Lieutenant General Wilster can be regarded as a general who has experienced many battles. He then dispersed the battleships and divided them into three squadrons, forming a huge fan on the sea and heading towards the Star Sea Fleet.
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This tactic worked quickly.
The navy of the Star Sea Kingdom has only been established for less than three years. Therefore, there is still a big gap between it and the Helan Fleet in terms of navigation technology, naval warfare thinking, etc.
These all led to the successful implementation of Lieutenant General Wilster's tactics.
Two of the Helan squadrons successfully closed the distance with several Starsea battleships and formed a semi-encirclement around them!
With the distance between the two sides less than 300 meters, the Helan battleship frantically poured out artillery fire towards the enemy ship.
Although the Helan warships' gun hit rate is very low, since the total number of warships in the two Helan squadrons exceeds 130, the absolute number of cannon shell hits has been greatly increased.
Every time a shell is seen hitting an enemy ship, a burst of cheers will be heard on the Helan battleship, which further encourages the gunners to speed up the reloading.
What the captains of the Helan battleships never expected was that the shells were actually bounced away when they hit the enemy ship's hull and even the deck!
This was beyond the captains’ expectations!
What exactly is going on?
Could it be that the devil had unleashed magic on their ship?
Various speculations arose in the minds of the captains.
But they never thought that the enemy's warship was covered with a thick layer of steel armor!
With this layer of steel armor, the most the Helan Battleship's round solid cannonballs can do when hitting the ship is to make a small dent appear on the steel armor, even if it wants to cause sawdust to fly on the deck.
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It has to be said that the wooden-hulled iron-clad ships that appeared two hundred years in advance showed unparalleled defense at this time, completely crushing the Helan ships that were not covered with iron armor.
In the shock of Captain Helan, the Star Sea Battleship successfully escaped the pursuit of Helan's fleet after increasing the output of its steam engine, eliminating their idea of engaging in a boarding battle.
From then on, under the strict orders of Wang Haitao and Lin Xuefeng, the Xinghai Battleship would never get closer than 800 meters to the Helan Battleship.
The flames of war are still burning on the sea.
When there were only a hundred or so Helan battleships left, Lieutenant General Wilster finally woke up from his dream of defeating the enemy and issued an order to retreat.
Faced with the retreat of the Helan Fleet, the Xinghai Fleet only pursued it for more than ten nautical miles in a symbolic manner, then turned around, captured the Helan warships that had lost their combat effectiveness, and then returned to Yuxian Port.
It was not that Lin Xuefeng was unwilling to expand the results of the battle, but that he was unable to do so. Unfortunately, the naval battle was too fierce. Almost all the shells in stock on the battleships were almost exhausted, and the gunners were so tired that they collapsed one by one.
In the end, at the post-war summary meeting, everyone always believed that the main reason why the battle could not expand the results was that the battleships were not big enough, the caliber of the naval guns was not large enough, and the number of battleships was not enough!
It is conceivable that if the number of warships in the southbound fleet were doubled, it would be almost impossible for the Helan fleet to escape, unless a hurricane exceeding level 12 suddenly appeared on the sea.
But no matter what, the victory in this naval battle greatly encouraged the elders of the Star Sea Kingdom.
After all, everyone knows that at this time, the Helan people are really too strong!
Xinghai Kingdom has only been established for a few years, but it was able to defeat the Helan Fleet with less and more. This is simply a miracle.
However, just after defeating the Helan fleet, the merchants who went to contact Zheng Chenggong came back and brought back Zheng Chenggong's envoy Zheng Hereditary.
Zheng Chenggong is the fifth brother of Zheng Chenggong, and can be regarded as his right-hand man. In the history of this plane, after Zheng Chenggong passed away, Zheng Chenggong was immediately supported by his subordinates as the agent to recruit the general, but was eventually replaced by Zheng Chenggong's eldest son.
After Zheng Jing launched an army and was defeated, he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and was granted the title of first-class Ronglu doctor and cabinet minister by Kangxi.
However, it can also be seen from this that Zheng Hereditary is quite capable. Otherwise, he would not have been appointed as the envoy by Zheng Chenggong.
After contact and exchanges, the elders finally knew the purpose of Zheng Hereditary’s visit.
It turns out that Zheng Chenggong wanted to unite with the Xinghai Kingdom to launch an attack on the Qing army in the southern part of Hu Jian, so as to regain the southern part of Hu Jian. In addition, Zheng Chenggong also wanted to obtain the sales agency rights for the Xinghai Kingdom’s products and the export of firearms.
These requirements seemed a bit strange to the elders.
Why didn’t Zheng Chenggong seek an alliance with the Zhaowu regime? Why did he want to sell Xinghai Kingdom products? Didn’t it mean that the Zheng family was a sea pirate? In the past, he made a lot of money just by selling imperial flags.
But after looking through historical materials in the library, they came to understand.
The key reason why they did not unite with the Zhaowu regime was that the governor of Chaozhou at this time was Hao Shangjiu, who rebelled against the Qing Dynasty after surrendering to the Qing Dynasty. He had a long-standing rift with Zheng Chenggong. If he united with the Zhaowu regime, he would inevitably have to deal with him. This was not good for his ambition.
For the lofty Zheng Chenggong, this is really hard to accept.
The reason why he wanted to sell Xinghai products was all because of his father's blessing.
After Zheng Zhilong surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, although most of the ships and men left with Zheng Chenggong, most of the Zheng family's billions of wealth was in Zheng Zhilong's hands.
This also created an embarrassing situation where Zheng Chenggong seemed to be richest in the world, but in fact the Zheng family army often could not even raise food and salary.
After all, after Zheng Zhilong surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and Zheng Chenggong rebelled against the Qing Dynasty, it was no longer possible for the Zheng Jiajun to do the business without capital. At most, they could only carry out some trade to maintain a living.
The elders also learned a lot about the Zheng family's army through the banquet given to Zheng Hereditary and other channels.
For example, at this time, the Zheng family army had not yet defeated the Helan people and recovered the territory of Damuan Island that had been invaded by the Helan people.
To put it simply, the Helan people built two castles on Damuan Island at this time, one was Relanjia City, and the other was Prominjia City. Since the completion of the construction of these two castles, they have echoed each other, and the castles are decorated with
There are many forts filled with food and ammunition, which are really difficult to conquer.
But even so, after the Xinghai State Senate passed a resolution, it still decided to support Zheng Chenggong.
After all, the Qing army is now powerful and has swept through most of the Ming Dynasty's territory. If Zheng Chenggong can be made more active, it will undoubtedly be able to greatly restrain the Qing army, thus giving Xinghai Kingdom more time to develop.
After arriving in Xinghai City, Zheng Xixi, who had never received a definite reply from the people of Xinghai, returned to the hotel dejectedly.
To say that Xinghai City really opened his eyes.
You need to know that for someone like Zheng Xixi, who comes from a family of giant maritime merchants and pirates, what kind of scenery has he not seen before, what kind of food and entertainment have he not seen before?
But in this Xinghai City, he was really shocked many times.