The nine ships of the Qiyun Trading Company broke away from the battlefield and headed southwest, while the three large ships of the Dutch pursued behind. The two sides of the pen "Fun" www.biquge.info kept a distance of two miles, which was already within the range of the Dutch artillery.

The three Dutch ships circled diagonally to the west under Geert's command, and they had to force the upper hand and side the galleons of the Qiyun Merchant House, so that the power of the guns could be brought to the fullest.

Ren Siqi commanded nine sailing ships to move forward regardless of it.

"Isn't it the right direction?" In the command cabin of the "Flying Fish", Ren Siqi asked the guide sent by Li Guozhu again with a calm face.

"Rest assured, you won't go wrong in the direction!" The guide was a middle-aged man in his forties, named Li Keqin, who had been a firefighter for many years under Li Guo's assistant, and had extremely rich sailing experience. He took a compass and looked at it carefully against the chart, and assured Ren Siqi very confidently.

"Owner! The Dutch caught up! The lookout shouted at the top of his voice. Ren Siqi looked back and saw that the Dutch ship was chasing around from the west, and it was almost parallel to his own ship.

"Bang", "bang", "bang" shelling was heard, and the Dutch ships were already firing at their side.

At this time, the two sides were heading towards the southwest almost in parallel, and the guns on the left deck of the Dutch ship were just in full swing. The shells flew over a mile of sea and smashed into the waters near the nine three-masted galleons.

"Bang, bang, bang" The guns on the deck of the Exocet also opened fire on the Dutch ship, but the fire was much weaker than the other side.

One mile of the sea, your own ships were completely within the range of the opponent, and one of the nine sailing ships was able to return fire, and the other eight had no cannons at all. At this time, the gap between the Ming ship and the Dutch ship is so obvious, the Dutch ship can be loaded with twenty or thirty cannons, each of which is two thousand pounds of heavy guns, and the Fu ship is at most equipped with a smaller Furlong cannon on the stern, because the structure of the Fu ship can not withstand the recoil of the cannon when firing, and the ship will be shaken and scattered if the cannon is fired continuously.

At this time, only the six cannons of the "Flying Fish" could return fire, no, and the Franc cannon on the stern of the "Fuchun" should be added. And the Dutch had as many as seventy or eighty guns on three ships!

Cannonballs flew in the air, and most of them were flying to Qiyun Commercial Bank. Although the hit rate of the artillery at sea was very low, it could not withstand the opponent's artillery, and the Dutch were very skilled in handling the artillery, so the nine ships of Qiyun Trading House were pressed and beaten by the opponent on one side.

Each of the nine ships was hit by a few shells, and the "Exocet", which was the flagship, had the most shells, because the "Exocet", which could threaten the Dutch ships, was taken care of by the other side!

"Bang" a cannonball smashed onto the deck of the Exocet, bouncing over the shoulders of one of the crew members and flying into the water on the other side, and the crew member who had been grazed by the cannonball fell to the deck without a sound, and his head had been hit by the shell.

"Owner! The sails were hit by the other side! Ren Siqi Huo Ran looked and saw that the rope of the middle mainmast was somehow hung up by the flying cannonballs, and the sail fell to the deck with a hula, and several crew members quickly retreated to avoid being swept underneath by the hard sail. The largest swooper fell, and the speed of the Exocet slowed down a lot.

"Find the spare rope and pull it up!" Ren Siqi roared.

With Ren Siqi's order, an emaciated crew member with a rope tied to his waist, climbed the thick mast of the big bowl and climbed up, he was very thin, but his movements were extraordinarily dexterous, his hands and feet climbed the mast, and the person went up like an ape, quickly climbed to the top of the mast, fixed his body with his feet coiled on the mast, and untied the cable tied around his waist with his hands.

The fierce sea breeze blew, and the flag at the top of the mast was so fierce that the corners of his clothes flew up, but his thin body was coiled around the mast as if it had taken root. Quickly untie the cable from your waist, pass it through the pulley at the top of the mast, and tie it back to your waist. Then as soon as his legs were loosened, the man quickly slid off the mast, as if he had fallen. Before the crowd could scream, he had already slid off the mast more than ten feet high.

Taking the cable from his waist, seven or eight crew members worked together as the sail slowly raised.

"Good boy!" Ren Siqi couldn't help but praise loudly, that crew member was Sha Qianli from Dongsha Town, Daishan Island!

"Owner, the sailboat C2 is badly damaged!" The crew member in charge of watching the flag shouted to Ren Siqi. Ren Siqi looked back and saw that the speed of the C3 three-masted sailing ship had slowed down.

In order to facilitate the marking, Ren Siqi numbered the eight Fu ships he purchased, from A1, A2, and A3 to C1, C2, and C2. In the naval battle just now, the three-masted galleon A-3 had been sunk by the Dutch ship, and now the C-2 was seriously damaged.

"Order them to abandon the ship, and everyone get into the boat!" Ren Siqi's eyes were red and he ordered.

"Is it okay?" Ren Siqi turned his head and looked at Li Keqin, who was looking at the chart.

After carefully looking at the chart again, Li Keqin nodded heavily at Ren Siqi.

"Order, all ships turn the rudder and head south!" Ren Siqi ordered loudly. A small green flag was quickly pulled up to the mast, and when the flag was heard, all the ships quickly turned their rudders, and the direction turned from southwest to straight south. The north wind was howling down, and the sails were holding the sea breeze squarely, and the speed suddenly increased a lot.

The eight ships of the Qiyun Trading House and the three Dutch ships were originally traveling parallel to the southwest one mile apart, but now the direction of the eight ships of the Qiyun Trading House has been changed to due south, and even if the Dutch ships follow the change of direction, they can only fall behind the ships of the Qiyun Trading Company, and if they want to sail parallel again and bombard them with the naval guns on the side deck of the ship, they can only circle forward again. But now the distance between the two sides has been extended to a nautical mile, and although the speed of the Dutch ship is faster than that of the Qiyun Merchant Company, it will take some time to catch up with the distance of this mile and go around to the side and forward again in parallel.

"Finally smart!" On the Dutch ship "Princess", Captain Geert smiled, "Does that Ming Dynasty Xiucai think that they can last until dark?" Know that it's not yet noon! ”

If it was dark, the Akito's ships would be able to escape the battlefield at night. But now that there is still half a day before dark, Geert doesn't think that the Akito will be able to hold out until dark, and maybe it won't be long before he will sink their ships one by one, no! You have to keep the "Shark", look at its draft, the wealth of the Ming people should be on the "Shark"!

"It's coming!" Li Keqin looked at the chart and said to Ren Siqi.

Ren Siqi raised the clairvoyant mirror and looked forward, and sure enough, he saw a series of islands and reefs appearing in front of him. (To be continued.) )