"! This Ming army is only a dozen ships, and they dare to come to the rescue of Ocean Island, they really don't know whether they are alive or dead! ”

Standing on a steep high rock by the sea, Mafuta put down the clairvoyant mirror in his hand and looked at the Ming army ships coming from afar, and a sneer flashed on his face. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

"The master is right, now my Qing army has sixty-two ships in Yuanjiangzhen, and the number of warships is several times that of the Ming army, so I just left the port immediately and wiped out all of this group of attacking Ming troops!"

Zhifu, the foreman of the Han Army, said with a smile to Ma Futa on the side.

"Passing on the general's order, the general soldier of Shen 。。。。。。。" At this point, Maforta suddenly stopped.

He thought that Shen Zhixiang had suffered a lot of losses in the siege of the fort because of his troops, and until now, he had been sulking in the camp tent, but at this time, it was inconvenient for him to fight again.

So, he groaned for a while and said to Ban Zhifu on the side; "Leader Ban, then you will lead the water division to completely wipe out this Ming army!"

"Huh!"

Ban Zhifu diligently agreed, and then he was about to take the order, and in his opinion, leading these sixty-two large and small ships to attack the Ming army fleet with only sixteen ships was simply a victory that was captured! Such a good thing falls into his own hands, it is like pie in the sky, and it is falling into his own mouth.

It's just that Ban Zhifu just wanted to leave, and suddenly saw Shen Zhixiang with two guards hurrying over here.

"Master, but you want to send ships to meet the Ming army?"

Shen Zhixiang, who was running eagerly, gasped and asked Mafuta.

Maforta coughed lightly, then squeezed a smile on his face and said, "Oh, that's exactly what this official meant. According to this officer's observation, the Ming army fleet is only 16 ships, and our army has 62 large and small ships, which is more than several times the Ming army's fleet. ”

When Mafuta said this, he looked at Shen Zhixiang, whose face was getting more and more ugly, and then stretched out his hand to pat him on the shoulder, and said in a comforting tone; "General Shen, this official originally wanted to send you to fight, but considering that your department suffered a lot of losses today, and General Shen was upset, so I thought about it again and again, and decided to let the squad staff lead the water division to fight, and I hope that General Shen will understand the hard work of this officer."

Shen Zhixiang smiled bitterly: "Master, you are too worried, you are not here to fight for the right to command, but to persuade the master, don't easily dispatch the sailor." ”

Hearing Shen Zhixiang's words, Ma Futa suddenly lowered his face: "Shen Zhixiang, what do you mean by this?" ”

Shen Zhixiang bowed his hand to Mafuta and said: "Master, please forgive me for speaking bluntly, this Ming army, the enemy situation is unknown, and our army cannot be fully dispatched, so it is better to wait for the enemy to march again, find out the situation, and then leave the port to fight." “

Mafuta, whose face was gloomy, had not yet replied, and Ban Zhifu next to him had already shouted first; "General Shen, the enemy army only has a total of sixteen ships, what is the enemy situation unknown? If you don't hurry up and attack, it will be dark and it will be difficult to destroy this Ming army. “

Shen Zhixiang saw Ban Zhifu choking himself like this, and his heart was also annoyed, he looked directly at Ban Zhifu's obscene gourd-shaped face, and asked in a low voice: "Ban Zhifu, you have also been in the Dongjiang Naval Division, and you must also know something about water warfare." I have also observed in the clairvoyance that the ships of the Ming army are still some distance away from the ocean island, and they can only see the number of ships, but their size, speed, material level (tonnage), and firearms equipment are not clear. In naval warfare, the position of ships and the configuration of firearms are the foundation of victory, if we attack rashly, in case the Ming ships that come here are too advanced than our army, our army will not fall into the net? ”

Ban Zhifu was asked by Shen Zhixiang like this, his face suddenly felt a little unbearable, and he said: "The Ming army in Shandong and other places, but there is a Ming army that is more advanced than my Dongjiang Town Water Division, Shen Zongbing, you talk like this, isn't it just to increase the morale of others and destroy your own prestige." ”

Shen Zhixiang was about to speak, but Ma Futa on the side snorted coldly: "You two don't have to fight!" In the opinion of this officer, our army has sixty-two ships, which is more than several times that of the Ming army, and even if their ships are a little more advanced than our army, what can they do, our army can completely win by numbers. ”

After Ma Futa finished speaking, he didn't look at Shen Zhixiang again, but walked down Gao Yan slowly, and said to Ban Zhifu at the same time: "Leader of the class, please quickly lead the Hong Kong Naval Division to attack, don't miss the time." ”

"Huh!"

Ban Zhifu deliberately answered loudly, then glanced at Shen Zhixiang, then sneered and strode away.

Looking at Ban Zhifu's departing figure with triumph, Shen Zhixiang gritted his teeth hatefully, and then returned to his military tent with a long sigh.

A quarter of an hour later, Ban Zhifu took a group of prepared sailors out of the port and went straight to the Ming ships in the distance to kill.

Looking at the more than 60 ships of the former Dongjiang Town Sailor Division coming on the opposite side, Li Xiao, the main general who led the 16 ships to the battle, had mixed feelings in his heart.

It turned out that after Li Xiao set off for his return voyage from Taiwan, he traveled day and night, traveling northward in a hurry, and finally returned to Longkou Port in Chifengwei 22 days later.

As soon as Li Xiao returned to Chifeng City, Jin Riguan and Chu Jigong, two generals, came to cry about the destruction of Dongjiang Town, the death of the chief soldier Shen Shikui, and the surrender of the deputy chief soldier Shen Zhixiang to the Qing Dynasty.

Li Xiao sighed secretly in his heart, it seems that as his own power grows stronger and stronger, the ability of butterflies to flap their wings is getting stronger and stronger, and there are more and more places where real history has been changed by himself.

Huang Taiji actually sent troops to North Korea at the same time, but also sent troops to attack Dongjiang Town, which was really beyond Li Xiao's expectations.

Now, when he heard that the former Dongjiang Town soldiers who surrendered, under the leadership of Shen Zhixiang, together with the Manchurian soldiers and horses of the Qing army, went to attack his own Ocean Island, Li Xiao's brows were furrowed.

Unexpectedly, Shen Zhishen was a person who called himself a brother and a brother that day, and the business was very harmonious, and now that he turned around, he wanted to take the former brother to ask for merit from the Qing court, how not to make people sigh.

Li Xiao didn't think much about it, and immediately ordered that the 5,000 reserve auxiliaries in the Chifeng battalion should be transferred from their original posts and supplemented to the ranks of the sailors to act as seafarers and sailors.

Then, Li Xiao decided that he would personally lead these sixteen ships and take the soldiers and horses of the Chifeng Battalion A and B to Ocean Island for emergency rescue. Only the general soldiers and horses of C were left to guard the Red Phoenix Guard.

In this way, the total strength of the rescue was 30 shields, 60 spearmen, 600 sentry posts, 600 Xuanhu heavy cavalry, 600 flying harriers, and 1,000 auxiliary soldiers, with a total strength of 11,980 people.

After preparing all the food and replenishing the fresh water and gunpowder and other supplies, the sixteen ships that had only rested in Longkou Harbor for half a day immediately set off again and headed straight for Ocean Island.

At dusk the next day, Li Xiao finally met the former Dongjiang Town Sailor who came out of Ocean Island to fight against him.

Heavy red clouds filled the sky, the sunset was falling, the dark sea, dancing golden afterglow, the salty sea breeze was swaying, except for the seagulls chasing up and down quacking, between the sea and the sky, there was peace and quiet.

On this seemingly calm sea, a naval battle that decided the fate of both sides began.

In the naval division, the tactics are still secondary, and the most critical thing is the comparison of the specific strength of the two sides.

And in this battle that seemed to be outnumbered, it was Li Xiaojun who had the upper hand.

Because, the average tonnage of Li Xiaojun's ships, the speed of the ships, the configuration of firepower, and the range of artillery were far superior to those of the Qing army and naval divisions on the opposite side. In particular, the Thang Long, the command ship of the Dutch first-class battleships, is equivalent to the difference between adults and children compared to these Dongjiang Town Naval Division ships.

To use an analogy, comparing the enemy and us, that Jane was the sixteen tigers of Li Xiaojun's army, rushing into the sixty-two thin wolves of the Qing army.

Of course, if these thin wolves can give full play to their numerical advantages, adopt the "five-point plum blossom" tactics commonly used by the sailors, and concentrate their forces to break the enemy separately, there is still a slight chance of victory, but now that he is arrogant and wants to end the battle as soon as possible before going to invite merit, Ban Zhifu obviously did not think so complicated.

He put all sixty-two ships in a V-shape and rushed straight towards Li Xiao's fleet, his intention was very obvious, so he ate Li Xiao's fleet in one go.

Feng Shi, the commander-in-chief of the naval division who saw the enemy's intentions clearly from the clairvoyant mirror, showed a sneer of disdain on his face, and immediately ordered the fleet to be arranged in a column, starting with the Shenglong, and rushing towards the enemy command ship at the end of the enemy's V-shape.

With fifteen ships, the Thang Long, which was rushing straight like an arrow from a string, took the lead and quickly rushed towards Ban Zhifu's command ship.

Seeing that this behemoth with a total length of 232 feet (about 70 meters), four masts, each mast reaching a height of 10 feet, two layers of gun decks, and hundreds of guns on its body, attacked the No. 1 Fu Ship, which was obviously smaller than himself and had only dozens of guns, Ban Zhifu, who was originally standing proudly on the bow of the ship to watch the battle, changed his face in an instant.

"Quick, stop them!"

Ban Zhifu shouted loudly, commanding the ships on both wings, and hurriedly headed towards the Shenglong Bag.

"Bang bang bang!"

When the Qing ships that arrived at the bag were about 200 paces away from themselves, seventeen eighteen-pounder guns and twenty-three thirty-two-pounder guns opened fire on the full-gun decks on both sides of the Thang Long.

In the deafening sound of cannons, the muzzles of each cannon erupted with blazing red afterburns, and dozens of black iron bullets of various sizes roared and swooped towards the enemy ships that came over from the bag.

On the left, a No. 2 ship was hit by more than a dozen shells, the mast of the ship was broken, the sails fell into the sea, the side of the ship exploded into the air, and several large and small guns on the side of the ship were lifted high into the air by the huge impact force, and then smashed down on the deck, smashing the gunners and sailors who could not evade into meatloaf.

At the draft of the side of the ship, it was also hit by artillery, and several sudden holes were shocking, and the whole ship began to enter the water rapidly, gradually tilting towards the side that was shelled. It looks like it won't be long before the ship capsizes completely.

To the right, on the right, was a smaller ship, a huge thirty-two-pound iron bullet piercing through the belly of the ship, piercing through the other side, leaving a shocking hole in the center of the hull. An eighteen-pound iron bullet struck the bow chamber so hard that the whole ship immediately lost control of the steer, and began to spin blindly in the sea like a toy, gradually being pushed away by the current.

"Haha, I've tasted the power of my Dutch naval ships. Again, it's just a pre-dinner appetizer. Joseph the Dutchman, the deputy chief of the naval division who was in charge of the Thang Long, laughed loudly and instructed his gunners and seamen to adjust the angle and gun position before attacking the other ships that had surrounded him.

The ships of Li Xiaojun, who were in the other columns, also opened fire one after another, fighting separately while maintaining their formation, and either wounded or sank the ships that surrounded them.

Everyone in Li Xiao's army could see that the battlefield advantage of this naval battle was rapidly tilting towards him.

Seeing that the naval battle had quickly gained the upper hand, Li Xiao was also very happy in his heart, and he suddenly remembered the naval warfare method summarized by Yu Dayou, a famous anti-Japanese general, based on years of experience in naval warfare, in short: "The method of naval warfare is nothing more than defeating a small ship with a big ship, and defeating a small ship with a big gun; Many ships are better than few ships, and many guns are better than few guns".

At present, except for the fact that the number of ships of Li Xiaojun is less than that of the enemy, the rest of the aspects, such as the tonnage of ships, the speed of ships, the rate of fire of artillery, the range of shells, and so on, all have huge advantages.

In order to end this naval battle as soon as possible before dark, Li Xiao decided to capture the thief and capture the king first.

That is, to take out the enemy's command ship first with all your might.

In this case, the remaining ships of the enemy army will be leaderless, and their combat strength will inevitably be greatly reduced, and they will be able to defeat each of them.

Like a tiger that has broken into a wolf pack, the Thang Long is only about 200 paces away from Ban Zhifu's command ship after sinking or damaging the four ships that surrounded it.

"Quick, stop the enemy ship!"

Ban Zhifu, who was standing at the bow of the command ship, shouted loudly with a panicked face, and the soldiers on the side heard the order and desperately waved flags to the ships on both sides.

Joseph saw through the clairvoyant mirror that the guy on the command ship, wearing good armor and dancing with his forehand, was probably the main commander of the enemy army, and a sinister sneer crossed his face.

"Seven 60-pound guns in the bow of the ship, all loaded with shotguns! Attack the enemy command ship with all your might! “

Joseph yelled at the gunners.

The gunners rushed to the bow of the ship's cannon emplacement, and immediately began to load the seven sixty-pounder cannons in the bow of the Shenglong, filling the huge black hole with gunpowder and shotgun particles composed of scattered iron balls and gravel.

At a distance of only about a hundred paces from the enemy's command ship, all seven huge cannons were ready.

"Ignition!"

"Ready!"

"Put!"

"Bang 。。。。。。"

The muzzles of seven sixty-pounder cannons, the embers of the flames fluttering like flying red cloth, and like the tongue of death licking blood. Seven 60-pounder cannons fired at the same time, and in the thick smoke of gunpowder, countless shotguns screamed and flew out from the muzzles.

These shotguns, some of which were made up of sharp stones, flew all over the sky with a terrible whistling sound, and swept away like a torrent of iron and stone, and swept away the enemy's command ship, which was already less than a hundred paces away.

In fact, the effective attack range of the shotgun was within 60 paces, but the intensive attack of the seven 60-pounder cannons still caused the personnel of the enemy ship to be attacked tragically at nearly 100 paces.

Every gunner could clearly hear that on the enemy command ship opposite, the continuous miserable sound sounded violently, blood and scraps of flesh were splashed everywhere, and the entire side and deck of the command ship were sprayed with dark red blood and colorful human tissue, and the whole ship was like a hellish slaughterhouse, extremely bloody and terrifying.

Shen Zhifu, who was standing at the bow of the ship, was covered with dense thick blood holes from head to toe, all over his body!

As if blown up by a hurricane of shotguns, he threw himself from the bow of the ship in a parabolic position to the back deck, and did not move.

"Class Leader! Class Leader! ”

The sailors on the command ship of the Qing army cried loudly, and then a large mate of the Qing army roared loudly: "The squad leader is dead, quickly, quickly withdraw to Ocean Island!" ”

If you want to run, it's not that easy!

At this time, the seven 60-pounder cannons at the bow of the Thang Long were fired in unison, but this time they fired chain bullets, which were specially used to attack the sails of enemy ships.

The white cloth canvas on the command ship of the Qing army was immediately covered with dense holes, and the whole ship instantly lost the support of the wind and was caught up by the Thang Long behind in an instant.

"Surrender quickly, you can avoid death!"

Joseph ordered the sailors to raise the flag for the surrender of the enemy ship, and the enemy ship, which was already immobile on the sea, finally reluctantly raised the white flag.

The Thang Long immediately took over the board with it, and a large number of energetic auxiliaries, armed with swords in hand, rushed onto the enemy ship and took over the pilot.

Seeing the surrender of the enemy's command ship, Li Xiaojun's fleet was greatly boosted, and immediately attacked and chased down those Qing ships with low morale and panic, and in less than half an hour, the remaining Qing fleet, no longer had the motivation and courage to fight, and surrendered one after another with white flags.

When the sun was completely setting in the west and the sky was gradually shrouded in darkness, these battles on the surface of the sea near the island of Ocean Island finally ended with Li Xiaojun's complete victory.

In this battle, Li Xiaojun sank a total of 11 enemy ships, damaged 16 ships, and killed Ban Zhifu, the commander of the enemy's naval division. Li Xiao ordered the abandonment of seven seriously damaged ships among the injured ships, and the final count was that 44 ships of the Qing army were captured by himself.

These ships, all of which had been sent auxiliaries and sailors, took over the control of the captured ships.

Of Li Xiaojun's sixteen ships, only one of the smallest Eagle Strike-class armed light warships, was unfortunately hit by the Qing army's sailors at the tail compartment drain and capsized. Another Tiger Roar and an Eagle Strike were slightly injured. Of course, Li Xiaojun's losses were extremely slight compared to the Qing army's naval divisions.

Amid the thunderous cheers of the officers and men of the whole army, Li Xiao ordered all the ships to go straight to Ocean Island and surround the Qing army on Ocean Island, which had become a turtle in an urn. (To be continued.) )