Yang Feng must die... The Fujian Navy must be eliminated!

This is a consensus among the Zheng family. With the support of the Dutch over the past year, the strength of the Zheng family has not only not weakened due to failure on land, but has also been enhanced. In particular, the fleet they rely on the greatest has increased significantly due to the addition of more than 100 artillery donated by the Dutch.

As sea coachmen, the Dutch were the best in Europe in terms of the number of warships. In order to cope with the increasing threat from Britain, they have greatly expanded their navy in recent years. As of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the Dutch had a total of 120 main warships, 30,000 sailors and 6,000 artillery pieces.

But please note that the 120 warships mentioned here are just the main warships, and the Dutch also have light warships and auxiliary ships several times the main warships.

The most common intermediate warships of the Dutch were also equipped with an average of 50 artillery pieces, of which more than 18 pounds (equivalent to the Ming Hongyi cannons) were more than half. As another new type of main warship, Seven Provinces, which has begun to be designed, it is equipped with 80 cannons, including 36-pound cannons, 12 24-pound cannons, 16 18-pound cannons, 14 12-pound cannons, 12-pound cannons, and 26 6-pound cannons.

Some people may ask, since the Dutch have such strong strength and have the ambition to conquer the Ming Dynasty, why didn't they send powerful fleets to conquer the Ming Dynasty themselves?

In fact, the reason is very simple, because Britain had already begun to rise at this time. Today, Britain, France and the Netherlands are competing for Europe's dominance. In addition, Spain and Portugal, which are unwilling to decline, are also competing in secret. Therefore, the Netherlands has no time and energy to travel across the ocean to launch their so-called plan to conquer the East against the Ming Dynasty. They can only try to disrupt the Ming Dynasty in a way that supports Zheng Zhilong, causing the Ming Dynasty to fall and civil strife today, so that they can follow behind and take a fish.

After receiving strong support from the Dutch, Zheng Zhilong's ambitions quickly expanded. At this time, he was no longer willing to be a pirate leader, he wanted to be an official... As a high-ranking official, he wanted to be a wife and son, and he wanted to be a prince for a long time. The first thing to do to achieve this goal is to eliminate Yang Feng and his Fujian Navy, which is the primary goal of the Zheng Group.

"Order, all Haicang ships will surround them, and you must entangle those officers and soldiers!" Zheng Zhihu commanded his five blessed ships to face the enemy head-on, while commanding the remaining eight Haicang ships to attack the Second Fleet from the other side.

The Haicang ship is actually the No. 4 Fu Ship. This kind of ship is a medium-sized ship with a draft of seven or eight feet deep. There are 53 crew members, 9 sailors, 44 soldiers, equipped with 4 thousand jin Folang machines, 3 bowl guns, as well as several Lu Peru guns, spray drums, cigarette jars, fire bricks, rockets, medicine crossbows, crossbow arrows and other weapons. When fighting, their mission is to cooperate with the Dafu Ship to harass and attack the target on the flanks.

"Crack off these annoying flies... all!" On the starboard side of the battleship, the artillery officer in charge of commanding the starboard side also issued an order to fire the Haicang ship that was constantly approaching him.

“Bangbangbang…”

Since the war started, the guns on the port side have been firing. The gunners on the starboard side have long been envious. Now, after seeing that it was finally their turn to fire, they were already itchy and immediately adjusted the gun position as quickly as possible. The gunners in charge of firing came to stand next to the long-loaded gun and pulled the gun rope.

"Boom...boom..."

With the continuous muffled sound, the strong recoil made everyone on the deck feel a shock in the soles of their feet, and dozens of shells instantly flew out of the cannon chamber and flew forward.

“Bangbangbang…”

The shells fell in a steady stream around the surrounding sea-cang ships, but unfortunately none of them hit. You should know that the sea-cang ships not only have a small target but also have a very fast speed. What makes people speechless is that the missions received by these sea-cang ships were not to harass the Second Fleet, so they just kept provoking the other party more than 300 meters away from the Second Fleet. Occasionally, they used a Ferlang machine to drive a few guns or a bed crossbow to hit the target. Their goal was not to kill the enemy, but to be able to restrain the other party and create opportunities for their own lucky ships. However, they fired three or four platoons of cannons on the starboard side but failed to hit the other party.

Facing these eight sea boats were spinning around like loaches a few hundred meters away, the gunners on the starboard side were anxious, but they could only stare at them.

Faced with this situation, Liu Xiang also noticed it. After pondering for a while, she called the messenger. After giving him a few instructions, the messenger quickly conveyed Liu Xiang's orders on a walkie-talkie.

With Liu Xiang's order conveyed, the starboard cannon, which was originally firing violently, suddenly stopped. For a moment, the sound of the cannon that was originally rumbling became much smaller.

Seeing the starboard cannons suddenly stopped firing, the eight sea Cang ships that were wandering and harassing outside were a little uncomfortable for a moment. They first tried to use a thousand-pound Franco machine cannon to fire two cannons at the warships of the Second Fleet, and then fired at the fleet hundreds of meters away with bowl guns and bed crossbows. However, the other party still ignored them and used the port side cannon to continuously bombard the five big lucky ships in the distance.

"boom……"

Another shell hit a big lucky ship located on the left side of Zheng Zhihu, making a big hole in the bow of the lucky ship, flying everywhere, and wood chips pierced several pirates at the bow of the ship to scream.

"How did Huang Dachun, this bastard, he brought people to harass him? Why are the artillery of the imperial navy so large?" Zheng Zhihu got angry. He angrily scolded Zheng Xing beside him and said, "Tell Huang Dachun immediately that if he is still there and refuses to take care of himself, I will lit the sky lantern when the battle is over!"

"yes!"

Seeing the fierce light in Zheng Zhihu's eyes, Zheng Xing's heart was tight. He was very familiar with Zheng Zhihu and understood that Zheng Zhihu's words were by no means a joke. If the eight sea-cang ships led by Huang Dachun could not be satisfied with Zheng Zhihu in this battle, this guy would really turn the sentence just now into facts.

In this era, it was not easy for warships to convey information to each other in the vast sea and the rumbling sound of cannons. After Zheng Xing finally let the flag bearer convey the information in flag language, five or six minutes had passed, and during this period, they were hit by several more shells.

After receiving the order, Huang Dachun, who was responsible for harassing the ship, his heart also rose. When he thought about the punishment he would receive when he went back, he couldn't help but shivered when he thought about the punishment he would receive when he went back.

He gritted his teeth and said to the first mate beside him: "Come, pass my order, all ships quickly speed up to get close to the other party's 200 to 300 steps, and use Lu Peru guns, bed crossbows and rockets to attack them. We must not let them attack our main fleet so comfortably."

The first mate said hesitantly: "The head... If it is so close, we will easily be hit!"

Huang Dachun shouted in a low voice: "You have also seen the flag words just now. If you don't follow the second leader, we will either be lit with the sky lantern after we look back, or you can try it now, you can choose it yourself!"

The first mate was stunned for a moment, finally sighed, and had to give the order to keep approaching.

Soon, the eight sea-cang ships began to speed up and actively approached the starboard side of the Second Fleet, and the distance between the two sides also narrowed from three to four hundred meters to two hundred meters.

Seeing that the Haicang boats began to come over, Liu Xiang, who had noticed them, had long been slightly raised, but a hint of coldness appeared in her eyes.

The officers in the cannon warehouse on the starboard side, who had been impatient, began to issue new orders.

"All guns on the starboard side start loading grape bullets!"

"The grape bullet is loaded!"

As reports came, the gunmen issued orders to fire.

“Bangbangbang…”

“Bangbangbang…”

Iron barrels filled with iron beads wrapped in thin iron sheets were shot out of the cannon chamber. After the cannon chamber, the iron barrels were scattered and broken open. Countless iron beads flew towards the sea boat on starboard like a celestial girl scattered flowers.

The pirates on the Haicang ship who were originally planning to use bowl-mouth guns, bed crossbows, and Flang machine cannons to bombard and harass each other like that, saw a scene that shocked them. Many people felt that the sky suddenly became darker, and when they looked up, they found countless dense rains of bullets flying in the sky.

"Let's go down quickly, it's a grape bomb!"

On the deck, the experienced Huang Chunsheng had just shouted this when the sea boat where he was located was covered by a rain of bullets.

The pirates on the deck of this sea-cang ship only felt a gust of wind blowing around, and countless iron beads swept through the surroundings with sharp whistling sounds, making crackling sounds. After the whistling sounds, accompanied by shrill shouts, the deck of the entire ship was like a god of death raging.

Huang Dachun struggled to get up from the deck. At this time, he didn't notice that there were a few pieces of wood chips nailed to his right bowl. He glanced at the deck and saw only the messy corpses of pirates on the deck.

Since the Haicang ship is not large in size, and with only one deck, more than 50 pirates almost all work on the deck, so when the iron beads fall on the deck like raindrops, the consequences can be imagined.

The deck was full of corpses, and the undead wounded were wailing in pain. The blood flowing from them continued to flow back and forth on the deck, and the entire deck was as terrifying as the Shura hell.

"boom……"

Some heavy solid bullets were shot from somewhere and landed around the Haicang boat where Huang Dachun was located, splashing a large number of water columns.

The sea water poured directly onto the deck of Haicang ship. The blood was washed away by the sea and all fell into the sea. The surrounding sea water was immediately dyed red. Blood continued to flow out of the wounded and the dead. The sea water surged onto the deck and washed away the blood. This cycle was repeated...
Chapter completed!