The sea to the west of Sanpeng roared with artillery fire, and the sound of killing shook the sky, yes, the familiar sound of killing. The Golden Carp had Lao Jin at the helm, and deftly penetrated out of the enemy circle, and also sent two big green heads into the bottom of the sea by the way, but on the other side, the helmsman of the Silver Carp was inexperienced, and the captain Zheng Dangdang was not decisive enough, although the two ships were destroyed, they were still blocked from the way, surrounded by all sides, and four or five ships bows and tails were together, rushing up with artillery fire, and the Silver Carp had become a sidewalk. Fortunately, the Silver Carp still had a gun deck, and the freeboard was a cut higher than Daqingtou, which could be bombarded condescendingly with musket shotguns, and the Qing soldiers were not allowed to board the ship, but the rain of fire pot fire bricks and rockets came, and the casualties gradually became obvious.

In the front line of the White Swallow, Bai Zhengli and Feng must have watched the black smoke rise from the Silver Carp, and they were anxious, supervising their own Dafu ship and rushing towards the Silver Carp, but they were stopped by the boat surrounded by Shi Shibi. The White Swallow team in the rear also gathered in formation and wanted to move closer to the Silver Carp, but the outer Niu Ang fleet stuck to him again.

The Golden Carp broke out of the encirclement, and when he saw the situation of the Silver Carp, Hu Hanshan was even more anxious that there was smoke on his head, urging the Golden Carp to rush straight over.

"This team catches up and covers the way of that clipper!"

Shi Shibi said calmly, so far, although he has lost four or five ships, he has finally surrounded one, and the other is also throwing itself into the net, and the battle situation is already under his control.

More than a dozen big green heads went straight down from the northwest, and were about to intercept the Golden Carp, when the tall sails on both sides suddenly rose from the northwest direction, not only the morale of the Silver Carp that was fighting fiercely was greatly boosted, but also Hu Hanshan breathed a sigh of relief on the Golden Carp, and wiped the sweat on his forehead at the same time.

"This Shi Shibiao is too powerful, let's let Boss Xiao deal with it......"

At this moment, the contempt in his heart was completely put away, and he had to admit that he was still a fledgling newcomer in the naval battle, if Xiao Sheng didn't sit in the battle, even if he could win this battle, how many people and how many ships could be saved, he didn't have a bottom in his heart.

"Ignore it! Straight ahead! ”

Seeing the shadow of the sail in the northeast, Shi Shibiu's heart trembled, and secretly said that he had miscalculated, and now the battle is more about who will be the yellow bird. He regarded Niu Ang Deng Yunchao as a cicada and the thief army clipper as a praying mantis, but he didn't expect that the thief army was also a general mind.

Now that his whole army has pounced, it is already difficult to resist the new Clippers, and from the overall point of view, he has lost. This made Shi Shibiao puzzled, and he relied on his judgment and the fast sentinel ship arranged in advance to grasp the battle situation from a distance. The thieves showed up in two waves of clippers, and the timing was so accurate, this is at sea, could it be that the other party has clairvoyance and ears?

Shi Shibiao naturally didn't know that on the Jinyinao, each ship carried eight small fast Jiao, not only can transport troops and send goods, but also act as the eyes and ears of the outpost, relying on the manpower tread wheel and folding sloop, the speed of the limit of fifteen or sixteen knots, far better than the ancient loach boats, it is by relying on the three small fast Jiao signals one after another, overcoming the difficulty of low light and darkness in the clouds, Xiao Sheng, who is more than ten miles away, can grasp the scene in real time, Shi Shibiu's fleet just appeared, and the Jinyinao set sail. When Shi Shibiu's whole army swooped down, the Qing soldiers found that the Jinyinao was approaching six or seven miles away.

"Military Gate!?"

The subordinates also saw that the situation was not good, and asked for a strategy with some anxiety.

"Up! Fight with the thieves and see what else they can do! ”

Up to now, Shi Shibiao could only harden his head, gritted his teeth and said the same words as Niu Ang and Deng Yunchao before.

It didn't take long for Shi Shibiu's scalp to turn from hard to numb, it was not a clipper, it was a foreigner giant ship!

The Jinyinao has learned many lessons from the Jinyin Carp, the hull is enlarged, there are thousands of materials (about 600 tons), the hull is no longer as thin and narrow as the Jinyincarp, such as the hollow bow and fully loaded sails, the speed is still worse than the Jinyincarp, but the sea stability and control surname are much better than the Jinyincarp.

Compared with the Galen ship of this era, the figure of the Jinyinao still looks slender and stretched, the hull is a section long, the mast is also a section higher, and the bow mast supports the bulging bow sail, which looks much larger than the foreign merchant ships that Shi Shibiao is used to, so he subconsciously thinks that this is a foreigner giant ship from the ocean. But the eye-catching blood-red double-ring wheel logo on the other party's white sail was exactly the same as the logo on the flags of other thief ships on the battlefield, and the color and shape made Shi Shibiu's heart sink straight to the bottom of the sea.

"Cantonese sailors, these idiots! I left Guangdong, and I can't even do the work of sentinels! ”

Why haven't the officers and soldiers of Guangdong mentioned it before, and the thief army actually has such a huge ship!? Shi Shibiu's stomach was full of anger on the body of the Guangdong Coastal Naval Division Town Association.

Now the plan is to let the giant ship fight it by itself, and they will fight around the white swallow and the two small clippers to see who will drain whose blood first.

"The sub-ship attacked, aided the Silver Carp, and the mother ship lined up on the front and crossed the middle lane!"

On the Jinao, Xiao Sheng ordered in a deep voice that the Yinli was in a critical situation, and he still had a way to help. Shi Shibiao didn't care about his two big ships, and fought with the idea of fighting with friendly forces, making it difficult for him to develop his firepower. But the Jinyinao not only had cannons, but also small boats.

Ten small boats were lowered, each carrying about twenty soldiers, and the stern of the boats was churning with white waves, and rushed towards the Silver Carp in the encirclement. And the two large ships of the Jinyinao are connected end to tail, straight into the center of the battlefield, which is where the two fleets of Shi Shibiao and Niu Ang meet, and the fleet of Bai Yanzi and the Jinyincarp are separated by this center in the upper and lower places.

The Jinyinao is still a low freeboard, but this "low" is relative to the sail warship with more than two gun decks, the Jinyincarp is already a cut higher than the deck of the ordinary big green head, and the deck of the Jin Yin Ao, the big green head is completely looking up, and the soldiers and sailors on their ship, looking from the deck of the Jin Yin Ao, are even more unobstructed, without cover.

The two big ships also rushed towards as if they were sliding on the sea, and the Qing ships that were still blocking the White Swallow fleet were so frightened that they quickly scattered. But compared with the Jinyinao, Daqingtou's rudder sidesail was simply slowed down by ten times the slow motion, and in a moment, the two big ships cut into the Qing fleet.

A close big green head, the bow of the ship was gently rubbed by the Jin Ao, instantly struck horizontally, and collided with the hull of the Jin Ao, in the crackling sound, several ribs of the big green head were squeezed and cracked, and suddenly rolled down. The Jinyin Ao was made of Siamese teak, and the planks were deliberately thickened, and with the rapid approach, the collision had little effect.

"Fire!"

Seeing that his side had cut into the best position, Lu Hanshan gave an order, and a total of thirty-two twelve-pound cannons on the Jinyinao finally spoke. First on the left and then on the right, the two big ships split a path of blood and fire with a muffled thunderous sound of cannons. Everywhere they passed, the big green heads of the Qing soldiers sprayed broken wood and debris and human bodies into the air, showing a variety of strange postures of sinking into the sea.

"Good! Good! It turns out that this is the real naval battle! ”

The white swallow was so excited that he almost jumped up, and at first he saw the close-range gunfire that had opened his eyes, and the Golden and Silver Carp arrived, showing the power of the clipper's cannon. Now the gold and silver ao is like two artillery mountains, leisurely strolling into the enemy's formation, relying on the high ship and fast ship, not afraid of the close attack of the Qing soldiers, the dense artillery fire is like swatting flies to send the big green head to the sea, now his vision, but the layers are high, and the heart is even more ups and downs.

"This is the power of the Navy! It's our strength! ”

Bai Zhengli and Feng must have looked at the Jinyinao's mighty posture, listening to the dense rumbling cannon, their breathing almost stopped, and they invariably followed their dark blue uniforms. Originally, like Lu Hanshan, they were complaining that this uniform was too monotonous and not as eye-catching as the army, but now it seems that their navy is fighting with such ships and cannons, no matter how brightly dressed they are, they can't see them on the battlefield, only orange and yellow artillery fire, white broken waves, and cold wood-colored battleships.

"The battleship is our uniform, and the cannon is our bayonet!"

Forty or fifty zhang away, the two big green heads were served by eight cannons on one side at the same time, turning into fragments in the sky, Lu Hanshan shouted loudly in the gun deck of the Jinao, and the slightest inferiority complex born from the color of clothing before was all dispersed. What is the Army!? Their battles, and the battles of the navy, are not at all comparable!

"Go one mile ahead, turn around, and do it all over again."

On the helm platform, Xiao Sheng gave an order lightly, seemingly calm, but he was trying his best to suppress his surging heart. It was also the first time for him to practice this so-called "artillery line" tactic, and the scene in front of him reminded him of the scene that Li Xi had once told him, dozens of huge ships carrying dozens or even hundreds of cannons were bombarding each other in line, and the artillery fire was flying, what kind of exciting scene it should be, that was the real destination of a soldier at sea.

"Fourth brother, for that kind of future, it is worth giving my life and my heart to you!"

He muttered to himself in a low voice, his mind had already drifted to the future naval construction, and the battle situation in front of him was not worth paying attention to.

"Turn the sails! Fall back! ”

The battle situation is indeed no longer worthy of Xiao Sheng's attention, seeing the Jinyinao splitting a bloody path of death, Shi Shibiao closed his eyes, gave an order in pain, and even stopped caring about his subordinates who were entangled with the White Swallow and the Jinyincarp. The strategy of subduing the enemy with chaos failed, and the small boats of the thief army relied on their agility and speed, like poisonous snakes, to tear apart the Qing ships surrounding the Silver Carp, and the Silver Carp was able to break out of the encirclement. And the helmsman of the Golden Carp was obviously experienced, and once again broke out of the encirclement that was about to take shape, and sent several big green heads all the way to the bottom of the sea. The four clippers of all sizes can move freely, echoing inside and outside the White Swallow fleet on the periphery, and Shi Shibiao understands that he has no chance of winning.

Leaving behind the ships that were still entangled with the thieves, Shi Shibiu's team of more than a dozen boats turned their sails and took advantage of the wind to head west. The remaining remnants and Niu Angbu are still insisting on the melee strategy, avoiding the Jinyinao and entangled with the white swallow to the death. Xiao Sheng had no choice but to sit back and watch the more than ten boats escape, taking the Jinyinao and Jinyincarp to clean up the remnants of the Qing army one by one.

At dusk, the sea west of Sanpeng, wreckage all over the sea, the fire reflected the sky, the later generations called the "battle of the foundation of the navy" of the Sanpeng naval battle came to an end, except for Shi Shibi, who saw the opportunity was not good, and escaped early, as well as the sporadic enemy troops who escaped by dusk and night, the Qing soldiers totaled more than 80 warships, nearly 50 were sunk and destroyed, the Qing soldiers were killed at least 2,000 people, and nearly 1,000 people were captured. The losses of the Anglo-Chinese navy were not slight, more than a dozen ships of the White Swallow fleet were sunk or destroyed, the Silver Carp was heavily damaged, and more than 600 officers and men were killed and wounded, of which more than 60 of the 150 people on the Silver Carp were killed in battle, and almost all of the rest were wounded.

"There is still a battle with Shi Shibiu......"

Although he was victorious, Hu Hanshan felt very dissatisfied, if the opponent was not Shi Shibiu, he should not pay such a big price.

"He knows our roots, and it will be more troublesome to deal with in the future."

His subordinates suffered heavy casualties, and Bai Yanzi's heart was like a knife, but after this battle, his mind to further integrate into the navy became heavier, and he subconsciously considered the follow-up battle.

"Roots? Shi Junmen...... Do you really know our roots? ”

Xiao Sheng laughed.

"By the time he figures out how to deal with our four clippers, we may already have eight clippers, including ships larger than the Jinyinao."

Xiao Sheng is not full of nonsense, since Li Shi handed over the navy to him, all the family resources of the navy naturally spit on him, Qingtian Company's shipyard in Siam is already on the right track, and several new ships are estimated to have been launched. The Foshan Manufacturing Bureau is also working overtime to build artillery, and in the near future, the Anglo-Chinese Navy that Shi Shibiao will face is no longer a force that he can resist alone.

Hearing Xiao Sheng's words, not only Hu Hanshan, Lu Hanshan, and Shaanxi were happy, but Bai Yanzi and others also swallowed saliva, a ship bigger than the Jinyinao......

(To be continued)