Chapter 751: Final Battle!

"Advance to the north!" Zhou Yi pondered for a moment before issuing the order.

Sailing against the wind now would be courting death.

In the exchange of fire just now, both sides' warships had sustained damage, but no fatal blows had been dealt.

However, if the opponent seized the advantage and unleashed a few more rounds of shelling, his warships might not be able to hold out.

Furthermore, his goal was to lure the tiger away from the mountain; there was no need for a fight to the death.

By utilizing the wind direction and heading straight north, he could put distance between his fleet and the British warships.

Moreover, the sea area between Dongying and Gaoli was filled with many islands.

It was entirely possible to let the fleet use these islands to maneuver around them.

Under his command, the fleet changed from a horizontal line to a vertical one.

The two fleets sailed parallel to each other once more, and as they moved, both sides engaged in another round of mutual shelling.

But the duration of this shelling was very short, and the two fleets brushed past each other.

While Zhou Yi and Wolf were pitting their wits against each other.

The Wu warships were having a streak of bad luck.

Because they had to deal with the eighteen warships with all their might.

Wolf was completely unable to attend to the Wu warships.

And due to advancing at full speed, the Wu warships were left behind.

While the right flank was engaged in a naval battle with the British, Gong Ying naturally had to carry out his own mission, which was to attack the Wu Navy.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

The eighteen warships of the left flank were arranged in a line, their side Artillery continuously slamming Cannonball after Cannonball into the Wu warships.

The Artillery on the Wu warships was far inferior to the Artillery on the Yanzhou Warships.

Their Artillery was similar to the Artillery Yan Wang had originally sold to the powerful clans, and two-thirds of them were even Artillery purchased from Yanzhou.

One-third were forged and replaced by themselves.

These Artillery pieces had a maximum range of only eight or nine hundred meters, and their effective range was even smaller.

At this moment, Gong Ying deliberately positioned the Yanzhou Warships at a distance of four hundred meters from the Wu warships.

The Artillery fire from the Wu warships hitting the Yanzhou Warships basically could not cause much damage.

But the Naval Cannon of the Yanzhou Warships were different.

These heavy and long Naval Cannon could fire a Cannonball about ten li.

Within four hundred meters, their power was immense; as long as a Cannonball hit a Wu warship, it would inevitably shatter the side wall of the warship.

Especially the Incendiary Shell, which, upon drilling into the hull, could easily ignite a large fire.

Therefore, under the attack of the Yanzhou Fleet, the Wu warships either sank or erupted into raging fires.

And because their speed was too slow, they could not catch up to the Yanzhou Warships, unable to swarm them like wolves to conduct an attack at close range.

At first, the Wu warships still attempted to fight the fleet led by Commander Gong Ying.

But upon discovering that the British were ignoring them and only focused on fighting the other Yanzhou fleet.

They immediately fell into chaos; some fled, while others hid in the bays.

There were still some warships that continued to entangle with Gong Ying's fleet, but they were dealt with one by one.

At this time, seeing Zhou Yi's fleet continuously heading north and appearing to be at a disadvantage.

Gong Ying immediately abandoned the entanglement with the Wu warships and pursued northward...

While the battle at sea was underway.

The battle on the coast also began.

After bombarding the Trench for an hour.

Zhao Xu ordered an attack on the Eastern Earth Allied Forces.

The Wangfu Army in the front-row Trench rushed out with Hand Grenade hanging from their waists.

They ran in an S-shaped route, and upon seeing Flintlock protruding from the enemy's Trench.

They immediately dropped to the ground and then crawled forward.

Thirty meters from the enemy's Trench, they unhooked the Hand Grenade from their waists and threw them toward the areas with the most Flintlock.

"Boom, boom, boom..." After a burst of explosions, the enemy's front-row Trench suddenly fell silent.

At this moment, they scrambled up and continued to charge forward.

The enemies in the Trench had not yet reacted when they saw the soldiers of Yan Wang jump into their Trench.

"Ya..." The Dongying soldiers lunged at the Wangfu Army, and they immediately began wrestling together.

The entire Trench fell into a mess.

Huddled in the narrow area of the Trench, soldiers from both sides could not fire their guns, and it instantly turned into hand-to-hand combat.

Raising their Bayonet, the two sides began to slaughter each other in the Trench.

However, due to suffering the bombardment of the Howitzer and being blasted by Hand Grenade once over.

The number of enemies in the front-row Trench was sparse.

The Wangfu Army quickly occupied the first row of the Trench.

Seeing the Wangfu Army launch a charge, the Dongying generals behind kept urging their soldiers to rush to the front to replenish their forces.

However, it was all too late.

The Wangfu Army that had occupied the Trench kept throwing Hand Grenade into the vertical straight paths.

A large number of Dongying soldiers were blown to death, and their corpses soon blocked the straight paths.

Some Dongying soldiers climbed up the Trench, attempting to cross from above.

But the Wangfu Army soldiers behind immediately raised their guns and fired.

"I surrender, I surrender!" In the process of the two sides slaughtering each other, the aristocratic clan soldiers kept kneeling to surrender.

They discovered that the British warships had disappeared.

This made them feel like they had become abandoned children, and their fighting spirit vanished instantly.

Rather than dying in a foreign land, it was better to become a prisoner and still be able to return to Dasong.

Therefore, they did not want to resist as intensely as the Dongying soldiers.

Seeing the aristocratic clan soldiers surrender, the Wangfu Army soldiers ignored them and continued to slaughter the Dongying soldiers.

Following the breach of the first trench, they occupied the second trench as well.

The Wangfu Army soldiers, dressed in green military uniforms, kept climbing out of their own trenches and swarming toward the enemy's trenches.

"Kill!"

The Wangfu Army soldiers roared, charging and killing in the trenches while holding muskets equipped with bayonets.

The Dongying soldiers rushed up, and they skillfully used Bayonet Technique to fight them.

The Dongying soldiers kept falling into pools of blood.

Because the offensive of the Prince's Personal Army was extremely fierce, coupled with the use of convenient firearms like Hand Grenades, the casualties of the Dongying soldiers kept increasing.

The trenches were continuously occupied by the Prince's Personal Army, and the Dongying soldiers had no choice but to retreat toward the seaside.

Without the cover of the trenches, the Dongying soldiers became targets for the Wangfu Army soldiers.

Many soldiers stood together and kept firing at the Dongying soldiers.

Even though the Dongying soldiers were fierce, they faced Wangfu Army soldiers who were even more ferocious than them.

The Dongying Army showed signs of a rout.

A large number of Dongying soldiers swarmed toward the Pier, attempting to board the Merchant Ships to escape.