Chapter 390 We are invincible at night In fact, Da Ming is not like other countries.Because Daming is too big, and the population is large.With the deepening of the communication with the Ming Dynasty, Erwin sadly discovered that the entire Kingdom of the Netherlands is equivalent to the Ming Dynasty.One Zheng Yiguan has more than 3,000 large and small ships, of course, Zheng Yiguan's strength is not to be feared, but Quan Xu's external ambitions have always been too conspicuous.Smooth roads, clean cities, and a furnace that can refine hundreds of thousands of catties of steel are the most needed treasures of the Dutch.The Ming people seem to be afraid to be interested in the sea, and once they dare to be interested, with the manpower and material resources of the Ming Kingdom, they will sooner or later become the new overlord of the sea.The sooner this decisive battle begins, the more advantageous it will be for the Netherlands, and the later it begins, the more dangerous it will be.The arrogant governor of the East had actually withheld their Dutch merchant ships and representatives, and had no regard for the Dutch Empire, which gave Erwin an excuse to go to war.Of course, his anger is not that Quan Xu withheld the Dutch merchant ships, but that he lost the root of the man, although he didn't know who did the night attack, the result was not important, the important thing was that he wanted to take down the territory of southern Liaoning that was developed by Quan Xu.The Dutch wanted to go to war, and although they disrupted Quan Xu's deployment and plans, Quan Xu would also accompany him to the end, although he only had ten Exocets, he brought 3,000 rockets.At the same time, more than a thousand mines were loaded.As early as more than 30 years ago in the Battle of Luliang, the Daming Navy Division used a large number of mines, blowing up the Japanese fleet to the ground, and the psychological threat to the enemy caused by the mines that appeared and appeared from time to time between thousands of waves was even greater than that of 100 huge ships.The equipment of the whole family army is so advanced that it is the best in the world, and there is naturally no reason not to use such a useful thing, and this time they brought a full 1,000 mines, each of which was filled with 50 catties of granular black powder.Fifty catties of black powder, the explosion power is not small, once it hits the thunder, it is definitely the end of flesh and blood.This time the enemy situation is too serious, Quan Xu can not care about 3721, throw all these 1,000 mines into the sea, as for how much role it can play, no one has a bottom in his heart, how many ships can be blown up and sunk, count a few ships, and if they are not detonated, they will be salvaged after the war.The triggering equipment of the mine is in the tripping style, which is also the latest breakthrough of the craftsmen of the late Ming Dynasty, who got inspiration from the string grenade bullet.Actually, the working principle is completely different.The grenade bullet charge is TNT, and the triggering equipment is a fire detonator, although the TNT inside can be detonated by pulling the string, but this kind of mine is not the same principle.First of all, the tripping device, similar to a flint loaded with broken fire, in order to ensure the function of ignition, a rotating spring steel sheet similar to a clockwork, rolled up like a tape measure, once fired, so that the rotating device will continuously ignite the flint, thereby igniting the fuse.In this way, the firing rate of ignition has been increased, and after repeated experiments, this equipment can increase the success rate of mine detonation to 9 out of 90, and only one of the 100 experimental mines has not successfully exploded.First of all, the mine is divided into two parts, the body of the bomb is cast in cast iron, cast iron, it belongs to the kind that will be broken when it falls, and the ignition device is a large wooden box, which is completely sealed.If you look at it from the outside, this kind of mine is a large lid on a water tank, as if it were an enlarged version of a melon grenade.As the clock ticked into the night, Quan Xu's seal slowly slowed down, because through the radar, he found that the Dutch and Zheng Yiguan's combined fleet had actually begun to disconnect.The front was not the Dutch fleet, but the black-tailed ship, the backbone of the Zheng fleet, and it actually sailed overnight.Quan Xu ordered: "Flying Fish Five, Flying Fish Six, and Flying Fish Seven put down the mines!"
”Three Exocet began to lay mines.Mao Yuanyi looked at Quan Xu without the intention of sleeping, as if she felt something: "Are you going to start?"
”"Yes!"
Quan Xu took a glass of wine and poured a tael: "Take a sip!"
”Mao Yuanyi was not polite, took the wine glass, and drank it all."
Exocet Five, minelaying complete!""
Exocet Six, minelaying completed!""
Exocet-seven, mine-laying complete!"
Quan Xu smiled and said: "Remember the location, don't blow yourself up, the villain comes to the door, you three ships go and welcome!"
”Since it was dark night, the Zheng fleet in the vanguard did not notice that they had entered the net set up by the Exocet fleet.Although the 300 mines formed a mine position about 20 miles long and about 1 mile wide, in order to prevent the mines from running around, these mines could be sunk to the bottom of the sea with iron anchors, and buoys were left to prepare for future salvage of mines.Sailing at night, the vanguard fleet of the Zheng fleet's more than a dozen black-tailed ships was also very slow.If it was a situation with an open line of sight during the day, the vanguard of the Zheng fleet at this time should have discovered the Flying Fish ship, but it is a pity that at this time, they are still blind.The fleets of the two sides were almost face to face, and when the distance was less than four hundred paces, with the help of the lanterns on the Zheng fleet, they had already seen the hazy shadow of the flying fish."
Enemy ......" at this moment, Xiuxiuxiu......
Brilliant meteors flew towards the vanguard of the Zheng fleet, although the accuracy of the rocket artillery was too poor, but at such a close distance, these dozens of rocket artillery dragged a long tail depression, as if like a savage rhinoceros, rushing towards those Zheng fleet."
Boom, boom, boom ......and boom" Almost instantly, the five Zheng Wuwei boats in front were blown into erupting volcanoes by rockets before they could fire a single shot.Five huge torches lit up the dark night sky, exposing the three bug-like Exocet ships to the vanguard of the Zheng fleet.The vanguard of the Zheng fleet is Zheng Zhilong's younger brother, Zheng Zhibao is a fierce general, he was unprepared to suffer a big loss, he was furious, and ordered his ships to rush up, ready to retaliate with naval guns.A scene that surprised Zheng Zhibao happened, these three small boats like bedbugs did not accept them when they saw it, but rushed towards Zheng's fleet.The biggest advantage of the Exocet is that it is small, easy to handle, and of course fast, and more importantly, the rate of fire of the rocket artillery is so fast that the rocket launcher located on the bow deck of the ship is pushed down and replaced by two others.At the same time, those sailors hurriedly mounted on the launcher with rocket launchers.These three Flying Fish discovered Zheng Zhibao's flagship for the first time, whether it was Zheng Zhibao or not, it didn't matter, because they were ready to learn the housekeeping skills of the Flying Fish fleet, that is, the decapitation tactic.The three flying fish suddenly turned left and right, rushed into the vanguard ships of the Zheng fleet, aimed at Zheng Zhibao's flagship, and came up with a dense attack.At least thirty rockets were aimed at the Junk ship of the Zheng ship, and the rockets exploded on Zheng Zhibao's flagship one after another, until the flames were rushing, the sawdust flew wildly, and the sailors on the deck let out bursts of screams, and were blown away by the clumps.After a series of more than a dozen rocket shells, Zheng Zhibao, the flagship of Junk, had turned into a fireship, and the gunpowder on the ship was detonated one after another, and a large ball of fire swelled out, one after another, blowing up the sailors on the ship to the point of flesh and blood, and those who were lucky not to be killed screamed and jumped into the sea.The entire Vanguard Reconnaissance Fleet was frightened, and watched the three warships bombard the flagship frantically, shocked by their madness, until the three Exocet ships used up the one hundred and eighty rockets they carried, not only sank Zheng Zhibao's flagship, but also burned eleven blacktail ships into torches at the same time, and then, like people who had nothing to do, they walked away.Zheng's forward reconnaissance fleet, the remaining dozen or so black-tailed ships did not react.Zheng Zhibao was more lucky, jumped into the sea in time to avoid the devastating explosion, he was not injured, but his forehead was rubbed, and blood flowed.However, the injuries were not serious, however, his flagship was finished.Having lost half of the ships of the Forward Reconnaissance Fleet, he was also frightened, and after being rescued, he trembled slightly, his face was bloodless, and he muttered after a while: "These northern barbarians...
It's barbaric, even more barbaric than us!
”The sailors of the Zheng fleet thought it was true, they were all pirates who bleed, killed people without blinking, and asked themselves to be barbaric enough, and only after encountering these three Exocet ships did they know that there were more barbaric and deadly than them!
Mao Yuanyi was able to send back the timely footage through the drone, looking at the three Exocet battleships, which consumed a hundred and ten rockets, and in just a quarter of an hour, solved eleven ships of the Zheng family's fleet.Zheng Zhibao looked at the eleven ships that had been turned into torches with palpitations, and although he was distressed, he still stood still and reported to Zheng Zhilong about the encounter with the enemy fleet.As Quan Xu said, it is the Dutch who have the final say on when the war starts, or Zheng Zhilong, but when it ends, it is not up to them to have the final say.Finally, eleven Zheng's vanguard ships disappeared from the sea, and at the same time, the sea surface also returned to pitch black.Quan Xu took the walkie-talkie and turned on the whole channel: "Flying Fish 5, Flying Fish 6, Flying Fish 7, well done, Ben Shuai announced, the three ships were awarded third-class merits, the captains of the three ships were promoted to lieutenants, and the other soldiers were rewarded with ten taels of silver!"
”"Xie Quanshuai!"
Quan Xu continued: "Flying Fish No. 8, Flying Fish No. 9, and Flying Fish No. 10, it's your turn!"
”"Yes!"
The flag was victorious, and the morale of the flying fish was greatly boosted.At this time, under the command of Quan Xu, the flying fish bypassed the Zheng Zhibao department in the front, but attacked the battleships that came to meet behind the Zheng fleet.The Zhongli fleet of the Zheng fleet, not far from the forward, is about more than ten miles, the fire fired by the rocket artillery and the sound and fire of the battleship being exploded, there is no need for Zheng Zhibao to report, Zheng Zhilong also knows that Zheng Zhibao is in trouble.The main fleet of Zheng's ships, which were hurrying away, didn't notice at all that there were three flying fish already sharpening their knives under their noses."
Xiuxiuxiu......" reached a distance of 500 paces, and the Exocet 10 even reached a distance of about 200 paces of a junk ship, and this round of salvos, 90 rockets turned the entire Zheng fleet upside down.