The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 390 Iron-boned Wu Yuanzhou

Following a series of loud noises, more than a dozen shells slammed into the sea near Ruan Jin's boat, especially the five iron balls weighing [-] jin, which stirred up a water column nearly ten feet high, Hurrah landed on his deck again.

Seeing that there was less than one mile away from the huge enemy ship ahead, Ruan Jin's eyes were bloodshot with anxiety, and he repeatedly urged his men to speed up.

But at this time, the north wind was blowing, and the Jianlu warship was heading northwest. His speed was extremely slow under the half headwind, and the helmsman had to snake forward to avoid the shells. Can't get close.

Unexpectedly, a violent tremor came from the side of the ship, causing Ruan Jin to stagger and nearly fall, and then he heard a sailor screaming, "Shot on the port side! Hurry up and save people..."

He frowned tightly, and was about to give orders to resist and continue forward, when an officer ran up to him in panic, and said anxiously: "General, there are many guns in the two hulls of the 'Sheng' ship, and it is impossible to see." 'The name also has a ship's mast shot off..."

Ruan Jin hurriedly turned his head to look, and saw two boats sinking on the right side.On the other hand, the "Wei Ning" three-hundred-year-old blessing ship was spinning in place, and the sailors on board jumped into the sea one after another. Several officers had already lit the firelighters on the deck in order to prevent the warship from falling into the hands of the prisoners. .

He raised his eyes to look farther away, and saw that the other three warships were also entangled by the enemy, and the one closest to the Jianlu ship was one mile away. From time to time, some ships sank or caught fire.

There was a throbbing pain in his heart, and looking at the harbor not far away, Jianlu had already taken advantage of this opportunity to barely form a defensive formation.Nearly ten of the largest warships lined up in a three-tier triangular formation on the inside, and the next-level chasing boats surrounded it, and dozens of small warships shuttled back and forth outside.

Ruan Jin knew that it was impossible to burn down the main warships of the Qing army at this time.Not to mention that there were only two or three boats on his side that were not entangled by enemy ships, even if the remaining sixteen or seventeen boats could charge up, under the heavy fire from the enemy's cannons, they might not even be able to break through the outermost defensive line.

"Alas..." He looked up to the sky and let out a long sigh, then said to the lieutenant next to him, "God will not bless me! Send an order, let everyone withdraw..."

With the sound of gongs on Ruan Jin's boat, and the flag-bearer's semaphore, the warships of the Zhejiang Navy tried to get rid of the enemy, turned their rudders and retreated to the southeast.

"Damn it!" Gaha saw the retreat of the sneak attacking enemy ship, he couldn't help jumping and cursing angrily, "If I hadn't urinated in the middle of the night, I'm afraid I would have been burned to death here by now!"

He gasped with lingering fear, pointed at several officers beside him and shouted: "Chasing, let me chase! Don't let anyone go!"

Su Li hurriedly cupped his hands to dissuade him, "My lord, we detected more than [-] Fujian warships passing through Zhoushan yesterday, and now we should focus on this enemy, but it is not appropriate to be thrown into confusion by a small thief's sneak attack."

Niu Bin glanced at him, and based on the principle that Su Li supported that he was about to oppose, he immediately said harshly: "My lord, the general thought that he should follow up with these young people and suppress them.

"More than a dozen boats dared to come to sneak attack. If we let them escape, our army's morale will be greatly damaged."

Su Li felt angry, pointed at him and said: "Yesterday I said that it is better to stick to Hangzhou, it is you who insist on attacking the enemy eastward, which gives the thief a chance to attack.

"At this time, you are going to chase these little thieves again, in case it delays the opportunity to encircle and suppress the Fujian warship..."

"Hey, what missed the opportunity?" Niu Bin interrupted him, "The Fujian people's boat just passed Zhoushan yesterday, and it was going upstream all the way. Recently, the north wind is blowing. They are still far away from Xiapanshan. There are hundreds of miles away.

"We immediately chase after it, and we can wipe out the night raiders in an hour or two at most, and then we will go east to defeat the enemy with the whole army, so as not to lose our momentum."

Seeing Ruan Jin leaving in a big defeat, Wu Yuanzhou felt great regret in his heart.When Gaha summoned the officers to discuss matters, he had just entered his cabin when he heard the words "destroy the thieves who attacked at night", and he couldn't help being secretly surprised.

He has a close personal relationship with Ruan Jin, and he frowned secretly, thinking that only the disaster can lead to the rescue of Ruan Jin and others, so he immediately stepped forward and said: "Commander Niu's words are wrong. According to my observation, Ruan Jin There are only a dozen small boats left in Jin's hands, even if he lets them go, it won't make any waves.

"But the big ship from Fujian is a serious problem. If it goes west quickly..."

Su Li on the side suddenly narrowed his eyes when he heard the words, grabbed Wu Yuanzhou's arm violently, and said coldly: "Commander Wu, how do you know that the person who attacked was Ruan Jin?!"

"I..." Only then did Wu Yuanzhou slip his tongue in a panic, he was standing there in a daze, not knowing how to smooth things over, when he saw an officer enter the cabin and whispered something in Gaha's ear.

The latter then looked at Wu Yuanzhou coldly, and said sharply: "Your personal guard Zhao Qing left yesterday by boat and has not returned yet. Tell me, where did you go?!"

Wu Yuanzhou originally planned to wait for the Jianlu warship to be burned at night, so he took advantage of the chaos and left without thinking about delivering the letter to the guards at all.

He was breaking out in a cold sweat, and said falteringly: "He, his old father is seriously ill, so he asked for leave to go home..."

Su Li suddenly said: "That's right! No wonder someone came to attack us at night just after our navy was moored in Xiapanshan. It must be you who sent someone to report our army's whereabouts to Ruan Jin yesterday. You were also the one who said Xiapanshan yesterday. It is suitable for a night stay, it was planned in advance!"

Gaha was furious, he squinted at Wu Yuanzhou and said, "Come here, take this detailed work down for me!"

Wu Yuanzhou sighed in his heart, before anyone could make a move, he slammed his head into the warehouse wall.

Niu Bin glanced at Commander Wu who was lying in a pool of blood, and said to Gaha: "My lord, the remnants of Zhejiang will go far away, and if we don't chase after them, it will be too late!"

"My lord, it's not appropriate to..."

Gaha didn't wait for Su Li to finish speaking, and pointed to the southeast direction, "Since the rebel Wu Yuanzhou said he would not pursue, then I will go after him and kill him! Order the whole army to chase the enemy quickly!"

"Follow the order!"

After a while, another soldier tied Wu Yuanzhou's nephew to Gaha.This kid was not as resolute as his uncle, he only took a few sticks before pouring out everything he knew.

"Oh, hundreds of Ruan Jin's men are hiding in Wucao Island?" Gaha clapped his palms and laughed, "It's a blessing in disguise. This time we can wipe out the remnants of the Zhejiang Army's navy. This is a great achievement!"

Then he said to Niu Bin beside him, "Let you lead your warships to pursue Ruan Jin."

Niu Bin led a navy town with a [-]-ton ship, two [-]-ton warships, and nearly thirty small boats of various types, more than enough to deal with Ruan Jin's dozen or so boats that were covered in bruises.

"The end will obey orders!"

Gaha looked at Suli again, "The rest of the warships are all going to Wucao Islet, so don't let a single southerner escape!"

"Subordinates obey orders!"

Su Li clasped his hands in response, picked up Wu Yuanzhou's nephew, and said with a sneer, "Hmph! Mr. Wu, please lead the way."

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