Wang Delu is the governor of Fujian, since August of the 14th year of Jiaqing (1809), because of the meritorious service to quell the chaos, he was appointed as the governor of the Fujian Navy. In August of the 14th year, he attacked Cai in Dinghai Yushan and was defeated. Led to the southeast, chased to the black water ocean, combined to attack the tired, good merit to Zhejiang boat to the thief boat east, Delu led the Fujian boat to the east of the Zhejiang boat, the battle, the good merit boat was injured and temporarily retreated, the Lu boat entered, attached to the boat, the thieves were separated from the help. The lead pill is exhausted, and the silver is used as a generation, and the forehead and wrist of Delu are all injured, and the fire is burned to the tail of the boat, and its coffin is broken again. Knowing that it was inevitable, the cannon split itself and its boat sank into the sea. The edict was rebellious for ten years and four years, Qu Kui was annihilated, and his achievements were very great, and he was awarded the second-class viscount of Lu and given a pair of dazzling eyes. The remaining 1,200 people surrendered, and the pirates died.

Wang Delu was also a capable official to the governor of Pinghai Trouble, and this time he was ordered to level the troubles and personally led the Fujian Navy Division and the Jiangnan Navy Division to set off from Mawei to prepare to take Kinmen first, and the large and small Kinmen included the two islands of Kinmen Island (Big Kinmen) and Lieyu (Little Kinmen), as well as the bold and Erdan islands that originally belonged to Xiamen County, and the large and small Wuqiu Islands that originally belonged to Putian County, with a total area of about 150 square kilometers, and the county governed the Jincheng Town of Kinmen Island. Kinmen is located in the southeast sea of Fujian Province, choking the throat of Xiamen and blocking Fujian and Guangdong. The old names are "Huzhou", "Xianzhou", "Hudao", also known as "Cangzhou", "Hujiang" and so on. It was originally a desert island, and the Central Plains was in turmoil during the Jin Dynasty, and some people crossed the sea to live here. In the twentieth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1387), he built a city on the island, named "Golden Gate City", and then attacked and used it to this day. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Zheng Chenggong used Kinmen as an anti-Qing base and a springboard for attacking Taiwan. The Ming and Qing dynasties were both subordinate to Tong'an County.

It can be said that Kinmen is a strategic location, and if you take Taiwan, you must take Kinmen. As for why he didn't go directly out of the horse tail and directly take the northern region of Taiwan, in fact, at that time, the administrative center of the island of Taiwan was in Tainan, and the military thinking has always been the theory of urban center, so Wang Delu believes that as long as Tainan is pacified, then Taiwan will basically be pacified, and there is no way to fight wars in ancient times, in fact, it has always been like this in modern times. It is said that Kinmen is close to Xiamen, and Wang Delu knows that there is an enemy fleet stationed in Kinmen, which can threaten Xiamen at any time, so he goes south to recapture Kinmen first and attack Taiwan.

The news that the fleet composed of the Fujian Navy Division and the Jiangnan Navy Division had gone south to seize Kinmen had been passed to the Kinmen defenders by intelligence officers a few days earlier, and by March 15, the day before Wang Delu's fleet set off, Lin Hong had already transferred all naval forces, including the warships he had just bought, to Kinmen and handed them over to the command of Li Zhongtai, commander of the Royal Fleet, including 10 battleships of the 3rd class with 74 guns. There were 18 48-gun battleships and 20 small 24-gun single-deck battleships (not built by Lin Hong's shipyard in Taiwan), among which Lin Hong also bought a paddle steamer clipper for the Royal Fleet to use as a reconnaissance ship.

"Commander, according to the intelligence, it is estimated that the Manchu warship fleet is coming south and is about to arrive at Kinmen, shouldn't we also set off?" Qin Mo, chief of staff of the Royal Navy Fleet, said to Li Zhongtai, the commander of the Royal Fleet next to him, on the dock.

"Old Qin! Don't worry, those ships of the Manchu Qing Dynasty are also worthy of being called warships, they can only be regarded as sailors, and the warships of the royal fleet of our empire are enough to sweep them, well, order the fleet to raise its sails and go north to meet the enemy. ”

"It's the Commander!" Qin Mo turned around and left. Li Zhongtai looked at Qin Mo's back and smiled, he thought that Lao Qin was not good at this point and was too rigid.

The blue waves are surging, and the petrels return to a great sea scenery.

"Commander, the notification ship has sent a flag saying that more than 60 warships of the Manchurian Water Division have been found 20 nautical miles north of our fleet." Qin Mo said.

"It's good to have this notification ship, anticipating the enemy prophet, let the little steamer continue to monitor and report at any time." ……

At this time, the Manchu fleet was panicked by this notification ship of the royal fleet, and even Wang Delu was extremely surprised, how could this small boat with sails and smoke on both sides of the ship with wheels on both sides run so fast, although it did not fire to attack itself, but the five flags on his mast showed that it was also an enemy ship, which made Wang Delu always feel very uneasy in his heart.

At about two o'clock in the afternoon of March 15, 1830, the ship returned, for the two fleets were already visible to the naked eye. "The battleship seized the T-sprint and prepared to fire." The 3rd Rank battleship, the flagship of the Royal Fleet, issued a flag, and the entire Royal Fleet began to turn.

"Let the sailors and warships rush the enemy in formation." Wang Delu said to the general manager next to him.

"Yes, my lord."

A naval battle is on the verge of breaking out.

At about two o'clock, the Manchu Qing Division warships entered the shè process, whether Lin Hong bought them from the system or sent them to the warship, the guns equipped with them were breech guns, and the shells were all flowering shells, the shè Cheng was far more powerful and fast, even if the light battleships built by themselves were also the cannons bought by the system, the imperial fleet took the lead in firing, and the Qi shè after a burst of Qi shè made the Manchu Qing division have no power to fight back, in fact, the artillery equipped by the Manchu Qing fleet could not hit the imperial fleet at all, and several counterattacks were hit into the sea, without making people exhausted. For a while, the smoke was thick. But Wang Delu is difficult to do, his own naval artillery can't hit them at all now, and the opponent's formation is lined up in a line, the firepower is concentrated, and the flowering bomb is fierce, what should I do? After hesitating, several warships were destroyed and sunk by bullets, "Hurry up and send the flag, speed up and get closer, and at all costs, they will fight on the side." "It's an adult!"

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, this is a massacre at all, and the Manshui Master is vulnerable!"

"Commander our fleet is better than artillery and shells, the Qing fleet can't fight, naturally it is passively beaten, I watch the enemy fleet speed up with full sails, as if to engage our fleet and fight." Qin Mo said.

"Humph! Let them have no return, each ship concentrates its fire to knock out the enemy ship, and then prepare for a close artillery battle, avoid broadside combat, let the small ship leave the team and intersperse the enemy flank, and give him a left hook. ”

For a while, the cannon roared and fireworks flew.

Two hours and three quarters,

The small boats sent by the Royal Fleet penetrated into the Fujian Fleet and the Jiangnan Fleet from the flanks, and with the rapid shè of flowering shells and breech loading, the Manchu Shimizu Division ships were overturned, but the Manchu Shimizu Division warships were also fighting bravely, and the light warships of the Imperial Fleet were also hit, and some were forced to engage in broadside battles by the Manchu Shimizu Division, among which the "Shi Qian" as a notification ship fired at a distance by virtue of its speed and artillery shè range, and the "Shi Qian" actually did not dare to rush over for a broadside battle. The paddle wheel limited the number of guns, and only a small number of guns were equipped on both sides of the gunwale, and if the enemy ship accidentally hit the paddle wheel, the ship would be scrapped. Since the Manchu Shimizu Division's wing had already engaged in the battle on the side of the Imperial fleet, the battleship fleet had no choice but to direct its fire on the remaining enemy ships that were still approaching the main position without broadside.

The battle lasted until about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and there were very few of the Manchu Qing Division's artillery shots, although Wang Delu's fleet eventually fought with the Imperial Fleet, and the officers and men of the Manchu Qing Naval Division were also brave in battle, but at this time, there were only more than 20 of his entire fleet left, of which only the big ships were on his ships and the remaining 4, and the sea was full of wooden planks and floating corpses. He had to order all the ships to fight hard, and the rest of the wounded ships withdrew from the battlefield on their own. Wang Delu's desperate fight really frightened Li Zhongtai, but in the end, he was still unable to overcome the gap in tactics, equipment, and the quality of officers and men.

At around three o'clock, the Manchu warships fled one after another and left the battlefield, and Wang Delu also committed suicide by drawing a knife on the deck.

At about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, there was no cannon sound on the sea, and the fifteen or sixteen ships of the Manchu Qing Division ran away, and all the rest were sunk, and the Imperial fleet began to clean up the battlefield, salvage the wounded, and collect the prisoners.

"Commander, our army won a great victory in this battle, destroying 47 enemy warships, 8 of our 24-gun single-deck battleships were sunk, 3 were seriously injured, 9 were lightly damaged, 3 were lightly injured and 1 was seriously damaged, and 72-gun battleships were all slightly damaged. Our army lost about the officers and men of the navy"

"Return to the army, report to Your Majesty!"

At the moment of the end of the naval battle, Lin Hong had already received a message from the system and had one more task.