Lieutenant General Wilster, who could be considered a battle-experienced general, immediately dispersed the warships and divided them into three squadrons, forming a huge fan on the sea and heading towards the Star Sea Fleet.
This tactic worked quickly.
The navy of the Star Sea Kingdom has only been established for less than three years, so there is still a big gap between it and the Helan Fleet in terms of navigation technology, naval warfare thinking, etc.
These all led to the successful implementation of Lieutenant General Wilster's tactics.
Two of the Helan squadrons successfully closed the distance to several Starsea battleships and formed a semi-encirclement around them!
With the distance between the two sides less than three hundred meters, the Helan battleship frantically poured out artillery fire at the enemy ship.
Although the Helan warship's gun hit rate is very low, since the total number of warships in the two Helan squadrons exceeds 130, the absolute number of artillery hits has been greatly increased.
Every time a shell hits an enemy ship, there will be a burst of cheers on the Helan battleship, which further encourages the gunners to speed up the reloading.
But what the captains of the Helan battleships never expected was that the shells were actually bounced away when they hit the enemy ship's hull and even the deck!
This was beyond the captains' expectations!
What exactly is going on?
Could it be that the devil had unleashed magic on their ship?
Various speculations arose in the minds of the captains.
But they never imagined that the enemy's warship was wrapped in a thick layer of steel armor!
With this layer of steel armor, the most the Helan Battleship's round solid cannonballs can do when hitting the ship is to make a small dent appear on the steel armor, even if it wants to cause wood chips to fly on the deck. possible.
It has to be said that the wooden-hulled iron-clad ships that appeared two hundred years in advance showed unparalleled defense at this time, completely crushing the Helan ships without iron armor.
In the shock of Helan's captains, after increasing the output of the steam engine, the Star Sea Battleship successfully escaped the pursuit of Helan's fleet and put an end to their thoughts of engaging in a boarding battle.
From then on, under the strict orders of Wang Haitao and Lin Xuefeng, the Xinghai Battleship would never get closer than 800 meters to the Helan Battleship.
The flames of war still burn on the sea.
When there were only a hundred and a few Helan battleships left, Lieutenant General Wilster finally woke up from his dream of defeating the enemy and issued an order to retreat.
Faced with the retreat of the Helan fleet, the Xinghai Fleet only chased for more than ten nautical miles in a symbolic manner before turning the bow, capturing the Helan warships that had lost their combat effectiveness, and then returned to Yuxian Port.
It wasn't that Lin Xuefeng was unwilling to expand the results, but that he couldn't. Unfortunately, the naval battle was too fierce. Almost all the cannonballs in stock on the battleships were almost exhausted, and the gunners were also so tired that they collapsed on the ground.
Finally, at the post-war summary meeting, everyone always believed that the main reason why the results of this battle could not be expanded was that the battleships were not big enough, the caliber of the naval guns was not big enough, and the number of battleships was not enough!
It is conceivable that if the number of warships in the fleet heading south is doubled, it will be almost impossible for this Helan fleet to escape, unless a hurricane exceeding level 12 suddenly hangs on the sea.
But no matter what, the victory in this naval battle greatly inspired the elders of Xinghai Kingdom.
After all, everyone knows that at this time, the Helan people are really too strong!
It had only been a few years since the founding of the Xinghai Kingdom, and yet it was able to defeat the Helan Fleet with less and more. This was simply a miracle.
However, just after defeating the Helan fleet, the merchants who went to contact Zheng Chenggong came back and brought back Zheng Chenggong's envoy Zheng Hereditary.
Zheng Chenggong is the fifth brother of Zheng Chenggong, and can be called his right-hand man. In the history of this plane, after Zheng Chenggong passed away, Zheng Chenggong was immediately supported by his subordinates as the agent to recruit the general, but was eventually replaced by Zheng Chenggong's eldest son. After Zheng Jing raised an army and was defeated, he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and was named the first-class Ronglu doctor and cabinet minister by Kangxi.
However, it can also be seen from this that Zheng Hereditary is quite capable. Otherwise, he would not have been appointed as the envoy by Zheng Chenggong.
After contact and exchange, the elders finally knew Zheng Hereditary's intention.
It turned out that Zheng Chenggong wanted to unite with the Xinghai Kingdom to launch an attack on the Qing army in the southern part of Hu Jian, so as to regain the southern part of Hu Jian. In addition, Zheng Chenggong also wanted to obtain the sales agency rights of the Xinghai Kingdom's products and the export of firearms.
These requirements seemed a bit strange to the elders.
Why didn’t Zheng Chenggong seek alliance with the Zhaowu regime? Why do you want to sell Xinghai Kingdom products? Isn’t it said that the Zheng family is a giant pirate on the sea? In the past, I made a lot of money just by selling flags.
But after looking through historical materials in the library, they came to understand.
The key reason why they did not unite with the Zhaowu regime was that the governor of Chaozhou at this time was Hao Shangjiu, who had surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and then rebelled against the Qing Dynasty. He had always had a rift with Zheng Chenggong. If he united with the Zhaowu regime, he would inevitably have to deal with him. This was not good for his ambition. For the lofty Zheng Chenggong, it is really difficult to accept.
And the reason why he wants to sell Xinghai products is all because of his father's blessing.
After Zheng Zhilong surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, although most of the ships and subordinates left with Zheng Chenggong, most of the Zheng family's billions of wealth were in Zheng Zhilong's hands.
This also created an embarrassing situation where Zheng Chenggong seemed to be richest in the world, but in fact the Zheng family army often couldn't even raise food and salary.
After all, after Zheng Zhilong surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and Zheng Chenggong rebelled against the Qing Dynasty, it was impossible for the Zheng Jiajun to do the previous business without capital. At most, they could only conduct some trade to maintain a living.
The elders also learned a lot about the Zheng family's army through banquets given to Zheng Hereditary and other channels.
For example, at this time, the Zheng family army had not yet defeated the Helan people and recovered the territory of Dayu Island that had been occupied by the Helan people.
To put it simply, the Helan people built two castles on Damuan Island at this time, one of which was Relanjia City and the second was Prominjia City. Since the completion of the construction of these two castles, they have echoed each other. There are many forts filled with food and ammunition, which are really difficult to conquer.
But even so, the Xinghai State Senate decided to support Zheng Chenggong after passing a resolution.
After all, the Qing army is now powerful and has swept through most of the Ming Dynasty's territory. If Zheng Chenggong can be made more active, it will undoubtedly be able to greatly restrain the Qing army, thus giving Xinghai Kingdom more time to develop.
After arriving in Xinghai City, Zheng Xixi, who had never received a definite reply from the people of Xinghai, returned to the hotel dejectedly.
To say that Xinghai City really opened his eyes.
You know, for someone like Zheng Xixi, who comes from a family of giant maritime merchants and pirates, what kind of scenery has he not seen before, what kind of food and entertainment have he never seen before?
But in this Xinghai City, he was really shocked many times.
