Winning the first battle is just a small episode before the decisive battle.
Neither side suffered any major casualties. But this had a completely different effect on the confidence of both sides. The myth of the Zheng family's navy being invincible was completely shattered in the first battle at Liaoluo Bay.
The Huben Guard Navy is fully capable of defeating all enemies!
Of course, all this is just the beginning, and the real battle will soon come. When the smoke of the war dissipates, you will know who is the real king of the sea...
Ding Yunyi—or Zheng Zhilong!
Ding Yunyi has never been so eager for war and victory as he is now. He must prove something to the world...
In the night, darkness envelopes everything. No one knows what will come when the night dissipates...
Standing quietly on the bow of the ship, Ding Yunyi seemed to be trying his best to see everything shrouded in the night. Duan San'er, the most loyal guard, had been standing so straight beside him.
"If I win, I will be the real king of the sea. If I lose, I may have to become a serious pirate leader. Duan San, are you afraid?" Ding Yunyi suddenly asked.
Duan Saner calmly shook his head: "I'm not afraid, because I know that you will not lose."
"Oh. Why?" Ding Yunyi was curious about why Duan Saner was so confident in himself.
Duan San'er actually didn't have too many thoughts: "Because I have fought so many battles with you, even the people who were so afraid of death like me are no longer afraid of death. Are you still afraid of failure?"
Ding Yunyi smiled, he really smiled... Yes, even if he really failed, what's so scary? He had nothing to begin with, and if he failed, he would still have nothing...
The sea breeze blew coolly on his body. Ding Yunyi said calmly: "Duan San, you have been following me for a long time. If we just talk about loyalty, few of my subordinates can compare with you. I wanted you before.
You always refuse to become an official. When we defeat Zheng Zhilong this time, I will promote you to guard duty and guard Taiwan for me. There is no way you can refuse my appointment this time..."
Duan Saner seemed to understand something at once: "Are you ready to leave Taiwan?"
"Yes. It's time to leave Taiwan and go to Quanzhou..." Ding Yunyi nodded silently: "At the beginning, we were forced to live in the land of Taiwan and Penghu and could not develop at all, but now it is different. Quanzhou can be controlled
Going to Fuzhou..."
"My lord must ask me to take the role, then I will take the role." Duan San'er said without hesitation: "But I'm afraid that I can't be good at this defense."
"Yes, your loyalty is enough to help me defend Taiwan, our base." Ding Yunyi said calmly.
What he said is not wrong. Taiwan is his base and the source of all his rights. Quanzhou will become another new front line.
There, you will start a new era...
Duan San'er suddenly said: "Sir, my wife told me alone before this expedition that it is time to get married to several girls, especially Miss Yuanyuan. You have promised others for a long time."
Ding Yunyi smiled again, and nodded vigorously: "We will do it. We will do it. Once we defeat the Zheng family navy, I will officially turn those girls into members of my Zheng family..."
Duan Saner also smiled, as if he saw a grand wedding taking place...
The night finally dissipated. The sea was once again shrouded in the clouds of war.
A naval battle that shocked the whole of Fujian and the whole world broke out in Liaoluo Bay!
In this battle, Fujian's two military strongmen, Ding Yunyi and Zheng Zhilong, once again stood face to face, but this time, they tore off all the hypocrisy; this time, one of them must fall...
There is no need for pretentious politeness anymore, and the alliance between Ding and Zheng has completely broken down. All hypocrisy and politeness are worthless in the face of war.
What is needed here is blood and fire!
In the Battle of Liaoluo Bay, the Hubenwei Group and the Zheng Family Group spent all their capital and mobilized all available forces. All generals who could go to the battlefield have already set foot on this battlefield where no one can predict life or death.
"Fire the gun——" "Fire the gun——"
When such calls sounded, the Liaoluowan War broke out!
The two sides fired at each other with artillery, and the generals on both sides shouted at the top of their lungs. The cannonballs hit each other like crazy, hoping to smash each other to pieces with one shot.
A huge and terrifying water column stirred up on the sea surface. When it fell, the scattered sea water seemed to wash away everything...
Everyone's blood is boiling, and everyone's eyes are blood-red. Everyone knows what this naval battle means to the two major military groups.
The left wing versus the right wing, the right wing versus the left wing. The warships on both sides are working hard to find their own goals.
When the great sea battle broke out, Zheng Zhilong quickly understood why his brother failed.
The warships and artillery of the Tiger Guards were completely beyond his imagination. The not-huge warships had powerful artillery fire, and the movement of the cannon-sized warships did not appear clumsy at all.
Just as soon as they launched, several warships of the Zheng family navy were quickly buried in the cold seabed... Facing the warships and artillery of the Tiger Guards on the opposite side, they had no ability to resist at all.
The Huben Guard Navy has "Xunzi" class artillery with a rate of fire far exceeding that of the Thunder Cannon, and also possesses terrifying artillery that is even more powerful than the Hongyi Cannon.
Their gunners ruthlessly and indifferently smashed out the shells one after another, and the shells they smashed fell on the enemy's warships even more ruthlessly and indifferently...
One by one, the Zheng family's warships were hit, and one by one, the Zheng family's warships were retreating. At first glance, although there were many warships in the Zheng family's navy, they were not fighting at the same level at all.
Where did Ding Yunyi get so many new warships? How terrible has Ding Yunyi quietly developed his Huben Guard navy in Taiwan over the past few years?
Zheng Zhilong didn't know, and there was no one on the battlefield who could answer him...
"Fire ship!" The eager Zheng Zhilong finally gave this order!
This is the unique trick of the Ming Dynasty navy. It is also Zheng Zhilong’s trump card. In the first great battle of Liaoluo Bay, the Zheng family navy relied on this strategy to defeat Hongyi and Liu Xiang’s combined navy.
Hundreds of fire boats filled with fire starters appeared, which immediately aroused the Zheng family navy's joy.
Fireship tactics have proven themselves in naval battles. Whether in the first naval battle of Liaoluo Bay or in the subsequent naval battle between Ding Yunyi and the four-nation combined fleet, the fireship tactics have displayed terrifying power.
Now, everyone in the Zheng Family Navy is firmly convinced that fire ship tactics will once again bring them glory.
But they ignored one thing: in the naval battle against the four-nation combined fleet, the Tiger Guard Navy also used this tactic to its fullest potential. How could they not take corresponding measures?
Resting on one's laurels will only lead to terrible failure!
When the fireships rushed towards the Huben Guards navy under the vigorous rowing of the crews, the extremely fast-firing artillery of the Huben Guards began to take action.
A large number of cannonballs began to pour into the fire ships, and at the same time, more than ten Cangshan ships equipped with giant rockets appeared.
These Cangshan ships have only one mission: use the giant rockets on the ships to destroy the enemy's fire ships!
A large number of burning huge rockets drew a terrifying line of fire in the sky, and then rushed towards the fire ships with ferocious faces.
With a sound of "Boom--", a giant rocket accurately landed on the fire ship. In an instant, the fire that shot up into the sky completely submerged the fire ship.
Then, countless soldiers appeared on the dozen Cangshan ships, with ignited rockets in their hands.
The fire snakes danced wildly in the sky, accompanied by sharp roars. They shot at each other one by one. And those artillery pieces also played the music of death on the battlefield more cheerfully.
Fire ships caught fire one after another, and they sank one after another... The sailors on the ship were also engulfed by the terrible fire in the shortest time, and then made the most miserable cries. They were buried in the
on his own ship...
In just a moment, nearly half of the more than a hundred fire boats were wiped out, and the rest lost all determination and courage in an instant.
It's terrible. This kind of tactics is terrible.
The Huben Guards had long expected that the Zheng family's navy would definitely use fire ship tactics, and they were fully prepared to deal with it. Those Cangshan ships loaded with giant rockets were specially designed to deal with the Zheng family's fire ships!
More than a dozen fireships reluctantly approached, but then a large number of shooters holding muskets appeared on the Huben Guards' warships, and the muskets in their hands continued to mercilessly swallow up lives...
In a sense, this is not a battle, this is just a terrible massacre...
By chance, the two fireships collided with the enemy's warship, and the warship caught fire. However, the sailors who had been prepared quickly began to put out the fire without being affected at all and becoming panicked.
Before the war, they had rehearsed countless times how they should deal with such a situation.
Therefore, the sailors of the Zheng family, who had worked hard to achieve their goal, could only watch the fire on the enemy's warship getting smaller and smaller, laughing more and more until it was completely extinguished...
Zheng Zhilong pursed his lips and watched everything that happened in front of him without saying a word. Not only did the fire ship have no effect, but it also cost him another vital force.
Zheng Zhibao, who is famous for his bravery in the sea, was defeated. Now, the fire ship tactics that the Zheng family is proud of have also failed. What else can they hope for?
At this time, Zhang Xianxuan and Cai Jiuzhou on the left and right wings also launched attacks at the same time. Opposite them, the enemies were Gao Yingyue and Zheng Zhifeng respectively.
Zheng Zhifeng, like Zheng Zhibao, is an old rival of Hubenwei, and Gao Yingyue is also a powerful general under Zheng Zhilong.
Several failures made Zheng Zhifeng heighten his vigilance on the battlefield, but Gao Yingyue was completely different.
Zheng Zhibao's failure did not make him feel anything. In his opinion, Zheng Zhibao achieved his current status and reputation entirely because he was Zheng Zhilong's younger brother. When it came to his bravery and command in naval battles, he was no match for him.
From the beginning of the battle, he devoted all his strength. If he did not fight, he would defeat the enemy in the shortest possible time. However, the process of the war gradually escaped his control...
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Gao Yingyue encountered the same troubles as Zheng Zhibao: the enemy's ships were flexible, the artillery was powerful, and the rate of fire was very fast. He easily suppressed his own fleet.
Cannonballs fell in overwhelming numbers, and Gao Yingyue was shocked to find that under the opponent's almost crazy attack, his own fleet was unable to fight back!
This has never happened before in all the naval battles of the Zheng family navy.
This is simply impossible to happen!
But nightmares inevitably happen...
One after another, the warships were horribly destroyed by the enemy, and the enemy's losses still seemed minimal until now. Gao Yingyue even had this thought in his mind:
Maybe the enemy hasn't broken a sweat until now, right?
"boom--"
Gao Yingyue looked over there and saw that another Fu Ship was on fire. This was the most important warship in his fleet. This was the No. 2 Big Fu Ship. It had three layers of turrets. It was wide at the top and high at the head and tail. It could accommodate a hundred people and was as tall as
The bottom of the ship is wide, the bow is raised and spread out, the stern is high, and the draft is about seven feet. The bow is equipped with one red barbarian cannon, six thousand-jin Folang machines, three bowl-mouth blunderbuss, and twenty thunder cannons.
, sixty nozzles, ten muskets, five hundred crossbows, ten gunpowder crossbows, three hundred rockets, one hundred fire bricks, and thousands of weapons. The crew was sixty-four.
This kind of giant ship has three floors above. The sides are guarded by boards, protected by bamboos, and stand upright like a wall. It has two sails and masts. There are four floors in the middle. The lower floor is equipped with ballast stones, and the third floor is placed with fresh water tanks.
The second floor is where the soldiers live. The uppermost floor is a terrace, which needs to be climbed up from the ladder on the third floor. The wings are used as railings on both sides, and people lean on it to fight. The arrows, stones and artillery are all overlooking the fire. It is actually a weapon in naval warfare.
But even such a behemoth at sea did not last long under the enemy's continuous attacks.
Gao Yingyue saw the crew members running and shouting in panic. At first, they were still struggling to put out the fire, but the growing fire soon made them choose to give up.
People kept jumping into the cold sea water, struggling with death.
Then, Gao Yingyue could only watch his main ship being engulfed in fire.
His heart was tightly twisted together. The No. 2 Dafu Ship was under the enemy's warship. It seemed that it did not resist for long before it suffered a devastating blow. So what about the ship he was on?
What kind of warships did the enemy use in naval battles?
Gao Yingyue didn't know that the Huben Guard Navy on the opposite side was using a huge, new-style "Tiger" series of warships: