Emperor Zhengde of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 173
Seeing the scene in front of him, Zhu Houzhao panicked. His target was the battleship Zheng Hebao. Where did they think there was a Ming emperor on board this ship?
The navy on the left and right fired successive salvos, but the effect was not as good as expected. However, after several fierce attacks by the enemy, four NO.50 soldiers were lost.

"Quickly convey my will, gather the left and right armies, and concentrate their firepower to fire at each other!"

Zhu Houzhao stood on the deck with his eyes fixed on the distance. The warships of the Japanese pirates rushed towards this side at a fast speed. It was less than ten miles away, and their three-eyed guns were all aimed at the soldiers on the Zheng Hebao.

"Your Majesty, if you don't give the order to fire, it will be too late!" Cao Zhengchun stood beside Zhu Houzhao and reminded Zhu Houzhao with cupped hands.

"Yes, it seems that it is too late to assemble. This is my mistake. Quickly order General Qi to open fire and fight these pirates to death!"

Just as Zhu Houzhao finished speaking, he heard the sound of several cannons.

Immediately afterwards, hundreds of rounds of lead were fired towards the bandit ship in front of them. At the same time, the bandit army on the opposite side also began to counterattack. Instead of using cannons, they used the latest firearm, the three-eyed blunderbuss.

Zhu Houzhao has seen this kind of three-eyed blunderbuss before. Although it is the middle and late Ming Dynasty, this kind of thing has just been invented, and it is still very powerful. ordinary machine gun.

However, this kind of bird gun has a great limitation, that is, only four to five bullets can be filled in each shot. If the bullets are fired, it may take some time to fill. Therefore, Japanese pirates are generally The guy who didn't use the three-eyed gun didn't start using it until the two sides entered a formal battle.

This use gives full play to the advantages of the three-eyed gun, which is flexible and ingenious, and its accuracy is extremely high.

After firing the firearms one after another, the Japanese pirates' ship was stopped. Zhu Houzhao breathed a sigh of relief, and wiped his forehead with his hand.

This was the first naval battle he personally commanded. He couldn't embarrass Daming, let alone embarrass himself.

One must know that behind him there are hundreds of thousands of Daming Route Army all looking at him, as well as those civil servants and guards, they are all looking at him eagerly!
"Continue to fire for me, increase the firepower to fire, I firmly believe that this time the enemy will be defeated, pass on my will, and fire with enough firepower."

Xiao Fangzi quickly conveyed Zhu Houzhao's words, and Qi Jingtong also quickly conveyed Zhu Houzhao's words to the ears of the generals below.

But at this moment, except for a few sunk Japanese pirate warships, the remaining five warships on the sea quickly gathered together. They put out their artillery and started shooting directly at the Daming Zheng Hebao.

Rumble!
After a few cannon shots, the warship Zheng Hebao began to shake violently, and then a cabin was pierced by artillery lead bullets. Several shells landed not far behind Zhu Houzhao, and immediately gathered a cloud of blood.

Cao Zhengchun nervously protected Zhu Houzhao, looking up at the guns flying past in front of him.

"Fucking gang of pirates, I didn't expect them to have such a killer weapon. It seems that I underestimated this gang of bandits."

Zhu Houzhao was cursing, he changed his old aura of a king, and transformed himself into a front-line general.

Because of his status, he planned to go to sea this time and return to the court after winning the battle. That way, he had the capital to show off, and it was also the result of testing himself for so many years of reading military books.

But he didn't expect that his strategy was wrong, and he was about to waste more than a year's efforts.

"Give me enough firepower to sink these thief ships!" Zhu Houzhao threw off Cao Zhengchun beside him in a bit of anger, and strode up to the high platform of the warship to see if there is any other way to defend against the enemy .

However, soon the enemy's firepower decreased a lot, and the attack was not so strong.

Zhu Houzhao took a closer look and saw that behind these enemy ships, there were many Ming navy soldiers on a small warship throwing down their firearms and jumping towards the enemy's warship with their guns.

"Stop, stop shooting immediately."

Xiaofangzi quickly passed on Zhu Houzhao's words.

At this time, someone lit the fire pocket, and was ready to fire the newly loaded ammunition at the thief ship in front of him at any time.

Hearing the order to stop firing, many soldiers just puffed out their cheeks and blew on the matchlock with their mouths, for fear that the matchlock would go out.

Looking at the center of the sea again, after hundreds of Ming navy quickly boarded the pirate ships, they stabbed the Japanese pirates on those warships to death one by one with their guns.

A few timid ones immediately stopped firing their firearms, knelt down and put their hands on their heads, hoping that the Ming navy would spare them.

It turned out that after receiving Zhu Houzhao's order to assemble quickly, Qi Jiguang, the deputy general on the right, led his troops back the same way without any hesitation.

But on the way, he found that it was still too late to stop the enemy, because the opponent's firearms were all aimed at the Daming Zheng He, and he relaxed his shooting to outflank them left and right, which gave Qi Jiguang an opportunity!

The general is out, and the military orders are not obeyed!

Qi Jiguang immediately stopped heading back to the front, but directly ordered to abandon the ship, and chose three hundred soldiers to quickly board a scout ship, and quickly approached the enemy warship.

When the Japanese pirates concentrated their firepower and began to violently attack the Daming chartered ship, a warship suddenly appeared behind them, and approached their warship at an extremely fast speed, and several marines boarded the pirate ship and began to take their swords. They went shopping together.

Because of the small number of Japanese pirates and the fact that several major warships were sunk before, most of them have lost their combat effectiveness. More than 300 navies quickly controlled the enemy warships.

Standing on the high platform, Zhu Houzhao finally relaxed his tense nerves after seeing this scene, and let out a long breath.

Qi Jiguang, the deputy general on the right who directed the attack from behind, and Zhu Houzhao wrote down the name of this general.

A moment later, Qi Jiguang, who was escorting dozens of pirates, came to Zhu Houzhao.

"Your Majesty, I have captured all these pirates, please show your Majesty."

Cao Zhengchun moved a chair at this time and asked Zhu Houzhao to sit down, and they immediately stood beside Zhu Houzhao.

Dozens of Japanese pirates who were captured were speaking loudly in a Japanese language that the Ming Navy could not understand.

Zhu Hou looked at Qi Jiguang and said, "Aiqing, do you know what these foreigners are talking about?"

Qi Jiguang cupped his hands and said: "Return to Your Majesty, I judged from the shape of their mouths, they seem to be begging His Majesty for mercy, and I don't know what they are talking about?"

After hearing this, Zhu Houzhao nodded in satisfaction. This was a great victory for him commanding the navy. He turned his head and said to Cao Zhengchun, "Cao Aiqing, send this wise decision of mine, so that those soldiers guarding the border outside can study hard. one time."

"In addition, find someone who understands their language, and I want to ask them why they attacked me so recklessly."

Cao Zhengchun bowed his body to answer, and went out.

Not long after, a small fisherman was brought over.

"Your Majesty!"

The fisherman knew that the person in front of him might be a high-ranking official in the Ming Navy, so he knelt obediently and waited for Zhu Houzhao's questioning.

(End of this chapter)