The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 394 Ruan Jin's Shock

"The gunners of the Fujian people are so accurate..." Niu Bin wiped the cold sweat off his brow, and no longer dared to stand on the bow of the ship, so he brought a general to continue commanding him, while he burrowed into the hold.

In fact, the gunners of the Daming Navy who have just passed the "internship period" can only be regarded as the middle and lower levels, but they can't stand the large number of artillery, especially the heavy artillery, so although only [-]% of the shells hit the target, they still bombarded Niu Bin. Guiwailing and howling, screaming endlessly.

Niu Bin's temporary substitute commander was stunned for a moment, and his first thought was to fight back, so he hissed, "Are you all stupid?! Fire me!"

After another slowdown, the Qing troops on each ship finally recovered from the fierce shelling on the opposite side, and then the sparse sound of cannons came from all around.

A total of more than 20 cannons roared successively, but under the great panic, the gunners of the Qing army had no intention of aiming at all, and only one cannon hit the port side of the Jianchang by chance.And the six-pound shell only left a light mark on the seven-inch thick beech wood hull, and jumped out obliquely upwards.

Before Niu Bin's gunners reloaded again, there was another roar of artillery on the battle line of the Daming Navy...

Ruan Jin couldn't believe his eyes at all!
He and his soldiers had just rowed for four miles—although the speed was a little slower under the headwind and the headwind—but after such a long time, only seven or eight of the more than 30 Jianlu warships were still floating. On the surface, the rest have either sunk or are sinking.

He pinched his thigh so hard that he gritted his teeth in pain.

Damn it!It's not a dream!Ruan Jin opened his mouth, and suddenly remembered that the sound of gunfire on this side seemed to be extremely dense, as if there were four or five hundred ships fighting. Could it be that the Fujian Navy had other reinforcements, so they took care of the thirty enemy ships in an instant? .

He scanned the surroundings carefully again, only about fifty warships were cleaning the battlefield and salvaging prisoners, but no "strong reinforcements" were found.

A light shuttle boat quickly spotted them and immediately sailed over in front of it. Someone shouted at the bow: "Drop the oars and kneel down to avoid death!"

Ruan Jin saw the blue flag on the bow with the sun and the moon shining on it, and his heart was relieved, it really was the Fujian Navy!He hurriedly said loudly: "We are the Zhejiang Navy, and we need to report to your coach in a hurry!"

A moment later, Ruan Jin and others, surrounded by the soldiers of the Daming Navy, climbed up the majestic Shaowu along the rope ladder.

He turned his head and looked around, and the first thing he saw were three thick masts on the deck of the ship that went straight into the clouds, more than three times the size of the masts of ordinary large ships.There are huge sails hanging on it, hunting under the sea breeze.

Although he didn't know why such a high mast would not cause the ship's center of gravity to be unstable and capsize, but he immediately understood one thing, such a large sail must be extremely wind-absorbing, no wonder the Fujian navy was so fast.

Then he saw six small cannons on the deck, and eight Franco cannons of various sizes. He was very surprised. How could these cannons destroy more than 30 captive ships in a short time?

Of course, it is impossible for someone to explain to him the principle that soft sails are light in weight and can greatly increase the height of the mast to increase the sail area.

As for the main heavy artillery of the Shaowu, they were placed on the two gun decks inside the hull, and he had no chance to visit it for the time being.

In the cabin of the forecastle, a naval officer saluted a young man who was looking into the distance: "My lord, Admiral, someone who claims to be from the Zhejiang Navy said that he wants to see you urgently."

"Oh? Let him in."

When Ruan Jin was brought into the cabin, he had heard from the outside that the person in front of him was the admiral of the Fujian Navy, and the other party had saved his life just now, so he stepped forward and knelt down on one knee without hesitation, and saluted Said: "The last general pays his respects to the admiral!"

Zheng Chenggong helped him up, exchanged names again, nodded and said: "General Ruan took the risk to inform the enemy, the officer is very grateful."

In fact, he had already learned from the people brought back by the Banchao that there was a large group of Qing army warships nearby, but he still admired Ruan Jin's righteous act of risking his death to warn.

"Hey, don't mention this, Admiral!" Ruan Jin said anxiously, "Leave this place quickly, and it will be too late when the main force of the captives arrives!"

Zheng Chenggong smiled and said, "General Ruan must know the fastest way to get to Wucao Island, right?"

Ruan Jin nodded subconsciously, then widened his eyes suddenly, and asked in shock: "You, what are you going to do?!"

"Rescue the soldiers on Wucao Island," Zheng Chenggong clenched his fists tightly and said, "By the way, he also took care of the Qiantang navy of Jianlu."

"This...how is it possible?!"

……

Gaha's face was full of clouds, staring at the two soldiers kneeling in front of him, he said coldly: "You said that Niu Bin's entire army was wiped out?"

The person Niu Bin sent to inform him arrived less than half an hour ago. Gaha planned to slaughter all the southerners on Wucao Islet before going to meet the enemy, but at this time he was shocked to hear that Niu Bin had been defeated.

"Hui, Hui Zongbing, yes, yes..."

"Where's Niu Bin?!"

One of them pointed to the small boat they came in, and said in a low voice, "There..."

"Why hasn't he come here?!" Gaha slammed the table and said angrily.

A military officer hurriedly came up to him and whispered: "My lord, Commander Niu is dead, and the last general just brought his body onto the boat."

Gaha looked at the two soldiers and said, "Speak! What's going on?"

These two men were the cooks of the Qing army specially selected by Zheng Chenggong. They were always in the bilge during the battle, so they didn't know much about the situation of the battle. They just faltered and said that they encountered the Fujian Navy in the east of Xiapan Mountain, and the sound of artillery outside was rumbling. , The Ming army won in less than half an hour.

Gaha's face became even more ugly, pointing at the two of them, he said, "Then how did you two come back?"

"It's Fujian Navy Admiral...ah, no, the admiral of the bandit army said he admired Niu Commander's bravery in battle, and ordered the younger one to send Niu Commander's body back."

"Brave ass! Throw this trash into the sea and feed the fish!"

The two soldiers looked at each other again, and tremblingly took out a letter and handed it to Gaha, "My lord, the admiral of the bandit army still has a letter to hand over to you."

Gaha took the letter and unfolded it, but couldn't read a single word, and handed it to Su Li beside him, "Read!"

The latter glanced at it quickly, frowned and said anxiously: "My lord, this man surnamed Zhu said that he has led a warship to Hangzhou to destroy our army's food and grass..."

Gaha glared at the Zhejiang officer beside him, and said angrily: "Didn't you say that the Fujian warship is still hundreds of miles away and against the wind and the current? Why did it appear here?!"

"This……"

All the officers were also very puzzled. According to the normal speed, it is indeed impossible for the Fujian Navy to appear near Xiapan Mountain.

It took a long time before someone said: "My lord, the inspector who said that the Fujianese just passed Zhoushan yesterday must have received bribes from the southerners and came back to falsely report the military situation."

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