The general of the Ming Dynasty's fleet was not Shen Tingyang, who gave out three hundred merchant ships, but the reason was that although he was a wealthy family in Jiangnan, he was born as a merchant after all.

The country needs merchants, but the identity of merchants is extremely low.

Giving him a position given to the Ministry of War as a reward is already a high opinion of him.

Therefore, the current general of the Ming Navy is Ruan Dayue's confidant, Wang Hongfan, the former remnant of the eunuch party.

The reason why he was able to do this is because, according to the key reasons proposed by Ruan Dayue, Wang Hongfan was originally from a poor family and had studied hard on the boat for ten years.

Remember, the key is that it was once, and the key is that it was on the ship for ten years.

Looking at the court, who is more familiar with the ship than him?

This is similar to the one who appointed Yuan Chonghuan as the Liaodong Supervisor once fought.

Shi Kefa also began to have a headache about his former Donglin Party and the Restoration Society. The current Donglin Party and the Restoration Society originated from the Donglin Party are both party struggles and cooperation, and are also a common backer Zuo Liangyu.

A new army was built, and someone who knew how to ship was not the two parties to command the navy and balance the aggressive Zuo Liangyu.

The current Nanming Navy has realized the grand idea of ​​the original planner Chen Tingyang. It has more than 2,000 ships of various types, and has more than 20,000 naval officers and soldiers.

But unfortunately, it was a pity that the original intention of deviating from this idea and through the sea, he became a real enemy of the enemy under the major policy of Shi Kefa to save the people of the north, raise funds for the south of the Yangtze River, and join forces with the Qing Dynasty to jointly suppress bandits. Isn’t this quite sad?

This batch of goods was very important, so they dispatched thirty armed merchant ships.

Yes, because warships are also responsible for smuggling and raise military salaries for the four towns in Jiangbei, they are called armed merchant ships.

He led a hundred merchant ships from other aristocratic families and drove northward in a mighty manner.

It was so spectacular that thousands of sails were like forests, covered with the sea.

Wang Hongfan, wearing distinctive armor, stood on the deck of the flagship, facing the vast sea in the north, and his heart was filled with pride.

If the task is completed smoothly this time, you can take another step and enter the Ministry of War.

However, I will never go to the Ministry of War to be a free official. Where is it important to have a complete army?

Now is a chaotic world, and there must be guns and soldiers in your hands in troubled times.

In addition, in just two months, my own smuggling dividends and the filial piety of major families have already built a huge house in my hometown of Fenghua.

Although it has not been completed, the exquisite carving and magnificent momentum have suppressed the accumulation of all the wealthy people around them for a hundred years.

It was really prominent in the local area.

If you have another title of Minister of War or Minister of War, then you will be truly glorious. The ancestral tombs are either smoke-filled, but it will be like an explosion.

With a "boom", a whistling flowering bullet exploded next to his flagship.

When the raised water column fell, it felt like a heavy rain, and it made him feel cold in a blink of an eye.

Wang Hongfan was shocked and shouted at his subordinates: "Which bastard is gone? You can check it out quickly. Find it out, I will take his whole family's life."

Now he is a member of the party, and he is in charge of the constitution. It is easy to take and kill people.

The entourages around were also confused and searched around.

At this time, a relatively experienced pirate subordinate pointed to the far sea level in the distance and warned loudly: "Sir General, this is not a fire in our fleet, this is the enemy's fleet correction shell."

It seemed to be verifying his correctness. In a blink of an eye, a hissing sound came again in the air. The crow-like projectile smashed over at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Protect the adults quickly and enter the cabin." The personal soldiers immediately pressed his head and dragged him into the cabin.

At this time, these shells fell down one after another, and in this sea area, water columns soaring into the sky were blown up.

One of the flowering bullets fell directly on the bow of his flagship ship. With a loud bang, the fireworks splashed, and his nose was smashed, and it ignited a raging fire.

"Hurry, put out the fire."

A group of soldiers carried buckets and mop desperately and tried their best to rescue them.

Valley waist

This is not to say how brave everyone is, but that everyone is already on this boat. Once the boat is destroyed, no one can escape.

After the first batch of shells fell, a brief calm appeared on the sea surface.

Wang Hongfei ran out of the cabin with his helmet covered his helmet.

"Calculate the losses quickly and investigate who dares to attack us."

The loss was lightly released. The enemy fired more than 200 shells in total, and only three ships were hit.

At this time, the lookout whistle lying on the tail pole, holding a clairvoyance in his hand, and reported loudly to the bottom: "There are twelve battleships on the opposite side.

Originally, Wang Hongfan thought that some pirate who was not open to his eyes attacked him.

But I didn't expect it was a fleet holding the Ming army flag.

Who else can there be a fleet holding the Ming army flag? The navy from Shandong.

"It's against it, and those guys from Shandong dare to attack our imperial fleet, and it's really against it."

Then he ordered loudly: "Check the flags and let them come and surrender, and I forgive him for his rebellion."

As a result, his order had not been issued here, and another batch of shells flew over.

Wang Hongfan immediately got into the cabin again.

The sound of a cannonball falling into the water outside, and the huge waves shaking his armed merchant ship like fallen leaves in the autumn wind.

Two more armed merchant ships were caught.

During the artillery battle, Wang Hongfan ran out of the cabin again. He saw that the Shandong Navy's warship was approaching him at a rapid speed.

The distance was long before, but the shooting accuracy was not enough. Now the distance was approaching, and with the density of the enemy shells, I could not bear it.

"Have you played the flag language? Tell them that we are the Ming fleet and the navy of the court."

The flag verbs had been played out long ago, but the other side's fleet clearly sneered at it.

The 12 huge warships were divided into two five miles north of Wang Hongfan's fleet, drawing a beautiful arc and lined up in one line.

As a burst of clear smoke came out from the side of the opponent's warship, the rumbling sound of cannons came.

Immediately above my head, the whistling of shells came from the whistling of cannonballs.

Wang Hongfan ran into the cabin again.

This time he no longer ran out to observe the results of the battle.

It is very troublesome and difficult to run back and forth like this.

He ordered loudly in the cabin: "Fight back, order all the cannons on the ships to fight back immediately against the enemy ships, and resolutely sink them all. I don't believe that with my 30 armed merchant ships, I can't kill you more than a dozen pieces of rags.

Ideals are full, but reality is skinny.

If he wants to annihilate the opposite fleet, he will not allow his strength.

Originally, the naval naval forces of the Ming Dynasty were near the sea, and whether they were pirates or fleets of other countries, they were never afraid of anyone.

Until the complete demise of the Ming Dynasty, it was still an invincible existence.

But the navy established by Wang Hongfan now is very different from the original regular navy.

Because it is near the sea and because of the invincibility of the original navy, Wang Hongfan believes that no one dares to rub his Dragon King's Reverse Scale in this sea area.

Therefore, in order to increase the load capacity of the ship, to improve the economic efficiency of the ship, and to increase the speed of the ship, Wang Hongxian decided to dismantle 20 heavy artillery on the originally armed merchant ship to free up water displacement, load more cargo, and gain greater benefits.

Therefore, there are only 10 heavy artillery on each of his armed merchant ships.

These cannons are not only bulky, but also all have front-loading cannons, and the loading speed is extremely slow. They do not have the firepower power of these merchant ships when they were rampant overseas.

Compared with the Shandong Fleet, there are 50 rapid-fire Flang cannons on each front, and in addition to having some advantages in shooting distance, they are simply crushed.
Chapter completed!