Chapter 209: Annihilation of the Qiongzhou Naval Division
"The fleet stays in formation." Seeing that more than a dozen Canton bird ships of the fleet of the Right Battalion Navy Division were directly scattered under a round of pirate shelling, the guerrilla veteran was shocked.
"Put!"
"Bang bang bang!"
In the cabin, the huge impact force caused several Saiko guns to move back violently, and the gunners hurriedly pushed back to their gun positions.
The narrow cabin was filled with smoke in an instant, and the smell of sulfur and gunpowder choked some Ming officers and soldiers from opening their eyes.
"Aim at the ship and sink it!" On the emplacement of a nine-pounder Saiko cannon, a Ming flag officer pointed out the window, about 200 paces away, a ship that had already been lit with thick smoke.
A famous Qing soldier can be seen hurriedly thrown into the sea.
In fact, strictly speaking, they were just some transport ships that ran near the coast, and were later converted into warships by Qing Dynasty sailors.
Compared with the specially built gunboats of the Ming Court Sailors, they are really vulnerable in comparison.
In addition, these ships were basically small and medium-sized ships, with no gun holds, and under the raging storm, even the few pitiful small cannons on the ships could not be used.
Soon, the three rushing boats of the main force led by the right battalion were capsized by the artillery of the Ming warships.
The four main warships of the Ming army do not seem to be too small.
It was hard to use the hull of a huge warship to ram more than a dozen small boats on the sea.
In just half a pillar of incense, more than a dozen clippers were sunk by Ming officers and soldiers.
The rest of the clippers, with a small U-turn, actually ran to the right of the main ship of the right battalion.
On the contrary, let the main warships of the right battalion give these small boats to the queen.
"My lord, three large pirate ships have surrounded us and the others." A sailor shouted in a panic.
The main ship of Youying is a three-masted Daguang ship, which is similar to the Fu ship used in Fujian and Zhejiang.
However, due to local conditions, the wood used in the two types of ships is different, and the toughness of the ships of the Hirobune is much higher than that of the Fukubune.
It means that the skin of the wide ship is rough and durable, and it is very resistant to beating.
Earlier, a Tiger warship shelled several rounds in a row.
A series of more than a dozen shells hit the three-masted ship of the right battalion, and it was vaguely visible that several of them hit the cabin.
However, apart from the billowing smoke, it did not have much effect, and the ship still fled into the distance.
"Catch up with that Guangzhou ship, pass the order, and the whole army sailors, if they hit a cannon, they will be rewarded with 100 silver yuan." Li Du looked at the main ship of the right battalion of the Qing army that was fleeing not far away, and said loudly.
At the Admiral's command, the sound of long live instantly sounded in the cabin.
The muffled thunder on the sea became even more rapid, and one after another six-pound and nine-pound lead bullets smashed into the sea in the distance.
"Brothers, don't retreat, the ship turns the rudder, and we will fight with this pirate." The guerrilla general, who was more than half a hundred years old, finally couldn't stand the bullying of the Ming army's sailors, jumped on the deck, and raised his arms.
The clay man also has three points of anger, as the Great Clear Water Division, he was beaten by a group of pirates and fled in a hurry like a lost dog, and many officers and soldiers of the Navy Division naturally held back a bad breath, and after hearing the words of the main general, they also stopped running.
One by one, they clenched their weapons in their hands loudly.
Due to the torrential rain, the Qing army's firearms were only the four old guns in the cabin. …
However, these four old guns have been in disrepair for a long time, and they have long been embarrassed. What's more, in the artillery battle just now, there was already a gate that was completely smashed into a pile of scrap metal by the Ming army's six-pound lead bullet.
At this moment, the Qing troops on the deck could only pick up their bows and arrows and shoot towards the Ming warships in the distance.
The three Ming warships were very chicken thieves, using a circular tactic to surround the Qing army's Canton ships, but they opened fire on the Cantons hundreds of paces away.
In just a few rounds of artillery, the Guangchuan was hit by the Ming warship with seven or eight rounds of lead bullets, and finally, the cabin was overwhelmed and completely cracked, and a large amount of seawater poured in, but the hull of the ship was submerged in the sea with just a cup of tea.
A large number of Qing officers and soldiers in uniforms floated up, some were still struggling, and some had already gone with the flow.
The traces of blood were already swallowed up by the deep ocean, and at a glance, the ocean was nothing but pitch black.
To Li Du's surprise, the destruction of the left battalion of the Qing army's naval division was even faster than the destruction of the right battalion of the Qing army.
Under the fire of thirty or forty heavy guns of six Tiger Ben warships in Fuyang Town.
There were only more than a dozen Qing army boats, and the bird boats had no way to survive at all.
Shang Kuiwen, the deputy general of the Qiongzhou Naval Division, did not escape far at all, and was chased by two tiger warships.
It was only two rounds of shelling three or four hundred paces away, and smoke rose from Shang Kuiwen's main ship.
The powder keg in the cabin was collided with the flying nine-pound lead bullets, and finally ignited a burst of fire.
The fire engulfed the entire cabin in a short time, and more than 20 Qing sailors who had no time to escape in the cabin were buried in the fire.
"My lord, the heavy rain has hindered the spread of the fire, but none of the officers and soldiers in the cabin have escaped." A sailor reported to the general.
The deck was already full of wounded soldiers, most of whom had been burned by the fire.
Instead of escaping from the cabin, they attempted to put out the fire, only to be consumed by the swift flames.
Fortunately, the torrential rain was pouring at this moment, and the heavy rain hindered the continued spread of the fire.
But after a glance at himself, more than 20 Qing warships sank and capsized.
Shang Kuiwen couldn't help but have black eyes and fainted.
In this battle, the Qing army Qiongzhou sailor drowned,
Dear, this chapter is not finished, there is still the next page oh ^0^ More than 700 people were killed in the battle, 300 were captured, and no more than 100 escaped.
The loss of the Ming army was only two Fu ships and eleven officers and soldiers.
"This Qing army sailor is really vulnerable." Looking at the wreckage of the ship floating on the ocean, as well as the corpses of Qing officers and soldiers, Qin Yu, a guerrilla in Fuyang Town, sneered.
In fact, the Ming Army's naval division went to Taiwan's Zhengjia Naval Division, and the sailors fought with Shi Lang's Fujian Naval Division, and then went south to fight with the Spanish Navy in Luzon.
and successively exterminated several groups of South Sea pirates, giants.
The officers and men are good at naval warfare, and they have Western-style firearms and warships, which are not something that these Qiongzhou sailors can compete with.
The battle situation at sea soon reached the ears of the Ming army in Changhua.
This great victory in the naval battle was tantamount to inspiring the Ming officers and men of Changhua.
"I didn't expect my Daming sailor to wipe out the Qing army's sailor on Qiongzhou Island so easily." On the Changhua city wall, Wang An looked at the majestic rain in front of him and sighed.
He was originally a sailor in Shuishi Town, and was later promoted to a marine battalion guerrilla.
Naturally, he knew the strength of the Ming Army's sailors, but he was still a little surprised that the Ming Army's sailors were so easy to exterminate the Qiongzhou Navy.
"Earlier, I saw the ships of Fuyang Town and Fubo Town in Changhua Harbor, they have eight Tiger Warrior Ships, which are much larger than the Fu ships in our Sailor Town, and I heard that they are carrying six heavy guns of more than ten pounds." An adjutant general smiled wryly.
Naturally, the Ming army had factional struggles.
The Sailor Town and the Marine Battalion were both Xiao Wu's army, and under Xiao Wu's command, it was naturally impossible for Liu Yu to hand over the most elite Tiger Ben warship to him.
Therefore, the largest warships configured in Sailor Town are just some lucky ships that have just been renovated.
Dear, this chapter is over, happy reading! ^0^