Chapter 812 Encounter at sea
Guangzhou Bay.
Qin Lang went south on a ship of the South China Sea Fleet, along with Feng Xianning, Chen Lingnan, the four great Tuwang families, and Dugu Yanyun, Jia Runfu, and Qin Huan, the three governors of the Fujian Province, also forced themselves to board the ship with a shy face. .
Although Qin Lang is no longer an envoy of the southeast view of customs, he is no longer able to control Fujian Dao, and only cares about the three Lingnan Dao. But they said that since there was a rebellion against Datang in Guangzhou, they had the obligation to help put down the rebellion.
Either way, in the end, each of the three only brought a thousand people, and they didn't bring all the thousands of people that each brought to Guangzhou this time.
The South China Sea Fleet has 4,000 people, all going south, and Yuchi Baolin's East China Sea Fleet is responsible for staying in Guangzhou.
Because of the matter of who stayed behind, Niu Jianhu Cheng Chumo and Yuchi Baolin had a fight, put on full armor, rode on a horse, and fought with real swords and guns. Whoever loses will stay behind.
Originally, Yuchi Baolin had a bit of Yuchi Laohei's true biography, and he also had the ability to **** a horse with his bare hands. Who knew that Cheng Chumo and Niu Jianhu were shameless, and they actually joined forces to deal with Yuchi Baolin. hands, lost.
He was so angry that he screamed, and with the last punch, Cheng Chumo's mount was beaten so hard that his head bled and fell to the ground, making Cheng Chumo's heart ache.
In the end, he could only acquiesce in bad luck, and instead sent Xiao Hei a horse to appease him.
Niu Jianhu led the South China Sea Fleet with 4,000 troops and set off from Guangzhou Port with Qin Lang. At the same time, there were several governors from Feng Xianning and Chen Si's family with 4,000 troops, and Murong and others 3,000 people, plus Qin Lang. Lang's 1,000-person pro-army, the final fleet was still 12,000 people.
Tan Dian originally wanted to take his boat, but in the end, Qin Lang insisted that Cheng Chumo's fleet go on the Xijiang Inner River.
12,000 troops, and a few thousand civilians were temporarily recruited. Fortunately, a large number of sea-going ships of Hu merchants were confiscated, and they will all be used as transport ships and supply ships.
The mighty fleet sailed out to sea, and the scene was very spectacular.
Qin Lang had already said before he set off that this time he sent troops to crusade against Juding, all the captured ones would go to his subordinates, and there would be rewards for meritorious deeds, which made everyone scream.
I want to grab a few of them.
No one thinks that Juding Liao can win.
The fleet sailed along the coast, resting in the ports of Enzhou, Gaozhou, and Leizhou along the way.
On this day, after resupplying at Leizhou Port, they went south along the coast and crossed the Qiongzhou Strait. After a small island in front of them, a fleet suddenly came out.
The lookout on the mast sounded the alarm.
"The armed merchant ship is the armed merchant ship of the Hu people."
When the battle alarm sounded, Niu Jianhu became excited instead.
"Which **** sounded the alarm?"
"Where is the enemy?"
At the beginning, the watchmen only thought that armed merchant ships were passing by, but after seeing more and more armed merchant ships behind the island, they also knew that this was not easy.
"Someone ambushed us here."
"At least one hundred ships, large and small, at least thirty large armed merchant ships!"
"We have met our match."
"I seem to see the sign of the Illuminati Cult!"
"It's Eagle's Nest!"
"The Eagle's Nest Ship!"
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No one expected that King Guangming was cut to pieces by Qin Lang, the Guangming Church and Eagle's Nest in Lingnan were almost uprooted, thousands of strongholds were destroyed, and more than 10,000 people were arrested.
The purge has not stopped until now, and there is basically no room for the Guangming Cult and the Eagle's Nest in Lingnan.
At this time, no one expected that there would be a fleet of Illuminati Cult.
Qin Lang was not surprised.
He lifted up a telescope gracefully. Although this telescope produced by Qin's Glass is still relatively rough, it has indeed improved the viewing distance a lot.
The enemy fleet, whose vision was originally blurred, appeared much clearer in the binoculars, and could clearly see the Illuminati logo on the enemy's armed merchant ships, as well as the dead soldiers of the Eagle's Nest.
"I thought I was afraid of both the Illuminati Cult and the Eagle's Nest, and I didn't dare to come again. I underestimated these people, and they still have the courage to organize a fleet."
Hassan III said long ago that the Illuminati and the Eagle's Nest are powerful. There are thirteen Assassin islands in the sea, more than 300 manors for training Assassins, and countless churches. It was once said that there are more than 60,000 assassins and millions of believers.
Qin Lang didn't believe it at all, more than 60,000 assassins are too exaggerated.
But now seeing that the opponent can organize more than a hundred ships from overseas so quickly, and they are still ambushing here, it shows that the opponent is indeed relatively powerful.
Even if Lingnan is uprooted here, there is still a strong strength outside of Datang.
The armed merchant ships of the Illuminati Church are very large, not smaller than the battleships of the navy.
This modified armed merchant ship is to meet the needs of ocean voyages. After all, it has to pass through too many places, the road is not peaceful, and there is no self-defense ability. The merchant ship full of silk, porcelain, tea, spices and gold has long been robbed. How many times.
There are not only escorts on merchant ships, but also hard things like catapults and ballistas.
They had been prepared for a long time, and they had been in ambush for a long time, and suddenly they came out, and the two sides were caught.
Niu Jianhu's eyes are bright, boarding battle is the basic tactic of naval warfare at this time, and it is also the favorite tactic of pirates.
"Sanlang, how to fight?"
Niu Jianhu also held a binoculars in his hand, from which he saw the bearded barbarians commanding orders on the opposite merchant ship.
"You are the admiral of the fleet, so naturally you are in command. I am just your passenger."
When the bull sees the tiger gets the order, he smiles and goes down to give orders.
"Seize the upper hand, open the distance, don't rush to get close to them, let's sneak him first!"
"Let the troop carriers and food ships retreat first, and the battleships be on top!"
Neither troop carriers nor food carriers have any long-range weapons, and their defenses are not strong.
Feng Zhidai and others rushed to the deck, looking worried at the armed fleet that spread out like wild geese spreading their wings to double-team them.
After all, these people are used to hearing the names of Hu merchants and sea merchants. In the past, Hu merchants’ sea ships have always been synonymous with the most advanced, and these Lingnan soil king families have always only ruled the roost on land. No one dared to fight Hu merchants in the sea.
"Don't worry, just wait and see the good show!"
In terms of ship performance, ten years ago, Arabian and Persian merchant ships far surpassed Tang ships. Even the merchant ships of the Tianzhu people surpassed Datang ships in ocean travel. Datang ships were suitable for offshore navigation in the past.
But that was ten years ago.
The main battleships of the naval fleet, the battleships, the warships, and the walkers, are all new sea ships built by the Qin family. They each have their own strengths, but the common characteristics are that they are not afraid of wind and waves, fast, dexterous, especially the ability to grab the wind powerful.
Not to mention that this is a professional naval fleet, so the weapons equipped on the ship are not comparable to armed merchant ships.
"Shoot two shots?"
A captain was a little excited to talk to bullshit.
"How can we use a sledgehammer to kill a chicken? How can our cannon be wasted here?"
The main battleships are equipped with artillery, including tiger squats for shotgun shooting and mortar guns with huge calibers. One of these two kinds of guns is small, but the firepower of shotgun attacks is strong, and the other is large in diameter and short in barrel, which can fire stone bullets with long range but accurate low degree.
But as long as it is used well, this is a well-deserved naval warfare weapon. After all, on the sea, ships are relatively fragile and made of wood. Bombing the opponent's ship can cause huge damage.
"Grab the wind, use the rocket first."
"Do you use a fire dragon to produce water?"
The fire dragon water is a weapon specially tailored by the firearms supervisor for the navy. There are several specifications, large, medium and small. The largest fire dragon water uses multi-stage gunpowder propulsion technology. An oversized rocket is propelled by gunpowder. Long-range, the arrow can also carry gunpowder tubes, resulting in explosion and arson effects.
As for the small rocket, a gunpowder cartridge is directly tied to the arrow shaft, and after being ignited, it is shot out with an arrow, which has the effect of propelling and extending the range.
Of course, there are also hundreds of tigers rushing together, thousands of birds chasing the phoenix, swarming bees, etc. These are rocket boxes that launch dozens of hundreds of rockets at a time.
"No, those are the bottom-of-the-box weapons of our navy."
"Use normal rockets first."
Sea.
The eagle ships of the Guangming Cult are approaching, but the Tang fleet is retreating rapidly, especially those transport ships seem to be fleeing in a panic.
The bearded people on the eagle boat excitedly called the God of Light.
Gradually, the Tang Army fleet separated, and the transport ships fled backwards in a swarm, while the battleships were grabbing the upper hand.
After about half an hour.
The two fleets finally began to fight amidst the wind and waves in the strait.
The South China Sea Fleet began to attack the approaching Guangming Cult armed eagle ships with rockets upwind. These armed merchant ships with eagle statues on their bows approached excitedly.
Suddenly rockets came all over the sky.
Hu people rushed to fight back with arrows, but they who were at a disadvantage were affected by wind interference, and their range was always short. Many bearded men commanded some crew members, desperately holding sand buckets and water buckets to extinguish the rockets.
"Use a fire cabinet."
The captain looked impatient. There are so many ways to win, so he insisted on shooting arrows here and there.
"Don't worry, have you seen these ships? There are more than a hundred of them. Although they are not as good as our ships, they are all quite new, and they are much better than the traditional Datang merchant ships. Looking at their draft, I reckon that the ships on board There are still a lot of goods. Wouldn't it be a pity to burn them?"
"I not only want to win, but also capture these ships and those bearded men. I want the boat, I want the people, and I want the goods!"
"I want everything, please be careful, don't burn my spoils."
"How can there be such a war."
"Damn it, when it's time to share things, I won't miss you a little."
"Besides, we are a navy and there are marines on board. Are you afraid of fighting on board? Or, without those secret weapons at the bottom of the box, you don't even have the confidence to win?"
The captain was not convinced, "We are not afraid of anyone!"
"Then go ask the Marine Corps to get ready, and we'll still be in close combat soon."
"This is our first naval battle, so we must get our **** spirits up. If anyone fights well, it will embarrass me, and I will punish him to wash the deck every day!"
(end of this chapter)