In the one-month Yangzhou blockade battle, the two sides suffered mutual losses, with about 30,000 Manchu servant troops (mainly Han Eight Banners) killed in battle, and 45,000 Southern Ming troops seriously wounded or killed in battle. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

In terms of land battles alone, the Ming army's losses were heavier, and they had already reached the level of breaking their muscles and bones.

The Qing army didn't have much to do with it, not to mention the large number of generals, and in a month's battle, the main force had not even been dispatched, as for the attrition of those servant troops......... Negligible.

Fortunately, in the water war, Zheng Zhilong's Daming Water Division finally won back one percent..........

In mid-March, the main force of the Qing army besieged Yangzhou City, and in order to prevent the Southern Ming army from aiding Yangzhou, the main force of the water division was sent into the Yangtze River in an attempt to control the Yangtze River waterway.

However, most of the Qing soldiers were landlubbers, and the so-called warships, except for dozens of three-masted gunboats as the main warships, the rest were just for the sake of rushing work, and on the larger merchant ships, they were only equipped with artillery, and the number of warships was thousands, but how effective it was, I really didn't dare to compliment.

No, the main force of the Qing army, the water division, had just entered the Yangtze River, and it encountered the Daming water division rushing upstream..........

In addition to the warships that took care of his hometown and the 200 warships that his son Zheng Sen guarded Chongming Island, the remaining more than 800 warships of all sizes were transferred to the waters of the Yangtze River.

"It's just a pile of rotten wood, and I told Zheng Zhihu with the flag, and asked him to lead two hundred centipede ships to quickly intersperse and disrupt the Qing army's warship formation." Although Zheng Zhilong looked down on the Qing court's sailors, he still carefully drew up a battle plan.

The centipede ship is a large warship, this kind of warship is made of imitation of the Francophone man multi-oared boat, the bottom is sharp and wide, the navigation is fast, the headwind is also feasible, not afraid of wind and waves.

The ship is equipped with eight guns, fireballs, rockets and other long-range weapons.

Although it was not the most powerful warship of the Ming army, it was the fastest large warship, especially suitable for pre-war charging or post-war pursuits.

"Order Zheng Zhibao to lead eighty three-masted gunboats and two hundred serial boats to meet the enemy head-on, and be sure to destroy all the enemy's three-masted gunboats as soon as possible."

The three-masted gunboat is a kind of giant warship that imitates the Dutch warship, with a large height, a head and a tail, and sails quickly, not afraid of wind and waves.

The warship tree is 3 masts, the main mast is 4 zhang high, the length of the ship is 20 zhang, the cabin is 5 floors, the ship surface is as high as the city, it can accommodate 300 people, with 8 Hongyi cannons, 40 thousand catties of Buddha Lang machine, it is one of the main warships of the Ming Army's naval division.

A serial boat is a general term for a small melee ship, which can be roughly divided into a serial ship, or a chain boat.

Mother and child ship: light ship, the length of the mother ship is 3 zhang 5, the front is 2 zhang, the rear is 1 zhang 5, only the two sides of the gangway, the inner space, there is a small boat, there is a cover plate, there are 4 oars to row, with a rope and the mother ship tied.

The mother ship had firewood and oil, gunpowder fire line, and during the war, the mother ship quickly approached the enemy ship, nailed it together, and after the mother ship was lit, the soldiers returned in the sub-ship.

Serial ship: light ship, 4 zhang long, resembling a ship is actually two ships, the front ship accounts for one-third, the rear ship accounts for two-thirds, the middle is connected with 2 iron rings, the front ship has a large inverted whisker nail many, loaded with fireballs, divine smoke, divine sand, poisonous fire, and has a fire gun, the rear ship oars carry soldiers.

In wartime, the front ship was nailed to the enemy ship, and all kinds of firearms were ignited, and the iron ring was released at the same time, and the rear ship returned, and the rear ship returned, and the flames of the front ship swirled, and the enemy ship was burned.

These two kinds of small warships are cheap in construction and simple to operate, and they are important magic weapons for the Ming army's sailors to quickly destroy the enemy's main warships when they fight.

"After the son-mother serial boat has achieved the effect, the whole army will attack and strive to capture those merchant ships, damn it, the Qing court is really rich, and even the Hongyi cannon is installed on the merchant ships, and they are not afraid of breaking up the keel!" Zheng Zhilong scolded and scolded.

The Qing court was not rich, but in a short period of time, it was impossible to build so many warships, and the shipbuilding industry in the north was not developed, and those large shopping malls were converted from the merchant ships in the Grand Canal of the Ming Dynasty that were seized after the Qing soldiers entered the customs.

The Qing soldiers have not seen the power of the Ming Naval Division, nor do they know how to fight water at all, they can drive thousands of warships without colliding with each other, which is already good, and now they have already panicked when they see the Ming Naval Division in a neat formation.

If the Qing army is on land, it is easy to say, after all, they have war horses on land, and they can scatter and escape if they can't fight, but this warship can't drive to land, plus the warship converted by merchant ships, the speed is not fast at all, how can they escape the centipede ship that rushes over.

However, the Qing army at this time is indeed bloody, since it can't escape, let's face it!

The idea of the commander of the Qing army is also very simple: "The number of labor-management warships is more than yours, and the number of artillery is several times that of yours, are you still afraid of you?" ”

So the Qing army's naval division didn't care about the formation, and directly ordered the whole army to charge and fire at will, wanting to change the water battle mode to the land battle mode.

However, water warfare is not a land war, the two armies on land are intertwined, as long as the commander of the Chinese army is fine, he can also issue various simple tactical orders through the herald and through the war drum.

However, the water battle has become an all-firearms battle, and in the huge sound of naval guns, no one's orders can be heard, and the smoke is everywhere, the view is obstructed, and the flag language has become a chicken rib, and often a certain warship will be besieged by several enemy warships as soon as the flag is raised.

In contrast, Zheng Zhilong's sailors were fast but not chaotic, always maintained a battle formation, and the warships were not far apart, whether it was flag communication or offensive support, they could be quickly in place, compared with the Qing court, it was a world of difference.

Even on the sea with huge waves, the combat effectiveness of the Daming Navy Division is the first in the world, not to mention that on this calm river, in the face of a group of novices in the navy, using the analogy of a father beating his son, it is a bit of a Qing court sailor.

In addition, the gunboats transformed by the Qing court with merchant ships have become a talisman for their rapid defeat, those large merchant ships are a little better, some small and medium-sized, and even after one or two salvos, they directly fall apart and quickly sink to the bottom of the river, Zheng Zhilong, who is not far away, is distressed, it is all his trophies!

"Order the Fu fleet to prepare for the battle, and give those merchant ships to Lao Tzu prisoner!" Zheng Zhilong gave the order again.

The Fu Ship was a large warship of the Ming Dynasty sailors, and it was the most famous warship in China at that time.

The ship is tall, the bottom is pointed upward, the head is raised and the tail is upturned, the tree is 2 masts, the cabin is 3 floors, the surface of the ship is as high as a city, there is a guard plate next to it, and the soldiers cover behind it to shoot arrows and bullets at the enemy ship, throwing fireballs, fire bricks, and fire barrels.

The bow of the ship is equipped with 1 Dafa tribute gun, 6 jack Buddha machines, 3 bowl-mouth guns, 20 thunderbolt guns, 60 spray canisters, 10 Lumi guns, 500 crossbow arrows, 10 gunpowder crossbows, 300 rockets, and 100 fire bricks.

The crew is 64 people, 9 sailors, 55 fighters, 5 armor, one is a Franc mecha, operating the ship's first gun, Franc machine, and throwing fireballs and fire bricks at close to the enemy.

The second armor is the bird gun, which specializes in shooting birds.

The third and fourth are javelin miscellaneous servants, and they also operate boats in close combat.

The fifth armor is a fire crossbow armor, which specializes in shooting rockets.

In addition, each ship is also equipped with 500 cold weapon soldiers, as the main force of close combat and landing operations, it can also be said to be the earliest form of marines.