In the whole process of firing, the detachment still took some advantage. Although not all of the ships used by the detachment were replaced with new ones, all the ships used today were built at the height of the country's power, and although they are old, they are still relatively strong, and the freeboard is significantly higher than that of the ships of the Shimazu fleet.

And the most important thing is that Liu Haojia spared no expense to buy artillery and guns for them, especially the artillery was arranged a lot. Unfortunately, such old ships were built without regard to the gun emplacements, so a maximum of six or seven guns could be added to each ship.

Moreover, both sides are relatively fast ships, and the sea turbulence is also very large, and the hit rate of the smoothbore guns is really regrettable, so although the two sides fought hotly, there were not many casualties.

But when the two sides got closer to forty or fifty paces, the casualties suddenly began to increase! Because at this distance, both bows and arrows and firearms have a certain accuracy rate, and casualties on both sides are inevitable. However, in the whole process of firing, it was the detachment that had the absolute advantage in the number of firearms that had the upper hand!

At this moment, half of the forces of the Shimazu family's right naval division had already come over, trying to flank the Ming army detachment on both sides, and the detachment was not to be outdone, and while trying its best to maintain the formation, it fired as much as possible on both sides, especially the artillery never stopped!

That's when you see the disadvantages of the old ships without the gun deck! Since the ships of the detachment were rebuilt without firing emplacements, the existing emplacements were all in the open air. So under the intensive blows of the Japanese people, the sailors of the gun position always fell to the ground one after another! Especially the gun emplacements in the bow, the gunners that the soldiers could only cover with shields. Even so, from time to time someone gets injured and dragged away!

And at close range, every attack by the artillery will bring huge losses to the Japanese people! And Li Wenliang and Zhang Zhiyong also discovered the fact that artillery was superior, and they immediately ordered the fleet to try to keep a certain distance from the Shimazu fleet, and use artillery to consume the strength of the other party, so the two sides fought inextricably!

On the right side of the battle line, it was a different story. Since half of the men separated by Hisataka tried to flank the Ming navy, his right flank became very thin, less than half the number of pirates. But the pirates showed their cunning side at this time.

The left flank of their horizontal formation, without coordination, actually slowed down the speed of the whole horizontal formation, turning the entire horizontal column into a diagonal state, in order to let the ships that turned to the center of the battlefield leave. It can be seen that they don't want to fight a tough battle at all!

Liu Guangting was also anxious when he saw this situation standing on his flagship, but he couldn't order those pirates to entangle each other! Because although he has the name of a great dragon leader on the sea, they are only a loose alliance after all, and they are still fighting separately in essence.

However, Liu Guangting still gave the order and said, "Speed up! Tell the men on the left flank to speed up as soon as possible, surround the remaining fleet of Japanese people, and whoever shoots down the ship will belong to whoever!"

Liu Guangting's idea is very good, he wants to use his interests to tempt the pirates to fight hard. But he overestimated the pirates after all. You must know that even a poorly trained regular army soldier is better on the battlefield than a rabble!

Seeing that the superior enemy ships seemed to be trying to outflank them, the Japanese commander on the right flank immediately ordered to assemble and arranged a circle formation with two Ataku ships as the core, giving full play to the role of the Ataku ship as a sea fortress!

While covering each other, the two Ataka ships use iron cannons and large barrels to shoot at long range, and if the pirates get close, they will be besieged by the ship. The small morning boat is interspersed in the fleet, and when it sees a lone pirate ship, it will besiege it, so it simply repels the pirates' first attack!

At this moment, the three cruisers that rushed out of a long distance had already turned around, and they puffed up their sails and smashed into the battle line of the Shimazu family's naval army! As soon as they rushed over, the artillery fired in unison, severely damaging one ship and lightly injuring two!

And they rushed in very cleverly, cutting a small section directly on the flank of the Shimazu family's fleet! Seeing this, Liu Haojia immediately ordered his ship and the No. 2 ship to circle in place to prevent the battle line from re-closing. Order the No. 3 ship to focus on attacking the opponent's core Ataka ship.

Liu Haojia's tactical thinking is very clear

Indeed, it was to rely on the firepower of their own ships to gradually divide the Shimazu fleet, and then use their Ataka ships, which were sea fortresses, as the focus of attack. As long as the Ataka ship is no longer effective, they can rely on the quality advantage of the ship to gradually defeat the opponent!

Seeing this, Zhang Zhiyong applauded again and again, and immediately dispatched two warships to meet the cruiser and guard the stern of the cruiser to prevent the Japanese ships from approaching.

Cruiser No. 3 immediately turned around after rushing into the Shimazu family's naval forces, circling around an Ataka ship and shelling non-stop! And he also used the most primitive arson bombs!

This primitive arson shell was as simple as putting a solid shell in a charcoal furnace and burning it red, then adding a piece of cork to the gunpowder inside the barrel, and then loading the red-hot shell into it to prevent the temperature of the shell from igniting the propellant.

However, at this time, the gunners must shoot the shell as soon as possible, otherwise the heat of the red shell itself will easily ignite the propellant.

These shells hit the enemy ship and if no one notices it, or roll into a corner, it won't take long for the planks to ignite! If you're lucky enough to land directly on the powder keg, it's a shocking explosion!

Although the Ataka ship was severely hit, they did not give up fighting back! The soldiers in the cabin shouted trumpets and rowed their oars, trying to get close to the cruiser! The Seki and Kozao boats that were cruising around it also continued to harass them, trying to slow down the cruiser.

At the same time, they also kept gathering and throwing flying grabs at the Ming army's ship, wanting to enter the broadside battle as soon as possible. However, even if there is a flying catch that successfully catches the cruiser, it will be quickly cut off by the soldiers with knives and axes! I have dozens of artillery pieces at home, and I have a bad brain to fight with you!

And the cruiser also hit the stern of a small morning boat while it was in action! The heavy hull directly crushed the thin stern of the small hayafune! The hapless little morning boat swirled around the surface of the sea after the cruiser had passed, leaving only some soldiers on the surface to swim to their own boat!