Daming pirates

Although the navy of the army was poorly trained, at this time, under the command of General Yu Zigao, no one dared to neglect, and soon most of the ships left their moorings and began to assemble on the sea.

The generals, including Yu Zigao, also boarded their ships one after another, began to sail away from the shore, merged into the fleet assembled on the sea, began to direct the fleet to gather in the center, and slowly

Slowly turn the ship's bow and sail towards the east of Nanri Island.

Before the army and the army were completely assembled on the sea, a huge fleet began to appear on the sea at the northeast corner of Nanri Island, and rode the wind and waves towards the army's navy.

Yu Zigao's eyes suddenly shrank, and his heart seemed to be clenched. It stands to reason that the number of the naval fleet he now leads is no less than that of the Sea Wolf, and is even more, reaching more than two hundred.

The quality doesn't seem to be bad, and more than half of them are Fuchuan.

But after seeing the Sea Wolf fleet, he still couldn't help but feel palpitations. He quickly took out the monocular telescope he bought at a high price. The power of this telescope was not high, only two or three times at most.

, but in this era of Ming Dynasty, there are still very few artifacts like this. Putting it in front of his eyes, he began to observe carefully.

But the more he looked, the worse his expression became, because through this telescope, he actually saw two tall Western-style plywood boats appearing in the Sea Wolf fleet. As their core, they were heading towards his ship.

The team is coming.

Yu Zigao has dealt with the red-haired people many times, and has even been to Macau on business. Of course, he has also seen some large plywood boats of the Folangji people. He is very clear about the power of the large plywood boats. The design of these boats

There are two or even three layers of gun cabins. The hull is tall and strong, and can carry a large number of artillery. One ship is as many as ten naval warships, making it extremely difficult to deal with.

In the past two years, the official army and the red-haired people had fought many times, and they were all beaten to the point of being unable to fight back when facing such large plywood boats. However, he did not expect that today he would actually be in the Sea Wolf fleet and see it.

Two such warships.

Now he began to regret immediately. He regretted that he should not have easily let the red-haired man's fleet leave here a few days ago. Now he is almost certain that the sea wolf has discovered that the red-haired man's fleet has left here.

Raise troops and mobilize people to come here.

And he felt that this time things might not be as simple as he thought. The Sea Wolf might not have any intention of giving up on Nanri Island, and if Nanri Island said something bad, it might be thrown to them by the Sea Wolf again.

It was a bait. It was not that the Sea Wolf was afraid of them. It was probably that the Sea Wolf was waiting for their army to gather on Nanri Island before attacking them.

When he thought of this, Yu Zigao was immediately shocked, and felt a chill in his heart, as if he had fallen into an ice cave, and a layer of cold sweat broke out all over his body.

The generals who followed Yu Zigao were shocked when they saw the formation of the Sea Wolf fleet. Although they had already heard about the strength of the Sea Wolf fleet, they did not expect that they were so strong.

extent.

It seemed that their fleet did not have a large number, but after taking a closer look, they realized that the strength of such a fleet was far stronger than theirs.

Don't look at the fact that Mr. Chu Cai and a few pirate bosses in Guangdong once claimed to have more than a thousand ships and tens of thousands of men. In fact, the number of ships with two masts or more that can be called big ships is not very many, just a few hundred.

Among the boats, if there are dozens to hundreds of larger two-masted boats, it is considered quite good. The rest are basically small single-masted fishing boats or simply larger sampans.

But the Sea Wolf fleet they saw today was almost all two-masted ships, the kind of ships that could go to sea. The smallest ones were probably some 200-year-old ships, not to mention a few of them.

It looked like a large boat with at least 600 pieces of materials. What made them even more frightened was that there were actually two large Western-style plywood boats among them.

At this moment, the hearts of all the generals were raised to their throats. They knew very well where the gap between their own fleet and the opponent's fleet was.

Let's not talk about the training first, let's talk about these ships. Many of the ships in their fleet are old ships, there are more than a dozen newly built Fu ships, and some of them are large ships that were forcibly sealed and requisitioned by the government.

Some merchant ships.

And although they have recently equipped a lot of Hongyi cannons, not many of them are actually equipped with Hongyi cannons on these ships, because the Hongyi cannons are too heavy. Every time they need to be loaded on a ship, the ship must

Extensive modifications are required to withstand the weight of these Hongyi cannons. Often a ship can only install one, but it is not possible to fire casually at the side of the ship. In order to balance the center of gravity of the ship, an upper body is added below the stern cabin of the lower part of the hull.

Thousands of kilograms of stones make the ship stupid and clumsy.

It is said that the Hongyi cannon is quite powerful, but they have not practiced firing the cannon at sea many times, and no one knows how accurate the gunner is.

But Sea Wolf is different, because Sea Wolf is said to be able to forge cannons. After they landed on Nanri Island, they inspected the burned-out and abandoned workshop area, and someone found out from some traces in the ruins.

It turned out that Sea Wolf was originally located here to make artillery. From the smashed iron furnaces and casting benches, they could judge that Sea Wolf indeed had the ability to self-cast artillery.

From a half-destroyed casting platform, they even judged that the cannons cast by Sea Wolf were definitely not some light cannons, but some rather large heavy cannons.

If the Sea Wolf can forge its own cannons, then they must have a lot of cannons in their hands. They were secretly glad before. Fortunately, the Sea Wolf retreated and abandoned Nanri Island, and did not fight with them here. Otherwise,

They would definitely look ugly.

But unexpectedly, just when they had surpassed the capital and won a victory, the Sea Wolf came back with a massive killing spree. They actually gathered so many warships and pounced on them.

At this moment, the hearts of all the generals who stayed here sank to the bottom of the sea and became cold, knowing that they might be in trouble today.

Just when Yu Zigao organized the navy to go out to sea to fight, Yu Xiaotian was also on the Xinlanglang in the fleet, coldly observing the fleet of the navy with binoculars.

Looking from a distance, you can see a large number of official ships appearing on the sea in the northern waters of Nanri Island, with various flags hanging on them, including the Ming army flags and the generals' recognition flags. In the middle, a ship hung a

It is a handsome flag with the word "Yu" written in large letters in the middle. You can know that this is Yu Zigao's ship.

Although the number of the official warships seems to be very large, in fact it is not much different from the Sea Wolf fleet, but they only have a slight advantage.

But if we compare the quality, then it is a bit ridiculous, because all of Sea Wolf's warships are selected ships in good condition, and except for the flying sloops, most of them are double-rigged ships.

A masted ship, the smallest of which is nearly 200 pieces in size.

Moreover, these ships have been carefully maintained and modified to a certain extent so that they can carry more artillery. Among them, the main warships have also had their steering wheels replaced, which has greatly improved the ship's operational performance and navigation performance.

The firepower is also much stronger than that of ordinary Chinese warships.

Even though there was not much difference in numbers between the two sides, Sea Wolf's fleet was actually much stronger than his opponent. This is why he did not use a surprise attack to deal with the navy this time.

Since he wants to expand his navy, he can't just think about winning by surprise. When he dealt with Chu Cai Lao in the past, it was because he was not as strong as Chu Cai Lao, so he had to use surprise attacks to deal with Chu Cai.

Old fleet.

The reason for dealing with the Dutch is because the Dutch warships have strong firepower. If they fight head-on, they will suffer heavy losses from the Sea Wolf. In addition, he will have bigger actions waiting for him next, and he cannot let the main ships suffer too much damage.

But now that the Dutch fleet has been killed by him, he has nothing to worry about. Although the navy seems to be large in number, in his opinion, it is actually a standard force that is strong on the outside but useless on the inside.

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If he still resorts to surprise attacks against such an opponent, then he is really underestimating his own fleet.

For a navy to grow, it must be allowed to fight openly and openly with the enemy for several times in order to bring out their spirit and build up their spirit. Simply winning by surprise cannot condense the spirit of a true navy.

So this time he decided not to make any small moves, but directly gathered all the main forces of the fleet, and headed back to Nanri Island in a mighty manner. He wanted to let all the officers and soldiers of the navy get to know themselves through this battle.

His strength, through this battle, also established a determination to win against the army, which was very necessary for him to fight against the Ming Dynasty in the future.

The distance between the two sides is getting closer and closer as time goes by. Even without a telescope, the officers and soldiers of both sides can clearly see the situation of the other side's fleet. At this time, the official fleet obviously began to appear in some confusion.

, some of the ships on the periphery began to turn their rudders, trying to leave here, and some began to furl their sails, reducing the ship's speed.

Yu Zigao took a deep breath and suppressed the fear in his heart. After all, he was the commander in chief of the attack on the Sea Wolf. No matter what, he had no reason to admit defeat now, although he had to admit that the Sea Wolf was

The wolf's strength indeed exceeded his expectations, but if he fled now, he would never be able to survive in the Ming Dynasty again.

Even if he has a relationship with Wei Zhongxian, once this kind of thing gets out, he will definitely be criticized by the world's scholars. Although scholars have no power to restrain a chicken, their mouths can.

murderous.

So even the Wei Party will probably have to draw a clear line with him in the end. No one will be able to protect him by then. Another issue is his face. You must know that his father was the famous anti-Japanese general Yu Dayou.

The son of a famous general, before he has even seen the enemy, he tries to smooth his way out. If he does this, even his ancestors may be completely discredited.

So no matter what, he had to fight. As for victory and defeat, that was no longer the most important thing.

(Today I would like to continue to express my gratitude to Brother Tie Shou for his reward! It’s so embarrassing! Thank you so much!)