Chapter 177 Minghe Naval Battle (8) Second update tonight
Ruffin felt that those hazy fireballs, accompanied by Akito's shouts brought by the sea breeze, were really an extremely pleasant symphony of music and painting.
At the military port of Liaoluowan, tonight there are not only the warships of the Fujian Navy of the Ming Army, but also some of the ships of General Yan from Taiwan.
Because a few days ago, the sailors of the Victoria pretended to be merchants and got news from Taiyuan Port. Several of Yan Siqi's ships were in dilapidated condition, and the trees on Taiwan Island were mostly overly flammable species and were not suitable for port and starboard ships.
Yan Siqi’s ship then sailed to Liaoluo Bay to repair the planks, and teak was transported from Xiamen to repair them.
To use the Ming dialect taught by Gulit, this means killing two birds with one stone.
After a killing tonight, the Dutch fleet will leave behind the fragments of Ming ships and the corpses of Ming soldiers that litter the harbor, turn the helm and raise the sails. After replenishing gunpowder in Penghu, they will continue to rush to the eastern port of Taiyuan, severely damaging General Yan's camp there.
department.
Only when the Ming Dynasty experienced the power of the new Galenic warships and cannons at several military ports along the coast of Fujian did they realize that the Portuguese were a thing of the past.
The national gate from Fujian to Guangdong must and can only be opened to the Dutch. The entrepot trade from the entire Far East to Southeast Asia will be dominated by the Dutch!
While Lu Fen was thinking about this, a "boom" sound suddenly sounded on the sea not far away, and huge waves were set off.
In an instant, the spray of water exploded, and the wind hit the faces of Ruffin and Byrne, more like a downpour, pouring on the two Yahat assault ships in front of the Groningen, attracting the sailors on the ship, and
The sergeants who were about to land on the beach yelled and cursed.
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The Ahat assault ship was smaller than the large Galen ship, but it was only one to two hundred tons, but it was still shaken from side to side by the impact.
Bourne said loudly to Ruffin: "The Ming army finally woke up. It seems that the shell they fired is not small."
Lu Fen grinned, showing his teeth that were brightly illuminated by the firelight: "Yes, they are not small, but listen, there is only this sound, this is the true appearance of the Ming army's battleships, God, they are so rich, but they are
There is only one cannon on the bow of the ship. Bourne, have you ever seen a navy more ridiculous than the Ming army? Hahahaha."
There was another loud noise nearby, and the Dutch carefully identified it. It was a cannonball fired from a different direction from the open ship that fired the cannon just now. This time the cannonball was closer, although it did not effectively hit any of the five Galenic warships.
Any one of them almost hit several Yahat boats and exploded.
One Yahat ship was even severely tilted by the turbulent waves.
A dozen Dutch soldiers fell into the water on the ship. On the sea illuminated by the fire, you could see their heads rising and falling with the light and shadow, and then slowly approached the mother ship. They were rescued by their comrades on the ship and climbed onto the deck.
"Look, the Ming army is the most powerful. Yes, they have ships, but we have destroyed many of them. They have cannons, but each ship only has one. To our west, in the direction of Xiamen in the Ming Dynasty,
There are no reinforcement ships coming. The Ming people are slow and arrogant, and they are completely unprepared for tonight's sneak attack. Warriors, the beach is right in front of us, and we will be able to land soon!"
The captains of Galen and Arhat howled to encourage the soldiers and sailors, and the latter rejoiced.
Historically, it would take ten years for the Dutch to completely annihilate the Spanish fleet, which was once the maritime hegemon, in the port of Antwerp, and it would take more than thirty years before they would engage in battle with the British fleet in Dover and the English Channel.
At this time, the Dutch had just tasted the victory of developing Batavia, a small island in the Indian Ocean, into a company headquarters.
Tonight, for the first time, they faced the coastal defense gate of a huge empire. They could drive strong ships without any scruples, use sharp cannons to ram it open, and kill the generals and soldiers inside. This was the same as they slaughtered sheep.
Black slave or yellow slave labor is a completely different experience, a victory blessed with great pleasure.
"Fire!"
"go ahead!"
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In the northwest of Kinmen Island, on the sea between Guningtou and Lieyu, fifty Ming army boats that had been refitted for a month were like poisonous snakes swimming in the muddy shadows in the dark night, silently crossing the long and narrow waterways, burrowing into materials.
In the thick fog on the west side of the bay.
Zheng Zhilong was sitting on one of the boats, paddling hard with more than a dozen Ming soldiers on his left and right.
After the fleet arrived near Liaoluo Bay, they lowered their sails to avoid being discovered by the Dutch in the fierce battle.
However, relying on human power to paddle does not slow down its speed too much. Because of its small size, the waves can still push it to move significantly.
The appearance of these ships is also very strange. The bows are nailed with cast iron spear points that look like flying geese. On the top of the canopy made of cowhide, a wooden frame is used to support a wide wooden board, and a large number of wooden strips are tied to the wooden board with hemp ropes.
, piled as high as a hill.
If the Minghe battleships exchanging fire in the distance are like ligers fighting each other, the fifty ships in front of us are like tiny ants.
But ants can swallow elephants.
"Boys, stop the oars. The wind is about to turn northwest. Let's put down the cowhide and check the iron rings and cables on the front and rear of the ship."
In front of Zheng Zhilong, the leader of the ship turned to order his brothers.
There were also sounds of Kerala coming from the surrounding ships.
Immediately, it fell into silence again.
Suddenly, a torch lit up on the leading pilot boat. In the bright light, the semaphore was accurately passed back.
"Pull hard and aim at the big ship!"
"ignition!"
"Jump ship!"
"Connect!"
In the strong northwest wind that suddenly blew in the middle of the night, five or six ships from the first camp took the lead.
Zheng Zhilong and his brothers on the same boat jumped into the sea from under the cowhide the moment the oiled wooden planks above their heads were set on fire.
These strong men, who are more familiar with waves than flat land, rely on their solid water skills and previous training to cooperate with each other tacitly, accurately dragging the cables, and connecting with neighboring ships.
The sea around Zheng Zhilong suddenly became brilliant and brilliant, as if the blood-thousand-mile sunset reflected the sea water red.
The young Fujianese could even clearly see the frightened expressions of the Dutch sailors on the nearest Yahat ship who were suddenly facing the Feu ship.
The sea water was very cold, but Zheng Zhilong felt his cheeks were burning.
Having never experienced a naval battle in the regular army, he wanted to swim further and see with his own eyes the first batch of burning boats, hunting in the wind, with the iron spears on the bows piercing the hull of the enemy ship.
Then like the line of fire from hell, it surrounded the two Yahat ships that were unlucky at first.
Zheng Zhilong wanted to listen to the screams of the invaders crying for their fathers and mothers, witness them helplessly jumping into the sea, and enjoy the scene of the Dutch ships being burned to pieces. Then he returned to the Kinmen Guardhouse and told Sister Azhu vividly.
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But after all, he was not so impulsive as to play with his life after completing the military order.
He soon followed the first batch of Ming troops and swam hard to Liao Luo Wan Beach.
Behind them, the Ming troops on the second and third batches of fireships followed the same pattern, except that they aimed at the large Galenic warship behind Yahat's ship, the Victoria.
Next, not only the Victoria, but also all five Galenic warships of the Dutch will taste the barbecue gift given by the Ming Navy, which they despised.
One kilometer away on the top of Kinmen Mountain, Gullit, like the captains, could not believe his eyes.
When the war first started, although he saw clearly that the so-called Ming army ships that were bombarded by artillery fire at the foot of the mountain were just broken ships moored in the harbor, he also saw clearly that there were real Ming army gunboats, cruising out of the harbor from both sides to fight the Dutch warships.
, but he secretly sneered.
Because, the first half of the scene he watched showed the undoubted superior firepower of his motherland's fleet.
He never thought that the so-called firepower was not just guns and cannons.
When he witnessed the low but dense Ming army gunships besieging the tall and majestic Dutch Galen ship, Gullit stammered and exclaimed: "What are those? God, why do those ships look like fire dragons with eyes?"
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Zheng Haizhu turned her head and glanced at him, thinking, yes, you are in charge of the atmosphere team and you are quite good at cheering.
I will give you a copy of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" later.
Note: The attack of Ming warships on Dutch warships is a real example in history. In 1622 and 1633, in the Battle of Penghu Island and the Battle of Liaoluo Bay, the Dutch were attacked by the Ming army's skilled fireship technology. In 1622
Fujian governor Shang Zhouzuo, Xiamen guerrilla Zhang Yongchan in 1633, and the Five Tigers guerrilla Zheng Zhilong drove away the Dutch invaders twice with naval battles.