The battle situation in the northeast has already occupied the absolute upper hand, although it has paid some price, but compared to the losses of the coalition army and Zheng Zhilong, it is much less. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Zheng Cai and Yang Geng were now not attacking but fleeing, because after the dozens of Tang-class Song-class battleships of the Broken Army behind them defeated the main force of the coalition Galen warship, they immediately surrounded the Zheng family's fleet.

They came with great momentum for one purpose, to avenge the battlefield of several broken captives damaged in front.

These behemoths are not at all comparable to the Zheng family's gunboats, if the Fang is the Zheng family's fleet shock, and wants to succeed in the sneak attack, then now the Zheng family's fleet, which has lost the biggest weapon of fireships, is one word, escape, even Yang Geng, Zheng Cai's ships are no exception.

As for the coalition forces' Galen warships, only a few of them are still resisting, but all of them are besieged by several broken warships, which is as miserable as a small suffering.

It can be said that the overall situation on this battlefield has been decided.

On the battlefield in the south, although 30 warships of the Broken Army overturned the river and the sea in the enemy's formation, sinking and sinking nearly 100 warships and fireships, they could not stop most of the warships of the Zheng family's fleet.

More than 100 fireships and gunboats rushed through the interception of these thirty warships and advanced to the northwest.

But there was one last barrier in front of them, and that was the battle line of nearly thirty clippers, more than a dozen cruisers, and twenty Galen merchant ships.

Seeing the Zheng family warship on the opposite side, the remaining warships of the Broken Army immediately met the enemy in advance.

These ships clearly knew their mission, even if they sacrificed themselves, they could not let their opponents rush over.

Due to the fact that the Zhengjia gunboat did not have many artillery, for the sake of a small situation, and the flying clipper merchant ship was also in a similar situation, the warships of the Broken Army still gave full play to the advantages of their own warships, which was mainly a collision.

Before the collision, the two sides still used a small number of artillery sporadic firefights, and the Breaker Army had a slight upper hand and destroyed several Zheng family's warships, the Zheng family's fireship was too small, and the artillery of the Breaker Army was sharp, so the middle artillery was very injured.

In contrast, the warships of the Broken Army, except for the clippers who had to withdraw from the battle because of damage to the mainmast, the other warships rushed over.

The purpose of these warships was very clear, ignoring the blows of the gunboats, it was a big deal to return fire with artillery, that is, staring at the fireboats, and not using artillery bombardment, there were not many guns on their ships, and they could not ensure that the fireships would be sunk, and the density of the shelling replaced the accuracy in the turbulence of the sea.

What to do is to use a big ship to hit a small ship, and even a clipper with a tonnage of only nearly 100 tons adopts this method.

The sea ships of the Broken Army took advantage of the speed of the side downwind to target the fireships, which was a collision and a quasi, and the Zheng family's fireship fleet was also quite dense.

Because the fireship fleet is a way to strike the enemy in exchange for the number of the opponent's warships, often three or four fireships can destroy an opponent's warship, so they often move forward in dense formations.

This gave the Broken Army warships a chance to ram, although the clippers and cruisers were not too big, but they were also extremely large for these fireships, and the three or four hundred tons of Galen merchant ships could be described as huge ships.

If the impact of the flying clipper ship is to injure the enemy by 1,000 and lose 800 by itself, then the patrol ship and the Galen merchant ship are simply the existence of a rampage, and the impact of these more than 100 fireships is scattered, and there is no formation.

Some of the fireships were scurrying around in order to avoid the Ming warships, and some even collided with each other's warships.

Several of the Breakers' flying clippers were also destroyed when they collided, began to seep water, and collapsed at sea, and could only use several nine-pounder and twelve-pounder guns on board to attack the Zheng family fireships and gunboats that passed by.

Some fireships are really unwilling to take the risk and rush over, don't you want to hit them, anyway, fireships are consumables, just to consume the opponent's warships, why go far, I'll burn you first, and immediately impact the patrol ships and merchant ships of the Broken Army.

They pierced the plank of the Breaker with the iron ramming angle in front of the fireship, then set the fireboat on fire and immediately jumped overboard.

The oil and firewood on the fireboat immediately burst into flames.

However, often the fire of a fireship cannot ignite the warship of the Broken Army for a while, and the warship of the Broken Army can continue to take advantage of the wind to move eastward and continue to ram and destroy the fireship.

Then there were fireships that followed suit, and immediately more than ten warships were ignited by the Zheng family's fireboats, almost every one of which was a fireboat with three or four on it.

This made Zheng Qiu want to cry without tears, because these fireships were used to deal with the main warships of the Broken Army of hundreds of tons, and they were wasted on flying clippers, patrol ships and large and useless merchant ships, and there would be enough fireships to burn the main battleships of the Broken Army for a while.

But he was trapped on the gunboat at this time, and he was powerless against everything in front of him, and there was nothing he could do.

Thirty ships of the Broken Army began to return under the command of the Han Baohu, turning the bow from the east, they had already broken through the Zheng Jiahuo fleet, and they wanted to turn the bow and go back to track.

The sails of these warships were broken, or the planks of the hulls were broken by the impact, but they continued to bombard the gunboats in a furious manner, or they slammed the fireships from behind, and they were as furious and dangerous as wounded beasts.

Enraged by the death of their brothers, the wrecked soldiers of these ships were desperate to kill the enemy, even at the cost of their own death.

The poor 300-odd fireships that can escape these two lines of defense are only a few dozen, and it is not enough to see the main warships of the 100-strong army in the face of the 100 captives, and even the losses that can be caused are insignificant.

Zheng Zhilong, who was in the rear, saw this situation and immediately issued a military order to withdraw the army, there was no need for this battle to continue, even if all the Zheng family fleet was filled in, it would not be able to achieve victory.

Zheng Zhilong himself escaped first on the Galen armed merchant ship, and there were only a few such merchant ships in the Zheng family.

As soon as Zheng Zhilong's general order came out, all the fireships and gunboats turned around and evacuated south, and they also found that it would be too late if they didn't evacuate, and they could already see the figures of the main battleships of the Broken Army in the far west, and if they didn't leave, they would probably sink here to feed the fish and shrimp.

It was a fantasy to point to the fact that only a few dozen fireships could defeat the main fleet of the Broken Army.

At this time, the battleships of the Broken Army Naval Division in the northeast and southeast had only one task to pursue, and to pursue with bitter hatred.

The losses inflicted by the coalition forces on the Broken Army were limited, and the damage to the sailors and gunners of the cannons, warships, ships, and sailors was acceptable to the Broken Army, and they fought with foreigners and died as they deserved.

Moreover, the attack of the coalition warships did not cause major damage to the captive army, and it was still within the acceptable range.

However, the number of gunboats and fireships of the Zheng family was too large, and the threat of the fireships was too great, forcing the Broken Army to resort to a strategy of losing both sides, which made the Broken Army extremely serious in battle, and it can be said that most of the casualties, almost all the damage and sinking of the warships were caused by the Zheng Warships.

The soldiers of the Broken Army, who have been brainwashed by the nationalist education of the Xuanfu official in charge of Zhao Lie, are now saying that they can't accept anything, and a Ming man entangled the Yi people to attack the Broken Army, the purpose is to dominate the Ming Maritime Frontier and maritime trade routes, in the words of Lord Zhao, the traitors and traitors are the most hateful.

Therefore, Li Hu, who did not wait for the warships of the Broken Army, issued an order to immediately start a full sail pursuit, the purpose of which was to kill them all and avenge the sailors of the Broken Army who died in the hands of the Zheng family.

As a result, there was a situation on the sea in which hundreds of warships raced against each other, and in addition to the dozens of main warships left behind, the 100 scissors and patrol ships of the Tang-class warships pursued the northern and southern fronts scattered and fleeing with all their might.

Needless to say, the fireships of the Zheng family's fleet were abandoned, and their pitiful speed also doomed them to not escape far before they were chased and sunk by the warships of the Broken Army, and there were no prisoners or surrenders here.

Once the Broken Army catches up, it will be a sinking matter, and even the armor of the Broken Army will replenish the guns of the Zheng family fleet floating on the sea, and at this time, the two sides will be left with a deep feud in the sea of blood.

Zhao Feng's Yang Su was chasing a Zheng family's gunboat, and the bamboo mainsail of this gunboat was sailing with full sail, but it was still easily caught up by Yang Su.

Only a few of the ten nine-pounder guns and twelve-pounder guns on the Zheng family gunboat could be fired at Yang Su, not to mention the poor accuracy of the smoothbore guns, even if they hit Yang Su, they just took away some broken ship boards.

The Yang Su calmly approached a mile, and then the gun deck fired a salvo, and the side of the Zheng gunboat was hit with several huge holes, and the speed of the ship immediately dropped, and the large sea breeze poured into the ship greatly affected its speed.

Zhao Feng was very dissatisfied, and the first salvo of this sailing ship of more than 200 tons did not hit the vital point.

Zhao Feng waited solemnly for the next attack of the artillery deck soldiers.

Boom, boom

The most terrifying thing was that there were two large holes in the waterline part of the gunboat, and the sea water poured into the bottom bilge of the gunboat rapidly, and in a hundred breaths, the warship had begun to tilt to one side and sink at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Zhao Feng did not let go of this opponent, he let the artillery deck replenish again, and this time the bombardment almost tore the opposing side of the opponent.

This time, Zhao Feng did not continue to entangle, the miserable appearance of this gunboat was that it was too late for the gods and Buddhas to come to the rescue.

Yang Su continued to pursue to the north under the control of Zhao Feng, and there were still many gunboats fleeing ahead, Zhao Feng's anger from the self-explosion of the other party's only a few broken troops had not yet dissipated, and it was his only thought to catch up and kill these damn ****. (To be continued.) )