Chapter 472: Beaching and landing
Huang Han didn't care too much about the thirty-one ships that ran, and pursued them overnight at the speed of the "Red Banner Army" warships, as long as the sentinel ships could provide accurate directions, they couldn't run.
As for who was killed and who was caught, there was no time to find out, so the "Udwater" led six warships to escort the spoils to Lushunkou, and ordered Shen Ming to be responsible for screening the rebel generals, and the remaining warships all participated in the pursuit of the escaped enemy ships.
In the afternoon of the next day, according to the continuous reports of the sentinel ships, more than 20 No. 2 Fu ships, which had been locked, were approached by 11 "Red Banner Army" warships.
The rest of the rebel remnants of the ships must have run away, and it doesn't matter, the light and fast sentinel ships will be watching.
The fleeing rebels had already seen the power of the guns of the "Red Banner Army" warships, and they all knew that the fate that awaited them on the ships was to be killed, captured, or sunk into the sea with the sunken ships.
Even though the moon rose in the sky on the fifteenth day and there was a beautiful view of the moon on the sea, the visibility was still unsatisfactory.
Huang Han really didn't know who he caught and ran whom, he didn't have time or interest in asking, because the captured warship belonged to the meat rotting in the pot, and when he had time, he would slowly talk about life and ideals with the rebels.
The top priority now is to pursue as many captured rebel ships as possible overnight, and it is Huang Han's wish to be able to catch them all!
As the stars shifted, the sky grew brighter, and more than a dozen rebel ships fleeing north appeared in the clairvoyant mirror, and the pursuing "Red Banner Army" erupted in bursts of cheers.
Suddenly, one of the No. 2 ships that had fled with full sails rushed to the shore at full speed, completely ignoring the possibility of reefs and shoals.
This ship is the current boss of the rebels, Kong Youde, who saw through the clairvoyance that the "Red Banner Army" warships were chasing after each other, and they were getting closer and closer.
He found the ships unheard of and unseen, incredibly fast and frighteningly large, and knew that if he raced the seas any more, he would sooner or later be captured.
In Denglai, Kong Youde had no illusions about the Ming Dynasty at all, knowing that he could not compromise, and there was only one end for surrendering or being captured - he was cut by a thousand knives at the entrance of Jingshi Caishi.
Kong Youde does have the essence of a hero, he ordered the captain to land along the beach in a straight line, without fear of running aground and running aground, the chasing ship is larger, the draft is deeper, and if you really enter the shallows with dense reefs, there will be vitality.
Since the ship has been sailing along the coastline, more than 20 miles away from the mainland, Kong Youde has thought about it, and it doesn't matter if he can't run aground in the middle of the road as he wishes, and it is better to land in a small boat than to float on the sea and wait for death.
It may be that the characters recorded and recorded in history belong to the Xiaoqiang level, not the existence of a fight that will die, although Huang Han skillfully arranged and patiently waited for the best time, but there were still various problems.
First of all, God blessed the rebels, and the constant fog on the sea made it difficult for the "Red Banner Army" to give full play to the advantages of ship speed and artillery fire, so that the rebel fleet had the opportunity to scatter and escape.
Now, it is because Kong Youde, who can also be regarded as a hero, took decisive measures when saving himself, and chose to rush the beach and land.
It is possible that Kong Youde should not be killed, his beaching went smoothly, and the melted ice lost its strength and was knocked away.
Kong Youde's No. 2 Fu boat did not hit the reef or ran aground, and washed directly onto the beach.
The rebels on the ship cheered and thundered, and they did not dare to stay on the ship, and immediately more than a dozen people jumped into the waist-deep water and tried their best to trek to the shore.
The rebels in the back refused to do so when they saw that their companions had gone into the water, so they stripped naked and packed up their ropes and went to sea, and then waded ashore with their clothes and belongings and put on their clothes.
The dozen or so rebels who had come ashore first were shivering in the cold wind at the moment, and their bowels were blue when they looked at their comrades in dry clothes.
The sentry ship that followed the pursuit spotted a rebel ship unloading and screamed badly, and it was clear that the rebels on that ship were able to escape.
In order to prevent the rebels from taking more of the supplies carried on board, the sentinel ship decisively approached the bow of the ship within 200 paces and fired the Furlong cannon, although it was only a bombardment of a pound of small cannons, but more than 40 pieces of iron of no less than three coins still beat the rebels crying father and mother.
The way to live is ahead, and the rebels have no sense of resistance at this time, and as soon as the chasing cannon sounded, the rebels on the No. 2 Fu boat immediately rushed to the bow of the ship and jumped into the sea, like dumplings.
The sailors abandoned the ships and fled, and the gunners threw away their own cannons and immediately abandoned the ships and ran ashore.
In fact, this No. 2 Fu ship is equipped with six six-pounder guns with iron cores and copper bodies, as long as the gunners dare to fight, the hull that has been stranded will no longer sway, and the target of the guns will be much larger, and the sentry ship that is bombarded is definitely not an opponent, and it will definitely immediately escape two miles away to avoid the effective range of the six-pounder guns.
At this time, the eleven sailors on the sentry ship did not know that they decisively chose to pounce on them and open fire, and made a great achievement.
Kong Youde's crew on the ship seized the time to flee for their lives due to the attack, resulting in more than 20 gunners trained by Sun Yuanhua who were hiding in the bilge to escape from the control of the rebels, including seven Portuguese mercenaries led by Edwards.
Geng Zhongming found that Kong Youde had successfully landed ashore, and of course he followed suit, and other rebel ships also went out and collided with the shore one after another, and more than eighty percent of the ships were successful, and only three No. 2 Fu ships with a little back hit the reef ten miles from the shore and could no longer move.
Many of the rebels on the ship immediately took off their iron, leather and cotton armor and jumped into the sea and desperately swam to the coast.
Some of the soldiers, who were landlubbers who were afraid to jump into the sea, fought over two wooden life rafts that could carry ten people.
Some of the rebels simply did not risk their lives, believing that they would never be able to swim ten miles in the icy seas and that they were now starving with hunger, and they remained on board and waited for the arrival of the "Red Banner Army" to beg for surrender.
Kong Youde, who had already gone ashore, did not forget the identity of the boss, and his ship was crowded with more than 100 families, including more than 200 sailors and gunners, and the losses were not very large when they were attacked by the sentinel boats, and more than a dozen people were lost, and twenty or thirty people were missing.
At this time, he commanded the soldiers to shout and shout, ordering the people who came ashore not to run around, and not to run away, now only in a group can they have combat effectiveness, otherwise they can't even deal with wild beasts.
Not long after, Geng Zhongming's boatload of people also went ashore, and he was even more lucky, there were not many "Red Banner Army" sentinel boats with him, and most of them went to keep an eye on other enemy ships that had run away.
Several sentinel ships chose to attack which of the twenty or so No. 2 Fu ships was very arbitrary, so Geng Zhongming calmly went ashore without being shot, and the family members also changed him into dry clothes.
The family members all ran to both sides of the coastline, in order to concentrate the people who landed on the shore and prevent them from running away.