"General, the forward troops of the commander have arrived in the rear of our army." The news brought by the herald made Li Tianyi overjoyed, and he almost roared: "Order them to immediately enter the battle, take over the cavalry corps to attack the opponent's large array, and be sure to entangle the Wusheng army and don't let them escape." The cavalry corps comes with me, and we will go and block Qian Biao immediately. ”

Li Tianyi decisively changed his deployment and let the infantry brigade that arrived take over his battle, and the cavalry corps almost never stopped riding away from the entanglement of the Wusheng army and headed towards the southeast of Fuzhou.

"Order General Ruan to entangle the cavalry of the Tiance Army for me, and I must not let the other party pass. Let the rear army speed up and board the ship. The entry of the Tiance Army Brigade also made Luo Yin, who was in charge of commanding the Wusheng Army, change his face, and also changed his deployment, and at the same time said to Lin Ding and the others who had not yet entered the battle: "Now you immediately lead the army to retreat in the direction of the lord, and lead the team to board the ship immediately, don't care about the others, you can go one by one." Luo Yin's words were tantamount to completely cutting off his retreat path. This made the faces of several people around him change, but looking at the serious look on Luo Yin's face, he could only sigh secretly and lead the army away from the scene.

In this way, the large array in front of the Wusheng army suddenly became empty, and even Li Tianyi was blocked on the road, and Qian Biao had already blocked the cavalry outside the dock at this time.

In fact, the rear army of the Wusheng Army and their families have basically all boarded the ship, and some of the soldiers brought by Qian Biao have also boarded the ship. The Wusheng Army's naval division has even begun to manipulate warships along the coast to cover the infantry to attack the Tiance Army. Coupled with Lin Ding's brigade, the cavalry of more than 5,000 people naturally couldn't stop this crowd from rushing towards the sea.

"Lord, quickly bring someone on board the ship immediately, and leave it to me here." Lin Ding roared angrily, and led his troops to insert diagonally into the junction of Qian Biao and Tiance Army, forcibly isolating Qian Biao.

Lin Ding's arrival completely relieved Qian Di's pressure, and when he heard this, he nodded and led people directly to the dock, and the team of people and horses hula directly boarded the various ships that had already been prepared. When he arrived at the warship, Qian Biao began to arrange the sailors to increase the attack and cover the rest of the men to continue to evacuate. At the same time, let the ships that have completed their loading tasks wait offshore. And Lin Ding and the others on the shore saw that Qian Biao's troops had successfully boarded the ship, regardless of whether Li Tianyi's cavalry had followed up or not, so that the troops could go as much as they could, and each department covered the retreat in turn.

It's just that in this way, the order of the soldiers of the Wusheng Army began to be chaotic, and the entire port was full of soldiers, and the speed of boarding was not as fast as before. More soldiers began to force their way forward like headless flies, not even caring about the pursuit of the Tiance Army in the rear.

Lin Ding didn't expect his order to make these soldiers chaotic, so he was also dumbfounded, and in desperation, he could only lead his own soldiers to forcibly suppress the riot and command the boarding. In this way, the speed is faster, but the rear command to resist the surprise attack of the Tiance Army has become a joke. Li Tianyi seized this rare gap and led the cavalry to break through to the long bridge of the wharf, captured tens of thousands of Wusheng soldiers, and then escorted them to the rear.

Both sides are scrambling for time. At this time, Qian Di, who was on the battleship, saw that Lin Ding had also boarded the ship, and decisively began to give orders for all transport ships to leave the dock, ignoring the tens of thousands of Wusheng soldiers who were still stranded at the dock at this time, and forcibly drove away. As soon as Qian Biao left, basically the Battle of Fuzhou came to an end, and the soldiers of the Wusheng Army, who had lost their command, raised their hands and surrendered, and nearly 20,000 people were directly captured on the dock alone. After Li Tianyi handed over these people to ***, he reflexively began to attack Luo Yin and Du Ling, who were still holding on at this time.

However, for Luo Yin, as soon as Li Tianyi returned to the battlefield, it meant that Qian Biao had left smoothly, so he was completely relieved, and began to give orders to Du Ling and retreat towards the beach in Fuzhou. Luo Yin was still quite convinced of Du Ling's ability, and prepared a way out for him, thinking that he could keep up with Qian Biao's pace and work for him. However, this move also completely buried his own opportunity to go to sea, so that Luo Yin, who was later in Chang'an, regretted this incident all his life.

At this time, Li Tianyi saw that Luo Yin and Du Ling actually found a few warships again near the southeast of Fuzhou, and the main elite boarded the ships one after another, and could no longer bear his temper, and directly led the army to break up Luo Yin's defense, and took it down with one move, and the cavalry of the Tiance Army behind him stepped forward one after another, and captured all the remaining 10,000 people.

Although Li Tianyi relied on his cavalry strength to take Fuzhou City, most of Qian Biao's men and horses withdrew from the coast and headed towards the sea, leaving with a large number of people and supplies, bringing a shadow to the battle that should have been a complete victory.

The overshadowed Li Tianyi led the army to take Fuzhou City, and waited for Xue Wanli's arrival with the rectification of the army. He himself blamed himself for this battle, and even wrote a war report to the command to ask for guilt.

However, at this time, after leaving Fuzhou, Qian Biao arrived in the Penghu Islands in advance according to the route plan, and prepared to use this string of small islands as a springboard to enter Liuqiu. Some of the troop carriers transporting troops did not even stop at the islands and went directly towards Liuqiu Island. However, the logistics and most of the people still chose to rest temporarily on the islands.

It was this decision that allowed Qian Biao himself to reach Liuqiu successfully, but forever lost the people and a large number of supplies he brought, and when he arrived in Liuqiu, he had to rely on force to rob the food of the island's natives to make a living. Two years later, when the Tiance Army and Navy arrived in Liuqiu, Qian Bi's strength did not increase much, and he was taken by the Marines in a battle.

At this time, Qian Biao was reorganizing in the Penghu Islands, and Guo Chongtao's navy from the north heading south from the Qiantang River had also arrived in the nearby waters. Compared with Qian Di's sailors, who were basically southerners who were proficient in naval warfare and sea conditions, although the Tiance Navy had ironclad warships that were ahead of the times, the congenital disadvantages of the northerners in water warfare and shipping made him toss on the sea for a long time, and even lost his way for a while. It was not easy to touch the waters near Fujian, but it was only after getting in touch with Xue Wanli's main force on the shore that it knew the basic situation, which was also an important reason why it was able to meet Qian Biao near Penghu.

Six warships and seventeen freighters made up the entirety of the first fleet. Unlike Li Xuanqing, who didn't look down on this kind of small ship of several hundred tons, Guo Chongtao, who had accumulated his family wealth bit by bit, took great care of these warships under his feet and explored a variety of ways to maintain the warships on his own. Originally, he planned to find a place for the freighter behind him to resupply the battleship, but suddenly found that an island appeared in front of him.

The Penghu Islands are like a necklace between the mainland and Liuqiu, and the overall distribution is from south to north. At first, Guo Chongtao did not find any trace of Qian Biao, and planned to dock for supplies, but then the Yangwei, which went out on guard, kept waving flags, which made Guo Chongtao suspicious, and stopped supplying and led the warship forward to find out that the island was abnormal. In fact, at this time, Qian Biao had also discovered the traces of the Tiance Army, after all, the only one who spewed black smoke during the march was the Tiance Army and the Navy. The two sides met east of the Penghu Islands, and the world's first naval battle broke out.

Compared with Guo Chongtao, who was ecstatic when he found the enemy, Qian Biao had a gloomy face, and while ordering the people on the island to urgently carry supplies and go east, on the other hand, he immediately led his sailors to rush towards Guo Chongtao. For the water warfare of this era, the leapfrog battle is the ultimate method of warfare, and the opponent's ironclad ship is the artifact he dreams of.

At this time, Guo Chongtao was also preparing to have a real naval battle with the other party, directly blew the horn, and let the freighter behind him take on the task of intercepting the ships in the rear of the other party, and he led six warships to rush towards Qian Biao's naval division, and ordered the guns of each ship to prepare, and the crossbow machine rose and rushed forward at full power.

This was an asymmetrical battle, although Guo Chongtao's navy supplied one-tenth of the opponent's number, but it had an absolute advantage, the moving Fuxing was the first to fire, the three guns on the foredeck were ignited in turn, and the roaring cannon made all the sailors enthusiastic. It's just that the sea is not as good as the inland river, the wind is high and the waves are fast, the hull of the Fuxing is too small, and the accuracy of the artillery is too far behind. But Rao was like this, and he was also frightened by Qian Di's naval warships.

After the ships failed to fire their guns one after another, the artillery groups began to seriously ponder the skills of aiming and firing their guns at sea, relying on their own free power ships, constantly widening the distance between them and the warships of the Wusheng Army and Naval Division, and using the ship's ballista to fire a large number of crossbow arrows to shoot at the approaching enemy. Half an hour after the start of the battle, after wasting nearly 100 shells, the Yangwei took the lead in the battle, breaking the mast of a Wusheng Navy Sailor Fu ship located in the left front, causing the sail to catch fire.

This news made Guo Chongtao smile for a long time, and also encouraged the gunners of all the battleships, and the hit rate decisively increased a lot in the following battle. Soon after, the Fuxing came out, a cannon concentrated on the side of a thousand-material ship of the opponent, the violent explosion made the entire warship seem to be cut off a large piece, the wooden hull could not withstand the impact of the huge explosion of the flowering bomb, the entire hull was blown out of a big hole, the rolling sea water poured in instantly, the wooden battleship was instantly submerged by the sea, only some debris floating on the sea.

The Fuxing killed a battleship with one cannon, which made its own personnel excited, but it was a great disaster for the Wusheng military sailors, and the shock brought by this inexplicable weapon made all the sailors and soldiers not know how to deal with it at all.

However, this did not make Qian Biao make up his mind to leave, but the next Yongwu drove at full speed and crushed over a battleship beside him, and overturned the sailboat strongly, and as a result, he rushed out of the waves in a good manner.

"Blow the snails, and all the ships will start heading east." Qian Biao was so shocked by this scene that it took him a long time to react, and after a long sigh, he ordered the battleship under his seat to turn the rudder and go east, beckoning other ships to follow him along the way. Taking advantage of the monsoon full sails, the speed is getting faster and faster, which is much faster than the speed of the Tiance Army and the Navy, so that Guo Chongtao has no choice but to start withdrawing troops.

Several warships approached the island where Qian Biao had dropped the people before. Although there was no major damage to the Yongwu, the hull had been deformed after the impact, many parts of the interior had seeped water, and the crew had many casualties. After a short rest, the Sunny set out again to look for the freighter, bringing the captured ship with her.

Although the situation of this naval battle is not enough to see, it is precious to the nascent Tiance Army and Navy, and Guo Chongtao plans to go back and summarize it well. However, the results of the battle were very fruitful, except for those who had left, the people who had been coerced by Qian Biao were left behind, and nearly ten of the original dozens of transport ships were intercepted and brought back by cargo ships. The supplies and people on the island are also almost intact.

After resting for two hours, Guo Chongtao sent marines and sailors to the island to arrange for the people to be transported back to the mainland in batches on the subsequent empty freighters. Due to the limited ships and space, all supplies were abandoned on the island, and only people were transported back to the mainland. In this way, the remaining tens of thousands of people on the island filled almost all the freighters, and in order to transport everyone back at once, all the ships threw away all unnecessary things, and the freighters were emptied except for coal, but even then almost half of the people were transported.

On the way back, together with the capture of a dozen or so wooden sailing ships, nearly 30 mighty fleets moved very slowly, the warships that originally traveled nearly 400 miles a day only drove at a speed of more than 100 miles, and it took a full night and a morning to set off from Penghu, and at noon on July 14, the second year of the Apocalypse, the port of Fujian finally appeared in front of everyone.

Li Tianyi, who was sulking in the city, heard the report and personally came to the port wharf to meet Guo Chongtao's group of ships. After handing over all the people to Li Tianyi, Guo Chongtao sent the Yangwei to escort the Yongwu north to seek support and supplies, and he set off again with the remaining freighters and ships to replenish supplies, so that the transportation mission was not completely completed until the fifth day, that is, July 19. In this operation, Guo Chongtao's naval fleet transported more than 60,000 civilians, nearly 10,000 tons of supplies, and captured 15 ships.

At this time, Xue Wanli's brigade had also entered Fujian and joined forces with Guo Chongtao and Li Tianyi, and the entire war to pursue Qian Biao basically came to an end. Xue Wanli's Eastern Route Army began to consider a plan for the recovery of Fujian. Guo Chongtao, on the other hand, waited for the arrival of the supply fleet in Fuzhou before setting off north to return to the Hangzhou base.

After the results of this battle reached the command headquarters, Yang Tiancheng and Wang Houchun laughed with their palms, celebrating the regularity of the navy from now on, and quickly sent the battle report to the north to deliver it to the Zhongjing area where Li Xuanqing was located.

After the war, orders from the Tianjin shipyards increased rapidly, and the coastal port cities began to open special supply docks to prepare fuel and other supplies according to the needs of new ships, which promoted the rebirth of the imperial port cities. Hangzhou and Fuzhou have become coastal cities comparable to Tianjin in the north.