Zhang Ying was covered in gunsmoke and bloodstained into the Admiral's Mansion in Taizhou County.

When he met him, he saw all the generals of the Jinhua Volunteer Army standing up to greet him, and he was very proud in his heart.

As a sailor, he has never had a record of many victories, the last time he attacked Zheng Cai and the Dutch, the Portuguese fleet on Dragon Ball Island, it was a narrow victory, or under careful planning, it was mainly Zheng Cai's sea ships.

Compared with them, those ships on the sea are only slightly more people, and the ships are larger, but everyone fights for the number of people and the number of ships.

This time he began to think that he could not defeat the invading enemy, and he was terrified to take the fleet into battle.

Unexpectedly, the oncoming enemy was chaotic and seemed to be outnumbered, but there were many fighters that could be used in many places.

Gritting his teeth, he took two hundred battleships, lined up in two columns, and plunged straight into the center of the enemy's fleet.

At the beginning, dozens of large ships crashed directly into the small warships of the locust-like pirates and the numerous fishing boats and fireboats.

On the moonlit sea, the wind was just right for his fleet assault, and for a while, the entire sea was like dumplings, and the pirates' ships were overturned, crushed, and squeezed to the bottom of the sea.

Although it was very exciting and refreshing to crush the small boats, and to sweep away the frightening depression that he had just seen so many enemy ships, Zhang Ying knew that his target was not those large number of pirate ships, but the hundreds of large ships flying the Dutch and Portuguese flags at the back of the team, and the medium-sized warships among the hundreds of pirates in the sea.

While the fleet of more than 80 ships he led was crushing the pirate ships and knocking over the small warships, the enemy's big ships and warships also began to sail towards them.

For a time, the two sides began to greet each other with the ship's artillery.

Five hundred meters, the shells of both sides smashed each other in a round, and no one hit anyone, but the other pirate ships on the sea were unlucky, maybe the artillery of Zhang Ying's Jinhua Righteous Army fleet could not hit anything, and could only occasionally sweep the enemy to some small boats that rushed too fast, but the shells smashed by the enemy fell directly into the middle of their own fleet.

Because the Second Fleet of the Jinhua Rebels was now rampaging through the small ships of their ally, the Ming pirates, surrounded by enemy ships.

At first, the pirates were still in confusion and fled for their lives, but there were always some bloody pirates and some leaders, and they began to organize two fleets to attack the Jinhua rebels.

Fireship attack, just deep into the middle of the pirates of the two fleets are the enemy's ships left and right, some of the fireships were organized by the pirates, these fireships were originally to deal with Zhang Ying's sailor fleet, who knows, they all sailed into the harbor, washed up on the beach of the bay, Zhang Ying's sailor fleet was nowhere to be seen, many pirates were relieved to rush to the beach, thinking of landing on the wanton plunder, looting wealth.

Who knew that Zhang Ying hid on the inland river first, and when he made up his mind and thought that he had to fight, he suddenly took the opportunity of the low tide and the strong wind to rush out of the river and crash directly into their fleet.

Many pirate ships waiting to land on the surface of the sea suffered in this way.

Now the pirates who reacted were angry, and they unleashed fireship attacks on them, burning with raging fire, and the fireship controlled by several deadly pirates had a ramming angle in front, and once it hit the enemy ship, the ramming angle in front of it would directly hit the middle of the ribs of the enemy ship, and it could not be shaken off if you wanted to.

Zhang Ying immediately changed formations.

Two columns become four columns, the large ships wrapped in copper skin on the outside are transferred to the periphery, and the medium and small warships are in the inner circle, and the defense surface is expanded at the same time, the copper skin on the large warships can effectively resist the impact of the enemy's fireships, and at the same time, there are more guns on the big ships, and the enemy's fireships are concentrated by the artillery without approaching.

The "T" position made it possible for enemy ships to face much more guns from larger ships, with three two- to three-pounder guns firing on one side of a small ship, four six-pounder guns, two eight-pounder guns, and three three-pounder guns firing on a medium ship, and even more on large ships.

There were two layers of guns on the large ships, the lower guns were the eighteen-pounder guns and the twelve-pounder guns that captured the Dutch and the Portuguese, a total of ten guns were firing, and on the upper deck there were sixteen, eight ten-pounder guns, four twelve-pounder guns, two eighteen-pounder guns, and four eight-pounder guns, so many guns, one warship, there were more than fifty warships on the Jinhua Righteous Army, and the intensity of the fire, it can be said that as long as you are unlucky, a shell will definitely fall on your head.

The guns of the medium ships in the middle will make up for the fire gap between the enemy's small ships and the dead spots in the range of the guns of the large ships rushing to the outside of the fleet, which can maximize the fire of the enemy's ships.

In the words of the surviving pirates: "Oh my God, I saw cannonballs flying everywhere in the sky, it was like a rain of shells, and we charged desperately."

I was on a medium-sized warship, and it seemed that it was about to rush into the enemy's artillery corner, and then the artillery on our ship could also hit the enemy, but I didn't expect to do it again.

We were hit by more than a dozen shells the size of our heads, and one of them was what the enemy called a chain bullet, and that thing was so vicious, and the companion on the mast screamed, and the whole body was torn, and then the thing cut the cable on the mast, twisted the sail into pieces, and finally wound around the mast, and I heard a click, and the mast fell from the top of my head.

Three of my companions, who were about to escape, were smashed into meatloaf by the mast, and my leg was also smashed, and then I was swept to the gang by great force, and my head hit the hard gang, and the man fainted, and by the time I thought about coming, I had been captured. ”

The middle-aged pirate, with a dejected face, told the interrogators about his tragic naval experience.

But this does not satisfy the interrogators, they want intelligence, not an account of the battlefield, not their misery, if they can, they want to make them more miserable, the enemy is more miserable, it means their happiness.

They inflicted an even more painful punishment on him, until the bruised pirates were incoherent, and they saw that they could no longer get any information from this little man, so they let him go and threw him into a prisoner of war camp, where he was not qualified enough to go to a hard labor camp, and perhaps after two or three years of manual labor, he would be given up, and then placed under residential surveillance by the local government for two or three years, until he had accumulated enough contribution points to become a free man, or he would be a slave.

This was not the point, the point was that in the face of the counterattack of so many fireships and pirate ships, the Second Squadron actually resisted, and quickly routed them, facing the combined fleet of the Portuguese and Dutch, which had reached a distance of one hundred and fifty meters.