Chapter 911 Zheng's Army Victory
The Guangdong Navy used small boats to attack the Zheng family army formation. The small boats outside the Zheng family navy fired arrows and bird guns in a row. The Guangdong Navy on the opposite side also used arrows and bird guns to deal with the Zheng family boats. Overwhelming arrows woven into an airtight net, shuttled through each other in the air and pierced on the opposite boat. The sound of guns roared and white smoke rose. Many sailors on both sides were shot and rolled and fell into the water. The weapons level of both sides were similar, but the Zheng family army had many generals and the sailors were well trained. The Zheng family boat in front had a fire with the Guangdong army boat, and the Zheng family boat and the Clippers behind quickly surrounded them like sharks that smelled the smell of blood. With five times the firepower of more than the Guangdong army, they made the Guangdong army boat fly and the corpses spread everywhere.
The Zheng family's clutch spewed out flames, and the turtledove-legged guns and the Folang machine cannon shot out shots, and they swept away several small Guangdong sampans, sweeping away the Guangdong sailors on it.
Guangdong's firefighting ships rushed over, trying to attack the Zheng family's medium-sized warships. However, the Zheng family's medium-sized warships were all extremely fast galloping and fast sailing ships. The Guangdong's firefighting ships not only did not catch up with the Zheng family's medium-sized warships, but were surrounded by groups of small boats. With a rocket, the firefighting ships caught fire.
Some Zheng family's small boats directly hit Guangdong's fire attack ships. The Zheng family's soldiers holding steel knives and sharp axes jumped onto Guangdong's fire attack ships, chopping melons and cutting vegetables, and slashing Guangdong's sailors, and snatching the fire attack ships.
Four giant ships of the Zheng family army rushed out from the middle of the five-point plum blossom formation and directly crashed into the small boat of the Guangdong Navy. Zheng Zhilong's flagship hit a small sampan of the Guangdong Army, directly knocking the ship into two pieces; the other giant ship hit a small sampan, and the small boat directly crushed the water.
"Let the big ship bend up, shell the enemy ships, and seize the enemy ships as much as possible." Zheng Zhilong gave the order.
The Zheng family navy still focused on jumping gangs to fight. In naval battles, the first thing they considered was not to sink enemy warships, but to seize enemy ships.
The formation changed, the Zheng family's fire attack ships, clutches and large ships rushed out from the center of the Five Points Plum Blossom Formation and rushed straight towards the Guangdong Navy's central ship.
The Zheng family army specially used to jump on the sidelines to fight, and rushed up bravely to face the firepower of the Guangdong army's large ships. These fast ships are actually not too small, and it's okay to get a few shells before approaching the enemy ship. Whether it is the Zheng family army or the Guangdong Navy, their main warships are Chinese warships with very few guns. Generally, the artillery of a Dafu ship is made of: a red cannon on the bow of the ship, two general cannons at the stern, and two to three Flang machines on both sides. It is impossible to kill a medium-sized warship in one round of artillery like a Western warship.
The Western warships had a large number of gun doors opened on the side. When they sailed by the enemy ship on the side, a row of gunfires were bombarded, and the small warships that were trying to jump to the gang to fight were unable to get close to them.
The British privateers deal with merchant ships with much worse firepower than warships. Before jumping to the sidelines, they first use grape bullets to kill the gunners on the opponent's ship, and then let the privateers lean on, jump to the enemy ship, and then hijack the ship.
The Golden Deer privateer of the Pirate Drake has a displacement of about 150 tons, which is a three-masted clutch. The British privateer is much larger than the tonnage of Zheng Zhilong's jumping gang-to-board clutch, and its firepower is much more fierce. There are eighteen three-pound cannons on the Golden Deer, which is a very excellent privateer. If the Golden Deer comes to the Ming Dynasty, it will be a big ship.
Zheng Zhilong's small boats specially used to jump gang combat often have a displacement of less than 100 tons. There are only two cannons on the ship, no more than four cannons at most, and they are all Flang aircraft.
A Zheng family's jumping warship rushed towards a Guangdong army's Dafu ship. During the charge, the jumping warship was hit by two shells, and more than ten people were killed or injured on the ship. However, the jumping warship still rushed towards the Guangdong army's Dafu ship. While charging, the thousand-jin Folang aircraft at the bow of the ship kept spewing out flames and fired fiercely at the Dafu ship opposite, suppressing the sailors on the opponent's ship.
Looking at the Zheng family warship rushing up quickly, the soldiers on the Guangdong army's Dafu ship desperately shot at the Zheng family warship rushing towards the Zheng family warship with various weapons such as bird guns, bows and arrows, Folang machines, and bowl guns. The Zheng family's jumping boat was shot in a lot of bullets, but on this kind of special jumping boat, the outer periphery of the upper deck was covered with thick wooden boards. The bird gun, bows and bowl guns could not penetrate at all, and the power of the Folang machine cannon was slightly insufficient when the shells hit.
The Zheng family's jumping warship finally approached the enemy ship and approached the Guangdong army's Dafu ship at full speed.
The clumsy Dafu ship finally failed to stop the jumping warship from approaching, and the ships on both sides approached the side of the ship. At this moment, Yu Xin shouted: "Prepare to jump!"
Rows of flying claws flew out from the jumping boat and hung the Dafu ship. The sailors tried hard to pull the ropes and pulled the Dafu ship closer to their ship. Then several side wooden boards that jumped the boat were suddenly put down. Yu Xin personally took more than a dozen hand-to-hand sailors to jump onto the opponent's Dafu ship.
The first one to jump into the enemy ship were six sword players. After they jumped onto the enemy ship, they immediately threw a javelin and immediately shot overturned eight Guangdong sailors.
Compared with the Lu Shidao player, the Navy Knife player has almost no armor defense, and at most only one piece of armor made of wooden boards or bamboo pieces. The defense ability of this armor is much worse than that of iron armor and cotton armor, and is even worse than leather armor. However, this kind of armor made of wooden or bamboo strips can ensure that the sailors will not sink to the bottom of the water after falling into the water.
After the sword player shot the javelin, he immediately rushed up and fought with the enemy sailors. Then, the spearmen behind him also jumped over, and a row of spears stabbed out, and seven people fell from the opposite deck.
On the Dafu ship, Yu Xin was a powerful general who did not belong to Gan Hui. A corpse fell down in front of him wherever he passed. Those who followed Yu Xin were his personal soldiers, so the losses on the Dafu ship of the Guangdong Army were significantly greater than the Zheng family's clutch. As more and more Zheng family sailors jumped on the Dafu ship, the Dafu ship had been controlled by the Zheng family's army.
"Yu Xin is doing a good job and grabs a big ship for the traitor." Zheng Zhilong said with a smile.
The Zheng family's fire attack ship also exerted its power. A fire attack ship hit a Cangshan ship of the Guangdong Navy, and soon ignited the enemy ship.
The Guangdong Navy could no longer resist it. Xu Long's flagship was the first to turn the bow of the ship and escape to the waters south of Changzhou Island. Luo Chengyao and Xu Long did not dare to return to Guangzhou. He knew that the target of the Zheng family army was Guangzhou City. If they returned to Guangzhou, they would be caught up by the Zheng family army sooner or later. Therefore, they chose to escape to the Xijiang River and prepare to escape to Wuzhou.
Seeing that the flagships that the chief general and the governor were riding on had run away, how could the other Guangdong Navy warships dared to fight with the Zheng Family Navy? They also turned the bow and fled behind Xu Long's flagship. Some of the Guangdong Navy's warships were panicked and fled back to Guangzhou. Later, when the Zheng Family Navy captured Guangzhou, the ships did not run away and were captured by Zheng Zhilong.
"Hahaha! A great victory!" Zheng Zhilong laughed, "The rebel navy, but the native chicken and treasures, how dare you get a chariot and stop my Zheng family army?"
Although the Zheng family army won, Zheng Zhilong did not dare to rashly break into the Xijiang River to chase and defeat the fleeing Guangdong Navy because they knew nothing about the hydrological conditions of the Xijiang River. If they rashly entered the Xijiang River, they would be defeated by the Guangdong Navy, who was familiar with the local conditions.
"Lord, is our army sending troops to Guangzhou now?" Cao Wenlong asked.
Zheng Zhilong shook his head: "Get out of the army, we will wait here, wait for the Duke of Chu and others to come." Zheng Zhilong said.
Chapter completed!