Chapter 562: The Final Battle

Zheng Cai said that he didn't expect the two sides to be entangled in the current situation, he thought that the forward had penetrated deep into the enemy formation and began to loosen the fleet of the Ming people, but as a result, hehe, the forward warships are still competing in this sea area. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

Without saying a word, Zheng Cai immediately urged the gunboats to come forward and say that they would sink these annoying Ming warships, although there were not many fireships. But even if only a few dozen warships can rush through, it will be useful.

Zheng Cai thought very well, but even if his gunboats were counted, there could only be two gunboats against an old-fashioned sea ship of the Broken Army, not to mention that it was impossible to carry out so thoroughly, so it was often a gunboat against a broken army sea ship.

The problem was that the caliber of the guns of the Zhengjia gunboats was too small, and the destructive power of the ships was limited, and there were only eight guns in front and behind the ship, which meant that there were only three or four guns at the angle that could hit the opponent.

Moreover, the guns on the deck of the Fu ship are greatly affected by the turbulence of the ship, and the quasi-head shines on the Galen ship, which is two or three grades worse, and it is good to have one hit in a salvo, and it is normal that even a projectile will not hit in a salvo.

There is no way, the center of gravity of the Fu ship is higher than that of the Galen ship, the seaworthiness is poor, and the center of gravity of the gun is naturally unstable, and it must be close to 200 or even 100 steps to accurately hit the opponent.

The result of this is that the gunboats of the Zheng family are busy and lively, constantly chasing and bombarding the Ming people's sea ships, but they either let go or hit the warships of the Broken Army, but the destructive power of the projectile is not enough to basically have no effect on the Broken Army warships, and the Broken Army battleships are chasing the fireboats and tossing, ignoring the gunboats, and hitting them casually, they can't be broken anyway.

Zheng Cai, Yang Geng and others were stunned, and the warships of the Broken Army were also fighting, and they were playing with the fireboats in the face of the enemy's artillery fire.

After some of the Ming ships had their sails or side sides damaged, or the sailors were too injured and lost power, and withdrew from the battle, Zheng Cai and the others found that there were not even thirty of their 200 fireships left.

By the time Zheng Cai regrouped and rushed westward, the artillery on the battlefield had already subsided a lot, and more than a dozen warships in the coalition fleet had been damaged.

The reason why the coalition is a coalition army is because the interests are connected together, and now they will be wiped out if they continue to fight, what else to fight, do you fight for the Zheng family.

If there are only twenty warships left in the coalition army, and see if the Zheng family is still birding them, even if the Zheng family defeats Zhao Lie's troops, they will put forward extremely harsh conditions.

Therefore, the remaining forty or so warships began to circle with the Broken Army battleships, and they were definitely not the same as the Broken Army battleships, as for the Zheng family's department, which only rushed into the battle formation in the northeast direction, well, it was also time for the damn Zheng family to exert their strength.

At this moment, a large number of ships appeared on the southeast sea, although each volume was not large, but there were too many of them, almost covering the entire east side, and even the sea was hidden by them.

The Zheng family's flag fluttering in the sky above these sea ships also looked majestic, after all, now when Zhao Lie's troops and the allied fleets were scattered, their neat formation was quite mighty.

Their appearance finally made Sanders and Van Penny decide to wait and make a final fight, but said nothing to take the lead.

At this time, it is true that the remnants of the coalition fleet of the Xiyi people are fishing in troubled waters behind Zheng Zhilong, and they have lost enough.

Zheng Zhilong did not stay in the rear, but watched the enemy in the front, and in the telescope, he found that Zhao Lie's warships had been scattered, scattered everywhere on the sea, and it was a good time for the fireships to attack.

It was a pleasant surprise, but there was also something that was extremely puzzling to him, why there wasn't much smoke in the whole sea, the sea was so clean.

You must know that the recklessness of the fireship means that many enemy ships will be burned, so now many places have to breathe fire and smoke, so that the sea surface is very pure, even if there is some smoke and fire, at first glance, it is ignited by mutual shelling.

What is the situation, what did Zheng Cai, who was advancing in the northeast, do, such a simple job of rushing into the formation is not good.

If Zheng Cai heard it, it must be full of inner cows, it's not that he doesn't do his best, it's just that the enemy is too strong and too cunning.

Zheng Zhilong didn't care about the situation on Zheng Cai's side at this time, he immediately ordered the fleet to rush west, and he must burn as many Ming warships as possible.

After this battle, whether the Zheng family dominates the sea frontier or is forced to move in depends on today's battle.

Prior to this, Zheng Zhilong had already issued a reward, if this was defeated, each brother would have a reward of five taels of silver, if there was a beheading, it would be doubled, and if the Ming warship was captured, each person would have a reward of ten taels of silver.

Zheng Zhilong believes that there will be brave men under the heavy reward, and the brothers under his command will fight hard to kill the enemy, and at the same time, he also wants to let the arrogant Zhao Lie know that his Zheng family is powerful, and he will increase the weight for future peace talks.

Zheng Zhilong didn't think about completely destroying Zhao Lie's subordinates, such behemoths were not all he could eat, after all, these were moving warships, not dead things.

Gao Shui Cheng commanded the Sui-class warships, the remaining less than ten Han-class warships, thirty patrol ships, more than forty flying clippers, as well as more than ten captured warships of the Japanese and twenty Galen merchant ships, cruising in the southeast for a long time.

has quite a good combat power, but can only watch other brothers fight to the death, which is a kind of torture for the brothers in this fleet, especially when they see some of the broken army warships being injured and temporarily withdrawing from the battle line.

But Gao Shui Cheng can only wait here slowly, he knows the expectations of the marshal for him, he Gao Shui Cheng is average, but the military orders for the marshal have been meticulously implemented since the day they met.

Since the marshal said that what they did was related to the victory or defeat of the main force, then he believed what the marshal said, because the marshal has never said anything to this day, and what he said and did was right.

When the large shadow of the sail appeared in the southeast, Gao Shui Cheng knew that the time for a decisive battle had come, and he finally understood why Lord Zhao Lie had asked him to wait here.

He estimated that there were hundreds of warships, and if most of the ships in such a huge fleet were fireships as he said to Lord Zhao, it would be an extremely headache.

He thought of what Lord Zhao said, that is, to die with the enemy like last time, it is necessary to block the impact of most of the fireships and ensure the comfort of the main fleet.

He glanced at it, and the main battleships had completely gained the upper hand, except for some wounded, the others were pursuing the main battleships of the Xiyi people.

However, the formation was extremely scattered, and he understood his duty at this time, blocking most of the fireships, and at the same time trying his best to buy time for the reorganization of the main battleship, and doing these two things would complete the trust of Lord Zhao.

Gao Shuicheng immediately ordered all the ships to rush with him, although they only had more than a hundred warships, but compared to Zheng Zhilong's battleships, the firepower was much stronger, and each had its own strengths, I believe it would be a vicious battle.

Gao Shui Cheng stood on the deck and watched as the various warships gathered and formed a charging formation.

Gao Shuicheng sailed east with these warships on the Yang Su.

Zhao Feng commanded the Han Baohu to move towards the east with the flagship Yang Su.

The countless sail shadows in the distance put a great deal of pressure on him, and it was the largest fleet he had ever seen.

It's not that he's afraid of his own safety, but he's a little uncertain about fulfilling the trust of his second brother, after all, there are too many enemies.

On the contrary, Zhao Feng was extremely yearning for this kind of exciting and fierce battle scene, and he felt that being under the command of his second brother was much more thrilling and exciting than the days of the Weihai Division.

When he was a master of Weihai, he often patrolled the sea, collected taxes, and fought a big battle.

Jiannu's sailors could hardly meet them, and they didn't dare to fight against the large Ming army sailors.

Although the days are leisurely, can a commander make the son feel uncomfortable and idle, but idleness makes him hurt.

However, under the command of the second brother, as far north as North Korea, east to the Wa Kingdom, and south to Xiaoliuqiu, there were shadows of the Broken Army and Naval Divisions everywhere, and without the Broken Army and Naval Divisions, the infantry team could not even climb the enemy's coast.

Now Zhao Feng gets along well with his boss and colleagues, and at the same time accepts the concept of the great water division, that is, the water division is the foundation of the adult, just as the second brother said, no water division has seized the sea power, where is there to seize Jeju, Beihua, and conquer the Japanese one by one.

It can be said that without the sailor, there would be no situation where the Broken Army is thriving now, which has been deeply imprinted in Zhao Feng's heart.

Zhao Feng also argued with other generals of the Broken Army at home when he met them, that is, to make a name for the sailor, of course, what he did was also passed on to the sailor, so that the captains of the sailor really accepted him, all of them said that the second son was benevolent and righteous, and he would say anything to the adults, and dare to quarrel with the generals of the Navy Division.

In short, Zhao Feng is now the sailor's own person, and is deeply trusted by other sailors, Zhao Feng is also proud of a battleship captain of the sailor, even Zhao Haiming sometimes says that he, don't be too narrow-minded, don't always talk about the sailor, and think about the infantry team.

Zhao Feng understood what his father meant, don't use him as a member of the Zhao family, Zhao Lie's own brother to put pressure on the infantry team.

Zhao Feng knows yes, but he still leans towards the water master, this can't be changed, as for the overall situation, isn't there a big brother and a second brother, he is not the material to control the overall situation.

Zhao Feng, who claimed to be not the material of the general general, thought that he could only be the material of a general, and now he was leading a 400-ton warship with other naval generals to meet the enemy Zheng family's fleet with hundreds of warships.

"Captain, the artillery decks are ready to fire at the enemy."

First mate Liu Xu ran up from the lower deck covered in sweat.

"Well, very good, Liu Xu, you are ready to order the armor group, I feel that there are so many enemy ships, I'm afraid I have to fight the side."

Zhao Feng pointed to the sail road on the opposite side.

Liu Xu looked at the prestige of the Zheng family's fleet and couldn't help nodding, there were too many enemies, and if one of them didn't get it right, it might be besieged, so I am afraid that a broadside battle would not be avoidable.

Liu Xu led the order and hurriedly walked to the back. (To be continued.) )