The Yangwei opened fire, and the two ships on both sides of the Yangwei were each hit by fifteen rounds of explosive shells. The distance was so close that the ships seemed to be shot at the head with a gun, and not a single shell missed.
With huge kinetic energy, it broke through the thin hull of the Fu ship and rushed into the hull of the Fu ship. After breaking through the hull, the explosive shells still could not stop, shattering the cabins and watertight compartment partitions under the hull.
Crush the bodies of all pirates that block the advance of the cannonball.
The general Fu Ship was built with great emphasis on practicality, and the hull was made very thin. The armored ship was so close, and the explosive shells had great kinetic energy. One bomb even directly penetrated the hulls on both sides of the Fu Ship, and fell behind the Fu Ship with a pop.
in the sea.
But most of the explosive bombs stayed inside the Fuchuan. When the fuses burned out, the explosive bombs exploded inside the Fuchuan. Twenty-nine explosive bombs ejected shock waves one after another, blowing the insides of the two Fuchuan into pieces.
A ball of paste.
Even if one shell explodes inside the ship, it will cause huge casualties and damage, let alone fourteen or fifteen shells exploding simultaneously?
Li Zhi saw sparks spraying out from the gun emplacement of the Fu Ship on the left. The cannons were shaken forward by the shock wave, and even got stuck in the emplacement. A flower that hit the middle of the hull
The bullet seemed to be blocked by something hard and did not penetrate deep into the cabin, but exploded close to the hull. Wood chips shot out like fireworks, blasting a large hole with a diameter of two meters on the outside of the hull.
The lucky boat on the right was bombed even more severely. Sparks were flying all over the hull, and the entire internal structure had been blown apart. The gunpowder barrels on the second deck of the lucky boat were also ignited by explosive bombs.
The violent explosion blew away all the decks and the hull. The hull had been completely blown apart by the explosion of the gunpowder barrel. A cannon was activated by the impact and rushed out from the huge breach in the hull.
It fell into the sea water a few meters away, causing huge splashes.
I don't know how many pirates were killed on the two ships. On this ship, there were often one or two hundred pirates. If they were bombarded by explosive bombs in one round, a third of them would be killed.
The lucky boat in front whose poop was broken open by the Yangwei was slowly sinking, and the pirates on the boat jumped into the sea desperately. Together with the sailors from the two lucky boats on the left and right who jumped into the sea, the sea was full of pirates and pirates who had lost their boats.
Broken boards, a mess.
The Yangwei retreated for a while, getting rid of the sinking Fu Ship, then turned around slightly and chased the other Fu Ships.
Flames suddenly shot out from the side of a Fuzhou ship not far away, and six shells were fired at the Yangwei. Two shells hit the target and made a clanging sound on the armor of the ironclad ship.
However, a single lucky ship would not pose a threat to an ironclad ship at all.
Originally, the Zheng family's more than one hundred Fu ships were arranged in a horizontal formation in order to facilitate the exchange of fire with Li Zhi's fleet. Therefore, after Li Zhi's ironclad ships rushed into the Fu ship formation, the more than one hundred Fu ships were completely destroyed.
The Zheng family's own ships blocked the way. Except for one or two Fu ships near the ironclad ship, the other Fu ships could not see the ironclad ship and could not shoot at all.
Each time, the ironclad ship only had to face one or two lucky ships.
Facing the iron-clad ship with the combat power of one or two Fuchuan, it was completely crushed. The Yangwei fired at full power and rushed towards the Fuchuan that fired the gun without hesitation, and hit the Fuchuan in the belly.
The Fuchuan's hull was severely shaken by the impact of the ironclad, and it fell violently to the right. The hull lost its balance, and the cannons and supplies inside the hull were rolling around, and it was unknown how many pirates were crushed to death.
Are the wooden planks on the hull a match for steel? Under the high impact of the Fuzhou ship, the angle of impact smashed the thin ship planks into a mass of tatters. A piece of sawdust flew with the huge impact, and the hull on the port side of the Fuzhou ship
It was smashed into pieces. Sea water rushed in, and the lucky boat sank little by little.
Like a wild bull, the Yangwei pushed the lucky boat forward for more than fifty meters, then reversed the propeller and retreated, letting go of the "dying" lucky boat. The lucky boat that turned to the right was on the Yangwei.
After leaving, the ship was righted, but it tilted toward the port side again under the gravity of the water. Finally, the ship flipped over to the left, overturned on the sea surface, and gradually sank to the bottom of the sea.
The surviving pirates on the ship jumped off the ship and swam as hard as they could, but many were still swept deep into the sea by the whirlpool of the sunken ship and lost their lives.
The ten armored ships were like ten wild beasts, running rampant in the queue of more than a hundred blessing ships. In the face of war machines that were far ahead of this era, the Zheng family's blessing ships were as fragile as paper. It only took about
In ten minutes, the Zheng family's fleet lost more than forty ships.
The Zheng family's fleet was completely defeated.
The lucky ships had lost the courage to show off. How could this armored ship be matched by manpower? More than 100 lucky ships were loaded with more than 20,000 pirates. They were originally prepared for hand-to-hand combat, but at this time it was useless.
As soon as the ship is hit by the ironclad, it will sink. How to fight this boarding battle? If the battle continues, more than 20,000 water thieves will probably be buried in the belly of the fish.
The Fu boats gave up their formation and fled west, south, north, and scattered in all directions. The Zheng family fleet had given up all resistance and could no longer be called a fleet. Even the Zheng family fleet
The flagship Dafu ship did not dare to stay on the battlefield at all, and fled to the west without hesitation, hoping to escape back to its home base in Jinjiang.
The other nine ironclad ships were like nine ferocious beasts, chasing the fleeing Zheng fleet on the choppy sea.
Li Zhi waved his hand, and the Yangwei ignored the nearby Fu ships and rushed directly towards the largest Fu ship. That ship had more than thirty heavy guns and was obviously the flagship of the Zheng family.
When the sailors on the Dafu ship saw the armored ship chasing after them, they used their sails and oars together and tried their best to escape to the west. The Yangwei chased after them for a quarter of an hour, and finally they were 300 meters away from the Dafu ship.
The Yangwei made a rudder turn and aimed its port side at the Dafu ship a few hundred meters away. The cannon was suddenly fired, and fifteen shells shot straight out of the muzzle and flew towards the Dafu ship not far away.
The stern of the Dafu ship was shot, and four shells were fired into the interior of the ship, causing a loud explosion.
Just one bombardment caused the Dafu ship to lose its fighting spirit. The pirates of the Zheng family lowered the hard sail and the Zheng flag, and hoisted the white flag.
Li Zhi was stunned when he saw the Dafu ship surrendering so readily, and secretly thought that Zheng Zhilong was not on this ship?
Soon, the soldiers who boarded the ship to search tied up all the pirates on the Dafu ship and returned to the Yangwei.
"My lord, Zheng Zhilong and his brothers were not on this boat. They knew that this big lucky boat was too eye-catching, so they fled to other small lucky boats."
Li Zhi snorted coldly.
"A monk who can escape cannot escape from the temple. Let's go to Fujian to raid the Zheng family's lair!" 8
