I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 216
Chapter 215

Although Zheng Zhibao is a pirate, the problem is that he is different from more than 90.00% of the pirates, because he participated in the naval battle with the Dutch East India Company twice.

Although the Dutch East India Company is known as a company, in fact, it is a country covered with a company's skin. The naval force of the Dutch East India Company can actually be ranked among the top ten in the world at that time, and it is second only to Spain, Great Britain and France. Even Portugal was often violently beaten by the Dutch East India. Well-known tourist destinations in later generations, such as the Maldives and Sri Lanka, were taken from the Portuguese by the Dutch East India Company.

When fighting against the large warships of the Dutch East India Company, the Dutch Galen had as few as fifty or sixty artillery pieces, and as many as seventy or eighty pieces.

But the problem is that Dutch naval guns usually fire within a range of 1 paces, while the centipede battleships of Zheng's fleet can rush to Dutch battleships within [-] minute after the Dutch battleship fired the first shot ( Zheng's Clippers can reach [-] knots).Of course, this kind of centipede ship needs manpower, and it can only reach this speed in a short period of time.

Just like Bolt's 38% world record is 25 seconds, which is equivalent to a speed of about [-] kilometers per hour, but the author can definitely make Bolt exhausted while riding an electric car at a speed of [-] kilometers per hour.

Of course, the current Zheng Zhibao, like most people, believes that the Dutch are the most powerful among all the Western Yi, but the navy of the Ning Navy fired at 2000 meters away and hit their battleship .

"How can their naval guns hit so far and be so accurate? This is unreasonable!"

No one can answer Zheng Zhibao's question, but in the Zheng fleet, command is not important, because all their leaders know how to do it. When Zheng Zhibao was in a daze, Hong Xu, who was in charge of the attack, immediately ordered: "Press up!" Get rid of them!"

Hong Xu's experience at sea is also very rich. Starting from the pursuit from the mouth of the Yangtze River, they exhausted their strength and pursued for fifteen or sixteen kilometers. Maintaining a medium distance shows that the warships of the Ning Navy are faster than them.

If you escape at this time, you will definitely not be able to escape. The Ning Navy Navy will hang their tails and sink them one by one. Their only chance of victory is to rush up and take advantage of the huge number of Zheng's fleet to follow The Ning Navy Navy is desperate.

The idea is natural, but the problem is that the two battleships of the Ning Navy Navy are arranged in a zigzag pattern. After the first battleship fired, it immediately immersed itself in reloading.The second row of warships was not even required to go forward, and the coordinates were slightly corrected, followed by a thunderous salvo.

A series of deafening bangs shook the sea, and rows of shells poured down on Zheng's fleet like heavy rain.This time Zheng's fleet was hit even harder. The four warships exploded like gunpowder barrels, and the flames shot up into the sky!

Zheng's fleet is also tenacious, and the loss of eight warships is not unacceptable to them. In the decisive battle with the Dutch East India Company, they lost more than 30 warships. The fleet could only use human lives to make up for the gap in artillery and range between them and the Dutch.

Without Zheng Zhibao's order, everyone in Zheng's fleet now understands that the range, accuracy and power of the Ning Navy Navy's naval guns are far superior to them. If they retreat, they will be knocked down one by one by the Ning Navy Division as a target. , take advantage of the number to encircle the Ning Navy navy, divide them, beat them up, and annihilate them one by one. This is the only way!

Not only that, more than 200 small boats rushed out from the left and right wings in the middle of Zheng's fleet. Prepare to encircle the Ning Navy Navy in one fell swoop.

Now that the Ning Navy Navy has the upper hand, they can't burn the Ning Navy Navy even if they want to use fireboats, so they can only detour from the left and right wings to seize the upper hand.

As the fleets of the two sides were facing each other, when the Ning Navy navy fired the third round of artillery, the distance between the two fleets was only 900 meters. In this round of salvo, another six warships of Zheng's fleet were hit, but , Not all were sunk, but four were sunk and two were injured.

At this time, the sentry who was in charge of observing the enemy from the watchtower reported to Li Zhixiang the situation on the left and right wings. Li Zhixiang sighed: "Zheng's combat experience is quite sophisticated, turn around, let's retreat!"

Zheng Zhibao watched Ning Haijun's battleship start to turn, he roared angrily: "Damn, they want to run!"

Zheng Zhilong has more experience in combat command than Zheng Zhibao. If he were to command, he would never give Ning Haijun a chance. Zheng Zhibao sent a dozen or dozens of small warships.

It's too late to say anything now, Ning Haijun completed the turn, at this time, the tail gun fired at the Zheng's fleet, hitting more than a dozen Zheng's warships one after another, within just half an hour, the Zheng's fleet More than 30 battleships were lost.

Seeing that the Ning Navy fleet was getting farther and farther away, Zheng Zhibao ordered: "Centipede ships attack!"

The centipede boat has a double row of 24 sailors. With 24 long oars, it can attack the enemy without borrowing the wind direction or against the wind. Moreover, this kind of boat is very low and has no sails. It is obvious that the centipede was found The ship was approaching quickly, but the naval guns of Ning's naval officers and men could not hit this low warship.

"Boom, boom!"

When it was more than 300 meters away from the Guangning battleship of the Ning Navy, a Zheng's centipede ship fired.

"Bang...Bang!"

There were two loud bangs in a row, and then there was a loud bang of breaking and breaking of the ship's material. The Guangning was still hit. The powerful impact threw several sailors into the sea, and two large holes were opened in the hull. The two big holes are not too big, but they are also the size of a washbasin, and the sea water is poured in.

The sailors on the battleship Guangning were in a hurry to fight against the surging sea water, and the situation was really worrying.Fortunately, the Guangning is a 27-year-old sea shark-class warship with [-] watertight tanks. If it does not exceed one-third, nine watertight tanks will be flooded. The impact on the Guangning is not fatal.

Soon, the sailors of the Guangning closed the watertight cabin urgently, but the problem was that the speed of the Guangning inevitably dropped after the seawater entered the two cabins.

At this time, Zheng's fleet seemed to have seen a bloody shark, and took advantage of this opportunity to press up. A dozen centipede ships rushed towards the Guangning battleship, and the centipede ships that entered the range opened fire, and the scorching shot balls merged into one piece. The dark cloud smashed towards the sky, covering the sky, hitting the ship with a loud bang, and hitting the person's body, blood and flesh flew all over the place!
Although most of the shells smashed into the sea, this round of ferocious salvo still cost dozens of lives on the battleship Guangning.

At this time, the captain of the Guangning was Zou Jing, the commander of the Navy from the Dongjiang Army. Zou Jing was furious. Maybe he would become the first captain of the Ning Navy Navy to be sunk. He sternly shouted : "Fire salvo!"

The sailors on the Guang Ning held muskets, crossbows, and thunderbolts to shoot at the centipede ship. Not to mention, the thunderbolt was the best to use against a low-profile warship like the centipede ship, followed by muskets.

"Bang bang bang..."

As the gunshots rang out, the sailors of Zheng's centipede ship closest to the Guangning ship were killed and wounded. They lost their oarsmen, and the centipede ship also lost power.

The other giant shark ships also fired at the centipede ship approaching the Guangning, and the fierce battle quickly started around the Guangning.

However, Zheng's centipede ships or warships fired at Guangning one after another, and four shells hit Guangning one after another. It is a pity that the solid shells fired by Zheng's battleships had limited damage to Guangning, only one mast After being hit, the speed of Guangning was even slower.

The Guangning was suddenly plunged into a terrible crisis.

At this time, the captain of the Guangning, Zou Jing, cursed angrily: "You really think I'm easy to bully? Drop the anchor, lower the sails, the battleship moves sideways, and the broadside guns aim at Zheng Zhibao's flagship!"

Zou Jing issued several orders one after another. At this moment, he knew that he had no way to go back. If it was because of his battleship Guangning, the Zheng's fireboats that were outflanking the left and right flanks had already sailed parallel to the giant shark ship of the Ning Navy in front of him. However, once the main battleship is surrounded by fireboats and cannons, the Ning Navy will lose this battle.

Zou Jing said: "Brother, we can die, but Ning Haijun can't lose, we will pull a few backs when we die!"

All the soldiers yelled: "Kill one and earn money, kill two and earn one!"

Zheng Zhibao didn't know that the Guangning was lowering its sails on its own initiative. He thought that the Guangning was hit by the Zheng's fleet's guns.

"Puff..."

The hull of the Guangning was shaken. This was because the centipede ship hit the Guangning. At this time, the sailors of the Zheng fleet were dumbfounded. Get on the enemy ship, but the centipede is too low.

The 18 material Jusha-class Guangning ship has a depth of six feet, or 15 meters, and a draft of one foot and three feet, or just over four meters. However, the part above the water is about 13 meters high.But the centipede boat is more than two meters high, and there is still a height difference of [-] meters, so it is difficult for them to climb onto the boat.

But the sailors of the Guangning watched as the sailors of the Zheng family below threw nooses on the deck, preparing to climb in this way.

The sailor accidentally saw the grenade on his chest, took off the grenade, fired it, and threw it down.

"boom!"

The grenade did not explode immediately, but hit a sailor of Zheng's family, and the sailor of Zheng's family cursed: "Mother Ganlin..."

At this moment, the grenade exploded, and the grenade with a killing radius of more than three meters directly blasted three or four Zheng's sailors into the air.

Seeing the effect of the grenade, someone shouted: "Use the grenade!"

"Use a grenade!"

Many Ning Navy soldiers carried four grenades, and they could go to the cabin to get them after throwing them all away. At this time, the grenades were thrown down like rain.

The grenade has no lethality to the Guangning, but it is very lethal to the Zheng sailors on the centipede ship under the ship.

"Boom boom boom..."

A series of impenetrable explosions sounded suddenly, some grenades fell into the sea water, blasting a spray, and more fell on the centipede boat, and saw the flames rushing on the centipede boat, and the shrapnel flew across the sky. The sailors were directly overturned by the shock wave, and those who were not overturned were also hit by the shrapnel and steel balls flying at explosive speeds. Zheng's sailors were cut down by shrapnel like clumps of wheat, causing death and injury!

At this time, the ten broadside guns on the Guangning had completed their calibration, and they fired a salvo at Zheng Zhibao's battleship. Unlike the previous salvos, this was ten guns aimed at one battleship.

Just when the Guangning opened fire on Zheng Zhibao's flagship, Li Zhixiang actually gave an order, and all the warships opened fire on Zheng Zhibao's boat.

Because this is just a one-shot deal, no matter what the effect is, the main battleship of the Ning Navy must leave the battle, or it will be dumped by the fireboat of the Zheng battleship.

More than 600 naval guns opened fire at the same time. The scene was quite shocking, especially the target was unified. There was a flash of lightning on the sea, and the waves were churning and roaring like crazy. Rows, slices soared into the sky, and the water mist flew up.At the same time as the water column, there are one after another fire columns. They are larger in size, higher in height, and more deadly.

At this moment, Zheng Zhibao felt that the sky was about to collapse, the earth was about to collapse, and the whole world was about to be shattered!A shell landed near his flagship, and it missed a direct hit, but the strong water pressure generated by the shock wave of the shell still tore a big hole in the hull.

The water column rushed up high, and then turned into a torrential rain, drenching Zheng Zhibao into a drenched chicken.In his horrified eyes, sometimes it is so miraculous, clearly aimed at Zheng Zhibao's flagship, but Zheng's warships were torn apart one by one, turning into a sea of ​​flames...

Zheng Zhibao couldn't believe it, how could this happen?
Aren't these Yankee sailors always weak? How could they suddenly become so strong?

He doesn't understand, he can't understand, the Ning Navy navy is just a new army that has been in the army for only three years, and their Zheng family fleet has been in the sea for more than ten years without encountering an enemy. There should be no suspense in the battle, why is it completely different from what I thought?
what is this?
A shell landed on Zheng Zhibao's flagship, and the shock wave from the explosion slashed a piece of sawdust into Zheng Zhibao's face, causing blood to flow into his face.

"Fifth Master is injured, retreat quickly!"

In all fairness, the Zheng's fleet was still powerful at this time, but the Zheng's fleet retreated, and the Ning Navy Navy won a big victory in this campaign. A total of 54 large and small warships of the Zheng's fleet were sunk, of which Including seven centipede ships, 27 small pirate ships, and [-] main battleships.

A total of four Haisha-class ships of the Ning Navy Navy were damaged, and only the Guangning was seriously damaged. 63 sailors were killed, more than 21 were injured, and [-] people were missing.

But Zheng's sailors lost a total of more than [-] people.

When the main battleship of the Ning Navy Navy and the Zheng Fleet were in a decisive battle at sea, Cheng Shijie actually did not sit idle. Instead, he led the marine soldiers of the Ning Navy. Wusongkou.

Wusongkou is in the hands of the Zheng family. This battle may be fought. As long as the Zheng family returns the fleet to the wharf of Wusongkou port, they can use the fortress of Wusongkou to defend to the death.

After a brief rest on Chongming Island, Cheng Shijie personally led more than 100 large and small gunboats to Changxing Island, waited until dark in the northern part of Changxing Island, and went straight to Wusongkou Fortress!
When Cheng Shijie arrived at the Wusong House of Thousand Households, he heard the shrill screams coming from the city of Wusong House of Thousand Households, the wild laughter of Zheng's pirates, and the cries of women and children. Hell on earth.

Although Wu Song's guards guarding Qianhusuo ran away, their family members did not have time to escape, Cheng Shijie looked at the messy corpses outside Qianhusuo, his face twisted: "Kill in, no one will be left alive! "

(End of this chapter)