The rate of fire of modern naval guns is amazing, especially those quadruple anti-aircraft small guns, although they only fire point, they also fire as intensively as machine guns.

A 76-millimeter shell struck a three-masted Daifuku ship, and the violent explosion tore through the hard planks like a piece of paper, and shrapnel flew in all directions, cutting off the heads and arms of seven or eight sailors on deck, and after the explosion, the hull of the ship cracked into a large hole.

Immediately after a shuttle of more than 100 rounds of 30-millimeter small shells came one after another, after the shells hit the wooden hull one after another, a dense explosion occurred, and the nearly 1,000-ton Daifuku ship was immediately blown up and almost scattered, and it was in tatters, and nearly half of the sailors on board died, and after the explosion, the fire also burned.

After the attack of the naval artillery, the mortars also joined the attack, they targeted the densely populated areas of the ships, supplemented the fire of the naval guns, and carried out probabilistic artillery shelling.

Although the mortar is a curved firepower, the power of its shells is also difficult for wooden ships to bear, after all, there is a large generation difference in weapons. Mortars on ships were originally used as a weapon for land attack, which has the characteristics of long range and high cost-effectiveness ratio, and because the shells are sufficient and the gun chamber is not afraid of wear and tear, the navy often uses it to attack sail warships.

This time to attack the Zheng family's fleet, the 48 mortars of the artillery battalion of the 5th Regiment of the Army were also dispersed to each ship, and all the heavy machine guns of the 5th Regiment were also on board, which was also one of the reasons why the Tiance Army besieged the city of Gelanza and did not fight.

As a result, the number of mortars on the nine naval warships reached one hundred and fifty, and patches of mortar shells flew towards the Zheng family's fleet, but a rain of mortar shells fell wherever the fleet was dense.

Once a small arsonist is hit by mortar shells, one or two shells from the sky can destroy an arsonist ship, or ignite the flammable materials on it, causing a large fire.

Large wooden sailing ships hit by mortar shells, the deck will be broken, everything will be swept across, even the mast will be blown up, and the personnel will be killed and injured in large numbers.

The blow was sudden, Zheng Zhilong was not mentally prepared at all, more than 2,000 meters, four or five miles, it was unthinkable in this era when naval battles were still taking place in an area of 200 meters.

In Zheng Lian's description, most of the shelling of the Tiance army took place within 800 meters, that is, within the range of the recoilless guns.

Now that Wang Yue has changed his plan to inflict maximum damage on the Zheng family's fleet in the shortest possible time, the Tiance Navy uses a large number of modern naval guns, which directly stunned Zheng Zhilong.

By the time he reacted, most of the Zheng family's warships had already been enveloped in the flames of war.

The enemy, four or five miles away, frantically poured ammunition on his fleet, Zheng Zhilong's eyes swept around slightly, and he secretly screamed badly, so he ordered loudly: "Quick, raise the flag, order the arson ship to attack at full speed!" ”

Arsonists are small boats, which are faster, and now only speed can close the distance and neutralize the range of enemy ships.

The order was issued, and hundreds of arsonist ships suddenly picked up speed and rushed towards the naval fleet of the Tiance Army.

Not long after the arsonist ship moved, a 76-millimeter grenade suddenly hit Zheng Zhilong's flagship, and his flagship was the Galen ship, which was the target of the ship's guns.

The shells on the oak shell of the flagship, which was several inches thick, exploded violently, and suddenly a huge opening was torn open, and a huge shell plate was lifted into the air. Then it slammed heavily on the deck, killing several sailors on the spot.

Immediately after that, another hundred-millimeter mortar shell fell from the sky and again hit the deck of the flagship. The cannonball smashed through the upper deck and fell into the upper gun deck below, the shell exploded, and the gunpowder in the open powder jar on the gun deck was also ignited and detonated, and on the gun deck eighty gunners were killed almost instantly, and the fire erupted from the grille plate on the deck.

"Quick, turn the rudder!" Zheng Zhilong shouted from the stern, this cannonball had completely woken him up, it was dangerous here!

However, the rate of fire of the guns of the Tiance Navy was too fast, and a small cannonball hit the oak hull, and the dense explosion instantly cut off most of the bow, causing even greater flames.

The helmsman turned the rudder as hard as he could, and the ship jerked one hundred and eighty degrees to the port side, and the wind blew more air into the horizontal deck, and tongues of incandescent fire spread in all directions. One by one, the open gunpowder jars on the lower deck began to explode.

Seeing that the explosion was inevitable, Zheng Zhilong ignored the towering stern and jumped from the stern into the sea.

At the moment when he jumped, tongues of fire rushed into the ammunition depot, bright red flames rose from the deck, and then there was a low explosion, charred fragments flew in the air, and then the whole ship exploded violently, the deck tore and turned upward, the mast twisted inward and fell, the canvas was instantly engulfed by the fire snake, and the fireworks shrouded the nearly thousand-ton ship, and the black smoke lasted for a long time.

"Big brother! Eldest brother! Zheng Zhibao, who followed Zheng Zhilong to escape by jumping into the water, shouted heartbreakingly.

Zheng Zhilong finally surfaced from under the water, he spat out a mouthful of seawater, wiped his face, and looked at the burning and sunken flagship in a daze, all this happened so fast that it was unimaginable.

Zheng Zhibao was overjoyed to find that his eldest brother was still alive, and hurriedly swam over, and rescued them from the small boats around him.

The shelling of the naval fleet of the Tiance Army continued, and the rumbling sound of the cannon reminded Zheng Zhilong that he was still passively beaten and was being slaughtered unilaterally by the enemy.

Most of the large warships have become the focus of attention, and the sound of explosions is constant, and fifty large warships have already caught fire or sunk nineteen. Among them is his flagship, the Galen ship that cost more than 200,000 taels of silver to build, which happened in such a short period of time, Zheng Zhilong's heart was dripping blood.

Zheng Zhilong was picked up on a missing bullet and still intact brig Fu ship, which was hung with a handsome flag and temporarily used as a flagship.

Zheng Cai rushed over from his warship and advised: "Big brother, this battle can't be fought, now you should save your strength!" ”

Zheng Zhibao glared at Dahuan and objected: "Ah Cai, the enemy ship is fast and the artillery has a long range, if we retreat, the loss will be even greater, have you considered it?" ”

What Zheng Zhibao said is not unreasonable, and Zheng Cai is speechless.

Zheng Zhilong's face showed a look of pain, and he closed his eyes and asked, "Where is our arson ship?" Did you rush up? ”

Zheng Cai sighed and said: "The enemy ship is too fast, and it is maneuvering with the arsonist ship, and now the arson ship has been hit one after another, and the loss is almost half." ”

Zheng Zhilong's eyes widened and he suddenly stood up and said, "Let's go and have a look!" ”