As long as the thought of "running away" is born on the battlefield, the courage will immediately disappear, and this is the case with the Eighteen Zhi fleet at this moment. After several of the ships began to turn around and make a fleeing stance, the ships that originally wanted to continue fighting saw that the situation was not good, and naturally they would no longer continue to fight with their necks shut. However, this escape also depends on luck and skill, and it is not easy to escape from Haihan's gun.

After testing the weight of his opponent in two rounds of artillery bombardment, Shi Diwen found that Haihan's superiority in ships and firepower was too great to use any more complex tactics in the pursuit process. For this kind of opponent who rushes up with a stream of blood and retreats faster after being hit, he only needs to roll up his sleeves and start working.

Like a wolf chasing a flock of sheep, a ferocious predator does not stop to eat after killing another prey, but instead leaves the dying prey behind and continues to hunt down the next target. The three Haihan warships also adopted this tactic, and after approaching the eighteen Zhi ships, they just bombarded the waterline, punched out a row of holes in the hull, and then drove away. And even if the sailors on the pirate ship can fight to plug the hole after that, the ship is basically half filled with seawater, and it is not so easy to get out of the battlefield quickly.

At this time, the Ming army sailors who watched the battle on the periphery played a role in cleaning up the battlefield, and their speed was difficult to catch up with those pirate ships that had begun to escape, but it was still easy to besiege the pirate ships that had been damaged after being shelled and had even begun to sink. If there were still pirates who planned to resist stubbornly in this situation, then the Ming army sailors would not hesitate to send a few more shells from the ship to these diehards.

Xu Xinsu watched the whole one-sided killing on the deck of "Wei Signal", and it was only at this time that he really understood why Shi Diwen was so relaxed and confident when he proposed to attack Nanri Island. The difference in strength between the two sides was at least several orders, and the Haihan Navy only dispatched three warships, and it was unstoppable to crush dozens of ships arranged by Shibazhi on Nanri Island, which made Xu Xinsu feel jealous and afraid in his heart.

In terms of combat effectiveness, in fact, today's Daming Naval Division is not too bad, but the number of warships is slightly less, and it is still powerless to protect Fujian's long coastline, so it can only abandon some places and focus on guarding several large ports. If he does it at sea with the Eighteen Zhi real swords and guns, and the strength is similar, Xu Xinsu still has the confidence to win. However, after seeing the combat method of the Haihan Navy today, Xu Xinsu's confidence in the troops under his command has also been worn out a lot - even if the Fujian Navy Division and Shibazhi are bundled together, it is estimated that they will not be able to defeat this perverted Haihan Navy.

According to Shi Diwen's declared naval establishment, the combat ships of the Haihan fleet consisted of one "Majesty-class" flagship, three to four "Expedition-class" ships, and four to six "Exploration-class" ships, which was about the size of eight to eleven ships. However, with only three warships, it had already beaten the eighteen-zhi fleet stationed on Nanri Island, and if it was a full fleet to go out to fight, it would be difficult for Xu Xinsu to imagine how many ships would be needed to stop these evil stars.

Although the battle was smooth, Shi Diwen did not fall too far into the war, and after he had damaged three or four more sailing ships in the back of the butt of the eighteen-zhi fleet, he ordered the operation of the steam power system to be stopped-the number of boiler refined coal carried by the mission fleet was limited, and it was necessary to save it for more necessary use, and it was almost enough to show off the force, and it was a bit of a waste of resources to continue to use it to kill these rabble.

Although the Haihan warship had great firepower and fast speed, it was still impossible to annihilate an opponent who was eight times his own with three ships and fled in all directions. However, in this naval battle, which lasted an hour and a half, the Haihan side still played a jaw-dropping record - 12 to 0.

Nearly half of the twenty-five ships dispatched by Eighteen Zhi were left behind, seven of them incapacitated by the broken hull, and the first ship to be hit by artillery fire had sunk beneath the surface at the end of the battle. With nowhere to run on the sea, the pirates had no choice but to surrender.

The Ming army had already received instructions from the Haihan before the start of the war, and would not wantonly kill the captives who chose to surrender - the Haihan people had already expressed their stance that all the eighteen Zhi captives they had captured would be transported alive.

As far as Haihan is concerned, these people under Eighteen Zhi are rare opportunities to recruit a large number of sailors, as long as some of them are eliminated from the inherently bad character and extremely vicious gangsters, and the rest of them are first sent overseas to be labored and reformed for a period of time, and then scattered and distributed to various places, it should still be able to play some role.

And the Fujian Ming Army has no objection to this, although these heads mean a lot of bounties and military merits, but these people led by Xu Xinsu are also very clear about the weight of Haihan, and it is not okay not to give this face. And Xu Xinsu also said before setting off that this battle would not be rewarded by heads, and the officers did not understand this meaning at that time, and they did not wake up until the battle was over. As for stealing merit or something, who dares to snatch merit from these Haihan people?

Although the naval battle did not last long, the work of cleaning up the battlefield continued until it became dark. This was mainly because the battlefield was so open that it was a time-consuming and laborious task to gather hundreds of captives from a dozen boats. Of course, tired is also tired of the Ming army, and the Haihan Navy will not even pack this kind of dirty work together, it has already withdrawn from the front line, and it is said to be responsible for peripheral vigilance.

However, this vigilance did not seem to have much practical effect, and the pirates stationed on Nanri Island showed no sign of counterattack, except that there were still a few small light boats in the far sea, which should have been just to warn these uninvited guests to attack again.

Shi Diwen didn't plan to fight a night battle with Shibazhi, this was an extremely difficult task even for the Haihan Navy with a high level of training, since he could eat the opponent steadily, there was no need to rush in to catch up with this time. In case something goes wrong, you can't afford to make some military merits, and if you are not careful, you will not be able to make the merits worthy.

After his three participating ships were gathered, Shi Diwen began to count the battle records and battle losses of each ship. The most hit targets are naturally the "Wei Signal" with the largest number of artillery, and in an hour and a half of combat ** count hit more than 50 rounds of enemy ships, although this number is a bit low for the total number of more than 300 rounds, but considering that this is a naval battle rather than a land battle, and it is the first actual combat of the "Wei Signal", it is quite good to be able to play such a result. Combined with the results of the other two warships, the three ships hit the target with a total of nearly 80 rounds during this operation, which is a decent number and not much different from the usual level of training.

Only three sailors were injured during the entire battle, two of whom were injured by arrows and gravel thrown by the enemy while bombarding the enemy ship at close range, and the other was injured by accidentally sliding down the gangway and falling into the cabin due to the turbulence of the sea, but it was not directly related to the battle. All three were fine, and Morgan was sure that they only needed to be medicated and bandaged and rest for a few days. Not to mention the warships, there were only a handful of stone arrows thrown onto the deck, and such an offensive could not cause any substantial damage to the Haihan warships.

Xu Xinsu has been auditing the entire statistical process on the "Wei Signal", and he doesn't seem to have anything else to say about such a battle loss ratio except the word "service".

The Fujian Ming army has been fighting with Shibazhi for several years, and there have been no less than ten naval battles involving dozens of ships, no matter whether they win or lose, but none of them can control their battle losses at such a low level, so low that they are almost none. Even if it can be won, when will it not cost a few boats and at least double digits?

Xu Xinsu also realized more deeply that if the armed level of the Daming Navy Division and the Eighteen Zhi were to fight against the fully manned Haihan Navy, I am afraid that there would be little chance of causing substantial damage to the other party. It is no wonder that after the Haihan delegation arrived in Fujian this time, it boasted about Haikou in various ways, not only to exterminate Fujian's chronic disease Shibazhi, but also to claim that it would also take down the red-haired people on the island of Taiwan. If Xu Xinsu's intuitive impression when he heard these words was that the other party was boasting about Haikou, then after witnessing this short naval battle, Xu Xinsu had already changed his original opinion -- the Haihan people were not boasting about Haikou, but were seriously narrating something they took for granted.

After hastily cleaning up the battlefield, the Ming army did not try to tow away the pirate ships that were devastated by the shells, and sailed to the coast of Fujian with the Haihan warships. Today, the fleet will not sail back to Quanzhou Port to dock, but will sail to Dongqiao Bay, which is not far from here. The Haihan militia needs a night to prepare well, because tomorrow there is a more difficult amphibious operation waiting for these fighters.

But the Ming Army's sailors are not so lucky, even if this military exercise is to follow Haihan to make soy sauce, it has to be finished seriously. They were assigned the task of rotating throughout the night at the entrance to the bay in case Eighteen Zhi took advantage of the night to launch a sneak attack. After unloading the prisoners ashore on the shore, the ships of the sailors returned to the sea one after another to provide vigilance services for the Haihan navy, which was resting here.

Shi Diwen and Morgan were not idle, they had to review the island seizure operation launched tomorrow again to see if there was anything missing from the original plan. Although the outcome of the victory was undoubted, they still wanted to minimize the attrition and loss of personnel in the battle.

In the early morning of the third day of the joint exercise, the reorganized fleet set off from Dongqiao Bay and sailed to Nanri Island, 20 nautical miles away. This is also the last link of this joint military exercise, after the capture of Nanri Island, this military exercise can be regarded as the end.

Of course, by this time, probably no one will regard this sea as an ordinary exercise, even the Ming army sailors who have not fought on the front line understand that this time the Haihan people are fighting in earnest, and not just the live-fire exercise they claimed before. After observing yesterday's battle at close range, many Ming soldiers felt very lucky, firstly, because they could be in the same camp as such a powerful ally as Haihan, and they did not have to be enemies on the battlefield, and secondly, the Haihan people were willing to take the initiative to take the initiative to remove the big trouble of Eighteen Zhi for the Fujian Ming Army. If it were up to the Ming army to clear out the pirates on Nanri Island, it would not know how much it would cost to succeed.

The only port on Nanri Island is located at the northwest end of the island, where there is a natural bay with an area of about one square kilometer, and there is at least one or two hundred ships of 400 materials to dock. However, when the Ming army withdrew from the area, they destroyed most of the port facilities built to prevent them from being used by pirates. After the occupation of Nanri Island, Shibazhi did not have enough engineering strength to restore the port facilities on the island to the level of the Ming army's station, so according to the information provided by the Ming army, the number of ships that could dock directly in this small harbor was not very large - yesterday's wave of charges had at least dispatched more than seventy percent of the ships stationed there.

The camp on the island is about three miles from the port, and is built on a slope. This camp is all made of rock, when the Ming army retreated, it was too laborious to destroy this place, but I didn't expect it to be occupied by the group of pirates of Eighteen Zhi as a den of thieves. After taking Nanri Island, in order to stick to this strategic location, the camp was reinforced, and it was precisely because of this that the limited manpower on the island could not implement the port construction project at the same time, so it caused the embarrassment that Shibazhi had thousands of sea ships but could only station dozens of ships on Nanri Island.

Of course, compared with the Fujian Ming Army Naval Division, the men and horses stationed on the island of Shibazhi are not weak, so although they are on the boat, they are also enough to defend against the attack of the Fujian Naval Division. This method of warfare has also worked many times in the past, and the Fujian Navy Division attacked Nanri Island almost halfway through the battle, and then could not continue because it was difficult to balance the offensive and defense, and chose to withdraw on its own.

However, Eighteen Zhi probably never thought that one day he would meet an opponent like the Haihan Navy in the waters of Nanri Island, which was ridiculously strong, and after a few rounds, there were almost half fewer sailing ships on Nanri Island that could go to sea to fight. And the remaining half are also in an awkward situation, should they defend or escape?