At 4:40 p.m., when the two armies were two or three nautical miles apart, the Admiral of the Franc Fleet Gottinho clearly saw the huge Zheng fleet, and he was pessimistic to find that his fleet could not seize the upper hand because of the drag of Clark's sailboats.

In an instant, Goldinhorn hesitated for a moment, and gave an order that he would regret for the rest of his life.

He ordered the entire fleet to turn so that Macau could be in a downwind position, and he hoped that even the wrecked ships would have a place of refuge.

Such an order to retreat before the battle immediately hit the morale of the Franc soldiers. At the same time, in order to turn, it took more than an hour for hundreds of warships to turn around, and the formation of the Franc battleship suddenly became messy.

At 5:20 p.m., when the Francophone fleet was changing direction, the locks were approaching the middle of the Francophone fleet with agility and speed.

The soldiers on the fleet of the Franc Machine focused their attention on turning the bow of the ship, and it was only when the fleet of lock ships led by Lin Xishan was only two nautical miles away from the fleet of the Franc Aircraft that the soldiers of the Franc Machine discovered the lock boat.

"Fleet! Fleet! The enemy's fleet! ”

"Hell, there's a ton of enemy ships on our flanks!"

The frightened screams of sailors on several battleships in the middle of the Franc fleet rang out.

Godinho saw that he was busy and shouted: "Hurry, hurry, send a ship for me to intercept them!" ”

More than a dozen light warships on the periphery of the fleet immediately turned their bows and prepared thousands to block them.

But the speed of the locks was too fast, and the two sides were too close to each other, and before the battleship of the Franc machine had time to turn around, the locks had already rushed over.

At this point, the two sides were only a quarter of a nautical mile apart.

Looking at the frightened sailors on the enemy ship, Lin Xishan held his sword and shouted at his soldiers: "Fire!" ”

At 5:50, Lin Xishan's flagship "Henghai" fired the first shot, which was aimed at the Franc "Sebastion" battleship.

With that artillery, the two sides seemed to act in unison, firing their cannons in unison, desperately pouring shells on the opponent's ship.

The Battle of Macau has begun! The war for Macau, for the East Asian market, has broken out!

After firing at Sebastião, the "Yokomi" continued to maintain its course and cut between the Portuguese "Dias" and the "Duke of Bragança".

The "Yokohai" bombarded the stern of the "Dias" with its port guns, causing heavy damage. Then the starboard guns were fired at the Duke of Bragança, and then they approached the rear right section of the Dias and fired at it again.

Along with Lin Xishan's flagship, other locks also bombarded the Portuguese fleet.

"Fire!"

"Kill!"

The warriors on each of the battleships roared!

The shells whizzed towards the enemy's ships, some hit them, and many more fell on the sea, rolling up columns of waves.

The warships of both sides were equipped with hundreds of guns, and they were desperately trying to vent their shells on the enemy's warships, hoping that one shell would sink the opposing ship.

Every shell is eager to sink the opposing ship.

In an instant, the "Dias" completely lost its combat effectiveness, 104 sailors were killed, 136 were seriously wounded, and they had to withdraw from the battle.

The "Henghai," which cut into the enemy fleet, was also surrounded by enemy ships and shelled for more than 10 minutes.

The buildings on the deck of the "Henghai" were basically completely destroyed, Lin Xishan was also cut on his right arm by a fragment, blood stained his robe, and the soldiers on the "Henghai" ship also suffered heavy casualties.

The flagship lost its combat effectiveness, and Lin Xishan ordered the command of the lock ship column to be handed over to Su Li, the captain of the "Hengjiang" who followed.

Su Li, the captain of the "Yokoe", who cut into the enemy from behind, heard the order and immediately raised his flag. Command the lock-boat column to continue the bombardment of the Portuguese fleet.

Ten minutes into battle, the Yokoe was the same as the Yokokai, it was immediately surrounded by several enemy ships, the mainmast of the "Yokoe" was blown off, and only thirteen soldiers were left in the two batteries bombed, and for a while not even a single cannon could be fired.

Nevertheless, Sully, the captain of the "Yokoe", tied the shogi to the back pole and continued to fight unyieldingly.

The roar of artillery soared into the sky, and the sound of soldiers fighting shook the sky.

The smoke from the burning gunpowder filled the sea for miles.

After the "General Yokoe" broke into the enemy ships, the "light car", "breaking the captives", and "requisitioning" also entered the battle, and every other lock ship cut into the enemy forces in this way, and slammed into the enemy ships on the left and right sides with broadside, so that each enemy ship was subjected to continuous concentrated firepower.

By the time the last "Strong Crossbow" entered the battle, it was already 6:34 p.m.

The Portuguese fleet was cut off by the fleet of locks led by Lin Xishan and split into two halves.

A total of fifteen Portuguese fleets were engaged in the battle with Lin Xishan, of which 8 were damaged in continuous shelling, two were sunk, and 5 escaped.

Half an hour after the lock-boat fleet began to fight, Chen Hui commanded the sand ship column to press at full speed towards the rear army of the Franc plane.

As soon as the sand boat column entered the firing range, the commander of the Franc Rear Army, Fenero, hurriedly shouted: "Quick, sink those guys with artillery!" Don't let them get close! ”

The artillery behind the Franc machine roared and fired fiercely at the fleet of sand boats, setting off huge columns of water on the sea.

Chen Hui, the commander of the sand boat column, concentrated the artillery on the sand boat to counterattack the rear army of the Franc machine, and at the same time rushed over like a bamboo.

"The battleships will approach the battleships at all costs and hook the enemy ships with their hooks!" Sha Chenhui shouted loudly.

Most of the Franc rear army was a Clark sailboat, and its large hull made it difficult to move flexibly.

At the cost of sinking more than 20 battleships, the sand ship column braved artillery fire and approached the rear of the Franco.

As soon as they approached, the soldiers of the Zheng family army hurriedly projected the iron hook, and the iron hook dragged the enemy ship to death.

The Franc machine slashed the iron hook and couldn't reach the rope, and the rattan armor soldiers on the ship took the opportunity to jump onto the opponent's deck on the gangplank.

When the two armies were entangled, one of the rattan armor soldiers in the Zheng family's ship clenched his axe and jumped onto the opponent's deck with all his might.

But under the aim of several muskets, he jumped in mid-air and had nowhere to dodge, and he was hit by five or six aluminum bullets in an instant, fortunately, the aluminum bullets were relatively soft, and under the protection of the rattan armor, the bullets did not penetrate his body.

Covered in blood, he made people look so hideous and terrifying, that the musketeers of the Francophone were so frightened that they forgot to shoot any longer. The rattan soldier picked up his axe and cut down a Franc sailor.

Braving muskets, one after another the rattan armor soldiers jumped onto the enemy ship, desperately fought with the soldiers of the Franco, killing the enemy with axes and short swords, and the naval battle suddenly turned into a land battle.

The upper part of the body and head of the rattan armor are covered with rattan armor, and the arms and legs are exposed, which not only is it good defense against musket bullets, but also the movement is still very flexible.

The Franc soldiers who fought against the Zheng Jiajun for the first time were frightened by the rattan armor soldiers, and the bullets hit them had no effect.

A few of their heads were blown off, and when these rattan soldiers saw that their comrades had been killed, they didn't look much and continued to kill the enemy.

The soldiers of the Zheng family, who were accustomed to fighting on the sideboard, had sharp weapons such as rattan armor, and the soldiers of the Franco machine were not opponents at all, and they were killed and retreated step by step.

The deck was littered with the corpses of the Franc soldiers, and the crimson blood flowed into a stream that flowed across the deck and into the sea.

Flesh and blood flew from the ship and on the sea, littered with adrift planks and broken limbs, and blood stained the sea.

When hundreds of sand ships rushed into the rear of the Franc battleship, Ferniro finally couldn't hold on and ordered the ship "Moser" to surrender, and Ferniro became a prisoner of the Zheng family's army.

When Chen Hui boarded the battleship, Captain Fran of the "Moser" recorded: "There are dead bodies everywhere, and the scene is very miserable. The total number of dead and wounded was more than 300, and most of the bodies had no heads. ”