Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 730 The Fleet Victory!

The Jinghua sailors jumped on board, and the captain of Zheng Jun ordered all soldiers who could still fight to rush to the deck.The sailors on both sides fought hand-to-hand amidst the shouts of killing, with swords and swords flying, and flesh and blood flying everywhere.

Captain Liang Sancai took a step back, glanced quickly to both sides, and saw that Captain Zheng Jun was still desperately resisting, and immediately turned to meet him.

Gao Jing, who was holding on to the wooden handrail on the bridge of the "Xinzheng", could even see his Yanling knife improved by Qi Jiguang shining coldly.

When Captain Zheng Jun turned around, Liang Sancai quickly raised the Yanling knife, stabbed it out forcefully, and then stabbed the second knife. From the point of view of stabbing, this Gao family's standard weapon does not seem to be particularly convenient for him.

But his offensive was still fierce, Gao Jing clearly saw the point of his Yanling Saber piercing the man's back, and even seemed to hear the sound of the point of the knife colliding with the ribs.

The captain, who could be called a burly man among the Annan people, screamed in horror, and then stumbled and fell on the deck.Then he yelled again and got up, crazily and desperately strangling Liang Sancai's throat and arms.

Although the ensuing fight looked thrilling, everyone fought with all their strength. On the contrary, few people yelled, and apart from heavy panting and messy footsteps, hardly any other sounds could be heard.

Liang Sancai is only in his early thirties this year, at the age when a man's physical strength and experience have reached a perfect balance, he delicately but without fancy pulls out his arm from the enemy's hand, tearing off the sleeve from the shoulder to the wrist , This made him very angry, cruelly raised the Yanling knife, and slashed and stabbed at the enemies who were still alive, mercilessly, so that blood soon splashed all over his body.

The ensuing battle was one-sided. Seeing that the "Xinzheng" had successfully jumped to the gang, a large number of sailors had boarded the enemy ship, and the "Kaiping" and "Huojia" were also approaching another Frang machine fiercely. The style of play is really not like the highly pragmatic idea of ​​​​building a combat fleet-long-range artillery warfare.

This is a typical fighting style of pirates along the coast of China in the past dynasties: encircling all sides, jumping to help with swords, and the goal is to capture everything!
Zheng Song paid the price for his ignorance of the navy: he only knew that although the Frangji ship was big, it was fast because of its huge sails, but he didn't know that when the battle was in the sea and the wind was not strong, this advantage was It's hard to play out.

Under such sea conditions, the Chinese hard sail is faster and more flexible due to its higher utilization rate of light wind and breeze, and its simple and quick control.

What Zheng Song hoped for, the "kite flying" that let the two Frang machine Da Galen attack with long-range artillery fire and retreat while fighting, is actually impossible to operate at all, not only because of the inability to increase speed, but also because of the numerical advantage of the Jinghua fleet It was too big, when the Xinzheng, Kaiping and Huojia entangled them, the rest of the warships quickly completed the outflank and surrounded them, and then participated in the gang battle.

Many ants kill elephants, let alone ants?
It was more like a big pack of wolves biting two lions alone. Even though the two lions were strong individually, they ignored their heads, and soon fell into the vast ocean of wolves.

The armed transport ships of the Gao family attacked the two large Galen Franchi, while Boss Hu and Boss Li's modified transport ships with less gunfire attacked the remaining warships of the Zheng family.

What's ridiculous is that the mainstays of the Zheng family's navy are the two big Galen, and the rest of the warships are said to be warships, but they are actually worse than Boss Hu's transport ships. It was about to be over, these guys who had been suppressed and beaten by Mo Chao's navy had no courage to resist, they turned the bow of the boat and prepared to run away.

However, Mo Chao's navy is not just for nothing. They are more aware of the pissing nature of these Zheng Jun sailors, and they have already gone around and surrounded them in the rear.Not long after, the desperate Zheng Jun navy began to hang out white flags one by one.

And as the sound of fighting on the two Frangji Galen ships gradually disappeared, the naval battle at Majiangkou ended perfectly.

At the cost of 110 seven people killed and [-] wounded, the Jinghua Fleet defeated without sinking a single ship—or wiped out Zheng Jun Navy!
They sank or rammed thirteen small warships of Zheng's army and captured 39, but the biggest result of the battle was the capture of two large Galen warships with basically undamaged hulls!

In fact, these two large Galen ships were part of the large-scale Galen ships in this period. Later, the British Navy felt that the large Galen ships had poor handling. Although the battery life was good, the overall speed was not fast enough—— The wind was alright, but no one blows it all the time—so the Brits started building new galleons, and scaled them back down again.

But this is not a problem. Gao Yushi has always hoped to get the main battleships of the West at this time, mainly to study the advantages of Western-style warships, and then use them to strengthen and improve their own warship design. It is not that non-Western ships are not used. .

His consistent view is that the key to the West's victory in the age of voyages is not necessarily the ship, but the pioneering spirit.

Poorness leads to change, and change leads to continuity.

The internal cause of the great voyages of the Westerners is mainly due to the rise of the Ottoman Empire, which blocked the traditional Chinese and Western trade routes, so they had to find new routes to connect with the East, and thus the emergence of great voyages.Then, with the huge benefits brought by the great nautical movement, ship types began to be improved and upgraded naturally.

In fact, the disadvantages of soft sailing ships are obvious. Although their adaptability to global routes is not bad, they are definitely not as good as Chinese hard sailing ships when it comes to China's coastal areas, especially the South China Sea.Gao Pragmatism's desire to develop Western sailing warships is nothing more than the consideration of learning from each other's strengths.

Of course, in any case, Gao Jing's perfect victory over the enemy in this battle and the capture of such two giant Galen ships is a great achievement.

Gao Jing, who was relieved, was so happy that he couldn't hold back his pretended serious face. After ordering the doctor accompanying the ship to treat the wounded quickly, he began to count the results of the battle, and then sent the centipede clipper to go back to congratulate the master immediately, and at the same time, a few boats were vacant. The wounded were transported back for treatment and recuperation, while he reorganized the fleet again, entered the mouth of the Majiang River, and went up the Majiang River.

After all, his main task was to attack Zheng Jun's Majiang defense line, and defeating Zheng Jun's navy's ambush fleet was just incidental.But now that Zheng Jun's navy has been wiped out, the Majiang line of defense is actually just a thing on paper-it's just a target on the river, and these thousands of cannons are bombarding, what kind of defense do I care?
Although there are no blooming ammunition, with so many cannons, it is not enough for the land troops to fire solid ammunition. Even if they are not killed, their mentality will collapse.

As the Jinghua Fleet, which almost covered the river, appeared in the lower reaches of the Majiang River, the detectives on the Majiang defense line quickly conveyed the news to Ruan Youliao, the chief general of the defense line.

Ruan Youliao flickered after hearing this, he knew it was over.

The navy is finished, the Majiang defense line is also finished, and even Tsinghua City... I am afraid it is also finished.

After a moment of silence, Commander Ruan Youliao sighed calmly, and ordered: "Give me an order to retreat five miles, and if the enemy lands, go forward... No, wait until the number of enemy landed reaches ours." Half of the current ministries should rush up immediately and fight with the enemy infantry, don't give the enemy navy fleet a chance to bombard it!"

The order was quickly conveyed.

In fact, his order was very thoughtful. Although the Jinghua Fleet's artillery was much more powerful than that on land and had a longer range, it was not capable of shooting five miles away.At the same time, he ordered that when the Ming army's landing force exceeded half of his own side, he would quickly move forward and fight, which also forced the fleet to be unable to fire - it couldn't be bombarded indiscriminately, right? ——
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