Lord of Ming Dynasty

Just when an armed merchant ship leaned up to help capture the ship, the opponent suddenly fired grape bullets, chain bombs, and solid bullets together. A total of ten artillery pieces fired. The approaching armed merchant ship was caught off guard and was hit. The main mast was broken, and the deck was in a mess. At a distance of 30 meters, grape bullets swept across the Dutch deck, turning all the Dutch soldiers who were about to board the ship into a pile of pieces of meat. Only a few lucky ones escaped, but the armed merchant ship The hull was hit below the waterline, and soon the water entered and tilted out of control. The lifeboat was lowered, and the few Dutch crews abandoned the ship in embarrassment. Then the two ships were sieved by other armed merchant ships and sank together. .

It’s slow to describe, but it’s actually just five or six minutes. Within five or six minutes, the other four warships had sunk two Dutch armed merchant ships, and joined forces with ten other armed merchant ships to cover them. Withdrew to the port, but the armed merchant ships of the Dutch were chasing after them. A dozen warships rushed up from behind, and finally blocked the port. Come on, just like this bayonet sees the red, see who has the fierce firepower.

Of course, the ships of the Nanyang Kingdom that were hastily put together in the end were of course no match for the armed merchant ships and warships of the Dutch, who had the upper hand. Fourteen warships and armed merchant ships were all sunk at the entrance of the port, within three to four nautical miles of the sea. On the sea, the Dutch warships and warships that tried to enter in the last war were sunk, as well as armed merchant ships, merchant ships, and merchant ships and warships of the Nanyang Kingdom who tried to escape. Although they have been cleaned up, they are only a few Most of the narrow passages are now blocked.

The Dutch and the Spaniards never imagined that the ultimate mission of these Nanyang Kingdom ships hitting pebbles and rocks was to block the waterway.

Although this group of death squads had nothing to do, they used the calculated ships to hit the rocks with pebbles and touch the enemy's vanguard fleet of armed merchant ships, causing an armed merchant ship to sink three nautical miles away from the port. Near the beach five nautical miles in the channel, other ships sank at the designated positions, but they still released about two [-]-meter-wide channel openings to the Dutch.

But these two places need to be found by the Dutch, because they are crooked. If you sail in a straight line, then sorry, you must install the mast of the sunken ship on the bottom of the sea.

At this time, the waterways were not cleaned up very much. Without the equipment to make them deeper, they were all natural deep-water waterways. As long as these waterways were found and repaired briefly, they could be used as piers and harbors.

However, fifteen ships are still too few to block the waterway. Some armed merchant ships and warships with shallow drafts can still pass through, which means that about 80.00% of armed merchant ships and warships can pass through, but warships cannot. A warship must not be at least three or four meters deep in order to pass through.

The Dutch's armed merchant ships and warships did not know that they sank these ships, and immediately rushed into the port. About [-] armed merchant ships and warships rushed over in the port, and they continued to fight.

And the 28-ton warship rushing from behind was a tragedy. The 180 armed merchant ships in front fought for 250 minutes and sank [-] enemy ships. They all died together, and they defeated the enemy after sending fifteen warships of [-] to [-] tons to assist in the battle. After the enemy was completely wiped out, they sent another thirty warships and two warships towards the Nanyang Kingdom in the port. Warships and armed merchant ships rushed past.

As a result, seventeen warships were tragically stranded in the port channel. They were either overturned, damaged, or plunged into the quagmire without any turmoil. Other armed merchant ships rushed in. In the port, with so many ships, no one noticed this situation, because inside the port, the sea was three miles wide and three and a half miles deep, and there was a lot of artillery fire. About 45 armed merchant ships and warships of the Dutch were on the same level as the Nanyang Kingdom. Thirty-one warships and armed merchant ships fought together.

The two Dutch warships shook violently, and then one of the warships tilted and capsized, and was upside down on the sea four nautical miles from the coast. There were about 200 people on board, and only a dozen people were lucky enough to swim up from the water. They were all brought to the bottom of the sea by the ship and held at the bottom of the ship. The overturning of this warship completely blocked this channel.

Before this one could be understood, the other one felt the shock of the ship and then ran aground. Under the conditions of wind and inertia, the ship slammed across the sea, and then it hit something. There was a loud click from the tail, the tail rudder was smashed, the tail was hit with a hole, and it hit the rocks. The sea water rushed into the cabin, and the people at the bottom of the cabin immediately fled. The battleship shook violently, and then tilted. , fell asleep on the waterway, and this waterway that was not blocked by the death squads of the Nanyang Kingdom was also blocked.

A 340-ton warship was following behind. When the wind changed, it rushed over and gave the warship a final blow. The warship slid completely to the bottom of the sea. , and had a close contact with the main mast of a warship of a death squad that sank here. On the waterway, the scope of the blocked waterway was expanded, and even warships could not get out here.

The surrounding water is shallower.

Already approaching the port, hundreds of Spanish warships and warships, as well as hundreds of Dutch warships, thirty warships watched this scene and stopped one after another. They were only about two nautical miles away from the port passage, and they all stood up and prepared Support land and port battles with naval guns.

Gerald Pique's heart skipped a beat, and he exchanged glances with the Governor of the Netherlands, Ike, "Could it be that the enemy has an ambush on the bottom of the sea?"

The commander of the Dutch fleet beside Ike said: "The enemy blocked the channel."

Chapter 949 Raid the Anchorage

Gerald Peake and Ike were very helpless. After an hour of naval battle, they finally wiped out Zheng Zhi's fleet in the port, but they were caught in nearly 45 armed merchant ships and warships, perhaps some armed ships with small tonnage. Merchant ships can come out, but warships must not be able to. Their huge fleet can only berth at overseas anchorages. They thought it was an easy battle, but lost fifteen warships, thirty armed merchant ships, and Nearly [-] ships were injured, [-] warships were trapped in the harbor, [-] large-tonnage armed merchant ships could not come out, and two warships were accidentally hit and sunk.

There is no one in the port, and there is no enemy resistance. It seems that the enemy has withdrawn their soldiers, horses and people to the interior of the island.

But that was nearly 30 people and soldiers, and the Dutch and Spaniards wanted to get this market.

The Dutch sent out survey ships to measure the waterway, search for waterways that could come out and go in, and sent sailors to investigate the situation on the bottom of the sea. After such a toss, it was getting dark, and the search personnel on the shore had already searched within three miles of the residential area and the port. , no enemy was found.

I can't move after dark, so I can only wait until dawn to work again.

Nearly more than 500 warships and warships, as well as more than 100 merchant ships for supply, were moored at the anchorage ten miles away from the port.

In the middle of the night, the governor of the Netherlands, Ike, was awakened by the sound of the guns. When he put on his clothes and came out, he saw the flames rising in the sky five or six nautical miles away, and the guns of the armed merchant ships and warships outside were rumbling. He said to the adjutant: "What's going on?" , go ask."

After a while, the commander of the fleet came, "Your Excellency, the Nanyang people sent a fireboat to drop from the top of the current, and they have broken through the interception of our peripheral patrol ships, and they are rushing at a speed of five or six knots. The few ships on the periphery 10 minutes ago Armed merchant ships and more than a dozen warship anchorages were raided, seven armed merchant ships were burned, one warship was burned, and a large number of burning ships floated down the river. The sea wind became stronger and stronger. It is estimated that the burning ships It's going to be twelve knots fast, and we've got to get the fleet moving, or the fireboats will come in and burn us all."

Ten nautical miles away, Zheng Zhi was looking into the distance on the flagship of the Nanyang. This time he used [-] fireships to approach the enemy quietly for five or six nautical miles before being exposed. Speed ​​up, there are [-] death squads on board, including [-] Japanese servants and Southeast Asian native servants, and his [-] confidantes who control these people.

This time, even if most of the enemy's ships could not be burned, the enemy would suffer heavy losses. In the early hours of the morning, he would lead the fleet to raid the panicked enemy.

It is already three o'clock in the morning, and at six o'clock in the morning, when the morning light first breaks, his fleet will fight the enemy to the death.

The sound of the cannon came, it was the sound of the enemy firing in panic, the sound of the cannon on the other side was the thirty armed merchant ships mixed in the middle of the arsonist ship. a piece of space.

It's been a day, and I don't know if Hong Tianpao's support fleet has come out, and he doesn't know if he can hold the Dutch and the Spaniards for a few days. From receiving the information to dispatching, it should take two to three days. .

Facing such a huge fleet of the Dutch and the Spaniards, he didn't know what to do. If Hong Tianpao's fleet didn't come, then he could only run for his life.

But as soon as he ran for his life, Zheng Keshuang's power, which he took so much effort to take over, was in vain again.

The 15 people and 15 soldiers on the island have made it easier for the Dutch and Spaniards. Last time they almost killed all the people on Cebu Island. What about this time?

"The burning ship from the south has rushed in." A servant watchman shouted towards the bottom.

Zheng Zhi raised his binoculars. Although he couldn't see anything clearly in the dark night, he could clearly see the raging fire that set fire to the ship as it approached the target, as well as the artillery fire intercepted by the enemy.

Thirty fireboats from the south that were not going smoothly rushed in. They were not covered by armed merchant ships, and they rushed in under the enemy's artillery fire.

what is south

Zheng Zhi hurriedly searched, the fleet was still advancing slowly, and was already close to the battlefield five miles away, so we could see it a little more clearly. Depending on the situation, the south was the anchorage of the enemy's merchant ships and armed merchant ships, at least the anchorage of armed merchant ships. The firepower was not too dense, and most of the attention was attracted by the fireboat brigade raiding from the north, so the people on this side panicked. The fireboats were already close to the distance of 500 meters, 300 meters, 200 meters, five consecutive fireboats After being hit and exploded into fragments, the remaining 25 burning ships rushed into the anchorage of nearly a hundred enemy ships without missing a beat.

One caught fire, two caught fire, fifteen ships in a row caught fire, and then five ships in a row were sunk by the enemy, and they collided with each other again, losing three burning ships, and the remaining burning ships rushed over, a pile of more than a dozen The two connected boats should have crashed into each other while fleeing for their lives.

After being hit by three burning ships from three directions, more than a dozen ships caught fire, and the fire was very fast. In less than ten minutes, more than a dozen ships became a huge torch, illuminating the entire anchorage and making Most of the incendiary ships were exposed to enemy fire.

In the next two hours, 150 burning ships were sunk and shattered continuously. Nearly [-] ships, and only [-] ships could make meritorious service in the end, but it caused chaos in the enemy's anchorage. , all collided.

Seeing that the sky was getting brighter, the enemy must have spotted them too. Zheng Zhi ordered the lights to be signaled, the armed merchant ships charged, the warships charged, and the battleships lined up and rushed towards the enemy's warships.

At 06:30, the sky was slightly bright. Gerald Pick and Ike suffered for two and a half hours, but they ushered in a more fierce attack from the enemy. Now they have been divided into several pieces. The battleship and some warships successfully broke away from the anchorage. Moving towards the shore, there are about [-] ships, all of which are elite battleships and battleships. The remaining piles are scattered in the east and west, scattered on the sea surface twenty nautical miles off the coast of Cebu Island. Each fights.

Just when they thought that the sky was bright and they could control the situation, countless shells burst out from the shore, flew five nautical miles, and smashed into the regrouped battleships and battleship formations.

"The enemy still has shore artillery firepower?" Gerald Pick and Ike lay on the side railing of the ship and raised their binoculars to look at the shore. There was loud gunshots on the shore, and countless soldiers of the Nanyang Kingdom rushed to the port, residential areas and cities. , Numerous large and small artillery fired at the warships and armed merchant ships in the port, and at the same time, dozens of shore artillery fires were fired from the beach where the Dutch landed and flew towards the regrouped fleet.

They absolutely did not expect that Zheng Zhi would hide the remaining dozen of shore artillery that they did not have time to blow up that day, and the shore artillery that Zheng Zhi dismantled from Gegong Island to support Zheng Keshuang in the hilly area. He was pushed onto the beach by nearly [-] civilians and [-] Southeast Asian servants.

The two sides came and went, and at noon, Zheng Zhi's fleet was completely wiped out, and Zheng Zhi ran away with only fifteen remaining warships.

And Gerald Pick and British Governor Ike watched their huge fleet of more than 600 ships shrink by more than half overnight.

Chapter 9 Fifty Facing Hedgehogs' Helplessness and New British Warships

Although Zheng Zhi's sneak attack fleet was wiped out, and the Nanyang Kingdom's port ships that were stubbornly resisting at the port were wiped out, the Spaniards chose to retreat to Wright when the port facilities were completely destroyed, and there were countless sunken ships inside. The Dutch put down their rowboats and made several attempts, but they stopped landing and retreated to Wright Island to rest.

Although Zheng Zhi did not destroy the enemy's fleet, he achieved his goal and repelled the enemy, so that the enemy no longer tried to land from this side, and he could concentrate on dealing with the British on the other side.

But Zheng Zhi didn't know that he first rushed to Manila Island with [-] gathered fleeing warships, but halfway, he changed his mind. After all, Manila Island now belongs to outsiders. It was given to the Chinese Empire, but it is still his own now, and the third batch of people, supplies, and [-] escort ships are still on the way. If he encounters the Spanish fleet halfway, then his last bit of strength will also be defeated. Now that the water is gone, he will have nowhere to live. He doesn't know that the enemy has not landed on Cebu Island, at least not from that direction.

So he turned to Koh Kong Island with the remnants of the defeated army, met his own fleet on the way, and ordered them to turn back to Koh Kong Island, and then he considered his future in Koh Kong Island.

In the other direction, Hong Tianpao, who received his distress letter, drove out of the port of Manila with [-] warships. He didn't know that when he was halfway out of the port, Zheng Zhi and the others had already left. Almost wiped out, Zheng Zhi did not send anyone to notify him to return.

When the morning light sprinkled thousands of golden lights on the sea, a semaphore suddenly came from the front, and Hong Tianpao was shocked when he saw the British fleet. He was actually intercepted by the British. Didn't Zheng Zhi say that the British were on Wright Island?

As the fleet advances, on the sea, two huge fleets are driving towards each other, twenty nautical miles away, and the British flag is looming from the distance of the telescope. When the sky is bright, it is fifteen nautical miles away, and Britain can already be seen without a telescope. The flying flags of the people, as well as the huge battleships of the British fleet, thirty silver-white hulls painted with red crosses, are particularly conspicuous.

Hong Tianpao put down the binoculars and asked the people around him: "What kind of ships are those silver-white ships with huge red crosses painted on them? Why haven't I seen them?"

A general on one side said: "Your Highness, those are the new British ships, similar to the iron-clad ships of the Chinese Empire. The huge battleships behind them are their western battleships mentioned by the Chinese Empire. The smallest is a third-tier battleship. , two to three decks, equipped with 60 to 80 cannons, and at least 28 cannons on one side, all of which are heavy artillery, with a range of about five nautical miles and a direct range of about 500 meters. Compared with our current battleships, the largest battleship The effective direct fire range of 420 meters is 80 meters more.