Chapter 66: The Battle of Penghu IV

"You can't go on here." Karl pulled out the clairvoyant mirror and watched the formation carefully, this round of bombardment, but the Zheng family suffered a loss. The losses are mainly due to deficiencies in three aspects.

One is the cannon, the iron mold cannon is still inferior to the well-built artillery, and the second is the gunner, these Dutch came from tens of thousands of miles, and the men on the ship are all elite men.

Especially the gunners.

However, the gunners of the Zheng family have not gone through this battle, so they are inevitably inexperienced.

The third is the boat.

It has been said before.

In the big war, a difference of one point is very problematic, let alone a difference of three points. In this way, the Zheng family is in the war, and it is the problem that they do not suffer losses.

If this place was in the middle of a wide ocean, Karl would have kept his formation, retreated back, kept a distance from the Zheng family, and then set fire to the ships with artillery fire, paralyzing them one by one.

In this era, it is very difficult to sink a ship, first, because of the power of artillery fire. Second, all kinds of protective means are very tight.

Even if the Zheng family's ships are a little less sturdy, the layers of sealed cabins can provide enough buoyancy, and experienced sailors have been repairing the ships.

It's not easy to sink.

But it is not difficult to lose the ability to move.

It's just that the sea is not wide. became the problem.

After all, the sea area between Penghu Island and Xiyu is not very wide, and these dozens of ships do not have much room for maneuver in this long and narrow sea area.

On the battlefield, it is they who suffer.

So Karl decisively ordered a retreat. It is not timid, but it is to choose a more suitable battlefield in the open sea.

Carl's purpose, Zheng Chenggong is clear at a glance, and he couldn't be more clear. He directly ordered three warships to the south to block the way to the Dutch in this strait.

If you look down from the sky at this moment. It was as if two long snakes were on Penghu Island, between Xiyu Island in the west, and at this moment, one of them suddenly broke off and wanted to separate the other.

But he didn't want to be the other, so he swung to the east and accelerated to the south.

Whoever wants to fulfill his strategic intentions has to see the truth under his hands.

At this time, it was not Zheng Chenggong's side that fought the most fiercely.

In order to cover Zheng Chenggong, Liu Guoxuan rushed in front of Zheng Chenggong, almost desperately braving the artillery fire, but helplessly. It was only Zheng Chenggong who wanted to fight, and although Karl was not afraid of Zheng Chenggong, he had no intention of fighting here for a long time. They retreated.

For a while, Zheng Chenggong couldn't catch up.

The most intense place is the southernmost part of this section of the strait, which is not long in the first place.

A Zheng warship blocked the Dutch warship.

In the north, the Dutch did not want to fight, but in this position, it was a place for the Dutch to fight, so the Dutch's offensive was quite fierce, almost beating the sailors on this ship to the point that they could not raise their heads.

The pipe belt of this ship is named Chen Rui, and he is also a general promoted by Zheng Chenggong, who is not very old and has a tiger spirit. The Chen family is also a big family in the south, and there are many people in Zheng Chenggong's army with the surname Chen, and Chen Rui is one of them.

At this moment, Chen Rui didn't know how much artillery bombardment he was facing for a while, and there was only a roaring sound in his ears, and a piercing whistle-like sound was constantly circling.

The latter was not a sound, but a ringing in his ears.

Chen Rui shouted loudly, his voice was hoarse, as if he didn't know how loud he shouted, and he wanted to cry out for bleeding in his throat, and only so, in this chaos. in order to convey their own orders.

"Fire. Fire. ”

In the midst of the roar, the Dutch also suffered a lot of blows, after all, the Dutch's shells can kill people, and the Zheng family's shells are not fireworks. Before, the distance was a little farther, the gunner's experience was inexperienced, and the hit rate was not high, but now the distance is closer. Some of the ships even rushed far away, and the distance between them and the Dutch was only more than 100 meters.

The distance of more than 100 meters is quite close, plus the big ship more than 10 meters long, and it is not a person, the target is so big, and if it is not accurate, there is no reason to die.

In this case, although there are also mistakes, after all, before facing death, many times people can't play normally, but there are very few.

After all, they are the elite selected by Zheng Chenggong from the entire Zheng family, and the backbone of the Zheng family in the future.

As a result, the casualties between each other have increased greatly, and this kind of fighting style that is almost like lining up to shoot is too much of a test of willpower.

Liu Guoxuan only felt that his face was hot, and when he wiped his hand, it was a piece of blood, and he didn't know what fragments flew by just now, wiping his face and flying out.

But he didn't care.

Because at this time, on the battlefield, only blood is the main color, gunsmoke is the right taste, and the rest are waiting.

Not only here in the Zheng family, the gunners suffered heavy casualties, but he also found that the Dutch on the opposite side also had the problem of insufficient firing rate, and the reason was very simple.

That is, the gunners were not killed or wounded.

"It depends on who is not afraid of death." Liu Guoxuan said secretly in his heart. He then exclaimed, "Lean in." As he spoke, he took off his robe. Take only a rattan plaque and a long knife. He led dozens of men and hid under the side of the ship. Holding his head stiffly, there are ropes that have been coiled around him, one part of this rope is tied to the boat, and the other end has an iron hook, which is used to jump the gang.

"Boom." With a bang, a cannonball was struck

smashed on the side of the ship, piercing the side of the ship, and several soldiers behind the side of the ship were wounded and killed.

Needless to say, the dead one didn't even have a corpse capital. Speaking of which, there is no need to suffer, a few of the injuries, some are minor injuries, and some are not the whole thigh. The wounded man shouted vigorously, and as for what he was shouting, he couldn't really hear it in the chaos.

Liu Guoxuan also had no intention of listening, one hand was lazy on the wounded man's neck, the other hand was holding the knife, and shouted: "Brother, I'm sorry." ”

With a swing of the long knife, it severed the aorta in his neck.

Because Liu Guoxuan knew that he was no longer saved.

If you break a leg, in such an environment, you generally can't stop the bleeding, and even if you stop, you don't know when this battle will end.

When he has the energy to take care of him, he will definitely not be able to save him after a few hours.

Rather than watching him die of life, it is better to give him a happy one.

After Liu Guoxuan did all this, he climbed back to the side of the ship, quietly waiting for the distance to be closer.

With Liu Guoxuan's actions, the other restless soldiers calmed down.

It seems that the tragedy of Kancai has no effect at all.

A sharp whistle sounded, followed by a dense rain of bullets, a volley of muskets. Fortunately, no one did it to raise their heads, otherwise they would have been beaten into a hornet's nest.

However, immediately there was a soldier Zheng who returned the color. The two sides went from artillery to musket.

It's just that the Zheng family's musket seems to be inferior to the one opposite.

There's no way around it.

There were two sources of firearms for the Zheng family, one was purchased from the West by themselves, and the other was purchased from the Manufacturing Bureau, and the former was no longer feasible with the war with the Dutch.

The reason is very simple, even if other Westerners did not help the Dutch, but the wait-and-see attitude was very clear, and naturally they would not provide firearms for the Zheng family. And the amount of purchases from the West has not been very much. However, the number of firearms produced on the Xia Dynasty's side was quite large. Therefore, a large number of firearms of the Zheng family were purchased from the Xia Dynasty, which was also acquiesced by Zhang Xuan.

After all, Zhang Xuan can also get a piece of the Zheng family's overseas business. It's just that the number of firearms produced in the Xia Dynasty is very large, but it is not the most advanced.

Needless to say, artillery can be mass-produced, after all, it is the biggest benefit, and the more it is a little bit else, the more nothing. Quality can be complemented with quantity.

Without this method, the artillery of the Xia Dynasty would not have climbed so much in a few years, but the technology of the firearm was much behind.

This thing was first transmitted from the Netherlands to Japan, and then from Japan to China, and then introduced by Qi Jiguang, and the time is already more than 100 years ago.