Admiral Huang Xinggang did not order the fleet to continue the risky attack, and it was not a wise choice to carry the coastal defense artillery to forcibly attack the warships in the Quping Military Port.

In this way, this naval battle that broke out off the coast of Quping Naval Base has come to an end!

On the one side of the Daheng Unification Army is seven warships of the fast fleet led by Huang Xinggang himself, and on the other side of the two-state joint fleet is five fleets on combat readiness.

The two sides engaged in a battle for nearly half an hour, and a Nanguang-class cruiser on the side of the joint fleet of the two states was heavily damaged and forced to rush to the beach, and other ships also suffered casualties, estimated to have hundreds of casualties.

As for the fleet of the Daheng Unification Army, many ships were injured, and dozens of casualties were also killed.

Judging from the scale of the battle and the losses of both sides, this battle is not worth mentioning, you must know that the joint fleet of the two states has at least more than 20 warships in Quping Military Port, and the first fleet of the Daheng Unification Army also has a total of 19 warships.

In fact, most of the warships of both sides did not participate in the war, and only the fast fleets and combat readiness fleets of both sides participated in the war.

However, the impact of this seemingly small-scale battle at sea is huge!

The Daheng Unification Army Navy successfully blocked the main warships of the two-state combined fleet in the harbor of the Quping Naval Base.

In the early afternoon of the same day, the combined navies of the two states in the harbor tried to break out of the port, but as soon as they came out, they were attacked by heavy fire from the First Fleet.

This time, Huang Xinggang directly led a number of other warships with five armored ships to directly carry out blockade operations outside the port, while the Pingbo armored ship and the cruiser Luohai and other fast warships roamed on the flanks to block, forming a multi-level crossfire, forcing the combined fleet of the two states to go back.

In the evening, two old warships and two merchant ships transferred from the rear arrived, and the officers and sailors who had volunteered to sign up began to take advantage of the night to approach the Quping military port.

However, this time the operation to block the channel was not successful, and the four ships were discovered by the enemy fleet in the process of advancing.

Although it is said to be night, even at night, it is not really pitch black, and you can still see the shadow of a large black warship when you are close, not to mention that there are small boats for night patrols.

After being discovered, the blockade fleet was heavily shelled by shore defense artillery, and two merchant ships with little protection were directly sunk......

In the end, only one ship successfully approached the main channel and sank, and the location of the sinking was not very good, and it failed to block the main channel.

In other words, the blockade operation of the four ships failed, but fortunately the casualties were not large, and there were not many volunteer crews in these self-sinking ships, and they were equipped with enough lifeboats, so the casualties were very limited, and only three were injured.

The next night, Huang Xinggang mobilized two scrapped merchant ships to continue the blockade operation, but after nightfall, a huge flare rose in the sky at intervals.

Or more simply, it's fireworks!

The dazzling fireworks not only look beautiful, but also light up the sea at the moment of explosion, even if it is only for a moment, even if the light is not too bright, but it is enough for the defenders on the shore to have a clear view of the sea situation!

The night attack will not succeed, and as for the daytime, let alone the daytime, the shore fire resistance of the Quping naval base is too strong, and it is not expected to be close to the main channel at all.

There is no way, then you can only continue to block it with the fleet.

When Huang Xinggang led the First Fleet to carry out blockade operations, the more than 30 coastal and inland warships of the First Artillery Fleet had already entered the Jinghe River one after another after a dangerous long-distance sea voyage and made contact with the army's cavalry units.

The warships of the First Artillery Fleet will cooperate with the army's operations in the Jinghe River valley and provide support for the army's next attack on the Beijing Division and a series of subsequent operations along the river.

The arrival of the naval artillery fleet also reassured Liang Chenglei, commander-in-chief of the Jingzhou Campaign.

If he was still hurrying with the main force behind, he had already received a report from the cavalry unit in front.

To be honest, the operation of the cavalry troops was not very successful, and they failed to arrive in advance and conquer the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau, nor did they completely blockade the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau, so that the current Jingzhou Machinery Bureau is still producing a large number of weapons and ammunition.

With the production capacity of the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau, if they produce for an extra month, they will be able to produce at least more than 150 rear-loading guns, more than 20,000 Luo'an-3 rifles, and a huge amount of ammunition.

But there is no way to do this, the cavalry unit originally belonged to the lightly armed assault force, and it did not carry too much heavy firepower, only a part of the 75-mm cavalry guns.

With such a firepower, it can't pose much threat to the enemy forces in the defense line of the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau, and if you really want to attack forcibly, you can only fight with your life.

However, another major task of the cavalry unit was carried out well, and after the cavalry unit quickly attacked northward and arrived in the southern part of the Jingshi, it completely overrode the reinforcements of other units in the southern area of Jingzhou, and had already defeated more than 15,000 enemy troops.

These enemy troops were originally going to return to the defense division, but now they have been destroyed.

In addition, the enemy's tens of thousands of cavalry troops were also driven by the Second Cavalry Army to the small defense area of the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau, and they were not allowed to run around in the periphery.

Although the overall situation is not optimistic, it is still within the controllable range.

Liang Chenglei led his troops all the way north, and the first to arrive was not the infantry and other troops marching north with light armor, but heavy artillery and baggage troops.

Because these heavy artillery and baggage troops were carried directly north by train, the speed was much faster than that of infantry and other foot marches.

After receiving reinforcements from these heavy artillery units, the cavalry units did not launch any attack on the capital area, but directly mobilized the heavy artillery units outside the defense line of the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau and carried out a fierce artillery bombardment of the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau.

It is worth noting that the target of their shelling was not the defense line outside the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau, which had a large number of enemy troops stationed, but directly shelled the factory building of the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau.

Although there were only about 20 of these 150-millimeter cannons that arrived first, the number was not much, but with an effective range of more than 10,000 meters, coupled with the use of hot air balloons for observation, it was enough to hit the factory area of the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau.

After these heavy artillery fired, the defense line of the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau was fine, but the factory area continued to be damaged, and production was greatly affected.

In just one day of shelling, the production capacity of the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau has been reduced by at least more than half!