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So he sent someone to give Duoduo an order, asking him to do everything possible to drag the Ming army sailors upstream, and at the same time personally led the main warship to the area where Zuomengeng's fleet was responsible for downstream.

When Azig led the main fleet to the downstream battlefield, he couldn't help but feel a big chill in his heart when he saw that the situation was even worse than he imagined.

These monsters that smoke behind their butts....... That's right, in Azig's opinion, monsters.

These "monsters" are not only extremely fast, even the fastest light warships among the Qing army's naval divisions can't catch up, but the "monsters" are too powerful..........

The main gun of the new Fuchuan is a large Fulong rear-loading gun, which uses a conical warhead, which greatly slows down the air resistance, and has a maximum firing range of four miles, which has surpassed the front-loading Hongyi cannon of the Qing army.

At the same time, in terms of rate of fire, because of the use of needle ignition device, the rate of fire reached three rounds in two minutes, which was 1.5 times that of the Qing army's Hongyi cannon.

Coupled with the steam sail hybrid system, which provides a strong maneuverability, it can be said that in the open water area, a new Fu ship single-handedly takes on five Qing military building ships without falling behind.

How can this battle be fought?

Although the Manchu Qing Dynasty sat on the land of the Central Plains, but the perennial war and natural disasters, the Central Plains has long been impoverished, in order to build ships, Dolgon devoted all his strength to the whole country, and only built 400 building ships (the warship is good to say, mainly because the artillery is too expensive).

If you really want to calculate it according to the ratio of one to five, the Qing army sailors have no chance of winning.

However, this battle must be fought!

Not to mention anything else, Daishan still has 30,000 troops on the warships (now it is estimated that there are only more than 20,000 left), and these people must be given enough time to retreat, crossing the river is impossible, and if they don't want to find a way to recover the losses, these armies and most of the warships have to sink the river.

Since it was inevitable that he would simply go all out to fight, Azig threw in all the large and small warships of his headquarters, 300 building ships, plus more than 800 warships of various types, and crushed Zheng Chenggong's new fleet in unison.

The waterway of the Yangtze River is too narrow, which seriously restricts the activity space of the Fu boat, and Zheng Chenggong does not dare to defend the group charge of the Qing army's naval division.

It can only be fought and retreated, using the range of artillery, the rate of fire, and the absolute speed of the warship to consume the Qing army's naval division little by little.

Zheng Chenggong is worthy of being a famous naval commander in the late Ming Dynasty, only one month after contacting the steamship, he has thoroughly understood its various performances, and formulated corresponding tactical tactics, and his subordinates, all of whom are water combat elites, can flexibly control the warship even in this narrow waterway.

The battle lasted from morning to noon, and the Ming army lost only 15 warships, while the Qing army only lost more than 10 ships that ran aground on the reef, and more than 50 ships were destroyed and damaged.

As for the more than 800 small and medium-sized warships, more than one-third of them had been damaged by this time.

The Ming army is for attrition, the Qing army is to buy time, both sides have achieved their goals, although Azig does not want to fight the current situation at all, but the matter has come to this point and can only continue to insist.

In the upper reaches of Huarong County, in the combined fleet of the Ming Army's naval divisions, Yan Yingyuan was explaining to Shi Lang the key to the battle, and now, the steam warship has officially been put into the battlefield, and there is nothing to hide.

"Therefore, the fleet led by the surname of the country this time does not need to borrow the east wind at all, no matter whether it is good or bad, the Qing army and naval divisions will not be able to catch up, and no matter how many small and medium-sized warships are sent, it will only be a war merit." Yan Yingyuan said proudly.

There is no way, since the Yangtze River Naval Division joined the Combined Fleet, it has suffered from the cynicism of the Fujian Naval Division almost every day, and it is one thing to have no large warships, mainly the officers and men of the Yangtze River Naval Division, most of whom are conscripted fishermen, and even Yan Yingyuan himself was promoted by the army.

Although after nearly two years of training, the military quality of these naval forces has been greatly improved, and their theoretical level has even surpassed that of the Fujian naval divisions, their actual combat experience is almost zero, and they are ridiculed as talking on paper, and there is no way to refute them.

Now that the new warships of the Yangtze River Navy Division are proud, Yan Yingyuan can not be happy!

One hundred warships, fighting more than 1,000 warships of the enemy, such a brilliant record, Zheng Chenggong has a command credit in it, but the main credit is still the battleship provided by the Yangtze River Naval Division.

Without these steam warships, even if Zheng Chenggong was given 300 ordinary blessing ships, Zheng Chenggong would not have been able to achieve such a brilliant record.

"It's somewhat inappropriate for General Zheng to fight alone with a hundred warships, why don't we take advantage of the situation and kill it?" Shi Lang was met by Yan Yingyuan, so he could only quickly change the topic.

Now it is the new warships of the Yangtze River Naval Division that are in the limelight, so Shi Lang must save the face of the Fujian Naval Division, and the naval division of Duoduo on the opposite side is equal to the strength of the combined fleet, and it is relatively easy to clean up this group of Qing troops.

"Don't worry, wait, the show is still to come! As long as their retreat is blocked, the Qing army's naval division will not be completely wiped out this time, and it will have to suffer heavy losses! Yan Yingyuan was confident.

Yan Yingyuan belongs to the First Group Army, and according to the faction, he belongs to the same faction as Stilwell, although he is only the deputy commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet, he has received much more information than Shi Lang.

Shi Lang's temper was too impatient, although Sturwell admired his professionalism, but he didn't like to deal with him, and Yan Yingyuan was the first person to try a steamship, so in this water war, Stilwell informed Yan Yingyuan of all the plans, so that he could establish his prestige in the combined fleet and at the same time, it was also convenient to deal with Shi Lang.

Speaking with facts is the best choice, and the provincial Shi Lang should "borrow the east wind" and fight timidly, this kind of thing.

"Okay, I'll just wait to see the show." Shi Lang lit a cigarette and said with a depressed face.

Since Zheng Zhilong handed over the military power, the life of the Fujian Navy Division has become more and more difficult, and the high-level people understand the specific reasons, the status of the Fujian Navy Division is not as good as before, and if you want to restore the status of the Fujian Navy Division, you must rely on military exploits to prove it.

As the commander-in-chief of the Third Group Army, Zheng Chenggong personally led the fleet to the battlefield in order to save the position of the Fujian Naval Division.........

In the past, Azig was always worried about running out of time, but today for the first time, he felt that it was too long.

Watching the huge warships sink to the bottom of the river, Azig's heart was dripping blood, and in just two hours, his fleet was worn out by a third, and the losses of the Ming fleet were minimal.

The most important thing is that there is still a huge Ming army naval division upstream, and if it continues to fight, Azig is worried that there will be a danger of annihilation.

Fortunately, the efforts of the two hours were not in vain, and the Ming army's naval fleet was driven thirty miles downstream, and Zuo Menggeng's fleet also successfully transferred Dai Shan's army to the shore.

When Zheng Chenggong's fleet first came out, the operation of crossing the river was forced to stop, and the Qing fleet was too busy to take care of itself, and it was simply not able to cover the landing of Daishan's army.

Therefore, it is wise to withdraw it.

Of course, the Qing army is still not ruthless enough, if they insist on crossing the river and use these soldiers as bait, Zheng Chenggong will naturally not retreat easily in order to block the river crossing operation, and the Qing army will crush it with numerical superiority, even if Zheng Chenggong's fleet can win, it is estimated that it will only be a disastrous victory.

Sometimes, the key to a battle is to control the rhythm of the battle, once the enemy leads the nose, even if the strength is much stronger than the opponent, it is difficult to win.

The Qing army is now in such a situation, due to the suddenness of the incident, there is too little time left for Azig to react, and these soldiers are full, so it is impossible to abandon them so easily.

Therefore, after the whole battle, the Qing army had more than 2,000 warships, but they could not exert their real strength at all.

Daishan's army was withdrawn, but Azig's sailors were entangled by the Ming army, and there was no sailor port in the Huarong area, and with the sailing speed of the Qing army's sailor fleet, especially in the case of headwinds, it was almost impossible to return to the port on the north shore of Chibi.

The only thing Azig can do is to let his subordinates hold on until dark, so that everyone is afraid of each other and dare not attack, and the Qing army sailors still have a certain advantage in small and medium-sized warships, and it is really urgent, and it is not impossible to have a night battle.

It's a pity that there are still three hours before dark, and the only thing Azig can rely on in these three hours is those shore defense guns that have been ambushed in advance.

Originally, it was used to deal with the coalition forces of the Chibi side, but now it is used to protect its own ships, at least it has to stay up until dark...........

The northwest wind was blowing, and although Azig was wearing a mink coat, his heart was indeed cold.

Going against the wind, the speed is too slow, and the guys with smoking butts behind them are simply too difficult to deal with, and as a last resort, Azig once again left two hundred small and medium-sized warships behind.

After about an hour, Azig fled at full speed and finally returned to the place where he crossed the river and joined up with the sailors of Dord.

After the convergence of the two armies, there are now only more than 1,300 warships left, and the number of large ships is still about 400, that is, the small and medium-sized warships have suffered serious losses, and in the comparison of the number of warships, the Qing army's naval division has no advantage.

Azig did not dare to launch a counteroffensive at all, so he could only order the fleet to quickly assemble to the east coast and rely on the artillery on the shore for defense.

"What a chance! It's wasted! Shi Lang said regretfully.

"No hurry, wait." Yan Yingyuan said with a smile.

"Wait, wait, we've been waiting for most of the day!" Shi Lang didn't have a good airway.

In Shi Lang's opinion, the Qing army's naval divisions have already been grouped, and there are shore defense artillery auxiliary, and the time has reached the afternoon, and it will be dark in two hours.

Even if the whole army attacks now, it is basically impossible to crush the fleet in front of you in one fell swoop.

A huge fleet of more than 2,000 warships!

This is a great credit, and it was in vain.

However, just when Shi Lang lost his temper, dozens of water columns suddenly erupted from the bottom of the water seven or eight miles in front of the coalition fleet, like an angry dragon going out to sea, with a majestic momentum.

The most important thing is that these water columns jumped out of the camp of the Qing army's sailors, which directly caused many small warships to suffer from the seedlings, some were overturned by the huge waves, and some were lifted high by the water columns, and the bottom of the warships was torn into two, and finally smashed down the river and destroyed all the people and ships.

Even many building ships were torn apart by the impact of this water column, and if they couldn't plug the gap in time, then what was waiting for them could only be sunk.

"It's a mine? When and when did our army lay mines here? Shi Lang couldn't help but ask.

He finally understood now why Yan Yingyuan kept asking him to wait for the fighter, this is the fighter, the Qing army's sailors are now suffering from the baptism of mines, and the formation is in chaos, rushing forward at this time will definitely achieve huge results.

"Three days ago, this place was completely taken over by the Qing army, and our sailor warships couldn't leave the port at all, how could they lay mines, so this mine was not laid by us." Yan Yingyuan explained.

That's right, this mine was laid by the Qing army, and the main battlefield chosen by the Qing army itself, the preparations that should have been made have not fallen, if the coalition fleet led by Shi Lang earlier was not responsible for covering Zheng Chenggong, but directly chose to attack, then it was the coalition naval division that was bombed.

As for snatching the right to detonate mines, a group of special forces led by Yang Xiu of the Iron Gun Gate can easily do this.

No, not long after the mine detonated, there was a sparse sound of gunfire on the shore, it must be the Manchu Army, which is encircling Yang Xiu's group of special forces, but Yan Yingyuan is not worried about this, those guys are all skilled, and it is basically no problem to escape.

Moreover, in order not to attract the attention of the Ming army's naval divisions, the Qing army will definitely not send too many soldiers to defend at the detonation site, which is also the main reason why the special forces can easily succeed.

"You mean......... This mine was supposed to be used against us? Shi Lang broke out in a cold sweat.

There is no law in the laying of mines, if he leads his army to rush in, even if there are ships escorting him around, but who can prevent the killers under the water?

"Alright, haven't you always wanted to attack? Now is the time to waste time. Yan Yingyuan reminded.

Opportunities have been created, obstacles have been cleared, and all that remains is to see how much success can be achieved.

Unconsciously, the commander of this water war was replaced...........

The house leak happened to rain overnight, which is the true portrayal of the Qing army's sailors at this moment.

Dord's flagship failed to fire, but at this time it was hit by a mine, and the bottom of the ship was blown open, and he had to change to a small boat to go to Azig's flagship.

Azig was dripping blood in his heart, and the mine that was originally used to deal with the Ming army's sailors was now blown up on his head.

Not only that, the Ming army's naval division, which had no threat of mines, began to charge from the upstream, and was originally chased and beaten by a hundred guys with smoking butts, and now there are thousands of warships, and this water battle, the defeat of the Qing army has been decided.