The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 600
The Daming Navy has repeatedly practiced how to deal with this "ship-to-sea" tactic, and is extremely confident in the improved Franco cannon.

Therefore, the Shaowu only adjusted its direction slightly, and joined the 150-ton Yang Ye and Su Dingfang end to end to form a small battle line. It sailed diagonally towards the enemy's Galen ship from the upwind port at the speed of a battle sail.The smaller Weiqing and Banchao guarded their northern sides to prevent them from being divided by captive ships.

Zheng Zhilong knew very well that a splint ship of the size of the Shaowu was terrifying, but he was also worried that the Ming army behind him would catch up with the pincer attack, so he could only face it bravely, hoping that the enemy ship could be quickly captured in the jumping gang battle as a trump card.

The distance of two to three nautical miles was reached in a short while, and Zheng Chenggong almost didn't need to command too much. The five warships under his command skillfully cut to the starboard side of the captive ship in accordance with the regulations in the "Battle Manual", and kept going in the same direction.

The "Wei" warship of the Qing army fired first - in this kind of sea confrontation, the party with a lower level of training often fired at will before reaching the best shooting position.The result was no surprise, the distance was more than a mile, and under the shaking of the sea, the shells didn't even touch the fur of the Ming army's warship.

When the port side of the Shaowu was almost completely flush with the "Zhengwei" on the easternmost side, the two rows of gun ports on the side shot out dazzling fire from front to back.When even two [-]-pound shells tore through the stern of the enemy ship, one of them shot through the poop, while the other penetrated the "Zhengwei"'s gun deck and hit a wall inside. The nine-pound guns were loaded, causing chaos in the gun bay.

The Shaowu fired a total of three salvos while passing by the last enemy ship, and then broke the mizzenmast of the "Zhengwei" and made five holes in its hull.Although the enemy ship could not be sunk due to the position of the bombs being slightly higher, a large number of Qing soldiers in the cabin were bombarded and killed, and with the loss of a mast, he had to leave the battle in a hurry.

Soon, the three ships including the Shaowu and the Yangye were traveling at the same speed while maintaining a distance of about two chains from the main enemy ship.The two sides faced each other side by side, and started a head-to-head mutual shooting.

However, the Shaowu was too powerful for these "Wei" warships, and the most powerful twelve-and-a-half-pound cannon on the captive ship could hardly break through its seven-inch-thick hull.

Except for the ten smallest six-pound guns on the Shaowu, the other 24 guns can effectively kill enemy ships.Especially for the 230-pound heavy artillery, a single shell hits a huge black hole, hitting five or six shells can almost destroy the hull structure of the [-]-ton "Wei" ship, and at the same time, a large number of broken wood stubble will be removed. Killed hundreds of captive soldiers.

As for the three large ships of the Qing army, although they looked about the same size as the Shaowu, as an oriental Junk ship, they had the congenital defect of carrying too few guns. Each ship had two twelve-pound guns and two nine-pound guns. Cannon, firepower is almost negligible.

According to the experience of fighting against the Helan people, Zheng Zhilong had predicted that he would have a hard time fighting against the huge plywood ship of the Ming army, but he did not expect that the opponent would be so terrifying-the Shaowu was based on the eighteenth century ship brought by Zhu Linmei. The ship is built in the shape of a ship, with a low hull, dense ribs, and a more scientific arrangement of gun positions. Compared with the Galen ship of the same size in this era, its defense capability and firepower are much higher.Although the tonnage of the two light frigates was smaller than that of the "Wei", their artillery equipment was not too bad, and under the cover of the Shaowu, they also displayed considerable attack power.

Less than half an hour after the exchange of fire between the two sides, one of his ships was forced to withdraw from the battle, one was spun around in place with a damaged rudder, and the rest of the ships were also bruised and about to fail.

Until this time, the small boats surrounded by the Qing army finally surrounded them. There were a total of four boats, nine driving boats, and about forty shuttle boats and sentinel boats, and they began to attack the Ming army in seven directions.

These old-fashioned pirates seem to have returned to the days of looting at sea and licking blood with knives.These people were also extremely fierce and fierce, each of them stood on the bow of the ship with a single knife on their backs, and jumped to fight hand-to-hand as soon as they got close to the Ming army warship.

According to their previous experience, even Hongyi's powerful warships would definitely lose sight of one another under the siege of so many small boats. Although many people would be killed by cannons, at least [-]% of the ships would approach the target smoothly.

However, the Helan people do not have a large number of improved Frang cannons.

After a large number of Qing army small boats withstood the bombardment of the Ming army's large-caliber naval guns, and finally reached a distance of more than 200 steps, each of them began to wave their hooks.

At this moment, the five Ming army warships roared more intensively than before.Although the sound of these guns was obviously not heavy guns, the surrounding captive ships suddenly screamed.

The hulls of these small-tonnage ships are not thick, but the Franco cannons of the Ming army can exert a power close to that of cannons.These forty iron balls weighing half a catty to two catties could easily tear open the hull of the captive ship and kill the soldiers in the cabin.

The pirate soldiers under Zheng Zhilong thought that the Ming army was attacking them with the main guns on the ship, so after a round of shells, those who were not shot immediately began to show off their power again.They are very familiar with the time it takes to reload the cannon. At the current distance, the Ming army can fire at most three to four rounds of cannon, and they can rely on the advantage of numbers to jump into the gang and seize the ship!
But less than ten seconds later, the same intensive shelling as last time came again, and there was another bloody wind on the outflanking captive ship.Another ten seconds later, still forty shells "arrived as promised"...

The Franc cannon uses preset guns, and there are no processes such as filling gunpowder, projectiles, and cleaning the barrel. The rate of fire ranks first among all cannons in this era.The warship of the Qing army only traveled a hundred steps, and it ate a full seven rounds of shells!

These experienced "pirates" were about to be stunned—the artillery of the Ming army was not only powerful, but also as fast as lightning. Although there were only five ships in front of them, they felt as if they were fighting fifty ships!
When finally a few steel claws were nailed to the side of the Banchao, there were only about a dozen of the captive ships left to fight. It's time for a gang fight.

The soldiers on the only boat that was close to the Banchao pulled the rope hard, so that the two boats were stuck together, and then dozens of wooden planks were placed between the two. Banchao number.

At this distance, even the Fran cannon can hardly be effective anymore. They seem to have seen the scene of killing the crew of the Bright Army and seizing the ship to fight back.

The next moment, they heard a neat shout from the Ming army warship, "Aim!"

"put!"

(End of this chapter)