Chapter 617: The Battle of Chongming (Part II)
Shi Lang deserved to be a fierce general of the Zheng Army's naval division, and after deciding to use a chain of ships to burn the warships of the Jingbei Army, he personally boarded a Haicang ship and commanded the fleet to continue the attack.
The main general took the lead, and the Zheng army sailors were also greatly boosted, and one by one they exerted their strength, pulled the sails, and moved forward desperately.
But what they don't know is that Shi Lang's Haicang ship supervised the battle, and there were considerations, the most important thing is that the Haicang ship is small, and the chance of being hit by the Jingbei army's artillery is naturally much smaller, and the second is that the Haicang ship belongs to the No. 4 Fu ship, which is relatively flexible on the river, which is convenient for rapid evacuation from the battlefield.
"Boom, boom......!"
In the face of more than a dozen No. 2 Fu ships of the Zheng army rushing up, the heavy artillery of the Jingbei Army's naval division once again erupted into rage, this time not only a Galen ship and fifteen bird ships on the left flank opened fire, but the artillery on the main fleet in the middle was almost all fired at the same time.
Hundreds of large and small cannons rained down on the fast-moving Zheng Army's naval division warships again.
"Click, click, click......!"
In the roar of artillery fire, the sound of wood breaking, one after another, countless cannons formed a barrage of death in the direction of the exit of Nanmen Port.
Although the artillery of the Zheng army was also roaring, the difference in numbers made the advantage of the artillery of the naval division of the Jingbei Army give full play to the advantages of the artillery of the Jingbei Army, which was only a few miles wide.
One after another Zheng Jun warships were shattered in the dense artillery fire, and the sailors on the warship rolled down into the vast river like dumplings, and if they were lucky, they could still hold on to a broken log, and use the water to swim desperately to the shore, but if they were unlucky, they didn't have time to show their proud water nature, and they were swallowed up by the waves stirred up by the cannons.
"Open the cannon, open the cannon, open the cannon to Lao Tzu."
Shi Fu was already red-eyed, as the commander-in-chief of the fleet of Zheng Jun's sailors to cover the advance of the serial ships, the fourteen No. 2 Fu ships under his command had been damaged by the fierce artillery fire of the Jingbei Army, but he had to rush.
As Shi Lang's uncle, Shi Fu is fifty-three years old this year, in terms of age, he is already a veteran in the Zheng army, and he is also one of the few veterans in the army.
The journey of about one mile is about half a pillar of incense for Zheng Jun's No. 2 Fu ship, but the time of this half pillar of incense makes Shi Fu feel extremely long.
The warship was still advancing, but the artillery of the Jingbei Army was hitting more and more fiercely, and the warships in front of him were constantly destroyed by artillery fire, which made him extremely angry.
"Boom, boom......!"
At this time, there was no need for Shi Fu to organize an attack, and the hundred households who commanded the ships also knew the value of their existence, which was to buy time for the fireships behind them, and one by one they kept ordering the artillery at the bow of the ship to return fire.
However, the firepower of the Zheng army's warships was so thin and weak in the face of the firepower of the Jingbei army fleet, and the only counterattack would only bring more artillery coverage.
In the artillery battle, there were indeed a few bird ships that had to withdraw from the battlefield because they were hit by the Hongyi cannon, but the lucky ships behind them could immediately rejoin the battlefield, which made the officers and soldiers of the attacking Zheng Army's naval division all have a frightened mind, because they didn't know how many warships the Jingbei Army still had to fill the gap, and at this moment, more than ten main warships had been damaged.
"Half a mile ahead, come on, brothers, another half a mile, we can turn defeat into victory!"
Shi Fu desperately boosted his morale, even though his flagship was riddled with holes, even if the bottom of the ship had been smashed by cannons seven or eight holes, but he was still desperately brandishing his long knife, and he was making his ship moth to launch a suicidal charge.
"Boom......!"
"Boom......!"
The Zheng army's warship, which was less than a mile away, became a live target for the naval division of the Jingbei Army, and the ammunition depot on Shifu's flagship finally did not avoid the cannon bombarded from the front.
After a violent explosion, the entire warship was blown to pieces, and dozens of Zheng soldiers were pushed into the air by the surging air waves, and then suddenly, they fell heavily into the turbulent river, and then were swept into the bottom of the river by the rolling water.
Shi Fu was not spared, he personally operated the cannon to fight back, and was blown to minced meat on the spot, and at the same time, several other Zheng army warships that served as death squads were also devastated, which will be full of broken logs rolling with the waves, and Zheng army sailors struggling to survive in the water, as well as countless corpses like fish bubbles because of choking on water.
"Uncle...... Light a fire for Lao Tzu, push the fire boat over, and burn them. ”
Shi Lang, who witnessed all this, broke out with a bloody wail, Shi Fu was not only his uncle, but also his guide to enter Zheng Jun, to put it mildly, it was actually Shi Lang's reborn parents.
If Shi Fu hadn't taken him to Zheng Zhilong to become a bandit, Shi Lang would have starved to death in his hometown of Jinjiang, where would there be the current scenery.
Of course, he ordered the launch of the serial ship at this time, which was also fully calculated, and he had already estimated the frequency of the Jingbei Army's artillery attacks and the firing direction of the guns on the warship, and at the same time, after such a long period of firepower coverage, Shi Lang believed that the barrels of the Jingbei Army's naval divisions were estimated to have begun to get hot, which was naturally conducive to the arson attack of the party.
Serial ship, as the name suggests, is actually two ships connected, interlocking with iron rings in the middle, resembling a ship, in fact, two ships, the front ship carries fireballs, smoke, sand, poisonous fire and other firearms, in addition to the front ship bow has a big nail, during the battle, once close to the enemy ship, the soldiers on the back ship will untie the hook on the ship, and then push the ship towards the enemy ship, the soldiers use the rear ship to evacuate, it is really a close attack weapon.
Relying on the fourteen No. 2 Fu ships and suicidal cover, forty-one of the more than 50 serial ships carried by the Zheng Army's sailors finally entered the attack range, that is, the area less than one mile away from the Jingbei Army's warships.
With Shi Lang's order, the ignition on the ship in front of the serial ship was instantly ignited by the Zheng army soldiers, and those sailors skillfully untied the iron hook hanging on the front ship, raised the pole in their hands and desperately pushed the ignited warship towards the Jingbei army fleet.
"Pass the order, all the warships use the cover of the fireboats to move forward at full speed, this time we must break through the encirclement of the Northern Army Naval Division."
Zheng Hongkui, who had already reloaded the artillery, gave a brazen order, he knew that this was his only chance to escape, and the brave won when they met on a narrow road, although the Northern Army Naval Division was strong and strong, but he was confident enough to fight out of the encirclement in one fell swoop, and he must also kill it, because the size of the Northern Army Naval Division made him fearful.
He didn't expect that the Shandong Army, which had asked the Zheng family to assist the warships three years ago, was now so powerful that it actually had a Fran machine-based warship that the Zheng family did not have.