When Chen Li ordered that the warships leave the merchant ship, the fastest way to leave was naturally to sail in staggered directions.

Merchant ships go south and warships go north naturally, so that they can get out faster.

But at this time, Chen Li ordered to retreat and needed to turn around. Could it be that he would go north and go to the Duanzhoushan Navy's nest?

Chen Li was not so arrogant that she used sixteen warships to attack Zhoushan Navy.

But the problem is that the merchant ship is heading south, while the Zheng family fleet that is leaving north needs to turn around.

what happens?

Naturally, it was blocked by merchant ships, and it was enough time to stop it calmly.

When the Zheng family fleet was dispatched to retreat south, they found that the merchant ship had also turned around.

Logically, the turn-around speed of warships is faster than that of merchant ships.

But at this time, these merchant ships were not loaded at all, they were loading empty wooden boxes, and there were only one hundred musketeers on each ship.

If you don’t have deep water, it’s easy to turn around.

Moreover, the warship had to turn 180 degrees, and the merchant ship had to turn half of the head, ninety degrees, and then it was horizontally facing the bow of the warship.

Therefore, the merchant ship is faster than the Zheng family warship.

Chen Li was not panicked after hearing this, and even felt the feeling and impulse to be abused.

Dare to stop my warship?

Are you not afraid that I will knock you into two pieces?!

That's right. Warships and merchant ships collided in this way, and most of the merchant ships broke in the middle.

Chen Li quickly ordered, accelerated, and ran over!

But is this really the case? The people on the merchant ship are so stupid?

At this time, Chen Li could clearly see with her naked eyes that many soldiers crawled out of the wooden boxes from the dozen horizontal merchant ships, holding one by one wooden board, jumping into the sea from the other side of the merchant ship.

What is this to do? Chen Li was stunned. It turned out that she knew that the merchant ship could not stop the warship and chose to jump into the sea to escape?

Think about it, it’s right. I want to stop it with an empty ship, but is this useful?

Soon, Chen Li knew the answer.

The soldiers jumped into the sea and swam towards the merchant ship behind.

Chen Li was surprised, but was not afraid. In his opinion, it was nothing more than the other party who wanted to stop him, but he knew that he couldn't stop him.

The warship crashed straight past, and the losses would not be too great. As for these people, Chen Li didn't have time to pay attention to it. If she escaped, she would run away.

At this time, it was close to less than a nautical mile.

At this time, a merchant ship suddenly "boomed" and exploded.

The violent explosion caused the merchant ship to be almost bounced from the sea, and then broke in the waist, smashing into the sea with a bang, and countless debris burst into the sky.

Chen Li suddenly realized that these merchant ships were loaded with huge amounts of gunpowder. If they hit them, they would not have to explode immediately?

You know, even the new warship purchased by Wu Zheng from Europe at this time was also a sailing ship, made of wooden ones, and it was just a layer of iron plate wrapped in the critical parts of the ship. It was impossible to withstand such an explosion of intensity, let alone the wooden warships of the Zheng family decades ago.

This consciousness made Chen Li shout hysterically, "Cheer the flag language... turn... no, lower the sails immediately! Stop the boat!"

If you don't stop the ship quickly, you may not be able to avoid turning.

Previously, Chen Li ordered the acceleration to hit the merchant ship, and the speed of the warship had been increased to the extreme.

But at this time, by rudder steering, such distances and inertia will definitely not be avoided.

Chen Li finally got right for a while, and the sixteen warships stopped forcibly under Chen Li's flag order.

But the closest warship to the merchant ship is less than five feet away.

If the power of the previous explosion was sufficient to affect this warship.

But before Chen Li could breathe a sigh of relief, the fleet that could only see a line of ships in the distance had already appeared not far away.

Chen Li could even see the black pirate flag hanging on the heads of several warships (Wu Zheng was frightened and regarded the East China Sea as the Caribbean Sea).

Chen Li is very familiar with this flag, Wang Deren's fleet.

But hasn’t Wang Deren been wiped out by the Wusong Navy?

Chen Li felt cold in her heart. He knew that she would not be able to go back today. Since this black pirate flag appeared here and Wang Deren was no longer there, then who would be the owner of this fleet? The answer was about to come out.

The opposite warship has formed an oblique insertion into its own channel. The fleet is transversely lined with a ship line compared to the direction it is moving forward. The enemy's ship's side is facing its bow, and there are fires on one or another, like a cat playing with a mouse under its claws.

But Chen Li knew that the other party was ready to shoot a volley.

When a shell hit the water less than ten feet from Chen Li's flagship ship's bow, and the water from the water column watered the entire bow, Chen Li ordered - to hang a white flag and drop!

It would be too late if it did not surrender, and that would be a catastrophe.

Chen Li could only hope that the two sides had not yet broken up completely and could negotiate to resolve the differences, which was better than being completely wiped out on the spot at this time.

....

Wang Yilin is an old man from the water teacher.

When Wu Zheng returned to Shaoxing Prefecture, he was already a hundred households and a thousand households.

There is a way to lead troops, and his method was passed down from uncle Wang Zhiren.

Decisively kill, group of trustworthy people, unite one group, suppress one group, and kill one group.

Killing people to establish authority is the dragon that can be squatted, and the tiger that can be squatted.

Whoever agrees is floating in the sea.

The support point of this method is that Wang Yilin must have a group of his own people around him to spread to the surrounding area, with one belt, two, two grip four, four pressures eight.

In this way, a strange army can be controlled within time.

This method has been passed down since ancient times, and even when warlords were separatist in later generations, it was tried and tested.

The most important thing is that you must be good to your confidant!

How good is it? Eat and sleep together, cultivate feelings until you are regarded as relatives, and you are the ones who can die resolutely at critical moments, and call it blind obedience.

This is also the reason why Wang Yilin spoke to Wu Zheng and Zhang Mingzhen for people.

Because Wang Zhiren's remnants are not many, with more than one hundred people, for the thousands of people under Wang Deren's army, it is a drop in the bucket.

Wang Yilin used this trick to control Wang Deren's troops in less than a month.

Although the operation was delayed by the settlement of the royal family, Wang Yilin was able to win such a naval battle that was dominated by the masses.

"In fact, only two of the more than 20 merchant ships were loaded with 800 kilograms of gunpowder." Wang Yilin said to Chen Li, who was kneeling in front of him almost in a playful tone.

Chen Li said mutely: "Even so, our troops will not be able to escape back to Xiamen. Your troops have completed the artillery calibration. After a round of volleys, our troops can escape no more than 50%.

Wang Yilin was a little surprised, "50% of them escaped, a lot of them, why not fight?"

"If the result is more than half of the loss, it would be better to surrender. The military law is ruthless!" Chen Li said leisurely, "At least sir, will you not kill the surrendered person?"

Wang Yilin suddenly realized that it made sense!

If you fail to succeed in your army, you will suffer a crushing defeat. If you do any force, it will be a serious crime.

Even if you don't die, you will have to peel off your skin.
Chapter completed!