184 Kill a force of reinforcements
In just more than ten days of changes, the offensive and defensive momentum has completely changed, which is unpredictable!
Hongmen so resolutely pressed all the warships up, but it was also the scene that Yan Zheng and they were willing to see, for the sake of this big war, they even almost gave up their nest, leaving no more than 100 wounded, disabled and weak to garrison the island, and almost emptied all the ammunition stocks.
Since the strength of their own firearms is superior now, then Yan Zheng and these smart people will naturally not let go of this advantage, the narrow inland sea and many ships are a good opportunity for artillery to show their skills, and the artillery carried by the elite warships of the Flying Dragon Gang has not stopped, and has been looking for targets to shoot.
The Hongmen side is also not to be outdone, although it is at a disadvantage in artillery fire, but the condescending attack on the south fort is even more ferocious, plus the artillery it uses is also the steel cannon built by Hongmen Bengang during these days, and the only Shenwei general cannon and red-coated cannon in the Hongmen team, but also temporarily put the battle damage of the two sides on the same line.
Unknowingly, with the construction of the fortifications carried out by Hongmen in the inland sea area of Jilong Harbor in advance, and the fact that they were more familiar with the terrain here, the Flying Dragon Gang originally made a good idea to use artillery fire to consume a batch of Hongmen warships, but as the incident progressed, they were gradually bullied by Hongmen warriors, and many warships were forced into hand-to-hand combat.
At first, Zheng Zhilong and the others didn't notice it, but slowly they found that the sound of artillery firing that had erupted densely in their ears became more and more sparse, and at this time, about half of the Flying Dragon Gang warships were forced to engage in hand-to-hand combat by Hongmen.
This kind of change is not a bad thing for the Flying Dragon Gang, although the Hongmen soldiers are good at the battle formation, and the more people they fight on the battlefield, the more they can exert their combat power, but now this group of Hongmen soldiers is either a new recruit from the Penghu Sailor Division, or the remnants of the Hongmen army that was originally injured and demoralized, and its strength can play a few points, which is really a bit worrying!
It's just that Hongmen has also gone up with the whole army as soon as he came up, and now he is entangled in the situation that his strength and strength are not superior to each other, and every tactic can naturally be explained, but the combination makes Yan Siqi feel a little inappropriate.
Yan Siqi is not an orthodox pirate, when Zheng Zhilong was excited about fighting, Yan Siqi still devoted a lot of energy to pay attention to the war around him, and Hongmen forced his own hand-to-hand combat to connect the strings was also the first thing he discovered.
After hesitating, Yan Siqi was about to discuss with Zheng Zhilong whether to retain some of his strength to avoid any possible accidents, but before his words could be exported, the only two warships of the Flying Dragon Gang that stayed behind and were cruising in the sea off Jilong Harbor suddenly launched a signal, signaling that there was movement behind them.
It is not comparable to a set of simple hand flags and flags formed by Hongmen because of Li Tianyang, which can achieve a rapid communication method of transmitting orders over a long distance through a telescope, even if Yan Zheng and the others knew that there was movement behind them at this time, but what was the specific situation, they were at a loss.
It wasn't until one of the warships came from afar and connected with the retreating Yan Zhengzuo ship that Yan Siqi and Zheng Zhilong finally knew what was going on behind them, but they looked back at the vast majority of the Flying Dragon Gang warships behind them that had been entangled, even if they wanted to react, I was afraid that it would be a little difficult.
"You are not mistaken, what appeared behind us was the warship of the Hongmen fleet?" wanted to confirm it, hoping that this was just a small joke made by the gangs, Yan Siqi was still unwilling to ask the gangsters who came to report the news.
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"It's true, this time it is Hongmen's unique 'Yang Fan-style' warship, eight warships have come all the way from the coast of Ximian with full sails, and now there is a distance of less than ten miles from us at most!" The gang replied in the affirmative.
"Bastard, didn't you say that all of their 'Yang Fan-style' warships went to Dongwei? The only one is still Li Tianyang's ship, why are there eight warships now? Zheng Zhilong's face was gloomy, and he stroked the handle of the saber in his hand from time to time: "Moreover, where do they still have sailors to operate these foreign ships, with our intelligence, even if they transfer the so-called shark department and leopard department together, it will be less than eight hundred, where can they be worthy of the warriors of these eight warships!" ”
"These ships can't come from the East Side, unless they do have wings,"
There is still a vision of the public, and the Hongmen "Yang Fan" warship has an excellent and peculiar shape, as long as people who have seen this kind of warship early enough will never confuse it with the general warships of the Ming Dynasty.
Just when Yan Siqi and Zheng Zhilong were still undecided, thinking about how to solve the big trouble that was about to come to Sao Alai, Li Tianyang and their side also received the news of the arrival of reinforcements.
The arrival of reinforcements did not surprise Li Tianyang and them, because this was what Li Tianyang arranged for them.
The "Yang Fan-type" battleship has been finalized for several years, and since Li Tianyang and the others have decided to build the "Yang Fan-type" into the main warship of the future Hongmen fleet, how can it be that there are only thirteen warships in the Wa Kingdom and the one under him, a total of fourteen warships!
It's just that as mentioned earlier, at the beginning of Hongmen's recognition by the Ming Dynasty, in order not to show too strong strength in his fleet, Li Tianyang and them needed to hide their clumsiness; And when Li Tianyang and them have been recognized by the Ming Dynasty, they need to hide their strength even more, so as not to be favored and coveted by the official forces of the Ming Dynasty like Bengang and Jilong Gang.
It was precisely because of the unexpected backhands of these eight warships scattered in the secret base of Bengang, Leopard Turtle Island, Penghu waters and other places that Li Tianyang took advantage of the situation and made a bold counterattack plan.
As for the warriors on board the eight warships, this question that surprised and puzzled Yan Siqi and Zheng Zhilong was actually that they forgot that in addition to the Ming people in Hongmen, there was another group with a large number of people - the indigenous people!
The aborigines around Bengang, counting from Li Tianyang's contact with them, have been in contact with them for ten years now, even if the communication between the natives and Hongmen has been repeated because of elements such as language, habits, and traditions.
However, in the past ten years, with the strong appeal of Li Tianyang and the Hongmen team, the more advanced and privileged living environment and survival skills of Chinese culture, more and more indigenous people have finally begun to accept the Chinese way of life and language.
Now that they have been able to recruit a group of natives to join the team, can't they know how to operate sails and learn water fighting skills?
The reason why there were no other large numbers of indigenous warriors in naval warfare, except for a few archers who were carried in warships as long-range archers and appeared in the public eye, was because compared to naval warfare, the indigenous people's skills in land warfare and jungle warfare were a little stronger.
Only now has there been a chance for indigenous warriors to show their worth of existence!