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Although this sail warship is powerful, it keeps firing cannons, and the soldiers on the deck are still trying to shoot arrows or shoot with firearms, but the damage to this Qing army's big ship is not great. On the contrary, the shells fired by this Qing army ship hit the deck of Liu Guoxuan's ship several times in a row, and two of them almost killed Liu Guoxuan on the spot, and the Taiwanese sailors on the ship also suffered heavy casualties, including Liu Guoxuan's two personal guards, who were also killed on the spot by the artillery on the Qing army's ship, one was directly torn apart by the shells, leaving only a few pieces of flesh and blood, and the other was torn into two pieces by the waist, and the death was unbearable.

At this moment, including Liu Guoxuan himself, he was also slightly injured, and a flying fragment injured his thigh, but fortunately, Liu Guoxuan himself also knew how to protect himself, and before the battle, he put on his handsome uniform, that is, a pair of bright red armor, and stood majestically on the stern. Fortunately, thanks to his armor, otherwise his thigh would have been directly abolished if it was not done well this time, and most of the power of the fragments was leaked by the armor of the leggings, but even so, the leg was still pierced in half, and the blood flowed like an infusion.

Liu Guoxuan was unsteady on his feet, and the guards around him understood what he meant, and immediately moved a big chair for Liu Guoxuan to sit on the stern tower and command the battle. Whether it is Liu Guoxuan himself or the guards around him, it is very clear that Liu Guoxuan, as the commander, is the soul of their Taiwanese naval fleet at this moment, if Liu Guoxuan falls or suddenly relinquishes command. Then the blow to the morale of Taiwan's sailors will be very big. It's not impossible to have a crash. After all, there were indeed too many ships of the Qing army's sailors, especially the artillery fire of the Qing army's large-scale ship in front of them was too fierce, and it was no less than the sail warship they controlled, and it was fully capable of tearing their warship to pieces.

Therefore, Liu Guoxuan himself had already made up his mind to be slightly injured and not get out of the line of fire, gritted his teeth and endured the pain, sat on the stern tower and continued to command the battle, the blood stained one of his trouser legs red, and even the boots were covered with slimy blood. Thankfully, he was building the ship. Imitating the Western Spanish sail warship is simply not sparing blood, using absolutely good wood and hardwood, no matter what is not worse than those Spanish warships, strictly speaking, the structural strength of the hull is higher than that of the Spanish sail warship, at this moment on the surface although it was beaten very badly, but the hull structure was not damaged, but there was a little leakage on the side of the ship.

Taiwanese sailors have been begging for a living at sea all year round, and they are also very experienced in these things, and the ship has always been equipped with one or two specialized carpenters. Even the soldiers in the cabin can skillfully help to get started. There are also various materials for plugging leaks in the cabin, and the crew is working while urgently repairing the leaks. After some emergency repairs, the leakage in the hull was almost quickly stopped. At the same time, there are two steps of manpower pumping machine arranged in the cabin below, which belongs to the pressure pumping machine, operated by two people, alternately pressing down the pressure bar, and then the water can be pressed from the cabin to the deck, discharged into the sea, in addition to being placed in the bottom of the cabin to pump the water when necessary, there is also one on the deck, which can be used as a fire extinguisher, pressing out the water column, replacing the pump with a small amount of water, and extinguishing the fire on the ship.

But now don't look at their warship is still very happy, but after all, the mast has been broken, the ship has lost power, and can only stay here to become someone else's target, and after a while, once the other Qing warships pounce on the two sides into the melee, this warship will completely become a fat sheep to be slaughtered, and the Qing warship can easily destroy the main warship of the Zheng army. Not to mention anything else, at this moment, there are already several Qing army fast ships rushing up, but Liu Guoxuan's ship is as clumsy as a big stupid elephant for the Qing army boats that are swarming up, and it is estimated that it can only be slowly grinded to death.

The Qing army should be grateful to the sand ship that was sunk by Zheng Jun earlier, and its sinking also created a good opportunity for the other small boats of the Qing army, and those small boats that had been following the flank of the fleet got Wang Zhiding's order, and began to attack frantically, rowing or rocking with all their might, and rushed towards this imitation Spanish sail warship.

This water battle is more lively, and it seems to be more exciting than on the sea. In the past, when naval battles were mentioned, Geng Jingzhong's mind often conjured up the scene of groups of warships shelling each other at sea. However, Geng Jingzhong later learned that the style of naval warfare, which used artillery shooting as the main combat style and sunk or damaged the enemy's ships as the tactical goal, appeared very late, and the specific time was about the beginning of the 18th century, and it was not until the end of the 19th century that it reached its peak.

In the nearly 2,000-year history of naval warfare of mankind, the dominant mode of warfare for most of the time was the ongoing "gang jumping", that is, the ships of both sides of the battle chasing each other and approaching each other. When two ships meet on the side, the attacker's warriors will jump onto the deck of the opposing ship and use melee weapons to destroy the opponent's living forces. The sinking of enemy ships is often just a by-product of battle, and in most cases, the capture of enemy ships is the real combat target. At this moment, Liu Guoxuan wanted to sink the enemy ship, but what Wang Zhiding wanted was to use the wolf pack tactics to bite Jiang Zheng's sailors to death and capture this Zheng army's sailor fleet, which he was also very greedy.

In modern times, large sailing ships used for ocean transportation also began to be equipped with guns and artillery weapons, but due to the limited range of early guns and guns, coupled with the fact that the guns could not be effectively aimed at the turbulence of ships in sea navigation, the deterrent effect of guns in naval warfare was far greater than the practical significance for a long time. At that time, "gang hopping" was still the most basic naval tactic.

This situation changed completely after the Battle of Grifland in Europe a hundred years ago. At that time, the king of Spain sent a huge armed fleet known as the "Invincible Armada" to attack England. A heavy blow to the fleet of England led by Drake. In the end, Spain lost its position as a maritime hegemon forever. This naval battle also completely ended the dominance of the "gang jumping" in Europe, and since then, sinking enemy ships has become the most basic naval tactical goal of European naval warfare. However, it is Europe, and for the Ming Dynasty, which has lost the initiative in the sea, or the Qing Dynasty, which has just been established for decades, it still stays in the primitive naval battle tactics, but at this moment, the Taiwanese naval division and the Fujian Mawei navy are no longer among them.

It can be said that since the seventeenth century, in order to effectively achieve the tactical goal of sinking enemy ships in the European fleet, the major naval powers of the world began to consciously build sail battleships. This type of battleship was based on a large wooden galleon, and its main armament was artillery, mounted on the lower deck, at right angles to the keel, and fired outward through the gunholes on the guò gunwales. This is also the reason why Geng Jingzhong is so keen on building large sail warships, because this is indeed ahead of the times, either you think you are still advanced or advanced.

Of course, history books record that by the beginning of the 19th century, a typical sail battleship was equipped with two or three gun decks and was equipped with at least fifty or even hundreds of guns of various calibers. Of these, the most common are the ship with seventy-four guns, with a displacement of 1,630 tons and a crew of 700 people, capable of conducting transoceanic naval battles. And the reason why this kind of warship is called "battleship" is because when fighting, warships must always be in a column, and when they are in the vicinity of the enemy ship, they must fire a salvo from the sideboard. The main reason for adopting this tactic was that the artillery equipped on the ships at that time had poor performance and lacked an effective fire control system, and the shooting effect was greatly restricted by natural factors such as sea currents and wind direction. In addition, the black powder that was commonly used at that time would produce a large amount of gunpowder smoke after firing, interfering with the communication command of the fleet. Only when advancing in battle columns can the number of artillery pieces make up for the lack of accuracy and achieve the operational goal.

On the other side, another Zheng army's sail warship suffered the same fate, and it was also surrounded by a large number of Qing ships. From the noisy scene, the Qing army general could also be heard shouting loudly: "Quick, all surround up, and never allow this ship to run away!" Call me! ”

Dozens of large and small ships of the Qing army, most of them sampans, surrounded this imitation Spanish sail warship like a wolf pack, desperately biting this imitation Spanish sail warship, the small boat under the control of the sailors, desperately rushed towards this imitation Spanish sail warship, they only had one belief - as long as they entered within dozens of yards, they would enter the dead end of their shelling.

More than a dozen small boats surrounded this imitation Spanish sail warship, and the nearby ships desperately fired cannons or archery, shooting, shooting at the Zheng Jun's sailors on the ship, the Qing army's ships on the bowl mouth guns fired scattered bullets like rain swept across the imitation Spanish sail warship, hitting the Zheng Jun sailors standing on the deck turned on their backs and had to lie down to avoid the guns. As soon as these small boats approached the imitation Spanish sail warship, more than a dozen strong sailors stood up, took out porcelain bottles or clay pots from the cabin, lit the cloth strips on the mouth of the bottles, and smashed them towards the imitation Spanish sail warship. The bottle was filled with grease, and when it ignited, a flame suddenly rose and burned violently. (To be continued......)