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With Zheng Cai mediated from it, Wang Yilin successfully persuaded the navy to surrender.

But the question is, how should Zheng Cai deal with it?

Wu Zheng gave the right to deal with this issue to Wang Yilin.

At first, Wang Yilin didn't think about this problem at all. In his heart, he never hesitated to kill people, and he killed someone who almost killed himself and eleven warships.

But when Zheng Cai successfully persuaded the navy to surrender, Wang Yilin hesitated.

Killing Zheng Cai will definitely cause chaos among the predator, which is not conducive to internal sanctions.

It’s not how high Zheng Cai has in their hearts or how much weight it is, but how cold the lips and teeth are!

Under Zhang Mingzhen's Dun Dun persuasion, Wang Yilin finally accepted the reality.

He took the initiative to ask Wu Zheng for pardon and appointed Zheng Cai as his deputy general and deputy general of the navy.

Wu Zheng agreed without hesitation.

Wang Yilin's generosity and support really made Zheng Cai cry. In fact, he was ready to be demolished by Wang Yilin across the river.

But why was Zheng Cai willing to follow Wang Yilin to persuade him to surrender?

To put it bluntly, it’s just a try.

Because I don't go, I'm dead.

After leaving, successfully persuading surrender is considered to be a meritorious service, and may be able to survive.

It's that simple.

....

But it is impossible to conceal such a large-scale naval battle.

In other words, Wang Yilin's "pirate" career should not be able to do it.

After careful discussion among the three, they decided to form the third navy under the General's Mansion - Chen Qianshan Navy.

This navy no longer needs to invest too much manpower and material resources. Everything is ready-made, mainly for dressing up and offering.

Its main function is to cruise north and south to protect merchant ships from two ports, Hangzhou and Wusong.

Wu Zheng immediately ordered Wang Yilin to take the surviving warships and personnel under his command, as well as the newly surrendered navy, to the Chenqianshan base for rest and reorganization.

In fact, this is to isolate this navy from the battlefield.

Because Wu Zheng understood that Zheng Chenggong could not have responded to such huge losses.

What should come will always come.

Looking at the calm sea, Wu Zheng sighed.

But this sigh was not melancholy, but could hear a sense of relaxation.

What troubles the mind and has been undecided, once you make a choice, no matter whether it is right or wrong, you will feel relaxed.

Ma Shiying is right. The General's Mansion and the people under his rule need to have a goal during this period of time.

Only when a person has a goal in his heart can he move forward, otherwise he will be lazy.

Wu Zheng believes that, the same is true.

....

Zheng Chenggong came with a huge navy with high morale.

When it reaches the sea area of ​​Qixing Island, it is the time and time three days later.

Zheng Chenggong did not continue to go north, but received a reward from the scout ship. After Zhoushan and Wusong Navy were ready for battle thirty miles away, he sent a clutch to set off a formal letter of war.

This is a dignified confrontation.

Why not say it is a dignified naval battle?

Because the battle time is too short, it is so short that it is called a naval battle, and I always feel something is wrong.

Zheng Chenggong arranged troops and detoured eastward with a partial division (twelve main battleships and thirty-six medium gunships), preparing to insert behind Wu Zheng.

He led the main force in a row, with more than 200 warships, and the medium-sized gunships lined up in two rows in front, and the main force ships were in the back, three rows, stretching east-west for more than twenty miles, slowly advancing north.

This formation is a confrontation of strength, and there is no conspiracy to be used.

Zheng Chenggong was afraid, and the other was to rely on his own strength.

Since you can crush it, why do you have to go around in circles?

....

Wu Zheng, who was in the north, immediately ordered after learning that Zheng Chenggong had sent a side troops to the east.

The dynasty was the first to lead the Zhoushan Navy to block this enemy fleet.

Then, in the same one-character formation, the remaining warships of the Wusong Navy and Zhoushan Navy were lined up in two rows, with medium gunships in front and main battleships in the back.

And he remained towering, but turned horizontally, facing the south with the side of the ship, waiting for Zheng Chenggong to lead the warship to arrive.

After reviewing the naval battle with Zhang Mingzhen and Wang Yilin four days ago, Wu Zheng also asked Zheng Cai and the generals of the main battleships, and had an understanding of the combat tactics of the Zheng family naval division.

Therefore, Wu Zheng was sure that Zheng Chenggong seemed to be coming in full force, but the result would be like the previous naval battle.

Because Zheng Chenggong's naval guns were not replaced with new guns.

If only Wusong Navy had come to Zheng Chenggong, Wu Zheng might have ordered a retreat long ago.

Youdao is that two fists cannot match four hands, and if you are outnumbered, you will repeat the scene of Wang Yilin's eleven warships being beaten by Zheng Cai's order.

But now it is different. The Wusong Navy has more than 100 warships of all sizes, plus half of the Zhoushan Navy, with more than 200 warships.

It sounds less than 200 to more than 300, but the range of the two navy guns was almost twice that of Zheng Chenggong.

The maximum range of the main ship's gun can reach 16 miles.

The range of medium-sized gunships is also above twelve miles.

But the Zheng family naval artillery has the farthest cannon, and it can only hit eight miles, and not many, most of them have a range of six miles.

This makes it possible that if Zheng Chenggong adopts Zheng Cai's tactics and rushes over at any cost, then the distance of these eight miles is enough for Wu Zheng to shoot more than three rounds of volleys.

Only God knows how much power Zheng Chenggong can have to fight back after three rounds.

Wu Zheng didn't know that this was the first time he personally directed this large-scale naval battle, except for listening to Zhang Mingzhen and Wang Yilin's description.

However, God does not follow people's wishes.

This naval battle was not opened up in the end.

Because when Zheng Chenggong Navy approached seventeen or eighteen nautical miles, more than fifty main battleships of Wu Zheng's more than 200 warships were tested.

The test fire before the shelling is to correct the elements, and is a conventional action before the volley.

Generally, according to the intensity and scale of the battle, one to several cannons will be selected to be spaced apart, one to several ships apart, and test firing will be performed.

Then adjust the elevation angle of the muzzle from the landing point of the shell.

But it is precisely because of the large scale of this battle that in order to be more accurate, each ship will conduct test firing at the maximum density, that is, a cannon and a ship at a distance.

Each battleship has 32 unilateral port guns, divided into two upper and lower layers.

In other words, more than 20 ships were tested with sixteen guns per ship.

It is said to be a test firing, but its scale is spectacular, which is equivalent to the roar of three or four hundred artillery guns in unison.

The problem lies in this round of test shots.

I don’t know if it was because of the luck or the Zheng family’s navy front that was too dense, the test-firing shell landing point not only formed a cross-fire, but also directly hit three medium-sized warships in the forefront.

It would be fine if the hit was hit, but the explosion of the shells caused the two warships to ignite a raging fire after the explosion.

Now, Zheng Chenggong, who was commanding behind, was shocked.

Test shooting has this accuracy, so what terrifying consequences will be if the volley is fired?
Chapter completed!