Chapter 560 Firepower Coverage When Quan Xu led people to build the Wusongkou Fort, Zheng Zhilong led his main fleet in the middle of the Zhoushan Islands.He just took advantage of the black light mountain, and also took advantage of the mistakes of the whole family army.China has more than 6,000 large and small islands, of which the Zhoushan archipelago accounts for nearly a quarter and is composed of more than 1,300 islands.It's just a pity that Zheng Zhilong at this time only has more than 30 warships, large and small.The whole family navy and Quan Xu himself thought that Zheng Zhilong's fleet should be in the South China Sea, because all the looting cases occurred in the Wanli Shitang Sea (i.e., the Xisha Islands), so the focus of the search was on the West Sea and the South China Sea.Zheng Zhilong was born as a pirate, as early as the Jiajing period, the Zhoushan Islands were operated by the pirates Li Guangtou, Xu Dong, Wang Zhi, etc., Zheng Zhilong is very familiar with the waters here.The more than 1,000 islands in the Zhoushan archipelago are small uninhabited islands and reefs, and there are so many reefs that even experienced people have to walk along the waterways and run aground if they are not careful.Zheng Zhilong took advantage of people's slackness, he put the navy's warships on those uninhabited islands, and then used camouflage technology to disguise them as small islands and reefs.The camouflage of sailing ships of this era was too simple, holding a sea blue canvas, enclosing the warship below the deck, and inserting branches on the deck, as long as the branches were soaked in fresh water, this camouflage of small islands and reefs could not be found at all.The sea area through such a small island is very complicated, only small boats can pass, large ships cannot pass, and there is no even need to search, a small island and reef, you can see clearly at a glance.The closest camouflage island and reef to the whole family navy is actually Zheng Zhilong's flagship Poseidon, this 1,500-ton Spanish-built warship, taking advantage of the opportunity of high tide to camouflage itself with a small island and reef, 1,500 tons in the warship, which is very conspicuous in the large navy.But in front of the island, it was almost impossible to distinguish with the naked eye, and at this time, Zheng Zhilong was quietly watching the fleet of the whole family navy going south.Including Zheng Zhilong, everyone took a deep breath, too much, how much?
So much so that the shadows of the sails converged into an endless white cloud, almost covering the surface of the sea!
The hundreds of warships were densely packed like dumplings, and the bow was high, breaking through the waves, and anyone who saw this terrifying scene would gasp.Zheng Zhibao took a deep breath: "Good guy, really good guy!"
”Compared with the Zheng fleet in its heyday, the main fleet of the whole family army is even larger, even the Junk ship, which Zheng Zhilong relies on the most, has a heavy load of about 260 tons.In Europe, it belonged to small and medium-sized warships.However, the main warships of the whole family army have approached the third-class warships of Europe.Zheng Zhibao said a little sourly: "When will we have so many warships?"
”"Soon, as long as we defeat Quan Xu Xiao'er, it will be our turn to dominate the four seas!"
Zheng Zhilong said with a faint smile: "Quan Xu Xiao'er has stored a large amount of timber in Liaodong and Dengzhou, and it is said that hundreds of main warships can be built, and these timber and warships are ours!"
”Seeing that the entire family army and navy fleet had all entered Hangzhou Bay, Zheng Zhilong lightly ordered: "Inform Miyamoto, let's start!"
”In order to support Zheng Zhilong, the Spaniards can be said to be very attentive, and even did not hesitate to use the warships of the treasure fleet, which was a fleet of ships from the Spanish Empire from the mainland to New Mexico, loaded with industrial goods from Spain, and transported back gold and silver treasures from New Mexico, also known as the treasure fleet.The ships of this treasure fleet were mainly large Spanish Galen warships, with a load of between 1,200 and 1,500 tons, good handling, and high speed.With Zheng Zhilong's order issued, two puffs of wolf smoke suddenly rose on an originally uninhabited island and reef, and they were soon discovered by the patrol ship of the whole family.Traveling as a large fleet, as an army marches, there are not only supply ships, but also a comparable number of small reconnaissance ships.The small boat used by the whole family army for reconnaissance was actually a Flying Fish II warship, about 6 zhang 9 feet long, about 1 zhang 8 feet wide, with a draft of 3 feet 9 inches, and a load of about 150 tons.When wolf smoke suddenly rose on the discovered islands and reefs, the reconnaissance ships of the whole family army immediately became vigilant, and the reconnaissance ships began to spread the reconnaissance range to look for enemy ships.After all, the wolf smoke on the sea, at best, can transmit a target range of three to five kilometers, and the whole family army and navy immediately sounded the battle alarm, and all the warships took off their gun jackets, loaded them with shells, and searched for targets.Originally, Jeon Wook was taking a nap when he was woken up by the sound of an alarm."
What's going on?""
There is wolf smoke ahead, and the reconnaissance ship speculates that there should be an enemy surveillance ship nearby!""
Then beat them down!"
However, when Quan Xu's words just fell, located on the beach of Daishan Island, a dense crowd of small boats suddenly appeared, these small boats did not have sails at all, but relied on oars to row, and what was even more strange was that this small species was originally integrated with the iron-gray sandy beach.These small boats swooped down on the ships of the whole family army.Looking at this scene, Quan Xu said coldly: "I haven't grown at all, and I still play this set, this is all leftovers from Ben Shuai!"
”The routine is not afraid of getting old, the key is to be useful.Zheng Zhilong didn't care about the lives of those Japanese samurai, they didn't care about themselves, who would care, they defected to Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Zhilong rewarded them with a mouthful of food, they should pay back their lives.These dense small suicide ships are getting faster and faster, like locusts, flying towards the family warship.Now the warships of the whole family army and navy have entered the golden waterway of Hangzhou Bay, which is the best navigable waterway for the Yangtze River to reach the sea, with an average water depth of about ten meters, which is a bit chicken for the big ships of later generations, but for the sailing ships of this era, it is completely sufficient, and there is no need to worry about danger.The widest distance between Daishan Island and the mainland coastline is only 3.8 kilometers, and the nearest shipping channel is only a few hundred meters away from Daishan Island.Yang Yandong looked at the dense boats, and suddenly his head was as big as a fight: "What is the reconnaissance detachment doing to eat, and we haven't found it under our skin?"
”The establishment of the whole family army and navy is too short, and due to the rapid expansion of the troops, it is inevitable that various oolong incidents will occur."
There is no point in holding these boats accountable now, knock these boats down!"
The thunderous explosion of "boom, boom, boom ......" suddenly exploded on the sea surface, and the muzzles of hundreds of naval guns spewed out large flames at the same time, and the black pressure of gunpowder smoke spread in all directions like a hurricane, and the sea surface was like a black storm.Shells of 130 mm and 28 times the diameter flew out of the bore at high speed, converging into a scorching hail and slamming down on the boats.As soon as the cannon sounded, there were ten thousand taels of gold, which was true.The cost of the 130-millimeter sulfur shells of the whole family army is eight taels of silver, and the cost of Quanxu's procurement is as much as nine and a half taels.This round of volleys, thousands of taels of silver went out.If it is a primitive naval gun, the effect of dealing with this kind of suicide ship is not obvious, but the rear-loading rifled gun has a brake, and the rate of fire is very fast, and the rifling flame released from the muzzles of hundreds of naval guns has not yet dispersed, and the thunder has risen again, and hundreds of naval guns have opened fire violently, and these roars fall on that kind of suicide ship, on the sea, blowing up a large ball of fire, and it will collapse into a splash, not to mention how lethal it is, the scene alone is scary enough.Those brimstone bullets are very expensive, and the manufacturing process is more than a little more complicated than solid lead bullets, but the killing effect may not be as good as solid lead bullets, especially against this kind of suicide ship, as long as it hits, the effect is the same."
Boom boom ......" cannon sound is completely indistinguishable, dozens of battleships up to 300 meters, according to the suicide ships on the sea stuffy heads, loaded and hit hard, the whole family army's warships are not all flowery guns, there are also some old gunboats, such as solid shot put, chain bullets, flowering bombs...
Don't pour out money.The entire family naval fleet is showing off its powerful firepower and terrifying destructive power.They don't look like they're fighting, but like they're burying people with shells, looking at the entire Ming Dynasty, there are really only a handful of troops who dare to play like this!
The hail of shells fell on the sea, the lead balls jumped, the water splashed, the smoke filled the air, and the morale of the whole army was getting higher and higher, and they were convinced that no army could hold the line without breaking up under such heavy fire.If it doesn't work, then another round."
Onboard, onboard......
"Those little dwarfs, or those little dwarfs, they are not afraid of death, like crazy, as if they have been brainwashed, they are never afraid of death, death is a relief for them.A suicide ship was hit by a flowering bomb, naturally, the explosives on the suicide ship were also detonated instantly, and the dwarfs who were driving the suicide boat seemed to have been buried in their bodies with a large number of firecrackers and then detonated, their heads, chests, and abdomen burst open, spurting out large strands of blood, and their bodies turned into various mutilated human organs, turned into blood rain, and sprinkled on the sea.Zheng Zhilong's gaze shrank uncomfortably.Still miscalculated.That's right, don't look at these Japanese samurai rushing very wildly, but they never broke through a distance of 500 paces, it was like an invisible barrier.As soon as they rushed to this range, all those suicide ships, without exception, were sunk."
How is this possible?"
There is a problem called probability on the battlefield, it is possible that more than a dozen people, more than a dozen guns aimed at the same enemy, can instantly beat him into a sieve, but some people can be in the rain of bullets, unscathed.In the face of this suicidal charge tactic, the artillerymen of the whole family consciously formed a new tactic, and their artillery was actually aimed not at the suicide ships, but at the sea area in front of them.The sea area in front of the side of each warship is drawn as an invisible grid, and each naval gun is responsible for a fixed area, regardless of whether he has an enemy or not, and directly covers it with fire.Quan Xu read the novel, as if he remembered that there was a novel that was written like this, which can be removed at a fixed point to avoid repetition and loopholes.