In a moment, more than a dozen soft-sail warships accelerated at full speed in the opposite direction of Li Kui's warship.

At the same time, all the artillery began to fire, and the cannons that covered the sky and the sky roared like black seagulls.

Rumble!

Rumble!

Rumble!

The new artillery of the Ming Navy kept spitting tongues of fire, and one after another pirate warships suffered heavy blows, and began to shake violently and even break the hull directly.

The new Chongzhen 19th naval gun has improved the airtightness and barrel hardness of the gun on the basis of the original Franc cannon, and the gun body has also been enlarged into a medium-sized gun, so as to make up for the problem of the short firing range of the Franc cannon, but still retains the characteristics of the Franc cannon that is convenient for rapid fire.

Coupled with the improvement of gunpowder, the firing frequency and range of artillery have been greatly improved.

Once the pirate's ships came within range of the ships of Zheng Chenggong's forward battalion, they would be bombarded with several rounds of artillery fire within a matter of minutes.

Even how skillfully the pirates were to mediate the hull of the ship caused several pirate warships under Li Kui's department to be blown up in a matter of moments.

However, the current wind direction is unfavorable, so Li Kui's pirate warship cannot turn, and can only be passively beaten.

"These damn Jiangnan lords and ministers have pitted Lao Tzu again, which is a novice, it is clearly a veteran of naval warfare, this wind direction is so accurate, pass the order, accelerate forward, turn slowly, avoid the forward battalion of the official army, and then hit him when the wind direction changes!"

Li Kui shouted angrily.

At this time, Gu San Mazi's middle military camp also got the news here.

"Boss, Zheng Gongzi, they are fighting with the pirates!" As soon as Gu San Mazi heard the report from the people under his command, he immediately gave an order:

"When the wind direction changes, all the warships will press up, narrow the encirclement, and take advantage of the chaos to set fire to Lao Tzu! Back then, Lao Tzu suffered a lot of losses in the hands of the Zheng family because of this, and now he has let this surnamed Li also taste the taste of being burned! ”

Soon after Gu San Mazi gave the order, when the wind direction changed and Li Kui's pirate warships were about to counterattack Zheng Chenggong's forward battalion, countless flexible and convenient small warships swarmed towards the center of the fierce battle like fish, and kept throwing fire oil and falling directly on the deck of these pirate warships.

"It's kerosene!"

While the pirates were shouting in panic, countless rockets flew over, directly igniting the ships.

In an instant, more than a dozen pirate warships were engulfed in flames.

"Too much deception, too much deception!"

Li Kui patted the railing angrily, busy with his small warships to stop these swarming Ming warships, but the pirates had too few small warships, and they were besieged as soon as they came.

Gu San Mazi commanded more than 60 large warships and more than 200 small and medium-sized warships, in addition to 20 are nine zhang long large Fu ships, there are also large ships, water ships, plough boats, sand boats, oolong ships, small boats, centipede ships and other ships, among which the big ships and water ships are Zheng Group based on the Fu ship and Western plywood ship, is the main warship of Zheng Group, now the Ming Navy is also equipped with more than 40 such warships, and more than 20 Fu ships form the main force of the Ming Navy.

Seeing that the main force of the warships of the Ming Navy in front of him was also approaching step by step, and there were ten soft sailing ships of the forward battalion of the officers and soldiers on both sides, waiting for the wind direction to change and launch an attack.

Li Kui also began to feel bad at this time, and hurriedly ordered all the surviving warships under his command to immediately turn around and flee here.

……

"General Cai, why did these pirates turn?"

Liu Kongzhao also asked at this time, although he no longer came towards his flagship, he also felt uneasy.

"Sir, they mean to run, they have always fought at sea like cavalry, if they can't win, they will run!"

Cai Zheng replied.

"You can't let them run away, you take the warship in the rear camp and rush up and help Gu San Mazi stop them!"

Liu Kongzhao hurriedly gave the order.

"But sir, my duty is to protect the safety of you and the amphibious troops in the rear battalion," Cai Zheng replied.

"The most important thing now is not the safety of Benjue, but the question of whether this pirate can be completely annihilated, this is Benjue's order, if you are told to go, you will go, if you let go of this Li Kui, Benjue will ask you!"

Liu Kongzhao was in a hurry, although he didn't know how to command a naval battle, he could analyze the power of it, and knew what it would mean once Li Kui's troops were completely annihilated, so he couldn't wait to put all his strength up to launch the final blow on Li Kui's troops.

"Yes!"

Cai Zheng had no choice but to obey the order and come at a high speed with ten soft sailing ships, directly occupying the upper hand and pressing and beating Li Kui's pirate warships.

At this time, the pirates of Li Kui's department were all more flexible and powerful artillery warships on the left and right, and in front of them were twenty large lucky ships to kill, so at this time, the pirates of Li Kui's department were also panicked, and the formation began to be chaotic, and they were busy desperately trying to break out.

"Kill!"

Zheng Chenggong saw the opportunity, and the warship commanding the forward battalion once again approached Li Kui's warship, and even the soldiers of the forward battalion went directly to the deck of the enemy ship and began to engage in a white-knuckle battle with the pirates.

The pirates of the Zheng Group are best at broadside combat, and now even Zheng Chenggong commands battles in the Ming Navy, and this specialty is fully utilized.

Crackling flintlock pistols rang out, and pirates were killed in droves by naval soldiers.

For a time, several pirate warships were occupied by the Ming Navy.

At the same time, other warships of Li Kui's army were also suffering from the artillery fire of Cai Zhenghou's battalion.

Gu San Mazi's main warship also collided directly, and with a bang, countless pirate warships were hit and sank directly into the sea, or directly burned.

Whether it is a fortune ship or a big ship or a water bow ship has the characteristics of a large and thick bow, just like the "Wubei Zhi" record, this kind of fortune ship or based on the fortune ship to improve the hard sailing ship has a wide bottom point, the head and tail are high, easy to collide and light and fast, because the cabin is set up with a three-story building, so people can overlook the cannon and fire the crossbow, which is convenient for close combat.

Therefore, the main force of the boat division led by Gu San Mazi could easily disrupt all the warship formations of these pirates.

Before long, the entire sea was filled with raging fires, floating broken planks and corpses, and sharks gathered to devour the pirates who fell into the water.

Gu San Mazi's fortune ship continued to ram forward as if it had entered a no-man's land, and Li Kui's battleships could only retreat, and even the flagship with Li Kui was surrounded by three Ming Navy soft sailing ships.

Soon, Zheng Chenggong took a group of people directly to Li Kui's flagship, and Li Kui himself was forced to jump into the sea.

At that time, hundreds of flintlock pistols were fired in turn at the moment when Li Kui jumped off, and the entire sea surface was a blood-red color.

The pirate Li Kui's department was completely annihilated by the Ming navy, more than 60 warships, more than 20 warships that could still fight were occupied by the navy, and more than 1,000 pirates were also captured.

Liu Kongzhao laughed out loud after getting the news and patted the railing: "Haha, win, win!" Hurry, hurry up and prepare the four treasures of the study, this lord wants to report the victory to His Majesty! ”

(End of chapter)