Although they are all called ships, the difference between ships is as big as the difference between people.

Can a medium-sized coast guard ship costing two thousand taels of silver be the same as a large Western sailing ship costing more than 100,000 or 200,000 taels of silver? Similarly, a pirate ship costing 180 taels of silver cannot compete with a coast guard ship that represents the highest shipbuilding technology of the Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, the guns of the Coast Guard ship were even more powerful than those of the Portuguese. One shot could even penetrate several sailing ships made of inferior planks! Naturally, it was like a tiger entering a flock of sheep, crushing them in all directions.

The pirate ships were still gathered together, and there was no way to hide. They could only stand still and allow themselves to be slaughtered.

The Coast Guard fleet fired a large number of Oda City rockets at full firepower. The pirate ship had no professional damage control, and the fire gradually spread, turning the entire sail and mast into torches. In the end, the fire grew bigger and bigger and spread completely.

Because the hull was too wet, the whole bay was filled with smoke, which led Silva to believe that the other ships were doomed.

But in fact, that was just his thought. In fact, there were pirate ships blocking the perimeter, and all the old lock ships and Lacaville sailboats were intact. It was just that the pirate ships were blocked by the dense artillery fire of the Coast Guard Fleet, so they naturally couldn't move.

Domingo naturally had no idea. Seeing the black smoke rising into the sky in the bay, he believed Silva's statement. Heartbroken, he could only order to quickly chase the Garales to prevent the caravel, which was also damaged, from repeating the same fate as the Duke of Goa.

In that case, he would become the commander who lost three large sailing ships in one battle, who was unprecedented and probably will never be repeated, and his entire family would be nailed to the pillar of shame forever.

~~

Watching the Pena slowly sail away from Shen'ao Bay, Wang Rulong and Xiang Xuehai couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

The bow of the Zhenwo is still stuck in the body of the Duke of Goa and cannot be pulled out. If the other party takes it out on them, they will have no choice but to abandon the ship.

"Huh? Why did they let us go?" Xiang Xuehai asked puzzledly.

"That's not good, is it?" Wang Rulong took out a cigar from his pocket and wanted to have one, but fireworks were strictly prohibited on the ship, so he could only turn the thick thing around in his nose and sniff it to satisfy his craving. "I guess Lao Ma and his men fought well, and they probably managed to get rid of that oriental beauty."

"It's possible, otherwise the ship would have come out long ago." Xiang Xuehai nodded and said, "It seems that the beauty was dismantled and reassembled, and her bones were still injured."

"Isn't that nonsense? Remember Haier Ge said that the ship couldn't be put back together after it was dismantled. In order to deal with the Portuguese, Yang Fan and his gang added 5,000 kilograms of rivets and iron hoops alone. To put it bluntly, they just tied it up." Wang Rulong laughed and said, "At that time, their requirement was that if they could barely make it to Macau, they would have completed the mission. This gave the red-haired devils another year, so they can just be happy!"

"Others may not know these things, but Alfonso has been in Jiangnan Shipyard for so long, so he knows them clearly." Xiang Xuehai couldn't help but sigh: "How dare he start a battlefield on a ship? I really don't know what's going on in his head."

"You can't take responsibility, you don't dare to tell the truth." Wang Rulong curled his lips and said, "Besides, she's fine for a year, who would have thought that a few volleys would take the life of a beauty?"

"That's really unlucky." Xiang Xuehai smiled.

It was almost ten o'clock in the morning at this time, and the fog on the sea surface had basically disappeared, meeting the conditions for launching the reconnaissance balloon.

"Is it still usable?" Wang Rulong asked loudly to the Beidou team who were preparing to launch the missile on the forecastle.

"It's intact!" the captain reported loudly. When a hot air balloon is not in use, the frame is removed, the skin is folded up, and packed in a box. Before the war, the Beidou team placed the balloon box in the watertight compartment on the bottom floor. The watertight compartment was not hit by any shells, so the balloon was naturally intact.

"Then let it fly quickly!" Wang Rulong was overjoyed when he heard this, and couldn't wait to go up to the sky to see what the entire battlefield looked like now.

A quarter of an hour later, the light blue reconnaissance balloon carried him high into the sky. As the altitude continued to rise, Wang Rulong's vision expanded.

Soon, he saw the coast guard fleet led by Ma Yinglong, which was arranged in two horizontal rows, using the most difficult to break staggered formation, blocking all the pirate ships in the bay and making them unable to move.

In this staggered formation, the front ship will not block the firing trajectory of the rear ship, and the firepower of the warship can be fully utilized. There are two lines of defense again. If one line is broken, there is still another line of blockage. Except for the giant Pena that cannot be broken through, the rest of the ships, big and small, are simply unable to break through.

When all the pirate ships trying to escape were sunk, the pirates no longer had any hope of escaping from the sea. They jumped into the water and swam towards the shore, preparing to join the large force attacking Qing'ao Bay first.

As more and more pirates escaped to the shore, more and more ships were left unattended, leaving the caravels and old lock ships trapped in the deepest areas with no hope of breaking out.

It looked like none of the enemies here could escape, but it would take quite a while to eat them all. After all, even if there were three hundred pigs there, they couldn't all be caught at once.

Wang Rulong then turned his gaze to the north with confidence to see what the two escaped Portuguese sailing ships and three coast guard battleships were doing now.

The Gareles, which had escaped first, had already sailed to the sea more than ten miles to the north.

As for why they fled north? Because the wind was blowing from the south. The red-haired devil wanted to flee south, but the carrack's headwind performance was terrible, so he probably planned to flee north first and get out of the battlefield.

Ships 102 and 103 were on the left and right, and had been separated by some distance.

Wang Rulong could see through the telescope that the police officers on the two ships were busy clearing the debris on the deck and fixing the undamaged rigging to the remaining masts.

Led by the chief repairman, the ship's carpenters tried to use the wood stored on board to repair the broken mast. In short, before they succeeded, these two battleships, which only had three masts left, would never catch up with the Galilee.

There was even a danger of being overtaken by the Pena from behind.

In addition, he also saw the group's three squadrons, which were also in the nearby sea.

This is normal. The battle between the main fleet and the red-haired devils was so fierce that it could be heard clearly from more than ten or twenty miles away. It would be abnormal if they didn't come to join in the fun.

Lin Feng's fleet was seen rapidly chasing the Gareles from the southeast, while Chen Huaixiu's fleet was following the Pena, and the fastest Ryukyu galley fleet was approaching the 102nd and 103rd ships. It was probably Haierdi and his men sending a signal for Zheng Yu's ship to approach quickly.

There are probably quite a few wounded on both ships...

Wang Rulong sighed secretly, every coast guard is a valuable asset of the group, and losing one is heartbreaking.

After exhaling, he turned his attention to the Qing'ao Bay base. The war there was also drawing to a close...

~~

When looking down from the air, you can clearly see that the wall on the west side of the Qing'ao Bay Base is indeed double-layered.

The distance between the two parallel walls is about 300 meters, and there is a vertical wall every 1,000 meters. Its function is to separate enemies invading from different directions so that they cannot form a joint force.

There are artillery emplacements and shooting towers on the inner wall and vertical walls. The positions of the artillery emplacements and shooting towers are scientifically calculated to ensure that there is no blind spot coverage of the areas divided by the walls. In this way, only a small number of troops are needed to guard the land defense line.

Zhao Hao also set up two trenches and a defense line in each area, and buried a large amount of gunpowder underground, in order to kill as many enemy forces as possible and dampen their morale.

But Mr. Zhao's pre-war preparations were obviously a bit excessive. After the two pirates suffered losses in the first trench, they retreated before seeing the power of artillery. Only the Portuguese army was very stubborn. After losing the slave camp and mercenaries, they passed several levels and finally arrived at the inner wall.

Mr. Zhao's artillery and shooting tower finally came in handy.

The artillery forts were equipped with Xuande cannons, which were disliked by the Coast Guard Fleet because of their small caliber. However, this 93mm bronze cannon was fully capable of being used as a field cannon. For example, now, with solid bullets, it can easily cover the entire rectangular area... or a urn. With shotgun shells, it can also kill a large number of Portuguese soldiers within 300 meters.

And three hundred meters is exactly the distance between the two city walls.

Colonel Fernando and his men were unlucky to encounter an enemy like Master Zhao, who was obviously very powerful but still spared no effort to build fortifications and plotted against them.

Zhao Hao's gunners were even so abnormal that they made shooting tables for all areas within the range, so that they could adjust and hit the enemy in the first place no matter where they were.

So this group of red-haired devils tried their best to dodge in the city, but the shells still followed them like a shadow, exploding among them one after another, causing extremely heavy losses.

In the face of the cruel reality, Fernando's arrogance was completely gone. He wanted to order a retreat, but there were two trenches behind him. Moreover, the temporary step on the rear trench was demolished by the black slaves in the trench...

There is no escape, no way to avoid it, can I just wait to die?

Fernando was not as pretentious as Domingo and decisively raised the white flag.

Then, under the other party's instructions, they obediently threw their weapons away, and everyone came to the inner wall and lay on the ground with their heads in their hands.

At this time, the marines came down from the wall and tied up Fernando and a group of noble officers separately and put them under guard. As for the ordinary red-haired ghosts, they were all driven to jump into the second trench, which was the same trench where the black slaves jumped.

In fact, the purpose of Zhao Hao digging this ditch was to detain prisoners, so there were no harmful devices installed inside.

However, there were more than a thousand angry black slaves inside, so these human traffickers had to suffer the consequences.

ps. The child caught a cold and had a fever in the middle of the night. Parents understand...