The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 329
Zheng Yiguan is also accustomed to using firearms. How many casualties would be caused to the siege troops without artillery fire when attacking a strong city?So he brought as many cannons as he could.

The city of Xiamen is less than twenty miles away from the port. As long as everyone works harder and transports more cannons to attack the city, Xu Xinsu will be unable to escape.

The main target of Zheng Yiguan's attack on Xiamen this time is Xu Xinsu, because Xu Xinsu is a local snake in this area, and has contacts with various pirates, trade with the Dutch East India Company, and often deals with the Portuguese in Macau.

Zheng Yiguan wanted to get the best conditions for Ming Dynasty Zhaoan to play double-faced swords after turning himself into an official army, but Xu Xinsu was making troubles inside, which made him very upset. One mountain cannot accommodate two tigers, so Xu Xinsu had to die.

In history, Zheng Yiguan did it. Xiamen City was breached, Xu Xinsu and more than 1000 defenders died in battle.

I'm afraid he can't do it now, it's hard to say whether he will be blocked and beaten to death by the evil Lord Huang Sheng, but I don't know if Xu Xinsu has been killed by Zheng Yiguan!
The port of Xiamen is very lively, and the attack of the Huang family fleet is like a wolf like a tiger, and it is as fast as thunder!

Zheng Yiguan is not someone to wait for, he has already defeated the Fujian Navy, and sent more than a dozen sentinel boats to monitor the surrounding [-] nautical miles of the sea.

How could they have imagined that after Infernal Affairs, all the sentinel boats would turn against each other silently, and the pirates on board would immediately appear in the Ming army to persuade their former accomplices to surrender.

Zheng Yiguan's warship in the port was not in good condition at all. They were eating and drinking the wine and meat they had stolen, and playing with the woman they had kidnapped.

Suddenly, the sound of cannons rumbled, and the pirates were dumbfounded. Who was firing the cannons?Of course, it was the Huang family's warship that was shelling unilaterally.

52 warships sprayed shells and fell into any Zheng Yiguan warship who dared to resist, and soon several warships ignited raging fires, probably because they were hit by gunpowder kegs.

Many naked sailors and gunners on the ship jumped into the sea to flee for their lives, and the screams of the women were extremely piercing.Zheng Yiguan's sailors were quite capable of fighting. Immediately, several warships reacted and began to counterattack.

It's a pity that they are too vulnerable, and they will stop eating after three rounds of artillery fire.

Since the Huang family warships are equipped with a mixture of rifled guns and smoothbore guns, the accuracy and speed are well complemented, and they can attack all the way from far to near.

Many of the smoothbore guns of the enemy warship were destroyed when the horizontal ship was preparing to attack. The shells of the Huang family were too poisonous, and when they exploded a large area, the pirates cried for their fathers and mothers. 'Plop, plop' jump into the sea.

Immediately, the ships in Zheng Yiguan's fleet that still had power began to flee.

The Huang family's warship began to load dumbbell bombs and hammer bombs. These shells were specially designed to deal with the masts of enemy ships.As the name suggests, the shell is like a dumbbell, and like two iron balls connected by iron chains, it spins rapidly when fired, and when it falls on the deck of an enemy ship, it is extremely destructive to the mast.

Those captives who were supervised by the Ming army to persuade them to surrender, they were passive to persuade them to surrender, but now seeing their former comrades-in-arms beaten to death by the officers and soldiers, they have sincerely persuaded them to surrender. They actually wanted to save the lives of those former soldiers.

They raised their voices and yelled desperately, telling Zheng Yiguan's pirates to put down their weapons and stop resisting, it's useless, you will all be killed.Gradually, some ships raised the white flag, and slowly began to increase.

An army without faith, disorganized and looting for a living can only fight with the wind, and once it suffers a terrible blow, it will soon collapse and flee in all directions.

There is no way to escape. The Huang family's warships have already formed a tendency to close their doors and fight dogs because they are prepared and unprepared. They are also concentrating their forces on attacking a part of Zheng Yiguan's force. The overall strength is several times that of this force.

Although Zheng Yiguan now has six or seven hundred sea-going ships, there will not be more than two hundred warships above No. [-] Fuchuan.There are one or two hundred sea-going ships in Xiamen port, most of which are troop carriers and supply ships, and only sixty-odd warships and armed merchant ships.

And part of the artillery on these warships was transported to attack the Zhongzuo, and of course the gunners also went with the artillery, so the sixty-odd warships were not fully equipped, and the combatants were not full. They had just won a big victory and were enjoying the battle. The result is very slack.

This of course gave the Huang family warships an opportunity to take advantage of. Under the circumstances of being raided and beaten by local superior forces of the Huang family, only a dozen warships had time to respond, and seven or eight warships fought back. Unfortunately, It lost its resistance after only firing no more than three rounds.

The biggest advantage of the Huang family's warship is the propeller technology that came out more than 200 years in advance. The speed is unparalleled. Where can the frightened pirates run?
They were not as tenacious as the Japanese ronin. Seeing that there was no possibility of escaping from the Ming army's warships chasing and intercepting them, they quickly raised the white flag obediently.

A real large-scale naval battle since the Huang family's warship left the division lasted less than half an hour and ended.

There were not many beheads, but a lot of captures. Only fifty or so complete warships were captured. The transport ships and supply ships became the lucky ones because they had no combat effectiveness. Almost 120 of them became the private property of Huang's family.

More than 1000 people were captured as prisoners, and this number is still increasing, because Ling Hong organized many small boats to catch the pirates who jumped into the sea and escaped for their lives.

Of course, there were a lot of gold and silver treasures on board the pirates, and it was too late to count them all. It can be seen that the pirate leader Zheng Yiguan invaded Xiamen Port and plundered a lot of treasures.

There are more than fifty Ming warships that were originally spoils of Zheng Yiguan's complete victory, but now they are all left to the Huang family's welfare!
They rescued more than 500 women who were snatched by pirates and were about to take them back for fun, and more than 300 strong men, who looked like sailors and gunners of the Ming army.

It seems that Zheng Yiguan needs a lot of sailors and gunners, and he may be planning to coerce them into pirates.

The soldiers of the Huang family were very busy. They knew that the main man of the family would go to the center and left to rescue the siege immediately. Unfortunately, there were no horses. After unloading the armored chariot in a hurry, Zhu Rongguo, the commander of the coachman, decided to use people to pull the cart, and soon the two coachmen The Ming army with eight or nine rescuers is ready.

Although these Ming soldiers did not know which part of the Ming army came to rescue them, it was obvious that these Ming troops were much stronger than them, and everyone was full of energy and armor.

The shock caused by the hundreds of cannons attacking the pirates just now made them dare not disobey orders. They were experts and knew that this Ming army would not be easy to mess with, so it would be safer to be obedient.

It is easier to use people to pull the chariot, and it is easier to switch to the propulsion state when engaging in battle. Just pull the chariot on the spot and turn around, and then push the chariot with your hands to attack and move forward. Humans are different from horses. They have long hands and can propel. Although it is a bit slow, it is more stable, and the speed can keep up with heavy infantry.

As the chariot driver of the owner of the family, Ge Chengjie became one of the few coachmen who participated in this voyage. He often took the coachman to maintain the armored chariot to prevent the steel parts from rusting due to the salty air at sea.

After the installation of the armored combat vehicles, all the coachmen are conducting safety hazard investigations, and they must ensure that they can be pulled and hit loudly.

(End of this chapter)