Chen Hui stood on a Fuchuan warship of more than 200 tons and watched the movements of the Ming army fleet opposite.
It is said that the Zheng family is also an official army, but whenever it goes to sea, the Zheng family still uses its own banner, and does not want its official status to be too strong.
Now the Zheng family is indeed very independent, and is completely separate from the Fujian official army.
A fleet was forming in the distance.
Chen Hui raised his telescope and took a closer look.
There were no large warships, which meant that Zhao Lie had sent a partial division of his smaller warships.
This is also in line with the Zheng family's expectations.
As the leader of an army, Zhao Lie must know the power of the Zheng family's warships and will definitely make his own preparations.
Otherwise, how could he conquer the east and west?
Looking at the warships opposite, Chen Hui also had a headache.
The Zheng family had no experience in dealing with so many Galen warships, no.
In the past, the confrontation with the Dutch was usually only one or two hundred warships and fire ships against the opponent's dozens of warships at most.
There are now more than a hundred warships on the opposite side, which is not easy to deal with.
Compared with warships such as the Fuchuan, Haicangguang and other warships, the Xiyi warships can be said to be thick-skinned and thick-bodied.
They have so many guns and are so powerful that they are like a turtle shell that cannot be chewed easily.
Otherwise, the Zheng family would not have dispatched so many fire ships to deal with it.
There is no other way.
Fire ships are also consumables and require money to build.
They are not brought by strong winds.
Less than two miles away from the opponent's warship, almost all the Zheng family's gunboats opened fire to bombard the enemy's warship.
Warships such as Fu Chuan often have two or three cannons installed on the bow, which is completely different from the numerous cannons placed on the sides of Galen warships.
This is caused by the respective ship structures.
The only advantage of this arrangement is that Fu Chuan can fire guns from the front, while Galen warships often only have one bow gun.
For a while, Fu Chuan Haicang can take some advantages.
A large plume of smoke and fire rose up from the sea in the east, and there was the whistling sound of projectiles on the sea.
Water columns continued to emerge near the navy of the Polu Army.
More than a hundred warships continued to pass through the water columns, approaching silently. .
Zheng Qiu, who was commanding the fire fleet at the front, was extremely puzzled.
The two sides were already close to one mile away, but Zhao Lie's navy's Galen warship still did not stop to face the enemy sideways.
What was going on.
Not only did they not attack the enemy broadside, they filled the sails and continued to move forward without even firing the bow cannon.
This is unscientific.
In the past, when the Dutch encountered this situation, the first thing they did was to rush to the side and bombard them, and at the same time, they were ready to escape at any time.
This was definitely different from the close combat with the Zheng family fleet.
Zheng Qiu and Chen Hui's confusion did not affect the progress of the Zheng family's fleet.
They continued to bombard the sails and masts of several Galen warships.
The center guns were greatly affected, and the ship's speed dropped.
However, if the cannons of the Zheng family's gunboats wanted to tear apart the thick planks of the Polu army's warships, it would only require a close combat of more than a hundred steps, otherwise it would be absolutely impossible.
Boom boom boom, the Polu army's bow cannon finally began to counterattack.
The roar of these cannons was indeed much duller and more powerful than the Zheng family's cannons.
But the number was too small.
There were more than twenty warships in front, but a few fireships were slowed down by water leaks in their guns.
The two sides were so close and bumped into each other without any hesitation.
"Tell Chief Liu Jia to beat me hard on both sides."
Zhao Feng ordered the first officer.
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The first mate agreed and ran off.
"Wang Cheng, don't slow down.
Pay attention to the enemy's rockets and fire oil.
Don't slow down."
Zhao Feng shouted to Wang Cheng, the boatswain under the mainmast.
"As ordered."
Wang Cheng shouted loudly in the noise.
When there was no need to turn at this time, the sailors were waiting under the mainmast with shields.
After all, they were already deep into the enemy's formation.
Zhao Feng passed through the gap under the guard's iron shield and looked at the several fireships that were just facing the Yang Su more than a hundred steps away.
The deck beneath the feet shook violently, and large plumes of thick smoke were spit out from the gun windows on both sides of the Yang Su.
The forty artillery pieces of the Yang Su fired a deafening salvo, and then a large amount of fire was triggered a hundred steps away.
The water column is a very spectacular scene.
A fireship of several dozen tons was hit by three eighteen-pound and twenty-four-pound projectiles.
The main sail immediately shattered, the mainmast tilted, and began to spin on the sea.
A 24-pound Tiago can opener violently opened a huge hole in the side of a fire ship on the left.
Since it was near the waterline, a large amount of seawater poured in crazily.
The fire ship began to tilt instantly and was about to sink into the sea.
Zhao Feng looked at everything in front of him with excitement.
This was what he wanted, not leisurely basking in the sun on a lucky boat.
"Captain, be careful when shooting arrows."
The guards came closer and surrounded Zhao Feng tightly.
But listening to the fluttering sound, a dense burst of crossbow arrows fell on the Yang Su.
There was a scream.
One of the sailors must have been hit by an arrow.
The sound of bang bang bang was endless, and a Zheng family warship was only a few dozen steps away from the Yang Su.
Their purpose was very clear, and they were preparing to fight alongside the ship while attacking.
The Yang Su has already penetrated deep into the enemy's formation, and is only accompanied by a Polu army ship on the left and right.
The others are all Zheng family ships, so of course they are easily attacked.
The Yang Su did not slow down its speed, and took advantage of the wind speed to pass quickly.
At the same time, it used a salvo to teach the Zheng Jiafu ship a lesson, opening three huge holes in its side.
Of course, Fu The ship does not have a gun deck below the cabin, so the impact on it is not too great, but the speed of the ship is affected.
The sailors of the Yang Su cheered for a while, and the Yang Su's body then slid eastward.
Shi Chong controlled the Swansui and rushed into the enemy's fleet.
The deck was constantly shaking, and the artillery deck below kept bombarding the nearby fireships with bows from left and right.
The sailors control the Swansea to rush forward at the maximum speed.
They know that it is very dangerous to go deep into the enemy's position.
If the ship's speed is too low, it may be surrounded by enemy ships.
This is a matter of life and death.
Shi Chong, on the other hand, was constantly patrolling with a telescope under the guard's iron shield to see if any enemy warships were approaching.
So far, the Swansui has encountered two enemy gunboats that wanted to fight with the Swansui, but the Swansui was lucky enough to avoid them both times.
Chen Hui's eyes were splitting as he watched more than thirty warships of the Polu army rushing into the army's formation as if they were in an uninhabited land.
In a short period of time, more than twenty fireships were damaged and lost. speed.
Chen Hui hurriedly ordered the gunboats to move forward as quickly as possible.
They must encircle and suppress these Polu army warships.
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If they can't be bombarded, they must rely on help to fight on the side.
In short, they must make these Polu army warships look good.
But what made him jump was that less than half a mile away from the large group of gunboats surrounding them, the ships of the Polu army began to turn almost at the same time, and their warships began to head south.
They were trying to escape, and then they did this again, bastard.
Chen Hui was so angry.
This is not your backyard.
You can come and leave whenever you want.
The Zheng family's gunboats took advantage of the Polu army's lead and the reduced speed of the ship to greatly approach the ship.
Large amounts of rockets and artillery began to roar, flying towards the Polu army's warships like raindrops.
Of course, most of them fell into the sea.
They were too impatient and many were launched before they entered the range.
However, some rockets still reached their targets.
Immediately, the sails of some Polu warships began to catch fire, and the sailors braved arrows and began to extinguish the flames, which also greatly increased their casualties.
Fortunately, the sailors cooperated sincerely, allowing the warships to take the lead smoothly and start to return.
Many gunboats, which were only a hundred steps away, helplessly watched these Galen warships start to move away from them.
A patrol ship of the Polu Army was not so lucky.
Its two mainmasts were hit by the cannons of two gunboats.
The main mast was broken and the main sail fell.
This was a serious blow to the patrol ship of the Polu Army. fatal.
The cruise ship, which had lost its speed, was surrounded and attacked by several gunboats.
Large rockets were fired into the deck of the sea ship.
The main and gaff sails were in flames, and the cruise ship became a big torch.
Most of the sailors were injured by the crossbows of the Zheng family's gunboats while putting out the fire.
While putting out the fire, they wore armor and used fire blunderbuss to shoot at the enemy on the approaching gunboats.
Boom boom boom, a Zheng family gunboat that was eager to make a contribution wanted to approach the patrol ship from the side.
It was hit by the cannon from the still intact gun deck.
Ten big holes immediately appeared on its body, three of which were in the water.
Line, a large amount of sea water immediately poured in, and in just a few dozen seconds, the ship began to tilt and sink.
The other two gunboats took advantage of the fact that the coast guard ship had lost power and approached the warship from the bow and stern.
Bang bang, with two collisions, the two gunboats finally succeeded, and a large number of Zheng family sailors bravely arrived on the deck of the still burning patrol ship.
Killing and capturing the Ming army's troops and warships is money.
At this time, there were only a dozen or so of the thirty or so armored men left.
Fortunately, dozens of gunners from the artillery deck came up with swords and guns to support them, and they were able to stalemate with the Zheng family sailors for a while.
But the gunner had not been trained in the battle formation, and he began to lose strength after a while.
Nearly a hundred sailors from the Zheng family who rushed onto the ship almost killed all the sailors of the Polu Army after suffering more than 30 casualties.
Chen Hui, who had already sailed close to the capital, finally let out a bad breath.
The family leader's group behind him was already approaching.
If there was no harvest, how could he explain the heavy losses?
It was just the right time to capture this warship.
At this moment, the artillery deck of the Polu army patrol ship suddenly made a deafening explosion.
Orange fire and large plumes of smoke rushed out from there.
The fragments of the ship's board were scattered everywhere, and the furthest away was more than a hundred people. step.
The side of the patrol ship was shattered, and its internal organs were exposed with grinning teeth.
A fire broke out, and the upper deck collapsed and burst into flames.
Most of the Zheng family's sailors were either trapped in the bottom hold of the fire, or in the fire.
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Those who were hit by the air waves were killed or injured, some soared in the air like rag dolls, and some were covered in fire and scattered everywhere on the deck.
Only a dozen people jumped into the sea to escape.
Chen Hui's smile froze on his face.
Of course he knew that it was the Polu sailor who committed suicide by igniting the medicine bag on the gun deck.
He is so cruel.
This Zhao Lie is such a cruel person.
Only a cruel person can have such cruel subordinates.
Chen Hui's heart kept sinking.
He had a premonition that this battle was going to be bad.
The soldiers of this Polu army were more ferocious than the sailors of the Zheng family who were always known for their bravery and ruthlessness.
How could this be fun?
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