Traveling through the Ming Dynasty, as soon as you open your eyes, you will die

As the combined fleet headed north, the color of the water suddenly changed. The fleet left the Yellow Sea and entered the Bohai Sea.

The Shandong Peninsula is already in sight.

Zhang Shenyan and Zheng Hongkui discussed with Yu Minzhong and the ship docked at Lao Denglai to pay their respects.

Climbing up to the original home of the naval camp in Dengzhou, the old bustling and bustling place has long since disappeared, and the war and iron horses have also passed away. In the early days of the military camp, the ground was already covered with weeds, and under the remaining broken walls and ruins, numerous bones from the past could still be seen.

Walking towards the original Denglai governor's office, only the foundation stones were left.

Zhang Shenyan took out a memorial text for his old brother Yuan Keli: "Wow!" and a gorgeous memorial text came out. The old man was moved to tears by himself, and the group of generals were confused after hearing this.

But tragic, yes, the tragic atmosphere fills the world.

Standing in front of the old site, Zheng Hongkui and Yu Minzhong drew their swords and swore: "Sooner or later, my subordinates will destroy the Manqing Navy and avenge Yuan's husband Zu."

"Report——"

"What's the matter?"

"Inform the two admirals that Manqing Navy is here to kill them."

Zheng Hongkui and Yu Minzhong glanced at each other and then laughed: "This opportunity for revenge has just arrived. Old Master Yuan has a spirit in the sky and has sent his enemy to the door. Well, since Old Master Yuan is eager for revenge, then my subordinates This will fulfill my husband’s wish.”

Then Zheng Hongkui faced Yu Minzhong: "Please forgive me, brother, for usurping the throne. I will personally destroy the scum of Denglai Navy who surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty. I will also destroy him with my own hands."

Yu Minzhong shook his head: "Now that the Bohai Sea is under the control of our Northern Navy, how can I face the enemy and borrow the help of friendly forces? Just in time, I will use them to present gifts to the regent of the country."

The two argued for a while.

Zhang Shenyan stood up and said with a smile: "When there is an opportunity to annihilate the enemy and serve the country, I also want to get involved. You two will attack together. Can I invite my own supervisor?"

Zheng Hongkui and Yu Minzhong were overjoyed when they heard this: "I don't dare to ask you for what I wish." This was a chance to repay their benefactor.

"Okay, in that case, I have ordered everyone to go, everyone to go. Master Zheng will avenge Master Yuan, and Master Yu will present a gift to the regent."

The horns were blaring all over the sky, and all the warships of the navy in the south and north of the Yangtze River, with 500 bows, sailed into the Bohai Sea to meet the enemy.

Seeing the 500 battleships of the Manchu Navy approaching in a menacing manner, with the yellow flag flying above, Zheng Hongkui smiled: "Haha, we are still old friends."

Yu Minzhong asked cautiously: "What is this person's ability?"

"I am only allowed to wave a sail."

Huang Zhihuan rushed towards the Ming Dynasty Navy. When he saw one of them, it was flying the flag of Zheng Hongkui. At that time, one head was really three big.

At that time, the admiral of the Denglai Navy was Zhang Dake, but that man was just a man of integrity and loyal to Yuan Keli.

The real admiral of the Denglai Navy is actually the deputy commander-in-chief. This guy can really fight. I am not even qualified to rock oars and set sails for others, so I am in trouble.

But the military regulations of the Qing Dynasty were strict. Treating a surrendered general, if you die in battle, your family will be rich and prosperous; if you run away, your entire family will be executed, and no one will survive.

Now that you're here, let's fight.

As long as they rely on help, jump off the ship and fight hand-to-hand, and there are many Qing soldiers on the ship, facing the Ming army, they can win.

So he immediately gave up the artillery bombardment and decisively ordered, "All ships, rush straight into the Ming army's formation, prepare to fight hand-to-hand with help."

He had all the troops here. Zheng Hongkui smiled at Yu Minzhong: "The enemy is going to win by fighting hand to hand. We must not let them succeed. You and I will use long-range artillery to destroy them."

Yu Minzhong immediately replied: "You are on the left, I am on the right, surround them from the outside, and sink the junk directly to feed the bastard."

After saying this, the two men immediately hoisted flags to their fleet.

The two armies are brothers who have fought side by side for many years and have a tacit understanding of cooperation. After receiving the order, they acted immediately. The two fleets, one on the left and one on the right, like two arrows from the string, cut across the front of the enemy fleet and immediately seized the downwind.

The reason is that as long as you carry out shelling to destroy the enemy and seize the disadvantage, you can maintain a certain distance from the enemy ship in the tailwind and continue to fire guns to attack the enemy.

It was already winter, and the north wind was strong at sea. The two fleets cut across each other and turned their sides to face the enemy ships. The gun door on the side of the ship opened, and the black cannons roared for the first time against the Manqing Navy.

After a burst of white smoke, solid projectiles roared out and hit the enemy directly.

The first bombardment had little effect. Thousands of shells were fired, but almost none hit them. They only stirred up water columns in the sea, which seemed to make a forest of sea water grow in the sea.

But don't worry, it's just the gunner adjusting the test fire.

These veteran gunners who have fought with foreigners and pirates countless times are all experienced.

After the test firing was over, the second batch of cannonballs were red-hot iron bullets flying out, and several enemy ships were hit. Thick smoke arose from the flying debris. The Qing soldiers on the ship were busy putting out the fire.

The enemy's naval guns were also fired, but the enemy's shells, which were neglected in training, were even more unreliable. They were all based on their character, so they all hit the sea.

But the enemy ship still charged forward with full sail, desperately trying to get closer.

Yu Minzhong sneered, raised the flag again, and ordered the bow cannons of his battleships to fire chain bombs.

The chain bomb consists of two hemispheres with an iron chain in the middle, which are then bonded with beeswax. When launched, the two hemispheres separate, dragging the iron chain straight towards the enemy's sail, and then twist and tear the enemy's sail into pieces with a roar. And beeswax can ignite sails, which is an absolutely black technology in naval warfare in this era.

Chain bombs flew out one after another, pulling the iron chains straight in the air, spinning them, whizzing towards the enemy ships, tearing apart the sails and setting them on fire. The burning sails fell over and burst into flames. The sails that had been smeared with tung oil suddenly burst into flames and were out of control.

The battleship that lost its sail power stopped and immediately blocked the way of the battleship behind it. In order to pursue the enemy, the warships got very close, and for a while the sound of the warships colliding was loud.

Faced with such a chaotic situation, how can Huang Wenhuan, the second-hand man, have any way to deal with it? The soldiers on the warship where the fire broke out could only be ordered to abandon the ship and escape.

But this is the Bohai Sea in winter. As long as the soldiers jump into the sea to escape, they will never survive.

His own warship was in a pursuit formation, and his bow could only face the numerous cannons that cut across the sides of the Ming army's warships, while he could only rely on one cannon on his bow to meet the enemy, which was even weaker in terms of firepower density.

The most fatal thing is that he was in pursuit, and as a result, a group of warships huddled together, making it impossible for more warships to use their artillery power. In front of the two naval battle veterans on the opposite side, he became even more timid.

The enemy's two fleets always kept a certain distance from their own battle group. They drew beautiful arcs outside their own battle group, smoothly changing the sides of the ships, and always maintained intensive firepower. fry.

On the Bohai Sea, nearly a thousand battleships were fighting together, shuttling back and forth in the water column forest. Battleships continued to have their guns caught on fire, and battleships continued to shatter and sink.

On the sea, more and more people fell into the water, sinking and floating, and finally froze to death in the cold sea.

Huang Wenzhuan looked at his sparse firepower. For the enemy, it was almost better than nothing. The enemy's silky movement and intensive firepower smashed his warships layer by layer like peeling green onions. Now he is really on the verge of crying.

Seeing that it was impossible to jump to another country and there was no hope of annihilating the enemy, Huang Wen changed the order and the whole army retreated.

Seeing his flag, Zheng Hongkui smiled coldly: "If you want to run away, leave the head behind."

Immediately ordered one hundred of his warships to cut across the enemy's head to block the attack. Yu Minzhong immediately ordered his fleet to grab the enemy's buttocks and continue to draw arcs to bombard and annihilate the enemy.

This was a one-sided naval battle.

It was an eye-opener for Zhang Shenyan.

Zheng Hongkui and Yu Minzhong asked for instructions: "The naval battle is about to end. Do we want to capture some enemy ships?"

This time, the self-proclaimed governor had the right to speak: "That was all the hard work of my predecessor, Governor Yuan of the Ming Dynasty, but they were ruined like this. Only ten enemy ships were left to praise their merits, and the rest were all Sunk. Our regent has a habit of not leaving traitors behind and not accepting Qinguo’s surrender.”

The two of them shouted loudly, "Respect the life of the Governor."

For a time, the sound of artillery on the sea surface became denser, and for a while, the huge battlefield was completely enveloped in thick smoke and fire. It was so spectacular.

The battle continued until dusk. Finally, out of the 500 large and small warships dispatched by the Manchu Navy, only ten were left standing alone on the sea covered with broken wood and broken sails. They became the spoils of the first battle of the Ming Dynasty's Northern Navy.

Huang Wen changed his temper and committed suicide directly for the sake of his family in Daqing.

After joining the transport ships behind them, the two fleets of the Ming Dynasty set sail again, escorting ten captured warships, and sailed into Tianjin Port with the pride of victory. (End of chapter)