Chapter 612: Pearl Harbor in the Seventeenth Century

On average, the Z-18 transport planes dropped just over one ton of bombs, and the 3,000 Zheng troops who fled with Zheng Zhilong were completely covered, with all casualties.

In the bombing, it was inevitable to accidentally injure civilians, and the main purpose of the aerial bombardment was to slim down Zheng Zhilong's escape team, so his Black Guards and Japanese Guards suffered fewer casualties.

But that's it, and it scares all the survivors out of the way. Behind them was already a sea of fire, the huge blast area was devoid of people and animals, and the dense trees and rainforests had been swept away and turned into scorched earth.

The black mercenaries and the Japanese mercenaries finally knew that their boss had provoked a terrifying force, which was too cruel.

Zheng Zhilong's lips couldn't stop shaking, his face turned pale, was it too naïve for him to still hold on to the hope of dealing with the Tiance Army? Maybe listening to Wang Yue's words, it is the right choice to go to Taiwan to meet and surrender to Cheng, right?

"General, go! In any case, the villains are desperate to send you out of Xiamen Island. Jintaro said with a sigh of heart.

"Let's go!" Zheng Zhilong adjusted his mood and said resolutely.

After recovering Xiamen Island from Li Kuiqi, Zheng Zhilong went to the area of Wulao Peak with Jin Taro many times to survey the terrain and thoroughly understand the road conditions in this area. As a hero, I know that it is the most important thing to always be optimistic about the way out.

There is a bamboo forest trail on Wulao Peak, which leads directly to the back mountain, and the whole road is hidden in the jungle grass, which is very secret. They just had to drill out of the Goro Peak from there and rush to the dock.

The Zhi-18 transport plane completed the bombing of Wulao Peak and continued to fly north, aiming directly at Wuyuan Bay.

Forty armored vehicles loaded with an army battalion quickly rushed towards Goro Peak, and when they reached the bottom of the mountain, they began to deploy defenses around the mountain and block the intersections of the main roads.

At a cruising speed of 330 kilometers per hour, the Z-18 transport plane formation quickly swept over Xiamen Island and reached Wuyuan Bay, which was 13 kilometers away.

At this time, Wuyuan Bay was like a forest, and most of the warships on Gulangyu Island and Xiamen Island led by Zheng Zhifeng gathered here, and seven or eight hundred sail warships almost filled the 500-meter-wide water surface of Wuyuan Bay.

This is the passage for Xiamen Island to retreat to the mainland, and it is also a bridge to reinforce Xiamen.

Tong'an's reinforcements had received orders to stop crossing the sea and were ready to meet the Zheng army that had retreated from the island.

Zheng Zhifeng's fleet is here to protect this passage, the Tiance Navy warships are too powerful, and the Zheng family fleet hopes to use the narrow, shallow water level Wuyuan Bay to block the intrusion of the large warships of the Tiance Army Navy and preserve the water power.

If the naval warships of the Tiance Army can break in, the narrow water surface is also conducive to the role of fire attack ships.

They thought of an attack on land or at sea, but they did not expect an enemy attack to come from the air.

The formation of 18 transport planes, which had completed the bombing mission of Wulao Peak, quickly approached the sky above the Zhengjia fleet in Wuyuan Bay.

The black in the sky pressed a group of big birds, and made a "buzzing" sound towards the Zheng family's fleet. The soldiers of the Zheng family were stupid, many people thought they were dreaming, they couldn't believe it was true, and even rubbed their eyes vigorously to let themselves see this strange scene clearly, after all, most of them had not participated in the battle of the Taiwan Strait.

It wasn't until the rain of mortar shells fell from the sky that they woke up from a dream, and the Zheng family's fleet was full of dense columns of water and huge explosions. Twenty-one Z-18 transport planes flew over the Zheng family's fleet like ploughs, leaving behind them a sea of fire and a sailboat that was blown up and damaged.

After passing the three-kilometer-long Zheng family's fleet, the Z-18 transport planes had only completed half of the bomb drops, and they swirled backwards in the sky and pounced on the fleet in the bay again.

At this time, Wuyuan Bay became a replica of Pearl Harbor, and the dense explosions resounded in the sky, and the wooden sailboats could withstand the impact and explosion of 100-millimeter mortar shells falling from a height of 800 meters, so they disintegrated one after another.

Mortar shells are trigger fuses, and due to the high throwing height, they will trigger the fuse even if they fall into the water, causing an explosion. The blast wave and prefabricated fragments of the explosion will also penetrate the wooden hull sideways, and a large amount of sea water will rush in, and many ships that have not been directly hit will gradually tip and roll over.

A direct hit was immediately pierced by a mortar shell weighing 73 kilograms that fell from a height of 800 meters, and the subsequent explosion lifted the ship from the surface of the water, and after falling back to the surface, it was either in tatters, or simply broke into two sections and sank into the water.

The Zheng family's fleet gradually fell into ruin and died out in the largest air raid in history.

The 21 Z-18 transport planes, which had a total bomb load of nearly 100 tons after the air raid on Wulaofeng, were still able to bomb 7,800 wooden sailing ships.

The sea was full of broken ship planks and the body of Zheng Jun who had been blown up, and of course, there were a few lucky people floating on the water, watching all this in dazed and frightened manner.

The survivors' eyes were filled with horror and disbelief. Not long ago, the huge Zheng family fleet in Wuyuan Bay was powerful, so powerful that they were proud, if this fleet was used against the Dutch or Spanish fleets, it could fight with these Europeans for ten days and half a month, and still be able to win.

Now it's gone in minutes, and it's turned into piles of rags floating on the sea, and the attack is actually from the air, I'm a mother!

Zheng Zhifeng, the commander of the Zheng family's fleet, was not killed, which was really a blessing in misfortune, but he was not glad at all. The strength shown by the Tiance army made him tremble, of course, it is winter, Xiamen is in the south, and the water temperature during the Xiaoice River period is still very low.

He knew that the Zheng family was finished, the Tiance Army was completely a freak, and he actually had a powerful weapon that could fly in the sky, this was an irresistible opponent, maybe it was the wisest choice to surrender obediently and be a smooth sheep.

Of course, Zheng Zhifeng would not be superstitious enough to think that the plane was a divine punishment from heaven, because Zheng Zhilong mentioned this thing after returning from the defeat of Relan, so he immediately judged that this heavenly flying machine belonged to the Tiance Army. The Zheng family is a group of people who open their eyes to see the world, and their horizons are still very broad.

The Zheng family's fleet in Wuyuan Bay was completely annihilated, and the Zhi-18 transport plane completed its combat mission and began to return, at this time the battle of attacking Zhongzuo had begun.

The first to attack was still artillery, and the main artillery for the siege was twelve 155-mm howitzers.

The height of the castle is about eight meters, and it is a traditional Chinese brick and stone wall, because it is only a guard castle. Therefore, the wall is not wide and thick, not only is the ability to resist artillery bombardment very weak, but there are also very few enemy towers and other sheltering fortifications on the city wall, and such a city wall is bombarded with 155 mm howitzers, which is tantamount to violent demolition.