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1873: The Burning Sea

Ning Zefeng looked at the bright light columns in the distance, with no expression on his face, but his hands were tightly clenched on the boat gang, revealing his veins. He guessed that this action might put him in danger, but he never expected that it would be such an unsolvable death.

The Ming army warships in the distance were obviously also discovered. With the continuous flashing of lights, more than ten warships suddenly dispersed, pulling out a long horizontal line on the sea and pressing towards Yangquan Port.

If the other party is also a sail warship, such a formation will make Ning Zefeng burst out with his nose. He can gather all the fleets, rush to one of the points with all their might, break through a little, and then escape from the sky.

But unfortunately, all the warships coming from the Ming army were steam warships, which turned the seemingly unreasonable tactics into a situation that made him unsolvable.

The opponent has the advantage of firepower and speed, and even the quality of the warship itself is stronger than the warships under his command. When he was in the Manila waters, the six warships led by the Taiping ship defeated more than 100 warships in Pattaya. What is his current possession?

"Commander, Commander, why are you still stunned? Give an order, hurry up and order, break through, we need to break through." Duan Tiande on the side jumped and shouted with a white face.

Ning Zefeng took a deep breath and turned his head to look at Duan Tiande: "That won't happen if you break through!"

Duan Tiande stared blankly at Ning Zefeng who was smiling brightly, "Commander, what should we do if we don't break through? Our warships can't beat them!"

"Can you run away by breaking through?" Ning Zefeng pointed to the Ming army warship that was approaching quickly, shook his head and said, "You can't run away."

Duan Tiande looked at Ning Zefeng in despair.

"If we don't break through or attack, then what are we doing? Are we waiting to die?"

Ning Zefeng looked at Duan Tiande and slowly said, "General Duan, there are more than 2,000 soldiers on these ten warships. They are Snapdragons on the water. Even on land, they are definitely elite troops. They are all loyal soldiers of the Great Qi. Now I will hand them all over to you. I hope you will take them to the end and will never give up until the last battle."

Duan Tiande was a little puzzled: "Why did you leave it to me? I am not accustomed to water wars? No, commander, are you going to abandon the ship?"

Ning Zefeng nodded heavily: "We have no chance on the water. Even if I take them up, I will only be sunk by Ming warships one by one at a distance, and will not create any results. Then it will be too worthless to die. Even if I die, it will be worth it!"

"Then commander, what should I do?" Duan Tiande asked.

Ning Zefeng turned around and said to the signal soldiers beside him: "Send orders to other warships, return to the port, abandon the ship and go ashore, and raise fire to burn all warships before going ashore."

The signal soldier looked at Ning Zefeng blankly but did not move.

Ning Zefeng slapped over with a big ear, "Didn't you hear what I said? Now there is more time. After we get ashore, we will have more time and send the order quickly."

The signal soldier burst into tears, turned around, bit a lamp in his mouth, and climbed up towards Fan on the top of the mast with his hands and feet.

"General Duan, after getting ashore, don't be fond of fighting, don't think about conquering Yangquan County again. Nao Ren has been fighting for so long but hasn't been defeated. In addition, you can't conquer it in a short time. Instead of spending your troops here, it's better to break it up, bypass Yangquan County, rush into the mainland of Wuzhou, fight all the way, and disrupt the entire Jiangnan for them." Ning Zefeng's voice was extremely cold, "General Duan, remember, when fighting, don't set goals, wherever you go, wherever you fight! When you live, what time you live, you are making achievements for the Great Qi every day. Your Majesty the Emperor is watching you in Chang'an!"

"Commander Ning, you are more familiar with these sailors. Why didn't you command yourself, but to me?" Duan Tiande looked at Ning Zefeng and asked in confusion.

"I am the commander of the Daqi Navy. If the navy is gone, what value does my existence have?" Ning Zefeng smiled bitterly, "When I got on the shore, what can I do? Land combat is your strength. You are a ghost. You still have a lot of intelligence resources. You can survive longer with them. And I, of course, have my own grudges to deal with."

From Ning Zefeng's words, Duan Tiande heard a strong desire to die.

He grabbed Ning Zefeng: "The commander, keep the green mountains there, and you are not afraid of burning firewood. Why should the commander fight for the moment?"

"This is not a battle of intent!" Ning Zefeng's tone was full of bleakness, "The Ming Qi's battle for hegemony is no longer a battle at sea. The strength of the Ming army's navy has long exceeded our imagination. Da Qi can no longer spend so much money to build a second fleet. In fact, even if it is built, it is just a meal on the Ming people. General Duan, go, the boat has been prepared for you."

Duan Tiande wanted to say something, but Ning Zefeng turned around and stared at the Ming army warships that were getting closer and closer on the sea. He ignored him. He finally sighed and turned around and walked downwards.

Apart from Ning Zefeng's warship, other Qi army warships had turned around and sailed back to Yangquan Wharf.

On the distant sea surface, Ning Zeyuan, who was standing on the Taiping command tower, naturally discovered the abnormal movement of the Qi Navy, but for him, this was no different. There were just a round of cannons bombarding them, sinking them all.

"A warship is coming." A general beside him whispered to Ning Zeyuan.

"I know, that's Ning Zefeng!" Ning Zeyuan sneered: "He knew he could not escape today, so he came from a dead end."

Although the two brothers were bleeding the same blood in their blood vessels, they had long been ruthless, and even far inferior to ordinary people. When Ning Zefeng was in power, they were determined to kill Ning Zeyuan. After Ning Zeyuan gained power, they locked Ning Zefeng in Yuejing and raised it like a pig.

Both of them were eager to eat each other's flesh and hatred each other.

"The rest of the warships go to annihilate the enemy ships that are preparing to enter the port, and give them to me the one that comes." Ning Zeyuan ordered loudly.

The two warships approached quickly, and the other Ming warships did not see the Qishui ship that was heading straight forward and rushed towards the Taiping, and Ning Zefeng ignored them at all.

The Taiping warship drew a big arc on the sea surface, turned around and aimed its sideways at the coming Ning Zefeng warship. What surprised Ning Zeyuan was that Ning Zefeng on the opposite side had no idea of ​​seizing a reasonable position with the Taiping ship. The Taiping ship was fast and had a strong yard power, but it was large and had a long turning radius. Ning Zefeng's warship could not compare to the tonnage, firepower, or even speed with the Taiping ship, but it was smaller, but it was more flexible.

Ning Zeyuan originally thought this would be a battle, and he knew very well that his brother's attainments in the water battle were not only not weaker than him, but even stronger.

But now Ning Zefeng seemed to be crazy about gaining and losing his mind, and just aimed straight at Taiping.

"Are you crazy?" Ning Zeyuan snorted coldly, "The sidewalk is ready to fire!"

There were more than 70 artillery guns installed on the five-layer deck of Taiping. At this moment, more than 70 artillery guns opened fire in turn, like blooming flowers of flames in the night sky.

Ning Zefeng's warship was hit continuously, with wood chips flying on the deck, and pieces of wood were blown to the air. From time to time, sailors screamed and flew up in the air and fell into the sea. The raging fire burned on the warship.

Like a huge torch burning, Ning Zefeng's warship was still galloping towards the Taiping.

Looking at Ning Zefeng who was like a madman, the Taiping, commanded by Ning Zeyuan, suddenly increased its yardage power and retreated in this way, one advances, the other retreats, and the speed of advance is not slow at all.

When more than seventy cannons sounded for the second time, everything was over.

The huge torch suddenly trembled, and then there was no more motivation to move forward. When the second round of artillery fired, his mast, sails, and the buildings on his deck were almost destroyed.

The Taiping slowly approached, and Ning Zeyuan stood on the high command tower, looking at the opponent's battleship that was slowly sinking with a complicated expression.

In the flames, a man stood up with difficulty. Although there was a distance between them, Ning Zeyuan still recognized that it was Ning Zefeng at a glance.

"I didn't lose to you, I just lost to life, life!" Ning Zefeng's arms were wide open and he looked up at the sky.

With a snap, the warship under his feet broke into two pieces, and the sinking speed suddenly accelerated. In a very short time, only a small spark was left in Ning Zeyuan's eyes. After a few jumps, it finally went out forever.

"Father should be sad." Ning Zeyuan said softly. He had to admit that Ning Zefeng's last words were not wrong. This is fate. If he had not been fortunate to meet the Ming Emperor Qin Feng and embarked on a journey of defiance and changing fate, he would not be his brother's opponent.

However, good life and hard life are opportunities for a person to live, and they are hard to come by. So he didn't think Ning Zefeng had anything to complain about.

"Mr. Ning, look!" The general beside him suddenly shouted.

Ning Zeyuan turned his head and saw the entire Yangquan Port burning. The flames were so bright that they almost illuminated half of the sky. The Qi people voluntarily burned their warships.

"Oh no!" Ning Zeyuan's face suddenly sank.

At the top of Yangquan City, Yang Zhi looked at the burning harbor, the burning warships, and the Ming army warships on the distant sea surface, shook his head and sighed: "Talent, it's really a talent. County Governor Murong, let's have our troubles next."
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