Lord of Ming Dynasty

"No--,"

"The whole army charges."

He yelled like crazy.

Zheng Fu took the reins of his war horse, "My lord, my lord,"

Zheng Liang's face was ashen, he turned his head to look at Zheng Fu, then at Zheng Cai.

Zheng Cai shouted: "The whole army charges, we have too many people, and we will crush him. His firecrackers cannot be fired infinitely. If they fire too fast, they will explode."

Zheng Liang was right when he thought about it.

"The whole army charged, did you hear me, the whole army charged, crushed them."

Chapter 141 The End of Zheng Cai [-]

Zhang Qiang looked aside, and Zhang Qiang said to the messengers around him: "The whole army changed formation, the six battalions lined up, the musketeers fired, the archers lined up behind the musketeers battalion, and the other battalions remained the same. , Retreat behind the archers and form a horizontal line, after blocking the enemy's counterattack, push forward flatly, order the cavalry to wait for the enemy to attack after the chaos, and capture the prisoners for me."

After the orderer left, Zhang Qiang dropped the binoculars and said coldly, "What's so special about me? You dare to provoke me like this."

Pirates ran all over the mountains and plains. In the rain of shells fired from the artillery positions of the cavalry and artillerymen, some were retreating, some were fleeing to both sides, and some were still rushing forward, because only Only by rushing over can we return to the boat and escape.

Gunpowder smoke drifted away, rising from the position of the musketeers, and on the opposite side there were pirates with bleeding chests falling down, row after row, it was like a massacre in line.

Soon the enemy couldn't stand it anymore, and they ran to both sides, trying to avoid the muskets of the musketeers.

In the middle of the queue, the head of the hundred households who commanded the musketeers looked back at the flag in the battalion commander's hand. Hearing the shout of the battalion commander, he turned his head and shouted, "First General Banner Team, take ten steps forward, ahead, shooting."

He looked around and saw that most of the enemies were running to the right, and immediately shouted: "Second General Banner and Banner Team, stand still, turn right, run forward, stand still, walk ten steps forward, shoot, the general flag The banner commander took over the command and aimed to destroy the enemy."

The two battalions on both sides delegated their powers one after another. With the general flag team as the combat unit, the formation rotated, advanced, shot, loaded, then rotated, fired again, stopped, stood still, advanced, turned around, and raised the gun to shoot again.

Gradually, the musketeer battalions on the two wings broke away from the brigade, gave up their positions, spun, spun, and finally turned their backs to the enemy, chasing the fleeing enemy from the side.

On the front, the remaining four battalions stretched and stretched, from five ranks to three ranks, filling the position vacated by the two flank battalions. Follow up with your hands, pull into a line, and shoot arrows at the enemy who rushed within 30 meters of the musketeer.

The three battalions of musketeers stretched again and became two columns, in free fire mode. At this time, the enemies were too chaotic and scattered, and some even fled towards the direction of Sanmen County.

The last battalion never rushed up. Their task was to protect the generals and guards, and they couldn’t be too far away from the generals’ guards. Otherwise, if the enemy had cavalry, the generals’ guards would have to face the enemy alone and always keep a reserve team. Zhang Qiang learned from modern warfare.

"Pursuit." Hu Kui yelled, and the cavalry rushed down from the mountain to pursue the defeated enemy.

Seeing that the overall situation was settled, Zhang Qiang led a battalion of musketeers and two hundred bodyguard cavalry to the beach.

At sea, he saw thick smoke billowing, enemy warships fleeing in all directions, and the Jinhua Rebel Navy sailors who had suffered heavy losses were fighting with all their strength, and they had no time to take care of the fleeing enemies.

Desperately pestering those large and medium-sized warships, many warships have already been filled with smoke, and people can still be seen fighting on them.

A few ships were parked on the sea, but there were no people and no battles were seen. Two other ships raised white flags, lowered their sails, and were under surveillance. Several small ships brought batches of captives to the shore. , and then returned to escort the captives. Some sailors drove the ship to the shore to dock, and then took a small sampan to row to other ships that were still fighting.

More than a dozen miles away, cannons rumbled, and the battle continued.

"Let the musketeers go out by boat and help those ships that are still fighting," Zhang Qiang shouted.

So the skiffs returning empty took the musketeers with them to the ships where hand-to-hand combat was still taking place.

At noon, there were more than 300 enemy and enemy ships on the shore, and wounded sailors and soldiers were continuously sent to the shore by small boats, and then continued to rush to the open sea with the soldiers who had just chased and killed the enemy.

At dusk, there were more than 700 ships on the shore, and the battle had come to an end.

Sanmen County sent tents, food, and drinking water, and nearby villagers helped to cut down trees and build camps.

When it was dark, Zhang Ying was covered in blood, and she would come with a black face.

In the dark night, on Longzhu Island, around Longzhu Island, and on the shore, there are still fires. Two hundred ships are burning, and the fire has not been finished for a while. There are still navy ships of the Jinhua Rebel Army rescuing those ships that are not completely burned.

The three battlefields have been cleaned up.

Zhang Qiang listened to the report of the battle in the newly built camp tent.

"The fire attack ships were completely lost, and 140 enemy ships were burned, most of which were small and medium-sized ships. Eighteen of the large ships were burned, and twelve escaped.

The second attacking fleet consisted of more than 80 ships, and only five of them could be used. The rest either perished with the enemy, or were captured by the enemy, and then burned down by the attacking ships. The enemy's medium-sized ships, we seized 67 ships were ordered, and 55 were usable, but even among these ships, no more than a dozen could be used immediately.

Eleven of our large warships were sunk, two were sunk by the enemy, and twelve were seriously injured. They are currently usable, and only eight were slightly injured.Fortunately, we captured eleven of the enemy's large ships, sunk twelve of the enemy's large ships, twelve of the enemy's surrenders, and twenty of the seriously injured and unable to move. We dragged them all back. "

This naval battle can be said to be a miserable victory. Listen, all the fire attack ships were destroyed, five medium-sized ships returned, eight large warships returned, twelve were seriously injured, and seven were completely destroyed. It can be said that the Jinhua Navy was almost completely destroyed.

As for the enemy, [-] large ships escaped, about [-] to [-] medium ships escaped, and almost all small ships escaped, but some escaped. All the pirates and sailors who jumped to fight were taken to the shore to attack Sanmen County. The enemy sailors on the ship and the jumping sailors who fought did not have many opportunities, so the enemy suffered heavy losses, and wiped out about two-thirds of the enemy's troops. .

"If the ships that capture the enemy are used, how many ships can we immediately use for combat?" Zhang Qiang asked Zhang Ying.

Zhang Ying thought for a while, "There are 35 large Fuchuan, 44 medium-sized Fuchuan, 33 small Fuchuan, 45 large bird ships, [-] large sand ships, [-] Clark warships from the Portuguese, and Gai from the Dutch. Two Lun sailing ships, [-] centipede ships, Portuguese armed merchant ships, twelve two-masted ships, and sixteen of our small sea-going ships. If we add some merchant ships, we have a total of about two hundred ships available, all captured the enemy."

"Repair it right away, fix it overnight, select fishermen and sailors from the captives who are willing to help us, some pirates are also fine, and then load a large number of warriors on each ship, musketeers, infantry, archers, javeliners, knives and axes Hand, sword player, let's go to Xiamen."

"My lord, this?" Zhang Ying looked at Zhang Qiang.

"We won't leave too many opportunities for Zheng Cai to dig out his lair."

Zhang Ying looked at Zhang Qiang, "But my lord, there is still Zheng Tai in Xiamen who is inclined to Zheng Chenggong, shall we fight with him?"

"If you don't understand, we will fuck him. With these captured ships, our navy is stronger than before. When we rush to Xiamen, we can take Zheng Cai's remaining ships and the ships that fled back. That way If so, our sea strength is considered to be the strongest in this area."

Zhang Qiang stood up and shouted: "Eliminate the evil and do everything."

Everyone stood up and said, "Get rid of the evil." Although their faces were tired, there was joy of victory in each of their eyes, as well as yearning for a better future.

Du Ge ran in, "My lord, I'm late,"

Zhang Qiang said to Du Ge: "You and Hu Kui are here to clean up the mess, repair the pier, station my troops on Dragon Ball Island, and hand over the repaired warships to the sailors who stayed here to recuperate. I will let you stay here among the prisoners." Recruit sailors, but you have to send soldiers on every ship. From now on, this is another base of our navy, and the repaired warships will be our second navy. The person in charge of the navy, I will send another. "

Du Ge bowed, "It's my lord, I will definitely handle it well."

Chapter 142 The End of Zheng Cai [-]

Zhang Qiang landed in Taizhou County on a fast small sloop, and then returned to Linhai County, the capital of Taizhou, under the escort of Chen Hanhui, the town guard of Taizhou County.

And the fast horse brought Zhang Qiang's order to the surroundings. Wei Wuji took three thousand musketeers, two thousand soldiers, and two thousand militiamen from Jinhua Mansion to Wenzhou Mansion in Xiamen. With the help of Xuanyuan Longfei, they boarded the ship and went out to sea, where they joined the first division of the reorganized Jinhua Rebel Army Navy led by Zhang Ying.

The two fleets will skim over the sea of ​​Quanzhou Prefecture and appear on the sea of ​​Xiamen, attacking those Zheng Cai's ships that were injured and fled back.

At the same time, it landed in Xiamen and occupied Xiamen Island.

He will be fully responsible for annihilating Zheng Cai and the pirates near Xiamen Island, and even landing on Jinmen Island, fully controlling the sea there, clearing out the hostile pirate forces on the sea of ​​Fujian, and strangling those merchants.

This is Zhang Qiang's trust in him, making him fully responsible for the affairs of the sea.