Chapter 929 One-Sided
However, Putmans, who was watching through the monocular telescope, frowned, put down the telescope to look, and then picked up the telescope to look again, with doubts on his face. Finally, he turned to look at Aibi Ge, who had returned to the fleet, and asked, "Are all the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty brave?"
Aibi Ge heard the question mark on her head and confirmed in confusion: "I wonder, Your Majesty the Governor, what do you mean by this?"
"Look, although the Ming troops on the shore have all retreated, they did not panic." When Putmans said this, he suddenly increased his tone and emphasized, "The most important thing is, you see, all the Ming troops died. How many people are there?"
Upon hearing this, Aibi Ge took a closer look and found that in this one-sided war, not many of the Ming army died. Looking at Ming Jun's behavior from this, we found that although they seemed to be panicked, they were not actually panicked. Everything about escaping, about officers supervising the battle, and about being defeated is all a bit fake!
As soon as he thought of this, Putmans asked him again very quickly: "In addition to Zheng Yiguan's navy, are there any other troops in Taiping Port?"
"No, the nearest army is also an army stationed in Fuzhou..." Aibi Ge had just finished her answer when she suddenly said in surprise, "Could it be..."
Before he finished speaking, he saw a sudden big change on the shore.
I saw the pirates who came ashore, waving their swords and guns, roaring and rushing towards the warehouses by the dock. But at this moment, the doors of those warehouses suddenly opened, and groups of fully armed soldiers lined up and came out. out. The armor on their bodies reflected the dazzling light under the rising sun, and the steel spears also reflected the dazzling cold light.
Behind these spear-wielding soldiers were groups of archers. After exiting the warehouse door, the arrows shot passed over the spearmen in front, blocking the sun's rays and falling like rain. Among the pirates.
On the street leading to the dock, there were groups of matchlock gunners. Those in front were kneeling, those behind were squatting, and those behind were standing.
The excited pirates, who had seen this formation, immediately turned around and ran towards the ship without even a moment of resistance.
Putmans opened his mouth in surprise and stammered: "This...is this the regular army of the Ming Dynasty?"
"Impossible, why are they here?" Aibi Ge exclaimed, "Aren't they stationed in Fuzhou?"
On the other bow flagship, Liu Xiang was also stunned. He turned his head, looked at his third boss, and shouted angrily: "Why are those northerners here?"
"I...I don't know either!" Liang Xiaozhen quickly defended after hearing this. Speaking of which, he really didn’t know about this!
In fact, in order to keep it secret and to guard against the pirates' eyes and ears on the shore, Liu Guoneng's army secretly arrived here to ambush them when they confirmed that Liu Xiang and the others had left the nest.
Although there are many pirates, they are just pirates after all. It is okay to catch them and fight them on the ship. But when they get to the shore, how can they be the opponents of the regular Ming army. At this time, on the shore, the pikemen of the Ming Army held long guns and followed the orders. They stepped forward steadily, step by step, and drove the pirates who came ashore like ducks into the sea. The archers and arquebusiers are harvesting the pirates' lives to their heart's content! In just a short while, most of the pirates who came ashore were already dead.
The pirate ships that docked didn't dare to wait for all the pirates on the shore to get on board, so they punted away one after another. However, there were too many pirate ships in the inner bay, and all the pirates wanted to leave in a hurry. Instead, you squeezed me, and I squeezed yours. In the end, no one could move. At this time, the original fire ships and the sunken ships that were bombarded became obstacles to their escape.
"Get out, get out, get out!" Liu Xiang shouted loudly, thinking about escaping from Taiping Harbor!
"The wind is tight, get out!" Li Guozhu shouted sternly, calling to the few remaining boats.
"..."
Even Putmans ordered repeatedly: "gogogo..."
At this time, I don’t know who it was, but suddenly saw something, and exclaimed loudly, pointed with his finger and shouted: "Look, look, it’s not good..."
Liu Xiang turned around and looked around, only to see the government navy appearing on the sea outside them. A large ship with a bow, surrounded by countless small boats, was cutting off their way back.
"Damn it, these are Zheng Yiguan's ships!" Liu Xiang was very sensitive. He just took a look at it and declared, and couldn't help but cursed, "This is a f*cking trap. I was f*cking fooled. Get out quickly, hurry up." withdraw……"
"Gogogo..." Putmans' face was ashen and he ordered again.
"..."
At this time, Taiping Port was already in chaos. At least those in the inner harbor can no longer tell which ship belongs to whom. On the periphery, things are a little better. They can basically follow the orders of their respective masters and retreat.
However, when they saw that so many small boats in the government navy that had blocked their retreat were all on fire and speeding up to leave the fleet and rush towards them, they all panicked.
In order to avoid being stuck by those fire ships, no matter who is the boss, they all want to escape from Taiping Harbor first and escape to heaven first.
The sea is vast, and the outermost pirate ships will have no problem escaping. But the pirate ships inside were not so lucky. A fire ship came towards us, and the sound of "bang bang bang" crashing into the ship was heard from time to time. The pirate ship, which had no time to escape, quickly burned with the help of the sea wind. Those pirate ships that were not burned ran away like crazy, without any distinction between east, west, north and south, just hoping to escape to the open sea.
On a sunny day, on the sea where Taiping Harbor is located, there are boats everywhere, people who have fallen into the water are struggling everywhere, fires are burning everywhere, but there are no sunken boats for a while... The sound of chants , shouting to kill, the sound of artillery, crying for father and mother, and other sounds mixed together, becoming the main theme here and now.
About an hour later, the weather was calm, and all kinds of sounds that should not belong to Taiping Harbor slowly disappeared. Only the countless corpses on the shore and the sea stained red with blood can bear witness to what just happened here.
On a high ground in Taiping Port, Zheng Zhilong accompanied Sun Chuanting, who came here in person, and watched everything he saw. To be honest, he was quite shocked. After so many years at sea, this is the first time I have experienced a one-sided massacre!
Thanks to Yi Ye Zhi Qiu 111 and anniexie for the reward!