The bull knife tactic is to stab the enemy directly, and take advantage of Jin Shenghuan's lack of time to react to kill a bloody way out of the camp of the Qing army, regardless of it, leaving no way back.

To do this, it was necessary to use ships to transport heavy grain and grass to ensure the supply of materials for the 40,000-strong army and increase the speed of the troops' marching, so in the first half of the Ganzhou Campaign, the sailors were the sharp knives that pierced the Qing army's defense line.

The defeat of the Qing army's naval division was a prerequisite for victory in the Battle of Ganzhou.

The cannon roared on the river, and the fierce battle was in full swing......

The combination of Shi Lang and pirates may not be the opponent of Zheng Zhilong's sailors, but when they meet ordinary Qing army sailors, they are extremely sharp.

Under Shi Lang's command, Luo Mingshou's pirate troops occupied a vantage point, and it was time for their show.

"Tom!"

The long boat of the Ming army opened fire, and more than a dozen oarsmen on the boat rowed desperately, retreating while firing, always keeping in the side and rear of the Qing army's building boat, always hiding in the dead corner of the building boat's artillery, and constantly firing at the building ship one after another.

There were several Qing warships around it to fire at it, but the hull of the long boat was not large, and it was difficult to aim in high-speed movement, and the Qing army did not hit a few cannons in a row, and the shells fell in the river near the long boat, stirring up water columns one after another, but the long boat was always shooting at the huge building boat, and it would not stop until it sank.

The Ming army's long boat and fast crab are like a pack of wolves, and the Qing army's building boat and fortune boat are like three elephants, with flakes and scales under the bite of the wolves.

Other ships of the Qing army rushed up, as did the sampans and bamboo rafts of the Ming army, and a big melee broke out on the entire river.

Luo Mingshou's large battleship did not arrive, but many four-pounder guns were dismantled and temporarily installed on sampans, one at the bow and one at the stern, and more than 60 sampans were fully armed.

Sampan. It was one size smaller than the longboat, and there were fourteen men in the whole boat, ten people rowing, one man at the helm, one person holding the penny, plus two gunners.

"Tom! Tong! Tong! ”

Every time the sampan fired, the hull shook violently, as if it was about to fall apart, and the angle was slightly poorly grasped, and the sampan spun in the river. The pirates drifting on the sea did not seem to be affected, and they followed the direction of the sampan, and the bow and stern of the ship took turns firing their guns, and the fire became more intense.

"Tom! Tong! Tong! ”

The Qing army's Fu and Lou boats were also firing desperately, but the target of the sampan was too small. Cannons can't hit mosquitoes. Instead, he was shot one after another.

Shells burrowed into the ship's hold. As the hull of the ship was constantly destroyed, the sailors continued to be killed and wounded, and the Qing army's Fu and Lou ships were seriously injured. The speed of movement is getting slower and slower.

"Bang! Kerala ......"

Suddenly, there was a loud bang, and a shell from a six-pounder gun happened to hit the mast of the ship, and the huge mast made a ruffled noise, and then slowly fell. The boat immediately lost its ability to maneuver and could only drift along the river.

The Ming warships surrounding it fired in a row, and more than 20 shells hit together, and the building boat completely lost control and kept spinning in the whirlpool of the river.

The building ship had been abandoned, and the warships of the Ming army gave up the attack and concentrated their fire on the other two Fu ships.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the two lucky boats turned their sails and wanted to turn around and escape, but the hull was injured and the operation was ineffective, and they couldn't move against the wind and water at all, but were rushed forward by the current, and got into the middle of the Ming fleet.

"Fire! Hurry up! ”

Emperor Longwu held the binoculars and shouted, regardless of whether the warships of the Ming army could hear it or not, these two lucky ships were like jumping into a trap by themselves, and if they were not destroyed, he would be sorry for him, the best audience.

Just like hearing the shouts of Emperor Longwu, dozens of Ming warships gathered fire together and smashed rows of cannonballs into the cabins of these two lucky ships.

These two ships are going to be sunk!

"That ship is the flagship, let Luo Mingshou keep it first!" Shi Lang gave the order again.

Wang Kefan took the binoculars and took a closer look, and sure enough, he found that there was a lucky ship with a different flag, and other ships of the Qing army were desperately rushing to rescue the commander on the flagship.

How is that possible?

The warships of the Ming army are waiting for them!

The fortune ship was about to sink, put down a small sampan from the ship, jumped down a few Qing generals who looked like officials, the Ming warships did not rush to fire, but used them as bait, concentrated fire on the Qing warships that came to the rescue.

Another scuffle.

In the era when Zheng He went to the West, the sailors of the Ming Dynasty were incomparably brilliant, and when they fought against the Japanese invaders, they also had a second spring, but the Chinese people were always prejudiced against the sea, and soon threw the sailors aside, and by the end of the Ming Dynasty, the equipment of the sailors had lagged behind the pirates on the southeast coast.

The Qing army inherited the sailors of the Ming Dynasty, but also inherited the decay and backwardness, and the structure and shape of the ships, as well as the power and range of the artillery, were obviously inferior to the pirate troops of the Ming army. Some Qing warships also installed two rows of cannons in the middle of the ship, which was very spectacular when they fired, but they were not used at all in actual combat.

When the warship conducts an artillery battle, the T-shaped attack is the most advantageous, the Qing army wants to use the cannon in the middle of the ship, it is necessary to turn the hull sideways, exposing the huge side to the fire of the Ming army, and the guns of the Ming warship are in the bow and stern, always maintain a vertical angle when attacking, there is only a small bow in the sight of the Qing army, the target is much smaller, and the probability of being hit is much smaller.

The warship of the same tonnage, the hull of the Qing warship is higher and larger, and it is easy to be hit by artillery, the shape of the warship is like a duck on the water, and the operation is very clumsy, while the warship of the Ming pirate army has an obvious Western style, the shape of the ship is smoother, the steering and movement are more flexible, and in the one-on-one entanglement, it is easy to grab the attack position of the flank.

And those net shuttle boats and eagle boats that only have firecrackers have completely lagged behind this era, and they are almost useless on the battlefield except for making up numbers, even if it is a sampan temporarily modified by the Ming army, they can easily win in a one-on-one duel.

But the Qing army had not yet collapsed.

Because they are smooth sailing, they want to run but can't, so they can only resist desperately.

After the Ming army naval division gained the upper hand, it did not rush to defeat the Qing army's naval division, but steadily stuck the surface of the Zhangjiang River and did not let any boat rush downstream. Under the command of Shi Lang, part of the warships returned to the rear, replenished ammunition from the transports, and then outflanked the flanks of the Qing army's naval divisions.

Aim for total annihilation!

Annihilated the Qing Army's Zhangjiang Water Division, it cleared the Zhangjiang Waterway Passage, and the Ming Army's Water Division could reach Ganzhou! (To be continued......)