Seeing that the navy really seized the upper hand and set fire to the ship as Dai Liliang predicted, Wang Mingjiang immediately sent a horse up in time: "Battalion leader, you really guessed right, I didn't see it, battalion commander, you are still proficient in naval warfare, you are worthy of being born in the Imperial Academy!" I'm waiting to admire! ”

Dai Liliang is no longer in the mood to joke with his subordinates, now he has taken out a telescope to carefully observe the battle at sea, although the army and navy are not in harmony, after all, the two armies are still part of the Tang Dynasty's division, and many battles along the coast and rivers are indeed inseparable from the help of the navy.

Therefore, Dai Liliang still hopes that the navy can smoothly achieve a great victory in order to strengthen Tang Shengwei, and the coastal defense along the coast of Guangdong will also be more stable, and the army will not have to worry about the enemy's direct landing and attack on Guangzhou from the sea.

You must know that in order to prevent the Ming army's naval divisions or other enemies from launching direct attacks from the sea, the army has always deployed heavy troops in the coastal areas of Guangdong.

In addition to their Sixth Infantry Division, there are also the First Mixed Regiment and the Second Mixed Regiment, so many army forces are pinned down in the coastal areas, but it is not because the navy is not strong enough, for this reason, the army has complained a lot about the navy.

Even this is the army's willingness to give up the share of artillery, so that the navy can get a large number of artillery, if the army does not let go, the navy can accumulate so many artillery in such a short period of time!

Besides, even for the follow-up artillery regiment expansion plan, the navy can't be defeated too badly, just like the subordinates said before, if the navy suffers another big defeat and loses many ships and artillery, this time it is not to compete with their army for artillery.

At present, the army is preparing to expand the artillery battalions of various divisions into artillery regiments, and the gap in artillery is quite large, and at this juncture, if the navy suddenly has a gap of dozens or hundreds of guns, whether the army's artillery regiment can be smoothly expanded is a question.

Through the binoculars, although Dai Liliang couldn't see too clearly, he could still see dozens of small ships of the Tang Navy rushing downwind towards the Franc manpower fleet, and when these small boats were about to approach, suddenly these small boats were on fire, and the naval officers and sailors on these small boats had already ignited the ignition on the small boats.

Except for a few people who can return to the big ships of the First Fleet and the Second Fleet to continue fighting, most of these small boats, the officers and men of the Xijiang Detachment of the Pearl River Fleet, will directly row and land, and in general, this battle has little to do with them.

However, although the officers and men of the Navy belonging to the Xijiang Detachment on these small boats were evacuated, the small boats they were driving before were billowing smoke, and then continued to float towards the Franco Motorized Fleet not far away, with the wind and inertia!

At this time, the fleet of the Franc robot also began to turn sharply to dodge!

And when the fleet of the Franc Robot Man began to turn to dodge, Dai Liliang saw that the six armed merchant ships of the Second Squadron under the First Fleet began to approach the several battleships in the back row of the Franc Robot!

It didn't take long for him to see the armed merchant ships of the Second Fleet floating up clouds of white smoke, and the next moment, he heard a loud rumbling sound on the sea!

The six battleships of the 2nd Squadron began a fierce shelling of the two or three battleships in the back row of the Franc man!

But immediately after, the three battleships of the Franc Robot also began to fire back, and just by listening to the sound, they knew that their Franc Robot had bigger guns.

Many of them were twelve-pound guns, and even Dai Liliang heard a few even more massive cannon sounds, this is probably the eighteen-pound cannon of the Francophone man!

Ma Dan, these Franc machine artillery is really fierce enough, just listening to the sound, you know that the second squadron is absolutely very uncomfortable to withstand such firepower.

"Look, there's a big ship on fire, the navy's fire attack plan has succeeded, and the navy is doing well!"

"No, it's not one, it's two, there is a big ship in the back row of them that has been ignited, and the navy's fire attack plan has succeeded!"

At this time, even the officers of the army could not help but start cheering for the success of the navy's fire attack plan!

"Although the navy is a little stupid, it still knows how to fight, and with these small boats, you can burn two big ships and make a lot of money!"

Isn't it, although the ships of the Franc machine are still in the category of armed merchant ships, they all use Western-style galleons, the small ones are three or four hundred tons, and the large ones are even five or six hundred tons.

Although there are a large number of small ships used by the Tang Navy for fire attack, they are actually small ships of no more than ten tons, and all of them do not add up to the displacement of a large ship with a large ship.

Hearing the cheers of his subordinates, Dai Liliang also shifted the angle of the telescope, and sure enough, he saw that the two big ships of the Franc machine man had begun to catch fire and burn, but he also saw that although the big ship of the Franc machine man was ignited by the fire oil on the small boat, I am afraid that it would not be able to completely burn these big ships of the Franc machine man.

After all, the Franc machine people are not stupid, they will also extinguish fires and save ships, at most, they will temporarily lose their combat effectiveness.

And the focus of the battlefield, in Dai Liliang's opinion, should still be the second fleet besieging the three battleships in the back row of the Franco!

If the second squadron can successfully make these three warships incapacitated, then with the addition of the two burned Francophone ships, the fleet of Francos will lose its combat effectiveness of five ships at once, and this will be able to greatly level the balance of power between the two sides.

There are a total of thirteen big ships on the side of the Franc man, and these thirteen ships are not all ships with a large number of artillery, several of them are just ordinary merchant ships, after all, the fleet of these Franc man's man, in essence, is just a merchant fleet, although there will be armed merchant ships equipped with a large number of artillery on the fleet, but the armed merchant ships are also strong and weak!

Thirteen ships lost five at once, so although the ships and artillery of the Franc machine man were still superior to the second fleet, the second fleet was not necessarily without the strength to fight.

The battle on the sea continued, the rumbling of cannons continued, and the ships on both sides were firing as many shells as possible!

And the cannonballs fired by the Datang Navy are not limited to solid shells, but also other types of shells that were very important in the era of sailing ships.

Including the chain shell that hits the mast and canvas, this kind of shell is actually a solid ball shell before it is fired, but after it is fired, the shell body is split into two halves, and there is an iron chain link in the middle.

Incendiary shells that burn solid ball shells red, and then intersect them with mud cakes between the shells and the propellant, are mainly used to ignite fires.

Then there are grapeshot bullets, which are also a kind of scattered bullets, and multiple small solid bullets are put together for shooting, mainly used for personnel killing!

As the artillery bombardment of both sides continued, the sea was rumbling with artillery, and although Dai Liliang could not see it, he could still guess that the two sides were bombarding each other with various artillery pieces at a close distance of only one or two hundred meters, and the scene was definitely quite tragic!

If you zoom in on the angle and watch this battle at sea between the two sides from a close distance, then it will give birth to a sense of grandeur and even tragedy.

From time to time, the artillery of both sides spewed out shells, and the powerful solid-ball shells hit the thick hull planks like explosions, and the planks were torn apart in an instant, and then the sawdust swept across, killing and injuring people nearby.

Solid red bullets that burn down on the enemy's deck can cause a fire in an instant, and if the enemy does not pay attention to extinguishing the fire, it is easy to spread the fire and burn the entire ship.

Chain bullets flew above the hull, tearing the canvas, and the unlucky ones would break the mast directly!

This battle at sea, Dai Liliang was amazed, Nima, this navy is much more spectacular than our army!

Isn't this spectacular, in this small sea area, the two sides together are only nineteen ships, but they have almost two hundred large and small artillery, and the sound of artillery will not stop for a moment.

A quarter of an hour later, Dai Liliang saw that the Franc man-made ships in the front row had begun to turn successfully and were coming towards the flank of the Second Squadron, which made Dai Liliang quite worried.

If the ships of the Second Squadron fall under siege in front and behind the Franco, I am afraid that it is possible that the entire army will be annihilated!

But what reassured him was that Zhou Zhifeng, who commanded the fleet to fight, obviously sensed the danger at the first time, but commanded the fleet to avoid it immediately, and also took advantage of the situation to return to the upper hand, and continued to engage the three warships of the Francophile!

Two quarters of an hour later, Dai Liliang suddenly let out: "Okay, kill them again!" ”

In the line of sight, the three battleships in the back row of the Franc machine man were already scarred, and on one of the ships, because the main mast was broken by a chain bullet, the whole ship was almost floating on the sea like a dead fish, and the second squadron was not even bothered to continue shelling the ship, but bypassed them and continued to attack the other Franc machine man.

But at this time, the second squadron also ushered in the loss of the first capital ship, and the last armed merchant ship in the queue was continuously beaten by the Francophiles who were chasing from the rear for a quarter of an hour, because the hull was broken and the water was serious, the captain was forced to withdraw from the battle and struggled to sail towards the nearest shoal, it wanted to run aground!