Although a Chinese sailing ship with a hard sail could theoretically sail with eight winds and sail like a schooner in a headwind state, and thus should be faster than the "Dutch warships" that mainly used crosssails, the relatively small aspect ratio greatly increased the resistance of their sailing, and the Chinese hard sail has always been a weakness in the area of the sail, so even though Captain Jack's fleet has put away the mainsail and only used the spinnaker in the bow and the small schooner between the three masts to provide power, in the headwind state, They were still faster than the Manchu ships. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"This time, we will prepare to go around from the right side of the enemy's fleet, and the ships will follow our ships, keep a good distance, and be ready to shoot." Captain Jack ordered.

When you go around from the right, because everyone is sailing against the wind, the relative speed is much smaller, and at this time the side of the ship is pointing at each other, which is the most ideal situation for a Western-style warship with guns on both sides of the ship. Captain Jack's cruiser first caught up with a Qing warship.

At this time, the Tianzhu army on this ship had already moved the Furlong cannon on the bow of the ship, anyway, the Furlong cannon was relatively small, and a few people could completely lift it.

Captain Jack saw the Furlong cannon, but he didn't care. The caliber of the Furlong cannon was very small, and Captain Jack estimated that the cannonballs of the cannon were only a pound at most, and the airtightness of the Furlong cannon had always been poor, which further reduced its power, and such a cannon hitting the side deck of the cruiser was basically no different from tickling.

Now that the distance between the two rounds was still about a hundred paces, the Manchu warship began to fire at the cruiser with its furlong cannons.

"Stupid barbarian!" Captain Jack thought disdainfully: "Although the wind and waves are calm now, the shaking of the ship is still not small, and at such a distance, even our 18-inch cannon is not guaranteed to hit." What good can it be to fire at such a distance, except that there is a sound that can give oneself courage? These barbarians are really stupid and cowardly. ”

"Keep getting closer, until it's in their faces, and then show them what artillery fire is!" Captain Jack took the pipe from his mouth, tapped it on the armrest, and gave such an order.

Bart is a member of the Mongolian Eight Banners, and today he is the supervisor of this ship, and he can be regarded as the first batch of Mongolian navy. Today is Bart's first time on the sea. Luckily, Bart didn't suffer from severe seasickness, and although he was top-heavy and vomited everything he ate in the morning, he was at least barely able to stand up. Now Bart is waving his hands violently and shouting, "Hit, hit!" ”

The distance between the two ships was getting closer and closer, so the Manchu Furlong cannon gradually got the point, and a single shell hit the side of Captain Jack's ship first.

"Hit! Well played! Bart shouted. However, although the cannon hit, it was of no avail, and the shell was easily bounced away by the cruiser's thick planks, leaving only a not-so-obvious groove in it.

"Fight again! Hit again! Hurry up! Bart shouted. In fact, the rate of fire of the rear-mounted Furlong cannon is already very fast compared to that of ordinary front-loading guns. However, the rapid rate of fire, coupled with the fact that the Furlong cannon is an iron cannon that dissipates heat not as well as a bronze cannon, has now begun to turn red.

"My lord, I can't fight anymore." One of the gunners shouted, "The barrels are all red, and if you fight again, you will blow up!" ”

"Fart!" Bart scolded: "It's better to be killed by a bomb than to be killed by someone leaning up and hitting it with a cannon!" Keep fighting, until the bore is blown up! ”

The gunner of the Tianzhu Army was still a little hesitant, Bart drew his knife with a brush, stabbed the gunner in the stomach with a knife, and then kicked it over, kicked the corpse aside, held the bloody waist knife, pointed at the other sailor and said: "You come to load the cannonballs, fight quickly!" ”

The sailor trembled, loaded the gun, and ...... With a bang, the ship lost three more sailors and the only one of its guns.

"Quick, take out your bow and arrows and shoot them! Shoot rockets! Bart was still dancing in command.

"Big brother, what should I do?" A sailor quietly asked Zhao Cheng, the bow of the ship.

"What else, let the brothers hurry up and prepare what they can float on, and prepare to jump into the sea!" Zhao Cheng said angrily.

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"Open the gun door and get ready to shoot." The distance between the two sides was only thirty paces, and after the enemy had lost the only Furlong machine, Captain Jack naturally dared to bring the ship closer in search of a more accurate strike. It wasn't too long before it got dark, and he had to destroy as many targets as he could before dark, so it was important to improve the effectiveness of his strikes.

One by one, the cannon doors were opened, and the black holes of more than a dozen 18-pounder guns were exposed.

As soon as they saw that the other party had opened the cannon door, the sailors on the Manchu warship jumped into the sea with wooden barrels, planks and other things like dumplings.

In fact, jumping into the sea at this time may not be able to save your life, because the sea water at this time is too cold. People can't support it for long. So there must be large pieces of floating debris, and you must be able to put most of your body above the surface of the sea to have a chance of survival.

"You cowards, don't run!" Bart had just shot a few arrows at the opposite warship with his horned bow, the ship was a little swaying, Bart had no roots under his feet, and he didn't know where these arrows had gone, and now he saw the sailors abandoning the ship and fleeing, so he hurriedly threw down his bow and arrows and drew his knives to stop them. At this time, I don't know who pushed him, and he stumbled and fell on the deck.

"Dog minion!" Bart cursed and climbed up, and then he saw a flash of light coming from the enemy ship, which was the last thing he saw, and the next moment the mast fell and smashed on his head, smashing his head open.

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"Quick! Get the fleet to turn to the right and rush into their queue! Fast! Shang Ke shouted hoarsely, feeling like he had entered a nightmare from which he could not wake up.

Although the order was issued, the Manchu sailors did not have a systematic flag language, and the communication between the ships was already troublesome, and the five-point plum blossom array was naturally at a disadvantage in terms of flexibility compared to Captain Jack's column formation. In a column, when any ship is turning, there is no need to worry about loading other ships in its own team, but the five-point plum blossom array with ships in all directions is different, and when making a sharp turn, it is easy to load your own ship, or let your formation be confused. Therefore, the Manchu sailors could only turn slowly and carefully, and what kind of effect could such a slow turn have?

The "Dutch fleet" also turned to the right, still maintaining a little outside the five-point plum blossom formation, still peeling an onion, killing the Manchu warships on the periphery layer by layer. Now Shang Kexi was almost at a loss, and although his ship was in the center of the fleet, he would probably not be able to hold it out until dark with the efficiency of the "Dutch" onion-skinning style.

Of course, Shang Kexi actually has other methods, and now Shang Kexi has determined that he will not be able to defeat those "Dutch" in this battle anyway. Fortunately, the Dutch were limited in number, with only a few boats. And now in his hands, although he had lost more than a dozen ships, there were still thirty boats, and if these ships were allowed to flee in all directions, the Dutch would have to chase only a few of them at most. The other ships were able to escape back.

However, before this order was issued, Shang Kexi had one last thing to do, and that was to change to a more inconspicuous-looking boat.

"Lao Liu, this boat will be handed over to you." Shang Kexi shook the hand of a lieutenant general and said, "When I get on the ship over there, you will give the order to disband the fleet and scatter back." Then you lower the handsome flag, and run quickly, in case you are caught up by others, you surrender, don't work hard with others, understand? ”

"Don't worry, the prince will understand." That old Liu nodded and said.

Shang Kexi shook the man's hand tightly again, and then said, "Brother, take care!" Then he turned and got into a small boat.

Shang Kexi quickly approached, and boarded a relatively small, and faster sentinel ship. As soon as he got on the boat, he saw that the order to break out of the encirclement had been issued in his name, so the remaining thirty or so boats scattered in a hurry and fled in all directions.

"These barbarians react pretty quickly. In this way, we will not be able to destroy these enemies completely. Captain Jack said to his first mate with regret as he watched the enemy ships scatter.

"Commander, although we can't do all of them, we can kill so many of their ships in one go today, and in the pursuit, I believe we can still kill some." "This is already a big victory." I reckon that after this battle, the navy of those barbarians will probably not dare to go to sea again. ”

"yes." Captain Jack nodded and said, "Tommy, honestly, it's really boring to engage these barbarians at sea, it's like bullying children. By the way, there should have been no casualties on our ship so far, right? ”

"Your Excellency, Commander, unfortunately one of our soldiers has been wounded. He accidentally slipped on it, and then his hand accidentally touched the hot barrel of the cannon, and he was burned. The first mate replied.

"This unfortunate stupid thing. I'm going to add a little scar to his back in a moment! Captain Jack said, "Alright, order the fleet to be disbanded, and each of them will pursue their targets, giving priority to the pursuit of the big ships." ”