Seventy-two shells, like seventy-two meteors, shot straight at the crumbling Galen ship. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Six shells were fired into the Galen ship, and the terrifying explosion sounded again in the Galen ship. The cabin was blown to pieces, two large holes were blown out in the second deck, and two heavy guns weighing several tons fell from the second deck and smashed into the third deck.

Three large holes were blown out of the side of the ship by shells below the waterline. Under the pressure of the water, the water gushed into the hull of the ship and began to devour the battered wooden sailing ship.

This time, the surviving sailors on board were in despair. They jumped off the Galen boat and swam towards the other Dutch ships behind them.

The Galen ship, which was hit by a shell, sank little by little.

The Dutch woke up from a dream and knew that they would not be able to catch up with Li Zhi's ship-jumping gang, so they had to turn the bow of the ship and start an artillery battle with Li Zhi.

The sixteen gunboats of the two camps formed two straight lines, and they all aimed their sides at the enemy ships, competing for their cannons at a distance of one mile. The flames and smoke from the muzzles of the cannons were like flowers, constantly burning in the vast sea merchants. The rumbling sound of shelling dominates the sea, making it impossible to hear anything else. The cannonballs were like meteors, shuttling back and forth between the gunboats on both sides. Most of the shells hit the water, causing a huge splash. But sometimes, individual shells were fired into the ships.

Li Zhi stood on the deck, looking at the Dutch gunboat opposite with a telescope.

More than a dozen shells suddenly came from the flagship of the Dutch, and a salvo was fired at the Nova Li Zhi. Most of the shells missed. But a shell smashed into the second deck of the Nova. The solid iron bullet broke through the hull and smashed into the barrel of a cannon, making a loud metal impact. After the cannonball smashed into the cannon, it changed lanes and hit the ceiling, slamming into the first deck before losing speed and falling to the ground.

A cannon was smashed by a Dutch cannon, but there were no casualties.

The Nova retaliated against the Dutchman's flagship, firing eight shells. A shell hit the enemy ship and landed on the bow deck of the Dutch ship, setting off a storm of blood. The shell killed three sailors before it exploded, and when the shell exploded, the iron projectiles swept across the deck like a storm, killing a dozen Dutch sailors.

The Dutch sailors, who were still alive, fled with their heads in their hands, hiding only behind the masts and buckets, and became a mess. Blood and minced flesh were sprinkled on the deck of the Dutch ship, mixed with the screams of the shot-victims, and the scene was like Shura's hell.

Every shell of Li Zhi's fleet that hit an enemy ship would send out a huge explosion inside the Dutch ship, blowing up the fragile internal organization inside the hull. If the shells landed on the densely populated first deck and the second artillery deck, it was a massacre.

If it lands on the side of the hull and explodes, the shell can blow a large hole in the hull.

After firing eight rounds of cannons, Li Zhi's eight ships only had a few holes and suffered very little damage, but the Dutch's ships were badly damaged. Not to mention the sailors who were killed by the flowering shells, even the gunners on the second deck suffered heavy losses. Many ships have been killed and injured a large number of gunners by bursting into the interior of the ships and exploding, and there are no longer enough personnel to fire the guns. The Dutch fired fewer and fewer shells.

Several ships were blown out of large holes under the waterline by flowering shells, and it was only thanks to the sailors who plugged the holes with planks that barely sank. The temporary nailed planks are not perfect, they will leak constantly, and the sailors will need to pump water from the bilge to keep the ship afloat.

Looking at the increasingly unfavorable situation on the battlefield, Forreston's face turned a little pale.

Li Zhi's ship was faster than the Dutchman's ship, and the Dutch could not rush up to engage in the battle. And Li Zhi's shells will explode, and the Dutch combined fleet in artillery battles is no match for Li Zhi.

If this continues, the warships of the Combined Fleet will only be sunk by Li Zhi one by one.

Foreston was an old captain, and he quickly understood the predicament he was in and made a final decision.

He shouted: "All ships turn the rudder, we run!" ”

The first mate Caron said: "But Li Zhi's ship is faster than ours, and our fleet can't escape..."

"The fleet split up," said Foreston, "and fled separately in eight directions, and after throwing off Li Zhi, they joined up at Geranza. ”

Forreston is going to stage a great escape for the entire fleet, and he doesn't even expect the formation to retreat. The flotilla fled separately, hoping that Li Zhi would not pursue in eight directions, so that the Dutch could escape a few boats.

The first mate, Caron, turned pale, nodded, and ran to the flag commander to give the order.

The eight battered Dutch gunboats, seeing the flagship of the flagship, abandoned the increasingly unfavorable artillery battle and turned around and fled in eight directions.

Seeing that the red hair turned the bow of the ship and fled, Li Zhi's fleet resounded with deafening cheers. The victorious sailors raised their hands in celebration of victory. Even the more than 3,000 peasants on the ship breathed a sigh of relief and applauded loudly one by one!

"Good! The Metropolitan Governor is powerful! ”

"The Great General has won the Red Hair!"

"It's right to follow the Metropolitan Governor!"

Hongmao is a tyrant near Taiwan, Lu Hu saw that Li Zhi defeated Hongmao so easily, looked at Li Zhi with adoration, and said: "The flowering bomb of the Metropolitan Governor is too powerful!" ”

Li Zhi looked at the Dutchman's ship with a telescope, sneered, and said to Lu Hu:

"The Dutch wanted to escape, and our eight gunboats divided into four routes, pursued the four largest ships of the Dutch, sank the enemy ships and joined in Hsinchu."

The artillerymen on Li Zhi's ship were all veterans drawn from the selection regiment, but many of the shipwrights on the new ship were novices and were not very skilled in operating the ship. Li Zhi was worried that the sailors on one of the ships would go wrong if they pursued them in eight directions, so he retreated and divided the troops into four routes, each pursuing one of the Dutch boats with two ships.

Ten ships divided into four lines and pursued the four large ships of the Dutch.

Li Zhi led two gunboats and two gunless steamers in pursuit of the Dutch flagship. The flagship of the Dutch fled in a south-westerly direction in the southeast wind at this time, and the speed was not fast. Li Zhi's steamer was powered by steam, and drove at a high speed of nine knots in the south wind, which could easily bite the Dutchman's flagship, and from time to time chase the Dutch within a mile and shoot a round of cannonballs.

Flowering shells continued to fire into the stern of the Bredan, exploding in the belly of the Dutch flagship, blowing the huge warship to pieces.

The Nova and the German signal took turns firing on the left and right sides, firing more than a hundred shells, and finally knocked the Dutch warship to surrender.

The Dutch hoisted the white flag, collected the sails, and begged the Ming to let them live.

Li Zhi asked twenty artillerymen to go up and tie up all the Dutch, and then boarded the ship himself to inspect the Dutch flagship.

Li Zhi boarded the Dutchman's ship as a conqueror and inspected it on the Dutchman's flagship. Li Zhi hoped to find some useful technology on the ships of the Westerners to supplement his fleet. But the results of the inspection made Li Zhi very disappointed.

"Trash!"

"Rubbish, how can the technology of the Dutch be so rubbish in this era."

The Dutch didn't have much technology ahead of Akito in this era. Both their arquebuses and their cannons were very crude and inferior to Li Zhi's technique.

The only thing that interested Li Zhi was the Dutchman's gun carriage, which cushioned the recoil of the guns with pulleys and hemp rope, allowing the Dutch's 36-pounder guns to fit wooden sailboats.

The sailors turned the ship upside down, turning out more than 10,000 taels of silver.

Li Zhi looked at the bronze cannons and said, "The materials of these bronze cannons are worth some money, drag this ship to Hsinchu and melt the cannons for copper!" (To be continued.) )