Lord of Ming Dynasty

Following the transmission of the order, the entire fleet immediately moved closer together, formed a long snake formation, made a half circle, and turned to meet the enemy fleet. A few kilometers away, the warships of the Huaxia Kingdom turned a U-shaped turn, and formed an L-shaped battle line, rushing towards the right side of the enemy behind them.

Fifteen nautical miles, the entire fleet began to sail at full sail, and the speed reached six knots, and then increased to seven knots. In order to maintain the formation, Huaxia No. 310 kept a distance of 100 meters from the warships behind at seven knots at the head of the fleet. Then each battleship kept a distance of 100 meters, and opened up a battle line formation that was nearly three miles long.

Fourteen nautical miles away, the enemy's fleet had a change, and it began to panic, and the formation was scattered. The sun was tilting on the sea surface, and then tilted again, but the light became stronger, as if it felt like it was about to fall, let it shine again It's okay, the heat of the sun directly reflects on the skin of the body through the navy uniform, which makes people feel a little warm but uncomfortable. Everyone just feels that the body temperature is rising, and a sense of irritability replaces the calm and good mood.

At thirteen nautical miles, the enemy speeded up, and their speed reached five knots. Compared to them, being able to run six knots was considered a high speed, because they were all old ships of the Huaxia Army.

However, the few ships they captured can run at a high speed of seven to eight knots, but that's all, because except for the new-style warships of the Fifth Fleet, the others are also retired from the First to Fourth Fleet. For the old ships that came down, when the country was not fully unified, Zhang Qiang was not going to provoke the South China Sea states, so they were equipped with old ships everywhere. Because too many ships were sold repeatedly, Zhang Qiang only took the 36 ships that formed the army for the first time. The battleship was placed in the Fifth Fleet.

The enemy was approaching at a speed of five knots, and this side was advancing at a speed of seven to eight knots. In less than an hour, the two sides approached each other when the sun tilted sharply and the light on the sea turned pale yellow.

There are also veterans of naval warfare in the enemy army. During this process, the fleet has been adjusted into four battle lines, with warships in front and armed merchant ships in the back, facing the Huaxia navy.

However, the Huaxia navy has been turning, turning, forming a diagonal line with the enemy, making it impossible for the enemy to adjust the formation into a battle line, and can only follow the turning.

The watchman suddenly shouted loudly: "They say they are the fleet of the little prince of the second prince of the Hong family, and they want to go to Koh Kong Island in Cambodia to support the Zheng family. They hope that we will get closer to them. Do they have something to say to us?"

"What kind of plot is this?" Zhang Qiang was stunned.

"Is there still friendship between the second prince of the Hong family and the Huaxia Kingdom?"

Well, although Prime Minister Yan and the others were lenient when the second prince escaped in the end, and the second prince also cooperated with Prime Minister Yan, Zhao Hui and the others fought back and ruined the 50 Japanese troops on Shikoku Island. Do they think they can fool themselves?

Chapter 8 The Spanish Fleet Appears

"Don't pay attention to them, let's go first before we can figure it out." Zhang Qiang was confused now.

But he didn't dare to let less than 100 warships get close to the fleet led by the little prince of the Hong family who had more than [-] warships.

So the entire fleet circled the fleet of more than 100 little princes of the Hong family for about fifteen nautical miles, and then continued to head towards Qiongdao in this formation.

The sun had already set slowly, and in the last ray of light, the Hong family's fleet was still following, about seven or eight nautical miles away from them. If you worked hard at this distance for more than an hour, the Hong family's fleet would be able to catch up.

The captain said: "They are still following us, what should His Majesty do?"

Zhang Qiang snorted coldly, "Obviously they have malicious intentions, let's speed up, go to Qiongdao, and ignore them. At night, we can get rid of them. We don't know the enemy, we'd better stay away from them."

Not far away, the little prince looked at the distant fleet and the king's flag fluttering on the strange looking long new ship in the distance, and sneered, "I didn't expect the king of the Huaxia Kingdom to be such a coward. until we escaped."

Lei Gang, a Han official, is a new navy general of the Lu State. Hearing what the little prince said, he whispered: "This man is too cautious. If he dares to approach, our more than 100 warships will be killed." The boat can surround them, and with the loss of some old boats, as long as he can be killed, the Huaxia Kingdom will fall apart, and we can return to the Huaxia land with our people."

The little prince shook his head, "It's not so easy to deceive him. He can change from a humble soldier to a hero of a generation. It's not something that can be won by any trick."

Lei Gang said: "Your Highness, why did we form an alliance with the eldest prince, Zheng Zhi, and the Spaniards this time? Is there anything strange about it? Can we really fight against the Huaxia Kingdom? Even if their navy It has been weakened, but it is not enough for all our forces combined to defeat."

The little prince didn't blame him for talking too much, because Lei Gang was his confidant general, and this man only listened to him, even his father Hong Hongxiu. In order to let him help him wholeheartedly, the little prince was very confidant to Lei Gang, at least on the surface That's the case, so he said to Lei Gang: "With Du Ge's plan of the Chinese traitor, shouldn't we trick the Fifth Fleet out, and then attack suddenly, annihilating his Fifth Fleet in one fell swoop?"

Speaking of the Fifth Fleet, the little prince was obviously very happy to be able to take it at such a small price, and also earned nearly forty warships from the Fourth Fleet.

Although the Fifth Fleet fought back desperately and destroyed a dozen of their armed merchant ships, Zheng Zhi's three [-]-ton warships, one thousand-ton warship, the prince's three [-]-ton warships, and eleven armed merchant ships , but they made a lot of money.

380 warships of the Fifth Fleet, warships, and more than 100 armed merchant ships, [-] marines, [-] sailors and gunners were all captured.

Of course, the Fifth Fleet also lost a lot. Twenty six-hundred-ton warships were sunk, fifteen thousand-ton warships were severely damaged, thirty armed merchant ships were severely damaged, and five were sunk.

The others were also slightly injured, but in the end they faced the more than 100 warships of the Spanish fleet, the warships, the 270 warships of the second prince, and the [-] warships of Zheng Zhi, and finally surrendered.

Of the forty ships of the Fourth Fleet two escaped, most of the others were sunk, and five were captured.

The four families divided all the remaining ships of the Fifth Fleet and the Fourth Fleet Squadron, and each family got about seventy ships. The other damaged ships were bought by Zheng Zhi. With these warships of the Fifth Fleet , Battleship, the strength of the four families has greatly increased.

Not only made up for their previous losses, but also greatly increased their strength. The number of warships in each family exceeded 180, the number of warships exceeded [-], and the number of other armed merchant ships increased by [-].

The one who made the most profit was Zheng Zhi. It was really because of his cooperation and win over all the companies that everyone could succeed. In Duge, when Zheng Zhi came up with an idea, the Spaniards abandoned their previous suspicions to help, the British assisted, and the Dutch played a bitter plan. After the executor, Du Ge said that he would repay and make up for their losses, an anti-China Kingdom alliance was formed.

Zhang Qiang never expected that he wanted to use the contradictions of all parties to suppress the surrounding forces, but because of various contradictions, the surrounding forces had a common enemy and united, and gave him a blow.

In order for Zheng Zhi to help attack Du Ge and the others, he dismantled his Sixth Fleet and sold it to Zheng Zhi, weakening his own navy. The Fifth Fleet fell into the enemy's trick because of the stupidity of the commander and the failure to follow the rules. , ruined the Fifth Fleet, and also brought disaster to the Fourth Fleet. Now the situation of the Huaxia Kingdom in the South China Sea is very bad, and Zhang Qiang and all the fleets, as well as the government and navy stationed in the South China Sea are not aware of the enemy's conspiracy.

Zhang Qiang underestimated the wisdom of people in this era and paid a heavy price.

There was still twilight in the sky, and in this twilight, a huge fleet appeared ahead, and the Spanish flag hanging on the mast of the huge fleet was very dazzling.

There is Spain in the front, and the little prince of the Hong family in the back. The enemy has more than 300 warships.

"Turn around, go to Saigon," Zhang Qiang said with a headache. Spain was coming towards him. What does this mean?Is God going to kill me?

As the fleet turned, Hong's ships also caught up from behind.

The distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer, and the fleet brushed them and fled outside.

There were still 300 meters away, and the Hong family's ship fired fiercely, and dozens of shells in the sky smashed towards the navy fleet of the Huaxia Kingdom.

Zhang Qiang sneered, "Finally you don't want to pretend anymore."

"Prepare, prepare for battle, fire close to 500 meters, pass through the tail of the enemy fleet at 400 meters, and fire with all your strength." Zhang Qiang roared.

As the fleet turned, Huaxia No. 310 fell from the first ship to the fifth ship, and the [-]-ton battleship in front began to lead.

The lookout shouted: "The Spanish fleet is coming to our side, at a distance of twelve nautical miles. The speed is six knots."

Zhang Qiang shouted: "Don't worry about them, let's sail towards Saigon and use the Hong family's fleet to block them."

After finishing speaking, he was annoyed that there were not many warships in Qiongdao, and the enemy would catch up with him no matter where he went. The coastline of Qiongdao was too long, and he couldn't keep the ships wherever he went, so he had to abandon the ship and go to the Fifth Fleet. , at least any time a fleet goes out, it will leave enough warships and warships to protect the port, plus the ships of the Coastal Navy Guard composed of decommissioned ships, at least there will definitely be dozens of warships that can fight, so that they can The winning rate is high, at least you can escape to the port, the enemy can't attack any port at will, because the navy's garrison port must have shore artillery, so that it can guarantee undefeated and keep the ship.

Now we are closer to Qiongdao, but farther away from Saigon. Do we still have to play hide-and-seek with the enemy at sea?

No, it should be a competition of speed, maybe they can outrun the Hong family's boat, but Zhang Qiang is not sure about the Spaniard's boat, their boat may outrun his warship which can only be the fastest at eight knots.

It was getting dark, and the sea view was not very good, but the enemy ships were approaching.

The watchman shouted: "The Hong family's fleet is 800 meters away, and the Spanish ships are five nautical miles away. Their speed has increased to eight knots."

Chapter 8 Eleven Naval Battle Breakthrough 1

Clouds of white smoke came out from the Hong family's fleet, aimlessly consuming their ammunition, watching the sixteen warships of the Huaxia Navy Fleet gradually approaching them firing shells in panic.

Seeing the Huaxia Navy's fleet turning away and coming towards them, the Hong family's fleet panicked a lot. Their fleet changed from a trailing line to a white-wave-like row across the embankment. The fleet gradually formed a lying down triangle. The sixteen ships of the Huaxia Navy Fleet gradually rushed towards the last ship that surrounded them, while the leading ship of the Hong Family's Navy Fleet began to turn, gradually forming a closed shape. The bottom of the triangle, the bow of the ship rushed towards the last thousand-ton warship of the Huaxia Army.

With 400 meters left, the 100-ton battleship ahead opened fire, and the [-] side-spinning cannons fired shells one by one, and the waves splashed continuously within [-] meters between the two [-]-ton Hong family armed merchant ships in the distance.

"It was shot crookedly. The enemy's ship had already moved tens of meters. The shells fired successively went from approaching to that ship to moving away from that ship, and finally missed the enemy." The captain felt a little regretful.

And the Huaxia 310 ship continued to fall behind to the end of the naval fleet, because Zhang Qiang needed to protect these slow thousand-ton warships, and their fastest speed was only six knots, and it was impossible to improve them. At this time, new warships were needed to support them. Provide cover, and the [-]-ton warship hangs at the end together with the new type of warship to protect the new type of warship, because they can increase their speed to eight knots, and they can escape the enemy by themselves if necessary.

From time to time, the lookouts reported the distance and speed between the Hong Family Fleet and the Spanish Fleet. At this time, the Spanish Fleet had already started to turn when they saw the Huaxia Navy Fleet about to escape. Chasing, but not getting close to the Hong family's fleet.

Their speed reached eight knots, and they were quick to catch up.