At this moment, 80 transport ships had already mingled with the enemy's small warships, and on the sea for nearly a dozen miles, the ships of both sides shuttled back and forth, constantly firing at each other, and some ships collided with each other, jumping into each other's gangs and engaging in hand-to-hand combat, and the fighting was in full swing.

"The enemy's fire-boats over there are going upwind with the east wind, and when the west wind turns around, they will be able to go down the river and attack our flank." Zhao Hui said to Feng Quan.

"Leave them alone, let those transport ships around us deal with them, and divide a part of the 180-ton warship to help deal with it, and we continue to advance towards the enemy." Feng Quan said to Zhao Hui while observing the enemy's movements, and at the same time to the heralds around him.

The warships on both sides had already started fighting with the enemy, and they had formed a battle line with the enemy, and they were only 500 meters away from the enemy, about a mile away, and the 32-pounder guns in the bow of their ships opened fire fiercely, and before they could turn around, more than 30 shells fell on the periphery of the enemy's fleet, stirring up a column of water more than ten meters high, and some of the enemy's warships shook violently in the seawater, and some sailors on the top of the mast on the unstable sailing ship could be seen falling from the mast more than ten meters high like dumplings, and it was okay to smash into the seawater. Hit the deck of the ship with immediate death or serious injuries.

After the battle line, there were more shells coming and going, some hit, some missed, the cannon roared, the smoke of gunpowder was confused, and the entire area of engagement became an area surrounded by fog, which already affected the line of sight of observation.

"Are the enemy's warships still very brave, their shells are closer than ours, about fifty meters away, their artillery is still not as good as ours, but they are bravely braving our artillery fire to approach us, and another hundred and fifty meters away, they will be able to hit us." Feng Quan said happily.

Zhao Hui smiled: "Actually, they can also hit us, but they may want to get closer and improve their accuracy." ”

Generally speaking, the artillery of Xinlu Mansion has a longer range and light weight than the artillery of Lu State, because this is Zhang Qiang asked them to hand over to replace those old imitation artillery of the Huaxia Army on their ship, since they help Xinlu Mansion, Xinlu Mansion belongs to the Huaxia Kingdom at least in the hands of Feng Quan, so Zhang Qiang has to improve their combat effectiveness, so he gave the artillery used by the Huaxia Navy Division to the Xinlu Mansion Naval Division.

And the artillery used by the enemy will be miscellaneous, there are the original imitation artillery of the Lu State, there are the imitation artillery of the Lu State provided by the Qing army, and the Qing army in the Dutch, the Portuguese provided their own new artillery, twenty years, enough time for the Qing army to come out of the Ming Dynasty's kind of closure, try to use new technology, new artillery.

The two separate fleets with two or three hundred warships of all sizes opened fire one after another and joined the battle line, and the naval division of the Lu State, which should now be said to be the Naval Division of the Four Kingdoms, because of the large losses in personnel, the old warships, and their artillery was inferior to the Huaxia Army, so they also adopted a large-scale chaotic battle mode, wanting to approach the Xinlufu Naval Division of the Huaxia Army, relying on chaotic battles and jumping gang battles to win.

This is the same tragic as the cannon fodder of the Qing army at the beginning, braving the firepower of the Jinhua Righteous Army's platoon guns, using their own flesh and blood to shorten the distance between themselves and the enemy, and engaging in hand-to-hand combat.

The second prince here looked at the sea, distressed and about to die, the Japanese supported the sailors, the largest and no bigger than their own transport boats, and their own sailors had many old ships, these boats went to the upper hand with the fishing boats to prepare to set fire, but the enemy's transport ships had spare strength to intercept them, and the two separate arsonist teams suffered heavy losses.

In just half an hour, nearly 200 arsonboats were sunk by the enemy, and the fireboats that went down the wind were dodged by the enemy.

It's like dumplings in a pot, made up and down by cannonballs, even if they want to get out of here early, there is no way, because it is a time of war, and the ships of both sides are shuttling back and forth, and whoever stops will wait to eat the cannonballs, and you will not dare to stop and save them.

Waiting for nearly 100 warships from the two Xinlu provinces on the left and right to sail by, basically these people became corpses, floating on the sea, looking terrifying, the blood and water were even dyed red by the sea, and the burning arson boats kept flowing down, burning themselves, being hit and burning, and being blown into fragments and burning, more and more, of course, it was not without merit, several six-hundred-ton warships that had no time to dodge were hit, the speed slowed down, and then the fire boat was nailed to death, and suddenly a fire broke out.

Three hundred and fifty meters, the second prince saw that his fleet, after half an hour of hard work, had lost three hundred fire-boats, dozens of large and small warships, and had narrowed the distance with the enemy, and their shells began to be accurate, and at this time the enemy's 180-ton ships that were swimming close to them began to be hit, and one, two, the enemy's small warships began to be sunk and damaged, but he was still not happy, because their losses were still very large.

The enemy's artillery was too fierce, the enemy's organization was too good, and after helping the Chinese army to eliminate nearly 600 fishing boats from the left and right, and suppressing the harassment of the traffic boats on their side, they directly rushed into the convoy supported by the Japanese.

In an hour and a half, 1,500 small ships basically disappeared, the wounded fled, the crushed and broken into pieces floating on the sea, the sunken ones also became fragments, and the captured ones were taken to the rear to protect the Chinese army, and the fleet on their side lost more than 20 thousand-ton warships, and the other side only lost five or six thousand-ton warships, and the entire fleet retreated to the shore in a one-sided suppressed manner.

Ships were sunk and captured, and the enemy's two detachments sank all their sailors, fishermen, merchant ships, merchant ships, fishing boats, and warships supported by the Japanese, losing about 2,000 ships.

This was already all the ships and surface forces of the four countries, and the remaining more than 100 search warships fled one after another, but they were entangled by the enemy and could not retreat quickly.

He has no choice now, he no longer has a single ship in his hand, those hundreds of fishing boats and merchant ships that have been set aside are what he plans to use for trade and fishing in the future, Shikoku Island is an island, although it is close to the Japanese land, but there is not enough food to eat, and these four million people are a burden.

Two hours later, a handful of warships ran into the harbor crookedly, and the enemy attacked around the other ships, and in three hours, the naval battle came to an end, and the sea was full of burning ships of sailors, soldiers and sailors who had fallen into the water like dumplings.

The Xinlu Naval Division of the Huaxia Army began to arrange for ships to salvage the prisoners, and the rest of the fleet tentatively sent one or two large ships to explore the surrounding water depth, and they stopped at a distance of seven miles and bombarded the piers and harbors with the thirty-two-pounder cannon in the bow.

The second prince and the little prince who had returned from completing the mission and the ministers of the four countries, the generals looked at the sea expressionlessly, they had lost their superiority at sea, and the warships they brought from the Lu country were all wiped out in a battle, and the wounded ships that entered the harbor were then also bombarded to pieces by the enemy's artillery, or were wounded and sunk.

Shikoku no longer has a naval division, the enemy is still bombarding the docks and harbors with more than 24 pounds of artillery, some ships are close to the coastline for five miles and trying to bombard the fishing villages and county towns on both sides with cannons on the left and right, as well as coastal defense fortifications and barracks, everywhere there are Japanese people running around, Shikoku soldiers, casualties are rising.

(End of chapter)