Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 320 Naval Battle ([-]) The second update of the confrontation at sea!
By the time Li Kui's men had just evacuated from Jinshanwei's frontier beach, Zheng Chenggong had personally led ten soft-sailing ships lying on the sea a hundred miles away from Jinshanwei like ten giant dragons.

The main force of Gu Sanmazi's boat division spread out along the entire sea behind Zheng Chenggong's vanguard warship.

More than [-] large warships and hundreds of small warships formed a wall under the bright sunny sky, and more than [-] cannons staggered towards Jinshanwei.

Although Liu Kongzhao was born in a noble family in the Ming Dynasty and was a descendant of a rich and rich man in brocade clothes, he didn't really understand naval warfare at all.

In the original history, Liu Kongzhao, as an earl, was able to decisively choose to support Ma Shiying in the chaos of the late Ming Dynasty and betray the Donglin Party to become a real power in Nanjing. Naturally, he is not an ordinary person.

Now, with the help of the information provided by Jin Yiwei, Liu Kongzhao already knew that among the pirate forces that intend to disrupt the Songjiang Mansion, the Li Wei tribe in front of him is the most powerful.

Because of this, Liu Kongzhao decided to follow Gu Sanmazi's suggestion to deal with Li Kai's tribe first. Since he wanted to concentrate his superior forces to fight one of the pirates, it would be better to fight the strongest Li Kai's tribe first.

As long as Li Kui's troops are defeated, the other pirate forces will naturally be at ease, and the victory will be determined at that time.

The winner could be determined at the first stop, so Liu Kongzhao did not dare to take it lightly at this time. He carefully calculated whether his Daming Navy would be defeated by Li Wei's troops, and asked Shen Lian more than once about the number of Li Wei's warships. The number of pirates and the number of artillery.

When more than [-] warships of Li Kai's troops appeared in the field of vision, he raised his heart to the top of his throat and held the railing of the ship tightly.

"General Cai (Cai Zheng is now awarded the post of general by the Grand Marshal's Office), can your young master do it? It seems that there are quite a few warships in Li Wei's department, but I don't know how powerful they are? Your Majesty said the general Rushing to the front can often boost morale, do you think I should go ahead first?"

Liu Kongzhao asked Cai Zheng who was beside him, but he couldn't show his timidity in front of Cai Zheng, so he forced a smile on purpose and proposed a way to lead by example.

The young master of your family that Liu Kongzhao said naturally refers to Zheng Chenggong who is the striker.

"My lord, you don't need to be like this. The chief general rushing to the forefront refers to the grassroots military officers below the commander. It is enough for you to sit here. If you go there, you will easily be surrounded by enemy ships. My young master has been fighting since he was 15 years old. Following a few masters to fight in the sea, the [-] warships of Li Kai's department will not do anything to him, the lord can rest assured."

Cai Zheng replied with a smile.

However, Liu Kongzhao nodded his head pretending to be deep. In order to hide his inner nervousness, he also asked Cai Zheng to tell him the sea stories of several masters of the Zheng Group, that is, the four Zheng Zhilong brothers.

Cai Zheng didn't hide his secrets, and said happily: "As for the masters of my family, although the elders are the ones who make big decisions, it is my second and fourth masters who are really good at fighting. The third master is good at reading and always resourceful. Wushuang, the uncle will hand over heroes, even the shoguns of the East have to give my uncle some face, of course, even the current emperor has summoned my uncle several times in person, and gave our Zheng family such great wealth... "

While Cai Zheng was speaking, the pirate leader Li Wei also saw the warships of the Ming Navy gathered in his field of vision.

"What's going on here, why did Ming's navy come here! It seems that this posture means to eat me, hum, a group of soldiers who have just seen the sea, you dominate the shore on the shore, I can't do anything with you, But you also want to stop Lao Tzu at sea? What a beautiful idea!"

Li Kui is indeed not afraid of the Ming Navy at this time, not to mention that he himself is a big pirate who can still maintain a strong strength in the era when the Zheng Group dominated the west coast of the Pacific Ocean. Even with his current strength, he does not think that he may not be able to lose. It was not on his whim to agree to the employment of the gentry to disturb the Songjiang Mansion and eat up the Ming Navy. He also asked people to inquire about the details of the Ming Navy.

Li Wei chose to agree after knowing that the Ming Navy was just a newly built navy, and most of them were officers and soldiers with little actual combat experience.

Therefore, he chose to see more than a hundred warships of the Ming Navy lying across the sea, and Li Wei, who had just been hit by the artillery of the Ming Army on the shore, wanted to get back some face from the Ming Navy.

At this time, Li Wei directly ordered his more than [-] warships to attack in a wedge shape, rushing towards Liu Kongzhao's flagship.

Obviously, Li Wei's purpose was to directly break out of the wall formed by Gu Sanmazi, and then knock down Liu Kongzhao's flagship, and directly chose to avoid Zheng Chenggong's forward battalion.

"General Cai, you are right. This Li Wei really wanted to fight around me. Fortunately, I listened to you and didn't go. I just don't know if Gu Sanmazi and your young master can stop him." These pirates."

Liu Kongzhao couldn't help clenching his fists tightly.

"My lord, don't worry, it's just sixty warships charging. Back then, the dozens of soft-sailed warships of Hongmaofan were stopped by us!"

As soon as Cai Zheng spoke, he ordered: "All the rear battalion is there, meet the enemy on the side, and the artillery is out of the cabin! Guard the Lord's safety!"

At that time, ten soft sailing ships gathered around Liu Kongzhao's flagship, facing the flagship horizontally, with their artillery all exposed.

At the same time, Zheng Chenggong also led more than a dozen Western soft sailing ships, and after a burst of semaphore fluttering in the wind, they approached the warships of Li Wei's troops.

It's like a light riding horse rushing forward.

At this time, Chu Huaisheng, a trainee officer on Zheng Chenggong's warship who had received training from the Daming Ship Administration Bureau, was standing at the front, sweating profusely as he watched the enemy ship approaching closer and closer, and kept his hands on the The name of the manufacturer, the date of manufacture and the specification parameters are engraved on the gun of the Ming Navy's new artillery.

Because the maker's name was Bao Pu, Chu Huaisheng couldn't help muttering to himself: "My surname is Bao, if there is no problem with this cannon later, I will marry my sister to you, if it blows up, I will kill you The whole family!"

There are many cadets like Chu Huaisheng who participated in actual combat for the first time. At this time, these people are both nervous and excited.

Even with Zheng Chenggong, after all, these are the students he taught.

"Sir, these pirates are desperately heading to the northeast, why?" a trainee asked Zheng Chenggong.

"Because Lord Liu's flagship is in that direction," Zheng Chenggong replied.

"What, these pirates are really cunning, so should we turn around immediately to rescue Lord Liu?" Although the question asked by the trainee was a bit naive, Zheng Chenggong answered patiently:

"It's hard to turn around now. You have to look at the wind direction. Even if the wind direction changes later, you don't have to turn around. Instead, you should immediately seize the wind and disrupt the formation of these pirate warships, understand?"

"Understood! But the students don't understand very well, we only have ten warships, how can we suppress them?"

"You will know how powerful this western ship is later on."

As Zheng Chenggong said, he looked at the sail above his head, and after hearing the creaking sound of wood, he immediately gave the order: "Rush up and hit me!"

(End of this chapter)