Chapter 185: Battle of the Bay of Bengal.

The Ming fleet was several nautical miles away.

More than a dozen warships, large and small, were besieging the two warships in the middle with the Ming flag.

The dozen or so warships on the periphery still use the oldest method of attack.

Ballistas, bows and arrows, oil and other weapons.

The return fire of the middle two ships was artillery fire, which was accompanied by bursts of gunfire from time to time.

But for some reason, the guns and muskets were firing weaker and weaker, and in the end, there were only two or three guns per battleship.

"Lao Qi, do you still have gunpowder over there?"

On one of the two ships, a naval officer with a severed hand, waving his only hand to give orders, turned his head to look at an army officer who was holding a knife and leading his soldiers to prepare for melee combat.

"No, the last bit of stock, all of it was sold out just now, Lao Qu is ready to work hard, our buddies and brothers may have to leave it here."

"It's my brother who is sorry for you, in the next life, my brother will be a cow and a horse, and I will pay you this debt!"

"Hahaha..."

The naval officer burst out laughing.

"If I don't owe anything, if I wasn't greedy, could there be such a thing?"

These two warships were the small detachments sent by Zhu Zhangui at the beginning.

They followed the route they had taken with Zheng He to the sea, and went all the way to Ceylon Island, where Zheng He's fleet once docked.

When they first came, the people on the island were still vigilant, but later learned that it was people from the Ming Dynasty who came here for friendly exchanges, so they relaxed their vigilance and let them dock.

The captain of the navy detachment, Qu Guang, and the captain of the Shenji Battalion, Qi Yuan, naturally did not come here for friendly exchanges.

As soon as they arrived in the locality, they used various pretexts to inquire about the current situation of the three countries, so as to lay a good foundation for the next all-out attack.

After their inquiry, the Tughluk dynasty mentioned by His Royal Highness the Taisun, the third dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate, has fallen.

The present state is ruled by a dynasty called Sa'id, and the king seems to be called Hazr Khan, who claims to be a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad.

The whole country is divided into two parts, this one is called the Sayyid dynasty, which is located in the south.

And in the far north, there is also an invading country, which occupies quite a few territories.

After inquiring about the basic situation, the two did not sit idle and wait for Zhu Zhangui to arrive.

After discussing it, the two decided to set up a boat and circle around the coastline of the three countries, drawing a map of the sea area in order to prepare for future attacks.

After spending some time on the island of Ceylon, the two learned about the situation, bought a piece of land with money, and left hundreds of soldiers to guard it, and then set out to survey the terrain and draw nautical charts.

They first followed Zheng He's route, went west around the coastline, and then turned around when they reached the Indian border, and then went east, reached Bangladesh and turned back.

But unexpectedly, there was a problem on the route to the east.

When the group arrived in Madras, Qi Yuan, the commanding officer of the Shenji Battalion, ate seafood every day and felt a little tired, so he discussed it with Qu Guang and wanted to go ashore to buy some meat and come back.

Qu Guang didn't care at the time, and it happened that he was also a little greedy, so he stopped the boat directly in Madras and asked Qi Yuan to go down to buy meat.

Qi Yuan took people out for a whole day.

Refractor, who was waiting at the dock, was full of slander in his heart.

complaining in my heart, I'm afraid this is not just greedy.

Until it was dark, Qi Yuan ran back in an embarrassed manner covered in blood, and there were thousands of people chasing after him.

At that time, he was startled by Refractor, and when he saw that his partner was being chased and killed, he naturally couldn't watch it.

Without saying a word, he rushed off the boat with people and confronted the other party.

But it's helpless.

Qi Yuan went out to purchase and brought the interpreter with him, but he was the only one who ran back, and it was obvious that the translator and several soldiers he brought out were killed.

The two sides do not understand each other's words, coupled with the fact that they are in a tense situation.

Under the confrontation, the opposite side did not know who shot an arrow and killed a soldier, and the battle broke out in an instant.

The vast majority of the troops from the Shenji Battalion who came to the three countries in Afghanistan were from the escort battalion.

These people followed Zhu Zhangui back then, and they were invincible and burned countless people on the sea, plus they were brainwashed by the supreme words of Zhu Zhangui's Ming Empire, and they looked down on these overseas barbarians from the bottom of their hearts.

The people on their side were killed, and they were all indignant.

And Qi Yuan, who has been hunted down for so long, has a belly of fire in his heart.

Accidents are easy to happen, and he pulls out his knife and gives the order to fire.

The battle broke out in an instant.

The Shenji Battalion shot a round and directly put down a large piece of the opponent.

Seeing that the army was firing, Qu Guang understood that he could no longer take it, and directly ordered the guns on the ship to open the number.

In an instant, there was a sound of gunfire and fighting at the Madras dock.

The two sides fought from evening to midnight, and did not stop until the people on the side of the three countries were repulsed.

After the battle, the two simply cleaned up the battlefield and the corpses of the fallen soldiers, and decided to return to Ceylon first, and take it down there as a stepping stone for future attacks on land.

But when they returned to Ceylon, they found their makeshift camp in ruins.

The hundreds of soldiers who remained behind were all killed, and their bodies were stripped naked and nailed to pillars.

Fighting broke out directly.

The two of them relied on strong ships and sharp guns, and the muskets were sharp, and they directly started a battle with Ah Sanguo.

In the beginning, they won almost every battle, and everywhere they went, the enemy was crushed.

But there are too many enemies.

With the consumption of gunpowder, coupled with non-native warfare, it was constantly attacked day and night.

The soldier's mental power was almost at its limit.

Seeing that if this continues, there is a possibility of defeat.

Qu Guang and Qi Yuan decided to retreat first, return to a fixed supply island in the Bay of Bengal, and wait for Zhu Zhangui's arrival.

But on the day they were about to leave, the sea troops of the three countries surrounded them.

The enemy had about 30 warships, and as soon as they came up, it looked like they were going to swallow them.

In the waters off the island of Ceylon, they fought a naval battle with the enemy.

As they returned to Ceylon, the gunpowder was quickly depleted, and by the time the enemy navy arrived, their gunpowder reserves were less than 1/10.

As soon as the two sides came into contact, the naval detachment exerted great might and directly sank three warships of the other side.

Then it's just a matter of turning and running.

There is no way not to run, the gunpowder is almost exhausted.

They decided to use their speed to get rid of each other, and when they turned back to join the main army, they would come back and beat the gang.

But I don't know why, these Ah San seem to be staring at them, and they don't have the idea of chasing after them at all, and they are desperately chasing behind.

In the middle of the way, he kept using clippers to harass the warships of the detachment.

The roof leak happened to rain overnight.

I don't know if it was bad luck or what's going on, the two battleships behind the detachment, while fighting with the enemy's small boats, entered the reef area, and one of them crashed directly into the reef, knocking out a big hole for the ship, and the sea water was frantically poured in.

The other ship was also trapped in it, and was later surrounded by the small fleets of the three countries, and engaged in broadside battles.

The loss of two battleships at once made the refractive flesh tremble.

Refractive was depressed and aggrieved in his heart, if it wasn't for the fact that when the supply ship came again, he encountered a storm and sank unexpectedly, how could he, who had enough supplies, put all these rags in his eyes.

Not wanting to watch the brothers of the two ships fall into the sea, Refractive decided to rush in and rescue the brothers of the two ships.

The gunpowder on the ship is still enough for a battle, and when the time comes, the people will be rescued, and with the advantage of the strength of the number of people, they should be able to get rid of the other party soon.

Do what you think.

Refractive immediately ordered the battleship to turn around and rushed directly into the enemy formation.

After sinking the opponent's two warships, despite the consumption of gunpowder, he successfully rescued the people of the two ships.

But the enemy did not want to let them go.

In the end, he directly used the way of fighting for his life, regardless of the casualties, and directly surrounded him, intending to use the broadside battle to take the two warships.

The reason why the three are so crazy is that they fancy the guns on the ship.

After seeing the power of artillery, Commander Ah San was drooling with greed.

Thinking that if he had such a weapon, maybe he would be able to ascend to the throne too.

In order to get these artillery, Commander Ah San directly gave a death order to take these ships at all costs.

"Report a layer of artillery bays, there is no gunpowder!"

"The second floor of the report is gone!"

"There's another box on deck!"

The enemy's battleships were getting closer and closer, and news of the gunpowder running out came from the various artillery layers.

Refractive and Qi Yuan just looked at each other.

"All of them, get your weapons ready to fight!"

"And tell the bilge that if we are defeated, open the water inlet valve immediately, these bastards may have taken a fancy to our artillery, and we can't give them these treasures."

"Zeng, Zeng, Zeng..."

None of the members of the ship spoke, and one by one they picked up what they could use as weapons around them, and prepared for the final battle.

"The time has come for the brothers to be loyal to the country, kill!"

Soon the enemy's warships slowly surrounded them, and the broadside battle officially broke out.

Qu Guang and Qi Yuan roared angrily, waved their knives and rushed forward, standing with the three who jumped overboard.

The cold soldiers flickered, and blood splattered.

Ah San and Da Ming, two countries that had hardly fought in history, started fighting hundreds of years in advance in another time and space.

The combat effectiveness of the soldiers of the three countries is generally weaker, but they are numerous.

These Ah Sans were stunned to rely on the advantage of numbers, causing a lot of casualties to Daming's side.

"Woooooo

Just when the battle between the two sides was at its fiercest, the distant horizon remembered the desolate sound of the trumpet.

The two sides who were fighting slowly stopped and looked into the distance.

"Haha, it's our people, it's our people."

At the top observation post, the observer who shoots the enemy with a bow and arrow holds a telescope and glances into the distance.

Looking at the very familiar ship shape and the fluttering Mingzi flag, he roared loudly with excitement.

Refractive eyes lit up, kicked over Ah San who was stunned in front of him, and roared angrily with a blood-stained broadsword.

"Brothers, our main force is here, and victory is just around the corner for Lao Tzu to kill!"

"Kill!"

When the reinforcements arrived, the morale of the soldiers of the Ming army, who had planned to fight to the death, reached its peak in an instant.

One by one, they were not afraid of life and death, roaring, and frantically slashing and slashing the enemy.

"Remind Lao Tzu not to go to the northern seas, there are reefs over there!"

Cutting over the refractive light of an enemy, he suddenly remembered something and roared at the observer above.

The observer reacted at once, hurriedly threw away the bow and arrow in his hand, picked up two flags, and waved them desperately at the group of battleships in the distance.

Li Hu, who had already climbed to the watchtower, saw the flag of his own ship in the telescope, his face changed slightly, and he picked up the walkie-talkie and said quickly: "The warship on the right side has canceled the order, there is a reef over there, immediately return to the main force and attack the main fleet head-on." ”

After giving the order, Li Hu was glad that he was in danger for a while.

Fortunately, the ship over there reminded itself of this side, otherwise there would be losses on the side of the main battleship.

This is the trouble of being unfamiliar with the sea.

Where there are reefs, where there are shallow areas, it's easy to get caught up in them if you don't know it.

The Navy is different from the Army.

The army is lost, so it's a big deal to look for it slowly.

If the navy does not know the situation in a certain sea area, every point of travel is a test of life.

Reinforcements suddenly came from the enemy, and there were several times more battleships than they were.

The naval commander of the three countries was frightened and hurriedly ordered the whole team to retreat immediately.

It was so difficult for them to fight 4 warships, and there were hundreds of them on the opposite side, and their dozen or so warships of different sizes were probably not enough to stuff the other party's teeth.

Seeing that the enemy wanted to run, Li Hu sneered, picked up the walkie-talkie and ordered.

"The rear detour troops speed up, these guys are going to run, don't let them run!"

"The main fleet picks up, catch up with them and eat them! Once in range, shoot immediately without reporting. ”

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the fastest Jiaolong No. 3 and No. 4 ships were the first to enter the range of heavy guns on the bow.

"Fire!"

With the command of the artillery commander, the two heavy guns in the bow of the ship opened fire first.

There were four cannon shots, and four shells flew forward with a roar.

But the accuracy of shooting on the sea surface can be said to be extremely poor, let alone such primitive artillery.

In the first round of firing, all four shells missed.

The nearest shell, still a few hundred meters away from the enemy fleet.

A few minutes later, the reloaded gun was fired again.

This time it was a little more lucky, and three shells were straddled.

Looking at the cannonballs flying overhead, Ah San's commander was covered in a cold sweat.

The two sides were still so far away that the enemy was about to hit him.

It was hard for him to imagine how powerful this country really was, and how to develop such a terrifying weapon.

With the firing feedback, the gun commander resets the angle according to the calculations.

The third round of shooting officially began.

Boom, boom, boom, four cannon shots rang out again.

This time there were two shells, which fell on the side of the enemy ship.

During these three rounds of firing, the heavy guns of several more battleships hit the range.

In the fourth round of firing, more than a dozen heavy guns roared in unison.

More than a dozen shells rubbed against the air and made a sharp whistle, and two of them smashed heavily into the enemy's ship, knocking the ship of the three countries out of two large holes.

One chases and one runs.

In a few moments, the great encirclement of the navy was finally formed.

Looking at the Daming Navy slowly surrounding them, the officers of the Three Kingdoms let out an unwilling roar!

Then an order was given to hang the flag and surrender.