Chapter 166: Fleet Victory!
The Jinghua sailors jumped on board, and the captain of Zheng Jun ordered all the soldiers who were still ready to fight to rush to the deck. The sailors on both sides engaged in hand-to-hand combat amid the shouts of killing, swords and swords, and flesh and blood flying.
Captain Liang Sancai took a step back, quickly glanced to both sides, and saw that Captain Zheng Jun was still there desperately resisting, so he immediately turned around and greeted him.
Gao Jing, who was holding the wooden handrail on the bridge of the "Xinzheng", could even see that his Yanling knife, which had been improved by Qi Jiguang, was shining with cold light.
When Captain Zheng Jun turned around, Liang Sancai quickly raised the Yanling knife, stabbed it hard, and then stabbed a second time, these two attacks were very fast and powerful, but judging from the fact that he didn't cut with a knife and liked to stab, this Gao family's standard weapon didn't seem to be particularly easy for him.
But his attack was still fierce, and Gao Jing clearly saw the tip of his Yanling knife stabbing into the man's back, and even seemed to hear the sound of the tip of the knife colliding with the ribs.
The captain, who was utterly burly among the Annanes, screamed in a terrible voice, and stumbled to the deck. Then he screamed again and got up, grabbing Liang Sancai's throat and arm in frenzy and despair.
The ensuing fight, as thrilling as it looked, was fought with all its might, and few people shouted and shouted, barely hearing anything other than heavy panting and messy footsteps.
Liang Sancai was only in his early thirties this year, at the age when a man's physical strength and experience had reached a perfect balance, and he delicately but unfancyly pulled his arm out of the enemy's hand, and tore off the sleeve from the shoulder to the wrist, which made him very angry, and cruelly raised the Yanling knife, and slashed or stabbed at those enemies who had not yet lost his breath, without mercy, so that the blood was soon splashed all over his body.
The ensuing battle was one-sided, seeing that the "Xinzheng" had successfully jumped into the gang, a large number of sailors had boarded the enemy ship, and the "Kaiping" and "Huojia" were also ferociously approaching another Franc warship.
This is typical of the fighting style of the pirates of the past generations along the coast of China: four bread raids, jumping gangs and white blades, and the goal is to capture everything!
Zheng Song paid the price for his ignorance of the navy: he only knew that although the Franc machine was a big ship, it was fast because of the huge sails, but he did not know that when the battle was near the sea and the wind was not strong, it was difficult to give full play to this advantage.
In such sea conditions, the Chinese hard sail is faster and more flexible due to the higher utilization rate of light wind and light wind, and the simple and fast control.
And what Zheng Song hoped for, let the two Franc planes big Galen long-range artillery strike, while fighting and withdrawing the "kite", in fact, can not be operated at all, not only the speed can not be improved, but also the number of the Jinghua fleet is too great, when the Xinzheng, Kaiping and Huojia entangled them, the rest of the warships quickly completed the outflanking and surrounded them, followed to participate in the gang jumping battle.
Ants bite elephants to death, let alone ants?
This is more like a big wolf pack biting two lone lions, let these two lions be strong individually, but they also don't care about their heads, and soon fall into the sea of wolves.
The Gao family's armed transport ships attacked two Franco-sized Galen, while Boss Hu and Boss Li, their modified transport ships with less gunfire, attacked the Zheng family's remaining warships.
What's ridiculous is that the mainstay of the Zheng family's sailors are the two big galen, and the rest of the warships are said to be warships, but they are actually inferior to Boss Hu's transport ships, plus now the two main forces of the Zheng family's sailors are in a bitter battle, and they are about to end, where do these guys who have always been pressed and beaten by Mo Chao's sailors still have the courage to resist, and they have turned their bows and prepared to run away.
However, Mo Chaoshui's divisions are not dry, they know better the urine nature of these Zheng Junshui divisions, and they have long bypassed them to surround and block them in the rear. Not long after, the desperate Zheng Junshui began to hang out white flags one by one.
And as the fighting sound on the two Franc planes and the Great Galen ships gradually disappeared, the Battle of Majiangkou ended perfectly.
At the cost of 117 killed and 204 wounded, the Jinghua fleet was defeated unsinkable - or rather, it completely annihilated Zheng Jun's sailors!
They sank or sank thirteen small warships of the Zheng army and captured thirty-nine, but the biggest result was the capture of two large Galen warships with basically undamaged hulls!
In fact, these two large Galen ships were part of the experimental products of the large-scale Galen ships in this period, and later the British Navy thought that this kind of big Galen was poorly controlled, and although the endurance was good, the overall speed was not fast enough - the long voyage was okay with strong winds, but how could there be strong winds all the time - so the British began to build new Galen ships, and the size was reduced back.
However, this is not a problem, Gao Pragmatic has always hoped to get the main warships of the West at this time, mainly to study the advantages of Western-style warships, and then use them to strengthen and improve their own warship design, not to say that non-Western-style ships are not used.
His consistent view is that the key to the West's victory in the Age of Discovery is not necessarily the ship, but the pioneering spirit.
If you are poor, you will change, and if you change, you will be successful.
The internal reason for the great voyage of the West was mainly due to the rise of the Ottoman Empire, which blocked the traditional trade routes between China and the West, so they had to find new routes to connect with the East, which led to the emergence of the Great Voyage. Then, with the great benefits brought by the Great Voyage, it was natural to improve the ship type and upgrade.
In fact, the disadvantages of soft sailing ships are obvious, although their adaptability to global routes is not bad, but specific to the coast of China, especially in the South China Sea and other regions, it is certainly not as good as Chinese hard sailing ships. Gao pragmatic wants to build Western sail warships, but it is nothing more than out of consideration for learning from each other's strengths.
Of course, no matter what, Gao Jing's perfect victory over the enemy army in this battle and the capture of such two giant-level big Galen are indispensable.
Gao Jing, who was relieved, was so happy that he couldn't suppress his pretending to be serious, and after ordering Lang Zhong, who was with the ship, to quickly heal the wounded, he began to count the results of the battle, and then sent the centipede clipper to go back immediately to report the good news to the master, and at the same time vacated a few boats to transport the wounded back for treatment and recuperation, and he reorganized the fleet again, entered the mouth of the Majiang River, and went up the Majiang River.
After all, his main task was to attack the Zheng army's Majiang defense line, and defeating the ambush fleet of the Zheng army's naval army was just a piggybacking thing. But now that the Zheng Army's naval division has been wiped out, the Majiang defense line is actually just a thing on paper - just shooting targets on the river, and these thousands of cannons are bombarded indiscriminately, what defense line do I care about you?
Although there are no flowering shells, with so many cannons, it is not something that the land troops can withstand when they hit solid shells, and even if they are not killed, their mentality will collapse.
As the Jinghua fleet, which almost covered the river, appeared in the lower reaches of the Ma River, the horses of the Ma Jiang defense line quickly conveyed the news to Ruan Youyi, the commander of the defense line.
Ruan Youyi's body shook after hearing this, and he knew that it was over.
The sailor division is over, the Majiang defense line is also over, and even Thanh Hoa City is ...... I'm afraid it's over.
After a little silence, Captain Ruan You, who had stabilized his mind, sighed and ordered: "Pass my general's order, the whole army will retreat five miles, and if the enemy army lands, move forward again...... No, wait for the number of enemy troops to land on the shore reaches half of our current units, and then immediately rush forward and fight with the enemy infantry, so as not to give the enemy naval fleet a chance to open artillery bombardment! ”
The order was quickly communicated.
In fact, his order was very well considered, although the artillery of the Jinghua fleet was much stronger than that on land, and the range was longer, it was not capable of hitting five miles away. At the same time, he ordered to wait for the Ming landing force to exceed half of his own and quickly move forward to fight, which also forced the fleet to not open fire - it can't be indiscriminately shelled, right?
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