Lu Qi really couldn't understand why the elite official army went to Japan with Wang Zhi to do business. Didn't the court impose a maritime ban at this time? The elite official army actually went to Japan to do business. What's the matter with him?

Could it be that this is the suspicious plan of the Governor of Zhejiang Zhizhi Yang Cong?

If this is true, this guy would be too brave. He privately sent officers and soldiers to "escort" the Japanese pirate leader Wang Zhi to Japan to do business. If the little emperor knew about this, he would still be dead!

Lu Qi was beaten away for no reason. Although few of his subordinates were killed, most of them were injured, and they would definitely not be able to recover for a while.

Hong Tiezhu did not order a pursuit because he didn't have many people under his command, and he would have to die of about 20 or 30% of the pirates on the other side. Although most of them were injured, the number of remaining half was still more than their subordinates. The reason why he could drive them away was mainly due to the power of muskets and thunder. If he really jumped onto someone's boat to fight with one hand, he might not have done anything.

Besides, the battle with Wang Zhi has not ended yet. To be safe, he should go and help others.

He glanced at the pirate ship that was fleeing in a panic not far away and immediately ordered: "Change and support Lord Wang, all the musketeers load their guns and prepare for battle."

One of him and Wang Zhi went south and the other east. The difference between the two sides was about ten miles, and there was only a row of small black dots on the sea surface. I really couldn't tell how the battle was.

To be honest, he was still worried about Wang Zhi. He had seen the earth guns and earth cannons on Wang Zhi's ship. That thing was impossible to compare with the new type of musket they used. It is estimated that after one round of fire, there would be no time to load ammunition. In other words, Wang Zhi could only use earth guns and earth cannons to overturn two or three hundred people. The overall number of people was still at a disadvantage. It is hard to say whether he could get through the fire when the boarding was connected.

So, how did Wang Zhi fight?

Hong Tiezhu's guess is actually a bit wrong. Wang Zhi has a lot of experience in sea combat, and his earth guns and cannons under his command have not only been fired for one round.

Because the east wind is blowing at this moment, the ship led by Wang Zhi is only going with the wind, and the travel speed can be controlled. The ship led by the pirate Shen Jiu is almost going against the wind, and the travel speed is quite slow. As long as he orders his subordinates to turn the sails and slow down the ship's speed, it will take a certain amount of time for Shen Jiu to rush up to meet him.

Wang Zhi made full use of this. As soon as the pirate ship on the opposite side approached the bombardment range of the earth cannon, he ordered all ships in the fleet to adjust the direction of the sails and reduce the speed to the lowest, and then a row of gunfires were bombarded.

Immediately afterwards, he ordered his gunners to quickly load the shells. Taking advantage of the distance between the two sides, another round of gunfire came.

He had more than ten artillery pieces under his command. Although his range and accuracy were not very good, he still shot several shots after two rounds.

Among them, two shots hit two smaller pirate ships directly. That guy penetrated the bottoms of the two pirate ships at once. The two pirate ships quickly began to tilt and sank into the sea.

Several other rounds fell onto the large ship. Although the deck of the large ship did not penetrate, it also caused considerable casualties.

When the two sides were about two hundred steps away, he ordered the volleyball volley to fire in a round of prepared guns, overturning more than a hundred people on the other side. Because the ship speed of both sides was very slow, before approaching the volleyball distance of 100 steps, the volleyball volley was still ready for the second round of volleyball. After one round of guns, the other side was overturned by more than a hundred people.

In other words, he used his earthen guns and earth cannons to overturn the other three or four hundred people, and the gap in the number of people between the two sides has narrowed to ten figures.

Chen Jiu was also a little confused by the beating. Before he started fighting, he lost three or four hundred people and two small boats. Wang Zhi was too powerful.

At this time, his morale was actually a little chaotic. The other little pirates were frightened by the power of earth guns and earth cannons. If it weren't for the temptation of hundreds of thousands of taels of cargo on the ship, they would probably have run away.

Next, the double-easy access to the range of 100 steps was convenient, and the crossbow shot began.

At this time, Chen Jiu suffered a little loss because Wang Zhi had more bows and arrows in his hand than them, and Wang Zhi's ship was also equipped with powerful crossbows. That guy shot a crossbow arrow like a string of candied haws, which could shoot through several people.

In short, Wang Zhi has the absolute advantage in terms of long-range attacks, and Chen Jiu basically only has to be beaten. As one goes up and down, when the other goes down, the number of people on both sides is almost no different.

Speaking of melee battles, Wang Zhi actually has a relatively advantage, because Wang Zhi has tens of thousands of people under his command, but only more than a thousand people can come with the ship. In other words, he is basically selected from tens of thousands of pirates and Japanese pirates and is very capable of fighting.

Chen Jiu is a mob of several pirates. His physical fitness is definitely incomparable to the strength selected by Wang Zhi. Moreover, they are not in harmony, so when they fight, they are naturally far worse than Wang Zhi's subordinates.

Not long after the two sides fought, Chen Jiu could no longer bear it because Wang Zhi's subordinates were too fierce. The guy, the pirates who jumped up to grab the ship, were basically overturned by others. Wang Zhi even organized people to launch counter-robbery and ran directly along the springboard and ropes to their ship.

Seeing several ships being taken, many little pirates were so scared that they began to flee everywhere. Just kidding, hundreds of thousands of taels of goods are indeed tempting, but they have to be grabbed. Wang Zhi's subordinates are obviously much stronger than them, and they are just robbing them. Their ships are about to be taken away by others!

Seeing this, Chen Jiu also felt a desire to retreat, but he could not withdraw immediately because several boats under his command were climbed up by Wang Zhi's men. If he retreated, those boats would probably not be able to escape.

He was hesitating whether to organize people to rob the ships back. The lookout post on the flagship suddenly issued an alarm. He climbed up to the top of the warehouse and saw that he was shocked.

More than ten ships sent by Wang Zhi to intercept Lu Qi actually ran back, and there was no trace of Lu Qi's fleet behind him!

He didn't know what was going on with Lu Qi, he only knew that if he didn't run away, he might not be able to escape.

He even farts. He can't beat Wang Zhi in front of him even more than 30 ships. If he adds more than ten, he will definitely be alive.

He could only bear the pain and threw the ships occupied by Wang Zhi and ran away in shame with the remaining subordinates.

At this time, Wang Zhi naturally saw Hong Tiezhu's fleet. He couldn't believe his eyes. More than ten ships were able to intercept more than fifty pirate ships and ran back without any damage, and there were not even pursuers behind him.

In other words, Hong Tiezhu has driven away more than fifty pirate ships that have been surrounded by the south!

How is this possible?

He really couldn't believe this fact, but Hong Tiezhu led more than ten ships to run back without any damage, and the pirate ship that fought with him was frightened and fled in panic, even the more than ten ships he had seized.
Chapter completed!