Shi Lang's centipede clipper quickly caught up, but he did not directly attack Wang Xinyu's big ship, but made people raise a flag and let the remaining four warships that had surrendered to the Qing army suspend the pursuit, and obey his command from now on.

"Give the order to go down and let the four warships pursue each other on both wings, keep a distance from the enemy ships, and not enter the range of the flowering projectiles! Attack the enemy with a broadside Franc! Shi Lang ordered.

"Wow!" The pro-soldiers retreated.

"The king thief is only good at the ship's cannons, but his tactics are immature. This general soldier has eight layers of certainty to take down the thief! Shi Lang pointed to the Ming army ship in front of him and said.

Shi Lang also ordered the sailors on the ship to bite the tail of the Ming warship in front of him, if the Ming ship turned, his own ship also quickly turned, and with the advantage of fast speed, he always followed the tail of the Ming warship. Because the opponent has no other battleships to cooperate, as long as the tail is bitten, it will be beaten in vain, and there is no power to fight back.

"The thief is fierce, but he is only a bull. And we are wolves, just staring at his ass biting! Shi Lang said to the people around him.

As a general who grew up by the sea since he was a child, Shi Lang also has a strong desire for the sea like Zheng Chenggong. But unlike Zheng Chenggong, Shi Lang belongs to the kind of guy who has milk and is a mother, and when he saw that Daqing could give him glory and wealth, he chose to throw himself into Daqing.

In Shi Lang's heart, he has a strong desire to have a giant ship of Zheng Chenggong.

Yes, it's a giant ship.

"The Zheng Reverse Giant Ship is here!"

It's a giant ship coming, and it's really Zheng Chenggong's giant ship coming.

In the southeast sea area of Xiamen, Chen Yaoce is fighting hard.

Unlike in real history, due to the equipment of new weapons such as flowering shells and chain bullets, Zhou Rui caused huge losses to the Qing army before his sacrifice, and he held out for a long time. It was also for the same reason that Chen Yaoce's fleet inflicted heavy losses on the Qing army, while his own losses were minimal. But now, he's run out of ammunition.

"King Yanping is here!" Just when the Ming army was desperate, someone shouted.

At the same time, someone on the side of the Qing army exclaimed: "The Zheng Reverse giant ship is here!" ”

Seeing that the fleet ahead was a little chaotic, Dasu picked up the clairvoyant mirror and looked at it, and was immediately stunned: What a big ship! It's like a hill! But strangely, how did the ship's sides of the ship be covered with white patches? Could it be that Zheng Chenggong was very poor, did not have long planks, and used patches to connect short planks to build ships?

Da Su put down the clairvoyant mirror, turned around and asked Huang Wu: "It's the Zheng Reverse giant ship that came?" ”

"It's Zheng Wei's giant ship." Huang Wu nodded and said.

It was Zheng Chenggong's giant ship that came, with its special combination of Chinese and Western shapes, tall hulls, fluttering "Zheng" flags, and dense sailor warships, announcing to both sides that they were coming!

Zheng Chenggong's giant ship is a 20-zhang long thousand-material giant ship, the hull is the same as that of a Chinese warship, the mast is hung with hard sails, there is a buttress female wall, and eight 24-pounder red-coated cannons are placed on the deck, but under the main deck, there is a layer of artillery deck similar to that of a Western warship, and forty thousand pound Franc machine cannons are hidden behind the gun door. In peacetime, the gun door is closed, but during naval battles, the gun door is opened, and the gun port of the black hole is stretched out and aimed at the enemy ship.

The hull structure is also a mix of Chinese and Western, somewhat similar to the Dutch Galen ship, with large cabins under the main deck for artillery decks, but a relatively wide main deck for heavy guns. The bottom of the ship, like the Fu ship, has a deep draft with a pointed bottom, has a compartment, and has excellent sinking resistance.

"How should our army deal with such a huge ship?" Dasu asked.

"This ship is about the same size as the giant ships of the Xiyi people that my subordinates have seen, but our ships are numerous, as long as we besiege them, we can take them." Huang Wu replied.

In fact, Huang Wu has never seen a real Western giant ship, and the warships that Westerners came to the East back then were generally small ships of the cruiser class, and some of them were armed merchant ships at all. Even the Hector, the largest of the Dutch army in Taiwan, is nothing more than an armed merchant ship converted into a cruiser, and when it comes to Europe, it is not even as good as a third-class frigate, let alone a battleship. The Hector was larger than Zheng Chenggong's flagship, with a length of about 50 meters, a displacement of 660 tons, and 32 Dutch naval bronze guns. *Note 1

Seeing Zheng Chenggong's main fleet coming, Chen Yaoce, who was already in despair, suddenly boosted his morale.

"Brethren, although we have run out of shells, we still have arrows! Our prince is here with a huge ship! This is our chance to fight back! Chen Yaoce pointed forward with the big knife in his hand, "Brothers, follow me to kill the Tartars!" ”

"Kill the Tartars!"

"Kill the Tartars!"

The sailors of the Ming army cheered loudly, and their morale was greatly boosted.

Chen Yaoce led the battleship and rushed into the enemy group. When the battleship passed by the enemy's small boat, the birds on the big ship fired a salvo, and rockets flew like locusts at the Qing army's small boat, killing the Qing army with many casualties.

Some Ming warships even clinged to the big ships of the Qing army's naval divisions, with bird guns and rockets firing in a salvo, and the smoking bottles of the national surname flew into the Qing warships.

Chen Yaoce even leaned on a Qing army fortune boat, jumped onto the enemy ship with the high morale of the Ming army, and engaged in fierce hand-to-hand combat with the Qing soldiers, striving to capture an enemy ship.

The main force of the Zheng army appeared, and the first to bear the brunt of the blow was the Eight Banners Naval Division of Li Shutai, the governor of Fujian. Li Shutai came from the mouth of the Jiulong River and encountered the main force of Zheng's army.

Zheng Chenggong's main fleet led several centipede clippers took advantage of their fast speed to rush back and forth in the enemy group, and constantly used Franco's cannons to send the Qing army's hand-to-hand combat boats and fire attack ships to the bottom of the sea at close range.

Thousands of warships on both sides launched the largest naval battle between the Southern Ming and Qing courts in the waters of Xiamen.

Behind the Qing fleet, Zheng Tai's fleet in Kinmen also came out, cooperating with Zheng Chenggong's main fleet to flank the Qing army's naval divisions in front and rear.

Zheng Chenggong's flagship rushed into the Qing army's naval division battleship group, and the red-coated cannons on the upper deck fired at a long distance, constantly sending the boat to the bottom of the sea.

Two Qing army ships rushed to Zheng Chenggong's giant ship "desperately", trying to attack on both sides.

At this moment, the "patch" that Da Su thought was suddenly opened, and the muzzle of the black hole protruded from the cannon door, aiming at the Qing army's lucky boat.

The distance between the warships of the two sides was only two hundred paces, and the huge ship of Zheng Chenggong let out a deafening roar, puffs of white smoke rose up, and rows of cannonballs hit the Qing warships at close range.

This round of salvo fire, the hit rate was extremely high, three red-coated cannons and twenty thousand pound franc machine guns at the same time poured out deadly steel, hitting the Qing warship full of holes, and wooden planks scattered sideways. Among them, one of the Qing army's Franc machine cannons was hit by a cannonball, and the 1,000-pound cannon was beaten into the air, killing the surrounding Qing army.

On the other side, the situation of the Qing warships was not good, Zheng Chenggong's giant ship fired a volley, piercing several large holes in the Qing warship, and the Qing sailors on board suffered heavy casualties.

The Franc was reloaded quickly, and Zheng Chenggong's giant ship immediately followed with a second volley. This salvo sent a Qing warship to the bottom of the sea, and another Qing warship was also heavily damaged, completely losing its combat effectiveness.

Zheng Chenggong's giant ship can be described as a man blocking and killing, and a Buddha blocking and killing a Buddha. encountered a large Qing warship, and it was smashed by a single artillery bombardment; When you encounter a small boat, you will collide with it directly, run it over, and crush the boat to the bottom of the sea to feed the fish.

Afterwards, Da Su wrote on the fold: The slave led the five provincial sailors to fight fiercely with the thieves in the waters of Xiamen, and met the puppet Ming Zheng against the pirates when he was in the morning, and the thieves were numerous, and the slaves led Junxuan (Huang Wuzi) to attack them by boat, and the thieves were defeated by Wang Shi and abandoned the ship. Our army attacked, and the thieves threw themselves into the sea to die, and their corpses covered the sea. Our army chased after him, burned more than 1,000 of his boats, and beheaded 10,000 people; Zhou Rui, the chief soldier of the thieves, was defeated, burned his boat, and fell into the water to die; The minions took advantage of the victory to pursue, the thief Yao Ce was defeated, and countless people died in the water; At noon, there were hundreds of Zheng Cheng giant ships, which were 30 zhang long, five stories high, and had 100 cannons. Although the minions fought with all their might, the power of Zheng Cheng's giant ship was infinite, and it was crumbled for miles with one cannon, and the boat was shattered when it was encountered. Our army fought hard to kill the thieves, burning more than 100 of their huge ships, and the thieves were defeated and left, but our army suffered too many losses and was unable to pursue......

Dasu's predecessor, Bolo, is a guy who likes to lie about his military exploits and loves to brag. When he entered Fujian, Zheng Zhilong surrendered without a fight, and all the key passes were opened to the Qing army, in fact, the two sides had never fought fiercely at all, and he was able to make up a fierce battle with the Fujian army and behead tens of thousands of people. When Zheng Zhilong surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, he not only gave up Fujian, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and killed Emperor Longwu, but also allowed the Qing army to obtain a powerful naval division in vain, and also gave Boluo a great merit in vain. It was precisely because Bolo did not fight in the first battle that he won Fujian in vain, in order to extinguish his mouth, help Bolo cover up his ugliness and cover up his lies, and later the Qing court killed Zheng Zhilong, who had merit for them.

Now Dasu has suffered heavy losses and has to learn from his predecessor who lied about his military exploits.

In fact, Zheng Chenggong's giant ship is only one, less than thirty zhang long, and there are no 100 cannons.

But this huge ship rushed into the enemy's flock, like a tiger entering a flock of sheep, and wherever it passed, the Qing warship was shattered by a small round of artillery bombardment, and the large one could only support two or three rounds.

Huang Wu summoned his own soldiers and ordered: "The fire attack ship will attack, the Fu ship and the clipper ship will cover, and the fire attack ship will besiege the Zheng Cheng giant ship!" ”

A large number of warships of the Qing army fired their guns while killing Zheng Chenggong's main fleet, and a large number of clippers, galleys, and boats rushed out to cover the fire attack ships in the middle of the fleet, aiming at Zheng Chenggong's giant ships.

Not to be outdone, the boats of Zheng Chenggong's fleet rushed into the enemy crowd and destroyed the Qing boats with artillery fire. The clippers rushed into the enemy group, and the rockets were fired like locusts at the Qing army.

The Qing army's fire attack ships were stopped by the small boats of Zheng Chenggong's fleet, and rows of rockets were fired up, and the fire attack ships were set on fire.

The small boats of the Ming army then killed the small boats behind the Qing army's fire attack ships, and those Qing soldiers who had just jumped off the fire attack ships and tried to escape saw that the situation was not good, and either surrendered or jumped into the sea.

Zheng Chenggong's fleet attacked from the front, while the Kinmen Zheng Tai Naval Division behind had not yet launched an attack, but only followed the Qing Army's naval division from a distance.

Huang Wu had a bad feeling: Isn't this battle going to be lost? Could it be that Zheng Chenggong has such a big appetite and wants to eat his five provincial water masters in one bite?

However, now the Qing army is still landing, and there is still a strange soldier in the direction of Gaoqi, which is a strange soldier led by Shi Lang, and with Chen Peng to respond, Gaoqi will definitely be taken.

Huang Wu thought to himself: As long as Shi Lang takes Gaoqi and cooperates with the landing force in the east to attack, then the Ming army on the island will inevitably be in chaos. Even if the naval battle was lost, it was nothing, Zheng Chenggong's foundation was uprooted, and most of the Ming army could only choose to surrender at that time.

Xiamen Island blocked the view, and Huang Wu didn't know what was going on with Shi Lang now.

In the Gaoqi camp, Chen Peng saw the beacon fire lit on the other side, and he was overjoyed: Wang Shi is about to arrive, and I am about to abandon the darkness and turn to the light! As long as you go to the opposite side, you will enjoy endless glory and wealth, if you are lucky, you can also carry the flag, become a full person, and from then on you can live in Beijing City, and even future generations will have hereditary honor!

Chen Peng stood on the platform and gave the order to go down, asking his own soldiers to lower the red flag of the Ming army and replace it with the green flag of the Qing army.

On the opposite side of Tong'an Bay, a dense fleet of Qing troops appeared, heading in the direction of Gaoqi. However, what made Chen Peng feel discordant was that two warships were still flying the red flag of the Ming army and were fleeing towards the sea west of Xiamen. There was also a big ship in the back, which was actually its own flagship, and it was actually hanging the red flag of the Ming army, and it fled while firing guns. Behind them, four warships with the green flag of the Qing army were in pursuit, and a centipede clipper, with a large number of Qing army boats, sailed towards Gaoqi.

Note 1: It is rumored that in the earlier Battle of Liaoluo Bay, the Dutch dispatched battleships, and the Dutch Liu Xiang combined fleet was finally defeated by Zheng Zhilong's fleet. In this regard, the author thinks that it is pure nonsense, the capital ships of the Dutch in Europe at that time were not up to the level of the British third-class frigates, where did any battleships come to China? Because of the limitation of resources, it was impossible for the Netherlands to build such a perverted giant ship as the British, and the largest warship in the Netherlands at that time was the capital ship of the Seven Provinces, which was a Galen ship-type battleship of about seven or eight hundred tons, with a double-deck gun deck, about sixty to eighty guns, which was equivalent to the British third-class frigate.