Valley Emperor

After the Ming army discovered the incoming Datang mobile fleet in the morning, the Ming army navy went out to the port in large numbers to face it. The two sides fought for more than two hours.

The Ming army navy launched a charge attack with fire boats, but these fire boats were not successful. Some of them were ignited in advance by the arson bombs and grenades of the Tang navy, forcing the Ming army sailors to abandon their ships in advance to escape.

Some of the fire ships successfully rushed up, and then ignited the igniters on their own to try to approach and ignite the battleships of the Datang Navy, but a small number of them were directly sunk on the spot, but more were avoided and escaped. Missed the target.

And more, in fact, there is no chance to launch a charge after the arrival of the position is ignited!

Because the nine main battleships of the Datang Navy are not as flexible as these small ships, but their speed is not slow at all.

So in the end, the dozens of fireboats did not achieve the slightest victory. Of course, the casualties of the Ming army sailors on these fireboats were also very few. Most of them took the initiative to dive and climb on the boat to escape.

In this Ming army's fireboat charge, it can't be said that there was no victory at all. At least they successfully consumed a lot of the ammunition of the Tang navy and the physical strength of the gunners.

But in the next victory, the Ming army did not have such good luck!

Seventy or eighty Ming warships swooped by relying on their absolute numerical superiority, trying to directly approach the artillery shell and start a side-to-side battle, while the main fleet commanded by Ouyang Gui used speed and mobility to try to maintain a distance. Launch artillery bombardment at a distance of about two or three hundred meters!

In this kind of artillery battle between chasing each other, the hit rate at medium and long distances is naturally not high, but when it enters two or three hundred meters, the hit rate is still there.

During the battle, the cruiser Jiujiang was approached within 100 meters by two lucky ships of the Ming army because it couldn't dodge in time, and it was still attacked from the left and right!

As a result, the ship actually passed between the two ships at high speed. When passing through, the artillery on both sides of the ship fired a salvo at the Ming army battleships on both sides.

All kinds of messy firearms on the Ming warships also fired back!

The scene at that moment was spectacular and tragic!

Although sawdust was flying across the Jiujiang, and the casualties on the deck were not small, the two Ming warships that were bombarded by the Jiujiang's more than 30 anti-ship artillery and more than 10 shotguns at close range also changed. The dying!

It was just a round of close-range salvos, which paralyzed one of the more than 200-ton lucky boats on the spot, and the Ming sailors on the deck suffered heavy casualties, especially the huge grenades from several howitzers, which were directly It exploded on the battleship of the Ming army, causing many casualties of Ming army sailors, and even one artillery was hit by a powerful 14-pound solid bullet. The Folang cannon flew directly, and then swept across the deck, causing a lot of casualties to the Ming sailors on the deck.

At first, they thought they would be able to approach for hand-to-hand combat, so a large number of the soldiers of the Ming army navy were on the deck, ready to take on the side battle at any time. However, these people on the deck suffered extremely heavy casualties in this salvo.

Moreover, a shell just hit its main mast, and the huge lucky ship that lost the mast turned into a dead fish on the spot, thus declaring that it lost its combat effectiveness.

The other one was slightly smaller, with a sand boat of just over 100 tons. The situation was not as good as it was. Although it could continue to move, the crew on board still suffered heavy casualties!

The battle in this scene was directly watched by Ouyang Gui, who was on the side, so in the subsequent battle, Ouyang Gui ordered the two squadrons to rearrange their formations, and then the two squadrons directly used the word "two". The column rushed through the scattered formations of the Ming army at high speed.

Such a tactical choice basically abandons the previous mode of maintaining a distance with mobility and shelling from a distance, but directly intends to directly destroy the opponent with the excellent protection ability and powerful firepower of the battleship!

At the beginning, the Ming army was very happy after finding out that the mobile fleet made such a tactical choice, thinking that they had finally found an opportunity to get close and fight!

But there thought that as soon as the warships of the two sides came into contact, the Datang Navy, which was maneuvering in a high-speed column, did not give them the opportunity to get close to the side and rushed over at high speed. The firepower on the battleship has been maximized.

The artillery on both sides of the ship got the opportunity to fire!

And when the cruiser leading the charge shelled a Ming warship, the frigates that followed also followed suit!

And this also means that every Ming warship they pass by will endure several salvos!

The violent shelling almost stunned the scattered formations of the Ming warships!

When such a one-word column charge came, although the nine battleships of the Datang Navy were all scarred, the high cost of the battleships of the Datang Navy was fully reflected at this moment. The naval guns of the Ming Army Most of them are shotguns, which are used to deal with personnel, but they are not powerful enough to deal with the thick sideboards on battleships.

On the other hand, the battleships of the Ming army were riddled with holes, not to mention the casualties, and many ships were even hit with countless bullet holes under the waterline, causing them to enter the water.

More fires and fires, arson bombs and grenades can cause fire on enemy ships!

After a charge, although none of the ships on both sides sank on the spot, at that time the Ming army said that seven or eight ships lost their combat effectiveness.

When Ouyang Gui took the mobile fleet to turn around and came back with the artillery bombardment of the one-line column, more Ming army ships were beaten and lost their combat effectiveness.

At the end, some Ming army ships began to turn to escape, but not many were able to escape, because many ships had lost their mobility due to fire, flooding, etc. As for the ships of the Ming army that were able to escape, less than one third.

And the rest, they surrendered one after another!

After a large sea battle, the Datang Naval Mobile Fleet sank only a Ming army ship less than 100 tons on the spot, but captured more than 40 medium and large ships.

And this result, even Ouyang Gui himself did not expect.

So much so that Ouyang Gui didn't know how to deal with so many surrendering ships. Although they said they had surrendered, Ouyang Gui did not dare to approach rashly, for fear that they would swindle their captives and fight each other.

In the end, a small traffic boat was sent over to let them park on the spot without sailing, and then the people on board were concentrated in several of the Ming army ships whose masts were broken and lost their ability to navigate, while the vacant ships were Some sailors were recruited from the mobile fleet to accept it.

Those still sailing were set in motion and temporarily organized into a squadron.

When the mast is broken and the hull is flooded, it is repaired on the spot. The ships these days are all wooden ships, and the fleet usually brings carpenters for emergency repairs.

And some of the damaged ones are really serious. If they can't be rescued or have no repair value, just ignore them, rescue some materials on the ship and transfer them to other ships, and finally let these broken ships float until they sink.

After finishing the final arrangement, I found that there are twelve relatively intact prisoner warships, and there are eight other ships that need to be repaired before they can be started. There are three other ships that cannot be repaired now, but the hulls are still relatively intact and can be towed back to the port for repairs. .

In addition, more than ten ships were directly abandoned!

In addition to these ships, there are also a large number of Ming army prisoners, the number is quite large, there are thousands of people.

Among them were Ming soldiers on the captured ships, and many were rescued from the water.

As for the number of casualties of the Ming army navy in this battle, it is already unknown, anyway, there are many corpses floating on the sea.

Because we had to deal with these captive warships, and although none of the nine battleships sank on the spot, each of them was damaged to varying degrees, and one of the frigates even caught fire and was extinguished in the end. The fire broke out, but the whole ship was seriously damaged. It can only be repaired urgently like other Ming army damaged ships, so as to restore the navigation ability. As for the complete repair, it needs to go back to the port to carry out .

In addition, the casualties are actually not too small. Although the artillery of the Ming army is not many, and the threat to the warships is not too big, but the killing of personnel can still be achieved, so the casualties of this war are not small.

For many reasons, Ouyang Gui ordered to suspend the follow-up landing attack on Nan'ao Island. He just stayed outside the port and sent someone to contact the first mixed regiment~www.wuxiaspot.com~ This night, when Ouyang Gui was fighting, I was still busy, and I didn't fall asleep until the middle of the night.

By the next morning, Ouyang Gui appeared in the conference room with red eyes, and the expressions of the others were similar to Ouyang Gui's. Although they were tired, they all looked happy.

The result of this naval battle can be said to be a complete victory. One frigate was severely damaged, two were moderately damaged, and the remaining more than ten ships were slightly injured at the cost of sinking one of the opponent's ships and severely injuring two of the enemy's troops. More than a dozen warships, and more than 20 warships were captured. That's all, not counting the losses of the small fireboats of the Ming army.

This result was unexpected even by themselves.

In yesterday's post-war meeting, many naval officers agreed that the reason why such a victory could be achieved was all because the nine battleships in the main fleet were powerful, which brought about the decisive strategy of the navy. Advantage!

Because the mobile fleet, whether it is speed or flexibility, or the firepower of naval guns or protection, or even the total tonnage of the fleet, is far more than the Ming army navy of Nan'ao Island!