Wang Renzeng's fleet on the left flank and Zhang Bangchang's fleet slowly approached, and they were about to meet.

On Wang Renzeng's left flank, there were eleven building ships and eighteen bucket boats, and the rest were fast boats. However, after the previous round of solid shelling and two rounds of flowering shelling, there were only seven building ships and twelve fighting boats left here on the left flank.

If you compare it with large warships, in fact, the strength of the two sides is basically the same.

It's just that anyone who understands can see that although there are as many large ships here on Wang Renzeng's left flank as Zhang Bangchang's, they are all Ming-style warships.

Whether in terms of speed or firepower configuration, it cannot be compared with the European-style warships under Zhang Bangchang.

After all, the large ships on Wang Renzeng's left flank were equipped with trebuchets and ballistas, and each ship was only three or four. Compared with the European-style warships under Zhang Bangchang, it is really a small thing.

It is important to know that on the warships under Zhang Bangchang's command, the basic configuration is that they are on the two decks of the warship, each equipped with twelve guns. That's a total of twenty-four, which they can't compare.

Compared to artillery, trebuchets and ballistas are far inferior in terms of destructive power and range.

Even with the loading of rocks and the huge ballista arrows, they could not be faster than the skilled gunners.

The two sides slowly approached, and on the side of the deck of the fleet belonging to Wang Renzeng's side, the sailors all picked up their bows and arrows and began to wait nervously.

In fact, anyone who is used to being a pirate understands that when the two ships meet, there will be a mutual archery attack.

On the other hand, on Zhang Bangchang's side, although the sailors were also preparing, what they picked up was not bows and arrows. Rather, it was a flintlock pistol, and in front of each musketeer, there was also a man with an eerie transparent shield.

Needless to say, the Hair Breaker also has an explosion-proof shield purchased from another plane. It was Zhao Hongyu who gave it to Li Xiang with the ship.

Otherwise, where would Li Xiang's subordinates get these things?

Neither flintlock pistols nor riot shields could have been produced in this era.

"Let them taste it in a moment!"

Zhang Bangchang gathered around several strong men with big shoulders and round waists, and they were all holding transparent shields to protect Zhang Bangchang and Liu Da from scarring.

As the captain of this ship and the commander of the entire European-style fleet, Zhang Bangchang definitely can't hide at this time. He has to stand on the outside, even if he knows the situation, before he can make a favorable judgment.

But. Now the two fleets are about to start interspersing, and everyone knows exactly what will happen in the process. Therefore, the protection of Zhang Bangchang needs to be taken seriously.

The enemy will definitely shoot with a bow and arrow from a long distance, and there will be a brave guy who will pull a rope along the pole and just flicker around.

So, they have to protect their boss.

On the three poles on Zhang Bangchang's boat, and even a few lookouts that can stand on people, some people have already climbed up.

These men all carried a ghost-headed knife at their waists and a flintlock pistol with a short handle in their hands.

These are the people who have to do it. That is, to prevent the sailors of the enemy side from boarding the ship with ropes.

The ships of the left flank fleet under Wang Renzeng were basically the same.

Seven hundred meters!

Six hundred meters!

Five hundred meters!

The expressions on people's faces tensed.

The fleets of both sides are getting closer and closer, and soon a battle is about to break out.

This is not something to play a game of playing house, in this era of naval warfare. It was brutal and bloody to death.

What, this is not a Franco?

When the two sides slowly approached, the appearance of the sailors standing on the side of the ship on Zhang Bangchang's side could already be seen very clearly by the other party.

After all. When the interspersed and rendezvous was coming, the distance between each ship on both sides was only twenty or thirty meters. At such a distance, it is still easy to see a person's appearance clearly.

Those who stood by the boat. They are all black-haired, typical of the Ming people. Where is the yellow hair and blue eyes of the Franc man, everyone is not blind.

What's going on?

What about the Franc man?

At such a close distance, they could see it very clearly. There wasn't even a single yellow-haired person on the other party's boat, all of them were black-haired Orientals.

Don't...... The ships were sold to Li Xiang?

Everyone's hearts suddenly had such a thought.

However, the idea was soon thrown out of my mind.

Sell the boat to Li Xiang, joke!

If those Francos from the Southern Barbarians could sell the ship, their own boss would have bought it a long time ago.

Moreover, as the leader of the leader, Boss Zheng has also discussed this matter with the Francophone man, and this matter is simply impossible. It was these ships that those Franco-mechanics relied on, and they also knew that they could live in the East, and they relied on this kind of ship.

Therefore, as long as they are not brain-dead, they will never be sold.

But the problem is that if the other party is not the Furlan man who bought the boats, then they got these boats from there.

Now that they have seen each other's appearances, they must know that these people piloting the Franc warship are not Franc Machines.

And here in Amami Island, who else can there be besides Li Xiang's people.

As for the Japanese people...... That's simply not possible.

However, there is not much time for them to think about this anymore.

The distance of just a few hundred meters is only a few minutes.

Sou! Sou!

Squeak ...... Peng!

The fleets of the two sides converged with each other, and the ships of the left flank fleet under Wang Renzeng took the lead.

The stones on the trebuchet were thrown, and the sailors, who were ready, also shot their arrows with their bows and arrows.

However, the stones thrown by the trebuchet look scary, but its power is somewhat ...... If you want to talk about the lethality, you have to talk about the ballista, but the European-style warships are much higher than the Ming-style building ships and bucket boats.

Therefore, the probability of damage that the ballista can bring to the sailors on Zhang Bangchang's side is much smaller.

Only the trebuchet's stones still have a chance to bring them some damage.

But if you are nimble in the face of the thrown stones, you can still dodge them.

As for the arrows fired by the opposing sailors, hum. They were all blocked by their comrades with riot shields.

What I have to say here is that in the face of the arrows of this era or the cold, it is still very good to buy a riot shield defense in the virtual world.

Even if you slash it down with a sharp machete, it will leave a white mark at most.

The benefits of cross-generational products are here.

So, it was too easy to resist the shot of the bow and arrow.

"Shoot!"

Taking advantage of the opportunity for the enemy to shoot arrows, the musketeers who were hiding behind riot shields rushed forward one by one. They poked the flintlock pistol out of the crack in the riot shield, then pulled the trigger after a brief aiming.

Bang! Bang!

A salvo of fifteen people, the sailors on the opposite side were shot down quite a bit.

Teal smoke and pungent smell. It's starting to spread.

Fortunately, this is at sea, and the sea breeze can blow away the smell in a short time.

However, at this time, no one cares about this problem.

Withdraw!

Clean up the chamber!

State gunpowder, buckshot!

The gunners in the first row retreated, came to the back row and squatted down.

Then the gunners in the second row ran up, continued the flintlock pistol through the gap in the riot shield, and then aimed and pulled the trigger.

Bang! Phew!

The archers on the opposite side were shot down quite a bit again.

In this way, the enemy of the other side will shoot only one arrow. After that, they didn't have a chance. Because they have been completely suppressed by the gunners on the Amami Island side, they can't hold their heads up.

And that's not all, because it's just an appetizer before a big meal.

An enemy dragged a rope over their poles. But only halfway through, he was shot down by someone who had been waiting for him on the Amami Island side, and the unlucky egg fell into the water......

In the shooting on the deck, the men and horses on Wang Renzeng's side wanted to desperately take advantage of this opportunity to let their men board the ship and go to hand-to-hand combat. It's a pity that those guys are basically halfway. was killed.

Damn, how come the other party has so many muskets!

When they found themselves facing opponents, none of them used bows and arrows. It was only when they were all using muskets that they felt something was wrong.

This is simply a copy of the Franco's man-in-man tactics.

Is it possible that Li Xiang has learned this hand?

Rumble!

At that moment, their hull shook violently.

I don't know what happened to Lu Dao, but their warship actually produced a huge explosion.

Wood chips flew and flew to the ground, or into the sea.

This was the warship of Zhang Bangchang's side, and the shelling began while the ships were intersecting.

I don't know if Lu Dao is because they are too unlucky, the ships of the left flank flotilla on Wang Renzeng's side, when they passed by Zhang Bangchang's flotilla, basically gave Zhang Bangchang two opportunities for each ship.

In this way, how could Zhang Bangchang let it go.

Platoon artillery!

Yes, at the height of the European age of navigation, the most powerful artillery tactics when two ships passed each other and intersected, appeared in advance in the eastern seas of the XVII century.

Rumble! Rumble! Boom Boom!

Shells were fired out of the chambers, and circles of water ripples were formed on the surface of the sea.

Poor Wang Renzeng's left flank flotilla was stunned by such a sudden artillery bombardment by the United States.

What the hell is going on?

Some people were dizzy from the violent explosion, and there was a burst of intense ringing in their ears.

As far as the eye could see, I saw that my ship was already beaten to pieces, and my comrades were wailing all over the ground.

Zhang Bangchang was very bad, he did not use solid shells at such a close distance, but continued to use flowering shells for shelling.

After all, the power of a solid bullet is great, but at most it only penetrates the opponent's hull, and the damage caused is not very large. However, the use of flowering shells is different, this kind of flowering can effectively kill the enemy's crew, and the damage to the enemy's warship at close range is also very serious.

Moreover, the time for the two ships to pass each other and meet was very short, so much that it was enough for their own side to launch a round of artillery bombardment.

Therefore, Zhang Bangchang and Liu Da Scar combined, they felt that they should take this opportunity to give the enemy the greatest damage.

Looking at the effect now, it's actually quite good.

Wang Renzeng's men and horses did not cause a lot of damage to their side.

But on the other hand, the losses caused by oneself to the other party are very large.

After a short period of close shelling, basically one side of the deck of the opposing warship has been blasted open by flowering shells, and even began to leak.

When the two sides passed by, most of the ships on Wang Renzeng's left flank were already shaky.

Obviously, these ships are considered dead.

It is no longer possible for a ship like this to continue fighting.

After such a short moment of confrontation, Wang Renzeng's left flank fleet was basically destroyed in its combat capability.

The building ships and fighting boats were crumbling under artillery bombardment, and the people on board suffered heavy losses.

And they began to turn the bow of the ship with difficulty, wanting to continue to fight Zhang Bangchang and them.

However, Zhang Bangchang took the 19 warships under his command and continued to sail forward without looking back. His goal is the already massed heart of the war, and he is also looking for the enemy's flagship.

Wang Renzeng's left-wing fleet could only operate the broken warships now, watching their opponents leave, and they couldn't catch up.

Moreover, there is a more serious problem that needs to be seriously faced.

That is, when they passed by just now, their warships were seriously damaged by Zhang Bangchang's artillery bombardment, and eighty percent of the warships had begun to leak.

The remaining two percent of the ships were not leaking, but their hulls were heavily damaged.

Those brothers whose hull has leaked must be rescued, and they can't just watch them drown like this. And the ships they are driving now are like this, how can they fight the enemy.

In that short period of time, the left wing suffered heavy losses.

The short clippers were basically sunk by the other side.

Because the underside of these ships was inlaid with iron sheets, the clippers simply could not use the iron nails in front to fix the hull to them.

These clippers don't have to worry about anything, anyway, if you have money, you can buy a lot of them from Fujian, but the damage to the large ships makes them very distressed.

You must know that although Boss Zheng can use his identity to get a large ship from Fujian. However, it is very time-consuming to build such a large building ship and bucket boat.

Each of Fujian's eight shipyards is working at full capacity, and it will take up to nine months to build one.

For example, it will take at least three or four years for their losses to be made up.

It's really evil, how can these guys who manipulate the Franc robot warship seem to be more powerful than the Franc man.

Everyone on the left flank of Wang Renzeng, who was left far behind and had not even turned the bow of the ship, had such an idea in their hearts.

And Zhang Bangchang stood on the deck, and Ha Lu laughed.

"Enjoyable! It's so enjoyable! Damn, I really can't imagine that the warships of the Southern Barbarians are so powerful when they are used like this. ”

Zhang Bangchang was also shocked by the short artillery battle just now.

However, he quickly recovered from the shock, and then a look of ecstasy ensued. (To be continued......)