The decisive battle of the Ming army is almost a complete victory, morale is high, since the Qing army forward sailors beheaded failure, the loss of dozens of medium-sized warships, hundreds of sailor battalions, and now the loss of a large warship, dozens of small warships, the Ming and Qing sides of the balance of power has been tilted, the strength of the Qing army's sailors has gradually weakened than the Ming army's sailors. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoBut if the Ming army sailors really want to win a battle and defeat the Qing army's sailors, they have to come up with another strange plan.

The sailors and battalions of the Ming army are waiting, waiting for the moment when the final success or failure will be decided, and similarly, Yu Long, who was given full power by Zhu Youlang as the commander of the whole army, is also waiting. He knew very well that the victories in front of him were just small victories, the main force of the Qing army still existed, even in the retreat, they still had the possibility of turning defeat into victory, and the enemy's commander was not simple, and he must not take it lightly!

Behind him is the great tomorrow, this can almost be said to be a water war that determines the future of the Ming Dynasty, can only win, can not be defeated, victory can certainly bring huge benefits and incomparable glory to himself, defeat not only his own life is not guaranteed, the army is broken and killed, but also will affect the suffering of the Son of Heaven, ruining the great cause of Zhongxing, this is like a one-sided gamble that must be won, knowing that there is no certainty of victory but can not dodge!

The fleets of both sides chased each other on the Beijiang River, and the Qing army hung on the last few large war ships with very fierce artillery fire, but the Ming army relied on the advantage in the number of warships and the strong flexibility of small boats, and was still gradually approaching the Qing fleet.

Shi Lang, the commander of the Qing army, was too cunning, he not only thickened the planks on both sides of the side of the big war ship to make the ship stronger as a whole, but also paid attention to the use of dense artillery to bombard the Ming fleet intensively and always guard against the fire attack of the Ming army. The seven big war ships also paid attention to cooperation, mutual assistance and common advance and retreat, and when they saw the small boats coming to surround them, they would quickly gather and counterattack, so the tactics of the Ming army's group beating down single battle ships were not useful for a while.

The old water thief Yu Long encountered such a strong opponent for the first time, he knew that the strength of the Qing army's sailors was not weak, and if he wanted to completely defeat them in the current situation, there were not many methods that could be used, and fire attack was one of them, but the general fire attack method was obviously useless in the face of this different Qing army, and people were familiar with this trick, and they had already taken countermeasures, as long as they saw a fireboat attacking them, they would definitely disperse in time, and Mao would not hurt anyone at all. The Qing army sailor in front of him is not the Cao army of the past, who would be stupid enough to take the initiative to connect the warships together and wait for the barbecue.

A new method must be used, and Yu Long already had an idea in his heart. However, he didn't know whether that idea was feasible or not, and the situation did not allow him to think about it at the moment, so he decided to take a risk, and it was best to succeed, and failure would not affect the overall situation.

According to Yu Long's request, his subordinates selected more than 150 sailors who were proficient in water from the sailors and battalions, and distributed two large medicine cartridges to each of them, and then arranged for these sailors to be loaded with more than 40 small boats loaded with gunpowder and oil. And their task was to launch a fire attack on the Qing army's big war ships in front.

After the military order was issued, some sailor battalion officers couldn't help but show a look of confusion, the commander knew that as soon as the fireboat came, the Qing army's warships would immediately disperse and dodge, why did they still do this, could it be that they were crazy? However, when they saw Yu Long's confident and determined face, they suppressed the doubts in their hearts and complied with the order.

With Yu Long's order, forty-three small boats were dispatched at the same time, and they rushed to the Qing warships in front together. Because of the tailwind, coupled with the agility of the small boats, those small boats rushed towards the position of the Qing army's sailors at extremely fast speed.

Seeing the Ming ships coming straight to him, Shi Lang decisively ordered artillery bombardment, and combined with the escort boats around him to intercept it. For the small boats of the Ming army, which were already relatively close, the Qing army organized bird gunners and archers to shoot intensively.

Those boats that were not sunk by the Qing artillery fire and were not overturned by the huge waves caused by the cannons quickly regrouped together and successfully broke through the protective layer composed of escort boats, and successfully killed the Qing warships. Although at this time, less than three-fifths of the boats sent out by the Ming army were left.

When the remaining nearly 100 sailors drove small boats straight to the Qing warships, the Qing warships quickly dispersed under the command of Shi Lang, but what Shi Lang never dreamed of was that the target of the fireships was not a fire, a large area, but closely focused on the largest warships in their own fleet, and when the fireships drove to the side of these warships, the Ming sailors on the fireships used axes to nail the chains on the bow of the ships to the outer plate of the Qing warships at the fastest speed, and then quickly took out nitrate and other materials, and quickly ignitedAfter confirming that the detonation was successful, he jumped into the sea to escape.

Before the Qing soldiers on the ships could figure out what these soldiers were doing, the small boats had already exploded, and the sudden raging flames quickly spread to the deck of the ships, and then several nearby Qing ships encountered exactly the same situation.

The fireships in this attack are not much different from other fireships, and if you really want to find out one thing, that is, the bow of these fireships is all tied to an iron chain without exception. It was these chains that became the key to determining the outcome of the battle, and also the idea of Yu Long's idea, which proved to be very feasible, and several large warships of the Qing army could not get rid of the Ming army ships under the chains, and finally caught fire one after another. The worst one caught fire in the stern, and the fire spread to the powder magazine, causing an explosion, and the ship of more than 500 materials immediately sank.

Seeing that the five large war ships in the Qing army fleet were on fire one after another, and the Qing soldiers above were busy putting out the fire, causing the warships to run ineffectively, Yu Long immediately issued a military order for the whole army to attack. Soon, hundreds of large and small ships rushed to the burned Qing army's position in the deafening shouts of killing, and without the fire suppression of the big war ships, the Ming army's sailors used cannons and bird guns to attack the small and medium-sized ships of the Qing army in an orderly manner.

In this process, the fast boat and fast crab became the main force of the attack, they injured one after another Qing warships, and then aimed at the next target, the wounded Qing warships sailed at a great speed, and finally all were surrounded by the Ming army sampan boats behind, some saw that there was no hope of breaking through and chose to surrender, some desperately resisted, and finally all were sent into the sea to feed Wang Ba. Under such circumstances, Shi Lang knew that it was hopeless to turn over, so he gave the order to break through in embarrassment.