Chapter 570: Wang Jian's pursuit

Zhang Huanqiang endured the grief in his heart, and controlled the giant ship Wang Jian to pursue the enemy to the east, although he knew in his heart that Lan San might be able to survive, but he knew in his heart that there was no hope, according to his understanding of Lan San, Lan San would not abandon the ship and escape, and it was certain that the ship would die. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

I think of the three children who went to the sea to fish together and joined the army, climbed and fought in the sailors, went south to the South Seas, and went east to Korea and the Japanese Kingdom, and they all made repeated military exploits in the army, and finally had their current status.

Zhang Huan didn't expect them to happen in this situation, according to the original idea, they could be damaged in battle when they were sailors and boatswains, and they were also prepared in their hearts, and what they did was this dangerous work, whether they were swallowed by the sea or killed in battle, it was too normal.

But when the captain of a large battleship died in this way, Zhang Huan really didn't expect that Lan San's death would be too tragic, and then he thought of his sister who was looking forward to Lan San's return, Zhang Huan's heart was like a knife.

Zhang Huan stood at the bow of the ship for a long time, and no one else disturbed him except for a few guards around him.

Everyone knows the relationship between Captain Lan San and Zhang Huan of the Li Daozong, and the tragic situation of the Li Daozong today made the captain stand in the bow of the ship for a long time without saying anything, and of course others did not dare to disturb him, just to comfort the captain and what to say.

Wang Jian passed by several places where the patrol ships of the Broken Army fought against the gunboats of the Zheng family, but because the advantage of the Broken Army was too obvious, Zhang Huan did not order Wang Jian to participate in the battle.

One is that the opponent is already at a disadvantage, and there is no need to let Wang Jian participate in the battle, and the other is that Zhang Huan firmly believes that there must be a high-ranking general of the enemy on the enemy ship behind, which is common sense, and this practice is the same whether it is an infantry team or a naval division.

The Wang Jian continued to move northward, accompanied only by a patrol ship and a clipper ship, which was several miles ahead to investigate, and Wang Jian and the patrol boat followed behind.

After traveling like this for more than half an hour, the clipper ship in front suddenly fired a cannon shot, and then the flag that came forward showed that there were enemy ships ahead.

However, the two warships behind still did not see the slightest sign of the ship, but the alarm of the clipper ship indicated that there must be enemy warships ahead.

Bang bang

These cannons woke up Zhang Huan, and he suddenly found that he was still the captain of a capital battleship, and at the same time on the way to pursue the enemy, at the same time, he could also avenge Lan San, and at the same time, he could also watch Lan San's children grow up, he couldn't just be sad.

Zhang Huan regained some of his spirit and began to order the whole ship to prepare for battle.

After sailing for several miles, the sailors at the lookout reported that there were more than ten gunboats of the Zheng family in the northwest direction.

More than ten Zhengjia gunboats, if it is two cruisers, it can still have a headache, but for an eight-hundred-ton Song-class battleship, it is just a small trouble.

The battleship continued to move forward, and thanks to its low hull, the removal of all unfavorable bow compartments, and the immense ten sails, the Song-class battleship was not only not slower than the cruiser, but even slightly faster.

Wang Jian split the pale blue sea water and chased the enemy at full speed, and the enemy also changed from the shadow of the sail on the horizon to a sea ship several miles away, which was the eleven gunboats of the Zheng family.

This is also the last battleship that the fleet led by Zheng Cai and Yang Geng can bring together.

It was Yang Geng who commanded him, and as for Zheng Cai, his ship was stuck in the sea where the battle was put down, and only Yang Geng escaped, and he happened to lead the eleven gunboats that were still in full harmony and fled to the northwest.

According to Yang Geng's idea, the fleet fled to the north, remembering to go west, and finally close to the waters of Fujian and then to the south, so that it could avoid the detection of the Broken Army Sailor and return to the lair safely.

But he didn't expect the soldiers of the Broken Army behind him to be so persevering, and they actually chased after him.

Yang Geng was now looking at the black-gray huge enemy hull behind him on his seat, there were no other warships around him, and the Wang Jian looked extremely majestic against the backdrop of the patrol ships on its side.

The battleship with four mainmasts and eight huge sails was approaching their fleet, and the huge slanted sails pointed straight to the sky, facing the Zheng family's fleet in the waves.

If Yang Geng could still think about wrestling with this giant beast a few days ago, after all, there were eleven warships, and the other party only had two, but after these two days of fighting, Yang Geng's courage was much less, and he knew that although his warships were many, they were not opponents at all.

There was a road in front of him, and he sent his gunboats to resist one by one, covering the escape of his ship.

Yang Geng immediately ordered six warships to stay behind to block these two warships under Zhao Lie's command, and the other warships turned westward.

Now Yang Geng is the boss, who dares to resist his order, even if there are tens of millions of these six warships who are unwilling, they have to reduce their speed and start arranging the formation.

Yang Geng seized the opportunity to escape as soon as possible, after all, it was getting late.

Zhang Huan paid attention to the enemy's formation, and the meaning of surviving with a broken tail was too obvious.

Wang Jian continued to move forward, and when it approached more than a mile away from the enemy ships, the gunboats in front of it played tricks.

These battleships knew too well the power of the flank guns of the Broken Army's warships, so they set up a formation, that is, they went all out to block the front of Wang Jian.

The purpose was to prevent the Wang Jian from facing the enemy, and if the Wang Jian turned the bow of the ship and began to slow down the ship, then they would have completed the task of blocking the enemy.

At that time, no matter how Wang Jian turned the bow of the ship, they would always have gunboats to block the front road.

After several encirclements, which greatly affected the speed of the enemy's pursuit, these warships could flee and take care of themselves.

However, they did not expect a heartbroken captain on the other side at all.

Zhang Huan could see the opponent's intentions at a glance, but he did not order the ship to turn, but directly rammed into the enemy.

These gunboats are a little stupid, what to do, you look at the hill-like battleships directly ramming, this fear is unimaginable.

When the battleship was still two hundred paces away, the Zheng gunboats began to hurriedly get out of the way, and they knew that if they let this giant ship collide, it would capsize properly.

The six gunboats were bombarded with artillery while dodging.

Zhang Huan and the sailors on the deck began to avoid the guns, and at this time there was no need to change course, just rush forward.

The Wang Jian passed through several gunboats, and when it staggered, the Wang Jian gave these battleships three hard salvos.

Wang Jian's three salvos from the left and right of the bow severely damaged three gunboats and slightly wounded one gunboat.

The destructive power of the thirty-six and forty-eight pound Tiago projectiles at such a close distance was terrifying.

Both gunboats were directly disemboweled, and both had large holes in the waterline and began to sink.

There were no big holes in the waterline, but the four big holes in the flanks were almost continuous, slowing down the boat considerably.

Wang Jian didn't stop at all, and continued to move forward, leaving the remaining kittens here for the cruiser.

If a coast guard ship can't deal with two gunboats of the Zheng family, then this captain still commits suicide by throwing himself into the sea, but Zhang Huan doesn't have so much effort to take care of these little beans.

Yang Geng watched the chasing enemy behind him pass the obstruction of his warships almost without any disturbance, and he couldn't help but curse loudly, they were all rice buckets.

At this time, Yang Geng only had one trick available, he used the flag to contact the other five warships, when Wang Jian chased to more than a mile, these five warships suddenly divided into two large groups, three warships to the west, one with two gunboats to the east.

This is a great problem for Zhang Huan, there must be high-level generals of the other party, but is it more or less.

Zhang Huan almost instinctively ruled out the extra force, and he ordered the warships to sail towards the two warships.

At this time, Yang Geng's soul to the north was scattered, he didn't expect the other party to stare at his warship so accurately, he was deliberately here in the two ships just to confuse the enemy.

He hastily ordered the sailors to move west to the three ships, and at the same time the flag ordered the three ships to move in the direction of his ships.

Unfortunately, at this time the three gunboats were like blind men and continued to flee westward.

They clearly refused to continue to be cannon fodder, and they also thought that even if Yang Geng was angry, he might not be able to return to Anping, and of course no one would obey orders from a doomed boss.

So Yang Geng sadly found that he and another warship had been abandoned by other warships, and they had to face this huge ship of the broken army sailing alone.

At this time, the battleship also suddenly separated from the ship with Yang Geng, and the purpose was obviously to stay away from Yang Geng, the plague god, and further away.

Yang Geng then fell to the point of betrayal and separation.

To add insult to injury, Yang Gengzao's waving flag on the boat had been watched by Wang Jian's lookout post, and he told Zhang Huan, well, that is the opponent's flagship, and he jumped the most happily.

Wang Jian drove Yang Geng's flagship directly, and the contest between the two sides was not at all level, but after two shellings, Yang Geng's flagship was blown up and drifted on the sea, which was too miserable.

Yang Geng raised the flag and surrendered, he hadn't lived enough, and he didn't want to sink into the sea to feed the fish and shrimp.

It seems that the matter will come to an end here, after all, the Broken Prisoners generally do not kill prisoners against their own people.

But people's hearts are really fickle, and under the interrogation of Wang Jian's Zhenfu and Xuanfu, he learned about Yang Geng's name from those Zheng family sailors, who were a number of sailor generals under Zheng Zhilong.

Of course, it was sold once, and then there was no lower limit, and the news that Yang Geng commanded several warships to besiege and burn a Ming warship was also interrogated.

The name of this battleship was also interrogated, how can I not remember the name of the opponent who has been fighting for a long time, not to mention that the name of the ship's sailor warship is painted on the side of the battleship of the Broken Army, and the name of this battleship is Li Daozong.

Zhang Huan was the captain of the ship, and of course Zhenfu and Xuanfu had to report to him the identity of the enemy general and the course of the battle.

Zhang Huan smiled hideously when he heard this. (To be continued.) )