In October 1656, in Guangzhou Bay, Wei warships gathered.

Thirty main warships, as well as nearly 1,000 sea ships, were ready to participate in the battle to force the crossing of the Qiongzhou Strait and capture Qiongzhou.

At night, there was calm in Guangzhou Bay, and suddenly the roar of artillery woke up the people along the coast.

For a while, the people became nervous, worried that the Ming army was coming, looting their family property and pulling them overseas as slaves.

Of course, after the Ming army moved the captive population overseas, in order to appease them, almost every household was divided into a large area of wasteland and taken away as slaves, which was the propaganda of Di Bao and Imperial Daily.

In the palace in Guangzhou, a general hurriedly came to the outside of the emperor's bedroom, "Your Majesty, the minister has an urgent military report!" ”

Gao Yihuan's majestic voice came from inside, "Is it Zheng Sen?" ”

"The sea army is outside Guangzhou Bay."

As soon as the general's voice fell, he saw Gao Yihuan, who was only wearing a coat, come out of the dormitory and shouted: "Dress me!" ”

The artillery battle lasted all night, and gradually stopped at dawn, on the Humen Fort, the Wei generals picked up the clairvoyant mirror, saw the opponent who had been bombarding them all night, and saw the ships covering the sea, and the sails were like clouds, and they couldn't help but gasp.

At this moment, a group of cavalry galloped over, and the soldiers on the fort immediately exclaimed, "General, Your Majesty is here!" ”

The generals were shocked and hurriedly went to greet them, but Gao Yihuan, who was wearing a military uniform, was already surrounded by soldiers and boarded the treadmill.

"Your Majesty!" The Wei soldiers on the fort saluted in unison.

Gao Yihuan waved his hand, stretched out his hand to take the clairvoyant mirror, and couldn't help but be shocked when he saw the Ming army warship on the sea.

As the maritime hegemon of East Asia, the Zheng family sailor is not without reason, not to mention anything else, just talking about the dense ships is enough to be proud of East Asia.

"It's all here!" Gao Yihuan put down the clairvoyant mirror, and his face could not hide his excitement.

At this moment, in Guangzhou Bay, countless Wei warships rushed out with full sails, and nearly a thousand large and small warships, like sea fortresses, rushed out.

"Your Majesty, our sailor has also arrived!" Liang Yizhang next to him said excitedly.

Gao Yihuan did not know much about naval battles, and out of prudence, Gao Yihuan did not board the ship, but watched the battle from the shore.

After all, if the land is defeated, he can pull out his horse and slip away, and if he is defeated at sea, he can only sink into the sea, Gao Yihuan's family has a great cause, and there is no need to play with Nanming.

At this time, the Ming fleet, seeing the Wei fleet going out to sea to meet the battle, immediately expanded the formation of the fleet, aimed the side at the Wei warship, the two fleets fired from time to time, and a cloud of white smoke rose on the sea, splashing a column of water.

The number of ships of the two armies was about the same, but the tonnage and artillery of the main ships of the Wei army were much stronger than those of the Ming army.

From this point of view, the Wei army's naval division was stronger than the Ming army, but if you add the people who control the warships, the situation is different.

At this time, the two armies began to exchange fire, and a Wei warship was smashed with a broken mast, slowing down, and was soon set on fire by the Ming fleet, and the ship was beaten to pieces, and slowly sank into the sea in the circular vision of the clairfront mirror in Gao Yihuan's hand.

This warship became the first warship to sink after the war, and the morale of the Ming army, which had the first opportunity, was greatly boosted.

On a big boat in the rear, Zhu Cihong put down the clairvoyant mirror and couldn't help but cheer for Zheng Sen.

The Wei warship sank, and the soldiers were adrift on the sea with driftwood, and the ship immediately put down the boat to rescue, but the Ming soldiers did not attack the boat.

On the sea, the two sailors, forming two lines, aimed the guns on the side of the warship at each other, the guns kept shooting orange flames, the hull of the ship shook, and countless iron bullets flew close to the sea, smashing the side of the opponent.

The battlefield was shot outside the Humen Fort, but Gao Yihuan stood on the fort and could clearly see a magnificent picture of naval battle.

At this time, due to the shelling of both sides, two smoke bands were formed on the sea, and the shells intertwined between the two smoke belts, splashing water columns one after another, smashing the mast of the warship and splashing wood chips.

Gao Yihuan observed from the clairvoyant mirror that the Wei army had a large number of artillery, and the smoke belt caused by the artillery was obviously thicker than that of the Ming army, but the Wei army's artillery rarely hit the Ming army's warships, and the Ming army's warships had fewer artillery, but they could smash the Wei army's warships from time to time.

Gao Yihuan collected the clairvoyant mirror, his expression became serious, and the surrounding generals also saw that the hit rate of the Ming army's ship artillery was obviously higher than that of the Wei army.

"Boom!" In a burst of cannonball, the smoke of gunpowder slowly rose, was blown away by the sea breeze, and a Wei warship was once again smashed and capsized and sank into the sea.

This made Gao Yihuan's face change from serious to gloomy, and it was not until a Ming army warship was smashed and sunk that his expression eased a little, but according to this exchange ratio, the Wei army was bound to lose.

At this time, on the flagship of the Wei army, an order was suddenly issued, and the Wei warships, which were originally shooting horizontally at the hull, began to change their formation.

Gao Chengxun of the Chinese army led the main fleet, relying on the ship's cannons and resisting the beating, and continued to shoot from the side, while the Wei fleet on both flanks began to turn around, and the bow of the ship was aimed at the direction and rear of the Ming army, and rushed over.

The Wei army found the advantage of not fighting in the confrontation, and immediately changed the formation, intending to engage in broadside combat, while Zheng Chenggong quickly understood the intention of the Wei army, and immediately adjusted the sail and sailed southward.

After two hours of fighting, the main warships of the Wei army, Yangyong and Jiyuan, sank respectively, and the other ships lost more than 30 ships, and the Ming army also lost, one main warship, and more than 20 other warships.

The artillery on the sea fired in unison, the hull of the ship vibrated and spewed flames, the projectiles roared out from the rising gunsmoke, and the iron bullets weighing more than ten kilograms flew close to the sea, quickly narrowing the distance with the opponent's warship, and the figure of the warship grew from small to large, becoming more and more clear, and you could even see the roar of the artillery sticking out of the gun window on the side of the ship.

Rapidly flying shells, breaking through the deck, burrowing into the cabin and sweeping everything, the two armies suffered heavy casualties.

At noon, the main warships of the Wei army lost as much as four, and another three were heavily damaged, and they withdrew from the battlefield, while the main warships of the Ming army also lost two, and two fled to Qiongzhou.

Gao Yihuan stood on the fort, as the battlefield moved to the open sea, the clairvoyant mirror could no longer see the Ming army, only the stern of the Wei army's naval division, and the Wei warships that were injured from time to time and retreated.

These warships sailed into the captain, and nearly 10,000 craftsmen immediately began to repair them, and the shipyard was busy.

In the afternoon, the two armies finally had warships start to meet the gunwales, and the muskets of the two sides on the side of the ships were fired, and after colliding together, they grabbed their weapons and fought them.

The Wei soldiers jumped onto the Ming warship and killed the Ming soldiers, Koreans, and Japanese ronins on board.

The battle lasted until dark, the Wei army lost 100 ships, the Ming army also lost more than 60 ships, the fierce naval battle because of nightfall, temporarily stopped, the Wei ships withdrew to Guangzhou Bay, and the Ming army anchored on Lantau Island at night.

In the early morning of the next day, just after dawn, the Wei warships in Guangzhou Bay set sail again, and the Ming Dynasty ships appeared outside Humen on time, opening a new round of duel again.

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