Chapter 20: The Decisive Battle at Sea
"That's it."
Yang Feng sat on the Valkyrie and looked at the sea in the distance with satisfaction.
There, a huge fleet of more than 100 warships is advancing like a wall on the blue sea, and the sight of various flags hunting and flying on the ships and sailing like a forest is also quite imposing.
Of course, if you don't take into account the soldiers with rat tails and ugly uniforms.
It is said that no matter how much you wear this kind of clothing, you can't wear majesty.
It was now the second day of his bombardment of Hangzhou, and the Qing army's naval division had finally been dispatched.
Obviously, this time he was stimulated hard enough.
It is indeed irritating and ruthless, after the fire was extinguished at dawn, people picked up nearly 2,000 charred corpses of flag men in the ruins of most of the destroyed garrison city, and many of them were directly wiped out, of course, the reason why there were so many deaths, those people outside the city who blocked the city gate to put out the fire must bear 80 percent of the responsibility, otherwise only Yang Feng's forty shells would not have killed so many people anyway.
And this is not counting the wounded, if the total number of wounded exceeds 5,000, you must know that the total population of the garrison city is less than 20,000, it can be said that nearly a quarter of the dead and wounded, this is all the parents, wives and children of the Eight Banners Army in Ningbo, after the news reached Ningbo, those Eight Banners officers and soldiers were about to go crazy, and the city of Ningbo was full of grief-stricken cries.
It made the people who had been bullied by them in the past few days extremely happy.
The Eight Banners masters, who were about to go crazy, then found the object to vent their anger, that is, Xu Jiuru, who was holding a combat meeting in the Yamen of the Ningbo Prefect, it was this bastard who was afraid of the enemy like a tiger, and the sailors did not dare to fight, so they let the Yang demon people wantonly commit murder. Poor Xu Zongbing was directly beaten into a pig's head by a group of Eight Banner masters, if it weren't for Dan Dai personally coming forward to suppress it, he also knew that he was a sailor here, and without him, there would be no one to deal with Yang Feng, otherwise Xu Jiuru would probably be hacked to death with a knife.
But even so, it was only after he swore to the sky that he would go to war immediately, and those Eight Banner Masters let him go.
"It's not just Huangyan's soldiers here, who is that Li Zi banner?"
Yang Feng said as he looked at the sea with a telescope in his hand.
There are dozens of warships in the sailor battalion under the Huangyan general army, and this is more than 100 ships, in addition to Xu Jiuru's Xu Zi flag, there are also more Li Zi flags, and it is obvious that the second batch of water divisions of the Qing army have also arrived.
"Wenzhou General Li Hua, he is a Han general, originally Li Zhifang's subordinate."
Chen Xiangzhu beside him said.
This person still has a certain military literacy, he is Chen Jinnan's nephew, he has been following Chen Jinnan, and later after the fall of Taiwan, he was exiled in the rivers and lakes, and compared with Zheng Jian, who didn't know anything but killing people, but was born as a low-level officer, Zheng Jian is undoubtedly the most suitable for being a staff officer, of course, the main thing is that Yang Feng is also available.
"Han General? No, I will talk about traitors in the future! ”
Yang Feng said with a sneer.
"Beat the drums, attack, go straight to the middle of the Tartars, and take this traitor first!"
Then he said with a wave of his hand.
Behind him, four big men took turns beating a huge war drum, and with the dull sound of the drum, the Valkyrie took the lead, leading hundreds of large and small pirate ships directly towards the Qing army's sailors.
It's not that Yang Feng is willing to take the lead in every battle, but he can only do this.
To put it bluntly, this rabble under his command is gathered by his immortal name, and if he does not lead the charge and constantly display his spells, then this army will not be able to win the battle.
The Valkyrie rode the wind and waves, the Yangzi flag and the Ming flag hunted and danced on the mast, and the rapid drum sound resounded across the sea, at this moment, even the rabble were on the ships, waving their weapons and shouting excitedly, at this moment they were fearless, at this moment they were full of faith in victory, at this moment they were brave to move forward.
Because they all know that there is an immortal fighting side by side with them.
On the blue sea, the two huge fleets faced each other, and soon entered their respective ranges, the Valkyrie's bow deck guns fired first, followed by the guns of a large Fu ship opposite, and the guns of a large Fu ship on the opposite side also erupted flames, and the solid shells stirred up towering columns of water on the sea in front of their respective bows, and soon the other ships also opened fire, and the cannonballs whistled through the air.
In such a battle, the Qing army occupies an absolute advantage, both the number of artillery and the quality of soldiers are far superior to Yang Feng's pirates, although the latter obtained a lot of artillery in Dinghai, but because of the general small ship, the number of artillery carried is far less than that of the Qing army, and the level of the Tanjia pirates is not flattering, they are just a group of fishermen and pirates, it is impossible to train as often as the Qing army, if hand-to-hand combat may be better, but they will be in vain in the artillery battle that requires technology.
Soon, four Ming warships were shot one after another.
However, these four warships did not stop, because their flagship, their commander, did not stop.
The distance gradually narrowed to less than five hundred meters.
At this time, more Ming warships were shot, two even caught fire, and they had completely lost their combat effectiveness, while only two Qing warships on the opposite side were shot.
"A rabble!"
On the Dafu ship, Li Hua, the chief soldier of Wenzhou, said disdainfully, he was a veteran general of the Qing army, he had no family background, and he was promoted to the general army by virtue of his strength.
"The demon did it!"
The lieutenant next to him shouted.
Li Hua hurriedly pointed the telescope at Yang Feng.
I saw Yang Feng, who was originally sitting on the throne, stood up and waved the folding fan forward with a strong temperament, and then among the strange things on the shoulders of the six people in the bow of the ship, six flames flew out and swept across the sea in an instant, and before Li Hua could react, one of the flames was hitting the sea on his starboard side, and then a terrifying flame exploded, and the force of the explosion even knocked the two nearest Qing soldiers away.
"What the hell is this?"
Li Hua, who saw this thing for the first time, screamed, and at the same time explosions sounded one after another, he was lucky to dodge a Wen Ya rocket, but there were four Qing warships that did not have such good luck, and turned into burning torches in an instant.
"Thunderbolt!"
There was cheering in Yang Feng's fleet, and the pirates excitedly shouted the name they had given this thing.
"Demon Law!"
However, there was a scream in the Qing fleet, and the morale of the sailors on each ship quickly fell.
"Rush up, don't stop!"
Li Hua was not frightened, and the sea of corpses and blood was not unseen, and he was not intimidated by this little thing, whether Yang Feng used the demon law or anything else, in short, it was right to rush forward.
His Daifuku ship also took the lead, heading straight for the Valkyrie.
The two largest ships in their respective fleets quickly formed a heads-to-head situation, shells whizzing and staggering, leaving terrible wounds on their respective opponents.
But at the same time, Yang Feng threw the cloak back with a forced body, just like the villain boss in the movie, took the automatic rifle from the guard next to him, and quickly began to aim at the Dafu boat that broke the waves, and Li Hua on the Dafu boat also took a flintlock pistol purchased from Macao, and stood there firmly aiming at Yang Feng waiting to enter the firing range.
But alas, he was a step too late.
Yang Feng stood on the deck, looked at him with contemptuous eyes, and then pulled the trigger.
The crisp gunshot rang out, Li Hua felt a hard punch in the chest, he screamed and staggered back a few steps with his chest in his hands, and then let go of his hand in disbelief, looking at the blood gushing out of his heart, and then fell headlong on the deck.
"This is the end of the traitor!"
Yang Feng said with a sneer.
There was cheers aboard the Valkyrie.
Immediately after he raised his gun again and opened fire, a 35-millimeter grenade flew out and slammed into the bow of the Daifuku ship, and in the flash of the explosion, the metal jet of thousands of degrees of heat instantly penetrated the wooden plank, igniting a fire inside the cabin, and the smoke and flames soon surged out, swallowing the big flag with the character Li.
This is an armor-piercing shell.
"Lao Li is finished!"
Xu Jiugong, who was on the other side of the battlefield, sighed and said, while looking at Yang Feng, who was still in full swing, with complicated eyes, as the things in the hands of this demon continued to spew out puffs of light smoke, the Qing warships on the sea were on fire one after another, and in a short period of time, there was no Qing army around the Valkyrie who could fight, and this huge battleship immediately turned around and took the initiative to attack the Qing army on the right.
At this time, the other ships on both sides also began to engage in close combat, the Qing army was generally equipped with muskets and bows and arrows, and began to attack at a distance of tens of meters, while the Ming warships were equally chaotic to return fire, in such an engagement, the Qing army still had the advantage, because they were more well-trained than the Tanjia pirates, but unfortunately when the distance was shortened again, the situation suddenly reversed, and I saw a bombardier on the Ming warship who was hiding in the cabin to quickly rush out, and smashed a grenade into the Qing warship.
"Demon, demon thunder, fast, order all ships to charge at full speed, you must lean on, lean on and use filthy weapons to break their demon law!"
Xu Jiugong immediately shouted when he saw it.
The herald beside him waved his flag, signaling the ships to charge at full speed, and at the same time a jar of secret weapons in the cabin was lifted onto the deck.
And their opponents began to take out secret weapons from the cabin and distribute them to the soldiers.
A Qing warship and a Ming warship finally got closer to less than twenty meters.
Xu Jiugong's eyes widened.
The eyes of everyone in the Qing army widened.
All their hope is in this moment.
On the Qing warship that was killed by a grenade, more than half of the soldiers were killed, a guerrilla carried a clay pot in his arms, roared bravely, and threw it at the opposite Ming warship with all his strength, and at the same time, Ma Boss, who had been deeply educated by Yang Feng on the opposite Ming warship, was also holding an same crockpot and throwing it at the Qing warship with all his strength, but there was still a burning cloth strip on his crockpot.
The two crockpots staggered through the air and then each crashed into their target.
I saw that on the Qing warship, a terrifying flame suddenly rose, and instantly devoured the guerrilla.
And in his screams, a sad and angry roar sounded on the Ming warship opposite:
"Lose your mother, you actually splashed Lao Tzu with dung!"