Lord of Ming Dynasty

Because of Zhang Qiang's hesitation, or Zhang Qiang's foresight, Xie Lan fell into the siege of Zheng Zhi and the eldest prince, and the improvised fleet led by Pei Lan was ordered to go there before completely destroying the remaining fleet of the eldest prince. The fleet against the Spaniards went.

This is not Zhang Qiang's hesitation, but the caution of a traveler, because he remembered that the cunning and treacherous Du Ge hadn't appeared yet, and he was worried that his third fleet would be fooled or deceived by Du Ge, and like the fifth The fleet is destroyed like that, so where is the trump card that can resist the enemy in the end?

It is undoubtedly the 36 ships that I personally lead now, and now there are 37 new Chinese warships.

This is dangerous for the Huaxia Kingdom.

It is inappropriate to entrust the survival of the kingdom on one or two new pieces of equipment.

Do you believe too much in the advantages of equipment?

In fact, what really matters is the ambition of those careerists and their spirit of adventure.

Zheng Zhi is one, Du Ge is one, and there are Zhu Yujian and You Haibo who failed, so how many people in China still want to overthrow their own Huaxia Kingdom?

When Zhang Qiang was entangled in these matters, Kodak, who stayed by Zhang Qiang's side, had faithfully fulfilled his mission, commanded 37 new warships, the Huaxia, and diligently rushed to the right wing of the Spanish fleet at an ordinary speed of eight knots. The artillery was aimed at the Spanish fleet, which was engaged in a desperate struggle with the provisional fleet commanded by Perrin.

Francis Drake never imagined that the powerful Spanish fleet he had placed high hopes on could not defeat the temporary fleet organized by the Kingdom of China.

Those look exactly the same as the Spanish Galen warships, but they are slender, the buildings on the ship are lower, the artillery is faster, and the naval fleet of the Huaxia Kingdom has a longer range.

During the one-hour attack, their fleet only sank one [-]-ton warship and three [-]-ton warships.

And our own side lost [-] armed merchant ships and a [-]-ton warship.

This is for more than 100 warships, and nearly 210 captured warships of the China Fifth Fleet assigned by Zheng Zhi. The [-] armed merchant ships assigned to them by Zheng Zhi, and a huge fleet of nearly [-] warships come. It's just a scratchy loss, but in Drake's view, if the situation continues like this, can the Spanish fleet return to the port safely?

Although Manila was not far from here, he did not think he could lead most of the warships back to escort the outgoing governor who was anxious to leave the territory and return to Spain.

Previously, due to the waywardness of the governor, Luzon Island was already a hell on earth. Due to the resistance of the Han Chinese organized by Zheng Zhi, there were 700 Spanish soldiers on Luzon Island, losing more than 300 people, and more than 400 people Injured, he had to shrink his troops and returned to Manila. Later, Du Ge's envoy came to the door. The two sides discussed the status of the Han people, or jointly divided the forces.

Zheng Zhi and the others obtained the territory of some indigenous people in Manila, expanding his territory in Luzon Island and Borneo, allowing him to expand his power from an island to Luzon Island, and Du Ge and the others also obtained some Territory near Borneo and formally recognizes Dutch rule over Borneo.

The three parties signed a series of agreements, and then the two forces, the eldest prince and the second prince, also obtained some land. The five parties all obtained their own interests, but the Dutch, the British, and the Spaniards asked them to open up their territories. Trade, and send some population, especially the Han population, to their territory. This is what the new governor requires. Otherwise, relying on those indigenous people, he doesn’t think he can get as much wealth as the previous governor when he leaves office. He I don't want to be a governor of an indigenous people.

So the new governor, His Excellency the Governor who came with him, asked him to lead the fleet to help the traitor of the Han people to resist the rule of the Han people.

But at present, the strength of their parties is still far from that of the Huaxia Kingdom, and their opponents are too strong. They got the news yesterday that the fleet of the second prince and the little prince who signed a contract with them was destroyed off the coast of Saigon.

Zheng Zhi has already sent people to take over the people and territory in a hurry, and Du Ge took them back in a hurry from the waters two hundred nautical miles away from the interception of the Han Third Fleet. Such an ambush.

Thinking that if he wants to get the most benefit, he has to pay, so he chooses to make an appearance at the first time and fight to surround the enemy's fleet.

The more enemies sunk, the more spoils they will get. This is the thinking of Westerners, but he doesn't know that in the East, it is not the hardest people who get the rich fruits of victory, but those who sit behind and instigate Those who conspire get the most fruits of victory.

Who is this person? Zheng Zhi and Du Ge.

While Drake was thinking, while commanding the fleet, he saw the enemy's flagship fleet coming out, and in the far sea behind, thirty British galleons also came out.

Over there, Zheng Zhi also invested his maximum force, the last fifty warships.

"Attention." The adjutant beside him violently pushed him to the ground.

A clipper ship from the Huaxia 5012 suddenly passed their flagship at a speed of ten knots, and fired a salvo at them with one of the few eight guns on one side of the ship.

Four 96-pound solid ammunition and four [-]-pound blooming ammunition severely ravaged the Spanish Navy's second-class battleship with [-] artillery pieces.

The solid bullets just smashed a few holes in the hull, killed several sailors and a gunner, and smashed some sundries on the deck, while the open bullets made the helmsman and some soldiers who were about to shoot the enemy Tiaobang and some The powder kegs, lumber, shells, cables, and sails piled up on the ship's deck were doomed.

Twenty soldiers were killed, eleven sailors were killed, the helmsman was injured, and the explosion of the powder keg damaged a mast. Although it did not fall down, the sailors manipulating the canvas suffered. A piece of canvas fell suddenly, killing several sailors lying on the net ladder.

The entire upper deck was in a mess.

Even the upper gun bays on the side were hit, two nine-pound guns were blown up, and five or six gunners were injured.

The entire second-tier battleship lost control of the unavoidable side of the hull, violently throwing some sailors and soldiers out of the hull and falling into the sea.

Drake got up in a panic, his adjutant was stabbed in the thigh by a wooden thorn, and screamed beside him.

"Come here, carry the wounded into the cabin. Except for the sailors on the deck, everyone else enters the cabin to take refuge." He stood up, spit out some flax and gunpowder smoke, quickly regained his senses, and commanded the personnel to control the entire ship. vessel.

This is the only second-tier battleship they have come to the East, and even Spain does not have many such huge battleships.

This can only be made by hundreds of thousands of pounds.

Chapter 8 Twenty is Like a Knife Cutting Tofu

The Spanish fleet commander Francis Drake hadn't arranged the aftermath of his flagship, but he saw the entire fleet of 25 780-ton Huaxia ships sailing not far from his flagship.

The Huaxia fleet of thirty guns and one artillery sailed past at a high speed of ten knots, then suddenly turned at a very small angle, and came towards the center of his fleet. The two twelve-pound guns in front of the fleet Fiercely towards the two Spanish thousand-ton battleships, a second-level battleship, and a third-level battleship flank decks located 100 meters apart on both sides, they fired three rounds of explosive bombs at a rate of three rounds per minute.

Then countless flames burst from the stern of the ship to the bow of the other ship, many people, and even the slanting sails of the bow and stern were shattered.

The continuous explosions made the battleship shrouded in gunpowder smoke, and it was impossible to see the opponent's position at all, so it was impossible to fight back. Another battleship gathered at a distance of 100 meters could attack the enemy battleship that was getting closer and closer. However, when countless shells hit the When they were on the enemy battleship, they only saw sparks rising. The enemy battleship was just smashed into a few bowl-sized pits, and the shells that hit the deck of the ship caused damage to the enemy's personnel and deck guns.

But this is still not able to stop the enemy's advance. Twice in a row, the enemy has approached a distance of 600 meters from a distance of 100 meters. The enemy's side-spinning artillery can already hit them. Smashed the gun windows of their side-spinning guns and exploded on the emplacements.

After killing many gunners, the gunpowder barrels were ignited, directly blowing up seven or eight adjacent artillery positions, so the artillery on their side was basically scrapped and lost the ability to fight.

The second group was still attacking some other advancing warships of the fleet with explosive bombs, so five of the Spanish fleet's warships in a row and six of them were destroyed. The artillery on one side was disabled, although some artillery could still fire, but zero The solid bullets from the falling artillery are not very lethal to the enemy's hull covered with iron plates. The enemy's fleet, 25 battleships easily passed between the eighth and ninth battleships, and then used The 31 cannons on both sides easily smashed the battleships on both sides, sank three ships, seriously injured five ships, easily passed through the middle of their battleship battle lines, and disrupted their battle lines .

Then this force passed through the middle of the fleet commanded by Perrin on the opposite side with some damage, and then circled to the rear, biting more than a dozen warships at the tail at once.

The dozen or so warships in front were entangled by twelve clipper ships. They didn't have many cannons on one side, only eight, and there were no more than twenty cannons in total, but they made the Spanish fleet at a loss and couldn't fight because the enemy ships were small. , and the artillery has a long shooting distance, shooting up to 400 meters, which is a nightmare for Spanish artillery, which can only hit 380 meters at the farthest.

In chaos, the Spanish fleet was in chaos and fell into chaos. Their fleet was surrounded and cut off. The 25 warships of the Huaxia that circled back used nearly [-] cannons to ravage them fiercely. Everything about the Spanish fleet.

Du Ge has already rushed down, and the Spanish fleet must not be wiped out.

His [-] warships set sail quickly, circled the island in half an hour, and appeared on the edge of the battlefield.

At this time, the thirty ships of the British fleet have been entangled by twelve clipper ships, and they are struggling to beat these little guys like flies in the south twelve nautical miles away from the battlefield.

The Spanish fleet was divided into three pieces, and one piece was entangled by the warship fleet led by Zhang Liwei. These were armed merchant ships and some small warships in the Spanish fleet.

The other piece was entangled by the battleship unit commanded by Perrin and the [-]-ton warship unit. These were nearly fifty warships from the Spanish fleet. They were in the center of the battlefield near the west, and on the other side were fighting with the Fourth Fleet led by Xie Lan. The fleet of the eldest prince and Zheng Zhi.

The other part is close to the island, but has moved to the sea twelve nautical miles south of the island.

Here Kodak led 25 Huaxia warships to besiege forty warships and warships.

The Spanish fleet has lost nearly a hundred warships and warships.

A few were sunk by Perrin's fleet, and most were sunk by the Huaxia fleet.

So far, the Huaxia fleet is only slightly injured, and the others are somewhat innocuous. They fired at 500 meters away, but the enemy can only keep approaching them, but at a high speed of ten knots, the enemy can only be beaten. But he couldn't fight back.

Many ships have lowered their sails, hoisted their white flags and surrendered.