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Sima Nan's fleet fully exploited its speed advantage, sailed with the wind, and looked for the weak link of the Dinghai Navy like a hungry wolf.

Musket shooting, fire tank attack, the five three-masted galleons led by Sima Nan's flagship gave full play to the advantage of large and fast speed, and sank several sailing ships of the Dinghai Navy by ramming.

When Sima Nan's flagship broke through the array of the Dinghai Navy, the sea area behind it left a chaotic mess of Dinghai sailing ships.

Five or six sailing ships were smashed into the side, and the sea water poured into the hold through the holes, and the ships were tilted, and the sailors on them jumped into the sea like dumplings.

More than a dozen sailboats were set on fire by fire pots, and the soldiers on them were scrambling to extinguish the fire.

After Zhang Kui's flagship turned around, he saw such a situation. Zhang Kui shouted angrily, and ordered the ships to quickly turn around and attack the Daishan sailing ship, because at this time, Sima Nan's fleet had already rushed over the head, and when it turned back, it would become a headwind, and the navy would change from a headwind to a tailwind!

The wind is reversed, and then the advantage will be on the side of the Dinghai.

However, when Zhang Kuibu's sailboats turned around and turned around, they were surprised to find that the Daishan army fleet did not turn around and fight again, but went directly to the east with the wind, and they actually fled the battlefield.

In the short battle, Zhang Kuibu lost seven or eight sailing ships, although they were all single-masted and two-masted galleons, but the three-masted galleons were all unharmed. And after the enemy strikes a blow, he goes away with pride, to chase or not to chase? Zhang Kui fell into a contradiction in his heart.

If it is a pursuit, and the main fleet in the rear, it is possible to surround and annihilate the enemy. However, since the Daishan Army fleet has fled, it means that Cen Gang will no longer be defended, and Chiguoguo will be in front of his own fleet. Thinking about the wealth in Cen Gang, the eyes of every general were red, and all the Ding Navy generals on the sailing ship asked Zhang Kui for battle, asking to turn around and go straight to Cen Gang and kill the other party's lair!

As for the fleeing enemy, let the commander-in-chief deal with it!

In the expectation of all his subordinates, Zhang Kui ordered all the staff to turn around and go towards Cen Gang.

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Of course, Sima Nan did not want to escape, but planned to attack the main fleet of the Ding Navy, which was behind Zhang Kui.

Sima Nan has been on the ship for decades, and he has been the captain of the Fuchun for more than ten years, so he is naturally familiar with the situation of naval battles.

Naval warfare is no better than land warfare, and it is not so easy to annihilate the enemy. For sea vessels, speed is everything, and if there is speed, you can fight or escape, everything is under control.

Therefore, although he had just dealt a heavy blow to the vanguard fleet of the Dinghai Navy, Sima Nan did not want to turn back and fight again. Because that will lose the advantage of speed and get entangled, you may be able to defeat the opponent, but it is not cost-effective to kill 1,000 enemies and lose 800.

Therefore, Sima Nan resolutely ordered that after breaking through the opponent's fleet, he did not stop, and directly continued to go eastward and continue to attack the opponent's main force.

As for Cen Port, sea ships can enter the port, but they can't go ashore, and the purchased goods are hoarded in the warehouse, defended by Jin Yufei's 500 infantry, Sima Nan doesn't think Zhang Kui can attack Cen Port!

All the sailboats fully opened their sails and continued to move forward. In the naval battle just now, the losses of Sima Nan's fleet were negligible, that is, when they collided, the bow wood of several ships was somewhat damaged, which did not affect the driving operation at all.

After driving less than ten miles to the east, when he was about to leave the sea channel between Jintang Island and Zhoushan Island, he saw the sail shadow of the main fleet of the Dinghai Navy.

This place was almost past Jintang Island, and the sea channel suddenly widened, and Sima Nan ordered the formation to be organized. Seeing the flagship flag, the ship's pipe belts immediately obeyed the order. During the journey, dozens of Daishan military sailing ships were arranged in two columns, and the distance between the columns was 20 zhang.

The ships at the head of each column are three-masted ships, ready to attack the opponent by virtue of the advantage of their large speed and speed. And the distance between the two columns is 20 zhang, and if an enemy ship enters between the columns, it will be flanked from both sides.

"Full speed ahead!" Looking at the main fleet of the Dinghai Navy that was getting closer and closer, Sima Nan frowned. There were too many ships in the Dinghai Navy, almost three times as many as our own, and what was even more terrifying was that in the fleet, there was a very large sailing ship with as many as four masts!

Since Zheng He's seven voyages to the West, the huge treasure ship has become a swan song. The imperial court strictly forbade the sea, so that the manufacturing technology of sea ships was far inferior to before. At present, on the sea, the three-masted galleon is already a giant ship, and the ocean-going ships are mostly two-masted and three-masted. Sailboats with more than four masts are rare.

Sima Nan heard that Zheng Zhilong's ship was a four-masted galleon, and he played a great role in the naval battle between Liaoluo Bay and the Dutch.

I didn't expect that the Dinghai Navy also had a four-masted sailing ship! Looking at the huge hull of the other party, the green tendons in the corners of Sima Nan's eyes jumped, the number of materials on that ship was at least twice that of his flagship, if the two collided, Sima Nan couldn't imagine the consequences.

Fortunately, his own side was sailing with the wind, and his speed was much higher than that of the other party, although the opponent's ship was huge, but it was very clumsy, so there was no need to be afraid.

The two sides were close to each other, and when they were about three miles apart, there was a loud "bang", and a cannonball shot out of the four-masted galleon and landed in the sea in the middle of the Daishan military fleet.

The other side is actually equipped with cannons! Sima Nan was a little surprised. Although firearms were widely used on naval ships in the Ming Dynasty, most of them were equipped with some Franc machine guns and some large firearms. Because of the structure of the sailboat, large guns could not be installed at all, because the recoil when firing was enough to tear the structure of the hull.

Therefore, most three-masted galleons are equipped with at most a Francophone gun, which is usually placed in the stern tower. The ship used more firearms, but the range of that thing was very close, only a few tens of meters, and later, as the army became more and more corrupt, ordnance production became more and more shoddy, and firearms bombing and boring occurred from time to time, and the use on ships became less and less.

In the late Ming Dynasty, naval warfare relied more on shooting with bows and arrows and fighting on the side.

In Sima Nan's fleet, artillery was also installed on five three-masted galleons. Because they are all ordinary Daming Fu ships, only one Franc machine gun is installed on each ship.

In the entire Daishan Army, there were only two Dutch ships, the "Princess" and the "Flying Fish", on which a large number of artillery pieces could be installed.

The battle started at sea, both sides were moving, and the hit rate of the artillery was pitiful, although Sima Nan was a little surprised, he didn't care too much, but ordered to continue driving at full speed.

The four-masted galleon had only one gun in the bow, and the speed of the gun was very slow, and only two guns were fired at a distance of three miles. At this time, the fleet led by Sima Nan had already rushed into the opponent's fleet.

Avoiding the four-masted galleon, two columns rampaged through the naval fleet. At the head of the column were three-masted galleons, and they were not afraid of colliding with other naval vessels other than four-masted sailing ships. (To be continued.) )