Please ask me to be the emperor

The sea breeze is gentle and the waves are rolling.

Huang Shoucai, Zhao Lizi and others slowly appeared at the mouth of the Qiantang River with 156 warships.

"General, according to what the nearby fishermen said, Donghuo Mountain is not far ahead!" Deputy General Bai Yong reported from Denghui.

"After passing Donghuo Mountain, we will reach Dinghai in another sixty or seventy miles!"

It turns out that the so-called "Ningbo Port" in this era was not really a port called Ningbo, but a collective name for a series of ports along the coast of Ningbo and near the Zhoushan Islands.

Originally, "Ningbo Port" mainly referred to Shuangyu Port located on Liuheng Island. Later, due to rampant smuggling and endangering coastal security, it was completely destroyed by the Ming army's raid.

As a result, part of the trade was transferred to other nearby islands, and part was transferred back to Dinghai County on the mainland.

Dinghai, later known as Zhenhai, is located on the banks of the Yongjiang River. It borders the Zhoushan Islands to the east, Ningshao Plain to the west, Chuanshan Peninsula to the south, and Hangzhou Bay to the north. It is known as the gateway to eastern Zhejiang.

If the rebels can take advantage of this city, they can use it to resist Zhoushan Zheng's navy in the east, and attack Ningbo Fucheng in the west.

Now that Ningbo is under control, the rebel navy can rely on Ningbo Mansion to advance, attack, retreat or defend, and gradually eliminate the Zheng Navy entrenched in Zhoushan.

Of course, planning is good, but it's not without risks.

Since Dinghai is located to the west of the Zhoushan Islands, if the rebels want to sneak attack on Dinghai, they must hide it from the Zheng Navy stationed in Zhoushan.

So this time, the rebel army specially found a few nearby fishermen to act as guides, and based on the guide's information, they chose the waterway from Donghuoshan, Jintang Island to Dinghai.

The advantage is to avoid the sight of Zheng's navy as much as possible and reach Dinghai as quickly as possible.

"Okay, move forward at full speed!" Huang Shoucai looked at the sun that was already turning to the west, estimated the plan to steal the city tonight, and couldn't help but ordered.

"Enemy attack, enemy attack!" Just when Huang Shoucai was about to fight, a loud shout suddenly rang out.

"Huh?" Huang Shoucai was stunned when he heard this, and quickly looked east, but he didn't see anything.

"Wrong, wrong, it's the west!" At this moment, Bai Yongdeng quickly corrected him.

"Ximian?" Huang Shoucai was shocked when he heard this, "How could it be Ximian?"

It turns out that according to the current position of the rebel army, the Zheng Navy stationed in Zhoushan should have appeared in the southeast. Huang Shoucai never expected that the enemy would appear in the west.

"Get ready to meet the enemy!" As the saying goes, good people don't come, and bad people come. Although Huang Shoucai didn't know who the coming enemy was, he still prepared for battle first.

"Adopt." He hesitated for a moment, but finally ordered, "Adopt the 'kidnapper tactics'!"

The so-called "kidnapping tactics" are actually what later generations called "T-shaped tactics". The kidnappers of this era were T-shaped, so it was renamed "kidnapping tactics" by Zhang Shun.

However, in the naval battles of this era, the Ming army still used the traditional method of fighting the enemy from the bow, that is, first using artillery and muskets, and then using the tactic of jumping on the side of the ship. Therefore, most people were skeptical of Zhang Shun's "new method of warfare." I was quite disdainful of it, so I never used it.

The enemy happened to be coming from the northwest, and the rebel army was heading to the southeast, forming a "kidnapper" shape. Huang Shoucai, who became a monk during the naval battle, couldn't help but adopt this new strategy.

"Attack, attack with the whole fleet!" Zheng Zhifeng, who had just suffered a defeat, had just left the Qiantang River estuary, and he never expected to encounter a huge navy.

He was still a little hesitant at first, but when he saw the "Long Snake Formation" on the opposite side, he was immediately convinced that he had encountered the "Flangji" navy, and he couldn't help but give an order loudly.

The Zheng family spans the southeastern coast, and naturally has many battles with the Dutch, Portuguese and other Western navies, and naturally has some experience.

According to their understanding, although this "Flange" navy has a strong ship and powerful guns, it is huge and difficult to maneuver offshore, making it very easy for others to take advantage of it.

The Zheng Navy relied on this flaw of the opponent to dominate the southeastern coast.

Following Zheng Zhifeng's order, the Zheng Navy, with its flagship as the core, fifteen large bird ships as the main force, and dozens of large and small warships as the auxiliary, rushed towards the rebel fleet.

"Fire, fire!" Seeing his opponent rushing over as he expected, Huang Shoucai shouted the order.

The lookout at the top of the mast waved the flag desperately and passed the order to all the ships.

As the order was conveyed to the entire army, the main warships of the rebel army couldn't help but light their artillery.

The violent recoil shook the ship's hull, and then along with a burst of thick smoke, countless cannonballs flew out.

"Boom, boom, boom!" Countless water columns rose into the sky, and it was like a heavy rain on the sea.

At the same time, the big bird ship headed by the Zheng Navy was galloping at a sudden speed, and countless potholes appeared on the hull and sails visible to the naked eye.

"So cruel!" Zheng Zhifeng raised the telescope and carefully looked at the damage to his big bird ship, and then looked at the two extremely large warships among the rebels, and couldn't help but tremble in his heart.

It was not that he had never seen the big ships of "Flangji" and "Red Hair Fan" before, but this was the first time he had seen such a big warship.

"Three floors, three layers of plywood, and more than thirty artillery pieces!" Zheng Zhifeng couldn't help but muttered to herself.

In fact, Zheng Zhifeng's "Big Bird Ship" is a new type of warship that combines Chinese and Western methods. It can generally carry eighteen to twenty-four artillery pieces.

Most of the Dutch warships that arrived in East Asia at the same time were only twenty or thirty warships.

This is the first time that a warship as large as the "Fengzhou-class" and equipped with such large artillery has appeared on the battlefield in East Asia.

"Charge, charge up!" Although Zheng Zhifeng felt a little uneasy in his heart, he still gave the order firmly.

This is his best choice and the only choice!

"Boom, boom, boom!" As another deafening blast of artillery sounded, only a loud bang was heard, and then a big fortune ship riddled with holes suddenly broke into two pieces and slowly sank.

Zheng Zhifeng couldn't help but his face darkened, and he became increasingly uneasy.

Such terrifying artillery, it even sank a large fortune ship with two thousand materials!

In fact, it was very difficult to sink a warship with artillery in this era. This was also the main reason why arson and boarding warfare were favored in East Asian naval battles.

However, now there is a warship sunk by the opponent's artillery, which is a bit beyond Zheng Zhifeng's expectation.

"Fire the guns, get ready to pick up the ship!" During the exchange of blows between the two sides, the Zheng Navy soon approached the Rebel Navy.

As expected, the Zheng Navy launched a fierce charge.

The T-shaped tactics are indeed conducive to the advantage of artillery, but when facing the opponent's collision and boarding tactics, the thin column becomes the weakness of the opponent's breakthrough.

"Disperse, disperse quickly!" Huang Shoucai stood at the bow of the ship and couldn't help but give the order loudly.

The sailors of the rebel fleet were also frantically beating the bow and manipulating the sails. However, the rebel navy was newly built and could not compare with the sophistication of Zheng's navy.

Only a loud noise was heard, and soon a faster big bird ship suddenly collided with the "Fengzhou" that was not in a hurry to avoid it, and then dozens of warships surrounded it like a pack of wolves.

"Oops, hurry up, rescue General Zhao!" Huang Shoucai couldn't help but change his face and ordered quickly.

"General, there is news from the 'Fengzhou Ship'. General Zhao Zhao said: Don't worry about him, kill the enemy as soon as possible!" At this moment, the lookout hesitated, lowered the flag and said.