Chapter 391: Zheng Zhilong was defeated
At this time, Zheng He was like a lion that suddenly attacked, and both layers of artillery were opened, spraying tongues of fire, pouring tons of steel on Zheng Zhilong's right-wing fleet. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
The explosion of the flowering bomb and the flammable agent caused the wooden hulls of countless ships in Zheng Zhilong's right flank flotilla to ignite in an instant.
Many pirates also died in the fire, and jumped directly from the ship to shout like wolves, and the sharks swaying in the sea seemed to know that in such a situation, food would always fall from above, so most of them waited here early, and whenever anyone fell into the sea, they would directly take it into their mouths.
Zheng Zhilong's right-wing flotilla also busily changed direction, and more than a dozen large soft sailing ships lined up in a line like a high mountain that covered the sky and the sun, and the double rows of artillery fired at Zheng He in a dive-like manner.
Countless iron bullets rained down on Zheng He's head, and the command of the Zheng He forced Heiwa to order all the crew to immediately hide in the cabin to avoid unnecessary casualties.
At the same time, the Zheng He had to evacuate here immediately, because although the Zheng He was fast and agile, in the end, the scale of the Zheng He was not as large as these giant ships about the size of a building, and if they stayed here, they could only be passively beaten.
Therefore, Zheng He had to evacuate here quickly, but because of its own speed, it was able to break out before Zheng Zhilong's ship was completely encircled, but it still suffered some losses, some masts were broken a lot, and even the originally smooth iron hull was smashed into potholes, some of the machines inside the hull were also shattered, and two steam cylinders were also damaged, which slowed down the horsepower of the entire Zheng He a lot.
But despite this, Zheng He's speed was still far superior to that of these wooden sailing ships, and every time these large wooden sailing ships tried to bully it, Zheng He always cleverly dodged and attacked these large wooden sailing ships from behind.
Once the Zheng He is in danger of being encircled, there will be more agile small warships carrying liquid explosives to break through the barrier to provide a breakthrough direction for the Zheng He, and once the Zheng He breaks through, the supply warships can also be replenished immediately, and there will be a combat team to quickly transfer fresh water and coal mines to the Zheng He.
In this way, Zheng Hao was still able to maneuver easily on the right flank of the Zheng pirate group where the warships gathered, forcing Zheng Zhilong's right flank to be too tired to deal with Zheng He's left flank.
At this time, the situation of Zheng Zhilong's left flank was much worse, Yu Qian and Xu Da were like two crab feet at this time, biting the head and tail of their left flank fiercely, forcing Zheng Zhilong's left flank to be unable to take care of each other, and the hundreds of warships on the entire left flank were unable to move.
As long as the ships on its left flank dared to come forward, the Yu Qian or Xu Da here could quickly turn their guns and aim at them and bombard them indiscriminately, forcing them to retract their heads.
And Zheng Zhilong's left flank also wanted to fight back, but whenever the ships on his left flank wanted to fight back, Yu Qian and Xu Da could always evacuate quickly, while at the same time, the small warship to which it belonged would not let go as soon as it bit a large warship if it was sneaking on the sea, and it had to blow it up beyond recognition.
The two main fleets with the two flagships of Yu Qian and Xu Da as the core kept turning around according to the change of wind direction and hunting Zheng Zhilong's left flank fleet in different directions.
Zheng Zhilong gritted his teeth with hatred, and his ship was also on the left flank, but he didn't expect that the hundreds of warships on his side would be helpless against these two two fleets with strange equipment.
At the beginning, Zheng Zhilong, who still had the ambition to eat the two fleets of the imperial court with only his left flank, had to consider the rear path of his left flank, and immediately ordered the main fleet of each battalion to turn around and move closer to the right flank before his camp was completely chaotic.
Gu Sanmazi, who was also commanding the battle on the Yu Qian, also saw the change in Zheng Zhilong's left flank, and immediately ordered Yu Qian and Xu Da to merge and quickly intersperse the right flank to hunt Zheng Zhilong's right flank.
Zheng Zhilong's right-wing ships are making every effort to encircle and suppress the Zheng He, and dozens of large wooden sailing ships have been circling around the Zheng He, although it has also made the Zheng He eat a lot of solid bullets, so that the hull of the Zheng He has been completely destroyed, and its deck is also on fire, but fortunately, the main hull part is called fireproof materials, so the damage is not great.
However, the damage to other functional ships attached to the Zheng He was very serious, nearly one-third of the small warships had been smashed into wood chips, and the ten ships and supply ships of the imperial court wooden auxiliary attack were destroyed, making the Zheng He fleet more and more weak.
But when Yu Qian and Xu Da arrived, the tide of battle suddenly reversed.
Zheng Zhilong's right flank was directly commanded by Zheng Hongkui, Zheng Hongkui was now fully mobilizing all the main warships on his side to besiege Zheng He, and he did not estimate that his flank had been surrounded by the other two forces of the imperial court.
Here, as soon as Yu Qian and Xu Da came, they unceremoniously opened the cannon door and aimed at the butts of dozens of large wooden sailing ships.
After a loud rumbling sound, many of the main warships of the Zheng pirates were blown up in an instant, and the turbulent sea water was directly poured in, and these large wooden sailing ships that were still arrogant against Zheng He at the beginning had to face the fate of being sunk in a blink of an eye.
The encirclement and suppression of Zheng He collapsed in an instant due to the arrival of Yu Qian and Xu Da, and Zheng Zhilong's right flank, which was ill-prepared, had to face a more serious firepower blow than the left flank.
Zheng Zhilong grinned with hatred for this, although his fourth brother was resourceful, he was slightly inferior to his second and third brothers in naval battles, but he could be a strategist but not a general, especially in this kind of actual combat, his fourth brother only knew that he was catching a fleet and completely ignored the entire battlefield and other enemy fleets.
But it's useless to say this now, Zheng Zhilong's second brother Zheng Zhilong is now working hard to carry ammunition in the hold of Zheng He, and when an enemy ship is close to him and is crashing into his side, he shouts even more conditionally: "Pay attention to the flanks, turn around, and break its mast with the right door gun to force it to change direction to avoid colliding!" ”
Hearing him shout like this, the gunner on his side had already panicked, and he didn't know how to control it, so Zheng Zhilong saw this and directly pushed the gunner away, and began to load his ammunition and adjust the direction himself.
Suddenly, a large enemy ship that tried to die with Zheng He suddenly broke its mast and the sail sail against the wind fell in an instant, causing the large enemy ship to sway from side to side because of the loss of power.
"Who did it, it's so beautiful!"
Gu San Mazi couldn't help but applaud loudly, and let the Yu Qian directly collide with it, and the iron-clad bow of the Yu Qian directly plowed the large enemy ship that tried to die with Zheng He into two sections like an iron plowshare.
Zheng Zhilong's left flank fleet finally caught up, but Gu San Mazi decisively ordered the three fleets to withdraw from the battle immediately at this time, and within the safe range of Zheng's pirates' side that could not be shelled, the three fleets lined up directly, opened the gun door, and aimed at the main fleet on Zheng Zhilong's side is a fierce bombardment.
In the countless splashes of water, countless sawdust and corpses could be seen blown into the sky, and then fell into the water like dumplings.
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Zheng Zhilong smashed his fist on the railing, and his heart was extremely angry!
He thought that his two brothers were defeated at the hands of Gu San Mazi, just because his two brothers were brave and too light on the enemy, plus because of the ships and cannons of his imperial court.
But now, he can see that this Ming Imperial Court has only been more than a year, and it has improved not only the warships and artillery, but also the tactical configuration, and he now understands why it is so difficult for his side to annihilate its main ships, because these seemingly chaotic warships are coordinated according to certain laws, and even these large and small ships are for the core capital ship to serve.
At this time, after Zheng Zhilong's left and right flank fleets were closed, the imperial court also stopped attacking.
The sea, which had been splashed by the shells, had become calm again.
Zheng Zhilong's side did not dare to open the main ships of each battalion too much, so that they were easily opened by the imperial court, and carried out various tactics of breaking.
Now the Zheng group can only have the main ships of each battalion next to each other, with each other as wings, so as not to encounter the situation of the imperial court's fast and slippery warships that are faster than loaches and sneak up on them but catch them off guard.
And on the side of the imperial court, Gu San Mazi couldn't help laughing when he saw that the tactics of the Zheng group began to become conservative and no longer aggressive: "Lao Tzu still thought that this guy surnamed Zheng was very capable, but now it seems that he is only in vain, Lao Tzu has not released a few cannons, he is so frightened that he dare not dare to urinate, like a turtle with a shrunken head!" ”
"This surnamed Zheng must not have seen the Three Kingdoms, he can do it all together with so many ships, but he forgot that this is also more conducive to our fire attack, these pirates must not have read the Three Kingdoms."
Qin Botong, who was also on the Qian number, couldn't help but add.
"If these uneducated guys went after reading the Three Kingdoms Morning Examination Show, why should they still be pirates, now it's just right, let's teach him a good lesson", Gu San Mazi said and ordered: "Order, the three fleets are approaching the enemy's main force in a fan-shaped way, attacking from three directions, stopping outside the range of the enemy's artillery fire, and then bombarding the Zheng family's pirates from top to bottom by the flight battalion, anyway, he must let his ships burn up, and at the same time the three capital ships will be covered, and the rest of the small warships will be the main force to attack from the sea!" ”
As soon as Gu San Mazi gave an order, the three main fleets of the Ming Dynasty immediately headed towards the main fleet of the Zheng Group after a short rest.
On Zheng Zhilong's side, the capital ships of all the battalions suddenly opened their gun doors as if they were facing a great enemy, and countless black pressed guns were directly facing the three directions of the imperial fleet's attack on this side.
But to their surprise, the three main fleets of the Ming Dynasty still stopped outside their range, which made the Zheng pirates feel very aggrieved, and they wanted to fight but couldn't.
However, at this time, the careful Zheng Zhilong found that there were countless large ball-like things rising up on the enemy warship on the opposite side, and there were also some bold unicycle-shaped flying machines.
This made some Zheng pirates feel an inexplicable sense of fear all of a sudden, and one of them couldn't help but exclaim: "Who are these people, could it be the legendary heavenly soldiers and generals, I didn't expect the imperial court to have this ability, and can invite people from the sky, so in this way, we are fighting against the old lady!" ”
Before Zheng Zhilong and the others could recover from their doubts, here, the soldiers of the flight battalion had already taken advantage of the milder sea breeze to directly throw gas packets into the densely distributed fleet of Zheng Zhilong's main battalions.
Suddenly, countless ships began to spread the fire, and the small warships on the imperial court's side also frantically attacked the large sailing ships on Zheng Zhilong's side, and some ships that were originally good were immediately sunk directly to the bottom of the sea.
Zheng Zhilong actually realized that he was so easy to be attacked by fire, otherwise he would not let the big ships outside and the small ships inside, what he wanted was that when the main ships of the imperial court were attacking, he could force back the three main ships of the imperial court through the intensive artillery fire of the large wooden sailing ships on the periphery, forcing them to attack himself without being able to approach him.
But what Zheng Zhilong didn't expect was that this Gu San Mazi would actually change his thinking, so that his three capital ships would no longer take on the main attack but act as a cover, but let the smallest warship carry fire to attack his large wooden sailing ship.
In this way, it is difficult for a high-level battery like oneself to bombard these small warships that are dense like locusts but more dexterous to pose a threat, and at the same time, there are many large balls (hot air balloons) that can directly throw fire overhead.
Zheng Zhilong and his pirates felt very strange about this, and they were also secretly afraid.
Many of their ships had already been set on fire, and even the other warships that were next to each other had been set on fire.
Seeing this, Zheng Zhilong had to order his fleet to disperse immediately, and directly seize the upper hand, so as to directly attack the Ming ships.
But what Zheng Zhilong didn't expect was that just when he ordered the main fleet of each battalion to disperse, Gu San Mazi ordered the three main ships to pursue them immediately, and he had to completely cripple the main fleet of these pirates.
After a few battles, Zheng Zhilong's fleet became less and less, and in the end, only dozens of warships were still intact.
The imperial court gradually gained the upper hand, and did not pay any attention to any tactics, and directly pressed Zheng Zhilong's fleet to fight, but Zheng Zhilong refused to be beaten passively, and simply fled directly in the direction of Japan.
Gu San Mazi hurriedly ordered the three capital ships to immediately catch up, and chased straight to Ryukyu Tanegashima before surround the last bit of Zheng Zhilong's remaining strength.
But after a fierce battle, there was no trace of Zheng Zhilong.
Gu San Mazi couldn't help but feel very frustrated about this, he didn't expect Zheng Zhilong to be so good at running.