Chapter 391 Death Battle Zheng Zhilong received the battle report, and looking at the battle report, he was speechless for a long time.The loss of twelve Wuwei battleships, two junk ships, seven bird ships, and nearly two thousand personnel losses were heavy, but for Zheng Zhilong, it was really nothing.After all, Zheng's fleet has more than 3,000 large and small ships, and there are more than 40,000 pirate soldiers.As a hero, Zheng Zhibao's biggest characteristic is that he can afford to take it and put it down, and he is a very pragmatic person, as early as fifteen years ago, he saw the Dutch and the Portuguese in Macao broke out in a naval battle, and the Dutch ships were strong and artillery, which left a deep impression on him.Later, he annexed the family of the sworn elder brother Yan Siqi and the top brother Li Dan, and took advantage of the situation, he concentrated his financial resources, learned from the Dutch, and built the main battleship of the Zheng fleet.With the Dutch-style strong ship gun, the sea is intimidated.The point is that the ferocity and madness of the three ships of the family army fleet in these skirmishes are truly terrifying.Zheng Zhilong sent people to mix up the war between Quan Xu and the Dutch, of course, he investigated Quan Xu, he thought that Quan Xu was only strong on land, no matter how strong Ma Bujun was, at sea, they were far from being his opponents.It's just that I didn't expect that the boat of the whole family military sailor was obviously smaller than his own boat, and even smaller than the blacktail boat, but the kind of attack that took advantage of the night to approach made people unguardable.As the overlord of the sea, Zheng Zhilong, who has been on the sea all the year round, is too dangerous to sail at night, and it is easy to have accidents, but the whole family military and sailors don't care at all.When the main fleet was attacked, one of the Exocets was too close and was hit by the mast that their rockets had blown off, and several soldiers of the Naval Division of the whole family were of course smashed meatloaf, but the Exocet's attack was not affected.Zheng Zhilong cursed angrily: "Quan Xu must have rabies and infected all his subordinates, so his subordinates will be like mad dogs, biting people when they catch them!"
Cursing is cursing, things still have to be done, and he also ordered the elite of the whole army to go out and rush to Lushunkou.No matter how brave the Liaodong Navy Division is, there are only about forty small warships, even if three fight one, they will squeeze you flat!
The ideal is plump, but the reality is too skinny.Zheng Zhilong wanted to find Quan Xu desperately, but Quan Xu ignored Zheng Zhibao, he used more than 600 mines to form a huge mine area to delay the Zheng fleet.With a loud bang, ...... 50 catties of granular black powder exploded, setting off huge waves, the waves were as high as more than ten zhang, and a black-tailed ship of Zheng's fleet was blown into two, and the sailors and soldiers on it were sucked into the bottom of the sea by the whirlpool formed before they even had time to jump into the sea.It seemed to be raining in the sky, and two words burst out of Zheng Zhibao's teeth: "Despicable!"
”This kind of mine is obviously more powerful than the Ming army's standard mine, which can only sink light clippers like bird boats, and is powerless for a large ship of 3,000 materials like a blacktail boat.The smell of the sea began to spread.Zheng Zhilong's face was as gloomy as water: "Lower the sails, drop anchor, stop sailing!"
”This is the simplest way, there is no way to compare the mines at this time with the mines of later generations, once in the daytime, you can take advantage of the wide line of sight, you can visually search for demining.Now, their best thing to do is to stay still.It used more than 600 mines to trap the remnants of Zheng's fleet, Quan Xu did not take advantage of the victory to pursue and wipe out Zheng's fleet at sea, mainly because they had a limited number of rockets carried by these ten flying fish, and the Dutch fleet, the battleships were larger than Zheng Zhilong's fleet, and they were not easy to deal with."
The other nine flying fish, bypass the Zheng fleet and go to meet the Dutch fleet with me!"
Although Mao Yuanyi was one of the smartest people of this era, he didn't know how Jeon Wook could use a black thing to transmit his voice to the other flying fish.He didn't know how Quan Xu could make a scene that was more than ten miles away, or even dozens of miles away, appear on the thing that would glow in front of him, and he also didn't know why a small flying fish ship could recklessly swim in the middle of the Zheng Clan's fleet and kill them to pieces.After two groups, the sortie of six Exocet battleships consumed three hundred and sixty rockets, although one Exocet ship was damaged, killing three people and wounding one.However, it killed nearly a third of the ships of the Zheng fleet.Mao Yuanyi was anxious: "Quan Shuai, the Dutch are ten times more than us, it is really unwise to fight hard with them, it is better to retreat for the time being, and then find a way to break the enemy!"
”Quan Xu rolled his eyes and said with disdain: "Is there any difference between a lion surrounded by ten sheep and ten lions surrounded by a hundred sheep?"
It doesn't make any difference!
The Dutch fleet is like a flock of tender and fat goats in my eyes, and a lion is frightened by a flock of sheep and flees, and Ben Shuai can't afford to lose this face!
”In fact, Jeon Wook is not as easy as he says.At this time, it was only one hundred and fifty miles away from the port of Arthur at most, and if it was not topped, the Dutch could successfully reach the port of Arthur after dawn.Even if the Dutch don't fire a single shot, as long as the Dutch battleships appear in Lushun or the coast of southern Liaoning, it will definitely cause panic in southern Liaoning.Therefore, while there was still some time in the morning, Quan Xu could only hit the Dutch as hard as possible.Mao Yuanyi said with a smile: "I hope they are really goats!"
”"It's not hope, they're just a herd of goats!"
Quanxu's confidence is still solid.Mao Yuanyi sighed, he didn't speak, although the Zheng ship was powerful and there were a huge number of ships, but the largest gunboat of the Zheng fleet was only four or five thousand materials, and the artillery was only twenty-four, far inferior to the third-class battleships of the Dutch, and even inferior to their armed merchant ships.Quanxu knows history, and the Dutch seem to be strong, but in fact they are just paper tigers.At this time, Zheng Zhilong's expansion had not yet reached his peak, and in the next two years, their honeymoon period with the Dutch was coming to an end, and in the seventh year of Chongzhen, the Dutch were dissatisfied with Zheng Zhilong's protection fee and were ready to challenge Zheng Zhilong's authority, and a naval battle inevitably broke out between the two sides.Zheng Zhilong used the tactics of wolves at sea to force the Dutch to bow to Zheng Zhilong, and paid Zheng Zhilong a protection fee of 120,000 francs every year.Just when Quan Xu took advantage of the night with nine flying fish that had no losses, Mao Yuanyi said: "Quan Shuai, I found a problem!"
”"What?""
The Divine Fire Crow in the naval battle doesn't need fifteen of them to be launched together!"
Mao Yuanyi thought for a while and said, "It's too wasteful!"
”This situation is a problem that Quan Xu just noticed, that is, many small boats in the Zheng ship, such as the bird boat, will be fired into the soul, as long as it hits, the bird ship will be blown up and sunk.However, the fifteen rocket launchers were fired at the same time, and fortunately, the formation of the Zheng fleet was chaotic, and some of the rocket shells flew past the sunken bird ships, and then hit the Zheng ships farther away.There is a greater chance that you will miss the target.Quan Xu thought for a while and said: "What you said is not unreasonable, this time it is just a test, we will change it later, each launch vehicle is loaded with five in a single layer, so that the loading speed is faster and waste can also be avoided!"
”War is the criterion for testing whether a weapon is reasonable or unreasonable.Of course, it is also because there are too many small clippers in the Zheng fleet, like the fleet of the Dutch, there is no such problem at all, and the Dutch combined fleet is all ocean-going ships, even ordinary armed merchant ships, with a displacement of almost no less than a thousand tons.The darkness before dawn is the darkest hour in the sky.Before dawn, Quan Xu led nine Exocets to finally reach the waters near the Dutch Combined Fleet.The first to attack was naturally the nine Exocets.But the sun has begun to rise slowly, the sun pierces the dark night sky, and the vision gradually widens, and the Dutch also spot flying fish and Quanxu's seal.The Dutch sailors and artillerymen ran in panic to their combat posts."
Fight to the death, fight to the death, fight to the death!"
Nine flying fishes rushed towards the Dutch fleet in a single-handed manner.In the face of the Flying Fish's charge, Erwin sneered and said, "It's really ...... that these broken ships still want to attack us with the Netherlands I don't know how thick the sky is, I waved the flag, ordered the ships to attack freely, and tore them to pieces"!
The herald on the flagship of the Royal Oak waved the flag, and the Conch sounded in the combined fleet of the Dutch, and the whining sound resounded between the sea and the sky.More than fifty Dutch armed merchant ships and warships marched in unison in three ways, but the number was six times more than that of the Liaodong Naval Division, of course, this is only the number, if we talk about the displacement, it is even more disproportionate.Even the smallest Dutch armed merchant ship is nearly ten times that of the Exocet battleship, and the total displacement is nearly a hundred times that of the Exocet fleet, and of course the momentum is naturally a hundred times terrifying!
The Flying Fish had the upper hand, and was very fast in the downwind situation, and when the two fleets were less than five hundred paces apart, the Dutch fleet was the first to fire, but at this distance they fired, the hit rate was really not good, and most of the shells hit the sea, in vain they stirred up a cluster of tall and large water columns, and the sea surface was like a boiling pot of foam tumbling, thunder and lightning.The Exocet fleet had already understood the tactics and advantages of the Dutch in advance, and was mentally prepared for this, and was not intimidated by the heavy artillery fire, but on the contrary accelerated its speed.In fact, the accuracy of the naval guns of the Dutch fleet was only about 300 paces, and at this distance, it was possible to use the gunsoft fire to destroy the opponent.Finally, when the Dutch fleet was about to fire the second round of artillery, the nine Exocets each approached the 400 paces of the Dutch Combined Fleet, and 270 rockets were fired first, and a sharp whistling sound swept across the battlefield, and the sky was roasted red by the flames at the tail of the rockets."
No ......"
Erwin's face finally changed.