The blue sea is like a blue wave, and several low white clouds are floating in the sky, like the beauty woven by fairies hanging in the sky. Unlike the magnificent sea view, there are more than fifty sailboats floating on the sea, each of which is as scarred as if they have experienced a catastrophe. Many sea boats are covered with ropes, and the masts are broken and drooping their once proud bodies. With the help of the good weather, all sea boats are filled with busy figures of short-drawn sailors. The sailors remove the damaged masts, replace the sails with spare materials, and follow the boat craftsmen.

Each of them hung ropes on the side of the ship to repair the damaged hull. The Pinbo naval gunship of the Pool Army followed the tail of the fleet, five to eight miles away from the three mailers, protecting the safety of the entire fleet. The head of the escort ship was Zheng Sen, a young naval pilot, whose slightly green face was full of fatigue. Zheng Sen, who was seven feet tall and wearing black armor, was the naval pilot, standing in front of the helmsman on the back deck, holding a telescope with both hands to patrol the fleet in front.

Looking at the sailor busy repairing the seaship, his eyes involuntarily looked at his "Pingbo" gunship. This fleet, from more than 70 sea ships set out in Champa to more than 50 surviving ships, the storm had a great blow to the fleet. With the determination of the strategy of Zhang Ping'an, the chief commander of the Po Slave Army, the main force of the Navy began to move northward. In the past, the powerful Po Slave Army navy cruised the South China Sea, sinking more than 100 ships and capturing two.

After more than a hundred sea ships, the entire South China Sea suddenly became clean. Now, private ships in the South China Sea are rampant, and dozens of large-scale pirate fleets have appeared. Especially the pirate fleets, most of them were colluded with the subordinates of Zheng Sen's father Zheng Zhilong and the Thai pirates, and they also used Fu Ship and the Thai pirates. These pirate ships usually disguised as cargo ships to smuggle tea, porcelain and other goods, and they would rob the single Possessed Army cargo ships as long as they had the opportunity.

The armed cargo ship of the Ponu City Maritime Merchant Alliance also has a certain ability to resist, while the cargo ship with slow speed and only equipped with small artillery Daming Fu Ship was much less capable of resisting pirates. After losing more than a dozen lucky ships, the Ponu Army Navy had to escort the powerful gunship. In the storm a few days ago, more than a dozen lucky ships and a navy sentry ship were swept into the seabed. At this time, the "Pingbo" pipe leader Zheng Sen looked at the sailors who repaired the damaged hull after the storm, and only hoped that the fleet would enter north as soon as possible.

Penghu Port is resting. According to the ship's staff using sextant to measure the angle of the sun, he can roughly speculate that there are still eight days to reach Penghu Port. However, according to the current ship repair speed, it will take them two days to sail at half speed, so the time to arrive at Penghu may be delayed. At this time, a high-mast observation hand flag-word report came from the east, and it seemed that a slave-breaking army sent a ship on the southeastern sea. After learning the news, Zheng Sen immediately sent a supervisor to take Yang Sanwen's whistle to investigate.

Looking at Yang Sanwen's whistle ship turning away, Zheng Sen couldn't help but think of his friendship with Yang Sanwen in the Navy School. The Navy Division of the Pou Nu Army and the Land-based Main Battle Barracks officers are different in all aspects. The military ranking of the War Barracks is based on the military merits obtained on the battlefield as the conditions for promotion. The Navy Division is able to adapt to sea navigation and combat bravery, and does not pay much attention to its birth. This also reduces the historical burden of the navy officers and soldiers with complex compositions. Take Zheng Sen himself as an example. His father Zheng Zhilong has repeatedly been with the Pou Nu Army.

The opposition did not affect Zheng Sen's promotion. Zhang Dashen, the Powder Army, also mentioned many times to Yang Qiantu, the navy admiral Yang Qiantu, that Zheng Sen was different from his father in terms of being a human being and could use it with confidence. With the recommendation of Zhang Dashen and Zheng Sen's own efforts, he was promoted to the navy very quickly, even surpassing his classmates and friends who joined the Navy Academy. The well-trained Powder Army's navy sailors repaired warships at a speed that was significantly faster than ordinary cargo ships. In the afternoon of the same day, the "Pingbo" gunship and sentry ships recovered 80% of the speed.

Just as Zheng Sen was paying attention to the repair process of the fleet, three cannons came from behind, which was a warning from the southern Yang Sanwen whistle ship to the fleet. Zheng Sen, who received the warning from Yang Sanwen whistle ship, ran to the stern. He raised his telescope and looked at the Yang Sanwen whistle ship that had run for more than 30 miles. He saw that the enemy ship was approaching the flags. Because they were too far apart, Zheng Sen could not see the flags of the flags on the whistle ship. Based on the principle of preparing for naval forces, the fleet's head general Zheng

Sen ordered the sound of the conch for preparation. After an hour, another Qin mail ship heading to the response finally came from news. Several masts with pirate flags were found on the southern sea. Affected by the curve of the earth, the first ship sailing on the endless sea was the masts of ships in the distance. Zheng Sen was shocked when he received this news. Today, the sea was blew with southeast wind, and the pirate ships chasing at the upper vent must be faster than his fleet.

Soon, the staff on the "Pingbo" gunship roughly calculated that the pirate fleet would approach its own fleet in two days based on the current speed and wind power of the fleet. According to the staff calculation results, Zheng Sen ordered that the thirteen armed cargo ships of the Ponucheng Maritime Merchant Alliance, located in front of the fleet, turn and line up in front of the Ponu Army Navy gunship. Zheng Sen also ordered that Qin Guozhu lead the armed cargo ships of the Maritime Merchant Alliance to protect the entire fleet, and he formed a team with Yang Sanwen and another Wu Guozhong sentry to fight the pirate fleet. Zheng Sen hoped that their three gunships could disrupt the formation of the pirate fleet,

As much as possible, he would win the escape time for the main force of the fleet. That is, six days later, Zheng Sen's fleet could approach the inspection range of the gunship ships in Taiwan, and the fleet could get support here. Zheng Sen's small fleet, who put down his main sails to meet the enemy, gradually distanced himself from the main fleet. In the morning of the next day, Zheng Sen finally saw the size of the pirate fleet, which was a plundering fleet composed of more than 30 large and small sailboats. The pirate fleet was complex in shape, including both the Ming Fu Ship and the unique sailboats of the Thais. The main force of the pirate fleet was four three-mass Thais, and sixteen double-brigged sailboats surround the main ship.

The Thais like to use white sails, which also allows Zheng Sen to easily identify the enemy. Using three gunships to fight against more than 30 pirate ships, this huge difference in the number of enemies and us really makes Zheng Sen feel scared from the bottom of his heart. Naval warfare is different from land warfare. The side with a small number of people in land warfare can also use the terrain to deal with the enemy without any obstacles in the endless sea. It is almost impossible to hide one's figure. Zheng Sen knew that the Thais' artillery was not as good as the Slave Army in terms of range and power, but it could not withstand people.

The family has an absolute advantage in quantity, and he must be the one who fights hard and suffers. Zheng Sen, who calmed down, paid attention to the opponent's weakness. He soon realized that there were twelve lucky ships west of the pirate fleet. Because of the slow speed and full sail, he had just caught up with the Taixi Sea Ship. For the overall speed of the fleet, the Taixi Sea Ship closed half of the sail. Zheng Sen, who had already made a conclusion, informed the two sentry ships of tactics in flags. Zheng Sen used the timekeeping funnel, and ordered the fleet to meet the enemy.

Zheng Sen adjusted the combat formation. He arranged the two whistle ships around the "Pingbo". Yang Sanwen's whistle ship was in front of the right and Wu Guozhong's whistle ship was behind the left. The small fleet of the Ponu Army naval hangs sails and faces the enemy head-on. Seeing the Ponu Army rushing towards him, the pirate fleet suddenly received the enemy ship bells. All the sea ships of the Taixi fleet were hung with sails, the closed muzzles on the side of the ship opened, and the pirates skillfully loaded ammunition and prepared for the fight. After two and a half hours, the two fleets that were relatively fast hedging gradually approached. The Ponu Army naval fleet turned into a straight line during the sailing, Yang Sanwen's whistle ship was in front of the "Pingbo"

The gunship was in the middle, and Wu Guozhong's sentry ship was pressing the formation behind. The three warships were separated by two to three miles apart, and they rushed straight to the middle of the Pirate Fu fleet. The Po Nu Army gunships were hung with long cylindrical sandbags on both sides, one was to prevent enemy artillery, and the other was to reduce the secondary damage caused by the enemy's solid bullets hitting their gunships. Obviously, the Taixi pirates judged the direction of their attack from the trajectory of the Po Nu Army's battlefield, so the Taixi fleet followed. The Po Nu Army warship was sailing at full speed very fast, and they had already rushed into the enemy fleet when the Taixi fleet completed the steering.

The moment the Ponu Army gunship was caught, the guns opened on both sides of the left and right sides rushed out of roars. The sea artillery battle was full of artillery, and the range of artillery was more important. The route chosen by the vanguard Yang Sanwen was to be accurate, so his whistle ship directly passed through the Pirate Fu Ship formation. The vanguard was three to four miles away. The Ponu Army gunship used the double-sided bombardment method, and the dense and continuous artillery shooting of three pirate Fu Ship was hit. The Ponu Army naval power was great, and the pirate ship was only allowed to be taken one

The Ming pirates on the Fu Ship will cause great damage. The Ming pirates who were on the Fu Ship were afraid of the collateral damage caused by the explosion of the Pou Nu Army. Because the Pou Nu Army can often easily penetrate the wall of the Fu Ship warehouse, and the scorching shrapnel can ignite flammable items inside the wooden hull. Especially if the * stored in the cabin is ignited, the final fate of the sea ship can basically be determined. Three lucky ships hit by the Pou Nu Army exploded shortly after Zheng Sen's fleet crossed, and hundreds of pirates abandoned the ship and jumped into the sea to avoid the rapid sinking sea ship.

The vortex generated by the sank of the Fu Ship into the sea dragged the pirates struggling on the nearby sea directly into the abyss. Zheng Sen used the quick-fighting and fast-running tactic to achieve the initial victory. The Ming pirate artillery was too small and it only penetrated a hole in the hard sail of the "Pingbo". Zheng Sen's tactic of cutting off the corners of the pirate fleet also angered the entire pirate fleet, and the Taixi sea ship accelerated to pursue southwards. Zheng Sen ordered the fleet to adopt the zigzag route to widen the distance with the pirate fleet. The Posou Army gunship was originally used for naval battles, and when designing the ship type, it was said that

Everything is for actual combat. Except for the twelve monks in Zhenzi, the other sea hulls have smooth shapes. After they separated from the enemy fleet, Zheng Sen has been paying attention to the wind direction and when the south wind blows on the sea surface. Zheng Sen ordered the fleet to turn around again, and he also intends to use cutting tactics to approach the pirate fleet. However, this time he targets a three-masted sea hull in the enemy. This sea hull with a red bottom and yellow fork battle flag and four double-masted sea hulls protrude from the fleet. Zheng Sen plans to take down this pirate fleet that is similar to himself. (To be continued)
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