Life in Film and Television: Starting from the Jinshui Bridge

Chapter 322 The Yellow Sea Chase
In the sound of the horn, the Dutch warships swarmed towards Liu Meng's thirty warships like a pack of wolves.

Liu Meng's fleet formed a group of three ships to support and cover each other. While sailing on the sea, they fired bombardment at the pursuing Dutch warships.

Although one side was running away and the other side was chasing after them, what was strange was that the sound of the naval guns from Liu Meng's side resounded all over the sea.

Occasionally, the Dutch warships would fire a few shots, but unfortunately they only hit the sea surface, shooting out water jets one after another.

At this moment, Wei Malang felt helpless, the distance of five miles was as insurmountable as a moat.

Except that the Hongyi cannon on the bow of the ship can hit such a long distance, but it has no hit rate at all.

And those Frank cannons couldn't even touch the side of the opponent's ship. At this moment, he finally understood why the combined fleet of Zheng Zhilong and Lankes failed last time.

On the other hand, the naval guns of the opponent can hit the group of battleships of one's own side. Although the ships are moving fast, they will inevitably be hit by shells from time to time. It's not that the mast is interrupted, and they can no longer sail with the help of wind and stop in place. outside;

Many of them were pierced through the hull, poured into the ship by the swarming sea water, and had to sink in the icy sea water.

In the naval battle, except for the first batch of eleven warships such as Dingyuan, Zhenyuan, Jingyuan, Laiyuan, and Zhiyuan, which were particularly eye-catching, the results were not bad.

The captain of the new battleship Zhenbian, Wu Guoyuan, stood on the ship tower, while using binoculars to check the Dutch battleship chasing behind;
While calmly issuing orders one by one, adjusting the shooting angle of the artillery, and seeing the loopholes of the Dutch battleship chasing behind, Wu Guoyuan immediately ordered to fire.

The five gunners who operated the gun immediately lit the fuse, and there was a 'boom', the heavy gun at the stern roared, and the shell shot out of the barrel.

With a whistling sound, he flew across the five-mile sea, drew an arc in the air, and landed heavily on the hull of the Dutch battleship chasing behind him.

Amidst a series of sounds of 'cracking, clattering', a hole about one meter wide was punched out on the side of the battleship's hull.The cannonballs smashed into the cabin with the momentum still alive, knocking over the artillery inside, and another group of people turned their backs on their backs.

The tragedy is that the Dutch gunners who were in the cabin were also affected, many of them were hit by shells and rolling barrels, the better ones were also cut off their hands and feet, and the unlucky ones were smashed into a pile of meat cake.

After seeing the result of the battle through the telescope, Wu Guoyuan shouted excitedly, "Okay!" ', then take back the mood and continue to look for the next target.

As for the captains of the thirty warships, there are quite a few like Wu Guoyuan, and many of them participated in the first battle against Zheng Zhilong's combined fleet, and they are all experienced commanders.

The chase lasted for just an hour, and Wei Malang found out sadly that there were already more than [-] warships on his own side that were sunk and unable to move.

To be honest, he was scared at this moment. If he could choose again, Wei Malang would definitely not go to war with Pi Dao in such a hurry.

But now that the war has started, Wei Malang can only grit his teeth and stand firm. There is no other way, even if Wei Malang wants to evacuate, Liu Meng will not let him leave safely.

Based on the speed of the Dutch battleship, it is impossible to escape the pursuit of Liu Meng's warship.

The vastness of the Yellow Sea gave Liu Meng enough strategic space to buffer, and he had enough time to catch these Dutch warships, like a mouse swallowing an elephant, and eat the huge Dutch warship clusters one by one.

After continuing to chase for several hours, dusk came again, and Wei Malang had to order to stop the pursuit.

Liu Meng was also seven miles away, stopped the warship, and dropped anchor for a truce.

Wei Malang returned to his captain's room, sat on a chair with a gloomy face, and waited for his adjutant to count the battle damage.

After waiting for half an hour, the adjutant walked in with a dead parental expression on his face, saluted first and then said:
"Report to Your Excellency, the battle damage statistics are out, we, we..."

After speaking, the voice became smaller and smaller, and he didn't even dare to continue talking.

When Wei Malang heard this, he shouted impatiently:
"Say!"

Hearing this, the adjutant couldn't help shaking his body, his face turned pale, but he didn't dare to disobey Wei Malang's order, tremblingly said:

"Your Excellency, our battle damage is that 25 ships were sunk, 95 ships were unable to move, and only [-] ships were intact!"

Hearing this, Wei Malang couldn't help feeling a pain in his heart, and his face turned pale.

This kind of battle damage really exceeded his psychological expectations. Based on this kind of battle damage, how many warships would be lost in a battle tomorrow?

55 ships!Even if the Kingdom of the Netherlands is a sea power, it can't bear such a big loss!
The point is, this is not an equal war at all, what should we do?
Wei Malang said nothing dejectedly, and waved his hand to let the adjutant go out, while he lowered his head and fell into deep thought.

The adjutant glanced at Wei Malang worriedly, hesitantly gritted his teeth, and exited Wei Malang's captain's room.

He already had a premonition that if Wei Malang could not win, what awaited him would be to be executed by His Majesty the King and the Parliament.

That night, Wei Malang didn't rest even for a moment, he was always thinking of ways to break the situation.

In the end, Wei Malang thought of an unsolvable solution, which was to take advantage of the darkness before dawn to disperse the battleship group and arrange a huge pocket formation.

Most of the main force pretended to be retreating, luring Liu Meng's warships to pursue them, and then waited for an opportunity to surround Liu Meng's warships, maybe there was still a chance for a battle.

In his imagination, as long as Liu Meng's 90 warships are surrounded by his own warships and come within the range of the naval guns, he does not believe that with more than 3000 artillery pieces from more than 1000 warships, they will not be able to defeat the opponent. There are more than [-] naval guns in the area.

Even if Liu Meng didn't come to pursue him, he could still take the opportunity to end this unequal naval battle and save more than 90 warships, so that after returning, he would have a chance to save his own life.

Yes, at this moment, what Wei Malang considered was not victory, but how to preserve his strength and return to the Netherlands.

At six o'clock in the morning, when the sky turned a little white again, Wei Malang gave the order.

The battleship group spread out to form a pocket formation with a width of ten miles, and all of them returned to withdraw from the Yellow Sea.

If the opponent's battleship pursues, take the opportunity to surround it and decide the outcome.

As for the battleships whose masts were broken, they had to be discarded.

Their actions were seen by the watchmen in charge of observation, and they immediately blew their whistle.

The urgent whistle sounded, Liu Meng and Shang Kexi, who had not fallen into a deep sleep, and the naval soldiers immediately got up and rushed to the ship.

(End of this chapter)