Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 411 Pride
The ten ships were full of sails, and when the wind direction was not favorable, they zigzag in the Yangtze River and sailed strenuously in the direction of Nanjing.

It's Jiang Fan's ship!

Yang Chao had a glimmer of expectation in his heart, but seeing the fewer and fewer warships on the river, he had some doubts that it was too late.

At this time, the sloop under Zhang Dawei was almost completely wiped out, and the brig was still relying on the advantage of the size of the ship, but there were only [-] ships left, and [-] ships had been seized or burned by the Qing army. Sink!
But Jiang Fan's fleet was still ten miles away, and Jiang Feng was not in his favor. Even if he could make it there, Yang Chao's fleet might be finished.

At this time, Azig of the Qing army was also watching the battle on a boat.

His warship was quite big, and the soldiers said it was Li Zicheng's ship, but it was only as big as the brig of the Ming army.

However, this large ship did not participate in the battle, but carried many Eight Banners generals to watch the battle.

However, many people were out of breath and had no intention of watching the battle at all, and Azig could barely hold on.

Azig also saw the Ming warships ten miles away, but he didn't pay attention to it at first, instead he was more interested in watching his fleet strangle the Ming warships.

The number of warships of the Ming army has been reduced to fifty, and soon there will be forty left.

But at this moment, Azig suddenly realized that the ten warships were approaching, and he was startled.

"Why is this ship so big?"

Azige couldn’t help being startled. He grew up in the bitter cold mountains and forests of Liaodong. He had never seen a ship as big as a house in his life. He never even believed that a ship could be built that big, and he didn’t understand such a big ship. , How can it float on the water without sinking.

"My lord, this is a sea ship of the Ming army. It is useful for maneuvering at sea, but it cannot be used in the middle of the river. The general will see that the Ming army is at the end of its rope."

Wang Tizhong praised at the right time, his subordinates finally fought well, he couldn't help but feel a little proud, and completely ignored the Ming army.

Azig didn't understand warships, so he nodded and chose to believe what Wang Tizhong said. If seaships were useful, why didn't the Ming army bring them back earlier.

"There are less than [-] warships of the Ming army. The last general congratulates the prince and destroys the warships of the Ming army. Our army can go ashore in Nanjing, and the Ming army is bound to surrender without a fight!"

Wang Tizhong sincerely hoped that the Ming army would surrender after seeing the result of the water battle, so that he would make a great contribution, which would be equivalent to his Wang Tizhong capturing the Ming capital.

Azig nodded, but he really didn't think that the Ming army would surrender. He chose to fight this water battle, but it was just to give the Ming army a little bit of color, and to blow the morale of the Ming army. The Ming army, let the navy of the Ming army not stop their Eight Banners soldiers from crossing the river.

Unexpectedly, the result of the water battle turned out to be so optimistic, and Azig couldn't help but wonder whether he should try to encourage the Eight Banners soldiers to land in Nanjing. Maybe Nanjing will surrender as soon as the Eight Banners army appears under the city of Nanjing.

There are too many such situations. Along the way, the four prefectures of Jingxiang, Wuchang, and Jiujiang did not surrender in anticipation of the wind. If Nanjing did not surrender, it might be because of the victory of the land and the navy. Division, wouldn't it mean defeating the confidence of the Ming army.

The distracting thoughts in his heart were chaotic, and Azig didn't withdraw his mind until the Ming army's big ship finally arrived.

At this time, there were about [-] warships of the Ming army, plus the ten outrageously large sea ships, there were no more than [-] ships.

Twenty warships were tightly surrounded in Xinjiangkou, and there were already navy warships meeting the big ship.

But at this time, Azig saw that the large ship did not fire its guns, nor did it try to meet the friendly forces in Xinjiangkou, but rushed directly towards the Qing army's water army.

Azig couldn't help but wonder, is there no guns on this big ship?

He looked carefully, but he really didn't see a cannon.

Could it be that this sea-going ship will only collide, or plan to fight on board, although the other party has a big ship, but you have many ships, if you fight on board, the ants will kill elephants, and if you fight one of hundreds of ships, it is impossible not to win .

Thinking of this, Azig was completely at ease, watching his navy battle with full of expectation, he didn't even hope that the group of sailors under Wang Tizhong would sink these ten large ships and bring them back to Beijing as gifts for Dorgon. It is also good to put it in the garden of Houhai.

"Huh? What a hit!"

Azig realized that he had guessed right, the ten big ships just hit the past, it seemed that he didn't pay attention to the river boat in front of him at all, like a proud peacock, he didn't even look at the little hen generally.

However, the ten big boats were sailing against the wind, and the speed of the boats was not fast. When they collided with the small boats, it was as if they were leaning on them, or squeezing them.

But more than ten times or even dozens of times the volume, the boats attached to it still swayed away without exception.

During the period, the Qing army tried to jump to the gang, but the ship was too high-profile to go up. They tried to set fire to it, but their small boat couldn't stick to it, and the big ship shook away with a shock.

They were able to set fire to so many large-masted riverboats because after more than a dozen ships were crowded together, the riverboat couldn't get rid of these small boats at all, and could only watch the small boats catch fire together with themselves.

But these big boats are not the case. They keep moving forward, and they can't stop them at all. No matter how many small boats are in front of them, they will be pushed away by them arbitrarily.

In this way, the ten ships squeezed past the Qing army's navy, passed through one of the Qing army's navy, and drew ten very clear waterways on the river. There are military warships, but in the waterway, there is only river water flowing by itself.

When Azig saw the big ship rushing past the navy fleet, he couldn't help being startled, thinking that the other party usually came for him.

When he was about to give the order to Wang Tizhong to retreat immediately, the ten large ships were hundreds of feet away from their warships, as if they hadn't seen their lone ship at all, they turned around very comfortably.

After turning the head, the sea boat is now in the wind!

All of a sudden, the sails were full, the sea ship was under force, and its speed slowly increased. After a hundred battles, it was like a wild horse that had run wild, rushing into the fleet of the Qing army's navy.

At this time, Azig suddenly had some bad premonitions in his heart. He frowned slightly and watched the big ships plunge into his fleet. He sank dozens of warships in an instant, and rushed to the center of the battleships. At this time, there was no ship around each big ship, only some pieces of wood were floating with the river.

At this time, the ten large ships stopped, right in the middle of the Qing fleet.

Azig was a little confused.

Yang Chao, who was watching the battle on the city wall, was also a little confused.

I don't know what Jiang Fan is planning to do.

Of course Jiang Fan himself was not confused, and soon on his flagship, there were sailors waving small yellow and red flags.

"What are they talking about?"

Yang Chao couldn't help asking a soldier next to him. This soldier knew semaphore and was taught by Jin Yong Lao Jin, who was from the Qi family army.

"Uncle, Jiang Fan told Uncle Qing to watch a firework!"

Only then did Yang Chao suddenly realize that Jiang Fan wanted to use a cannon.

"Brothers, open the gun door!"

"Brothers, roll out the cannon!"

"Brothers, light the match!"

"Brothers, let's fire!"

No one heard their own unique chant sounded on the ship at this time.

I saw the sides of the originally smooth and round ship suddenly opened small windows one by one, and dense and neat blank spaces appeared on the huge warship, like big mouths that would choose people to eat.

Then I saw a black pipe sticking out.

At this time, the unknown Qing army boats surrounded them again. When they saw these unscrupulous big guys, they stopped stupidly among them. If the big guys charged up, they really couldn't stop them. But now that he's stopped by himself, don't blame them.

So Qing warships surrounded them one after another. Dozens of small boats gathered outside each large ship, all thinking of sticking to the big ship. They surrounded them on all sides, and based on their experience, the ship would not be able to escape.

But when they were getting closer and closer to the sea ship, especially when the first small boat was less than a foot away from the sea ship, they suddenly saw a black cannon that was facing them spit out a long fire, and the whole ship was instantly destroyed. Covered by fire dragons, there was no shouting or wailing, because in an instant the small boat turned into sawdust flying all over the sky, completely disintegrated, and was blasted into slag by the ten-thousand-jin red cannon!

There are dozens of cannons on the big ship, which are divided into three decks, and the cannons on the bottom deck are the largest, and they are all guys weighing tens of thousands of catties. The shells of these guys weigh tens of catties, and they can be fired in one shot, let alone made by Li Zicheng. The quality of the small fishing boats is not so good, even the serious western big boats can't withstand the explosive fire from a distance of one foot.

After the cannonball shattered the first ship, far from releasing its energy, it roared and smashed towards the second ship, smashing the three ships into pieces before falling completely into the water, arousing a surge of excitement high water waves.

After a round of shelling, there was a lot of sawdust on the river, Qing soldiers who fell into the water, broken arms and limbs, and blood.

Azig was completely out of the mood to watch the battle. The big ship attacked the small boats at close range, and smoke, sawdust, and human limbs flew up together. At the same time, the short-term explosion of hundreds of red cannons made him feel as if he was hit by a sap He was out of breath, as if his chest was bursting, and he felt a wave of fear. This unknown thing made him feel a deep sense of powerlessness.

"Withdraw, withdraw quickly!"

Azig immediately desperately urged the king to leave here. They didn't feel safe here.

"Brothers, well done!"

"Brothers, bang his mother!"

"Brothers, brush the barrel!"

"Brothers, pack gunpowder!"

Cheerful horns sounded on the ship. In fact, sailors like them seldom use the cannons on the bottom deck, because they are too bumpy in the sea, and the hull of the ship trembles slightly, and the cannons on the bottom deck lose their range of fire. Forced firing can only be fired into the sea, and under normal circumstances, the gun doors on the lower deck are rarely opened, and there is also a need to worry about big waves pouring in from here.

After the first round of shelling, no Qing army boats surrounded them. It was not until the second round of shelling that some of them reacted and tried to continue the attack, but after this round of shelling, they all gave up this idea.

Standing in the river water, like floating forts, the calm river water makes the sailors feel comfortable, firing cannons as they like.

And each round of shelling can sink dozens or even hundreds of small boats. No matter how many warships the Qing army had, they couldn't keep up with their tossing.

After being destroyed thousands of warships, and seeing the commander's ship fleeing, the Qing army navy finally collapsed!

"Give Zhang Big Mast an order to catch up, and not a single ship can make the Qing army escape. Let the Qing army surrender, and surrender will save you from death!"

Seeing this situation, Yang Chao would not let go of such a good opportunity, and immediately sent someone to send an order to Zhang Damiao, who was in Xinjiangkou.

(End of this chapter)