Chapter 422： Artillery-led naval battle

Zheng Cai, the son of Zheng Zhilong, is responsible for leading the initiative to attack the Dahua Steam Fleet.

His fleet has more than 70 large ships, coupled with some other auxiliary boats, and its strength is about three times that of the steam fleet.

From this number, it can be seen that Daming was afraid of this steam fleet.

A large number of ships rushed towards the steam fleet, but Bai Bainian, the captain of the steam fleet and the second figure of the Dahua Navy, did not panic at all, keeping the fleet at an angle to the enemy, and then shelling these fleets chasing him.

A large number of artillery shells fell on Zheng Cai's fleet, which immediately suffered huge losses.

But Zheng Cai had no choice but to bite the bullet and continue to rush forward.

They are constantly shortening the distance with the Chinese Army, but the closer the distance, the more damage the Chinese Army’s shelling will cause them.

Zheng Cai can only grit her teeth and comfort herself, this is the price to bear before victory.

However, when they were about to catch up with the Chinese steam fleet, a scene that made him vomit blood happened.

Dahua's steam fleet was accelerating, and then relied on the superior speed to maintain a very close but absolutely safe distance with them.

Then, at this distance, shoot at them.

"Ah, shameless, bullying too much."

Zheng Cai jumped anxiously on the boat. He really jumped and stamped on the deck. He was so anxious to lose his sense of the situation that he had forgotten to take his image into consideration.

His mentality has been destroyed by the unsolvable tactics of the Chinese Army.

Because he knew that as long as the Chinese army kept flying kites like this, he would have nothing to do with the other party.

This is not a situation that can be changed by fighting will and courage. The speed of the ship just can't catch up. This is an objective reality, and it doesn't change by human will.

Unless there is a sudden downwind from the sky, he can still raise the sail to catch up. Otherwise, they would have to be beaten continuously like this, and would not even have a chance to escape.

Because once they turned around and escaped from the gun, the Chinese army would definitely keep up with a proper speed.

Not only Zheng Cai could see this huge trouble, but other generals and even some ordinary soldiers could see it.

"It's a **** thing, no one can catch up."

"Where are we chasing people? We are chasing shells, chasing and getting hit by shells."

The soldier's words struck his heart, and the other soldiers almost shed tears on the spot.

Image, too **** image.

I am chasing people, like a fool who is chasing to catch cannonballs.

"Beng"

Another shell fell on the deck and exploded. The four-shot shrapnel knocked down the unprotected soldiers.

Those soldiers hiding behind the wooden plank depend on luck. The lucky ones escaped, and the bad luck, the shrapnel passed through the gap, or shot through the wooden plank and hit it.

The wounded soldiers who did not die immediately rolled on the deck in pain. The temperature of the shrapnel shot out from the explosion was very high, and it was particularly pierced in the flesh.

Some soldiers who couldn't bear it in their hearts had already quietly searched for the escape boat, ready to take the opportunity to escape from the gun.

These people were still a bit sane. Some people who were frightened by the shells and lost their sane jumped directly into the sea to escape.

However, they don't have anything like a lifebuoy, and unless someone saves them in the sea, they will be dead.

"My lord, we can't go on like this. Let's divide the soldiers into two groups, and keep the other road at 45 degrees toward them. Then they can't face us with the ship's side, or they will be overtaken by the other road."

A general persuaded Zheng Caidao.

This person may have some knowledge of geometry, or may be experienced, and made this judgment intuitively.

Moreover, his judgment is correct.

Driving at different angles, the distance it needs to travel in front of the enemy is different.

Zheng Cai's mind is a little bit unable to understand, she can't understand.

However, he had no solution at this time, so he had no choice but to adopt it.

However, another general raised an objection: "General, let's leave a few ships behind, and the large forces will withdraw. The army has already suffered too much damage. If you pursue it, even if you can catch up with the enemy, I'm afraid our soldiers have also collapsed."

His words are not unreasonable. There are limits to the casualties of any force.

The Army’s ability to withstand casualties is generally low because of their ease of escape.

It is more difficult for the navy to escape, so even if it is dangerous, they will stay on the ship with a fluke.

It didn't seem to collapse yet, but in fact these people had no will to fight.

Once they got close to the Chinese army and entered the battle, they might even surrender directly if they had a chance to surrender.

At this time, their casualty rate had actually reached 30%, and almost one out of three people died or injured.

And these are all caused by cannons, so terrible.

Now they should not actually think about how to approach the enemy, but to prevent being approached by the enemy.

"Yeah, the general will withdraw quickly. Brothers can't stand it anymore. What kind of ghost battle is this fighting? We've never been so suffocated."

Another minister also persuaded to retreat.

Zheng Cai, who had no opinion, felt that it made sense after listening.

"Oh, this battle is not our sin. It's because the enemy's artillery is too fierce, and the ship is too fast. I can't wait to return to the sky."

Zheng Caichang sighed, and then ordered the main force to turn around and retreat, and at the same time issued a semaphore to block several of the ships to prevent the Chinese army from chasing them.

If no one is broken, they can't escape if they want to. The Chinese army can play with them until they die by relying on the speed of the ship.

The ships that were asked to stay were all stunned, and on what basis others could escape, but they wanted to stay and die.

In their eyes, staying is not tantamount to dying.

Not to mention that the Chinese army’s artillery has never stopped, even if the Chinese army has stopped artillery to take over the battle, they will undoubtedly lose.

"Fucking, we run too. Those who are tired of life will stay behind."

A captain cursed.

"However, we also violated the military order when we fled back, and we can't survive."

His subordinates persuaded that the meaning of these words was already very clear.

Since it is death to stay and death to go back, then there is only surrender.

Everyone exchanged glances, and they all saw panic in each other's eyes.

"Lower all other military flags, raise the white flag, and surrender."

The captain said, he decided to surrender.

The tradition of raising the white flag equals surrendering has actually existed as early as the Qin and Han dynasties, but it is not widespread, nor has it become a customary rule.

However, as long as they make such a move, under normal circumstances the other party can understand what they mean.

Especially at sea, all kinds of command rely on semaphores. Different flags represent different instructions.

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