"Okay, what a great way to repay a favor!"

The woman's impassioned words immediately inspired the hearts of everyone present. The first one to applaud her was the man she pushed into the water.

The water was very shallow, so the man splashed twice and then came to the shore on his own. As soon as he stood up, he was attracted by the woman's impassioned speech. He stood in the wet mud on the shore and immediately raised his palms in praise.

"The young lady is the widow of a loyal man, and with such insight and courage, she is truly a woman. It was Liu who was rude, but please forgive me."

The man surnamed Liu bowed his hands, but the woman seemed a little at a loss and quickly returned the salute. The two looked at each other and smiled, and everyone present felt the same excitement.

Next, not only Chen Kai, but also the Ming troops who came over were blocked by these Guangzhou people. In this regard, Chen Kai had no choice but to let the relieved Lin Dezhong and Cai Qiao conduct a simple attack on them.

Training. As for how simple it is, well, it can basically be described as brainless.

After basic training, the small fleet sailed slowly to Dajisha on the east side of Henan Island, where they stood ready. Dajisha bisected the Pearl River channel in two, so Chen Kai could not help but separate the Qing troops from marching in different directions, so he simply took advantage of this unexpected situation.

Qi Xiang's trump card was placed here to await the Qing army, and even his flag stood upright here.

Chen Kai was sitting under the banner, Lin Dezhong was still organizing the transfer of the people, and Cai Qiao was standing beside him with a group of soldiers holding swords. In front of them, these Guangzhou volunteers who had just been organized were standing on the small boats.

Use bamboo poles to support the bottom of the water, always ready to sail out.

I don’t know how much time has passed, but the Qing fleet has not arrived yet. There were some faint doubts about Chen Kai’s judgment among the volunteers, but they were quickly dismissed by people such as “Prefect Chen’s wisdom is unparalleled” or “The Tatars are not able to do anything”.

I was overwhelmed by words like "Isn't it a good time to come?" But after a while, at the corner of the Pearl River in the distance, a ship slowly sailed out, followed by one, two, and more and more large and small ships.

The ships went up the river and headed straight for Guangzhou.

"It's coming, it's really coming!"

The sound of swallowing came one after another, and soon even Chen Kai couldn't help but listen to it. However, what made him deeply gratified was that the Guangzhou volunteers who had never been in battle had no intention of retreating and still stood tall.

On the boat, looking into the distance.

Chen Kai was sitting there, looking straight into the distance through the telescope. On the big flag, the small characters of the official title could not be clearly seen, but the large characters indicating the identity could still be vaguely understood.

"Xu...Sheng...Xu Long and Sheng Dengke are both here. Do you want to have a good time?"

The Qing army turned around and headed straight against the flow of the river. A moment later, the sound of artillery sounded, and the roaring shells stirred up a huge water column on the river.

We can't wait any longer. If the cannonball directly hits the volunteer boat that has not yet set off, it will be an inevitable blow to morale. Now, the only thing the Guangzhou volunteers can rely on is morale and the spirit of sacrifice, and they must not be wasted like this.

Lost it. Seeing this, Chen Kai waved his hand, and the Guangzhou volunteers obeyed the order, and the small boats holding them galloped away along the current.

"Men in Guangzhou City, please don't let a woman from the slave family take the lead!"

The woman punting the boat shouted, and the man on the same boat stood in front of her, holding a heavy plank, and echoed her voice, which caused the volunteers to start shouting. Such shouting, the morale of the volunteers was greatly increased.

After getting up, the volunteers who supported the boats exerted all their strength, and like a dragon boat race, the small boats went straight towards the Qing fleet in the distance and rammed them without hesitation.

On the Pearl River, hundreds of boats competed with each other as they went down the river. Dozens of small boats from the Ming army fearlessly rushed towards the two hundred large and small ships of the Qing army in the distance, like a mantis using its arms as a chariot.

Same.

This was almost unimaginable to the Qing army, especially on the leading Qing army ship. Rao Xu Long also had a lot of experience in water battles. When he saw such a scene for the first time, he was stunned for a moment.

Son, when he reacted, he shouted angrily.

"Quick, stop these boats. This is the Zheng family's arson boat tactics. Hurry!"

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the level of shipbuilding in Europe had already left the Ming Empire behind. The Fu ships and Guangzhou ships that were popular on the Chinese coast were far behind the Galen ships in Europe, both in terms of size and gun positions.

.However, under such circumstances, the Ming court and even the later Zheng Group were often able to effectively expel the European colonists. This was more due to the numerical advantage in offshore operations, and the Zheng Group even more

One advantage was brought to its extreme, and that was the tactic of setting fire to ships in Liao Luo Wan, which made the sea coachmen hate it.

The Zheng Group's fleet can be said to be a hornet's nest to the Dutch. Although it is small, its number is too huge to easily provoke. But for Xu Long and other bandits, the Zheng Group's ships are not only more numerous than them, but also more powerful.

The generality is greater than theirs. At the level that Xu Long can relate to, basically I have never heard of the Zheng Group using such tactics to defeat opponents of their level. They have always been crushed by "giant ships and cannons".

past.

What I can think of at this moment is because Zheng Chenggong and Chen Kai have been driven out of Chaozhou in the past few years, and they regard the Zheng Group as their lifelong enemy, so they try to find out information from everywhere. But even so, Xu Long also

It was inevitably a bit slow.

"Send small boats to intercept, fire cannons! Shoot arrows! Don't let those arson boats get close!"

In the distance, Chen Kai noticed Xu Long, and Xu Long also noticed Chen Kai's big flag on Daji Sand. The enemy was extremely jealous when he saw it, but these small boats had attracted so much of his energy that he couldn't care about it now.

Chen Kai is a big fish.

The larger ships in Xu Long's fleet began to deliberately reduce their speed. After receiving the order, the small ships raised their sails one after another, trying to block the front of the big ship. At the same time, the bow guns of the leading ships opened fire.

, the whizzing artillery shells made splash after splash on the river, and several of them splashed the head and face of the nearby Guangzhou volunteers.

However, Xu Long tried his best to prevent Guangzhou Yiyong from approaching, but he was against the current after all. No matter how fast he reacted, he could not withstand the huge obstacles of the current to effective blocking. The Qing army's small boats had not yet blocked the front, and several boats rushed at the front.

The Ming army's small boat had already rushed forward in a daze.

The arrow was shot from a high position, and under the protection of the man holding the door panel, the woman almost used all the means she had as a fisherman's daughter.

The boat continued to approach the Qing navy ship at the front with lightning speed. The hull of the ship continued to grow larger in her sight, until when she raised her head, she could clearly see the faces on it, either frightened or angry.

Or with a hesitant look on her face, she propped up the bamboo pole and pushed the boat as close as possible. Then she let go of the bamboo pole, took out the fire seal from her body, walked around the man holding the door panel softly, opened the lid of the tung oil barrel, and with her backhand

He uncovered the oilcloth spread on the gunpowder barrel, pointed it at the seal, and lit it.

The seal flew towards the gunpowder barrel. The woman threw the fire seal into the tung oil barrel and yelled at the man on the same boat. The moment the fire from the tung oil barrel shot up into the sky, the two of them moved forward and backward.

He jumped into the Pearl River water which was only a few degrees Celsius in winter.

There seemed to be arrows chasing after her, but the woman jumped into the water, and her not-so-fair figure actually looked like a mermaid. She just stretched her hands and feet, twisted her body a few times, and then nimbly disappeared into the rolling water.

In the Pearl River water.

A moment later, a loud noise came, and Xu Long's ship was shaken by the explosion. Although it capsized, the moment the ship balanced itself again, the experienced sailors on the ship had already noticed it.

, the port side outer plate seemed to have been blasted with several large or small cracks, and the river water sprayed from the cracks to the hull under the water pressure. On the river surface where the explosion occurred on the port side, tung oil overflowed, clinging to the port side of the river surface.

The boat was burning like a pot.

The roar of water and fire was added to the port side of Xu Long's ship at the same time. Soon, the wood in the gap collapsed under the squeeze of the river. Not only the river water, but also the burning tung oil poured in, which seemed to be about to destroy this

The ship was completely dragged into the sea of ​​flames.

On Daji Sand, as far as Chen Kai could see, one Ming army boat after another fearlessly rammed into the Qing army's warship. Then, as the figure leaping into the water flashed past, an explosion sounded, submerging everything in a sea of ​​fire.

He seemed to remember that he needed to add iron nails to the bow of the arson ship so that it could be nailed to the enemy ship to ensure complete burning. However, time was tight and he did not have time to install these accessories, let alone prepare things such as Greek fire.

He had no choice but to make do with the shabby things, using powder barrels and tung oil to teach Xu Long a lesson.

The Ming army boats disappeared on the river one after another, only to be replaced by explosions and seas of fire on the river.

At first glance, it seems to be the case. Even the speed of the Qing fleet has inevitably slowed down. But as for the actual effect, Chen Kai really has no confidence at all. After all, in his impression, it seems that

Really no one has ever played like this.

Many of the Guangzhou volunteers who jumped into the water may not be able to return to the shore alive, but the sacrifice did buy time. Chen Kai stared at the water battle in the distance, and then turned his attention to the people on Henan Island.

Above. But he had just turned his head, trying to find the size of the crowd on the pier from the limit of the telescope. Following Cai Qiao's exclamation, Chen Kai quickly turned his head back.

Through the sight of the telescope, he soon discovered that at this moment, a fleet was going upstream from the channel where the Qing army came, and on the mast of the leading ship, there was a vaguely written word on a large flag.
Chapter completed!