Win the Ding 1617

() "Reporting the Victory in the Suppression of the Red Barbarians Zou Weilian, the governor of Fujian, would like to write this title, as a humble official supervising the sea, defeating the Red Barbarians, I would like to report the great victory, and present the prisoners, in order to honor the heaven and ask for trouble."

Zou Weilian, the governor of Fujian Province who was in Haicheng, received various battle reports from the front, especially Zheng Zhilong sent people about the battle process of burning and capturing the Dutch plywood boat, which made him very excited. "After this battle, the atmosphere of pirates along the coast of Fujian is empty!"

"If the Dutch are defeated, then Liu Xiang, Satsuma's leader and Li Dashe are all clowns, and there is nothing wrong with it." One of his confidantes joked aside.

"Immediately! Immediately write a letter of victory to the imperial court, and report the situation here to the emperor for all to know, so as to relieve the worries of the emperor!"

"Zhilong is a generous man. He repented and swore to destroy the barbarians. He destroyed his family and rewarded his men. He has not been launched for a long time, but his plan is perfect. Although he borrowed the strength of the generals, he has fought to the death. His hard work has paid off, and his heart is clear. Today Since Meng Ming was able to make amends, the minister should treat Deng Qiang like Wang Meng, and please be promoted to reward his outstanding achievements. His subordinates Chen Peng, Guo Wei, Hu Mei, and Chen Lin captured the false king of the sea together, and they were crowned bravely. The three armies, Xu should break the rules. Yu Bian meritorious service, all should be rewarded equally. As for the generals from all walks of life, the soldiers are poorly paid, and they all use partial divisions to go to the ministers, encircle and attack, and make more enemies. To achieve the great victory of complete victory, the power to fight to the death is nothing."

In the inscription, Governor Zou first repaid Zheng Zhilong's meritorious deeds in a very regular manner, reporting his deeds one by one. .

"In the early years of Tianqi, the city of Penghu was built. People said that at that time, the army was used for two years, and the salary was 18. It could only burn one plate.

In the situation where the Dutch seemed to be introduced, and looking back on the previous battle process, Governor Zou calmly took some credit for himself.have a look!In the era of Apocalypse, I fought for two years and spent 18 in military pay. In terms of the results of the battle, I only burned one plywood ship and took back Penghu. In this battle, my result was burning and capturing six Dutch ships!And it depends on the first battle!

"My lord! My lord!" Mr. Zou was writing a large pen like rafters, and the Chinese army outside the door rushed in.

"General Zheng sent his younger brother Zheng Zhibao to report the victory! Escort the heads of Liu Xiang, Li Guozhu (that is, Li Dashe, the son of Li Dan), Liu Jiu and others to this point. Please check the seized thieves!"

After politely meeting with Zhibao, a successful emissary with a reputation as a scholar, after saluting each other, and ordering someone to offer tea, the governor began to ask about the heads and other items escorted by Zhibao for the war inspection ahead.

"My brother led the boat division in hot pursuit, and chased to the ocean of Nan'ao Island, and caught up with the retreating Dutch boat division and Liu Xiang's troops. With the help of the friendly army, we fought head-on, and Liu Xiang's troops collapsed! Our army Then he will be captured!"

Hearing Zhibao's introduction of the situation of the former enemy, Governor Zou couldn't help but feel a little regretful. It seems like a great achievement, and it is necessary to share some benefits with Guangdong and Guangxi!But just because of the wretches of Nan'ao Island, they were lucky to be able to stop the fleeing Dutchmen and Liu Xiang and others!

"The aid of the Ministry of Guangdong and Guangxi intercepted the black-tailed Cantonese boat head-on, and it was done with restraint and respect." Governor Zou reluctantly added a stroke to the title book for his colleagues in Guangdong and Guangxi.

But is that the case?

On the wide water surface from Brothers Islet in the east to Nan'ao Island in the west, the battle was actually doomed from the very beginning.

The fleet of Liu Xiang and his son and Li Guozhu, compared with the navy of the South China Army, needless to say, the gap between the ships is needless to say. One side is mainly Chinese-style blessing boats and bird boats. The relationship between the structure and the keel, most of the artillery is erected at the bow, and there is no gun deck.As for the navy of the South China Army, each ship has at least [-] artillery pieces, and the maximum mass of the projectiles fired at once ranges from several hundred catties.

In terms of the physical strength of the crew, the Dutch side has been fighting Zheng Zhilong's navy since dawn, not to mention the huge physical exertion, and most of the crew members are basically barely a grain of rice except for occasionally drinking some water to moisten their lips. Jin, finally escaped from Liuluo Bay, rushing westward for more than a hundred miles of water, it can be said to be extremely exhausting.The sailors under Shou Han had been waiting on Nan'ao Island for a long time after eating and drinking enough to recharge their batteries.

"Array!"

The guard waved his hands lazily, and Chu Tianlei, the commander of the fleet, gestured to the standard bearer and the commander.

With the waving of the flag on the top of the mast and the sound of a few sharp horns, the practice fleet that intercepted Liu Xiang's fleet on Nan'ao Island quickly arranged fifteen ships into a green dragon formation, which is the so-called "T" formation. .

Adjusting the formation and arraying were carried out silently in front of Liu Xiang and others. The capital ships were placed in a horizontal formation, and the muzzles of the gun windows were opened one by one.

Looking at the dozen or so big boats lying between the escape passage and Nan'ao Island, Liu Xiang suddenly felt a war between two forces, and it was quite convenient to be blown by gusts of sea wind.

I know my own affairs.Although Liu Xiang's fleet still has fifty or sixty ships, hundreds of large and small artillery pieces, and thousands of sailors and sailors, the tactics they use are still jumping gangs to fight hand-to-hand to win the battle, which can only be regarded as land battalion by boat.And the ships on the opposite side are almost exactly the same as those of the Dutch, or even better!Streamlined hull, large-scale full sail, three-layer straight-through gun deck on the side, and a new type of navy equipped with boring guns.

What's more, on every ship of the South China Army Navy, there is a piece of equipment that Xiao Huamei calls Dad's trump card.The primary artillery mirror developed by Galileo, Descartes and others!

A binocular periscope composed of two monocular tubes, a direction angle measuring mechanism, a height angle measuring mechanism and a tripod composed of an artillery team mirror.Made of brass and nine-turn steel as the main materials, brass has become the main material for manufacturing the lens barrel, and nine-turn steel is used to manufacture brackets and platforms to support and fix other parts of the mirror body.

The eight-fold magnification allows artillery observers to clearly observe the battlefield, search for targets, reconnaissance terrain, observe the shooting effect and measure the deviation of the blasting point through the binocular periscope. coordinate.

The two lens barrels can be rotated around the hinge axis, and can be opened arbitrarily within the range of 0°~180°, so as to enhance the stereoscopic sense or increase the periscope height when working under concealed conditions.The range of direction angle measurement is full circle.The range of high and low angle measurement is generally -300 ~ +1000 mils, and the precision of angle measurement is generally 1 mil.

This is the first technical achievement made by three mathematicians and scientists for Shou Han after they arrived at Nanzhong, and combined with Nanzhong's technicians. There is such a good fortune!

"Ah, you have to remember that the army may be able to rely on individual bravery to succeed for a while, but the navy must be a service that uses new technologies and cultural knowledge intensively and strictly emphasizes discipline."

Let the precious daughter carefully observe the opposite Liu Xiang fleet through the lens barrel of the artillery mirror, and Shou Han still does not forget to instill concepts for her daughter in time.

"My lord, please ask the gunner, all the guns have been loaded and aimed, can you fire!?"

"start!"

Shou Han waved his hands, as if trying to drive away the non-existent flies.

"Aim and release!" The stripped naked gunners in the cabin quickly completed various movements under the command of the gunner. Everyone's movements were as natural and smooth as flowing clouds, and there was no redundant movement.Under the strict and almost cruel training, people have become accustomed to this way of fighting.Accustomed to being restricted by various rules and regulations to become a certain link on the assembly line, they don't need willfulness, and they don't need any wit. They just need to be a screw on the war machine in accordance with the requirements of the regulations and the orders of the chief. , carry out the commander's order and will unconditionally, then the huge, precise, and efficient war machine will automatically blast the enemy in front of it into scum, and the next thing for the gunners is to receive their own rewards .

According to the combat experience summed up by the navy division of the Nanzhong Army, the hit rate should be around [-]% for concentrated artillery fire at a distance of no more than [-] steps.

The purpose of Shou Han's battle this time is to completely destroy the Liuxiang Group and capture his members as much as possible, rather than killing them. Therefore, the artillery's close-range shooting discipline is even stricter.

"Three hundred steps to hit these lucky boats and bird boats is easier than shooting targets!"

A gunner waved a matchlock in his hand and ignited the quill fuse in the fuse hole.

All the shells, no matter they are tens of kilograms of cron guns, twelve-pound guns, or eight-pound guns, the dense shells have only one target, which is the waterline of all the ships in Liu Xiang's fleet!

The moment the gunpowder in the fuse tube was ignited, it quickly ignited the gunpowder in the pouch made of silk, a biological protein, and the shell was pushed forward by the passionate gunpowder gas in the barrel, shaking the sky. After the loud noise of the ground shaking, the muzzle fire flashed, and a puff of white smoke was released. The huge recoil force pushed the gun body to move backward quickly, compressing the spring on the gun carriage to the extreme, causing the spring to make painful squeaking sounds , and the spherical shells happily flew towards the wooden boats opposite in this series of sounds, smoke, and movements. The hot projectiles left a trail in the air at a speed exceeding the speed of sound at 340 meters per second. There are ballistic traces that can be seen vaguely.

With a piercing whistling sound in mid-air, almost all the shells crashed into Fuchuan and Tiaochuan not far away.

Enthusiastic shells made holes the size of tubs on the ship's plank, and the shattered ship's plank fragments became unprefabricated fragments of shells. The blood of the soldiers pierced into rivers.The cannonballs continue to castrate, colliding and bouncing unscrupulously in the cabin. In the cabin, the residual limbs and bones of the human body, the fragmentary parts of various organs, and countless things that were very beautiful and valuable not long ago are mixed together. People lament that the mixture of life and wealth is so weird and beautiful.

The navy of the South China Army lined up in the green dragon array, with Changsheng as the leader, made a beautiful left assault, splitting Liu Xiang's fleet into two halves, like a big broom, wherever it passed, those blessings The ship was broken up, and the sailors and soldiers on the ship became floating objects on the water without exception. The difference was that some had life, and some became floating corpses.

The warships arranged horizontally rushed towards the depth of the fleet without hesitation, continuously firing artillery shells intensively, turning one lucky ship after another into broken boards.

"Stop! Stop!"

On the bow of the Changsheng, Xiao Huamei kept waving her small arms on the deck and shouted to the people nearby with a loud and clear childish voice, which made the people who came and went a little confused, wondering what the eldest lady wanted. What to do, such a chaotic battlefield, which one to stop and do?

"Father! Didn't you say you want to capture more?! These ships and people were all damaged by shells and killed. How can they be used?! Even if they are not as fast as the Changsheng, they are used to transport them to and from various places. Goods and people are also available!"

Making full use of their own advantages in technology and training, the navy of the South China Army has already shown a one-sided situation.Not only is the battleship extremely fast when the wind is downwind, but even when the wind is headwind or crosswind or tackling the wind, the speed of the ship is more than double that of those lucky boats in Liu Xiang's fleet, and the control and steering are flexible, so you don't have to worry about being encircled or chased. If you want to get on or jump on the gang, you will use the method of gliding through at a constant speed. When you pass by shelling once, you can use shells to scuttle a big blessing ship. .

It's like a beautiful Liyuan boy making a graceful figure on the stage, which is dazzling, but behind the fleet are dense floating objects and human heads swimming on the sea surface, and a dozen Dafu boats are slowing down. sinking slowly.

Facing the sailors of the South China Army rushing over, Liu Xiang and Li Guozhu, who had just jumped onto his boat, were so shocked that their jaws almost dropped to their feet. They hacked and killed each other on the opponent's deck. They didn't expect that the opponent could put themselves to death just relying on artillery fire!

"Pass the order! The wind hunters put down the small boats and capture the prisoners. Each ship reduces the firepower density. I want people and boats!"

As the signalmen waved the flags, the eight windhunters arranged in a horizontal formation at right angles lowered their small boats one after another, and began to capture prisoners on the sea.

"My general has the virtue of being good at life!! Listen to the boat on the other side! As long as the anchor drops, sails and weapons are dropped, those who kneel on the ground will be spared death!"

As the small boats cruised back and forth on the sea, the soldiers of the Xuanwu Battalion of the South China Army salvaged the members of Liu Xiang's fleet who were struggling to survive in the sea one by one like catching chickens in water.With this action, Liu Xiang's subordinates immediately overwhelmed their desire to survive.Different from the usual style of Liu Xiang, Zheng Zhilong and others, these two groups of people are from maritime merchants. They say they are maritime merchants, but they are pirates.All trades are backed by force, either jumping gangs and robbing goods without hurting people (unless the other party resists), or wanting both money and goods, but not people!Once the hands are made, the blood will inevitably melt into the sea water, and the corpse will become the shark's delicacy on the water surface.No one has the heart of a bodhisattva to salvage the opponent's soldiers who have fallen into the water. (Oh! I forgot, it seems that Zheng Zhilong and others are Catholics, and they are not on the same side as the Bodhisattva.) Therefore, such a move, compared with the South China Army The cannons are no less powerful.

All of a sudden, the lucky boats on the sea dropped anchor and lowered their sails, and the deck was full of sailors kneeling.

"My lord, the rear sentry brothers sent a battle report. They have captured at least a thousand people. Please tell me how to deal with these people?"

"Transport it to Nan'ao Island by boat, and hand it over to the brothers there to take care of them. Tell them that there are at least 2000 people in the water at sea, and keep arresting them!"

The captives on the small boat were stuffed like canned sardines, sent to the windhunter, and then transferred to Nan'ao Island by the windhunter.When they arrived on the island, many island residents came to look for their brothers, nephews and husbands. For a while, there was a loud cry and chaos on the pier.

"My lord, do you want to send someone to suppress it? It's not a problem to cry like this all the time!"

"No need! This kind of crying is just crying out of joy after seeing your relatives are safe, so you don't need to pay attention to him. Moreover, no matter how tough a person sees his family members, he will also consider the life and death of his family members, and will no longer have the heart to make trouble .”

The cries drifted farther and farther amidst the gradually thinning gunfire on the sea, and the sailors on the remaining small boats could also hear them clearly.

"Gan Yiniang! The girl I met on the island, the last time I asked someone to deliver a message, she already has a baby in her belly, and I want someone to propose a marriage! Otherwise, it will be ugly!"

"My parents are all on the island, waiting for my military salary for this month! It's good now, I'm afraid I will become a tribute to the Dragon Lord!"

In the eyes of Liu Xiang's subordinates, this kind of crying and calling for husband and son was no less than the intensive bombardment of cannons.

However, the shouts on the sea that followed were even more lethal!

"The general has an order! All of Liu Xiang's subordinates who can capture Liu Xiang, Liu Jiu, and Li Dashe, the so-called leaders of the Thirteen Houses, will be spared death and will be rewarded with more than one hundred silver dollars!"

Amidst the shouts, Liu Xiang was horrified to find that the people around her looked at her in a wrong way.

Next to him, Li Dashe and Li Guozhu waved the Japanese sword scabbard in his hand and beat the sailors, yelling at the sailors in Hokkien mixed with Fusang dialect.

"Red deer! Take their word for it, you stupid pigs!"

However, beside Liu Xiang's boat, there was a slight sound of fighting and fighting, followed by sailors throwing heavy iron anchors into the water, someone swung a short knife to cut off the sail rope, and the sail on the mast fell in response.

"We surrender! We have captured Liu Jiu! Please accept the surrender!"

On the bow, several sailors were holding Liu Xiang's adopted son who was still struggling and was named Liu Jiu of the Seventeenth House.

"Captain, let's go!" Li Guozhu was also a bachelor. He was indeed the son of Li Dan, the king of pirates at sea.

"Want to leave?!"

From the artillery mirror, the guards saw the situation on this big blessing ship clearly. Some of Liu Xiang's subordinates who were captured came to identify them. The two people on board were Liu Xiang and Li Guozhu.

"fire!"

A row of guns passed by, and Liu Xiang's ship was scuttled.

"Captain Liu, Li Dashe, you two have worked hard. What are you going to eat? Here, we have won stew and bandao noodles!"

On the bow of the Changsheng ship, Shou Han kindly received Liu Xiang and Li Guozhu who were bound like rice dumplings.

"Water battle, water battle is not your style of play!"

After holding back for a long time, Liu Xiang suddenly uttered such a sentence, which startled Li Guozhu who was thinking about how to beg for mercy.

"Let me tell you, naval battles should be fought like this. In the future, I will have bigger ships and more ruthless guns! However, you may not be able to see that day!"

Liu Xiang's fleet collapsed faster than everyone imagined, and it was too late to celebrate the victory. Eight wind hunters were left to clean up the battlefield on the water surface of Nan'ao Island and continue to search for remnants of the enemy. On the east side, he drove away quickly, preparing to help Zhang Xiaohu who was there to contain the Dutchman and block Zheng Zhilong.

However, what he didn't expect was that this troublemaker not only completed the task assigned to him by Shou Han, but also almost exceeded it.

For this reason, Shou Han was furious. (To be continued.)