Zhu Houwei and their luck is good, in this season when the southeast wind blows, the wind direction suddenly changes in the next two days, and it changes to a northeast wind. In this way, the water and land battalions went down the wind and arrived in the Taiwan Strait in just over two days.

Zhu Houwei was a little excited in his heart, standing at the bow of the boat and looking at the treasure island with a telescope. Although the land can already be seen, the beach is deserted, and there are few seabirds, Zhu Houwei is also a little disappointed, but this is also expected.

"Bang bang bang" sounded three times in a row, and Zhu Houwei saw three signal flares from the flying clippers coming from the south and galloping at high speed, saying that they were signal flares, but they were actually colored fireworks, which could be seen clearly even in such a big daylight.

Three yellow signal flares, Zhu Houwei knows, this is the meaning of the approaching enemy ship, the scale of the enemy ship should not be large, if the strong enemy is close, then the red signal flare must be used.

Half an hour later, the clippers had already entered the fleet, waiting for an opportunity to move in the rear of the fleet. At the forefront of the fleet was Zhu Houwei's flagship, and the enemy could already be seen with a telescope. These are three large Ataka boats, with a tonnage of about 300 tons, about 30 meters long, about 15 meters wide and between 20 meters. In addition to these three, there were five or six smaller Ataku boats, as well as three customs boats, and one Xiaozao, this fleet can be said to be scarred, and even burned alive in many places, all charred black, and the ships were dirty, stained, and bloodstained, and it was obvious that they had gone through a vicious battle.

There is also a flagpole erected on the large Ataka ship, on which is written the word "Coming to the Island", but the flag with black borders and white background is already in tatters.

Suddenly, the lookout on the mast shouted, "My lord, there is another fleet of ships to the south, which seems to be pursuing this group of pirates. Zhu Houwei and Zhu Yuan also looked to the south, although it was not real to see it with the cover of the Dongying pirate fleet, but a few black smoke lit in the distance proved that there were indeed ships nearby.

At this moment, Zhu Yuan and Zhu Houwei probably understood what was going on in their hearts. The boat that came to the island house is now escaping from the pursuit behind, but the Ataka ship has an advantage in melee combat, but the speed is a pit, and the cruising speed is only about three knots, and the speed of the Chinese sailing ship is not fast, but it is faster than this. As for the speed of the ship and Xiaozao, although it is faster, the defense and wave resistance are very poor, and it is easy to sink if you go to sea alone without the protection of the houseship.

Now the island can pull away a distance, one is because after breaking a few boats, blocking the pursuers, delaying some time, and the other is that the oatku boat is a row boat, relying on the sailor to paddle can briefly increase the speed, and now it is a headwind, the advantage of paddle is great.

However, what they didn't expect was that Zhu Yuan and they actually came from the north and happened to encounter each other, and now they have become enemies in the middle of this strait, which is very unfavorable.

They are all experienced people at sea, and they can roughly guess the speed of the ship just from the waves stirred up by the ship's advance, and with the performance of the houseship, they have to fight against the wind, and although Zhu Houwei's side are all big ships, there are very few of them, and there is not much loss if they rush over. After the flagship of the island family gave the command, he saw that the speed of the fleet seemed to increase again, and the slurry rowed more happily.

Zhu Houwei took a look, the formation of the island house was very ordinary, it was nothing more than a small boat in front, attracting the attention of this side, and then entangled Zhu Yuan and them to buy time for the big boat. Zhu Houwei sneered, revealing disdain.

Zhu Yuan shouted, "Adjust the direction, turn the rudder five degrees to the right, and the gunner is ready." The T-shaped fleet immediately changed course, from facing the island from facing the island to the side. The gun board of the gun compartment on one side was lowered, revealing small windows one by one, and at this time, the fleet of ships coming to the island five hundred meters away saw the gun barrel of a door sticking out of the window, which they knew, it was the bronze gun of the Ming Dynasty, although the appearance had changed somewhat.

Soon, the gunners were already loaded with ammunition and waiting for the order to come down, and they were now staring at the pirate ship, adjusting the angle according to the gunner's command. As a later generation, Zhu Houwei understood that it was very difficult to require precise strikes in this era, especially on the choppy seas, so coverage and a large number of artillery bombardments could inflict heavy damage on the enemy.

Zhu Houwei glanced at the pursuing fleet, at this time they had slowed down, it seemed that they were not participating in this naval battle for the time being, and they might also have the intention of watching the excitement. The strength of the Ming Navy is known to anyone who understands. And will the current fleet under the banner of Tianjin water and land battalion be the same?

The fleet that came to the island family entered five hundred meters, and Zhu Yuan put it so close in order to kill it with one blow, otherwise it would be possible to open fire in a large area at seven hundred meters. At this time, Zhu Yuan, who had a serious face, shouted, "Open the cannon." ”

Instructions were quickly transmitted to every boat through flags and shouts. Just a few seconds later, "Bang bang." There was a loud bang, and thousands of cannons rang out in unison, which made people's hearts tremble. A large amount of white fog drifted from the gun compartment, then quickly rose and drifted onto the deck. Zhu Houwei, who had cotton stuffed in his ears, had not yet recovered from the tinnitus, and he was choked by the white mist, so he was not embarrassed, but fortunately, with Huang Gonggong and Hong Yu together, Zhu Houwei was not too conspicuous. The embarrassed trio did not rush to see the results of the battle, but quickly ran to the captain's room, which had a wide field of vision and had not yet been polluted.

Although the three of them didn't look at it, Zhu Yuan, who had a serious expression, saw the whole process in the captain's room, only to see hundreds of large iron balls crashing into the sea area at a speed that was indistinguishable to the naked eye, some directly into the sea, and some into the building of the fleet. At this time, the ships of the East Ying were all based on a square ship, which could prevent the bows and arrows of the opposing ships, firearms and other long-range weapons, and could also hide in the shooting holes to attack the enemy. It's a pity that the wooden planks can't resist the speeding cannonballs at all, and the shipbuilding where the ship and Xiaozao are closed are directly pierced, and where the cannonballs pass, those people say goodbye to this world without saying a word.

Of course, this is not the worst, some unlucky people did not react at first, but after a second, they rushed to a sharp pain, and turned their heads to see that their hands or feet were missing. There was chaos in the shipyard of the Laijima family, some screaming, some making noises of unknown meaning in fear, some shouting and scolding, and some actively extinguishing the fire that had just started.

In the first round of shelling, the hit rate was actually not very high, and nearly 100 solid shells hit less than half of the enemy ships. However, this first shot is not the most critical, the latter is the main thing. The first round of shelling also meant a precise location.

Some shells hit the same boat, and there were nine ships that were really wounded, but there were not many ships on the other side, and the formation was still relatively dense, only two large and two small houses were not damaged. Guan Chuan and Xiao Zao basically bid farewell to their sea careers after being hit by two shots, so all of a sudden, only one Guan ship was left and stubbornly sailed towards Zhu Yuan's fleet. The most unfortunate was the injured Da'an houseboat, although he was only attacked by a cannonball, but this position was a little embarrassing, just hit the vital part, below the waterline, penetrated the upper shed, beam and middle shed, directly hit the boss a hole, the sea water surged in, there was no time to remedy. Although the Dongying ships were based on the Southern Song Dynasty ships, they were not added to the watertight warehouse, and a large amount of seawater poured into the ships so that the ships could not escape the fate of being submerged.

The fleet of ships coming to the island was in disarray, and in less than a minute, the gunners of the land and water battalion were ready to reload. There was another loud bang, and a large number of shells flew again towards the lost flotilla. This time, the hit rate did not increase much, it was still almost two percent, but Zhu Yuan and Zhu Houwei were already very satisfied, because all the ships were hit, and the original ones that were injured were sinking faster. The four newly wounded boats were also basically incapacitated, and the fire caused by the high flight of the shells, the ship's planks shattered and poured into the sea, so that they were unable to concentrate on wishing them close to the battle. The interval between the two shellings was very short, and their flotilla did not even go a hundred meters away, and it would take at least three rounds of shelling to get closer, but the optimistic people would not have such a fluke mentality.

Just when Zhu Yuan and Zhu Houwei were looking at the tragic situation on the sea with a relaxed smile, three or four people on the flagship suddenly ran to the deck, kneeling and kowtowing, while shouting loudly, "Surrender, surrender." "Although the clothes are Dongying dress, hairstyle, weapons and the simplest height can also be seen to be authentic Dongying people, but the word surrender is shouted very authentically, pure Ming official words.

Several people in the captain's room heard the mournful shouts in the distance, and they all showed relaxed and excited smiles. The first regular naval battle of the land and water battalion was unreasonably won.