Since Zheng Sen and Zheng Zhibao were considering the key attack, the allocation of troops was to deploy the large ships with a large number of artillery to the front, and only ten large ships were placed behind as a response. In this way, when they were suddenly hit by Tu Hai, they did not react for a while, so that they became a mess after being hit.

The battle at sea is very particular about the coordination of battle formations, a suitable formation can give full play to the firepower of each ship, the Zheng family fleet with a mess at the tail did not react for a while, was caught off guard, in less than a cup of tea in the splashing water of bullets and rain of bullets in the two small boats were hit, because the ships are not large, the ability to resist strikes is not strong, their hulls soon entered the water, had to retreat to the back to avoid the rain of bullets.

"Good! Well played! ”

At this time, Mo Hui had already gone to another galleon to command the battle, and it was his warship that hit the two Zheng family ships just now, although hitting the enemy ship at a distance of five or six hundred meters had an element of luck, but it still made him dance happily at this time, and he was still a little worried before the war, and he had already integrated into the atmosphere of the big war at this time.

"All to all"

"All to all"

There was another series of white mist and loud sounds, and the twelve-pound and twenty-four-pounder guns on the side of the three Spanish galleons lined up in a row let out a roar one after another, and hundreds of black iron pellets were pushed out of the cannon chambers by the energy that burst out instantly when the black powder burned, and rushed forward with a roar.

The heavy projectile fell into the sea and splashed a large amount of water, and this round of shelling was very unlucky and all failed.

"How so!" Mo Hui was very puzzled by the fact that the shelling was all in the air, and Mo Hui turned his head to ask Li Xiaojun, the commander of the North Korean naval division who was stationed beside him, and asked loudly: "Commander Li, we both hit two enemy ships so far just now, and now that the distance is closer, why can't we hit it?" ”

Li Xiaojun shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Commander Mo, just now we were blind cats who ran into dead rats, it was pure luck to be able to hit the enemy ship, and it is normal to miss it now, I have said these things before, have you forgotten?" ”

Only then did Mo Hui remember that Li Xiaojun, an instructor, had said before that the real effective combat distance in naval combat is generally 70 to 160 steps, that is, between 100 meters and 200 meters, and this distance is the distance that the artillery of both sides can really aim at. In an age when aiming is entirely dependent on the naked eye and gunner's experience, there is no way to extend this distance, after all, how difficult it is to aim and hit a fast-moving enemy ship on a constantly bumpy platform.

For example, in the famous Battle of Trafalgar, the French ship "Froux", which was the first to fire at the British army, fired the first shot at a distance of 250 meters, because if it was farther away, it would basically be firing empty cannons. The distance between the fleets of the two warring sides was only less than 100 meters when the battle was at its most intense, and both sides were basically red-eyed, and when such a distance was hit, if it hit the enemy ship, basically no matter how hard the wooden ship was, it would be punched a big hole, which was really a bayonet.

Hailed by the British as the "soul of the Royal Navy". It was in this battle that Admiral Nelson was killed. At that time, when Admiral Nelson was standing on the flagship "Victory" to direct the battle, he was hit by a shotgun bullet fired by the sailors of the French "Awe" who were close at hand, and finally died, which shows how close the two warring sides were at that time.

Soon, the distance between the two sides had been reduced to three hundred meters, and at this distance the shells fired by the gunners were already somewhat accurate, although they were still a little lower, but everyone wanted to try their luck.

This time, it was the Zheng family's fleet that fired first, relying on the large number of ships, they raised their sails and drove at full speed towards the fleet of the Qingzhou Naval Division, firing while advancing, and with the sound of artillery bombardment, shells continued to fall into the water and splash a row of drainage columns.

"Rush over, entangle with them, and get ready to jump into the gang." At this time, Zheng Zhibao, who had already rushed over from behind, gave an order to the standard-bearers on the side with a gloomy face.

The Zheng family was born as pirates, and gang jumping (jumping ship) warfare is also one of the methods they are most familiar with.

Zheng Zhibao carefully told the flag bearers around him, "Remember, let the Cangshan boat entangle those big ships, and then order the lucky ship to come over as soon as possible, as long as we can get on their boat, we will win." ”

"Yes!" The flag-bearer quickly ran to the bow of the ship and waved his flag to give orders to the surrounding ships.

The Zheng family is worthy of being an old pirate force, and its sea combat is their strength, as the battleship on which Zheng Zhibao rode continued to issue orders, immediately forty Cangshan ships (small ships) and twenty No. 2 Fu ships (larger warships) rushed towards the Qingzhou Navy Division in two echelons.

Looking at the approaching Zheng family's fleet, Tu Hai's face sank, and he could see that the Zheng family's fleet was going to engage in a gang jump, which was also one of the best tactics of the Zheng family, who was born as a pirate.

Thinking of this, Tuhai hurriedly ordered the flag bearer to wave the flag, ordering the fleet to immediately increase its firepower and distance itself to prevent the enemy ships from approaching.

As the distance between the two sides continued to close, the hit rate of the artillery began to gradually increase, and the Qingzhou Naval Division also began to suffer casualties.

Today is the first battle of the Qingzhou Naval Division, almost all the sailors of the Qingzhou Naval Division are the first time to receive the baptism of actual combat, the first time they encounter such a situation, they are naturally a little in a hurry, at this time, the role of those Korean sailors on the same ship is reflected.

Although they have such and such shortcomings, it is undeniable that it is under the leadership and example of these experienced sailors that the sailors of the Qingzhou Naval Division can better muster up the courage to fight the enemy.

In fact, this was also a process of gradual adaptation, and with the encouragement of the captains and the leadership of the experienced North Korean sailors, the sailors who went to the battlefield for the first time gradually overcame their fears and began to slowly exert their due combat effectiveness.

Although there were people around them from time to time, they were able to encourage each other, the gunners were trying to fire shells at the enemy, and the sailmen were trying to keep the sails at the best speed.

At this moment, they all understood that fear, panic and fear were just superfluous things for them, and there was an essential difference between the Navy Division and the Army, the Army could still escape after losing the battle, and if it was lucky, it might even be able to escape. On the other hand, the sailor is different, once the sailor is defeated, it will be the result of the shipwreck, because in the vast sea, you have nowhere to escape.

"Live and die with the battleship!" This is certainly a heroic slogan, but it is not a helpless slogan. Therefore, the sailors on both sides of the enemy have the deepest feelings with the warship, because they know that the warship is their home and their shelter, and only the warship is there for them, and once the warship is gone, their fate can be imagined.

"Brothers, hit me hard!"

"Fire! Send them all to the bottom of the sea to feed the fish! ”

The commanders on the gun emplacements raised their voices and shouted with their greatest strength, while the sailors on the gun emplacements also sweated hard one by one, pouring shells out of the guns.

Suddenly, there was a loud "bang", and a shell hit the baffle on one of the gun emplacements, and the flying sawdust hit the two loaders who were loading the shells, and the thick cotton clothes could not stop the flying sawdust, and the two loaders fell to the ground screaming.

The gun emplacement commander glanced at the loader who was lying on the ground screaming, and then said: "Quick, two people will help them down, and the reservists will immediately fill their positions, and the others will continue to fire!" ”

"All to all"

Another volley of cannons was fired, and three of the more than a dozen shells smashed on the side of a Cangshan ship that rushed to the front, and there were immediately three more large holes under the waterline of the narrow side of the boat.

The turbulent sea water poured into the hull of the ship along the big hole, and the ship's originally fast speed immediately slowed down, and the distance between the two sides was already very close at this time, and Tu Hai, who was in the middle of the fleet, could even see the panicked figures of the sailors on that ship.

"Order the starboard side to increase fire, and the rest of the sailors will take their rifles and prepare to take to the deck to meet the enemy! Replace the gun emplacements with grapeshotfire. Tu Hai, who saw through his opponent's plan, immediately gave another order.

"All to all"

Due to the closer distance, the five Daifuku ships that rushed to the front had been replaced with grapeshot shells, and the dense small projectiles flew towards the enemy ships like rain. Grapeshells are made by putting many small iron pellets the size of thumbs into the breech of a cannon and firing them.

Because they hit out a large barrel of small projectiles, densely packed with hundreds of projectiles like rain under the impetus of huge kinetic energy to rush towards the enemy ship, such a small projectile to the warship of course is insignificant, but this kind of projectile to the personnel of the killing is incomparably huge.

This thing rarely hits the target alone, once a person is hit, three or four or even seven or eight hit at the same time, once the personnel target is hit by grapeshot bullets, there is basically no room left, which is the same as the principle of the shotgun or iron sand gun in later generations, relying on the quantity to win.

"All to all"

The rain of bullets like a rain in the sky was sprinkled on the bow of the Zheng family's sailors, and the sound of screams continued to sound on the boat.

The screams of the sailors of the Zheng family came and went, and there were sailors who fell on the deck, and the originally neat splint was full of rolling small iron pellets.

(To be continued)