In an hour, the troop carrier drove ten nautical miles, which is the maximum speed, and generally can only drive three nautical miles, and now it will desperately increase its speed when it is most urgent.

The Fu ship and the Guangzhou ship drove twelve nautical miles, but in order to take care of the pitiful speed of the troop carrier, they had to follow the troop carrier, and they could not let go of the speed, although they let go of the speed was only four nautical miles, at most five nautical miles, the Fu ship produced by the Qing Dynasty, the Guangzhou ship was not as good as these ships produced by the southerners.

At this time, the previous Portuguese armed merchant ships and other armed merchant ships had joined the battle, but the opposing 600-ton warships also joined the battle, although not much, but the artillery fire was fierce.

With forty-eight guns on the front and right, one of which was enough to be worth three 180-ton ships, the battle on this side became unwinnable, and their sailors were not as skilled and powerful as the sailors of the Ryukyu Kingdom who had been trained by the Huaxia Army.

The two sides fought for an hour and a half, and the other side's twelve warships sank a 280-ton Portuguese armed merchant ship on this side, and a captured 180-ton warship, damaging two, while the Qing side only damaged three ships, allowing one to withdraw from the battle.

The 100 armed merchant ships that caught up behind had already sunk three 180-ton ships and damaged two, but the other three 600-ton ships had lost five brigs and one Portuguese armed merchant ship of 280 tons.

Later, three 300-ton Dutch Galen ships led by Shi Lang inflicted heavy blows on the local 600-ton warship with a high speed of six knots, and damaged one of them.

After that, two 800-ton warships came up, and at once more than a dozen armed merchant ships were sunk, a Dutch merchant ship of 300 tons was damaged, and a 180-ton ship was sunk.

At this time, the troop carrier and the Guangzhou ship had only run 12 nautical miles, and the enemy divided two 600-ton warships and two 1,000-ton warships to pursue them.

Even if the old thousand-ton battleship is long, it can still run at a speed of five knots, and it only takes two and a half hours to catch up, but the brigs and armed merchant ships that are separated from the pursuit do not dare to approach and attack them, the fire on both sides of the enemy is too fierce, a salvo is more than 30 guns, and there are eighteen-pounder guns in the tail of the battleship that can hit 2,600 meters, and the constant pursuit can only make them reduce some speed, but not make them stop, although the brig armed merchant ship is fast, it can reach a speed of six knots, and even a speed of seven knots, But it's useless if you can't get close.

Seeing that the enemy had been chasing for half an hour, and the troop carriers had only traveled thirteen nautical miles, on such a sunny day, the visibility at sea was too high, and the pursuing fleets of both sides could be seen with the naked eye.

In the end, Shi Lang was ruthless and ordered the armed brigs to attack the enemy regardless of it, and finally damaged an 800-ton battleship and dragged the enemy ships in the rear, but it was still unable to catch up with the enemy's four pursuing warships.

The battle continued, although the ships of the Ryukyu Kingdom suffered heavy losses in the face of the same high-speed enemy boats, but the enemy's losses were even heavier, sinking thirty brigs armed merchant ships, two three-hundred-ton Dutch armed merchant ships, three Portuguese armed merchant ships, and finally only one 800-ton battleship was left, two 180-ton warships broke away from the battle to cover four battleships, leaving three 600-ton warships to drag Shi Lang's attack ships, and the other two sank and wounded, and broke away from the battle and began to return to the garrison from the other direction.

Shi Lang saw that the situation could not stop the enemy's pursuit, so he abandoned the armed merchant ships and the captured enemy's 180-ton warships, dragged three 600-ton warships and one 800-ton warship, and took the 300-ton armed merchant ships to pursue the troop convoy.

Three hours later, ten nautical miles from Jeju Island, he caught up with the troop carrier, which was slaughtered by two thousand-ton warships, along with sixty escort ships of the Hokwang.

Two or three of the dense flotillas were hit by a salvo of fire at a time, and the ships were destroyed and killed, and many soldiers fell into the water like dumplings, struggling desperately, but these northern landlubbers could not swim more than twenty miles to the shore anyway.

Although the ships are also powerful, but the firepower is not good, although the ships have speed, but they are only the same as the speed of the enemy's warships, the enemy is desperate to crush you with casualties, and directly into the fleet, followed by more than 30 brigs of armed merchant ships, only more than 20 ships are wandering around, but they cannot cause damage to the enemy.

"Assault, assault, all set fire, burn them." Shi Lang was very angry and ordered the brig armed merchant ship to make a desperate assault and ram the thousand-ton warship.

At this time, an 800-ton battleship trembled up and joined the battle, and he destroyed five Canton ships, sank six troop carriers, and sank one Daifuku ship.

But in the end, it was hit by a captured warship of one hundred and eighty tons, set on fire by a two-masted merchant ship, and sank.

"Spread out, spread out, break through on your own." Shi Lang ordered the herald to use flags to inform those troop carriers and escort ships to break through.

In four hours, two six-hundred-ton warships came again and destroyed all the brigs and merchant ships, although they also suffered heavy losses, one mast was destroyed, and the canvas was full of holes, but they still inflicted heavy losses on the Daishimizu Division, and five Daifuku ships were destroyed, and the rest fled.

By the afternoon, less than 80 troop carriers had successfully landed, 10,000 Goguryeo officers and men, 20,000 rations, 20,000 shells, and less than 500 Mongol cavalry.

Ten Daifuku ships staggered back to the port, laying down some cannons, some Qing generals and officials, and a thousand loads of grain and grass.

Fifteen Canton ships returned, laying down 1,000 soldiers of the Qing Green Battalion, 1,000 seriously wounded sailors, and 1,000 loads of musket bullets and ammunition.

A captured 180-ton warship returned, sitting directly on the beach, badly damaged.

Shi Lang returned, and his three-hundred-ton warship had all fallen masts, and was pulled back by drifting and the boats on board.

However, Shi Lang was very happy, because they almost annihilated a detachment of the Ryukyu Kingdom Naval Division of the Third Prince.

According to what he saw and learned, all the warships of this detachment were sunk, one of the 600-ton ships went back, two of the 180-ton ships went back, and all the others were sunk.

He sent ten ships to the battle area to capture the officers and men of the sailors and rescue his own officers and men who had fallen into the water.

So far, he has led the naval division to annihilate about half of the enemy's Jeju Island naval detachment, 36 180-ton ships, 5 300-ton ships, 10 600-ton ships, 3 800-ton ships, and 7 1,000-ton ships.

In the early stage, he also captured more than 20 warships of less than 300 tons from the enemy, and although he took them out and destroyed 10 of them this time, he still had five warships of 180 tons and 12 warships of 60 tons.

He had already thought about it, and in a few days he had already reorganized the fleet, ten Daifuku ships, fifteen Canton ships, five 180-ton ships, 12 60-ton ships, plus his Dutch 300-ton warship, he had found a way to fight the enemy's fleet, and took a batch of cannon fodder to destroy the enemy's detachment.

(End of chapter)