"Damn it! These dogs actually want to escape? Can you escape from our entire army?"

"If you want to escape, you don't have any doors or even windows!"

The commander of the East China Sea Fleet, Zhong Chuxiang and Wu Xilin, were just about to order the soldiers to catch turtles in the jar, but a change occurred.

Before the soldiers started to act, they discovered three large armed merchant ships, and suddenly set sail and rushed towards a gap in the encirclement.

Furious Zhong Qiuxiang immediately ordered the ten leopard cruisers on the last side to pursue immediately and intercept all pirate ships who wanted to escape from the outside of the bay.

The ten leopard cruisers who received the order ignored the other ships and ran straight towards Liang Yi, Wang Qiang and Mazichen's three ships.

"Damn it! These strange warships are so fast? How can you escape like this?"

Liang Yi and the other two were immediately stunned! Now that they wanted to escape with their men, they would undoubtedly seek death if they wanted to escape under the encirclement of more than a dozen extremely fast warships of the enemy!

"Leave the fleet and accelerate with all your might!"

For the sake of the present, we can only rely on extremely skilled skills to drive the warship and escape with all our might.

The three large armed merchant ships that were originally in the forefront instantly left the fleet, began to detour, and speeded towards the edge of the bay.

This scene was in chaos and was not discovered by most pirates, so the pirates' resistance to break through and escape continued, and did not collapse and surrender immediately.

"Damn it! I'll chase you!" The soldiers on the ten large warships were furious and immediately accelerated, chasing them reluctantly.

As it turns out, even if the pirates who sailed at sea were skilled in operating the ships, their pirate ships would not be able to beat these leopard cruisers anyway.

The distance between the two sides is slowly getting closer and the distance from the encirclement is getting farther and farther away.

But it is obvious that in less than a quarter of an hour, the three pirate leaders will be caught up.

In fact, if it weren't for the three big ships that wanted to capture the other side, the soldiers would have fired fire and sank them one by one at such a close distance, so how could these guys run away?

When I saw ten leopard cruisers, I was already chasing the enemy, and the other party could not escape no matter what.

Zhong Chuxiang no longer delayed, and he immediately issued a battle order.

A messenger beside him immediately picked up the only three tweeter of the entire fleet and shouted at the sailboat on the mast: "The vanguard squadron obeys the order, and the fleet cuts into the enemy group to the left!..."

He conveyed Zhong Qiuxiang's orders to the flagship sailor.

The sail driver, who was lying on the mast, immediately waved the two small flags in his hand vigorously and conveyed the order in the form of flag words.

The remaining twenty Leopard Cruiser Forward Squadrons, all sail drivers stared at their flagships. When they saw the swaying flags, they immediately shouted below and informed the captain of the ship of their orders.

The ten leopard cruisers of the forward fleet immediately began to turn slightly, and sped at a very fast speed, like a sharp knife, stabbing straight to a gap on the left side of the oncoming pirate fleet.

"The second batch of ten leopard cruisers are ready to launch an attack and divide the enemy!"

At this time, Zhong Qiuxiang's order came again. He obviously wanted to use the 200 large and small pirate ships of this group of pirates to conduct a practical training.

Before going south to fight, it is necessary to have a warm-up battle so that the soldiers of the East China Sea Fleet can experience a somewhat large-scale naval battle.

Otherwise, when they came up, the soldiers of the Royal Navy would have long since fired their cannons, flooding this small bay with cannon fire.

With the flagship's combat order issued, ten Leopard cruisers of the temporary second squadron also began to accelerate into the harbor and prepare to join the battle sequence.

The first batch of soldiers from the fronts of the warships who entered the enemy formation immediately executed the order without fail.

Led by a leopard cruiser at the forefront, he spotted a gap on the left side of the group of pirate ships and penetrated straight through.

The pirate leader on the pirate ship in the front was a big man with a beard. He had just taken his men to board the Shanghai ship.

At this time, he stood at the stern of the boat, staring at the Ming Dynasty fleet running straight towards him, his scalp suddenly became a little numb, and his heart suddenly rose.

Because he also saw this loophole in his fleet, he saw that the other party was staring at the gap and inserted it in one go, leaving him no chance at all.

The result is obvious. If the ship that was about to start a breakthrough was cut into by the warship of the imperial royal fleet, it would be immediately divided into two and would no longer be a whole fleet.

The part that was split will become the other party's key target of siege. They have just boarded the ship and are ready to escape, and they are not prepared at all and cannot rescue them.

"Ah! Hurry up, raise the sail..."

The pirate leader exclaimed in surprise and immediately ordered the distance between the fleet and the ships, and tried to block the gap so as not to be cut open and encircled by the Ming Dynasty fleet.

At that time, your own fleet will probably not even be able to move, let alone escape.

The leaders of these thieves have now rushed to the pirate ship they were riding in.

For a moment, everyone was busy raising anchors and raising sails, and there was no time to make an effective response.

The leopard cruiser that led the way, under the control of the East China Sea Fleet soldiers, had plunged into the gap between their pirate ships like a shark that smelled blood.

"boom!"

"Boom boom!"...

Only a series of roars were heard. When I saw these bandits and pirates, I had no intention of raising the flag to surrender. The soldiers did not quit and started firing artillery.

The leading warships rushed into the pirates' fleet one after another.

The moment each warship and the warships of the pirates on both sides were running in parallel, they all fired enough to fire the Shenwei General cannons on the ship toward the nearby pirate ship.

This kind of fighting style is somewhat like a battleship duel in the 20th century.

However, it was just a bit similar. One side did not have a cannon, but was just being beaten passively and could not resist at all.

The huge gap that the pirates were torn open by the imperial fleet, and more than a dozen pirate ships in front of them were included in the target of attack by the Royal Navy soldiers, which was considered a big disaster.

The leopard cruisers that passed by quickly and quickly gave these pirates no chance to breathe. The fierce artillery fire shot towards them one after another.

Moreover, the two sides are now very close, and there is almost no possibility of emptying.

Most of the seventeen or eighteen outermost pirate ships were blown and sunk by a round of artillery bombardment. Although the remaining two or three pirate ships were not sunk, they were beaten to pieces and could not even sail.

Regarding the artillery art of naval battles, Zhong Chuxiang and Chief of Staff Wu Xilin, the two convened all the staff members of the General Staff. After repeated unremitting research and experiments, they found that there are two types of artillery artillery methods suitable for their fleet naval battles.

One is the most common one. Each gun on a warship aims at its own target and is operated and fired by the gunners in their own gun positions, commonly known as free shooting.

The second one is relatively rare, which is to aim at one cannon, and other cannons are fired with reference to this cannon, commonly known as quasi-volley.

Because in this era, there are no high-tech equipment such as electronic control aiming, it is impossible to fire volleys at the same time, so it can only be called a quasi-volley.

Free shooting requires all gunners to have high requirements, and all gunners are required to master the various shooting parameters and be able to adjust them in a timely manner according to the target.

The requirement for quasi-volley is relatively low. As long as an excellent gunner sets the shooting parameters, the other gunners can copy and process them according to this parameter.

This shooting method greatly reduces the technical requirements for the gunner.

It helps to help the Royal East China Sea Fleet get rid of insufficient actual combat experience in a short period of time. The navy soldiers are still very immature and unstable in combat power, greatly enhancing the fleet's shelling power.

Normally, as long as a warship has three skilled gunners, it basically meets the needs of fleet volleys.

Thirty years ago, the decisive battle between the Royal British Fleet and the Invincible Spanish Fleet, and Spain had much more skilled gunners than the British Fleet.

However, in the end, the Spanish Invincible Fleet was defeated by the Royal Fleet.

One of the important reasons is that the Royal Fleet adopted this quasi-volley method, which effectively made up for the number and quality of gunners.

When the battle reached a stalemate, after the gunners of the Spanish Invincible Fleet lost part of the gunners, the shelling effect was greatly reduced, while the skilled gunners of the British Royal Fleet suffered little loss.

One rises and the other falls, and the British Royal Fleet slowly gains the upper hand and finally wins.

After careful research, the officers' regiment of the Royal East China Sea Fleet of the Ming Dynasty finally decided to implement a quasi-volley shooting method.

A most wise gunner is responsible for determining the parameters, and the other gunners will all refer to the parameters of this gunner to shoot.

In other words, other gunners have no autonomy for the time being.

What they want to do is mechanical actions, setting the shooting angle and orientation of the cannon according to the shooting parameters continuously sent by the messengers and observers.

Then just fire the gun and shoot blindly.

As long as you find the first wave of artillery shooting point and form the basic parameters, other cannons can use this parameter to shoot.

Generally speaking, as long as the appropriate shelling parameters are found, the hit rate of the fleet's volley can be greatly improved.

Once the Ming Dynasty Royal Fleet, which has absolute speed and absolute firepower, once it skillfully adopts this method of cannon volley, it will be a huge crushing advantage for the enemies of this era.
Chapter completed!