The Dutch ships near the battle line were beaten the worst, because they came like fish, turned around slowly, and the two merchant ships in front of the Dutch ship in the middle were beaten very badly, after the upper and lower lines crossed, at least eight ships bombarded the two merchant ships facing each other for the first time, and the front was broken into pieces, and the bow of the ship was almost broken, and the damage to the personnel was also quite heavy, even if the Dutch could win, they could not leave the battlefield on the spot, and they needed to be overhauled and repaired before slowly entering the port. It will take at least three months to re-enter the sea and set sail.

Of course, Hutchison did not care about this, and two merchant ships continued to attack the Dutch merchant ships, and after the other side was crossboarded, they also returned fire with artillery, and because the Dutch ships suffered heavy losses in personnel, they appeared weak when they returned fire.

The other two ships, a merchant ship of the Zhenwei, and the two ships cooperated with the Batavia, sandwiching the large Galen ship in the middle, but Batavia was not seriously damaged at the beginning, but the hull was hit by a few shots, and it was harmless, and when the fire was fierce, the fire was fierce, and the firelight of the rounds kept bursting on the side of the ship, and the shells kept hitting the Zhenwei and the merchant ship, and the two ships were beaten a little unable to raise their heads, and the deck was already a mess, and there were quite a number of casualties among the crew and sailors.

The four schooners exchanged fire with the other four Dutch warships, the schooners were overwind after grabbing the upper hand, while the Dutch were downwind, the hull tilt angle was insufficient, and they were pressed and beaten by the four schooners, the tonnage of the two sides was about the same, some were high and some were low, the schooners were generally about 400 to 500 tonnage, and most of the Galen ships were about the same.

The sound of artillery bombardment on both sides was incessant, almost after anchoring, there was continuous bombardment of each other, in contrast, the situation was quite obvious, Hutchison's fleet was very open, and often two ships cooperated, the battle line was originally to maximize the fleet's side firepower, this is the so-called battle line, and the Dutch fleet had exposed serious shortcomings by this time...... They were in disarray, fighting on their own, as if each ship was facing an attack from an entire fleet.

From the point of view of Chang Wei and others, the naval battle is still in a state of stalemate, the battle lines of both sides have maintained relative stability, and there is no sign of collapse on either side.

Half an hour after the naval battle, the sound of the artillery gradually thinned out, and the ships were quite seriously damaged, mainly because the iron cannons of the ships were overheated, and they needed to cool down for a period of time before continuing to fire intensively.

This is actually a change after the naval battle between the British fleet and the Spanish fleet, and the naval battle against the Invincible Armada is definitely a revolution in the history of naval warfare, so even after hundreds of years, that naval battle has been studied by many scholars and is known as one of the four famous naval battles in human history.

The main reason is that although the Armada has nearly 60,000 tons of various warships and armed merchant ships, but the Spanish ships are too bulky, not too particular about steering and speed, and the artillery is mostly heavy guns with stone shells at close range, and there are more army personnel on each ship than seamen, which makes the control of the ships relatively much more clumsy, and the Spaniards still use the tactical thinking of the Middle Ages, although their Armada dispatched sixty or seventy warships with two thousand four hundred and thirty-one guns, It also had an army of 19,000 men and a considerable number of slaves who rowed and sailed boats, but there were only 8,000 sailors and seamen.

The ships of the Armada are equipped with a large number of hooks and cables to hook the enemy ships and engage in gang jumps, and their guns are all close-range heavy guns to support the upcoming gang jumps at close range.

Such a powerful fleet, with 60,000 men, 60,000 tons of tonnage, and more than 2,000 artillery pieces, was completely wiped out after the British army paid the price of more than 100 dead and wounded.

The main reason is that the British changed their tactical methods of warfare, the British navy ships are lighter, their sailors are more daring and careful, more tough, they dare to sail in the storm, and the Invincible Armada can only patrol back and forth in the calm Mediterranean near the coast, the British are the first maritime powers to pay sailors, although only four pence a day, but the status of its sailors is incomparable with other countries at that time, in the Invincible Armada, more sailors are just captured slaves, how can they control warships compared with the British?

The most important point is that the British used long-range artillery, only made tactical preparations for long-range artillery strikes, and prepared the supply of artillery shells in advance.

In this naval battle, the war was not fought in a day, but lasted for several days.

The Spaniards began to struggle, and they inflicted losses on the British, losing a dozen ships on their side on the first day, and most of the British killed and wounded on the first day.

The next day, however, the Spaniards retreated like sheep, as they ran out of shells and gunpowder and had to retreat in search of supplies, which the British easily received and more fleets converged.

In the records of the Spaniards at the time, the British were quite agile in controlling the ships, they were good at grasping the direction of the wind, going up and down, advancing and retreating freely, often forcing the upwind of the Spanish ships, suddenly to port, suddenly to starboard, and constantly hitting the enemy ships with gunboats on the left and right sides.

The naval battle in front of you is actually a copy of the naval battle of the British decades ago, both sides use the same giant ship cannons and armed merchant ships, the same artillery tactics, the same long-range accurate shooting, but the British and Dutch are actually teachers, and the Chinese, that is, Hutchison's sailors, are only their primary school students, but the students are not necessarily inferior to the teacher, at least on the sea battlefield in front of them, Hutchison not only does not fall behind, but also quite grasps the initiative.

Sun Jingting looked at the situation in front of him, breathed a sigh of relief, and sighed: "It's terrible, I think that even if you can't win this battle, you won't lose miserably, and at most you will resume a stalemate in the future, which is good, very good." ”

Chang Wei bit his lip and nodded slightly.

Now it seems that this is the case, both sides are bombarding with all their might, I don't know how many shells have been fired during this period of time, the whole sea seems to be lit by shells, the water surface is boiling, everywhere is a huge column of water, almost one does not stop and one after another, after an hour, the artillery on both sides is overheated, and the ammunition reserve is also insufficient, so it begins to fire at intervals, the sound of artillery is still non-stop, and from time to time there are water columns rising.

Chang Wei can't be said to be dissatisfied with the situation in front of him, and at present, Hutchison Shui has done everything he can. After all, although there are more ships, the small merchant ships of Hutchison are far from being compared with the armed merchant ships of the Dutch, and the total tonnage is definitely weaker than Hutchison, and the experience of Hutchison's sailors cannot be compared with that of Dutch sailors. Now the constant sound of artillery is that the schooners and sail ships continue to fire, and the Dutch Galen ship is quite difficult to turn, either cease fire and wait for the guns to cool down, or when they turn around, they are bombed many times, but looking at the plans of the Dutch is a mess, some ships are turning, and some are artillery rounds, it seems that they do not intend to force a turn around under the threat of artillery.

After such a situation is fought, it will be like this until dark, every ship may be scarred, but the Dutch can smoothly return to the city of Geranza, because the distance is very close, where they can repair the ship, add wounds, their strength is still above the Taiwan marching division, and it will still be a big trouble in the future, if you want to solve this trouble, this naval battle must be a result!

But it's too hard, it's too hard......

The power of artillery in these years is not small, it is not uncommon for a single shot to hit the infantry ranks, killing dozens of people, and the shells fall on the hull of the ship, even the strongest oak or oak wood, it is still a wooden block flying sideways, making a huge hole, but that's it...... The cannonball is a hole, what do you want? What kind of high-explosive armor-piercing shell, more than 200 years later, even if it is an artillery battle at sea 200 years later, it is very difficult to sink it, how powerful was the artillery shell at that time, in the First Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese ships surrounded the two ships in Dingzhen, each ship was hit by countless bullets, and finally it was not safe and sound to return to the port?

The biggest possible result is that, as Sun Jingting said, there was a draw, a stalemate, and by the night there was no sinking of the enemy's ship, and of course the enemy did not sink a ship on this side, and finally both fleets returned to port with scars all over their bodies, and everyone began to repair the hull, and when the Hutchison side repaired it, of course the Dutch side was about the same, and it was estimated that it would be like this after the fight...... It's just that the Dutch are exhausted, and they have other fleets that maintain trade lanes at sea, but on Hutchison's side, the whole family has gone into battle, and if they can't win, or they can't beat the Dutch fleet, it's in vain......

"Difficult, difficult!" Li Pingzhi also gritted his teeth and said: "I have heard that the Europeans fought a naval battle, hundreds of ships, thousands of guns, and 100,000 people on both sides fought for a few days, and there were only two ships that were really sunk!" ”

If this continues, the most likely result is that Chang Wei, Li Pingzhi and others are unwilling to accept the result, a draw, and after dark, the two sides will withdraw to their bases.

Li Pingzhi gritted his teeth and said: "We must try to find a way, and it will not be the end of the game if we go on like this." ”

Chang Wei's eyes flickered, and he seemed to be moved.

Sun Jingting didn't know anything about the naval war, so he could only look at everyone with a calm face, no matter what, this matter was decided by the people of the Taiwan Military Division, and he would not interfere arbitrarily.

At this time, Zhang Xuwen, who had not spoken, said: "Don't be impulsive. ”

Chang Wei immediately said when he heard this: "The continuation is right, we can't interfere with the forward command, and we can't make any undesirable moves at this time. If there is anything, Li Shouxin will be in charge, Jiang Kui will also arrange it, and the change in the naval battle will be arranged, and Dezhnev will be in charge. We people can only watch, fighting on land, we are not strangers to naval battles, this is the first time I have seen it, let alone intervene and command. ”