During the entire shooting process, the squadron still took some advantage. Although the squadron did not replace all new ships, all the ships used were made at the peak of national strength. Although they were old, they were still relatively strong, and their freeboards were significantly higher than those of the Shimazu Fleet.

And the most important thing is that Liu Haojia spared no effort to buy cannons and muskets for them, especially the guns were arranged a lot. Unfortunately, this old ship did not consider the gun position of the guns at all when it was built, so at most six or seven guns could be added on each ship.

Moreover, both sides are ships with relatively fast speeds, and the bumps on Shanghai are very large, and the hit rate of smoothbore guns is really regrettable, so although both sides are fighting fiercely, there are not many casualties.

But when both sides approached forty or fifty steps, casualties suddenly began to increase! Because at this distance, both bows and arrows and muskets had a certain accuracy rate, and casualties between both sides were inevitable. However, during the entire shooting process, the squadron, which had an absolute advantage in the number of firearms, had the upper hand!

At this moment, half of the navy on the right side of the Shimazu family had already reached over and tried to attack the Ming army squadron on both sides. The squadron was not willing to be outdone. While trying his best to maintain the formation, he shot to both sides as much as possible, especially the artillery never stopped!

At this time, we can see that the old ships do not have the gun deck. Since there were no gun positions when the squadron ships were manufactured, all the existing gun positions were open. Therefore, under the intensive attacks of the Japanese, the sailors in the gun positions always fell to the ground one after another! Especially the gun positions at the bow, soldiers could only use shields to cover the gunners. Even so, people were injured and dragged away from time to time!

At close range, every attack of the artillery will bring huge losses to the Japanese! Li Wenliang and Zhang Zhiyong also discovered the fact that the artillery was dominant. They immediately ordered the fleet to work hard to maintain a certain distance from the Shimazu family fleet and use artillery to consume the opponent's strength, so the two sides fought hard!

On the right side of the front line, there is another situation. Since half of the people who scored from Huashan Jiugao tried to attack the Ming navy, his right wing became very thin, less than half of the pirates. However, these pirates showed their cunning side at this time.

Without coordination, their left wing of the horizontal team actually slowed down their speed and turned the entire horizontal team into a slash. The purpose was to let the ships turning to the center of the battlefield leave. It can be seen that they did not want to fight at all!

Liu Guangting was anxious when he stood on his flagship and saw this situation, but he could not order the pirates to entangle each other! Because although he had the name of a big leader on the sea, they were just a loose alliance after all, and they were essentially fighting each other.

However, Liu Guangting still sent an order: "Accelerate! Tell the people on the left to speed up as soon as possible and surround the remaining Japanese fleet. Whoever captures the ship will be his home!"

Liu Guangting had a good idea. He wanted to use his interests to tempt the pirates to fight hard. But he overestimated the pirates after all. You should know that even regular soldiers who were negligent in training would perform better on the battlefield than a group of mobs!

Seeing that the enemy ships with superiority seemed to be trying to surround them, the Japanese commander on the right wing immediately ordered to gather together and arranged a circular formation with two Anzhai ships as the core, fully playing the role of Anzhai ship as the sea fortress!

While covering each other, the two Anzhai ships used iron cannons and large tubes to shoot long-rangely. Once the pirates approached, they would be besieged by the closed ships. The Xiaozao ship was interspersed in the fleet and would be besieged when they saw the lonely pirate ships, so they simply repelled the pirates' first attack!

At this moment, the three patrol ships that rushed out of a long distance had turned around. They raised their sails and inserted into the battle line of the Shimazu family naval army! As soon as they rushed over, artillery fired together, severely injured one of the ships and two were slightly injured!

Moreover, they rushed in very cleverly, and cut a small section directly on the flank of Shimazu family fleet! Seeing this, Liu Haojia immediately ordered his ship to go around in circles on the spot to prevent the battle lines from closing again. He ordered Ship 3 to focus on attacking the opponent's core Anzai Ship.

Liu Haojia's tactical idea is very clear, that is, rely on the firepower on his own ship to gradually divide the Shimazu family fleet, and then use them as the sea fortress as the key target of attack. As long as the Yazhai ship loses its role, they can rely on the ship's quality advantages to gradually defeat their opponents!

After receiving the order, the third patrol ship directly adjusted its route and rushed towards the Shimazu family fleet. Zhang Zhiyong applauded repeatedly when he saw this and immediately divided two warships to pick up the patrol ships and guarded the stern of the patrol ships to prevent Japanese ships from approaching.

After rushing into the Shimazu family naval army, the No. 3 patrol ship immediately turned around and circled around an Anzhai ship, constantly bombarding! And he also used the most primitive arson bomb!

This primitive arson shell is very simple. It is to place a solid shell in a charcoal furnace and burn it red, then add a piece of cork to the gunpowder in the barrel, and then load the red shell into it to prevent the shell from igniting the fire of the spray.

However, at this time the gunners must shoot out the shell as soon as possible, otherwise the heat from the shell itself will easily ignite the launcher.

After this shell is shot out, it lands on the other party's ship. If no one notices it or rolls into a corner, it will ignite the boards soon! If you are lucky and land directly on the powder barrel, it will be a shocking explosion!

Although the Anzhai ship was severely hit, they did not give up the counterattack! The soldiers in the cabin shouted horns and rowed the oars, trying to get close to the patrol ship! The Guan and Xiaozai ships around it kept harassing each other, trying to slow down the patrol ships.

At the same time, they kept gathering to throw flying claws on the Ming army ship, hoping to enter the boarding battle as soon as possible. However, even if the flying claws successfully caught the cruise ship, they would be quickly cut off by the soldiers with swords and axes! They have dozens of cannons in their homes, and they will only fight the boarding battle with you if their brains are broken!

Moreover, the patrol ship hit the stern of a small morning ship during its operation! The heavy hull directly crushed the thin stern of a small morning ship to pieces! After the patrol ship passed, the unlucky little morning ship sank on the sea surface, leaving only some soldiers on the sea swimming towards their own ships!
Chapter completed!