Chapter 370: Ambush Naval Battle
Zhang Wu would not be stupid enough to let the Zheng family's ships come out, he could block them in the harbor, and then give full play to the firepower advantage of the battleship, besiege them in the harbor and sink them by artillery bombardment, why not.
As for giving up his artillery superiority and going up to fight with the Zheng family jumping ship in close combat.
Well, the Volunteers were influenced by Chen Zijian, from top to bottom, as long as they can destroy the enemy within 100 meters, they will never put the enemy within a range of 90 meters.
I knew that it was very risky to fight a war and bring the enemy close to you.
Chen Zijian's ideology instilled in the volunteers, coupled with the sufficient output of thermal weapons in Zhangjiacheng, cultivated the volunteers into such a virtuous character, which was not worse than the American army in later generations.
If it were possible, the Volunteers would rather waste ten shells than let the enemy come near them.
Naval warfare has always bullied the enemy with thermal weapons, and this battle is no different.
Once the artillery starts, it can't stop.
For the Zheng family, disaster fell from heaven.
Li Dafu defected to the Zheng family, a small pirate leader, with three ships to the Zheng family, the big tree, and the Zheng family will not push away these peers who come to the door, after all, this is a way to enhance their own strength.
The Zheng family can't do wholesale shipbuilding like Chen Zijian, and they don't refuse pirates who come to the door, otherwise the Zheng family won't be able to get so many ships by themselves.
The Zheng family's power is represented by the Zheng Zhilong family, and its large and small pirate forces are composed.
The people in the harbor tried to find a way out, but the Volunteers Navy had already set up their camp, and the people in the harbor immediately heard the sound of shelling in the distance.
Battleship shelling, with relevant experience, the battleship will not fire more than two guns at the same time, otherwise with such a structure as a wooden ship, it will not be able to withstand the huge recoil, and then it will sink into the sea and feed the fish without the enemy attacking itself.
Today is a small happy day for the Zheng family, Zheng Zhilong has a concubine, for a hero like Zheng Zhilong, who holds the hegemony of one party, plus was ordered by the imperial court, and the sentence of murder and arson was printed, and there were no corpses when the bridge was paved and the road was built.
Zheng Zhilong is the biggest pirate leader at sea, and kindness has nothing to do with him, but the court is weak, so Zhao'an can only expect him to contribute to the court.
Zheng Zhilong didn't say how many things he did for the imperial court, after being followed by the imperial court, Fujian was completely big, even as the governor of Fujian, he could only live under Zheng Zhilong.
Although the governor of Fujian has the arrogance of literati and looks down on a puppet like Zheng Zhilong in his heart, what is Zheng Zhilong's background, a pirate, that person dares to squeak crookedly in front of him, and Zheng Zhilong does not dare to kill.
Civil officials dare to be scolding in the court, and they are not afraid of being beaten by the emperor, because they know that the emperor pays attention to people and will not really treat civil officials well.
In front of Zheng Zhilong, then pretend to be a grandson.
Zheng Zhilong took a concubine, and his subordinates and Quanzhou officials naturally gave a big gift, which was a big gift, and the gifts received were worth no less than 100,000 yuan, and the pirates had nothing else, and it was not natural for the robbed goods to give a copy to the boss.
In the Zheng family's mansion in Quanzhou, the open space is holding a banquet to congratulate Zheng Dudu, although everyone knows that this is Zheng Zhilong's means of collecting money, but they dare not relax.
Everyone drank each other, loudly congratulated Zheng Dudu on the concubine, followed by others to touch the wine and drink, the scene was indescribably lively, and a few rude swear words rushed out from time to time.
Seeing the gifts received, Zheng Zhilong endured the people below, and he couldn't hear it at all, talking and laughing with the people at the same table, with his status, what woman can't get, just a concubine, of course, there is a purpose to be so grand.
In later generations, some children will set up banquets when they enter primary school, or a dog in the family will give birth to cubs, which is similar to Zheng Zhilong's banquet now.
"Did you hear anything?"
Zheng Zhilong frowned suddenly, and faintly heard some extraordinary voices, even if everyone was loud, they couldn't cover it.
"The big boss heard it wrong, what is there, it's all brothers', happy drinking and shouting."
Zheng Guan, who drank too much next to him, disagreed, and the people close to him were used to calling Zheng Zhilong the big boss, and it had nothing to do with Zheng Zhilong being the governor of the imperial court.
"Big brother, don't think so much about your big day today, come on, come on, brother toast you."
The people sitting at the same table are all close people, and they are puzzled by Zheng Zhilong's worries, first they were edicted by the imperial court, and then Quanzhou they are the most powerful, even if the government faces them, they have to be cautious, who can take them, this is the Zheng family's base camp, and more than two thousand brothers can be found at any time.
Zheng Zhilong didn't let go of his brows, and suddenly felt a little more uneasy in his heart, this was a kind of talent of his, something bad had a premonition in advance, and helped him get through many crises.
For some reason, Zheng Zhilong just felt the uneasiness in the air, and seemed to be able to feel the shock waves coming from the seaside.
Zheng Zhilong's worries were confirmed after a stick of incense.
There was a rush of chaotic footsteps, ignoring the guards at the door.
A dozen or so disheveled men also did not care about the lively scene in the compound, and they were too frightened by the previous horrific shelling to delay.
"Big boss, suddenly a big fleet came, our ship was lost by artillery, brothers suffered heavy losses, hurry up and run, we can't beat them, when they come ashore and chase after us, we can't run away."
After speaking, he sat on the ground with a depressed face, and in front of his subordinates, his subordinates were generally called big bosses.
"What are you doing, why don't you send a fireboat over!"
Fireboats were Zheng Zhilong's most important means, and he used to fight with Dutch gunboats, approaching with fireboats and burning ships.
"My lord, it's too late, our ship hasn't approached yet, and it's blocked in the harbor and can't get out."
With the arrival of a group of people, Zheng Zhilong's mood was extremely bad, and the faint sound of shelling disappeared, but Zheng Zhilong could feel the tranquility of the coming storm.
After thinking about it for a few breaths, Zheng Zhilong is also a decisive figure.
"Withdraw, send someone to find out those people."
Because Zheng Zhilong took a concubine, ninety percent of the ships of the large and small pirate groups below were concentrated in the port, and when he heard that the port was shelled, his heart ached, and his family was able to run rampant in the Daming Sea, relying on these.
There is no ship to go to sea on what to rely on, and what to rely on to maintain the trade between the Japanese and the Franciscans!
One thousand meters outside the port of Quanzhou, all the volunteer warships approached and shelled the remaining ships indiscriminately, with the aim of cleaning up the enemy's maritime combat platform.
As for why the port ships were not seized! This is also a good trophy?
Compared with the ships of Zheng Zhilong's forces, Chen Zijian has no interest in capturing them through a telescope, and with Zhangjiacheng's shipbuilding capabilities, there is no need to covet Zheng Zhilong's ships at all.
Zheng Zhilong was able to make a name for himself on the coast, monopolized the trade between Japan and Europeans, and was edicted by the imperial court, and lived a chic life before the Qing soldiers went south.
Now Zheng Zhilong's main reliance on ships has been cleaned up, not to mention that he is not escaping but it is not bad, Chen Zijian is blocking the port, what ability can Zheng Zhilong have if he has no ships!
Zhang Wu: "Chief, the mission is complete, do you need to go ashore to continue the mission?" ”
Earlier, Chen Zijian gave Zhang Wu the task of cleaning up the boat, which had been completed very well, and he saw many people running away just now, Zhang Wu came over to ask for instructions on the lively Chen Zijian.
"This is Zheng Zhilong's lair, he must have a hiding place elsewhere, but it doesn't matter, whether you can catch him or not is not the point, you send someone up! It's best to find Zheng Zhilong's treasure trove for me. ”
Monopolizing the trade in the Ming Sea, no matter how Zheng Zhilong spends his days and wine, it won't cost much silver, you must know that the Europeans trade silver every year is calculated at tens of millions of taels, how much money could Zheng Zhilong spend as a pirate before?
There will definitely be a lot of silver hidden somewhere, since Zheng Zhilong's sea power has been defeated, there is no reason not to take it.
Zheng Zhilong's forces are over so soon, it can only be said that they are unlucky!
Because Zheng Zhilong took a concubine, the main leader of the ship was not there, and there was no possibility of counterattack after the volunteers shelled them.
In addition, the asymmetrical weapons on both sides, plus the volunteers came prepared, and the other one was completely unprepared, so it became the result of the defeat of the volunteer navy, and the ships of Zheng Zhilong's forces were blocked in the port and became a fixed target for the volunteers.
Zheng Zhilong's losses are not very big, the main thing is the ships, almost ninety percent of the ships are sunk in the port.
If you want to completely defeat Zheng Zhilong, you have to go ashore to fight.
A perfect ambush battle for Chen Zijian was stopped, and it was just a simple artillery target mission.