Chapter 144: The Battle of Yangma Island
After a long time, a large black sail gradually appeared on the sea level, heading towards Yangma Island, through the guò telescope, a flying fast ship flying the flagship flag, a young naval officer, through the telescope to observe the situation of the rebel warships sailing on the sea.
"The number of rebel warships is about seventy to eighty, and the strength of the ships is currently impossible to judge, and most of the ships are hundred-material warships, with mixed ship types, and the speed of the ships is very slow! Prepare your fleet for the attack! The young naval officer calmly made his judgment as he observed, and at the same time gave orders for combat readiness.
This young man is only in his twenties, much younger than Yu Xiaotian, named Luo Feng, is the captain of the northbound task force of the Yu Jiajun Navy, responsible for commanding the warships patrolling here, and is one of the youngest officers in the Yujia Army naval system.
Don't look at his young age, but his qualifications are not light, and he can be regarded as one of the first people to follow Yu Xiaotiangan, and he also started as the lowest-level sailor, and then he was gradually promoted, and even now he has been appointed as the head of a detachment, and his military rank has reached the level of major, even beyond Liu Wei and Wu Shengli and others who are sitting here.
The Navy has always seemed to be promoted faster than the Army, and there is no way to do this, any small ship, the captain is at least a second lieutenant, and the Army, because of the rapid expansion in recent years, there are many second lieutenant company commanders, which makes the Army a little unhappy, but this is also a matter of no choice.
Several sea wolf warships, after seeing the change of the command flag on Luo Fengzao's ship, immediately began to prepare for battle, and then adjusted their course and began to seize the upper hand on the sea.
The appearance of these warships on the sea was also discovered by Mao Chenglu on the rebel side, but Mao Chenglu did not feel too nervous, but felt a little happy, after all, the numerical advantage on his side is here, and it should not be a problem for seventy or eighty to deal with seven or eight ships!
If he does a good job, he will be able to rob these big ships at once, and then he will be able to do something good among the rebels.
But he didn't realize at all that these ships were terrible, because there was basically no difference between the warships and merchant ships of this era in terms of appearance, and even the warships used by many so-called boatmen in the Ming Dynasty themselves were the most ordinary ships, but they were used for different purposes.
The distance between the two sides quickly narrowed on the sea, the closer the distance, the more excited Mao Chenglu felt, the boats coming towards them on the sea were indeed too beautiful, big and strong, and they seemed to be relatively fast, especially the three soft sailing boats headed by them, which seemed to be a kind of ship used by the Taixi people, with a beautiful line shape and flexible operation.
Although Mao Chenglu lives in the north, he also knows the biggest difference between Chinese sailing ships and Western-style sailing ships, Chinese sailing ships are used hard sails, while Western-style sailing ships mostly use soft sails, in their eyes, although Western-style sailing ships are beautiful and majestic, but this sail is really a great sailline, this kind of ship can not be better than Chinese-style sailboats.
"Spread out! Surround them! Let's take these boats first! Mao Chenglu stood on his handsome boat, pointed to the unidentified ships coming on the opposite side, and shouted loudly to his subordinates.
After the rebel fleet was ordered, it slowly began to disperse, and opened a wide array on the sea, and the rebels also went to the deck, stood on the side of the ship, and began to prepare for the jump, and loaded the limited guns on board, ready to engage the battle.
Luo Feng's task force quickly seized the upper hand position on the sea, and when the distance between the two sides was shortened to three or four miles, Luo Feng gave an order, and the whole team increased its speed and attacked the enemy ship formation, because the enemy ships were numerous, but the quality was poor, and there were even some very small ships, so he ordered the fleet to be ready to collide.
Among the ships used by the Seawolf, especially the warships, the quality is very good, the wood is made of high-quality wood, and the structure of the warship has been strengthened, and the bow position has been strengthened to the maximum, so in naval battles, when necessary, ramming tactics can be used.
Especially when facing the small and medium-sized ships used by the rebels in front of you, ramming tactics are an extreme way to exert combat effectiveness.
It happened that this time the enemy ships were large in number and poor in quality, in order to be the first to take a look at the face and achieve the best results, Luo Feng chose to use this tactic.
The ships kept a certain distance, arranged a goose-shaped formation, and without hesitation, cut straight towards the rebel fleet.
As the distance between the two sides became closer and closer, Mao Chenglu began to see the difference between the ships on the opposite side, especially the gun doors on the side of these ships, as well as the various cannons displayed on the deck, which were already clearly visible at this time, and it was only at this time that he felt that the ships he encountered today did not seem to be simple.
So Mao Chenglu began to feel a little nervous, and he felt that he was going to kick an iron plate today.
Sure enough, just before the two ships made contact, several sea wolf warships suddenly spit out a ball of flames, and a fierce cannon sound immediately sounded on the sea, and one after another blazing shells flew out of the cannon chamber and smashed into the rebel ships that were babbling and surrounding them.
In just a moment's effort, the rebels really experienced the true power of this most powerful fleet in Asia at present, don't look at these ships are not the most elite main heavy warships of the Sea Wolves, the main guns on the ship are also ordinary twelve-pounder short-barreled guns, but these twelve-pounder short-barreled guns, when facing the rebels' motley warships, the power generated by these rebels has made these rebels dumbfounded.
Because there are no decent ships in the northern Jiannu, and the shipbuilding capacity is equal to none, so for so many years, the officers, soldiers, and sailors in the north do not need to be of good quality, and very ordinary and inferior ships are enough to cope with them, so they have never seen such a fierce fleet as the sea wolf, and even the quality of the ships they use is much worse than that of many ordinary pirates in the south, and the level of equipment cannot even catch up with ordinary pirates.
A fleet like theirs wants to face an enemy of the quality of equipment like the Seawolf at sea and win a naval battle, which is almost like a fool's dream.
Therefore, as soon as the two sides engaged, the rebels were beaten by the guns of the Sea Wolf task force, and several ships that were not very sturdy were not even held up for a moment after being shot by concentrated fire, and then disintegrated or overturned in the sea on the spot.
The rebels all let out an exclamation, Mao Chenglu was also dumbfounded, and exclaimed, only then did he realize that he had indeed kicked the iron plate today, where is this cargo ship! It's the most ferocious warship in the South, otherwise how could these ships be loaded with so many cannons?
And these cannons on the enemy ships are too powerful, looking at the posture it seems that they are all Hongyi cannons, when did so many warships with Hongyi cannons appear here in the north? Whose ship is this?
Mao Chenglu was blinded at once, seeing the fierce fire of these big war ships, Mao Chenglu suddenly became timid, and quickly ordered to give up the siege of these ships, and immediately evacuate here.
Mao Chenglu was self-aware, but when he wanted to leave at this time, it was too late, and he saw that the warships of the seven sea wolves, like seven sharp knives, slashed straight into the rebel ship formation, and without even adjusting the course, they directly crushed the rebel warships that were blocking the way.
The rebels shouted in amazement on the ship, all along, in the Bohai Bay, they thought that their warship was already the most powerful, when had they ever encountered such a ruthless character, let alone such an arrogant enemy.
They are not unaware of the ramming tactics of warships, but they all believe that this is actually only done as a last resort when they are desperate, and the standard method of killing one thousand enemies and losing eight hundred by themselves, even if they can smash their ships, these enemy ships will definitely be damaged.
But the next scene, but they were even more surprised, the seven boats seemed to be the same, all chose an enemy ship, just so directly crushed the past, the sharp bow of the Feizi clipper, coupled with a solid angle of attack, like an iron plow, straight to the enemy ship, only to hear a few clicks, just like a bayonet, first with a sharp angle of impact into the enemy ship, relying on the huge impact energy carried by the hull itself, in an instant to dismember the enemy ship on the spot, the enemy ship to break the waist.
A flying clipper, the cutting angle is not ideal, almost almost collided head-on with the enemy ship, just a little deviation, the collision angle is from the right front of the enemy ship, but what the enemy did not expect is that in front of this strange style of warship, their seat ship is like a paper paste, actually by the flying clipper, it was cut obliquely into their hull, originally they thought that after the hull hit, they could get stuck on the enemy ship, and the enemy ship would be entangled with them, and then they could take the opportunity to climb to the aid of the enemy ship, Jump to the gang and grab the boat.
But what they never expected was that this strange ship, after hitting them, directly diagonally disemboweled their boat on the spot, a good warship, actually stunned that did not resist the collision, was hit by the other party on the spot and disintegrated, the rebel generals on the ship, suddenly screamed and fell into the cold water, not leaving them a chance to jump to seize the ship.
Then, as if nothing happened, the enemy ship swept away the wreckage of their warship and sailed past, leaving behind the sea behind the ship, a fragment of the broken ship, and a large number of struggling rebel generals.
(Today, I would like to thank the two old friends of Da Mo Xiao Xifeng and Winter Solstice 1979 for their tips, and by the way, I will ask for monthly tickets and red tickets!) )