Lord of Ming Dynasty

Now Zheng Jing doesn't have many uncles who fought for the Zheng family, one or two are still at home, have no ability, can only be a mascot, tell people that Zheng Jing will not kill all the heroes of Zheng Chenggong's generation .

There are not many people who can fight under him, and all of this is based on the word loyalty.

The seemingly powerful and populous Zheng family is at its weakest moment, and the key is that they have no money.

Australia is on the edge of all civilized societies, and it is nearly [-] nautical miles away from the nearest Indonesia, and [-] nautical miles away from the south coast.

If it weren't for Zhang Qiang's guidance, who would have known that there was an island as big as one and a half times Daming in the depths of the ocean, so many people actually didn't know they were here.

So there are no traders, but Nanyang people know it, but it is so far away, and there are not many special products. Someone has to catch the rich fur, and someone has to mine the iron ore. Come here to get a few furs and a few ships of iron ore. Obviously not making money, it is not as good as the spices that the Spaniards have been operating. Indonesian, Indian spices, tea, coffee, cloth, etc. are what businessmen need and can make money.

He can only go out to buy, go out to trade.

Going out to buy and trade less can’t satisfy here. If the amount is too much, there are not so many ships, so we can only implement the national purchase and sale policy. Therefore, these people in Australia are actually very poor, and their commerce is underdeveloped. They only have animal husbandry and Agriculture is okay, but agriculture can barely feed such a large population.

Now if he wants to continue to consolidate this Australia, he has to invest more money and sell the iron ore, but the problem is that there is no place that needs so much iron ore except the Huaxia Kingdom, and there is no place that needs so much bird droppings , he feels lonely, yeah, don't you feel lonely without coming to this place?

Animals without natural enemies will become loveless after a long time.

Now apart from the Dutch, they have no friends in Australia. Zheng Zhi is quite conscientious and has not had much trouble with them, but he is also on guard against them and can do business, but once he makes a move, Zheng Zhi immediately turns his face.

When Zheng Jing was worried, his subordinates came to report and found that the fleet of the Hong family in New Zealand was approaching Australia.

Zheng Jing paused in his heart, he didn't like people to make trouble with him, fight with him, the current ships in the fleet are relatively backward, nearly 500 ships are merchant ships, and nearly 900 ships are backward old ships, every time he sent to harass Hong Hongxiu Fleets, which can only be called fleets, were weak in combat effectiveness, so they were all beaten back. There were few brilliant victories, and there were not as many gains as losses.

Now Australia can manufacture its own warships, but the speed of the warships is not fast, the combat power is not strong, and the artillery is outdated. They are all old guns from the Qing Dynasty. The Dutch can fight three such warships with a [-]-ton armed merchant ship. Visible backwardness.

He also wanted to buy the warships of the Huaxia Army, but now that he has turned against the Huaxia Kingdom and is getting closer to the Taixi people, it is impossible to obtain the warships and warships of the Huaxia Kingdom.

Even so, he sent warships and warships to intercept.

One hundred sixty-ton warships, fifty three-hundred-ton warships, thirty six-hundred-ton warships, and ten warships.

He didn't know if he could stop the Hong family's fleet. If not, what should he do?

Fight the quantity?That's the only way to do it.

He doesn't have much money if he wants to buy ships.

No one sold him a good warship, but he bought it from the Taixi people. He knows what kind of face those people have, and there are no bones left that can eat you.

Just when he was uneasy, the fleet he sent on the sea passed through the Strait of Papua New Guinea and headed for further seas.

They had just passed, behind an island, Hong Hongxiu let the fleet set sail, and approached Papua New Guinea.

Fifty nautical miles away, it was already dark, and the boat leading in front began to lower, and the boat led them through the reef that had been explored clearly, entered the port, and approached the harbor.

Among the [-] armed merchant ships anchored in the harbor, ten warships had spotted them and set sail immediately, but before they were ready, the warships in Hong Hongxiu's fleet lined up and bombarded the people at the bottom of the harbor. The wharf, the mooring area, and the warships of armed merchant ships were ignited. For a while, the harbor was confused with gunpowder and gunfire.

Chapter 9 Fifteen

"Quick, quick, quick." Standing on his flagship, Hong Hongxiu looked at the merchant ships that broke through the barrier and rushed to the shore. Under the cover of the armed merchant ships, they unloaded groups of soldiers and horses. , The speed is actually not fast enough. Up to now, [-] of the [-] merchant ships have been unloaded, and about [-] soldiers have landed on the shore. There are no cannons, only musketeers.

They were attacked by the Musketeers of the Zheng family guarding the port, and suffered heavy losses. The merchant ships here were also attacked by enemy armed merchant ships, and [-] ships were lost. About [-] soldiers and horses sank to the bottom of the sea, or floated in the harbor In the inner sea, they desperately called for help, or struggled to escape, but were run over by enemy ships, sank tragically, or floated on the sponge and became corpses.

Rumbling, the enemy's arrangement began to bombard their fleet warships in the harbor. One by one, the warships lost to shore artillery fire and were forced to wander around, but they didn't want the harbor to be small and unable to escape. Many warships encountered it by themselves. Together, the damage was severe.

"Let the heavy artillery on the battleship support the battleship in front, use the heavy artillery to bombard the enemy's shore artillery, get closer, don't be afraid of being hit by the enemy, if you don't suppress the enemy's heavy artillery, we will all die, the enemy will go out to find our fleet soon We will return, if we can’t end the battle in the first half of the night, we will be blocked in the port.”

Hong Hongxiu shouted anxiously.

Time passed quickly, two hours, the enemy was weak after all, and was attacked by surprise, and many sailors were unable to board the ship from the shore to defend against the enemy, so after Hong Hongxiu wiped out the moving warships and warships, there was no After encountering a lot of resistance, after investing 5000 troops and paying 8000 casualties, they finally captured the pier and controlled the shore artillery. Many warships and warships of the Zheng family surrendered sensibly.

According to statistics afterwards, more than 70 merchant ships lost troops and supplies, 25 armed merchant ships were sunk by battle, [-] were seriously injured, [-] warships were sunk by battle, [-] were seriously injured, [-] warship was sunk by battle, and [-] were seriously injured.

After ordering all seriously injured ships to repair themselves at the port, [-] armed merchant ships, [-] warships, and [-] warships were left behind. All other merchant ships were left behind when they were injured, and the [-] uninjured ships were all transported diagonally. supplies and troops, and then Hong Hongxiu took them back to the voyage immediately.

Leave here, or be blocked by the enemy at the port, they will soon be wiped out just like the Zheng family fleet just now.

He took away all the captured Zheng family's fleet, about fifty armed merchant ships, seventy hundred-ton warships, which were built by the Zheng family themselves, and thirty six-hundred-ton warships, three thousand-ton warships Tons of warships, this is the old warships they bought from the Huaxia Kingdom, and now there are not many warships in Australia, less than fifty, but there were a full two hundred in the past, and the total number of all ships is two thousand, and now all the ships add up Less than a thousand ships.

For Hong Hongxiu, if the sneak attack is successful, at least [-] enemy merchant ships, [-] armed merchant ships, [-] warships of [-] tons, [-] ships of less than [-] tons, and [-] ships of more than [-] tons are wiped out. Said that it can only be a good start, and then he will wander in the open sea, looking for fighters, and only when the defenders on the island of the Zheng family have nothing to do, can they accept the island perfectly.

Now it's just sending [-] soldiers and horses to the top, and setting up nearly a hundred warships. When the enemy's other fleet comes to fight, he will sneak attack from behind. fundamental.

Lead all 180 merchant ships that can be launched, 23 armed merchant ships, and [-] warships, including [-] captured enemy [-]-ton warships, [-] [-]-ton warships, and [-] warships, and retreat in a hurry.

He led the fleet to retreat to the periphery for twenty or thirty miles, and headed north under the cover of night. The Zheng family searched for their hundred warships and came. A single ship caught up with them and called them back. .

As a result, the enemy has already fled and the port is occupied.

They could not pursue the enemy in the dark and could only wait outside the port.

The next day, Zheng Jing's fleet launched an attack on the port of Papua New Guinea.

The fierce artillery attack made the soldiers of the Hong family in the port cower in the rear trenches and did not dare to attack, but the wounded warships and sailors on the armed merchant ships in the port fought back fiercely. Although they could not maneuver, they still had Artillery can fight back, besides, there are shore artillery that can stop the enemy.

The fleet sent [-]-ton warships to attack the port and fought fiercely with these wounded warships. Fifty hundred-ton warships rushed in, using their maneuverability to maneuver flexibly in the wide harbor, using the Qing troops on board The artillery attacked the warships of the Hong family.

Although they were being beaten, those Hong family sailors were still unafraid and fought back bravely, sinking nearly [-] enemy warships of [-] tons within two hours. After all, they still have wounded warships here. Battleships can afford it.

What's more, with the help of shore cannons, there are fifteen shore cannons that have just been built. Yesterday's Hong family bombarded the fort, destroying three shore cannons, seriously injuring three, and the others were shot down by infantry, so they can be used There are also nine cannons, nine cannons can blockade the port for a radius of nearly ten miles, six cannons on one side, and three cannons on the other side. The crossfire makes the remaining [-] Zheng's warships have nowhere to hide.

In less than a quarter of an hour, most of the twenty warships were sunk, and only three retreated from the harbor in embarrassment.

The first attack was fruitless, and the Zheng family's fleet commander sent fifty armed merchant ships, fifty hundred-ton warships, and ten warships into the harbor, leaving only [-]-ton warships outside. One, ten warships of [-] tons, it is equivalent to sending out all the mobile and powerful ones.

At the same time, fifty merchant ships were sent to carry soldiers to land in places that were difficult to land, to seize the fort.

In the distance, a solitary fishing boat was observing the battle in a hidden place, and at the same time observed the Zheng family's fleet on the sea.

When he saw that there were not many enemy warships left, he quickly lit the beacon on the fishing boat.

One after another, the beacon fires reached the turning point of the island thirty miles away, and then Hong Hongxiu led the fleet to attack.

Destroying the fleet on the enemy island is part of the plan, and destroying this reinforcement fleet is out of the plan, but he doesn't care about destroying more enemies and weakening the Zheng family, so that the Papua New Guinea island he occupies will be safer in the future. His New Zealand is still far away, nearly [-] nautical miles away, and it will take him ten days to arrive at his fastest speed, and half a month for the fleet.

It is what he wants to hurt the Zheng family and let them be wary of this place.

In the two battles this time, nearly [-] enemy ships could be wiped out, whether they were merchant ships or warships, the Zheng family could suffer heavy losses, and they dared not invest more in fighting him.

Thirty nautical miles, it took him nearly four hours to arrive, it was almost dark, the enemy still had not occupied the port, and was still attacking those wounded warships and warships, the shore artillery was still intact, the enemy had nothing to do, after all, the enemy It's just that [-] troops have been invested, but he has [-] troops on the shore.

25 battleships lined up within ten nautical miles of the enemy. The enemy panicked and quickly turned to prepare to escape, but there were nearly a hundred warships approaching, also ten nautical miles away, and nearly fifty ships on the other side. An armed ship is approaching, and the only way out for the enemy is to rush into the port, and then take the port desperately, and use the port to defend it.

There was nothing muddled about this battle, or anything to tell. After only half an hour of fighting, the enemy surrendered after sinking an old thousand-ton warship of the enemy.

Chapter 9 Zheng Jing's Choice