After entering midnight, Feng De judged that the official fleet had completely relaxed, so he led his detachment to quietly approach the official fleet under light control, and dispersed one after another according to the planned plan.
He opened the boat, followed the fleet of officers and soldiers, and blended into them.
The officers and soldiers did not notice their appearance at all, and continued to sail forward in ignorance, so they secretly selected their respective targets and approached them.
After Feng De successfully led the team into the enemy fleet, he immediately launched an attack. When the enemy was completely unaware of their existence, each ship chose an enemy ship to approach, and suddenly used
Molotov cocktails attacked some enemy ships, causing some to catch fire.
After launching the attack, they did not hesitate to use artillery, rockets and other weapons to attack the enemy ships. In fact, with their own weapons, it was basically impossible to kill many enemy ships.
Because their ships are not big, they are just more flexible, and the artillery loaded on the ship is not big either. They are mainly six-pound guns and 12-pound short guns. Their killing power is acceptable at close range, but if you want to
It's not easy to sink an enemy ship easily.
But Feng De did not pursue destroying many enemy ships. Their main purpose was to harass and confuse the official and military fleets. So after fighting fiercely for a while, they immediately began to evacuate. Each ship was ordered not to fight, and only needed to
Just mess with the other person.
So after briefly attacking the enemy ships, they began to evacuate. After they withdrew from the battle, the gunfire of the official fleet did not stop. The gunfire was still rumbling, and they did not know that they were fighting.
What? In short, this was a standard night attack at sea. Although they could not determine how many enemies and enemy ships were killed or injured, for them, the goal had been achieved now.
At this time, they also saw some lights in the distance, which should be a fleet, heading here, so Feng De did not stop much, and immediately sent a rocket order, and the fleet sailed to their assembly.
Place.
Although they came in a team when they came, when they left, because each ship was already fighting on its own, it was impossible to regroup the fleet even though they withdrew from the battle, so they followed their original plan
According to the plan, after the attack is successful, each ship will evacuate on its own, rush to the assembly point to rendezvous, and then return to Wuqiu Island to rendezvous with the main fleet.
After they retreated for a long time, the chaos of the official fleet was not completely over. The overwhelmed official fleet had no idea that the enemy ships had already evacuated. As long as someone was still firing cannons, they did not dare to stop.
In order to protect themselves, they did not bother to identify the surrounding ships at this time. As long as they felt that the other party was threatening them, they would continue to fire regardless.
With such chaos, even the Dutch fleet that rushed over did not dare to continue approaching the official fleet, and could only watch the chaos of the official fleet from a distance in confusion.
As a result, this chaos lasted for two hours before it gradually calmed down. Looking at the sea now, the entire official and military fleet had completely dispersed, and was divided into a very large area of the sea.
About half of the remaining fleet was not involved in the chaos. Under the leadership of Yu Zigao, they sailed closer to the shore first to avoid the chaos.
When the chaos finally ended on the sea, the wreckage of more than a dozen destroyed ships were already floating in random directions. Some of these ships had been burned, but they were still sending out thick smoke and the flames were jumping high, like
It was like a bunch of big bonfires on the sea, burning and crackling.
There were also some ships that were inexplicably destroyed by someone's cannons. The hulls of the ships were battered to pieces and struggled to float on the water. The officers and soldiers on the ships were also killed and injured, but they were all covered in blood.
Of course, some ships were crashed. When the night attack began, some officers or helmsmen on the ship were in panic and hurriedly turned the helm to try to escape from the battle group. However, in the tension, safety could not be guaranteed at night. As a result,
In the chaos, a large number of collisions occurred among official ships. Many official ships scrambled to escape and ended up colliding with each other.
The third situation is the most important reason for the damage of official ships. It is more than the number of ships that were destroyed and burned. Moreover, official ships have different shapes and sizes. If a big ship hits a small boat, the big ship will not be a big problem.
Small boats are unlucky. They are often hit on the spot, ranging from minor injuries to serious ones being sunk on the spot.
On the sea surface, after the sky gets slightly brighter, you can see broken hulls and debris floating everywhere, as well as some floating corpses. It is winter at this time, and the sea water temperature even in Fujian is very low. Some officers and soldiers' ships were destroyed and had to
They jumped into the sea to escape, but they could not get any rescue at night and could only struggle in the seawater. The very low temperature of the seawater caused them to quickly lose a lot of heat, which eventually led to hypothermic shock. As a result, they were drowned alive. After dawn, the sea surface naturally
The corpses of many officers and soldiers were floating away.
Yu Zigao waited in fear until dawn before he dared to take the remaining ships back to the sea and began to count the losses during the night.
After some inventory, the veins on Yu Zigao's forehead jumped. He knew very well that the number of enemy ships that attacked them last night was not many, but the other party had grasped their psychology. The key was to cause their confusion. Now look
The enemy was completely successful, which basically triggered a roar of the officers and soldiers at sea, causing the officers and soldiers to kill each other at night without distinguishing between ourselves and the enemy.
As a result, Yu Zigao's fleet lost more than 20 ships overnight, some of which were burned, some were destroyed, and more were crashed by themselves. The number of officers and soldiers lost reached
There were hundreds of people, but only a few shrewd officers and soldiers abandoned the ship when they abandoned the ship. They climbed on the sampan and were finally rescued.
Yu Zigao felt extremely aggrieved. It had only been more than a day since they set out, and they were still a long way from Nanri Island, but they had suffered such losses, and not even a hair of the enemy was seen. They
More than 20 ships and hundreds of officers and soldiers were lost.
This was a heavy blow to their morale. Yu Zigao finally regretted that he should not have rushed to Nanri Island to grab some first prize, but in the end, Sea Wolf took advantage of the loophole during the night flight.
These damn sea wolves are really not easy to mess with. They actually dared to attack such a large fleet at sea in the dark night. This also made Yu Zigao understand why the sea wolves were able to roam the coast of Fujian in the past few years.
, and won every battle.
Just by looking at the enemy's actions, it can be seen that they are both bold and careful, and they also have night fighting abilities that are much better than ordinary people. Their ability to maneuver boats on the sea is far better than that of their navy.
This made Yu Zigao, who was originally confident, feel a strong sense of frustration. Although he had long known that Sea Wolf was very strong, he did not expect that Sea Wolf was so strong. What seemed impossible was actually accomplished.
They did it, and they only used very little force to cause such huge losses to the officers and soldiers.
Yu Zigao looked at the sea with debris floating everywhere, and couldn't help but feel scared. Fortunately, there were not many sea wolves attacking ships yesterday. If the sea wolves came out in full force last night, there is no guarantee that his ships would be destroyed overnight.
The fleet would be completely destroyed. In that case, not to mention that he would not be able to seize the first victory in capturing Nanri Island, and even his life might not be saved.
After thinking of this, Yu Zigao was as frustrated as a punctured tire. He hastily ordered the fleet to clean up the mess, scuttled the damaged ships, and some of the ships could be repaired and towed to the shore.
, find a place to put them first, and arrange for people to make simple repairs. As for the floating corpses of officers and soldiers, they sent people to briefly salvage them. However, many corpses slowly sank into the water before they could be fished out.
After cleaning up the battlefield, Yu Zigao ordered the fleet to move forward, and sent someone to inform the red-haired people that they must follow the official fleet and protect the flanks of the official fleet in the next few days.
Waite immediately nodded in agreement. They only understood the reason for the chaos in the Ming Dynasty's navy last night at dawn. They learned that Sea Wolf had sent an attack ship to attack the navy at night.
Even Waite had to readjust his understanding of sea wolves and felt heavy pressure.
He secretly thought to himself that it seemed that this group of Chinese pirates who called themselves Sea Wolves was indeed unusual. Even the Dutch would not dare to use tactics such as night raids at sea, because sailing at night has great dangers.
It is dangerous, and they have to break into an enemy fleet that is much stronger than them, which requires even more courage and skill.
However, the Sea Wolf still managed to do this, successfully attacking the navy fleet, and even more successfully triggering chaos in the navy, causing them to fight each other for half the night, causing huge losses.
Based on this alone, he had to admit that the courage and ability of the Sea Wolf tribe were extraordinary. This opponent was not as simple as he thought, so he put away his arrogance and began to become cautious.
During the next few days of sailing, Yu Zigao completely restrained himself and no longer dared to sail at night easily in order to hurry. After learning this lesson, he led his fleet to find a place on the shore before dark every day.
Temporarily stationed and strengthened defense.
However, the sea wolves did not continue to harass them. There were still one or two boats every day observing their actions from a distance on the sea.
Yu Zigao felt very unhappy about this. He used the telescope he bought at a high price from the red-haired man to observe carefully, and sent several speedboats to drive away the ships that were following the sea wolves.
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But the sea wolf was not afraid of them at all. If the captain of the ship went there, he would beat them up and kill two official sentinels. However, as long as there were more ships sent by Yu Zigao, they would escape immediately.
Give Yu Zigao a chance.
Even Waite once sent two smaller ships over, but Seawolf's ships did not engage them at all and immediately stayed away from them.
This made Yu Zigao even more depressed. He couldn't use his strength and could only stare.