Lord of Ming Dynasty

Ruan Shu whispered: "My lord, Du Ge is You Haibo's servant. Although You Haibo was the first to be loyal to your lord, he later betrayed your lord. When our Jinhua Rebel Army became famous, he was recruited again by your lord." When he came back, he was still loyal to the imperial court in his heart, which is supposed to be the right thing to do, but we are all favored and promoted by the governor, so they can be half-hearted, but we can't."

Chen Hanhui and him looked at each other, and whispered: "I understand what you mean," he turned his head and whispered to his staff: "Prepare a memorial for me, and I will report this matter to your lord."

Qi Sansheng listened to their conversation, but did not speak. He was a surrendered general, not a heroic general of the Jinhua Rebel Army who defected, and he would not participate in their internal affairs.

The best way is to be wise and protect yourself. What you hear today can only be rotten in your heart.

A soldier hurried in, "Report to your lord, Admiral Zhang Ying's navy is back."

Chapter 186 Naval War Narrative

Covered in gunpowder, Zhang Ying walked into the Navy Admiral's Mansion in Taizhou County with blood stains.

Seeing all the generals of the Jinhua Rebel Army standing up to greet him, I was very proud.

As a naval officer, he has never had a record of many victories. The last time he attacked Zheng Cai and the Dutch and Portuguese fleets on Dragon Ball Island, it was a narrow victory. It was due to careful planning, and the main battle was Zheng Cai's naval forces. vessel.

Compared with them, those ships at sea had slightly more people and larger ships, but everyone was fighting for the number of people and the number of ships.

This time, he began to think that he could not defeat the invading enemy, so he led the fleet into battle in fear.

Unexpectedly, the oncoming enemies were disorderly and chaotic, and they seemed to be numerous, but in many places, there were many opportunities for him to use in his eyes.

Gritting his teeth, he took [-] warships, lined up in two rows, and went straight into the center of the enemy's fleet.

At the beginning, dozens of large ships rammed directly into the small warships of the locust-like pirates and numerous fishing boats and fireboats.

On the moonlit sea, the wind was suitable for his fleet to attack. For a while, the entire sea was like dumplings. The pirates' ships were overturned, crushed, and squeezed to the bottom of the sea. They didn't have time to dive, or just after diving, they were crushed by the big ship on their backs, and the huge water pressure directly pushed them to the bottom of the sea.

Although crushing small boats is very exciting and refreshing, to sweep away the frightening and oppressive feeling that he had just seen so many enemy ships, but Zhang Ying knew that his target was not those pirate boats with large numbers of people. It is the hundreds of large ships flying the flags of the Dutch and Portuguese behind the team, and there are hundreds of medium-sized warships among pirates in the sea.

While the fleet of more than 80 fleets led by him crushed the small pirate ships and knocked over the small warships, the large enemy ships and warships also began to drive towards them.

For a while, the two sides began to greet each other with the artillery on the ship.

At 500 meters, the artillery shells of the two sides smashed each other, and no one hit the other, but the other pirate ships on the sea were unlucky. Maybe the artillery of Zhang Ying's Jinhua Rebel Fleet could not hit anything, and could only occasionally sweep the enemy They rushed to some small boats that were too fast, but the shells thrown by the enemy fell directly into the middle of their own fleet.

Because the Second Fleet of the Jinhua Rebel Army is now rampaging in the small boats of their allies, the Daming pirates, surrounded by enemy ships.

At the beginning, the pirates were still in a state of confusion, fleeing for their lives one after another, but there were always some bloody pirates and some leaders, and they began to organize an attack on the two fleets of the Jinhua Rebel Army.

The fire boats attacked. The two fleets that had just entered the middle of the pirates were surrounded by enemy ships. Some fire boats were organized by the pirates. These fire boats were originally designed to deal with Zhang Ying's naval fleet. After entering the harbor and rushing to the beach of the bay, Zhang Ying's naval fleet disappeared. Many pirates began to rush to the beach with confidence, thinking of landing on it to wantonly plunder and rob wealth.

Who knows that Zhang Ying hid on the inland river first, and when she made up her mind and thought she had to fight, she suddenly took advantage of the low tide and the strong wind to rush out of the river and directly crashed into their fleet.

Many pirate ships waiting to land on the sea suffered in this way.

Now the pirates who have reacted are angry, and they release fireboats to attack them one after another. The fireboats are burning with raging fire. The fireboats are controlled by several deadly pirates. There is a ramming angle in front. The horns will crash directly into the middle of the ribs of the enemy ship, and they will not be able to shake it off.

Zhang Ying immediately changed his formation.

Two rows became four rows, and the large ships covered with copper skin were transferred to the outer circle. The inner circle of medium and small warships expanded the defensive surface at the same time. The copper skins on large warships can effectively resist the impact of enemy fireships. At the same time, there were more artillery on the big ship, and the enemy's fireboats were concentrated by the artillery before they approached.

The "T"-shaped battle position makes the enemy's ships face more artillery from large ships. Even if there are small warships on the side, there are three two-pound to three-pound cannons firing on one side. There are four six-pounders, two eight-pounders, and three three-pounders firing, and there are even more on large warships.

There are two layers of artillery on the large warship. The artillery on the lower layer is the 50-pounder and [-]-pounder captured by the Dutch and Portuguese. A total of ten guns are firing. There are sixteen on the upper deck, eight ten-pounders, four Twelve-pound cannons, two [-]-pound cannons, and four [-]-pound cannons. With so many cannons and one warship, there are more than [-] warships marching in the Jinhua Rebel Army column. The intensity of the firepower can be said to be As long as you are unlucky, a cannonball will fall on the top of your head.

The artillery of the medium-sized warship in the middle will make up for the firepower gap when the enemy's small warship rushes to the dead end of the large ship's artillery range outside the fleet, and can maximize the enemy's warship to face firepower.

In the words of the surviving pirates: "My God, I saw shells flying all over the sky, it was like a rain of shells, and we charged desperately.

A medium-sized warship I was on was about to rush into the blind spot of the enemy's artillery. By then, the artillery on our ship could also hit the enemy, but I didn't expect to be in the process again.

We were hit by more than a dozen head-sized artillery shells in a row, and one of them was a chain bomb called by the enemy. The hawser cut, twisted the sail to pieces, and finally wound it around the mast, and I heard a click, and the mast fell from overhead.

The three companions who were just about to escape were smashed into meatloaf by the mast, and my leg was also smashed, and then I was swept to the side of the boat by a huge force, and my head hit the hard side of the boat, and I passed out , When I wanted to come, I was already captured. "

The middle-aged pirate told the interrogators about his tragic naval battle experience with a dejected expression on his face.

But these do not satisfy the interrogators. What they want is information, not the narrative of the battlefield, not their misery. If they can, they want to make them more miserable. The enemy is more miserable, which means their happiness.

They imposed more painful punishments on him, until the bruised pirates were incoherent, and they saw that they could no longer get any information from this little man, so they let him go and threw him into a prisoner of war camp, he was not qualified enough Going to a hard labor camp, maybe after two or three years of physical labor, he will be given up, and then he will be placed under surveillance by the local government for two or three years until he accumulates enough contribution points to become a free man, otherwise he is a slave.

This is not the point, the point is that in the face of so many counterattacks from fireships and pirate ships, the Second Squadron actually resisted and quickly defeated them, facing the combined Portuguese and Dutch forces that had reached 150 meters away. fleet.

Chapter 187 Naval War Narrative [-]

??Whether it was the locust-like pirates of the Ming Dynasty or the seemingly powerful Dutch and Portuguese fleets, none of them thought that the war would be so cruel and the defeat would come so quickly.

Since the British defeated the mighty Dutch fleet, the Dutch have changed from sea coachmen to sea cowards. Their commercial attributes make them only match those countries that don't know how to fight and how to fight the continental state system. , and never dared, or did not win decisive victories among the maritime powers of China.

Their ships are still merchant ships, or armed merchant ships armed with merchant ships. Even those warships are only high-level merchant ships that are a little stronger than merchant ships. Their strength is only the number of sailors, not the research on naval warfare.

And Zhang Qiang, who is a time traveler, doesn't need to think about it at all. Even without the help of the system, he can still look at the world with the eyes of the world, and the naval battles in this world.

Even if it is not to improve the combat power and technology of these barbaric Westerners, he will remain invincible. His weakness is that he does not have so many sailors. To be precise, none of them have experienced large-scale naval battles. And soldiers who think about naval warfare tactics, naval soldiers.

The Dutch are also a group of businessmen who live at sea all year round. Their sailors and generals, even if they don’t have to think about it, their long-term combat experience can make them better than the Ming Navy who only used small fishing boats to play fireboat tactics in this period. Humbled.

They looked extremely tall, Da Ming beat them, although they didn't take advantage of them, but their losses were not very big, while Da Ming's losses were several times.

In order to attack two or three ships with three or four hundred materials, in fact, armed merchant ships of more than 100 tons will have to pay the death of thousands of people, the loss of hundreds of small warships, let alone tens of thousands of people, thousands of ships Go and besiege them with 300 to 500 tons of materials with a tonnage of more than [-] tons to more than [-] tons.

In the eyes of Westerners such as the Dutch or Portuguese, there are only a dozen warships of sixth-class, fifth-class, or higher fourth-class warships.

At this moment, faced with Zhang Qiang's ear-to-mouth advice, careful guidance, and several months of training and preparations, they have the same size as theirs, but they have replaced their artillery with a longer range and better quality. There is no half bottle of water, the second squadron of the Jinhua Rebel Navy, which comes from the naval warfare tactics of the game memory of the great navigation of later generations.

The big ship was crushed, covered with copper skin, the cannons were strafing intensively, the commando was ready for battle, and the "T" style of warfare made the Dutch and Portuguese amazed and terrified at the same time.

But they still have to charge forward, even if it is to defend the honor of their maritime supremacy, or for the territory and wealth of the Jinhua Rebel Army on the mainland.

Why do they do this?

Because the Jinhua Rebel Army was under the jurisdiction of Ming officials in the early days, and they fought against the Qing army one after another to wipe out the bandits. There was no way to pay attention to their infiltration and prevent them from understanding themselves. The change from a weapon force to a hot weapon force has made the Jinhua Rebel Army grow rapidly.

And quickly replaced civil affairs officials in many places. These civil affairs officials are new officials trained by Zhang Qiang and the others.

The implementation of a series of policies to calm the people, and the implementation of a series of measures on the internal affairs of the Ming Dynasty from multiple time travels that Zhang Qiang has seen, made the Jinhua Rebel Army settle down quickly and their wealth increased rapidly.

The rapid prosperity of business and the rapid increase of population made the Jinhua Rebel Army a paradise in the troubled times of the Ming Dynasty, a guarantee of a stable life.

The development of commerce and trade in the past six months has made the territory of the Jinhua Rebel Army almost a gathering place for wealth.

And because they wiped out the Zheng Cai pirates, wiped out many pirates, controlled a large area of ​​the coastal area, and quickly expanded their power to the sea. Because they helped the Qing army fight against Zhang Qiang's Jinhua Rebel Army, and even against the Longwu court, they were told that they Trading with Jinhua Rebels is not allowed.

Zhang Qiang and Zheng Chenggong entered into an alliance, which made it impossible for their ships and merchant ships to appear in the entire coastal areas of Zhejiang and Fujian, and even larger places. It became extremely difficult to go to Japan or further afield to trade with the Qing army, and had to detour across the Pacific Ocean on the other side of Treasure Island to pass.

Baodao also had Zheng Chenggong's forces, and their fight with Zheng Chenggong's forces also made their trade with the Ming and Qing armies extremely shrink.