The real figure who can be relied on in the Guangdong war situation is Gan Guobao, who is sixty years old, a native of Fujian, who can be literate and martial, and is a real Confucian general. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info not only excellent martial arts, but also excellent literary and calligraphy and painting. It is said that when he was a child, Gan Guobao read the Four Books and Five Classics at the age of thirteen, and participated in the Wentong County Examination at the age of fourteen, ranking first in the county many times. The evil young man in the neighboring village often bullied him because of jealousy, and Gan Guobao was angry and went to worship the martial artist Lin Diankui to learn martial arts. Because of his natural endowment and ability to study and practice hard, his martial arts quickly improved. But whether this 'rumor' is true or not, the dark camp has not been able to verify.

Don't look at the city of Beijing because of the surrender of Wu Bida and Huang Shijian, there is a wave of 'distrust' of the Han people, but in Guangdong, the three giants of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Bayansan, Zenghai, and Liangqing, all trust the Admiral Gan Guobao and regard it as the Great Wall.

Unlike the only objective of the Fu Han Army, the situation faced by the Qing Army Naval Division in Guangdong was much more complicated.

First of all, Gan Guobao is not sure of victory. He didn't dare to easily fight a decisive battle with the Fuhan Army's naval division, but he had to fight with the Fuhan Army's naval division. This is the biggest burden that plagues Gan Guobao, and it weighs heavily on his heart; Because the Guangdong sailors must not be locked in the mouth of the Pearl River. Otherwise, the entire Liangguang Sea would have become a corridor for the Fu Han army, and its army could land anywhere along the long coastline at will, and then launch an attack on the inland cities.

Secondly, Gan Guobao gathered the main force of the Guangdong Naval Division, Jieshi Town, Nanao Town, Qiongzhou Town, Beihai Town, Gaozhou Town, there are many people and boats, and it is not impossible to confront the Southeast Naval Division. But in addition to a large-scale Southeast Naval Division, there is also a Nanyang Naval Division led by the Zheng family.

Gan Guobao transferred the sailors of Qiongzhou, Beihai and Gaozhou to confront the sailors of the Fuhan army. But what if the Zheng family fleet on the other side takes the opportunity to fight Qiongzhou, Beihai and Gaozhou? It is the westernmost part of Guangdong Province, and if the Fu Han army occupies the three prefectures, it can attack Zhaoqing again and cut off the connection between Guangdong and Guangxi.

The Qing army's sailors were obviously at a disadvantage, but the situation forced Gan Guobao to fight this battle in a hurry.

He set up the battlefield in the waters around Huizhou, that is, the eastern waters of Hong Kong in later generations, and the calculation was: "Once the battle situation is unfavorable, the naval division will be divided into two, one part will retreat westward into the area of Qiongzhou and Leizhou, and the other part will retreat to the mouth of the Pearl River." ”

Gan Guobao didn't hide it from Bayan and the three of them at all, he was telling the truth, absolutely sincere, but he seemed a little unconfident. Regarding this battle, Gan Guobao's reply was: "Although there is no certainty of victory, there is the determination to become benevolent." ”

Bayansan's face was very long, very unhappy, Zenghai didn't feel how depressed, but comforted Gan Guobao and said: "Three feet of loneliness, there is still a fight, not to mention unity?" "The cowardly often mourn in the face of black clouds crushing the city, lamenting the perverse fate; The strong, only the strong, can still be calm in the turbulent cloud Fit, with fearless courage, to open up the dawn of opportunities in the crisis.

In front of Bayansan and Liangqing, Zenghai is a strong man.

"The emperor's grace is immense, and the national treasure has been promoted from a small man in white to a provincial governor. Duan Xiulin, Wu Bida and Huang Shijian's generations survived in the world, and the old man was ashamed to be with them. ”

"I only hope that the emperor can cheer up his spirits, reorganize the rivers and mountains, and rejuvenate my Qing Dynasty. Although a national treasure dies, there are no regrets. ”

Before leaving, Gan Guobao said this to Zenghai who saw him off. Hearing this, Zenghai's tears flowed out. "O loyal minister, great loyal minister."

Jiangnan is over, Nanchang has been defeated by the Fu Han army, and now it is the turn of Liangguang. It's hard to see any improvement in the whole of the South. What will happen to the Qing Dynasty in the future, and where it will go, really depends on whether the emperor of Beijing can revive the world and reorganize the mountains and rivers.

The sound of cannons roared, gongs and drums shook the sky, and the huge fleet of the Guangdong Navy Division sailed southward little by little, towards the mouth of the Pearl River, towards the Lingding Ocean, and towards the open sea. Zeng Hai looked at the fleet of sailors who disappeared at the junction of sea and sky, and his eyes were wet all the time.

The destination of Gan Guobao is Daya Bay. Later, New China built China's first large-scale commercial nuclear power plant there.

As early as the Qing Dynasty more than 200 years ago, it was already a military powerhouse. Dapeng Ao, in Daya Bay, is one of the naval divisions, and Sanmen Island, not far away, is an important maritime pass and military fortress in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

It took three days for the Guangdong Navy to arrive there, and three days after Gan Guobao led his army to Daya Bay, a fleet from afar also arrived off Daya Bay. That is naturally the Southeast Water Division of the Fu Han Army.

The voyage of the Southeast Naval Division on the sea was three times that of the Qing army, especially after crossing Nan'ao Island and entering the waters of Guangdong, the 600-mile sea route did not stop.

On the afternoon of the arrival of the naval division of the Fu Han army, the battle began.

Gan Guobao will not make the old mistake of Liu Guoxuan, the general of Zheng Ming, and give the enemy from afar a chance to breathe. Although the stakes are very high in this battle, especially in the first battle, a slight stumble will inevitably affect the overall situation.

But he still boldly ordered Wei Wenwei, the chief soldier of Jieyang Town, to go out to meet the enemy, and He Sihe, the chief soldier of Nanao Town, echoed with the troops.

The time had already entered September, and the transportation of boats and ships in the 2,000-mile sea frontier before and after had been a month smaller, and it was only before Qiang Qiang concentrated more than 40,000 infantry in Xiamen, bringing a large amount of military ammunition with them.

By this time, the southeast wind has weakened to the point of negligibility, and the northeast monsoon over the sea is gradually getting stronger. The warships of the two sides against the backdrop of the howling sea breeze were fast and violent, and the impact was violent. With the size of the Chinese warship, it is easy to be blown away even if the formation is set. When Shi Lang attacked Taiwan, he thought that the northeast wind was strong, the fleet would attack the fortified position, and when it encountered a rapid northeast wind, the formation would be easily blown away, and then it would become a live target for others. The south wind is stable, and even if the attack is frustrated, it can be calmly arranged and attack steadily. Therefore, it is advocated to attack Taiwan in the summer.

The current battle is just as Shi Lang said, the array of warships of Wang Haichao and Guo Nan, who were sent by the Fu Han army to meet the battle, was quickly blown away, and it was difficult to adjust. The Qing army also encountered the same problem, and the two sides simply mixed together, and the naval battle soon entered a melee.

The troops of the Fu Han Army this time were all owned by the original Zhang Qiu fleet. Although Zhang Qiu's fleet and Fujian sailors are two in one, there are still big cracks between them. You press me and fight for military achievements, and you will not back down at all. It's just that the military discipline of the Fu Han army is strict, so that the people on both sides dare not really tear each other down, and can only 'stimulate competition' in a 'peaceful' situation.

In this battle, it should have been one from the Fujian Navy Division and the Zhangjia Fleet, but Zhang Qiu relied on his position as the number one leader, and rejected the suggestion of Dai Tingdong, the former commander of the Southeast Navy Division, and the deputy admiral Ye Xiangde stayed in the rear team to supervise the formation, and in this front army, there was no one in the Fujian Navy Division who could compete with Zhang Qiu.

Especially when Zhang Qiu was sloppy and unreasonable, he directly ordered Wang Haichao and Guo Nan's generals.

Of course, Dai Tingdong didn't think that Zhang Qiu had good intentions, Wang Haichao and Guo Nan were not people who kept to themselves, especially the latter. Fujian Navy Division and Zhangjia Fleet are old rivals, and they don't know anything about some things inside Zhangqiu's fleet. Besides, in the more than a month since the merger of the two, Guo Nan has made Zhang Qiu unable to step down in public several times. Of course, Guo Nan is also not a bird of Ye Xiangde, even if Ye Xiangde repaired Guo Nan several times, Guo Nan is also dissatisfied with Ye Xiangde and eight are not satisfied. Dai Tingdong occupied the first place in the five armies of the Navy, and his face was even more disapproving.

Thunder boats, shuttle ships, catching boats, bird boats, and fortune boats, large and small, hundreds of warships on both sides were mixed together.

The Qing army had a large number of warships, and the warships of the Fu Han army were of high quality. The former has both large and small ships, and the latter is full of large and medium-sized main warships.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

Smoke billowed from the sea, and the two sides were very close, and from time to time warships were shot.

Wang Haichao stood in front of the deckhouse wearing the red military uniform of the Fu Han Army, and it was said that His Royal Highness Duke Lu had prepared to write a book to change the color of the naval uniform. The sea is red, too unlucky. Moreover, the new military uniform is said to be quite unique, and it was designed by His Royal Highness Duke Lu himself.

Wang Haichao thinks that this red military uniform is very good, he naturally likes red.

"Get your rockets ready!"

The large shuttle boat that Wang Haichao was riding had completely entered the Qing army's array, and the nearest Qing warship was only three or four hundred meters away from it. At such a short distance, it may not be possible to bombard with artillery shells, but it is definitely very effective to attack with a quick and simple rocket.

The rockets that Chen Ming made were the 'advanced weapons' that he had poured out according to his impression of the Hale rocket, which was much more advanced than the Indian rockets of this era and the Congreve rockets invented by the British more than 20 years later.

The tail of the rocket is equipped with an inclined stabilization spiral plate, and the tail of the rocket is reduced in caliber, which makes the gunpowder gas sprayed out more rapid and the propulsion force is greater, and also makes the rocket spin in flight to achieve a certain degree of ballistic stability, and the gunpowder arrangement in the projectile body is segmented - of course, it is not the automatic separation after the fuel is exhausted like modern rockets, but the gunpowder is burned in sections in the iron integral shell, which can make the rocket's 'staying power' stronger, but the explosive power is weakened - the author's assumption, Don't shoot me, a pro - this has reduced the pressure inside the shell, the shell of the rocket is cast iron, the wall thickness is very thin and thin, and when the rocket is made, it takes months just to test the optimal value of the wall thickness.

These new designs allowed the rocket to move away from the long guide rod of the Congreve era, and also greatly improved the accuracy and accuracy of the rocket.

The Hale rocket in history can be said to be born at an inopportune time, and the era of its emergence is already the era when firearms have entered the fast lane, just like the Mini rifle, which has just been invented and has become obsolete. Even the British themselves were rarely equipped with Hale rockets, that is, the United States during the Civil War paid for the patent of the Hale rocket, and then the Austrians. They used Hale rockets against the rebels on the battlefields of Hungary and Italy. The latter's inferior armament allowed the rocket forces of the Austrian army to achieve considerable results. But in any case, in the second half of the 19th century, in the historical background of the rapid development of artillery technology represented by rifled guns and smokeless gunpowder, the loneliness of modern rocket weapons has become a foregone conclusion.

However, if the appearance of the Hale rocket had been seventy years earlier, at this time, this thing would be extremely powerful!

As for why Chen Ming didn't take out this weapon at the beginning, the concern was the same as the flying thunder cannon, it consumed too much gunpowder, and the manufacturing technology of this thing was too simple and too untechnical. As long as the Qing army can get one or two, even if the inferior goods they prevent are not as long as the original and powerful, they will be able to restore the Han army and bring a lot of unnecessary trouble.

The time when the Fu Han Army was really awesome was when Chen Ming solved his gunpowder problem and when the rockets were manufactured, it was also when Chen Ming didn't have to worry about the gunpowder problem at all. In addition, the troops went down to the south of the Yangtze River to gather a number of skilled craftsmen, who played a great role in the process of casting rockets.

The high-quality saltpeter in Hanzhong, the saltpeter mines in Hunan, Hubei and even Jiangnan are being developed at an accelerated pace, coupled with the high-quality sulfur in Taiwan, and even the sulfur that is directly traded in Japan.

With both internal and external conditions, Chenming lit up the tech tree of 'Rocket'.

Wang Haichao had a full hundred rockets on board.

The heavy one is more than 60 catties, the largest one is more than 70 catties, and the light one is also 20 catties.

The iron launch stand has a few nails and a wedge, and it is enough to fix it. The speed at which rockets are launched is completely beyond the imagination of people of this era. A hundred rockets is a lot, isn't it? When you get high, it's a matter of blinking. Wang Haichao has ten rocket launchers in his hands!

After testing, when the firing angle is 4-5 degrees, the range of the rocket is about one mile; When the firing angle is 45 degrees, the maximum range can reach 4 miles, and the general range is not less than 3 miles. Among the hot weapons of this era, power, speed, accuracy, and range are considerable.

A rapid white exhaust gas rose from behind the launch tube, and the orange red light seemed to be sandwiched in the white gas, and the white gas sprayed on the deck, and the gas rose back, and Wang Haichao's face was as hot as a roasting fire.

In front of the transmitter, a black streak of white smoke sped through it.

If you look up, you can see the tail flame flickering in mid-air.

-- The course of the entire history of maritime warfare on Earth has changed at this moment.

When Chen Ming applied rockets to the sea, he added a more brutal hell mode to the mode of naval warfare. Imagine two sail warships facing each other, like a platoon of guns on land, projecting rockets at each other, how long can a sturdy first-class battleship last?

Of course, the premise of this scene is that rocket technology is made public. In addition, the distance between the two sides in naval battles is very short.

In the chaotic naval battle, on the sea filled with gunpowder, the hit of a Qing warship was not eye-catching, but when more and more Qing warships were hit by rockets, especially the two Qing army's big ships were paralyzed by continuous hit rockets and turned into two large torches, Wei Wenwei and He Sihe no longer knew that the form was not good, they were absolute fools.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

Wang Haichao's Lei Zi No. 1 warship also suffered three shells in a short distance, and the full sail was cut through two big openings, and the third cannon on the starboard side was gone, falling directly into the sea through the blown hole, and five members of the entire gun crew were killed and one seriously injured. Two more shells hit the bow of the ship with one shot, and the other hit the cabin.

Wang Haichao didn't think much of this small injury, and shouted at the helmsman to continue to lean towards the Qing army's warship, "Fire Dragon Bullet, Fast, Fire Dragon Bullet, Ready ......" Fire Dragon Bullet is the official name of the rocket in the Fu Han Army. Wang Haichao was so excited that he couldn't even take care of the cannons on the warship.

Fire dragon bullet, fire dragon bullet, this is amazing.

"Boom ......" five rockets, two of which hit the Qing warship on the opposite side.

He Sihe didn't know where these two 'cannonballs' came from, he was holding a telescope to look at the cannonballs fired by a Fuhan army ship in front of him, no matter how he looked at them, he felt that the shape of these cannonballs was wrong, not like they were round. It's very similar to two kicks or weather. The violent explosion caused his body to hit the wall of the ship like a thrown ball. (To be continued.) )