"Quick, quick, fast," standing on his flagship, Hong Hongxiu looked at the merchant ships that broke through the barrier and rushed to the shore, and under the cover of the armed merchant ships, he unloaded a group of soldiers and horses, but because of the melee fleet in the port, the speed was actually not fast, and now 200 merchant ships have unloaded 50 ships, and about 5,000 soldiers and horses have landed on the shore, there are no cannons, only musketeers.

They were hit by the Zheng musketeers guarding the harbor and suffered heavy losses, and the merchant ships here were also attacked by the enemy's armed merchant ships, losing thirty ships, about 1,500 soldiers and horses sank to the bottom of the sea, or floating on the sea in the harbor, crying for help miserably, or struggling to escape, but were run over by the enemy's ships, and sank in misery, or floated on the sponge as corpses.

Boom, the enemy's arrangement began to bombard their fleet warships in the harbor, one after another the battleships were unable to resist the shore artillery fire, forced to wander around, but did not want the harbor to be too small to dodge, many warships themselves encountered together, serious damage.

"Let the heavy artillery on the battleship support the warship in front, bombard the enemy's shore artillery with heavy artillery, get closer, don't be afraid of being hit by the enemy, if you don't suppress the enemy's heavy artillery, we will all die, the enemy will go out to look for our fleet will return soon, if we can't end the battle in the first half of the night, we will be blocked in the harbor."

Hong Hongxiu shouted anxiously.

Time passed quickly, two hours, after all, the enemy was weak, and it was a sneak attack, panicked, many sailors could not board the ship from the shore to resist the enemy, so Hong Hongxiu did not encounter much resistance after annihilating those moving battleships and warships, after investing 15,000 troops and paying 8,000 casualties, he finally captured the dock, controlled the shore artillery, and many Zheng family's warships and warships surrendered very well.

According to later statistics, more than 70 merchant ships were lost transporting troops and supplies, 15 armed merchant ships were sunk and 25 were seriously damaged, 11 warships were sunk and 11 were seriously injured, and one battleship was sunk and 5 were seriously damaged.

After ordering all the seriously wounded ships to repair themselves in the port, leaving behind thirty armed merchant ships, thirty warships, ten warships, and the other wounded merchant ships were all left behind, and the eighty uninjured ships were all loaded with empty supplies and soldiers and horses, and then Hong Hongxiu took them back immediately.

Get out of here, otherwise they will be blocked in the port by the enemy, and they, like the Zheng family fleet just now, will soon be wiped out.

He took away all the good fleets of the captured Zheng family, about fifty armed merchant ships, seventy hundred-ton warships, all of which were built by the Zheng family themselves, as well as thirty six-hundred-ton warships and three thousand-ton warships, which were the old warships they bought from the Huaxia Kingdom, and now there are not many warships in the entire Australia, less than fifty, but there were originally two hundred, and all the ships added up to two thousand, and now all the ships add up to less than a thousand.

For Hong Hongxiu, if the sneak attack succeeds, at least 50 enemy merchant ships, 100 armed merchant ships, 50 warships of 100 tons, 30 ships of 600 tons, and 10 ships of more than 600 tons, this can only be a good start for him, and then he will have to swim in the open sea, looking for fighters, and when the defenders on the island of the Zheng family have no choice, he can perfectly accept this island.

Now he just sent 23,000 soldiers and horses to it, and put nearly 100 warships, and when the enemy's other fleet came to fight, he would sneak attack from behind, whether it succeeded or not, it could shake the foundation of the Zheng family.

He led all the merchant ships that could be moved, one hundred merchant ships, one hundred armed merchant ships, one hundred warships, of which seventy captured enemy hundred-ton ships, thirty six-hundred-ton ships, and twenty-three warships, and hastily retreated.

He retreated with the fleet to the outer twenty or thirty miles, and went north under the cover of night, and the Zheng family searched for their hundred warships, and a lone ship caught up with them and called them back.

As a result, the enemy has already fled, and the port has been occupied.

In the darkness of the night, they could not pursue the enemy, so they had to wait outside the port.

The next day, Zheng Jing's fleet launched an attack on the ports of Papua New Guinea.

The ferocious artillery attack made the Hongjia soldiers in the harbor cower in the rear trenches and did not dare to attack, but the sailors on the wounded warships and armed merchant ships in the harbor launched a fierce counterattack, although they could not maneuver, but there were artillery to return fire, and there were shore artillery to stop the enemy.

The fleet sent 100-ton warships to attack the harbor and fight fiercely with these wounded warships, and fifty hundred-ton warships rushed in, using their mobility to maneuver flexibly in the wide harbor, and attacked the warships of the Hong family with the Qing artillery on board.

Although they were being beaten, those Hong sailors were still not afraid, fought back bravely, and sank nearly 30 100-ton warships of the enemy within two hours, after all, they still had wounded warships here, and the fierce firepower on the battleships was not something that a 100-ton warship could withstand.

What's more, there is also the help of shore artillery, there are fifteen shore guns that have just been completed, yesterday's Hongjia artillery bombardment of the battery, so that three shore guns were destroyed, three were seriously injured, and the rest were shot down by the infantry, so there are still nine that can be used, nine guns can block the port within a radius of nearly ten miles, six on one side, three crossfire on the other side makes the remaining twenty Zheng family warships have nowhere to hide.

In less than a quarter of an hour, most of the twenty ships were sunk, and only three of them withdrew from the harbor in disarray.

The first attack was fruitless, and the commander of the Zheng family's fleet sent another fifty armed merchant ships, fifty hundred-ton warships, and ten warships into the harbor, leaving only thirty three-hundred-ton warships and ten six-hundred-ton warships outside, which was equivalent to sending out all the ones with strong mobility and firepower.

At the same time, fifty merchant ships were sent to carry soldiers to land in some difficult places to land and seize the forts.

In the distance, a lone fishing boat was observing the battle from a hidden place, while observing the Zheng family's fleet on the sea.

When he saw that there were not many warships left of the enemy, he hurriedly lit the beacon fire on the fishing boat.

One by one, the beacons reached the bend of the island thirty miles away, and then Hong Hongxiu led the fleet to attack.

The destruction of the fleet on the enemy island is planned, and the elimination of this reinforced fleet is unplanned, but he doesn't care about destroying more enemies and weakening the Zheng family, so that the island of Papua New Guinea he occupies will be safer in the future, after all, it is still far away from his New Zealand, almost two thousand nautical miles away, and it will take ten days to arrive at his fastest speed, and the fleet will take half a month.

Hurting the Zheng family and letting them cast a rat trap here is what he wants.

In these two battles, nearly 300 ships of the enemy could be destroyed, whether it was a merchant ship or a warship, which could make the Zheng family suffer heavy losses, and they did not dare to invest a little more to fight him.

Thirty nautical miles, it took him nearly four hours to arrive, it was almost dark, the enemy still did not occupy the port, still attacking the wounded warships and warships, the shore artillery was still intact, the enemy was helpless, after all, the enemy had only invested 5,000 troops, but he had 23,000 troops on the shore.

Twenty-five warships appeared within ten nautical miles of the enemy in a battle line formation, and the enemy panicked and hurriedly turned to prepare to escape, but there were nearly 100 warships approaching on that side, also ten nautical miles, and nearly 50 armed ships on the other side were approaching, and the enemy's only way out was to rush into the harbor, and then take the harbor with all his might, and defend it with the help of the harbor.

There was nothing to be said about the battle, and after only half an hour of fighting, the enemy surrendered after sinking an old thousand-ton battleship.

(End of chapter)