The naval guns of both sides began to test the water, and after the shells fell into the water, the waves quickly disappeared into the waves, and the gunners constantly adjusted the position and angle of the muzzles according to the fall of the shells.

The range of the Ming naval guns was slightly longer, and the flowering shells first fell on the Portuguese ships, and each flowering shell hit the target, causing a fire on the Portuguese ship.

The Portuguese soldiers extinguished the flames with sand and began to return fire, and in the vast sea, except for cannonballs, a single qiē language was superfluous.

The ships of the Ming army sailed from the east, and they enjoyed the initiative strategically, but the Portuguese ships were more and larger, and the number of artillery was several times that of the Ming army.

Fortunately, the Portuguese guns fired solid shells, and the Ming ships did not catch fire, but the hull was badly damaged, but the Ming troops concentrated their artillery fire and sank a Portuguese ship.

After a fierce battle for more than an hour, most of the Ming ships were scarred, and the first ship waved the flag: retreat to the northeast.

The ships of the Ming army began to turn their rudders while firing flowering shells, preparing to flee to the northeast.

The Portuguese ships now have an overwhelming advantage, and it is the best opportunity to annihilate this Ming detachment, where can the Ming army escape? They also turned, and the naval guns were firmly focused on the ships of the Ming army, in hot pursuit.

In this fleet of the Ming army, there were no broad ships, they were all relatively flexible and fast Fu ships and Cangshan ships, and the number of naval guns was not large, and the speed of escape was not slow.

The distance between the ships of the two sides grew wider and wider, and they gradually broke away from the range of the Portuguese guns.

The Portuguese were ready to abandon the pursuit and return to port.

Suddenly, a small black diǎn appeared on the sea surface in front of him, and the black diǎn turned into a black line again, and at the moment when the Portuguese soldiers observed, the black line became thicker and thicker, and gradually broke into black diǎn.

"What's that?" The Portuguese soldiers had a premonition that the situation was not good, and that such a large contingent of merchant ships could not appear in the waters of naval warfare.

Sure enough, it was the main force of the Damen South China Sea Fleet.

Zheng Zhilong went south this time, bringing with him sixty large Canton ships, as well as a large number of Fu ships and Cangshan ships, of which twenty Canton ships remained in the throwing ▽dǐng▽diǎn▽ small ▽ said, .2+3.o⌒s_(); Anchoring the waters to protect the transport ships carrying marines and food, grass and ammunition, he personally led forty Canton ships around the northeast to wait for the Portuguese ships.

The Portuguese ships are now far away from their ports, and it is impossible to retreat, and a large number of Fu ships and Cangshan ships have already intercepted their back route.

There were forty Canton ships in front, nearly 100 Fu ships and Cangshan ships in the back, and the Portuguese ships became the cream in the sandwich biscuits.

After most of the hour, the ships entered a state of standoff.

In the waters east of the Malay Peninsula, the Ming ships clamped down on 30 Portuguese ships from the north and south directions, which was fatal to the Portuguese ships in the naval battle.

But the Portuguese ships had already fallen into the fishing nets of the Ming army, and they really couldn't find a better way out than to be forced to fight.

Is there still suspense about the outcome of this battle?

The ships of the Ming army were the first to test the waters, and then the Portuguese ships also tested the waters and began to demonstrate to the Ming army.

The first round of water testing, flowering bombs are falling in the sea, the most accurate flowering bombs, there are still more than ten steps away from the Portuguese ship, and when the second round of water testing, there are flowering bombs that begin to fall near the ship, there is a flowering bomb, on the side of the Portuguese ship exploded, although there was no damage to the ship, but the set off seawater poured into the cabin, which really made the Portuguese soldiers panic.

The Hirobune in the north fired from east to west with port guns, the Fufune and Cangshan ships in the south fired from west to east with starboard guns, and the Portuguese ships sandwiched in the middle fired from both the left and right guns at the same time.

This time, the Ming army's artillery had an advantage in terms of quantity, firing all flowering shells, while the Portuguese naval guns fired solid shells, and the difference in quantity and quality was exposed to the eyes of soldiers on both sides from the moment the war began.

The Portuguese fleet fell into a bitter battle, and the starboard and port guns of their ships had to fire at the same time to block the Ming fleet on both wings, but such a way of firing was extremely rare in the history of world naval warfare.

The flowering shells of the Ming army's naval guns were extremely powerful, and almost every flowering shell that fell on the ship could ignite a large fire on the Portuguese ship, plus the fragments and shock waves generated during the explosion, the Portuguese soldiers suffered heavy casualties.

The battle began at noon, and by the time of Shen Shi, two Portuguese ships had already disintegrated, five Portuguese ships were completely incapacitated, the remaining Portuguese ships were all wounded at different lengths, and the use rate of guns on the left and right sides had dropped to less than sixty percent.

Together with the one ship that was sunk in the morning, the loss of the Portuguese ships was close to thirty percent, and the total loss of naval guns reached an astonishing fifty percent.

Although the Ming army also withdrew from the battlefield with two Canton ships and one Fu ship, the artillery fire did not seem to have weakened.

In particular, the Cantonese ships traveled in the same direction as the Portuguese ships, almost staring at the Portuguese ships and firing their guns, each ship had its own target, until the other side withdrew from the battlefield.

The Fubune, Cangshan and Portuguese ships passed sideways and chased after them from behind, but they did not come into the range of the guns for the time being, and finally allowed the starboard guns of the Portuguese ships to rest for a while.

The battle was undecided, but the Portuguese could not hold on.

Taking advantage of the fact that the Fu Ship and the Cangshan Ship were still behind, the Portuguese ship waved the flag and prepared to turn around and escape from the gap left by the Fu Ship and the Cangshan Ship.

Turning the rudder, he didn't care about the still fierce artillery fire of the Ming army.

In order to return to the port of the Malacca waterway, the Portuguese ships needed to make a 180-degree turn, and in the process of turning the rudder, they were always under the fire of the Cantonese ships, but their guns had lost their target.

All the Portuguese ships, as if they had surrendered, suddenly collectively fell silent, and there were no more ships of the Ming army in front of the muzzle.

Zheng Zhilong discovered the Portuguese attempt, and he ordered the flag bearer to immediately raise the flag: Fu Chuan and Cangshan do not need to be in a whole formation, first intercept the Portuguese ships, as long as the Portuguese ships are intercepted, the Guangzhou ships will soon catch up.

The Fu Ships and Cangshan Ships, which were behind the side of the Portuguese ships, immediately increased their speed to the maximum, and they gave up their formations and took a shortcut to intercept the fleeing Portuguese fleet.

Zhang Zhuo, the deputy commander of the fleet commanding the Fu ship, felt that it was unlikely that the Portuguese fleet would be completely intercepted according to the speed of the ships on both sides, and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, if the Portuguese ships fled back to the port, with the reinforcement of larger caliber shore guns, the Ming army would not dare to approach no matter what.

"Cangshan ship, directly intercept the Malacca waterway, don't let the Portuguese fleet return to their port!"

The flag bearer waved the flag.

Dozens of Cangshan ships, heading directly south, sailed at full speed to the entrance of the Malacca waterway, they were the fastest ships of the South China Sea Fleet, although the number of guns on board was insufficient, as long as they intercepted for a while, Fu Ships and Hirobunes would follow.

The Portuguese ships were always within the range of the Canton guns, and in the process of the interaction between the two ships, another Portuguese ship was seriously injured by the Ming army's flowering shells, completely lost its combat effectiveness, and was captured by the Canton ships that caught up later.

The rest of the Portuguese ships were fleeing at full speed towards the Malacca waterway, and once they retreated to the ports in the channel, they could be supported by shore artillery, and even if the Ming army had the advantage of ships and artillery, they would have the strength to fight.

Cangshan boat is racing with them for speed and intelligence.

The Portuguese ships also had to make a ninety degree turn, and then turned westward, basically taking the two right-angled sides of the right-angled triangle, while the Cangshan ships gave up the pursuit and ran directly to the entrance of the Malacca waterway, taking the hypotenuse of the right-angled triangle, and the distance was much shorter.

The Cangshan ship finally arrived at Temasek (present-day Singapore), the entrance to the Malacca waterway, and if this entrance was blocked, the Portuguese ships would never return to their home port, but would become lonely ghosts at sea.

The Portuguese went crazy, they didn't care about the pursuit of the Canton ships behind them, all the guns stopped, and rushed to the entrance of the waterway at full speed, and in the face of the Cangshan ships that blocked the Malacca waterway like a plug, they did not cross the hull and use the port and port guns to open the way, but rushed straight forward, using the only gun in the bow as a sharp weapon.

The Cangshan boats, which were at the entrance to the waterway, began to intercept them with their port guns in an orderly manner, but the Portuguese ships did not seem to see the flowering shells coming from the front, and the speed of the ship did not slow down in the slightest.

"It's not good, the Portuguese are going to crash into the Cangshan boat, send a signal quickly, let the Cangshan ship turn around, and the waterway must be blocked." Although Zheng Zhilong was on the flagship "Nanhai", which was far away, he still saw the intentions of the Portuguese.

The Cangshan ship stopped shelling, turned its hull, and the bow of the ship moved forward, facing the direction of the Portuguese ship, dozens of Cangshan ships, almost completely blocking the waterway.

But in this way, the artillery on the Cangshan ship was no longer able to shoot, the Cangshan ship was originally a small ship cruising in the inland river, and there was no artillery installed in the bow, in order to intercept the Portuguese ship, when the bow was aimed at the other side, the artillery had lost the direction of attack, and now it has become a completely undefended fishing boat.

"Boom...... Long ......"

"Boom...... Long ......"

"Boom...... Long ......"

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From the rear of the Cangshan ship, inside the Malacca waterway, the sound of cannons was heard, and the solid bullets were thrown at the Cangshan ship like a meteor shower.

When they found that the Ming army's Cangshan ships were intercepted at the entrance of the waterway, they immediately understood Zheng Zhilong's intentions, and they were ready to sink these Cangshan ships, or cripple them, and then tow them away from the entrance of the waterway to take the ships outside back to the port.

The guns on the left and right sides of the Cangshan ship had completely lost their direction and were too densely crowded, and it was impossible to turn now, so they could only watch as targets for the Portuguese ships.

"Deputy Commander Zhang, what should I do? I'm afraid these Cangshan ships won't last long. ”