The pirates were originally in strict battle to prevent the fleet of Weiyuan Dart Bureau from rushing through the pass, but they did not expect the sugar fleet to run to the open sea, and immediately the fleet was divided into two, half of which was chasing after the back, and half of it was divided into the front to continue to intercept.

The Ruan brothers calmly looked at the fleet that was chasing and intercepting them, like continuing to sail in the open sea, and the fleet sailed until noon and crossed the Jiushan Islands, Ruan Xiaoer looked at the sky and said: "It's almost over, and the battle can't be resolved before it's too late." ”

Ruan Xiaoqi looked at the battle flag raised by his second brother's ship and said to himself: "Well, this place is far enough from the land, and none of them can escape, so the herald follows the flagship into a battle formation to seize the upper hand and prepare to fly a kite." ”

Kite flying was a tactic specially formulated by Zhang San according to the characteristics of the Fu boat being faster than the sand boat, so when Ruan Xiaoer's flagship raised the battle flag, the two sugar ships continued to go to the open sea, and the three warships began to turn to seize the upper hand.

The pirate ship watched the division of troops in Weiyuan Dart Bureau, and didn't know what to do for a while, the pirates were confused for a while, half of them wanted to chase the ship carrying sugar, and the other half obeyed the order of the big boss and wanted to deal with the three warships first.

Ruan Xiaoer looked at the scattered and more chaotic pirate ships, and ordered: "Hit the pirates chasing the sugar ship first, fire the crossbow burning arrows with all your might, and exchange the stone thrower for fire oil bombs, and fire them at the places where the local ships are dense." ”

After all, the accuracy of the stone throwing machine is not very good, although Zhang San greatly improved the accuracy of hitting after guiding Ling Zhen to concentrate on strength, quantity, and bullet weight, but in the case of this bumpy sea ship, it is completely up to luck to accurately hit the enemy ship.

Therefore, this kind of catapult can only play a certain effect when the opponent's ship is close, and if it is far away, it will simply throw it into the ship's pile, maybe the blind cat will touch the dead mouse and sink one or two ships.

Weiyuan's warships mainly relied on the incendiary arrows fired by crossbow arrows, so three bed crossbows were arranged in the bow and stern of the ship, and three on one side of the hull. In this way, in the engagement, you can fight in all directions.

The maximum range of the crossbow is more than 1,000 steps, even in the bumpy sea, the accuracy of the crossbow within 500 steps is still considerable, in fact, the power of this crossbow may be a little insufficient compared to the ballista, but he is indeed qualified to challenge the ballista.

After all, the maximum range of the ballista is only 600 steps, and the bed crossbow on the Fukubun ship has a range of more than 1,000 steps, so the ships of the Ryukyu fleet are equipped with some crossbow arrows in addition to the ballistas, just to prevent the future from having no way to take this kind of armed merchant ship.

More than thirty pirate ships that wanted to hijack the sugar ship did not pay attention to the three blocked Weiyuan dart warships, maybe they felt that this was the other party's behavior of abandoning the car to protect the commander, so these people were not interested in dealing with these three ships, and everyone wanted to bypass them.

Just when the two ships were five hundred paces together, six fire bombs from the three ships came at the fleet, and one of them, with good luck, hit one of the boats near the waist of the main mast, and the boat immediately burst into flames.

Before the pirates could arrive, they were surprised that a dozen bolts were fired in this direction again, and instead of trying their luck like the stone thrower, they were aimed at the ship that was running in front.

Eight of the dozen crossbow bolts hit the ship, and the originally murderous pirate ship immediately ignited eight fire points, and as a person who had no experience in extinguishing such fires, watering would only make the fire drift to other places, and fighting with clothes would only make the fire get on the clothes.

The ship was originally in the first place, but now the ship was in chaos, and no one cared about the sails or the helm, and they all went to put out the fire with all their might. When the other pirates saw their plight, they immediately wanted to distance themselves from the Weiyuan warship.

Two minutes later, the bed crossbow was rewound, and the three boats kept following the attitude by constantly changing course, and more than 20 crossbow arrows were fired, this time the ships went side by side, so that there were 21 bed crossbows on the Weiyuan warship that could shoot effectively, so this time there were as many as eleven shots.

After taking another ship, the pirates became even more confused, some tried to get close to the Weiyuan warship and took it by jumping into the gang, while others wanted to continue to distance themselves to avoid the shooting of the Weiyuan warship.

Ruan Xiaoer calmly commanded according to Zhang San's explanation, did not contact the opponent's ship, tried to rely on the bed crossbow to solve the opponent, and did not take the ship as the first priority, but took self-preservation as the highest criterion.

So as soon as they saw a pirate ship trying to approach, the Weiyuan fleet immediately pulled away, and two minutes later, the fastest ship of the three ships aimed at another round of crossbow arrows, so that one of the pirate ships withdrew from the battle.

According to this trend, without the arrival of other warships, these three ships alone can solve these sixty ships in two hours, so the Weiyuan warship brought great deterrence to the pirates, and the pirates had to exchange some money and began to intercept these three warships with all their might.

When the Weiyuan warship fired ten rounds of crossbow arrows, the pirates finally relied on the numerical advantage to complete the crescent-shaped encirclement, and when the two sides tried to close together and completely encircle the three Weiyuan warships, the Weiyuan First Fleet finally arrived, so the pirates also smoked from behind their butts.

The first fleet was divided into three small fleets, each fleet of three warships, began to strangle the pirate ships, for a time the sea off Jiushan was full of smoke, the pirates were attacked from the front and back, and immediately fell into a panic, some tried to desperately complete the jump, some wanted to gather people to resist stubbornly, and some simply ran like the periphery to prepare to slip away.

As soon as Gan Xingtai waved his flag, two of the three small fleets automatically separated and changed to wander from the periphery to pursue the pirates who tried to escape, and the remaining two three-ship fleets continued to strangle the ships in the encirclement.

Another half an hour passed, and under the strangulation of Weiyuan's First Fleet, more than forty pirate ships had been set on fire, and the rest of the scattered ones were also pursued, and only a few lucky ones escaped.

After chasing for a while, the scattered ships either burned the opposing ships to the ground, or forced the other side to cut off the mast and surrender, and then immediately returned to the battlering sea, because the real battle had just begun.

These pirates are nothing more than a rabble, and the real enemy is indeed hiding behind the pirate fleet of the Zhang family, so after the Weiyuan fleet forced the pirate ships to land, they ordered all the pirate ships to cut the sail ropes and wait. And the warfleet began to assemble and prepare to deal with the Zhang family's fleet.

Gan Xingtai had just finished gathering the fleet, and on the horizon in the distance, a fleet of fifty ships came mightily, and Gan Xingtai had just gathered eight warships, but Gan Xingtai was not afraid, just looked at the sky, it was already more than three o'clock in the afternoon, if you don't speed up the progress, I'm afraid you won't be able to complete the encirclement and annihilation of the Zhang family fleet before dark.

As long as it is night, it is possible for the Zhang family's ship to escape under the cover of night, then Zhang San is in danger of being exposed, so Gan Xintai looks at the direction of the Jiushan Islands, and I don't know if Zhang San's fleet has set off.