The Daishan army in Cen Gang had already received the news, and Zhang Kui led the vanguard fleet more than twenty miles away from Cen Harbor. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Looking at the two clippers in the distance who were close to their own fleet, Ren is Zhang Kui was simple-minded and knew that things were leaking. Five clippers were immediately dispatched to drive each other away, but he ordered to sail at full speed towards Cen Harbor.

However, when sailing on the sea, the speed is not as fast as you want to go. A warship is not a warhorse, give it a few whips and it will run faster. The sails were fully open, but the wind was not in the right direction, and the southeast monsoon was blowing at this time, while the Dinghai Fleet was heading east, leeward.

The helmsmen of the Dinghai Navy turned the rudder and tried to control the sails to take advantage of the crosswind, and the fleet walked in a zigzag pattern in the direction of Cen Harbor.

The five boats sent by Zhang Kui were all the fastest sentinel boats, each with fifteen soldiers, with a slender hull and a very light weight, with a tall mast in the center with a sail on it, and a triangular sail on the bow and stern. This kind of boat is agile and fastest, and can travel more than 30 miles per hour against the wind.

The five sentinel ships left the fleet and quickly approached the two clippers in the distance.

However, the other party did not react at all, and still maintained the original speed.

Closer, closer! Seeing his ship approaching the enemy ship, Zhang Kui waved his fist excitedly.

The five sentinel ships were all his most elite soldiers, fishermen, and skilled in warfare at sea. As long as they can get close to the enemy ship, they will hook the side of the enemy ship with their flying claws and engage in gang jumping.

Catching up, Zhang Kui held a clairvoyant mirror, looked from a distance, and saw that the soldiers on one of his fast boats had thrown their flying claws and hooked the side of an enemy ship that fell behind, and the soldiers were about to jump to the other boat.

Through the clairvoyant mirror, Zhang Kui could see clearly that there were only a dozen soldiers on each enemy ship. As long as you can jump up, with your own elite, it is not a problem to completely annihilate the opponent.

However, before Zhang Kui had time to get excited, he saw the enemy soldiers raise their weapons in their hands, white smoke came out, and the soldiers who were jumping fell into the sea one after another, and then there was a faint sound of "bang".

Muskets, the Daishan military ship was actually equipped with muskets! This thought appeared in Zhang Kui's mind.

In the Ming Dynasty, the use of firearms was very popular, for example, the Qi family army, which was famous in the world, was equipped with a large number of firearms, and in other armies, the use of firearms was also very common.

Unlike archers, who require long-term training, musketeers only need to be trained to fight. Therefore, in the army of the Ming Dynasty, the use of firearms was very popular.

However, in the late Ming Dynasty, the corruption of the army was very serious, resulting in the production of firearms was mostly shoddy, and eight of the ten muskets produced by the imperial court ordnance supervision were unqualified, and the phenomenon of fire rifle blasting and boring was very common when used. Every time a bore was blown, the soldiers who used the muskets were severely injured in the face, which caused the soldiers to avoid muskets.

Therefore, many armies have a large number of muskets stored in their warehouses, but the soldiers are willing to use them at all, and the same is true for the Dinghai Navy.

In naval combat, long-range weapons such as artillery bows and crossbows are the first choice, but archers need long-term training, taking the navy as an example, there are no more than ten people who can hold a strong bow among more than 5,000 people, and most of the other archers can only open the bow of five buckets, and the arrows shot are blown by the sea breeze, and they don't know where they will float.

There were no muskets, bows and arrows had no power, only a cannon could be installed on a three-masted ship, and Zhang Kui's fleet of fifty large and small warships, only five three-masted sailing ships had a furlong cannon each. But the enemy's clippers in the distance were three miles away, and such a distance was simply beyond the range of artillery.

So for Zhang Kuibu, there is only one way to attack the enemy, and that is to jump gang fighting!

But the enemy ships were equipped with muskets, and they were not afraid of bombing and boring?

Zhang Kui watched the battle from a distance through the clairvoyant mirror, but saw that the two clippers on the other side were continuously emitting white smoke, and "bang, bang" came faintly, endlessly. And their own soldiers continue to fall into the sea one after another, not to mention the broadside battle, even the opponent's boat can't jump on.

Soon, the five sentinel ships sent out fled back in disarray, and the enemy's two clippers were already cruising arrogantly in the distance!

"The enemy's firearms are too sharp, and five of my brothers have died." Zhang Ning of the hundred households was ashamed to go to Zhang Kui's flagship and pleaded guilty to his cousin.

"You bastard, five ships can't do two!" Zhang Kui stepped forward and kicked him down on the deck, if it weren't for his own relatives, he would have slashed this guy with a knife. Five ships had nearly 100 people, and only five people died and escaped, what a fucking shame!

Since he could not drive these two enemy ships away, Zhang Kui ignored them and just ordered to continue heading towards Cen Harbor.

The flotilla rounded the island to the north and headed east into the sea lane, which was sandwiched between the island and Zhoushan.

The two enemy ships in front of them sped away at this time, one to the north and the other to the east.

Looking at the enemy ships that were far away, Zhang Kui knew that he would soon encounter the enemy ships that were attacking. Hurriedly ordered to line up the formation, and the entire fleet was lined up in a zigzag pattern, and continued to sail towards Cen Port.

Zhang Kui's flagship was located at the head of the pinzi and served as the vanguard of the entire fleet.

Sure enough, I didn't go far, and I saw a fleet coming from the east from a distance, and the flags fluttering in the fleet showed the words Daishan Inspection Department and Haiphong Guerrilla.

The enemy finally came, and Zhang Kui was very uneasy that the enemy did not stay in the harbor to defend and dared to come to meet him. But when he saw through the clairvoyant mirror that there were only about thirty ships on the other side, and there were only five or six three-masted ships, his heart relaxed.

The number of three-masted ships was equal, but there were far more two-masted galleons and sloops than the other side, and Zhang Kui was confident that he would defeat the other party. What's more, he is followed by an army led by the chief soldier!

It's just that the direction of the wind is slightly unfavorable to you, and the enemy is coming from the east, driving with a tailwind, while your own is a headwind.

In naval warfare, it is very important to have a good relationship with the wind and against the wind, one side comes with the wind, the speed is much faster than the other, and the weak link in the fleet of the other side can be attacked at will. If you can beat it, you can hit it, and if you can't beat it, you can also take a bite and go away quickly. The side with the headwind can only be beaten passively because of the speed disadvantage.

"Order, all ships are closed, and the enemy is strictly prevented from sneak attack!" Zhang Kui was born as a pirate and is used to naval battles, so he naturally knows how to deal with it at this time. At his command, the sailing ships quickly gathered together.

In the case of a small difference in quantity, the opponent naturally has the upper hand with the wind, but as long as he can entangle the opponent for a moment or three, and wait for the main battleship behind to come up, waiting for the other party is only one way to destroy, Zhang Kui secretly calculated in his heart. (To be continued.) )