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The fall of Penghu means that Zheng Jing's general trend has gone. The remnants of the Zheng Army on the island of Taiwan are only a little over 20,000 troops, which is less than the more than 40,000 troops of the Mawei Army, and the entire palace and even the entire island of Taiwan are in a panic.

In fact, because of the rapid development of Taiwan in recent years, Zheng Jing has obtained the land of the four prefectures in northern Zhejiang in the past two years, and his strength has increased greatly, and his confidence has exploded. If it weren't for the fiasco of Liu Guoxuan's naval division at the Yangtze River, and the Qing army's continuous attack on Jiaxing Huzhou for a year, which caused great losses to the Zheng army, he would still think that he had the capital to chase the Central Plains. After fighting with the Qing army for more than a year, he found that his troops and financial resources were far from enough to confront the Qing court, and the Mawei army did not enter Jiangnan, and the Qing army continued to attack Jiaxing, even if Shi Lang was capable, he would not be able to support it for half a year.

In the past two years, with the cooperation of Shi Lang, many residents have also immigrated from Zhejiang, and a large area of land has been opened up in Taiwan, and the opportunity for great development is in front of us. But Zheng Jing didn't expect that the Mawei Army would fight as soon as he said it, and he was forced to the door of the house all of a sudden. Before the Mawei warship arrived in Dongning, Zheng Jing got a report. Wang Zhenbang changed his strategy, and the army approached Luermen Port in a dignified manner.

Zheng Jing was also a little stunned all of a sudden, the army was gathered, and his strength was several times stronger than himself, and there was almost no hope of victory. But he was not willing to surrender like this, there is still a glimmer of hope if he fights, and there is no hope if he doesn't fight. Zheng Jing finally decided to send Zeng Rui, the general of Zhengbei, and Wang Shun, the general of Dingbei, to lead all the fleets to fight a decisive battle with the Mawei Army in the waters of Dongning. Dongning, which was later the Taiwan Mansion, was later renamed Tainan City, and the royal city of the Zheng family was here.

"Come on!"

"Either you die or I die!"

There is a way, it is difficult for the country to show loyalty. Two leading generals. Zeng Rui is the same as Liu Guoxuan. is loyal to Zheng Jing, but Dingbei General Wang Shun is worse, even at this moment he did not pay attention to whether to surrender, he knew that the Mawei Army was very powerful, but it was very likely that the Mawei Army would not take him seriously, it would be better to be the most important chicken head in Taiwan Why did he run over there as the queen of the cow.

Zeng Rui took a deep breath and sneered arrogantly, he really regarded death as his home.

The danger of the situation at hand. Of course, Zeng Rui can clearly realize it. However, the danger of the situation not only did not make Zeng Rui flinch, but on the contrary, it also stimulated Zeng Rui's fighting spirit. If you want to find a desperate San Lang in the high-level of Taiwan's sailors, in addition to Liu Guoxuan and Shi Lang, that is to count Zeng Rui. Zeng Rui is also an old man who followed Zheng Jing and made great contributions to Zheng Jing's world, and his contributions are not much less than Liu Guoxuan.

"General" came to sea. Zheng Jun's sailors found that the Mawei Army was so powerful, and all they saw in front of them were the sail warships they talked about the most on weekdays. A powerful battleship with a frighteningly large number of cannon holes in black holes.

The Mawei Navy has so many sail warships, just a rough count, at least more than three hundred. In fact, Zheng Jun's just captured in the rear is the Penghu Naval Division, the Penghu Naval Division has no leader, Wang Zhenbang does not have to worry about their defection at all, and there are many Mawei soldiers on every warship, and those who want to start an incident will be suppressed immediately.

Judging from the number of warships in front of them, the battleships of the Zheng Army's naval division are more than twice that of the Mawei Navy. But what kind of warships are Zheng Jun's? There are a total of sixty-six large and small gunboats, the rest are bird ships, rushing ships, double sailing ships and ten large sail warships, which are equivalent to the size of the fourth-class battleships of the Mawei Army, which are still the Dutch warships that Zheng Jing has spent a lot of effort to imitate in recent years.

Moreover, in terms of the tonnage of a single warship, the Mawei Navy is more than one step stronger than Taiwan's naval division. The smallest warship of the Mawei Army, not counting the surrendered warships, the displacement of the fifth-class warships is more than 500 tons. And the warships of the general main fleet of the Taiwan naval division have a displacement of about 500 tons. The others were basically small warships with a displacement of no more than a hundred tons. In the end, there are only about twenty large warships of more than 1,000 tons in the Zheng Army's naval division. And the third-class warships of the Mawei Army, each of which is more than a thousand tons. In modern naval warfare, the total tonnage of the fleet is always calculated, so at this time, the total tonnage of warships on both sides, the Mawei Navy is estimated to be about 180,000 tons, while Taiwan's naval division is only 50,000 tons, which is less than one-third.

If we talk about the number of artillery on both sides, I am afraid that the difference will be even greater. The number of artillery pieces of the Mawei Navy exceeded 10,000 pieces. Nearly three hundred sail warships, even fifth-tier battleships, have forty guns on them. Together with the surrendered warships and other small ships, each of them has an average of more than 30 guns. And the number of artillery pieces in Zeng Rui's fleet is less than 3,000. The number of artillery guns of the Taiwanese naval division of the warships of the same tonnage is also significantly inferior to that of the Mawei Navy and the Navy.

Fighting at sea is very stressful of strength. In the vast sea, there are few ways to take advantage of this. It is unimaginably difficult to challenge the total tonnage of 180,000 tons of warships with a total tonnage of 50,000 tons of warships. Challenging 10,000 guns with 3,000 guns is even more difficult. To put it cruelly, such an act is simply suicidal.

"Prepare for battle!" Zeng Rui ordered without hesitation. Of course, he understands that the Mawei Army and Navy want to eat him and eat the only remaining Taiwanese sailors under his command. Judging from the current situation, the Mawei Army Navy should be dispatched with all its might, and all the warships have been dispatched here. Such preparations are not inadequate. Such an appetite is not insignificant. However, if the Mawei Navy wants to eat him, it must first see if he has a good pair of teeth.

The two armies put on a posture and officially engaged in battle, but the Mawei warships were strong and artillery, and they still occupied an absolute advantage. First, a Zheng army boat was hit by cannonballs through the side of the ship, and the continuous influx of seawater could not be stopped. In the end, a large number of cabins entered the water, and the battleship continued to sink. The sailors on board had to abandon ship to escape. As a result, in less than ten minutes, the ship sank.

However, there are also many Taiwanese sailors, but there is no gain. In a very short period of time. The main running ships of the Taiwan Navy Division also successively damaged five fourth- and fifth-class warships of the Mawei Navy. Thereinto. Most of the credit goes to Zeng Rui's flagship and the surrounding Portuguese-style sail ships. These are the most powerful warships in Taiwan's naval division, specially used to stay and defend Taiwan, and Zeng Rui's ship alone, the Baodao, has a displacement of 1,600 tons, which is comparable to the third-class battleships of the Mawei Army, and has 70 guns on it.

This is also a double-decked battleship, at the very bottom of the double-deck. On either side there were twenty-four thirty-pounder guns. On the second deck there were thirty eighteen-pounder guns. In addition to this there were four sixty-pounder guns, and the professional gunners who operated the guns numbered two hundred. Imitation Portuguese battleships such as the Baodao are obviously Zeng Rui or Zheng Jing's hole cards, all the guns of a battleship are fired in a salvo, once the target is hit, even if it is a third-level battleship of the Mawei Army, it will not be able to withstand it. As for the smaller fourth- or fifth-tier ships, it is even more unbearable. Fortunately, the hit rate of the gunners of the Taiwanese naval division needs to be improved, otherwise, the Mawei Navy of the Army. Wounded battleships won't be just that.

However, the third-class battleships of the Mawei Army are not bad. It is even more powerful, and the number of warships is much greater than that of the Taiwanese naval division. Every third-class battleship of the Mawei Army is a behemoth for Taiwan's naval divisions. In the face of such a behemoth, in the face of such a fierce artillery hedgehog, the Taiwanese sailors were passive. Basically, in a one-on-one confrontation, all kinds of warships of Taiwan's naval division will be defeated. Even against fourth-tier warships, there are many opponents. The eighty-pound and sixty-pound heavy guns on the Mawei battleship were really too ferocious. If it is hit, Zheng Jun's slightly smaller warships will have a hole in the side directly.

When the two armies approached, grapeshotfire appeared. The range of the Mawei Army's cannons was stronger than that of the Taiwanese naval divisions, so more than 100 warships began to throw grapevine shells together when they reached a certain position, and the Taiwanese naval divisions were suddenly a little overwhelmed. Zheng Jun is not many in number, and he can't withstand such a toss at all.

The sailors operating on the deck were unprotected, and in the face of overwhelming grapeshot, they were indeed only slaughtered. The sailman on the mast is no exception. Dense grape bombs fell, and they fell from the sky as if they were defeated. Or, it is to fall into the vast sea. Or, it's slammed on the deck, and I don't know if it's alive or dead.

Under the fierce attack of the Mawei Army, even the sailors on the ship Treasure Island were very heavy casualties. The entire deck was filled with the corpses of sailors. There are also plenty of grape marbles, rolling back and forth on the deck. The deck had long been stained red with blood. The blood on the deck kept rolling around as the deck shook. From time to time, it is like a waterfall, and it is poured into the rolling water.

After a fierce battle of just half an hour, Zeng Rui's flagship Baodao lost nearly a hundred sailors. This also affected the handling of the battleship, and although Zeng Rui was very sad and his morale was severely hit for a time, Zeng Rui still urged the soldiers to step forward. However, at such a rate of loss, the four hundred soldiers on his flagship will not be able to hold out for long!

The professional sail man, in the previous engagement, was almost completely lost. Now, the people who go up to the mast are part-time sail operators. Their courage and skill, of course, are not as good as those of professional sailors, and there will always be some mistakes in the operation of this guide. However, in such a situation, Zeng Rui and the captain of the flagship were also embarrassed to blame. They have the courage to go up, and it's very good.

Over time, sailors on the flagship, the number of losses was even greater. The biggest loss is naturally the sailman. After two hours of fighting, the sailors on the Treasure Island had changed several batches. All the sailors who could be drawn were drawn out. If you continue to change, you will have to draw the gunner from the cabin to replace it.

There is no doubt that once the gunners are dispatched to replace them, it means that the firepower of the Treasure Island will be affected by a certain amount of dù. As more and more gunners are withdrawn, the firepower of the Treasure Island will become weaker and weaker. Eventually, it will be like a lion king who has been exhausted of his strength, and finally falls under the siege of jackals. No, the Mawei battleships are also a pack of fierce lions, and they do not belong to the Treasure Island.

"Damn it!" Zeng Rui couldn't help but mutter.

The giant cannon of the Mawei Navy can easily destroy the ordinary warships of the Zheng Army. And the other party's grape bomb also made him unbearable. Their grapeballs were not that far at all, and they were bound to fall into the sea within 200 meters, while the grapeshotfires of the Mawei Army flew over 300 meters of sea and still hit their battleships fiercely.

Other high-ranking officers of the Taiwanese Navy Division also felt the same way. It's just that Zeng Rui himself can't figure out what kind of ability the Mawei Army Navy has to rise in such a short period of time? ! They have occupied Taiwan for more than ten years, and they have been developing sailors for 30 years, but the Mawei Army, in total, is only six or seven years old, and they have defeated the Japanese fleet and defeated the Spanish fleet. Look at the current Nanyang, the Portuguese, the Spanish, the British and the Dutch, how honest they are, they don't think that this ship is the credit of their Taiwanese sailors!

They also understood that this Mawei battleship was modified in the style of a British battleship, but if it was said that the Mawei Navy cooperated with the British, and what they got was the technology of the British, which was absolutely impossible. It is impossible for the Mawei Navy to completely digest the various technologies of the British in such a short time. It should be known that, in addition to technical theories, at the real operational level, in the construction of platforms for warships, in the construction of the Navy, it is impossible without years of accumulation.

However, it was only three or four years before that a fleet of the British arrived in the Far East. Until then, the British could not have had any contact with the Mawei Navy. It's just that they don't know that the British fleet on the side of Mindanao in the Philippines was originally called by Geng Jingzhong.

However, the Zheng family's Taiwanese naval fleet has learned the advanced technology of Portugal, and they have not found how powerful they have become over the years!

"I don't understand."

"I really don't understand." Zeng Rui had to shake his head self-deprecatingly.

Over the years, I've been trying to explore the secrets of the Mawei Navy, but now I'm afraid I don't have the opportunity to know. His ship, the Treasure Island, had already been hit by several shells again, and the sixty-pound solid bullet smashed into the Treasure Island, directly punching a hole in the side of the ship, and the sea water was pouring violently into it. The situation of other Taiwanese naval warships is also not optimistic, and by now, many small warships of Taiwan's naval division have been sunk and countless are counted. The casualties cannot be counted in a short period of time. However, judging from the number of losses of the warships, it can be seen that Zheng Jun has already suffered more than half of the casualties at this moment!

On the Mawei Army's side, according to incomplete statistics, the Mawei Army now has five third-class warships that are seriously injured, and more than a dozen fourth- and fifth-class warships are seriously injured, and the others are all fine. But there were also five ships that sank directly in battle, one of which was a third-class battleship, one fourth-class and three fifth-class ships.

Such losses are simply greater than all the losses suffered by the Mawei Navy since its establishment.

"Five battleships have sunk! There are also five third-class battleships seriously injured! As long as Wang Zhenbang thinks about it, he feels pain. It is estimated that Geng Jingzhong will also be heartbroken when he learns this number. That's millions of taels of silver! (To be continued......)