Chapter 177: The Battle of the Black Water Ocean (Part II)

Yipinliu is Zheng Fulong's descendant, and he has never bought the account of the Yellow Sea. Now that he is good at Kai, Huang Dahai can behead Yang Qi without even having to explain to Zheng Zhilong.

Zheng Zhilong's side had already learned that Yang Qi's right army was disabled, and he was annoyed that Huang Dahai saw death and did not save him, and was about to ask the teacher for the crime, but was dissuaded by Chen Zhongji.

"Is Zheng Shuai trying to force Huang Dahai to rebel?"

Chen Zhongji's words suddenly made Zheng Zhilong sober up.

That's right! Originally, the local name navy was the descendant of Huang Dahai, and Yang Qi was deliberately inserted by him to leave Huang Dahai right. Now that Yang Liuyi is dead, there is no one in the local navy to balance the Yellow Sea.

Chen Zhongji said: "Yang Qi relied on Zheng Shuai's trust, and he didn't blame others for fighting without authorization!" ”

"Then you can't just sit back and wait!"

Zheng Zhilong thought about it, so he ordered Huang Dahai to lead the local navy to take the initiative to attack the Pacific Fleet.

As long as Zheng Zhilong doesn't do anything to Huang Dahai, then Huang Dahai can't rebel directly. After all, Zheng Zhilong had the grace of knowing Huang Dahai, so Huang Dahai sighed and ordered the Chinese Army and the Left Army to attack the fourth, fifth, and sixth warbands of the Pacific Fleet.

Here, the three teams have already received the order of Sha Haonan to avoid fighting, and only need to contain Huang Dahai's troops away from Zheng Zhilong's Tianzi Navy.

In this way, the Yellow Sea poison army pursued and attacked fiercely, and the fourth, fifth, and sixth teams of the Pacific Fleet relied on their speed advantage to lead the Yellow Sea around the Black Water Ocean.

And Huang Dahai also seemed to understand Deng Haonan's true intentions, hesitated for a moment, and finally ordered his subordinates to continue the pursuit.

The sky is gray and overcast, which is a little depressing. The sea breeze howls and rolls up waves more than three meters high.

The weather wasn't great, but it wasn't bad either. On the Black Water Ocean, the sea breeze of about five or six levels can be regarded as quite "gentle".

At the bow of the Black Pearl, Deng Haonan was looking at a small windmill intently. This small windmill was folded out of paper by Na Haonan himself, and at first Shi Jianfei and others thought that Di Haonan had made it out to play, until Deng Haonan explained. Everyone just understood.

It turns out that this is what. Small windmills are used to measure changes in wind speed. Since later generations have a matching table of corresponding rules such as wind, wind speed, and waves, as long as one of them is measured, other corresponding parameters can be roughly calculated. Of course, only Na Haonan himself understands the mystery. In the eyes of other generals, there is no doubt that Na Haonan is regarded as a god.

At this time, it is a force 6 wind, the speed is about twenty knots, and the wave height is three to four meters. According to Di Haonan's judgment. The wind will get stronger and stronger, the waves will rise with the wind, and a few more hours will not be conducive to naval battles, and if it rains, it will be even more troublesome.

At this time, Huang Dahai's department had been led away from Zheng Zhilong's main formation. With Zheng Zhilong's shrewdness. I immediately smelled the cattiness in it. Hurriedly ordered people to recover the Yellow Sea. However, Huang Dahai refused to withdraw on the grounds that he was entangled by the Pacific Fleet.

Watching the Yellow Sea and the Pacific Fleet staging a two-act show, Zheng Zhilong was so angry that he almost vomited blood.

"He still betrayed me!"

Chen Zhongji sighed: "Expected thing! However, Huang Dahai was not betrayed at all, because he still did not surrender to Deng Haonan at this moment. ”

Zheng Zhilong smiled bitterly: "Then what can it mean?"

"At least he chooses him between you and Deng Haonan, that Haonan and he are brothers, and he can only help each other in the middle. However, Huang Dahai is now restraining Di Haonan's sixty warships for Zheng Shuai, strictly speaking, he will still help you."

"Help me?. Zheng Zhilong's eyes widened.

But on second thought, that's exactly what happened.

"At least he didn't turn his gun to attack Zheng Shuai!" Chen Zhongji said: "I think he is waiting for you to make a break with Na Haonan, or a one-on-one decision."

Zheng Zhilong looked at the Black Pearl six miles away, and he knew that Hao Nan was on it. At this time, Na Haonan had three remaining warbands, with a total of sixty-two warships. And Zheng Zhilong has eighty capital ships, and both sides have the main fleet left, and the commander is the commander.

Zheng Zhilong sneered and said, "Then let's fight it out!" "What the hell is this? The decision was definitely not Zheng Zhilong's impulsiveness, but he saw Di Haonan's strategy to eat away at him little by little. If it goes on like this. The ships of the Pacific Fleet are fast, and it is Zheng Zhilong himself who suffers. Rather than being cleaned by Thai food little by little. It's better to take advantage of the fact that there are still advantages. Fight with Deng Haonan for the main battle.

Zheng Zhilong hurriedly dispatched troops and divided the naval army into four detachments, east, west, north and south, and formed the "four strips of mahjong tiles". Formation. Take care of each other. At the same time, it turned to the Pacific Fleet at a small angle to meet the enemy on the side side.

When Na Haonan was thinking about how to force Zheng Zhilong to fight a quick battle, he was overjoyed when he saw Zheng Zhilong's Tianzi Naval Army move.

However, seeing Zheng Zhilong's cautious appearance, Deng Haonan ordered the third team to maneuver to the front of Zheng Zhilong's right flank to contain "Dong." Team. The second team maneuvered to the right flank and rear of Zheng Zhilong, pinning down the "South" team B

Na Haonan led the main first team to speed up and approached Zheng Zhilong's "north" team.

At 8:10 a.m., the second team took the lead in firing at the "South team, and the third confrontation began.

The "South" squad has 20 700-ton warships and is deployed in a square shape. The second team is divided into two teams. Ten frigates per team slammed the five warships on the south front of the "south" squad in a zigzag pattern.

"The eastern and western warships of the South Squad fired their guns to attack the second warframe, trying to prevent the second wargroup from attacking the warships in front of it. However, the firepower of four warships on each flank could hardly hit the high-speed maneuvering frigates" Pinting was hit by more than a dozen shells, which were also equally borne by ten frigates, and the second team of the second wargroup ignored their firepower. Straight to their front row.

At 8:30, the second team bit the five ships in front of the "South" team. The moment when the waves roll up. The side guns of the second team immediately opened fire.

Knock knock!

With the roar of artillery, the broadside shells of the twenty frigates were all poured onto the five ships. In an instant, the sea boiled, and columns of water rose into the sky. The shells pierced the planks of the enemy ships, and the hot twelve-kilogram iron bullets raged inside the hull like ploughs. The sea poured into the ship through the holes that had been blown open by the shells. Accelerate the hull tilt.

Solid shells mainly caused severe damage to the hull and limited lethality to personnel. But if you are near the trajectory of the shell, then you are congratulated on winning the jackpot. No, yes. The second squadron hit them with all the artillery fire, causing a sharp increase in shells per unit area and heavy casualties.

The two warships on the left and right sides of the head were the worst, and they almost took on about forty percent of the shells. The starboard side of the hull was opened dozens of times. The seawater poured violently into it, causing the hull to tilt. The huge mast snapped with a clatter, then with a piercing grinding sound, it fell to the surface of the sea. When the mainmast tore at the huge hard sail and fell to the sea, it turned to the right with the ship, causing it to crash into the ship behind on the other side.

In this way, the operational purpose of the second squadron to attack the "southern" squad is obvious, that is, to disrupt their formation and create an opportunity for their own fleet to annihilate the enemy.

Sure enough, the ships in the back were blocked by the sunken ships in front, and it was difficult to maintain their formation. So it was divided into two parts. Bypass from the left and right sides.

The second team seized the fighters, and the two small teams changed from a "" formation to an inverted "eight" formation. Intercept enemy ships fleeing.

The "South" squad is critical, the "East, the squad and the "West." The squad was reinforced by ten warships, ready to flank the two squadrons of the Second Squadron of the Pacific Fleet on the left and right.

At this time, the twenty frigates of the Third Sentai also adopted the "" formation, divided into two teams of ten ships on the left and right, and circled to the two wings of the "East Squad." The left squadron led by frigate No. 4 intercepted the enemy "East. The squad reinforced the ten warships of the "South" squad, and the frigate led the right squadron to attack the "East." The squad's remaining ten ships.

The 10 frigates of the left team of the 3rd Sentai encountered 10 enemy ships head-on, and the distance between the two sides was only about 300 meters, and the battle suddenly became white-hot. Shells from both sides came and went, piercing each other's ships. Casualties on both sides were heavy.

The enemy ships had only seven guns on the side guns, but the sub-mirrors used by the Franc guns were about the same time as the Ares guns used by the Pacific Fleet. The Pacific Fleet fired three times, and enemy ships could do it twice.

The smoke and cannon sound soon annihilated the sea between the two sides, and only the flagships of the leaders of the two sides could still see each other, and the other warships were all blindly fighting in the smoke, and they didn't know if they were hitting each other. At the same time, their own personnel quickly repaired the holes in the hull. Plug the rushing water. The hammer above, Ding, Ding dangdang smashed the long steel nails into it, and the other sailors below hurriedly cleaned the sea water that had entered the ship.

Exocet-class frigates are equipped with eight watertight compartments, which can ensure that two watertight compartments enter the water at the same time without sinking. However, if the ruptured watertight compartments are on one side, then the two watertight compartments corresponding to the other side must be filled with water to maintain the balance of the hull. Fortunately, the hit rate of the enemy ship was not high, and the probability of breaking two watertight compartments at the same time was not great, which also relieved the maintenance workers.

Turn. Zheng Zhilong's 700-ton warship was much worse. Although there were also eight watertight compartments of the four-masted ship, due to the heavy bombardment of the Pacific Fleet, the watertight compartments could not be blocked quickly. More and more at sea. Although it can't sink for a while. But for the already not fast warship, the rapid loss of speed made it even worse.

Knock knock!

The twelfth fire salvo of the frigate returned. Good practice and superb gunnery combined with the confidence of victory made all ten shells hit the opponent's head ship this time. Three of the shells pierced through the watertight compartment in the bow of the opposing ship, and the bow of the ship began to sink violently. Six shells hit its starboard gun deck, rendering four of the opposing guns incapacitated. The last shell hit the stern battlement, wounding its commander and killing several sailors on the spot.

Beat the water dogs! Frigate No. 4 concentrated its artillery fire and hit the opponent's bow so that it sank quickly. A few minutes later, the other party's head ship finally couldn't run, and the bow of the ship was strictly drafted. Under the influence of the wind, the submarine seems to gradually burrow into the sea. The warship behind had just exerted a thick smoke and slammed into it, and the bow immediately plunged into the battlement of the lead ship and stopped advancing. In the thick smoke, the battleships behind could no longer see the battleships in front, and they collided with three in a row.

At this time "a salvo of fire from the frigate Utar." Hit exactly the center of the enemy ship on the opposite side.

Hot shells shattered the gunpowder boxes on the gun deck, rubbed and ignited the gunpowder.

There was a series of explosions, and the gun deck on the port side of the enemy ship was in a sea of fire, and thick smoke sprayed out along the gun doors, and flames flew out for several meters. The Usui frigate seized the fighter. Take advantage of the fact that the enemy ships cannot return fire. Twenty-eight seconds later another salvo was fired.

The shells pierced the gun deck of the enemy ship. As a result, the heavy fire fell into the lower ammunition depot, and the explosion inevitably occurred.

Boom bang. A huge flame rose into the air, turning into a larger mushroom cloud and rushing into the sky, shining into people's eyes within a radius of several miles. The mainmast, which is more than 20 meters high, was thrown more than 10 meters high, and then the muscles are heavy:; Come. Several enemy ships were blown in two from the middle, and the stern battlement of the bow Peng Hengzhou was too heavy, and it was immediately buried in the sea and covered by the waves. Before the enemy could even cry out for help, they were consumed by the flames, and then swallowed by the waves as the ruins of the ship sank.

Seeing that the situation was not good, several enemy ships in the rear stopped reinforcing the "southern" squad and turned around and retreated.

As the sunken enemy ships sank, the burning fire hit waves of incoming waves. Thick black smoke was quickly generated, which immediately obscured the nearby sea, making the already gray sky even darker.

The fourth frigate quickly turned to the left. Lead the rear of the fleet to change to the front and continue to pursue the remnants of enemy ships. The hull of the frigate "Calcium" was injured strictly. It's already a miracle to be able to keep it unsinkable. Therefore, the commander of the second ship asked to withdraw from the battle sequence. Get the minus five of the back number flagship.

Here, the third squadron led nine frigates on the right flank to attack the remaining ten warships of the "East Squad." "The remaining ten warships of the East Squad have given up the tactics of facing the enemy in a square formation, and instead like the Pacific Fleet, they formed a column, and the ten warships lined up in turn. Sideside artillery shelling of approaching old corvettes.

At this time. The enemy formed a battle line. Occupied the head of the artillery bombardment advantageously crossed. Therefore, the old ship had to turn around and lead the squad to accelerate towards the tail of the enemy fleet.

Yang Liu, the commander of the "East" squad, didn't understand what it meant to seize the prefix and cross the position, and they thought that they were forming a column and waiting for the other party to rush over. Unexpectedly, the other party would not stupidly hit the muzzle of the gun, but maneuvered in a roundabout way.

"Hurry up and turn left!"

Yang Liu commanded the "East": The remaining ten warships of the Bu team made an emergency left turn to try to get rid of the entanglement of the third team. Unexpectedly, the right-wing detachment of the third team took the "" route. When he saw the other party turn left, he did not change his course.

When the opponent is halfway through, quickly turn right and accelerate towards the opponent's back.

The sudden change made the proud Yang Liu feel frightened. An order was given to turn right immediately, but the order was cut off only in the middle. Because the frigate was already rushing over and firing at the last battleship.

Knock knock!

The old frigate, which occupies the position of the prefix, slammed the enemy ship with ten Ares guns on the port side. Shells whizzed across the sea level, stirring up columns of water. Several shells hit the stern battlements of the enemy ship, and the violent impact shattered the control, and the sailors on it fell into the sea screaming.

Immediately after that, the "Qin frigate continued its shelling, also aiming at the stern of the enemy ship. The shells hit with only one purpose, and that was to destroy the rudder of the enemy ship.

With the stern of the enemy ship hit by shells, the fifth gun on the port side of the frigate hit its rudder. With the destruction of the rudder slurry up to several meters long, the enemy ship lost its ability to move.

The moving target turned into a floating target ship. Starting from the Kou No. 2 frigate, when passing by it, the shelling was carried out at the best angle of fire, and in less than three minutes the ship was beaten into a sieve, and a huge wave came and fell apart.

After sinking an enemy ship, the right flank squad of the third team continued to turn left, formed a small angle with the enemy fleet, and concentrated the port side fire to bombard the enemy ship, and the enemy ship's artillery fire was a direct firepower, only high and low firing boundaries, and no left and right firing boundaries, so in the face of the small angle play of the third warband, they could not aim at all. The penultimate ship was destroyed in three minutes, and the penultimate ship was also incapacitated five minutes later. Before Yang Liu gave the order, the remaining enemy ships no longer obeyed the flagship's orders in order to protect themselves, and turned around to meet the battle alone.

However, at the moment, it was a ten-to-one situation, and one enemy ship after another turned around, and resistance was to no avail. It can only add fuel to the fire.

"The North Team is hosted by Zheng Zhilong. Twenty thousand-ton warships. Seeing that the "South" team and the "East team" were in a bitter battle, Zheng Zhilong had the heart to go to the rescue, but he was always bitten by Deng Haonan's main first team.

Zheng Zhilong didn't dare to make a move, so he could only rely on the "West" team to quickly reinforce and stabilize the battle situation. Because the "West Squad also has twenty thousand-ton warships, ten of which have already gone to reinforce the "South Squad", and the remaining ten have not moved, maintaining flank support for Zheng Zhilong's "North Squad."

On the Black Pearl, Na Haonan had already seen the entire battle situation in a thousand miles, and it could be said that he had achieved a considerable victory now. The second team fought hard, because they were facing reinforcements from ten thousand-ton ships. It is also necessary to face the resistance of the remaining warships of the "South Squad." The third team was relatively relaxed, they were facing enemy ships of about 700 tons, and their firepower was quite superior.

The first team has been accelerating, intending to seize the "factory." The prefix is horizontal, occupying the commanding heights and upwind direction of the attack on Zheng Zhilong. However, Zheng Zhilong had already discovered the Pacific Fleet's fighting style from other battlefields, and knew that he couldn't let people seize the upper hand.

However, Zheng Zhilong's warship was relatively slow, and if he walked in a straight line, he would be grabbed sooner or later. Therefore, Zheng Zhilong ordered the navy to constantly turn around and maneuver in concentric circles with Na Haonan's first team. In this way, the circumference of Zheng Zhilong in the inner circle is short, and the circumference of the first team in the outer circle is long, which makes Zheng Zhilong make up for the lack of speed.

Over time, though. Zheng Zhilong's "North Team" is getting farther and farther away from the other three teams, and finally gives Deng Haonan a chance.

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