As the saying goes, the tiger can't stand the wolf, the ant bites the elephant to death, and the thief captures the king first...... All these sayings that everyone knows can be applied to the tactics of war!

The wisdom of the Chinese ancestors is always so prominent and wise.

Guerrilla tactics, decapitation tactics.

This is the tactic that Chen Liansheng hopes to use in naval warfare.

The Big Horn Fort is in the west, and the Shajiao Fort is in the east; One left and one right are in a corner to guard the estuary of the Pearl River. Coming from the Humen Fortress at the mouth of the Pearl River, the estuary is very wide, like an open horn. It would seem that it would not be difficult for the British fleet to drive long into the Pearl River waterway - but unless the British are crazy, they will do so.

Because the waterway becomes narrower and narrower the further in, the second gateway such as Weiyuan Fort and Jingyuan Fort is guarded behind, and there is a small island on the upper horizontal fence stuck in the middle. If you really want to go in, you have to be "closed and beaten by dogs", so it is very dangerous to outflank and flank the front and back, even if the strength of the British army far exceeds that of the Humen garrison.

Therefore, the tactics adopted by the British in this battle are to fight steadily - anyway, I am strong, I will just push it all the way through step by step. First, completely clear the danger of the sea surface area of Dajiao and Shajiao, and then let the soldiers land and conduct land warfare to control the hills on both sides and eliminate the Humen garrison. Then let the large army enter the Pearl River waterway and attack the second defensive gateways such as Weiyuan Fort and Jingyuan Fort.

But what these Xiyi ghosts didn't expect was that this group of ants was really a little fierce! As soon as the battle began, they began to have losses......

The pipe band that commands the flagship of the sailor "Draenor" is called Chen Hai, who is Chen Liansheng's kindred and can be regarded as a fierce general. As soon as the contact began, he ordered the Draenor to move forward at high speed and charge directly. Then it aimed at some of the smaller sail warships in the British fleet, and it was bombed indiscriminately.

Of course, Chen Hai knew that these small characters couldn't really make the British fleet break their bones, but the important thing was that he had to play with momentum first. Let the more than 600 Huizhou soldiers who have newly joined the Dragon God Sect in addition to the Guangzhou Naval Division have the confidence to win!

Before the British could react, two sail warships were hit by the Draenor and gradually fell silent. They didn't expect that the opponent's main flagship would rush so violently, it was completely the style of the death squad and the vanguard.

By the time they began to return fire, the Draenor had gracefully arced across the sea, heading to the right. Behind them are the thirty large sail warships built by the Humen garrison in recent years!

Boom Boom!

The sound of artillery bombardment suddenly sounded, and the sea was full of gunsmoke and splashing waves.

"These damn barbarians, so despicable and crazy, actually robbed our warships to fight." On a fifth-class battleship, a British soldier looked at the Draenor far away from the gunfire of the battleship where he was and cursed viciously.

Another British soldier next to him smiled and said, "It's okay David, the next thing is the show." The cannons of these eastern savages have a short range, we ......"

Boom Boom!

Before the British soldier could finish his sentence, three shells swept almost against the side of the ship they were on, and fell on the surface of the sea, stirring up high waves.

He was stunned.

This is so unscientific! When did the cannon range of Qing warships become so long?

In fact, since 1839, the British have gradually had friction with the Manchus, and it has been two years now. Basically, all the British soldiers thought that the Qing army's naval guns had a very short range, and they also figured out an approximate distance.

Therefore, when this fifth-class battleship faced the siege of three Qing wooden sail warships, the captain decisively chose to ignore it after estimating the range of the two ships on the left and right, and planned to kill the battleship facing the front with lightning speed, and then solve the left and right sides.

Although this tactic is very risky in theory, it is actually very maneuverable for the British warships who clearly know the range of the Qing army's naval division guns - they can't hit me anyway! And in previous naval battles, the British fought this way with fewer victories and more with this advantage.

But the current situation has made the British on this battleship stunned and forced!

His own battleship was obviously out of range of the cannons of the two wooden sail warships of the Qing army that were outflanked on the left and right, but now that they were firing in unison, they were almost hit. Although this range is still not as good as that of British warships, at least it is not much worse. How can this embarrass the British army, which has always fought smoothly?

However, it has to be said that Britain in this era did represent the world's most sophisticated weapons and equipment and the highest quality combat soldiers, and they quickly adjusted from their shock. A counterattack was launched.

Several cannons in front of them opened fire in a volley, accurately hitting the port side of the Qing warship opposite the front, crackling and clicking sawdust flew sideways, accompanied by the various hoarse roars of the combat soldiers, red flames and black smoke immediately rose into the air......

The cannonballs fired by this Qing warship were still not a short distance away from the British warship before they lost power and fell into the sea and splashed waves.

Only then did the British discover that not all of the Qing army's naval ships had a long range of their cannons, but only partially.

Indeed, only some of the Qing warships exhibited in the Battle of Humen have been improved.

As a matter of fact, the issue of the difference in the firing range of the guns planted by the Chinese and British ships has always been a pain in the hearts of people of insight.

Therefore, after the naval battle of Guangzhou was won and Zhao Wushuang's Dragon God Sect took control of the Guangzhou Naval Division, he immediately ordered the craftsmen below to start improving the range of the ship's cannons - and it was issued by the Dragon God Decree within the Dragon God Sect!

The people below saw that Lord Shenzun actually attached so much importance to it, so he naturally worked overtime with full horsepower to improve and rush the system.

Some people may think that the craftsmen of the Manchu Dynasty were stupid and forced, how could it be possible to improve the range of the cannon in a short period of time?

This is really a wish for the craftsmen. The real stupid and forced was the Manchu court!!

According to relevant historical records, as early as the Shunzhi Kangxi period, the Manchu court directly formulated some regulations on the casting of firearms.

First of all, the types of various weapons and equipment are strictly regulated; Secondly, it is to specify the manufacturing process according to the model. It's inflexible, and it's more rigid than the eight-strand taker. What's more, after all, there is still a certain amount of positive influence in the eight-strand division, and this kind of restriction of weapons and equipment is simply brain-dead to the extreme!

Of course, this is not the most cerebral and crippled. Finally, there is another one, which is an important reason that really led to the deterioration of weapons and armaments and the continuous decline of overall combat effectiveness in the entire Manchu Qing Dynasty.

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