Five-sixty-one Zheng brothers

First, Zheng Zhihu, who was full of excitement and screaming, was sent to his eldest brother's side, and Pang Yu also boarded the Snow Wind and joined the others in one place. Although everyone was a little surprised by his sudden addition, in view of Pang Yu's long-term role in the team, he was immediately appointed to the position of "field staff officer".

However, Pang Yu is very self-aware - Wen Desi and Wang Haiyang have already formulated their tactics, and there is no room for change before the battle, so it is better to be a spectator with peace of mind. Anyway, according to Wen Dehei's deployment, the five fast sailing ships of the Qiong Navy will not be in the same place as the main force of the Zheng family, and will not participate in the melee at that time, but will be organized into a separate team, cruising at a distance from the two fleets, he can easily observe the entire naval battle process, without worrying about being involved in the war.

However, this is not to say that the Qiong Navy will not participate in the battle, in fact, this battle will be started by the Qiong Navy - according to the agreement with the Zheng family, the Qiong navy's fast sailing ships will give full play to their high speed and firepower advantages, first sweep the Dutch army before the Zheng family fleet rushes to the enemy, and use rockets with incendiary warheads to attack the opponent, forcing the opponent to disperse the originally dense fleet, thereby disrupting the opponent's formation, so that the Zheng family's fleet can take advantage of the chaos to rush in.

-- This is the only requirement of the allied commander-in-chief Zheng Zhilong for the allied forces, and it is up to them to fight after that. After all, the power of allies can only be borrowed, and the protagonist of this war is still and can only be their Zheng family-this point, Zheng Zhilong knows very well in his heart.

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At this moment, on the flagship of the tallest building ship in the Zheng family's fleet, the twenty-nine-year-old Zheng family helmsman was holding a binoculars made in Qiongzhou to quietly observe the enemy formation in the distance. This kind of military telescope has a detailed scale attached to the lens, as long as you learn how to use it, you can not only see things in the distance, but also accurately judge the distance, which is far stronger than ordinary Western monocular clairvoyant.

At present, the fleets of both sides have lined up at the mouth of the Tamsui River, but the Dutch are after all on the defensive side, occupying the advantageous terrain of the mouth of the river, and they have more large ships, more than a dozen cannon ships divided into several teams, plus forty or fifty Chinese ships -- Liu Xiang's pirate gang, which is not too wide, has blocked the already not very wide estuary harbor, and there are still fortresses on the shore to support, if you want to storm it, it will be very difficult.

The Zheng family, though far outnumbered their rivals, numbered one hundred and fifty or sixty boats, but the vast majority of them were tiny rowboats, piled high with dry wood and straw, and splashed with grease -- arsonboats ready to set fire. Sixteen sturdy men were assigned to each fire-boat, and after the battle began, they would rush into the enemy's position regardless of a single qiē, and choose a suitable time to light the fire, and then jump into the water to escape for their lives, regardless of whether they could burn the other party or not.

There are only about forty ships on the Zheng family's side that really carry elite soldiers and strong generals to fight, but there are not as many as the other party. In particular, the number of large gunboats imitating Western plywood ships is even smaller, and together with the flagship at Zheng Zhilong's feet, there are only three or five in total, less than half of the other party's - every time he thinks of this, Zheng Zhilong will feel a sharp heartache. If it weren't for the sudden attack of these damn red-haired ghosts, and the hard work of the guide zhì in the past two years, their Zheng family would have soon had two giant ships that were not inferior to the "princess" and "earl" of the Qiong Navy!

If it weren't for the fact that there was another group of people who were willing to help, their Zheng family really wouldn't be sure to win this battle...... Thinking of this, Zheng Zhilong couldn't help but focus on the other side of the sea level, where only a few shadows of the sails could be faintly seen.

How did these shorthairs hide so far? They're going to launch the first offensive later...... Isn't that Admiral going to go back on his word?

But such a thought only flashed in Zheng Zhilong's heart, and was immediately denied by himself. If the other party didn't want to get involved in this troubled water, he didn't join it before, and the red-haired people didn't dare to provoke them anyway. Having dealt with the Qiong Navy for so long, Zheng Zhilong felt that perhaps because of the strong self-sustaining power, the short hair seemed more reckless and strong in many places, and sometimes it could even be said to be arrogant, but in any case, the point of dishonesty had never appeared in the Qiong Navy.

It's up to them to play...... Zheng Zhilong has long admired the subtlety of Qiong's navy's equipment and combat equipment, and since the other party has arranged the battle position so far, it must have their own considerations. As long as Shorthair can help destroy the opponent's ship formation and let their own arson ship rush in, it doesn't matter what tactics they use.

When he was groaning, there was a sound of heavy footsteps and a coaxing sound from behind him, but it was Zheng Zhihu and Zheng Zhibao's two younger brothers who came over. Among the four brothers of the Zheng family, Zheng Zhifeng is good at strategy, and rarely takes the lead in battle, but likes to strategize in the rear and act as a military advisor - in history, he simply changed his name to Zheng Hongkui after being a martial artist, and he didn't mix with anything.

And Zheng Zhilong, as the leader of the group, of course, can't rush to the front at every turn to fight for his life. But the rest of the tiger and leopard are all typical fierce brothers, always rushing to the center of the enemy line when they fight, the power was weak in the past, and there was no way to do this when there was a shortage of soldiers, and now it is a bit out of place to play like this - Zheng Zhilong persuaded them a few times, but the two brothers were not willing to listen, and he was inconvenient to say more, after all, it is better for his family to be brave to move forward than to be timid and cowardly.

"Boss!"

"Do you have any other orders, big brother?"

The two brothers walked up to him and saluted in unison. Zheng Zhilong looked at them, they were all covered in shark skin, with water-splitting spines tied to the outside of their thighs, and dagger sleeves tied around their ankles - this was a typical dress for preparing to dive under the water and seize the enemy ship.

In this battle, the Zheng family's plan was to immediately press all the troop transport ships on the enemy after releasing the arsonist ships to rush into the enemy position, and try to engage the other side in a broadside battle, instead of fighting with the red-haired people with artillery, they would definitely suffer a loss in artillery. Moreover, the advantage of fighting broadside battles is that you can capture the opponent's ships, and it is best to grab a few plywood gunboats from the red-haired people to make up for their previous losses.

Of course, the casualties in the broadside battle were also the most tragic, and the two younger brothers, as the backbone of the family, really needed them to take the lead in the front to inspire people at this time...... However, after Zheng Zhilong's gaze turned around on his second brother Zheng Zhihu, he shook his head and said:

"Ah Hu, you go and change into heavy armor."

"Change your armor? Big brother, I rushed back tired overnight, but I didn't just sit behind and watch the show! ”

Zheng Zhihu was anxious all of a sudden, and everyone in the world thought that there was no need for heavy armor in naval battles, but in fact, heavy armor was still very useful in naval warfare -- it was used for defense during broadside battles. At this time, if there is a fierce man wearing heavy armor and arrows and projectiles that cannot be shot into, it can immediately play a decisive role.

However, if you wear heavy armor, you will definitely not be able to leave the ship, even if you are connected to the enemy ship with a springboard, you can't go - if you fall into the water, it will be a weighing stone, and you can't catch it, so you can only nail it to your own ship to defend it with peace of mind. Of course, Zheng Zhihu refused to do this job, and immediately grabbed his neck to argue.

But Zheng Zhilong knows his brother's character well, and he only used one sentence to make him obediently obey orders:

"Listen to Ah Hu, this battle is very important, and there are too few big ships on our side...... Most of my ship is going to rush in. Zheng Zhilong patted his hands and got off the side of the boat and said slowly, "So I hope you can stay on this ship and protect your brother so that there will be no accidents." ”

"Huh? Good! Don't worry, big brother, with my brother here, no one wants to get close to you! ”

As soon as Zheng Zhihu heard this, he immediately obeyed, and immediately turned around and changed his armor. Zheng Zhihu looked at his back, and a slight smile appeared on his face - of course he suddenly made this request not because he was afraid, thinking that his Zheng Feihuang's own martial arts were actually not inferior to the two brothers, and he had been crisscrossing the East China Sea for so many years, when was he afraid of fighting face-to-face with others? He wanted to leave Zheng Zhihu behind at this time, but it was because when the short-haired side sent someone to send the second brother over, the Pang Junshi also asked someone to bring him a word.

- It is said that we didn't want Brother Ling to participate in this battle, because some people on our side have calculated that Brother Ling has not been in the battle formation recently, and if we force myself to participate in the war, I am afraid it will be a little dangerous. Although he has joined the battle formation now, when the time comes, please dissuade General Feihuang and don't let the second master of the python rush too forward.

The words are very vague, and they don't say how to "calculate" them, but it is this kind of unclear and vague words that makes Zheng Zhilong even more convinced - the people who go to the sea are already a little superstitious, and the group of short-haired people keep saying that they don't believe in God or Buddhism, but they really have the ability to "predict the unknown" in some things - from the overall situation of the world to the strange people and anecdotes, they can always anticipate the front and get the benefits in advance. Zheng Zhilong has been working with them for so many years, and he has felt this strangeness several times and three times - many things, when Shorthair does it, it seems to be inexplicable, but after a while, he found that it was all purposeful, and as for what is the mystery in it, he is puzzled.

Now it's rare for people to wake him up, and it's impossible for that Pang Junshi to have nothing to do and entertain people if he wants to come, so he must be cautious. is about the life of his own brother, Zheng Zhilong has decided that even if this battle is over, he must take his second brother with him and no longer let him run around. RO