Blood from Daming

Chapter 489 Fleet
The officers and soldiers of the Xue Family Army who were in charge of defending Changtu Island entered into a state of battle. Thousands of people shouted "Wan Sheng" and "Kill the Enemy" together. Xu Zhifu looked at Xue Yun even more with admiration.

Looking at the landing fleet on the sea, it began to transport soldiers to the small boats behind the warships. Xu Zhifu estimated that there were no fewer than seven or eight hundred such landing boats, and it was estimated that more than 1 troops, including boatmen, could be deployed at one time. It is impossible for the defender to hold this large beach.

"Boom" "Boom" "Boom"

The fleet at sea fired lime cannons, and when they fell on the beach, there was a piece of white ash, which could judge the "casualties" of the defenders, but it would not cause real losses to the defenders' officers and soldiers, but the flames ejected from the muzzles were really beautiful; seven or eight Hundreds of small landing boats landed in different stages, and soon the leading fleet was already on the beach. At this time, the defenders on the shore also started to fight back, but what they fired were paintballs, which could be seen as if they fell on the opponent. These soldiers who were hit by paintballs were considered "killed" soldiers and withdrew from the joint military exercise.

Xu Zhifu asked: "Brother Xue, what are the bags on the backs of those officers and soldiers who landed?"

Xue Yun said: "It's a sheepskin bag. If soldiers fall into the water, they can float up. This will greatly improve the safety of soldiers in the sea."

Many of the small boats that had just approached the beach were hit by paintballs, and the soldiers who were stained with color either left the field automatically or were expelled from the field by the supervisor of law enforcement on the battlefield. The dense paintballs on the shore made the beach a "death zone". At least [-]% of the [-] soldiers in the echelon were "killed".

Then the defensive force launched a counterattack against the enemy on the beach, which caused the attacker who had just established a beachhead to suffer a devastating blow. Clamping down on both sides, the landing operation was successfully completed, and then transferred to the fortified battle on the beach.

Prefect Xu asked: "Brother Xue, would the casualties in the Taiwan Island landing battle be so large?"

Xue Yun said: "Brother, the training should be serious and serious. If you consider the difficulties more in peacetime, the casualties of soldiers in wartime will be reduced a lot. If this Taiwan Strait landing operation can catch them by surprise, the casualties will definitely be much less than the drill."

Xu Zhifu praised: "It is by no means a coincidence that Xue's army has made great military exploits today."

At this time, the Marine Corps, the main force, landed quickly, and cooperated with the landing forces on the two wings to cut the defenders on the land. With the follow-up troops approaching the beach, the victory of today's landing operation has been confirmed, and the rest is to eliminate the remaining enemies and expand the results. On the island Stand your ground.

Suddenly, the First Fleet at Sea sent a semaphore and found that there were foreign warships entering the exercise area. The semaphore showed two large, five small, and seven ships. Xue Yun immediately announced the suspension of the exercise, turned around and said to Xu Zhifu: "Brother, do you want to see the real warships?" naval battle."

Xu Zhifu said: "Brother Xue, it's just that a few ships have passed by here. Are we going to start a war against them because they saw our exercise?"

Xue Yun said: "Besides the pirates in our Daming sea area, there are Dutch and Portuguese mercenaries, and the only ones who can sail among the hundreds of ships of our Xue family army are the Dutch and Portuguese pirates. No matter who it is today, I, Xue Yun, will Or go to war without declaring it."

Xue Yun's words made the Scarlet Blood Princess not far away very excited. The Scarlet Blood Princess wished that Xue Yun would fight with the Portuguese Navy. This would not only relieve the hatred, but also allow Xue Yun to further bind the country of Manthorna. Unfortunately, the subsequent semaphore was determined to sail to The northern fleet belonged to the Dutch East India Company.

At this time, even the prefect Xu knew that a naval battle was inevitable. Out of curiosity and the need to understand Xue Yun, he quickly followed Xue Yun to the beach, boarded a small boat and rowed towards the sea. Xue Yun took the prefect Xu to the sea. The flagship of the First Fleet of the Xue Jiajun Navy was once the largest sea ship in Mancijia, but now the Xue Jiajun has been changed into a warship.

Liu Ben, vice-governor of Xue's army, and Wu Dahai, governor of the First Fleet, rushed forward to welcome them. Xue Yun introduced his two naval generals to Xu Zhifu. Prefect Xu was secretly grateful. From this detail, it can be seen that his status must be very respected in the arms of Xue Jiajun.

Xue Yun took the monocular telescope from Wu Dahai's hand. This monocular telescope was developed under the guidance of Xue Yun, because it was only recently successfully tested, and only the important generals of the navy can have it, because the materials are very scarce. Grinded from natural crystals, it can only magnify distant objects four times at most.

Xue Yun saw two Dutch three-masted sailing ships and five medium-sized merchant ships in the binoculars. These ships should be going to Japan, but Xue Yun felt a little nervous when he saw the two Dutch three-masted sailing ships. There are probably hundreds of cannons in the front, back, left, and right. The price Xue's army paid in this battle will not be small.

Xue Yun handed the monocular binoculars to Xu Zhifu, specifying the direction for Xu Zhifu to carefully watch the Dutch merchant ships in the distance, Xue Yun said: "It is imperative for our Xue family army to go to war with the Netherlands. These Dutch ships must stay. Tell me what to do."

Wu Dahai said: "General, the Dutch fleet is going up against the current. It is no problem for our navy to surround the Dutch fleet, but the two three-masted sailing ships are fiercely fired, we may not be able to keep them, and our fleet encounters such three-masted sailing ships. After the war, the losses will definitely be not small."

Xue Yun said: "The Dutch East India Company will have no more than a dozen large warships in the east, distributed in the waters from India to Champa, Java, Siam, Managa, Nambuli, Ceylon, and Luzon. The number of warships remaining on Taiwan Island is very limited, and the two three-masted sailing ships of the Dutch East India Company were destroyed, and the control of the sea on Taiwan Island fell into the hands of our Xue family army."

Liu Ben, vice-governor of Xue's army navy, said: "The general is right. The Dutch were defeated by General Yu Zigao in Penghu the year before last. Seeing that their strength is limited, as long as they take these two three-masted sailing ships, the Dutch on Taiwan Island will become Catch a turtle in a urn."

Xue Yun said: "Dahai, in order to reduce our army's losses, we can use fire attack, don't think about any spoils, everything is aimed at destroying the Dutch's vitality, do you understand?"

The Commander of the First Fleet, Wu Dahai, accepted Xue Yun's order, and immediately ordered the navy to raise the command flag of the Xue Family's Navy General Fleet, and then issued the offensive semaphore of each fleet, commanding the Xue Family's five fleets to start besieging the two three-masted sailing ships and five merchant ships in the Netherlands.

Governor Xu returned the binoculars to Xue Yun and said, "Brother Xue, I never imagined that there are such novel things in the world. This binoculars is not only useful for military affairs, but also a valuable treasure for civilians."

Xue Yun said: "It's a pity that the materials are scarce and cannot be mass-produced. Big brother likes it. I will prepare a pair for big brother and take it back to Hangzhou to play with."

Xu Zhifu repeatedly said no, but he was thinking in his heart, with this telescope, not only can he monitor the work of his servants, but he can also go to the boudoirs of rich businessmen and big families to embroider buildings on high buildings, so as to appreciate the famous ladies in Hangzhou City, maybe You can also capture some people's private secrets.

The Dutch fleet is very arrogant and arrogant, and they openly broke into the exercise area of ​​​​Xue's army, but the arrogance of the Dutch fleet does not mean that they are ignorant. The fleet also opened the hatch, revealing the swarthy Franc machine guns.

The warships of the Xue family army issued a semaphore for the Dutch fleet to stop the ship for inspection. The merchant ships of the Dutch fleet tried to quickly leave this sea area with the help of the wind, and the two three-masted warships had already made battle preparations.

The [-]th and [-]th Fleets of the Xue Family Army intercepted the five merchant ships that the Dutch fleet was trying to escape from the north and the south. A Dutch three-masted warship.

When Xue Jiajun's navy was about to enter the distance of five nautical miles, the flagship of the Dutch fleet fired first. The Dutch three-masted warship opened the upper two layers of gun windows, and the horizontal Dutch Dutch three-masted warship moved from the bow to the stern on the third floor. Fire.

"Boom" "Boom" "Boom" "Boom" "Boom" "Boom" "Boom" "Boom" "Boom"

The gun window on the third floor fired more than a dozen cannonballs in an instant, and only paused for a few breaths. The gun window on the second layer also blasted out in a row. A column of water rose from the sea near the warships, and a few warships were splashed with a lot of sea water.

Due to the inaccuracy of the Dutch fleet's first round of bombardment, it did not cause any damage to the first fleet of the Xue family army. The first fleet seized the time to move closer to the flagship of the Dutch fleet. About half an inch later, the artillery of the flagship of the Dutch fleet rang again. Get up, "boom boom boom" "boom boom boom", the howling shells hit the middle of the Xue Family Army's First Fleet, a stream of water rose up, and finally three shells hit the warships of the Xue Family Army's First Fleet.

(End of this chapter)