open sea

Chapter 509 Kunpeng
The brass eyepiece reflects the continuous tropical jungle on the red land along the Baigu coast, among which there are fortresses in the fortress to form a complete coastal defense fortification.

Deng Zilong looked cautious, squinted his eyes slightly, and analyzed the threat to them from the coast by the Portuguese fortifications he had heard and seen.

It's not that he's timid. If he had to give this emotion a name, it might be more appropriate to call it 'Chen Mu sequelae'.

No one in Nanyang has the experience of using warships to storm fortresses. The only fortress they have seen is the Malacca fort built by the Portuguese in exchange for a few ships of goods by Chen Mu. Feeling scared, the problem is that they are Chen Mu's subordinates.

Although they have never attacked the fort, each of them has seen with their own eyes how their coach Chen Mu built the fort and how he distributed the defense.

Those Matsu Niangniang Temples and Dragon and Tiger Zhenjun Dojos that are widely distributed in Mindoro, Manila, Haojing and Weigang are so powerful that they stop the bravest warriors.

This kind of prudence has nothing to do with the general's personal courage, but only with his experience.

If it was not Deng Zilong standing on the deck of the Chihai ship at this time, but General Chen Bazhi, who bombarded Zojia City in Japan and whose father was an enemy, he would not care about coastal defense.

"This land is really magical. Mang Yinglong and his son are obsessed with the pagoda. If he uses this energy to build the Pao Temple, I'm afraid Chen Shuai will not be able to catch up with Baimei."

Deng Zilong put down his goggles, raised his palms and waved forward, clapping his hands to the flag and said: "Order the front army to approach the port one after another; the lucky troop transport ships are adjourned to the surprise soldiers, ready to jump."

Die, alternate meaning, Die formation is the main learning formation method of the guards. It belongs to the majestic formation of the main army. Each formation is six or seven steps apart. Then Hou's front formation alternately covers the march, so it is called repeated formation.

In naval battles, the Nanyang military government usually uses a line array of broadsides to attack and attack upwards. This is Chen Mu's usual formation, and it is also used by the Nanyang Navy, but forcibly attacking Hong Kong requires a dignified formation.

Of course, the overlapping formations at sea are different from those on land, and the spacing and overlapping methods are different.

There are still seven or eight miles away from the Sanchahe Bend Fortress at the entrance of the Baigu River. The flag bearer on the stern tower of the Chihai ship climbed up and waved, and the flag inlaid with dragon horns waved to order. Swing the drumsticks.

Boom!
Several Shangyin battle drums uttered a heavy sound as if hitting the sea, followed by another sound from the Yusheng drum, which slammed into the heart of the banner army.

Afterwards, Deng Zilong climbed to the Drum Tower in person and waved a corner flag to order the drummers, and the sound of the drums changed into music and continued continuously.

Four ex-military fleets in the west, each team has two 25-material shark ships, four [-]-material small shark ships, and the leader of the thousand-material warship. [-] large and small warships moved after hearing the sound.

The three masts of the Qianliao Liujia battleship on which Shi Qi was commanded by the former army raised butterfly sails in the formation, like a giant sea monster spreading its wings, reflecting the huge carved and lacquered Kunpeng on the bow of the flat-headed ship above the waterline going out to sea. In the picture, each team sailed alternately towards the Baiguhewan Fortress.

That's right, Kunpeng went out to sea, and the huge ship with thousands of materials was Shao Tingda's ship.

No one knows why General Manghu loves the prows with auspicious connotations. The ships of the Nanyang commanders and first-class generals have now been replaced by large ships with thousands of materials, and the prows made of stone and wooden statues have become popular.

Just like the bow of Lou Qimai's Chihai-class ship, there is a bottle of iron and concrete statues, the head of the Ming army general covered with an iron mask and wearing an iron pocket is slightly nodded, and his helmet and spear are provoking domineering.

Shao Tingda has become an old-school general of the Nanyang Army. Because there are [-] swordsmen, his banner army has less than [-]% of its firearms, and its equipment rate is the lowest. It has replaced Deng Zilong as the general who likes to fight coldly. The flat-headed Kunpeng going to sea, which is unique among Nanyang warships, has become its symbol.

The popularity is no less than Lou Qimai's iron warship.

Because of this, Shao Tingda, holding the sheathed steel knife in his pocket, could only stand on the Dafu boat and watch Shi Qi drive his beloved warship away from the port, and muttered unwillingly: "Damn it! , I don’t feel sorry for the storyteller driving my boat, and Kunpeng’s sea charts probably won’t be kept, so why is it so difficult for me to make a big career?”

Around him, nine Fuchuan carrying nearly a hundred troops were lined up on the sea. The mission of the more than [-] banner troops under him in this battle was nothing but the most dangerous jumping in the battle. They had chain armor on the inside and breastplate on the outside, they didn't need to participate in this battle, once Deng Zilong ordered them to fight, there was no need to think about retreating.

Buckle up your pockets, Shi Qi's former army fleet sailed about two miles away, the drums of the Chinese warships behind them changed their tone, Shao Tingda threw the saber to the sick seedlings, boarded the forecastle of the blessing ship, took out the god's eyeglass and looked around Open five fingers and push forward.

Deng Zilong gave the order, and the whole army maintained its formation and advanced five li.

There was a sound of raising the sails and steering the ship, and Shao Tingda only looked around for a moment, then simply inserted the eyeglass into the gap where the objects were placed in the forecastle, turned around and ordered, "It's just a broken stone village, you can see a bird... order all The man checks the armor, picks up the knife, axe, and reloads the gun, gunner."

Mang Chong patted his head. He didn't know what orders he could give to the Gunners, and he was embarrassed to ignore that they seemed to let the Gunners fend for themselves on the eve of the battle. Bring short soldiers, siege guns are not easy to use, and my Shao Tingda soldiers can kill three people even if they are gunners!"

The sick child holding his adoptive father's sword nodded heavily when he heard the words: "Father said so!"

Zheng Cong, the ship's deputy Qianhu who was standing aside, heard the conversation between the father and son under the forecastle, and looked around with a smile on his face—the father of the sick child, the child is so old that he doesn't give him a proper name. Forget it, the bird gunners under his command are all equipped with gun stabs, and they are asked to carry steel knives and axes in battle, and they have made up their minds to let the banner army use guns to swing people... Would it be his father who was the banner army?

Zheng Cong could have heard from his father that Chen Shuai was really a melee gunner when he encountered bandits in Montenegro in his early years.

The sound of gunfire came from the stone village on the bank of the Sancha River in the distance. Shao Tingda on the forecastle suddenly pulled out his goggle and looked forward again. The corner of his mouth was full of joy. The progress of the battle had finally progressed to the point where he could understand it!

It was still a little later. The Portuguese built this white ancient fortress for Mang Yinglong to guard against pirates in Arakan in the west. Picking up the eyeglasses, you can only see little waves of Liqian army being stirred up by shells in the sea far away.

The only anxiety in Shao Tingda's heart disappeared, and he opened his mouth and smiled at Yang'er: "Go pass the order, we can't run away from this battle, with this firepower, my Kunpeng's sea map can be saved!"

The spray of the shells hitting the water is not as high as the ship's side. What's so terrible about it?

(End of this chapter)