Chapter 490

The sea is like a moody shrew, turning her face when she says it, and when the Ming Expeditionary Force fleet is busy preparing to deal with the storm, the storm has quietly struck.

The sky was not obscured by dark clouds, but rather like some mischievous god pouring a vat of ink down in the clouds and slamming it with a mop, and in an instant it was as black as the bottom of a pot, and it was heavily clasped on the surface of the sea.

"Boom ......"

Thor's roar shook everyone's eardrums, and the whip of thunder tore through the pitch-black sky and pumped all the way to the top of the man's head, and the dark sea was illuminated by the bright light of the lightning, and then plunged into deeper darkness.

"Boom...... Thundered!!! ”

The violent sound of thunder continued one after another, deafening, and the sky was constantly illuminated by electric light, as if the lightning in the sky had gathered in this direction.

The sky trembled with the sound of thunder, as if an enraged god was standing in the clouds, throwing powerful lightning bolts one after another at the fleet.

The sea also went berserk, and the wind on the sea changed from a breeze to a violent wind in a very short time, pushing the waves with terrifying force to form stacks of crests, and the group rushed towards the fleet like a charge, and the howling of the wind and the roar of the waves were matched with the rumbling thunder, and the might of heaven and earth was enough to turn the bravest man into a coward!

Mighty fleets were defenseless in the face of the storm and were overwhelmed in the first turn, with some ships even washed up to the deck by the waves, and poured into the waterfall from every place where it could enter!

Every plank on every battleship groaned, the cracking sound was faintly audible, and every soldier turned pale with fright, and some even screamed: "We're finished!" ”

The Indian Ocean seems to be determined to give them a dismount, the wind is getting stronger and stronger, even if the fleet lowers the sails at the first time, the warships are still uncontrollably rampage on the sea, and that speed cannot be stopped at all.

The torrential rain was pouring down, and the white expanse between the sky and the earth could not distinguish between the southeast and the northwest, and the lightning was swirling in the rain curtain, and the rain silk was also carrying electric sparks, and no warship could escape its blow.

I don't know how long it took, Li Zhixiang suddenly found that the storm seemed to have passed, but the problem was that in his sight, he didn't see a Ming warship.

"Send a signal flare, tell the surrounding warships, and immediately move closer to Ben Shuai!"

"Yes!"

"Whew......"

A red firework shot up into the sky, and the warship should be able to see the movement for more than ten nautical miles, or even twenty nautical miles, but after half an hour, there was still no response.

"It's really fucking disadvantageous!"

Li Fang found that this storm caused the Dayuan fleet to cause 16 warships to be damaged to varying degrees, as for the Lushun fleet, it was even worse than the Dayuan fleet, a full 21 warships were damaged, fortunately, the problem was not too big, the battleships that entered the water were draining, and the damaged warships were also being urgently repaired.

But the problem is that as the flagship of the expeditionary force in this expedition to India, Li Zhixiang's battleship "Luoyang" has lost its trace.

Chen Dachun's eldest nephew, Chen Fugui, who often cursed, has indeed surpassed Chen Dachun in military rank now, and he is now serving as the rank of lieutenant colonel of the combat staff officer of the Dayuan fleet.

Chen Fugui said: "We won't be so unlucky, right? The first expedition, I still want to make a good start, if we lose the commander-in-chief, then even if we destroy India, we can't make up for this big mistake! ”

Since the establishment of the Ning Navy, no high-ranking general has been killed in battle, not to mention that the current Li Zhixiang is still serving as the chief of the navy, and his rank is a person who can get the marshal's scepter, and if he loses the marshal, he can't be punished too much.

"What a fucking accident!"

Li Fang smiled bitterly and said, "Order all the undamaged battleships to disperse immediately and quickly look for the Luoyang battleship!" ”

However, the problem was that there was no news for one day, no news for two days, and until half a month later, there was still no news, and Li Fang was already desperate, and he ordered all the warships, with he, the commander of the large fleet, as the acting commander, to stop searching for the Luoyang and attack India.

So more than 200 warships marched towards India.

However, it was not until they got close to the mainland that the Venetian pilots discovered that they had actually lost their way, and the original plan of the Ming Dynasty was to attack Calcutta and Chennai directly, only to find that they had actually come to Tamil, in the south of India.

"It's not like you're lost, as long as you're sure it's India!"

Li Fang looked at the dense forest in front of him and said, "Is it rich here?" ”

"It's okay, it's a little bit worse than the north!"

"Find a landing site and prepare to land!"

Navarral is a Tamil, the son of a powerful chieftain, who has been brave and aggressive since he was a child, and has not been on the battlefield to fight, and he has not pulled the conflict between his tribe and other tribes, and has participated in all of them.

In recent years, the Tamil Kingdom and the Sinhalese Kingdom have been exhausted, and the European colonizers have been pressing forward step by step, and they have to join forces to fight the enemy, but there has been no war for a year or two, and Purampilai's tribe has also reached a reconciliation with the tribe that has always been against them, and the aggressive Navarral can't find an opponent who can make him addicted to war for a while, which makes him very depressed.

Just when he was very depressed, one of his subordinates told him: "Countless large ships have come, and they have begun to land!" ”

Navarral subconsciously asked, "Is it a white devil?" ”

"This time is different! Those people are yellow-haired, black-eyed people! ”

"It's not a white devil!"

Navarral immediately became interested: "Let the warriors of the tribe attack and take out those bastards!" ”

Except for Navarral, who has suffered the losses of white people, he is not afraid of others.

So Navarral gathered nearly 3,000 tribal warriors and told them: "The arrival of the white man has disrupted our lives. They have plundered our land, hunted our people, the young, the elderly, and the children, they are all demons! But we're not afraid of them. Our warriors are more grass than the moors, our lads dwarf even the fiercest beasts with their courage, and we have exchanged a large number of horses from the whites to kill all the invaders. ”

"Kill all the invaders!"

More than 3,000 Tamil heavy cavalry rushed towards the place where the Ming navy landed.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

The movement of more than 3,000 cavalry is still very large, like rolling thunder, from far to near, at first I didn't feel anything, but when it reached my ears, it shocked people's hearts and made people's hearts palpitate.

The Daming Navy and Army, who were busy establishing a tidal flat position, jumped up suddenly, and fled to the prestige, only to see a stream of smoke and dust rolling towards this side, coming extremely fast!

"Woo Woo ......"

A red firework rose into the sky in the distance, which was a signal of the enemy's attack, seeing this scene, the Ming Marine Corps immediately set up artillery, holding Chongzhen's eight-year-old bolt-action rifle, and began to prepare rocket shells.

"The enemy is coming, prepare for battle!"

The first to react was actually the battleship that had not yet completed the landing, and with the current artillery range of the Daming battleship, the tidal flat positions of more than ten miles were within the range of the ship's guns.

"Boom ......"

A four-inch naval gun was the first to fire, and the cannonball flew out with a piercing scream, smashing into an orange fireball in the middle of the Tamil cavalry, and the sharp shrapnel flew everywhere at a rapid speed, tearing the huge body of the war horse, releasing a large stream of blood, and the good war horse fell with a bang, and immediately tripped the war horse behind it.

Then more naval guns fired shells at the cavalry position, and the shells blew up the Tamil cavalry, but unfortunately, the naval guns of the Ming Navy fired too fiercely, and more than 3,000 cavalry were dropped by two-thirds.

These Tamil cavalry actually didn't react, they have no way to retreat now, as long as they retreat, they will definitely be bombarded, these black-skinned cannons are much more fierce than the white devil's artillery.

"Rush up and hack them to death!"

Navarral also knows that retreating now is a dead end, and there is only a chance of survival if he continues to rush forward.

It's just a pity that at this time, I saw those black bark trees in front of me raising iron pipes.

"Woo Woo ......"

A puff of white smoke erupted from the mouth of the pipe, and one after another fire dragons roared out, and in the blink of an eye, they hit the middle of the cavalry group, and with a loud bang, hundreds of cavalrymen were blown up.

Navarral was so frightened that he almost cried: "Where did this devil come from!" ”

At this point, it was finally the turn of the infantry of the marines, who had already aimed their rifles at the cavalry and pulled the trigger.

"Bang ......"

Hundreds of tongues of fire burst out at the same time, a loud sound more terrifying than all the sounds they had ever heard shook many people's eyes, and the crazy cavalry in the distance seemed to be struck by lightning and burst into a large cloud of blood mist, and dozens of horses fell at once, tripping the cavalry who followed closely behind. 、

These cavalry rushed too violently, crowded too densely, fell headlong, and it was difficult for the rear to avoid, so they ran into it directly to avoid it, and then they were tripped over, and then they continued to crash up, and they continued to be tripped over, like dominoes, this scene made the Tamil warriors and Navarral stunned!

"Bang ......"

There are not many surviving cavalry, and the big horses, either dead or wounded, the Tamil warriors who are lucky not to die, staring blankly at the black-clothed soldiers in front.

"Bang ......"

The soldiers of the Ming Royal Marines, loading and shooting at the fastest speed, began to deal with those surviving cavalry, and at the same time, naval guns, artillery, and rocket artillery slammed out, and every shell that fell in the middle of the cavalry group would set off a rain of blood.

The Tamil warriors were all stunned.

It's a pity that the soldiers of the Ming Royal Marines did not stop shooting, this is an expedition with no future, don't think about the credit, they lost their commander, this is a big mistake, everyone may be the last expedition, so they poured all their anger on the Tamils.

Naturally, they didn't know that in fact, their commander was not a big deal, Li Zhixiang only had about 300 people around him now, but they went to Ceylon, which is a country that is very good at death.

Zheng He was the only country that had fought against the Ming fleet during his voyage to the West. Zheng He went to the West seven times, and there were a few countries that provoked the Ming fleet, but most of them knew each other very well, and immediately confessed after the Ming army was angry, and escaped the revenge of the Ming army.

Only Ceylon's unlucky urge provoked the Ming fleet not only did not admit it, but also intensified, wanting to charge the master in front of the Ming army, but was beaten into a grandson by the Ming fleet in a blink of an eye.

Two hundred years later, history repeats itself again, when the Ming fleet reappeared in the Indian Ocean, it was Ceylon, the unlucky one, who urged the first to jump out and die, and made a new realm, and one guy offended the marshal of the Ming Navy to death!

Li Zhixiang's boat Luoyang hit the reef and was stranded on the beach, and all the soldiers were also jolted, and before they could react, hundreds of Ceylon soldiers rushed directly towards the Luoyang, and they relied on the large number of people, and once rushed to a position less than a few meters to Li Zhixiang's side.

Li Zhixiang even smelled the stench coming out of the mouths of the Ceylon soldiers, but fortunately, the guards around Li Zhixiang were all three-gun soldiers, and as guards soldiers, they were not only armed with rifles, but also with two self-defense revolvers.

The long-range strike firepower of the guard unit is seriously insufficient, but the melee combat is super strong, especially with two revolvers in hand, which can fire twelve bullets in a dozen breaths.

At least at a distance of thirty or fifty paces, they can be one-to-three, or even one-to-five, and if they deal with a straw bale army like Ceylon, one-to-ten is not a big problem.

The guards around Li Zhixiang killed more than 400 Ceylon soldiers, and at this time, Ceylon realized that they had encountered hard stubble, and when they sent an interpreter to contact Li Zhixiang, Li Zhixiang knew that they were in Ceylon.

"You don't know that we are from the Ming Kingdom?"

Li Zhixiang roared angrily: "Don't you forget if you don't know? ”

"What else do you want?"

Li Zhixiang was so angry that he burst out: "You guys wait for Lao Tzu!" ”

"Dashuai, heroes don't suffer immediate losses, we have few people, we can't deal with them!"

Li Zhixiang said with a smile: "People are less fart, go and tell those Westerners, tell them that Lao Tzu is the Ming Ocean, hire them to clean up the Ceylonese people, and are willing to send troops, and this commander will be grateful!" ”

You must know that the so-called explorers of Westerners are actually pirates, and only when they can't beat them, they will do business honestly, and when they learn that the Ming Dynasty is ready to clean up Ceylon, then they are naturally willing to follow the Ming Dynasty to clean up Ceylon.

Soon, there were more than 400 Westerners around Li Zhixiang, as well as more than 100 Ming merchants, more than 500 people, plus more than 300 guards, it was enough to clean up Ceylon.

Li Zhixiang led more than 800 people to kill directly in Ceylon all the way, leaving no grass behind.

So, Li Zhixiang became Wang Xuance's second.

(End of chapter)