Win the Ding 1617

ps: Happy August [-]st Army Day!Happy holidays to all brothers who are soldiers, brothers who have been soldiers, and brothers and sisters who have had green dreams!

Night finally fell on Nan'ao Island, and the people in Yandun Bay let out a long sigh of relief.

This arc-shaped harbor is located in the southeast of Nan'ao Island, only two miles away from Songjing, Yun'ao Town.The mouth of the bay faces south, the shoreline is about seven or eight miles long, and the water area is less than three miles in radius, but there are more than 20 ships of all sizes gathered.

On the head of his own ship Daqing whose mainsail was less than half torn by two chain bombs, Shi Lang watched the night cover the sea and the earth like a layer of black veil, and the dots of lights on the sea were like Like a group of beasts watching their prey.

The people who had been fighting for a whole day didn't care about rest, they were busy inspecting the ships, repairing sails, rigging, replenishing gunpowder and shells, and moving those ships that were still in good condition to the position facing the mouth of the bay to prevent night attacks by the Nanyue Army navy.

Several small boats were busy going back and forth between the fleet and Song Jing, sending the wounded to the shore for medical treatment, and taking fresh water from Song Jing to supply the people on board.

The battle in the afternoon was fought between the more than 20 Daqingtou ships led by Shi Lang and seven or eight fifth-tier ships headed by the Aomei battleship and several blast ships led by Li Huamei. The boat is like a hyena waiting to eat some leftovers beside the lioness, staring at the battlefield with green eyes. The artillery bombarded fiercely, and did not stop until the Zheng family's boats were turned into planks floating on the sea.

However, such times are not many.

Under the leadership of Shi Lang, a commander who understands the characteristics and firepower details of both the enemy and our ships.The big green heads also fought with great vigor.

"Seize the limelight! Seize the limelight!"

Shi Lang kept using the command flag to issue orders to the big green heads, ordering his ships to take full advantage of the advantages of the hard sails.

He knew very well that most of the main ships in the Nanyue Army were soft sailing ships. Although their speed and vigor were far superior to those of his subordinates, they also had a defect that was usually inconspicuous but could be fatal at critical moments.That is, it cannot sail completely head-on against the wind.A soft sailboat with a length of 12 meters can sail against the wind at an angle of 12-15 degrees to the wind direction.If you want to head in the direction of the wind, you must sail in a "zigzag" route.When driving against the wind, the smaller the angle between the boat and the wind direction, the slower the speed.If the helmsman sails in a "zigzag" route with a large angle, the speed of the ship will increase.But the voyage will be longer.

Thus.The increased part in the voyage creates a huge opportunity for the big green heads who use hard sails as the main source of power and claim to be able to make eight winds!And the Zheng family's experienced helmsmen, sailors, and sailors have found a place to use them!

They woke up from the state of being stunned by the fierce artillery fire of the Southern Guangdong Army, and calmly operated the sail and rudder.Shuttle back and forth in the wind and waves and artillery fire.The [-]-pound cannon mounted on the bow violently attacked the bow position of the fifth-tier ship, which was struggling to zigzag and move against the wind.

"Give me a hello! Their bows only have two or three cannons. Let's go up from the side! Its cannons are not easy to move!"

The captains of Daqingtou shouted and cursed at each other with semaphore.

Find the opponent's weakness.This immediately boosted their morale.

"Chain bomb! Chain bomb!"

Shi Lang on the flagship kept waving semaphore, ordering the captains of each ship to use chain bombs for the first artillery fire! "Strike the target, the sails of the Aomei and the ships of the Nanyue Army!"

joke.You have already been discovered by me as Soft Sail's weakness against headwinds. How can I not help you expand your weakness?Hitting the sail with chain bombs is the best way!

Two small shells smaller than the caliber of the gun bore were connected in series by chains and loaded into the gun bore.After such a shell is fired, one shell will drag the other shell and fly out centrifugally, just like the meteor hammer used by the knights, all objects on its flight path will be broken down.therefore.The main target of this shell is the sail.She would tear a hole in the sail or tear the rigging, rendering the ship incapable of maneuvering.

This is undoubtedly worse for the soft sailing boats of the Southern Guangdong Army, which cannot fully take advantage of their speed.

"put!"

The sailors ignited the torches in their hands vigorously at the tail of the fuse, and the driving force generated by the violent combustion of the gunpowder pushed the two chain bullets out of the barrel.

Dozens of [-]-pound guns lined up at the bow and stern of Da Qingtou's ship used chain bombs in this way, and dozens of chain bombs flew towards the nine main ships of the Nanyue Army.Immediately, almost every ship was hit.

Some sails were hit, tearing out a huge hole or hole, and the strong sea wind passed through the hole.Some sails were cut by the high-speed flying chains, and the sails withered silently on the deck, and a cannonball cut off a sailor standing on the crossbar, and blood and minced flesh drenched the heads of the people on the deck!

"Commander! Our ships have battered sails!"

"Miss! What should I do?!"

Hearing the anxious shouts of the officers and watching the sails falling from the mast, Li Huamei, who was already extremely angry, suddenly smiled instead of anger, and a bright smile appeared on her fair face.

"Shi Lang, you are really good! After all, I came from Nanzhong Naval Academy!"

Aji and Ao Lei Yilan on the side were a little stunned, he beat us like this, do you still have the heart to praise him?

"Today, we will give you a reciprocal repayment! I am worrying about how to break your hard sail! You gave me an idea!" Li Huamei's pretty face was covered with a layer of frost. .

"Attention all ships, change all the chain bombs! Aim at the sails of Shi Lang's fleet! Let's see who is more afraid of chain bombs!"

"Tighten the sails and face the enemy sideways! The whole ship fires!"

The chain bullets came and went in mid-air, struggling to create troubles on the opponent's sails, masts, and rigging.From time to time, a rigging was cut by a chain bullet, and a thick cable of unknown purpose was drooped down in dejection. Occasionally, there would be a short and shrill scream from the cross mast, it was that a sailor was unfortunately caught by a chain bullet Hit, followed by a sporadic rain of blood falling on the top of the head.

However, the lethality of chain bombs on soft sails is huge, but for hard sails with stays soaked in tung oil as the skeleton, their lethality is limited. The stays minimize the damage caused by chain bombs to the sails.

but.Facing the first huge (compared to the improved version of the Fuchuan such as Daqingtou. The fifth-level ship is a huge ship.) The gunboat keeps firing airtight chain bullets with artillery fire , Shi Lang's fleet gradually became a little unsustainable.

Seeing that most of the sails on the mainmast, foremast, and mizzenmast on the opposite ship were dilapidated, and they had lost power, Shi Lang couldn't help but feel elated.

"Pass my general order! All ships..."

"Should I go forward and show them some strength?"

An officer approached Shi Lang excitedly.Although his official position is much higher than that of Shi Lang.but.Now any fool can see Shi Lang's status in the Fujian navy.What's more, before Zheng Sen and Zheng Zhibao took the red-haired boat and the lucky boat back to Dongshan Island.Handed Zheng Zhilong's sword seal to him?

"Did I say it?" Shi Lang glanced at the man, "Sign the semaphore, order all the ships to distance themselves from the Nanyue Army, and prepare to retreat!"

"Da Lang!" In desperation, the officer called Shi Lang by his nickname, "Now that we have the upper hand, why should we withdraw?"

Shi Lang didn't bother to argue with this person, he just took the sword he was carrying on his back in his hand, and when everyone saw it, they had no choice but to carry out their orders angrily.

Taking advantage of the sudden northerly wind, Shi Lang's Daqingtou fleet tried hard to control the ships to retreat eastward slowly. Half of them were real, half of them showed weakness, but the fleet's speed towards east was not fast. Even Li Huamei's soft sailing boats could catch up with them sailing against the wind.

At first, Li Huamei's captains were briefly happy when they saw Shi Lang's fleet moving eastward to cover and withdraw from the battlefield. They called to ask, "Can we pursue?"

However, Hua Mei smelled a hint of danger and conspiracy from Shi Lang's retreating formation.

"He put all the seriously injured ships in front, and all the ships that were still fighting were in the rear, and he deliberately let down a few sails. It wasn't that our army destroyed his sails! This guy is just pretending. Defeated, plan to play a drag trick for me!"

Shi Lang forgot.Li Huamei is not only studying in the Naval Academy, she also has a private school teacher who teaches her various ghost domain tricks at sea.

This person is Zhang Xiaohu who even Zheng Zhilong would call Sixth Brother when he saw him.

These years, Li Huamei always pestered Zhang Xiaohu to tell her stories at sea when he was free. Failed, all kinds of events were taught to Li Huamei.

With such a private teacher, although Li Huamei is young, she has rich experience and knowledge in sea combat.After several actual battles, the things Zhang Xiaohu told her quickly deepened in her mind from superficial stories to experience, theory, and rules.

Shi Lang's method could not have been better if Zheng Sen, who was impatient, was used.But it's a pity that what he met was Li Huamei who was like an old thief!

"Signage! The ships are not allowed to move rashly. Order the rocket ship to be in front and the Cron gun ship to be behind. Go up!"

"My lord! Let these boats go up?"

"That's right! Let the rocket ship go aboard and burn it! Shi Lang is undecided now, and I just use the rocket to help him make up his mind!"

Sure enough, the six rocket ships formed a front arrow, and more rocket ships behind them swooped towards Shi Lang's fleet against the wind on the wide sea.

Because they are all small boats, traditional hard sails are used. In this way, there is no technical gap between the rocket ship and the Daqingtou.On the one hand, he was retreating slowly and intending to lure the enemy to go deeper, on the other hand, he was about to pursue the poor bandits bravely, so naturally he set up full sails and pursued fiercely.The distance shortened rapidly, six miles, five miles, four miles, three miles, the distance became closer and closer.

"My lord! The rocket boats of the Confederate Army and those damned gunboats are catching up!"

When the distance was less than two miles, the rocket ship began to ignite and launch rockets.

Rockets are flying in the air against the north wind, however.It was soon blown crooked by the strong sea wind, fell into the water after flying not too far, and burned on the sea surface.

"Forget it! This young lady of the Li family is not a good match! She didn't fall for it! Pass the order, all the boats are fully sailed, and they will return to Nan'ao Island to rest!"

Seeing that the Southern Guangdong Army was not fooled, but instead sent rocket ships out to lure the enemy, Shi Lang was immediately disappointed.But I was relieved again in my heart, as if I was very relieved that the navy of the Nanyue Army was not fooled.

"My lord! Why don't we pounce on them and kill these ships? Or capture them?!"

"Get rid of it? People are waiting for you!" Shi Lang shoved the telescope tube into the officer's hands angrily, "Go and see for yourself! Their Cron gunboats are lined up. In the rocket ship I dare to bet you 100 silver dollars. If you go up to deal with these rocket ships, firstly, you will be greeted by rockets, and secondly, you will be severely beaten by Kron guns! Dare you bet?!"

Shi Lang's words.The people present fell silent.After all, life at sea.Let them have a lot of wariness and taboo.For example, you can't speak words with the same pronunciation or near pronunciation, and you can't eat with the rice bowl facing upside down, etc.

That's why there is such a proverb as sailing carefully.

"Withdraw! Withdraw to Nan'ao Island!"

Everyone's thoughts quickly unified.

As for why they didn't go to Dongshan Island to join the main forces led by Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Sen, no one thought of going there.Even if someone thought of it.It will also be fleeting, and will be replaced by such an answer, "It's too far to go to Dongshan, and the fleet may not be able to make it there right now, so we must go to Nan'ao to rest!"

Checking the loss, Shi Lang couldn't help showing a wry smile.

There were more than 20 big blue-headed boats, and the team was neat and tidy when they set off. Now there are only [-] boats, and most of them are damaged.For gun positions, no ship has complete gun positions. Sailors, at least a dozen people were lost on almost every ship, not counting the injured.Fortunately, the sails of each ship are hard sails, otherwise it would be difficult to support Nan'ao Island.

After mooring in Yandun Bay, Shi Lang immediately sent people to the island to find carpenters and other craftsmen, buy wood and canvas, and repair the ship.

At the same time, the artillery on the three most severely damaged ships was removed and added to the two ships closest to Shi Lang, and the sailors were also added to these ships to keep the ships fully loaded.

However, this is not the most terrible thing.

"My lord, two boats from the Southern Guangdong Army have arrived at Guanyu."

Guanyu, just like a door bolt, spans the entrance and exit passage of Yandun Bay, forming a tripartite confrontation with the two key points of Wanding Mountain and the south corner on both sides of Yandun Bay.When the ships of the Nanyue Army Navy arrived here, it was no less than strangling the passage to and from Yandun Bay, blocking the not-so-wide waterway, and using the guns on both sides of the ship to fire non-stop salvos, they could barely cover the area. The ten ships can be regarded as a combat-capable squadron that was wiped out here.

Hearing this, Shi Lang couldn't help but change his face.

"What kind of ship is it?"

The ship that came was not the fierce fifth-tier ship that Shi Lang and his men thought it was, not even a rocket ship or a Kron gun ship.Only two ordinary cargo ships came.

"Miss said that during the day, Shi Lang played well and did not lose the face of Nanzhong Naval Academy. The brothers of the Fujian Navy left in a hurry. There must be not many supplies on board. The miss ordered me to wait for the adults. Send some food, meat, oil and salt, fruits, vegetables and so on. This Nan'ao Island is narrow, and there is nothing to buy on the island, so don't disturb the folks on the island. "

The two officers at the head, after being unblinded by the black cloth on the prince's building where Shi Lang was stationed temporarily, talked freely and eloquently.At the same time, he handed a list of items to the two officers in front of Shi Lang.

"Two copies. Both of us have the same things on the boat. After a while, the senior can send someone to the beach in the south corner to receive it."

"One thousand catties of pork, one thousand catties of beef, twenty stones of japonica rice, five jars of vegetable oil, two hundred catties of salt, two thousand catties of vegetables, and ten thousand catties of various fruits."

To be honest, there was not much food, and it was only enough for two or three thousand people to eat for a few days, but it made all the officers and sailors present very happy.At least, I don't have to worry about being hungry these days.

Although the sea near Nan’ao Island is a good fishing ground, you can catch mackerel, pomfret, red sea bream, and grouper. Although it is winter, you can also catch oceanic salmon that weighs several thousand to nearly ten thousand catties. Sea sharks, sunfish weighing hundreds of catties, nutrient-rich and delicious sailfish and tuna.However, how many fish and shrimps do these thousands of people need to eat?

Moreover, small protein foods such as fish, shrimp, and seafood are okay to eat once in a while. For laborers such as sailors who consume a lot of energy, they are still willing to eat pork or beef for their enjoyment.As for those vegetables and fruits, they are an indispensable luxury for those who are drifting at sea.

Now with these two boats of four thousand catties of meat and tens of thousands of catties of vegetables and fruits, the brothers can settle down a bit.

What makes the officers and soldiers of the Fujian Navy even more excited is that, in addition to these carnivorous fruits, grains and vegetables, "Miss knows that many brothers were injured in the battle during the day, and I am afraid that there are not so many medicinal materials for a while. We have brought 500 The life-saving kit for one person, and fifty altars of spirits, can heal the wounds of the brothers, and can also drink wine to warm up the brothers when the winter night is difficult!"

Hearing these words, everyone felt warm in their hearts. "Wars belong to wars, and after fighting, we are still brothers!"

"It's over! This girl from the Li family is more powerful than her cannon!" Shi Lang felt a chill in his heart.He wanted to reject these things intentionally, but seeing the happy faces of the people around him, he could only sigh secretly, knowing that this was a poison, he had to drink it with a smile on his face. (To be continued..)