No. 078 Naval Clash (5)
During this period, Shi Lang learned from the captured prisoners of the Ming army that the Ming Emperor was in the fleet, and he would personally supervise the battle on the ship in every battle, encouraging the morale of the army. The strength of this Ming army sailor division is greatly beyond their imagination www.biquge.info, not only reflected in the equipment, military appearance, their tactics are also very flexible and changeable, know how to be flexible, and familiar with water warfare, familiar with climate and geography, far from those volunteers formed a rabble, not to mention those silver-like wax gun head of the sailor army household officers and soldiers, they initially deduced that this should be the same water pirate army as them, the difference is that they voted Qing, this water pirate army voted Ming, each for its main service.
In the Yongle period at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty Navy Division large warships thousands, 100,000 sailors, can be described as incomparably brilliant, even in the middle and late Ming Dynasty to fight against the Japanese invaders, the Ming Dynasty Navy Division still remains, but under the influence of Confucianism, the court scholars and the emperor are not very interested in overseas places, and soon the water division is thrown aside, to the end of the Ming Dynasty, the equipment and combat effectiveness of the Ming Navy Division has become scum, and even far behind the pirates and pirates along the coast of Southeast and Guangzhou, water pirates. In the end, the coastal defense of the Ming Dynasty had to rely on a big pirate Zheng Zhilong to preside, which has to be said to be an extremely sad thing.
After some urgent discussions, everyone unanimously decided to go straight to Huanglong and perform a decapitation tactic. During the melee, he tried to attack the ship of the Ming army and took the opportunity to capture and kill the emperor of the puppet dynasty, so as to break the morale of the Ming army, and win the battle in one go.
More than an hour later, the two armies faced each other on the sea again, the cannon on the river rumbled, and when the battle was in full swing, Hong Xishan, the vanguard of the Qing army's naval division, suddenly led the fleet under his command, rushed into the fleet of the Ming army, and went straight to the emperor's ship.
The Qing army's vanguard dared to rush into their main fleet with a lone force, which surprised the Ming army, Yu Long and Gao Lixun and others quickly reacted, and saw its purpose from the actions of the Qing army's sailor forward, they turned around and knelt down to ask the emperor to get off the ship and return to the water village to avoid accidents. was sternly rejected by Zhu Youlang, he didn't know the power of the stake, but the battle was in full swing, if he encountered a little danger, he would be the first to evacuate the battlefield, and it would definitely be a blow to the morale of his own army, Zhu Youlang patiently explained to them that even if he returned to the camp and was temporarily safe, if the sailor was unfortunately defeated, he would still be unable to escape death in the end. Since the Qing army has already set its sights on him, it is better to plan and use himself as a bait to constantly attract the Qing army to come and rob him, and finally eliminate the Qing army that will commit crimes one by one.
Yu Long, Gao Lixun and other sailors were impressed by the emperor's fearless courage, the emperor's bravery aroused the loyalty and service of these reckless heroes, time was pressing, they knew that it was useless to persuade again, they patted their chests, guaranteed to annihilate the enemy, and swore to protect the emperor's safety.
In order to ensure firepower while maneuvering quickly, the vanguard is mainly based on medium-sized warships of one or two hundred materials, and the tactics of cattle knives are aimed at the target and directly stab the enemy's vital points, and the key point is to be flexible, fast, and to enter the opponent's Chinese army with lightning speed, regardless of it, and leave no way back.
The reaction of the Ming army was also very fast, and in less than half a mile when the Qing army's forward rushed over, they dispatched dozens of warships, turned their guns, and "Boom!" to the Qing army's forward fleet that was charging forward. Rumble! Rumble! ......" cannon after cannon kept firing.
Due to the distance, coupled with the Qing army's forward fleet is not large, it is difficult to hit accurately in high-speed movement, often more than a dozen artillery hits miss, although the Ming army's interception is more active, still can not stop the Qing army's forward approaching, in the rear of the Qing army, Shi Lang is also organizing the warships to desperately fire to cover the forward, although it can't sink a few Ming warships, how much can contain some of the Ming army's forces.
Because the plan had been set in advance, so the Ming army did not desperately prevent the Qing army forward from approaching the ship, Yu Long planned to open a pocket half-pushed and half-pushed, so that the Qing army forward drilled in, and then tied the mouth of the bag, to catch turtles in the bag, and wiped out the Qing army's sailor forward in one fell swoop.
In view of this, although the Qing army's forward encountered some obstacles, but finally gradually approached Zhu Youlang's ship, at that time the closest to the emperor's ship was a Qing army's medium-sized sea warehouse warship, soon after it launched an attack on the emperor's ship, it was surrounded by seven or eight cannons on the ship, within the distance, the shooting accuracy was greatly increased, after a few rounds of salvo, it hit the ship, the ship exploded in response, the ship was destroyed.
At the same time, however, Hong Xishan's ship was also close to Emperor Zhu Youlang's boat, and he used a trebuchet to throw a large number of fire cans at the boat. The fire tank is filled with fierce fire oil and a large amount of sulfur saltpeter and other substances, after throwing the fire tank, then several rounds of rockets are launched, the rocket encounters fierce fire oil and sulfur and other substances, and begins to burn rapidly, sticking to where is a piece of fire, on the boat, the Ming army sailors are busy extinguishing the fire with the prepared sand, gravel and soil, because the preparation is sufficient, to not cause the spread of the fire.
After the Qing army striker entered the pocket, Yu Long immediately pulled out more than 20 long boats, and the fast crab surrounded the Qing army forward fleet in the pocket.
The target of the Qing army fleet is only in the ship, their huge side is exposed to the fire of the Ming army, and the Ming army long boat and fast crab that surround it easily seize the attack position on the flank, the muzzle of the gun is facing the side of the ship, quickly reload and open the cannon, the casualties of the Qing fleet began to increase, if the decapitation is not successful in a short time, it will be difficult for the forward fleet to retreat.
The main general of the striker, Hong Xishan, deeply understands this, so he has already planned to make a desperate bet, and if he does not succeed, he will become benevolent, he has a steel knife in his mouth, holds a rattan shield, and jumps on the rope at the stern, and when his ship finally approaches the flagship of the puppet emperor, Hong Xishan has a standard jumping gang action that landed firmly on the flagship of the Ming army, and then launched a fierce hand-to-hand fight with the Ming army sailor battalion on the ship.