The sixth day of the ninth month of the twelfth year of Chongzhen

Yue Yang led all the warships of the Weihai Weishui Division and all the main warships of the Zheng family led by Zheng Zhilong to meet more than 300 miles east of Zhoushan Island in the East China Sea, and a great battle began.

At this time, the balance of forces between the two sides was very different, in terms of quantity, the Weihai Weishui Division only had one first-class battleship, eight third-class battleships, twenty-five fourth-class battleships, thirty-eight fifth-class battleships and twenty-seven Yan-type ships, and the total number of battleships was only ninety-nine, and this was all the warships that Yue Yang could put together.

On the other hand, Zheng Zhilong is different, the fleet led by Zheng Zhilong has a variety of ship types, including ships such as Fu Ship, Cangshan Ship, Eagle Ship, etc., and even more than ten Galen ships, with a total number of 361.

Judging from the number alone, the Zheng family's fleet undoubtedly has an absolute advantage, and the advantage of 3.6 to 1 and the newly purchased hundreds of twenty-four-pound guns have made many Zheng family leaders full of confidence, but these people do not include Zheng Sen. On the night before the departure of the Zheng family's fleet, Zheng Sen specially found Zheng Zhilong and talked to him in detail for a night, and no one except the person concerned knew what the result was, but the consequence of the detailed discussion was that when Zheng Zhilong set off, Zheng Sen did not set off with the fleet, but stayed in Quanzhou to guard their lair.

At noon on the eighth day of September, the wind was three levels on a sunny day

It was a nice weather, the weather was clear and the visibility was good. Yue Yang sat in a room of the newly launched first-class battleship and slowly tasted the fragrant tea, a faint fragrance of tea continued to permeate the room, with Yue Yang's current status, it was naturally not ordinary tea, but the big red robe produced by the three mother trees in Wuyi Mountain.

This big red robe can be said to be the most expensive tea in the world, the annual output is only about seven or eight yuan, it can be called the best in the tea, all dynasties are tribute to the royal tribute, even the general princes and ministers can not drink. And Yue Yang was able to drink it thanks to his daughter-in-law Zhu Yujiao. This little girl knew that her husband liked to drink tea since she married Yue Yang, and in order to please her husband, when she left Beijing last year, she went to the palace and took away the big red robe treasured by Comrade Xiao Zhu. But after all, the things have been taken away by his daughter, and Comrade Xiao Zhu is embarrassed to come back. In the end, Wang Chengen could only hide the last remaining bit of red robe.

The fragrant tea made Yue Yang's spirits a little sluggish because he had been on the ship for several days in a row. He took a sip of tea, and a somewhat sweet and bitter taste poured into his heart and lungs through the tongue coating, and then a fragrant and sweet taste came out, and the whole person's spirit seemed to be much better.

Putting down the teacup, Yue Yang sighed lightly: "It really deserves to be known as the most expensive tea, if you get it to sell it in future generations, I'm afraid that the big bag of tea that you can treasure can be changed to a house in the center of Mingzhu." ”

Thinking of this, Yue Yang suddenly found that he seemed to have not returned to the modern era for a while. The two in the villa don't know how to scold themselves. It seems that having more women is not necessarily a good thing.

Just when Yue Yang was thinking wildly, he suddenly heard a sharp whistle outside, and then the door was pushed open, Guo Jingxian walked in and said loudly to him: "Master Qiqi, the Yan-shaped ship in front of you has found the traces of the Zheng family's fleet, and they are still more than ten miles away from us, and they are expected to meet us in a quarter of an hour!" ”

"Is it finally here?" Yue Yang muttered to himself for a few words, and then he only felt a numbness spread from the top of his head. This is usually the case when he's excited to a certain extent.

picked up the cup on the table and drank it all, then put the teacup on the table and said to Guo Jingxian, "Go." Let's meet this Zheng Zhilong! ”

After speaking, Yue Yang tidied up his clothes and strode out of the room......

When Yue Yang came to the substrate, there were already sharp whistles around him, all the battleships had begun to send out battle formations, the sailmen were raising all the sails that were only half raised, and the baffles in the gun compartment were all opened, and Yue Yang could faintly hear the shouting and scolding of the gun commanders in the gun silos.

Soon, faint black dots began to appear in Yue Yang's telescope, and then these black dots increased rapidly, and then became dense in the telescope.

"Hey...... They're finally here! ”

Yue Yang took a deep breath, he felt his scalp start to tingle a little, and his legs became a little stiff, but he understood that this was not a sign of fear. This is the last fleet in China that can compete with him, as long as this fleet is defeated, then the Nanyang area will become his backyard in the next few decades, and those natives on the islands who dare to fight him can teach them how to behave in minutes.

took a deep breath, turned his head to Guo Jingxian and said: "General Guo, I don't understand the naval battle, the next thing will be handed over to you, there is no advance or retreat in this battle, and victory is not allowed to lose, do you understand?" ”

Guo Jingxian's expression was also unprecedentedly serious, he solemnly saluted Yueyang and said in a deep voice: "Hou Ye, don't worry, if you lose this battle, the general will kill himself in front of Hou Ye!" ”

Yue Yang picked up a loudspeaker that had been prepared a long time ago and said loudly: "Brothers of the water division, today is the most difficult pass since the establishment of our Weihai Wei water division. The Zheng family pirate gang headed by Zheng Zhilong has been killing people and exchanging goods for more than ten years, and a few days ago they even blatantly violated the will of the imperial court and refused to surrender their weapons. As the saying goes, raising soldiers for a thousand days is a while, Weihai Weishui has been more than two years into the army, and now it is time for me to serve the imperial court. Get rid of the kings! ”

At this time, Guo Jingxian also pulled out the war knife on his waist and raised it high, and shouted with all his strength beside Yue Yang: "Brothers, Hou Ye's military order...... In today's battle, there is no advance or retreat, and the enemy is bravely killed! ”

"There is no advance or retreat, and you can kill the enemy bravely!"

When the mast of the first-class battleship that Yue Yang rode raised the blood-red battle flag representing the immortality, the battleships around it also silently raised the same flag, in the tradition of the Daming Navy, whenever this flag is raised, it means that as long as there is a ship in this battle, it will fight to the death, either you die or I live, so this flag is also called the death battle flag.

Soon, the two oncoming fleets met. Zheng Zhilong stood on a Dafu boat, and he also took a deep breath when he looked at the oncoming Weihai Guardian Sailor. Although he didn't know that his biggest opponent, Yue Yang, was in this fleet now, it didn't hinder his vision, and when he saw the oncoming fleet raise the death battle flag, his eyes also shot a terrifying light.

"Death Battle Flag? Hum...... Lao Tzu wants to see what kind of "death battle" method you want? Zheng Zhilong snorted coldly and shouted to a leader standing beside him: "Tell the second brother that after the fight starts, let him take his people around to the other side of the Weihai Guardian Division." Surround them. In this battle, we must completely annihilate this sailor! ”

"Yes!"

The leader was just about to take the order to leave, when he saw him pointing ahead and stammering: "Look, big boss! ”

"What to see, it's not ...... fast"

Zheng Zhilong's voice that was about to scold came to an abrupt end, because even he was startled by what appeared in front of him. Because he saw a behemoth that he had never seen before. He could swear that even in the more than ten years he had been crisscrossing the South Seas, he had never seen such a huge Ade battleship, which was seven or eighty meters long from three stories high. Next to it were eight ships smaller than it. But even the ships that were one size smaller were much taller than the ones they were riding.

"Is this the opponent who is going to fight us today?" Zheng Zhilong didn't notice that his voice had a hint of trembling, he turned his head to the leader beside him with an extremely solemn expression: "You tell the second master, you must entangle that behemoth, otherwise we will be in danger in today's battle!" ”

"The villain understands!" The leader also felt that today's battle seemed to be a little hanging, and his original confidence was also shaken a little.

Just as the Zheng family's fleet began to divide its troops, and Zheng Zhilong led a fleet of more than 70 warships to leave the main force and bypass behind the Weihai Weishui Division, the Weihai Weishui Division also began to seize the T-shape, and the entire fleet also formed a formation and rushed towards the Zheng family's fleet. When there were still more than 500 meters away from the Zheng family's fleet, the thirty-two-pounder guns on the first-class battleship that Yue Yang was riding on began to exert their might, and one after another black projectiles shot rapidly towards the Zheng family's fleet.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

Rumbling cannons rang out. This also means that the biggest naval battle in recent years has begun.

"Oh...... Are these people stupid? ”

When Zheng Zhilong saw that the other party actually fired at this distance, his first reaction was that the other party's commander must have had brain cramps, did he want to fish at this distance?

But this idea was immediately thrown out of the clouds by him, because he immediately remembered what Zheng Zhibao had said to the leaders who had fought with the Weihai Weishui Division, the Weihai Weishui Division's artillery was very sharp, and their effective range reached a terrifying six hundred paces.

Before Zheng Zhilong could be surprised, the first round of projectiles had already flown towards them like arrows from the string, and the first few lucky ships were instantly submerged by the projectiles.

The first class battleships were equipped with a total of 122 guns, ranging in caliber from sixteen to thirty-two pounds, and of course in the battle they could only fire from the guns on the side facing the enemy ship, and not all of the guns fired, but even then more than thirty guns began to fire.

After the sound of the cannon stopped, Zheng Zhilong found that the front of the Fu ship had been shot, and the two basin-sized holes on its hull were so eye-catching.

"How is this possible?"

Zheng Zhilong couldn't believe his eyes, the accuracy of the artillery in these years is generally not high, and the battleships often have to get close to two or three hundred meters before firing when they are engaged, and the range of the artillery is difficult to reach beyond this distance, not to mention, even if the accuracy of the smoothbore cannon is barely fired, it can only be a waste of ammunition, but now they not only fire but also shoot so accurately.

Although Zheng Zhilong had heard many times about the power of the Weihai Weishui Division before this battle, it was one thing to hear that it was another thing to experience it personally, and when he saw the screams and the panicked figures of the sailors on the warships that were shot, Zheng Zhilong was a little panicked.

"It can't go on like this!" Zheng Zhilong, who has been a pirate for most of his life, immediately realized that something was wrong with the situation, and he immediately gave another order: "Order, move forward at full speed with full sails, and get close to the other party!" ”

Just when Zheng Zhilong ordered the fleet to move forward at full speed, the third, fourth, and fifth level battleships of the Weihai Weishui Division also began to open fire, and for a while, no other sound could be heard on the sea, and there was only a dense cannon sound left in everyone's ears, and there was a tense atmosphere everywhere on the sea, as if even the air was trembling, and the nasal cavity was full of a strong and pungent smell of gunsmoke.

"You fools, speed up, if you give Lao Tzu a strain, Lao Tzu won't spare you!"

In the gun compartment of a third-class battleship, the sea boss was holding a horn and scolding the gunners in the gun compartment.

Seeing that the gunners had already reloaded their guns, a "fire" voice shouted from the voice of the sea boss.

I saw a twenty-four-pound cannon slammed into the gun, and the guns retreated, and then the gunners next to them rushed over to put the guns back in place, and then cleaned the barrels of the guns, and filled the gunpowder bags of gunpowder, when a loader held a heavy projectile and sent the muzzle into the barrel, and another gunner checked the baffle and cork under the gun wheels to make sure that they were in place, and a gunner with a torch lit the fuse again, and soon a loud bang sounded again.

The training of the Weihai Weishui Division is very strict, and the interval between the firing of two shells must not exceed one and a half minutes; if this time is exceeded, the gunners will definitely be severely punished after the war, and the punishment of military salaries is only a trivial matter, and if it is serious, they will be beaten with military sticks.

Yue Yang stood on the deck, although he had a pair of earplugs in his ears, he could still feel the violent vibrations in the air, and he felt a surge of emotions in his heart as he watched the projectiles fly towards the enemy ship like raindrops.

Yue Yang looked at the watch on his wrist, five minutes had passed since the first round of firing time, and his fleet had already fired three salvos, this result was qualified, and he was also very satisfied, because he had already seen that six of the more than ten Fu ships rushing to the front had been overshot and seriously tilted, and he was about to fall silent.

"Keep firing, we must not let them get so close to us so comfortably!" Yue Yang gave the order. (To be continued~^~)