Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 282

After hard encounters, there are few stars all around.

The mountains and rivers are broken and the wind is fluttering.

Pantou said panic, sighing separately.

No one has died in life since ancient times.

Lingdingyang is the place where Wen Tianxiang, a famous minister of the Southern Song Dynasty, left his famous works through the ages, but now it has become a pirate's lair, which is really embarrassing.

Liu Xiang is quite famous among the pirates on the southeast coast, his reputation is second only to Zheng Zhilong, and in Zheng Zhilong's eyes, this person is also his biggest opponent.

This guy is much stronger than Yang Liu and Yang Qi.

At the Nan'ao Island pier, on the Longya battleship, everyone frowned slightly after hearing Zheng Zhilong's introduction.

This guy didn't say it earlier.

If they sailed like thousands of warships to encircle and suppress Yang Liu and Yang Qi, Liu Xiang would most likely run away!

Fortunately, they already had the experience of encircling and suppressing pirates once, and everyone also gained a lot of experience.

Soon, Yuan Keli, the governor of the Navy, stretched out his hand and gestured on the map: "Your Majesty, how about this? Our three major navy are lined up horizontally, with the Eastern Navy at the outermost edge, the Beiyang Navy in the middle, and the Nanyang Navy divided into two parts." , the lucky boats all go to the side far from the coast, and the side near the coast is dominated by black-tailed boats and bird boats, and they play the banner of Yang Liu and Yang Qi. In this way, Liu Xiang will probably think it is Yang Liuyang fleet of seven."

This method is really good. Anyway, the warships of the coastal guards rarely go to sea at this moment, and there are no ships dozens of miles away from the coastline. They pass by in such a row, and people can only see the closest to the coast. Blacktail boats and bird boats.

With Liu Xiang's prestige among the pirates, he wouldn't be afraid of Yang Liu and Yang Qi, would he?
Taichang nodded slightly and said: "Well, that's right, let's do it this way. After surrounding the pirate Liu Xiang, the Beiyang Navy stayed behind to destroy him. The Dongyang Navy immediately went to the south of Lianzhou Prefecture to block the pirate Li Kuiqi's retreat. The Nanyang Navy The division then followed, encircling and annihilating the third band of pirates in one fell swoop."

All the generals responded with a bang.

In a few days, the south wind blew up, and the three major navy fleets went out again.

This time, the thousands of warships of the Beiyang Navy and the Nanyang Navy no longer lined up along the coastline, forming a long queue dozens of miles long, but lined up horizontally in a straight line, more than a hundred The inside is wide, and the periphery happens to be connected with the fleet of the Dongyang Navy.

When Liu Xiang received the news, he really didn't take it seriously, because from the perspective of the coastline, he could indeed see hundreds of black-tailed boats, bird boats, and other small paddle boats, which happened to be in line with the fleet of pirates Yang Liu and Yang Qi. scale.

Yang Liu Yang Qi come here, he is afraid of a fart!

The only thing he was curious about was how Yang Liu and Yang Qi bypassed Nan'ao Island.

At this moment, Nan'ao Island was blocked by the imperial navy, and even Xu Xinsu hadn't sent any news for a long time. How did these two guys escape the imperial navy's blockade?

The answer was quickly revealed.

Nan'ao Island is only more than [-] miles away from Lingdingyang, and it takes about ten hours to arrive at the speed of a sailboat sailing with the wind.

This time, the three major naval fleets also tried the method proposed by Zhang Yuanfang, sailing at half speed at night under the banner of Fengdeng.

So, early the next morning, at about [-] o'clock, they had already arrived in the waters near Guangzhou Mansion.

The fleets of the three major naval divisions suddenly changed from a straight line to a semicircle, directly enclosing the entire Lingdingyang waters, and Liu Xiang suddenly became a turtle in the urn.

At this time, Liu Xiang was still in the dark, because the news from the north was that Yang Liu and Yang Qi led more than a hundred pirate ships to come over. How could he expect that there were thousands of warships coming from the outer sea.

There are no ships in the open sea these days, and it is impossible for him to send his small boat to the open sea to stare at the risk of being blown over!
He heard the report from the sentinel ship that Yang Liu and Yang Qi's fleet had arrived at the outskirts of Lingdingyang, so he gathered all the warships under his command and prepared to go up to them and ask what these two guys were doing here.

As a result, an unknown number of fast boats on wheels suddenly appeared in all directions, and immediately after that, hundreds of warships surrounded them in a semicircle.

Shen Yourong led the Beiyang navy fleet to surround the pirate Liu Xiang!
Taichang received the news and immediately ordered the Dongyang Navy and the Nanyang Navy to continue south and head straight for Lianzhou Mansion.

The Beiyang navy had more than [-] warships at least, so it would be no problem to deal with the hundreds of pirate ships under Liu Xiang's command. Then it was the turn of the pirates Li Kuiqi and Zhong Bin.

Taichang directly ordered the Dongyang Navy to detour Qiongzhou Mansion, go to the sea off Yazhou, and block the waterway for the pirate Li Kuiqi to escape to Nanyang first. The boat, and it is still under the banner of Yang Liu Yang Qi.

Lianzhou Mansion is a bit far from Guangzhou Mansion. It is more than [-] miles to go around Leizhou Mansion along the coastline, and it is more than [-] miles to go around Qiongzhou Mansion through the sea.

Fortunately, the luck of the two naval fleets was good, and they did not encounter any terrible sea storms along the way.

Early in the morning of the third day, the fleet of the Dongyang Navy, which had been traveling overnight, arrived in the northern waters of Annan, and quietly set up a line of defense. At noon, the Nanyang Navy also surrounded it from the east.

Hundreds of speedboats flooded into the densely packed islands in the southeast corner of Lianzhou Prefecture and searched for a while, and the lairs of pirates Li Kuiqi and Zhong Bin were quickly found.

This time, Taichang didn't let the Dongyang Fleet jump on it and bombard it. After all, the Nanyang Fleet also needs to practice their hands.

He directly ordered Yu Zigao to lead the Nanyang Fleet to encircle and fight violently, while the Dongyang Fleet scattered around the periphery and slowly gathered in the middle.

The battle between the sailboat and the sailboat was extremely fierce. Both sides focused on setting fire, and there were not many guns and earth cannons on both sides, so they didn't have much effect at all.

Soon, thick smoke billowed from the melee area. It is unknown how many warships were set alight and how many people were putting out the fire.

You came and I shot rockets back and forth for a while, and then threw torches, oil tanks and so on, and then began close combat.

Yu Zigao had tens of thousands of men under his command, while Li Kuiqi and Zhong Bin had only a thousand men under him. Naturally, this gang of pirates couldn't handle it.

It didn't take long for hundreds of pirate ships to be taken down one by one by the swarming Nanyang Navy soldiers, and the battle ended.

Taichang put down the binoculars slowly, with a serious look on his face.

This side-to-side close combat is also too scary. It seems that the naval battle is not enough just to have the gunboats, because there are a bunch of small boats swarming up, and the gunboats can't sink them all. Once they get close, it will be troublesome up.

In history, the Dutch may have been too superstitious about the power of large-scale gunboats and large-scale armed merchant ships, so they couldn't even do it with the declining Ming Navy.

This is a lesson!

These days, the navy cannot blindly pursue the size of the ship, but also has to ensure the advantage in numbers, otherwise it will stumble if it is not careful.

He was frowning and meditating there, when Yu Zigao came over in a wheelie, climbed onto the deck, and clapped his hands excitedly: "Your Majesty, Li Kuiqi and Zhong Bin have been caught, and we have completely wiped out this group of pirates."

Taichang nodded slightly, and then said to Zheng Chenggong: "Feihong, do you know where Lulu Chu's shipyard is?"

Zheng Chenggong hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "The general will know."

Taichang said without hesitation: "Okay, Kemai, your Nanyang navy is here to repair and stand by, Feihong, you lead the way, let's go to Chulu's shipyard to see."

The fleet of the Dongyang Navy headed north along the coastline, and in less than half an hour, they came to a bay that was more than ten miles deep.

Holding up the binoculars, Taichang looked at the row of huge docks on the shore, and couldn't help but snort coldly.

With such a large dock, are all the local officials blind?

Obviously, the local officials here have taken advantage of others and helped them conceal it. Otherwise, it would be impossible to turn a blind eye to such a large-scale shipyard.

It's time for these guys to tidy up, otherwise, even if these pirates are wiped out, there will be more pirates coming out in the future.

This time, he must break the roots of pirates!
(End of this chapter)