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At the end of January 1867, hundreds of wooden-hulled warships finally departed from Sanya, Hainan today...... He went straight to the port of Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and prepared to land on the beach and unify the entire island of Taiwan with arms.

Along the way, in order to prevent the ships from falling apart, the speed of the entire fleet is not very fast, relatively speaking, the speed is very slow.

Lu Yongwang stood at the bow of the flagship, looking up at the east, and his heart was full of emotion, he couldn't imagine that one day, he was born in mud legs, and he could command hundreds of warships to attack strong overseas enemies!

According to the intelligence instructions, as early as a month ago, the marshal had intentionally or unintentionally transmitted information through the intelligence system that he wanted to attack Taiwan's Kaohsiung Port.

And this piece of information was naturally obtained by forces hostile to the Patriotic Army, and the senior officials of the Patriotic Army were very dissatisfied with this behavior of the commander!

Since ancient times, where has there been a war that has not yet been fought, and has personally told the enemy about his movements and the place he wants to attack?

However, the marshal explained this, "With the strength of our Patriotic Army and Navy, this marshal doesn't think that anyone can stop us, so it is better to let those forces hostile to us all jump out, so that we can see who it is?" Then it's just convenient to clean it all at once! ”

For Zhang Yun's explanation, the entire upper echelons of the Patriotic Army had nothing to say!

What do others think, Lu Yongwang doesn't know? But now Lu Yongwang feels very painful!

This kind of feeling is very unpleasant knowing that there is a strong enemy waiting for you in front of you, but you must attack in this direction!

Of course, Lu Yongwang didn't dare to disobey the order, after all, he wanted to rush to be the commander of his own navy, but he didn't want too much......

I learned from the mouth of the marshal that there will be a lot of naval battles in the future, so there will naturally be many opportunities for meritorious service.

After a day and a night of sailing, hundreds of miles passed silently, outside the port of Kaohsiung in Taiwan, Lu Yongwang raised the telescope in his hand to observe the movement on the shore.

In the same boat, basically every boat was also equipped with telescopes, and at this time, they raised the telescopes like Lu Yongwang......

It's just that what they don't know is that in Kaohsiung Port, there are also many people holding backward monoculars and looking at nearly 100 big ships on the sea, and there are even many blonde hairs and blue eyes......

At this time, there happened to be a blonde and blue-eyed person, who was having a conversation with Ye Zongyuan, the governor of Taiwan, through an interpreter, and of course the British were basically saying that Ye Zongyuan was listening.

After all, people who don't have the strength naturally have no right to speak, and now in Kaohsiung Port, the people who are defending are basically British, and Ye Zongyuan, who is naturally the prefect of Taiwan, has no right to speak, after all, the little bit of troops under his command is just able to fight!

"Governor Ye, look at the big ship opposite, it was built so contrary to common sense, but they didn't fall apart when they drove on the sea, don't you think it's funny......"

"Ha ......"

A group of foreigners were laughing, and Ye Zongyuan could only laugh, but he was slandering in his heart, of course, he wouldn't say it!

When the foreigners stopped laughing, Ye Zongyuan spoke: "Zhang Yun is menacing this time, I heard that there are more than 100,000 people on that ship, I don't know if the few thousand people you brought can be stopped?" ”

Of course, Ye Zongyuan's questioning was ridiculed by a group of British, and he came up with the precedent of the First Opium War, and thousands of people defeated the entire Qing government......

In this way, Ye Zongyuan naturally has nothing to say, his skills are not as good as others, and it is not terrible to be slapped in the face by others, what is terrible is that after the left cheek is beaten, he stretches out the right cheek to beat others!

Therefore, after the British patted his chest and assured, Ye Zongyuan turned around and left, he naturally hated Zhang Yun, but the sea breeze on the seaside was not pleasant, of course Master Ye couldn't stay here for a long time!

As for whether the foreigners can win against Zhang Yun's fleet?

Ye Zongyuan didn't want to take care of it, and he didn't have much military strength in his hands, Ye Zongyuan couldn't manage it even if he wanted to, but it was better to be an ostrich.

Regarding Ye Zongyuan's escape, the British didn't say much...... In fact, few Qing government officials who have dealt with them have backbone, so Ye Zongyuan will naturally not be looked down upon by them!

On the contrary, in order to prevent Zhang Yun's fleet on the sea from carrying out a night raid, the British commander at this time hurriedly ordered his men to insert torches throughout the harbor to prevent the people on the opposite side from landing on the beach at night.

Of course, because of the difference in weapons and equipment, the British naturally couldn't guess Lu Yongwang's thoughts, at this time, Lu Yongwang's mind was only thinking about how many shells were needed to destroy it, and the shore was obviously a newly built fortification?

As for the night beach landing war that the British speculated, it never flashed in Lu Yongwangdi's mind!

With rear-loading artillery and sacrificing human lives to carry out a beach-rushing landing, Lu Yongwang suspected that after he did this, he was afraid that his rank of lieutenant general would soon be taken off......

After all, even if the lives of the soldiers are no longer valuable, it is not like this, they can be wasted in this kind of place, maybe Zhang Yun can, but others cannot.

Therefore, Lu Yongwang only simply arranged the battle formation of the naval battle, and in this regard, the marshal had already given himself a few books.

Lu Yongwang, it's just doing things according to the rules!

Soon after the ships lined up in a belligerent formation, 100 130 cannons, and fifty 155 howitzers, were almost all loaded with shells and ready to fire at any time.

"Fire!"

At this point, Lu Yongwang didn't say anything, and as soon as the cannon fired, the silence of Kaohsiung Port was broken, and as the battleships on the sea kept rotating, there was a continuous loud noise over the entire Keelung Port.

The bang was so loud!

Ye Zongyuan was walking down the mountain in a sedan chair, and at the moment when the sound of the cannon came, several sedan chair drivers were soft, and Ye Zongyuan rolled out......

"Whew......"

Since he was a child, Lord Ye, who has always been pampered, has never suffered like today, after rolling out of the sedan chair, because this place is a small hillside, he has been rolling out more than ten meters before stopping......

Needless to say, the sins suffered during this period!

But at this time, Ye Zongyuan didn't care about the injuries on his body, and slapped off the hands of the officials who wanted to come over and pat the sycophants.

Immediately tell them to go back to the harbor at once, and see what the explosion was, so terrible as a thunderbolt from the blue?

In the distance over Kaohsiung Port, the continuous loud noise was still ringing, and the officials who were threatened by Ye Zongyuan did not want to go forward to carry out this order.

But looking back at the eyes of the prefect Ye Zongyuan, these unlucky officials could only rush to Kaohsiung Port in despair......