British Brigadier General Hadir led the LinkedIn fleet to ambush Hong Tian Cannon on the way to reinforce Zheng Zhi's fleet of the Nanyang Kingdom, Hong Tian Cannon saw the enemy's new warships, knew that he was incapable of the enemy, and ordered Wu to lead eighty armed merchant ships and fifty warships to meet the enemy, but he himself ran away with the powerful warships and warships of the Chinese army, as well as the warships and armed merchant ships of the rear army, and the warships escorting the escort.

The two sides were only ten nautical miles, and within an hour the enemy had fully met the front fleet that Wu had hastily organized, while the more than 400 ships of the Ryukyu Kingdom had just turned their heads and gone three nautical miles away, and began to flee at an accelerated pace.

The British first let their armed merchant ships and colonial warships rush up to fight the enemy, and they turned to the outer circle and split the fleet that pursued the Hongtian Cannon from both sides.

It doesn't matter if you let the enemy pursue you from both sides, it won't take an hour for the Hongtian cannon to be caught up by the enemy, and the whole fleet will maintain a speed, about four to five knots, how can you race with the British at a speed of six to eight knots?

"Raise the banner and let Fang Badan's fleet surprise the enemy's armed merchant fleet and block them." It doesn't matter if you can only let people rush up and get mixed with the enemy first, so that the other ships can have the time to pull out and intercept the enemy's fleet, sometimes there are too many ships, and it is also a troublesome matter to command.

Although Hong Tian Cannon implemented the military system of the Huaxia Army, but in private there are actually many loyal people who lead a part of the fleet, or soldiers and horses, and then obey the dispatch from above as a whole, if you want to send out a part of the men and horses from this whole, it is not as easy as the Huaxia Army, if the Huaxia Army wants to transfer a company to other regiments or battalions, there is no need for the consent of the commander-in-chief, the regiment commander or brigade commander, and even the division commander directly orders the battalion commander, and the battalion commander has to agree if he does not agree, and the transferred company goes to other battalions, It will be able to integrate into other battalions immediately, in terms of combat effectiveness and combat coordination, because the training of the Huaxia Army is the same and has an outline.

But if you want to transfer some troops and horses to other people in the Ryukyu Kingdom, it will take a lot of work.

Time was spent in the middle of the fight, the enemy was already approaching a nautical mile, Fang Badan's fleet was reluctant to separate from the fleet under the unity of the chief officer, to intercept the enemy, other branch fleets, too many ships, of course, there must be many branches, each with its own chief officer, began to turn to other places, maneuver to meet the enemy.

Wu's so-called continuous issuance of orders, issued five orders in a row, sent out 50 armed merchant ships and 20 warships to intercept the enemy's nearly 60 armed merchant ships, as well as 20 warships, and then sent warships and armed merchant ships to both sides, so that his small forces were divided into three parts, the most fought in the middle, and the least intercepted on both sides.

The main force drove ten nautical miles, the enemy was only one nautical mile away from him, the enemy's artillery had already sounded, countless shells came from the front and both sides, and the Ryukyu Kingdom also returned fire, but obviously the artillery firepower was too much worse, and the armed merchant ships could only use their small tonnage, fast speed, and flexible advantages to maneuver with the enemy.

The enemy spread out about five or six nautical miles on both sides, turned, advanced, and outflanked, and then most of the enemy's main warships pursued the retreating Ryukyu Kingdom's main warships from five or six nautical miles away.

On the way, it was intercepted by twenty or thirty armed merchant ships rushing quickly, and then intercepted by warships rushing towards it in the back and in the middle.

The battle was in full swing.

In half an hour, the enemy finally crossed the lateral interception line of Wu's so-called front fleet, rushed to the rear but fled 15 nautical miles of the Chinese fleet, and the rear army had already escaped 25 nautical miles, but the Chinese army was still slowly soaring.

When the first mast of the rear army disappeared on the horizon, the Chinese army had only reached twenty nautical miles, and the enemy's main fleet had already broken away from the intercepted front fleet thirty nautical miles, and was only eighteen or nineteen nautical miles away from the Chinese army.

Wu so-called took 15 warships and 15 600-ton warships of the main fleet of the front army, gritted his teeth, ignored the armed merchant ships and warship fleets that were inseparable from the enemy's killing, and rushed towards the enemy's main fleet on one side, and there were the enemy's sail battleships, and he did not intercept the enemy's new warships, he knew that with his own warships, if the enemy's new warships and the Huaxia Army's new warships had the same performance, then these warships in his hands could not be fought against at all.

Five nautical miles, and in only twenty minutes, he reached the right flank and rushed to the main fleet of forty-eight enemy warships and battleships, as well as sail battleships, which were almost unscathed.

The two sides began to fire at each other from a distance of 500 meters, and the enemy's ferocious fire made it so that as soon as the indifferent fleet made contact, one battleship was sunk, and two battleships were severely damaged, and the two sides approached to a distance of 300 meters.

In a volley, the enemy's shells killed and wounded more than a dozen sailors on the Manila he was riding, three cannons were blown up, and the hull was full of holes, but fortunately, he was not seriously damaged, and he was able to continue to sail on the battle line.

And they inflicted the same damage on the enemy's five third-class sail battleships, and the two sides bombarded each other in an arc on the sea, and the battle lasted for nearly an hour, and two armed merchant ships that were wandering here escaped, three were heavily damaged, and all the others were sunk, five of the warships were sunk, seven were heavily damaged, three of the battleships were sunk, and the others were wounded and could move, but the speed had dropped to an outrageous level.

At this time, the first and second class battleships in the distance of the enemy's inner line joined in, and Wu so-called concentrated thirty or forty ships that could still fight, rushed towards these three battleships, regardless of the bombardment of the other third and fourth, fifth, and sixth ranks, as well as the enemy's armed merchant ships, and after half an hour approached the enemy one hundred and eighty meters, the remaining seventeen ships opened fire together, directly and heavily damaged the side of the enemy's first-class battleship, causing it to almost capsize, and the other two second-class battleships fired at them like crazy.

Under the sporadic return fire here, the enemy's second-class battleship was also covered with scars, maybe God had pity on them, and a cannonball fired from somewhere hit the ammunition depot of one of the enemy's second-class battleships, and the second-level battleship slammed for a while, and then exploded violently, so that the two sixth-level battleships that came to the rescue next to them were affected, and they were overturned by the air wave of the explosion, and a third-class battleship was directly hit by a mast raised by the second-class battleship, and the hull was heavily damaged, and it sank in less than ten minutes.

At this time, Wu's so-called Manila was already covered with scars, and there were only three warships around him, staggering towards the periphery, Wu knew that it was time to end, and if he didn't escape, he would probably be killed.

The entire picture within a radius of fifteen nautical miles was filled with their ships, and there were many enemy ships, but in fact, they failed, those who could escape fled, and those who could not escape also faltered, braving the ships pursued by the enemy, and it was difficult to get out of the battlefield.

The shadow of the Chinese army's sailboat can no longer be seen in the distance, his mission is completed, as for whether Hong Tiancang can escape, it is not something he can take care of.

He's going to have to run, he's done his best.

(End of chapter)