Seeing that the Zheng family's fleet had finally arrived, and that it was pouring all its strength across the Northeast Sea to help, the allied warships became as excited as chicken blood, and continued to fight with the Polu army's warships.
Lan Xiang led most of the old-fashioned ships to gather together to form a small ring guarding the northeastern area.
Yang Geng, Zheng Zhilong's direct descendant, was in charge of the vanguard of the Zheng family's fleet.
He led thirty gunboats and more than a hundred fireships to head toward the southwest.
Yang Geng already knew that the dozens of sea ships ahead were to intercept the Zheng family's fire fleet and buy time for Zhao Lie's main fleet behind to deal with the coalition warships.
The purpose was to prevent the two from merging.
But Yang Geng didn't like it very much.
There were only a few dozen ships.
Not to mention the 300 warships under Zheng Cai's command, let's talk about the more than 100 warships under his command.
These dozens of ships could not intercept them.
However, when he led the fleet to approach three miles away, he was astonished as if he had seen a ghost.
He saw the sailors on the other side of the ship throwing many frames made of logs from the ship into the sea.
Then some sailors jumped into the water and connected the frames with ropes. stand up.
These dozens of warships did this, and immediately there were such obstacles everywhere on the northeast sea.
Ordinarily, such floating objects on the water will not have a big impact on large warships.
After all, warships of hundreds of tons can be destroyed if they go downwind fast enough and use their own weight.
However, nowadays, the Zheng family's warships do not have such a large warship. , there are less than ten gunboats converted from Galen merchant ships with a capacity of nearly 500 tons, all under the command of Zheng Zhilong, the head of the southeastern clan.
The largest warship here is the large Fuchuan of less than 300 tons.
The problem is that the ships are not large enough and they are still moving forward into the wind.
How to break through these obstacles.
Those small and light fire ships are even more difficult.
They are forced to stop as soon as they encounter these objects.
Yes, with the movement of wind and ocean currents, these objects will drift northeastward until they float far away.
But at that time, the Polu army warships had already eliminated the coalition warships, and they could concentrate on dealing with the Zheng family's fleet.
It was nonsense for the fleet to rush in and attack from a pincer.
Yang Geng is Zheng Zhilong's old subordinate.
Over the years, he has accompanied Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Zhihu in Fujian to wipe out the disobedient people everywhere.
It can be said that he has experienced hundreds of battles and made a great name, but he has never seen this situation before.
He jumped anxiously, but there was nothing he could do.
He could only yell at Zhao Lie, "What the hell are you doing?
Look at this thing you made.
You also have strong ships and cannons, and you just made such defective objects." , he forgot that the Zheng family also planned to defeat the enemy with fire boats, and it was not about winning through artillery battles.
The only way to win was to use all their own schemes and unscrupulous means to win.
What he can do now is to let the sailors on the fire boat use all their strength to row from more than two miles away to the north, avoid these damn things, and try to break in as much as possible.
The Zheng family's forward fire fleet quickly adjusted its sails and turned to the north.
However, the manpower on the fireboats was limited, the sails were not too big, and the wooden rafts on the opposite side were still drifting towards here.
In order to avoid these insidious objects and to break into Akito's formation, these fireships had to turn on the manual rowing mode. .
In fact, the manual rowing mode of the fire fleet is only used when the enemy ship is one mile away, because experienced sailors allocate their physical strength, that is, insist on rowing quickly for more than a mile.
No matter how far the distance is, it is not human.
My physical strength can support it.
In this way, you can use physical strength to row around these water rows.
When you get close to the enemy and start sprinting, your physical strength is not enough to support it.
In the past, the fast sprint of the fire ship could exceed the speed brought by the enemy ship's sail.
Now, the precious Physical energy is wasted here.
Even if you go around, you won't have the energy to quickly chase the enemy.
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But is there any other way now?
If we hesitate any longer, enemy platoons will surround us in a short while.
Immediately, there was a strange quarrel between hundreds of ships at the vanguard of the Zheng family's fleet, and hundreds of fireships began to row their wooden oars toward the north.
Zheng Cai saw the forward's move from a distance and couldn't help but wonder, what's going on?
Why did he use the oar power so early?
He must have encountered some problem at the front.
Yang Geng, the forward, is also a veteran who has experienced battles for a long time.
Don’t make the mistake of using paddle power early.
When Zheng Cai arrived, he found out that Mingren had used such a simple and despicable trick, and he was furious.
This was equivalent to telling the Zheng family, well, you guys can play later, I'll finish playing with the coalition first.
There was no other way, the group behind them had to move in, and no one could afford to mess with these piled-up broken wooden platoons.
Hundreds of warships crowded together and headed north.
This efficiency can be imagined.
The warships in the group were jammed together in order to turn around and avoid collision.
It was a disaster.
The broken fleet led by Lan Xiang was also busy for a while, finally putting all the wood brought from Jeju into the sea, allowing the sailors to release them all.
The wooden rafts that stretched for several miles slowly moved towards the northeast, which was quite spectacular.
Seeing the Zheng family's fleet heading north in an awkward manner in order to avoid the congestion of the wooden rafts, Lan Xiang and other navy soldiers were all shocked.
It was extremely enjoyable.
I didn’t expect that their shabby fleet would have such a highlight.
Of course, the Zheng family fleet cannot be allowed to break through so easily and enter the defensive circle again.
The mission of the shabby fleet led by Lan Xiang is far from over.
In addition to leaving a few warships to accommodate some sailors who had not returned to the ship, the more than fifty warships also began to move north.
You must know that swimming in the water and connecting to the water drain is a tiring job.
After completing these tasks, many sailors are exhausted and have no time to return to the ship.
Without the receiving ship, these sailors will be finished.
Although these warships were launched behind the Zheng family's ships, with the help of the southwest wind, they actually appeared in the north of the Mu Pai formation and once again stood in front of the Zheng family navy, which gave Yang Geng the urge to vomit blood.
In Yang Geng's opinion, This Zhao Lie fleet is like a dog-skin plaster, specially designed to oppose him.
He couldn't help but be impatient.
At this time, he had already heard some taunts from the cannons from both sides.
It was possible that the coalition warships were already unable to withstand it.
At this time, the fleet where the head of the family is located should also be rushing in from the east, but this side has not yet broken into the enemy's formation, causing chaos in Zhao Lie's fleet.
This is extremely bad, and it is a major event that affects the outcome of the battle.
He ordered the forwards to desperately break through the obstruction of the Ming army in front and rush into the enemy's formation.
If it was too late, it would be too late.
Zheng Cai's vanguard approached the warships of the Polu army.
There were more than a hundred fireships at the forefront.
They used human power to paddle.
Of course, they were faster, so they were ahead of the sailing warships.
However, they were now extremely exhausted.
These two miles Tired from the rapid paddling of the road, these sailors vomited blood.
As a result, they encountered these opponents' ships blocking the way, so they had to pass through.
Their target was the main battleship of the Ming army in the battlefield three or four miles to the west.
However, the fleet led by Lan Xiang is not that easy to deal with.
They may be like pods against the Galen ship, but when faced with a fireship that is only twenty or thirty tons in size, they will be a giant ship.
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Although there are no artillery or other things on the ship, sometimes this is not needed at sea.
They just use the sails and the speed and tonnage to hit the fireship.
With a muffled bang, several fire ships were hit by sea ships one after another, losing several times their stature.
Coupled with the acceleration driven by the wind, these lucky ships in Haicang easily and happily crashed these sea ships.
At sea, either the hull cracked and water entered, or it capsized directly at sea.
Some Zheng family sailors capsized in the water before they had time to dive to escape.
The Zheng family's fireship wanted to escape from these ferocious warships, but the rowing just now took a lot of effort, and sailing against the wind to compete with the opponents coming from the downwind was simply an impossible task.
Lan's warships didn't care about this, and then the wind broke into the fire fleet, causing a rampage.
Some warships had cracked bows, but they still didn't care and did not repair them at all.
This fleet came here just to compete with the Zheng family's fire ships.
It was impossible to escape without any plan.
As long as one war ship could fight off several fire ships, it would be a victory.
In this way, the hundreds of fireships in front suffered a disaster.
These Zhao Lie's ships were like tigers and wolves entering the sheep pen, attacking the sheep and biting them everywhere.
In just a short time, dozens of fireships were destroyed.
It sank and overturned, and hundreds of sailors fell into the sea and struggled.
The sailors on these fire ships are crying without tears.
They can't run away or fight.
The fire ships have no weapons.
They just need to consume items.
Can they spend money and money to prepare armor?
Impossible.
The biggest weapon of the fire ship is to attack with fire. enemy.
But these sharp weapons are reserved for Mingren's main fleet, not for consumption on these broken ships.
If they are used up on these ships, what will they use to attack Zhao Lie's main fleet.
Therefore, the fire boat team was like a weakling, unable to fight back, and was injured and knocked over one by one.
Yang Geng's eyes were splitting in the back.
He urged the gunboats behind him to move forward as quickly as possible.
When they got to the position, they opened fire on these ships to rescue them.
However, these sea ships were unable to fight back against the Zheng family's gunboats.
They were unarmed and could not fight against the gunboats.
They just stared at the Zheng family's fireships and ran amok.
Soon, the hundreds of fireships in the front were almost empty.
Yang Geng led the gunboats to chase them, but these ships didn't care.
The Zheng family's gunboats usually had nine-pounders, twelve-pounders, or even six-pounders, which could destroy the ships at close range.
The board penetrated, but it was not easy to sink it.
And these sea-going ships also ran into the fire ships at the risk of people being killed, chasing each other and running away, turning the sea area upside down.
The fire ships became the most unlucky, and some fire ships simply did not run away.
If a fire breaks out and something happens, everyone will be finished together.
Zheng Cai's rear-forward fireship was also affected, and most of it was damaged.
When Zheng Cai arrived, he almost lost his breath and crooked his nose when he saw such a scene
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