Lord of Ming Dynasty

"Order the leading warship to turn to the side of the Hong family's fleet, parallel to them, and let the Hong family's fleet block the Spanish fleet for us. The two of them still have grievances and will not cooperate so closely. As long as they still have conflicts, They dare not cross the Hong family's fleet to chase us." Zhang Qiang gave the captain an order to convey his order.

"At 300 meters, the Hong family's fleet stopped us. The artillery on their armed merchant ships can already reach the second and third [-]-ton warships ahead." The watchman shouted desperately.

"It hit, our second battleship hit an enemy armed merchant ship of 180 tons, the enemy's armed merchant ship was hit by at least five shells, the main mast was broken, and at least five enemy artillery pieces were destroyed, thirty Up to 50 wounded. Enemy loses power."

"The first warship was hit by an enemy armed merchant ship. The two sides met for 200 meters. The warship did not suffer many casualties. It rushed over. There were at least six 180-ton traffic ships, two [-]-ton warships, and one [-]-ton patrol ship around them. There is also a thousand-ton Fuchuan, which is the last ship of the enemy."

With the shout of the watchman, the Huaxia No. 310 ship also approached the enemy's frantically rushing ship by 300 meters, and the captain shouted loudly to open fire.

"The Spanish fleet is still 1000 meters away from us, and they want to outflank us." The watchman shouted.

When Zhang Qiang's binoculars are not idle, turn left and right, look this way, look there, the first thousand-ton battleship rushed into the top of the enemy's triangle, the sea is full of gunpowder smoke from artillery fire, and the Hong family's fleet has already covered its wheels. In a piece of gunpowder smoke, it was quickly blown away by the strong sea wind, and the wind was strengthening.

As long as they rush past the interception of a dozen ships at the top of this triangle, the Huaxia Army Navy can get rid of the enemy parallel to the enemy.

The right-handed artillery of the Huaxia 310 ship fired violently, and after three rounds, it hit an approaching [-]-ton enemy warship, and the bow gun of the enemy warship only fired one shot. The speed of the artillery was much faster than that of the Hong family navy, and stronger than the naval gunners they trained.

An hour passed, and the four 180-ton galleons from Spain had detoured around the periphery of the Hong Family Fleet, and all sixteen warships of the Huaxia Navy Fleet had been surrounded by about twenty ships from the Hong Family Fleet. , the nearest is the leading 50-ton warship, which is only 150 meters away from the enemy, and the farthest is the tail [-]-ton warship, which is [-] meters away from the enemy.

This is tantamount to using one's own disadvantages to attack the enemy's advantages. Although the enemy is some old ships and runs slowly, the artillery on their ships can also smash the ships of the Huaxia Navy Fleet and the sails and masts on them.

The artillery on both sides of the navy began to shoot violently, firing towards both sides. The Hong family's fleet was almost vulnerable to the quality of the well-trained artillerymen of the Huaxia Army navy. Soon, five ships were sunk, and three One was badly damaged and one lost power, but was still able to fire.

"There are eight more ships in the Spanish fleet that will overtake us. They fired at us across the Hong family's ships. The first battleship burst into flames and suffered heavy casualties, but they finally rushed out. Both sides About 1000 meters away from the enemy fleet's ships. The Hong family's fleet is in disarray."

After the watchman finished speaking, the artillery on both sides of the Huaxia had already hit two enemy ships, one was only casualties, and the other was hit by the waterline, causing the hull to tilt. There were fewer shells, and the sound of "bang bang bang" was heard on the skin and iron of the hull.

There were also some casualties.

But the record is brilliant, the Huaxia has sunk three enemy ships in a row, one was seriously injured and the other was slightly injured.

As the enemy approached, the enemy's artillery shells became more intensive, but most of the fleet had completely broken out of the enemy's encirclement, leaving behind two thousand-ton warships and a six-hundred-ton warship, the Huaxia.

"Get out of the way, the enemy is coming, they are going to hit us," the lookout shouted.

On the left side, a 180-ton patrol boat rushed over from 30 meters away at a high speed among the ships that were sandwiched between the Chinese navy and the Spanish navy, and most of them had begun to burn and sink.

The bow gun quickly turned around, and there were two bangs, and white smoke came out from the bow, covering the bow, and the enemy's rushing ship was hit on the bow. After two consecutive clicks, the enemy's bow slammed Shen, and then turned sideways, the Huaxia slid forward ten meters away, the artillery on the left fired continuously and smashed it, and the 30-ton warship behind fired again at a distance of [-] meters, hit it, and completely knocked it out of the big boat. Erased at sea.

However, the [-]-ton warship was hit by the enemy's hotly chasing warship from the right, and half of the hull was shattered, barely moving forward to the original position of the Huaxia. Multiple enemy shells hit the mainmast, which collapsed and lost power.

Zhang Qiang could only see the flag bearer and lookout who fell from the main mast, and the dozen or so sailors manipulating the canvas on top fell into the water, and then he couldn't see it anymore.

Because the Huaxia slid forward 100 meters away, it was once again shrouded in the smoke of gunfire from both sides.

Chapter 8 Sea Battle Breakthrough 2

After the Huaxia broke through the siege, its body was also scarred. More than a dozen sailors died, two gunners died, three were injured, and a nine-pound gun was lost.

"The fleet turned left, approached the small Spanish warships, bombarded them, and sunk them. Our Huaxia ship will take care of the Hong family's ships." After breaking through, Zhang Qiang issued a new order to let the fleet deal with them and catch up with them at speed. Then the Huaxia used its speed advantage to bully the Hong family's fleet. At this time, the Hong family's fleet had already been left behind.

So the fleet began to turn around and headed towards the predetermined direction, while the Huaxia broke away from the fleet. Zhang Qiang had already realized that he could not use his own disadvantages to compete for the enemy's advantages.

The advantage of the new type of warship is that it can attack the enemy quickly from a long range, and it is too disadvantageous to rush to compete with the enemy in numbers.

At this time, the sky was completely dark, and the two sides only saw the fire from the artillery fire, but could not see the other side's battleship.

The weak sky light could not accurately locate the opponent's ship at all.

However, the Spanish fast boats and small-tonnage ships can still catch up and fire, and the Hong family's small-tonnage ships can only fire. Zhang Qiang's purpose is to use the Huaxia to repel these ships, and then the entire fleet will turn off the lights and use Darkness throws off enemies.

As long as the distance is maintained, the enemy cannot chase the fleet through the spray of the stern.

The Zheng family's fleet was thrown five nautical miles within an hour. Their fast boats were sunk and destroyed, and the slow ones were still chasing with difficulty at a speed of four knots, while the Spanish [-]-ton warships It was posted like psoriasis, and the brigade was less than two nautical miles away from the fifteen warships.

Zhang Qiang ordered the other warships to go first, and turned around to face the battle with the Huaxia.

An approaching 300-ton Spanish armed merchant ship had just advanced to more than 18 meters. The artillery on the bow kept bombarding the Huaxia's tail for a distance of about ten meters.

"Boom," a shell hit the bow of the enemy's ship. It was a flowering shell, and it blew the enemy's bow to pieces. Two of the enemy's twelve-pounder guns fell into the sea, and the four six-pounder guns on it also fell into the sea. Two doors were blown up, and the gunners of the other two doors were also killed and injured, and fell into the sea.

The enemy ship spun around violently, blocking the path of a 180-ton armed merchant ship rushing from behind. The armed merchant ship had to take a detour, and the speed slowed down. Arriving at the front, the distance from the Huaxia was 400 meters away. The Huaxia rushed in obliquely, aimed at it with a side spin, and fired a salvo. A battery of five [-]-pound gun shells hit it to form a Nearly missing a bomb, the entire armed merchant ship was suddenly lifted two or three meters high, and the hull rolled at [-] degrees. Many sailors and crew members had no time to hold on to the fixed objects around them, so they all fell into the sea. The canvas on the mast Suddenly spread out and got entangled.

As a result, the ship also lost its forward momentum, and stopped on the spot. When it regained its balance, half of the sailors on the deck were gone. It can only sail at a speed of one or two knots while rectifying order.

The Huaxia circled around and fired another salvo of five guns at it. One gun was loaded with explosive shells and hit its deck at once. Several tubes of gunpowder were hit and exploded violently. On the deck, the crew jumped out of the ship one after another. After a while, the fire began to burn into the cabin. There was a sudden pause, and then there was a loud bang, and the ship that ignited the ammunition depot burst into a huge bright fireball on the sea.

The Huaxia turned around and intercepted the Spanish armed merchant ships that were bypassing on the other side. With a violent volley, it sank four 180-ton armed merchant ships in a row, severely damaged the small warships that the enemy rushed to pursue, and then set up its sails in the direction of the fleet to catch up. go.

At this time, the fleet in front had sailed five nautical miles, and it was a thousand-ton warship at the rear that kept signaling the way they came, so that the Huaxia could find them, otherwise the Huaxia would lose contact with them.

After all, the sky is getting darker, the sea and the sky are the same color, black.

In the dark night, the Hong family fleet and the Spanish fleet chased for more than ten nautical miles before returning without success. The two sides stopped and anchored at a distance of 800 meters, and could no longer move forward. So many ships will collide at night. , the loss will be great.

The next day, the two sides turned to leave together, and arrived at an island outside Manila in the afternoon, where thousands of warships had already gathered.

On an island, in the main entrance hall of a Chinese-style courtyard, Zheng Zhi, British Ike, Du Ge, Siam King Zheng Xin, the eldest prince, the elder prince's master, the second prince, the little prince, Lei Gang, and the Spaniards Colonel Francis Drake, commander of the fleet, and his adjutant, Major Morgan, gathered together.

Zheng Zhi sat at the top of the meeting table of the two Eight Immortals tables, and the little prince and Lei Gang were lined up on the other side. He glanced left and right, then at the little prince and Lei Gang, and then at Francis, the commander of the Spanish fleet. Colonel Drake, and then said: "Yesterday we didn't find the target all day. King Zheng Xin's fleet landed on the beach of Qiong Island and attacked several villages, but there were no results. My fleet sent the Fifth Fleet Sailing in the sea area did not catch a warship of the Huaxia Navy. According to the confession of the captives, they still left ten thousand-ton warships, eight eight-hundred-ton warships, and five six-hundred-ton warships. A ship of less than 36 tons, and [-] new warships of the Huaxia Navy, which are said to be newly added, are still an existence that we cannot mess with."

He paused, looked at Du Ge who was thinking hard, and then continued: "We must trick them out, and then concentrate on destroying them. I need someone to lure them." He looked at the little prince and Lei Gang .

The little prince had a sullen face on his face, and he patted the table and said: "We can't go, we suffered a lot yesterday, Zhang Qiang, the king of the Huaxia Kingdom, was too cunning, he wasn't fooled, we didn't surround him, but instead wanted to eliminate him Thirty armed merchant ships and warships of [-] tons or less were lost, six warships of [-] tons, one warship of [-] tons, and three warships of [-] tons were sunk.

Now there are only seventy warships in my fleet, and there are only seven warships. These warships and warships are too old. We can't catch up with them. The only result is to sink a single six hundred of them. A [-]-ton warship seriously injured the enemy in the melee, but that ship was so damaged that we had to sink it in the end.

If you want us to continue working, you must compensate us. Originally, we didn't want to mess with the Huaxia Kingdom, but because of your idea, our Hong family lost nearly [-] warships. Now our strength has been weakened. Yesterday We lost two thousand sailors and gunners, and two hundred soldiers. "

The second prince sat beside him, pulled him, and said to Zheng Zhi: "Mr. Zheng, we think you should send a fleet to lure them. Our Hong family has lost twice in a row, although we have also received a lot of supplements." , some old ships of the [-]th Fleet, and ships of the [-]th Fleet, but the ships and fleet of my brother and I are far inferior to yours. With so much loss, why don't you go up there yourself?"

Chapter 8 Thirteen

Zheng Zhi had no choice, he couldn't convince the two princes of the Hong family, and the eldest prince also strongly stated that he could not attack and needed his navy to go.

Zheng Zhi hated these two members of the Hong family for being unreasonable. If it wasn't for him, would they have obtained so many warships from the Huaxia Army Navy?He sold many of the navy warships and merchant ships bought by Zheng Keshuang to them, and he distributed almost half of the ships that fought against the Fifth Fleet and the Fourth Fleet Qiongdao Squadron to them, just to ask them to give them to himself. Work hard.

If it weren't for his sudden whim to contact Du Ge, the British and the Dutch, would he be able to form this alliance?

He didn't know good from bad, this was his view on the two Hong family members. He decided to vent his anger on the Hong family after weakening the strength of the Huaxia Army navy in this area. Anyway, his current strength was reduced by the assistance of the Huaxia Kingdom. It has been strengthened, 10,000 soldiers and horses, [-]+ Japanese people and Nanyang Han people, as well as some Southeast Asian indigenous people, [-] Palawan indigenous people and Han people, as well as Dutch and Spanish immigrants, the strength is not small .

Seeing Zheng Zhi's eyes for help, Du Ge coughed, with a cynical smile on his face, and said, "Is this so, next time to lure the enemy deep, let Zheng Zhi's fleet go.

You can split into two groups, one group with thirty or forty lost ships, go to the station of the Fifth Fleet to ask for help, and then follow the Spanish fleet, the Spanish fleet can send out about twenty ships, and also bring five or six A ship that looks injured, and then Zheng Zhi, your fleet ambushed [-] miles behind, waiting to gain the trust of the Fifth Fleet.

Then you can communicate through the fire signal, dispatch to the enemy's lair, occupy the dock, destroy the enemy ships in the port, of course, it is better to capture it. "

Hong Shiming asked, "Then what about us?"