Chen Hui stood on a more than 200-ton Fu ship warship and watched the movements of the Ming fleet opposite. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

It is said that the Zheng family is also an official army, but as long as the Zheng family goes to sea, they still play their own banner, and they don't want their official body to be too colorful.

A fleet in the distance was spreading out the formation, Chen Hui raised his binoculars and took a closer look, there were no big battleships, indicating that Zhao Lie had sent his smaller battleships to form a partial division.

This is also in line with the Zheng family's expectations, Zhao Lie, as the master of the first army, must know the power of the Zheng family's warship, and he will definitely make his own preparations, otherwise how can he fight in the east and west.

Looking at the warships on the opposite side, Chen Hui also had a headache, their Zheng family didn't have the experience of dealing with so many Galen battleships, no.

In the past, the confrontation with the Dutch was a big deal, with one or two hundred warships and fireships against the opponent's most than a dozen warships.

And on the other side are now more than a hundred warships, which are not too easy to deal with.

Compared with warships such as the Fuchuan Haicang and Guang ships, the Xiyi warships can be described as thick skin and thick meat, with an extremely large number of guns and great power, just like a turtle shell, waiting to gnaw on it.

Otherwise, the Zheng family would not have dispatched so many fireships to deal with it, this is no way, fireships are also consumables, and they are also built with money, not by strong winds.

Less than two miles away from the opposing warships, almost all of the Zheng family's gunboats opened fire to bombard the enemy's warships.

Ships such as Fubune often had two or three cannons in the bow, which was completely different from the many guns placed on the side of the Galen battleship, which was caused by the structure of their respective ship types.

The only advantage of this placement is that the Fuchuan can fire guns in the front, while the Galen battleship often only has one bow gun, and for a time, the Fuchuan Haicang can occupy some advantages.

A large stream of smoke and dust and fire shook on the sea in the east, and the whistling sound of projectiles sounded on the sea, and the water column near the left of the naval division of the Broken Army continued to emerge, and more than 100 warships continued to pass through the water column, silently rushing closer.

Zheng Qiu, who commanded the fireship team in front, was extremely puzzled, the two sides had already approached a mile, and the Galen warship of Zhao Lieshui's division still did not stop to face the enemy, what was the situation.

Not only did it not face the enemy on the side of the ship, but it also puffed up its sails and continued to move forward, without even bombarding the bow gun, which is unscientific.

In the past, the first thing the Dutch people encountered when they encountered this situation was to hurry to the side to bombard, and at the same time be ready to flee at any time, which was definitely not the same as the close combat of the Zheng family's fleet.

Zheng Qiu and Chen Hui's incomprehension did not affect the advance of the Zheng family's fleet, they continued to bombard forward, and the sail mast of several Galen battleships was greatly affected, and the speed of the ship decreased.

However, if the cannon of the Zheng family gunboat wants to tear apart the heavy plank of the warship of the Broken Army, it can only be a hundred steps in close combat, otherwise it is absolutely impossible.

Boom, boom, boom, the bow guns of the Broken Army finally began to counterattack, and the roar of these cannons was indeed much more dull and powerful than the Zheng family's artillery.

But the number was too small, that is, there were more than 20 battleships in front, but a few fireships were slowed down by cannon leakage.

The two sides approached like this, and they bumped into each other without the slightest hesitation.

"Tell Liu Jiachang to beat me both sides." Zhao Feng gave an order to the first officer.

The first mate said yes and ran away.

"Wang Cheng, don't slow down, pay attention to the enemy's rocket oil, and don't slow down."

Zhao Feng shouted to the boatswain Wang Cheng under the mainmast.

"Yes." Wang Cheng shouted loudly in the noise.

When there was no need to turn at this time, the sailors waited under the mainmast with their shields, after all, they had already penetrated into the enemy's main formation.

Zhao Feng passed through the gap under the iron shield of the guard, looking at the several fireships that had just faced Yang Su more than a hundred paces away.

The deck under his feet shook violently, and a large puff of smoke spit out from the gun windows on both sides of the Yang Su, and the forty guns of the Yang Su let out a deafening salvo, and then a large column of water was stirred up a hundred paces away, and the scene was extremely spectacular.

A fireship of several tens of tons was hit by three eighteen-pound and twenty-four-pound projectiles, and immediately the mainsail shattered, the mainmast tilted, and began to spin around the sea.

A huge hole had been violently opened in the side of a fireboat on the side of a twenty-pound Tiago canner, and a large stream of sea water poured in frantically near the waterline.

The fireship began to tilt in an instant, and it looked like it was about to sink into the sea.

Zhao Feng looked at everything in front of him with excitement, this is what he wants, not a leisurely basking in the sun on a lucky boat.

"Captain, be careful to release your arrows." The guards leaned over tightly and surrounded Zhao Feng tightly.

But listening to the sound of Pengpeng, a dense burst of crossbow arrows fell on the Yang Su.

There was a scream, there must have been an arrow in a sailor.

The sound of banging was endless, and a Zheng family warship was only a few dozen steps away from the Yang Su, and they had a clear purpose to attack while preparing to fight by broadside.

The Yang Su had already penetrated deep into the enemy formation, and was only accompanied by a sea ship of the Broken Army on the left and right, and the others were all ships of the Zheng family, of course, they were easy to attack.

Yang Su did not slow down his speed, took advantage of the wind speed to pass quickly, and at the same time used a salvo to teach the Zheng Jiafu ship a hard lesson, and opened three huge holes in its side, of course, the Fu ship did not have a gun deck in the lower cabin, and the impact on it was not too great, but the speed of the ship was affected.

The sailors of the Yang Su cheered, and the body of the Yang Su then glided eastward.

Shi Chong controlled the Shi Wansui to rush into the enemy's fleet, the deck kept shaking, and the artillery deck below opened bows left and right to bombard the nearby fireships.

The sailors controlled the Swanse to charge forward at maximum speed, and they knew that it was dangerous to penetrate deep into enemy lines, and if the speed of the ship was too low, it could be a matter of life and death if the ship was surrounded by enemy ships.

Shi Chong was constantly patrolling with telescopes under the iron shield of the guards to see if there were any enemy warships approaching.

So far, the Vanzai has encountered two enemy gunboats trying to fight the Vanzai with the help of the Vansei, but the Vanzai has been lucky enough to dodge them.

Chen Hui watched with tears in his eyes as more than 30 warships of the Broken Army rushed into the army's large array as if they had entered a no-man's land, causing damage to more than 20 fireships in a short period of time and losing their speed.

Chen Hui hurriedly ordered the gunboats to move forward as soon as possible, and they must encircle and suppress the warships of these broken army, and if they can't be bombarded, they must rely on helping to engage in broadside battles, in short, they must be good-looking.

But to his surprise, less than half a mile from the mass of gunboats, the ships of the Broken Army began to turn almost simultaneously, and their ships began to take their heads south.

They're going to run away, and then come here one time, bastard.

Chen Hui is crazy rhythm, this is not your backyard, you can come and go as you want.

The gunboats of the Zheng family took advantage of the gap between the breaking army and the reduced speed of the ship, and greatly approached the distance of the ship.

A large stream of rockets and artillery began to roar, raining down on the Broken Army's warships.

Of course, most of them fell into the sea, and the heart was too anxious, and many were launched without entering the range.

However, some of the rockets reached their target, and the sails of some of the wreckage ships began to catch fire as they landed, and the sailors began to extinguish the flames with arrows, which also caused them to suffer a lot of casualties.

Fortunately, the sailors cooperated sincerely, so that the battleship could smoothly pick up the head and begin to return, so that many gunboats, which were only more than a hundred paces close, watched helplessly as these Galen battleships began to move away from them.

A cruiser of the Broken Army was not so lucky, his two mainmasts were hit by the guns of two gunboats one after another, and the breaking of the mainmast and the landing of the mainsail were fatal to the patrol ship of the Broken Army.

The cruiser, which had lost its speed, was surrounded and attacked by several gunboats, and a large number of rockets were fired into the deck of the ship, and the mainsail was blazing, and the cruiser became a large torch.

Most of the sailors were wounded by the bows and crossbows of the Zheng gunboats in the firefighting, and while putting out the fire, they used their firearms to shoot at the enemy troops on the approaching gunboats.

Boom, boom, a Zhengjia gunboat that was anxious to make meritorious contributions wanted to lean towards this cruiser from the side, but was hit by the artillery of the artillery deck that was still intact, and ten large holes appeared in the body when it landed, three of which were on the waterline, and immediately a large stream of sea water poured in, and the sea ship began to tilt and sink in just a few dozen breaths.

The other two gunboats approached the ship from the bow and stern of the ship, taking advantage of the fact that the coast guard ship had lost power.

Bang, bang, in two crashes, the two gunboats finally succeeded in helping, and a large group of Zheng family sailors bravely went to the deck of the still burning cruiser.

Kill and capture the Ming army's soldiers and warships, that is silver.

At this time, there were only more than a dozen armorers left in more than 30 armors, but fortunately, dozens of gunners on the artillery deck came up with swords and guns to support, so they held on to the Zheng family sailors for a while.

But the gunners did not go through the drills of the battle formation, and they began to be unable to support it after a while.

The nearly 100 sailors who rushed onto the ship of the Zheng family almost killed the sailors of the Broken Army after paying more than 30 casualties.

Chen Hui, who had already sailed close to the capital, finally let out a bad breath, the brigade of the head of the family behind had already approached, if there was no gain, how to explain the heavy losses, it was the right time to capture this warship.

At this moment, the gun deck of the patrol ship of the Broken Army suddenly burst into a deafening explosion, and orange flames and large puffs of smoke rushed out from there, and the fragments of the ship's board flew everywhere, flying as far as a hundred paces.

The side of the cruiser shattered, grinning and showing its internal organs, and the fire ignited, and the upper deck collapsed and burst into flames, and most of the sailors of the Zheng family were either caught in the bilge of the fire, or were killed or injured by the impact of the air waves, some flew in the air like rag dolls, and some were scattered all over the deck.

Only a dozen people jumped into the sea to escape.

Chen Hui's smile froze on his face, of course he knew that it was a Broken Army sailor who had committed suicide by igniting the medicine bag on the artillery deck.

It's so ruthless, this Zhao Lie is really a ruthless person, only a ruthless person can have such a fierce subordinate.

Chen Hui's heart continued to sink, he had a hunch that this battle was going to be worse, the soldiers of this broken army were even more fierce than the Zheng family sailors who had always been known for their bravery, how could this be played. (To be continued.) )