Lord of Ming Dynasty

He looked back at the Jinhua rebel troops who were neatly spread out on the plain below the mountains.

The turquoise is the protagonist, and the red and cyan-gray military costumes of the Ming army are the foil. The cavalry wearing a uniform style similar to Napoleon's French army is like a blue-blue sword swinging at the enemy's artillery position.

Why choose blue, because the cloth of the Ming Dynasty is made of earthen cloth and silk, and silk is not used. With the financial resources of Zhang Qiang's Jinhua Rebel Army, it is still impossible to make all the soldiers' clothes into silk, which is too extravagant. But there are a lot of common people's homespun cloth, the homespun cloth is only roughly dyed, the color is monotonous, and a large number of uniforms are produced. Zhang Qiang can't get the complicated process of getting colored homespun cloth to make uniforms. color up.

A scout trooper brought the latest maritime intelligence.

1 Chapter [-]: The End of Zheng Cai [-]

Zheng Cai managed to gather more than 4000 pirates, plus more than 3000 elite pirates in his headquarters who did not attack, and gathered more than 7000 troops, and saw the neat team of Jinhua Rebels approaching not far away.

The two wings are composed of militiamen wearing Ming army uniforms, cotton armor and leather armor. A battalion of 500 militiamen forms a square formation, arranged in five rows, and 3000 people form six square formations, three square formations on the left and right. , swords, guns, swords and halberds, bows, crossbows, javelins and throwing axes, everything is available.

In the middle is the phalanx of Jinhua rebel musketeers, who are wearing a blue homemade military uniform, carrying a nearly two-meter-long Portuguese arquebus, hanging a long sword, a waist knife, and carrying a small round shield on their backs.

There are three phalanxes lined up. There are more than 300 musketeers on the front line. In the middle is a phalanx of chasseurs and cavalry guards composed of 200 people. In front of the phalanx are several horses sitting upright in gorgeous clothes. The iron armor of the Ming army, followed by its own general flag, a red background, a square flag with big characters written on it, on the other side a cavalry on a horse carrying a Jinhua volunteer flag, a gold star square flag on a red background, and a flag bearer on a horse Holding a triangular golden dragon banner of the Ming army of the Longwu court.

The artillery positions were once again raided by the cavalry of the Jinhua Rebel Army. The Portuguese and the Dutch were captured together. The cavalry jumped off their horses and turned their cannons at the Zheng Caibu pirates.

I have to say that the Dutch artillery is lighter than the Portuguese artillery, and they are better manufactured. After all, the Dutch are a commercial country. Even if the merchants are rich, the research and development are also done well. The gun mounts, gun carriages, and cannons are all made very well. It is light, has a long range, and is easy to maneuver.

"There are not many of them, but there are quite a few of us, rush up," Zheng Cai said to Zheng Lian beside him.

Zheng Lian withdrew from Sanmen County and gathered his own troops. A mighty 7000 people rushed in. When they came out and regrouped, there were only more than 2000 people. These were elites, and those mobs had been killed long ago. die or run away.

When Zheng Lian heard Zheng Cai's order, he immediately led more than [-] people to the frontal Jinhua Rebel Musketeer phalanx.

Zhang Qiang just snorted coldly, and continued to look down at the information from the navy.

After Zhang Qiang sent someone to order Zhang Ying to launch an attack, within an hour, the Jinhua Rebel Army navy that came out of the hidden bay quietly approached the sea surface of Longzhu Island. Zheng Caibu's pirate fleet piled up densely on the sea of ​​Longzhu Island.

However, the ships of Zheng Cai and the Dutch-Portuguese joint fleet formed three zigzag piles around Longzhu Island on the water surface. The people on their ships were all looking in the direction of Sanmen County, watching there nervously, completely unaware of the 100 people behind them. Several fire attack ships were coming towards them with the wind.

Their dense formation was to support Zheng Cai's troops attacking the county on land, but they forgot that there might be ships attacking them behind. Sailors exist.

Zhang Ying stood on the flagship of the third wave of shocking fleets. This was a medium-sized naval warship refitted from Fuchuan. It was already a few years old, and its speed was not fast, about three to five knots.

The first team is a single-mast bird boat with a length of only five or six meters and a width of two meters. Those bird boats were captured by the Qing army by the navy, followed by some hand-cranked fishing boats, a total of 120 large and small .

There are a total of more than 500 people up there, no matter what, how many of these people can survive after the fire attack is a problem, but he has no choice, the enemy is too powerful, he can't help it.

The second team is a fast warship composed of sand boats and bird boats. It is only seven or eight meters long and three or four meters wide. Their purpose is to quickly rush into the chaotic enemy fleet and then disrupt the enemy fleet. There are 87 ships in total. The ship is equipped with two Franco cannons on the bow, and there are five musketeers, two gunners, four or five jumping helpers standing on each ship, and the rest of the sailors in the sailing team, more than 200 people .

In the end, there were about 35 of these boats, all of which were small lucky boats, some large bird boats, and large sand boats. There were only seven medium-sized lucky boats. These boats had two Franco cannons and two tiger squatting cannons on each side. There is a six-pound red cannon purchased from the Portuguese at the bow and stern, five hundred sailors, five hundred jumping helpers, and three hundred gunners. These are the warships owned by his navy.

This attack was like a tragic and tragic battle. If they succeeded, they could wipe out most of the enemy's warships. If they failed, the navy of the Jinhua Rebel Army would be wiped out.

Whether it's ships, artillery, sailors, combatants, or the experience of these people's naval battles, they are no match for Zheng Cai's navy, let alone the dozen or so large warships in Zheng Cai's navy, those warships are bigger than large Fuchuan, It must also look powerful, the cannon is like a thorn on a hedgehog, stinging his heart.

Fifteen miles, fourteen miles, the enemy did not respond.

Twelve miles away, the enemy still did not respond.

Eight miles away, in his binoculars, there were people running on the outermost ships of the enemy.

Seven miles away, the enemy seemed to be hoisting their sails and preparing their weapons.

Five miles away, he saw more and more people on the enemy ship running on deck, and some sailors were climbing towards the mast.

Three miles away, the enemy's small ships that reacted the fastest began to raise their sails and moved towards their first wave of fire attack ships to intercept them.

Two miles away, the enemy's first artillery shot rang out.

Zhang Ying put down the binoculars. During the daytime, don’t expect the enemy to completely hide your sneak attack. Today is a cloudy day. Otherwise, the enemy would be able to spot them twenty or thirty miles away, and they wouldn’t let them get close to fifteen or sixteen miles away. It was also because the enemy was attracted by the battle on the shore, otherwise they wouldn't have been seven miles away before the enemy discovered them.

The third team was already close to five miles away, and the first team had already lit the firewood on the boat. In the last few hundred meters, the sailors drove the fire attack boat towards the enemy, ignoring the small fast fishing boats that rushed out one after another. intercept.

A mile away, the second fleet of ships engaged the enemy.

The first team of fire attack ships had set fire to the outermost small ships, and the sailors jumped into the water like dumplings.

The remaining fire attack ships sprinted towards the innermost medium-sized and large ships. The second team had escaped one after another, and the faster small ships attacked each other.

Sanli, his fleet reached Sanli.

The small ships on the enemy's periphery were overcrowded, and were ignited by multiple fire attack ships, thick smoke billowed, and screams came and went.

More than a dozen fire attack ships had already approached the medium-sized warships, and several of them were hit by gunmen and archers on the enemy ship, and they stopped in place. After a while, the ships caught fire and drifted aimlessly along the current , crashing into other ships.

More than 30 ships rushed in and rammed directly into those large ships.

The second team has rushed to the vicinity of the medium-sized ships, desperately attacking the enemy, approaching, attacking each other, jumping gangs, and more fire ships crashed into the enemy's fleet.

The enemy's three fleets were all infiltrated by the fire attack ships, and the small ships on the outskirts were defeated by the attacking ships of the second group. Some were fleeing while others were fighting. , The enemy has already reacted, but I don’t know why the enemy’s counterattack is not very fierce. As long as they are approached by the ship, the artillery of the fleet will immediately misfire.

Zhang Ying rushed in with the third fleet, and his target was those large ships.

The enemy reacted. Due to the superiority in the number of ships, the enemy still caused huge damage to Zhang Ying's front two fleets. About half of the fire attack ships were destroyed, and the rest were also attacked by small ships and medium ships. Most of the ships were destroyed in the process, and only a dozen remaining ships were still tenaciously attacking, trying to find large enemy ships, or medium-sized ships to attack.

However, the small ships were hit by the artillery on the enemy's large ships, and one by one was hit, and one by one began to sink. The wounded stayed in place, the sailors suffered heavy casualties, and the rest were either continuing to advance, or already fighting with the enemy's small and medium-sized ships, some jumped on the enemy's ships, and some were jumped on by the enemy.

Zhang Ying looked at a Clark armed merchant ship, and said to the captain beside him, "Attack that ship,"

The other ships continued to search for the target.

"Boom" a fire attack ship collided with a medium-sized enemy ship, and the gunpowder on the ship was hit by the enemy's fire canister and exploded.

Blowing himself along with the enemy, the enemy's medium-sized ship was severely damaged, and he was reduced to pieces, and the enemy's ship was burned.

Smoke billowed from the sea, and cannons rumbled.

On land, Zheng Cai looked pale at the sight of the thick smoke at sea and listening to the rumbling gunfire.

Even if he can defeat the Jinhua Rebel Army on land, the situation of his fleet is not good. It is 90.00% of his warships, almost all of his belongings.

But he had no choice, he couldn't pass the test right now.

The 2000 people that Zheng Lian rushed out were beaten by Zhang Qiang's musketeers in the front, so that they cried and cried. Before they could completely rush over, the 1000 people in front collapsed.

300 people, a total of 300 people were knocked down on the way of charging by continuous firecrackers, as if they were rushing up to die. These people couldn't get close to the 60-meter distance of the Jinhua Rebel Army. There were piles of corpses and missing arms. With a broken leg, the pitiful cry of lying there made the pirates behind him shudder.

When his eyes fell, the last gunshot ended, and he saw Zheng Lian's horse raised its front hooves, knocked Zheng Lian to the ground, and then fell to the side, twitching and whining continuously.

Zheng Lian was crushed under the horse, screaming, struggling, screaming, crying, and calling his name like everyone else.

The gunpowder smoke dissipated, and the neat queue continued to move forward, and the sound of drums beat his heart.

"Do not,"