Try to set the boat on fire!

In naval battles, this is a normal operation.

When navies from all over the world are operating in combat, they mostly operate in this way when they encounter enemy merchant ships. The reasons are exactly the same as those of Zheng Sen. Burn or sink enemy ships and kill them as much as possible. This is the law of the prevailing era, because every merchant ship may transform into an enemy naval fleet.

Death is also the awareness that all sailors should have.

After the order was given, the sloops were released. The bows of the boats were equipped with several rocket launchers. After the sailors rowed the boats to approach the shooting position, they shot in a burst of rapid fire at the group of enemy merchant ships.

The rocket was dragging white tail smoke and roaring towards the ships. Many ships in the harbor were about to sail and walk away. At the moment when the rocket hit the canvas and exploded, napalm in the rocket immediately splashed, and fire dragons instantly ignited the sails. The masts and the falling oil blocks ignited the decks and fell into the cabin from the gap. The cabin caused a lot of fire. When the oil blocks burned and splashed, they also landed onto nearby ships, igniting the surrounding ships.

But just a few hundred incendiary bombs turned the entire bay into a sea of ​​fire. The oil splattered on the sea floated there and burned with the boats. For a moment, the smoke in the bay rolled and flames were everywhere, like a grand bonfire party. The bonfires were actually burning ships.

Although the flames in the harbor made Zheng Sen and others red, he still commanded the fleet to launch fire on the Ottoman warships in the harbor, and then the arson ships joined in and fired incendiary bombs at the Ottoman warships.

Such a violent blow is something that no one has ever experienced before.

Michel, who had seen the suspicion before, was even more shocked by the ferocity of the Chinese, but did not run away like others. Of course, he had no intention of helping the Ottomans. When the Ottomans were shot by the Chinese, Michel, who was prepared one step earlier than other ships in the port, took advantage of the gap when the Chinese were busy eliminating the Turkish warships and secretly sailed to the outermost perimeter of the harbor.

In addition to Michelle, dozens of ships from various countries escaped at the same time. When they ran away, they did not forget to flap their own national flags, for fear that the other party would not know their identity, so they burned them together.

Their actions attracted the attention of a Ming warship. In front of them, there was a burst of fierce artillery fire and huge water columns, which scared Michelle and others. When the sailors wanted to fight back, Michel shouted loudly.

"Don't fight back, don't fight back, they don't want to sink us!"

Indeed, just as Michelle speculated, Zheng Sen had no intention of sinking merchant ships from various countries. After blocking merchant ships from various countries with a bombardment, he ordered.

"Tell them to stop on the spot and wait for disposal. Some escapees are regarded as enemies at first!"

"Prime Minister, they have lowered their sails!"

After seeing the other party lowering the sails, Li Qingwu smiled.

"The Prime Minister's goal has been achieved!"

"not yet."

Zheng Sen glanced at the obedient merchant ships and issued an order decisively.

"Order the fireboat to fire rockets on the shore!"

"Yes, Prime Minister."

Without any doubt, Li Qingwu quickly conveyed the Prime Minister's order. Perhaps he was the admiral of the squadron, but he knew very well that he was obeying the Prime Minister in England, which was also the reason why he was willing to accept Zheng Sen's command. The facts proved that Zheng Sen did have his unique features in naval battles.

With a command, the arson ships immediately aimed at the city on the shore with rocket launchers. Hundreds of rockets dragged long tail smoke into the air and fell into the city. At the port, a group of fires burned in the port.

Two hours later, Lassi City, like the port, was trapped in a fire, and hundreds of Ottoman naval warships that once gathered here were either bombed and sunk in the port or turned into a bunch of bonfires. As for the Ottoman sailors, they either sank the ships into the sea of ​​sea or in the fire... When they met their prophets, the Turks who survived on the shore were all fleeing in the sea of ​​fire with grimace. They were full of fear and still had no idea how this happened.

Not to mention them, even the captains and sailors of merchant ships from various countries who were forced by the Ming army to lower their sails on the sea, they looked at each other in all their eyes. Whether it was the burning ships in the bay or the burning city, all of this made Michelle and others have the illusion of being in a dream.

It is undeniable that the Chinese launched a sneak attack, but all this happened too quickly. It was so fast that it was not even empty to think. It took only two hours from the Chinese who broke into fire to the complete destruction of everything here, and all of them saw a shocking scene of Ottoman warships being blown into pieces in the Ming army's artillery fire!

They didn't even have the power to fight back!

It may take less than an hour before and all the Ottoman warships were blown to pieces!

This is simply unimaginable. After all, the naval battles in this era are long and may last for several days. Both sides bombard tens of thousands of artillery guns, and in the end, it may still be determined by arson ships. Of course, this does not rule out that a warship was hit by a firebomb and caused an explosion, causing the warship to sink. However, like the Chinese, after several fierce artillery fires, the solid warships turned into a pile of broken wooden boards, which they had never seen.

Even, because of this, the calm captains accepted the orders of the Chinese to lower the sails. They did not want to turn themselves into a certain bonfire in the fire.

"Oh, God. These Chinese are simply a group of demons who come out of hell. They are not fighting a naval battle, but are... opening a bonfire. They actually dare to attack Lassii after only sixteen ships..."

Indeed, no one could imagine that the Chinese would be so bold. When everything was over, people were still terrified that the Chinese were at least not enemies with them.

Compared to them, the Turks on the shore were completely stunned. Even when the Chinese retreated from the battlefield and left, looking at the Chinese who went away, someone was crying and crying to the fleet commander Ibrahim, "General, the Chinese are gone, the Chinese are gone..."

"Have the Chinese left?"

Ibrahim was stunned for a while, then looked at the port that was trapped in the sea of ​​fire, listened to the screams that came into his ears, and then said in an extremely helpless tone.

"But so what? How should we explain to Sudan when Istanbul knows our failure and wait for us to die still? "

Ibrahim said in despair.

The Ottoman Empire had extremely strict military laws and had zero tolerance for failed generals. Not to mention failed generals, even those who won the battle would also lose their heads. Just when they just conquered Crete more than ten years ago, the winning generals were waiting for them not the commendation of the Sultan, but the cold guillotine, because the Sultan and the concubines believed that there were too few spoils, so they felt dissatisfied. Since then, the generals who continued to fight would inevitably feel like they were dead and cooked. The siege of Heraklion, the capital of Crete, eventually turned into a tug-of-war, and there was no hope of quick victory.

This is true for the winner, let alone the loser!

The Ottoman Empire dealt with the loser very simply, just sending a black eunuch to come, taking the imperial edict from the Sultan, and then ordering his head to be chopped off. It was not one person who was chopped off, but dozens, or even hundreds of generals.

"Yes... but old, we can report to Istanbul, just say that we were attacked by the Chinese... Oh, and the Venetians. Yes! It's a huge fleet... there are... hundreds, no, two hundred warships. We fought tenaciously, very tenaciously, and severely damaged the enemy's warships."

Sometimes, it is acceptable to make up lies to save your life. This kind of lie is of course a kind of lie with good intentions, for them and Türkiye.

"Venetians, do they still have the ability to attack us?"

This is not important at all. For them, it doesn't matter whether the Venetians have that ability. What is important is that the Venetians and the Chinese collude.

That's why they were caught off guard by the Chinese and Venetians.

That's right!

This is exactly the reason for their failure. No, they did not fail at all. They were just sneak attacked by the despicable and shameless Venetians. Failed? When did Türkiye fail?
Chapter completed!