Daming pirates

China's shipbuilding technology has completely stagnated or even regressed after Zheng He's voyages to the West. Over the years, there has not even been any improvement. Everything is built according to the old style, and even many shipbuilding techniques are blocked due to the restricted sea.

, and gradually became lost.

When the Spanish's first warship appeared on the Chinese sea, they already looked down upon these Chinese sailing ships that used hard sails, short hulls, and clumsy movements, so they gave all Chinese sailing ships the name Kron.

From the appearance point of view, these Sea Wolf Keron ships are no different from the common ships used by Chinese pirates. They just appear to be cleaner and tidier, and the sails are mostly relatively new ones. They look like

It's not like he's just a beggar. He hasn't seen much new things yet.

But Anthony still knew that the artillery loaded on these Sea Wolf ships was very different from that of other Chinese pirates. Most of these Sea Wolf ships were equipped with Western-style artillery similar to theirs, although the guns were not as heavy as theirs.

, but in terms of range and accuracy, it is not weaker than the cannons on their ships. Even some of the cannons in the fort are superior to their naval guns in terms of range and accuracy, and they are also quite powerful.

Therefore, although most of these sea wolf ships are Kron ships, Anthony does not dare to underestimate them, because although their single ship firepower is not strong, when so many ships are put together, the number of artillery in the fleet will be

It may not be smaller than his fleet, but when the firepower is concentrated, the power is definitely not small.

Therefore, Anthony immediately ordered the fleet to make all preparations. Once a war breaks out, they must find a way to fight for it. The first encounter will destroy as many enemy ships as possible and break their will to fight. At this point, Anthony

He is still a little confident, because he believes that although the sailors in his fleet are many scum, their boating skills are still good, and these scum are relatively fierce, and they can still fight well when fighting.

The Chinese pirates' ships are clumsy, and the pirates' boat-skimming skills are not very good, let alone good coordination. Fleet operations usually involve a swarm of swarms rushing up to fight in groups. If they can beat them, they will fight, and if they can't, they will turn around.

Running, there are not many organizations at all.

Although the number of the Sea Wolf fleet this time is not small, judging from Anthony's experience, even if they have good firepower, they are no match for their Spanish fleet.

Anthony had fully anticipated the arrival of the Sea Wolf fleet. The strange Western-style sloop that was stationed here broke out of their blockade and escaped from Jilong Bay. It is certain that

They went to ask for reinforcements, so it was not surprising that they summoned their reinforcements.

What made Anthony a little surprised was that these Chinese pirates came faster than he expected. They seemed to be coming much earlier than he expected.

But since it’s here, let’s fight. This time Anthony suffered a bloody blow in Jilong Bay, and was beaten to a desperate loss. Now the enemy has arrived with a fleet, which can just allow him to save some face.

Even if he cannot capture Jilong Bay, as long as he can defeat this enemy fleet and annihilate a large number of their ships and personnel, this can at least make up for his mistakes.

After returning, relying on this, he could at least find some excuses to avoid ending up in such an embarrassing situation, so he made up his mind to defeat this pirate fleet no matter what today, even if he had to pay some losses.

No matter what, his losses were already considerable anyway. As long as he defeated them and captured some of their prisoners, he could also negotiate with them and exchange the prisoners for the soldiers they captured yesterday.

So Antony ordered the fleet to make all battle preparations and turn to face the sea wolf fleet.

But one thing made him a little worried, that is, through his telescope, he found six more strange Western-style sloops in the sea wolf fleet that he had seen before.

These sloops are exactly the same in shape as the Western-style sloops of the Sea Wolf that I saw here a few days ago. They have very graceful lines, high speed, and are very flexible, although the firepower cannot match theirs.

It is comparable to the Lun ship, but it exceeds the firepower possessed by the general Kron ship.

This kind of ship is very suitable for use in offshore waters. It is very good as a patrol ship or a privateer. If you can be beaten, fight, and if you can't be beaten, run away. Compared with the heavy Galen ship or Clark sailboat, it has a high flexibility.

With the advantage of speed, the ship's sail rigging is also very simple, and it requires very few sailors. Even if there are only a few people on the ship, the ship can be sailed.

These ships were obviously not mixed among the enemy ships, but were breaking away from the main fleet and moving towards the wide water to their right.

As a senior captain-turned-commander, Anthony had considerable experience in naval battles and could immediately see what the enemy wanted to do.

This group of Chinese pirates are obviously not ordinary people. They did not choose to incorporate these Western-style single-masted ships into the main fleet, which is a very wise approach. Otherwise, these ships would be mixed with their Kron ships.

Their advantages can only be limited and become an ordinary gunboat.

And once they break away from the main fleet and stay aside, their advantages can be fully utilized and become a sharp knife for the enemy, which can threaten their flanks at any time. As long as they are not careful, they may be intercepted by these ships.

A sharp stab in the side.

As a result, Anthony has a headache. His fleet does not have an advantage in terms of the number of ships. If these pirates swarm up, they can still use their firepower advantage. But if the other party does this, he will have to be careful at all times.

Pay attention to those Western-style sloops on the side, which cannot hit the opponent's main warship with firepower.

There are only six large ships that he can use, and the rest are just some speedboats. These speedboats are mainly used to guard against the enemy's arson boats. Their firepower is not strong. It is okay to deal with the opponent's small arson boats, but if you want to use these small boats

I'm afraid it's too weak to deal with those Western-style sloops.

But he has no choice. He currently has the number of ships here. If he deploys larger ships and puts them on the flanks to guard against those brisk sloops, the first mate may weaken his firepower and prevent him from being able to quickly

Get enough results quickly.

So Anthony's mind was spinning rapidly, weighing the pros and cons in order to make the most correct decision. After thinking about it for a while, he decided to send an armed merchant ship and several speedboats equipped with light guns as a reserve team.

Place it on the flank of the fleet and beware of the pirates' light sloops.

So under his order, the armed merchant ship that was relatively damaged yesterday was selected and placed on the flank of their fleet. He first led a few speedboats to resist the enemy's light sloops.

, to buy some time for the main fleet to defeat the main fleet of these Chinese pirates.

After making up their mind, the Spanish fleet began to change its formation, split into a small fleet, and faced the fast ships with flying numbers.

The remaining main warships rushed towards the Sea Wolf's main fleet with murderous intent. The gun windows on the Spanish warships were also opened with a bang, revealing the gun cabins.

The black muzzle.

Yu Xiaotian was always observing the enemy's movements. When he saw the enemy fleet beginning to change its formation, he immediately determined the opponent's battle plan.

He had to admit that the opponent's fleet commander was indeed not a fool and could easily see through his plan. However, he was not too worried about this because the number of ships on the opponent's side was limited. Although this was the best choice, they still

A bit underestimated the strength of those sloops.

It is important to know that the firepower of these Feihao Clippers is probably beyond the imagination of these Spanish banks. These Feihao Clippers are currently the first batch of ships to eliminate all six-pound guns. All ships are equipped with

Twelve-pound guns were mounted, including two long guns at the bow and stern, and four short twelve-pound guns arranged on both sides. In addition, there were light French cannons on the ship specifically for anti-personnel use, forming a relatively complete system.

of firepower, both near and far.

The other party only sent out a large ship that seemed to be damaged, along with a few speedboats. They just wanted to clean up a few speedboats, which probably wouldn't break their teeth, so that would be weird.

What he actually wants is to let these flying speedboats clean up the Spanish speedboats first. As long as they knock off their speedboats, then these Spanish people will be like women who have their clothes stripped off, and then they will wait.

Got fucked!

Large ships that have lost the cover of small boats are extremely vulnerable to sneak attacks by small arson boats in the melee. Especially under such circumstances, when the Sea Wolf fleet has an absolute numerical advantage, if these large ships are entangled, they will

Falling into an extremely dangerous situation.

On the whole, although there is nothing wrong with the other party's arrangement, it is in line with Xiaotian's wishes, because he understands his opponent, but his opponent does not understand them. This is the opponent's mistake. If the opponent is a fool today

If he was commanding the battle, he might hug their fleet into a ball. In that case, Yu Xiaotian would not be able to talk to them easily, and might even get his teeth chipped.

"Command the fleet to form a column and seize the upper hand! The small boats are following closely! Hide on the flanks of the big ships and wait!" Yu Xiaotian saw that the distance between the two sides began to close, and they were about to enter the fighting distance, so he put down his telescope.

, shouted loudly to the messenger beside him.

The messenger immediately and faithfully conveyed his order. The upper bucket on the ship's mast, now also a signalman, immediately waved the order flag and conveyed Xiaotian's order.

The fleet immediately began to change its formation. Ships of various types began to turn and sail to the windward position, and gradually formed a column formation. The assault boats accompanying the ship all sailed to the left side of the big ship.

, with the help of the big ship's body, they covered their body.