discovered the attacking Datang mobile fleet in the morning, the Ming army's sailors rushed out of the port to meet the battle, and the two sides fought for more than two hours.

The Ming navy launched a charge attack with fireboats, but these fireships were not successful, and some of them were ignited in advance by the arson bombs and grenades of the Tang navy, forcing the Ming sailors to abandon the ship in advance and escape.

Some of the fireships successfully rushed up, and then ignited the igniters on the ship to try to get close to and ignite the battleships of the Tang Navy, but a small number of them were directly sunk on the spot, but more were dodged and did not hit the target.

And even more, in fact, there is no chance to charge after reaching the position and igniting!

Because the nine main warships of the Tang Navy Division, although their flexibility is not as good as these small ships, their speed is not slow at all.

So in the end, dozens of fireships did not achieve the slightest success, of course, the casualties of the Ming sailors on these fireships were also only a handful, and most of them took the initiative to jump into the water and climb onto the boat to escape.

This battle of the Ming army's fireship charge cannot be said to have no results at all, at least they successfully consumed a lot of ammunition and the physical strength of the gunners of the Tang Navy.

But in the next results, the Ming army did not have such good luck!

Seventy or eighty Ming warships relied on their absolute numerical superiority to pounce and try to get directly close to the artillery bombardment and start a broadside battle, while the main fleet commanded by Ouyang Gui used its speed and maneuverability to try to keep a distance while launching an artillery bombardment at a distance of about two or three hundred meters!

In this kind of artillery battle between chasing each other, the hit rate is naturally not high at medium and long distances, but when it enters two or three hundred meters, the hit rate is still there.

During the battle, the cruiser Jiujiang was approached to within 100 meters by two Ming ships, and it was attacked left and right!

As a result, the ship actually passed between the two ships at high speed, and when it passed through, the guns on the sides of the ships fired a salvo at the Ming warships on both sides.

All kinds of messy firearms on the Ming warships also fired back!

The scene at that moment was spectacular and tragic!

Although there were sawdust flying sideways on the Jiujiang, and there were many casualties among the personnel on the deck, the two Ming warships that had withstood the bombardment of more than 30 guns and more than 10 shotguns on the Jiujiang at close range were also dying!

Just a round of close-range salvo, on the spot to paralyze one of the Fu ships with more than 200 tons, the Ming sailors on its deck suffered heavy casualties, especially the huge grenades of several howitzers, directly fell on the Ming warships and exploded, causing many Ming sailors to be killed and injured, and even a cannon was hit by a powerful fourteen pounds of solid bullets, and the huge momentum made this Franc cannon with a weight of 300 pounds fly up directly, and then swept across the deck, causing a lot of casualties among the Ming sailors on the deck.

At first, they thought they could get close to each other for hand-to-hand combat, so a large number of soldiers of the Ming Army's naval division were on the deck, ready to engage in broadside battles at any time, but these people on the deck suffered extremely heavy casualties in this salvo.

Moreover, there was a cannonball that just hit its main mast, and after losing the mast, the huge ship of fortune turned into a dead fish on the spot, thus declaring it no combat effectiveness.

The other slightly smaller sand boat, only more than 100 tons, was not much better, although it could continue to move, but the people on board were still suffering heavy casualties!

And this scene of the battle was directly watched by Ouyang Gui on the side, so in the follow-up battle, Ouyang Gui ordered the two detachments to rearrange the formation, and then the two detachments directly rushed through the scattered formation of the Ming army at high speed with two one-line columns.

Such a tactical choice is basically to abandon the previous mode of keeping a distance with mobility and shelling from a distance, but directly plan to directly destroy the opponent with the excellent protection ability and powerful firepower of the battleship!

At first, the Ming army was very happy when they found out that the mobile fleet had made such a tactical choice, thinking that they had finally found an opportunity to get close and fight!

But there was a thought that as soon as the warships of the two sides came into contact, the Datang Navy, which was maneuvering in a high-speed column, did not leave them a chance to fight close to the side of the battle, and rushed directly at high speed, and at the same time rushing over, the firepower on each battleship was brought into full play.

The guns on both sides of the ship were given a chance to fire!

And when the cruiser that led the charge shelled a Ming battleship, the frigate that followed also followed for a round!

And this also means that every Ming warship they pass through will withstand several salvo shellings!

The fierce shelling almost stunned the Ming warships in a scattered formation!

When such a column charge came, although the nine battleships of the Datang Navy were scarred, but the expensive cost of the battleships of the Datang Navy was fully reflected at this moment, most of the naval guns of the Ming Army were shotguns, which were used to deal with personnel, but they were used to deal with the thick side planks on the battleship, but they were not powerful enough.

On the other hand, the warships of the Ming army were full of holes, not to mention the casualties, and many ships were even hit with countless bullet holes under the waterline, resulting in flooding.

There are even more fires and burns, both arson bombs and grenades can cause fires on enemy ships!

After a charge, although none of the ships on either side sank on the spot, there were seven or eight ships on the Ming side at that time that directly lost their combat effectiveness.

When Ouyang Gui turned around with the mobile fleet and came back to bombard the column, more Ming ships were beaten and lost their combat effectiveness.

In the end, some of the Ming ships began to turn to escape, but not many were able to escape, because many ships had lost their ability to maneuver because of fire, flooding, etc., and the scene was quite chaotic, so that less than one-third of the Ming ships were able to escape.

And the rest surrendered one after another!

After a naval battle, the mobile fleet of the Datang Navy only sank a ship of less than 100 tons of the Ming army on the spot, but captured more than 40 medium and large ships.

And this result, even Ouyang Gui himself did not expect.

So much so that Ouyang Gui didn't know what to do with so many surrendered ships, although they said they had surrendered, but Ouyang Gui didn't dare to approach rashly, for fear that they would come to a broadside battle.

In the end, small traffic boats were sent over to let them anchor on the spot without sailing, and then the personnel on board were concentrated in several of the Ming ships whose masts had been broken and lost their ability to navigate, and the vacant ships were selected from the mobile fleet to receive some sailors.

The ships with still sails were set in motion and formed into a temporary detachment.

If the mast is broken and the hull is flooded, repairs are carried out on the spot, and the ships in these days are all wooden ships, and carpenters are usually carried out in the fleet for emergency repairs.

Some of the damaged ones are really serious, and those that cannot be rescued or have no repair value are left alone, and some of the materials on the ship are rescued and sent to other ships, and finally these broken ships are allowed to float until they sink.

Finally, it was found that there were 12 prisoner warships in relatively good condition, another eight ships that needed to be repaired before they could be moved, and three ships that could not be repaired now, but whose hulls were still relatively intact and could be towed back to port for repair.

In addition, more than a dozen ships were directly abandoned!

In addition to these ships, there were also a large number of Ming prisoners, quite a few people, a thousand people.

Among them, there were Ming soldiers on the captured ships, and many of them were rescued from the water.

As for the number of dead and wounded of the Ming army's sailors in this battle, it is already unknown, anyway, there are many corpses floating on the sea.

Because of the need to deal with these captured warships, plus the nine capital ships, although none of them were sunk on the spot, but each ship was somewhat damaged to varying degrees, and one of the frigates had a fire, and finally although the fire was extinguished, the entire ship could be regarded as a heavy damage, and it could only be repaired urgently like other damaged ships of the Ming army, striving to restore navigation ability, as for the complete refurbishment, it was necessary to return to the port to carry out.

In addition, the casualties are not small, although the artillery of the Ming army is not much, and the threat to the battleship is not great, but the killing and wounding of personnel can still be done, so the casualties of this battle are not small.

For many reasons, Ouyang Gui ordered the suspension of the follow-up landing attack on Nanao Island, and only stayed outside the port, and at the same time sent people to contact the first mixed regiment.

This night, Ouyang Gui was even busier than during the war, and he was busy until most of the night before he fell asleep.

When it came to the next morning, Ouyang Gui appeared in the conference room with a pair of red eyes, and the expressions of the others were almost the same as Ouyang Gui's, although they were tired, they all looked happy.

The result of this naval battle can be said to be a complete victory, the price of one frigate being heavily damaged, two being hit, and the remaining more than a dozen lightly injured is to sink one of the opponents, severely damage more than 20 enemy warships, and capture more than 20 warships.

This is a result that even they themselves did not anticipate before.

At yesterday's post-war meeting, many naval officers unanimously agreed that the reason why such a result was achieved was because of the strength of the nine warships in the main fleet, which brought about a decisive strategic advantage for the navy!

Because the mobile fleet, whether it is speed or flexibility, or naval artillery firepower or protection capabilities, or even the total tonnage of the fleet, it is far more than the Ming Army and Navy Division on Nanao Island!