Cohen also finally discovered the situation of defeating the Johor army after the Ming army landed on the flank.

He was again in a dilemma, either he could quickly take back the Dutch and the Japanese soldiers, board the ship and retreat. Either the fleet continues to cover the land forces and continues to shell the defenders of Malacca.

He still chose the latter and fought to the death with the Ming army that landed.

Cai Fuyi and Cao Xibin saw that the Dutch battleships had a great advantage, and after they covered the landing, they must not watch their comrades-in-arms being shelled all the time.

Immediately assemble the battleships that can participate in the battle, arrange the V-shaped goose formation, and prepare for the shelling of the perimeter of the new battleship, and the old battleship will climb close to the hand-to-hand combat.

Nineteen new Ming warships were located on the outside, taking advantage of the speed of the soft sails and the power of the 36 Hongyi cannons on each ship.

20 centipede boats are located at the waist of the goose-shaped formation.

These fast boats, which are accelerated by manpower rowing, may fall apart after two cannons, but they are fast and agile, and do not need to be directly surrounded by artillery battles, with hooks and cables on them, ready to climb up and burn the boat.

At the bottom of the geese-shaped array are 40 ships.

The Canton ship was a warship and a cargo dual-purpose sailing ship, and the ones that came back to Malacca were equipped with 4 Hongyi cannons and 12 Franc rapid-fire guns.

Due to the small size of the hard sails, the speed could not be compared to the opponent's Galen battleship. There is also a large difference in the strength of the hull, which looks of minimal use.

However, the flexibility of the Canton ship has the advantage, and if it is approached to a suitable distance, it can not move the hull with these guns, but it can hit the deck and sails, and destroy the enemy's warship to the greatest extent.

If the battle ship Galen lost too many people and the sails were badly damaged, the Dutch could only abandon the ship.

This is the biggest weakness of the Galen battleship, which is relatively bulky and requires a lot of manpower to operate.

Cai Fuyi ordered the fleet to attack.

Cao Xibin, the commander-in-chief of Guangdong, sat in the newly built Karak battleship and commanded the left wing of the goose-shaped formation to sail and seize the upper hand.

He had extensive experience in naval warfare, and had successfully captured the Galen battleship in the last Battle of Macao.

Now, almost a year later, he and his sailors have been trained to the best of their ability, and they are by no means comparable to the old sailors.

As soon as the two sides fought, the Dutch found that these Ming troops were much stronger than their opponents in the Battle of Zhejiang.

Seizing the upper hand, the artillery turned from disadvantage to parity.

The queue of new warships was orderly, one after another formed continuous fire, and the Dutch fleet, which could break anchor and shell the fortress, was very passive.

As the new warships began an artillery battle, the sea was soon surrounded by thick gunsmoke.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the centipede ship accelerated with all its might, striving to break through the range of 1 to 8 miles of naval artillery bombardment as quickly as possible.

Within 1 mile, the guns located on the double deck were difficult to take down close and low targets due to their high altitude.

There were also a lot of sub-cannons and heavy arquebuses on the Galen battleship for close-range firing within a mile, but the Dutch had drawn too many land troops and shelled Malacca for dozens of days, and the gunpowder was not enough.

Therefore, the gunpowder on the side of the ship's guns must be saved, and the light guns such as the sub-guns on the battleship cannot prevent the centipede ship from approaching due to insufficient gunpowder.

Cohen, the Governor of the East India Company, was almost out of command.

Some adjutants shouted: "The naval battle must be moved, and the battleships will lose if they are beaten alive without anchor."

Another adjutant shouted: "It's almost time to take Malacca!" If the naval artillery supports for a while, the Ming army on the shore will be defeated! ”

However, Matsudaira Nobutsuna of the Wa Kingdom has not spoken.

He was not calm and wise at this time, but he had never seen this kind of naval and land battle at all, and his mind was empty, and he was dumbfounded at all.

"You Wa country, don't you still have nearly 100 house ships! Attack, go and deal with the centipede ship of the Ming Kingdom! ”

Cohen shouted at Matsudaira Nobutsuna and ordered.

Matsudaira Nobutsuna knew how weak the Wakoku Sea was, and immediately shook his head and said, "No! We, the Japanese army, are here to fight a land war. Our ships have already lost a lot in the South China Sea of the Ming Kingdom, and now they are only enough to load the landing people, and some people will have no ships if they lose more. ”

Cohen said angrily: "If the sea battle is defeated, what is the use of land? Your people will all die! ”

He pointed to his hand again.

Not far away, a Galen battleship was entangled by 2 centipede ships, and I saw that the Ming army had already tied the Galen battleship with hook locks, some people wanted to climb melee combat, and some people threw grenades up.

Matsudaira Nobutsuna glanced at the centipede boat, and the dozens of oarsmen on it felt like a ten-fold enlarged version of the Dragon Boat Festival dragon boat of the Ming Kingdom.

In order to put more people and hook locks, this kind of ship does not have a few cannons.

Ataka can really eat it.

"Alright! Please bombard the enemy in the distance with your naval guns, and hand it over to us if you are close. ”

Nearly 100 Ataka ships were parked on the shore, and under the orders of Matsudaira Nobutsuna, 50 Ataka ships that were still intact and equipped with guns on them attacked.

By the time the Ataka ship slowly left the port, three Galens had already been besieged and taken by the centipede ships.

Two of them were bombed by explosives and the ship was unable to fight back, with heavy casualties, and the Dutch sailors were far less brave than the Portuguese and Esbanduck sailors.

Of course, these two Galen ships were captured by the Ming army.

Another ship was directly lit by the Ming army and burned into a large torch, which could be seen clearly even on the shore, and the attacking enemy troops were secretly worried.

Cohen: It's called a hurry.

What about the Japanese ship!?

It's still like a bathtub, slowly swaying forward.

"The Wa Kingdom is really in a hurry to die! So many people, so many ships, how can it be so useless! ”

Cohen kept urging, as long as the Ataku ship rushed up, two to one, it would always be able to deal with the centipede ship of the Ming Kingdom, right?

Matsudaira Nobutsuna was so urged by him that he was about to explode, so he simply scolded back with a mouth full of slang.

Anyway, Cohen couldn't understand it, and spewed out all the swear words of the Japanese country.

"Boom!"

In the distance, a Galen battleship exploded.

Due to the siege of the new Ming warships on the periphery of the queue, although the total number of Galen warships in the Netherlands was larger, they were all anchored in place and shelled the Malacca fortress, so the position was relatively fixed.

For each of the new warships of the Ming army, which had 40 Hongyi cannons, it was not too easy to hit fixed targets.

In the past year, we have been practicing artillery fighting, training in various complex situations such as artillery battles in storms and ocean-going artillery battles.

I didn't expect that in the decisive battle, it turned out to be the easiest to fix.

This is not a beating~

So the geese-shaped formation was winged and quickly gained the advantage.

Cohen is about to faint, in fact, he is very good at business and development, and he is also very good at fighting natives, but he is a layman in real naval warfare and land war.

Some captains and lieutenants are also about to go crazy. Seeing that Cohen still insisted on storming Malacca by land, and the fleet was still unable to support the artillery to anchor, this was basically to kill them.

"Cohen! I'm going to complain to Rotterdam about you! ”

"If I don't have to anchor and beat the Ming warship, I will vote for Putmans next time!"

Cohen had to make a choice.