"Hang up the battle flag...... Blow the battle alarm! ”

Facing the fleet that suddenly appeared, Liu Xiang was shocked at first, and then led the entire fleet to meet it without hesitation.

"Woo woo woo ......"

As the battle alarm was blown and the battle flag was raised, the seven battleships, including the Ningyuan and Zhenning, all raised their full sails, and all the battleships took the Zhenning as the arrow and the Ningyuan as the core in a straight shape towards the suddenly appeared fleet.

As the distance between the two sides narrowed, the type and number of ships of the other side were quickly observed by the lookout on the mast.

"My lord, the lookout reported that the number of ships that suddenly appeared in front of me was eighteen, of which five were Daifuku ships, and the rest were slightly smaller ships, but the warship led by me was waving the sun and moon flag of my Ming Dynasty, and now they are heading towards us!"

"Da Ming Water Master...... Didn't I hear that there was a Daming Sailor nearby? Liu Xiang couldn't help but wonder when he heard the lookout's report, how could there be a Ming warship suddenly appear here, it didn't look like a ship of the First Fleet, could it be a sailor from Jiangsu, Zhejiang or Guangdong?

"Huh...... No, if there are other sailors in the imperial court who come to Matsu Island, why hasn't the official gotten the news? And in addition to our Fujian sailors in the Ming Dynasty today, there are not many sailors in other places who can make up such a fleet? Liu Xiang stared at the fleet in front of her with a telescope and frowned, since the other party had played the banner of the Great Ming Naval Division, it was naturally impossible for her to order the first cannon, if she accidentally injured the friendly army, it was not a trivial matter.

However, Liu Xiang is also a decisive person, she thought for a moment and then ordered the Zhenning at the front to raise a flag to ask for the identity of the fleet ahead, but what was puzzling was that the other party did not reply, and still approached them regardless of it.

Seeing the distance between the two sides getting closer and closer, an uneasy mood gradually spread in Liu Xiang's heart, she held the Type 63 telescope in her hand, and stared at the fleet without leaving for a moment.

At this time, a voice with a slightly strange accent sounded beside him: "Your Excellency General, although the other party has played the banner of the Ming State Water Division, but has not indicated his specific identity and intention, in this case, we can't relax our vigilance." ”

"I know." Liu Xiang replied without replying, his eyes still staring at the ship opposite.

As the distance got closer and closer, Liu Xiang's expression was a daze, at this time she had seen it clearly, as the distance got closer, suddenly five small boats sped up from behind and rushed to the front of the five lucky boats, and those small boats were a few chain boats.

The so-called chain ship is a unique type of ship in the Ming Dynasty sailors, this kind of ship is a light ship, the speed is very fast, and it can even reach the speed of fourteen or fifteen knots in the case of downwind. It is about 4 zhang long, and on the surface it looks like a boat, but in fact it is two.

The forward part of the ship occupies one-third of the length of the hull, and the rear part occupies two-thirds, which are connected by two iron rings in the middle. The front bow of the ship was equipped with a number of large iron nails with barbs, and the ship was equipped with fireballs, poisonous smoke, poisonous sand, dry firewood and tung oil, and other easily ignited objects, and was equipped with fire guns, and the rear ship was equipped with more than a dozen sailors.

If it happens to be a tailwind during the battle, they can quickly sail to the enemy line with the wind speed, collide with the enemy ship, use the iron nails with barbs in the front ship to nail the enemy ship, and then ignite all kinds of ignition things, the rear ship located in the tail is free of the iron ring and leave, once they are successful, the opponent's entire ship will be burned. Seeing the other side's five serial ships actually rushing over the Fu boat headed by them and rushing directly towards them doesn't look like a friendly signal no matter how you look at it.

Liu Xiang, whose expression changed drastically, snatched the walkie-talkie from the herald beside him, pressed the call button and shouted: "Attention all ships...... Attention all vessels. The ship in front is an enemy ship, immediately full rudder on the right and meets the enemy with the port side! ”

"Right full rudder!"

"Full rudder right!"

At this time, the distance between the warships of the Second Fleet and the other party was less than a kilometer, leaving Liu Xiang with less than seven or eight minutes to react at best.

But at this moment, the benefits of Yang Feng equipping all warships with walkie-talkies immediately appeared, and Liu Xiang's orders were directly transmitted to the ears of the captains of each ship through walkie-talkies, without any delay in between, and as soon as they received the order, the battleships immediately began to change direction.

I saw that the seven battleships were almost discussed, and the bows of all the battleships turned to the right at the same time, and because the angle of turning was too large, the deck of the entire battleship tilted sharply to the left, and many sailors standing on the deck lost their balance and became a rolling hoist.

After turning the corner, the seven battleships of the Second Fleet turned into the ships in front of them with their side sides, and at the same time the gun compartment was also ringing bells, and as the shrill bell rang, the gunners took their positions, busily reloading the guns, and soon the order to bombardment was also handed down.

"Target...... Five serial ships ahead...... Fire! ”

"Tom tom!"

"Tom tom!"

"Tom tom!"

Seven battleships opened fire at the same time, and in an instant, clusters of fire continued to shine around the battleship. The smoke from the launch of the shells turned into layers of white fog under the action of water vapor, lingering around the battleship.

Just as the Second Fleet was firing its guns, in the cockpit of a Daifuku ship of the opposite fleet, a man with a scar on his face and a very fierce appearance showed a look of surprise in his eyes.

"What's the matter, why did those officers and soldiers suddenly open fire, are we exposed? It shouldn't be, these ships of ours are all carefully selected, all of them are the standard warships of the imperial court, and they have always been under the banner of the imperial court sailors, how dare they fire at the robes! ”

Next to this man, a man with a rather elegant appearance squinted at him, "Second brother, if you see a few serial ships rushing towards you, you will also shoot cannons, you don't think that the officials of the court are stupid, and I suspect that the other party is the woman who is personally leading the army." ”

These two men are none other than the two brothers Zheng Zhihu and Zheng Zhibao of the Zheng Group, who have not appeared for a long time in recent years.

After hearing Zheng Zhibao's words, Zheng Zhihu's face immediately darkened, and the scar on his face trembled like a centipede: "It turned out that slut to come in person?" Great, I'm going to have to grab that slut with my own hands and fuck her to death! ”

"Boom ......"

As soon as Zheng Zhihu's words fell, a solid bullet hit a Cangshan ship next to the Dafu ship, and the twelve or fourteen-pound cannonball wrapped in huge kinetic energy directly hit a big hole in the not thick side of the Cangshan ship, and soon several mournful wails rang out.

"This slut actually made the first move!" Zheng Zhihu's face turned blue, and his eyes looked at the several warships on the opposite side that were constantly firing cannons with cannibalistic eyes, but he completely forgot that the cause of the incident was that his group disguised themselves as Ming Dynasty sailors and set up a game to lure the other party to take the bait, but they were fired first, which made him very annoyed.

Zheng Zhibao's face on the side was not good-looking, today's scene was actually planned by him, as the think tank of the Zheng family, he no longer racked his brains for the rise of the Zheng family all the time. With the passage of time, the Fujian Sailor's

The strength has also become stronger and stronger, especially as the Mawei Shipyard, Quanzhou Shipyard and Xiamen Shipyard have entered the right track, the warships of the Fujian Navy Division have been launched like dumplings, and these news have also been sent back to Taiwan with the Zheng family's spies lurking in Fuzhou, which has increased the panic of the Zheng Group, and finding a way to weaken the strength of the Fujian Navy Division has become a top priority.

It's just that although the strength of today's Fujian Navy Division is not very strong, they have a characteristic, that is, most of their warships are all warships made after Western countries, with fast speed and fierce firepower, and the Zheng Group can concentrate superior forces to attack them, but they are not fools, can't they run? Most of the ships equipped by the Zheng Group are old-fashioned equipment of Fu ships and Ming army sailors, and they can't catch up with others at all, which makes people very embarrassed.

After thinking about it, Zheng Zhibao came up with a plan, he first sent people to ambush the Portuguese ships near Matsu Island, and deliberately let go of a warship and drove all the other merchant ships to Matsu Island.

Zheng Zhibao thought that there was a chance that these Portuguese would ask for help from the Second Fleet stationed in Fuzhou, and he gathered all the more than a dozen ships in the style of the Ming Dynasty sailors in his hands and ambushed them near Matsu Island, and when the ships of the Second Fleet arrived, he and Zheng Zhihu took these ships to approach them pretending to be the Great Ming Navy, and took advantage of the speed advantage of the chain ships to get close to the Second Fleet and then take the opportunity to burn their warships.

As long as the serial warships can succeed, the Second Fleet will lose at least half of the ships, and the warships of the Ming Dynasty Naval Division they pretend to be take the opportunity to surround them and block all their retreats, as long as they can completely annihilate or stride out the warships of the Second Fleet, the strength of the Fujian Naval Division will lose at least half.

In this way, the pressure of the Fujian sailors on the Zheng group will be greatly weakened, and Yang Feng's prestige will inevitably drop greatly after this defeat, and if he doesn't do well, he will be recalled by the imperial court.

It's just that Zheng Zhibao made a thousand calculations but missed one point, that is, he didn't expect Liu Xiang to act so decisively, and dared to fire first when his side had already played the banner of the Great Ming Naval Division and had not taken the initiative to fire, and he didn't expect that Yang Fengfeng equipped every battleship with walkie-talkies, this kind of thing seems inconspicuous, but it is a strength multiplier on the battlefield, which can allow the commander to command all the troops under his command like an arm.

Just now, when Zheng Zhibao saw that his side had successfully approached less than a kilometer away from the other party, even Shen Jingru thought that this sneak attack was half successful, but the ensuing shelling made his heart rush to the bottom of the sea.

"Tom...... Tom Tom ......"

A series of three cannonballs landed less than 20 zhang near the Fu boat on which Zheng Zhibao was riding, splashing high columns of water.

The sound of footsteps sounded, and Zheng Xing hurriedly ran over from outside and said to Zheng Zhihu urgently: "Second master, those dog officers and soldiers have seen through us, what should we do now?" ”

"What else can I do...... Fuck it, naturally! Zheng Zhihu said sharply with red eyes: "Pass my order, the chain ship is moving forward at full speed, now we are less than two miles away from them, we must rush over and stick to them, as long as we can set their ship on fire, we will win half of this battle, understand?" ”

"Understood, I'll give the order right away!" Zheng Xing is also a battle-hardened general, so he naturally knows that fighting is a morale, and when it comes to this, there is no way to retreat, only to fight to the end.

Soon, the five serial ships, having received the order, not only did not leave, but rushed towards the Second Fleet at an accelerated speed.

As a light ship specializing in fire attack, the speed of the serial warship is naturally undoubted, and their speed can even reach fifteen knots in the case of a tailwind, and if ordinary ships are targeted by them, they will be burned by them if they are not careful.

Liu Xiang has been crisscrossing the sea for many years, how could she not understand the other party's plans, seeing those five serial warships rushing towards them regardless of the situation, she sneered: "This official ordered all artillery to fire at those five serial warships, to be accurate, and never let them get close to our warships." ”

Strictly speaking, the seven battleships led by Liu Xiang can only be regarded as light warships, each ship is equipped with 20 to 28 twelve-pounder guns, only one gun deck, 10 to 14 guns on each side deck, but the momentum of the seven battleships firing together is also quite inferior, and dozens of projectiles rained down on the surroundings of those chain warships, splashing countless bright columns of water.

In this era when there is no fire control radar and aiming is all manually operated by gunners, if you want to hit the enemy in a state of rapid movement on both sides, in addition to the gunner's excellent skills, you need a little luck, and today's luck of the Second Fleet is obviously good, but in the second salvo, the aft compartment of a serial ship was hit by a twelve-pound shell, which immediately beat the helmsman at the helm in the back into meat sauce, and even punched the side of the ship with a hole the size of a sea bowl, and the moored sea water instantly poured into the hull along the hole.

The speed of the striking chain ship immediately slowed down, and the sailors on board were scrambling to plug the hole, and the whole ship began to spin around the sea when there was no one at the helm.

"Good...... Well done...... Keep shooting! ”

"Tom ......"

Countless shells continued to rain down on the ship, and soon two more ships were shot and sank to the bottom of the sea......