The cannon roared, and the smoke of gunpowder filled the air.

The Dutch battleship took advantage of the upper hand and slowly approached Deng Haonan's ship.

In turn, Deng Haonan used the battleship's tail gun to block the enemy ship.

With a loud bang, the fire of the 5,000-pound Longwei cannon flickered, and the chain bullets specially designed to deal with the enemy were fired.

"Missed!" Deng Haonan observed with a clairvoyant eye that the chain bullet only grazed next to the foremast sail of the Dutch battleship, and two ropes were broken. "Three feet to the right, hit her foremast spinnaker!"

"Shoot the dead end!"

"Right hand drive five!"

As the ship turned to the right about five degrees to the right again, the bow of the Dutch battleship again came within the firing angle of the stern guns.

"Fire!"

The fire rope ignited, and with a bang, the chain bullet was fired again.

The smoke dispersed, and Deng Haonan observed from a thousand miles of vision. I saw that several spinnaker cables in front of the Buddha Immortal were twisted off, and many of the cables involved were entangled by iron chains, and the whole huge spinnaker was swept upside down.

"Hit!"

All the officers and soldiers on Deng Haonan's side were already cheering.

The wind was strong, and the Dutch battleship, which was upwind, raised its full sails in order to catch up with Deng Haonan. Suddenly, the foremast spinnaker was overturned, and the battleship Erfoxian, which relied on it to control the direction of the warship, suddenly made a sharp turn, and many Dutch sailors were caught off guard and fell to the deck one after another.

The commander of the Dutch fleet, Rear Admiral Van Witt, did not stand still and suddenly fell down. Fan Weite subconsciously supported the ground with his hands, but the wound on his arm that had just healed suddenly opened again, and Fan Weite scolded in pain.

"Bastard! How to drive the boat! ”

"Medic!"

A medic was bandaging a sailor, and when he saw Van Witt howling, he knew he was wounded. Hurriedly and briefly treated the wounded sailor's wound, and quickly ran to Van Weitt's approach, giving him priority treatment.

The adjutant hurriedly ran over and said, "Your Excellency General, our foremast spinnaker has been broken!" ”

"Why don't you replace it quickly?" Fan Weite's arm hurt, and he didn't say angrily.

"Changing!" The adjutant said: "It's just that if it goes on like this, don't want to catch up with Deng Haonan before dark!" ”

Fan Weite said dissatisfiedly: "Our warships are in the upwind direction, why can't we catch up with them?" ”

The adjutant smiled bitterly: "The warships of the Ming people are equipped with heavy artillery in front and rear, and you have also seen that the power of that artillery is no worse than our Westminster cannon!" Although there is only one gate, it is not much of a threat to our warships. However, you can see that they use chain shells to attack our sails and cables. In this way, our warships will not be able to control the wind, and the speed will not be enough. And the spinnaker was attacked, affecting the direction of the warship! ”

Speaking of this, Major General Van Weit already understood what the adjutant meant. However, Major General Van Weit thought for a while and did not come up with a good solution.

"You light!" Major General Van Witt deliberately turned his anger at the medic to hide his embarrassment at not being able to come up with a plan.

Looking ahead, I saw that Deng Haonan's ship had already opened the distance again. It was about to catch up, but at this time, the spinnaker was attacked, which affected the speed and course of the ship.

"Do you have any good ideas?"

The adjutant said: "For now, we can only make a roundabout maneuver, avoid their rear main guns, and go around to their flanks and front at a long distance, so that our artillery can fire!" ”

Rear Admiral Fan Weite said hesitantly: "But in that case, our warships will lose the advantage of the upper wind direction and passively engage the enemy, which is not conducive to naval warfare!" ”

The adjutant smiled: "Your Excellency General, you are too worried!" If the situation is evenly matched, it is certainly advantageous to occupy the upper hand and meet the enemy. But don't forget, ours is a large warship, and Deng Haonan's warship is only a 20-gun frigate, our firepower is more than four times theirs, and the advantage in the upwind direction is no longer important! ”

Major General Fan Weite nodded and said, "That's right! You're right! In the face of the absolute strength gap, no trick can affect the result! ”

As a result, Major General Van Witt ordered the adjutant to arrange the operation.

Half an hour later, the Dutch battleship repaired the foremast triangular sail and maneuvered quickly and at a large angle from the right side, intending to maneuver to the right front position of Deng Haonan's ship.

Here, Deng Haonan and the others were happy to successfully block the enemy. At the same time, it is ready to continue to use this method to block enemy ships, as long as it can hold out until dark and sunset, it can escape the pursuit with the help of the duck cover of the night.

Seeing that the enemy ship was far away from the range of Longwei's cannon, Captain Lin Feng said happily: "The principal is wise, he ordered us to attack the enemy's sail lock, and sure enough, it is the weak point of the enemy ship, and they have been so frightened that they have avoided it far away!" ”

Deng Haonan nodded, he thought so at first. But soon, he saw that something was wrong. Although the battleship of the Buddha Immortal avoided it from a distance, it gradually sailed parallel to the 101st, and soon reached the right front position, and the two sides were about four miles apart at this time.

Lin Feng smiled: "Look! The Dutch are leaving! ”

Deng Haonan was also looking forward to the departure of the Dutch, after all, the warships were large and the number of artillery was large, and they couldn't beat them alone.

However, the next moment, Deng Haonan's eyes suddenly tightened. I saw that the Dutch battleship began to close the distance between the two sides horizontally, because the Dutch battleship was slowing down, and Deng Haonan's side was accelerating, so the distance between the two sides was closer in the blink of an eye.

They didn't give up!

Deng Haonan suddenly realized the purpose of the Dutch, and they detoured to the right front at such a large angle, but they wanted to avoid the tail gun attack of the No. 101 warship.

"Left full rudder evasion!"

Deng Haonan's shout suddenly woke everyone up.

"Left full rudder!" The captain of the ship, Lieutenant Xue Muhua, hurriedly repeated Deng Haonan's order loudly, and Second Lieutenant Song Defu, the second officer of the steering wheel, raised his arm, grasped the rudder tightly, and quickly hit the left to the end.

The helmsmen and the runners quickly let go of the right cable, and at the same time tightened the left cable, and the huge mainmast crossbar drove the sail to turn left, and under the effect of the wind, the ship quickly turned left.

The ship suddenly turned to the left and creaked loudly. The warship tilted sharply to the left, and Deng Haonan hurriedly grabbed the handrail.

Over there, Rear Admiral Van Weitt, commander of the Dutch fleet, saw the No. 101 warship turning sharply to the left, and he already knew in his heart that Deng Haonan had discovered his combat intentions, and immediately ordered the battleship Erfoxian to also make a left turn.

The two warships made a large left turn at the same time at a large angle, looking down from a high altitude, the two warships split the sea, the huge waves rolled, and soon two long lines of white waves were drawn on the sea, and their arcs were surprisingly similar!

The sea breeze was blowing in his ears, and Deng Haonan stared at the enemy ships that were constantly approaching, and his mind became tighter and tighter!

It's getting closer!

Looking at the black hull of the battleship Erfoxian, the main mast of more than 40 meters long tilted against the sea, as if it was about to fall.

Meow a! Why don't you fall into the sea? Deng Haonan cursed the Buddha Immortal fiercely in his heart.