Liu Guangting immediately turned his head to look in the direction of starboard, directly between the gunsmoke, a fleet of more than 20 ships was rushing over quickly, and the flag was Li Dazui's team, and it was Li Dazui himself leading the team!

Liu Guangting's heart sank when he saw it! He quickly calculated in his heart that if he didn't change course, Li Dazui's fleet would definitely hit his side! At that time, it is possible for him to escape, but the breakthrough he has just opened will definitely be blocked, and the breakthrough plan will be a complete failure!

Thinking of this, Liu Guangting shouted loudly, "Right full rudder, cut past him!" In addition, the flag was raised, and the flotilla behind me was told to send four ships to follow me to stop them, and the rest of the ships continued to break through!"

After the order was passed down, the flagship, which was traveling at the fastest speed, shuddered violently and began to tilt to the right! Then they rushed towards the opponent's fleet! And the flotilla that followed the flagship also rushed out of the flotilla, and with the right turn, they met the flotilla attacking from the side!

The flotilla rushing from the side was a group of people led by Li Dazui! He had long speculated that Liu Guangting and the others might want to break through, so when everyone else rushed up, he took half of the fleet to cut along the edge of the battlefield to the west, and as a result, Liu Guangting was blocked!

Seeing Liu Guangting's flagship turn and sail towards him, Li Dazui smiled and ordered loudly: "Leave ten ships to block the Beiyan, and the other ships continue to spread westward, blocking all the ships that are going to run behind!"

Li Dazui's fleet was still quite well adjusted, and as soon as his order was given, a large number of ships continued to stick diagonally to the west, intending to block the breakthrough! And the ten largest ships rushed towards Liu Guangting's fleet! It seems that they are ready to use the advantage of two to one to defeat Liu Guangting!

At this time, the distance between the two sides was already very close, Liu Guangting's ship had just been leveled, and the artillery of the two sides was fired almost at the same time! Fist-sized iron balls and dense shotguns cross the sea and smash at each other!

Since the distance between the two sides is so close, the hit rate of both sides is scary! So the cards on both sides of the ship are beaten to pieces! After all, this card itself is used to prevent lead bullets from feathered arrows and fire guns, and it is simply powerless against artillery!

At this time, you can see the benefits of having a golden finger! In Liu Guangting's fleet, all the gun emplacements were surrounded by sandbags in a semi-circular low wall, this low wall was not high, but it was enough for the sailors to kneel on the ground and cover their whole bodies when they bowed their heads! Therefore, as long as they see the guns on the opposite ship flashing, as long as they dodge in time, the probability of being injured is quite low!

And Li Dazui's side is not good! Their gun emplacements are bare, so they can't dodge attacks from any direction! What's more, the gun position itself is the place where the other party focuses on taking care of it, so after four rounds of fire, half of the pirate ships on Li Dazui's side are still firing, and the rate of fire is also extremely slow! Even many reserve gunners did not dare to step forward at all when they saw the bloody gun emplacements!

When Li Dazui's fleet approached Liu Guangting's fleet with certain casualties, Liu Guangting blocked Li Dazui's team to the greatest extent, and the horizontal formation of five ships was also completely formed! What they want most is to use artillery and guns to give each other maximum damage when the two ships are staggered!

Li Dazui naturally understood what he thought, but he had to also line up to deal with it! Because in this way, they can give full play to their advantages of having more people and more ships! Therefore, when the ships of the two sides were about to stagger together, all the artillery that could be fired in the two fleets was desperately fired, hitting all kinds of shells on the ships of both sides!

As soon as the artillery firing on both sides ended, more than a dozen flying claws flew over from the boat on Li Dazui's side and buckled on the side of the boat where Liu Guangting was sitting! Without waiting for Liu Guangting's command, Liu Ming had already commanded the sailors to fire a volley of firearms at the opposite side, turning the pirates who were fixing the flying claws on their backs!

Then some sailors with large axes rushed over and slashed at the ropes behind the flying claws! Now Li Dazui has the advantage of numbers, so they must not be allowed to use their claws to lock their chances! Otherwise, if you start a broadside battle, Liu Guangting will suffer a loss here!

Seeing the other party cut off the flying claws, the pirates were naturally unwilling to fail, and they also began to fight back! However, their weapons are very messy, with bows and arrows, crossbow arrows, firearms, and even throwing knives and axes thrown at them! So the sailors on Liu Guangting's ship also fell six

Heptad! And the pirates were not willing to lose such a good opportunity, and then they had the opportunity to fight back and threw a batch of flying claws again!

The sailors on Liu Guangting's ship resolutely fought back with firebolts and crossbow arrows, and the sailors hiding behind the cards tried to cut off every flying claw stuck on the ship! In the short time that the two sides had staggered, two fierce attacks and defenses had been carried out, and Liu Guangting had twelve or thirteen dead and wounded on the ship, and the casualties on the pirate ship opposite were at least twice as many as theirs!

Just when the ships of the two sides were about to staggered and separated, Liu Guangting's guns on the ship were finally loaded! It's a shot at the stern of the opponent's boat!

This time they did not use shotguns, but real solid bullets, aimed at the most vulnerable stern of the opposing ship! So this shell lived up to its promise and carved a hole the size of a basin in the opposing ship! The sea water immediately rushed in with the waves!

In fact, the role of artillery in naval warfare at this time was not as great as imagined! On the one hand, the black powder that is commonly used by everyone now has insufficient propulsion, coupled with the insufficient sealing of smoothbore guns, the muzzle velocity of the shells is not enough, and it is difficult for round shells to penetrate thick ship plates!

Therefore, it often happens that two fleets bombard each other for a whole day, but not a single ship sinks! Things like this were not uncommon in the days of European colonization! For example, when Spain and England went to war at the beginning, in the first few days of the war, the entire fleet was running out of gunpowder and shells, and not a single ship sank!

So it's more shotguns and chain bullets that really kill your opponent! They are extremely lethal to personnel and sail masts, and this is the real use of artillery! So in this era, although the broadside battle has begun to decline. But it is still one of the main tactics of the Navy!

It was only in the late Age of Sails, with the advent of larger caliber artillery and flowering shells, that artillery had the ability to truly destroy enemy ships! But even so, the heavy side of the ship is still difficult to break through when engaging at sea, so both sides will aim at the weak point of the other side as much as possible, and this weak point is usually the tail of the ships on both sides!