1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 14
Less than an hour after the start of the war, Zheng Zhilong's fleet had fully penetrated into Liu Xiang's loose outer defenses, and took advantage of the large number of ships to encircle Liu Xiang's fleet.Liu Xiang's fleet often faced the siege of Zheng Zhilong's four or five ships with one ship, and the firepower was obviously at a disadvantage.At this time, no less than [-] ships were sunk, and almost all of them were sailors of Liu Xiang's fleet who fell into the water.

"Boom! Boom!..." Zheng Zhilong's boat at the rear fired another round of artillery at Liu Xiang's flagship. The sawdust on the bow of the ship was split, and several sailors covered their faces in pain and rolled on the first class. .

"Xiang Lao! Xiang Lao!..." A piece of broken wood flew in and hit Liu Xiang's shoulder, and immediately fell on the deck, and many of his men rushed forward to protect him.

"Old mother of Japan!" After being supported by everyone, Liu Xiang cursed, "I'm not dead!...Zheng Yiguan, I'm fighting with you today!...Fire, fire!"

Liu Xiang was still wounded and commanded his subordinates to continue bombarding Zheng Zhilong's department, brandishing a dagger while yelling at Zheng Zhilong.

Liu Xiang's flagship is an imitation Galen gunboat half-sold and half-given by the Dutch. It has a displacement of 30 tons, a huge hull, good waterline protection, and relatively strong firepower. It is equipped with fifteen Hongyi cannons. There are more than [-] Langji artillery pieces.Relying on strong strength, facing the siege of several medium-sized warships, he did not lose the wind in the slightest.

However, Liu Xiang suffers because he has too few boats.Just now with strong firepower, a nearby Haicang boat was sunk, and another chasing boat was injured and forced to retreat. In a blink of an eye, two more Haicang boats of Zheng Zhilong rushed over.

At this time, a shell hit the midship of Liu Xiang's flagship, and the projectile smashed a corner of the bulkhead not far from Liu Xiang.The flying sawdust hit Liu Xiang's head directly, and Liu Xiang immediately bled and fell to the deck again.Left and right hurriedly helped Liu Xiang up, but Liu Xiang pushed left and right away forcefully, because he saw an acquaintance.Liu Xiang stood up, staring fiercely at the man on the opposite bow.

The person standing at the bow of the opposite boat was none other than Zheng Zhilong's younger brother Zheng Zhihu.Holding a rattan card in one hand and a big knife in the other, he looked over with contemptuous eyes.When enemies meet, they are extremely jealous.

"Rush over! Sink it!" Liu Xiang yelled and ordered his subordinates to drive the boat to hit Zheng Zhihu's warship.Their ship was much larger than Zheng Zhihu's ship in terms of tonnage and size.After the subordinates took the order, the huge hull directly rammed into Zheng Zhihu's boat.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Zheng Zhihu ordered his subordinates to fire guns to stop him, while trying to escape by boat.

Unfortunately, it was too late.Most of the shells fired by Zheng Zhihu missed, and Liu Xiang's flagship quickly ran into it.

"Bump!..." The huge impact caused the hull to shake, and the hull tipped to one side.Zheng Zhihu and Zuo Zuo couldn't stand steadily and fell to the ground one after another.Just when he wanted to get up, a huge fishing net flew over, caught him, and was dragged over.

"Oops, the second brother fell into the water!" Zheng Zhilong saw it from a distance with a binoculars, was shocked, and hurriedly supervised the boat to rescue.

Zheng Zhihu (Zheng Zhilong's younger brother) rushed straight away from Hengli first, and while firing artillery to bombard Liu Xiang's flagship, he ordered the sailors to approach the side of the ship, preparing to fly hooks, and wanted to jump over to rescue Zheng Zhihu when the ship approached.

"Boom! Boom!..." Liu Xiang's flagship was facing Zheng Zhihu's ship sideways at this time, and immediately fired a salvo.With a distance of less than thirty steps, the power of the Hongyi cannon was fully demonstrated. Except for two shells that missed, the rest of the shells all hit the waterline of Zheng Zhihu's boat, breaking several big holes.Immediately, turbulent seawater rushed in quickly, and the hull quickly cracked and sank. After a while, the hull rolled over and fell into the seawater.

Zheng Zhilong saw his teeth bared from a distance, his second brother Zheng Zhihu was captured, his fourth brother's boat was sunk, and his life and death are unknown.Liu Xiang is a villain, really hateful.So he ordered his large and small ships to continue to rush forward.

At this time, Zheng Zhimang's warship also approached Liu Xiang's flagship.Zheng Zhimang saw that Liu Xiang's flagship was bombarding a Haicang ship ahead, so he quietly approached, stood sideways on the bow, and ordered his men to throw the cupping jar.Liu Xiang's boat caught fire quickly, and the sailors rushed to put out the fire, shouting and shouting.

Li Husan, who was nearby, saw Liu Xiang's boat was on fire and rushed to rescue him.Unexpectedly, Zheng Zhibao came from behind and fired a cannon at the bow in an attempt to prevent Li Husan from approaching Liu Xiang.But a miraculous scene happened, the cannonball actually passed through the stern of Li Husan, killed the helmsman, passed through the hall, ignited the gunpowder barrel, and then passed directly from the side of the mast, and the warship burst into flames instantly.There was no way for Li Husan to evade, so he jumped into the sea with a wooden barrel in his arms in a hurry. He never thought that a Franco cannon on the boat flew over with the explosion of the hull and hit him hard.Li Hu sank into the bottom of the sea without even humming.

"Fire! Fire quickly!" Liu Xiang wiped the blood off his face and roared loudly.

"Xiang, the gun barrel is too hot! ... It's about to explode!" A gunner replied with a dark face.

"Fuck it, cool down quickly!... If you can fire, fire quickly!" Liu Xiang snatched a short knife from the hand next to him and waved it.

Several gunners looked at each other, gritted their teeth for the last time, stuffed the medicine bag into the bottom of the gun, picked up an iron pellet and stuffed it into the muzzle, and then raised the matchlock.

"Boom! Boom!..." Hongyi Cannon, who had been silent for a while, roared again.

Liu Xiang's flagship was riddled with bullets, the stern of the ship was battered, and was on fire. More than a dozen sailors were still holding buckets and tubs to put out the fire. Under the waterline, a shell was also hit, and sea water was pouring into it.But relying on the huge hull, it is still tenaciously supported.

"Boom!..." Suddenly, a Hongyi cannon on the second deck exploded, overturning five or six nearby gunners in an instant.

"Haha... Liu Xiang, your boat is going to blow up!" Zheng Zhihu, who was tightly tied up by the fishing net, laughed.

Liu Xiang turned her gaze away from the explosion and stared at Zheng Zhihu coldly.

"Liu Xiang, you surrendered my eldest brother, I will guarantee you not to die!" Zheng Zhihu glared at Liu Xiang with a defiant face.

Liu Xiang approached Zheng Zhihu and kicked Zheng Zhihu hard.

Zheng Zhihu was kicked and rolled around on the deck for a few times, and then spat out a mouthful of blood, "Liu Xiang, you humiliated me so much... After my elder brother finds out, he will definitely repay you twice!"

When Liu Xiang heard this, she became even more angry, and went over to kick Zheng Zhihu hard, cursing while kicking, "You Zheng brothers are all fucking white-eyed wolves..., villains who stabbed knives in the back..., treacherous !..."

"Xiang, Zheng Zhilong is here!" Liu Xiang was kicking Zheng Zhihu vigorously, when one of his subordinates suddenly called out.

Hearing this, Liu Xiang abandoned Zheng Zhihu and turned to look out.

A huge three-masted gunboat slowly approached, with Zheng Zhilong's identity flag flying on the mast, followed by more than a dozen large ships on the left and right.

In the smoke, Zheng Zhilong and Liu Xiang faced each other across the sea.Zheng Zhilong was well-dressed and accompanied by warriors on a huge boat, while Liu Xiang's clothes were ragged and his face was covered with blood, and his flagship was riddled with holes.

"Fire the cannon and blow up Zheng Yiguan to death!" Liu Xiang roared.

"...Xiang, the second deck is full of fire, the upper deck... has no ammunition, can't fire..." Someone whispered beside him.

"I..." Liu Xiang was furious, the enemy was right in front of him, but he couldn't kill him with a cannon, how much I hate it!

"Brother!" Zheng Zhilong clasped his fists on the bow of the boat, "Don't come here without any problems!"

"Haha..." Liu Xiang couldn't stop laughing, and it took a long time before he stopped laughing, "Zheng Yiguan, you can still call me big brother?...Did Shibazhi back then, besides your brother, be the only one left?" Down with me?"

Zheng Zhilong froze for a moment, then said, "...Some things are beyond your control."

"Can't help yourself? Hmph... We don't blame you for taking refuge in the government and being your guerrilla general. After all, everyone has their own ambitions. But why do you use the head of your former brother as your stepping stone?"

"...The emperor's order is hard to break! However, Li Kuiqi, Zhong Bin and other brothers have clearly come back to their senses, and they are now serving the imperial court."

"Haha..." Liu Xiang laughed again, "What an imperial order! Li Kuiqi and others are greedy for life and afraid of death,...serving for the court? I am afraid it is for you personally!...I, Liu Xiang, is worse than you, only worse Now, without you, you are shameless, without you, my heart is darker!"

Zheng Zhilong looked at Zheng Zhihu who was lying on Liu Xiang's boat, it seemed that he hadn't moved for a long time, and he felt a little worried.

"Brother, you surrendered!...I promise to let you live comfortably for the rest of your life." Zheng Zhilong said in a deep voice.

(End of this chapter)