Chapter 565 caught a big fish with a front-loading smoothbore cannon, the kind of bronze cast old cannon without rifling, fired solid lead bullets, and hit the first time, which made the soldiers of the whole family despair.When Helena saw this, she exclaimed, "My God!
”She struck a cross on her chest, as if she had seen something incredible.It is no wonder that it is not easy to sink an enemy ship in a naval battle at this time, and the naval battle between Britain and Spain, which shocked Europe more than 40 years ago, the Spanish Armada was beaten so badly that only sixteen battleships were sunk.It was barely one-tenth of the size of the Armada, but under the hurricane, the Armada was blown apart by the hurricane, which was the real reason for the destruction of the Armada.In the Battle of Trafalgar at the beginning of the 19th century, Britain took a generation of famous generals Nelson, and the commander of the combined French and Spanish fleets was a complete straw bale, and only sank four enemy ships, but there were quite a few captured and damaged warships that self-destructed.There is no way, it is too difficult to sink an enemy ship with a displacement of thousands of tons by relying on solid shot put, for such a large warship, the lethality of a shot put weighing several kilograms to them is too poor, even the guns hit below the waterline, and it takes a lot of effort to sink it.Of course, the difficulty of hitting the starting shot is almost impossible, and in fact, the Venetian Navy has never encountered a starting hit for more than 200 years.However, the gunboat did not sink the armed merchant ship, but only accurately hit the mast, and if the main mast was hit in a naval battle, it would basically be announced that the ship was about to sink.What was even more unbelievable was that the gunboat was more than 2,500 meters away from the merchant ship, which was almost the limit range of the twelve-pound bronze naval gun.The point is that Sanniang has only taken over these dozen old gunboats for a few days, and these female soldiers are really terrible!
Jeon Wook looked at the naval staff officers around him, and they all looked incredulous.Quan Xu said lightly: "Look at the female soldiers, and then look at you!"
”Sanniang didn't have such an awareness, she was just a little distressed.As a woman who wanted to be a pirate queen, she saw that the armed merchant ship had caught fire, and hurriedly said: "What are you doing in a daze, hurry up and lean over, you can grab a little is a little!"
”Five gunboats approached the armed merchant ship that caught fire, and the other four also dropped anchor and lowered their sails, raising white flags.When Sanniang and the female soldiers were about to approach the armed merchant ship that was hit on the main mast, they found that this was not an armed merchant ship at all, but a warship.The biggest difference between an armed merchant ship and a warship is that the main purpose of an armed merchant ship is to do business and transport goods, and the guns are generally arranged on the deck, but the warship has a closed gun room.It carried the banner of the Zheng clan on it, but they did not unfold it, but prepared to disguise themselves as merchant ships and attack the entire family navy.This is actually a decoy fleet of Zheng Zhilong, the purpose of which is to lure the whole family army and navy to continue south, and he wants to compete with the whole family army on the battlefield he set.These five ships did not fire a single shot, and directly erected the white flag, and Sanniang was also a little inexplicable: "Why did you surrender?"
Why not fight?
”Seeing that it was not a merchant ship and did not grab a lot of property, Sanniang was very disappointed.The frightened captain wanted to cry without tears in his heart: "You can all hit with one shot from such a distance, how can we fight!"
”The naming method of the whole family army and navy is that in ancient China, famous generals were the mainstay, Wei Qing, Huo Quzhi, Su Dingfang, Xue Rengui, Chen Tang, Guo Ziyi, etc., and now Quanxu's flagship is No. 036, and the name of the ship is "Ran Min".Quan Xu decided on a one-man ship, and he would build as many warships as there were many generals in China, and all of them were the main warships.On the "Ran Min", Quan Xu's eyes lit up, looking at Sanniang's results, these five ships were all about 800 tons, and the largest one was the one that was hit, which was a large ship of about 1,000 tons, of course, it was worse than the main warship of the whole family army.The fire above has been extinguished, and the captives have been imprisoned, and when they pass through Taiwan, they will be sent to Taiwan for labor reform.Innocence forgiveness, that does not exist.As a huge fleet, it is naturally indispensable to have nanny ships, which do not need to enter the dock at all, they can be repaired directly, and the broken masts can be replaced with spare masts, and the burning sails can be replaced directly.If it is like in the past, there is no way to repair it without entering the dock, after all, the mast that is more than 20 zhang high can not be erected by several people.With the progress of the whole family's military machinery technology, this kind of problem is much easier to solve, three nanny ships with a displacement of 1,000 tons surround the big ship that needs to repair the main mast, they will turn the counterweight from the bow to the stern, and then you can build a temporary tower crane, after more than an hour of busy, the main mast will be replaced.In just half a day, this thousand-ton ship has taken on a new look."
It's mine, it must be given to me!""
Okay, here you go!"
Quan Xu smiled helplessly: "You treat this kind of warship as a treasure, I can't look down on it!"
”Quan Xu is also different, a big ship of 800 to 1,000 tons, and there are not many families and navies, since Sanniang is willing to play, let her play.Like a victorious general, Sanniang triumphantly returned to her flagship, which was renamed: "Red Lady".For this name, Quan Xu was also speechless.After Sanniang left, Yuan Zongdi came over and said, "Master Hou, I have already asked those captives, Zheng Zhilong wants to lure our whole family army to the Haitan Strait!"
”Quan Xu: "Where is the Haitan Strait?"
”"Located in Fujian!"
A naval staff officer took the map and pointed it to Quan Xudao: "The Haitan Strait is located between Pingtan Island and the Gaoshan Peninsula, about 30 kilometers long from north to south, and only 3.6 kilometers at its narrowest point.There are many shoals and reefs in the strait, and the waterways are complex, but there is an advantage that the wind blowing from the sea is blocked by Pingtan Island and the Gaoshan Peninsula, and the wind and waves in the strait are relatively small, and ships can be navigated all year round. ”Quan Xu nodded and said: "It is indeed a good move to hide in a narrow terrain when you are outnumbered and use the terrain to limit the superior strength of the enemy army!"
”As the saying goes, one person counts short, ten people count long.Another naval staff officer shook his head and said: "Such a narrow strait will affect the steering movement, and the most important thing is that once it seizes the upper hand, it can be conducive to fire attack!"
”Quan Xu nodded slowly and said: "Zheng Zhilong is still the same Zheng Zhilong, he must be very distressed now, he dreams of finding an opportunity to bite us back, so that he can breathe evil, right?"
What do you think will happen to them if we take the initiative to kill them?
”"Master Hou, don't be rash, you will fall for his tricks like that!""
Zheng Zhilong is avoiding a decisive battle with us now, and has been playing guerrilla warfare at sea!"
Quan Xu smiled easily: "We can't fight according to Zheng Zhilong's rhythm, he beats him, I beat ours, now there are many of us, we are not afraid to play with Zheng Zhilong to play the advantage of the crowd, don't they like sneak attacks?"
Pass on my order, the merchant ships of Liaodong cannot act alone, and would rather sacrifice some time, before leaving the port, count their destinations, and use a hundred large and small merchant ships as a transport fleet, and the second ship of our family army will send a detachment to escort the line!
”"If we divide our troops, then we will be defeated by Zheng Zhilong!""
Break the yarn!"
Quan Xu said disapprerovingly: "Rear rifled gun, if you can't even compare to the front loading smoothbore gun, let's not mix!"
”Since the formation of the family navy, Quan Xu has never regarded Zheng Zhilong as an opponent, his real opponents are the Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese and British."
Inform all the main warships, let's go at full speed, don't pay attention to Zheng Zhilong's bait, let's go to Yazhou in Qiongzhou, go to Zheng Zhilong's lair."
With Quan Xu's order, the whole family army advanced quickly.Quan Xu's biggest advantage is not the rear-loading rifled artillery, nor the warship, in fact, it is communication, through the radio, the whole family army immediately began to carry out Quan Xu's orders.The merchant ships of Liaodong accepted the management of the whole family army and began to act in unison, of course, bait for bait.The whole family army and navy also began fishing law enforcement, and the people involved in law enforcement were the marines.A group of three large seagoing ships sailed in the Taiwan Strait, their sails full of blows, cleaving the waves, and sailing towards the South Sea.The ships were loaded with cotton cloth, cement, dried fruits, silk and other goods, which could be sold for a good price once they reached the South Seas, not to mention silk, which made every European power that came to Asia to pan for gold crazy, and cement was an indispensable material for them to build forts, roads and other facilities in Southeast Asia, and dried fruits and canned food were for those European sailors to enjoy.It is no exaggeration to say that such a shipload of goods transported to the South Seas can easily earn double the profits, and if the rhino horn, ivory, precious stones, precious timber and other goods are purchased at a low price in the South Seas, it will be double the profits.Even if it's just a boatload of durians back, you can make a lot of money, and rich people like to try it.The sailors were laughing and laughing, and they had a good reason to be happy, and the voyage was hard work, but the pay was very high, and the reward for a trip to the sea was worth the three years of farm work at home, and they certainly had a reason to be happy."
Help, help!"
A sailor looked at the floating planks and various debris on the sea in front of him, and some planks and boxes were crawling on a dozen people, and they called for help towards the big ship.Sailing on the sea, no one knows which day will be unlucky, when encountering this kind of thing, they can be saved, if no one rescues them, they have only a dead end."
Get them up!"
After a while, two lifeboats went over to rescue the dying people and climbed onto the big boat through the rope ladder.The dozen or so sailors who were rescued were naturally either suspicious, or members of Zheng Zhilong's special task force, that is, pirates.As soon as the pirates landed on deck, they became vigorous, and they drew their short blades and pointed at the sailors: "Don't move!"
”"I think it's you who don't move, Zheng Sanye, don't come unharmed!".