The speed of the warships on both sides is about the same, and the speed of the warships is not even as fast as the speed of the red single warships. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoEven though the Tongansuo boat is slightly faster than the red single boat, it is very limited in the bay where the wind is light.

The warships of the Qing army could not get close to the warships of the captive army, but the warships of the captives could be positioned from time to time and use the advantage of accurate artillery to bombard the Qing army.

As a result, in this floating head bay, there was an interesting scene, a large number of Qing warships chased the captured warships, and the two sides circled around, but they could not get close.

However, the warships of the Qing army gradually decreased, and two ships would be sunk from time to time.

"Junmen, we can't be played by Cantonese thieves like this anymore. It's better to swing out in one word, occupy the entire bay, pull the net, and force the thief army to fight a decisive battle with us! Han Jiamo shouted at Shi De.

He couldn't think of any other way. Naval artillery is too expensive, Fu Jian is not as rich as Guangdong, and compared with the Guangdong Naval Division, the ships of the Fu Jian Naval Division are not as bad as the artillery configuration on the ship.

In fact, there is no need for Han Jiamo to say, Shi Degao, who has been in the army for many years, also saw the problem. But he couldn't help it, when he heard Han Jiamo's suggestion, he thought it was feasible, so he ordered it to be done.

As soon as the captives saw that the Qing army was like pulling a fishing net and wanted to drag themselves to death, they stopped making fun of the circle, rushed directly to the exit of the bay, and withdrew towards the open sea.

Seeing this, Shi Degao was pleasantly surprised, although he did not completely annihilate the Guangdong thief water division, but he also sank a lot, and he exaggerated a little more, compared to the annihilation of the entire army of the Guangdong Water Division, his own credit is not small.

Just when he was satisfied, Han Jiamo suddenly shouted at him in horror: "Junmen, it's not good, this is a trap set by Cantonese thieves to trap us in this bay. ”

Shi Degao was shocked when he heard this, and there was an inexplicable panic in his heart.

This floating bay is like a cloth bag, and the mouth to the open sea is only a narrow channel less than 3 miles. Don't originally want to ambush the Cantonese thieves and sailors who surrounded the estuary, but end up surrounded by Cantonese thieves in the bay. It's also impossible to think about it, although the outlet of the bay is narrow, it is also almost 3 miles wide.

However, it is better to be careful.

He hurriedly ordered to pursue the Cantonese thief sailor and get out of this bay first.

Han Jiamo pointed to the west shore of the mouth of the bay, on a hill, and shouted in horror: "Cantonese thief! The Cantonese thieves have an ambush there! ”

Shi Degao and the other generals were taken aback, but when they looked at the past, they saw a figure flickering on a protruding hill at the exit of the bay, and there were really people lying in ambush there.

How can it be? Could it be that the Yue thieves knew in advance that they would come here to ambush them, so they waited here early and ambushed themselves in turn? Shi Degao thought it was incredible.

He hurriedly ordered all the sailors to quickly withdraw from the bay.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the nearly 300 warships of the Fujian Navy Division came to the exit, they suddenly discovered that behind the hill outside the exit of the bay, all the sailors of the Cantonese thieves were hiding there, and as soon as they saw them coming out, they opened fire fiercely and bombarded them.

At the same time, five Western warships and several small Red Dan warships were also dispatched to rush ahead, block the exit, and make a posture that they were about to collide with the rushing warships.

Shi Degao had no choice but to lead the warships to rush forward.

His idea is very simple and practical, if the Cantonese thief sailor gets out of the way, he will rush out, if the Cantonese thief blocks his own sailor, he can't say, he has to have a good melee with him, the Fuji sailor is close combat, and even the Guangdong sailor is far from being an opponent.

I saw that several Tong'an Suo ships that rushed over were immediately hit by the shells fired by more than 100 warships of the captive army, capsized and capsized, and fell apart, and these ships began to sink as soon as possible, and the Qing troops on the ship hurriedly jumped into the water, trying to let the official and military ships behind rescue them.

It's just that at this time, where do the commanders of the Qing Army's naval division still have the heart to pay attention to them?

Shi Degao and Han Jiamo took more than 60 warships from the Fujian Naval Division and the remaining 40 warships from the Nanao Town Naval Division, together with Chen Dingao, the chief soldier of Kinmen Town, and Heng Yu, the chief soldier of Taiwan Town, each led nearly 100 warships, and densely tried to rush out of the mouth of Futou Bay.

It seems that the Qing army is out of the way, and they want to speed up their rush out even if they want to brave the artillery fire.

At this moment, a huge artillery boom occurred on a protruding hill at the exit of the bay, and dozens of shells were fired from the hill to the center of the mouth of the bay and landed in the middle of the dense warships.

Suddenly, sparks were everywhere, and as soon as the cannonballs landed on the ship or the Tong'an Suo, there was a huge explosion, sawdust flew everywhere, the ship's planks were blown apart, and the Qing troops on the ship were also killed and wounded.

"It's broken, it's a foreigner's grenade!" Han Jiamo deserves to be the chief soldier of Nanao Town, and he immediately recognized it after being well-informed. At the same time, he made up his mind that when he escaped, he would report the matter of the Cantonese thieves having foreigner warships and foreigner artillery shells to the imperial court.

Immediately after, the more than 200 warships of the captive army also erupted in anger again, violently pouring cannonballs.

Over the exit of the bay, it was a rain of artillery. In just two rounds of effort, more than 80 ships were lost by the various types of boats and Tong'an shuttle ships of the Fujian sailors.

In the middle of the two Shi Degao and Han Jiamo on a large rushing boat, the sail mast was also broken, and the two fortunately hid in the cabin, protected by the personal guards, and were not injured, but the personal guards of the two died and injured dozens of people.

However, after two rounds of artillery bombardment, seeing that the warships of the Qing army's naval division were about to entangle the captured army's naval division, Luo Xuan ordered to avoid it, not to engage in close combat with the Qing army, but to use his own strengths, that is, artillery, to deal with the enemy.

As a result, the Qing army's sailors were able to break through a path. However, the Qing ships that followed immediately ushered in the third round of artillery coverage.

Liang Peiyou even personally assisted the gunner in igniting and firing the cannon, anyway, the command was in the staff department and Luo Xuan. When he saw that the gunner had skillfully and quickly filled the quantity of gunpowder, adjusted the elevation angle of the gun according to the standard that the surveyor had said, and everything was ready, he lit the fire violently.

With a bang, the artillery exploded, and the shells rushed out under the action of gunpowder. The shells created a huge recoil, and although cushioned by the sliding wooden frame and taut thick hemp rope, it carried the entire large red single battleship with a jolting and shaking. Immediately afterwards, the artillery next to it also fired one after another, causing the warship to shake one after another.

After two naval battles, Liang Peiyou clearly felt that his group of Xijiang Tiandihui brothers, who could only use sticks, knives and forks to slash, not only could fire artillery, but were also particularly skilled and accurate. The posture of firing the cannon, the focused expression, made me mistakenly think that it was a gunner who had been training hard for many years, how could I have thought that these few months ago, it was still the congregation on the wooden platoon of the small boat that had never touched the cannon?

It seems that the guidance of these foreigners is quite effective!

Thinking of this, Liang Peiyou looked out of the cabin and saw that the Qing army had been hit by more than 20 warships, six or seven of which directly began to sink, and the rest were either leaking or losing their masts and sails and unable to move. Liang Peiyou grinned and laughed, and shouted loudly: "Brothers, beat Lao Tzu hard!" Quick, don't be stunned and follow along, hurry up and charge and continue to fire! ”

The morale of the captives shouted and hurried to continue to reload the gunpowder.

The field artillery on the hill on the west bank continued to roar and roar.

It turned out that Luo Xuan, who had just arrived in Zhangpu County, happened to encounter Lin Fengxiang and other officers and soldiers of the First Division who were marching at a rapid pace and were attacking Zhangpu, so the water and land armies worked together and quickly occupied Zhangpu County.

After receiving the news that the Qing army was coming from the two regiments left behind in the bay, Luo Xuan, at the suggestion of the General Staff, immediately led the fleet back, and at the same time, asked Lin Fengxiang to send an artillery regiment to support, preparing to close the door and beat the dogs for the Manchu Qingshui Division that had entered the bay.

Due to the urgency of time, Lin Fengxiang sent one and a half artillery regiments of the 1st Division to transport the small artillery pieces from the two artillery regiments and the field guns captured from the British army, and quickly rushed to a place 3 miles away from the mouth of the river on the ships of the naval division.

At this time, there was such a condescending thing to attack the Qing warship.

Especially the field artillery of foreigners, although it does not hit very far and is not particularly accurate, it is exactly the most suitable to be used here at the moment! This kind of field artillery, as long as the elevation angle is 25 degrees, shoots exactly the target distance of two and a half miles, and it is exactly the central area of the estuary that is this distance, which is precisely the most dense part of the ships of the Qing army's naval division.

Moreover, although there are only twenty of them, this kind of field artillery is very simple and convenient to operate and fire, and the rate of fire is very fast, plus the shells used by the artillery regiment are also imitations of powerful grenades, so that these twenty field guns are actually equivalent to the firepower of forty or fifty ordinary guns of the same kind.

The Qing army's naval division, which had just rushed out of the exit of the bay, was stopped by several small red single warships, and after a little delay, it was covered with artillery.

After three or four rounds of artillery, the Qing army's naval division broke out of the bay, and only more than 150 warships remained. Originally, there were more than 300 warships, but nearly 10 were lost during the battle at the estuary, but later when the explosive boats rushed out of the estuary, more than a dozen warships were blown up, and in addition to the melee and the artillery attack just now, dozens of warships were damaged, and more than 30 warships were unable to flee quickly after being damaged, and in this way, half of them were lost.

After that, for the Qing naval division that rushed out of the open sea, several Western warships such as the Humen gave full play to their speed advantage to pursue, and while pursuing, they fired a few shots in the rear, and damaged the enemy warships from time to time.

At this time, neither Admiral Shi Degao nor the general soldier Han Jiamo dared to fight against the captive army, they just wanted to escape from this nightmare land as soon as possible, escape back to Kinmen Island as soon as possible, and use the artillery batteries of the sailors on the island to resist.

Although the hull was small but the speed of the Tong'an Suo, it finally played its role and rushed to the front, while the slow speed of the ship was gradually overtaken by the warships of the captive army.

In the end, almost 30 miles away from Futou Bay, more than 30 large ships of the Fujian Naval Division were all blocked by the warships of the captive army. However, Admiral Shi Degao and the chief soldier Han Jiamo, who were sitting on a large rushing boat, hurriedly boarded a small Tong'an Suo ship and ran away. Of course, they didn't think to turn back and rescue these hapless boats.

So, in desperation, under the leadership of a Qing army general and several Qianzong, the white flag was erected and surrendered. (To be continued.) )