On the "Guangdong", William looked at the three big ships in front of him with wide eyes: "My God, if the Zheng family is such a three-masted sailing ship, the difficulty of our victory will be greatly increased......"

Xia Nan observed this three-masted gunboat and guessed: "It is estimated that this is a transformation as Zheng Yiguan's flagship." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Although Zheng Yiguan has money, his combat method of relying on fireships and hand-to-hand combat determines that such large ships will not be built in batches, and your worries basically do not exist. ”

"Zheng Yiguan's flagship?" William looked back and forth at the three ships, "Then Zheng Yiguan must be on one of the ships, but which one is his real ship?" ”

"Fei Najin guessed what to do, the three ships will not be destroyed directly."

William grinned, "You're right. On my orders, the two Yongle-class ships were ready for bombardment launch. ”

The hulls of the "Guangdong" and "Shandong" were horizontal, and the sides were aimed at the three three-masted gunboats. It will be difficult for ordinary solid shells to sink the opponent for a while and a half, and if you want to kill the enemy in one shot, you must use the last big killer - bombardment.

The Zheng family didn't know what fate they would face, and they were still at a loss. Zheng Zhilong was still directing the cumbersome Hongyi cannon to turn the muzzle and aim at the "Guangdong" and "Shandong", and he also decided that the two warships on the opposite side that were bigger than himself were Xia Nan's ships, and it would be good if he could kill Xia Nan with one shot. Both sides had the same mind and aimed their guns at each other.

With a "boom", the Hongyi cannon fired a cannon first, but it missed, and the shell crossed the deck of the "Shandong" and fell into the sea in an arc. The gunners of the Zheng family fired their guns based on experience, and one of them was counted as one, and there was no such thing as ranging and aiming.

On the contrary, the two Yongle-class bombardments were nervously correcting the firing parameters, and each crew of up to 10 people performed their duties, some lifted the shell and gently inserted it from the muzzle, some calculated what angle they should adjust the muzzle to according to the distance and angle table engraved on the gun, and some raised torches, ready to light the fuse at any time. The artillery commander behind him cheered them on: "Remember, be bold and careful, follow the essentials of the previous drill step by step, strive for a one-shot hit, and don't let the general down!" ”

After the Hongyi cannon on the opposite side fired the second shot and luckily hit the cabin of the "Shandong", the bombardment was finally ready to fire.

"Boom", a loud sound far exceeding the Hongyi cannon, the "Guangdong" took the lead in firing the first shot. A huge cannonball hit a three-masted gunboat in the center, smashing a large hole and burrowing into the hull.

A second or two later, the delay tube triggered the explosion of the cannonball, with a muffled sound of "bang", the 52-pound cannonball exploded in the cabin, the unique watertight compartment design of the Chinese sailing ship, its confined space amplified the power of the explosion, and the kinetic energy generated by the explosion was transmitted layer by layer, and finally broke out of the cocoon, lifted the deck, the side hull, and the sailors were thrown into the air, accompanied by broken wood chips and broken planks.

The heads of the Zheng family were all on a three-masted gunboat next to them, witnessing the scene in front of them, and they were all dumbfounded, there was such a huge flowering bomb in the world, and it was used in naval battles?

Immediately afterwards, the other three bombardment guns on the flanks of the two Yongle-class also opened fire almost simultaneously, all aiming at the poor three-masted gunboat in the middle, apparently adhering to the concept of "it is better to break one finger than to hurt ten fingers", either not to fight, or to sink if you want to fight.

The ship in the middle fell into the blood, and three explosive bombs exploded again inside the hull, and the huge shock wave almost broke the ship in two, and the sailors who survived the first explosion were either thrown overboard or bled to death. The seemingly impregnable three-masted gunboat was reimbursed under a single round of shelling.

Zheng Zhiguan and the others flew out of the sky, such thunder and fire hit them, and they had nowhere to run, and the whole ship was killed. There was no need to discuss ventilation, their thoughts and actions were highly unified, and several cousins did not talk to Zheng Zhilong, so they carried him and ran, put down the small sampan on the side close to the land, and jumped on it. At this moment, saving one's life is the most important thing, and any face problem is a floating cloud in the face of such a terrifying explosion.

As soon as the small sampan was more than ten meters away, the thunderous cannon sound sounded again, and the ship behind it was hit by several cannonballs one after another, and the air wave broke through the hull, bursting out with broken wood and mutilated limbs, almost overturning the small sampan. The people on the boat were terrified, and those who had oars used oars, using their hands and feet empty-handed, paddling desperately to avoid being affected by the fish in the pond.

With only four guns, after two rounds of shelling, the battle was settled. One of the three tall three-masted warships was disintegrated from it, and the main structure of the other two was destroyed, and half of the hull was immersed in seawater, which could sink at any time.

The small sampan of the Zheng family escaped with the help of the cover of the big boat, and soon ran away, while the sight of the Qiongzhou battalion was blocked, and they did not find that the Zheng family's big dragon head was "coerced" and fled.

Seeing that the last resistance was also destroyed, William asked: "General, do you want to clean up the battlefield and verify whether Zheng Yiguan is dead?" ”

Xia Nan frowned and said, "No one knows if he will stay on this ship, and we don't have time to count it slowly." Regardless of whether Zheng Yiguan died at sea or not, it was carried out according to the original battle plan: naval cover, army landing operation! ”

The naval battle that took place at the mouth of the Zhongzuo came to an end in this way, and Zheng Zhilong's throne as the overlord of the East Asian seas was pulled down by the Qiongzhou battalion that was eyeing him before he could sit on the throne. The Qiongzhou battalion was composed of a mixed fleet of 30 warships of different classes, and cleanly defeated the Zheng Zhilong group of nearly 200 ships, and the three-masted gunboats, Daqingtou, and troop transport ships under Zheng Zhilong were completely lost, and nearly 10,000 troops were either killed in battle, or they were fed fish at sea, and few escaped back, and their forces on the sea were completely destroyed.

The end of the naval battle did not mean the end of the war, and the army soldiers, who had already been gearing up, rushed to Zhongzuo Suocheng and Anping Town respectively in two directions, and went straight to the target with murderous spirit.

Zheng Zhilong was defeated in the naval battle, and naturally it was impossible to have the ability to stop the Qiongzhou battalion. Under the cover of the main fleet, a huge convoy of transport ships rushed in, entered the almost undefended port, and prepared to rush to the beach.

After years of painstaking operation, the port of Zhongzuo has basically become the private port of the Zheng family, whether it is the coolies at the wharf or the merchants on the shore are inextricably linked with the Zheng family, listening to the rumbling of cannons on the sea outside the port, seeing the sporadic Zheng family sailors fleeing back in embarrassment, the whole port is in a panic.