Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 388

At this moment, the Zheng He was like a lion attacking suddenly. The two layers of artillery were all opened, spraying flames, pouring tons of steel on Zheng Zhilong's right-wing fleet.

The explosion of the flowering bomb and the flammable agent caused the wooden hulls of countless ships in Zheng Zhilong's right-wing fleet to ignite raging fire in an instant.

Many pirates also died in the sea of ​​fire, jumping directly from the ship and shouting like ghosts and wolves, and the sharks swaying in the sea seem to know that in this case, food will always fall from above, so most of them wait here early, as long as If someone falls into the sea, they just grab it in their mouth.

Zheng Zhilong's right-wing fleet also hurriedly changed direction. More than a dozen large soft sailing ships were lined up like mountains covering the sky, and the double rows of artillery fired at the Zheng He in a swooping manner.

Countless iron bullets fell on Zheng He's head like pouring rain. The command of Zheng He forced Hei Wa to order all the crew members to hide in the cabin immediately to avoid unnecessary casualties.

At the same time, the Zheng He had to evacuate here immediately, because although the Zheng He was fast and responsive, the size of the Zheng He was not as large as these giant ships that were similar to a building. If they stayed here, they could only be passive. The situation of being beaten.

Therefore, the Zheng He had to evacuate here quickly, but because of its high speed, it was able to break out of the siege before Zheng Zhilong's ships were completely encircled, but still suffered some losses, some masts were interrupted a lot, and even the original smooth The iron hull of the ship was also smashed into potholes, some machines inside the hull were also shattered, and two steam cylinders were also damaged, which slowed down the horsepower of the entire Zheng He a lot.

But despite this, the speed of the Zheng He is still far superior to these wooden sailing ships. Every time these large wooden sailing ships try to use more tactics to bully the less, the Zheng He can always dodge cleverly , and attacked these large wooden sailing ships from behind like a ghost.

The supply ships attached to the Zheng He and the ships that assist the bombardment can also quickly switch positions and functions. Once the Zheng He is in danger of being surrounded, there will be more agile small warships carrying liquid explosives to break through the barriers for the Zheng He. Provide the direction to break out, and once the Zheng He breaks out, the supply warships can immediately make up for it, and there will be a combat team to quickly transfer fresh water and coal mines to the Zheng He.

In this way, the Zheng Hao was still able to handle the right wing of the Zheng's pirate group with a large number of warships, forcing Zheng Zhilong's right wing to be exhausted in fighting the Zheng He and had no time to take care of its left wing.

At this time, the situation of Zheng Zhilong's left wing was much worse. At this time, Yu Qian and Xu Da were like two crab legs biting the ends of his left wing fiercely, forcing Zheng Zhilong's left wing to attack. The head and tail could not look at each other, and the hundreds of warships on the entire left wing could not move.

As long as a ship on its left wing dares to take the lead, Yuqian or Xu Da can quickly turn its muzzle and bombard it indiscriminately, forcing it to retreat.

And Zheng Zhilong's left wing also wants to fight back, but whenever the ships on his left wing want to fight back, Yu Qian and Xu Da can always evacuate quickly, and at the same time, the small warships they belong to are like leeches sneaking on the sea As soon as it bites a certain large warship, it will not let go, and it must be blown up beyond recognition.

The two main fleets centered on the two flagships Yu Qian and Xu Da constantly turned around according to changes in the wind direction and hunted Zheng Zhilong's left-wing fleet in different directions.

Zheng Zhilong gritted his teeth with hatred, his boat was also in the left wing, but he didn't expect that the hundreds of warships on his side would be helpless against these two fleets with strange equipment.

At the beginning, Zheng Zhilong, who had the ambition to eat up the two fleets of the imperial court with only his left wing, had to consider the rear of his left wing, and immediately ordered the main fleet of each battalion to change direction before the camp on his side was completely chaotic. Move towards the right wing.

Gu Sanmazi, who also commanded the battle on the Yuqian here, also saw the change of Zheng Zhilong's left wing ship, and immediately ordered the Yuqian and Xu Da to merge and quickly intersperse to the right wing, hunting Zheng Zhilong's right wing.

Zheng Zhilong's right-wing ships are trying their best to encircle and suppress the Zheng He. Dozens of large wooden sailboats have been circling around the Zheng He. The hull had been completely destroyed, and its deck was also on fire. Fortunately, the main hull was made of fireproof materials, so the damage was not too great.

However, the other functional ships attached to the Zheng He were seriously damaged. Nearly one-third of the small warships were smashed into pieces of wood, and ten imperial court wooden auxiliary offensive ships and supply ships All were destroyed, making the Zheng He fleet more and more weak.

But when Yu Qian and Xu Da arrived, the battle suddenly turned again.

The direct commander of Zheng Zhilong's right wing is Zheng Hongkui. Zheng Hongkui is now fully mobilizing all the main warships on his side to besiege the Zheng He.

Here, Yu Qian and Xu Da opened their gun doors unceremoniously as soon as they arrived, and aimed at the buttocks of dozens of large wooden sailing ships.

After a loud bang, many of the main warships of Zheng He's pirates were blown up into sawdust in an instant, and the turbulent sea water was poured in directly. At the beginning, they were still very arrogant towards these large wooden ships of the Zheng He. The sailboat had to face the fate of being sunk in a blink of an eye.

The encirclement and suppression of Zheng He collapsed in an instant because of the arrival of Yu Qian and Xu Da. Zheng Zhilong's right wing, which was not prepared enough, had to face a more serious fire attack than the left wing.

Zheng Zhilong grinned his teeth in hatred for this. Although his fourth brother is resourceful, he is slightly inferior to his second and third brothers in naval battles, but he can't be a strategist, especially in this kind of actual combat. The fourth brother only knew to catch one fleet and completely ignored the entire battlefield and other enemy fleets.

But it’s useless to say these things now, Zheng Zhilong’s second brother, Zheng Zhilong, is now working hard to carry the ammunition in the Zheng He’s cabin, and when an enemy ship is approaching and ramming towards him, he is even more conditional Shouted: "Watch the flanks, turn around, break its mast with the right door gun, force it to change direction, avoid collision!"

Hearing his shout, the gunner beside him panicked and didn't know how to control it. Seeing this, Zheng Zhilong pushed the gunner away, and began to load his ammunition and adjust the direction by himself.

Suddenly a cannon rang out, and a large enemy ship that was trying to die with the Zheng He was suddenly broken because of its mast, and the sails running against the wind fell down in an instant, causing the large enemy ship to sway from side to side due to loss of power.

"Who did it, it's so beautiful!"

Gu Sanmazi couldn't help cheering loudly, and let the Yu Qian hit it directly. The iron-clad Yu Qian's bow was like an iron plowshare, and directly plowed this large enemy ship that was trying to die with the Zheng He. .

Zheng Zhilong's left-wing fleet finally caught up, but Gu Sanmazi decisively ordered the three fleets to withdraw from the battle immediately. Within the safe range that Zheng's pirates could not bombard, the three fleets lined up , opened the gun door, aimed at Zheng Zhilong's closed main fleet, and there was a burst of bombardment.

In the countless splashes of water, countless sawdust and corpses could be seen blown up into the sky, and then fell into the water like dumplings.

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Zheng Zhilong slammed his fist on the railing, feeling extremely angry inside!

He used to think that his two brothers were defeated by Gu Sanmazi only because his two brothers were brave and underestimated the enemy, coupled with the powerful ships and guns of his court.

But now, he understands that the Ming court has only been around for more than a year, and it has improved not only warships and artillery, but also tactical configuration. Now he understands why he wants to annihilate its battleship Ships are so difficult, because these seemingly chaotic large and small warships cooperate according to certain rules, and even these large and small ships are all serving the core capital ship.

At this time, after Zheng Zhilong's left and right wing fleets closed, the imperial court also stopped attacking.

The water splashed by the shells caused the sea surface to become calm again due to the shaking of the ship's hull.

Zheng Zhilong didn't dare to place the main ships of each battalion too far apart so that the court would easily open the incision and carry out tactics of defeating each one.

Now the main ships of the Zheng Group can only stand next to each other and serve as each other's wings, so as not to encounter the situation where the imperial court's fast and slippery warships attack him but catch him by surprise.

As for the imperial court, Gu Sanmazi couldn't help laughing when he saw that Zheng's group's tactics had become conservative instead of aggressive: "I thought this guy surnamed Zheng was so capable. It's just a false name, I haven't fired a few shots yet, he's so frightened that he doesn't dare to show his head like a shrinking turtle!"

"This guy surnamed Zheng must have never read the Three Kingdoms. He can gather so many ships together so that he can look at each other head to tail, but he forgot that this will be more conducive to our fire attack. These pirates must have never read the Three Kingdoms."

Tan Botong, who was also on the Yuqian account, couldn't help but add something.

"If these uneducated guys have gone to the Three Kingdoms Early Examination to be a scholar, why are they still pirates? It's just right now, let's teach him a good lesson." Approaching the enemy's main force in a fan shape, attacking from three directions, stopping outside the range of the enemy's artillery fire, and then bombing the Zheng family's pirates from top to bottom by the flying battalion. Anyway, his ships must be set on fire. The ship is used as cover, and the other small warships are the main force to attack from the sea!"

With Gu Sanmazi's order, the three main fleets of the Ming court immediately headed towards the main fleet of the Zheng Group after a short rest.

On Zheng Zhilong's side, all the main ships of each battalion immediately opened their gun doors as if they were facing a big enemy, and the countless black muzzles were ready to shoot directly at the three directions of the imperial fleet attacking here.

But to their surprise, the three main fleets of the Ming court still stopped outside their range, which made the Zheng pirates feel very aggrieved, wanting to fight but couldn't.

However, at this time, the careful Zheng Zhilong discovered that there were countless large ball-like objects rising from the enemy warship opposite, and they were accompanied by some bold unicycle-shaped aircraft.

This made some Zheng pirates feel an inexplicable sense of fear, and one of them couldn't help exclaiming: "Who are these people? Could it be that they are the legendary heavenly soldiers and generals? I didn't expect the court to have this ability!" , can invite people from the sky, then in this way, we are fighting against the old man!"

Before Zheng Zhilong and others recovered from their doubts, there were already fighters from the flying battalion taking advantage of the milder sea breeze to throw the gas bags into the densely distributed fleets of Zheng Zhilong's main battalions.

Immediately, countless ships started to spread fire, and the small warships from the imperial court also crazily attacked the large sailing ships from Zheng Zhilong's side.

Zheng Zhilong actually realized that he would be easily attacked by fire, otherwise he would not let the big ships go outside and the small boats inside. What he wanted was to be able to pass through the large wooden sailboats outside when the main ships of the imperial court were under fire. The intensive artillery fire forced back the three main ships of the imperial court, forcing them to be unable to approach themselves, so they attacked themselves with fire.

But what Zheng Zhilong didn't expect was that this Gu Sanmazi would change his mind and let his three main ships no longer take on the main attack but act as a cover. Instead, he let the smallest warship bring fire to attack him Large wooden sailing ship.

In this way, it is very difficult for a high-level fort like my own to bomb these small locust-like but more dexterous warships to pose a threat. At the same time, there are many large balls that can be thrown directly above the head balloon).

Zheng Zhilong and his pirates felt very strange about this, and they also secretly became afraid.

Many of their ships had already been set on fire, and even the other warships that were next to each other were also set ablaze.

Seeing this, Zheng Zhilong had no choice but to order his fleet to disperse immediately, and directly seize the upper air, so as to directly attack Daming's ships.

But what Zheng Zhilong didn't expect was that when he ordered the main fleets of the battalions to disperse, Gu Sanmazi ordered three main ships to chase them away immediately, and had to completely destroy the main fleet of these pirates.

After several battles, Zheng Zhilong's fleet became less and less, and in the end only dozens of warships remained intact.

But the imperial court gradually gained the upper hand, and didn't pay attention to any tactics anymore, and directly pressed Zheng Zhilong's fleet to fight. Zheng Zhilong didn't want to be passively beaten, and simply fled in the direction of Japan.

Gu Sanmazi hurriedly ordered the three main ships to catch up immediately, until they reached Tanegashima, Ryukyu, before they surrounded Zheng Zhilong's last remaining strength.

But after a fierce battle, Zheng Zhilong was nowhere to be seen.

Gu Sanmazi couldn't help feeling very frustrated about this, he didn't expect Zheng Zhilong to be so good at running.

(End of this chapter)