Chapter 871 Encounter at sea

Zhujiajian Island is located on the southeast side of Zhoushan Island, separated by less than one nautical mile. This large island of more than 70 square kilometers is the fifth largest island in the Zhoushan Islands. Together with Mount Putuo to the north, it forms the east side of Zhoushan Island.

Barrier. In later generations, Zhujiajian Island was a famous tourist attraction. However, at this time, the only residents on the island were fishermen and pirates. No one came here specifically to see the scenery and take a vacation. However, there are also some people who come here not to fight.

Fishing is not for tourism, but to seize control of this place.

On May 4, the Haihan Fleet approached Zhujiajian Island and encountered the so-called "East China Sea Coalition Forces" organized by the Zhoushan Ship Gang in the waters south of the island. Although this motley army was hastily organized under Wang Jialin's organization, its scale was substantial.

Not too small either. The fleet that appeared in the waters off Zhujiajian Island alone consisted of forty or fifty sailing ships, including several large ships weighing more than 400 pieces each.

The participating forces on Haihan's side consisted of twelve exploration-class and four expedition-class warships. Other reconnaissance and supply ships immediately withdrew to the periphery after discovering the enemy ships, and combat ships came forward to engage in the battle.

Shi Diwen is still dealing with the renovation of the temporary military port on Liuheng Island. The person commanding this operation is his subordinate, the former South Vietnamese naval officer Wu Sen. Wu Sen surrendered to Hai Han after the Battle of Hue in 1629 and was naturalized in the same year.

And entered the Haihan Navy to serve. During these four years, Wu Sen received systematic training and many opportunities to enter the Victory Port Military Academy for further study. He also participated in many combat missions from 1630 to the present, and has become one of the capable officers of the Haihan Navy.

In this expedition to Zhejiang, Wu Sen served as the second-in-command of the Haihan Fleet. When Shi Diwen and the flagship Enterprise did not participate in the battle, he was responsible for commanding the operation and had the right to fire independently. His command authority was compared to

Xu Yuzhuo, who participated in the operation on behalf of the Fujian Ming Army, was even taller.

For the soldiers who entered the navy after 1630, Wu Sen's Annan origin did not pose any problem, because more and more non-Ming and even non-Chinese soldiers joined the Haihan Militia Army.

In the consciousness education received by the recruits, their past background is not important. The common identity of Haihan is the object of their allegiance. And this army has invincible and impressive achievements, extremely high welfare benefits, and Haihan

The high status of Han military personnel in this social system attracted a large number of young immigrants to voluntarily sign up to join the army.

In this expedition to Zhejiang, more than three-quarters of the naval members were recruited after 1630, and there were even a small number of recruits who only joined the army last year and had been in the army for less than a year. However, those who joined the army before 1630 and were still in the army

Most of them in the military have been promoted to officers at various levels. Currently, except for the majesty-class flagship in each fleet, which is still directly commanded by time-travelers, all other classes of warships are in charge of naturalized officers.

After observing the number of the opponent's ships, Wu Sen was not careless and immediately ordered the non-combat ships to evacuate the battle waters, while the remaining combat ships adjusted their formations and began to seize the upper hand. The Haihan fleet's combat method was to use the ships'

Use your maneuverability to seize a favorable position, cut the formation of the enemy fleet, and use your own powerful artillery fire to attack the enemy ships.

For the maritime armed forces in the Far East that still use traditional gang-hopping tactics as their main attack method, opponents like Haihan are simply a nightmare. The entire battle is almost in a passive state, and they can hardly even get close to the opponent's ship within three seconds.

There is no chance within ten meters. Even the Dutch and Spanish, who also use artillery as their main means of attack, are not as good at mastering this combat method as Haihan. Coupled with the performance gap between weapons and ships,

They were also defeated by the Haihan fleet in naval battles.

These armed ships of Zhejiang pirates are not much different from those of Fujian Shibazhi. They are also relatively traditional civilian ships and military ships. The better ones can be equipped with some firecrackers and earthen cannons, while the worse ones can only be carried by the sailors carrying cold guns.

Weapons are waiting for the opportunity to join gangs. Such an armed ship is okay for robbing ordinary civilian ships and merchant ships, but if it is to be used as a warship on the battlefield and face a powerful opponent like Haihan, it is obviously not enough.

The Haihan fleet traveled from the east side to the west, and after a round of bombardment of the "East China Sea Alliance" fleet, it immediately turned north and copied the opponent's retreat. Most of these pirate ships were just ordinary Fuchuan Guangzhou ships.

, is indeed far inferior to the Haihan warship in terms of steering flexibility. The most terrible thing is that their command system is not clear, which leads to some ships wanting to continue moving forward to bite the tail of the Haihan fleet, while other ships want to turn around.

The bow of the ship is to avoid being copied by the opponent, and it is impossible to form a unified action.

When Wu Sen saw that the opponent's fleet had been mobilized by him, it would be easy to deal with it. As long as the Haihan warship performed its normal performance, it would be enough to make the opponent spin around at sea. The force he commanded was at sea.

His group combat experience far exceeds that of these civilian armed forces. He does not even need to issue detailed orders to deal with this kind of situation. His captains know what to do.

The Haihan fleet began to turn in a clockwise direction, but did not stop after taking the opponent's back path. Instead, it continued to circle around the periphery of the opponent's fleet. Although the Haihan fleet was on the periphery, its ships were superior in performance and speed.

After passing many opponents, the "East China Sea Alliance Force" actually had nothing to do against Haihan. It was not until they followed him around that the pirates realized that their passivity could no longer continue.

However, the inferior performance of the ships made it impossible for the pirates to keep up with the pace of the Haihan fleet. During this millstone-like circular movement, seven or eight ships had already been lost due to water in the cabins and broken masts after being shot.

The ability to continue fighting. The only trouble the pirates can cause to the Haihan warship is to shoot the Haihan warship with ignited arrows from the ship. Without being able to join forces, they can only hope to ignite the fire.

Things set fire to the opponent's sails.

However, the possibility of this tactic being effective is slim. The Haihan warship has always maintained a relatively safe fighting distance. Coupled with the wind and waves on the sea, the route and landing point of the light arrow after it leaves the string are almost completely unpredictable.

, on the contrary, it will be easier to attract artillery fire from the opponent - the primary target of the Haihan warship's bombardment is not necessarily the one closest to itself, but those enemy ships that still have the strength to launch a counterattack. Kill these resisters first.

After that, slowly deal with the remaining opponents.

This naval battle started in the afternoon. After an hour and a half, six ships of the "East China Sea Alliance" had capsized and capsized. About one-third of the ships had to withdraw from the battle. More than half of the ships suffered varying degrees of damage.

There are only twenty-three out of ten ships left that are completely undamaged and can continue to fight.

On the other hand, on the Haihan Fleet, the battle damage to personnel and ships was very slight. The only three dead personnel appeared on an exploration-class warship. This was caused by an accidental explosion of a cannon, not by the pirates.

Caused by the counterattack. Although the sporadic rockets fired from the pirate ships did hit the target, they did not successfully ignite the sails on the Haihan warship. As for the shooting of earth cannons and bird cannons, they only attracted more dense artillery shells.

In addition, it did not pose a substantial threat to the Haihan fleet.

Seeing that they were no longer able to fight anymore, the pirates had no choice but to withdraw from the battlefield. However, due to their lack of unified command and the fact that they were suppressed too much in the previous battle, the retreat completely turned into an escape, and everyone scrambled to escape.

During the maneuver, no one considered the rear issue at all. Several seriously damaged ships actually collided with each other due to steering failure, and the scene was very chaotic.

Wu Sen kept paying attention to the surrounding sea during the battle, but his opponent did not seem to deploy an ambush in this sea area. Until the fleet was scattered and retreated, no one came to reinforce it.

"Send my order and land as planned!" Wu Sen looked at the sky and decisively issued the order. Although this naval battle delayed the original landing time by two hours, Wu Sen believed that the opponent was unlikely to plan the landing in advance.

Make targeted deployments. It's not that he doubts the opponent's will to fight, but the coastline of Zhujiajian Island is too long and there are many harbors suitable for landing. It is impossible to defend all the southeast, northwest and northwest. The most important thing is that the opponent

They were not familiar with the landing tactics of the Haihan Militia at all, so even if there were some manpower on the island, it would be difficult to organize a decent defense line.

The landing point chosen by the Haihan fleet is located on a relatively flat beach on the west coast of Zhujiajian Island. Although the water depth here is shallow and cannot allow the Haihan warship with a deeper draft to directly dock, the advantage is that the terrain is relatively smooth.

It is open and you can clearly see the situation of a large area on the shore from the boat and judge whether there is an ambush.

The Anant War Battalion was still in charge of the landing operations. The soldiers rowed small boats launched from the warships and approached the coast. Not to mention pirates, not even fishermen could see this place. According to the intelligence obtained before the war, it was not possible to

There is a fishing village just two miles away, but not to mention fishing boats, there is not even a fishing net hanging on the shore. The fishermen and fishing boats who want to come here should have evacuated in advance. But for Haihan

It doesn't matter, the purpose of occupying this island is not to benefit the limited population on the island, but to block Zhoushan's sea channel to the southeast.

The west side of Zhujiajian Island is adjacent to Zhoushan Island. By setting up a lookout post high on the shore, you can directly monitor the movements of the southeast coast of Zhoushan Island, which is the famous Shenjiamen Fishing Port in later generations.

The place name Shenjiamen was first seen in the "Illustrated Book of Xuanhe's Envoy to Korea" written by Xu Jing of the Northern Song Dynasty. At that time, he was sent to Korea as an envoy on the order of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, and it was from this place that he went to sea. The book called this place "the fisherman and the woodcutter"

There are more than ten families living in a cluster, and among them, they are named after their great names." There is also an explanation for the door: "Mostly, there are mountains facing each other in the sea, and there are waterways through which boats can be connected, which are called doors." However, in the original history, this

It would take more than two hundred years for the place to become prosperous until Tongzhi and Guangxu years. It was now just an ordinary fishing port, not even the main wharf of the Zhoushan Boat Gang. But as the southern islands gradually fell into the sea

Under the control of the Han Dynasty, this area has gathered a large number of remnants of bandits who escaped from the south. Wang Jialin did not want to let these people enter the core area of ​​​​his home, but he had to accept these people in order to uphold the morality of the world, so he placed them in

This place is Shenjiamen.

Perhaps the naval battle in the afternoon severely damaged the confidence of the "East China Sea Allied Forces". The Haihan Militia's landing operation on Zhujiajian Island was not interfered with at all. More than 300 soldiers successfully completed the landing in just over half an hour.

This landing force will not be stationed here permanently. Their task is only to clean up the island area to ensure that there are no large pirates lurking here. After Zhujiajian Island is cleared, this place and the adjacent Dengbu Island will serve as

The next step is to attack the forward positions of Zhoushan Island.

However, these local forces in the East China Sea were obviously unwilling to give up like this. They organized a counterattack the next morning and sent nearly a thousand armed personnel to the island from the northern coast of Zhujiajian Island, hoping to stop the sea.

Occupation of the island by Han militia groups.

But they couldn't win at sea, and the same result was the same on land. The soldiers of the special operations battalion used rifles to tell the pirates what a real army was, and this time the pirate armed forces didn't even get a chance to hurt their opponents.

He was shot to pieces by bullets fired from a hundred meters away.
Chapter completed!