Chapter 617: After kicking the field, you have to go a little smoother
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From the bow, stern, and mast of the Ban Chao, thirty-seven flintlock guns burst out with a loud noise. This is already the largest number of people that a 120-ton corvette can allocate to the county.
The Qing army who had just stepped on the springboard was immediately shot over by seven or eight people, but the rest saw that "victory was in sight", and the blood of their companions aroused their killing intent even more, and they jumped to the deck of the overrun one by one with red eyes.
But the situation on the Ming warship was very different from what they imagined, with three rows of wooden frames erected on each side of the ship, and dozens of hemp ropes as thick as rolling sticks were loosely wrapped around them.
Even when the captives on board the ship were about to step over these waist-high ropes, they suddenly let out a terrible scream - there were still dense iron nails stuck in the ropes!
Under the continuous fire of the surrounding firearms, the Qing soldiers hurriedly tore open the rope, but the dense iron nails on the rope made them have nowhere to start.
Only the three rows of ropes on the deck, the Qing soldiers had to eat more than ten rounds of firearms to barely cross, and when they looked around, they saw that they had only twenty or thirty people dead......
Zhu Linmiao originally wanted to lay a few rows of barbed wire on the ship, but the processing capacity of this era is really limited, there is no high-temperature extrusion process, and the iron wire can only be knocked out little by little by craftsmen with hammers.
So he came up with the idea of replacing the main body of barbed wire with hemp rope and wrapping long iron nails around it instead of thorns, although it was not as good as the authentic barbed wire, but the rejection effect was far better than the common rejection of horses in the Ming Dynasty.
At the same time, a similar scene was also staged on the Shao Wu, Yang Ye and other ships, with hemp rope and iron nail nets and a small range of infantry line volleys on the ship, killing and wounding countless Qing troops who tried to jump to seize the ship.
On the other side, Zheng Zhilong's main warship finally could no longer withstand the destruction of the Shao Wu's eighteen-pounder gun, and the three "Wei" ships were either seriously injured or lost power and withdrew from the battle one after another, and the only one left was also scarred. Although the ships were not in danger of their lives—the Ming army did not take them seriously at all, and were not "taken care of" by the artillery fire, they could not turn the tide of the battle without the support of the Galen ships.
The Qing army in charge of jumping the gang had no hope of seizing the ship, and saw from a distance that the remaining four large ships on their side had begun to flee to avoid the battle, and their morale was immediately broken, and they all turned around and ran back to their own ships.
However, the sailor infantry on the Ban Chao pursued closely and actually captured a small ship of the Qing army! If it weren't for the captain Murong Yi who recalled them for safety, the three small boats hooked on the Ban Chao would probably have to be returned to the Daming Sailors.
Zheng Chenggong saw that the enemy ships were beginning to flee, and immediately ordered the "Wuwei" to chase after the "Wuwei" with the flag of General Zheng Zhilong. As for the other small enemy ships, even if they all escaped, there would be no threat in the future, not to mention that most of these ships had already been heavily damaged, and it would be difficult to escape at high speed.
On the "Xuwei" of the Qing army, which had withdrawn from the battle earlier, Zheng Zhibao saw that the Ming army was chasing his eldest brother to the east, and immediately ordered his men to flee north with full sails. The gun deck of his ship had been almost half destroyed in the battle just now, but the mainsail and rudder had been miraculously preserved, and although it was no longer able to continue the battle, it was not slow to run.
On the flagship of the North Korean naval division five or six nautical miles to the north, Zheng Wancheng held a telescope to watch the naval battle in Laizhou Port, and was stunned.
On the side, Han Tong patted him on the shoulder, and smiled at the dozens of Qing warships that were half-dead by heavy artillery on the sea, and said with a smile: "General Zheng, so many military achievements are in front of you, why don't you go and take them?" ”
Zheng Wancheng swallowed and spit, and Renxingjun ordered him to assist the Ming army, but did not say that he wanted him to be an enemy of the Manchus...... He then thought that if he captured all these seriously wounded Hulu warships outside the port, the Qing court would definitely not know that he had done it, and in the end he would only settle the account on the head of the Ming army. On the side of the Ming Dynasty, it is necessary to remember its own merits.
Thinking of this, he turned to Han Tong first, "The last general doesn't ask for any military merits, just help Daming clean up the remaining thieves!" Then he commanded the adjutant general in a loud voice, "Turn your head and let Li Xianshi outflank you from both sides with fifteen boats, don't let a single Hu Lu escape!" The other ships follow me in the middle to defeat the enemy! ”
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On the west bank of Laizhou Harbor, Liu Guoxuan was happily directing his soldiers to bombard the enemy ships in the harbor with heavy artillery on the fort, but there was a report from Tanma, "General, three or four thousand thieves are coming from the southwest, and they are only less than three miles away." Look at the flag when it is the green camp of Laizhou. ”
It turned out that although Zheng Du was suddenly attacked and fled in fear, he was not stupid and knew that if he left, he would not escape the death penalty. He really ran to the Laizhou camp of the Qing army, and transferred the garrison of the green battalion to the port. Along the way, many fleeing Qing army sailors and soldiers were gathered, and nearly 4,000 men and horses were gathered.
Liu Guoxuan swept around to his side, whether it was his soldiers or the rebels, they were all exhausted after nearly an hour of fighting, and the enemy ships in the harbor had been bombarded to the point that they were completely unable to move, and there was no need to defend the fort. So he had the soldiers on the other battery inform them to return to the Ji'an and prepare to return home.
When he led his soldiers down from the fort and was about to rush to the south side of the harbor to board the ship, he suddenly saw a Galen warship not far away, no smaller than the Ji'an, drifting not far from the shore.
He took out the binoculars again and took a closer look, and saw that there was no one on the boat, so he immediately smiled like a little fox who had stolen three chickens, and raised his hand to hold Xie Qian, "General Xie, can you leave me a hundred clever soldiers, I will go and do a big one!" ”
Xie Qian was also very excited when he heard this, so he ordered most of the rebels to go to the south bank to board the ship first, and personally ordered more than 100 people, and found more than 10 small boats nearby with Liu Guoxuan, and rowed towards the "Qiansheng" together.
It was only after the fierce shelling just now that the mooring area in the harbor was already in shambles, and they made a detour left and right in the cracks of the debris of a large number of ships, and it took a lot of effort to finally get close to the big ship of the Qing army.
Liu Guoxuan was still the first, the first to climb aboard the "Qiansheng", and asked people to enter the cabin to search, but found that the ship had already been empty.
He looked up and saw that even the sail rope had been tied and he was about to raise the sail, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed, this was a warship the size of a fifth-class frigate! And except for the stern of the ship that was smashed by two holes by shells, the rest of the place is basically intact, which is simply a miracle and fortune - make a lot of money!
He hurriedly ordered the soldiers to take their place and sail out of the port! However, there were less than 40 genuine sailors on board, and there were only more than 100 sailors who knew a little bit about how to operate the ship, so Xie Qian's rebels could only do some manual work. Therefore, after two busy meals, the huge "Qiansheng" finally began to move slowly.