Song Ke is not a professional naval officer, and he doesn't know much about the method of array, but he vaguely feels that it is not good...... The Dutch fleet is also anchoring the ship with sails and sails, but the fleet ships are in a mess, which seems to be powerful, but in fact, because they are crowded in one place, the gun positions of many side guns will accidentally hit their own ships, and they can only be slowly translated, but on the contrary, Hutchison's warships have basically been adjusted, and the warships and merchant ships of the three lines are adjusted very quickly, because they were originally a column coming, so the adjustment and lateral movement are quite fast.

When it comes to the ability of sailors, of course, the Dutch ship is the first, even the British, the first maritime power a hundred years later, after the victory in the first Anglo-Dutch war, the second, third, fourth, and three consecutive large-scale naval battles against the Dutch were lost, and the losses were quite miserable...... The fleets on both sides came within two miles, and when all the guns were firing range, Hutchison and the Dutch ships adjusted the sails and lowered anchor to prepare, and Hutchison's fleet had the advantage of a column, and even so, the Dutch almost had to adjust.

Even so, one step ahead is one step ahead, the sail ship below is the first to adjust its head, the benefits of the sail pulp are fully revealed, when most of the Dutch ships are still adjusting their hulls, especially when the clumsy hull of the Galen ship is only less than half adjusted, the four sail batters have already adjusted, and the paddlers keep rowing the long paddle in their hands to adjust the hull to the most suitable position......

While Song Ke was still in a daze, the cannon rang out.

On the flanks of each sailing ship were more than fifteen heavy guns, and the number of guns was not below that of the great ship of Galen, and the quality of the guns was superior, each gun was at least twenty-four pounders, and the ship was full of heavy guns, and the gunners were skilful and sophisticated, and the fight was quite accurate, and the first round of shells hit most of the targets at a distance of miles.

There was a dull roar of artillery firing, the screech of cannonballs, and, of course, the thud of cannonballs as they hit the wooden sailboats...... A merchant ship was hit on the deck, and several people were blown away by the shells, and the sawdust flew into the air, letting out a terrible scream.

Song Ke's face was as usual, the scene in front of him was nothing to a high-ranking colonial official, and he would not express the worries in his heart, in the end, Gao Wenlu was the commander of the fleet......

At this time, Song Ke set his sights on the Batavia, the giant ship that was the soul of the fleet...... The hull of 650 tonnage, the length is 56.6 meters, the mainmast is more than 10 meters high, and there are 314 crew members, and now the number should be more than that, Gao Wenlu took some people on the main ship, and the number should be about 350 people.

The ship was designed with not many gun emplacements, only two deck gun emplacements of twenty-four iron guns, and at this time it was the stage when large sail warships began to develop, and the British Sea Monarch began to take shape, with three decks, castle-like stern buildings, more than 100 gun emplacements, and dozens of guns on ordinary small battleships.

At the beginning of the seventeenth century, many large ships were not designed with many gun emplacements because they had to carry goods, and later after there were more and more large warships and more and more gun emplacements, many warships were equipped with guns, just like the Batavia, in addition to the original twenty-four guns, and the main deck was added with guards, and fourteen guns were added, and the guns added to the stern made it more than forty guns.

Now the capital ship is halfway across the hull, which is a little slower than the merchant ship, and there are two merchant ships in front of each side of Batavia, which are almost complete in turn.

It is a pity that they turned around as little as Hutchison's merchant ships and schooners...... The fleet of Dutch warships is composed of nineteen ships, and Hutchison is twenty-five, the top part of the horizontal line is four schooners plus four merchant ships, which has completed a horizontal line, and the eight fleets are somewhat deviated in a row, and the naval guns have begun to be fired after the anchor, this angle is exactly near the Batavia on the left, and Song Ke saw that the muzzles of the guns kept spewing sparks, and the cannonballs flew out, hitting all parts of the battleships.

In the middle was a Galen warship and eight small merchant ships, which Song Ke recognized as a Galen ship, which had been captured during the battle with the Ming Fujian Naval Division, and had now fallen into the hands of Hutchison. Seeing that the ship was also in a horizontal line, firing at his side in pairs, Song Ke's expression was indifferent, but there was some irrepressible anger in his heart.

Below were four sailing ships and four small merchant ships, the sailing ships had completed their turns, and less than a mile apart the four ships were lined up in a neat horizontal formation, the side firepower was fully exerted, the fire was fully opened, the shells kept pouring on the heads of the Hector and the rest of the merchant ships, broken wood flew sideways, and the howls and shouts of people were constantly heard, and the officers desperately urged the sailors to complete the turn as soon as possible, and the gunners cursed urgently, and were beaten on the head but could not return fire, their anger can be imagined.

Although the turn was slow, the Dutch ship mostly completed this tactical move.

This is the greatest picture of this era in the eyes of Chang Wei and others, and the strongest voice of this era in the ears!

Small merchant ships are also equipped with more than 10 guns, and warships are less than 20 guns, more than 30 or 40 guns, more than 40 ships and nearly 1,000 cannons, what a magnificent scene!

Imagine it, the minimum ration is also a nine-pounder gun, if nearly a thousand cannons are used on land, thirty-six pounder guns, twenty-four pounder guns, eighteen pounder guns, nine-pounder guns, the artillery positions lined up in a row are simply enough to take the artillery level of the main battle of the imperial era, of course, the artillery power of this era is still small, and the effective range of the nine-pounder cannon is only a mile or even less than a mile, but if there are really a thousand guns placed on any battlefield on the earth in this era, the bombardment shakes the mountains, There is absolutely no army that can withstand it and be able to win it.

This scene makes the hearts of people who have participated in the war on the grassland and have been to Liaodong shake, if so many artillery pieces are placed on the grassland, or placed on the battlefield in Liaodong, what kind of situation will it be?

Of course, we can only think about it now, and in the past two years, especially in recent years, almost all the firearms cast by the Firearms Bureau are artillery, and even the muskets and artillery of the newly formed Dragoon Regiment have not been replenished, and a large number of technicians and necessary materials have been sent directly to the Taiwan side, which has ensured that these ships have sufficient firearms.

Zheng's naval division has never had so many artillery, not even half of what Hutchison is now, even if it was more than 100,000 people when Zheng Zhilong was at his strongest, there were probably not more than 100 artillery pieces, and most of them were small cannons, and only a small number of qualified cannons were placed on large ships like Chinese warships.

Casting cannons is also a science, and only when you master it and enter the forest of the strong can you be qualified to fight a decent naval battle with the Dutch at this time!

If Zhang Han was here, I am afraid he would be a little more excited than Chang Wei and the others.

What a spectacular and gorgeous picture, much more brilliant than the naval battle movies of the sail battleships he had seen. How can a movie capture even half of the feeling of actual combat?

The wooden warships are lined up in a row, forming a neat three horizontal battle lines, which is the origin of the name of the battleship, the battle line, this name is also really beautiful, a kind of war, the aesthetic sense of violence has been perfectly reflected in these three words.

Three lines, facing the swarm of chaotic Dutch ships, compared to the three rampant Hutchison sailors, of course, the Dutch also came sideways, but they usually have no fleet training, but each ship knows to leave a distance for friendly ships to play firepower, and one ship needs to leave a little distance between the other ship, otherwise it is easy to be accidentally hit by the fire of friendly ships on the near side.

However, with the density of Dutch ships, this kind of thing is still inevitable.

In the eyes of Chang Wei and others, condescendingly, the blue sea is really a rare wonder in life, a bunch of nineteen ships across the sea, it seems that they are deliberately scattered, the ships are scattered, there are before and after, and they are constantly firing and firing cannons, the artillery is fired, the fire flashes, and then a large white smoke rises from the side of the hull, and a ship has more than ten or twenty guns fired one after another, the fire flickers one after another, and the hull has been shaking, and then another, and then another...... The nineteen ships of the Dutch kept firing, and the firelight was like firecrackers during the New Year, but the power of the artillery was of course far more powerful than firecrackers, giving people an extremely shocking feeling.

On the side of Hutchison is a neat battle line, and the time of the artillery crew of each ship is almost exactly the same, every time there is a bang, a dozen or more than 20 guns of a ship are almost fired together, and the hull of the ship shakes very much, but the crew members and sailors have long been accustomed to it, and do not take this vibration to heart.

The guns were fired on both sides, but the hull of the ship did not move at all, which was different from the one-chase and escape-fire artillery that people imagined...... The ships also fired at each other while moving, which is quite difficult in a real naval battle.

The recoil of the artillery is very strong, and if you are not careful, you will injure the crew members, and if you fix the ship, this possible damage will be minimized, but it is still inevitable that some of the crew members will be injured by the recoil of their own guns, after all, the measures that can be taken in this era are really limited. It would take a great deal of courage and training to fire on the move, and only a few crew members would dare to do so, and at considerable risk.

At this time, the two fleets were constantly pouring shells at each other, and everywhere there were images of ships being shot, masts, sails, jumbled rigging, bows, sterns, hull centers, decks, broadsides, and small boats hanging on the side of the big ship, and there was hardly a place where the guns were not hit, and there was no place where they could not be damaged.