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The two fleets were eyeing each other, and both seemed to be approaching with an aura that wanted to overwhelm each other.

"Send a signal, each ship will follow me, form a formation to meet the battle, and first concentrate on defeating the three capital ships of the rebels." With Davakov's order, the "Cossacks" crossed the hull and made a large circle. He knew that, purely in terms of weapons, the firepower of his own fleet was inferior to that of these three British-built capital ships, and his purpose in doing so was to fully unleash the side guns of each ship and turn the original disadvantage into a relative advantage.

Xu Zongyang on the "Humen" doesn't seem to care about this. He put down the binoculars in his hand and said, "Send a signal, deploy as scheduled, and the two ships 'Zhenhai' and 'Dinghai' will attack the frigate of the Russian devils, attract the enemy's attention, and cover the attack of the torpedo boat formation." As he spoke, he turned his head to look at Ma Hanwei with a glow on his dark face, and pointed his hand forward, "Full speed ahead, aim for their flagship!" ”

"Yes, full speed ahead, aim for their flagship!" Ma Hanwei repeated loudly, pulling off the red star hat on his head and buttoning it again.

Smoke billowed from the air, cannon roared, waves raged, and as the two fleets became entangled, a naval battle began.

For Xu Zongyang, this was the first and largest naval battle he participated in in his life.

For Davakov, the naval battle seems to be a ramp-and-place affair at the moment. The development of the form shì was beneficial to his side from the beginning. He really saw that his opponent was a group of "chicks", and the two armies clashed, and they took out the kind of energy that they might be used to playing on the land battlefield, rampage, and blindly fought regardless of it.

Under the onslaught of the opponent, the three small frigates of his own fleet were actually driven out of the formation, and the opponent actually adopted the tactic of bullying the small with the big ones, and the two big ships chased after their own small ships. Davakov smiled helplessly. Now, he didn't have time to ask about the fate of the small frigates, he wanted to concentrate the four capital ships and first encircle and annihilate the flagships that the other side rushed straight up.

After the first round of shelling, neither side seemed to have achieved much success. Fighting four to one, the "Humen", which was obviously at a disadvantage, seemed to be difficult to parry, leaving behind the two own warships that were entangled with the opponent in the east, and turned around and headed west.

"Catch up and sink it!" Davakov did not hesitate to give the order.

A large circle was drawn, and the torpedo boat formation sailed up from the west facing the "Humen."

"Look, our opponents are red-eyed, and the tadpoles are going to come up and toss." Davakov shook the telescope in his hand and shrugged his shoulders again.

"Haha, Your Excellency, I will not have mercy on the little ones." The captain of the "Cossack" smirked, "I prefer to sink them directly, and save some shells for our esteemed Tsar." ”

"That's not going to work." Davakov shook his head, "Dear Mr. Captain, what we need is time, let's reward them with more imperial shells, we want to create a miracle, a miracle to completely annihilate the enemy and a complete fleet in the shortest time." ”

"Yes, Your Excellency Commander." The captain smiled, easily and comfortably.

Twelve torpedo boats, divided into four formations, swept over both sides of the "Humen," which had already begun to turn eastward, and pounced on their respective targets at maximum speed.

The commander of the torpedo boat 005 was Ryu Hee-ha, and like him, the other eleven members of the boat were all cadets from the Naval Academy. Each of these twelve people will have their own proud experience on the land battlefield. However, it was the first time for them to replace the war horses with the current warships to chop the waves, and to put down the broadswords and spears they were accustomed to in their hands to control the enemy, cannons, and torpedoes to really fight the enemy.

"Target, first target, all launched!" Torpedo boat No. 005 drilled through the interceptor fire of the Russian devils, and as Liu Xihe broke off like a cry on the training ground, the hull of the ship shook, and both torpedoes were shot out within only a few dozen yards. Two, and two other sister boats, also with two torpedoes, dragged silver spray towards the "Cossacks".

Liu Xihe's squadron deftly drew a beautiful big circle, jumping out of the battle circle with joy. Behind him, there was a loud explosion.

The nearly 3,000-ton "Cossack" first jumped upwards and then fell apart in a series of explosions. Twenty-four Torpedoes of the Celestial-II type, which changed the history of naval warfare almost instantaneously. The "little tadpoles" easily sent four arrogant Tsarist Russian gunboats of 1,000 tons to the bottom of the sea.

Colonel Davakov did not live to see this great miracle, and he did not understand what was going on until he died? It is a pity that their British "allies" did not tell them that the Celestial Navy had a terrible weapon called "torpedoes". The British were so bad that they had bought torpedoes to deal with the Russians, and of course they would not tell them this secret again.

On the "Humen", Xu Zongyang and Ma Hanwei, who had already turned back and were ready to fight again, also opened their mouths wide, and they were speechless for a long time. It's so fast! Although they all knew the power of torpedoes, they never imagined that the torpedo boat brigade that participated in the battle for the first time would do so neatly.

The remaining three frigates of Davakov's fleet, under the fierce blows of the "Zhenhai" and "Dinghai", could not withstand at all, the two frigates quickly sank, and the only surviving "Wanderer" fled.

The blue sea is calm again.

"Your Excellency, Commander, there seem to be a few more in the sea who can breathe." Ma Hanwei scanned the beautiful sea with his binoculars and smiled happily.

"Return." Xu Zongyang looked at the sky, "We still have to prepare for the night battle, as for them, if they are lucky, they can go back and report to their master." ”

"Yes, return!" Ma Hanwei waved his hand and turned his face to look at the west. Today's weather is really good, and it is a rare good day for landing operations.

When the Celestial Empire Navy won a complete victory in the first foreign naval battle, a mobile corps of Luo Gang in Hubei began to besiege Suizhou.

Under the guidance of the strategic thinking of consolidating the western front, developing Huang and Ma, and cooperating with and reducing the pressure on the sky army in the northern Anhui battlefield, Luo Gang's troops did not simply sit in Wuchang, Jingzhou, and Yichang, but adopted an active defensive posture and took the initiative to attack, and their forces have spread throughout the vast areas west of Guangshui and Tianmen.

According to the overall strategy of the Qing army, Shu Xing'a, the governor of Hubei, who was sticking to Xiangyang and Fancheng, and Lu Yinggu, the governor of Henan, who came to support, as well as the four Xiezhong and righteous rescue forces under the command of Mianxun, the former Jingzhou general who had just entered Hubei, were divided into three routes, and at the same time besieged the guerrilla areas owned by the Heavenly Army and the key points of Wuchang, Jingzhou, and Yichang, so as to cope with the operations on the Suzhou-Anhui battlefield. They didn't expect that Luo Outline would be anti-customer-oriented.

Maybe it's because he doesn't have the ability to look at the 20,000 Heavenly Army, or he wants to fight a good battle to boost the morale of the decadent army in the past. Mianxun temporarily changed his strategy, he wanted to concentrate all his forces and first eliminate this force of the heavenly army concentrated under Suizhou City.

For a time, the loyalty of the four associations and tens of thousands of green battalion soldiers of the Qing army began to train towards Suizhou. Mianxun even thought about it, but he was afraid that the heavenly army under Suizhou City would flee south when he saw that the situation was not good, disrupting his wise deployment of annihilating the heavenly army, so he deliberately used Shu Xing'a's main force to penetrate directly between Anlu and Guangshui to cut off the retreat of the heavenly army.

Luo Xuan got the news that the enemy was pressing on all sides, and he was happy. He won't go south according to Mianxun's wishes, there is already Shi Xiangzhen in Wuchang, he has no worries, what he wants is how to make Mianxun have a strong interest in him, and he has to put him to death as soon as possible.

Mianxun's encirclement plan had not yet been realized, and Luo Xuan led his troops to withdraw from the siege of Suizhou, and actually faced the direction of the Qing army, and the whole army went north, and jumped out of the encirclement of Mianxun.

Mianxun is in a hurry, if he is allowed to toss Luo Xuan in his rear, not only will he not be able to complete the unified deployment of the entire Suzhou-Anhui-Hubei battlefield, but he will also be cut off by Changmao at any time, and even the danger of being annihilated by each other. The failure in the past was that the troops were scattered at various points, giving Longhair Yu an opportunity to take advantage of. He did not hesitate to lead his army to turn around and follow Luo Xuan north. With the four elite new military associations, he didn't believe it, and he couldn't take more than 20,000 long hairs.

Shu Xing'a did not catch any shadow of long hair, and stayed in Suizhou for a day, that is, he led his troops to attack the county seat of Guangshui. The main force of the long hair was chased by Zhongyi and lost his shadow, so it should be no problem to take the opportunity to bargain in Guangshui and other places. Who knows, after only staying under Guangshui City for less than two days, he can't stand it.

The heavenly army in the city was stubborn and could not attack. At night, I don't know where the long hair comes from, and it is endless. Hit, can't find anyone, don't fight? Don't dare to sleep. Naturally, he didn't know that the generals of the Heavenly Army almost all had the sixteen-character true decision of King An, "The enemy advances and I retreat, and the enemy is stationed and disturbs me." When the enemy is tired, I fight, and when the enemy retreats, I chase. When he heard that there were a large number of heavenly troops in the direction of Wuchang, he didn't even want to consider how reliable this information would be, so he quickly pulled out the camp and retreated directly back to Suizhou. Let's wait, wait until Mianxun comes back.

Mianxun will not be able to come back for a while, and his loyal rescue ** followed Luo Xuan into the Tongbai Mountains and started an armed parade.

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