Chapter 141: The End of Zheng Cai 7

Zhang Qiang sided, Zhang Qiang said to the herald beside him: "The whole army changed formation, six battalions lined up, musketeers fired, archers formed two horizontal columns, lined up behind the musketeer battalion, and the other battalion formations remained unchanged, retreat to the archers to line up in a horizontal line, after blocking the enemy's counterattack, push it over, and order the cavalry to wait for the enemy to attack after the chaos, and capture prisoners for me." ”

After the herald left, Zhang Qiang dropped the binoculars and said coldly: "What should I be so great that you dare to provoke me." ”

In the rain of shells fired from the artillery positions where the cavalry and artillerymen were shooting, some were retreating, some were fleeing in both directions, and some were still rushing forward, because only by rushing past could they return to the ship and escape.

The smoke of gunpowder slipped and fell, rising from the musketeers' positions, and on the opposite side there were pirates with blood on their chests falling, row after row, it was simply a line of slaughter.

Soon the enemy could not hold it out, and they ran to both sides, trying to dodge the musketeers' muskets.

In the queue, the commander of the hundred households commanding the musketeers looked back at the flag in the battalion commander's hand, and listened to the battalion commander's shout, he turned his head and shouted, "The first general flag team, walk ten steps forward, forward, shoot." ”

He looked around and saw that most of the enemy was running to the right-hand side, and immediately shouted: "Second General Flag Team, Stand, Turn to the right, run forward, Stand, Walk ten steps forward, shoot, the Flag Commander takes over the command, the goal is to destroy the enemy." ”

The two battalions on both sides have delegated their powers, with the general flag team as the combat unit, the queue rotates, advances, shoots, loads, rotates again, shoots again, stops, stands, advances, turns, and shoots again.

Gradually, the battalions of musketeers on both flanks broke away from the group, gave up their positions, rotated, rotated, and finally became a pattern of turning their backs to the enemy and flanking the fleeing enemy.

Frontally, the remaining four battalions were stretched and elongated, from five columns to three, filling the positions given up by the two battalions on the flanks, and the frontal continued to fight the pirates who were still rushing towards them, and the archers behind followed, stretched into a column, and fired arrows at the enemy within thirty meters of the musketeers.

The three battalions of musketeers were stretched out again and turned into two columns, in free-fire mode, at this time the enemy was simply too chaotic and scattered, and some even fled in the direction of Sanmen County.

The last battalion never rushed forward, their task was to protect the general's guard, not to be too far away from the general's guard, otherwise if the enemy had cavalry, the general's guard would have to face the enemy alone, and always have reserves, which Zhang Qiang learned from modern warfare.

"Pursuit." Hu Kui shouted, and the cavalry rushed down the ridge and launched a pursuit of the enemy, who was already defeated.

Seeing that the overall situation had been decided, Zhang Qiang led a battalion of musketeers and two hundred personal guards cavalry to the sea.

At sea, he saw thick smoke billowing and the enemy's warships scattered and fleeing, and the Jinhua rebels, who had suffered heavy losses, were fighting with all their might, and they had no time to care about the fleeing enemies.

Desperately pestering those large and medium-sized warships, many of them were already filled with smoke, and there were still figures fighting on them.

There were a few ships anchored on the sea, no one and no fighting, two ships with white flags, lowered their sails, and were guarded, and several small boats, carrying batch after batch of prisoners to the shore, and then returning to continue escorting the prisoners, and some sailors sailed their ships to the shore and docked, and then took small sampans and rowed to other ships that were still fighting.

More than a dozen miles away, artillery roared, and the battle continued.

"Let the musketeers go out on boats and help those ships that are still fighting," Zhang Qiang shouted.

So the boats that returned empty, with the musketeers, sailed to the ships that were still engaged in hand-to-hand combat.

By noon, there were more than 300 enemy ships on the shore, and wounded sailors and soldiers were constantly brought to the shore by small boats, and then continued to rush to the open sea with the soldiers who had just pursued the enemy.

At dusk, the number of ships on the shore reached more than seven hundred, and the battle had come to an end.

The county seat of Sanmen sent tents, food, and drinking water, and nearby villagers helped cut down trees and set up camps.

When it gets dark, Zhang Ying is covered in blood, and his face is black.

In the dark night, on Longzhu Island, around Longzhu Island, on the shore, there was still firelight, two hundred ships were burning, and they had not burned for a while, and there were still sailors and ships of the Jinhua Righteous Army rescuing those ships that were not completely burned.

The three battlefields have been cleaned up.

Zhang Qiang listened to the report of the battle in the newly built camp tent.

"The fire attack ships were all lost, one hundred and forty ships of the enemy were burned, most of them small and medium, and eighteen large ships were burned and twelve escaped.

Of the more than eighty ships of the second attacking fleet, only five were still usable, and the others were either destroyed with the enemy or captured by the enemy and then burned by the attacking ships, and of the enemy's medium ships, we captured sixty-seven, and fifty-five that could be used, but even these ships could be used only twelve at once.

Eleven of our large warships were sunk, two were rammed and sunk by the enemy, twelve were seriously damaged, and at present they are usable, and only eight are lightly damaged. Fortunately, we captured eleven large ships of the enemy, sank twelve large ships of the enemy, surrendered twelve of them, and twenty of them were seriously wounded and could not move, and we all dragged them back. ”

This naval battle can be said to be a tragic victory, listen, the fire attack ships were completely destroyed, five medium-sized ships came back, eight large warships returned, twelve ships were seriously damaged, and seven were completely destroyed, so it can be said that the Jinhua naval division was almost completely destroyed.

As for the enemy, 12 large ships fled, about 60 or 70 medium-sized ships also fled, and almost all the small ships were destroyed, but some escaped, so to speak, this time by taking advantage of the enemy's carelessness, taking advantage of the convenience of the sneak attack, and taking advantage of the enemy's ability to bring all the pirates and sailors who were fighting in the gang to attack Sanmen County, the enemy sailors who operated the ships and the sailors who fought were not many opportunities, so that the enemy suffered heavy losses, and about two-thirds of the enemy's troops were annihilated.

"If the ships that captured the enemy are activated, how many ships can we use for combat at once?" Zhang Qiang asked Zhang Ying.

Zhang Ying thought for a while, "Eighteen large Fu ships, eight medium-sized Fu ships, thirty-five small Fu ships, forty-four large bird ships, thirty-three large sand ships, three Clark warships of the Portuguese, two Galen galleons of the Dutch, forty-five centipede ships, Portuguese armed merchant ships, twelve two-masted ships, sixteen of our small sea ships, if we add some merchant ships, we have a total of about two hundred ships available, all of which have captured the enemy." ”

"Repair it immediately, repair it overnight, select from among the captives the fishermen and sailors, some pirates, and then load each ship with a large number of soldiers, musketeers, infantry, archers, javelinmen, axemen, and knife players, and we will go to Xiamen."

"My lord, this?" Zhang Ying looked at Zhang Qiang.

"Cut the grass and eradicate the roots, we won't leave too many opportunities for Zheng Cai to dig out his lair."

Zhang Ying looked at Zhang Qiang, "But my lord, there is still Zheng Tai in Xiamen who is inclined to Zheng Chenggong, shall we fight him together?" ”

"If you don't know each other, we'll him. With these captured ships, our sailors are even more powerful than before, rushing to Xiamen, we can take down the remaining ships of Zheng Cai and the ships that escaped back, in that case, our sea strength is also the strongest in this area. ”

Zhang Qiang stood up and shouted: "Eliminate the evil." ”

All stand up and "get rid of evil." Although there was fatigue on their faces, everyone had the joy of victory in their eyes and the yearning for a better future.

Du Ge ran in, "My lord, I'm late,"

Zhang Qiang said to Du Ge: "You and Hu Kui are here to clean up the mess, repair the dock, garrison troops on Dragon Ball Island for me, and hand over those repaired warships to the sailors who stay here to recuperate from their wounds, and I will let you recruit sailors among the captives, but you have to send soldiers on every boat, from now on this is another base of our sailors, and the repaired warships are our second sailors." The head of the water division, I will send it separately. ”

Du Ge bowed, "It's my lord, I will definitely do it." ”