No. 082 Naval Clash (Tail)
During the breakout, a cannonball suddenly hit the ship's cabin in the middle of Shi Lang's rapid journey. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 The helmsman in the info warehouse was bombarded into scum and minced meat on the spot, and the sparks splashed between the rise and fall of the cannonballs ignited the gunpowder in the cabin, and after a series of explosions, the whole ship suddenly fell into a fire, due to the haste and lack of preparation, the fire spread rapidly, and the sails were also burned, and the Qing soldiers on the ship could not rescue, without the assistance of the sails, the ship's speed became slower and slower, and it was immediately surrounded by the Ming ships chasing behind.
Shi Lang, who was standing on the deck, had clearly understood the outcome of this final battle, and he rejected his subordinates' suggestion to continue the breakthrough by small boat, looked up to the sky and sighed, drew his sword and committed suicide. Finally defeated by the Ming army! Shi Lang was full of unwillingness, and sank into the Beijiang River that made him sink into the sand along with his flagship that had been destroyed by the fire. A peerless hero who helped the Qing court capture Taiwan and overthrow the Zheng regime in the future left the stage of history before he had time to emerge under the butterfly effect of the traverser, which can be regarded as a creation and a trick.
The vanguard and the commander died one after another, and the Qing naval division was no longer led by a scattered sand, and they finally succeeded in developing into a rout under the repeated attacks of the Ming fleet.
After some fighting, among the eight large warships that the Qing army participated in this battle, except for five that were caught and burned by the fireships at the beginning, there were also two large warships, including the Shi Langza ship, which were sunk by Ming artillery or hit the reef and sank during the breakout.
The Ming army abolished seven large war ships of the Qing army's naval division, and also captured one large war ship alive. In the process of pursuit, after the ships of the Ming army surrounded the big war ship of the Qing army, they jumped up one after another, started hand-to-hand combat with the Qing soldiers on the ship, fought hard, and finally captured the Qing soldiers on the ship and the large war ship as trophies, and achieved a breakthrough of zero capture of the Qing army's large war ships. In addition to those captured by the Ming army, all eight giants in the Qing army's naval division were extinguished.
Other small and medium-sized warships in the pursuit process of many directly by the Ming artillery sunk, thousands of Qing soldiers on board died in the Beijiang River, at this time the sky was red by the flames, the river was almost stained red by blood, artillery fire and gunpowder smoke burned the originally quiet river into a boiling hell, the horror of the scene is indescribable, fortunately everything is over, the Ming army sailors won.
With the issuance of the surrender order, except for more than 20 small and medium-sized warships that escaped, the rest of the warships that were surrounded were either captured or surrendered to the Ming army.
In this Beijiang water battle, the Ming army's naval division destroyed seven large warships of the Qing army, captured one, destroyed more than 50 medium-sized warships, captured more than 20 small warships, and captured more than 800 Qing soldiers, not counting those burned and drowned. In addition, 10 Hongyi cannons, 8 Furang machine artillery, more than 40 tiger squat cannons, more than 400 bird guns, bows and arrows, knives and guns, gunpowder, etc. were also captured.
On the side of the Ming army, after several water battles, a total of 322 sergeants were killed and more than 350 were seriously wounded. The casualties were mainly caused by the previous dispatch of warriors to charge on fireboats, as well as in the early stage of the battle, when the forward sailors were besieged and killed, on the warships, one large warship was lost, fourteen or fifteen medium-sized warships, and more than 30 small warships, most of which were lost in the early stage of the battle, when the forward was chased and besieged by the main force of the Qing army.
Fortunately, after the victory of the water battle, many of the ships of the Qing army were captured, many of which were still intact and could be quickly replenished to the sailor troops.
In the first year of Yongli, in late April of the fourth year of Shunzhi of the Qing Dynasty (1647), the water battle that lasted several days finally ended in Hengshiji, Beijiang with the final victory of the Ming army's naval division. In this water war, Yu Long, the commander of the water thief, boldly tried the new fire attack method and broke the Qing army Shi Lang who was good at water warfare. Prior to this, Jiao Lian, the commander of the Lu Division, had been given the seal of the general of the dragon and tiger for his repeated military exploits, and the deputy commander Wu Jisi was given the seal of the general of Dingguo, so far Yu Long became the third general in the army of the Son of Heaven to be given the seal of the general in addition to these two people.
After the army rested for a day or two, Zhu Youlang ordered Yu Long to command the Ming army's naval division to advance non-stop!
Although the 4,000 water divisions sent by Li Chengdong, the commander of the Qing army, to encircle and suppress this time were almost wiped out, the main force of the land division was still there, and the 10,000 guards of the Ming army were not the opponents of Li Chengdong's army in the field for the time being, so it was not safe to directly command the guards Ma Bujun to go to Qingyuan to relieve the siege. Will he conquer the front retreat or the retreat? What if he held his breath and had to retreat after capturing Qingyuan?
Now the right to control the river is not in the Qing Dynasty, and the Beijiang River is already the world of the Ming army's water division, and the Qing army's more than 1,000 water divisions left in Qingyuan are no longer enough to be troubled, and when to attack and where to attack are all decided by the Ming army water division who has firmly grasped the initiative in the war.
Zhu Youlang felt that the morale of his own sailors was booming now, and he just took the opportunity to expand the results of the battle, and solved the remnants of the Qing army sailors in Qingyuan in one fell swoop, completely cutting off one of Li Chengdong's arms.
Hundreds of large and small warships, carrying 5,000 naval divisions, 2,000 land divisions along the Beijiang River all the way up to Qingyuan, to the Qingyuan near Huiqi Town, only began to appear the Qing army's camps and docks, the Ming army regardless of 3721, all of them were defeated, the main force of the Qing army was destroyed, resulting in the defense of these strongholds also became very weak, and was easily taken by the Ming army one by one.