Weakly ask, is there still a monthly pass?

"If you go back to the emperor, there are nearly 100,000 water divisions in the green camp of this Qing Tartar, and there are water divisions in the coastal and riverside provinces. However, there are only three Admirals of the Navy, namely the Admiral of the Yangtze River, the Admiral of the Guangdong Navy, and the Admiral of the Fujian Navy. Among them, the Fujian Navy Commander has the most powerful troops, with more than 28,000 people, divided into five battalions of the Navy Division and four towns of the Navy, such as Kinmen, Haitan, Nanao, and Taiwan, with 342 warships on the open sea, and the department is equipped with a lot of shotguns, guns, and artillery, which is the crown of the green battalions in all provinces. Among the four towns of the Fujian Navy Division, Taiwan Town has the strongest military strength, with more than 13,000 troops. In addition, there is also a naval flag battalion at the mouth of the Sanjiang River near Fuzhou City, and there are more than 1,000 soldiers. Recently, the Qing Dynasty set up a Eight Banners Metropolitan Government in Taiwan, under its jurisdiction more than 1,500 soldiers of the Eight Banners, all of whom were foreign spearmen and were known as the Eight Banners New Army. If the emperor wants to take Taiwan in the future, he must be careful with this army. ”

Wang Anshun, the former commander of the right battalion of the Manchu Nanao Naval Division, who had just abandoned the Qing Dynasty and surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, was in the cabin of the Lanfang with a pale face, and told him what he knew about the Fujian Naval Division. He has been in the Fujian Navy Division for more than ten years and knows the situation of the Fujian Navy Master well.

Zhu Jishi also listened to it with relish, he is not much interested in fighting Fujian now, but Fujian Province in Zhu Jishi's mind does not include Taiwan. This island is isolated from the sea, and it must be connected to the mainland by sea. And the Manchu Fujian sailors are the same tofu scum as the Guangdong sailors, and they are not vulnerable at all. As long as there is one more "armed merchant ship" like the Lanfang, it can seize sea supremacy in the Taiwan Strait and cut off Taiwan's Qing army from the mainland. As for the more than 10,000 green battalion soldiers on the island of Taiwan. It's not worth mentioning at all. At most, the new army of 1,508 banners can fight a little.

"That's right. Emperor, the current Taiwan town chief soldier Chang Yisu is a general, although he is a banner man, but he is an official with real kung fu, he is a martial champion, and he is good at governing the army. In the past few years since he arrived in Taiwan, Taiwan Town has indeed cheered up a lot. During this period of time, there were police in the maritime frontier of Guangdong, and this Chang Yisu had already entered Penghu with the town mark and the Taiwan Association of Sailors. He often sails out to sea to patrol in person, so we may be able to meet him along the way. ”

Zhu Jishi waved his hand, interrupted Wang Anshun, and asked people to lead him out of the cabin, and then looked at Zuo Zongtang and Wang Dehu.

"The banner man, the champion of martial arts, is also good at governing the army...... It seems that our journey is not as peaceful as we imagined. ”

"What about Wu Zhuangyuan, isn't it just a little more powerful, a little better in equestrian skills, and a little more accurate in archery!" Zuo Zongtang smiled. Waving his hand, he said, "The martial arts of the Manchu Qing Dynasty are all street performances. It has nothing to do with fighting, even if the army is stricter? Can the small sampan of the Fujian sailor still be able to get our Western boat? ”

"Yes, yes, where does a Manchurian understand naval warfare?" Wang Dehu's smile was even brighter, he originally felt that his "sailor" was a transportation errand no matter how he looked at it, and he had no chance of fighting at all, but now he heard that the general soldier of the Manchu Taiwan Town took the wrong medicine and was personally driving a boat to patrol the sea, how could he be unhappy? It's a great achievement, waiting for me at sea!

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"Gold on a blue background, sun and moon? Whose ship is this...... Has any of you heard of it? ”

Chang Yisu, the chief soldier of Taiwan Town, listened to the report of his subordinates and felt a little puzzled. This Manchurian man in his forties has a simple face and a burly figure, and the children of the Eight Banners who are equally idle look different. He is the martial champion of Jiaqing for twenty-five years! The legendary martial arts master, who served as a guard for Jiaqing and Emperor Daoguang for ten years, Daoguang served as the deputy general of the Sichuan Kuizhou Association for ten years, and then has been serving as a deputy general, chief soldier, admiral and other military attachés in the mainland, but they are all land officials. I don't know what Emperor Daoguang thinks, such a senior army general who was born as a martial arts master was actually arranged to be a "naval general" in the Fujian Navy Division.

Recently, Guangdong's maritime frontier has been uneasy, uh, it is to make trouble for Zhu Jishi, so well, the Fujian sailors near Guangdong are also not peaceful. Emperor Daoguang issued a strict decree to the Fujian Navy Division to be vigilant at all times, and not to let Zhu Jishi, a rebel, come to Fujian to rebel. The island of Taiwan, which hangs alone overseas, must be particularly careful, and the Fujian Navy Division Taiwan Town must be even more strict in training and must not slack off.

Therefore, Changyi Suchang is a great master, and at this time he is personally supervising the training of the warships of the Penghu Naval Division.

"Lord Zongrong, my subordinates have been running at sea for more than ten years, and I haven't seen this flag, could it be a country that didn't exist before......" replied to a thousand presidents, which was the pipe belt of a double-canopy ship that escaped from the muzzle of the Lanfang before. Although this small sampan of the Manshui Division could not be used for naval battles at all, it was not slow to run, and it took less than half a day to escape to the vicinity of Penghu, and just happened to meet the warships of Taiwan Town that went to sea to practice, and was brought to Chang Yisu.

When Shi Degao, the deputy general of the Penghu Water Division Association, heard this, his face suddenly changed greatly, and he lost his voice: "The sun and the moon are bright!" Isn't it a ship that rebels against the light and thieves? ”

"It must be a rebel! Is their flag not only the sun and the moon shining together? That's what the notice sent by the Guangdong Navy Division said. Hehe, this anti-Ming thief is not small, and he dares to break into the territory of our Fujian sailors. The soldiers listened to the order, and the whole army turned to the west to meet the rebels! ”

As soon as Chang Yisu gave the order, the more than 100 ships of the Green Battalion Naval Division who were swinging the plum blossom array on the sea turned their bows and slowly went west against the wind to search for Zhu Jishi's fleet.

"Lower the Sun and Moon Flag and replace it with the Rice Flag!"

Zhu Jishi, who was dressed as the Ming Emperor on the back deck of the Lanfang, suddenly remembered that in the old version of the First Sino-Japanese Naval War movie he watched when he was a child, the Japanese fleet approached the Beiyang Naval Division under the flag of the Americans, so he ordered his fleet to play the flag of the British.

Wang Dehu responded, and then ordered his subordinates to raise flags and give the three armed merchant ships behind the Lanfang. Zuo Zongtang reminded with some uncertainty: "Ming Gong, we won't cause any diplomatic disputes if we do this, right?" ”

"It's okay, the foreign merchant ships along the coast of China have always flown flags indiscriminately. Besides, our three armed merchant ships are really in the name of Nanyang Xing, and they were originally British ships. ”

It is true that there are cases of indiscriminate flags, because at present, the treaties signed by Western countries with the Manchu Qing are different in content and enjoy different treatments. As a result, Western merchant ships operating along the coast of China either flew either the British or French flags. Because the treaty between the former and the Manchus was the most favorable, while the latter had the best relations with the Manchus, and there were certain preferential treatments to enjoy.

"Tiger, our gunner Jishu doesn't seem to be very good, the distance is too far to miss, so you have to get close and bombard! Let's pretend to be a British ship and approach, and then change the sun and moon and the same flag before the battle. By the way, the wind is in our favor right now, right? ”

"Now we have the upper hand, and it is indeed more advantageous." Wang Dehu understands naval warfare, he thought about it, and said: "This upper hand has always been stable, because the ships of the Manchu Qingshui Division are small, and there is no chance of fighting an artillery battle, and the only chance to win is to set fire to the ship." Therefore, we should use the T-shaped cross-cut tactic to maximize the firepower advantage. ”

The arson ship tactics are a little old, and the Battle of Chibi in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is to use fireships to break the enemy, and when it came to the Opium War, it was even more used by many Manchu ministers as a trick, thinking that they could be caught off guard by the British. In fact, arson ship tactics existed in Europe as well, and they were once very popular, but only gradually withdrew from the attention of the navies of various countries as the power of naval guns increased.

"Lord Zongrong...... It is very likely that there is a fourth-level warship, although there are many of our ships, but they are too small, and the firepower is weak, I am afraid that it is not an opponent, and the only way is to attack with fire! But the wind is ......"

The general army of Taiwan Town was on the boat, and Shi De, the deputy general of the Penghu Association, frowned, and was analyzing the battle situation for the great master of Changyi and Suchang, who was quite strict in governing the army. This Shi Degao is a relative of Jinghai Hou Shi Lang, his ancestors participated in Shi Langping's Penghu naval battle in Taiwan, his ancestors have been in Fujian for generations, and his father also served as a Fujian naval commander, and he himself has heard and witnessed things about naval battles and water battles since he was a child. Although he is not a naval general, he is indeed a knowledgeable master, and he will not think that he can defeat the enemy by relying on more men and more ships. (To be continued......)