Chapter 529: The Different Consequences of Contempt and Attention
"More than 200 years ago, Emperor Cheng Zuwen sent Zheng He to raise the prestige of the country in a peaceful way, and today, two hundred years later, I use guns to let the world know the Ming Dynasty again!"
Looking at the Western Combined Fleet approaching more and more outside the window, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but say this, and at this time, Liu Ruyi's piano sound and the silver needle in Ning Concubine's hand stopped abruptly, and at the moment they looked up at Zhu Youxiao.
With a loud bang, the "Daming" super giant ship let out his roar, and the strong recoil made the three people in the cabin shake back, at this time the fire exploded outside the window, and the shouts of the navy of the Daming South China Sea Fleet also came and went, and the huge waves were set off on the tempered glass window, so that Liu Ruis and Ning Concubine couldn't help but exclaim.
"Don't panic, the piano skills are getting better and better, let's play again", Zhu Youxiao smiled and patted Liu Ruye's little head, and helped her to the chair from the new, seeing that Ning Concubine Luozhen was also stroking her chest and panting slightly, she seemed to be frightened, so she walked over and took her into her arms and kept it warm for a while.
Because Zhu Youxiao behaved very calmly, the reinforced version of the cabin, which can almost prevent any solid bullet attack, remained calm, and the first assistant of the cabinet, Li Mingrui, and the celebrant Wang Chengen, were in a very good state of mind, and they were still sitting in the imperial study in the cabin of the ship, and Li Mingrui even sometimes chose one or two of them to come over to ask Zhu Youxiao, in short, there was artillery fire outside, but the cabin was as if nothing happened.
The monocular in Gu Sanmazi's hand followed the movement of his eyes like a detector, scanning the enemy ships in front of him, and at the same time quickly issuing orders one by one, countless Ming Dynasty's latest naval combat breech guns quickly fired one shell after another at the enemy ships with exposed flanks.
The other frigates took advantage of their speed advantage to directly rush into the camps of the combined fleets of the Western Ocean on both sides, and practiced the tactic of taking the initiative to attack to achieve defensive goals.
Okundo, the commander-in-chief of the Western Combined Fleet, thought that the "Daming" battleships could be suppressed by concentrating the artillery fire of more than ten large ships, but he did not expect that the self-defense capability of these "Daming" was too strong, and they were almost completely invulnerable like heavy armored cavalry wearing three or four layers of heavy armor.
But at the same time, it was not easy for his side to expose the flanks being attacked by the sharp artillery fire of this behemoth, and the fleet on his side that was trying to surround the "Daming" on both wings was also in chaos, and when he saw that he was about to be pressed and beaten, the experienced commander-in-chief Okundo had to order a temporary retreat and change his tactics to attack again.
The famous general of the Dutch fleet, Trop, was also a little unwilling to carry out Okundo's orders, and at the same time he was a little depressed, thinking that this naval battle could easily capture the Ming Emperor Zhu Youxiao and his courtiers, but he didn't expect that it would become so difficult to deal with him just a flagship, of course, he was also very resentful of why this Okundo didn't use the wolf pack tactics, using a large number of small ships to attack this behemoth, and sending the capital ships to deal with those smaller ships, so as to achieve the effect of easy first and then difficult.
Of course, in fact, no matter what kind of attack tactics they adopt, under the huge equipment gap, it is difficult for this Western combined fleet to take advantage of the Ming warships, and their only advantage is to use the numerical advantage to suppress the Ming warships.
What they didn't know, however, was that behind them, three fleets were already encircling from the east, south, and west towards the Western Combined Fleet.
It seems that the Western Zhufan, who has dominated the ocean world for a long time, has completely ignored the strength of other countries in the world, and naively thinks that the whole world is its own backyard, but in fact, the intelligence system of the Ming Jinyiwei has already spread to the world, and as early as half a year ago, it has already grasped the signs that the Western Zhufan has attempted to organize a joint fleet to attack the Ming Navy, and therefore, the Ming Dynasty has already had a military exercise to assemble the East China Sea, the ocean, and the South China Sea three fleets together for combat before this.
But the Western Zhufan, who did not pay enough attention to the Ming Dynasty but only cared about the plundering interests, did not attach importance to this, on the contrary, because Zhu Youxiao, as a later generation, showed great importance to the Western Zhufan from the beginning, and after the situation in the north was basically stabilized, the focus of Jinyiwei was on these Western Zhufan who challenged the Ming Dynasty's maritime strategy.
Even the information that His Majesty would go to sea to inspect the island of Java was deliberately revealed to the Western Combined Fleet by Jinyiwei, and in the end, the Western Combined Fleet really got into the pre-designed pockets of the Ming Military Department and Jinyi.
At this moment, three fleets appeared behind these Western Combined Fleets like a cover from the sky, and the Western Combined Fleet did not notice because it was fighting fiercely with Zhu Youxiao's escort fleet, so that they were caught off guard and suffered heavy losses from countless shells.
At this time, Okundo also realized that there were so many Ming ships, and their scale was obviously larger than here, so he had to turn around and resist the Ming fleet attacking behind him.
Taking advantage of this, the "Daming" supergiant ship drew a parabola on the sea unharmed and left the battlefield under the nose of the Western Combined Fleet, and the South China Sea Fleet immediately took the place of the escort fleet and launched an attack on the Western Combined Fleet from west to east.
Zhu Youxiao asked Gu San Mazi to park the "Daming" super giant ship on the periphery of the war, so that he could quietly watch the decisive battle between the three fleets of the Ming Dynasty and the Western Combined Fleet.
Although the Western Empire has rich experience in naval warfare and seems to have a large navy after gathering all its forces, it is only a country of projectiles in the end, and it is impossible to form a large fleet.
As a super power, the Ming Dynasty has financial resources and high-precision technology, so that the number of warships and equipment level of the three fleets have far exceeded that of the Western Combined Fleet.
Therefore, in front of the navy of the Ming Dynasty, the invincible Western combined fleet is only qualified to be hung and beaten, countless Western soft sailing ships have sunk to the bottom of the sea, countless Western sailors have been buried in the belly of the fish, and because it is a joint fleet, there are contradictions between countries, so when defeat is imminent, there is no fighting spirit, and many fleets have begun to retreat silently in order to preserve their strength.
But the Ming navy obviously wants to let go of these combined fleets, this is already the inland sea of the Ming Dynasty, the South China Sea Fleet's Heiwa has led the detachment to lock the only exit, and the East China Sea Fleet has also blocked their way to the east, and even the way to escape to the south is blocked by the ocean fleet, so this combined fleet can only have two endings, either trapped beasts and waiting for death, or directly surrender or maybe there is a glimmer of life.