Take the arsenal to Da Ming

Chapter 175

Facing Ye Dacheng's entanglement, Zheng Zhilong had no choice but to fight, but he stopped rushing forward because he had a great advantage in numbers.

Even though Ye Dacheng provoked again and again, he tried his best to be patient, and didn't want to have another big fight like before.

Faced with Zheng Zhilong's cautiousness, Ye Dacheng had no good solution, because with the strength he currently possessed, he was not fully sure of a full-scale decisive battle with Zheng Jun's navy.

Even if they really win, I am afraid that the loss of the new army will not be small. This is not the result Ye Dacheng wants.

The original plan was to lure Zheng Jun's navy away from Jinmen, stimulate and irritate them step by step, and then create opportunities for small-scale battles with them.

Taking advantage of the large and unresponsive Zheng Jun Navy as an opportunity, he devoured it step by step and weakened its strength.

The plan went smoothly at the beginning. Zheng Zhilong was so strong that Zheng Jun's navy was huge, and he even wanted to eat this new army's navy, so he was successfully led out of Jinmen.

Along the way, there were also some small-scale battles between the two sides, but these were not painful, until the battle between Weishi and Shenshi, which caused the Zheng Jun navy to lose more than 100 ships of all sizes at once.

It seemed that this time, Zheng Zhilong had been beaten a little painfully, and he became very cautious. Even if Ye Dacheng sent a fleet to attack, he did not take the initiative to fight.

Still responding in a defensive formation, retreating while defending.

The battle line formation does not have an advantage in terms of speed. After all, the side is facing the opponent. If the opponent refuses to fight and wants to escape, it is really tricky and has to adjust the course frequently to catch up.

Because only by approaching a certain distance can the accuracy of the red cannon be improved.

The shrewd Zheng Zhilong saw this, so he stopped being fooled.

After the previous head-to-head confrontation with the new army, he reassessed his own strength and felt that with his current strength, it was unrealistic to eliminate the new army navy this time.

In this case, why bother to have a decisive battle with the new army in waters far away from Kinmen Island, and only by returning to the waters of Kinmen Island can the strength of Zheng Jun be brought into greater play.

It would be even better if the new army could be introduced to the vicinity of Zhongzuo (now Xiamen).

Doesn't Ye Dacheng like to play the game of cat and mouse?When the time comes, bring him in, block him at both ends, and see how he plays the cat-and-mouse game.

While Zheng Zhilong was thinking about this strategy, he suddenly heard a booming sound coming from a distance, and gunpowder smoke and fire rose from the distant sea.

"What's going on? Why is the artillery fire so dense? Could it be that Ye Dacheng launched an all-out attack?" Zheng Zhilong asked in surprise.

It didn't take long for the news to come, and a general nearby reported: "A fleet of the new army directly inserted into our rear camp, intending to divide and destroy the sixty or seventy ships in the southwest corner of our fleet."

Zheng Zhilong stared, "Ye Dacheng jumped the wall in a hurry, what does he want to do?"

But no matter what, a new army fleet has already entered the camp, Zheng Zhilong naturally cannot turn a blind eye to it, and this is also an opportunity to destroy the opponent.

"Pass down the order to contain them at all costs. The left and right wings immediately detoured to the rear, surrounded them, and concentrated their forces to destroy them."

At this moment, a formation of forty large ships of more than [-] materials in the new army, like a long snake, has inserted fiercely into the rear of the tail of Zheng Jun's navy, and the artillery on both sides opened fire violently.

Zheng Jun's navy didn't expect the new army's sudden move at all, and was caught off guard. The ships a little further away didn't even know what happened, and continued to retreat according to the original order.

The ships that were closer quickly turned around to support, but there was no unified command, so they basically fought on their own.

However, before more warships turned around for support, Ye Dacheng personally led the main force of the new navy's navy to appear on the left side of Zheng Jun's navy, launching a fierce attack.

It effectively supported the new army fleet, allowing it to successfully cut off the sixty or seventy ships in the southwest corner of the Zheng Jun navy formation.

Ye Dacheng gave an order, and the fleet he was in immediately turned around and swam to the left side of the small Zheng Jun navy like a long snake.

The two fleets of the New Army Navy are like two poisonous snakes. The two lines form an angle of about [-] degrees, one facing southwest and the other facing southeast.

"Boom boom boom..." Between the two fleets, the artillery on the side fired fiercely, smashing fiercely at this small group of Zheng Jun's navy.

The formation of Zheng Jun's naval fleet of less than [-] warships is a bit loose, and the size of the ships is uneven, and the firepower equipment is uneven.

Now we have to deal with two directions, the fierce encirclement and suppression by more than a hundred new army warships.

The number of artillery was dozens of times that of theirs, and the shells rained down like raindrops. Their counterattack was so feeble.

Ships were beaten to sawdust, flames were everywhere, and as far as the eye could see, some ships were burning, some ships were slowly sinking, and some ships didn't know which direction to avoid like headless flies.

Finally, the sound of the cannon gradually died down, and it turned out that the two long snakes of the Navy of the New Army finally swam away, leaving a mess behind.

Although the cut fleet was not completely wiped out, more than half of it had already been lost. Some sailors and soldiers who fell into the water were desperately calling for help, the wounded were lying on the deck and howling, and more people were anxiously fighting the fire.

Zheng Zhilong's tactics were not in place until the fleet of the New Army's navy opened a distance and converged, and the plan naturally fell through.

This is also Zheng Zhilong's first time commanding such a huge fleet, and he is also deeply aware of how difficult it is to dispatch such a huge fleet.

But obviously, the new army's navy conveyed various orders and commands much faster than Zheng Zhilong, which invisibly took a huge advantage.

Zheng Zhilong was both indignant and helpless. He obviously had several chances to return to the New Army, but because the order was not delivered in time and the dispatch of ships was not timely, the great opportunities were wasted.

Maybe Ye Dacheng was so unscrupulous just because he saw this point.

Having suffered another big loss, Zheng Zhilong became more cautious and slowed down the speed of the entire fleet in order to deal with possible raids by the new army at any time.

Since Ye Dacheng has taken advantage of this, he will definitely not let it go, and will definitely look for another opportunity to make a move.

The two sides entangled in the sea until the evening.

On the other side, Tangning and his old rival Zheng Hongkui faced off in Fotan.

Fotan's back was against Fotan Harbor. Looking at Tangning's formation, it seemed that they were about to fight with their backs.

Zheng Hongkui was very surprised. The scouts had learned a lot of useful information. The main force of the new army's Nan'ao navy had already fought at sea with the main force of its own navy.

To the east of Fotan is the Fotan River, and to the south is Fotan Port. There are only roads to retreat to the north and west.

But these two sides were blocked by Zheng Hongkui's more than 1 people, and there were also reinforcements from Dunzhao Port. The combined strength was at least three times that of Tang Ning.

Zheng Hongkui really wanted to launch an all-out attack and take down Tang Ning as the culprit in one fell swoop, but with the previous failures, he really didn't have any confidence.

In the past, it was still defending according to the strong city, but now in the field, the chances of winning are even smaller.

Therefore, Zheng Hongkui's strategy was to drag Tangning here at all costs.

As long as he is not allowed to escape, the navy can attack Tang Ning from the sea when they win the victory at sea.

At that time, no matter how powerful Tangning is, she will be unable to escape.

(End of this chapter)