Quiren really wants to attack Jinxia.

In terms of strategic propositions, he was originally inconsistent with Changlin, who advocated attacking Taiwan first and then leveling Jinxia.

Kui Lun had been a general in Fuzhou, and he felt that Changlin was completely lacking in military common sense.

Although by chance, the Qing army occupied Penghu, but the Haikou attacked Jinxia, so naturally we should first solve the problem of Jinxia's Haikou and consider recovering Taiwan.

But at that time, Qianlong's instructions were to let Kui Lun investigate the case in Fujian, and Changlin was responsible for recovering Taiwan, and he did not have enough say in the military to influence Changlin.

Now that his case has been investigated, Changlin has been convicted and returned to Beijing, and the situation in Taiwan has obviously failed, Kui Lun naturally wants to change his course, first recover the elbow and arm of Jin Xia, and then consider the Taiwan issue.

As for Changlin's previous acquiescence to Zhou Lang's Haikou group's entrenchment in Jinxia, Kui Lun was noncommittal, although Changlin's pacification strategy played a certain role, Zhou Lang has been very honest for the past half a year, and he obediently stayed in Jinxia and Xia to trade, and did not make trouble like other pirates, but it was impossible for Kui Lun to tolerate him continuing to be entrenched in key places.

Therefore, at the same time as Kui Lun contacted Wei Lianli through his master, he had already begun to deploy troops.

Li Chang Geng is a sharp knife, although the attack on Taiwan failed, but it was mainly unfavorable for the land war, and the sailors commanded by Li Chang Geng have been firmly controlling the waters from Penghu to Taiwan.

Kinmen and Xiamen are both islands, and attacking these two places is inseparable from the naval division, so it is very necessary to transfer Li Changgeng back to Fujian to make preliminary preparations.

It's just that Kui Lun is different from Chang Lin, Chang Lin has seen Zhou Lang's strength in Guangzhou, but Kui Lun doesn't know anything, he is using the strength of the Taiwan Heaven and Earth Society to compare with Zhou Lang, so he underestimated Zhou Lang a little.

The consequence of underestimation is a strategic mistake, Kui Lun not only wants to drive Zhou Lang out of Jinxia Island, but also destroys Zhou Lang's lair together, so he decided to attack in two ways, Li Changgeng is responsible for besieging Jinxia on the one hand, and on the other hand, he also wants him to send troops to escort the horse infantry to land in Fengshan County, and take Zhou Lang's lair.

If Zhou Lang is really equal to the strength of those armies under Chen Zhouquan, Kui Lun's arrangement is actually correct, it is a strategy to complete the battle in one battle, drive Zhou Lang's fleet away in Jinxia, and then go to occupy Fengshan County, so that Zhou Lang has no way back, which is equivalent to completely extinguishing the foundation of Zhou Lang's strength and avoiding the dilemma of Wu Lan's more and more bandits.

Of course, it would be better if Zhou Lang could be eliminated directly in Jinxia, if not, after taking the nest of Fengshan, Zhou Lang, who escaped from Jinxia, could only go to Taiwan to seek refuge in Chen Zhouquan, and by then the Qing army had already opened up the situation in Fengshan County, and Kuilun planned to attack Taiwan from one south and one north.

It's a pity that Li Changgeng didn't agree with his first step, Li Changgeng fought with Zhou Lang's fleet, when he besieged Zhu Li's group, and saw that he wanted to take Penghu Island, but Zhou Lang's fleet forced his way into Penghu, and the powerful firepower tore through Li Changgeng's encirclement, and the batteries under his command were not able to fight back.

Therefore, Li Changgeng suggested that Kui Lun should still concentrate his troops instead of dividing them. But people like Quiren are often very stubborn when they decide.

He told Li Changgeng that the main force to fight Jinxia was the naval division, and the main force to attack Fengshan County was the land division, and the two sides did not interfere with each other, and there was no such thing as concentrating troops. He asked Li Changgeng to only take care of the matter of attacking Jinxia, and only need to escort the horse infantry to land in Fengshan County, and did not give Li Changgeng a chance to discuss it at all.

Although the Qing army was driven out of Taiwan by Chen Zhouquan again, the 80,000 Qing army and army only killed more than 10,000 people, and almost retreated, mainly because they failed to gain a foothold in Taiwan.

Kui Lun got the news that Zhou Lang was only a general under Chen Zhouquan, with only 30,000 troops, and although the Fujian and Zhejiang land divisions were defeated in Taiwan, the main force still existed, and 50,000 people were sent to attack Fengshan County, which should be foolproof.

The ideal is plump, but is it realistic......

Kui Lun's movements were very fast, and Zhou Lang didn't even have time to transfer troops from Taiwan before he was forced up by Li Changgeng's fleet.

The size of Li Changgeng's fleet is not lost to Zhu Li back then, this is normal, after all, the Manchu Qing Dynasty is a big empire, which plays the role of the national strength of the whole of China, if he really wants to build a fleet, it is impossible to lose to pirates.

Moreover, Li Changgeng did not equip the old ship type in the sailors, but hired shipwrights in Fuzhou to build the kind of thunder ships that pirates liked, and each ship was equipped with cannons, more than ten guns, and some had five or six guns, completely crushing ordinary pirates in terms of firepower.

But only relative to ordinary pirates.

Li Changgeng's fleet has 120 warships, with a total firepower of more than 1,000 guns, compared to Zhou Lang's fleet, which still has only 30 old lock ships and six European-style armed merchant ships, with a total firepower of less than 800 cannons, but there is a difference in the artillery technology of the two sides.

Therefore, in terms of firepower, Zhou Lang has absolute confidence.

However, before the war, he accepted the advice of the fleet commander Harald and sailed the fleet out of the port.

When Li Changgeng's fleet was discovered, Zhou Lang knew that the Qing army's attack was coming, and Harald believed that the fleet should be transferred out of the port before the Qing army fleet blockaded Jinxia, so as to prevent the fleet from being nested in the port.

So when Li Changgeng's fleet surrounded the Jinxia fort, Harald had already commanded the fleet to leave the port and make a detour into the outer ocean.

As a result, the first battle that took place was not a naval battle, but a battle in which Li Changgeng attacked the fort.

The battle situation can be imagined, the Jinxia defense that Zhou Lang is building now, not to mention Li Changgeng's fleet, even if the British Navy comes, there is nowhere to go. This is not a question of the combat effectiveness of Li Changgeng's fleet, but a matter of common sense. In the history of human navies, it was very rare for a navy to occupy a local fort of equal strength head-on, and even at its peak, the British navy rarely took the initiative to attack the forts. Because the use of the navy and the battery to bombard, this is a very unfavorable situation.

The Manchu self-made artillery equipped by Li Changgeng's fleet could not be compared with the heavy artillery equipped on the Zhoulang Fort in terms of range and power, but the accuracy was half a catty and eight taels, and the breech artillery did not have a precise strike, relying on firepower to cover.

Therefore, although Li Changgeng's fleet besieged the battery, although it was very passive and suppressed in terms of firepower, it actually did not lose a few ships, and in more than two hours of artillery fighting, only three large ships were sunk, and there were no injuries.

The real losses came from the counteroffensive of the Harald fleet, Harald circled the outer ocean, and then sailed back to Jinxia, I don't know whether Li Changgeng judged whether Harald was fleeing, or lacked experience in large-scale naval battles, and was not prepared for this, as a result, the Harald fleet concentrated firepower, first using the range advantage to hang and shoot Li Changgeng's fleet at a long distance, first Kinmen, and then Xiamen and Gulangyu.

Li Changgeng is not a first-class naval general of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in this era, after the fleet besieging the Kinmen Fort was attacked, he calmly commanded the fleet to retreat into the sea near Gulangyu Island, the loss at this time is not large, after all, the naval guns in the sea salvo, than the fort is more inaccurate, this kind of naval battle, without a day of artillery battle, it is difficult to inflict large-scale damage on the other side, and there is no lack of naval warfare in the history of naval warfare shelling each other for a whole day, and the result is not to sink a few ships embarrassing situation. Battles of annihilation, such as the Battle of Trafalgar and the Battle of Tsushima, were extremely rare, and the commanders were thus recorded in the history of naval warfare.

But even the Battle of Trafalgar did not completely annihilate the French Navy, of the 33 battleships of the combined French and Spanish fleets that participated in the war, 12 were captured, 7 were completely incapacitated, 1 was on fire, 9 fled to Cádiz, 4 fled to Gibraltar, and none were actually sunk on the spot.

But Li Changgeng shrank the fleet to the narrow environment of the Gulangyu Sea area, but made a big mistake, Li Changgeng judged that Zhou Lang's fleet was large, and thought that the other party's entry into the coastal sea with complex sea conditions would be very disadvantageous, this is the experience he has explored in the years of dealing with pirates, because pirates often use this way to enter some reef-lined areas to avoid the pursuit of the big ships of the sailors, and now the ships of Zhou Lang's fleet are larger than his, so he can also borrow the tactics of pirates.

But he didn't know that Harald was a professional captain with professional training, and he did not rely on common sense and experience to sail, but commanded according to detailed charts, and in the six months since he was stationed in Jinxia, Harald knew better than Li Changgeng about the hydrological situation of the waters this summer.

Therefore, Harald boldly let the fleet sail into the waters of Gulangyu Island.

After a fierce artillery battle, Li Changgeng found that he was defeated and lost more than a dozen warships, and tried to retreat, but at this time, Harald took advantage of his speed to block the southern road of Li Changgeng's retreat, forcing Li Changgeng to either withdraw from the open sea or choose to force his way into the Lujiang River between Xiamen and Gulangyu.

The Lujiang River is actually a trench between Gulangyu Island and Xiamen Island, it is an excellent waterway, the width is only 600 meters, the forts of Xiamen and Gulangyu can completely block the Lujiang River, and the forced invasion of the Lujiang River means that it will be covered by the crossfire of the two forts, Li Changgeng decided to retreat to the outer ocean.

But at this time, the wind direction was unfavorable, and the wind in summer was mostly blowing from the sea to the land, so Li Changgeng's retreat to the ocean was a headwind, while Zhou Lang's fleet was a tailwind if it pursued, and the situation was very unfavorable.

Li Changgeng had no choice, he could only retreat to the open sea, of course Harald had to chase, these tactical operations did not have any tricks, and they were completely a reflection of strength, because neither side made any big mistakes.

As a result, Harald caught up with Li Changgeng's fleet near Dadan Island, and the two sides engaged in another artillery battle, followed by a close encounter.

This hand-to-hand encounter is not a gang jump that Li Changgeng is good at. Although it is equipped with stronger firepower than pirates, in terms of combat effectiveness against pirates, Li Changgeng still mainly relies on the organizational and disciplinary advantages of officers and soldiers, and finally uses gang jumping to solve the pirates. But Harald was in close contact with him, but the short soldiers that stretched out were not bayonets in the hands of the infantry, but the guns on the ship, which means that Harald and Li Changgeng's fleet had a close-range artillery assassination.

The result of the battle was very miserable, the thunder ships of Li Changgeng's fleet lost to the battleships of Zhou Lang's fleet in terms of solidity and artillery power, and the result was the outcome of the Battle of Trafalgar, Zhou Lang's fleet did not lose a single ship, while Li Changgeng's more than 100 warships with scattered firepower and weak hulls lost one-third. This kind of outcome can be predicted, because in the Battle of Trafalgar, the technical gap between the British battleships and the French battleships is far less than the gap between the Zhou Lang fleet and Li Changgeng's fleet, and the British fleet can still completely annihilate the French fleet, and it is normal for Zhou Lang's fleet to sink one-third of Li Changgeng's battleships.

Li Changgeng is still worthy of being a famous general, he was very decisive at this time, using the flag language to let the ships disperse and break through, as a result, more than 80 warships took advantage of the numerical advantage and scattered and fled, and the Harald fleet could not disperse the pursuit, so he escaped most of the ships, and only a few were pursued and strayed into the shoals and ran aground, and were finally captured.