The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 601

From the bow, stern and mast of the Banchao, 37 flintlock guns burst out loudly.This is already the manpower that a 120-ton light frigate can allocate to the largest county.

The Qing army who had just stepped on the springboard was shot down seven or eight people immediately, but the rest saw that "victory is in sight", and the blood of their companions aroused their killing intent, and they all jumped to the deck of the Banchao with red eyes.

But the situation on the warships of the Ming army was quite different from what they imagined. Three rows of wooden frames were erected on each side of the ship, and dozens of hemp ropes thick as rolling pins were loosely wrapped around them.

Even though the captive soldiers boarded the ship were about to step over these waist-high ropes, they screamed suddenly—there were still dense nails inserted into the ropes!
Under constant fire from the surrounding firecrackers, the soldiers of the Qing army hurriedly tore apart the ropes, but the densely covered iron nails made it impossible for them to do anything. The oily hemp rope is difficult to cut even with a dozen knives.

There were only three rows of ropes on the deck, and the soldiers of the Qing army had to eat more than ten rounds of firecrackers before they could barely cross them. When they looked around, they saw that only 30 to [-] people were dead...

Zhu Linmei originally wanted to lay a few rows of barbed wire on the boat, but the processing capacity of this era is really limited. Without high-temperature extrusion technology, the iron wire can only be hammered out by craftsmen with hammers. Who is affected by the speed and cost? Got it?
So he came up with the idea of ​​using hemp rope to replace the main body of the barbed wire, and wrapping long iron nails on it instead of thorns. Although it is not as good as the authentic barbed wire, the repelling effect is far better than the common repelling horses in the Ming Dynasty.

At the same time, a similar scene was also staged on the Shaowu, Yangye and other ships. Hemp rope and iron nail nets cooperated with the small-scale infantry salvo on the ship, causing countless casualties to the Qing army who tried to jump to help seize the ship.

On the other side, Zheng Zhilong's main battleship finally could no longer withstand the ravages of the Shaowu's [-]-pound heavy gun. The three "Wei" ships were either seriously injured or lost power and withdrew from the battle one after another. Also scarred.Although those large boats were not life-threatening-the Ming army didn't pay attention to them at all, so they were not "taken care of" by artillery fire-but without the support of Galen ships, their firepower could not be used at all. Turn the tide of battle.

The Qing army in charge of the jumping gang had no hope of seizing the ship, and seeing from a distance that the remaining four large ships had begun to flee to avoid the battle, their morale collapsed immediately, and they all turned around and ran back to their own ships.

On the contrary, the navy infantry on the Banchao chased after them and seized a small Qing army boat instead!If the captain Murong Yi hadn't recalled them for safety reasons, the three boats hooked up to the Banchao might have belonged to the Daming Navy.

Seeing that the enemy ships were fleeing, Zheng Chenggong immediately ordered the "Wuwei" which was flying Zheng Zhilong's flag to follow closely.As for the other small enemy ships, even if they all escape, there is no threat in the future, not to mention that most of these ships have been severely damaged, and it is difficult to escape at high speed.

On the "Xuwei" of the Qing army that had withdrawn from the battle earlier, Zheng Zhibao saw that the Ming army was chasing his eldest brother to the east, and immediately ordered his men to flee northward with full sail.Most of the gun deck of his ship was destroyed in the battle just now, but the mainsail and rudder were miraculously preserved. Although it was no longer possible to continue fighting, it was not slow to run.

On the flagship of the North Korean navy five or six nautical miles to the north, Zheng Wancheng watched the naval battle at Laizhou port with a binoculars and was stunned. , Destroyed several, and chased the enemy general to flee in a ship!
Han Tong patted him on the shoulder, pouted his lips at the dozens of Qing warships that were half-dead by the heavy artillery bombardment on the sea, and smiled: "General Zheng, so many military achievements are in front of you, why don't you go and get them?"

Zheng Wancheng swallowed his mouth and spit. Lord Renxing ordered him to assist the Ming army, but he did not say that he wanted him to be an enemy of the Manchus... He then thought that if he captured all these seriously injured Hulu warships outside Hong Kong, the Qing court would definitely I don't know that I did it by myself, and I will only settle the blame on the Ming army in the end.As for the Ming Dynasty, they wanted to remember their achievements.

Thinking of this, he turned around and bowed to Han Tong, "The last general doesn't seek any military exploits, he just helps Daming clean up the remaining thieves!" Then he loudly ordered the lieutenant general, "Turn around and let Li Xianshi take fifteen boats to outflank the two sides. , don’t let a Hulu escape! The other warships follow me to defeat the enemy in the middle!”

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On the west bank of Laizhou Port, Liu Guoxuan was happily instructing his soldiers to bombard the enemy ships in the port with the heavy artillery on the fort, but someone came to report, "General, there are three or four thousand captives coming from the southwest, less than three miles away. Yes. Look at the flags, it should be the Laizhou Green Camp."

It turned out that although Zheng Du was suddenly attacked and fled in fear, he was not stupid and knew that if he left, he would not escape the death penalty.Therefore, he really ran to the Laizhou camp of the Qing army, and transferred the green battalion soldiers stationed to the port.Along the way, many fleeing navy soldiers of the Qing army were collected, and nearly 4000 troops were gathered.

Liu Guoxuan glanced around, whether it was his soldiers or the rebels, they were all exhausted after nearly an hour of fighting just now, and the enemy ships in the harbor were completely immobilized by the bombardment, so there was no need to stick to the fort .So he told the soldiers on another fort to return to the Ji'an and prepare to return.

When he led the soldiers down from the fort and was about to board the ship on the south side of the port, he suddenly saw a Galen warship not much smaller than the Ji'an floating not far from the shore, motionless.

He took out the binoculars to take a closer look, and saw that there was no one on board, so he smiled like a little fox who stole three chickens, and raised his hand to hold Xie Qian, "General Xie, can you leave me a hundred hands and feet?" A sharp soldier, I'm going to get his vote!"

Xie Qian was also very excited when he heard the words, so most of the rebels went to the south bank to board the ship first, and then ordered more than 100 people, and together with Liu Guoxuan found more than a dozen small boats nearby, and rowed towards the "Qiansheng" together.

It was only after the violent shelling just now that the mooring area in the harbor was in a mess. They circled left and right in the gaps between the debris of a large number of ships, and it took a lot of effort to finally get close to the big ship of the Qing army.

Liu Guoxuan still took the lead, and was the first to climb aboard the "Qiansheng", and asked people to enter the cabin to search, but found that the boat was already empty.

He looked up, and saw that even the sail ropes had been tied up and the sail was about to be hoisted. He couldn't help but feel overjoyed, this is a warship the size of a fifth-tier frigate!And except for the two holes in the stern of the ship that were smashed by shells, the rest of the ship was basically intact.

He hurriedly ordered the soldiers to take their positions and sail out of the port!However, there were less than forty genuine sailors boarding the ship, and there were no more than a hundred naval infantry who knew a little about sailing. Xie Qian's rebel army could only do some physical work.Therefore, after two busy meals before and after, the huge "Qiansheng" finally began to move its body slowly.

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