"Oh? Coming so soon? Song Youliang also raised the telescope to watch, "Huh? How is there a North Korean turtle boat inside? Song Youliang saw through the telescope that the other party's fleet included not only traditional Chinese-style Fu boats and Haicang boats, but also a large number of Korean turtle ships.

"Herald ~ Enter the battle mode." As soon as Song Youliang gave the order, the flag bearer immediately ordered the entire fleet with a flag, and the fleet immediately began to turn and aim its side guns in the direction of the enemy ships

The Qing warships were lined up, with the bow facing the Ming navy, while a large number of small ships were scattered to the left and right wings, and Song Youliang judged that their intention was to detour the two wings of his fleet with brisk small boats.

"What a primitive fishing boat?" Donat put away his binoculars and shook his head, this time, he was leading his three armed merchant ships in this battle as an ally. Since he received Song Youliang's trade license, he has made more than three times as much money as before, and he has quickly risen from a declining nobleman on the verge of bankruptcy to the leader of a fleet with three armed merchant ships. Although there is still a big gap between this and Donat's ideals and ambitions, it is already a earth-shaking change

"Captain, our allies have raised the flag to seize the T-shaped position." Donat's lookout shouted

"We are in the tail of the entire fleet, and it is too time-consuming to seize the T-head." Donat smiled, "Right rudder, let's go around and break the enemy's left flank." ”

"Yes, sir." The flag-bearers on the watchtower immediately raised their flags, and the helmsmen of the three armed merchant ships turned at the same time with the right full rudder at Donat's orders

"My lord~ The Westerner didn't follow your orders." At this moment, Gan Hui, who was already the captain of the Dingyuan and the leader of the Haiyang Guard, discovered Donat's small move

"Really?" Song Youliang immediately came to the stern of the ship, raised his binoculars and looked in the direction of Donat, "This cunning Portuguese wants to share the spoils, but he doesn't want to contribute. Song Youliang smiled, "Whatever, he's not the main force anyway." Pass my generals, so the battleship opened the cannon doors. ”

"Order!" Gan Hui shouted at the top of his voice: "Open the cannon door!" ”

"Open the cannon door!" The herald shouted at a tube on the deck that led to the artillery room below

"Open the cannon door!" The small flags and general flags of the artillery room also shouted at the top of their voices

Quack Quack~~~ The gun doors on the side of the battleship were all opened, and one cannon after another was pushed down on the gun position, revealing the black hole of the gun port

At this moment, the detour intention of the Manchu Qingshui army was even more obvious, the fleet composed of more than a dozen Fu ships in the center of the front lined up in a conical formation, and the small boats on both wings formed a diagonal formation, all the way to the front of Song Youliang's fleet, and all the way to the flank and rear of Song Youliang's fleet

At this time, the distance between the two fleets was closer, and Song Youliang could see through the telescope that around these large ships, there were many small boats densely packed with sails and oars, full of infantry.

"Naval warfare is nothing but the victory of the big ship over the small ship, and the victory of the big gun over the small gun; Many ships are better than few ships, and many guns are better than few guns. It's the power of the ship, not the manpower. Song Youliang put down the binoculars, shook his head and smiled: "Many years ago, Yu Dayou, a famous general of the anti-Japanese war in my dynasty, had such insights, and the ridiculous and gratifying people are still indulging in the traditional side battle. ”

Song Youliang's laughter did not go away, only to see a few puffs of gunsmoke coming out of the bow of the other party's ship

Then several black dots changed from small to large, and they fell into the sea and caused huge splashes, but these shells were at least dozens of meters away from Song Youliang's fleet, and they did nothing except splash some splashes

"Ha~ It seems that the range of the Tartar's artillery is not as good as that of our army." Gan Hui rubbed his hands excitedly, "My lord, let's shoot back!" ”

"Is it in range?" Song Youliang asked

"Not yet, but I thought I could shoot a salvo first to pretend to be a momentum." Gan Hui really itched his hands

"Accurate~" Song Youliang said: "Order all the warships to fire together, and then they can shoot freely." ”

"Order!" Gan Hui excitedly shouted to the microphone: "The cannon on the right, fire a salvo~"

Boom~~~Boom~~Boom Boom

The guns on the right side of the Dingyuan were fired together, and the cannon rumbled, shaking the heavens and the earth, and then the remaining fifteen double-deck battleships also fired their guns together, although hundreds of shells did not hit the enemy ship, but they stirred up a huge water curtain on the sea, and the splash caused by the shells of the Manchu battleships just now could not be said to be the same day

"Da Ming might~~~" A few sailors on the deck suddenly couldn't help shouting, although they served on this battleship, it was the first time they saw the spectacular scene of this huge battleship's gunfire in unison.

"Da Ming might~~~" In an instant, the sailors of the Ming army on the deck of the entire Dingyuan shouted in unison

"Da Ming might~~" Subsequently, this passionate mood quickly spread throughout the entire fleet, and all the sailors on and below the deck of the battleship shouted in unison

Gan Hui's chest also rose and fell violently with excitement, he came to the microphone and shouted: "Daming athletes, let the Tartars see what the real water master is." Let's knock down all the Tartars on the other side and see the dragon lord in the sea! ”

"Wansheng~~Wansheng~~" There was a warm cheer from the other end of the microphone

At this moment, some of the ships of the Manchu Qingshui Army had already entered the firing range, and the nearest warship began to open fire with the permission of free fire

Solid blazing shells whistled out of the chambers and hit the Tartar battleship solidly.

Click~~ The bow of a Tartar warship was immediately smashed to pieces, and the sawdust flying everywhere blurred the flesh and blood of the gunner's wounds in the bow

Several small boats were immediately reduced to pieces after being hit by a direct shell, and the surviving soldiers on board fell into the water, crying out desperately and struggling.

As soon as the battle began, a dozen or so Korean turtle boats turned around and ran away, and it seems that the Koreans were not willing to serve as cannon fodder for the Manchus

Due to the most prominent position of the Zhenbian battleship, several Tartar warships took advantage of the light hull to get close to the Zhenbian battleship, and the bow cannon of the Tartar battleship opened fire and bombarded the Zhenbian at a relatively close distance

With a loud bang, three shells pierced the Zhenbian's hull, but the Zhenbian had reinforced ribs to protect the hull, and the cannonballs lost kinetic energy after penetrating the hull, so they did not cause more damage. The carpenters aboard the townside immediately began mending the hull

"Report to your lord, our ship has been punched out of three holes, and the carpenter is already mending it!" The sailors aboard the townside reported to the captain

"Damn, let's give them some color to see~~Open fire~" The captain of the battleship Zhenbian is named Wang Asong, who served on the battleship of the Portuguese in Macau

Boom boom boom ~~~

The gunwales on the side of the town fired another salvo, and dozens of shells swept over the Tartar warship like a broom, and suddenly sawdust flew sideways, and several of the nearest Tartar ships were shattered, slanted to the east and west, and began to sink slowly

"Wowhaha~~ Happy!" Wang Asong laughed and said: "Go on~~ Don't stop!" ”

At this moment, Song Youliang's fleet had already seized the upper hand, and the entire fleet had already aimed its side at the enemy ship group

"Open all the cannon windows and shoot freely~" Song Youliang waved his hand proudly

"My lord, I'm afraid not. We were upwind, the hull was tilted, and the cannons on the lower deck were unusable. Gan Hui was a little helpless

But even so, the Ming warship's Kofilin cannon roared mercilessly, knocking the battleship with a large bullet area in the Tartar fleet to pieces.

"Huh?" Gan Hui suddenly noticed that many small boats and light hulls in the enemy ship group had dodged the shells of Ko Feilin's cannons, and were rapidly approaching his own ships

The corners of Gan Hui's mouth curled slightly, and he smiled: "Do you think it's okay to dodge the cannon?" Gan Hui raised his right hand and shouted, "Franc cannon ready, shotgun fired." ”

"Deling~"

Boom ~ Boom Boom ~

The Fran cannons began to fire in succession, sending a dense mass of shotguns at the enemy, and the small boats, carrying archers and hand-to-hand soldiers, were swept away by the shotguns as if they had been swept by brooms. Blood and corpses covered the 100-meter radius around the Dingyuan

Even so, a number of small boats that had escaped the shotguns continued on their way, and they were greeted by a volley of muskets

After the musket volley, the Ming sailors brought out their newly issued repeater crossbows. This is the brainchild of Huang Minggang, the crossbow king of Qingyang, who can fire ten crossbow arrows in a row at a time, and it is very convenient to change the arrow box

"Shoot the arrows!" The small flags and general flags of each team are ordered together

Whoosh ~ Whoosh

Ah~ah~

The Tartar sailors who finally approached the Ming warship within 100 meters were hit by arrows and fell into the water

The big ships couldn't get close, and the small boats couldn't get closer, and the naval battle in the old Tieshan Waterway became a one-sided slaughter. Although the warships of the Ming army were large, they were equipped with crosssails, schooners and spinnakers, and had high speeds both downwind and upwind. Although the ships of the Tartar navy were lighter than Song Youliang's fleet, they did not have an advantage in speed. Fifteen warships rushed back and forth around the Tartar navy, using Kofilin cannons from afar, Franco's machine guns at close range, and muskets and crossbows at the closest, only to kill the corpses of the Tartar navy all over the "sea". The old Iron Mountain waterway was littered with the wreckage of ships and the corpses of Tartar sailors

The battle lasted for three hours, and the Qing soldiers and sailors finally couldn't resist it and began to retreat in the direction of Changlu Island.

At this moment the southeast wind was blowing on the sea, which was a tailwind for both warring parties, so both fleets were full sails and headed north. Along the way, Song Youliang's fleet continued to gain advantage in artillery range and sank several Haicang ships

"You can see Nagashika Island ahead!" The lookout shouted

"Okay~" Song Youliang was having a good time, and he shouted in high spirits: "It's gratifying to enter Changlu Island and capture it alive." ”

"Wait!" The second officer of the Dingyuan, Kuang Dewen, spoke out to stop it

"Why?" Song Youliang was surprised

"I used to work for the Phi Island Mariner and went to Changlu Island. It is close to land, shallow water and reefs. The size of the enemy's ships can enter and exit, but our warships are too large, and it is easy to run aground or even touch the reef if they rush in. Kuang Dewen patiently explained

Song Youliang was not familiar with the hydrology in the area of Changlu Island, and when he heard Kuang Dewen say this, he hesitated, "Do you want to let them run away?" ”

Kuang Dewen said with a smile: "Today's battle is enough to make Shang Kexi's dog thief break his courage, and when our army gathers more light and small warships in the coming day, we will be able to capture Changlu Island in one fell swoop if we use large ships to break the enemy and land with small boats." ”

Gan Hui looked at the direction of Changlu Island at the bow of the boat for a while, and said: "What Kuang Dewen said is true, the sea water near Changlu Island is beginning to change color, indicating that the sea water is changing from deep to shallow. It is true that our big ships should not be easily entered. ”

"Okay, let's get here today~~We're here for a long time~" Song Youliang said unwillingly: "Order, return!" ”

By the time the fleet returned to Penglai Water City, it was already dark, and the lighthouse outside the port wharf was particularly conspicuous

Song Youliang jumped ashore from the pedal, only to see a team of brocade guards waiting for him at the dock.

"Commander Luo, don't come here after a long absence?" Song Youliang recognized at a glance that it was the commander of the Jinyi Guard, Luo Yangxing, and suddenly felt a little inexplicably nervous in his heart, could it be that someone gave himself small shoes to wear in front of Chongzhen, and Chongzhen had soft ears and listened to slander?

Luo Yangxing said with a smile: "Lord Song doesn't need to be nervous, this official is ordered to invite Lord Song to meet the Holy One."

"Face Saint?" Song Youliang was stunned, "When will you leave?" ”

"At this moment~" Luo Yangxing waved his hand, and a brocade guard immediately led a tall horse, "Lord Song, please~!" ”