Under the victorious pursuit of the Ming fleet, the remnants of the left division were finally successfully surrounded at a corner. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The Ming ships surrounding them fired in a row, and many of the left ships in the encirclement were shot and lost control and kept spinning in place.

There are also a lot of rockets shot by the Ming army's imperial camp sailors, the ship ignited a raging fire, because the fire is too fierce, after a while the whole ship also fell into the flames, the left soldiers could not be saved, in a hurry can only jump into the Yangtze River, most of them drowned.

In this process, the flexible and mobile medium-sized warships and fast crabs became the main force of the attack, they attacked like swimming fish, attacked everywhere, injured one after another left warships, and then aimed at the next target, the wounded left warships moved at a great speed, and finally all were surrounded, some saw that there was no hope of breaking through, fortunately put up a white flag, chose to surrender, and some continued to resist desperately, and finally all were easily sunk by the big warships, and sent into the Yangtze River to feed Wang Ba.

Witnessing his own ships being besieged or sunk by the imperial court's sailors one by one, Xu Ensheng, the commander of the left army's sailors standing on the flagship of the five hundred materials, looked very sad and indignant, he was unwilling to let the fleet be wiped out, and he would continue to struggle to the death!

At the suggestion of other military schools, Xu Ensheng hurriedly organized the remaining warships that were not hit by artillery, turned their sails, and tried their best to break through.

"Fire! Hurry up! ”

Zhu Chenggong raised his eyes to look at the battle situation, and when he saw that the situation had changed, he hurriedly ordered, and finally surrounded the left sailors who fled all the way, and then let them escape, and he would not have to do it as the commander of the sailors.

With the issuance of the military order, the main warships of the Ming army opened fire outside the encirclement.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ……”

One hundred and ten guns gradually opened fire, and one cannon after another fired non-stop. The Yangtze River was filled with gunsmoke and the sound of artillery was deafening.

Within the distance, the firing accuracy of the artillery was greatly increased, and after a few rounds of salvos, some of the warships of the left army that were preparing to break through were shot one after another, and the warships exploded in response, and the ships were destroyed and killed.

At the same time, the ship was also patronized by several shells, one of which hit the ship's cabin in a hurry, and the helmsman in the warehouse was blasted into scum and minced meat on the spot, and the sparks splashed between the cannonballs ignited the gunpowder in the cabin, and after a series of explosions, the whole ship was suddenly plunged into a fire.

Due to the haste of the incident and the lack of preparation, the fire spread rapidly, and the sails were also burned, and the left soldiers on the ship could not be rescued, without the assistance of the sails, the speed of the ship became slower and slower, and it was immediately surrounded by the Ming army and fast crabs chasing behind.

Standing on the deck, Xu Ensheng had clearly understood the final outcome of this contest, he rejected his subordinates' suggestion to continue to break through and escape by small boat, looked up to the sky and sighed, drew his sword and committed suicide.

Although this battle is lost, it is not a crime of war!

Xu Ensheng was full of unwillingness, and sank into the Yangtze River along with his flagship, which had been destroyed by the fire.

With the sinking of the flagship and the suicide of the commander, the remnants of the left army were no longer led into a scattered sand, and finally completely collapsed under the repeated onslaught of the Ming fleet, and they were slaughtered and killed.

After some fighting, almost all the medium and large warships of the left army were sunk or sunk by the Ming artillery.

While the Ming Army's naval division abolished the main warship of the Left Army's naval division, it also captured a 400-material warship alive.

In the process of pursuit, after the warships of the Ming army surrounded the 400 warships of the left army, they jumped up one after another, started hand-to-hand combat with the left soldiers on the ship, fought hard, and finally captured the left soldiers on the ship and the 400 warships as trophies, and achieved a breakthrough of zero capture of the medium and large warships of the left army.

Most of the other small warships were directly sunk by the artillery of the Ming army in the process of pursuit and siege, and thousands of soldiers of the left army sailor battalion were buried in the Yangtze River, at this time the sky was red by the flames, and the river was almost stained red by blood, the artillery fire and gunpowder smoke burned the originally quiet river into a boiling hell, the horror of the scene was indescribable, fortunately everything was over, and the Ming army's imperial camp sailor won.

With the issuance of the surrender order, except for a dozen or so ships that were captured, all the rest put up white flags and surrendered to the Imperial Naval Division.

In this water battle, the Imperial Naval Division destroyed and sank 22 warships of more than 300 materials of the left army, captured one warship of 400 materials, 18 small warships, and more than 300 civilian ships, captured more than 300 left soldiers and more than 1,000 shipwrights, and the rest were either burned to death or drowned.

In addition, four Hongyi cannons, three Fran machine guns, 26 tiger squat small cannons, birds, bows and arrows, knives and guns, gunpowder and other light weapons were not counted, and it was a pity that there was no militaristic weapon iron armor, only more than 100 pairs of leather armor and cotton armor.

However, a lot of money and grain were seized, including 43,000 taels of gold, 1,630,000 taels of silver, and more than 32,000 stones of military rations, which was a very huge amount, which was already equivalent to one-half of the total amount of money and grain in the left department.

When Zuo Liangyu attacked Jiujiang, he expected to conquer it within a few days, and he didn't expect it to be a protracted battle, so he just transported half of the money and grain to the land, and left half of it on the ship, so as to improve efficiency, and take the land division to Nanjing by ship at any time.

Unexpectedly, because of the fall of the sailor, these money and grain became the spoils of the imperial court's imperial camp.

Without these money and food supplements, the land battalion of the left army will not be far from collapse!

Easily seized a huge amount of gold and silver goods, the sailors of the imperial camp cheered, each heart was excited, because before the expedition, the saint had promised that if the water battle was won, two layers of money and grain would be taken out from the captured money and grain for the army, worth a total of four or five hundred thousand taels of silver, and distributed among the more than 10,000 officers and soldiers of the navy, each of whom could get a reward of more than forty taels of silver, which was a rare reward for the imperial court for decades! It's hard not for them to get excited!

On the side of the Ming army, after several water battles, a total of 42 sergeants were killed and wounded, and the number was almost only a few tenths of that of the left army.

On the warship, only one 500-material warship was shot and lost its combat strength and ran aground in the river, and there were three or four medium-sized warships such as Changlong and Fast Crab, which were disabled by the remaining division of the left that were trapped in the siege battle, two of which lost their combat strength, and one fast crab was shot and sank.

Fortunately, after the victory of the water battle, many ships of the Left Army were captured, many of which were still intact and could be quickly replenished to the troops of the Navy Division.

Holding down the captured hundreds of civilian ships and warships, Zhu Chenggong opened the way back with high spirits, and when he passed by the original water division of the Left Army, he saw more than 10,000 foot soldiers of the Left Army lined up on the side of the Yangtze River, putting on a posture of being careful and guarded.

"The left thief's Lu Shi has come to see us off, how can we not give them a little meeting gift?"

Zhu Chenggong smiled contemptuously and ordered the main warships on both wings to fire at the infantry of the left army on the shore of the formation.