However, with the continuous enhancement of the Qing army's offensive, the defense of Qingyuan City is becoming more and more difficult, and it is only a matter of time before the city is broken without an accident, Li Chengdong also took out the old book and smashed it, thousands of old soldiers from the headquarters took turns to fight, obviously not to pull out the city and swore not to give up, since he got the military report of the loss of Zhaoqing six days ago, he fell into a dilemma, he knew that he had no backup, and the Ming army reinforcements were very likely to be wrapped in dumplings, so he had to capture Qingyuan before the Ming army besieged it, but Qingyuan's dog bone was too difficult to gnaw, Before he could gnaw it, he broke a few teeth, and just as he was about to continue to strengthen the offensive in one go, he got another battle report of the loss of Sanshui. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

As soon as Sanshui is lost, his tens of thousands of troops will face the risk of being cut off from the way back and the grain route, and then the whole army will collapse without a fight.

Li Chengdong was so angry that he fell a few tea Gu, he hated the injustice of God, and every critical moment was going to be chaotic, pacing back and forth in the military tent, after a long time, he seemed to have made up his mind, and summoned the battalion officers under his command to assist the military council, and the final result of the military discussion was that the land division maintained the offensive unchanged and continued to attack Qingyuan City, and must take Qingyuan City, 5,000 water divisions, except for 1,000 left behind in Qingyuan Beijiangkou, the remaining 4,000 were all handed over to the deputy general Shi Lang to command, and went to contain the Ming army located in Sanshui, clear out its water division, and seize the right to control the river. Ensure the smooth flow of the back road and the water food road.

Shi Lang is a native of Jinjiang, Fujian, with wolf eyes and jackals, and is fierce. His father had abandoned his blind mother on the mountain to feed the wolf, Shi Lang threw his father in the mountain, let him live and die, and was not allowed by the township, he was driven out and took refuge in the Haikou Zheng Zhilong, in the first year of Chongzhen, after Zheng Zhilong accepted the imperial court, Shi Lang appointed the left charge.

In the second year of Longwu, Zheng Zhilong descended to the Qing Dynasty, Shi Lang joined the Qing court with his uncle Wu Yibo Shifu, and was assigned to the Jiangnan governor Li Chengdong by Boluo, the general of the Qing Pingnan, and during the pacification of Guangdong, his subordinates 8,000 soldiers and horses made great contributions many times.

He ordered his first cadre, Hong Xishan, to lead more than 80 warships of all sizes to set off first to carry out a tentative attack, and he personally led more than 200 main fleets as the second echelon to support the forward battle at any time.

Although the total number of warships of the Qing army is not much, but the firepower and combat power are not weak, and they are also equipped with seven or eight main warships of about 500 materials, each of which has six Hongyi cannons or thousand-pound Franc machines, and these seven or eight large warships are surrounded by more than 200 small and medium-sized warships of dozens of materials or one or two hundred materials, as if they are giants, looking majestic and majestic, and the momentum is extraordinary.

Zhu Youlang, who was located in Sanshui, learned that the Qing army naval division in Qingyuan had divided his troops to the south, and he also stepped up the arrangement and divided the naval division into three parts, the first of which was more than 2,000 people, and more than 100 warships were led by Gao Lixun, the deputy commander of the naval division, as the vanguard; The second department, with more than 3,000 people and more than 300 warships, is the main force of the Chinese army, led by Zhu Youlang, who is proficient in water warfare, and Yu Long, who is proficient in water warfare, personally commands the command, and the remaining sailors and 10,000 guards defend the rear of Sanshui City to prevent the Qing army from retreating.

As the vanguard of the Ming army, the Gao Lixun team had a total of 500 large warships, equipped with four guns, 28 medium-sized warships such as longboats and fast crabs, each ship was equipped with a four-pounder Hongyi cannon and a tiger squat cannon, and the remaining more than 80 were net shuttle boats and eagle boats.

There are many tributaries of the Beijiang River, and compared with the wide Xijiang River, the water volume is small, and large warships should always pay attention to the reef when sailing, and the shallow stalls have been greatly restricted, resulting in the speed of the entire fleet also slowing down by half a beat. When the Ming fleet sailed to the area of Hengshiji, it happened to meet the advance of the Qing army, Hong Xishan. An encounter ensued.

Although Gao Lixun, the deputy commander of the naval division, was not a very clever expert in water warfare, he also had some experience in naval warfare, and after receiving the report that there were unknown ships cruising in front of him, he was keenly aware that it might be the naval warship of the Qing army, so he decisively ordered all ships to prepare for battle. At the same time, the Qing army's Hong Xi Mountain Forward also discovered the other side.

When the ships came within range of the artillery, both sides simultaneously ordered to open fire.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ……”

Plumes of white smoke suddenly rose from the surface of the river, and they both shot back.

The huge kinetic energy of the solid cannonballs fell in each other's fleets, stirring up columns of water one after another, occasionally hitting one or two warships, and immediately smashing large holes in the wooden hulls and bringing up debris in the sky.

The hit rate of artillery in water battles is very low, and one or two out of ten shots can be a magic shot, after all, one is a long distance, the hull is small, and the World War II ship is constantly moving, and there is no fixed position.

One side had strong firepower, the other side had many ships, and the two sides were almost evenly matched, so the encounter lasted from day to night with the same result: no victory. Because of the losses of both sides, and the fact that night was falling, the two sides stopped fighting and rested.

In the early morning of the next day, Hong Xishan, who had a high fighting spirit, led the fleet to take the lead in attacking, and the Ming army immediately set anchor to meet the battle after hearing the news. Just as the two sides were fighting, an even larger fleet appeared on the wide river. Shi Lang, the chief general of the Qing army, led his main fleet to the battlefield.

As soon as the main fleet of the Qing army arrived, Gao Lixun found that the situation was clearly unfavorable to his side, and he immediately ordered the fleet to retreat to preserve its strength. Waiting for Yu Long's main fleet of the Chinese army to arrive for a decisive battle. Gao Lixun is also a bit of a general's courage, and he personally led the crowd to cover the retreat of the troops.

Hong Xishan saw the intention of the main general of the Ming army, he led the fleet to keep up with the Gao Lixun department, intending to drag this part of the Ming army to kill, although Shi Lang, who has a lot of experience in water warfare, has just entered the battlefield, but he quickly figured out the battle situation according to the battlefield situation, and immediately ordered the main fleet to move forward at full speed to attack the Ming army.

The striker of Hong Xishan's department was very difficult, and when he caught up with Gao Lixun's department, he bit it, and once he bit it, he refused to let go no matter how fiercely the Ming army counterattacked. Seeing that the main force of the Qing army's naval division was getting closer and closer to him, Gao Lixun's troops could only fight to the death and support it hard to delay the time of being surrounded and killed.