Chapter 393 Waste Utilization "Boom!
”The explosion sounded, and a battleship of Zheng's fleet was swept out of a large hole by the shock wave of the mine, and the battleship that touched the mine seemed to have been bitten off by a giant beast in the middle of the night.In that huge gap, the sea water swarmed in, and the sailors of the Zheng clan looked at the influx of water in despair, helpless, they screamed in despair and jumped into the sea.As if falling from heaven to hell, since the night attack in the middle of last night, the whole family army sailor unit has laid more than 600 mines around the Zheng fleet.Let the Zheng fleet fall into an embarrassing situation, forward, I don't know how many mines, like the Junk battleship, can barely carry a mine, however, the Junk battleship will also be seriously injured, like the main battleship Wuwei ship, which will be directly sunk The biggest difference with the bird ship is that the sailors on the Wuwei ship still have the opportunity to jump into the sea.But the small bird boat didn't have time to react at all, and it exploded in two and quickly sank to the bottom of the sea.Zheng Zhilong's face was very ugly.Zheng Zhibao looked at Zheng Zhilong in horror: "What now?"
”"What to do!"
Zheng Zhilong said coldly: "Don't be tempted, form a long snake formation, and target Liaodong Lushun!"
”The whole morning's temptation was in vain, and they lost eight more ships, large and small.There is also an advantage of the long snake formation, that is, even if they break into the minefield, at most it will only be the battleship in front of them that hits the mine, and the battleship behind is fine, no matter how great the ability of the Quan's sailors is, it is impossible to fill this sea area with mines, as long as they pay the price of a few or a dozen battleships being damaged and disabled, they can break through the minefield.Today's Zheng fleet has lost more than half, but fortunately, there are still eight main Junk warships and fourteen Wuwei ships, and they still have the strength to fight in the face of the Liaodong Naval Division.Of course, it doesn't matter whether he has the strength to fight or not, from now on Zheng Zhilong decided not to be involved in the war between Quan Xu and the Dutch, he wants to sit on the wall and watch.In his opinion, the Quan's sailors took the initiative to attack, but he did not declare war on the Quan's family, so it was a big deal to explain it clearly on the grounds of misunderstanding.In Zheng Zhilong's eyes, anything can be discussed, and everything has a price, he just listened to the nonsense of the Dutch and fell in love with the ploughing cattle and war horses in Liaodong.No one has detailed statistics on how many cattle there are in Liaodong, but Houjin secretly sold more than 6,000 heads to Quanxu, and when Quanxu was in Zunhua, he snatched 20,000 or 30,000 heads from Houjin, plus big cattle giving birth to calves, and the cultivated cattle in Liaodong were at least about 70,000 or 80,000 heads.This is not important, the important thing is that Quanxu has a lot of factories, and the things produced need to be sold to various places, so it is inseparable from Zheng Zhilong, the sea king.Although the long snake formation is a solution to the problem, it is difficult to implement this method, and now that the entire fleet is in chaos, how easy is it to reorganize it?
As Quan Xu said, the war was not provoked by him, once the war starts, when it ends, it is up to him to have the final say.Quan Xu used the battleship to drag nine scarred Flying Fish, and took advantage of the speed advantage of the seals to tow the nine Flying Fish back to Port Arthur.At this time, Quan Xu took the shadow guard and came directly to a special camp in Lushunkou.The area of this camp is not large, about a dozen acres.These slaves were not captured by Quan Xu, but the Dutch were going to sell them to Quan Xu, and he found that there were at least hundreds of dwarfs among the slaves.This was a key part of his execution of the raid plan, and the hundreds of dwarfs knelt down when they saw Jeon Wook coming.Quan Xu looked at the little dwarfs and said: "Ben Shuai, swear by the Ming Dynasty Xiu Wubo and the Liaodong General Army, Ben Shuai will treat your family well, they will get this kind of rice in front of you every year, five stones, and clothes, as long as Ben Shuai does not die, your family will never lack food and clothing, boldly attack, sink all those enemy ships, and return to the glory and dream of a warrior in the earth-shaking explosion, attack!"
”For the soldiers of the whole family army to do this kind of suicide attack, Quan Xu is naturally reluctant.But for this kind of dwarf, Quan Xu will definitely not mind.A part of the grain and cloth is just a part of the money, Quanxu is not short of money, and the problem that can be solved with money and grain is not called a problem.Five or six hundred dwarfs flushed with excitement, and they waved their fists and roared: "Onboard!
Onboard!
”Some guys in fancy clothes roared angrily: "We are serious samurai, and the glory of the first attack is ours, you lowly townspeople, and you are not allowed to rob us!"
”Their necks were straight, and they let out a wolf-like howl: "Ten lives to serve the country, and become a Buddha after death, onboard!"
”At this time, the gate of the water camp connected with the big camp was raised, and what was docked on the pier was a narrow small boat, which was very small, about two and a half meters wide and about five or six meters long.Such a dinghy was not even painted, only a sail, and the center of gravity of the dinghy seemed to be unevenly distributed, with a light weight in the back and a light in the front, and the head of the dinghy was raised high.The only thing that makes people feel incredible is that the bow of the ship is actually equipped with a steel ramming angle, which is not large, but it looks very sharp, and there are barbs on it.This is a suicide bombing ship built by Quan Xu, each suicide ship is loaded with 200 catties of granular black powder, which is exactly the same as the detonation method of a mine, which can be said to be a manually operated torpedo.At the time of firing, the angle hits the machine, and the machine will fire the explosive fuse, which will explode within ten breaths, of course, there will be exceptions, due to the low technology content, Quan Xu is not worried that the Dutch will learn.After the attack of the Exocet fleet, at this time, whether it is the Dutch or the Zheng fleet, the strength has been seriously weakened, basically the ratio of ten to one, if the ten suicide ships kill one, then the Dutch combined fleet will be completely annihilated.Battle flags with black skulls fluttered in the wind, and the suicide ships began to move southeast.The nine flying fish are also being overhauled.Mao Yuanyi looked at Quan Xu, and didn't know how to describe Quan Xu at this time.In order to win, Quanxu will do everything.That's right, Quanxu decided to use nearly 600 suicide ships to give the Dutch and Zheng's fleet a fireworks feast.The seals followed, and several samurai in fancy clothes carried walkie-talkies and accepted Quan Xu's command.On September 24, the fourth year of Chongzhen, in the early morning, in the sea area fifty miles southwest of Lushunkou, Quan Xu saw the Dutch and Zheng's fleet from the picture of the drone.The frightened Dutch and the Zheng fleet set up bird boats on the periphery to act as observation posts, and they improvised a searchlight.It is to buckle together with mirrors to form a kind of lamp that can be searched for more than 300 steps.Jeon Wook didn't know exactly how it was done, but the pillar of light was scanning back and forth on the sea.It is impossible to get close to them silently in a Flying Fish boat.It's just that Quan Xu didn't prepare for a night attack, but he took advantage of the dawn.These little dwarfs, while drinking, crying and laughing, are simply ghosts crying wolves.The sun rises over the sea.The night finally passed safely, and the Zheng sailors in front of them breathed a sigh of relief, and at this moment, the sailors on the lookout pocket were horrified to find that a black line appeared densely in the distance.This black line is actually a black hole flag, and countless small boats appear on the sea in the black battle flag hunting and flying."
Prepare for battle!"
These suicidal dinghys were very fast, and with full sail and tailwind, they actually reached the point of clippers, although they were small, they were designed in such a way that they could reach speeds of fourteen to seventeen knots.Zheng Zhilong looked at these boats: "Is it a wolf pack tactic at sea?"
”He was a little confused.This dinghy is too small, right?
Through the binoculars, you can see that there is only one dwarf on each dinghy, which is so small that even if you want to ram their battleship, it will be an egg hitting a stone.Finally, the first suicide ship collided with a bird boat that served as a guard post, and at the moment of collision, the bird boat was almost immobile, there was no way to bird, although the ship was small, at least it had a displacement of more than three hundred tons.And this kind of small boat is less than ten tons when it is full, and the full load cannot exceed five hundred catties.The sailors on the bird boat shot at the dwarfs in the dinghy with muskets or bows and arrows, and in just a few breaths, the dwarfs in the dinghy were beaten into blood gourds, and before the sailors had time to celebrate their victory, the conical bow of the metal shell turned into a small sun in front of them, and in a flash of bright light, their consciousness and body shattered!
Like a volcanic eruption, the terrifying blast wave of the explosion shattered the cabin partition and lifted a large piece ......of the deck into the air, and the sailors on the bird ship became trapeze.The rumbling explosions were more dense and violent than the rocket explosions the night before, and the columns of water and fire rushed up in the sound of the explosions, blowing all the moving things of the sailors, the ship's beams, the decks, the sails, and even the artillery.Wave after wave of suicide ships rushed in, nimbly bypassing the violently burning and exploding ships, pounced on the ships that fired at them indiscriminately and turned their rudders in an attempt to avoid the kiss of death, and once caught, they crashed straight into them, turning into a blazing fire in an earth-shattering explosion.Blood and raging flames stained the sea, the waves howled, the sky wailed, and the desperate cries of the sailors of the Zheng fleet changed the color of heaven and earth.The terrible suicide ship keeps rushing over, and the ghost knows how much explosives are on these little things, and once they are hit, even the big battleship will be destroyed!
In the terrifying sound of "onboarding", under their rampage, one battleship after another of Zheng's fleet turned into burning wreckage.The sound of explosions and screams was terrifying......
In order to avoid these bloodthirsty suicide ships, many warships rushed into each other in a panic.Zheng Zhilong only felt that his head had been hit hard, and the world was spinning.