Take the arsenal to Da Ming

Chapter 172 Melee
Seeing that the opponent's warship not only was not scared off by the loss, but accelerated and approached.

Ye Dacheng didn't want to take the opportunity to expand the results of the battle, and he didn't want to give the opponent a chance to get closer. When the two sides were about two miles apart, he immediately ordered, "Turn around."

Following an order, several signal flares were successively raised over several positions of the battle line formation.

There is no way, the battle line formation, the battle line of warships one after another is too long, the position of the first ship is very important, and it almost bears the responsibility of the leader.

If it was a close combat with the opponent, it would be fine to sail around the opponent's fleet, but now Ye Dacheng did not want to engage in close combat with the opponent, but gave an order to turn around.

If it is to be conveyed verbally or by semaphore, the efficiency is too low. I am afraid that the other party has already rushed forward before the order is halfway conveyed.

The fleet is most vulnerable when it is making a major course change. Once the enemy rushes into the formation at this time, it is easy to disrupt the entire formation, and the consequences are extremely serious.

Therefore, a faster method of sending orders is particularly important. The captains of each ship knew what the signal flares represented, and immediately ordered a U-turn.

After the warships of the new army completed the U-turn, they were still in a straight line, but instead of facing Zheng Jun's navy, the stern of the ship was facing them.

Although the firepower has been weakened a lot in this way, some warships equipped with German artillery at the stern can still continue to fire.

With a sound of "boom", a large warship of the Zheng Jun Navy, which was rushing the fastest, burst into flames, and the entire capital of the ship was almost destroyed.

The flying shrapnel shot everywhere, and the captain, who was standing on the bow deck and checking the situation with binoculars, was blown out.

His body rolled several times on the deck, covered in blood, and he did not know whether he was alive or dead.

The warships of the Zheng army that were pursuing were hit one after another, and clouds of smoke mixed with fire rose up on the warships, and then burned blazingly.

After chasing for a while, he found that not only did he not close the distance, but also got farther and farther away, Zheng Zhilong angrily ordered: "Fire."

The distance of nearly three miles has exceeded the effective range of most of Zheng Jun's naval artillery. Only the red cannon can get it, and the Francophone is completely useless.

Even so, Zheng Zhilong ordered to fire to vent his anger.

"Boom boom boom..." A red-clothed cannon installed at the bow of the ship fired, and shells the size of a child's head flew out.

"Boom boom boom..." Most of the shells had almost no impact on the new army's navy, and they deviated a little far, hitting the water and raising water columns.

Only a few rounds hit the target by chance, causing varying degrees of damage to several naval warships of the new army, but none of them were major.

After a round of shooting, the reloading process was much more cumbersome than that of the new army. In addition, only large ships equipped with red cannons on the bow had the opportunity to shoot.

Therefore, from a distance, the huge fleet of the Zheng Jun Navy emitted a cloud of black smoke from the bows of each ship from time to time, indicating that the first ship had just fired a shell.

Sparse and lacking in coherence.

On the other hand, the formation of the new army showed a much faster rate of fire and strong coherence, so it seemed that the intensity of artillery fire was even greater than that of the much larger Zheng Jun navy.

After carefully observing the effect of the blow for a while, Zheng Zhilong ordered with a sullen face: "Stop chasing..."

There is no way, this kind of pursuit is too uneconomical. The new army's navy hits Zheng Jun's navy with ten shells, and Zheng Jun's navy may not be able to hit one.

Moreover, the artillery shells of the Navy of the New Army are much more powerful. As long as they hit the hull, they will be severely damaged, or damaged and sunk.

It is almost impossible for the shells of the Zheng Jun Navy to achieve this effect with one shell.

During this period of time just now, Zheng Jun Navy has damaged and sunk more than [-] warships, while the new army has none, at most only a few of them suffered minor injuries.

This consumption will only become more and more unfavorable to Zheng Jun's navy.

Therefore, Zheng Zhilong had to give up the pursuit and turn his course back to Jinmen again.

As expected, not long after sailing in the direction of Jinmen, the navy of the new army turned around and pursued again.

Ye Dacheng, taking advantage of the range of his artillery and the flexibility of his warship, adopted this shameless style of play, which really gave Zheng Zhilong a headache.

After pondering for a long time, Zheng Zhilong gritted his teeth and decided not to do anything else. He dispatched more than [-] warships as the main force to center, and then ordered the remaining nearly [-] warships to disperse as much as possible.

After the dispersal, the new army navy has no way to monitor all the warships of the Zheng army navy, so it has the opportunity to outflank the new army navy from other directions.

As long as they can catch the new navy in close combat, the other warships of Zheng Jun's navy can take this opportunity to get closer and force Ye Dacheng to fight.

However, seeing Zheng Jun's navy quickly spread out to both sides, Ye Dacheng did not seize the opportunity to attack the weak point of Zheng Jun's navy, but ordered to change course and take a detour.

After hearing the news, Zheng Zhilong did not change his strategy, but let the scout ship continue to monitor the movement of the new army's navy.

Ye Dacheng's countermeasure is very simple. No matter how Zheng Jun's navy spreads out, there will always be a limit. Then he finds the edge of Zheng Jun's navy's scattered formation, and then launches an attack.

Because Zheng Jun's navy was scattered, Ye Dacheng immediately dispatched a fleet of thirty ships, and began to form a battle line to attack the enemy warships. The closest distance was only about thirty feet.

The reason why they are posted so close is because these warships are equipped with cannons in red.

As for warships equipped with advanced artillery, those shells should be saved as much as possible, and they should be used at more critical times.

"Boom boom boom boom..." The fierce battle began, and the two sides came and went.

The fleet of the new army was a long line, swimming around the formation of Zheng Jun's navy while firing fiercely.

There is no obvious pattern in the formation of Zheng Jun's navy. No matter the size of the ship or the small ship, they all want to close the distance with the new army fleet as soon as possible.

The reason is very simple. The artillery equipped by Zheng Jun's navy is mainly Flang machine guns, and there are very few red cannons.

Even some big ships often only have one or two red cannons.

The reason for this is that these so-called big ships actually only have a few hundred materials and a displacement of more than a hundred to two hundred tons. They simply cannot be equipped with too many heavy red cannons.

The Franc machine gun is much lighter, and coupled with poor airtightness, the range is also much shorter.

In order to ensure accuracy at sea, it is natural to get as close as possible.

As for the small boats with much weaker armaments, they don't even have artillery, so they can only be used as fireboats to attack by connecting to the side.

This time, some small boats were loaded with a lot of gunpowder. They also wanted to imitate the assault boats of the new army, and planned to detonate the gunpowder behind the big ships of the new army and blow up the boats.

The navy of the new army is different. Ships with a displacement of more than [-] tons and a displacement of more than [-] tons are equipped with more than ten red cannons.

According to the caliber of the artillery, the smallest projectile weighs five catties, and the largest projectile weighs thirty catties.

The main artillery of the Zheng Jun navy is the Frang machine, the heavy projectile is only about a catty, and the smaller one is only a few taels.

Even if they were also red-clothed cannons, the red-clothed cannons of the Zheng Jun Navy were only small-caliber compared to the new army, and the shells could reach more than ten catties.

Compared with the shells of the new army, they are nothing.

However, under the heavy reward, the soldiers of Zheng Jun's navy still mustered up their courage, thinking that such a powerful Dutchman would not be defeated by them?
As long as the advanced artillery of the new army navy does not fire wildly, they are still confident in defeating this new army fleet that only has red cannons.

The battle between the two sides quickly became fierce.

(End of this chapter)