Luo Xuan instructed the sailors who left three regiments to take charge of the aftermath, continue to search for the soldiers of the captive army and the prisoners of the Qing army who fell into the sea, and slowly tow the warship to Nanao Island for repairs. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

And he and Liang Peiyou, each led nearly 100 large and medium-sized red single ships, under the leadership of five Western warships including the Humen, towards Nanao Island, and pursued Han Jiamo, the commander of Nanao.

Wu Yuanyou, the commander of the Guangdong Naval Division, and Hong Mingxiang, the prefect of the prefect, were both killed in battle, and the remaining Qing generals were either killed or captured. Only Han Jiamo, the commander-in-chief of South Australia, can command the remaining Qing army water divisions.

When everyone rushed to a distance of five miles from Nanao Island, they saw the main fort of Caoliaowei in Shen'ao, the westernmost part of Nanao Island, and the Yunao Fort at the easternmost point, with smoke and dust billowing from two places. Just in doubt, two fast sentinel ships came to report that 3 miles northeast of Nanao Island, they found the fleeing Nanao general Han Jiamo's fleet.

Seeing the main force of the Qing army fleeing, Luo Xuan knew that the Qing army had completely abandoned the naval division camp on Nanao Island. Therefore, he left more than 40 Hongdan boats to clean up the forts, and he and Liang Peiyou, each led 80 Red Dan warships, and pursued the Qing army's fleeing sailors.

The rest of the sailors sent two warships close to the two batteries, and there was no smoke billowing out, and there was no other movement. It seems that the Qing army abandoned the fort. The captive army was not at ease, so they sent more than ten people to land, climbed to the fort and saw that the Qing army had already withdrawn, and all the food and armor that would not be transported away in the future were all ignited.

After receiving the letter, the captives hurriedly landed, watered and extinguished the ignited grain, and finally rescued hundreds of stones of rice.

At this time, the First and Third Divisions, under the leadership of Lin Fengxiang and Chen Yucheng, easily captured Huilai, Puning, Jieyang and other county seats, and had surrounded the Chaozhou capital.

Under the strong pressure of nearly 20,000 captive troops, the wealthy families of the Chaozhou capital city actually united with the Heaven and Earth Congregation in the city to spread the news to the captive army outside the city, saying that they were going to serve as the inner Ying sacrifice city. Just when Lin Fengxiang and Chen Yucheng were still doubting the truth and doubting the truth, the prefect of Chaozhou Mansion committed suicide, the gate of Chaozhou Mansion was opened, and hundreds of heavenly and earthly congregations and hundreds of wealthy households in the city invited the captive army into the city.

Lin Fengxiang and Chen Yucheng were pleasantly surprised when they realized that these people in the city really wanted to take refuge in the capture army. When I asked, I learned that most of the people in Chaozhou City were Hakka people, and they were not very happy with the rule of the Manchus, and they still remembered the hatred of the massacre that killed tens of thousands of people two hundred years ago.

However, Lin Fengxiang was surprised that the rich would also take refuge in themselves. He doesn't know how to deal with it yet. Therefore, he asked the division staff officer to write an urgent report on the matter, and sent someone to rush to Guangzhou on a fast horse to report it to the Holy King Feng Yunshan, and the Holy King decided how to deal with it.

Occupying the capital city of Chaozhou, Lin Fengxiang borrowed the name of the holy king, spread the counties under the Chaozhou capital, and asked the counties to surrender within 5 days, and then, he let Chen Yucheng sit in the capital city, and he personally led the first division to attack Chenghai, open up the contact with the water division, and provide a supply location for the water division.

The defense of Chenghai is basically facing the mouth of the Han River, and the Chenghai County Commander has the intention to serve the imperial court, and is ready to mobilize the city flood soldiers and the people in the city to defend the city, but the Qing soldiers and the people in the city have long heard that the rebels from Guangzhou are strong, and they are unwilling to die for the Qing court. Helplessly, the Chenghai County Commander led more than 30 officials and more than 10 family members, and two cannons came to the city tower, and they were caught by the rebellious officials, opened the city gate and escorted them to Lin Fengxiang.

Chen Yucheng, however, did not want to wait to sit in the capital of Chaozhou, and he saw that there were not many garrisons in the county towns of the Qing court, so he sent four regiments, divided into two groups, to attack Fengshun and Raoping counties, and by the way, clean up the scattered flood soldiers in the countryside.

In fact, there are no flood soldiers, and when they got the news from the captive army, even the Qing army in the county town scattered and fled, not to mention the patrol soldiers in the countryside.

In just a few days, the entire Chaozhou Mansion, except for Dapu County, which is close to Fujian in the north, was occupied by the captive army.

Luo Gang and others led the sailors to chase out nearly 20 miles, and sank nearly ten warships of Han Jiamo, the commander of Nanao, seeing that the Qing army sailors fled farther and farther, and actually went in the direction of Moss Bay, which was far away from the coast.

That night, Luo Xuan sent someone to drive a fast boat to report the news of the victory of the South Australian Sailors to Feng Yunshan. The next day, I received someone sent by Lin Fengxiang to invite a dry sailor to dock at the port and enter Chenghai City.

At the moment, interrogating prisoners, dealing with the wounded, burying the more than 700 sailors and soldiers who had lost, repairing ships, replenishing food and ammunition, etc., these aftermath matters, Luo Xuan personally led the people of the staff department, and got busy.

Five days later, Luo Xuan and others selected some children from the Qing army sailors who were willing to surrender to Chaozhou, and added the lost captive army sailors.

Then, continue along the coast and attack towards the territory of Fujian.

Because, the water division at the junction of Fujian and Guangdong is the Nanao Town Water Division, after the general soldier Han Jiamo led the fleet to escape, there was no water division around to obstruct it, and soon, in three days, the 5th Division A and the 5th Division B easily occupied Dongshan Island, Zhao'an, and Yunxiao in the territory of Fujian.

The Lu division of Lin Fengxiang and Chen Yucheng also set out from the capital city of Chaozhou, entered the territory of Fujian through Raoping, captured Tai Po, Yongding and Hehe, and continued to advance, showing a trend of encircling the capital city of Zhangzhou.

It was also Luo Gang's carelessness that when the 5th and 5th Divisions entered the Nanxi River and attacked Zhangpu City, the captured army stayed at the mouth of the Nanxi River, more than 20 large red single boats and more than 50 small red single boats, a total of two naval divisions, were attacked by four Qing fleets.

It turned out that four days ago, Han Jiamo, the commander-in-chief of Nanao, who had fled to Kinmen Island, reported the attack of the Cantonese thief sailors and the loss of Nanao to Shi Degao, the commander of the Fujian Sailor who was inspecting Kinmen Town.

Shi Degao was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly asked how to expel the thief army.

It was Han Jiamo who came up with the idea. He learned that the Cantonese thieves and sailors always conquered the county towns along the coast one by one, so he decided to attack Zhangpu.

Han Jiamo suggested to Shi Degao, the commander of the naval division, to mobilize the naval divisions of the two towns of Kinmen and Moswan, plus the 5th battalion of his specimen and Han Jiamo's remaining more than 50 warships and more than 2,000 people, and the four-way fleet to attack the Cantonese thief naval division, which will surely be able to win a great victory. Moreover, Han Jiamo continued to come up with ideas, they were ready to take advantage of the capture of the army and sailors to enter the inland river to conquer the county seat, annihilate the small number of warships defending outside, and then quickly ambush at the mouth of the river.

Admiral Shi Gao was overjoyed, and hurriedly mobilized the water divisions of the two towns of Moss Bay and Kinmen and the water division of this standard overnight to kill Futou Bay.

Nearly 80 Red Single Combat Ships in Futou Bay, guarding the bay, saw the Qing army's naval division attacking, and while sending people to report to Luo Xuan and others on the inland river, they set up a formation, guarded the estuary, and opened fire on the Qing army's naval division.

The overall strength of the Qing army's Fujian naval division was much worse than that of the Guangdong naval division, and the artillery on the ship was insufficient, and most of the equipment was still equipped with small cannons and platoon guns during the Yongzheng period.

The two towns of Moss Bay and Kinmen have more than 10 large boats left in the Jiaqing period, each ship has 80 Qing soldiers, 40 platoon guns, several small and medium-sized artillery, and nearly half of the Qing soldiers on the ship are equipped with bird guns, rockets and other things. The main warships of the two towns naval divisions are still the Tong'an shuttle ship type, the hull is fusiformal, the speed is fast, but the size has become smaller, each ship has less than 8 guns, 20 guns.

At the beginning, the Red Dan warships still had a great advantage, and two or three hundred shells were fired at the Fujian Sailors who rushed into the bay, and all of a sudden, the Kinmen Town Sailors who rushed to the front were sunk by three rushing ships and one Tong'an Suo. However, the Kinmen Town Navy Division flotilla fought back, but it did not hurt the Red Single Battleship of the capture army.

However, after the second round of fire, the Sailor Division of Moss Wan Town, the Sailor Division of Shi Degao, and the Sailor of Han Jiamo approached, and the Red Dan Battleship began to be surrounded by groups.

The two regiment commanders who stayed behind saw that the situation was not good, but they did not dare to flee on their own. Because once they escaped, the estuary was occupied by the enemy, and the sailors on the inland river would be wrapped in dumplings and blocked by the Qing army's sailors, and there was a danger of annihilation.

Therefore, they can only hold out until their main forces arrive and leave the estuary.

Eighty Red Single battle ships, under the command of two regiment commanders, retreated to the mouth of the river, lined up in two rows, and bombarded the Qing army's naval divisions.

After several rounds of artillery bombardment, the Qing army's Kinmen Town Water Division and the Taiwan Town Water Division were sunk by nearly seven rushing ships and five Tong'an Suo ships, while at the same time, two Red Dan combat ships of the Naval Division were also sunk. Moreover, with the approach of the Qing army's naval division, the naval division in the front row had already had to engage the Qing army in a broadside battle.

At this time, the platoon guns on the large Tong'an Suo ship of the Qing army began to wield, hundreds of platoon guns fired at the same time, and sawdust flew in all directions on the red single boat on the side of the captive army, and many soldiers on the ship were beaten into a sieve, and blood was splashed everywhere, fortunately, the smoke made the Qing army not see clearly, but fired indiscriminately in the opposite direction.

But the soldiers of the captive army did not dare to show their heads. had to defend the mouth of the river and resist the fire of the Qing army. Due to the smoke, it was impossible to see the outside, so he had to adjust the angle of the artillery by himself and bombard it in the direction of the Qing army.

But immediately afterward, the Qing army braved the artillery fire and pounced, and as soon as the broadside battle broke out, the sailors on the red single boat in the front row could no longer carry out artillery bombardment, and were forced to engage in close combat with the Qing soldiers who boarded the ship. The artillerymen, armed with shotguns and brand knives, guarded the hatch and attacked the Qing soldiers who entered the cabin.

However, with the increasing number of Qing soldiers, especially the several rounds of shotgunners, the soldiers of the red single boat in the front row suffered heavy casualties.

As a last resort, the commander of the captive corps ordered to abandon the red single warships in the front row, set fire to all the warships in the front row, and stopped the Qing army by fire.

For a time, the fire was raging, filling the entire estuary, and the gunpowder in the cabin exploded, splitting the Qing army and the captive army on the ship.

Seeing that the captives were so resolute and heroic, the Qing army was frightened and retreated, waiting for the burning ships to be extinguished.

However, as soon as the fire is extinguished, the Qing army will continue to pounce, and the mouth of the river will be difficult to hold.

At this moment, nearly 2,000 soldiers who were holding the mouth of the river and were in despair heard the familiar sound of war drums and the roaring sound of steam engines behind them. It was the Iron Bull who arrived first.

The main force of the naval division finally returned. (To be continued.) )