The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 395

Gaha also felt that this was the only possibility, so he turned his head to Qinwei and said, "Go and kill that one who eats everything!"

"Whoo!"

When the personal guard left the cabin, Gaha suddenly sneered and said, "So what if the southerners bought Xiaoxiao and used some tricks? He has only fifty warships in total, and there are only five or six big ones. Our army One blow can shatter it to pieces!"

Several Zhejiang military officers mistakenly followed Niu Bin's suggestion to leave Qiantang and go east. Hearing this, they hastily agreed, "What your lord said is very true, but it's just a small group of thieves."

"Being overestimated, fifty broken boats dare to go deep into Qiantang..."

"Since they came here to die, they will save us trouble..."

"Yes! We packed up the Nanren warship in twos and twos, and we can return to Hangzhou tomorrow!"

When Gaha heard the word "Hangzhou", he immediately thought of Qinhuai Xiangyan, pointed to the northeast direction, and shouted: "The order, the whole army immediately pulls anchor and marches to the east of Xiapan Mountain, and wipes out all the southern warships. There is a reward!"

Su Li frowned upon hearing this, and hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "My lord, it's inappropriate to go to the east side of Xiapan Mountain."

He pointed to the northwest side of Panshan Mountain on the sea chart, "If the enemy wants to go to Hangzhou, they must pass through here.

"And our army is closer based on this. If we go north immediately, we will be able to intercept the thief's way to the west. Hangzhou is absolutely safe."

Gaha didn't know how to fight in water, so he heard the words and said, "Okay! Then send an order to go north!"

In fact, Su Li thought too much. Zheng Chenggong sent a letter saying that the purpose of attacking Hangzhou was to lure the Qing army away from Wucao Island to protect the Zhejiang Navy.

……

When the Qing army, which was attacking the Zhejiang naval garrison, withdrew from Wucao Island and boarded the warship again, Gaha stood on the bow of the ship in high spirits and ordered to march.

He planned in his mind that after the Fujian navy was defeated this time, he would go back and slaughter the Wucaoyu Zhe army. The combination of the two military exploits might allow him to advance to the first rank of title.

"I didn't expect to be the commander-in-chief of the navy..."

He was talking complacently to himself when he heard someone rushing towards him behind him. Before he got close, he said loudly: "Report! My lord, there are more than fifty enemy ships spotted on the northwest side!"

"What?!" Gaha was taken aback when he heard the words, "Where did this come from?"

"Returning to my lord, according to the person who delivered the letter from the Niu command post, the flag should be a Fujian warship."

Not to mention Gaha, even Su Li and the others looked at each other in blank dismay. He planned to intercept the Fujian Navy in the northwest of Xiapan Mountain, but he didn't expect that they would come to him as soon as he left Wucao Island.

Previously, Zheng Chenggong deliberately revealed that he was going to attack Hangzhou, and it was expected that the Qing army would intercept the attack in the northwest direction.He originally planned to lead his troops to the south quickly with the wind, and then use the speed advantage of his own warships to catch up with the enemy and launch a surprise attack from behind.

Unexpectedly, the north wind suddenly became stronger on the way, which greatly increased the speed of his boat. When he reached the vicinity of Wucao Island, the Qing army had just withdrawn from the island.

Wucaoyu is an island directly south of Xiapan Mountain.Due to the characteristics of the Galen ship, Zheng Chenggong simply ordered to sail westward for another journey in line with the principle of not fighting near the shore as much as possible, and was blocked on the way to the north of Gaha.

The Qing army retreated from Wucao Island in a leisurely manner according to the customary rhythm, and then boarded the ship to form an army. At this time, they had just walked four miles away.

"These Fujianese are quite capable, and they have already blocked the upper wind." Gaha was on the bow of the boat, and a Zhejiang military officer looked at the sea in the distance and said, "But with these fifty warships, hmph, Our army is against the wind, and destroying it is like killing chickens and dogs."

Su Li hurriedly looked towards the northwest when he heard the words, and he saw the fleet of elusive enemy ships waiting in formation.He couldn't help frowning. Although such a hard confession could win by a numerical advantage, it would definitely damage a lot of warships.

But when he took out the binoculars to take a closer look, he suddenly laughed, "These idiots only know how to fight for the wind, but they put up a long snake formation head to tail. God helped me!"

He then cupped his hands to Gaha and said, "My lord, you can gather our large ships to form a frontal formation and hit the enemy's horizontal formation directly in the middle. Then divide the chasing boats into two teams and lead all the small boats to go up from both wings.

"Given the thinness of the enemy's formation, the center will be broken by our large ship and cut into two sections. At this time, the two wings and the small boats are rushing to form a left and right encirclement with the Chinese large ships against the enemy. In this way, although we Even against the wind, you can win a complete victory!"

It is not surprising that he can propose such a tactic, because the warships of Ming Dynasty used to have heavy artillery on the bow, and the firepower on the side of the ship was extremely weak.

Therefore, the warships of the Daming Navy were connected end to end with the side of the ship facing the enemy, in Su Li's view, it was like tying his hands and feet.

According to his inherent cognition, his large warship headed straight to the opponent's side with its bow, even if it didn't use shells, the impact of the ship could also tear apart the long snake formation of the Ming army.

Then he took advantage of his large number of people to encircle the divided Ming army. After that, whether it was shelling or jumping to seize the ship, he was free to do whatever he wanted.

It's just that he didn't know that the heavy firepower of the Ming warships using the Galen ship type was allocated on both sides of the ship. The main warships had eleven cannons on each side, and the Shaowu even had seventeen cannons on each side. The firepower of the cannon is comparable to the sum of the ten large ships under Gaha.Therefore, it must be a tragedy waiting to build the Qiantang Navy.

Gaha waved his hand and said, "This battle is entirely under your command."

From his point of view, 170 boats are invincible against [-] boats, so he handed over the fleet to Su Li, and went back to the cabin to find the two beauties.

"Don't worry, my lord, my subordinates will definitely destroy the pirate ships!"

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"Master Admiral really wants to fight a decisive battle with the bandits?" Ruan Jin couldn't help asking again as he watched the overwhelming enemy ships approaching in the distance.

This is the tenth time he has asked this question.In his opinion, Zhu Chenggong should deliberately put on a posture to lure Jianlu to buy time for the brothers in Wucaoyu to escape.Unexpectedly, the two armies were close at hand, but Admiral Zhu still had no intention of retreating.

Zheng Chenggong smiled and said, "General Ruan just watched patiently."

"But……"

Ruan Jin suddenly saw the enemy ships divided into three groups, coming straight from the left, middle and right, and glanced at the long snake formation of the Ming army, and immediately understood the enemy's intentions, "Master Admiral, the captives are here to Intrude into our central army with a conical formation in the middle to divide our battle formation, and please change the formation quickly, my lord."

Zheng Chenggong looked through the binoculars, then calmly turned his head and said to the herald officer, "The messenger, carry out the B-character plan."

"Yes!"

"Jade case?"

Ruan Jin went in without knowing it, and wanted to persuade him again, but he saw that the enemy ships had approached within two miles, and the heavy guns on the bows of several large ships began to rumble.

However, there was no movement on the side of the Daming Navy.According to the "Navy Drill and Combat Manual", in large-scale naval battles, it is forbidden to fire guns more than [-] steps away from the enemy.

However, the "windows" on both sides of the main warships such as Shaowu and Fuzhou were pushed open one after another, and cold cannons poked their heads out from inside.

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