The first three rounds of fire of the sail cruiser relied mainly on solid shells with the longest range.

This cannonball has the longest range and is the most powerful, making it the best choice for firefights between sail warships of the same class.

However, they also have drawbacks such as a lack of accuracy and a significant drop in kinetic energy when shooting at long distances.

Now, the dense formation of the Manchu army made these shortcomings insignificant - as long as the ballistic trajectory was lowered and fired forward, the shells would always touch the Manchu boats that rushed out of the narrow strait like ants.

If the trajectory is suitable, the shells form ricochets on the surface of the water, and it is even possible to destroy several enemy ships with one shot.

And the fragile Manchu boat had absolutely no possibility of blocking the shells, and as soon as there was a hit, at least one ship would have been destroyed.

After three rounds of continuous firing, the five Chinese sail cruisers had sunk the other party's 2 and 3 ten small boats, and the sea was full of wood fragments and Manchu corpses, and some of the overboard people were desperately swimming towards the shore - they had to move quickly, because the other Manchu ships that were still moving would not stop to catch them, and if they could not quickly avoid the channel, the Manchus would press directly over the heads of these companions!

The Manchu soldiers who had not fallen into the water shouted their trumpets and paddled together to make the pointed boats fly across the sea, and in the bow of each ship stood several warriors armed with bows and arrows and iron swords, who were the core of the armed forces of the Majapahit kingdom, all feudal landlords with landed property and their sons and nephews.

The momentum of the Manchu army was not bad, at least after the losses were close to 20%, the assault team still showed no signs of dispersing, but was still advancing.

However, their bravery ended there, and as the distance approached, the Chinese began to switch to more ferocious ammunition - realistic shrapnel and grape bullet, and then simply used shotgun shot.

Sailors and marines even stood on the side and participated in the shooting with muskets.

Six-penny buckshot was poured down like a torrential rain, rushing to the front, the Manchurian boat was beaten to the ground, and the corpses that had lost their vital characteristics lay on the surface of the boat, and blood flowed.

Many of the boats were shot through the bottom of the boat by buckshot, and the water was gurgling in, and the boats began to sink slowly.

The destructive power of lead bullets was insufficient, and the speed at which the boat sank was not fast, but it was this slow sinking that made the boat that had lost its combat effectiveness an obstacle for the Manchu army to continue to charge.

This slowed down, and the last chance slipped out of the hands of the Manchu army.

The five sail cruisers of the Striker Fleet, which had been killed, spread their sails and turned away from the narrow waters of the strait, leaving only the angry roar of the Majapahit sailors, who had not caught a single hair.

In fact, they roared a little early, and ten minutes later, five more cruisers sailed into the strait, and as last time, they faced the Manchurian army on the side side, lowered their sails and slowed down, almost waiting for the Manchu army to throw themselves into the net.

The silent ridicule of the Chinese army made the Manchus extremely angry—the natives of South Asia were always particularly irritable.

So the remaining dinghy pushed away the wrecked ship that was in the way and continued to charge.

The officers and warriors who were supposed to stop them from doing so were some of the most enraged among them, standing at the bow of the ship, brandishing long, serpentine daggers that were very distinctive, and shouting loudly for everyone to go in and paddle as hard as they could, in order to catch up with the bastards who dared to provoke them, and to show the Chinese army some color.

No one noticed that they had gradually left the narrowest part of the strait and were being lured by the Chinese army to sail towards the wider sea.

The slender cruiser was far more agile than the Manchus had imagined, and after six rounds of bombardment with all the fire on one side (still three rounds of solid shells, two rounds of shrapnel, and one round of shotguns and muskets), the cruiser raised its sails again and ran away for .......

When the sails were raised, a cruiser at the end of the Chinese army even raised the flag:

"You can't catch up with me."

Unfortunately, the sailors of Majapahit and Malacca did not know the flag language at all.

But this does not prevent them from realizing that the Hua Jun is humiliating them - what else can the signal that hangs out at this time be other than humiliation?

All the anger of the Manchus was already overflowing, and there was now only one thought left in their remaining brains - to rush over and burn those damned ships to ashes!

Anyway, the ones that were sunk just now were all escort boats, and the fire attack ships loaded with light crude oil were still there, and they felt that they still had a chance to fight back.

This idea was maintained until the Manchu fleet broke out of the Strait of Malacca and faced them with all the firepower of the broadside in the wide South China Sea, forming a semicircular encirclement of the exit of the strait.

Looking at the huge fleet as majestic as a city and the muzzles of hundreds of black holes, blown by the icy sea breeze, the brains of the Majapahit sailors, burned by anger, finally regained a trace of sanity.

"Run! Run!! Run!! ”

Someone shouted frantically.

However, it was already too late, and there were still countless small boats pouring out of the strait, and when they saw that the ships of the Chinese army wanted to return, they could not find a gap at all.

The ship in front wanted to retreat, and the boat in the back wanted to move forward, which naturally caused traffic jams, and countless small boats collided together, making a tooth-aching creaking sound, and someone angrily reprimanded: "The ship is loaded with liquid stone!" You're crazy to crash into it? What should I do if there is a fire? ”

They were a little too worried, and under the fire of the Chinese army, they actually didn't have to think about the problem of accidental fire at all.

When the Manchurian army was so congested that it was almost completely immobile, the artillery fire of the Chinese army slammed down on these targets that could not be evaded.

About a minute later, a dinghy filled with light crude oil was hit directly and, unsurprisingly, caused a fire.

There was no way to hide, and the flames spread quickly from one ship to another, and soon all the boats crowded together were on fire!

The light crude oil flowed on the surface of the sea, engulfing everything they encountered along the way with a deadly flame like a red lotus karmic fire, and the Manchu soldiers jumped into the water with a wail, but this did not save their lives.

Because the sea is also burning and boiling.

……

The Chinese fleet did not dare to rush into such a sea of fire, so it could only wait for the flames to burn everything, so the fire on the sea burned for ten hours, and then the Chinese army Shi Shiran passed through the strait.

In the Battle of Malacca, it has always been unknown how many Majapahit and Malacca fleets were annihilated by the Chinese army, because a fire burned all the evidence that could prove the results of the battle, and the Majapahit people were not in the habit of counting battlefield losses.

However, it is a fact that the Chinese army broke through the strait with zero casualties and annihilated the Majapahit and Malacca naval armies.

Early the next morning, the Huachu army fleet entered the port controlled by Sriwijaya and landed safely.

The countdown to the fall of Majapahit has begun.