The three fastest ships of 180 tons were hit by the Huaxia one after another, and then turned into pieces of floating boards on the sea, and the poor six guns they carried on board did not work, nor did the nine-pounder guns in the bow, and not a single shell hit the Zhongxia.

The second prince's fleet was still approaching, and the warships sold to them by the Huaxia Kingdom were loaded with old cannons, and the armed merchant ships they were loaded with miscellaneous old cannons from the markets of the Huaxia Kingdom and the Ryukyu Kingdom, as well as from the markets where artillery was sold in various parts of the South Seas, so they had to get close to be effective.

Only fifty of them were captured ships from the Fifth Fleet, which could compete with the Huaxia Navy fleet led by Zhang Qiang, but they were still charging without using those guns, and their maneuvers were not enough to hit the ships of the Huaxia Navy at a distance of 380 meters.

"The order continued to reduce the formation of the formation, shorten the distance of the formation, increase the speed, move as a whole, move towards the upwind." Zhang Qiang shouted to the captain.

The whole fleet had gradually moved to the upwind place, and the enemy's ships turned into headwinds, while the fleet of the Huaxia Navy Division drove diagonally, making full use of the wind acceleration from the upwind head, so that the speed of the entire fleet reached the speed of the whole six knots.

It was one section faster than the whole five knots earlier, and took up a good position, using the guns on both sides to strike at the pursuing enemy ships, because of the headwind, the enemy ships had to use a lot of strength to get close to them, and they always fell three hundred meters away, and were bombarded by continuous artillery.

After an hour of fighting, the sea was full of enemy ships, and the two sides fought on the sea within a radius of 30 nautical miles, and the cannons rumbled, and the enemy's sailing ships were sunk one by one, while the warships of the Huaxia Navy Division were only slightly injured, and some were unlucky, and they were hit by the warships of the original Fifth Fleet that suddenly rushed out of the enemy's fleet, thus losing their combat effectiveness, and had to stagger out of the battle circle under the cover of other ships, and wait outside for more than ten nautical miles.

As time passed, the sun rose into the sky, the clouds were dispersed, the fog disappeared, and the visibility on the sea was improved, from the original five-nautical-mile, eight-nautical-mile area visibility to the visibility of the entire clear sea, at least twenty nautical miles of visibility, and then there was confusion in the distance.

The sea seemed to have torn a space specifically for this naval battle, and then let the two sailor fleets fight inside, and the surrounding area looked empty, but it seemed that there was an invisible and colorless wall to isolate the distance.

Thirty armed merchant ships sank, fifteen armed merchant ships lost the ability to move, or there was silence, and the others were all wounded, Hong Hongxiu almost cried, this is a sad loss, all his belongings, although there are still twenty four thousand-ton warships, eight 800-ton warships, and eight 600-ton warships that Huaxia gave him when he was allowed to evacuate from Japan, but if it was just like that, he could only protect himself, and he could no longer participate in the struggle for hegemony, and he would have to rely on others in the future.

"Master, look over there, there are twenty ships that have surrendered, and those are the warships of the Huaxia Sailors, and they are the trophies that Zheng Zhi and the others gave us." The master shouted bitterly, pointing to the twenty large and small warships with white flags raised in the distance, and the thirty-hundred-ton warships of the twenty Huaxia Navy Divisions quickly broke away from the brigade and boarded the twenty surrendered warships and began to capture them.

After a while, the twenty ships left their positions and sailed to the place where the wounded Huaxia sailors on the periphery were assembled, and the twenty sailors who had accepted the surrender were divided into ten ships to guard them, and the ten ships turned back to continue the battle here.

"That's mine, mine," the second prince thundered on deck.

But the situation was that they could not fight against the Huaxia Naval Division at all, even if they also had many captured Huaxia Naval Division's warships, and had more than a dozen thousand-ton warships, but in the face of the fierce fire of the enemy's twenty-eight thousand-ton warships, all their warships that rushed up were wiped out, and soon the losses expanded to fifty, and fifty ships were destroyed if they were not sunk.

Only then did one 180-ton ship fail to escape and was destroyed, and two 300-ton ships were sunk, and the personnel floated on the sponge like dumplings.

"Decisive battle, decisive battle, rush forward," the second prince roared.

"Boom, boom," he said, a thousand-ton battleship under his command pretended to hang up the white flag and surrendered, sailed towards the enemy's battle formation, suddenly launched its artillery and opened fire, sinking a three-hundred-ton warship, a six-hundred-ton warship, and seriously damaging a warship of the Chinese naval division.

"Okay, good fight, just like that." The second prince shouted happily.

However, the Huaxia Naval Division battleship, which was approaching to receive the surrendered ship, reacted, and the three opened fire together, and as many as 90 shells had at least 60 pieces concentrated on the second prince's naval division battleship that was pretending to surrender at a distance of less than 100 meters.

The battleship shuddered, was enveloped in gunsmoke, and then with a sharp click, it fell apart, and the people on it fell into the sea before they had time to jump into the water, and were dragged into the water by the sunken hull, and many did not rise again.

After this incident, the Huaxia sailors no longer accepted surrender, and hid at a distance of 300 meters, sinking all the warships rushed up by the second prince one by one, and lost the strength to resist.

Eventually, all the remaining ships found themselves unable to escape and basically surrendered, except for the thousand-ton battleship in the center, which was still spraying fire and firing solid bullets in all directions, almost hysterically.

The three 300-ton warships that surrounded it kept firing around it from a distance of 200 meters, destroying its functions little by little.

Holes in the hull, all masts were broken, fire burned on the deck, rudders were shattered, and then a approaching six-hundred-ton warship lowered a few small boats two hundred meters away from him, cautiously approached it, and for a while, dragged down from the ship a few faint men who had not burned to death.

When the boat left the warship a hundred meters away, five 600-ton warships and one thousand-ton warship surrounded it again, and sent it to the bottom of the sea with a salvo.

"Report, Your Majesty, Zhang Liwei, the garrison of the Fifth Fleet detachment, has come to report."

Zhang Qiang sat on the deck of the 310 ship of the Huaxia, silently watching the sailors who were cleaning the deck, as well as the carpenters repairing the hull, and the gunners who were working for the maintenance of the artillery.

Hearing his shout, he turned his head, "Say, how much do we lose, how much does the enemy lose?" ”

Zhang Liwei escaped from the pocket of his military uniform with a crumpled piece of paper, and read: "Our fleet has lost a total of one 1,000-ton battleship, two 800-ton battleships need to be returned for overhaul, one 600-ton battleship has been sunk, one 600-ton battleship is seriously injured and needs to be returned for repair, five 300-ton battleships have been sunk, three need to be overhauled, five repairs are still usable, one 180-ton battleship has been sunk, one is seriously injured, one is unscathed, a total of fifteen warships and warships have been lost, and the other five need to escort the seriously injured warships and warships back. ”

Zhang Qiang calculated, there were five overhauled ships, two seriously injured, and then five three-hundred-ton warships that could be repaired and repaired were needed, eighty-two battleships and warships, and fifteen ships were lost, five needed to be overhauled, two were seriously injured, and five needed to be repaired, but they could not participate in the next battle, so that the rest was fifty-five, plus the Huaxia was fifty-six.

Such a result should be regarded as a great victory in the face of the enemy's nearly 2670 warships.

The enemy, at the level of an amateur sailor, did damage to his hastily organized fleet, and it could be regarded as a brilliant result.

(End of chapter)