The ships of the Ming court were technologically advanced, fast, and their guns had a long range and high accuracy. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The Zheng pirate group has a large number of ships, many ships, and artillery, and more experienced pirate members who are familiar with naval warfare.

It can be said that both sides have their advantages and disadvantages, and in general, no one is better than the other.

The three steam-powered ships, the "Zheng He" and the "Yu Qian" and the newly commissioned "Xu Da", were inconspicuous in the seas where large ships gathered, although they were all wrapped in iron sheets, and had already shown outstanding results in two naval battles.

However, for Zheng Zhilong, who has rich experience in naval warfare, if in a small-scale naval battle, this kind of ship with fast speed, long artillery range, and quick reaction may be able to play a key role, but in this kind of large-scale naval battle, a few powerful ships alone cannot determine the outcome of the battle.

This is just like in a land war, which involves a large-scale battle of more than 100,000 people, and it is difficult for the bravery of a single general to influence the situation of the battle.

Therefore, Zheng Zhilong was not too afraid of these steam-powered ships, and he had even prepared death ships for this purpose, that is, to form a death squad with small and medium-sized ships that were not afraid of death to entangle these three special ships in the same way in battle.

But in fact, Zheng Zhilong ignored the fact that perhaps his current combat method of naval warfare was still limited to observing the direction of the wind, but he ignored that the fleet of the Ming Dynasty had long been systematically organized.

That is, each fleet (now there are only three fleets) is organized into a combat unit with steam-powered ships as the core, and the various functional ships equipped with it are equipped with various functions such as attack, defense, cover, supply, and escort, which can be said to be seamless, and a combat unit can adapt to various changes in the battle situation at any time.

Zheng Zhilong may have thought that the reason why the first two naval battles failed was only because he dispatched too few ships and did not form an absolute advantage over the imperial court, which led to the fact that the steam-powered ships of the imperial court were able to exert all their combat power, and ignored that the reason why the Ming court was able to win was not only because of the advanced ships and artillery, but also because the combat concept and combat grouping were more advanced.

Zheng Zhilong's second brother Zheng Zhihu was also standing on the "Zheng He" at this time, and his current identity was an ordinary handyman responsible for carrying ammunition, but the only difference was that he was still wearing shackles.

Unlike Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Zhihu had a detailed understanding of the naval strength of the Ming Dynasty after staying on the North Sea Fleet for a year and a half, and he did not dare to contemptuously think that the imperial court's navy was so ignorant and blind, at least through observation, Zheng Zhihu had to admit that the current Ming Fleet was no longer what he could think of as an experienced pirate in many aspects, but after thinking about it carefully, he had to be surprised by the strength of these combat concepts.

Zheng Zhihu really wanted to write a letter to his brother to persuade Zheng Zhilong to stop fighting the court to the end, and he even expressed this idea to Qin Botong.

Zhu Youxiao also agreed that he could exchange letters with Zheng Zhilong, of course, the content of the letters must be reviewed by the Jinyi Guard and the Ministry of War.

However, Zheng Zhilong was not persuaded by Zheng Zhihu through letters, he even began to express his dissatisfaction with his second brother, in his opinion, his second brother has obviously begun to throw himself into the imperial court, for this reason, Zheng Zhilong also reprimanded Zheng Zhihu in his reply not to believe the words of the faint king, if he lobbied for Zhu Youxiao, he Zheng Zhilong would even directly cut off the brotherhood.

Zheng Zhihu was not easy to persuade again, but at this time, when he saw his brother Zheng Zhilong proudly dispatching all the ships to fight the court with the same pride, his feelings were also very complicated.

Both sides were seizing the upper hand, so neither fired a gun, and the fleets of both sides swam regularly on the surface of the sea like a dragon, desperately changing directions under various flags and commands.

Zheng Zhilong wanted to break the deadlock, because his ships relied on manpower to turn around and change speed, and if this stalemate continued, his ships would become even more sluggish.

For this reason, Zheng Zhilong ordered Zheng Zhibao to take the lead in leading a fleet of daring ships to attack the "Zheng He" in order to force the "Zheng He" to turn around, and then at this time, the main fleet on his side would immediately turn around, seize the upper hand, and disrupt the Ming army's position with intensive artillery fire.

Seeing this, Gu San Mazi couldn't help but adjust the telescope farther away, and said with a smile: "Zheng's ship is starting to be impatient, and it is anxious to fire the first shot. ”

"Pass my order, Zheng He will plan and quickly retreat, Yu Qian and Xu Da immediately quickly cut into the waist of their Zheng group when the enemy ship began to fire on Zheng He, and then hit hard at one side, this side Zheng He quickly marched in the direction of thirty degrees to the southeast, when Yu Qian and Xu Da shelled the more favorable side, Zheng He immediately blocked the other side of the Zheng group to prevent it from attacking my Yu Qian and Xu Da on both sides!"

Gu San Mazi and Zheng Zhilong's command style is different, Zheng Zhilong is to arrange for the unit to complete the combat mission for the unit with his cronies, while Gu San Mazi directly uses the core ship as a unit to arrange combat tactics, generally mentioning a certain flagship, that is, the entire combat unit with this flagship as the core has to follow the operation, and how to operate is directly responsible for the commander of the flagship, Gu San Mazi does not have to care, he only cares about the result.

Zheng He is the steam-powered ship that has served the longest in the current Ming Dynasty, and the technicians and naval soldiers on this ship are also the most familiar with the control of this new type of powered ship, so let them resist the general power of the Zheng pirate group alone, Gu San Mazi is relieved.

And now, the retreat of the Zheng He is accelerating, driven by a large amount of steam power, the movement of the propeller behind the hull makes the Zheng He easily retreat to the designated position.

The Zheng family's death ship that came at the risk of death was still directly pasted up, trying to die with Zheng He, and at the same time, Zheng Zhibao also pressed towards Zheng He from above with dozens of large ships.

Zheng Zhibao held his breath at this time, he really wanted to teach the navy of the Ming Dynasty a hard lesson before he could let out this evil breath, so when he pressed towards Zheng He, the speed was still very fast, and he didn't have a long memory because he was too deep and seduced by Gu San Mazi before.

In other words, Zheng Zhibao was just about to enter the range of himself and Zheng He, and Zheng Zhibao had ordered his ships to immediately attack Zheng He with the upwind, Zheng He suddenly escaped from here, like a gust of wind, chose almost 150 degrees, and disappeared into the sea.

Seeing this, Zheng Zhibao hurriedly ordered his own ships to chase after him, but he didn't expect that the ten lucky ships behind Zheng He immediately changed direction, and quickly opened the cannon door and shelled these Zheng boats that were in a hurry to chase them.

Moreover, Zheng He's speed was too fast and disappeared after a while, but just when Zheng Zhilong was stunned, his right flank was suddenly attacked by heavy artillery fire.