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Chapter 229 Fleet Attack
"Leave these navy flags down and replace them with the flags of our Fuliao Army, and they will be our own people in the future."

The five summoned warships docked, and Chu Yun ordered the different naval flags to be withdrawn.

When the commanders of these ships came ashore and saw the Victory and Nelson, they felt a little complicated.Admirals from the three countries of Great Britain, the United States, and Spain are actually gathered here, and they are people of a frightening era.

"I am Hauer, the captain of the USS Constitution. Although the USS Constitution is not a battleship, it is equipped with 28 24-pound and 10 12-pound guns. It has a crew of 400 and is fast. It can be used as a main ship." The captain of the cruiser said to Chu Yun.

"Come on, your pitiful 30-odd cannons are comparable to battleships. You really are not afraid of laughing at people's big teeth." The captain of the Spanish battleship mocked.

"The hull of our USS Constitution is made of 1500 oak trees, and its defense is extremely strong. If you don't accept it, we will fight it alone in this sea area!" Hall became angry when he heard it.

"Ahem, everyone, I didn't invite you here to compete with each other." Chu Yun stopped the farce in time, "You five warships form a separate formation, with the Atlante as the Main ship."

Although the Constitution does not look weak, not inferior to the three types of battleships built locally by Chu Yun, Chu Yun still chose to use the more magnificent Spanish battleship with 74 guns as the main ship.

The next day, the battleship Daqi in Naha Port led 4 frigates to Miyako Island.Miyakojima concentrated almost all the warships of the Navy Department of the Liao Army.There are as many as 4 battleships, 17 frigates, cruisers, and several supply ships!

"Divided into four formations, Victory, Atlante, Daqin, and Daqi each command 3-5 warships." Nelson reorganized the fleet.

"Let's go!"

Chu Yun bowed his hands, and 21 warships set sail, and they all set sail!

Thousands of pirates gathered on Ishigaki Island, and their leader is the powerful Zheng Zhihu faction among the Eighteen Zhi. With Zheng Zhilong as the backer, Zheng Zhihu's troops are developing rapidly. , Korea's trade.

However, the recent rise of the Liao Army in southern Liaoning, Eastern Liaodong, and Ryukyu has caused a rapid decline in Dongying's demand for Shibazhi's products.Many powerful vassals in Dongying no longer need to travel thousands of miles to buy goods at high prices from Shibazhi, because there are cheaper industrial products in southern Liaoning, as well as a large number of goods provided by Ming merchants who want to trade in southern Liaoning from the southeast coast.

The loss of market share in Japan and Korea forced Zheng Zhihu to find a way to seize the Ryukyu area, trying to regain the trade with Japan by occupying Ryukyu.However, his carefully planned attack was defeated and retreated to Ishigaki Island under the suppression of the firepower of the Liao Army Navy.

In the past two days, Zheng Zhihu was very worried. Most of the pirates who were abandoned on Miyako Island were wiped out by the whole army, but they were only a few hundred people, so he didn't care.However, the terrible firepower of the Liao army fleet made him feel fear.This is no longer a matter of attack failure. If the Liao Army breaks through the Yaeshan Islands and aggressively attacks the northern part of Yizhou, the base of Shibazhi will be threatened.

"How is it? Did the elder brother send reinforcements?" Zheng Zhihu asked a pirate who sent a message.

"The leader said in the letter that Liu Xiang and others seem to have two minds recently. He is negotiating with the officials of the imperial court about taking refuge in the imperial court. He can't allocate a fleet to support us for a while. Let us stick to Ishigaki Island. If the situation is unfavorable , then retreat to the north of Yizhou."

"Brother is confused this time. He probably thought that we blamed this defeat on the strength of the Liao Army, so that he exaggerated the strength of the Liao Army, but the Liao Army is really strong!" Zheng Zhihu wanted to cry. tears.

The rest of Shibazhi have never seen the horror of the Fuliao Army. Even if he, Zheng Zhilong and others said that the Fuliao Army had a huge monster equipped with hundreds of cannons, they would not believe that there would be such a terrifying moving castle on the East China Sea. After all, even the Western warships active in Nanyang have never heard of hundreds of cannons.

"Boss, what should we do this time? It has been two days, and there is not necessarily any movement from the Liao army. They are probably afraid of our large number of ships, so even if they suffer from being dumb, they dare not attack us, right?" Zheng Xing, Zheng Zhihu's subordinate, said.

"Fart, we are the ones who suffer from being dumb! Have you ever seen a successful sneak attack and lost three warships and hundreds of troops?" Zheng Zhihu was furious when he mentioned the sneak attack two days ago, "You took people on the coast Deploy a few more cannons on the hills on both sides, even if the Liao army's fleet attacks, the forts on our island will attack with the fleet, and they will never come back."

"I will take people to strengthen the defense of Ishigaki Island." Zheng Xing said.

Just when Zheng Xing was about to take his soldiers to patrol the defense, the pirate ships patrolling the coast quickly returned.

"The fleet of the Fu Liao Army is attacking!" People in Ishigaki Island panicked.

"Look at my crow's mouth..." Zheng Zhihu's face turned pale, "Drumming spread throughout the army, board the boat to meet the enemy!"

Following Zheng Zhihu's military order, the pirates entrenched on Ishigaki Island hurriedly boarded the warship, ready to fight.The two forts deployed on Ishigaki Island each deployed a few cannons, and the pirate gunners were also in place.

"Bring my sword." Zheng Zhihu took the sword and led more than 300 pirates to board his ship.This warship was equipped with more than 20 advanced cannons bought from the West, and the cannons alone cost tens of thousands of taels of silver. It was Zheng Zhihu's most important warship.

Shibazhi's pirate flag fluttered in the sea breeze, and Zheng Zhihu's ship took the lead, with more than 20 large and small boats lined up on each side, the small ones were even the size of ordinary fishing boats, without even a cannon.

But just this kind of ostentation has already boosted Zheng Zhihu's confidence.To kill him, the Liao Army Navy must at least be prepared for heavy losses.

"The Fu Liao army was attacking each other with Hou Jin in Liaodong a few months ago. When did their navy become so powerful?" Zheng Zhihu always couldn't figure it out, "Do you think Westerners are supporting them behind their backs?" ?”

"Westerners are not philanthropists. Their cannons have to be bought with real money, and they are expensive. Look at the Liao Army's warship with a hundred cannons, no Westerner with a few hundred thousand taels would sell it to They? Where did the Liao army get so much money?" Zheng Xing also wondered.

While the two were discussing, the fleet of the Liao Army finally appeared on the sea level.

A three-deck behemoth appeared first with a few younger brothers, and then there were three battleship formations on the left and right to help out, and more than 20 warships came aggressively!Compared with the fifty or sixty uneven pirate ships, these 20 or so warships are like a group of giants standing on the sea!

"Impossible, it's only been two days, how come the number of their fleet has doubled again!" Zheng Zhihu seemed to have seen a ghost, other people's fleets were getting smaller and smaller, so why did the warships of the Liao Army keep fighting more and more? many? !
(End of this chapter)