Li Zhixiang said with a firm face: "We Cheng Shuai have said that we would rather let the tiger return to the mountain than harm the tiger's power. It doesn't matter whether it is Zheng Zhilong or Zheng Zhihu. Only Cheng Shuai is in the eyes of a certain family!"

"Fighting against Zheng Zhilong's people is not in the interests of our Ning Haijun. Besides, our strength is too weak. Even if we have more than 300 ships, it is not enough in front of Zheng Zhilong!"

Shen Shikui has also heard about Zheng Zhilong's strength. Their infantry is far inferior to that of Ning Haijun. But the problem is that his navy has too many troops. He has more than 3,000 large and small warships, which is almost ten times that of Ning Haijun. Among them,

There are still more than 800 black-tailed ships. However, the Ning Navy has only four warships that can fight against the black-tailed ships. They only have the Four King Kongs and the fifteen new ships built by Sun Yuanhua. Together, they are less than a fraction of the Zheng Group's.

Li Zhixiang said: "This is something Cheng Shuai needs to consider. There is only one thing I need to consider!"

"What?"

"Kill these little dwarves!"

The warships of both sides rushed towards each other, and the distance between the ships of the two sides was getting bigger and bigger. These little samurai were waving their samurai swords, shouting, and preparing to join gangs to fight.

However, just as he entered the range of 500 meters, Li Zhixiang felt a little strange. The artillery loaded on these black-tailed boats was British-made artillery, with a range of 700 to 800 steps.

Li Zhixiang understood that the other party wanted to capture the battleship.

"Yonglai!"

"Father!"

Li Zhixiang said: "Take the people to the cabin and make preparations. If we can't stop them and blow up the ship, we can't leave it to them!"

"But……"

"Stop talking nonsense and execute the order!"

Three hundred meters, at this distance, Kato Kiyohei ordered: "Everyone, prepare to lower the sail..."

Before he could finish his words, a three-inch smoothbore breech-loaded shell fell on the deck of a black-tailed boat. A huge orange-red fireball rose into the sky, and the shock wave of the shell was like an invisible big hand.

, dozens of Japanese pirates were shattered to pieces on the spot, the rigging was torn off, the mast was pushed down, and the gunpowder barrels piled near the gun position exploded with a bang. You must know that this was hundreds of kilograms of black powder, and it exploded into pieces.

Flying, the entire black-tailed warship was shot into flames in the blink of an eye!

"Qinwu Hao" is finished.

The Chibu No. of Akahoshi Chibu, one of Kato's sixteen generals, burst into flames and exploded repeatedly. There were shrill screams inside, and many young samurai who were on fire jumped into the sea.

Kato Kiyohei was stunned.

Morimoto was stunned for a long time.

"How is this going?"

A single shot can kill a black-tailed ship. This is a warship of more than 600 tons. In its young days, it was already a giant ship. Not to mention a single shot, even if dozens of cannonballs hit it, there is no big problem.

You must know that in the Battle of Liaoluo Bay, Zheng Zhibao's black-tailed boat rushed the fastest and was directly hit by twenty or thirty artillery shells. One of the forty-eight-pound shells directly broke the main mast and killed thirty people with one shot.

There were many people, but the ship still had no big problems and persisted until the end of the battle.

Before they could react, the artillerymen of the Ning Navy Navy continued to fire artillery shells. This time it was a salvo of four artillery pieces. However, due to the effect of wind and waves, none of the four artillery pieces hit the target. Before the smoke from these four artillery pieces cleared,

After all, the other four artillery pieces fired another salvo.

The Ning Navy warship turned around quickly with a horizontal movement, and the eight guns on the side opened fire in sequence. In the second round of artillery bombardment, another shell hit this time, hitting the "Nine Ghosts" black-tailed boat.

Fortunately, Cheng Shijie was not present, otherwise he would have scolded his mother directly. You know, the twenty-four cannons on this new ship fired more than forty shells in a short period of time, but only two hit, with a hit rate of only 100.

Divide into about five.

However, Cheng Shijie actually didn't know that this was already a very high target rate. During the naval battle between the British and the Spanish Armada, more than 4,000 artillery pieces of the Spanish Armada began to fire. For a while, the sound of the cannons was loud, like lightning.

Thunder, extraordinary momentum.

However, after all the excitement, not a single British warship was hit, let alone sunk. This is why the hit rate of naval battles was extremely poor before the invention of the artillery gyroscope.

Because the waves will cause the battleship's artillery to float up, down, left, and right irregularly, as the saying goes, a slight difference can make a thousand miles, so it is actually very difficult to hit the target on the sea.

I don’t know whether it was too close or just too lucky. The shells from Ning Haijun’s naval gun exploded at the waterline. A large hole of two to three meters was blown out of the "Nine Ghosts". Under the strong water pressure, the seawater suddenly exploded.

The wooden hull of the "Nine Ghosts" was torn apart, and seawater poured in, creating chaos.

At this time, under the eyes of the little Japanese samurai, Ning Haijun's battleship completed the U-turn, and the two tail guns fired again.

Although there were not many cannons on this Ming warship, the rate of fire was very fast. A mere twenty-four cannons fired with the power of hundreds of cannons.

The Ning Navy battleships didn't care what the samurai thought. They retreated and fired at the same time. At this time, the advantage of the fast firing rate of the breech-mounted smoothbore artillery was fully demonstrated.

In particular, Ning Haijun's naval guns fired explosive shells. You must know that the fastest thing about a wooden sailboat is not the damage caused by the solid shells, but the fire caused by the explosive shells.

After losing four battleships, Morimoto finally realized something was wrong: "Retreat!"

He couldn't care less about the four merchant ships.

However, it's too late to run away now.

Li Zhixiang realized that the combat effectiveness of this new ship was so powerful. Even with a pair of seventeen, it could defeat the small pirates steadily.

Just like Cheng Shijie, he never knows how to give up when he is ready. He can kill the opponent and will never let go of a little warrior.

"Turn around, turn around now, catch up!"

Li Zhixiang smiled and said: "We brothers have not done any meritorious service. We have long disliked those infantrymen!"

In fact, under Ning Haijun's military system, the only way to get promoted and make a fortune was to kill the enemy and perform meritorious service.

"Sir Emon, that Ming warship is catching up again!"

"Don't be afraid, it's getting dark soon, and our chance is here!"
Chapter completed!