"The thieves can't have more than four boats, and the soldiers won't exceed 1,500, and we have more than 100 large and small warships, and nearly 6,000 sailors and soldiers, so what else is there to worry about?"

The master of Changda pressed the waist knife with one hand, pointed to the dense sailor warships around him with the other hand and smiled lightly, and his rectangular face was full of confidence. He is still very confident in the ability of his sailors to fight hand-to-hand combat, since he took over the town of Taiwan four years ago, he has not relaxed his drills, especially his own town mark, which has reached the density of two exercises in ten years! In the past few years, several small and small civil uprisings on the island of Taiwan have also been suppressed by the officers and soldiers of Taiwan Town, and the surrounding pirates have seen the warships of Taiwan Town, and they have also walked around from a distance - how fresh, the naval warships are not merchant ships, and the pirates can still come up and rob if they do not go around?

Shi Degao raised his binoculars again and looked at the ocean ahead, except for the four British ships passing by (in fact, Zhu Jishi's fleet), he didn't find any other ships, maybe the ship of the anti-Ming thief was going to attack Nanao Island, right? He comforted himself in his heart, and then said to Chang Yisu: "Lord Zongrong, these Western warships and merchant ships are extremely tall, like city walls, and they are only afraid of hand-to-hand combat on board...... If we attack with fire, but the wind direction is not in my favor, it is better to retreat into Penghu to protect the ship to control the enemy......"

"Defend the ship and defeat the enemy?" Master Changda glanced at Shi Degao and said coldly, "Aren't you worried about the rebels attacking Jiangnan or even harassing Gyeonggi?" How will you and I explain to the emperor when the time comes? ”

The main forces of the Manchu Qing Dynasty were the Guangdong Water Division, the Fujian Water Division, and the Yangtze River Water Division, as well as a Dengzhou town. Among them, the Yangtze River Sailor is an inland river sailor and cannot go out to the sea. Therefore, once Zhu Jishi's fleet breaks through the blockage of the Fujian Navy Division and crosses the Taiwan Strait, there will only be Dengzhou Town left, and if it can't be stopped, Zhu Jishi's troops will be able to land in Tianjin. Although it is unlikely that Zhu Jishi's current army will directly attack the city of Beijing, it is still possible to attack the northern coast. At that time, a charge of "arsoning with the enemy to the north and disturbing the holy car" will make Chang Da Gao and Shi De Gao unable to eat and walk around.

At this point, Shi Degao also had to sigh, don't think about saving the ship and saving his life. I can only figure out how to break the enemy.

"Lord Rong. It is not impossible for this small boat to break the big ship, in the early years, Zheng, uh, Zheng Cheng succeeded in using the five-point plum blossom array and fire ship battle method to break the big ship of the Dutch. But not on such open water. The design should be made to introduce the great ship of the traitor into a bay with shallow water. Flanking the ...... with fireships and sailors"

"Lord Zhentai! Kyodai-sama! The English fleet ahead seems to be in battle! ”

Shi Degao's talk on paper is not over. And the soldiers roared.

"Battle formation?" Shi Degao looked up. The four English ships were already very close and were turning, as if trying to form a line on the sea...... This is the artillery array of the Yangyi Naval Division! That's a bit of insight. There are still some high-ranking stones.

"That's not right! They are not English ships, they are sailors against the light! We've been fooled! Shi Degao already sensed that something was wrong, and immediately shouted. In his opinion, the "small sampan" of the sailor division is looking for death when fighting against the big ships of foreigners, and the only chance of victory is the fireboat tactic. But it takes time to prepare for the arson boat, so if you fight it now......

"Panic what!" Chang Yisu looked at the four Western sailing ships that were swinging in front of him, and the English rice flag was lowering, and it seemed that the sun and moon were about to be raised. But he still sneered, and said with great contempt, "This anti-Ming sailor is just a little clever, how many cannons can there be in just four ships?" Can you stop me from hundreds of clippers? Command the whole army to start charging, so that the sword players and shotgunners are ready to jump into the melee fight! ”

"That's a lot...... That's a lot of boats! ”

On the back deck of the Lanfang, Zhu Jishi looked at the hundreds of Manchu warships of different sizes on the sea stretching out into a huge fan and rushing towards him, and Zhu Jishi, who had already fought several battles, turned a little pale. Although there were times when there was a disparity in numbers before, but it was a land war, and Zhu Jishi's army was trained by British and French military advisers, which may not be anything in Europe, how could the feudal army used to deal with Asia not win?

However, Zhu Jishi's naval officers and sailors are really a bit amateurish, not strictly trained by officers of Western navies, most of them are pirates and merchant sailors, and they seem to be panicked at this time. Even Wang Dehu, the "Admiral", was a little nervous, and said anxiously to Zhu Jishi: "Duke Ming, it seems that Master Manshui wants to fight a jumping gang battle, let the Jinyi guards go to the deck to prepare for the battle!" ”

"Yun Jiao, order the Jinyi guards to go to the deck." Zhu Jishi paused, and then said: "Please ask Zhu Jianyu and Saigo Takayong to also go to the deck to participate in the battle!" ”

Zhu Jianyu, a Japanese Confucian student, is actually a master of kendo, and he has learned from the natural flow of reason, and now is really the time to show it. As for Saigo Takayong, this block is placed there, like a Lu Zhishen, no one believes it when he says he can't fight, and now it's really good to pull it out and slip around.

Wang Yunjiao, this girl seems to have done the female pirate, on the rickety sailboat rushed up like walking on the ground, in the blink of an eye to the cabin to give an order, more than two hundred brocade guards wearing big red flying fish suits, wearing black gauze hats and carrying foreign guns hula onto the deck, under the command of Wang Yunjiao into two teams, holding the Besse wheat foreign gun ready to participate in the battle.

"These people's clothes ......"

More than two hundred Jinyi guards wearing fancy red flying fish suits suddenly appeared on the deck of the Lanfang, which was indeed a little conspicuous, and even Chang Yisu, who was far away on the general ship, saw it.

"What kind of brocade pro-army might this be? That Zhu Wei claimed to be after the Ming Dynasty, and the personal guards he raised were also called Jinyiwei. Shi Degao pondered.

"Well, it seems that there is such a thing," Chang Yisu nodded, and suddenly said with a happy eyebrow, "Could it be that Zhu Yi himself is on that big Western ship!" ”

Shi Degao was stunned when he heard this, raised the telescope in his hand and looked at the Lan Fang for a while, and sure enough, he found a tall man wearing bright yellow clothes and a black gauze hat standing on the back deck, and there was a little beauty and a man with a bald head shaking a paper fan beside him.

"That person is Zhu Yi? Zhu Wei is really on a Western ship! Chang Yisu's mind suddenly became hot. This is a godsend for the imperial court to get rid of this catastrophe!

"Order, all the warships rush to the big ships of the West! Get closer to the Jumping Gang! ”

"Pass my military order, the first person to rush on the big ship of the West will be rewarded with 100 taels of silver, no, 300 taels! Kill a thief and get a reward of 300 taels! Kill the rebel of Zhu, reward 30,000 taels, and the official will be promoted to three levels! ”

"Those who dare to retreat will not be spared!"

A series of orders were quickly conveyed with the command flag on the Chang Yisu ship, and all the Qing warships on the sea turned their bows at the same time and rushed towards the Lanfang.

However, this rush, the Qing army's five-point plum blossom array was immediately chaotic. In fact, this formation used by the sailors of the Ming Dynasty more than 200 years ago has long been outdated, and it cannot deal with the current Western ships at all. Moreover, the one who uses this complex formation on the sea must be an extremely well-trained sailor, and the current Manshui division is not capable at all, so it is more realistic to rush up and fight in a melee.

"What's going on? Do you rush into a group fight? Tiger, can you still fight? ”

On the Lanfang, seeing that hundreds of Qing military ships were coming to the Lanfang, Zhu Jishi's heart was a lot weaker, and he asked Wang Dehu for advice in a low voice.

"Of course you can! The dignified fourth-class warship was scared away by a group of sampans, and it was rumored that our Ming Navy still had the face to see people? ”

When Wang Dehu rolled up his sleeves and prepared to make a big move, the sound of cannons had already sounded, and the four Western ships that had just formed a horizontal formation on the sea opened fire almost at the same time. The fortune ship that rushed to the front of the Qing army fleet shook for a while, and the water column rose at the same time in the front and back of the fortune boat, but the old fortune ship was intact.

"I didn't hit so close! It seems that the navy is still short of training! ”

On the back deck of the Lanfang, Zhu Jishi's face suddenly became a little ugly when he saw the first round of salvos missed, and he was already wondering whether to hire professional naval officers from the West to train his navy.

"Ming Gong, don't worry, this Canton ship can't run, at most three rounds, it will definitely be hit." Wang Dehu's heart is actually more anxious than Zhu Jishi, but he still has to calm down for face. Fortunately, the second salvo was not too off, and finally a chain bullet hit the main mast of the Qing army's Fu ship, and it was instantly broken in two. (To be continued......)