Yang Feng must die...... Fujian sailors must be eliminated!

This is the unanimous consensus of the Zheng family, and with the support of the Dutch for more than a year, the strength of the Zheng family has not only not been weakened by the defeat on land, but has also increased, especially the fleet they rely on the most has become stronger because of the addition of more than 100 artillery pieces donated by the Dutch.

As coachmen at sea, the Dutch were the most warships in Europe. In response to the growing threat from the British, they had significantly expanded their navy in recent years, and by the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the Dutch had 120 capital warships, 30,000 sailors, and 6,000 artillery pieces.

Note, however, that the 120 battleships mentioned here were only the main ones, and the Dutch additionally had several times as many light ships and auxiliary ships.

The most common medium-class warships of the Dutch were also equipped with an average of 50 guns, of which more than half were more than 18-pounder guns (equivalent to Ming Hongyi cannons), and the Seven Provinces, another new type of main battleship that had begun to be designed, was equipped with 80 cannons, including 12 36-pounder guns, 16 24-pounder guns, 14 18-pounder guns, 12 12-pounder guns, and 26 6-pounder guns.

Some people may ask, since the Dutch have such great strength, and they have the ambition to conquer the Ming Dynasty, why don't they send a powerful fleet to conquer the Ming Dynasty in person?

In fact, the reason is very simple, because at this time Britain has begun to rise, and now Britain, France and the Netherlands are competing for the dominance of Europe, plus Spain and Portugal, which are not willing to decline, are also secretly competing, so the Netherlands has no time and energy to cross the ocean to carry out their so-called plan to conquer the East against the Ming Dynasty, and can only try to disturb the Ming Dynasty in the way of supporting Zheng Zhilong, so that the Ming Dynasty continues to fall and there is civil strife today, so that they can follow back to the water.

After receiving strong support from the Dutch, Zheng Zhilong's ambition also swelled rapidly, and at this time he was no longer willing to be just a pirate leader, he wanted to be an official...... As a big official, he wants to be a wife and a son, he wants to be a prince of Wandai, and the first thing to do to achieve this goal is to eliminate Yang Feng and his Fujian sailors, which is the primary goal of the Zheng group.

"Order, all the Haicang ships are all surrounded, and those officers and soldiers must be entangled!" Zheng Zhihu commanded his five ships to meet the enemy head-on, and on the other hand, he commanded the remaining eight ships to attack the Second Fleet from the other side.

The Haicang ship is actually the No. 4 Fu ship, which is a medium-sized ship with a draft of seven or eight feet deep. There are a total of 53 crew members, 9 sailors, 44 soldiers, equipped with 4 jack franc machines, 3 bowl guns, and several Lu Mi guns, spray cans, cigarette cans, fire bricks, rockets, medicine crossbows, crossbow arrows and other weapons, and their task is to cooperate with the Daifuku ship to harass and attack the target on the flank.

"Get rid of these pesky flies...... Knock them all out! On the starboard side of the battleship, the artillery officer in charge of commanding the starboard side also gave the order to open fire when he looked at the Haicang ship that was constantly approaching him.

"Tom ......"

Since the beginning of the war, it has always been the port side of the guns that have been firing, and the gunners on the starboard side have long been greedy, and now when they see that it is finally their turn to fire, they have long been itchy and immediately adjust the gun position as quickly as possible, and the gunner in charge of firing the gun came to stand next to the gun that had already been loaded and pulled the gun rope.

"Boom...... Boom ......"

With the continuous muffled sound, the strong recoil made everyone on the deck feel a shock to the soles of their feet, and dozens of shells flew out of the barrel and flew forward in an instant.

"Tom ......"

The cannonballs rained down on the surrounding boats, but unfortunately none of them hit. You must know that the sea canopy ships are not only small targets but also very fast, what makes people even more speechless is that the task these sea canteens received is not to harass the Second Fleet, so they are just more than 300 meters away from the Second Fleet to constantly provoke the other party, occasionally using the Franc machine to fire a few cannons or use a bowl or bed crossbow to bombard the target a few times, their goal is not to kill the enemy, just to be able to contain the other party, to create opportunities for their own lucky ships, to starboard three or four rounds of artillery in a row failed to hit the opponent.

In the face of these eight sea canteens spinning around like loaches a few hundred meters away, the gunners on the starboard side could only stare dryly, although they were in a hurry.

Faced with such a situation, Liu Xiang also noticed it. She muttered for a moment and then called the herald, and after a few words of command to him, the herald quickly used a walkie-talkie to convey Liu Xiang's order.

As Liu Xiang's order was conveyed, the starboard guns, which were originally firing fiercely, suddenly stopped, and for a while, the originally rumbling cannon sound became much quieter.

Seeing that the guns on the starboard side suddenly stopped firing, the eight sea boats that were wandering and harassing outside became a little uncomfortable for a while, they first tried to fire two shots at the battleships of the Second Fleet with their jack furlong cannons, and then fired at the fleet a few hundred meters away with bowls and crossbows, but the other party still ignored themselves, and just used the guns on the port side to continuously bombard the five Daifuku ships in the distance.

"Boom ......"

Another cannonball hit a Daifuku ship on Zheng Zhihu's left, knocking a large hole in the bow of the ship, scattering wood chips and stabbing several pirates at the bow of the ship into screams.

"Huang Dachun, this bastard, how did he lead people to harass him, why is the artillery of the imperial court sailor still so accurate?" Zheng Zhihu was angry, he angrily scolded Zheng Xing beside him: "You tell Huang Dachun immediately, if he is still there and refuses to pay attention, when this battle is over, Lao Tzu will light him with a sky lantern!" ”

"Yes!"

Seeing the fierce light in Zheng Zhihu's eyes, Zheng Xing's heart was tight, he was very familiar with Zheng Zhihu, he understood that Zheng Zhihu's words were by no means a joke, if the eight sea canopy ships led by Huang Dachun could not satisfy Zheng Zhihu in this battle, this guy would really turn what he just said into a fact.

In this era, in the vast sea and the rumbling of cannons, it was not easy for warships to pass information to each other, and by the time Zheng Xing finally got the standard-bearer to convey the message in flag-language, five or six minutes had passed, and during this time, they were hit by several shells.

And after Huang Dachun, who was in charge of harassing the boat, received the order, his heart also rose, and he couldn't help but shudder at the thought of the punishment he would receive if they didn't fight well in this battle.

He gritted his teeth and said to the first mate beside him: "Someone, pass on my order, all ships quickly speed up and get close to the distance of two hundred to three hundred paces from the other party, and attack them with Lu Mi guns, bed crossbows and rockets, and they must not be so comfortable to attack our main fleet." ”

The first mate said with some hesitation: "Head...... If we get so close, we'll easily be hit! ”

Huang Dachun shouted in a low voice: "You also saw the flag just now, if you don't follow the second master, we will either be lit with sky lanterns after we turn around, or fight now, you can choose yourself!" ”

The first mate was stunned for a moment, then finally sighed and gave the order to continue approaching.

Soon, the eight ships began to speed up and took the initiative to approach the starboard side of the Second Fleet, and the distance between the two sides was also shortened from three or four hundred meters to two hundred meters.

Seeing that the sea canopy boat began to take the initiative to stick over, Liu Xiang, who had already noticed them, had a slight upturn in the corners of his mouth, but there was a trace of coldness in his eyes.

And the officers in the gun compartment on the starboard side, who had been waiting impatiently for a long time, also began to give new orders.

"All the guns on the starboard side, start loading grapeshotfire!"

"Grapegre reloaded!"

As the reports came, the gun commanders gave the order to open the cannon.

"Tom ......"

"Tom ......"

Iron barrels filled with iron beads wrapped in thin iron sheets were shot out of the gun chamber, and after dozens of meters out of the gun chamber, these iron barrels were scattered one after another, and countless iron beads flew towards the starboard sea canopy ship like a goddess scattering flowers.

The pirates on the sea canopy ship, who had planned to bombard and harass each other with bowl-mouth guns, bed crossbows, and Francophone cannons, saw a scene that shocked them, and many of them felt that the sky had suddenly darkened, and when they looked up, they found countless dense bullet rains flying in the sky.

"Get down, it's a grape bomb!"

On the deck, the experienced Huang Chunsheng had just time to shout such a sentence, and the sea cang ship he was on was covered by a rain of bullets.

The pirates on the deck of the ship felt a gust of wind blowing around them, and countless iron beads swept past them with a sharp whistling sound, making a crackling sound. When the whistling sound passed, accompanied by a terrible shout, the entire deck of the ship seemed to be a mess as if death had raged.

Huang Dachun struggled to get up from the deck, at this time he didn't even notice that there were still a few pieces of wood chips nailed to the bowl in his right hand, he glanced at the deck, only to see that the deck was littered with the messy corpses of pirates.

Since the area of the sea canton ship is not large, and there is only one deck, and the more than fifty pirates are almost all working on the deck, when those iron beads rain on the deck, the consequences can be imagined.

The deck was littered with corpses, and the wounded who were not dead were wailing in pain. The blood that flowed from their bodies kept flowing back and forth on the deck, and the entire deck was as terrifying as Shura's hell.

"Boom ......"

Out of nowhere, a few heavy solid bullets landed around the sea cang boat where Huang Dachun was, splashing a large number of water columns.

The sea water poured directly onto the deck of the ship, and the blood stains were washed away by the sea, and all of them fell into the sea, and the surrounding sea water was immediately dyed red, and the blood continued to flow from the wounded and the dead on the deck, and the sea water poured onto the deck to wash the bloodstains, and so on......