Chapter 479: The Ship Collision Tragedy
Wang Yue looked around and found that his confidential secretary was missing, so he ordered the ground crew to hurry up and reload the Apache.
"Zhuang Suwen, suspend the shelling!" Wang Yue came to the combat command room and said to Zhuang Suwen, who commanded the battle here: "The Zheng family's fleet has been defeated, and now our main task is not to kill the enemy, but to capture prisoners. ”
There were many Zheng family sailors and soldiers who had fallen into the water scattered on the sea, and many of them were floating on the sea with broken ship planks, which Zhuang Suwen had already seen through observation.
"Yes, Commander! I immediately arranged for the roll-on/roll-off wheels and the maritime surveillance warship to salvage the prisoners. Zhuang Suwen said.
The Maritime Surveillance Battleship has high-speed patrol law enforcement boats, which is convenient for salvaging prisoners.
Wang Yue thought for a while and said, "The four air-cushion landing craft and two personnel landing craft in the landing ship will also be sent out to strengthen the salvage force." In addition, we can't just let go of the Zheng family's fleet and use landing ships, supply ships, and coast guard warships to rush at our maximum speed, the purpose is to overturn their sailboats and create more prisoners, and we still need more labor to build Taiwan. ”
These warships can reach a maximum speed of twenty-five knots, and the smallest of them, the coast guard warships, also have a displacement of three thousand tons.
Zhuang Suwen said loudly: "Yes! ”
The large warships of the Zheng family's fleet had all sunk, and Wang Yue felt that the cost-effectiveness ratio of artillery killing and wounding was too low, and it was more practical to capture more prisoners.
The Zheng family sent 60,000 troops this time, and through the naval battle just now, in addition to those who died in battle, at least nearly 10,000 people were floating on the sea waiting to be captured. After all, a wooden sailing ship is different from a steel battleship, and even if it sinks, it will not be too fast, so the survival rate of personnel is higher.
The four air-cushion landing craft and personnel landing craft in the landing ship were released, the patrol and law enforcement boats on the coast surveillance warship and the coast guard warship were also lowered, and another passenger and cargo ro-ro ship in the direction of the city of Geranza also arrived to support the capture of prisoners.
Wang Yue drove the Apache into the air again, and the dock landing ship, the supply ship, and the two coast guard warships began to gradually increase their speed and rushed towards the Zheng family's fleet.
The formation of the Zheng family's fleet had been disrupted in the naval battle just now, and the hasty retreat had also caused some confusion, so the entire retreating Zheng family's fleet was divided into seven or eight large and small pieces, but the course was roughly the same, that is, to flee to Quanzhou or Xiamen in the northeast.
The speed of these sailboats is fast and slow, today's wind direction is not very good, the north wind has blown at the end of September, the Chinese hard sailing ship can not be afraid of headwinds, the sail is like the wing of an airplane, you can keep adjusting the angle, to get the side wind blow, and even the sailboat has to go zigzag to get the wind, this is the so-called "wind from all directions".
Therefore, it is difficult to increase the speed of the Zheng family's fleet, some mixed manpower can reach twelve or thirteen knots in a certain time, and most of the ships only have a speed of six or seven knots.
The four warships of the Tiance Army scattered to attack, and they quickly increased to a high speed of twenty-five knots, and in a short time they caught up with the Zheng family's fleet.
Pursuing the central cluster of the Zheng family's fleet was the dock landing ship, where almost 300 large and small sailing ships were concentrated.
"Boss, look!" Zheng Cai suddenly exclaimed.
The Tiance army stopped the shelling, Zheng Zhilong was relieved, heard Zheng Cai's shout, followed his gaze, and was immediately stunned.
The dock landing ship is more than 18,500 tons, and the full row of 20,000 tons of large men has rammed into the middle of the Zheng family's fleet at a high speed of 25 knots, and the largest tonnage of these sailing ships is only 400 tons, and most of them are small and medium-sized sailing ships of 1,200 tons, or even dozens of tons.
The huge body, the high speed of 25 knots, the dock landing ship has not yet hit those sailboats, the waves it pushes out throw up the sailboats in front, and a group of sailboats on the left and right sides are also staggered by the waves brought up by the landing ships.
The slightly larger ships in front of the landing ship were simply crushed or smashed by the mountain-like body of the landing ship, even if they were not tossed by the waves.
In this case, let alone relying on the boat to grab the ship, the churning waves around the landing ship are difficult for any sailboat to stop, the key is that the landing ship is too large, and it is completely crashed by.
This time the distance was very close, Zheng Zhilong saw clearly, this giant ship is really too high, the appearance is streamlined, only the tail platform is relatively low, but the height is now the largest remaining sailing ship The top is difficult to climb up, even if it stops there and does not move, it is extremely difficult to climb up.
The landing ship spread joy in the Zheng family's fleet, and after hitting the bottom, it played a turning and U-turn in the fleet, and after the dangerous action of the landing ship completely violating the maritime regulations of the previous life, the sea was full of overturned sailboats.
Zheng Zhibao was frightened by the ferocity of the landing ship, and said with wide eyes: "They are going to knock over our ship!" ”
Zheng Zhilong hurriedly ordered: "Quick, let them all disperse quickly and disperse and retreat!" ”
At this moment, the landing ship completed its U-turn and drove towards Zheng Zhilong's location.
Zheng Zhibao hurriedly shouted: "Turn the rudder left, turn the rudder left, quickly avoid!" ”
The helmsman turned the rudder desperately, and the sailors also hurried to adjust the direction of the sail, hoping to get out of the danger zone.
The landing ship was very fast, Zheng Zhilong's ship just avoided the side, it rushed over, the huge hull set off a monstrous wave, slapped on Zheng Zhilong's ship, the sailboat staggered, almost overturned, Zheng Zhilong and others turned into soup chickens again.
Zheng Zhilong wiped the seawater on his face, looked at the overturned warships around him, and couldn't help but look up to the sky and howl in grief: "My fleet! ”
After shouting, he was already in tears! Miserable! The defeat was so miserable that there was no power to parry.
The tragedy of the collision of ships continued to be staged in the surrounding waters, and the Zheng family's fleet was like a duck chased by a tiger, scattering and fleeing, desperately avoiding the impact of the Tiance warship.
Zheng Zhilong's ship finally did not escape the doom of capsizing, after all, his ship was still a bit big, and it was very valuable for impact.
Luckily, he escaped again and was rescued by his men on a smaller ship. After all, he is the leader of the Zheng family, the security and security work is still in place, and his third brother Zheng Zhibao was rescued together, but Zheng Cai has no idea what to do.
The entire ship collision operation began at 15:20 and continued until almost 17:30, when Wang Yue, who was watching the battle in the sky, began to call a halt, and now it was not long before dark, and it was still necessary to seize the time to capture the prisoners.