The first battle of the 446th Naval Army

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The greed in his heart still urged these widows to take action against the fleet organized by Li Zixiao.

At sea, battles take place almost entirely during the day, because at night, it is simply too difficult to find a fleet above the vast sea.

On December 13, this was the second time that Hung Sheng escorted a fleet of 100 ships north to Tamna Island.

With the delivery of two trips of supplies, the materials and ammunition that Li Zixiao needed have basically been delivered, and the ships returning to Jiangbei do not need to come back.

In the end, Li Zixiao only left a hundred large ships to deliver the last trip of supplies.

And it was precisely this last trip that the fleet was attacked by the Japanese at sea.

"Alarm, alarm, unidentified forces flotilla found ahead, unidentified forces flotilla found ahead."

Just on one of the huge masts of the three-masted gunboat, squatted a sailor, who was in charge of lookout, who was the eye of the fleet and could detect the enemy fleet in advance.

"Dangdang!"

Now the sailor, who was crouching on the high mast, shouted loudly downward, and with the wooden stick in his hand, he struck a gong hanging beside him, making a piercing gong.

"Vice-Commander, discover the pirates!" A sailor ran to the cabin of the ship and said to Hong Sheng.

"Haha, there are pirates who dare to attack us, they really ate the bear's heart and leopard's guts, just let us open the meat and order the whole army to enter the battle state."

After Hong Sheng heard the news, not only did he not feel the slightest nervousness, but he was a little excited, he could finally command the fleet to fight a battle at sea.

Then, Hong Sheng rushed out of the cabin with a monocular, observed the sea surface with a monocular, and found that several large ships appeared on the right side of the sea in front of him.

On these pirate ships, a black skull flag was flying in the wind, and it was rushing towards Hong Sheng and them at a very fast speed.

Of course, the big ships of these pirates are not big compared to the three-masted gunboat that Hong Sheng himself was riding.

"There were a total of six pirate ships, and they were very fast, so I ordered the first detachment to meet them first, set up a formation, protect the fleet, and let the gunners test the guns first."

Hong Sheng was both excited and nervous, this was the first naval battle he commanded in the true sense, and he warned himself in his heart that he must not make a mistake.

As Hong Sheng gave the order, seven or eight bird ships were quickly separated from Hong Sheng's fleet, and they quickly rushed out, forming a formation in front, and they swung sideways, aiming the guns on the ships at the rushing pirate ships.

"Accelerate, accelerate, don't stop, rush up, jump gang!"

One with a scar on his face, a Japanese knife in his hand, and even a set of tattered Japanese war armor, shouted at the Japanese in Japanese language at this time.

This scar-faced pirate, named Fujino Yokokawa, was a group of Japanese pirates entrenched in the Yellow Sea at this time, specializing in robbing ships that entered the Japanese kingdom for trading.

But more often than not, they could not find 'business' at sea, because now the only people who could trade with the Wa Kingdom were the merchants under the Zheng family and the Dutch.

Of course, now with the addition of a fleet organized by Li Zixiao, no matter which fleet of these three parties is, when it comes to the trade of the Japanese country, the fleet will have a fleet to escort it.

With only the few pirate ships in Fujino Yokokawa's hands, they can't handle it at all, so under normal circumstances, they go to the coast of Daming to plunder, and the sea 'business' is not easy to do.

But today, led by Fujino Yokokawa, the five or six Japanese pirates on this area have greatly increased their strength, and they have the idea of attacking Li Zixiao's fleet.

And these pirates have been doing this business for many years one by one, and they are experienced, and they know very well where the gap between themselves and the White Dragon Army fleet is.

The White Dragon Army fleet ships have a lot of artillery, and if they engage in an artillery battle, just the artillery on their ship is not enough to abuse people.

After consulting with Fujino Yokokawa and several other pirate leaders, they agreed that if they wanted to win this battle, they had to take risks and adopt unconventional tactics.

It is absolutely impossible to distance themselves and engage in an artillery battle with the fleet of the White Dragon Army, otherwise they will not even have a chance of winning.

They had to drive the pirate ship into the White Dragon Army's fleet as fast as possible, so that their pirate ship could get close to the White Dragon Army's warship.

Then, let his pirates jump to the White Dragon Army's warship and engage in hand-to-hand combat with it, so that the artillery on the White Dragon Army's warship will not be able to exert its power.

These pirates and pirates believe that as long as they are allowed to jump on the warships of the White Dragon Army, with the martial arts of their Japanese slave warriors, killing those Ming sailors is not cutting fruits and vegetables!

Of course, this is a very risky way of playing, and they must be able to ensure that the pirate ship they are piloting can successfully survive the shelling of the White Dragon Army warship and get close to the White Dragon Army warship.

High risk, high return, Fujino Yokokawa and other seven pirate pirates, finally gritted their teeth, but they were still determined to do it, so they had today's attack on the fleet led by Hong Sheng.

"Fire!"

As Hong Sheng gave the order, the three-masted gunboat he was in was the flagship of the entire fleet, and a flag bearer waved a small red flag in his hand.

Several bird boats swung in front of them, and the naval officers on them also saw the flags.

"The deputy commander has given the order to open the cannon, all gunners pay attention, open the cannon!"

Thundered!

With a loud noise, the several bird ships that swung away violently trembled, raising black smoke, and the guns on the ships fired a salvo, and the cannonballs flew to the sea in the distance, and the pirate ships sailing fast.

Bang bang bang!

Then, I saw that on the sea around those fast-sailing pirate ships, columns of water rose up, rippling waves, making those pirate ships even more bumpy.

Syllable! Bang! Crash!

Soon, the cannonball hit a pirate ship, and the cannonball smashed into the pirate ship's body, and then exploded, directly blowing up the small pirate ship and breaking the city in two.

Sawdust flew all over the sky, and many of the pirates on board fell into the water screaming, and the pirate ship was directly broken in two and quickly disappeared into the sea.

"Okay, that's it! Let the first detachment continue to fire, let's shoot too! ”

Hong Sheng stood on the deck of the three-masted gunship, and with the monocular in his hand, he saw the scene just now, and shouted excitedly when he saw that the pirate ship was broken in two.

Just now, the artillery on the White Dragon Army Bird Boat fired not solid bullets, but their unique 'explosive bombs', which Zheng Zhilong was used to calling 'flowering bombs'.

The characteristic of the 'explosive bomb' is that it delays the explosion!

For example, the pirate ship just now, which was only a dozen meters long, was hit by an 'explosive bomb', and the explosive bomb exploded in the hull of the ship, which could directly blow it into two.

"Help, help us!"

On the pirate ships that were blown in two, more than a dozen pirates who had fallen into the water were tossing in the sea at this time, shouting loudly.

By this time, it was already the middle of December, the weather was particularly cold, and the sea was even more icy, and these pirate sailors fell into the sea.

If no one rescues them, they will freeze to death by the cold waters without waiting for them to drown.

"Full speed ahead, don't stop!"

But at this time, Fujino Yokokawa continued to order, accelerated forward, and did not stop the boat to save people.

Because at this time, Fujino Yokokawa knew very well that they must not stop at this time.

Otherwise, they will be reduced to fixed targets for the artillery of the White Dragon Army's warships, and if they have a few more volleys, they will be wiped out.

For the pirates who fell into the water behind, Fujino Yokokawa directly gave up on them.

From the moment their ship was blown up and fell into the sea, the fate of these overboard pirates had actually been decided.

Boom Boom!

Taking advantage of the gap between the cannons of the bird boats of the first detachment in front and reloading the ammunition, the three-masted gunboats behind were also ordered by Hong Sheng to open fire.

The caliber of the guns equipped on the three-masted gunboats ranged from large to small, the smallest three-pounder gun, and the largest eight-pounder gun in the bow.

Like the bird ships in front, as the main ships of the White Dragon Army's naval fleet, they are mainly equipped with three-pounder guns, as well as a few six-pounder guns, but they dare not be equipped with eight-pounder guns.

In this way, the guns on the three-masted gunboats were much more powerful than the bird ships, both in terms of power and range.

At this time, the three-masted gunboats were mainly fired with six-pounder and eight-pounder guns, and the largest number of three-pounder guns did not have enough range.

A dozen six-pounder guns on one side of the three-masted gunboat, as well as the eight-pounder gun, opened fire one after another, and a dozen shells streaked through the sky and fell on the sea where the pirate ship was about to pass.

"Everyone, take shelter."

Fujino Yokokawa looked at the black dots flying in the sky, his face changed suddenly, and he shouted loudly to his subordinates behind him.

And the pirates on the ship, one by one, looked panicked, controlled the pirate ship, and continued to rush forward, shouting in their hearts Anewsasu God bless, don't let the cannonballs hit their ships!

Unfortunately, Amaterasu couldn't stop these shells, and the falling cannonballs hit a pirate ship again, causing a big explosion.

The violent explosion directly blew a big hole in the bottom of the pirate ship, and the icy sea water rushed in crazily, and the pirate and pirate sailors below desperately blocked the gap one by one.

This pirate ship was much luckier than the previous one, and it was not blown in two, but the large hole in the bottom of his ship frantically poured into the sea, which almost made the pirate ship in a half-sinking state.

Peng!

A cannonball landed on the sea in front of the pirate ship to the left of Fujino Yokokawa, and it was the 'explosive shell' fired by the eight-pounder cannon, and it exploded in large numbers.

The violent explosion freed up a column of rushing water, and even almost overturned the pirate ship of Fujino Yokokawa that passed by.

"Damn, Yoshino, Ozawa, why haven't they shown up yet." Fujino Yokokawa said with a gloomy face.

This time, he also had several other pirates joining forces, although he was in charge of taking the lead and attracting the attention of the White Dragon Army.

The other two pirate ships led by the other pirate ships approached the White Dragon Army's naval fleet from other directions, and Fujino Yokokawa was the bait to cover the other pirate ships.

(End of chapter)