Zheng Hongkui frowned in disbelief.
"What is it? Big Ming? Our Great Ming Empire's navy has long been gone. It's all thanks to our lord Zheng Zhilong's navy to hold up the front! How could this be Da Ming's warship?”
The aide frowned.
"General, could it be that the descendants of Zheng He who went to the West have returned with warships to fight against Slave Jian?”
Zheng Hongkui scratched his head, unable to make up his mind.
The aide was about to persuade Zheng Hongkui to retreat when Zheng Hongkui patted the railing of the ship.
"Big Brother Zheng sent us here to open up the cargo route! The warships in front of them had cut off the sea route.”
Four hundred old, thin warships were arranged in a conical formation.
"Your Majesty, we've discovered the Zheng family's navy!”
A soldier disembarked from a warship and reported to Zhu Ci Xin, who was inspecting the second town center.
Zhu Ci Xin immediately boarded the warship.
"Speed up, immediately head to the battle zone!”
By the time Zhu Ci Xin arrived at the sea, the two sides had already started fighting.
Most of the 400 pirate warships only had five Fran Machine Cannons.
Zhu Ci's 200 warships all had 25 Fran Machine Cannons.
A dense barrage of cannonballs smashed into the enemy's warships.
It easily smashed open a gap.
A large amount of seawater surged into the Zheng Family's warship.
Zheng Hongkui sat on the flagship and appeared very calm.
"Speed up and get close to the enemy's warship.”
In naval battles at this time, warships preferred to engage in close combat after colliding and sticking close to each other. Gang jumping was a tactic that was often used in this era.
Seeing the enemy's warship approaching, Zhu Ci Nao personally commanded the warship.
Pu Zhenguo and Ma Zhanshan also followed behind Zhu Cixi.
"Do the two of you know how to command a warship?”
"Your Majesty, I'm an infantry general, and he's a cavalry general. He knows nothing about commanding warships!”
Only then did Zhu Ci Xin realize that he had not recruited a navy general.
"Retreat while fighting! He would always maintain a distance within the firing range of the enemy's warship!”
"Your Majesty, why are we retreating?" The soldier holding the signal flag asked curiously.
Zhu Ci Xin looked helpless.
"The enemy's Fran Cannons have a short range and the hull is old. We should retreat while fighting and let them have a taste of our Fran Cannons!”
The signalman stood on the mast and kept signaling.
The soldiers who received the order began to pull away from the enemy warships.
Zheng Hongkui put down the monocular in his hand and was a little dumbfounded.
"Damn it, we advance, the enemy retreats, we stop, they stop too, we retreat, they advance. This bunch of melonrind, they are actually so afraid of death!”
Zheng Hongkui's aide sighed.
"General, the enemy's Franks have a long range. This is like walking a dog!”
Zheng Hongkui was so angry that his hair was smoking.
"Walking the dog, walking us like dogs. When have I ever suffered such grievance! Speed up, advance, and kill these bastards!”
The sails of Zheng Hongkui's 400 warships were much smaller than those of the Ming Empire's warships, and their speed could not catch up to the Ming Empire's Fortune Ships and Strengthened Mengchong Warships.
The sailors on Zheng Hongkui's warship could only stare blankly at the two ships that could not catch up to them.
The old Fran Machine Cannons were completely unable to reach Fuchuan and Mengchong.
Zhu Ci Nao looked at the enemy's warships that were advancing and retreating, and he couldn't straighten his back from laughing.
"Hahahaha! The enemy's warships are lagging behind, and the range of the Fran cannons is not as far as ours. They are completely being beaten up by us!”
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The cannons of the Fran Machine Cannons exploded one after another.
Zheng Hongkui was also a veteran of warships. In order to avoid being completely wiped out, he stopped the 100 oldest warships and continued fighting. The rest quickly withdrew from the battle and retreated to the dock of Fuzhou Prefecture.
Zhu Cixi stomped his feet in frustration.
"Quickly get rid of the battleships left behind to protect me! Send out 100 warships to intercept them!”
The advantage of speed was obvious. The 100 warships that had been dispatched quickly made a big circle and arrived in front of Zheng Hongkui's fleet.
Zheng Hongkui was stunned when he saw a large number of warships appear in front of him.
"Damn it, why are there enemy ships everywhere? Who are we fighting?"
Zheng Hongkui was extremely depressed. He looked at the warship that had suddenly appeared in front of him and felt like he was going crazy.
The aide's eyes widened.
"General, who are we fighting?”
"If you ask me, who should I ask? We don't even know who the enemy is. Are we going to die at the bottom of the sea?”
Zheng Hongkui knelt on the deck unwillingly, praying to the heavens for protection.
Boom! Boom!
A dense barrage of solid artillery shells smashed into Zheng Hongkui's flagship.
Zheng Hongkui, who was praying, had his head smashed away.
The enemies on the ship were in chaos.
The entire fleet instantly lost its command and scattered in all directions.
Zhu Ci was clear that if the roots were not removed, the grass would grow again in the spring breeze.
If these guys were not eliminated, they would become the main force of the Nu Jian Navy.
Zhu Ci Xin would never allow such a thing to happen. He would rather destroy these disloyal fellows than let them become the henchmen of the Jianu Tartars.
"Don't let a single warship escape!”
When the enemy's flagship sank, Zhu Ci Xin launched an all-out attack.
In front of the two ships, there was a hammer made of steel that was used to hit the enemy's ships.
The enemy's ship was small and slow to begin with. Faced with such a huge hammer, it could not dodge and was sunk into the sea in despair.
Many of the soldiers on the sea were born pirates and used to plunder the people along the coast.
Zhu Ci Xin hated them very much.
"Your Majesty, do you want to save the enemy who fell into the water?”
"I won't save them. I'm not a saint. If they deserve to die, let them die!”
After saying that, he continued to lead the warship to chase after the enemy's warship.
In less than a day, the enemy's warships were basically all sunk.
On the surface of the sea, the corpses of the enemies and the broken pieces of warships were floating everywhere.
"Your Majesty, we can't see a single enemy warship on the surface of the sea!”
"Return!"
Returning to the center of Hai 'an Town in Leizhou Prefecture, Zhu Ci Xin let out a sigh of relief and told the Leizhou governor about the destruction of 400 warships.
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