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The sea breeze is gentle and the waves are surging.

Huang Shoucai, Zhao Lizi and others brought [-] or [-] warships and slowly appeared at the mouth of the Qiantang River.

"General, according to the nearby fishermen, Donghuo Mountain is not far ahead!" Deputy General Bai Yongdenghui reported.

"After Donghuo Mountain, Dinghai is sixty or seventy miles away!"

It turns out that the so-called "Ningbo Port" in this era did not really have a port named Ningbo, but a collective name for a series of ports along the coast of Ningbo Prefecture and near the Zhoushan Islands.

Originally, "Ningbo Port" mainly referred to Shuangyu Port on Liuheng Island, but it was completely destroyed under the raid of the Ming army because of rampant smuggling and endangering coastal safety.

As a result, part of the trade was transferred to other nearby islands, and part was transferred back to Dinghai County on land.

Dinghai, later known as Zhenhai, is located on the banks of the Yongjiang River. It is located on the east of the Zhoushan Islands, on the west of the Ningshao Plain, on the south of the Chuanshan Peninsula, and on the north of Hangzhou Bay. It is known as the gateway to eastern Zhejiang.

If the rebels can occupy this city, they can reject Zhoushan Zheng's navy in the east and attack Ningbo Fucheng in the west.

Now that Ningbo is underway, the Rebel Navy will be able to rely on the Ningbo Mansion to advance, attack, retreat or defend, and gradually eliminate the Zheng's navy entrenched in Zhoushan.

Of course, planning is all well and good, and it's not without risks.

Since Dinghai is located to the west of the Zhoushan Islands, if the rebels want to sneak attack Dinghai, they must hide it from the Zheng's navy stationed in Zhoushan.

So this time, the rebel army specially found a few nearby fishermen to act as guides, and then based on the information of the guides, they chose the channel from Donghuo Mountain, Jintang Island to Dinghai.

The advantage is to avoid the sight of Zheng's navy as much as possible and reach Dinghai as soon as possible.

"Okay, go at full speed!" Huang Shoucai looked at the sun that was already in the west, estimated the plan to steal the city tonight, and couldn't help ordering.

"Enemy attack, enemy attack!" But just as Huang Shoucai was about to fight, a loud shout rang out.

"Huh?" Huang Shoucai was taken aback when he heard the words, and quickly looked to the east, but he didn't see anything.

"Wrong, wrong, it's west!" Right here, Bai Yongdeng quickly corrected.

"West?" Huang Shoucai was taken aback when he heard the words, "How could it be West?"

It turned out that according to the current position of the rebel army, the Zheng's navy stationed in Zhoushan should have appeared in the southeast direction, but Huang Shoucai never expected that the enemy would appear in the west.

"Prepare to meet the enemy!" As the saying goes, those who come will not come if they are kind, and those who come will be unkind. Although Huang Shoucai doesn't know who is coming, he still makes preparations for the battle.

"Adopt." He hesitated for a while, and finally ordered, "Adopt the 'kidnapper tactics'!"

The so-called "Knapping Warfare" is actually the so-called "T-shaped Tactic" in later generations. The gangsters in this era are in the shape of a T, so Zhang Shun changed the name to "Taking Zi Tactics".

However, the naval battles of the Ming army in this era still adopted the traditional tactics of facing the enemy with the bow, that is, first firing artillery and gunfire, and then carrying out the tactics of jumping to the side. Quite disdainful, so it has never been used.

However, the enemy happened to be coming from the northwest, and the rebel army was heading southeast, which happened to form a "kidnapper" shape, which made Huang Shoucai, who had become a monk halfway through the sea battle, couldn't help but adopt this new method of warfare.

"Attack, attack with the whole ship!" Zheng Zhifeng, who had just suffered a defeat, had just left the mouth of the Qiantang River, and never expected to run into a huge navy.

At first he hesitated, but when he saw the "Long Snake Formation" on the opposite side, he was immediately convinced that he had encountered the "Franji" navy, and he couldn't help but ordered loudly.

The Zheng family has fought across the southeast coast, naturally they have fought against the Dutch, Portuguese and other western navies, and naturally they have some experience.

According to their knowledge, although the "Franji" navy has a strong ship and powerful guns, it is huge and inconvenient to move in the offshore, so it is very easy for others to take advantage of it.

Zheng's navy relied on this weakness of the opponent to dominate the southeast coast.

Following Zheng Zhifeng's order, Zheng's navy, with its flagship as the core, 15 large bird ships as the main force, and dozens of large and small warships as the auxiliary, rushed straight towards the rebel fleet.

"Fire, fire!" Seeing that the opponent rushed over as he expected, Huang Shoucai gave the order loudly.

The watchman at the top of the mast waved the flag desperately, passing the order to all the ships.

As the order was conveyed to the entire army, the main warships of the rebel army couldn't help but ignited their artillery one after another.

The hull trembled from the violent recoil, and then accompanied by a burst of thick gunpowder smoke, countless shells flew out.

"Boom, boom, boom!" Countless water jets soared into the sky, and it was like a heavy rain on the sea.

At the same time, the galloping speed of the big bird ship headed by Zheng's navy came to a halt, and countless potholes appeared on the hull and sails visible to the naked eye.

"So ruthless!" Zheng Zhifeng held up the "telescope" to carefully look at the damage of his big bird ship, and then looked at the two extremely large warships in the rebel army, and couldn't help but tremble.

It's not that he hasn't seen the big ships of "Franji" and "Red Hair Fan" before, but this is the first time he has seen such a big warship.

"Three layers, three layers of plywood, more than 30 cannons!" Zheng Zhifeng couldn't help muttering to himself.

In fact, Zheng Zhifeng's "Big Bird Ship" is a new type of warship combining Chinese and Western styles, which can generally carry 24 to [-] artillery pieces.

Most of the Dutch warships that arrived in East Asia at the same time were only warships carrying twenty or thirty guns.

It is the first time that a warship as big as the "Fengzhou class" and loaded with artillery has appeared on the East Asian battlefield.

"Rush, rush up!" Although Zheng Zhifeng felt a little uneasy in his heart, he still gave the order firmly.

This is his best choice, and the only choice!

"Boom, boom, boom!" Following another burst of deafening cannons, only a loud bang was heard, and then a big blessing boat riddled with holes suddenly broke into two pieces and sank slowly.

Zheng Zhifeng's face darkened, and his heart became more and more uneasy.

What a terrible cannon, it even sank the big fortune ship with [-] fuel!
In fact, it is very difficult to sink a warship with artillery in this era, which is also the main reason why arson and boarding battles are favored in East Asian naval battles.

However, now there is a warship sunk by the opponent's artillery, which is a bit beyond Zheng Zhifeng's expectation.

"Fire the cannon and get ready to join the ship!" During the bombardment of the two sides, Zheng's navy soon approached the rebel navy.

Not surprisingly, Zheng's navy directly launched a dash.

The T-shaped tactics are indeed conducive to the advantage of the artillery, but when facing the opponent's collision and boarding tactics, the thin column has become the weakness of the opponent's breakthrough.

"Get out, get out!" Huang Shoucai stood at the bow of the boat and couldn't help giving orders loudly.

And the sailors of the rebel fleet were also frantically beating the bows and manipulating the sails, but the rebel navy was newly built, so it couldn't compare to the excellence of Zheng's navy.

There was only a loud noise, and soon a fast-moving big bird ship collided with the "Fengzhou", which was not in a hurry to escape, and then dozens of warships surrounded it like a pack of wolves.

"Oops, hurry up, rescue General Zhao!" Huang Shoucai couldn't help but change his face, and ordered quickly.

"General, news came from the 'Feng Zhou', General Zhao Zhao said: Don't worry about him, kill the enemy as soon as possible!" At this moment, the watchman hesitated for a moment, and lowered the flag and said.