Lu Ming

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After hearing the command from the walkie-talkie, Mao Wujian picked up his hand and replied, "T2 understands, T2 understands, keep the course unchanged."

Mr. Van der Pole, who heard the voice of the walkie-talkie, also instantly transformed into a shadow dancer, flashed to Mao Wujian's side with an afterimage, grabbed his shoulder and shook desperately and shouted: "What did you say, tell me quickly, it's amazing! What did the baby say!?"

At the same moment, Sheng Nanbu on Xiaoshishan also received a telegram.The next moment, Sheng Nan smiled and said to the white-bearded Zheng Bing: "My lord, the ambush has already entered the arena, and the thief boat has no chance to escape!"

"So good!"

No matter from which point of view, it is a great thing to be able to eliminate the capital ships of the South Vietnamese Navy.Prince Zheng Zheng, who was under tremendous pressure, was overjoyed when he heard the words, patted his thigh in a rare way, and laughed loudly: "This battle depends on Master Sheng's strategizing!"

As a member of the society with regular assembly line production in the 21st century, Sheng Nan is no stranger to commercial bragging: "The prince who just arrived yesterday can order the whole army to go to sea today to be bait. This kind of determination is the real thing." It's amazing!"

Prince Zheng was scratched to the itch, and laughed again: "Hahaha, only after listening to Mr. Sheng's words, this king knows the beauty of sending troops on a cloudy day!"

The so-called happy few sad.The people on the shore and the bait were all happy, so it was natural that the previously domineering South Vietnam Fleet would be in trouble.

At the same time as some people were talking to each other commercially, on the Spanish ship that had been far away from the coast, according to the lookout post on the top of the mast, it finally realized that something was wrong, and pointed in one direction and rang the emergency bell.

The next moment, on the cloudy sea horizon, a strange white line rushed out from afar.If you look carefully, you can see four high-speed warships connected end to end.

These four streamlined high-speed battleships came from the north, all sails were full of wind, and they were emitting thick black smoke. They outflanked the rear of the four Spanish ships like flying arrows.

Chapter 625 Retribution (three)

Today's large-scale attack and defense evolution fantasy show on the sea has caught more than [-] North and South audiences on the shore dazzled and confused.

Thinking must be chaotic.

At the beginning, the large fleets of the two sides fought in a melee, and then the melee evolved into two chasing teams, one north and one east.

At this point in the plot, it still follows the script, and the audience expressed their understanding.

But then it gets a little crazy.

First, some southern pirate ships that followed the Spanish owner to chase the Dutch suddenly turned back.

The audience thought that these were victorious and cleared the way, but they soon found out that something was wrong.Because the flags and flags of these ships are messy, the formation is scattered, and the posture of rushing towards the coast in a fan shape, how does it look like they are running away in despair?

Then came the answer.

Just behind these ships, as far as the eye can see, a white sail appeared from the horizon.

After getting closer, you can see a white dragon constantly circling the Spanish ship that just disappeared from everyone's sight, and spit out bursts of fire and white smoke.

The formation of several Spanish ships has long been lost, and they are also retreating towards the coast at this moment.Those with good eyesight can see that the broken ship is spitting out scattered flames and struggling to fight.

However, under the eyes of everyone, amidst the exclamations on the shore, the broken Spanish ship burst into flames in an instant, and quickly dumped into the vast sea.

At this stage in the development of the plot, the audience on the shore understood: this is the Northern Army's reinforcements.

However, someone reacted much faster than the audience.

The southern mercenaries who were still fighting with their counterparts fleeing from the north, began to seek disengagement the moment they spotted the white dragon appearing at the lookout post on the top of the mast.

After confirming the unique hull line and sail outfit, the arrogant and arrogant bigwigs at the previous moment, the fear gene rooted in the depths of the soul burst out instantly.They roared and began to pull the sails and turn the rudder, without any scruples about colliding with other ships, they just turned around and ran away.

The originally chaotic group became a mess, and it was so lively that it robbed many attentions that originally belonged to the Spanish war group.

However, the tactical action of turning to retreat on a large scale in a chaotic battle is not easy for the local hard sailing ships that have been completely intertwined.

Even if some of the ships on the periphery can turn around in time, they will have to run for a while before returning to Hue Port... The previous southern boats chased and killed all along the northern coast for a long time. It is not so easy to go home .

Murphy told us that the more you are afraid of something, the more you will be.

After about half an hour, when the chaotic big ship group finally showed signs of disengagement, the Spanish war group in the east actually decided the winner.

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The squadron sent to attack the South Vietnamese Navy this time is a new generation of ocean-going iron-rib wood-hull hybrid cruisers designed and developed by Dayan State to cooperate with the southward strategy.

This class of cruiser is named after the first ship Huangpu. Currently, 5 ships have been completed and 5 ships are under construction.Appearing at the scene of the naval battle today are the four warships Huangpu, Shawan, Zengcheng and Foshan that were dispatched from Huangpu Naval Port not long ago.

The Whampoa-class ship has a full-load draft of more than 950 tons and uses sail-steam hybrid power.This level is a multi-purpose ship with shallow draft, which can perform multiple tasks in the ocean alone, and has the advantages of high self-sustainability, long range, and shallow draft.

The Whampoa-class cruiser has a double-deck design.The ship's armament includes two 24-pound long-barreled naval heavy guns, and a total of 2 other artillery pieces of 18 pounds and below.

For a quasi-kiloton-class armed warship, the armament of the Huangpu class seems to be a little weak.But that also depends on who you compare with.In Southeast Asia in the seventeenth century, the armament of the Whampoa-class cruisers could be said to be invincible, as evidenced by the ease with which they can sink Spanish armed merchant ships in the same number today.

After being bombarded by long-barreled artillery and witnessing the sinking of friendly ships, the Spaniards finally realized that if they continued to resist, they would all be sent to the bottom of the sea to feed fish, so they lowered their sails and hoisted a white flag.

At this time, the Spaniards were actually less than 15 nautical miles away from Hue Port.However, these 15 nautical miles have become a point of no return that is bound to die.

After the Spaniard, who was the main force, hoisted the white flag, the audience who suffered from repeated plots originally thought that the whole drama would end.However, the audience was wrong, because there is still a plot at the end of the play.

Seeing the target lower their sails, the four high-speed cruisers immediately dropped the Spaniards, regardless of the direction of the crosswind, burning billowing black smoke and rushing towards the coastline.

The protagonist is unwilling to leave the stage, and the group performances in the direction of the coastline can only continue to cooperate with the performance.They were panicked like bereaved dogs, and they did not hesitate to shoot at their colleagues just to kill a bloody path.However, in such a chaotic situation, how can the traditional indigenous boats be fast?

In the end, it didn't take long for the four death messengers to rush from east to west to the periphery of the large fleet fleeing south.After a beautiful turn in front of the enemy, the two sides formed a confrontation formation in which a large group returned to the south, and the battle line of the cruisers slowed down and went north.

Even the mules pulling carts on the shore can probably guess what will happen in the next moment... After a long and huge bang, dozens of large and small cannons on the four battleships fired a round of fierce salvo.

Cannons of various sizes and calibers firing close to the side of the large fleet, it is almost impossible to shoot empty in this situation.Because the opponent's formation had been automatically squeezed when the battle line rushed over, and it became a crowded formation desperately moving closer to the shore to avoid.

Most of the pirate ships in the big group are Fuchuan, Guangchuan and their variants, all of which are old-fashioned hard sailing ships with a single board.The boat closest to the battle line suffered a volley, as if pushed by a giant palm, it was pushed back by the naked eye, and some of them were unlucky and had been pierced twice, and they had already started to roll over and sink.

The eldest brother in the fleet was completely stunned at this moment.He watched the terrifying wall of fire form, watched a black shadow rush out of the wall of fire, and watched the black shadow pass through the nearest ship, smashing the ship into a mess.

This familiar scene made the eldest brother stunned.What floated in his eyes at this moment was the scene of gunboat salvos in Minhai, Lingdingyang, Pearl River, and Qionghai, which were also emitting flames and death.

Suddenly, the wailing of the dying, the crackling sound of burning sails, the splashing of seawater pouring into the cabin after the ship's plank was shot, and the frightened shouts of countless pirates around poured into the ears of the elder brother, and the slow motion returned to normal.

And the elder brother seems to have figured it out.The next moment, he stared at a certain fleet in front of him that was about to launch a second round of salvo, and lightly ordered his subordinates: "Dog, turn the rudder and charge to the beach."

The dog was dumbfounded.Pointing at the densely packed North Vietnamese people on the shore with excited faces, he shouted: "Master, the beach is over, you can't escape!"

"Where can you go if you don't go to the beach?"

The eldest brother looked around at the brothers who had been with him through life and death, and suddenly roared: "Even if we rush out today, where is the way out? Brothers have retreated from Fuzhou to Annan in the past few years, where will they retreat? Going to Siam? Everyone with the surname Cao has gone to Annan, can you let Siam go?"

Seeing that his subordinates were completely silent by what he said, the eldest brother let out a shy smile, and finally showed the expression that I don't want to work hard.

I saw him take out a wooden seal from his arms and shake it: "This is the seal I received from Shenglong Mansion before, and I can always say a few words when I go ashore... Fortunately, we are Ming people, so we voted for the surname Cao... ...Cao Dashuai, the Annan people can't do anything to the brothers, there will always be one life left behind."

While the eldest brother was doing the ideological work of his subordinates, as if he had a tacit understanding, a large number of boats turned around and rushed to the beach suddenly appeared in the boat group... It seems that this is not the only eldest brother who does not want to work hard.

This strange scene stunned the North Vietnamese on the shore: Isn't this fat meat delivered to your door?

Soon, the North Vietnamese who reacted, one after another organized soldiers and horses blew their horns.The elite Royal Forest Army also began to put on their armor and prepare for battle, preparing to go to the beach to serve the pirates who threw themselves into the net.

At this stage of the plot, it was originally the finale.

But a regular blockbuster usually has easter eggs at the end, and today is no exception.

The cruiser fleet, which was heading northward slowly, did not stop when they found that the current enemy had either hoisted the white flag or rushed to the beach, but continued to slowly march northward. Go into the sea to feed the fish.

But at this time, there was another force on the battlefield clamoring.

who?North Vietnamese outsourced contractors.

In fact, at the moment when the battle line of "friendly" cruisers rushed over, the North Vietnamese outsourcers who were supposed to turn around and fight back because of joy, were a little noisy and at a loss at that time, and when it came to their actions, they just hesitated. Wait and see.

It's just that everyone's eyes were focused on the South Vietnamese convoy at that time, and no one noticed the abnormal situation in the North Vietnamese side.

After that, when many North Vietnamese outsourcers discovered that the white line of battle slowly "scratched" the South Vietnamese regiment, they seemed to be intentionally or unintentionally continuing to move north, and they were blown up instantly.

Or how to put it, is the opponent who knows you best?Or describe it from another angle: In the long and glorious years of "anti-Cao" before, those Ming outsourcers in North Vietnam have long seen through the heart, liver and lungs of the evil capital forces of this hypocritical, overbearing and tyrannical enemy of the working people. There is a full awareness and understanding of how to act in one step.

It's a lesson paid for by the blood of the fucking brothers!

The next moment, as if it had been agreed, the line of battle that had already begun to lazily suddenly burst into billowing smoke from underburning, and began to use steam power to head northward at high speed against the wind, and the gleaming muzzle of the cannon shot again. was pushed out the porthole.

And the North Vietnamese outsourcers who had been mentally prepared, these international wandering pirate teams with the wooden seals issued by both North and South Vietnam in their arms, immediately started running, rushing to the beach, flying the white flag and lowering the sails. Sail, behaves generally like its South Vietnamese counterparts.

Here it is, the end of the show.

As for the vast audience on the shore... they can no longer react correctly, and the collective is in a state of sluggishness.

The reason Master Xing said long ago: a person who has been hit too hard will enter a state of mental shock and no longer respond.

Chapter 626 Retribution ([-])

"tan cong..."

As officers on the entire front gave orders in unison, more than 5000 North Vietnamese soldiers rushed out of the camp shouting.

From this moment, the fragile agreement between North and South Vietnam that lasted for just a few years disappeared, and the drums of war sounded again.

Three days ago, when the entire army of the South Vietnam Navy was exhausted at Zhengjiang Estuary, the overjoyed Zheng Bing arranged for the aftermath, and at the same time ordered the troops who arrived earlier to launch a tentative attack on the South Vietnam fortification area.

The three-day trial attack is tactically necessary.

On the one hand, the North Vietnamese army has not yet assembled, and it will take time to mobilize the army, horses, food and grass.On the other hand, in a large-scale war with more than 10 people, there will definitely be tentative confrontations in the early stage. Both sides need to find out each other and collect intelligence for the subsequent large-scale attack and defense.

Three days later, the first round of formal large-scale land offensive started abruptly.

According to normal history, three days are definitely not enough time to warm up before a big battle.Whether it is An Nanguo or any other country in this era, usually large-scale siege battles are carried out in units of months, and war records in units of years are also common.

But this time is different.The "Supreme Emperor" of the North Vietnamese, Sheng Nan, the head of the military observation group from the Ming Dynasty, directly suggested that the North Vietnamese Army start a full-scale land attack after three days of "finding out" research.

The North Vietnamese must take the expert guidance put forward by Sheng Nan with the prestige of victory in the naval battle with caution.

Of course, the sound of the gunboat bombarding Thang Long Mansion before also provided a strong footnote for Sheng Nan's opinion.

In fact, the North Vietnamese people knew very well: Isn't it because of the core driving force of "Ming Yuan" that the big guy labored and mobilized everyone to eat horse chews and run to Zhengjiang this time?So in any case, as long as the military plan proposed by Sheng Nan is not particularly contrary to common sense, no matter how uncomfortable it is, the decision-makers in North Vietnam from the prince Zheng Bing down will have a high probability of implementing it.

Sheng Nan's thinking was simple: since the decisive factor in breaking through the fortified area was foreign aid, the North Vietnamese should launch a full-scale attack as soon as possible.

There are also hidden reasons for this.

From the perspective of the overall "international" situation, the Vietnam War is only one part of the freshly baked Dayan Kingdom's overall southward strategy.The faster this link is completed, the higher the rear's evaluation of Sheng Nan will be.

As for the hasty land attack that would cause unnecessary casualties to the North Vietnamese... the evil imperialists don't care about cannon fodder.Even from a certain point of view, the death of more cannon fodder is more conducive to "long-term peace and stability" afterwards.

Following the recommendations of the military observation group, the North Vietnamese decision-makers discussed and finally, as expected, formally agreed to launch a large-scale offensive.

Such an important battle is naturally not to be missed for a certain force that will operate/use force in the South Asian environment in the next step. This is all valuable first-hand information.

So early in the morning, Sheng Nan led the young staff officers of the observation group to cross the river by boat and arrived at the former enemy camp. He prepared various equipment including high-end equipment such as cameras, and prepared to approach and record the live battle.

In the early morning, after the soldiers had a full meal, the scene at the beginning of the article appeared.Accompanied by the long sound of horns and military orders, the North Vietnamese army rushed out of the camp and marched forward slowly.

A large number of soldiers with wooden shields are in the front, soldiers with hook guns and swords and spears are in the middle, and the back row is long-range troops with matchlock guns and bows and arrows.

The horizontal formation of 5000 soldiers filled the entire front of the battlefield like a thick black tide.What the tide has to face is a modern defense system composed of irregular trenches, horses, stone walls, and fortresses.

Yes, in the [-]th century, when weapons and tactics were undergoing drastic changes, the South Vietnamese people, guided by the military thought of Frangji, built this permanent fortress on the south bank of the Zhengjiang River, which already possessed many characteristics of the defense system of later generations. .

Except for things like barbed wire machine guns that are missing due to the constraints of the times, the rest of the aspects are almost the same as the civil defense line in the memory of the traverser.

Not long after, after walking for almost a mile, the tide hit the embankment.

All in all, this first wave of large-scale attacks was mostly tentative in nature, and neither the attacker nor the defender expected to produce any huge results.

This can be seen from the caution of the attacking side.Most of the soldiers in the front line hold thick shields, which is to offset the kinetic energy of lead bullets shot from the opposite side.As for the soldiers in the middle of the formation, many of them held hook guns to clear obstacles on the battlefield.

The atmosphere became more and more tense. When the attacker approached to a distance of 50 meters from the trench, as if an appointment was made, continuous volleys of gunfire and loud shouts sounded at the same time.

It was the North Vietnamese soldiers who shouted loudly.While roaring, the shield players in the front row raised their shields and bowed forward one after another.After reaching the edge of the trench, the shield bearers supported the shield on the ground.

The soldiers in the middle began to use hook guns to pull Lin Li's refusal horses.

A common scene in film and television dramas appeared in the sky: black feather arrows covered the sky, and the visual effect was excellent.

At the same moment when the North Vietnamese's three axes were launched, the first round of guns was fired from the stone wall and fort less than 20 meters away from the opposite side of the trench.

The distance of the trenches is accurately calculated to give full play to the maximum power of the arquebus.So even though there was a thick shield to cover it, under the intensive shooting at this distance, layers of soldiers still fell down with the sound of gunfire.

The scene of the dead has long been used to the Yue people who have been fighting for years.The soldiers on the attacking side remained unmoved, and used every minute and second to complete the task with all their strength.

The so-called race against time is also a painful lesson learned by the North Vietnamese after the last time a large army came to charge the battle.The South Vietnamese would not allow their opponents to take their time dismantling obstacles on the battlefield.

Sure enough, the next moment, a huge sound overwhelmed the noise on the battlefield: the artillery of the South Vietnamese was fired.

The Portuguese, who were the first to come to East Asia, relied on the arms trade to establish relationships with indigenous governments in various places, and they were important spreaders of war technology.

The Portuguese not only opened the Bogarao Cannon Factory in Macau in the Ming Dynasty, but also opened a cannon factory in Hue, the capital of the South Vietnamese regime.

This is also the key reason why the South Vietnamese separatist regime was able to rely on the fortification area to continue the country for more than 100 years in history: no army in this era can resist the three-dimensional attack of hot weapons.

The South Vietnamese who have been guarding the stone wall all the year round, of course, do not do nothing every day and only use Douyin.The shells fired from behind the stone wall were accurate and ruthless, and it was obvious that the shooting elements had been determined long ago.Whenever a cannon on the defense line fired a projectile, it must have hit the middle of the crowd with a high probability.

The effect of the shelling was immediate.Although there were not many guns fired, whether it was a small-caliber Francophone gun or a 6-inch gun, most of the shells carved a bloody path through the crowd.

This time, the attacker couldn't hold it anymore.The large formation was obviously loosely deformed under the bombardment of artillery fire, and the morale of the soldiers dropped visible to the naked eye.