Liuluo Bay turned into a sea of fire.

The Fujian Navy Division of the Ming Dynasty was divided into five fleets: forward, left wing, right wing, guerrilla, and Chinese army according to the strategy and tactics of the governor, among which the main attack on the Dutch was the most powerful Zheng Zhilong's forward fleet, and the task of the remaining four fleets was to cooperate with Zheng Zhilong's fleet to encircle and suppress the Dutch, as well as attack Liu Xiang's pirate ships. Oh, and the common name is soy sauce.

Zheng Zhilong's fleet attacked the Dutch in three waves, the first wave was led by General Chen Peng, and the warships of Zheng Ran, Lin Cha, Chen Lin, Yang Geng, Su Cheng and others were under the jurisdiction of Zheng Ran, Lin Cha, Chen Lin, Yang Geng, Su Cheng and others, and launched an attack on the Dutch's large splint ships; The second wave was commanded by the sentry officer Cai Qi, and as a response, the main combat mission was to burn the enemy ships; The third wave was commanded by the sentry officer Lin Xishan, and cooperated with Cai Qi to destroy the enemy ships.

In the face of the attack of the Fujian naval division of the Ming Dynasty, the Dutch were worthy of being European coachmen who crisscrossed the sea for thousands of miles, and quickly made tactical adjustments: the main force of the fleet, nine plywood ships lined up against the rock wall, giving full play to the naval gun fire of the three-layer gun deck on the plywood ships. With the small sentinel ships of Liu Xiang's group as the periphery, it blocked and delayed the attack of the Daming Naval Division.

"Big Buddha Machine! Fire! ”

The commander of the first wave, General Chen Peng, waved the command flag in his hand, and brazenly gave the order to open fire in the face of the pirate ship of Liu Xiang's gang, which was adjusting the angle of the sails and trying to turn the rudder to attack the fleet.

The fleet of Chen Peng and others can be said to be the essence of Zheng Zhilong's department, and almost all the big Buddha Lang machines purchased in the past are installed on these ships, and all the gunpowder used with them is also used.

Facing the old companions who were rushing to fight not far away, Chen Peng did not relent. A large Franc machine mounted on the bow of the main battleship painted blue. The gunners quickly fired the first round of shells.

The gunners quickly operated the guns in their hands, loaded the guns one by one, and lit the fuse of the big Buddha machine, and in the faint light of the stars, the little sparks seemed brighter and brighter.

"Tom! Tong! ”

Chen Peng's big ship, with its bow painted blue, was the first to open fire. One shell after another flew towards the ships of Liu Xiang's troops not far away.

It is a pity that although Zheng Zhilong's sailors have purchased a lot of large Franc machines produced in Nanzhong, the firepower of the fleet has increased several times compared with before. However, the artillery power of this era still comes from salvo fire, and as for the accuracy of shooting, it is basically a matter of luck. Dozens of shells hit the front and back of Liu Xiang's fleet, left and right, and shot high columns of water. The sailors who were still half-asleep were completely awakened.

"Pu your mother! Zheng Yiguan! How much enmity does Lao Tzu have with you? You actually went into battle to fight Lao Tzu in person! ”

Look fast from far to near. The big Qingtou warship, which was constantly spitting flames and projectiles all the way, couldn't help but Liu Xiang jumped on the bow and scolded.

As everyone knows, although the bow of Zheng Zhilong's ship was painted cyan before, but. Since the purchase of a large number of big franc machines. At the request and construction of Zhibao, Zhihu, Zhibiao and others. Zheng Zhilong painted all the warships equipped with the big Buddha Lang machine produced in Nanzhong to cyan as the logo of this class of warships.

"Father, what should I do?!"

Diagonal stabs. Liu Jiu's warship rushed out of the fireworks, his face was black and red from the smoke and smoke of the flames, his hair was burned off by the tongue of fire, and the battle robe on his body was also burned by sparks. Behind him, the sailors on the ship hurriedly lowered the sails that had been ignited by the scorching cannonballs, and lifted the barrels on the ship to put out the fires everywhere.

"Zheng Zhilong, this crumb! It's just desperate! I don't know where so many artillery pieces were obtained, Lao Tzu looked at his artillery, not much less than the Dutch! ”

Liu Jiufang took a few of his boats to try to intercept the shock wave of Chen Peng and the others, but, unfortunately, in the face of the dense rain of bullets, one of his six boats came back, and they came back with fireworks.

Looking at Zheng Zhilong, who rushed all the way from the southeast corner of Liuluo Bay to kill the sailors who rushed over with the east wind, Liu Xiang gave an order without hesitation.

"Signal! Order all the ships, turn the rudder to the west, retreat with the wind, Lao Tzu will not fight with him Zheng Yiguan! Let's talk about it at sea! ”

So, a very peculiar scene appeared.

Zheng Zhilong's big green heads desperately swooped from the southeast corner towards the depth of Liaoluo Bay, towards the fleet of nine Dutch plywood boats. Liu Xiang's fleet, which was scattered on the periphery, quickly gathered the ships and moved downwind to the southwest, and the two fleets almost passed by.

"Big brother, what should I do? To fight or not to fight?! ”

Zheng Zhihu was on Zheng Zhilong's ship, and the real big green head looked at Liu Xiang, a long-cherished enemy who wanted to flee westward, this guy who almost killed him, brandished the iron and steel sword in his hand, and asked his brother for military orders.

"Panic what! After killing the Dutch Hongmaoyi, he Liu Laoxiang is a dead fish! Lao Tzu can eat as much as he wants! ”

On the lookout platform of the mast, the Zhilongtong Guò telescope looked at the several ships under Liu Xiang that had escaped from the mouth of the bay of Liaoluo Bay, and let out a sneer, "This Fujian, you Liu Laoxiang will not come again in the future!" ”

"Zhihu! You go and sue Sù Zhibao and ask him to take the boat behind, and you take ten boats to pursue Liu Laoxiang! Remember, bite his tail and don't fight hard with his main force! Eat him bite by bite! ”

"Okay!"

Putmans also saw such a despicable scene on the flagship Fort Middle, where his sworn allies, when the enemy arrived, led his men to flee, which made Putmans's hand holding the telescope protrude and turn a little white because of the force.

"This damn traitor!"

"Order the dog number, chase after it, and chase this guy back!"

"Lord Governor, now is not the time to pursue traitors, I think we should first repel the attack of the Chinese, or quickly break through their encirclement!" Look! ”

Following the adjutant's finger, Putmans saw the situation on the sea with the help of the rising sun in the east and the dancing flames on the sea.

About 20 large so-called "junk ships" were in front of them, and they kept shelling at the Chinese corsair ships along the road. Drive them away to clear a waterway large enough for a large ship to travel, and their aim is simple and straightforward: to make a beeline for the nine plywood boats in Putmans! Behind them, there were dense sails, about a hundred warships.

From the flames of the artillery fire, the rate of fire of the artillery, and the column of water stirred up when the shells fell into the water, Putmans quickly made a judgment: "Zheng Yiguan's fleet uses the so-called Big Buddha Franc as the main artillery!" I'll just say that his Chinese-style Fu ship can't fit so many cannons! Signal to all ships, with the Dog Dog as the lead and Fort Med as the middle, and all ships open fire. Get ready to break out! ”

"Lin Cha, Chen Lin, Yang Geng, Su Cheng. The four of you ships rushed up to attack the big boss of the red-haired ghosts, and you must take it alive! Chen Peng commanded his fleet to pounce forward, and divided four warships to attack the flagship of the Fort Middle. Attack the Leader of the Red Hairs. In order to achieve the effect of capturing the thief and capturing the king first.

The flotillas of both sides poured shells and fury on each other. With the help of the wind, they were getting closer and closer, and they could almost see the muzzles of the ships opposite.

"Damn! This Dutch plywood boat is so much bigger! Sentinel Lin Cha exclaimed on his battlefield, and then ordered: "Big and small Franc machine." Change all shotguns! Hit the people on his deck! ”

"Ready, firecracker! Hit the cat's eye on his boat! ”

As we have mentioned above, the Dutch plywood boats generally consisted of six or seven small boats, which could be used as traffic in normal times, as well as as lifeboats, and in the event of a battle, they could also drop the sailors with guns in their hands to shoot at the officers and sailors on the enemy ships.

Hearing the order of the sentry, and thinking about the reward issued by the marshal, every Dutch red hairy on the opposite side is worth at least fifty taels! The sailors suddenly became excited, and the speed of replacing the guns became faster and faster.

The Big Buddha Lang machine is made of wrought iron, made of iron mold casting method, composed of mother guns and sub-guns, each gun is equipped with several sub-guns, pre-loaded ammunition, and modern reloader shells are very similar, much faster than the general breech smoothbore gun. However, because of the processing accuracy and sealing, the range is generally not very long, and the range of these large Franc machines sold to Zheng Zhi is generally within 200 steps. But at sea, this distance is enough!

Several gunners unloaded the empty gun, they picked up one of the guns placed next to them, checked the ammunition loaded in the guns, and then put the guns into the thick and long hole at the back of the mother, and hit them with a concave iron rod to align the two mouths of the guns and the mother.

These bronze guns have lugs on both sides of the gun body, which are placed on wheeled gun mounts, and the gun body can be pitched to adjust the firing angle according to the distance. At this time, the distance between the ships of the two sides had already entered a hundred or dozens of paces, which was the best firing range of the Big Buddha Lang machine gun. After the loaders set up the guns. Immediately, the aiming hand of each gun adjusted and aimed at the moving figures on the deck of the Dutch plywood ship from a distance according to the crosshair and the illumination door equipped with the gun, and with a glance.

"Good Position!"

"Good B!"

"Good C!"

"Good Ding!"

The sightmen of the four Big Franc cannons on the bow of the ship successively adjusted the angles of the guns, and each gun was declared to be in a firing state.

Sentinel Lincha looked at the Dutchman's flagship Fort Middle, which was approaching, and could almost see the outlines of the features of the people on deck. He waved the order flag in his hand violently, and shouted loudly: "Fire!" ”

The gunner of each cannon immediately took out a long red-hot iron hook and lit it at the fire door.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

The four large Franc guns shook, the gun carriage bounced back, and then the gun body was quickly reset by the huge reaction force of the spring, and the muzzle of the gun spit out a puff of white smoke, which was mixed with firelight, and one after another eight penny shotguns pounced happily on the people on the Fort Middle......

The people on the first deck were busy operating the artillery, trying to give this group of arrogant ex-pirates a little color, so that they could know what a naval battle was, but they did not expect that this group of ex-pirates had adopted such inhumane technical methods.

"Ahh

"God!"

"Damn it! I've been shot! ”

Shot and fell to the ground on the deck, moaning on the deck, I don't know if it was fortunate or unlucky, rolling in pain in a pool of blood, while the companion next to him was beaten like a honeycomb by the dense shrapnel, turning outward to expose blood vessels, bone slag, muscle tissue, and unknown fluid. It's disgusting to watch.

"! This group of bitches raised! Fire! ”

Putmans was a little furious. Seeing the tragic condition of the sailors and gunners on the deck, he ordered the shelling of several Chinese sailors' ships that did not know whether they were alive or dead.

Dozens of cannons on the three-tier gun deck of the Dutch began to bombard Lincha and others, and the close-range bombardment allowed the artillery to give full play to its power, and almost every gun hit the target. The huge impact force made the cannonball have a huge lethality, pierced the thick plank, and the wooden plank fragments flying everywhere became accomplices of the cannonball, and several sailors fell to the ground with their heads covered in broken plank fragments.

"Taro, I think it's time to jump to the gang! It's up to you! "I briefly estimated the distance between the ships with my eyes. Sentinel Yang Geng instructed a guy in a general uniform beside him. The general manager known as Taro, who was a character that Zheng Zhilong followed when he was in Hirado, was the best at jumping gangs, wielding a sword to slash and kill after getting on the boat. Invincible.

"Please wait for my good news!" Taro bowed to Yang Geng. With his fingers, he gently twisted the blade of the sword made of iron steel. Nodding with satisfaction, "My subordinates asked to behead the Dutchman." Can the bounty be paid with Nanzhong Tongbao? ”

After getting Yang Geng's consent, Taro whistled in satisfaction. Fifty or sixty small but agile ape-like Japanese soldiers, each armed with steel swords and spears, threw hooks or ropes with iron claws at the Dutch ships opposite.

In the midst of a series of strange screams, groups of Japanese people jumped onto the Dutch warships, and many of them, because they did not calculate the distance between the ships, threw out the ropes, and then jumped out of the unlucky eggs of the big blue-headed warship, and were crushed by the undulating and colliding ships.

There was also an iron claw thrown by the Japanese man, and when he hooked the plank of the plywood and was trying to climb upward, the Dutch cut the rope with his sword, and with a muffled sound, he was transferred into the water, and just emerged from the water, but his head was crushed by the oncoming hull.

Despite this, there were more and more Japanese who managed to jump onto the deck of the plywood ship, and Taro waved the sword in his hand and kept slashing at the oncoming Dutchman.

He and his companions were all those warriors who failed back then, and after the defeat of the lord, he became a ronin, and was later recruited by Zheng Zhilong, and he had long put his life on the line. Before the war, Zheng Zhilong offered a lot of money to these widows who were tasked with jumping gangs, "Ten taels of silver per person, double the number of people who jumped up, and fifty taels for killing the Dutch." You can choose any form of payment! ”

Fifty taels of silver! If you change it to Tongbao or rice, you can let your family in Fuso live a good life for a few years!

So, as soon as the bare feet of the Japanese soldiers stepped on the deck of the Dutch ship, they pounced on the Dutch like mad tigers. Armed with steel knives or short spears, they engaged in bloody hand-to-hand combat with the Dutch on the narrow deck.

"Your Excellency! On our ship, those damned Japanese dwarfs are coming up! And the Brouckerhaven, the Dog, the Slooterdijck, all those damn dwarfs! ”

In the face of these former warriors, the Dutch's hand-to-hand combat ability was as weak as infants, and Puttersmann saw more than once those short soldiers slash the sailors and soldiers of their fleet to the ground, and then quickly cut off their heads and tied them around their waists as proof of returning to their credits.

"Damn barbarians!"

A Japanese soldier with a five-foot short spear in his hand (a shrunken mourning gun, which Zheng Zhilong used to equip sailors with and used exclusively for use on ships), stabbed forward sharply, and the sharp tip of the mourning gun stabbed squarely between the chest and abdomen of a Dutch sailor, and the Japanese soldier slipped under his feet, tripped over something, and the spearhead slid downward, cutting the sailor's belly and abdomen entirely, and the blue-purple intestines slipped out, and in a blink of an eye, they flowed to the ground. The sailor did not know what was coming out of his mouth, and raised his short fire and fired it at the soldier who was wielding the spear. The firelight and the projectiles erupted together, knocking the soldier's right arm into the air, and both of them fell to the deck, twitching their bodies in pain, and the Japanese soldier tried hard to pull out the saber at his waist with his left arm, and slashed at the sailor's neck, clutching the yellow hair on his head with his hand, muttering to himself, if the people around him had the energy to listen carefully to the words of Fuso, it would be, "Mom, Mom, we have money, I can go and marry Junko." ”

"Musketeers! Musketeer! The remnants of the people on the deck shouted loudly, without the cover of the musketeers, they were the first of fifty taels of silver in the eyes of these Fuso madmen.

The hatch opened, and from the deck of the second deck, more than a dozen soldiers with firearms in their hands rushed up, under the command of a non-commissioned officer, quickly lined up in two columns, squatting in the front row and standing in the back row.

"Fire!"

A volley of firebolts struck over, and seven or eight people on deck fell, including Fuso, Dutch, and even Chinese employed by the East India Company.

"Fire!"

The second group of soldiers who arrived from below deck for reinforcements pulled the trigger again.

Dense projectiles flew in the air, screams of various languages came and went, in the salvo of firearms, more than a dozen Fusang soldiers were knocked to the ground, some of them were hit by more than one gun, in the narrow space of the deck, the firearms were lined up for salvo fire, reaching unprecedented accuracy and lethality, it is said that these Fusang soldiers are just a fat jacket, that is, they are covered with several layers of heavy armor, and the lead bullets of the firearms will also penetrate it lightly, and beat everyone's internal organs to pieces.

Taro, who was the leader, had several huge blood holes in his body, his right hand was broken by a projectile, and he didn't know where the sword in his hand had been lost. His legs were also dripping with blood, and he knelt on the deck, with a peculiar smile in his eyes, he stroked the two Dutch heads hanging from his waist, and shouted in Fusang dialect to Yang Geng on the opposite side.

"I beheaded two Dutchmen, remember to give the bounty to ......" (to be continued......