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Chapter 287
The Ming army was ready to stop. When the showdown took place at the negotiating table, the Indian Governor ’s army had already arrived in Manga, and Ezege also showed up and was eager to try.
In order to get the fleet to arrive in time, the Indian fleet can be said to be marching day and night. Although the driving force of the ship comes from the endless sea breeze and does not need human power to drive, but the day and night sailing is still exhausting the whole army.
When the army arrived, Ezege looked at the magnificent fleet and almost burst into tears. Twenty battleships, exactly twenty! This is almost all the main battleships of the Portuguese navy that control the Indian Ocean.
Governor Albuquerque is taking risks and betting with him on this game. This God of War, who has been adventurous all his life, gave him absolute trust, and once again showed that his ambition for the Far East must be won.
This is almost the entire Portuguese garrison in India. If it fails and the fleet is seriously traumatized, Albuquerque’s political life will end there, and even be impeached and tried.
The Royal Portuguese Navy will not only lose ground in the Far East, but will also become helpless throughout the Indian Ocean. This power gap will soon be filled by the Spanish, Arabs and Daming forces.
So on July 14, the Chinese, the day when the legendary group of ghosts haunted, these ghosts in the mouths of the people of Fujian and Guangdong were not idle. They sent troops and moved arms, and more than 40 warships were ready to go. Grid must fight for the ideal, the future, and the trust of General Krk.
When the news that the Ming army had arrived came back via the news speedboat, Aizeg, as the theater commander, immediately ordered all warships to set sail and fight against the Ming army in the thorns and the offshore.
Their warships plus the Ming ’s warships, a large number of fleets ca n’t start a decisive battle in the Spurs plus the Straits, and if the Mings take advantage of the opportunity to rush ashore and occupy the land first, they will be forced to work with both the sea and land Earth enemies are fighting.
The Ming army is not a palace guard full of thorns. At that time, it was not easy to recapture the lost ground. Only by fighting against the sea and annihilating the main force of the Ming Army’s sailors, the Ming Army could only return to the land, and both the South China Sea and the East China Sea could become their own water parks.
In order to facilitate the power of the side guns and quickly mobilize the artillery fire of the cooperative warships, the warships still adopt the geese-like shape where the ships meet horizontally at a certain distance, and more than forty warships are arranged in three rows of geese. Each line was about three nautical miles apart, and Xiang Mingjun greeted him.
The battleships in the first row are Japanese soldiers, Spanish pirate merchants and mercenaries. The power of these miscellaneous troops is uneven, and the ability to cooperate with each other is even worse. Putting them at the forefront is self-evident. It’s not for selling fruits.
There is a Portuguese warship in the center of this ‘United Nations Army’ fleet. The captain is Captain Louis of the Royal Spanish Navy. Diego, he is a belligerent soldier. Ai Zege’s love general, but also a noble, his father is a jazz.
Diego, dressed in a straight military uniform, climbed onto the lookout and stared into the distance. At this time there is plenty of daylight. The only thing that is not very conducive to combat is that the wind is blowing from the direction of the Ming army at this time, so that the Ming army sails faster than them.
But Diego didn’t care much about this, here is the scene of their decisive battle. Rather than a place for regattas, once the two armies engage, the fast-moving boat will not be of much use. His sailors and helmsmen can make slight adjustments to make their warships fully exert their fighting power.
Diego saw the Ming’s warships clearly, and at this moment he couldn’t help but widen his eyes in surprise: “Gosh, this is the commander of the Ming Army who made the commander worry and even transferred all the main naval forces of the Indian base to battle?”
A lot of ships, really many. There are more ships moored in the most prosperous port that Diego has seen all the way to the east, but these ships are large and small, uneven, and some can even see its sails broken and broken, and The formation of the ship is uneven and irregular, and firing the gun in such a situation, the rear ship may even interrupt the mast of its own friend ship, which is really incredible.
Diego can swear to God: He is holy. When studying at the Maritime Academy of Francisco. No genius professor has ever told him that he can use this formation to launch an attack on the enemy. This is the sailor of the first powerful country in the East?
Louis. Diego resisted the feeling of wanting to laugh: we were waiting for it. Waiting for this is such a rotten sailor, they seem to be foolishly different from those backward indigenous tribes.
Diego took time to order the fleet to slow down. Turning to the side, more than a dozen warships lay across the sea and opened up an attack formation.
“Their tactics are stupid, but there is no doubt that they are brave, why are people who are foolish always more brave?” Diego murmured in a superior and compassionate aristocratic tone, watching as he was still moving towards him The Ming Fleet rushed over the muzzle and used to caress the family emblem and school emblem on his chest.
That maritime college graduated school badge is the school’s youngest beautiful female instructor, because of special contributions, the king was chartered and promoted to captain Ali. Baron Adeni personally wore it on his chest.
The year he graduated was exactly the year Adene came to teach at school. When he saw Adene for the first time, he fell in love with this noble, beautiful, and elegant noble girl.
He almost decided to rethink this for three years. If it was n’t for his father, if Sir Louise asked him to fight with his sword, he would have done so.
“Unfortunately, her family actually supported the ruling and reduced from an aristocrat to a sinner of the empire. Alas, now Miss Adenie does not know whether she is still alive, maybe she has become a fat aborigine weighing three hundred pounds. One of the chief’s dozens of wives, who gave him several children, was wearing a skirt woven from leaves and animal skins, sitting in front of a awning at the foot of a mountain and basking in the sun. “
Diego sadly crossed his chest for his short-lived crush, and then gracefully took off his military cap and waved forward, chanting like a recitation: “Come on, my soldiers, send these ignorant pity People go back. “
“Tom tom” sounded a series of dull artillery sounds, muzzles were sprayed with fire tongues, and a column of water was raised in the Ming army fleet in front. Ming Jun’s unexpected lineup. Captain Pedro and Hiroshi Miyamoto, who had confronted the Ming army, were also quite surprised, but they had no time to think more. As Diego ordered the firing, they also hurriedly attacked the impending Ming ship.
Dense artillery fire caused more waves. Some Ming warships have been hit, and a small warship with multiple shells was even torn apart. However, the Ming warships did not make a counterattack. Yi rushed over without looking back.
“Do they want to sink us with these broken ships? Or are they going to risk huge casualties. Jumping into close combat?” Diego’s eyes were a little confused. On the one hand, he ordered the fleet to continue to attack with fierce artillery fire, and at the same time briefly reported the battle situation to the rear team in semaphore, asking them to pay attention to the sea surface of both wings to prevent the Ming army from attacking from the flanks.
Many ships of the Ming Army have been shot, and some have been penetrated the bilge, obviously leaking and sinking, still swaying and rushing over behind these dense ships. Large warships of similar size to the Portuguese fleet began to appear.
“That’s the main force of the Ming Army.” Diego stared closely at the main battleship of the Ming Army that appeared far away and had a neat formation, and there was a warning in his eyes.
That was the official fleet led by Han Wu and Adeni. Adeni stood on the front of the ship, watching the Portuguese fleet in the distance still posing in a horizontal bombardment, and couldn’t help but sighed quietly: “I think. It is Commander Da Gama here, I am afraid that I will also eat in the first battle Great loss. It is too imaginative for us to imagine using so many ships for a one-off attack. “
Han Wu also noticed that the Portuguese army has not changed. Can’t help but laugh easily: “This kind of tactics can only be surprisingly winning, once it is seen, it is worthless. But at present it seems that we have succeeded.”
He looked back: “Order, accelerate forward, change while moving, lead the Majesty, and take the sickle line.”
Adeni’s body shook and repeated: “Scythe? Death’s Blade …”.
Han Wu looked at her strangely and said, “What are you talking about? Scythe …” He slowly drew a curved curve in the air. At the same time, he said: “It’s just a family job of mowing.”
In the distance, Diego raised his eyebrows and analyzed the strategy of the Ming Army: “What happened to these ships of different models in front? Isn’t it specifically used to consume our shells?”
Too many shells are fired, it is necessary to clean the barrel and cool the barrel, which will relatively delay the bombardment time, but the Portuguese army has so many battleships, and now only uses one side gun, the impact is very slight, this will Is the Ming Army’s goal?
or. Wolves tactics? Use these boats to fight a lot of casualties in close combat. Create opportunities for the main battleships behind? What opportunity? Indiscriminate attack? Diego laughed blankly for his absurd ideas. As a general trained in formal Western-style naval warfare, Diego couldn’t think of any other purpose of sending so many warships.
at this time. A large number of Ming Ming warships were approaching within 30 feet. At this time, the decks of some ships could be seen clearly. There was no one above. No wonder they resisted the artillery fire and never resisted. This bizarre phenomenon made Diego, who originally wanted to command the fleet to sail sideways, and formed a triangular pinch with the rear fleet stunned.
At this time, there were successive Ming warships burning up, and the wind was burning very rapidly, and it seemed that the ship was filled with a lot of flammable materials and set things that set fire regularly. Although I have never seen a large number of warships used in fire attack tactics, at this time Diego finally understood the intention of the Ming Army: it turned out that Yang Ling was not selling fruit.
The Portuguese warships that fired more than a dozen times laterally were too attacked. Diego decisively ordered and stopped the artillery bombardment. All warships turned to face the Ming ship. Although the hull was narrow and long, there were many fire ships of the Ming army, but there were still The gaps available to pass through quickly.
It was too late to move to both sides. As a soldier, he could not tolerate that even an enemy was not seen, but was chased by a pile of fireboats. The warships that the Ming army really used to attack were still at a considerable distance. At this time, they were walking along an arc. He had time to get rid of these fireboats and reopen the attack formation.
The Portuguese ship quickly turned its bow, spitting flames in front of it, and the bright ship with the burnt mast canvas “cracking” rushed past. The first row of burning ships passed by. At this moment, a toll sounded, and one of Miyamoto ’s ships was hit by the Ming ’s fireboat, and the hull shook and continued to move forward.
“What a fool!” Diego cursed, but then his eyes widened in surprise.
The fireboat that just hit Miyamoto’s warship was on the other side of the ship. He could only estimate that it collided with the Ming army fireboat. He didn’t know the details, but now he clearly saw that a fireboat on this side, as if he had life, turned suddenly and struck Miyamoto’s warship.
There was another “Tom” sound. The burning fireboat hit the fast-moving battleship heavily. The impact of the hull made the fire more intense after a meal. And as the warship moved forward, the fireboat actually moved close to its hull. Since the sails had been burned out at this time, these fireboats had no obstacles, and the flames burned Miyamoto’s ship. There were also sudden flames on the sideboard, and the crew who wanted to fight the fire could not even get close.
Diego can no longer call Dongying a fool because of his ship, all the other warships that quickly passed through the middle of the fireboat. All suffered the same doom. At first, I felt that the bottom of the ship was stagnation like resistance, and then the fireboats on both sides quickly wandered like fire meteors, hitting the ship’s board heavily and starting to burn the warship.
“There must be underwater cables connected between the fireboats. These fireboats are all connected to each other. My God, it is just a net. Retreat. Retreat immediately!”
The sailor and the helmsman adjusted the warship nervously, and a strange scene appeared on the sea. Three-masted warships, dragging the burning wooden boats on both sides, slowly moved back. More large and small fireboats in front of them are rushing over one after another, chasing their heads …
And farther away, the large battleships of the Ming army were rapidly approaching, and a row of battleships would soon enter the best artillery position at the bottom of the arc. Diego was very anxious, and he notified the second echelon to step forward and respond from both wings to confront the Ming army. While accelerating and retreating. But those **** fire boats were like Siamese babies, biting him on the boat.
A sailor avoided the side of the ship that was burning the most and the fire was skyrocketing. Pushing the fireboat hard with long struts, after the skin was cracked by the flames, he finally dropped the burning struts and retreated back desperately: “Captain Diego, there are countless long installations on the side of the ship. The long iron nails were deeply nailed into our ship when they hit, and there was no way to separate them. “
“What?” Diego screamed with glaring eyes, so he didn’t play the game according to common sense, making him feel helpless like a recruit.
As a commander, he has dealt with a variety of enemies, wielding scimitars, riding horses and Arabs, holding arrows, and painted on the face of the indigenous savages hiding in the grass. As for the naval battles with European countries and large and small Eastern countries, including India, he has also experienced a lot, but this kind of confrontation was the first time he encountered it.
One thousand three hundred and four years ago, there was a general who commanded a hundred thousand troops, holding a sharp sword, grieved and angry at the burning fire around him, and then smoked like a lord of the stove Running away, the general called Xiahoudun.
Louis Diego is even worse than Xiahoudun. At least Xiahoudun’s enemies have 20,000 or 30,000 soldiers in addition to fire. But now, with these fireships alone, will I burn more than a dozen warships?
“Boom!” There was an explosion on the side of a ship, which was cracked by the burning fire. That was because the fireboat was so hot that the artillery pieces placed next to a cannon on the head of the fire did not have time to take it away, causing an explosion.
“What should I do?” The people on each ship ran in panic. The fire was too fast and too fierce. The side of the ship could not stand people, they could not extinguish, and they could not get rid of the fireboat. Could it be that there were more than ten ships with nearly 300 cannons Battleships, with such strength, can completely overthrow the powerful naval forces of many small countries, and thus be wiped out by some broken fireboats?
Suddenly, Diego was anxious and came up with an unconventional response. He commanded aloud: “Sail sideways, hit the Miyamoto’s warship with all his strength, use the wings to crash, and smash the fireboat!”
The battleship moved its direction and then rammed towards the top of Miyamoto’s seat. With the sound of “Tom”, the hulls of the two ships shook violently, and the crew on Miyamoto’s ship received no warning. This collision was suddenly “dumped” by Captain Diego, and they came to the deck, the ship’s side, the mast, the bollard, etc. Had an intimate contact.
The fireboat itself was burnt and not strong. After the collision, the crack was cracked in a “creak” sound. It was another impact. The hull was completely cracked. Some of the broken fireboats were still tightly stuck to the side of the ship. Burning, but the fire is much smaller.
Seeing the other warships, they began to draw gourds and collided with each other. The iron rope of the fireboat was still connected, and the collision dragged more fireboats. If one was not careful, it might be nailed somewhere. Except that Diego, who first adopted this method, left and right to quit the battle group, the impact of other warships only caused more fireboats to be nailed to their bow and side.
At this time, the warships of the Ming army approached, and the hulls of the warships were sideways, drawing a beautiful arc, just like a military parade. The muzzles of the rows of black holes were “booming” and the shells were dense like rain.
The “United Nations Army” playing with the “Bumper Ship” is like a mess, and the more they are entangled with each other, the tighter the ships are, and the fire ships between the ships are all entangled and have lost their ability to move.
Their ships were jammed with each other, the hull was entangled with the fireboat, the sides of the ship were blazing brightly, and some were severely damaged. Under the violent impact, the remaining artillery also broke up the gun mount, and it was everywhere. Cannot be used to fight.
This is the weirdest battle in the history of naval warfare. When one of the warships on one side attacked by the artillery, the other side did not return a single artillery. Diego looked sadly ahead, and the dozen or so warships belonging to the Spanish pirates, the Dongying pirates and the aboriginal mercenaries have turned into a pile of tatters, ten times more than the broken ships of the Ming army he just saw. .
The side of the ship, which was burned by fire and cracked by shells, became the best incendiary. Now even without a fireboat, it can’t extinguish the skyrocketing flames.
“My fleet is over!” Diego lamented.
“Hehehehe …” Peng Shao smiled and his hair was all red with a red flag on his head. It looked like a Huo De Xingjun. Although he could not see the situation of the battle standing here, the billowing smoke from the sea was telling him that he was done.
If the fire attack fails, it is impossible for the scattered fireboat to form such thick and concentrated smoke. Although the plan of fire attack is a plan that has been continually supplemented and perfected by numerous generals and aides, the original proponent is him.
In the first battle, the company was burned down, and this achievement would naturally not be able to run away from him.
When the lost Diego ship retreated two nautical miles away, the second echelon in a bad shape was in a zigzag shape, decisively abandoned the rescue of the Diego fleet, and directly intercepted the sickle.
The communication boat on the sea passed the command signal of the Han Wu ship. Peng Shark’s spirit was rejuvenated, and he pulled his sleeves and said: “It’s our turn, start!”