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This volley was relatively hasty, because although I knew there was this volley in advance, because I lacked aiming time, I just found that there was an opportunity to shoot during the steering, so I fired immediately.

Therefore, this round of artillery was said to be a volley, but in fact, it was a series of shootings. The formation was in front of the formation and then the subsequent warships followed the firing one after another.

The accuracy of shelling is very poor, no wonder.

But the results are very significant, because the two sides are only four or five miles away. The three warships in the front line of the pursuers were hit by several or more shells of varying degrees.

Unlike the Zheng family navy, Wang Deren had already replaced the new type of artillery at the beginning, so he still had to "thank" to the firearms purchased by the Qing court from the Red Maiden. After the disaster, Wang Deren took his own initiative to change the naval guns. The remaining dozens of small-caliber cannons were sent to Zhang Mingzhen and handed over to Wu Zheng. Although Wu Zheng was vigilant at that time, he did not scold Wang Deren for this.

At this time, the Wang Yilin fleet used a new type of artillery.

The difference between the new artillery and the previous Red and Barbarian cannons is that one is that the caliber has a standard, and the other is that the shells are different.

Although it is still a round bullet, it is an iron shell delay bullet. In fact, its essence is similar to that used by the Ming Dynasty. It is to load more than ten kilograms of gunpowder into dozens of kilograms of heavy round shells that have been surface treated.

The characteristic of black gunpowder is that the combustion speed is quite fast, more than twice as fast as yellow gunpowder. The combustion produces violent gas expansion, which is the biggest feature that yellow gunpowder does not have.

Later, yellow gunpowder was installed with guns and black gunpowder, and finally yellow gunpowder completely replaced black gunpowder and became the mainstream.

The burning speed of black gunpowder is too fast and difficult to control, resulting in incomplete combustion and too corrosive.

This is the main reason why black gunpowder is easily damaged when the gun chamber is sealed too well.

But for the current front-loading gun, as long as the barrel is not cut corners, this kind of explosion will basically not occur.

Because the shells are round, the process cannot be very fine. If a round shell is to be smoothly stuffed into the barrel, it can be imagined that the gap must exist, especially when using iron bullets, lead bullets are soft and can be stabbed with force, but the iron bullets are different. They are hard. If they are too dense, they will not be stabbed in.

Therefore, at this time, Western Europe was able to lead the East in artillery technology, which was the reason why the caliber of the gun was unified.

If the caliber is unified, the same iron shell can be made by the assembly line. The iron shells are of course much more powerful than lead, not to mention the iron shells and the time-delayed explosion fuse. The explosion caused by breaking through the wooden shell board poses a huge threat to the warship.

Therefore, Western Europe has begun to popularize quasi-iron armored ships with key parts of the shell wrapped in iron plates.

This round of volleys almost completely destroyed the three Zheng Family Navy warships. The three warships ignited raging fires one after another, which scared the Zheng Family Navy warships around and behind them so quickly turned to avoid being affected by the fish. This avoidance action caused several warships chasing Wang Yilin's fleet to lose a good opportunity for artillery attack.

However, there were still many warships far away, fired volleys at Wang Yilin's warships, causing considerable damage to the warships. However, compared with the shells of Wang Yilin's naval division, the shells of the Zheng family were much worse. They often hit the side walls of the warships and were stuck, and very few could penetrate.

Therefore, the casualties caused were very small, and the movement of the warships did not have much impact.

At this time, Wang Yilin bit his teeth and suddenly gave a strange order - slow down and reverse again!

This command is very strange because it is out of place.

At the beginning of this naval battle, Wang Yilin's troops fled north, and Zheng Zhiguan's navy chased from south to north.

The tail was bombarded, and Wang Yilin ordered a change to the northeast to block the enemy with guns on the side.

Zheng Zhiguan's navy changed direction and divided half of the warships to detour to the west of Wang Yilin's army, and occupied a favorable position to wait for Wang Yilin's army to completely destroy Wang Yilin's army with a volley shot.

At this time, Wang Yilin found something wrong and ordered the reverse again. This tactical action completely avoided the ambush on the west side because the range was not enough and the direction was not right.

At the same time, Wang Yilin took advantage of this short-term opportunity in the opposite direction to launch a round of volley shots and blocked the chasing enemy.

Although our side also lost two warships, the results were also great, and the enemy lost three.

Because of this round of artillery, Wang Yilin's fleet set a distance of several miles from the enemy. At this time, if Wang Yilin continues to maintain direction and takes advantage of his own artillery's longer range, he will continue to fight and retreat against the enemy, and there is still a possibility of continuing to set a distance.

Of course, the possibility is very small, because the ship speed is inferior to that of the Zheng family's warships, and the enemy is several times higher than that of itself. The final result of the battle and consumption will definitely be the entire army.

Therefore, Wang Yilin issued this strange order and turned it back again.

Again, it is to return to the original direction of the waterway, which is to head straight towards the ambush on the west side.

Although the distance has been widened, it is consistent with the previous direction.

This is very dangerous, because although the ambush on the west side has slowed down and almost stopped (to improve the accuracy of the shelling), it is not a stop-off ship after all, and it can accelerate at any time.

In this way, the distance that is opened may be within a stick of incense, or even shorter time, leaving Wang Yilin's warship within range.

So, Wang Yilin's order was very strange, at least Zheng Zhiguan felt that.

So why did Wang Yilin give such a strange order and fall into a trap?

It was actually very simple. Wang Yilin saw black dots that suddenly appeared in the distance south.

If there was no first reverse, then the one who saw these black spots now should be Zheng Zhiguan.

But after the first reverse, especially a volley shot from Wang Yilin's army caused considerable chaos among the Zheng family's navy.

This is not a frontal encounter. After the two sides deployed troops, they shot each other with battle lines.

The warships on both sides sailed in series with snake-like sailing. With such a tense battlefield environment, who would pay attention to the rear?

The rear is south, which is where the Zheng family navy comes from.

So, just a few black spots made Wang Yilin decide to gamble, and the one who came to Zhang Mingzhen's Wusong Navy.

Wang Yilin firmly believed that Zhang Mingzhen would definitely come to rescue him.

Because at this time, if you don’t trust your comrades, the despair in your heart will make you lose your fighting spirit.

By counting the time, no matter how late Zhang Mingzhen delayed, he should have already arrived from the Nanji Mountain Waters to the Qixing Island Waters. But now the battle has been more than half an hour, but Zhang Mingzhen has disappeared.

This accident made Wang Yilin guess that perhaps because of the previous impact and shelling, Zhang Mingzhen led to the Taishan waters.

And the black dots that appeared from the south at this time were likely to be Zhang Mingzhen coming.
Chapter completed!