The sailors from Jinghua jumped on board the ship, and the captain of Zheng Jun ordered all the soldiers who could still fight to rush onto the deck. The sailors from both sides started a hand-to-hand fight amidst shouts of death, with swords and swords flashing, and flesh and blood flying everywhere.
Captain Liang Sancai took a step back, glanced quickly to both sides, and saw Captain Zheng Jun still resisting desperately, so he immediately turned around and faced him.
Gao Jing, who was holding on to the wooden handrail on the bridge of the "Xin Zheng", could even see the cold light of his Yan Ling knife, which had been improved by Qi Jiguang.
When Captain Zheng Jun turned around, Liang Sancai quickly raised his Yanling knife and stabbed it out hard, and then stabbed him a second time. These two attacks were very fast and powerful, but since he didn't cut with the knife,
Judging from his liking for stabbing, this Gao family's standard weapon doesn't seem to be particularly comfortable for him.
But his attack was still fierce. Gao Jing could clearly see the tip of his Yanling knife piercing the man's back, and even seemed to hear the sound when the tip of the knife collided with his ribs.
The captain, who was completely burly among the Annan people, screamed in a terrifying voice, and then stumbled to the deck. Then he yelled and got up again, grabbing Liang Sancai's throat and his body in a frantic and desperate manner.
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Although the ensuing fight looked thrilling, everyone fought with all their strength, and very few people yelled. Apart from heavy breathing and messy footsteps, almost no other sounds could be heard.
Liang Sancai was only in his early thirties this year, the age when a man's physical strength and experience reach a perfect balance. He delicately but without any fancy took his arm from the enemy's hand and tore off the sleeve from the shoulder to the wrist.
, this made him very angry, and he raised the Yanling knife cruelly, and slashed and stabbed the enemies who were still alive, without mercy, so that blood soon spattered all over his body.
The ensuing battle was one-sided. Seeing that the "Xinzheng" had successfully joined the gang, a large number of sailors boarded the enemy ship. The "Kaiping" and "Huojia" were also fiercely approaching another Folang warship. Look at their
The style of play is really not like the highly pragmatic approach to building a combat fleet - the long-range artillery battle flow.
This is the typical fighting style of pirates along the coast of China in the past: cover on all sides, jump into gangs, and fight with each other, while the goal is to capture everything!
Zheng Song paid the price for his ignorance of the navy: he only knew that although the Folangji ship was big, it sailed very fast because of its huge sails, but he did not know that this advantage was when the battle was offshore and the wind was not strong.
It's very difficult to show off.
In such sea conditions, Chinese-style hard sails are faster and more flexible because they can better utilize light winds and breezes and are simple and fast to control.
What Zheng Song hoped for, which was to let the two Franco-Large Gallens attack with long-range artillery fire and retreat while attacking, was actually impossible to operate at all. Not only was the speed unable to increase, but the Jinghua fleet also had the numerical advantage.
It was too big. When the Xinzheng, Kaiping and Huojia entangled them, the other warships quickly completed the outflanking and surrounded them, and followed them to participate in the gang-hopping battle.
If there are too many ants, an elephant will be killed, let alone if it is not an ant?
This is more like a big wolf pack biting two lone lions. Although these two lions were individually strong, they were too careless about their heads and bodies, and they soon fell into the vast sea of wolves.
The Gao family's armed transport ships attacked two of the Galen ships, while Boss Hu and Boss Li's modified transport ships with less firepower launched an attack on the remaining warships of the Zheng family.
What's ridiculous is that the mainstays of the Zheng family's navy are the two large Galen ships. The rest of the warships are said to be warships, but they are actually worse than Boss Hu's transport ships. In addition, the two main ships of the Zheng family's navy are now locked in a bitter battle.
It was about to be over. These guys who had always been suppressed and beaten by Mo Chao's navy had no courage to resist. They turned around and prepared to escape.
However, Mo Chao's navy was not a freeloader. They knew the urinal nature of these Zheng Jun's navy and had already gone around and surrounded them in the rear. Not long after, the desperate Zheng Jun's navy began to fly white flags one by one.
And as the sounds of fighting on the two Folangji Galen ships gradually disappeared, the naval battle at Majiangkou came to a perfect end.
At the cost of 117 dead and 204 wounded, the Jinghua Fleet defeated Zheng Jun without sinking a single ship - or in other words, completely annihilated Zheng Jun's navy!
They sank or rammed thirteen Zheng army small warships and captured thirty-nine, but the biggest result was the capture of two Franco-German Galen warships whose hulls were basically undamaged!
In fact, these two large Galen ships were part of the experiments to increase the size of Galen ships during this period. Later, the British Navy felt that these large Galen ships had poor control and although their endurance was good, their overall speed was not fast enough - Long Voyage
The wind was okay, but there was no such thing as a strong wind all the time - so the British began to build a new type of Galen ship, and the size was reduced again.
But this is not a problem. Gao Pragmatic has always hoped to get the main warships of the West at this time, mainly to study the advantages of Western-style warships, and then use them to strengthen and improve his own warship designs. This does not mean that non-Western ships do not need to be used.
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His consistent view is that the key to the West's victory in the Age of Discovery does not necessarily lie in ships, but in its pioneering spirit.
If you are poor, you will change; if you change, you will be successful.
The internal cause of Westerners' great voyages was mainly due to the rise of the Ottoman Empire, which blocked the traditional Sino-Western trade routes, so they had to find new routes to connect with the East. This led to the emergence of great voyages. Later, with the great navigation movement,
With the huge benefits coming, we began to naturally improve ship models and upgrade them.
In fact, the disadvantages of soft sailing boats are obvious. Although their adaptability to global routes is pretty good, they are definitely not as good as Chinese hard sailing boats on China's coast, especially in areas such as the South China Sea. Gao Pragmatic wants to engage in Western sailing
Battleships are simply based on the consideration of making up for each other's weaknesses.
Of course, no matter what, Gao Jing perfectly defeated the enemy in this battle and captured two giant Galen ships, which was a great achievement.
The relieved Gao Jing was so happy that he couldn't stop pretending to be serious. After ordering the doctor on board the ship to quickly treat the wounded, he began to count the results of the battle, and then sent the Centipede Clipper back immediately to report the victory to the master and congratulate him, and at the same time freed up a few boats.
The wounded were transported back for treatment and recuperation, while he reorganized the fleet, entered the mouth of Majiang River, and sailed up the Majiang River.
After all, his main mission is to attack Zheng Jun's Majiang Defense Line, and defeating Zheng Jun's navy's ambush fleet is just a side job. But now that Zheng Jun's navy has been completely wiped out, the Majiang Defense Line is actually just a thing on paper.
——It's just target practice on the river. Thousands of cannons are blasting you randomly. What do I care about your defense line?
Although there are no explosive shells, the land troops cannot withstand such a large number of cannons firing solid shells. Even if they are not killed, their mentality will collapse.
As the Jinghua fleet, which almost covered the river, appeared in the lower reaches of the Majiang River, the detective on the Majiang defense line was so distraught that he hurriedly conveyed the news to Ruan Youliao, the commander of the defense line.
Ruan Youliao's body shook after hearing this, and he knew it was over.
The navy is finished, the Majiang defense line is finished, and even Thanh Hoa City... I'm afraid it's finished too.
After a moment of silence, Commander Ruan Youliu, who calmed down his mind, sighed and ordered: "My general ordered the whole army to retreat five miles. If the enemy troops land on the beach, then move forward... No, wait until the number of enemy troops on the beach reaches ours.
Half of the current troops should immediately rush up and fight with the enemy infantry, and don't give the enemy navy a chance to fire and bombard!"
The order was quickly conveyed.
In fact, his order was considered very thoughtful. Although the artillery of the Jinghua fleet was much more powerful than that on land and had a longer range, it was not capable of firing five miles away. At the same time, he ordered that the Ming army's landing force should exceed half of his own side.
Shi Zai quickly stepped forward to engage in a fight, which also forced the fleet to be unable to fire - we can't bombard them indiscriminately, right?
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