"Keep rushing ...... Keep rushing for me! ”

On the Fu boat behind, Zheng Zhihu was angry and annoyed when he saw that the three serial ships were sunk, and he raised his clairvoyant mirror to stare ahead, hoping that the remaining two serial ships could create a miracle, and if they could burn the other party's two boats, it would be considered a profit.

And the remaining two serial ships also know that their next fate may not be too good, but don't look at the Zheng family is a pirate, but Zheng Zhilong's army is still very strict, and if there is no master general to order anyone who dares to retreat and escape without permission during the battle, it will be the end of beheading. Therefore, knowing that there was more than one bad luck, the remaining two serial ships still gritted their teeth and rushed towards Liu Xiang's second fleet, but when they rushed to more than two hundred meters away from Liu Xiang's fleet, they were covered by another round of shells and sank to the bottom of the sea after following in the footsteps of those companions just now.

Seeing the five serial ships being sunk one after another, Zheng Zhihu's face became even more ugly. To tell the truth, he didn't feel sorry for those serial ships, just a few small boats, it was nothing to the Zheng family, and what he couldn't stand the most was that he planned to use the serial ships to carry out a fire attack and then launch a general attack, but there was a deviation when it was implemented, which made his face a little unbearable.

Zheng Zhibao on the side was not as angry as Zheng Zhihu, in his opinion, it was not a loss to be able to test the opponent's firepower with five serial ships, but the firepower intensity shown by the second fleet was a little surprising to him.

Zheng Zhibao is not a person who has never seen the world, he has followed Zheng Zhilong across Japan and the South China Sea of the Ming Dynasty for many years, and he has seen a lot of things. Whether it is the old warships of the Ming Dynasty or the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal and other Western warships, he has seen them, in Zheng Zhibao's view, these Fujian naval divisions of the warships are obviously imitations of Western warships, not only firepower and speed is not weak, more importantly, he found that the Fujian naval division and the previous Ming Dynasty naval division combat style is very different.

In the past, if a Ming Dynasty sailor met with other Ming Dynasty sailors, no matter how suspicious the generals of the navy division were, they would never dare to take the initiative to fire at friendly forces, but this battleship was different, as soon as their own serial ships were dispatched, the other party did not hesitate to open fire, without considering what would happen if they accidentally injured their allies.

Zheng Zhibao muttered: "Now I can really be sure that it is that woman who commands this fleet, and only she will be so decisive and so unscrupulous to fire at the fleet under the banner of the Daming Naval Division." ”

Zheng Zhibao gritted his teeth, it seems that he and Zheng Zhihu both underestimated that woman, how could a woman who could forcibly pull away so many brothers from the hands of the eldest brother to stand on their own feet, and survived tenaciously for so many years under the suppression of the eldest brother, how could she be a hesitant and unassertive person in the face of trouble, and now she has become the second person in the Fujian Navy, and with the support of Jiang Ninghou behind her, she has become more and more unscrupulous in doing things.

Thinking of this, he sighed slightly, turned his head to Zheng Zhihu and said, "Second brother, since the other party has already made a move, it is meaningless for us to hide our identities again, let's quickly hang up the flag." Since the other party is not fooled, then let's just fight with them with real knives and guns, fortunately, we are not without a backhand, and our follow-up people will arrive later, I don't believe that with several times the strength of the army, we can't defeat that slut! ”

Zheng Zhihu was originally fierce, and when he heard this, a fierce light flashed in his eyes, "Okay, then let's do it with them, let them know that our Zheng family has the final say on the sea!" Come on, hang our flags! ”

On the Ningyuan, an officer pointed ahead and shouted, "Your Excellency...... They changed their flags...... It is the Zheng family's dragon, tiger and leopard flag! ”

Just as everyone has their own name, so too does the ship or force that goes to sea have its own flag. For example, the sun and moon flag of the Ming court, the tricolor flag of the Netherlands, the two-color crown flag of Spain, and so on.

The Zheng family naturally also has its own flag, and the Zheng family's flag is a little special, they embroidered the three fierce beasts of dragon, tiger and leopard on the flag, which means that Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Zhihu and Zheng Zhibao are three brothers. Well, let's not comment on the vision of the Zheng brothers.

"When the official saw it, he had expected that it was them, and no one would do such a dirty thing except them!" Liu Xiang responded very calmly, but if you look closely, you can see the cold chill in her eyes.

People who make a living at sea have their own rules and taboos, such as sailing on the sea under the banner of others is looked down upon, which is just like a poor boy pretending to be a rich boy to pick up girls, which will be despised by everyone. However, as a pirate, the Zheng family has long been thrown to Java for them, so they naturally don't have to care about this.

"Target Distance...... Five hundred meters! ”

"Solid bullet ready!"

The roar of the gunner could be heard from the cabin of the Zhenning, due to the small space in the gun compartment and the hot weather, the gunners were almost all shirtless. Ning Shuisheng was also shirtless like all gunners, revealing his sturdy and dark upper body, and he was nervously correcting the direction of the artillery at this time.

Different from the artillery used by the army, the navy attaches great importance to the recoil of the artillery when using artillery, and the recoiled artillery is very particular about how thick the deck is, otherwise a bad one will shake the deck apart as soon as the cannon is fired, and a warship with a displacement of only 450~550 tons like Zhenning can only be regarded as a sloop warship, it only has one gun deck, and its characteristic is that it is agile and easy to turn.

This type of warship was usually used for sending letters and escorts, but because it was inexpensive, each warship cost only about 10,000 pounds, so it was widely used by Western countries in the 18th century. But even so, in the late Ming Dynasty, it was difficult to find a warship with a larger tonnage than it in the Ming Dynasty, which could not but be said to be a kind of sadness.

Slowly moving the gun mount, trying to make the gun muzzle aimed at the enemy ship in front, Ning Shuisheng moved the gun mount, sweat slowly seeped down his forehead, and the Dutch instructor who was assigned to their ship shouted with a strange accent: "Gentlemen, the enemy is approaching again, if you don't want to shoot down the seabirds in the sky, quickly lower the muzzle of the gun by another point." ”

"Understood!"

Ning Shuisheng adjusted the tail of the cannon up slightly.

At this moment, the voice of the gun commander sounded from above, aiming at the first enemy ship in front of him: "Aim!" ”

"Report...... Aim done! ”

"Fire!"

Ning Shuisheng, who had already finished aiming, hurriedly stood aside, and as soon as the gunner behind pulled the fire rope, he only heard a loud bang, and the twelve-pound gun scurried back several meters with the gun carriage like a frightened rabbit, and finally stopped under the pull of two thick ropes that had already been tied.

As mentioned earlier, firing artillery at sea is different from land, firing artillery on land has a thick earth as a support, no matter how large the caliber of artillery does not have to worry, but at sea it is different, although the craftsmen have installed gun carriages and wheels for all artillery, but the space of the warship is limited, so two thick ropes are used to tie the annular openings on both sides of the artillery, so as to prevent the gunner behind from hitting the gunner behind when retreating due to recoil when firing the cannon.

"Shelling!"

The pirates of Zheng Zhihu's Fu ship saw the flash of fire in front of them, and no one needed to remind them, and the sailors on the deck pounced on the deck in unison, and when they just pounced on the deck, they heard a whistling sound, one after another cannonballs either hit the sea near them or flew over their heads, but there were also two cannonballs that accurately hit the cabin and made a "crackling" sound and a terrible scream.

Zheng Zhihu got up from the deck, spit out the seawater that splashed into his mouth, only to feel a bitter taste spreading in his mouth, he said with a cold face: "At least six hundred paces away, how can the artillery skills of those dog officers and soldiers be so powerful, this is only their first test firing, they hit so accurately, is their luck really so good?" ”

"It's not that they're lucky, it's that they do have some real skills." Zheng Zhibao on the side also stood up, looking at the warship in front of him that was firing at his side, with a somewhat puzzled look on his face, "Second brother, why do I think these Ming troops are very familiar in terms of combat methods and the appearance of firing artillery?" ”

"Well, you're right!" Zheng Zhihu nodded: "I think it's the same, it's not like we haven't fought with their sailors before, but we haven't seen such a way of fighting, compared to them, those Ming army sailors in the past are like beggars." ”

Zheng Zhihu did not say a big thing, in the late Ming Dynasty, the development of artillery of the Ming army was obviously lagging behind the Western countries, the Ming army's naval division of the Fu ship generally only had one Hongyi cannon, 6 thousand catties of Franc machine, and the rest were small cannons such as bowls.

The Hongyi cannon of the Ming Dynasty at that time was the 18-pounder cannon of the salvaged Western shipwreck, and the so-called thousand-pound Franc machine was the outdated firearm left over from Europe in the 15th century, and its range and power were far inferior to the breech cannon (Hongyi cannon) due to air tightness, and it could only fire 3-pound projectiles, which could hardly cause effective damage to the big ship, and had long been abandoned by the Europeans, but even so this artillery was still the main artillery of the Ming army.

Zheng Zhibao said decisively: "Second brother, we can't drag it out any longer, we have to fight back immediately, otherwise the morale of the brothers will be gone." ”

"I understand!" Zheng Zhihu nodded and said to a sailor beside him: "Pass my order and fight back immediately!" ”

"Yes!"

"Fire!"

"Tom ......"

In a roar, the Zheng family's artillery fired......