The sail frigates of the Ming army were no slower than the arson ships. The drag knives could blow up the arson ships one by one. The exaggerated firepower density suddenly caused dozens of fire ships to float on the sea, and some of them refused to slow down.

Slowly sinking.

Zheng Gen gritted his teeth, but there was nothing he could do. He knew that he could no longer be kited by the enemy. Since the fire attack was not effective and the enemy was too flexible to hit him, he could only count on the main fleet to hit him head-on.

Fortunately, the little time that the arson fleet bought was enough to force Zheng Chenggong to move, allowing the relatively clumsy and heavy main gunboats of Vietnam to approach the fighting distance.

It was at this moment that the Ming army's battleships began to fully unleash their firepower. The battleships no longer hid behind the frigates. Instead, they turned around and headed to the front line in strict order and under the command of flags.

Moreover, Zheng Chenggong's scheduling was very appropriate. He did not blindly ask all the Ming warships to seize the T-shaped horizontal head battle formation, but made adjustments based on the density of the fleet formation on the opposite side.

If the opponent's formation was dense, there was no space between the battleships, and the threat of small boats and arson ships was too great, Zheng Chenggong only asked the battleships to maintain the battle line.

And if the formation of the Vietnamese navy is relatively sparse in certain positions on the battlefield, or the losses of small boats such as arson ships have been relatively heavy, causing the Vietnamese battleship to take charge of the battle alone, then Zheng Chenggong will not be polite, and he will directly command the Ming Dynasty's battleships to directly

The punch plunged into the middle of the Vietnamese army, and the center blossomed, giving full play to all the firepower on both sides, doubling the firepower density at once.

After all, the biggest waste of the battle line approach is that only one side is in contact with the enemy, and the cannon on the other side will be idle. If you rush in directly and there are enemies on the left and right sides, you can fire at the same time and the center will bloom.

It’s just that such a style of play requires very strong courage and judgment. Around the 1810s, Nelson dared to do this during the Battle of Trafalgar. Later, until the 1870s, the Austro-Hungarians at the Battle of Lisa also dared to defeat Italy in this way.

. Later on, with the epoch-making advancement of artillery technology, this kind of punch tactic was completely eliminated from the stage of history, and the effective range and accuracy were greatly improved.

Nowadays, whether it is a battle formation or a charge to tear apart the enemy formation, there is no absolute advantage or disadvantage. It all depends on the ability of the general to perform on the spot.

"Boom, boom, boom -" As the battleship and the heavy Galen gunboat exchanged bombardments, nearly 70 kilograms of solid heavy bombs finally roared towards the Vietnamese battleship with a loud noise that the Vietnamese of this era had never heard.

It was not until the moment when the cannon shells roared that Zheng Gen actually knew how heavy the heaviest cannon of the Ming Dynasty's heavy artillery warships was - fully twice as heavy as the heaviest cannon on the Vietnamese Galen warship.

In terms of caliber, it is at least 30% thicker.

The artillery shells of the Ming army were also generally equipped with bullet holders. It is estimated that this kind of heavy shells had no use at all during the previous battles in Burma and were simply prepared for naval battles.

The 70-pound solid iron ball hit the Galen warship at close range. Naturally, it was completely unable to withstand it. The original Dutch goods purchased by the Vietnamese for a large sum of money were still penetrated by several layers of thick oak armor, and wood fragments were broken in the cabin.

It flew across the sky, killing and injuring countless sailors and artillerymen.

Some of them had an excessively large shooting angle, or penetrated the side wall and hit the lower surface of the main deck, bouncing off the ricochet, or even hit the armor below the waterline of the Southern battleship, causing a large hole to burst out and flood into the water.

Unfortunately, at this point, no one could turn back. Zheng Gen just shouted at the top of his lungs and had people raise flags, asking his subordinates and friendly forces to hold on:

"Hold on, don't be afraid! Keep fighting Zheng Chenggong with me! The Ming army is returning from a long voyage, and there won't be much ammunition! They won't be able to bombard them for long!

Zheng Chenggong sailed 8,000 miles to Myanmar and returned 5,000 miles back to here. Can we not even defeat Zheng Chenggong, who was exhausted and short of ammunition and ammunition after sailing 13,000 miles? Don't be afraid!

Look, Zheng Chenggong is a madman. He dares to drive his flagship into the center of our gunboat group. Let me surround him with all my strength! Zheng Chenggong must be sunk!"
Chapter completed!