Daming pirates

After so many years of operation of Sea Wolf, the Navy has already perfected the light language system of the simple signal lights used in the early days. Now the light language they have compiled is quite complete and can transmit quite complex information.

Moreover, the signal lights made by craftsmen are much more complete and sophisticated than before. Several fixed signal lights are installed on each ship, which can send signals in all directions.

Cyclops's flagship is even equipped with many such signal lights, and has a group of highly qualified signal light operators to deliver his orders.

Therefore, even at night, Seawolf's fleet has a more complete and convenient way to transmit messages than other fleets, and can accurately allow more ships to receive instructions from the flagship.

Under the command of the Cyclops, the fleet began to move again. Since the matter had come to this, there was no need to hide anymore. Each ship raised a lantern to mark their location.

This fleet quickly moved towards the open waters. They had to enter the open waters before the main pirate fleet arrived in order to fully utilize their firepower advantage.

This battle is not easy for Sea Wolf, because the enemy will definitely come with many ships this time. In such a large-scale sea battle, if you are not careful, anything can happen, so all the captains are wide-eyed.

Eyes, always pay attention to the instructions issued by the flagship, and constantly adjust the fleet formation according to the instructions from the flagship.

When the sea line in the east gradually began to turn fish-belly white, the sea surface once again ushered in light, making the dark sea surface begin to become much more visible.

At this time, on the sea southwest of Sea Wolf, you can gradually see hundreds of ships of various sizes densely packed on the sea. In Daya Bay, the fire ships are still burning blazingly. Many of them are still burning.

The fire ship had been completely burned, leaving only some wreckage, still drifting on the sea, emitting billowing smoke.

There were a small number of corpses that followed the sea wolves in the sea water. These corpses were from some unlucky gangsters on the fireboats. After they lit the fireboats and jumped into the sea, they failed to swim back to the shore and ended up drowned in the seawater.

Of course, there are some guys floating on the sea holding some broken wooden boards, calling for help from time to time.

When the daylight continued to brighten, Liu Xiang also saw the Sea Wolf fleet, appearing in the wide waters around the mouth of Daya Bay. When he looked closely at the original Sea Wolf anchorage, Liu Xiang almost twisted his nose with anger.

At the original anchorage of Sea Wolf, now there are only a few smoking fire ships floating in the air, and not a single Sea Wolf warship has been seen.

At this time, he had realized that the fire ship sneak attack plan they had formulated had completely failed. It did not cause any losses to the Sea Wolf fleet at all. On the contrary, they themselves lost a large number of ships in vain. Such a result is really discouraging.

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But at this time, he wanted to retreat, but it was already too late. With so many ships and men rushing into Daya Bay, it was already impossible to retreat in a short time.

At this time, Sea Wolf's fleet has already taken the initiative to sail towards the open waters at the mouth of the bay. It is no longer possible to block them in Daya Bay and fight in a group.

Now they can no longer leave if they want to. Even if they want to leave, Yu Xiaotian will definitely not let them go. Therefore, they will have to fight to the end and decide a winner with Yu Xiaotian.

Consider the question of whether to leave or stay.

So Liu Xiang could only grit his teeth and give the order, and all of them rushed towards the Sea Wolf fleet. What followed was a fierce melee, and it all depended on who would win.

When the sun jumped from the sea level to above the sea level, a thundering roar began to sound in Daya Bay. At this time, the naval guns began to spit out streams of flames, smashing the blazing shells towards

The warships of their enemies...

In Daya Bay, the sound of cannons continued all day long, and it was not until the sky darkened again that the sound of cannons gradually subsided.

But at this time, looking at the originally peaceful and beautiful Daya Bay, it has turned into a mess. The sea inside and outside Daya Bay is full of messy things at this time, including half-sunken ships, blazing warships, and more.

There were countless hull fragments and debris on the ship, as well as a large number of corpses and living people floating on the water.

This is definitely the most brutal sea battle that has occurred along the coast of Ming Dynasty in many years. Both sides have invested nearly a thousand warships, and the number of participants in the battle has exceeded 30,000. It can be said that there are small pirates along the coast of Guangdong.

Half of the pirates were involved in this battle.

But the result was not what Liu Xiang wished for. The pirate alliance ended in failure in this fierce battle. Even Liu Xiang himself, as the leader of the alliance, was killed by a sea wolf warship only two hours after the war started.

The cannons bombarded him indiscriminately, and his ship was blown to pieces on the spot. Only a dozen of the hundreds of people on board survived, and the rest were either killed on the spot or fell into the sea and drowned.

Faced with the super firepower of the Sea Wolf, the pirates collapsed two hours after the battle began. The reason why the fierce battle lasted until the evening was because the Sea Wolf divided into several teams in the ensuing battle to intercept the pirates.

ships and blocked it back into Daya Bay.

The pirates spent the whole afternoon trying their best to break out, but only a small number of pirate ships were able to escape in the end. More than half of the pirate ships were blocked in Daya Bay by sea wolves.

Seeing that they could not escape or fight, some pirates finally suffered a nervous breakdown and chose to drop their sails and stop the ship to surrender. These pirates were driven to Dalajia Island by the Sea Wolf fleet and put under centralized supervision.

Almost all pirate ships that refused to surrender after being blocked were sunk and destroyed by the Sea Wolf fleet, and a large number of pirates were also killed and injured.

Among them, Liu Xiang's pirates suffered the most losses, because as the main force, they were of course the focus of the Sea Wolf Fleet, but there were also many large pirates who followed them. After this battle, nearly half of the pirate leaders,

They were either shot dead on the spot or captured alive.

After a final inventory, only Zheng Yiguan and six other big stock shopkeepers were able to escape during the fierce battle, but they all suffered heavy losses.

Because the Sea Wolf has many fast-moving flying boats, these boats played an extremely important role in the pursuit battle. Like evil wolves, they constantly caught up with the fleeing enemy ships, waiting for opportunities to attack.

Take a bite and always drag these pirate ships so that they cannot escape smoothly.

Some of Sea Wolf's large warships played an extremely important role in this battle. They gave full play to the firepower advantages of each ship and used close combat tactics to conduct intensive bombardments on the pirate fleet. Often one ship's

When the firepower on the ship's side is fully opened, a pirate's warship will disintegrate immediately. Even if it does not disintegrate on the spot, it will be riddled with holes and unable to fight anymore.

Moreover, the Seawolf fleet has many types of artillery shells. After the dispatch of the gunnery commander on the ship, the advantages of these shells are fully utilized. Solid shells are used for long-range attacks, grape shells are used for close-range shooting, chain shells are designed to hit ship masts and sail ropes, and shot shells

Responsible for clearing the decks of enemy ships, the pirates who fought were miserable.

There are also some large-caliber carronnons, which are so powerful that one shot can often smash a pirate ship to pieces on the spot. At worst, it can disembowel it on the spot. Sometimes incendiary bombs are used on the ship. These incendiary bombs are actually

It's a red-hot solid bullet, used to bombard enemy ships

When using high-elevation angle hoisting, as long as it hits an enemy ship, the heavy shells will immediately smash through the deck. After the red-hot shells fall into the enemy ship, they will burn through the decks layer by layer until the ship is completely penetrated.

As soon as it enters the water, this boat is basically sentenced to death.

Therefore, the Sea Wolves always had an absolute firepower advantage in naval battles, and the pirate alliance was defeated. The technological gap made the pirates fully realize the terrifying aspects of the Sea Wolf fleet, which also caused their rapid collapse.

, from the initial alliance state, the birds and beasts quickly dispersed, and each began to desperately escape from the battlefield, which made the Sea Wolf fleet become more ferocious.

But for Sea Wolf, this battle was not easy. The Pirate Alliance still showed strong combat power in the initial stage of the battle. They relied on the advantage of the number of ships and swarmed towards Sea Wolf's ship.

Although the fleet was hit by the Sea Wolf's intensive artillery fire and the ship capsized, many pirate ships still broke through the fire blockade and rushed into the Sea Wolf's fleet.

In the initial stage, the pirates worked very hard to survive. After many pirate ships rushed into Sea Wolf's fleet, they fired cannons and cannons at Sea Wolf's warships, and rockets seemed to be free of charge.

They splashed them on the Sea Wolf warship, and some pirate ships even rushed directly to the Sea Wolf warship, and directly launched a hand-to-hand combat with the Sea Wolf warship.

All in all, in the initial stage of the battle, Sea Wolf's fleet also suffered relatively heavy losses. More than 20 ships were set on fire and burned by the enemy or were divided and surrounded by the enemy, killing all the soldiers on board.

This also led to the most serious losses in all the sea battles of Sea Wolf. Afterwards, statistics showed that Sea Wolf's naval officers suffered more than 700 casualties in this battle, and the number of completely destroyed warships was as high as 20.

Articles accounted for almost one-tenth or more of their total strength.

However, such losses are nothing compared to the losses of the Pirate Alliance. According to incomplete post-war statistics, this battle does not count the number of pirate fireships that ignited and burned themselves. The number of sunk and destroyed pirate ships alone is

There were nearly 200 pirates, and there were also more than 200 pirate warships captured. The number of pirates killed and drowned cannot be counted, but the number of pirates captured alive was as high as more than 4,000.

It can be said that after this battle, several large groups of pirates in Guangdong were almost crippled, and there were still many pirates among them. They could simply be regarded as being wiped out. Therefore, this battle basically laid the foundation for Yu Xiaotian's next move.

the basis of victory.