Guangzhou Bay Naval Battle
Chapter 1128:Guangzhou Bay Naval Battle
In October 1656, in Guangzhou Bay, Wei warships gathered.
Thirty major battleships, and nearly a thousand sea ships, were ready to participate in the battle of Qiongzhou Strait and capture the battle of Qiongzhou.
At night, a calm in Guangzhou Bay, suddenly the sound of artillery roared, waking up the people along the coast.
For a time, the people were nervous, fearing that the Ming army would come, looting their family wealth, and pulling them overseas to become slaves.
Of course, after the Ming Army will carry away the population, after moving overseas, in order to appease them, almost every family has divided a large area of wasteland, taken away as slaves, is the propaganda of the newspaper and the imperial daily newspaper.
In the Guangzhou palace, a general rushed to the outside of the emperor's dormitory, "Sh Majesty, there is an urgent military sentiment!"
There was a loud and majestic voice inside, “Is it Zheng Sen?”
"The Haiko Marine Army is outside Guangzhou Bay."
As soon as the voice of the general fell, he saw the high praise, clothed only in a cloak, and came out of the dormitory and cried out, “Put on my clothes!”
The gun battle lasted for one night, and gradually stopped at dawn, the Tiger Gate cannon, the Wei army general took up the thousand mirrors, saw their opponents who bombarded overnight with them, saw the ship covering the sea, the sails were like clouds, and they could not help but take a breath of cool air.
At this moment, a troop of cavalry galloped, and the soldier on the cannon immediately exclaimed, "General, your Majesty is down!"
The general was surprised, rushed to meet, wearing a high-spirited gala in military uniform, but already under the crowd of soldiers, he stepped on the running platform.
“Son of you!”The Wei Junzi saluted from the cannon.
Gao Yi waved his hand, reached out his hand and brought thousands of mirrors, and saw the Ming army battleship on the sea, and was stunned.
As the maritime hegemon of East Asia, Zheng Jiashui Master is not without reason, and let alone the dense ships are enough to look at East Asia.
“It’s all here!”Gao Yihuan put down the mirror of the thousand miles, and the face could not hide the color of excitement.
At this time, in Guangzhou Bay, countless Wei army ships rushed out of the sails, and nearly a thousand large and small warships, like a sea fortress, rushed out.
“Son, our Mariners have arrived!”Next to the beam with excitement.
Gao Yihuan did not understand the naval battle, and out of an prudent consideration, Gao Yihu did not board the ship, but watched the battle on the shore.
After all, the land is defeated, he can pull the horse, the sea is defeated, it can only sink the sea, high righteousness and great career, there is no need to fight with Nanming.
At this time, the Ming Army fleet saw the Wei army fleet out of the sea to fight, the fleet immediately began, the side of the port to the Wei army ship, the two sides of the fleet from time to time fired guns, the sea of a regiment of white smoke, splashing a road of water column.
The number of ships in the two armies is similar, but the tonnage and artillery of the main battle ships of the Wei army are much stronger than the Ming army.
In this way, the Wei Junshui Division is stronger than the Ming Army, but if you add people who control the warship, the situation is different.
At this time, the two armies began to exchange fire, and a Wei army warship was smashed and the mast slowed down, and the speed slowed down, and soon the fire was set up by the Ming Army fleet, the ship was beaten to the ground, and slowly sank into the sea in the circular horizon of thousands of mirrors in Gao Yihuan's hand.
This ship, after the war, the first sunken war ship, won the first opportunity of the morale of the Ming army.
In the back of a large ship, Zhu Cihui put down the thousands of mirrors and couldn't help but applaud Zheng Sen.
Wei army ship sank, the soldiers holding the driftwood, drifted in the sea, and immediately put down the boat to rescue, the soldiers did not attack the small boat.
On the sea, two sailors formed two fronts, pointing the gun on the side of the battleship at each other, and the artillery kept shooting the orange flame, the hull shook, and countless iron bullets flew close to the sea, smashing each other's sideboards.
The battlefield was shot outside the Tiger Gate cannon, but Gao Yihuan stood on the cannon and could clearly see a magnificent picture of naval warfare.
At this time, due to the shelling of the two sides, two smoke belts were formed on the sea surface, and the shells were intertwined between the two smoke belts, splashing a water column, smashing the battle boat mast down, and the wood billis splashed.
Gao Yihuan observed from the mirror that the number of Wei army artillery is large, and the smoke belt caused by the shelling is obviously thicker than that of the Ming Army, but the Wei army artillery rarely hit the Ming army warship, and the Ming army battleship has less artillery, but it can smash the Wei army war ship from time to time.
Gao Yi Huan took a thousand mirrors, his face was serious, and the surrounding generals also saw the hit rate of the Ming Army's guns, which was obviously higher than that of Wei Jun.
“Hang on!”In the sound of artillery, the smoke slowly rose, scattered by the sea breeze, a Wei army battle ship, was once again smashed to capsize and sink into the sea.
This made the high-sense face change from serious to gloomy, until a Ming army warship was smashed, the look was tempered, but according to this exchange ratio, the Wei army will inevitably fail.
At this time, on the Wei Army's flagship, a command was suddenly issued, and the Wei army battleship, which was originally shot across the hull, began to change the formation.
The Chinese army Gao Chengxun led the main fleet, with the ship's cannons and beatings, continued to side-to-side, and the two-wing Wei army fleet began to turn the direction, the bow aimed at the direction and rear of the Ming Army, rushed past.
Wei Jun found that the shooting did not fight the advantage, immediately changed the formation, the intention to carry out the battle, and Zheng successfully quickly understood the Wei army's intention, immediately adjusted the sail surface, sailing to the south, the Chinese army slowed down, the two wings of the two wings accelerated, maintaining the distance from the Wei army's two wings.
After two hours of engagement, the main battle ships of the Wei army, Yang Yong and Jiyuan sank separately, and other ships lost more than 30 ships, the Ming Army also lost, one main battleship, and more than 20 other warships.
The sea cannons are full, the ship's body shakes, the flame is ejected, the projectile roars out from the smoke, more than ten pounds of iron bullets, flying against the sea, speeding closer to the other side of the battleship, the figure of the ship from small to large, more and more clear, and can even see the artillery roar of the ship's port.
The rapid flight of the cannonball, broke the deck, drilled into the cabin to sweep everything, the two armies suffered heavy casualties.
At noon, the main battleship of the Wei army lost four, and three others were severely damaged and withdrew from the battlefield, while the main battleship of the Ming army also lost two, and two fled to Qiongzhou.
Gao Yihuan stood on the fort, as the battlefield moved to the sea, thousands of mirrors can no longer see the Ming Army, can only see the Wei Juns Division's stern, and from time to time by the injury, back to the Wei army battleship.
These ships, entering the captain, nearly ten thousand craftsmen immediately began to repair, the shipyard was busy.
In the afternoon, the two armies finally had warships began to take over, and the two sides fired muskets on the side of the ship, and after hitting each other, they picked up weapons to fight and kill.
Sergeant Wei jumped on the Ming Army battleship and killed the soldiers on board, the Koreans, and the Japanese prodigal.
The battle continued until dark, the Wei army lost hundreds of battleships, the Ming army also lost more than 60 ships, fierce naval warfare because of the nightfall, temporarily stopped, Wei army ships withdrew to Guangzhou Bay, Ming army at night in Lantau Island.
The next morning, just before dawn, the Wei army ships in Guangzhou Bay set sail again, and the Ming Dynasty ships appeared at the Tiger Gate on time, once again opening a new round of showdown.
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