The Polu army had the absolute upper hand in the battle in the northeast.
Although it paid some price, it was much less than the losses suffered by the coalition forces and Zheng Zhilong.
Zheng Cai and Yang Geng were not attacking but fleeing now, because the dozens of Polu Tang-class and Song-class warships behind them defeated the main force of the coalition Galen warships and immediately surrounded the Zheng family fleet.
They came here with great momentum and one purpose, to avenge the damage to the several Polu troops in front of them on the battlefield.
These behemoth ships are not comparable to the Zheng family's gunboats.
If the Zheng family's fleet attacked just now and wanted to succeed in a sneak attack, then the Zheng family's fleet, which has lost its biggest weapon, the fireship, has to escape in one word.
Even Yang Geng , Zheng Cai’s boat is no exception.
As for the few remaining Galen warships of the coalition, they were still resisting, but each one was besieged by several Polu warships, which was simply a miserable experience.
It can be said that the overall situation on this battlefield has been decided.
On the southern battlefield, although thirty Polu army warships overturned the enemy's formation and sank nearly a hundred warships and fireships, they could not stop most of the Zheng family's fleet warships.
More than a hundred fireships and gunboats overcame the interception of the thirty warships and headed northwest.
But there is still the last barrier in front of them, which is the battle line of nearly thirty clipper ships, more than ten patrol ships, and twenty Galen merchant ships.
Seeing the Zheng family's warships attacking from the opposite side, the Polu army warships left behind immediately met the enemy in advance.
These warships obviously know their mission.
Even if they sacrifice themselves, they cannot let their opponents rush past.
Since the Zheng family's gunboats don't have many guns, for the sake of a small situation, and the clipper merchant ships are in a similar situation, the Polu army warships still take advantage of their own warships and focus on ramming.
Before the collision, the two sides still exchanged sporadic fire with limited artillery.
The Polu army had a slight upper hand and destroyed several Zheng family's warships.
The Zheng family's fireships were too small and the Polu army's artillery was sharp, so they were hit.
It just hurts.
In contrast, except for the clipper ships of the Polu army, which had to withdraw from the battle due to damaged mainmasts, the other warships all rushed over.
The two fleets collided, but the Polu army immediately overturned more than ten fireships.
The purpose of these warships was very clear.
They ignored the attack of the gunboats.
At worst, they used artillery to fight back.
Even if they stared at the fireships, they did not use artillery bombardment. , there are really not many artillery guns on their ship, which cannot ensure the sinking of the fire ship.
In the turbulence of the sea, the density of shelling replaces accuracy.
What to do is to use a large ship to ram a small ship.
Even the clipper ship with a tonnage of only nearly a hundred tons adopts this method.
The Polu army ships took advantage of the speed of the side wind to target the fireships, and they were sure to hit them with certainty.
The Zheng family's fireship fleet was also quite dense.
Because the Hehuo Fleet is a way of attacking the enemy by exchanging numbers for the opponent's warships.
It usually takes three or four fireships to destroy one opponent's warship, so they often move forward in a dense formation.
This gave the Polu warships a chance to ram.
Although the clipper patrol ships were not too big, they were still extremely large for these fireships, and the Galen merchant ships of three to four hundred tons could use huge Ship comes to describe it.
If the collision of the clipper ship caused one thousand injuries to the enemy and eight hundred losses to itself, then the patrol ship and the Galen merchant ship simply went on a rampage, smashing the hundreds of fire ships into pieces and losing their formation.
Some of the fire ships were scurrying around to avoid Akito's warships, and some even collided with their own warships.
Several clipper ships of the Polu army were also damaged on the sides of the collision, began to seep water, and collapsed on the sea.
They could only use several nine-pound and twelve-pound guns on the ship to attack the passing Zheng family fireships and gunboats.
Some fire ships are really unwilling to take the risk and rush over.
Aren't you going to ram them?
Fire ships are consumables anyway, just to consume the opponent's war ships.
Why go around so far?
I'll burn you first and attack immediately.
The patrol ships and merchant ships of the Polu Army.
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They used the iron ramming horn in front of the fireboat to pierce the planks of the Polu warships, then ignited the fireboat and jumped into the sea immediately.
The kerosene and firewood on the fireboat immediately burned hotly.
However, the fire of a fire ship is often unable to ignite the Polu army's warships for a while.
The Polu army's warships can continue to take advantage of the wind to sail eastward and continue to ram and damage the fire ships.
Next, the fire ships followed suit.
Immediately, more than ten war ships were set ablaze by the Zheng family's fire ships, and almost every ship had three or four fire ships attached.
This made Zheng Qiu want to cry, because these fireships were used to deal with the hundreds of tons of main battleships of the Polu army.
They were wasted on clipper ships, patrol ships and large and useless merchant ships.
There would still be enough for a while.
Did the fire ship burn down the main battleship of the Polu army?
But at this time, he was trapped on the gunboat and was powerless against everything in front of him.
There was no way he could do anything about it.
Thirty Polu warships began to return under the command of the Han Qinhu.
They turned their ships from the east.
They had already broken through the Zheng family's fire fleet and wanted to turn their ships and go back to track them.
The sails of these warships were either damaged, or the hull plates were cracked due to impact, but they still violently bombarded the gunboats continuously, and still rammed the fireships from behind.
They became even more furious and dangerous like wounded beasts.
The soldiers of these warships were angered by the death of their brothers.
They simply killed the enemy regardless of their own efforts, and even did not hesitate to die with the enemy.
Of the more than 300 fireships, only a few dozen were able to escape these two lines of defense.
Facing the hundreds of main warships of the Polu army, they were simply not enough, and even the losses they caused were negligible.
Zheng Zhilong, who was in the rear, made a decisive decision when he saw this situation and immediately issued a military order to withdraw.
There was no need to continue the war.
Even if all the Zheng family fleets were filled in, victory would not be achieved.
Zheng Zhilong himself escaped first on a Galen armed merchant ship.
The Zheng family only had a few such merchant ships.
As soon as Zheng Zhilong's general order came out, all the fireships and gunboats turned around and evacuated southward without saying a word.
They also realized that it would be too late if they didn't evacuate.
From far to the west, they could already see the main battleships of the Polu Army one after another. , If we don’t leave, I’m afraid we will all sink here to feed the fish and shrimps.
It is simply a fantasy to think that only a few dozen fire ships can defeat the Polu army's main fleet.
At this time, the Polu navy warships in the northeast and southeast had only one mission: to pursue them, and pursue them with deep-seated hatred.
The losses caused by the coalition forces to the Polu army were limited, including the damage to cannons, warships, sailors and gunners.
This was acceptable to the Polu army, and they deserved to die fighting against foreigners.
Furthermore, the attack by the coalition warships did not cause major damage to the Polu army, and it was still within an acceptable range.
However, there were too many Zheng family gunboats and fireships, and the threat from the fireships was too great, forcing the Polu army to adopt a lose-lose strategy.
This caused the Polu army to suffer extremely serious battle losses.
It can be said that most of the casualties and almost all the battle losses were The damage and sinking of the ship were all caused by the Zheng family's warships.
The soldiers of the Polu Army, who had been brainwashed by the nationalist education of the Xuanfu officials in charge of Zhao Lie, could not accept anything now.
A Ming man entangled the barbarians to attack the Polu Army, with the purpose of dominating the Ming Dynasty's waters and seas.
Trade routes, in Mr.
Zhao’s words, are the most hated by traitors and traitors.
Therefore, these Polu Army warships did not wait for the general order from Li Hu, who was supervising the formation, and immediately began to pursue them with full sail.
The purpose was to kill them all and avenge the lives of the Polu Army navy soldiers who died at the hands of the Zheng family.
As a result, hundreds of warships raced against each other on the sea.
In addition to the dozens of main warships remaining behind, hundreds of clipper ships, patrol ships, and Tang-class warships pursued them with all their strength in the north and south, which were fleeing in all directions. on the front.
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Needless to say, the fireships of the Zheng family fleet were destined to be abandoned.
Their pitiful speed also destined them to be overtaken and sunk by Polu warships before they could escape very far.
There were no prisoners here and no surrenders.
Once the Polu Army catches up, it will be a sinking matter.
Even the Polu Army's armor will shoot back at the Zheng family fleet floating on the sea.
At this time, the two sides can only describe the blood feud.
Zhao Feng's Yang Su was chasing a Zheng family gunboat.
The gunboat's bamboo mainsail was sailing at full sail, but the Yang Su easily caught up with it.
Only a few of the ten nine-pounders and twelve-pounders on the Zheng family's gunboats could be fired at the Yang Su.
Not to mention the poor accuracy of the smoothbore cannons, even if they hit the Yang Su, they would only take away some broken pieces.
Just ship planks.
The Yang Su calmly approached a mile away, and then the gun deck fired a salvo.
Several huge holes were hit in the side of the Zheng family gunboat.
The ship's speed immediately dropped, and large amounts of water poured into the Wanghai ship.
The sea breeze greatly affected its speed.
Zhao Feng was very dissatisfied.
The first salvo of this 200-ton sailboat failed to hit its vital points.
Zhao Feng looked solemnly as he waited for the next attack from the artillery deck soldiers.
Boom, boom, boom, after a hundred breaths, another boom sounded.
The several large holes in the side of the warship this time were almost connected with the several large holes in the last time.
Twenty-four pounds of Tiago opened the can Compared to an old-fashioned sailing boat, the device is simply demolishable and stress-free.
The most terrifying thing is that two large holes appeared in the waterline of the gunboat.
Seawater poured into the gunboat's bottom cabin rapidly.
In a matter of seconds, the warship began to tilt to one side, falling at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Shen.
Zhao Feng did not let go of this opponent.
He asked the artillery deck to fire again.
This time the bombardment almost tore apart the opponent's opposite sides.
This time Zhao Feng did not continue to pester.
The miserable appearance of this gunboat meant that it was too late for the rescue by gods and Buddhas all over the sky.
Under the control of Zhao Feng, the Yang Su continued to pursue the north.
There were still many gunboats fleeing ahead.
Zhao Feng's anger at the self-destruction of just a few Polu troops had not dissipated.
He wanted to catch up and kill these damned ships. was his only thought
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