6-24 First naval battle
Liu Ziguang was inspecting the loot on the Black Pearl, when he suddenly heard someone shouting outside: "There is an enemy ship approaching!" "Ran out and saw that there were ten warships coming in the wind on the sea in the distance, everyone patronized and cleaned the battlefield, escorted the prisoners, no one observed the enemy's situation, and waited until the enemy ships were approaching before a soldier appeared.
Ten enemy ships of unknown strength rushed in the wind, no matter how and if they couldn't fight with them, Liu Ziguang hurriedly shouted: "Hurry up and drive the ship." "But the mast of the Black Pearl is all on the cargo ship, the two ships are closely connected together, and the soldiers are also a little in a hurry, after all, most of the Red Shirt Regiment is from the 6th Army, and has never fought a serious naval battle, this naval battle is not the same as the 6th war, and there is always a way to get out of the ground to find a place to hide, or to escape, or to play dead, but how to hide and escape in this vast sea, the enemy sinks his own ship, and he can only drown.
The enemy ships were getting closer and closer, and they had already seen the red and yellow Spanish flags flying on the masts, but the two ships were still in a state of confusion, and it seemed that they could only fight.
Even if he can get out of his body and run away, Liu Ziguang is unwilling, because he is reluctant to have a well-armored warship like the Black Pearl, and if he runs away in the face of the Western enemy for the first time, he will be a little embarrassed.
"Raise the battle flag and prepare to meet the enemy!" Liu Ziguang shouted: A Ming army flag was raised on the mast, hunting and fluttering in the wind, and it was dyed with a gold edge in the sunset, and through the clairvoyant mirror, you can see that someone on the opposite side of the warship pointed to the flag here, shouted in surprise, and then walked out of the cabin, and the people in more gorgeous clothes looked at this side, yes, the Penghu sea has not appeared on the surface of the Ming army for many years, at this time, suddenly a Ming warship appeared on the sea fifty miles away from the Spanish army fortress, which is really surprising.
The pirates on the Black Pearl were also surprised to see the flag, and an old guy with wooden legs asked, "You are the sailors of the Ming Dynasty?" ”
"Less nonsense, get out of the bilge!" The redshirt soldier who was in charge of escorting the captives kicked the old man's wooden leg and shouted.
"Wait," Liu Ziguang stopped the soldier and asked with a pleasant face: "Old fellow, you have a Quanzhou accent, right?" ”
"If you go back to the captain, the small one is indeed the Quanzhou people. Most of our Black Pearl are Fujianese. The one-legged old man said respectfully.
"Yes, we are all Fujianese, the captain of the ship, you will be kind and let us go, the Spaniards will call, everyone will be finished." When the other captives saw that Liu Ziguang seemed to be very talkative, they began to make noise.
The enemy must make a choice immediately, Liu Ziguang glanced at the pirates, most of these people are really Fujianese, South Asians, blacks, whites account for a very small proportion, it seems that it is a group of Chinese pirates, in the face of the powerful Spaniards, now can only turn low into friends, and unite with the outside world.
"Listen to my orders, the stokers and gunners of the Black Pearl immediately enter their positions and prepare to start a war with the Spaniards, and the others hurry up and pull this *** mast up for me, and if you can't pull it up, you will cut it off!" Liu Ziguang immediately ordered the release of prisoners of war to fight together, but he also kept an eye on it, and asked Wen Getao to send a few people to watch them with firearms, just in case.
The two originally hostile ships worked together to meet the Spanish ships, the stokers picked up the shovels, shoveled coal, burned the boilers, the steam cannons and bed crossbows were loaded with live ammunition, and a group of people were desperately pulling the masts to separate the two ships, and some of the Ming sailors were transferred to the stronger Black Pearl, and the rest operated the weapons on the cargo ship, aiming at the Spanish ship that was getting closer and closer.
Two lonely ships on the sea are like two hedgehogs huddled together. These ten warships are the patrol fleet sent by the Penghu base in Spain, the news that most of the Ming army arrived in Quanzhou has reached their ears, these days have been sending more people to patrol, but they didn't think about it, they really let them run into the lucky ship flying the Ming flag, obviously sent by the Ming people to investigate, and the European-style ship flying the black skull flag is more familiar, it is the famous Black Pearl, no matter how the two of them met together, today is a good day, the commander of the cruise fleet, Colonel Santiago, is very happy, ten ships against two ships are smooth sailing, their own side has an absolute advantage, it happens that today is their birthday, this is a life given by God to themselvesDay gifts?
Thanks to Colonel Santa Maria Santiago for reverently drawing a cross on his chest. Ten Spanish warships lined up and approached the enemy's ships at a stone's throw away, and then someone raised a loudspeaker and shouted, in standard Hokkien dialect: "You have invaded the territorial waters of the Kingdom of Spain, and you must raise the white flag and surrender within five minutes, or we will sink you, and repeat it again, and surrender within five minutes, or we will sink you." ”
"Hit! Liu Ziguang gave an order, the Black Pearl and the weapons on the cargo ship fired together, twenty steam cannons at the same time sprayed extremely powerful chain bullets at the Spanish ship, the mast of the cargo ship fired rockets at the enemy ship with a swarm of swarms, all the firepower was concentrated on the Spanish flagship flying the command flag, the intensive firepower hit the Colonel Santiago's ship like a sieve, two iron balls connected by iron cables cannonballs called chain bullets, on the 6 ground, suitable for dealing with the group of infantry in naval battles, especially the mast 20 chain bullets are not small, the power of the Spanish flagship can be smashed into a mess, the mast squeaked and fell down, and the Ming army's rockets are more powerful, the wooden hull rootBen couldn't help but smash it like this, and as soon as it was smashed, it was a big hole, and near the waterline, seawater immediately poured in, and almost the first blow beat the flagship to the point that it lost its combat effectiveness.
Colonel Santiago, escorted by his entourage, quickly moved to other ships to direct the battle, while the other Spanish ships, which had temporarily lost the command of their flagship, quickly reacted and desperately poured all kinds of firepower on the target.
The firepower of ten Spanish warships was extraordinary, the huge crossbow bolts and the same steam cannonballs were overwhelming, the Black Pearl, with its iron armor, could still hold the cargo ship, but it was not so lucky, it was pierced like a hedgehog all over its body, and those crossbow arrows were all with something that ignited fire, and in the blink of an eye, a raging fire burned.
"Evacuate quickly, all over here!" Liu Ziguang shouted at the sailors who insisted on fighting on the deck of the cargo ship, several soldiers were squatting on the deck, fiddling with the missiles in their hands, hearing Liu Ziguang's order, they were not in a hurry, and still shot the missiles out in a hurry, this missile is not as advanced as the Eagle Strike III, it is an ordinary version of the ship-to-ship Xiongfeng type, this missile is not big, it is very much like a cannon fight, the soldier holds a wooden stick to aim at the target, and then ignites the lead, the missile flies towards the target, there is no guidance system, so the range is limited, and the accuracy is limited, but it is enough to hit a large target within 100 zhang.
Several heroic missiles fell on the deck of the Spanish warship, the glass bottle contained in the shell of the missile fell to pieces, and the refined fire oil inside flowed to the ground, and the white phosphorus in the fire oil began to burn when it met the air, and the fire brought to all parts of the ship, and the Spanish sailors hurried to put out the fire, but this oil fire could not be extinguished with water, there was not so much sand on the ship, plus the crossbow arrows on the Black Pearl were interfering, and another Spanish warship lost its combat effectiveness.
Annoyed and angry, Colonel San Diego ordered to concentrate fire on the Ming-flagged cargo ship to sink it first and then deal with the Black Pearl, so more firepower was spread on the cargo ship, and the Ming retreated to the Black Pearl after shooting the only two Eagle Strike three ship-borne missiles.
The two eagle strikes carried high-explosive warheads, accurately hit the two Spanish ships, the huge explosive force tore open the hull of the ship, forming a huge hole, which could not be repaired at all, and the sea water poured in, seeing that the warship was about to capsize, the Spaniards also panicked, nearly half of the ships lost their combat effectiveness, and this battle was a bit mysterious.
A group of sailors swung their axes and finally cut off the mast of the Black Pearl, and the thick mast was pushed into the sea, and the Black Pearl was finally free, and the power provided by the steam engine was very sufficient, as long as the propeller was started, it was not difficult to get out, but the pirates refused to sail because their collar was not safe!
By the way, how did you forget Your Excellency Dugu Wen, seeing that the burning cargo ship was about to sink, the pirates were so anxious that they said that if the captain had three long and two short, they would have no way to live.
Several clear-eyed and beardless pirates rushed into the sea despite dissuasion, desperately swimming the sinking cargo ship in an attempt to rescue Duguwen, but they were shot by the Spaniards and died in the sea.
These pirates have intentions, if they want to subdue them, they have to rescue Duguwen! Liu Ziguang shouted to Wen Getao: "You command me to save people!" Then he plunged headlong into the sea.
The seriously injured cargo ship was already dying, and the sea water poured in through the breach, dousing part of the flames, but causing the ship to sink gradually, and the cabin where Duguwen was imprisoned was in the middle of the ship, and now it was really difficult to save people.
Liu Ziguang is not a master swimmer, a fierce man plunged down, choked a big mouthful of seawater, bitter seawater poured into his nose and mouth, he didn't feel any discomfort, the distance between the two boats had not been widened, and he swam a few times hard, and approached the cargo ship, buckled the wooden plank, and quickly climbed up.
The cargo ship was a mess, charred wood and debris all over the ground, and corpses were scattered all over the place, and Liu Ziguang rushed into the cabin with fire and smoke.
kicked open the hatch, and saw Dugu Wen writhing on the ground, struggling, the rope on her body was tied too strong, she couldn't break open, she heard someone rushing in, Dugu Wen looked up with tears in her eyes, but it was the guy who captured him!
Liu Ziguang picked it up, Dugu Wen didn't have time to untie the rope on her body, picked it up and ran out. But a big wave hit the ship, and the raging sea water had already poured into the cabin.
The ship has sunk.