Lord of Ming Dynasty

An enemy warship wanted to escape, but the rudder was damaged just as it turned around, and it stopped in place. The remaining two ships turned around and started to flee, making a half circle towards the other two ships. The warship rushed away, but how could Molin let them go?

The Xianju turret turned and hit an enemy ship's command platform with one shot, and then the enemy ship raised a white flag two minutes later, Mo Lin said to the signal soldiers: "Let the Zhangzhou ship capture it, and the others continue to pursue it. The Guangzhou went to capture another ship, and the other warships continued to pursue."

The remaining four warships continued to chase the enemy's flagship, "Boom," the enemy's flagship was blown off its mast, and its speed slowed down a lot, but it soon began to speed up again, and hit the fast-moving ship with the artillery at the stern. The Hangzhou, the Hangzhou stopped suddenly, and then there were several violent explosions on the ship, and it stopped there. No one came out for a long time, and Mo Lin was very upset and disappointed. It's not light, at least it was a gunpowder explosion, and the people on board must have suffered heavy losses.

But he didn't care, the remaining three ships continued to attack. After a volley, the enemy's flagship stopped moving. The Guilin circled the enemy's flagship. After receiving Mo Lin's instructions, it leaned on it. Mo Lin commanded Xianju The No. [-] and No. Taizhou continued to move towards the two warships that the enemy rushed to join.

The two sides have drawn closer for three nautical miles, and saw that their own fleet was completely wiped out, and the enemy began to flee.

Morin commanded the two warships to chase after them. Behind, the Hangzhou rushed over, and the combat team rushed to the enemy's deck. Then the enemy let out a loud cry, and many people emerged from the cabin, and the two sides fought together.

The victory here is almost settled, while the main fleet led by Sa Lei, the sailing warship, is fighting hard.

Five or six enemy sailboats over there are besieging the damaged Jinling and the Yangzhou protecting the Jinling.

In Xinxianju Town, on the high ground, a group of officials and officers of the Xinqin Empire are looking at the battlefield. Only the faint sound of artillery and explosions can be heard here, and faint smoke can be seen. They only saw the edge of the battlefield. After a while, they saw Sa Lei leading eight sailing warships and a dozen enemy sailing warships to fight the enemy not far away on the sea of ​​more than 20 nautical miles.

After watching the battle for several hours, all hearts were filled with trepidation. This was the first time they used the navy to fight against the enemy. In Xinxianju Town, where there are so many forts and four 128mm coastal defense guns, the artillery on the enemy's sailing warships can't take much advantage anyway.

Now sending a fleet to fight the enemy fleet, everyone knows that the only way to do it is to sneak attack. If the sneak attack fails, it will be a fierce battle, and it is very likely that they will lose the fierce battle, because the enemy has many more warships than them. , although there are many warships here, they are all converted from merchant ships. They were originally warships, but they are all old things from the Chinese Empire. It is very weak. After changing from a merchant ship to a warship again, its actual combat capability may only be four or five tenths of what it was before. Such a warship fights against the enemy's warships, which are originally warships, or the enemy's navy's warships. In combat, there is no advantage.

This is a desperate gamble. Depending on the situation, if the sneak attack fails, the enemy has long been waiting for them. This is a battle between the fleets.

"Send three faster thousand-ton steam warships out to see the situation. If it is critical, let them join the battle. If they can't help, rescue our people." Li Ya said to a former The officer who was also an officer of the Chinese Empire Navy gave the order.

In the distance, a sailing warship wobbled towards this side with thick smoke, followed by three enemy thousand-ton sailing warships chasing after them.

I was afraid that the next shell would sink the sailing warship flying the flag of the New Qin Empire.

Worries will always turn into reality. In less than an hour, the warship appeared less than ten nautical miles away from their field of vision. In such good weather, standing at a high place, even with the naked eye, the situation of both sides can be seen clearly. .

"Hurry up, hurry up," everyone was trembling, with their hearts in their throats, but a shell fired from the front of the [-]-ton sailing warship that was the fastest pursued by the enemy, exploded. It hit the mast of the fleeing New Qin Empire's thousand-ton sailing warship, which was still the main mast. Swept into the sea, the ship ignited a raging fire, and many sailors took the initiative to jump off the ship and leave the ship that was about to be destroyed.

The first thousand and 220 chapters are really a tragic battle

"Fire, let our shore artillery fire." Someone shouted.

Li Ya scratched his head. The shore artillery was deployed in Xinxianju Town. The east side of this side is full of cliffs and cliffs, hills and highlands. There is not even a port. In some places, the beach is also under the cliff, and the beach is very short. The short length is 50 meters, and outside the beach is a sea lined with hidden reefs. There are only guard towers on the cliffs here, and there are no artillery arrangements at all.

This is also for safety reasons. Once the enemy breaks through here, the enemy is likely to use the artillery on the cliff to attack their own camps, farms, quarries, and various mines in the hills and valleys of this area. After all, special Assault is not the patent of modern people. Ancient people often did this, bypassing the enemy's heavily guarded defense zone, and using elite troops to form breakthroughs in rugged terrain.

The sailing warship was destroyed by the artillery salvo from the enemy's sailing warship at the last moment. After the destruction, the enemy's sailing warship sailed away in front of everyone's eyes, leaving behind the crew who fell into the water like dumplings.

An hour later, three [-]-ton steam engine ships from the New Qin Empire arrived, and beside them were three [-]-ton sailing warships covering them. They rescued those who fell into the water, and the six warships headed for the battlefield. .

At this time, the battlefield has gradually shifted from the east to the west of the two islands, only [-] to [-] nautical miles away, and everyone can see a dozen enemy sailing warships chasing Sa Lei's six sailing ships. Warships fight.

The two sides outflanked, broke through, bombarded, circled, and circled again on the sea surface of more than ten nautical miles. For a while, they circled to more than ten nautical miles here, and for a while they circled far away, only to see the masts of both sides sticking out of the sea level.

But gunpowder smoke obscured the sky, and the sound of cannons was still heard.

Sa Lei took the remaining six ships and turned them around, watching the battle situation there from time to time. He attracted most of the enemies, hoping that Molin could use the performance and artillery of the steam ship to severely damage the enemy's steam ship fleet. , and then come and help him.

But for a while there, it seemed that the situation could not be opened. Instead, I saw that the Jinling was hit by the enemy as soon as it went up, and lost its power. The Jinling opened fire and attacked, and the Jinling was crumbling under the enemy's artillery fire, and the black smoke covered the entire hull, but the good news was that the Jinling was still fighting back. Although the accuracy was not very good, the enemy did not dare to approach them.

After a while, he saw that the Yangzhou stayed behind to help the Jinling, and the heavy artillery fire destroyed all the superstructure of an enemy sailing warship. Continue to besiege the Jinling. With the arrival of the Yangzhou, the battle here seems to be without danger.

While commanding his eight sailing warships to evade the siege of the enemy's sailing warships, Sa Lei observed this side and saw that the battle was still raging here. He felt that the enemy should be taken away, so he took the initiative to lead the entire fleet towards Move in the direction of the adjacent peninsula.

In the process of turning, a sailing warship was hit suddenly, lost the entire stern, and the hull tilted. Sare had to abandon them and signaled them to fight on their own and break out.

The enemy's sailing warship was like a fish smelling blood, and immediately rushed up to the three sailing warships, firing while signaling the surrender of the warship, and the warship had to surrender in less than half an hour.

Sa Lei looked at the white flag fluttering on the ship very depressed, and then left the sea area with the remaining seven ships. An hour later, he reached the sea on the west side of the island, which is still [-] nautical miles away from the other side. Far.

Just when the enemy thought he was going to escape, Sa Lei suddenly rushed back with seven warships, passed through the gap between the seventeen enemy warships, the gap between the two-mile-wide fleet, and fired salvos from both sides. , two rounds of volley, damaged two enemy sailing warships, sunk an enemy warship, and then turned around with the fleet that also injured three ships, fled fifteen nautical miles away, circled a big circle, Continuing to circle to the east side of the island, the shore artillery on the enemy's island opened fire, nearly damaging his flagship.

They also launched a fierce bombardment on the island, which made the French on the shore into a panic. Then, before the enemy fleet surrounded them, they floated more than ten nautical miles with the wind, and circled again to a distance of [-] nautical miles. The enemy pursued Reluctant to give up, they even separated some warships to intercept them.

A wounded battleship was blocked, and immediately fought back, while choosing to escape in another direction, which was the direction of the adjacent peninsula.

The enemy's five sailing warships were in hot pursuit.

After chasing for five or six nautical miles, two ships looked far away, and then came back to follow the brigade to hunt down Sarai's main fleet. The remaining three chased the sailing warship, firing from time to time, and the sailing warship He also shot with the tail cannon, hitting the enemy hard, and the enemy was scarred, but it still didn't cause much damage. At least he could continue to chase and attack it.

Sa Lei circled around and followed in parallel. Soon after two hours, he detoured around the west side of the island and arrived at a distance of [-] nautical miles from the adjacent peninsula. A battleship cut inward, while attacking, while moving closer to that battleship, trying to cover the battleship back to the adjacent peninsula.

But it is a pity that when the fleet reached more than 20 nautical miles from the neighboring peninsula and could already see the cliffs of the neighboring peninsula, the sailing warship that reached seven or eight nautical miles from the neighboring peninsula was overtaken by three enemy sailing warships, and the last shot was destroyed. When it was destroyed, Sa Lei and the others had already entered the voyage of twenty nautical miles, and the sailing warship entered the voyage of five or six nautical miles to the island.

Seeing that the sailing warship was destroyed, Sa Lei was determined to die. He paid the price of two warships in exchange for the sinking of an enemy warship. Within a few minutes, his confidence was a little shaken. Could it be that this battle was hopeless, or that he shouldn't attack.

Perhaps more warships should be brought over, the remaining six warships also faltered, trying to escape with all their strength, Sa Lei commanded the fleet to deal with the enemy.

The enemy's three warships did not return to the team, and three more were preparing to return to the team in the distance, and one sank, leaving ten warships to deal with them.

After making another circle, they returned to the waters adjacent to the peninsula, and this time they approached [-] nautical miles. Sara finally saw hope. The two enemy warships had their masts damaged in the previous battle with them, so they moved forward. I can't keep up, and the speed is obviously much slower. Even if the sailors on the enemy ship try their best to hang up some spare sails, because of the damage to the mast, there are still many sails that haven't had time to be replaced, so the speed is much faster than other warships. .

Sa Lei ordered the signal of the Art of War to let the other battleships follow the flagship, and then turned around. A large escape, the enemy was almost three miles away. Although he did not escape the enemy's artillery fire range, it also prevented the enemy's fleet from causing damage to them. Then Sa Lei led the fleet to turn back, until it was [-] nautical miles away from the adjacent peninsula, and then turned again, facing the two lagging warships that the enemy was chasing up.

At this moment, they had reached the tail of the enemy team, and the enemy's rear team changed to the front team, turning around to meet the enemy, so Sare's six warships lined up in a line and fired in salvo, hitting one of the enemy's wounded warships paralyzed in two rounds, Three rounds of volleys wounded another chasing warship, and then used the front turret guns to aim at the one that was trying to escape and fired violently. The enemy's masts that were hit by two rounds fell and lost power, and the enemy's deck that was hit by three rounds No one dared to come up again. In the fourth round, after hastily firing, the fleet turned to face the remaining seven warships of the overtaking enemy.

The first thousand 220 chapters are really a tragic sea battle

When the fleet turned around, the three warships of the team fired another round of solid bullets at the two enemy warships that had lost their combat effectiveness. One tilted and flooded on the spot, the stern of one was blown into water, and the other was about to flee, but The ammunition depot was hit by a forward turret at the rear of the team, and immediately exploded into pieces.

At this time, Sarai's flagship had been suppressed by the enemy's leading ship for two rounds, and the sails above his head were battered with holes. It wobbled and didn't collapse completely.

The crew climbed up the rope net one after another, fixed the mast to fix the mast, and dismantled the sail to dismantle the sail. Many sailors in the middle were hit by enemy shotguns and fell from a high place. The one on the deck was so weak and blurred from the fall that he could only breathe out but not breathe in.

The cover battleship following the flagship, the front fort was attacked by three rounds of enemy artillery, and the gunners were killed in battle, but soon the gunners in the cabin, and even the handymen ran out and jumped on them, firing, and the enemy's flagship was hit with big holes. Had to withdraw from the battle line, swaying and preparing to escape.

The enemy warships following behind and the warships on this side bombarded each other. This side suffered heavy losses, and the other side may not be so good.

One ship sank here, one ship sank there, and two ships were severely injured, because even sailing warships, the New Qin Empire were equipped with armor plates, so when confronting artillery, especially solid bullets from the enemy, The defensive capabilities here are stronger. There are copper armor plates in some places over there, but most of them are not, especially on the deck.

This is a exchange, six ships fought with seven enemy ships, the enemy sank one ship, seriously injured two ships, this side sank one ship, slightly injured all, the enemy still has five ships, and three more ships are coming, There are still three ships coming in the distance, and the two enemy ships that were seriously injured on the other side are still floating in the sea, and two ships are floating in the sea a little further away, but they can still move, slowly heading towards the enemy's island Move, presumably want to escape.

Two of the remaining five enemy ships are seriously injured, so the threat is not great. That is to say, there are still three enemy ships left. As long as we can destroy the enemy's three ships before the enemy's six ships arrive, the flagship support here just now The ship withdrew from the battle with little damage and was still able to strike the enemy. It was slow and was about to flee the battlefield. Seeing this situation, it stopped and turned back to look for the enemy's nearest two severely injured and immobile ships for a decisive battle.

One ship sank, one was withdrawn, two were seriously injured and could move, and there are three ships here.

Sa Lei chased after them with three sail warships that turned around and fled towards the enemy.

The artillery in front of the turret kept firing, and finally there was a bang. The enemy's middle superstructure collapsed, and the middle deck artillery and the artillery in the bottom warehouse were almost completely destroyed.

He also lost a lot of power, and his movements slowed down. Seeing the three menacing sailing warships of the New Qin Empire approaching, they immediately raised a white flag.

Abandoning the battleship with the white flag, the three battleships that were still able to fight chased after them all the way, three miles away, five miles away, the enemy fled quickly.