Chapter 84: The Battle of Macao (6)

An hour after the lockboat fleet began to fight, the Fuchuan column led by Zheng Chenggong also entered the battle.

Unlike the lock-boat fleet, which always remained cone-shaped, the Fubune Column crossed a beautiful arc and crossed the right side of Portugal.

Under the escort of the four three-masted warships "Zhengdong", "Zhengxi", "Zhengbei" and "Zhengnan", Zheng Chenggong personally led the flagship "General" to row through the front of the Portuguese fleet.

At 6:25, the port guns of the "General" began firing.

The first broadside salvo destroyed the stern of the galleon "Ferdinand" and demobilized 200 sailors.

Shortly after the exchange of fire, the "General" moved back along the right side of the Portuguese fleet, looking for the enemy's flagship.

During the desperate search of the "General", it was suddenly discovered that on a battleship behind the "Joao" was the handsome chess of Admiral Hollis, who was the "Duke of Joaoyo".

Zheng Chenggong immediately raised his sword and pointed at the "Duke of Ruo You", and shouted: "Rush over for me!" ”

Adjutant General Huang Wu was startled when he heard this, and shouted: "General, this is too dangerous!" You're the boss, and you need to command his fleet here! ”

Zheng Chenggong, who was killing to the point where his blood was churning, listened to it, and said angrily: "I'm afraid of a bird!" Bump into me, hear no! ”

Under Zheng Chenggong's strong order, the "Great General" turned its bow and forcibly rushed towards the enemy ship under artillery fire.

Taking advantage of its size, the "Great General" forcibly rammed the "da Gama" out of the way, and with the help of 18 guns on the port side, it bombarded the porthole of the "da Gama," causing it great damage.

In this way, the "General" squeezed into the enemy ship.

Seeing that the Zheng family's flagship dared to rush into his own ship, Goding Huo shouted: "Quick, quickly sink the enemy's flagship for me!" ”

Five or six Franc battleships suddenly turned their guns and bombarded the "General" fiercely.

The waves stirred up by the missed cannonballs swept the "General" to the ground like a roller coaster.

Zheng Chenggong clutched the rope of the ship with his left hand to prevent himself from being thrown out of the sea of ships, held his sword high in his right hand, ignored the cannon whistling through, and roared angrily: "Forward, charge me." Rush over and tear the other party apart with artillery fire! ”

The four escort ships of the southeast, northwest, and northwest of the expedition saw the "Great General" rushing into the enemy's army, which was being besieged by enemy artillery, and they did not care about anything else, so they rushed in together, protected it, and bombarded the enemy army.

The distance between us and the enemy is so close that even the blood of the opponent can be splashed on his face.

Under the bombardment of hundreds of artillery, the battleship was full of dead bodies, and many of the corpses were intact. Brains and broken intestines were scattered all over the place, and the scene was very miserable.

When cleaning up the bodies of their comrades after the war, many veterans who had been on the battlefield for a long time could not help but vomit when they saw the tragic situation in front of them.

Escorted by other ships, the "Grand General" rushed out of the enemy with only a few minor injuries and crashed straight into the enemy's flagship, the Duke of Jooyu.

Coming to the flagship of the Franc machine, the "Duke of Jooyo", the 28 guns that the "General" had already prepared, immediately launched an overwhelming artillery bombardment on it.

One shell after another smashed countless holes in the body of the "Duke of Joori", and it didn't take long for the "Duke of Joori" to be scarred.

After 20 minutes of heavy bombardment, the "Duke of Joori" has become an uncontrollable empty hull,

At 7:16 p.m., the battered battleship "Duke of Joori" sank, and Admiral Godinhoe boarded a small boat and escaped on a small Galen ship when the flagship sank.

At this time, it was already dark, and the soldiers of the Zheng family army could no longer see the sea clearly, so Godinho escaped smoothly onto a ship.

With the sinking of the Franc flagship, the fleet lost its unified command. Each warship has no one to command, so it can only fight on its own.

Without the superiority of the Franc battleships, each of them had to face the siege of three or four Zheng fleets almost at the same time.

In less than half an hour, more than 20 Franc battleships were destroyed by the Zheng family battleship and sank to the bottom of the sea.

Escaping on the Galen battleship "Martinez", Godinhoe looked at the chaotic and crisis-ridden fleet of Francs, and finally knew that Francs had failed and could no longer salvage the war.

Godinhoe looked at the sea covered with the corpses of the Franc soldiers, and gave the order to retreat with tears in his eyes.

Hearing the order to retreat, the Franc fighter ships on the periphery couldn't take care of the fleet that was still fighting, and didn't care about the comrades who were still floating on the sea, so they hurriedly grabbed the road and fled.

The Franc battleships, which were surrounded by the Zheng family's battleships, suddenly felt desperate when they saw their own fleet fleeing, and they were still fighting.

The Franc soldiers stopped resisting and threw away their weapons one by one.

In order to survive, white flags such as handkerchiefs and underwear are held high and waved with the white flags they can find.

Looking at the countless waving white flags of the Franc machine, Zheng Chenggong couldn't help but roar in the sky: "We have won!" ”

Hearing the general's words, the soldiers on the "General" roared mercilessly, "We have won!" ”

When the soldiers of the Zheng family who were fighting heard the shout, they looked at the ghosts who had stopped resisting, and instantly raised the weapons in their hands high, and said loudly and angrily: "Roar, roar, we have won!" ”

The voice is high-pitched and soars into the sky.

The artillery fire stopped, so did the sound of the muskets, and the smoke and smell of gunpowder still hung over the battlefield. Blood stained the sea, and dozens of warships were burning.

In the Battle of Macau, the Zheng Jiashui Division won the war by sinking 12 warships, damaging 28 warships, and killing and wounding 2,107 soldiers!

The Franc fleet suffered heavy losses, almost all 137 warships were damaged, of which 31 were sunk and 43 were seriously damaged, and even if they were towed back, they could not be repaired. A total of 34 warships, 3000 soldiers were taken prisoner of the Zheng family's naval division.

Godinhoe fled with just over 30 warships and more than 4,000 soldiers.

After this battle, the main warships of the Franc aircraft were basically lost, and the remaining more than 30 warships, not to mention maintaining their trade and commerce in Southeast Asia, could not even take care of their homeland.

It can be said that the power of the Franc Machine will not be restored at all in thirty or fifty years, but will others sit back and watch him rise again so easily?

Don't say that the Zheng family sailor will not let go of this opportunity, and other powerful countries will not let go of the opportunity to attack the Franc machine.

The stunned Francophone fleet retreated in a hurry, and 31 warships fled to Macao.

When he arrived in Macau, Godinhoe found his situation unprecedentedly bad.

All the food and supplies were scarce, and it was simply impossible to supply him with so many soldiers, as well as more than 1,700 sick soldiers.

What was even more serious was that Macau was not Portuguese, and there were not so many shells to replenish him, and now the Francophone fleet was in its weakest state, and there was a serious shortage of shells.

Not to mention the fact that now there are heavy losses and there is no way to fight again, even in its heyday, it is impossible to defeat the enemy without shells.

After the Godingho faction robbed Macao, the governor of Macao, Ma Shigaru, did not even care about it, and hurriedly boarded the ship and fled to East Timor.

After repairing on the sea surface for a long time, sending the damaged ship back for repair, escorting the Franc battleship and soldiers to Kinmen,

Zheng Chenggong decided not to leave a way for the Francophone fleet to survive and issued an order. "Keep attacking enemy ships!"

So the fleet that could stand puffed up its sails and pursued the fleeing fleet of Franc at full speed.

The fleet of Franc planes fled in terror in front, and the Zheng family sailors pursued and attacked fiercely behind. On several occasions, Goldinho also tried to turn around and fight back against the Zheng family's sailors,

But this not only failed to hurt the Zheng family's water division, but disrupted his formation. In the process of chasing and fighting, the seven Franc battleships were heavily damaged and sank to the bottom of the sea, but the Zhengjia battleships were only slightly injured.

Seeing that the general situation was gone and there was no hope of going to East Timor, the Admiral of the Franc Fleet Godinho, in order to avoid the pursuit of the Zheng family's sailors, the fleet sailed south, bypassing Malacca and returning to Portugal. On the way, the fleet was constantly attacked by storms, lost a number of ships, and thousands of officers and men died of disease, hunger and thirst. When the fleet returned to Portugal in February 1649, only 22 wrecked ships remained.

After two days of pursuit, Zheng Chenggong, who was closely chasing the fleet of Franc aircraft, found that his shells were almost finished, so he had to order to stop the pursuit.

So far, the sea battle of Macao, which lasted nearly 7 days, ended with a complete victory for the Cheng Jiashui Division.