Departing back to Jinling Mansion, Zhang Qiang listened to the report of the person sent by the Military Intelligence Department to the attendant room.

"At present, we occupy Chugoku Island, but we have divided Chugoku Island with the troops of the Three Princes, except for the land of Kitakyushu Prefecture, which is part of the island of Chugoku in Kitakyushu, the upper prefecture, the territory near the sea is occupied by the people of the Three Princes, and the people of the Three Princes occupy all the seaside counties and territories from Birdne to Tottori near the coastline to the western coastline, and we occupy all the territory from Kitakyushu to Yamaguchi, Hiroshima, Okayama, Okayama Prefecture near the bay of Shikoku Island.

The Japanese began to shrink their defensive lines, and the area from Hiroshima to Kyoto Prefecture to Kyoto Prefecture was completely abandoned, and they withdrew a million people, 220,000 remnants of soldiers and horses, all of which were retracted to the area south of the capital of Kyoto Prefecture, and the area of one hundred and two kilometers between Tottori, Okayama Prefecture, Okayama Pier, and Kyoto Prefecture was almost uninhabited, and became a buffer area, in which the squads of both sides continued to fight, and the other side used the Mongol cavalry scouts of the Qing Dynasty against us, and we used our own cavalry scouts, the dragoon scouts dealt with them, and the troops of the third prince only held the area around the prefecture of Tottori, and did not send troops and did not provoke the Japanese. ”

Zhang Qiang's fingers tapped on the table nailed to the floor in the captain's room, the ambition of the third prince has been initially revealed, this person will be the next Japan, depending on the situation, if the third prince wants to recapture Jeju Island, or let the war on Jeju Island go more smoothly, then he only needs to transfer more of these troops from Songjiang Prefecture back to solve the problem, but he didn't, but occupied the two largest counties on the Chinese islands from Tokone to Tottori County, neither attacking nor passively defending against the Japanese, Just defending the two county towns he occupies, his meaning is very ambiguous.

"How's the battle for Jeju Island going?" Zhang Qiang asked.

The attendant of the Military Intelligence Department said: "At present, Jeju Island is learning from Xinlu Province to build coastal defense fortifications, and at the same time attacking the Qing army troops who landed on the island, the Qing army occupied the advantage of surprise attack in the early stage, and now it is a little weak, and now the battle mainly takes place at sea, the suppression of the fleet of the Qing army by the fleet of the third prince can be said to be crushing, and the Qing army lost more than 300 arson ships, only to burn the two thousand-ton warships of the third prince, and one 800-ton battleship, and their warships lost 500 ships, Only then did he sink the third prince's eleven sixty-ton transport ships, two 180-ton patrol ships, and damage a six-hundred-ton warship, but this was a drop in the bucket for the third prince's sailors. ”

Zhang Qiang wiped his face, it must be a drop in the bucket, the only thing that made the third prince excited was the three warships of more than 800 tons, and one warship of 600 tons, a total of four losses, which was not yet the time to break the bones for the three princes' nearly 300 sailors of 600 tons and above.

"What about the Qing army?" Zhang Qiang asked the attendant of the Military Intelligence Department.

The attendant replied: "The Qing army has lost a total of 1,000 ships from the beginning of the battle, three 600-ton Fu ships, troop carriers, and 2,000 troops, 36 280-ton ships, 1,000 sailor soldiers, and 600 army soldiers, and then they sent nearly 10,000 people to the island, and these 10,000 people captured less than half of the surrounding area of the county within a week, and established a defensive line.

After breaking through many obstacles, the second wave sent 4,000 Mongolian cavalry ashore, along with 300,000 loads of grain, 10,000 people, and nearly 30 4,000-pound cannons.

Using these cannons, they defeated the defenders left by the original 8,000 princes, captured the county seat of Jeju, captured nearly 10,000 loads of grain, nearly 10,000 Jingai2 arquebuses, and more than 100 12-pounder guns, and captured 30,000 people, including 2,000 Han people, rescued 3,000 Goguryeo soldiers who were imprisoned, 10,000 people of Jeju Island, and captured fifteen 60-ton transport ships, five 180-ton patrol boats, and a 600-ton warship. and nearly three thousand soldiers of the Navy.

With these people and ships, they gained the initiative in some naval engagements, plus they changed the starting point of the landing, starting from the port of Hainan County in Goguryeo, which is only 35 nautical miles away from the county seat of Jeju on Jeju Island, more than 70 kilometers away, and quickly transported troops to Jeju County, and in less than half a month, they have already transported 100,000 troops, where are 100,000 Goguryeo people. ”

How did Zhang Qiang feel as if the Qing Dynasty was likely to win the Battle of Jeju Island?

Just when Zhang Qiang suspected that the Qing Dynasty was about to win the battle of Jeju Island, the three princes were actually uneasy, because the battle situation was too unfavorable for them.

The Qing Dynasty has fought a war with Dajin for so many years, and all of Dajin's campaign methods have actually been figured out by the Qing Dynasty, and Duolong, who is hiding in the rear to support Aobai, knows every detail.

He knew where the advantages and disadvantages of the two sides were, so he adopted the method of sneak attack, Shi Lang is a veteran sailor who has been operating at sea for many years, he from the beginning of the Daming sailor can only use dhows, Dafu ships that can only use sloops, Dafu ships that can only use the fat lady level of warships to brigs, the kind of armed merchant ships that sail far from the Portuguese, until the Dutch three-masted armed merchant ships have experienced the battle, and the three-masted battleships of the Huaxia Army Naval Division have been fought, and he also knows how to fight if he suffers a lot.

At the beginning, he let fishing boats and some large fortune boats attract the attention of Jeju Island sailors, and then used thousands of warships to assault, and used Daifuku ships and Guangfu ships to block the reinforcement of the Ryukyu Kingdom sailors, and finally sent the expeditionary force ashore at a small price.

The lost Jeju Naval Division increased its forces with ten thousand-ton warships, two 800-ton ships, five 600-ton ships, twelve 300-ton ships, and 45 180-ton patrol ships.

Covering the entire Yellow Sea, the Huaxia Army Navy Division retreated a hundred nautical miles strangely, giving up the battlefield to the three princes and the Qing Army, which made the Qing Army see that the Huaxia Army and the Qing Army were not so integrated, but they didn't know that the First Fleet of the Huaxia Army Navy Division had sold many warships, and the strength of the warships in this generation was not as good as before, and the strength was only more than 500 warships, and there were less than 100 warships, so they retreated to the coast for 100 miles. Battleships and warship detachments were dispatched only when it was necessary to escort merchant ships and important supplies and personnel, and the rest of the time they stayed in Silukfu, Shikokufu, the Ryukyu Kingdom station, and patrolled within twenty nautical miles of the sea.

Many areas, such as the East China Sea, have been taken over by the Second Fleet, whose strength has not been damaged, this is not that Zhang Qiang does not want to be strong and does not want those seas, but he is selling more than 900 ships to Zheng Chenggong and them, as well as more than 200 ships of the third prince, and more than 100 search ships to Lu State, and some old fishing boats have been sold to domestic fishermen, and some large tonnage traffic ships have been sold to the coastal garrison. Now let's wait for the new battleship of the Navy Division to be replaced after the sea trial is finalized.

Under such circumstances, Shi Lang began to use his combat skills and began to attack the Jeju Island Naval Division fiercely.

On this day, he escorted the fourth batch of Daqing and Goguryeo musketeers to Jeju Island to support the battle on Jeju Island with 30 armed warships converted from Dafuku ships, 300 armed merchant ships of 300 tons sold to them by the Dutch, and 100 brigs armed merchant ships, and 10 captured 180-ton patrol ships of the Huaxia Army and Naval Division.

Just as Shi Lang was resting with his eyes closed on one of the largest Dutch Galen armed merchant ships, the lookout on the mast shouted: "A large number of ships have been found ahead, suspected to be local warships. ”

Shi Lang hurriedly got up, and in the telescope, the local fleet that was getting closer and closer told him that he had encountered the patrol fleet of the Jeju Island Naval Division, two thousand-ton warships, three eight-hundred-ton warships, five six-hundred-ton warships, and twelve one-hundred-hundred-ton warships surrounding them.

The whole fleet began to change formation, and thirty converted armed Hiroshi ships began to escort the thirty Daifuku ships and two hundred troop transports away, and the other warships spread out in the formation agreed by the Oshimizu Division to meet the enemy's warships.

"Attack the enemy's 180-ton warships first, and order five Portuguese armed merchant ships and ten 180-ton Huaxia warships to intercept the enemy's 12 180-ton warships, and not let them take advantage of their speed advantage to surprise our troop convoy." Shi Lang gave the order.

So the ships he named rushed towards the enemy under the guidance of the flag, and he rushed towards the main force of the enemy fleet with three three-hundred-ton Dutch Galen ships and a hundred brigs of armed merchant ships, entangled the enemy.

Because there was a heavy fog on the sea, when the sun rose in the early morning, the fog gradually dissipated, and the two sides discovered each other, so the fleets of the two sides were only about ten nautical miles together, which was only less than forty minutes for the fastest transport ship, and the other ships were only two hours away, so Shi Lang had to buy at least two hours for his troop transport fleet.

In half an hour, the 180-ton ships of both sides gathered together for another 15 nautical miles, and the 180-ton warships of the two sides began to exchange fire, and fierce artillery fire rang out on the sea.

And Shi Lang's fleet took an hour to get in touch with the opponent's front ships, he was on a warship, and he could get up quickly, but those lucky ships couldn't get up quickly, he had to use the fleet to stop them, knowing that it was impossible to resist, he had to delay as much time as possible, so his fleet just changed from the last to the front, waiting for the exchange of fire from the 180-ton warships on both sides, waiting for the enemy to come up.

(End of chapter)