After more than an hour of chase and artillery battle (unilateral), at this time, nearly half of the armed merchant ships of Preyla's fleet were sunk or injured by the Li family fleet, and they began to stay in twos and threes or fall behind. On the surface of the sea, they are busy repairing themselves or rescuing the crew and sailors who have fallen into the water because the hull is burned, blown up, or sunk.

Later, after half of the ships were sunk and wounded by the Li's fleet's "kites" bombardment, the armed merchant fleet, which currently only had more than half remaining, had to subconsciously slow down their ships. Quickly, try to stay a little further away from the five devil-like ships of the Li family to avoid those terrible shells from falling on their heads.

Because in this more than one hour naval battle (being beaten), they had already discovered desperately. With their large and medium-sized brig and three-masted merchant ships in the North Sea, they would definitely not be able to catch up with that. Five giant battleships with slender lines and many sails!

Even if they continue to chase them forcibly, it will only increase casualties?

Therefore, they began to slow down, and bite the bullet and continued to chase behind, and gradually distanced themselves and dispersed. They no longer maintained a tight formation, but watched that the seven ships in front of them had already caught up. , The battleship has been chased about seven or eight hundred yards away.

So, the situation now becomes:

The five second-class North Sea three-masted battleships led by Malay Governor Preyla and the two second-class battleships led by the Swedish Navy Admiral Hedram headed towards the Li family in two different directions. The fleet flanked away, and was about to catch up and enter the appropriate range of shelling.

According to the artillery performance of those seven battleships, as long as they enter 600 yards, they can fire back. Although they can't guarantee the hit rate and power of the shells, they can at least get rid of the situation where they have been passively beaten but can't fight back.

And once it gets close to four hundred yards, the shells of the seven battleships can definitely damage the five huge battleships of Li's family and cause considerable damage!

And when it gets close to two hundred yards, that is the final moment of the decisive victory!

At that time, once the Li's fleet is towed by the seven battleships of its own, the remaining thirty or so armed merchant ships behind them will be able to swarm up, directly relying on the advantage of the large number of ships to completely encircle the enemy ship. Whether it is a siege or a gang attack, they are absolutely sure that they can easily win!

Yes, they think so. Whether it is Malay Governor Preyla or Swedish Navy Admiral Hedram, or the captains of the armed merchant ships behind, they all think about it in a tacit understanding. Yes, after all, that is what they have left, the only chance to win.

"Eh?"

|˙˙)?

When the enemy’s captains or governors all hoped that a certain battle plan would succeed, on the flagship of the Li family fleet, of course, a messy little girl admiral also discovered some boring conspiracy of the enemy.

"Look!"

()

"The big fleet behind them seems to have slowed down, now only those seven warships dare to catch up!"

o(▽｀)o

What Annie saw with her binoculars. Behind the left, at a distance of more than 800 yards, were the two poor second-tier battleships. The commander above seemed to be the one she had robbed in Jiadin. The white-haired monster uncle of the first class battleship?

And a little closer behind on the right, perhaps only more than 700 yards away, are the other five warships. As for the commander above, she said that she didn't know any of them!

"Annie..."

"They are getting closer, and there are a lot of artillery above them, what should we do?"

Song Yifeng also saw it through the telescope.

At this time, the warships that had escaped from the pursuit of the large fleet began to open their gun doors and launched the dark artillery, but if the distance was not enough, and now the three parties are heading to the northeast by using the crosswind. If they can't turn around, I'm afraid that the other party will probably use the side cannon to blast them at them.

"Grand Admiral!"

"It looks like they want to pinch us, do they need to speed up?"

The first officer standing behind Annie and Song Yifeng certainly understood the enemy's conspiracy, so he asked directly.

Just now because they needed to keep their distance and bombard the large fleet of armed merchant ships, they did not turn the sails to the best angle for driving. The speed of the ship is not the fastest, but if necessary, they can still Continue to accelerate and let the several warships that are pursuing behind can only watch desperately as the distance between their two sides is getting farther and farther.

Anyway, the chief officer felt that they could speed up and move a little further away, and then change the direction to hit the opponent for a round, and then continue to accelerate and turn to fire. In this way, within a few rounds, they would definitely be able to damage or Sink the enemy ships that want to rush to intercept and shell them.

"Well……"

()

"You don't have to be spicy, so troublesome!"

|ω)

"Let's turn directly to the southeast, and use the starboard cannon to destroy the five warships first, and then turn around to clean up the other two ships. Finally, the last group of armed merchant ships is sluggish!"

(ψ｀▽′)o

Just thinking about it, maybe less than two seconds, Annie quickly made up her mind.

"what?"

"But, Grand Admiral, in that case, the enemy ship will have a chance to open fire on us!"

The first officer seemed a little hesitant, because he calculated a little bit in his mind and found that if they didn’t pull the distance and accelerate and then turn, after they bombarded the first round, they would definitely enter the enemy when they sailed to the southeast. On the starboard side, at that time, two to three hundred artillery shells might blast towards their Li family fleet at a distance of about four to five hundred yards!

Although he didn’t know how accurate the enemy’s shelling was, in his opinion, they had few ships and had large targets. It would be very, very stupid and stupid to simply fight with the enemy. It’s better to continue relying on it as before. Fishing for the enemy at a high speed, little by little to destroy the enemy's vitality, until the enemy collapses!

"Don't worry, they won't have a chance!"

()°

"Because this time, people have to personally direct the shelling!"

()

Having said that, after giving the order, Xiao Annie left the command post with a cheer and ran directly to the gun position on the upper deck, and then began to scream at the artillery, asking them to adjust the height of the muzzle according to her order.

"..."

"Send the great admiral's order!"

"Turn! To the southeast!"

"Full speed ahead!!"

It must be a little risky to steer and shell before the distance has been pulled, but the first officer couldn't take care of it at the moment, and could only bite the bullet and give the order from Annie.

However, he also cleverly gave an order to advance at full speed. Later, even if they were bombarded by an enemy ship for one round, they could quickly get rid of the enemy ship at a speed much faster than that of the enemy.

"The whole ship hears orders!"

"Turn to the southeast and prepare for shelling!"

"Turn to the southeast and prepare for shelling!!"

The order was communicated layer by layer, and then, as the flag was hoisted, under the guidance of the flagship'Xiang Feihu', the five warships turned from a crosswind directly to a tailwind, and then rowed across the sea. A long white arc was drawn, and at the same time, their starboard muzzle gradually aimed towards the five enemy ships on the right that wanted to pinch them.

"The muzzle is raised two degrees together!"

(ˊ〇ˋ*)

"I don't know how much it is twice?"

(**;)

"Just lift up a little bit, then a little bit more, that's right, that's it, hold on, and prepare to listen to other people's commands!"

o(*｀ー)o

"Over there!"

☆(o*ω)

"A little bit of your muzzle to the right, just a little bit... OK! Just don't move it!"

ε()з

Behind the slip of artillery on the deck, a bad little girl, the chief admiral, left without authorization and ran directly to the position of the artillery commander on this floor, and directed the gunners to operate.

After she finished adjusting, she snatched the flag of the artillery commander, stood straight on a gunpowder keg, and began to wait for enemy ships to appear on their side of the artillery line.

"preparation……"

!(;o)o

"Fire!!"

o(*｀ー)o

Annie calculated the advance amount, including the speed, angle and wind direction of her warship and the speed of the enemy’s five ships. Finally, after reaching a certain point, she flagrantly ordered, and at the same time, the ones that were already going to be hot The gunners who had the iron lottery stabbed the guy in their hands into the medicine nest.

boom! boom!

boom! boom! boom!

The ear-splitting bombardment rumbling sounded, after bursts of black smoke, flames, and sparks erupted, a round of shells dragged a black trajectory, and blasted toward the enemy ship one after another.

"!!!"

"this……"

At this time, on the podium, the originally hesitant first officer and Song Yifeng, who was always worried, saw in astonishment that those shells, except for the gunners on the lower two levels, had been hitting inaccurately. The shells of nearly fifty guns on the top deck actually rushed toward the five enemy ships with precision and accuracy?

Soon, they saw that under the coverage of the shells, fire, smoke, and faint screams came out from the enemy's ship.

The first ship suffered the most artillery shells. A huge hole was directly shot by the artillery shell at the waterline of the front right side of the ship. Then the speed slowed down, and the main mast of the other ship was simply broken. NS.

But this is not the end.

Because, the remaining four ships following their flagship also started to fire one after another, causing the first round of 600 rounds of shells to continuously blast towards the enemy ships in turn, covering the opponent completely in the overwhelming shells. In the rain.

"..."

At this time, the Swedish Navy Admiral Hedram, who had been chasing on the left side of the Li's fleet, of course also saw through the binoculars the destruction of Preyla’s battle fleet, and saw the densely packed shells around the friendly fleet. Smashed out a lot of water, or simply exploded a lot of fire and splashing wood debris on the deck or hull.

"this!"

"The distance should be less than seven hundred yards. At this distance, their shelling seems to have become more accurate and more powerful..."

"It's over!"

"There is no chance of winning this way..."

"Is that the true strength of the Ming Empire navy? Even if their empire is about to fall, their navy can still crush us Westerners?"

Hedram sighed mournfully, and began to think of the legendary Ming Zheng family fleet (Zheng He) in his mind.

It is said that as early as more than two hundred years ago, before the Westerners began their great voyages, the Zheng family of the Ming Empire organized more than 1,000 large and small ships and tens of thousands of people to conduct a mighty voyage. Voyage, and sailed all the way to the east coast of Africa?

But now, more than two hundred years have passed, Daming's fleet is still so strong...

No, even stronger!

Hedram saw it with his own eyes. In just one round of bombardment, Preyla’s battle fleet was almost wiped out. The flagship flagship of which was headed by it had already started to flood and tilted, which was obviously hopeless. , And the four battleships at the back also suffered heavy losses and were in chaos. One of them directly hung the white flag, and then began to flee in embarrassment with the flames and smoke toward the north.

Therefore, it seems that this battle is no longer necessary to continue.

"Order!"

"Turn, let's retreat!"

Since there was no hope of victory, the admiral of the navy Hedram closed his eyes in pain, and then hesitated again and again, and had to give his first officer the order to retreat.

As for the Portuguese-Malay governor Preyla, who was in danger, and the large fleet organized by Preyla behind, he couldn't take care of it for the time being.

boom! boom!

boom! boom! boom!

When the Admiral Hedram of the Swedish Navy ordered their two battleships to turn and prepare to escape, Governor Prejla’s battleship was still under heavy enemy bombardment, and shells, smoke, and fires were directly left behind. The four ships below were shrouded in it.

...

After half a day.

The largest naval battle that took place in the seas between Brunei and Malacca at latitude 3 north and longitude 111 east so far, which lasted more than four hours, gradually came to an end.

As for the victor, obviously it was not the 67 ships led by the Portuguese Malay Governor Doyle López di Preira, which consisted of a small number of battleships and a large number of large and medium-sized North Sea three-masted square sails and multi-masted triangles. The fleet of armed merchant ships modified by sailboats is mixed together, but the Li family super battleship fleet with only poor five battleships!

What's more, what makes people feel terrified is that the Li family fleet still won the final victory of the great battle with an unscathed posture and an absolutely crushing posture?

In short, after the Li’s fleet sank more than ten ships and wounded more than thirty ships, the rest ran away in a rush, and those due to the damage of the hull tilted, leaked, or the mast broke. If the sails burned and couldn't run, they had to hung up the white flag after the Li family fleet returned to catch up, and declared an unconditional surrender.

In this battle, the Li family fleet’s last statistics revealed that 18 enemy ships (including five battleships and 13 armed merchant ships) were sunk, 22 ships (including two battleships) were captured, and the rest were captured. Twenty-seven ships fled and disappeared, but their own side was intact. Only a few sailors were scalded by hot gun barrels. An epic victory!

The Swedish Navy Admiral Hedram did not run away. The two almost intact second-tier battleships captured were his. After discovering that their speed was completely inferior to pursuing the Li family fleet at full speed, they had nothing to do. Able to surrender without a fight, and send an entire battle fleet to the hands of the Li family.

Before dusk fell, after capturing all the people and ships that could be captured, it was discovered that there were too few ships to pursue the enemy's Li family fleet, so they had to **** those who had been captured not far away. Their ship returned to the port of Brunei leisurely.

...

When the war broke out here in Nanyang, Li Huamei’s main fleet of Li’s family, which consisted of three large blessed ships and four or five medium-sized blessed ships, slowly left the pier of Basra port after the supply was completed. Going out along the strait, ready to go to Africa.

"Admiral!"

"The Wooding Chamber of Commerce invites us to fight against Nagopur together. This is a great opportunity to open up the situation. Did we really leave like this?"

Standing in front of the bow, looking at the giant Arabian ships docked in the distant port, James Rudway asked unwillingly.

"..."

"Jaime, this is no way!"

"We only have these few ships, and Woodin himself does not have much advantage. It is not a good idea to rush into the dispute between the two of them and consume our strength."

"Anyway, let's go to Africa first!"

He groaned, looking at the giant ships belonging to the Wooding family in the dock, Li Huamei seemed to be faintly tempted, but she finally shook her head with regret, which was the same as her rejection of the Abraham Yiwen before. Wooding’s invitation was the same as she thought, the strong fleet of Wooding’s family is by no means the reason for her to stay and participate in it.

That Nagopur is a big businessman who rules and dominates the Indian Ocean. At the same time, he is also a local lord. He has advantages on land and has some connections with the Dutch and Portuguese. Therefore, she had better not participate in it lightly. , Was used as a gunman.

"All right!"

"But it's also difficult in Africa. It has long been divided up by European countries. We can't stand there, and you don't want to do hard trade, our goods can't sell good prices there."

James Ludwig still felt a little regretful, but there was no way to persuade Li Huamei this admiral too much.

"It's okay!"

"Even if there is no chance, let's treat it as expanding the route. It's always right to go for a walk!"

With a chuckle, close the hair in her ears, Li Huamei did not take James’ concerns to heart, because she also knew that Africa is a wild land, and there are few civilized countries on it. Kunlun Slave was basically useless, and she wouldn't stay there for long.

"When we arrive in Europe, we can buy a few more big ships, and then go to the New World to see!"

"In this way, we will continue to sail while doing business. When we return to Daming, there may be more than a dozen or even twenty medium and large ships. It shouldn't be a big deal to eliminate the Laidao family and those Japanese pirates. problem."

"With the ship, we wiped out the island. With our home court advantage in East Asia, the Dutch and Portuguese will definitely not be able to compete with us!"

"At that time, we will have to negotiate with them and demand the capital of Nanyang's market share!"

Facing the gentle sea breeze in the Persian Gulf, Li Huamei confidently stated her grand plan.

The Ming court and those officials are ignorant and ignorant~lightnovelpub.net~ They are still restricting, targeting and suppressing their Li family, not wanting her Li family to grow and develop, but now, she has jumped out of the prison that restrained her and began to travel the world.

At the current rate, the fastest one year and a half, the slowest three or four years later, when she returns to Daming, those people will find that they can't restrain her anyway!

"Admiral wise!"

"Then do it!"

"Seconded!"

"Then hurry up, I can't wait!"

"Set off!"

Seeing Li Huamei's spirited, full-fledged and heroic appearance, followers such as Yang Xien, Charles Huisen, James Ludwig, Xingjiu Shiraki, and Yian Dukov, all roared and cheered loudly. stand up.

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