Win the Ding 1617

Liuluo Bay turned into a sea of ​​flames.

The Fujian Navy of the Ming Dynasty was divided into five fleets according to the strategy and tactics of the governor, the forward, the left wing, the right wing, the rangers, and the Chinese army. Among them, the most powerful Zheng Zhilong's forward fleet mainly attacked the Dutch. The tasks of the remaining four fleets were Cooperate with Zheng Zhilong's fleet to encircle and suppress the Dutch and attack Liu Xiang's pirate ships.Oh, the common name is soy sauce.

Zheng Zhilong's fleet launched an attack on the Dutch in three waves. The first wave was led by the general Chen Peng, and the warships of Zheng Ran, Lin Cha, Chen Lin, Yang Geng, Su Cheng and others attacked the Dutch large plywood ship. Shock; the second wave was commanded by the sentry officer Cai Qi, and as a response, the main combat task was to burn the enemy ships; the third wave was commanded by the sentry officer Lin Xishan, and cooperated with Cai Qi to destroy the enemy ships.

Facing the attack of the Fujian Navy of the Ming Dynasty, the Dutch are worthy of being European coachmen across thousands of miles of sea, and quickly made tactical adjustments: the main force of the fleet, nine plywood ships lined up against the rock wall, fully utilize the plywood The naval gun firepower of the ship's three-tiered gun deck.With the small sentinel ships of the Liu Xiang Group as the periphery, block and delay the attack of the Daming Navy.

"Dafo Langji! Fire!"

The commander of the first wave, General Chen Peng, waved the command flag in his hand, facing the pirate ship of Liu Xiang's gang who was adjusting the angle of the sail and trying to turn the rudder to attack the fleet, and brazenly issued an order to fire.

The fleet of Chen Peng and others can be said to be the essence of Zheng Zhilong's department. Almost all the Dafolang machines purchased in the past are installed on these ships, and all the gunpowder used is matched with them.

Facing their old companions who rushed to the battle not far away, the Chen Pengs showed no mercy.A large Francophone erected on the head of the main battleship Daqing, whose bow was painted blue.The gunners quickly fired the first round of shells.

The gunners quickly manipulated the cannons in their hands, loaded each of the guns, and ignited the fuze of the Dafolang machine. In the dim light of the stars, the little sparks appeared brighter and brighter.

"Boom! Boom!"

The big boat where Chen Peng was on, whose bow was painted blue, fired first.Cannonballs flew towards the ships of Liu Xiang's troops not far away.

It is a pity that although the Zheng Zhilong Navy purchased a large number of large-scale Flang aircraft produced in Nanzhong, the firepower of the fleet has increased several times compared to before.However, the power of artillery in this era still comes from salvos. As for shooting accuracy, it basically depends on luck.Dozens of shells hit high water columns in front, back, left, and right of Liu Xiang's fleet.It completely woke up the sailors who were still half asleep.

"It's your mother's fault! Zheng Yiguan! How much enmity do I have with you? You actually came to fight against me in person!"

Watching quickly from far to near.The big blue-headed warship that kept spewing flames and projectiles along the way couldn't help Liu Xiang jumping and cursing at the bow.

As everyone knows, although the bow of Zheng Zhilong's ship was painted blue before, but.Since the purchase of a large number of Dafolang machines.At the request and suggestion of Zhibao, Zhihu, Zhibiao and others.Zheng Zhilong painted all the warships equipped with Dafolang machines produced in Nanzhong in blue, as the logo of this class of warships.

"Father, what should we do?!"

In the oblique stab.Liu Jiu's warship rushed out of the fireworks, his face was black and red from the flames and smoke, a section of his hair was burned by the flames, and the battle robe on his body was also burned with big holes and small holes by the sparks.The sailors on the ship behind them hurriedly lowered the sails that had been ignited by the hot shells, and lifted the wooden barrels on the ship to fight the fire.

"Zheng Zhilong, you bastard! You're desperate! I don't know where you got so many cannons. I see that his cannons are not much less than the Dutch!"

Liu Jiufang just brought his own boats forward to try to intercept the shock waves of Chen Peng and others, but unfortunately, in the face of the dense bullet rain, one of his six boats came back, and it still came back with fireworks.

Looking at Zheng Zhilong's navy rushing towards him from the southeast corner of Liuluo Bay along the east wind, Liu Xiang gave the order without hesitation.

"Signal! Order all ships to turn their rudders to the west and retreat with the wind. I won't fight Zheng Yiguan recklessly! Let's talk at sea!"

Then, a very strange scene appeared.

Zheng Zhilong's big green heads desperately pounced on the fleet of nine Dutch plywood ships from the southeast corner to the depth of Liuluo Bay.But Liu Xiang's fleet, which was scattered around the periphery, quickly gathered its ships and shifted to the southwest direction with the wind. The two fleets almost passed each other.

"Brother, what should we do? Hit or not?!"

Zheng Zhihu was on Zheng Zhilong's ship, the real Daqing, looking at his old enemy Liu Xiang who wanted to flee westward, the guy who almost killed him, waved the iron steel sword in his hand, and asked his brother for military orders.

"What are you panicking! After killing the Dutch red hairy man, Liu Laoxiang is a dead fish! I can eat whatever I want!"

On the watchtower of the mast, Zhilong looked through the binoculars at the ships under Liu Xiang who had escaped from the mouth of Liuxiang Bay, and sneered, "This Fujian, you, Liu Laoxiang, don't come here again. Already!"

"Zhihu! You go and tell Zhibao to take the boat behind you, and you take ten boats to chase Liu Laoxiang! Remember, bite his tail, don't fight hard with his main force! Eat one bite at a time Drop him!"

"okay!"

Putmans also saw such a despicable scene on the flagship Meadeborg. When the enemy came, the swearing ally led his subordinates to escape. This made Putmans hold the telescope hand because The knuckles protrude and become a little whitish due to force.

"This bloody traitor!"

"Order Dagou, chase after him, and bring this guy back!"

"Your Excellency, now is not the time to pursue traitors. I think we should repel the Chinese attack first, or quickly break through their encirclement! Look!"

Following the adjutant's finger, Putmans had a clear view of the situation on the sea with the help of the rising sun in the east and the dancing flames on the sea.

About [-] large so-called "junk ships" were in front, and they kept firing shells at the Chinese pirate ships along the way.To drive them away to clear a waterway large enough for a ship to travel, their purpose is very simple and direct, and that is to go straight to the nine plywood boats of Putmans!Behind them, there are densely packed sails, there are about a hundred warships.

From the flames of the artillery fire, the firing speed of the artillery, the water column stirred up when the shells fell into the water, etc., Putmans quickly made a judgment: "Zheng Yiguan's fleet is based on the so-called Dafo Langji. The main artillery! I said that his Chinese-style Fuchuan can't install so many cannons! Signal to each ship, with the Dog as the lead, and the Meadeburg as the middle, and the whole ship fires. Get ready Breakout!"

"Lin Cha, Chen Lin, Yang Geng, Su Cheng. The four of you will rush up and attack the ship that is the leader of the red-haired ghost. You must take it alive!" Chen Peng directed his fleet to Swooping forward, four warships went straight to the flagship of Meadeborg.Go attack the leader ship of the Red Hair Yi.In order to achieve the effect of capturing the thief first and capturing the king first.

The fleets of both sides poured shells and anger on each other.With the help of the wind speed, they are getting closer and closer, so close that they can almost see the muzzle of the opposite ship clearly.

"Damn! This Dutchman's plywood boat is really much bigger!" Lin Cha, the sentry officer, admired on his own battlefield, and then ordered: "Flanger, big and small. Change all the shotguns! Attack the people on his deck! "

"Battlegunner, get ready! Hit the peepers in his boat!"

We have introduced in the previous article that there are generally six or seven small boats on the Dutch plywood boats, which can be used as traffic or lifeboats at ordinary times. The officers and sailors of the opposing ships fired.

Hearing the orders from the sentinel officer, and thinking about the reward issued by the commander, every Dutch red haired barbarian on the opposite side is worth at least 50 taels!The sailors suddenly became excited, and the speed of replacing the guns became faster and faster.

Dafolang machine is made of wrought iron and made of iron mold casting method. It is composed of mother gun and sub gun. Each gun is equipped with several sub guns. The ammunition is pre-loaded, which is very similar to modern post-loading shells. , which is much faster than the general smoothbore gun.However, due to machining accuracy and sealing, the range is generally not very far. The range of these large Francophones sold to Zheng Zhi is generally within [-] paces.But for bombardment at sea, this distance is enough!

Several gunners unloaded the empty sub-gun, and they picked up a sub-gun placed next to them, checked the ammunition loaded in the sub-gun, and then installed the sub-gun into the thick long shape at the back of the female gun. In the hole slot, use a concave iron rod to drive down, and align the two mouths of the sub-gun and the mother-gun.

There are lugs on both sides of the gun body of these Franco machine guns, which are placed on the wheeled gun mount, and the shooting angle can be adjusted by pitching the gun body according to the distance.At this time, the distance between the ships of both sides was about a hundred or so paces, which was the best range for Dafolang's cannon.After the loaders placed the guns.Immediately, the aimer of each gun compared the front sight and rear sight equipped on the gun body, and used a single eye to adjust and aim at the figures moving on the deck of the Dutch plywood ship from a distance.

"A good position!"

"Hello B!"

"Seat C is good!"

"Ding is good!"

The aimers of the four large Franco cannons on the bow adjusted the angles of the cannons one after another, and each cannon announced that it was in a firing state.

Sentinel Lin Cha looked at the Dutch flagship Middelburg, which was getting closer, and he could almost see the facial features of the people on the deck.He waved the command flag in his hand violently, and shouted loudly: "Fire!"

The gunner of each gun immediately took out a long red-hot iron hook and pointed it at the fire door.

"Boom boom boom!"

The gun bodies of the four large Francophones vibrated for a moment, and the gun mounts bounced back, and then the gun bodies were quickly reset by the huge reaction force of the springs, and a puff of white smoke was spewed out from the gun muzzles. The white smoke was mixed with flames. Shotgun shells weighing eight coins jumped cheerfully at the people on the Meadeburg in the light of the fire. .

The people on the first deck are busy operating the artillery, trying to give this group of arrogant ex-pirates a little color, let them know what is called a naval battle, but they did not expect that this group of ex-pirates adopted such inhuman techniques means.

"what!"

"God!"

"Damn it! I got shot!"

I don't know whether it's luck or misfortune to be shot and fell to the ground on the deck, rolling in pain in a pool of blood, while the companion next to me was hit like a honeycomb by the dense shotgun shells, with blood vessels and bone scum exposed. , muscle tissue and an unknown fluid.Disgusting to watch.

"Damn! These sons of bitches! Fire!"

Putmans was a little angry.Seeing the miserable conditions of the sailors and gunners on the deck, he ordered to bombard several Chinese navy ships that were dead or alive.

Dozens of cannons on the Dutch's three-story gun deck began to bombard Lin Cha and others. The close-range bombardment allowed the artillery to fully exert its power, and almost every cannon hit the target.The huge impact made the shells have a huge lethality, piercing through the thick wood, and the pieces of wood flying around became the accomplices of the shells. Several sailors were covered with shattered wood pieces. fell dead.

"Taro, you should be able to join the gang! It's up to you!" He simply estimated the distance between the ships with his eyes.Sentinel Yang Geng gave instructions to a guy in general uniform beside him.The commander-in-chief known as Taro was the person that Zheng Zhilong followed when he was in Hirado, he was best at jumping gangs, and slashed and killed with a Japanese sword after boarding the boat.Invincible.

"My lord, please wait for my good news!" Taro bowed to Yang Geng.Gently twisted the Japanese sword blade made of iron steel with your fingers.He nodded very satisfied, "My subordinates demanded that the head of the Dutchman be beheaded. Can the bounty be paid with Nanzhong Tongbao?"

After getting Yang Geng's consent, Taro let out a whistle in satisfaction.Fifty or sixty Japanese soldiers who were short in stature but nimble like apes, all holding steel knives and short spears, threw hooks or ropes with iron claws at the opposite Dutch ship.

Amidst bursts of strange screams, groups of Japanese jumped onto the Dutch warships, and many people threw ropes because they did not calculate the distance between the ships, and then jumped out of Daqingtou The unlucky guy of the warship was crushed to pieces by the constant ups and downs and collisions of the ships.

What's more, when the Japanese threw out his iron claws and hooked the plank of the plywood boat and was trying to climb upwards, the Dutch cut off the rope with a sword, and with a muffled sound, he was transferred into the water, and just emerged from the water He turned his head, but was smashed to pieces by the oncoming hull of the ship.

Even so, more and more Japanese successfully jumped onto the deck of the plywood boat. Taro waved the precious sword in his hand, and kept hacking and killing the oncoming Dutchmen.

He and his companions were all warriors who failed back then. After the lord failed, he became a ronin, and was later recruited by Zheng Zhilong. He had already put his own life aside.Before the start of the war, Zheng Zhilong paid a lot of money for these Japanese who were responsible for the task of jumping into the gang, "Ten taels of silver per person, twice as much for jumping up, and 50 taels for beheading the Dutch. You can choose the form of payment! "

50 taels of silver!If it is replaced by Tongbao or rice, the family in Fusang can live a few years with good food and drink!

So, when the naked feet of the Japanese soldiers stepped on the deck of the Dutchman's ship, they all rushed towards the Dutchman like crazy tigers.Or holding steel knives or short spears, they fought bloody hand-to-hand with the Dutch on the narrow deck.

<berdijck号，都有那些该死的矮子！”

Facing the warriors of these former famous men, the hand-to-hand combat ability of the Dutch is as weak as a baby. Putesman saw those short soldiers hacking the sailors and soldiers of his fleet to the ground more than once. , and then quickly cut off the head and tied it around his waist as a proof for going back to record his merits.

"Damn savage!"

A Japanese soldier holding a five-foot short spear in his hand (a reduced Sangmen Spear, which Zheng Zhilong used to equip sailors, specially used on ships), stabs forward suddenly. The spear was stabbed between the chest and abdomen of a Dutch sailor. The Japanese soldier slipped and tripped over something. The spearhead slid down and cut the sailor's belly open. The blue-purple intestines slipped It came out and flowed all over the place in a blink of an eye.The sailor roared for some unknown reason, raised the short-fired gun in his hand and fired at the soldier wielding the spear.The flames and projectiles spurted out of the muzzle together, knocking the soldier's right arm into the air, and both of them fell on the deck, twitching their bodies in agony. The Japanese soldier pulled out the saber at his waist with his left arm, He strenuously chopped at the sailor's neck, grabbed the yellow hair on his head tightly with his hands, and muttered to himself, if the people around him had the energy to listen carefully to Fusang's words in his mouth, it would be, "Mom , Mom, now that we have money, I can marry Shunzi."

"Musketeers! Musketeers!" The surviving people on the deck shouted loudly. Without the cover of the musketeers, in the eyes of these lunatics in Fusang, they were the military leaders of 50 taels of silver.

The hatch opened, and a dozen soldiers armed with guns rushed up from the second-floor ship deck. Under the command of a non-commissioned officer, they quickly lined up in two rows, squatting in the front row and standing in the back row.

"Fire!"

A row of firecrackers hit, and seven or eight people on the deck fell down, including Fuso people, Dutch people, and even Chinese hired by the East India Company.

"Fire!"

A second wave of reinforcements from below decks pulled the trigger again.

Dense projectiles were flying in the air, screams in various languages ​​came and went, and amidst the salvo of firecrackers, more than a dozen Fusang soldiers were knocked to the ground, and some of them were hit by more than one blunderbuss. In the space, the firecrackers lined up to shoot a volley, achieving unprecedented accuracy and lethality. It is said that these Fusang soldiers are only wearing fat jackets, even if they are covered with several layers of heavy armor, the lead bullets of the firecrackers will also It was easily penetrated, and everyone's internal organs were beaten to pieces.

Taro, the leader, had several huge blood holes on his body, his right hand was broken by a bullet, and the Japanese sword in his hand was thrown somewhere.His legs were also dripping with blood, and he knelt down on the deck. With a strange smile in his eyes, he stroked the two Dutch heads hanging from his waist, and almost exhausted all his strength towards Yang Geng who was facing him. Shouted in Fusang dialect.

"I beheaded two Dutchmen, remember to give the bounty to..." (to be continued...)