Chapter 471: Highlight the Encirclement
There are many people who coincide with the thoughts of the "Marshal Du", and Geng Zhongming is one of them, and they are also full sails to ride the rare southeast wind to the north at full speed.
The greedy Huang Han was reluctant to sink the rebel ships, because there must have been too much wealth on these ships, and it would be a pity to sink into the sea.
The sailors of the "Red Banner Army" understood the intentions of their masters, so they did not fire a single solid bullet, but greeted them with scattered bullets.
The "Red Banner Army" was a little careless at this time, after all, the total number of enemy ships was more than three times that of our big war ships.
It is not easy to break the will of resistance of the rebel ships and successfully force them down, but it is not fast at all.
In addition, Huang Han's judgment was wrong, and he mistakenly thought that Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming and other big fish heads should be on five three-masted gunboats, after all, these five warships were much stronger and stronger than other ships.
The three-masted gunboats, which were the strongest and largest in the rebel fleet, became the hardest hit area, and the "Red Banner Army" warships mistakenly thought that the decapitation operation would be completed by defeating these five rebel ships.
Li Yingyuan, Chen Guangfu, Su Yougong and other generals were unlucky, they did not command naval battles at all, and at this time they all followed the surviving sailors, gunners, and soldiers to hide in the bilge and become ostriches, leaving the unmanned warships to drift with the wind.
After the "Red Banner Army" warships approached, they shelled the enemy ships and made the enemy lose their resistance, and then sent sailors and marines to take over the gangside and jump gangs to fight, and it took nearly half an hour to completely disarm a warship.
Fortunately, there were sentinel ships and small warships under the command of Shen Xianyi to entangle or keep an eye on the fleeing enemy ships, so that the warships could catch up with the next one immediately after capturing one of the rebel ships.
Shi Daxuan with the "Jinzhou" and Shi Dajing with the "Qiantun" showed the expertise of the old pirates, they broke the resistance of seven fleeing enemy ships and successfully captured them with negligible casualties.
The captain of the "Lushun" was Yu Fei's father, Yu Quanyou, an old sailor, and it is possible that he wanted to show his level of naval warfare in front of his son, and successfully captured three enemy ships, including a three-masted gunboat, in a chase battle for more than an hour.
The "Ningyuan" is now the acting captain of Lin Minghai, and the first mate is the second lieutenant Marseille Laus who was willing to cooperate after the surrender, and the combination of the two of them is impeccable, and the record is not weaker than that of the "Lushun", and they also won a three-masted gunboat.
Lin Minghai has been determined to follow Huang Han, last autumn his family came to Tiger's Den City, met his eldest son Lin Shunwen, who was already taller than him, and saw his young son Lin Shunzhang, who was no longer recognized, and learned that his mother died of illness the year before last and cried to death.
The wife and concubine and the thirteen-year-old daughter Lin Ruyi have long had no illusions, who knew that they had waited for the earth-shattering news, they had a miserable life these years, came to the bustling Tiger's Den City, lived in a large courtyard with a small building, and all of them were suddenly like a dream.
This family member was sincerely grateful to General Pingliao, and Lin Minghai would certainly do his best to serve the "Red Banner Army".
He has lived at sea for many years and participated in too many battles to seize ships, he was originally a Xiucai Gong from a very high starting point, and he is certainly familiar with the sea and proficient in naval warfare over the years.
The four teenagers selected on the third day of the first lunar month have come to Huang Han's side as his personal companions, and the four are the second son of Fu Wang Yuqi, a master from Longjiang Boat, and Wang Ying, who is 15 years old this year.
Yang Laoshi's fourteen-year-old son Yang Xiaohammer, Shen Xianyi's eldest son is seventeen-year-old Shen Youluo, and Gu Zhun's only relative, Gu Jixiang, the thirteen-year-old only son.
The selection is very strict, not only to see my potential but also to see if the family is the mainstay of the system, Shen Youluo and Wang Ying's victory is not thrilling or dangerous, they were enlightened before they came to Tiger's Den City to settle down, and Shen Youluo also passed the children's test.
The youngest Gu Jixiang was chosen because of his hard work and tenacity, excellent character and learning in school, outstanding combat skills, and also because of his father Gu Zhun's repeated meritorious achievements.
Relatively speaking, Yang Xiaozhu is much more wooden and clumsy, this kid has muscles, strength, and poor cultural foundation, and can only write the article smoothly.
Being able to stay with Huang Han as a personal entourage is completely due to Yang Laoshi's contribution to the "Red Flag Army" and Yang Xiaozhu's child in Jiulitai Village.
There are two unplanned children who were left by Huang Han to be trained, one of them is Huang Han's younger brother Huang Yi, he is the third in line, and he is also a grandson, who just turned 14 years old this year, and the other is Lin Minghai's eldest son Lin Shunwen.
The Lin family has declined, and Lin Minghai's old mother smashed the pot and sold iron to let her two grandsons study when her son's life and death were unknown.
Under normal circumstances, the children born by such a family will not be bad in character, and their hard-working ruthlessness is greater than that of the flowers in the greenhouse.
The two sons and one daughter of the Lin family have all entered the new school to study, and the military training has only been one semester, and there is no problem with cultural classes, but the combat skills training belongs to the bottom of the class.
Huang Han fell in love with Lin Shunwen, not only liked this polite boy who was trained by his grandmother, but also hoped that Lin Minghai, a talented man with language talent and familiar with Nanyang, would be loyal to the "Red Flag Army".
Now it seems that it has had such an effect, Lin Minghai thinks that he has been reborn and has made up his mind to serve the "Red Banner Army", and the gratitude in seeing his son receive the love of General Pingliao is beyond words.
He took the "Ningyuan" through this battle, and he will definitely be able to get its due position in the naval division.
Shen Ming is the key training target, and Wang Fuquan, the captain of the Udwater, who took office as a new official, did not know that he deliberately gave Shen Ming room to play, and Shen Ming commanded the round-up of enemy ships.
The Udwater didn't have much of a speed advantage, and that was because the behemoth was not equipped with oars, and except for a few Xiyi sailors who remained on board to serve as laborers, the rest of the young sailors who came to learn to handle soft sails were not able to handle the sails.
In view of the current situation, Shen Ming commanded the Udwater to deal with the rebels' relatively slow medium-sized horse ships, and the results were good, and three of them were intercepted in an hour or so and successfully disarmed the rebels.
The "Tiger's Den", "Wolf's Den", and "Eagle's Nest", three battleships with a displacement of 1,500 tons, were of course not spectators, and after an hour of battle, they each captured a three-masted gunboat and several No. 2 Fukufu and medium-sized horse ships.
It wasn't until the moon climbed up that Huang Han was able to count how many ships he had intercepted, because Shen Xianyi's report was very specific, there were a total of 97 enemy ships, including five three-masted gunboats equipped with more than 18 large and small guns.
After the sentinel ships shuttled back and forth to confirm that the five three-masted gunboats had been captured, Huang Han finally breathed a sigh of relief, he thought that the main force of the enemy ships had all been caught, and it was only a matter of time before Kong Youde and other big leaders were found.
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