Liu Li's Dinghai No. 1 ship was entangled with the enemy's flagship, but the two three-masted warships he brought over were in trouble.

When the enemy rushed over, it was in a column.

When Liu Li and his three warships rushed towards the enemy, they were in a zigzag shape, and Liu Li acted as an arrow to take the lead in meeting the enemy.

Of the two three-masted warships behind, only one on the right flank was able to maintain course, crossed Liu Li's Dinghai No. 1 ship, and began to intercept the two three-masted warships behind the enemy's flagship, ensuring that Liu Li's Dinghai No. 1 ship was not flanked.

However, the three-masted warships on Liu Li's left flank had to bypass the battlefield and go around in a big circle to reach the front and cooperate with the other two warships to intercept the enemy.

It takes time, and time is of the essence on the battlefield.

The right-wing ship stopped the enemy's second-position ship, and the two sides immediately fought fiercely. Two rounds of shelling in a row, with no gains on either side, and a tie was fought.

At such an instant, the enemy's third-position warship had already swooped up and launched a surprise attack from the right side of Liu Li's right-wing ship, and a mast was instantly broken.

Liu Li's right-wing ship suddenly swayed violently, suddenly lost its due speed, and was hit in the ribs by the enemy's third round of artillery in the second position.

The cabin began to flood.

It was at this time that Liu Li's left-wing ship arrived at the battlefield and launched a decisive counterattack against the enemy's No. 3 warship, which also lifted the stern of the enemy ship.

Then rush to the enemy's side and use deck guns to strike the tail of the enemy ship, while using crossbow arrows to fire rockets to burn the sails of the enemy ship.

This round of raids was supposed to be just right, forcing the enemy's ships in position 3 to retreat.

However, Liu Li's right-wing ship, which had been damaged by Yanzhòng, made a decision that stunned both the enemy and us: use the remaining two masts to move forward with full sails and directly ram the enemy's second-position warship.

The two warships are about the same size, and once they collide together, they will end up together.

The enemy ship saw that it could not escape for the time being, and all the guns fired desperately, hoping to sink the enemy ship before it collided.

However, Liu Li's right-wing ship was already determined to collide, so it rushed straight towards the enemy ship, and the bomb area was greatly reduced.

Although the bow of the ship was hit by enemy shells in a row, and even the first mast was smashed again, the fate of the collision of the two ships remained unchanged.

The bow of Liu Li's right-wing ship directly hit the ribs of the enemy ship, and the second-rank battleship of the British fleet was overturned on the spot, and it immediately turned to the sky.

Zhong Guozhu's Dangkou No. 1 ship (Admiral) was only half a step late, and Liu Li's Dinghai No. 1 ship was already entangled with the enemy's flagship.

The enemy and us suddenly burst into fire, and the iron balls flew wildly, and no one dared to lean on lightly.

It was at this moment that Zhong Guozhu found that one of his warships had collided with the enemy.

Although the enemy's warship was knocked over, because its own damage was too severe, especially the bow of the ship had been completely scrapped, plus the weight of forty-two guns of various types, the stern suddenly warped, and the entire warship plunged into the depths of the sea!

It's hopeless!

The three-masted warship of the Xiong family's army, with a capacity of 422 people, was all brought into the depths of the sea, and Zhong Guozhu cried bitterly at that time.

More than 400 brothers were killed in the battle, but the battle was not over, and the officers and men of the naval division were even more angry.

Without waiting for Zhong Guozhu to give the order, the No. 1 ship of Dangkou had already used its maximum speed to kill the enemy's No. 3 warship.

This time, it was a big meal for a small one, so the officers and men on the ship did not have the slightest worry, that is, they wanted to completely sink the enemy's No. 3 warship and bury their brothers!

As the commander of a fleet and with a heavy mission, Captain Weddell saw that the enemy was all desperately stance, and immediately retreated, and it directly turned into a new operation.

U-turn and run away!

Everyone is a five-masted warship, and if one side in the depths of the sea doesn't care about anything and must desperately escape, you can only stare dryly.

As soon as the flagship fled, the rest of the enemy's ships turned around and fled.

However, the enemy's third-position warship did not have such good luck, because Liu Li's left-wing ship was close to the entanglement, so that the enemy could not complete the turn at all.

With this kung fu, not only Zhong Guozhu's Dangkou No. 1 ship came up, but also Liu Lidinghai's No. 1 ship, which had lost its opponent, also came up.

Two five-masted warships and a three-masted warship formed an encirclement, and the enemy's third-ranked warship had become a turtle in an urn.

Ramming an enemy ship is not something that you can do, but the enemy will do it.

Captain Weddell ran away, and his three-position ship, seeing that there was no hope of escape, crashed into his opponent with full sails: the three-masted warship.

"Fire!"

Zhong Guozhu's Dangkou No. 1 was the first to be within range, and after a full right rudder, the hull of the ship was horizontal, and the fourteen five-inch guns in the bilge fired the first round of shells.

Liu Li's warship was originally very close to the battlefield, and almost no one round of shells was fired.

Under the cover bombardment of twenty-five five-inch guns, the enemy's No. 3 battleship was suddenly broken into two sections.

The moment he was about to crash into his own three-masted warship, the enemy's warship was finished. The same heavy artillery, with two halves of the hull, sank into the depths of the sea.

The bear water storage division, which had no experience in sea operations, once again suffered a bloody lesson.

The first action that the three-masted warship, which had already been relieved by the two main warships, was to let the warship move forward at full speed and leave the wreck site quickly.

However, almost everyone did not know what would happen to the sinking of the enemy's ships beside them.

The officers and men of the three-masted warship, who had just escaped the catastrophe, were in the mood to watch the enemy sink to the bottom of the sea one by one.

Disaster has finally happened!

As the enemy ship sank, a huge whirlpool appeared on the sea, and the three-masted warship suddenly spun rapidly around the whirlpool, and the helmsman could not stabilize the hull at all, let alone break away from the traction of the whirlpool's centripetal force.

It only lasted less than two breaths, and with a bang, the warship capsized!

If it is on the surface of an inland river or in a lake, because the water depth is not large, it is only a warship that overturns, and it can still rescue people who have fallen into the water.

This is the depths of the sea, the water depth is at least hundreds of zhang, and the huge whirlpool is a monster that devours a qiē!

The three-masted warship, no more than twelve zhang long, was upside down in the center of the whirlpool, but instead caused the whirlpool to form a vacuum acceleration process.

Although the warship had not yet been sucked in, the people on board could no longer withstand the huge attraction of the centripetal force, and as a result, more than 400 people were once again wiped out!

Two consecutive tragedies happened vividly in front of them, and Zhong Guozhu, Liu Li, and all the officers and soldiers were stunned.

Without advanced instructors, without advanced sailing experience, all Yiqiē needs to use blood lessons to interpret what is called cruel reality.

Zhong Guozhu grew up in the Yellow River since he was a child, and of course he has seen the huge whirlpool of the Yellow River.

But what happened today completely subverted all his cognitions.

The average wooden boat may capsize, and it may float on the water with its bottom facing upside down.

But the warship was different, it was equipped with dozens of cannons, as well as iron balls and lead balls prepared for battle, which almost exceeded the weight of the warship.

Once the ship enters the water and sinks, the speed of its fall will become faster and faster, and a huge whirlpool will be formed.

It's a pity that no one told the young officers and soldiers of the sailors about this common sense, because no one had seen it.

This earth-shattering sea battle was the maiden battle of the Xiong family's naval division, and it was also a bloody lesson that everyone could not forget.

This sea battle lasted for an hour, and two ships were sunk on both sides, and the losses were basically equal.

Originally, the Xiong family's army and sailors should have been able to achieve better results by fighting more and less, but unfortunately, because of the sinking of two warships, more than 700 people were killed, which made the later one qiē meaningless.

There is still meaning, but Zhong Guozhu and all the officers and soldiers think that there is no meaning in the slightest.

This means that the seven merchant ships that have not had time to escape have been captured.

Although the lesson was great, it was a victory.

Two of the enemy's warships sank, and the remaining four warships fled, leaving the merchant ships and fleeing on their own, which was a victory.

Moreover, seven merchant ships were captured and more than three hundred people were taken prisoner, and no one could deny this victory.

Xiong Chu received the battle report, although he was in pain, but he could not deny this victory.

Not only can it not be denied, but it is also necessary to add awards, and it is necessary to inform the whole army and, more importantly, the enemy, the battle situation!

Although one British fleet was repulsed, the other fleet, which the Portuguese and Dutch had gathered from Batavia and Borneo, was now under the cities of Sakang and Bago.

It is precisely because of the rampant enemy warships that Yang Hu and Acuori have not occupied Shakang City and Bago City so far, which means that the third battle has not ended.

The battle continued, and Zhong Guozhu and his officers and men of the Naval Division had no time to grieve.

According to the order of Prince Xiong, Zhong Guozhu led the fleet to press the captured British merchant ships and prisoners of war, returned to the naval base for a little replenishment, and then embarked on a new journey.

The combined fleet of Portugal and the Netherlands now has 19 warships gathered in Motama Bay, of which six warships have gone up the river to assist in the defense of Shakang and Bago.

Three days later, Zhong Guozhu's fleet appeared twenty miles west of the mouth of the Shakang River, and the Portuguese and Dutch finally became nervous.

This is no ordinary nervousness.

Because at the beginning, the Portuguese and Dutch thought that the British fleet had come, because the seven merchant ships in front of them were flying the British St. George trade flag.

However, the battleships "escorting" on both sides of the merchant ship turned out to be a Dutchman battleship, the "Admiral".

The battleship Admiral, which had already been captured by the damned Ming army, suddenly appeared here, which immediately made the Dutch on the opposite side startled, angry, and angry.

No matter how the enemy warships on the opposite side reacted, Zhong Guozhu finally understood the importance of the warship array after a real sea battle.

So this time there was no blind movement, but a column was deployed, and seventeen battleships opened a long defensive line, advancing in unison and slowly pressing towards the enemy.

According to Xiong Chu's order, this time there should be no face-to-face battles as much as possible, because the number of warships on both sides is about the same, and even more enemies.

First of all, let the Portuguese and Dutch know that the Britons have been defeated, and give the enemy a psychological shadow.

Then use a step-by-step squeeze tactic to create strong psychological pressure on the enemy.

The only purpose was to force the enemy to retreat, and take the initiative to give up the cities of Shakang and Bago, thus ending the third campaign.

Zhong Guozhu also knew that his sailors had just been formed, and after a bloody battle, he needed time to sum up, and at the same time, he also needed to communicate with the shipyard craftsmen to further improve his warship.

After a stalemate of three days, the Portuguese and Dutch finally could not hold on and were forced to retreat.

During the enemy's retreat, Zhong Guozhu did not press forward step by step, but stuck to the same position to keep the formation intact, he was worried that the enemy would make trouble.

Because Mao Mindang reminded that the enemy can only retreat through the Strait of Malacca, and this place is not carefully explored, and it is better not to go deep into this place, which is full of traps.

However, a series of actions by Wan Lian's military division on the Eastern Front forced Zhong Guozhu to quickly change his original intention.

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