Naval warfare is not the land war, often there is no room for retreat, whether it is the Fu Han army or the Qing army water division, must have an advantage in this water battle, in order to lay the foundation for the subsequent victory.

In this battle, Guan Yuanzhong gathered the remaining main force of the Fujian Naval Division, and its purpose was naturally to complete its work in one battle. If it was placed seven years before Kangxi, the Guangdong sailors would probably have been involved, but the Guangdong sailors at that time were cut off because of the calm on the seaside, so now there is only one sailor in the Qing court left in Fujian.

In this war, the commanders of the two sides are in a sense from the same school, they are all members of the once prosperous Fujian Navy Commander, and they are also the servants of the Fujian Shi family, from Shi Lang to Shi Shibi, almost the entire Fujian Navy Division has been imprinted with the brand of the Shi family.

After the complete destruction of the Shi family, Qiu Ze raised righteousness and defected to the Fu Han army, Wu Lin, as a new general in the Fujian Navy, also began to gradually show his prominence, although this person is only in his forties, but he can be literate and martial, especially good at artillery, so he was deeply trusted by Shi Shibiu, and later after Shi Shibiu died of illness, the successor of the naval commander Yao Tang also attached great importance to Wu Lin.

Later, after Yao Tang also died in office, someone suggested to the court to let Wu Lin take over as the governor of the Fujian Navy Division, at that time the situation of the Qing court in Fujian was already very tense, whether it was the Fu Han Army or Zhu Yigui, they were constantly compressing the activity space of the Fujian Qing Army, and the Fujian Navy Division began to suffer losses at that time, so when faced with this situation, Wu Lin also entered the range of choices of the Qing court.

Although the nobles of the Eight Banners who were far away in the capital had great doubts about the loyalty of the Fujian Navy Master due to the Qiu Ze incident, the Governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, Man Bao, believed in him and recommended him, so Wu Lin was able to become the new Fujian Navy Commander.

It is precisely because the road to the throne is extremely bumpy, so Wu Lin is very eager to make contributions in order to gain the recognition of the imperial court, and he is also a little wary of the rise of Ning Chu, but he knows Qiu Ze and knows more about the sailor who defected with Qiu Ze, so Wu Lin also has the certainty of victory in his heart.

"Today's battle is an opportunity for me to win the Qing Dynasty, and you should kill the thief with me!"

The sound of artillery fire gradually intensified, and a thick white smoke gradually rose on the sea surface, but it gradually thinned out under the sea breeze, and the ships of the Fu Han army gradually approached under the background of the sea breeze, and solid shells were constantly fired from the artillery of both sides, stirring up waves on the sea surface.

In traditional water warfare, it is usually necessary to maintain the formation, but Qiu Ze is now very different from the traditional tactics, he scattered his ships, and moved towards the Qing army's naval fleet with the trend of encirclement, but this scene surprised Wu Lin, this kind of tactics that goes the opposite way, not that no one has tried, but it turns out that it is vulnerable in front of the formation.

The sand boats, thunder boats, shuttle boats, chasing boats, bird boats, and lucky boats of the Fu Han army were almost out of formation, and they showed a tendency of semi-encirclement of the Qing army's naval divisions, but the ships were extremely loose among them.

"Boom—"

The artillery of the Qing army also rang out, and at such a close range, many warships were shot in an instant, and even several warships were hit by multiple projectiles, were pierced through several large holes, and sank to the bottom of the sea in an instant.

Qiu Ze looked at the battleship in the distance with a serious face, although his flagship was not hit in the round of shelling just now, but there was a sand ship next to it that was sunk to the bottom of the sea...... Although everyone did not speak, their grim expressions had already revealed a bit of ominous taste, and if they continued to fight like this, the Fu Han army would undoubtedly be defeated.

"Prepare the rockets!"

As the nearest Qing warship got closer and closer, and when there were only more than three hundred yards left, Qiu Ze finally gave the order, the biggest problem of the rocket at the moment was not the range and power, but the accuracy was too poor, so only the closer the distance, the higher the hit rate. And when you use rockets at this distance, their power will be maximized.

Qiu Ze's Fu ship began to raise the signal flag, and the rockets that received the signal were not many of the rockets brought out of the cabin, and there were about five to ten rockets on each ship, like about twenty on the larger Fu ship, and those rockets were fixed on the deck and were waiting.

Although the rockets of the Fu Han army appeared in the Battle of Anqing, after all, they were only used twice, and they were not used in subsequent battles, so most of the Qing troops did not know much about this weapon - Wu Lin, as a senior general, although he had been exposed to the battle report and heard about it, he subconsciously thought that it was a land weapon and did not have any relevant understanding.

In addition, the rockets taken out by the Fu Han Army at present are actually different from the rockets used before, the rockets that Ning Yu and Lei Huozi drummed up at the beginning are basically a variant of Congreve rockets, and the defects themselves are very large, and the main embodiment is that after ignition, they don't know where they flew, and the hit rate is too low.

Since the last time after the actual combat on the battlefield, the apprentices of the thunder camel have recorded the relevant data, and then improved it again, mainly by installing a stabilizing spiral plate at the bottom of the rocket and reducing the tail caliber, so as to make the propulsion of the rocket itself stronger, and the trajectory will be more stable when flying out, so that the overall accuracy has been improved.

After such improvements, the new rocket no longer needs to use the long guide rod of the Congreve rocket, and it can also be used on the ship, so after it came out, Ning Yu quickly thought of the idea of putting it on the ship, and found someone to train Qiu Ze early on the relevant skills, and put it in his hand as a hole card.

Therefore, when the rockets of the Fu Han army were taken out, the Qing warships were not prepared to a certain extent, they still showed a dense formation, firing at the warships of the Fu Han army, and from time to time there were still people shouting trumpets, as if the battle had basically been declared victorious.

When the soldiers of the Fu Han army adjusted the relevant shooting angle, and then lit the fuse, I saw a white mist rising from each warship at the same time, which seemed to have orange-red firelight, and then a sharp sound pierced the sky, and a black rose from the smoke and pounced on the Qing warship.

This scene was so shocking that everyone on the Qing warship was attracted to it, and they quietly looked at the white smoke rising from the opposite side, but they were a little puzzled in their hearts, this thing was obviously different from artillery, at least much faster than artillery........

"Boom—"

The rockets launched are also divided into a variety of specifications, among which the heaviest rockets weigh 40 catties, and the lighter ones are about 10 catties, they happily pounced on the warships of the Qing army, making a huge explosion, among which a warship of the Qing army carrying more than 20 guns was obviously taken care of, and a full seven rockets accurately hit the ship, and it was torn in half in the explosion and smoke, and then sank to the bottom of the sea.

Wu Lin's heart sank, he felt that his brain was a little confused, this thing was something he had never seen before-no, he had seen the Divine Fire Crow, but compared to this, the power was really a little too far behind, before this, he had never seen such a powerful weapon.

It's horrible!

In fact, not only Wu Lin, but even Qiu Ze was taken aback, although he had tried it several times before, but it was the first time it was really applied to actual combat, he didn't expect that the power of this weapon could reach such a point, as if it was born for warships, in the face of its devastating power, is there still any meaning in artillery?

Maybe the current Qiu Ze or Wu Lin is only focused on the battle in front of him, but for this era, the way of moving this rocket to the ship is already a earth-shaking change, and it can even be said that it has subverted the naval battle model of this era.

In this era, because of the immaturity of firearms, the use of artillery is difficult to finalize in naval warfare, so the real combat mode of warships is still in a rather primitive state, that is, collision! Add various ramming angles to the bow of the ship, just like two medieval warriors, and really crush each other with their bodies!

But since Ning Yu moved the rocket to this era in advance, and then moved it to the ship, it was obvious that the two medieval warriors were each given a musket, and the naval battle naturally became a mode of firing rockets at each other, which can be called a queue of shots on the sea, after all, in the face of the powerful attack power of rockets, no matter how strong the warship is, it is just a living target.......

Of course, these are all later words, at least at present, the Qing army's naval divisions cannot become rockets, they watched their powerful warships being beaten into a ball of fire, but they couldn't think of any countermeasures, and their artillery power and launch speed could not be compared with rockets at all.

Seeing the gradual destruction of the Qing army's naval division warship, Wu Lin's face turned into a dead silence, he didn't look at the expectant eyes of the people around him, but gritted his teeth and said: "If this battle is lost, what face does my Great Qingshui Division have to stand in the world?" ”

"Order, all ships are moving forward at full speed, and follow me to ram the opponent's ships!"

The tone of his voice is so tragic that it is moving, and it makes people shudder.

In naval warfare, the ramming tactic was originally an extremely common tactic, but when Wu Lin issued such an order, he was somewhat helpless, because everyone knew that at the current distance, they might not have hit the other party before they were swallowed by rockets......

At this stage, the distance between the two sides was even shortened to about 100 feet, but the role at this time has changed greatly, the Qing warships began to desperately attack the warships of the Fu Han army, and the warships of the Fu Han army began to retreat to the rear, they took advantage of the small movement speed of their ships, and always kept themselves and the Qing army in this best position.

"Tell the whole army to strike at the enemy with the advantage of rockets, and do not take the initiative to engage with it......"

Qiu Zecai is not such a reckless man, he quickly sensed the intention of the Qing warship, and hurriedly sent the order down, and at this time, I saw a bullet fired from the Qing warship, which happened to hit Qiu Ze's Fu ship, breaking a mast, and the sawdust that flew out hit Qiu Ze's face, and immediately bled and fell to the ground.

"General!"

"General!"

The soldiers on the side saw that the commander was hit and fell to the ground, and they were immediately frightened and panicked, not to mention the military regulations of the Fu Han Army, even their own current net worth and life have been tied to Qiu Ze's body, if something happens to him, the rest of the people are afraid that they will also die.

When everyone helped Qiu Ze up, his face was already covered with blood, but it didn't seem to be seriously injured, Qiu Ze struggled to sit up, "I'm fine, you guys quickly go and pass on my order....... There is no mistake in the imminent victory! ”

"Boom—"

Although Qiu Ze was injured, it was nothing on the battlefield, just in an instant, several rockets hit a Qing warship, it was directly hit by the rockets and burst into flames, seeing that it was not far from sinking, many Qing soldiers and soldiers could no longer care about anything else, jumped directly from the boat, and then swam towards the Qing warship in the distance.

It's just that the place where they swam was not safe, and more Qing warships were also capsizing one after another, and thousands of Qing soldiers and soldiers returned to the sea with the warships......

Looking at the cruel scene in front of him, Wu Lin's face was very calm, maybe this scene was not an unacceptable thing for him, after all, on the battlefield, no matter what happened, it was normal....... It's just that he always has some regrets in his heart, this way of ending is different from what he expected, maybe it's destined by God......

"Boom—"

A violent explosion sounded on Wu Lin's warship, and he felt that the deck under his feet seemed to be trembling, and when he looked back, he saw several more rockets flying from the sky......

A wry smile appeared on Wu Lin's face, and then he was swallowed into the sea of fire.....

The commander of the Fujian Navy of the Qing army was killed......

The naval battle lasted for more than two hours, causing extremely heavy casualties among the naval divisions of the Fuhan Army and the Qing Army, but after the rockets joined the battlefield, the warships of the Qing Army were almost like being targeted, and were beaten into torches, and then sank in the sea, while more than 20 warships of the Naval Division of the Fuhan Army were sunk, and the casualties of officers and soldiers were as many as hundreds.

When the news of the death of Wu Lin, the commander of the Fujian Naval Division, spread, the remaining dozens of warships of the Qing Army's Naval Division had no intention of fighting, and they began to panic and began to choose to flee, and some of the warships directly signaled surrender, and then quietly parked the warships on the battlefield, and all the soldiers knelt on the deck and waited for disposal.

For those fleeing Qing warships, Qiu Ze chose to pursue them very decisively, so there was a very strange scene on the sea, that is, dozens of Qing warships were fleeing for their lives in the distance, and there were dozens of warships far smaller than them in pursuit......

Of course, it is impossible for the Qing warships to escape, because the small ships of the Fu Han army far exceed the big ships of the Qing army in terms of flexibility and speed, so that they cannot run at all, once the speed of the Qing warships slows down, the next moment they will be sunk by the rockets of the Fu Han army, and the remaining Qing warships that are still on the run have no choice but to surrender.

So far, this encounter that took place in the waters of Guangdong, with the great victory of the Han army's naval division, and the remnants of the Qing army's Fujian naval division either died or surrendered, and none of the small boats escaped, which was completely declared extinct, and this was also the last naval division force in the hands of the Qing army.