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Chapter 391: Zheng Zhilong's Fiasco

At this time, the Zheng He was like a lion suddenly attacking. Both layers of artillery opened, spraying fire tongues, pouring tons of steel on Zheng Zhilong's right-wing fleet.

The explosion of the flowering bullet and the flammable agent caused the wooden hulls of countless ships in Zheng Zhilong's right wing fleet to ignite a raging fire in an instant.

Many pirates were also buried in the sea of ​​fire, jumping into the boat and shouting like ghosts and wolves howling. The sharks swaying in the sea seemed to know that in this case, food would always fall from above, so most of them were waiting here early, and as long as someone fell into the sea, they would just take it into their mouths.

Zheng Zhilong's right-wing fleet was also busy changing directions. More than a dozen large soft sailboats lined up like mountains covering the sky and sun, and double rows of artillery fired at Zheng He in a dive.

Countless iron bullets smashed onto the head of Zheng He like heavy rain. Zheng He's command forced Heiwa to order all crew members to hide back into the cabin immediately to avoid unnecessary casualties.

At the same time, the Zheng He had to evacuate here quickly immediately, because although the Zheng He was fast and quick to react, the size of the Zheng He was not as big as that of these giant ships that were similar to a building. If they stayed here, they would be in a passive state of being beaten.

Therefore, the Zheng He had to quickly evacuate here, but because of its own fast speed, it was able to break out before Zheng Zhilong's ship completely surrounded him. However, it still suffered some losses. Some masts were broken a lot, and even the originally smooth iron hull was smashed into potholes. Some machines inside the hull were shattered, and two steam cylinders were also damaged, which slowed down the horsepower of the entire Zheng He a lot.

But despite this, the speed of Zheng He is still far better than these wooden sailboats. Every time these large wooden sailboats attempt to use a tactic of bullying the less, Zheng He can always cleverly avoid it and attack these large wooden sailboats from behind in a elusive way.

The supply ships affiliated to the Zhenghe and the ships assisting with the shelling can also quickly switch positions and functions. Once the Zhenghe is in a crisis that is about to be surrounded, a more agile small warship will carry liquid explosives to break through the barriers to provide the Zhenghe with a breaking direction. Once the Zhenghe breaks out, the supply ships can be refilled immediately, and a combat team will quickly transport the Danshui and coal mines to the Zhenghe.

In this way, the Zheng Hao can still be at ease in the right wing of the Zheng family pirate group where warships gather, forcing Zheng Zhilong's right wing to fight against the Zheng He and have no time to take care of the left wing.

At this time, Zheng Zhilong's left wing was much worse. The Yu Qian and Xu Da were like two crab legs of crabs, biting the head and tail of the left wing hard, forcing Zheng Zhilong's left wing to look at each other, and hundreds of warships on the entire left wing could not move.

As long as the ship on its left wing dares to emerge, the Yu Qian or Xu Da can quickly turn the gun and aim it at it and bombard it, forcing it to retract.

Zheng Zhilong's left wing also wanted to counterattack, but whenever the ships on its left wing wanted to counterattack, the Yu Qian and Xu Da could always evacuate quickly. At the same time, the small warship they belonged to would not let go if they bite a large warship as soon as they bite it, and they would have to blow it up beyond recognition.

The two main fleets, with the two flagships of the Yuqian and Xuda as the core, kept turning around according to the changes in the wind direction and hunting Zheng Zhilong's left-wing fleet in different directions.

Zheng Zhilong was so angry that he gritted his teeth. His boat was also on the left wing, but he didn't expect that the hundreds of warships on his side would have no choice but to use these two strange fleets equipped with two fleets.

At the beginning, Zheng Zhilong, who had the ambition to eat the two fleets of the imperial court on his left wing alone, had to consider the way forward of his left wing, and immediately ordered the main fleets of each battalion to turn around before the camp was completely in chaos and quickly moved closer to the right wing.

Gu Sanmazi, who was also commanding the battle on the Yu Qian, also saw the changes in Zheng Zhilong's left-wing ships, and immediately ordered the Yu Qian and Xu Da to merge and quickly penetrate the right wing to hunt Zheng Zhilong's right wing.

Zheng Zhilong's right-wing ships were sieging the Zheng He. Dozens of large wooden sailboats were circling around the Zheng He. Although it also caused Zheng He to eat a lot of solid bullets, the Zheng He's hull was completely destroyed and its deck was also on fire. Fortunately, the main hull was called fireproof materials, so it was not much damaged.

However, other functional ships affiliated to the Zheng He were seriously damaged. Nearly one-third of the small warships were smashed into wood chips, and ten imperial wooden ships and supply ships that assisted the attack were destroyed, making the Zheng He fleet increasingly weak.

But when the Yu Qian and Xu Da arrived, the battle situation suddenly reversed.

Zheng Zhilong's direct commander of the right wing is Zheng Hongkui. Zheng Hongkui is now mobilizing all his main warships to siege the Zheng He. It is not estimated that two other forces from the court have been surrounded by his wings.

On this side, when the Yu Qian and Xu Da arrived, they opened the cannon door without hesitation, aimed at the butts of dozens of large wooden sailboats and banged violently.

After a loud rumbling sound, many of the main warships of Zheng's pirates were blown up in an instant, and the surging sea water was poured directly into it. At first, these large wooden sailboats facing the Zheng He were arrogantly facing the Zheng He, and in a blink of an eye, they had to face the fate of being sunk.

The encirclement and suppression of the Zheng He was instantly disintegrated due to the arrival of the Yu Qian and Xu Da. Zheng Zhilong's right wing, who was not prepared, had to face a more severe fire strike than the left wing.

Zheng Zhilong grinned at this. Although his fourth brother is resourceful, he is slightly inferior to his second and third brothers in naval battles, but he is not a general as a strategist. Especially in this kind of actual combat, his fourth brother only knows to catch a fleet and completely ignore the entire battlefield and other enemy fleets.

But it is useless to say this now. Zheng Zhilong's second brother Zheng Zhilong is now working hard to carry ammunition in the cabin of the Zheng He. When an enemy ship approached and crashed towards him, he shouted conditionally: "Pay attention to the flange, turn the direction, break the mast with the right door cannon, force its direction to change, and avoid collision!"

After hearing what he shouted, the gunner beside him was already panicked and didn't know how to control it. Seeing this, Zheng Zhilong pushed the gunner away directly, started loading his ammunition and debugging the direction.

Suddenly, a large enemy ship that attempted to die with the Zheng He suddenly broke its mast and the sails sailing against the wind fell down instantly, causing the large enemy ship to sway left and right because it lost power.

"Who did it? It's so pretty!"

Gu Sanmazi couldn't help but cheer loudly, and let the Yuqian run into it directly. The iron-wrapped bow of the Yuqian ship was like an iron plow, and the large enemy ship that attempted to die with the Zheng He was directly plowed into two sections.

Zheng Zhilong's left-wing fleet finally caught up, but Gu Sanmazi decisively ordered the three fleets to withdraw from the battle immediately. Within the safe range where the Zheng pirates could not be bombarded, the three fleets lined up in a row, opened the artillery door, and aimed at the main fleet that was closed on Zheng Zhilong's side, and there was a burst of bombardment.

Among the countless splashes of water, countless wood chips and corpses could be seen blown into the sky, and then they fell into the water like dumplings.

...

Zheng Zhilong punched the railing, feeling extremely angry!

He previously thought that his two brothers were defeated by Gu Sanmazi just because his two brothers were brave and insulted, and underestimated the enemy, and his court's ships, powerful guns.

But now, he understood that the Ming Dynasty was only more than a year short, and it improved not only by warships and artillery, but also by tactical configurations. He now understood why it was so difficult for him to annihilate its main ships, because these seemingly messy warships cooperated according to certain rules, and even these large and small ships served the core main ships.

At this time, after Zheng Zhilong's left and right wing fleets gathered, the imperial court also stopped attacking.

The water from the shells was blown everywhere, so that the sea surface, which was waving due to the hull shaking, became calm again.

Zheng Zhilong dared not put the main ships of each battalion too much, so that the court easily opened the incision and carried out the tactics of each defeat.

Now the Zheng Group can only have the main ships of each battalion next to each other and be winged by each other, so as not to encounter the situation where the court's fast and slipperier warships attacked him but caught him off guard.

On the court, Gu Sanmazi couldn't help laughing when he saw that the Zheng group's tactics began to become conservative and no longer provocative: "I thought this guy named Zheng was so capable. Now it seems that he is just a false reputation. Before I could fire a few shots, he was so scared that he didn't dare to piss on his head, just like a turtle shrank and dared not appear!"

"This Zheng surnamed Zheng must have never seen the Three Kingdoms. He can concentrate so many ships together, but he forgets that this will make us more conducive to the fire attack. These pirates have definitely not read the Three Kingdoms."

Qin Botong, who was also on the name Yuqian, couldn't help but add a sentence.

"If these uneducated guys have studied the early exam for the Three Kingdoms scholars, why are they still pirates? Now, let's take a good lesson with him." Gu Sanmazi said as he ordered: "Send the order, the three fleets approach the enemy's main force in a fan-shaped manner, attack from three directions, stop outside the enemy's artillery range, and then bombard the Zheng family's pirate from above and down from the flight battalion. Anyway, all his ships must be burned. At the same time, the three main battleships are used as cover, and the other small warships are the main force to attack from the sea!"

With Gu Sanmazi's order, the three main fleets of the Ming Dynasty court immediately drove towards the main fleet of the Zheng Group after a brief rest.

On Zheng Zhilong's side, all the main ships of each battalion suddenly opened the gun door as if they were facing a great enemy, and countless black muzzles were directly aimed at the three directions that were attacking this side.

But to their surprise, the three main fleets of the Ming Dynasty's court still stopped outside their range, which made the Zheng pirates feel very aggrieved and want to fight but can't.

However, at this time, the careful Zheng Zhilong discovered that countless large ball-like objects rose on the enemy warship opposite, and accompanied by some bold unicycle-shaped aircraft.

This made some Zheng pirates feel an inexplicable sense of fear, and one of them couldn't help but exclaim: "Who are these people? Could it be the legendary heavenly soldiers and generals? I didn't expect that the court had the ability to invite people from heaven. Then, in this way, we are fighting against the old man!"

Before Zheng Zhilong and others could come back from their doubts, there were already soldiers from the flight camp who threw the gas bags into the densely distributed main battalions fleets of Zheng Zhilong.

Suddenly, countless ships began to spread fire, and the small warships on the court also attacked large-scale sailing ships on Zheng Zhilong's side. Some of the ships that were already good were immediately sunk directly to the bottom of the sea.

Zheng Zhilong actually realized that he would easily be attacked by fire like this, otherwise he would not have let the big ship outside or small ship inside. What he wanted was that when the main ships of the court carried out fire attacks, he could force the three main ships of the court to retreat through the dense artillery fire of large wooden sailboats on the periphery, forcing them to be unable to approach him and to attack him.

But what Zheng Zhilong didn't expect was that Gu Sanmazi would change his mind and let his three main ships no longer take on the main attack but act as cover. Instead, the smallest warship would attack his large wooden sailboat with fire.

In this way, it is difficult for high-rise artillery like myself to bomb these small warships that are densely packed like locusts but more agile, and at the same time, many large balls (hot air balloons) that can directly throw fires out above their heads.

Zheng Zhilong and his pirates were very surprised by this and became a little scared.

Many of their ships have been burned with raging fire, and even other warships next to each other were ignited.

Seeing this, Zheng Zhilong had to order his fleet to disperse immediately and directly seize the upper hand to directly attack the Ming ships.

But what Zheng Zhilong did not expect was that when he ordered the main fleets of each battalion to disperse, Gu Sanmazi ordered three main ships to chase them immediately, and had to completely destroy the main fleets of these pirates.

After several confrontations, Zheng Zhilong's fleet was getting fewer and fewer, and in the end, only dozens of warships were still intact.

The court gradually gained the upper hand and did not pay attention to any tactics. It directly suppressed Zheng Zhilong's fleet to fight. Zheng Zhilong refused to be beaten passively, so he simply fled directly to Japan.

Gu Sanmazi hurriedly ordered the three main ships to catch up immediately and chased after Ryukyu Seed Island before surrounding Zheng Zhilong's last little residual force.

But after a fierce battle, there was no trace of Zheng Zhilong.

Gu Sanmazi couldn't help but feel very upset about this. He didn't expect Zheng Zhilong to run away so well.
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