The armed merchant ship with the rudder broken did not make Ishiki do as he wished. The skilled New Spanish helmsman learned that the rudder was destroyed and told the captain. Then, the uninjured sailor climbed up the mast from the lower deck, lowered the sails with all their hands and feet, sailed towards friendly ships at the slowest speed, and called the ships nearby to pull them over with quilts.

There was no collision in the whole process, only a little unavoidable chaos.

But this was enough for Shiqi. In order to avoid the damaged merchant ships, the warships behind were slowed down by the merchant ships, and the neat and orderly formations were forced to separate. This was Shiqi's opportunity.

Five shark boats walked in an arc, always facing the departing warship with starboard cannons. The cannons were rhythmically blasted out from the front to the back and along with the hull.

Their captain, the scholar, was a serious person, with little ruthless words and meticulous work. During the daily training of the flag army, even nailing giant trees near Xiangshan, allowing every gunner on the ship to fire their cannons when the porthole passed the log standing in the shallow sea.

This kind of training that simply exercises the gunner's obedience or to be bluntly is useless training, but it causes his gunner to fire at almost the same intervals in naval battles.

In other words, each cannon on the ship fired roughly at the same position, the rear cannon smashed the smoke of the front cannon, and the artillery behind continued to repeat.

The angle of the gun is almost the same, the position of the gun is almost the same, and the target is almost motionless at sea, with precision and almost the same.

The cannons on Shiqi's ship can basically be accurately aimed; if you cannot aim correctly, all the cannons on the entire ship will be empty.

From standardization of artillery casting molds to gun sights, from artillery training to gunners’ scientific training of gunners’ angle sights, coupled with the advancement of telescopes and distance measurement, they have determined that they were originally the most accurate gunners of this era.

Fifteen ten-pound cannons, and twelve cannons were won.

Twenty general Zhenshuo cannons were shot and fourteen cannons were shot.

Twenty-five two-jin cannons, twenty-one cannons.

Of course, the role of the two-jin cannon in this level of warship artillery battle is much smaller than that of hurting people, and hurting people is less than that of scaring people. If it weren't for luck to penetrate the cannon window or knock on the deck, it could only be embedded in the hull.

Sometimes even the boards of the boat could not be stuck in, leaving no useless noises that scared the sailors in the boat and then fell into the sea.

It will not break the hull if it is hit accurately, it will be useless.

Even so, Ishiqi, who was standing on the side of the ship, still clearly saw that the enemy ship was severely injured. The hull was completely opened when the port side was close to the bow of the ship. You could see the sailors running on the lower deck were busy pushing the body of the gunner who was killed into the sea.

The heavy-hit New Spanish warship slowly turned its rudder, and the two bronze stone guns on the bow of the ship made a loud noise. At this distance, the stone cannon was already accurate. The huge rock swayed and roared. One hit the side of the Shiqi team's tail ship. The huge impact even caused the hull to shake violently. The stone bullet shot on the other side of the ship caused a wave higher than the side of the ship, splashing the sea water to the deck.

The craftsman in the boat shouted loudly on the lower deck and ran forward and behind.

Deformation is secondly. According to the strength of the hull of the Five Hundred Material Shark Boat, it cannot withstand this heavy artillery bombardment. Although the hole was not smashed at this time, the consequences were worse than being smashed through. The inner ribs and the beam supporting the upper deck were severely cracked, and the support columns that the person next to him were also knocked to pieces, making a heart-warming creaking sound at this time.

Once the beams and pillars are broken, the large upper artillery deck supported by it will collapse directly, and the hull structure will also suffer a catastrophe. The ship may even break into a large sampan during the next voyage.

The captain of this ship is Zheng Cong. He worked diligently for six years after he was reinforcing the military household of the old man Zheng. He never made great contributions. Even if others think that Chen Mu's old subordinates would not be able to promote him, they still rely on Lin Feng to go to Nanyang last year, and bandits appeared on the sea. After suppressing bandits, they were promoted from a hundred households and were now the deputy thousand households of Macheng, Zhongwei, Luzon.

This time, the attack on Guanma was a dangerous battle with few attacks. Shiqi originally meant to let him follow Chen Lin's army to take the lead and not take the lead with Deng Zilong's 25, but Zheng Cong insisted on following him, so he got the position of captain from Shiqi's subordinates.

Just like Deng Zilong, Shi Qi, the two young generals, brought nine ships, and only the Pioneer Army had this specification, but the captain could not take Zheng Cong's turn.

The five hundred shark boats, with the officers and soldiers on the boats reaching a maximum of 12, at least 64. The captain is either a hundred households or a general flag, and eight boatmen, where can it be the deputy thousand households turn to be the captain?

Deputy Qianhu in Chen Lin's army were all captains who led at least three ships.

Shi Qi knew that Zheng Cong felt that he was not worthy of his position and wanted to make meritorious contributions in the front row to kill the enemy. Otherwise, even if he received a fifth-rank salary, he would be a minor if he could not raise his head in front of his colleagues, and his subordinates looked down on him and disobeyed him.

As a result, the ship had been hit hard before it even landed on Guam.

Zheng Cong didn't care about his feelings at all. He was hit hard by a shell just now and hit him from the stern, which was ordered from the starboard side and hit him from the port side. He was stuck on the boat and stopped him before he was thrown out. If the improved ship shape was only a symbolic low stern, he would have been thrown out to drink water.

He fell to his senses and before he could relieve his injuries, he heard the hull being severely injured. He staggered down the deck and saw a crooked support post, which made him gasp, "This, I can't stand the fire."

"Thousands of households can't hold on." The old boatman was busy asking the apprentice to nail the cracks in the hull with wooden boards, and said to Zheng Cong: "If the heavy artillery is launched, the ship will disperse. Tell General Shi to withdraw."

The undamaged hull has a complete structure inside and outside; the hull has a big hole, and at least the internal structure is still complete; but if the internal structure is broken, the ship cannot hold on to the back seat of the shelling, and even if there is a cannon cart.

After the ship's shape is improved, the draft is deep and the hull is under great pressure. It is necessary to have a solid internal structure to ensure safe navigation. Now that the internal structure has been destroyed, it is impossible to participate in the war again.

"Retreat? You can't retreat." Zheng Cong picked up the falling cap and pointed at the crooked support pillar, "Let him stand it for me, and the boat cannot fall if it doesn't sink!"

"The heavy artillery can't be fired from the bottom, and the two-pound artillery cannon on top will be fired."

After saying that, Zheng Cong led his troops back to the upper deck and said to the helmsman: "Come on the fleet."

He can't leave, and he will withdraw from the fleet, which will inevitably affect the morale of his fleet. Five 500-foot shark ships are weaker than Deng Zilong's four 1,000-foot shark ships, so he cannot withdraw.

He couldn't understand the overall situation, but the number of ships was still counted. The battle situation between the enemy and us was anxious and could barely be evenly matched. If it were not counted as those annoying small boats, they even had the upper hand in the number of large ships, and the competition was who fled first.

Zheng Cong can not make contributions, nor can he be the first to escape with his tail between his legs!

"The ship sank!"

Just as Zheng Cong made up his mind to be beaten to the end, Shi Qi of the flagship smiled, and he could tell that the stern ship suffered a severe blow, but the ship still followed, which showed that there was no big problem.

What really made him happy was that the enemy's single warship was finally penetrated under the waterline after being hit twice in a row. In a blink of an eye, the sea water overflowed the bottom deck and dragged the stern and fell down. The sailors ran towards the bow, obviously having been sunk.
Chapter completed!