Zheng Zhihu, the captain of the "Liaoyang" who took office as a new official, jumped the most fiercely, shouting that he must catch a few Englishmen with his own hands and cut them off......

Huang Yong decided to have a lion fight, and he personally led nine battleships with his old partner Vice Admiral Yang Dacheng, Huang Chunsheng and Huang Yi led nine ships, and Shen Xianyi and Shi Daxuan led nine ships, besieging the England fleet that had been clearly located from three directions.

Zheng Zhilong led more than a dozen generals to staff on Huang Yong's flagship "Hanjiang", and his fifty warships were handed over to his brother Zheng Zhibao to command.

Zheng Zhilong's order to Zheng Zhibao was to keep up with the fleet of the Long Wu Navy Division as much as possible, and strive to be able to pick up and kill a warship of the English, so that the Long Wu Navy Master could see that the Zheng family's fleet was not in vain.

During this time, Weddell was triumphant, because he found that the English ships could be invincible in the far east, and the junk ships were too weak, and a salvo of artillery fire could often seal the victory.

The Portuguese now offered to assist them in the purchase of goods, and without charge a fee, they served King Charles I of England free of charge.

This is almost the same, knocking on the mountain and shaking the tiger not only made the Ming country retreat, but even the Portuguese were well-behaved.

Weddell was even more arrogant, so he connived at the British army to come ashore and rob in order to improve food.

Three hundred strong men, who had not seen a woman for months, went ashore and were still in charge of military discipline, and the crimes they committed were too numerous to be crucified.

If you don't die, you won't die, they slaughtered the civilians of the Ming Dynasty and humiliated women, if the Long Wu Shui Master still let these robbers plus executioners and rapists leave safely, wouldn't it be in vain?

Weddell was eating the fat chicken he had snatched on the flagship, and applauded repeatedly, but unfortunately he couldn't eat too little for a few days, and he had already instructed Wilson to lead his men to find a new place to continue to rob ashore in a few days, and asked him to change a group of people to go ashore to relax and relax.

The three hundred bastards who participated in the robbery, murder, and rape did not know that they would be punished immediately, and they returned to the battleship and boasted about what it was like to be an Oriental woman, causing more British troops to shout for a robbery.

So Weddell considered giving everyone their turn, and it would only be fair to do so, and he was even prepared to make a trip himself, which, according to Wilson, did not smell like that in Oriental women......

Suddenly, the officer on duty hurriedly ran in to report, and he found that the fleet with dragon flags fluttering in three directions on the sea was outflanked, and several of the huge warships were currently absent in the British Isles.

How could this be possible, Weddell did not believe it at all, and immediately came to the bow of the ship and looked into the distance with a clairvoyant mirror.

The sky was clear, and dozens of warships came in the wind and waves, which made the colonists who bullied the weak and afraid of the hard suddenly feel trembling in their livers, and many big question marks appeared in their hearts.

It is obvious that Western countries do not have such flags, is that the navy of the Ming Empire?

At this time, the six English warships were in a panic, and the sailors, gunners, missionaries, carpenters, painters, etc., who had traveled thousands of nautical miles to the East, were all very familiar with the warships, and when they saw the fleet of ships with the dragon flag fluttering, they of course understood that they were being targeted by a formidably powerful enemy.

The ships on which the English sailed were a small society, and the technical strength was enough to repair the battered ships as good as new, as evidenced by the fact that they even brought carpenters, blacksmiths, and painters with them.

But don't underestimate these craftsmen, they are all able to play with arquebuses, and when they go ashore to rob, they are more vicious than the regular army.

Seeing that the ships of the unscrupulous fleet were strong and huge, Weddell dared to be arrogant anymore, and hurriedly muttered orders to the standard-bearers to raise flags and ask for negotiations.

I don't know if the other party turned a blind eye or couldn't understand the English flag, the outflanked warship still came at full speed with full sails, and when it approached three nautical miles, it was like a battle line connected from end to end, and it went straight to the English fleet.

Weddell's hopes of negotiation were dashed, and it was clear that it was impossible to escape, and the enemy had formed an encirclement from three directions.

He hurriedly gave the battle order, and the English soldiers on the voyage were all veteran and well-trained, and each of them had more than ten naval battles experience, so they would not be so frightened that their limbs would become weak and lose their combat effectiveness.

There was not only Captain Weddell but also Captain Wilson and four lieutenants in the English fleet.

They were the captains of five warships, all officers with rich naval experience, and all had fought against the Spanish Armada and the combined fleet of the Dutch.

In this era, once there is basically no skill in engaging at sea, it is more powerful and continuous than artillery fire, and the large cannon overwhelms the small artillery, and there is quantity and quality.

Huang Yong, Yang Dacheng, Shen Xianyi and other sailor generals chased merchant ships, warships, and pirate ships on the sea for the first time in sea trade, which later became the norm, and experienced more than ten large and small naval battles every year, and was also considered to have experienced a hundred battles.

The formation of battle lines interspersed with the artillery fire of the Longwu Naval Division to the greatest power, and the number of guns of our warships was not inferior to that of the English warships.

Due to the joint artillery bombardment of the formations, three or five battleships of the Longwu Naval Division bombarded one English warship, which made the local superiority overwhelming.

The number of artillery fire of the Longwu Naval Division was seven or eight times that of the English, and there were many Furlong machines that did not need to pull back the artillery reloading, and could empty fifteen guns one after another.

The enthusiastic young gunners, completely ignoring the counterattack of the enemy ships, loaded and fired as fast as possible, and the dense shells inflicted heavy losses on the English.

Zheng Zhihu's "Liaoyang" was in the battle sequence of Huang Chunsheng and Huang Yi, he was still studying and adapting when he first arrived, and Huang Xinquan, a part-time first mate of the town's pacification officer in his early twenties, was the actual commander.

The "Liaoyang" was engaged with the enemy on the port side, and there were a total of 36 guns that could shoot at the enemy ship Charlie, and the largest caliber was three 32-pounder long-barreled cannons, and 24 of them were large furlong machine guns, which could completely empty 15 guns in a row.

Zheng Zhihu watched the fire of his own warships incessantly, saw the counterattack of the English gradually thinning out, and knew that the victory was decided, so he personally held the Minnie gun, which had been practiced for more than a month and loaded with bayonets, and prepared to participate in the jumping gunwale.

Huang Xinquan, the pacification officer, stopped Zheng Zhihu in time and said: "Zheng Guandao, your duty and I are to jointly manage and lead the 'Liaoyang', and in the case that the number of officers under his command has not been reduced to the point that the vacant position must be filled by an officer, any high-ranking officer acting as an ordinary soldier is a violation of the military order." ”

After getting along for more than a month, Zheng Zhihu admired this first mate who was five years younger than him, and learned a lot of new knowledge.

Obviously, the "Red Banner Army" did not regard him as an outsider and did not allow him to be in a dangerous situation as a vanguard.