Dolgon's white flag went out to sea, and it didn't take long for it to collide head-on with the First Fleet withdrawing from the Yalu River, six warships of the First Fleet, and more than fifty warships.

The number is not proportional at all.

"It is estimated that all the sailors of the Manchu Qing Dynasty are here." Su Buheng looked at the huge fleet and estimated that Wen Bangliang pointed to those warships and said: "Your Excellency, you see, their ships have a deep waterline, and they must be loaded with a lot of things, or a lot of people. ”

Su Buheng hurriedly looked at the waterline of those warships, and sure enough, as Wen Bangliang said, the warships of the Manchu Qing Dynasty exceeded the normal waterline one by one.

Some of the boats were also seriously overloaded, and the way they drove made people feel like they would be swept over by the waves if they were not careful.

"My lord, the dragon slogan and the Shanghai number request combat instructions." The flag bearer then reported.

"Order, use chain bullets to attack the sails of enemy ships, and paralyze them all." Su Buheng turned his head and ordered, the flag bearer quickly climbed the mast and waved the battle flag to the other five warships, although the Manchu warships were not large in tonnage, they were very good for coastal patrols.

At the sound of the order, the six warships suddenly rushed towards the warships of the Qing army, and the soldiers with the white flag did not know what the black dot in the distance represented, but they were extremely unfamiliar with the sea.

Only the Han soldiers on the ship knew that there were several ships coming in the distance. However, judging by the number of black spots, the other side has only eight ships.

And they have more than 50 ships, and they are in an absolute advantage in numbers, so they are relatively calm.

However, when the two sides entered within a kilometer, the soldiers with white flags on the Qing warships finally saw the black dots in the distance.

That's six tall three-masted battleships! It was larger than the ten armed merchant ships I had seen before, and there were many more guns on the sides of the ships.

There are also two strange ships that are surprisingly fast.

In particular, the moon flag that was hoisted high and fluttered in the sea breeze made the Han soldiers in charge of the boat fall into panic for a moment.

"What's going on?" Dorgon asked with a frown as he looked at the eight bright ships in the distance.

"Prince Rui is not good, the warship of the Ming army is coming."

"But eight warships, what are you afraid of him doing?" Dolgon said angrily, and the sailor general replied in horror: "Prince Rui, there are many artillery pieces on the Ming warships, but there are no artillery in my Daqing Division, and the ships are not as tall as the other party, and the whole ship is loaded with people, so it is not a defense at all!" ”

"Send thirty warships, let them rush up, and be sure to sink the Ming warships." Dolgon, however, did not listen at all, and insisted on ordering the sailor general, "The remaining twenty-three warships will return to Liao with this king." ”

"Slag." The sailor commander reluctantly received the order and passed Dolgon's order from ship to ship, and Dolgon began to urge.

In fact, Dolgon knew that the sea was no match for the Ming army, so he ordered thirty warships to meet the enemy in order to win his successful escape.

"The Ming army has landed in Liaodong, and Lushun may have fallen into the hands of the Ming army at this moment." Dolgon thought to himself, and hurriedly ordered the sailor general: "Change the route, let's take the Sancha River." ”

"Slag."

However, before Dorgon's ships could break away from the fleet, the First Fleet had already gone downwind and launched an artillery attack on the Manchu Division.

The First Fleet, which was in a downwind position, had enemy guns tilted upwards along the hull.

The dense smoke rose and the cannonballs flew out, and the chain bullets fired by the Qingdao were not aimed at a Manchu warship, and the dense chain bullets swept past the warship, instantly destroying the sails of the warship.

The ship lost its sails and was paralyzed on the surface of the sea. The hard sails used by the ships of the Ming Dynasty, once the hard sails are destroyed, they are not as simple as canvas to repair.

The use of chain bombs to strike sails is very efficient, and a single salvo can almost disable a ship on the spot. Six warships entered the attack position one after another, and one after another tried to fire on the Manchu warships.

According to the law of XX, for every 2 times the increase of the ship, the power required is only 1.5 times, and the larger the sailboat, the larger the sailing ship, the larger the force area of the sail, and the more power it will be. In addition, the Qing army's naval division was seriously overloaded, and its speed was as slow as a turtle, which was very different from the warships of the First Fleet in this regard, and there were not many artillery on board, so they could only be slaughtered.

However, soon after, the First Fleet discovered the anomaly of the Qing Army's naval division, and saw Long Slogan venture into the encirclement of the Qing Army's naval division, but the empty artillery of the Qing army's warship never sounded.

It turned out that in order to carry the men and horses of the white flag, Dolgon threw all the gunners on the warship on the Iron Mountain, and there were very few Han soldiers on each ship, which was only enough to drive the ship.

And up and down the white flag, but few people know how to use this artillery, and the artillery on those warships itself is not too far, and it is even more scrap of copper and iron.

The dragon slogan, which was not bombarded, used its tall hull to rampage through the Qing warships, and the artillery under the white flag could not be fired, and even the jumping gang could not fight at all.

The Han soldiers who drove the ship could not hit the large warships of the First Fleet with the ship, and the result was a complete tragedy, and the dragon slogan opened the bow left and right on both sides of the Qing warship, and in the case of such a close distance, there was no need to consider the problem of the upwind position and the downwind position, except that the bilge artillery could not attack the sails of the Manchu warship, and the artillery on the upper two floors could easily hit it.

The adventurous behavior of the dragon slogan allowed the First Fleet to find out the details of the Manchu Qing Division, and the captains of the ships saw this situation and ordered to rush into the enemy formation.

Dolgon's sailing ships were the fastest, as they carried the fewest horses. So as soon as Dorgon decided to run, he immediately ran to the front.

This also made Dolgon's warship a conspicuous target, and Su Buheng commanded the Qingdao to block Dolgon's escape route, and then opened fire to destroy the sails.

However, after the Qingdao destroyed the sails, it went to look for the next target, because the appearance of the warship that Dolgon was on was not conspicuous, and Su Buheng did not know that Dolgon was on that ship.

Dolgon was frightened into a cold sweat, at this time he already regretted his behavior by sea, strictly speaking, he regretted it to the extreme.

The white flag is like a lamb to the slaughter at sea, without any means of counterattack. The only thing to be thankful for is that there are too many lambs and too few wolves.

The First Fleet, which rushed into the flock, was like a tiger entering a flock of sheep, and opened its bows left and right to shell the sails of the Qing warships, but there were too many Qing warships.

The Qing warships that were shelled were like frightened beasts, and began to scatter and flee, but the First Fleet only had six warships, which one to chase?

It depends on the captain's own judgment, and the Shandong Navy is not following the rigid tactics used at the beginning of the British rise, but focusing on the adaptability of grassroots commanders.

Six warships, each pursuing their chosen target, each captain tried to gather the Qing warships together, and the two warships began to cruise around the perimeter, encircling the Qing warships that had broken away from the group.

However, there were too many Qing warships, and even if six warships surrounded them together, they could not stop the Qing warships from scattering.

Su Buheng hurriedly asked the flag bearers to play the flag, asking them to encircle the Qing warships heading for Liaodong Bay, and at the same time let the flying clippers quickly return to Longkou, so that the Longkou ships could block the passage into Liaodong Bay.

From Dengzhou to the Liaodong Peninsula, it is only a hundred kilometers away. There is an archipelago that extends out of this channel, and the northernmost Chenghuang Island is only 40 kilometers from the Liaodong Peninsula.

At this time, the eastern and southern parts of the Liaodong Peninsula have been conquered by the Shandong army, and the area from Zhenjiang to the Liaodong Peninsula has also been conquered, as long as the passage from Dengzhou to the Liaodong Peninsula is blocked, the route of the Qing army back to Liaodong can be blocked, and most of these warships will be captured by the Shandong army, whether they flee to the Liaodong Peninsula, or run to the Yalu River, or drift past. It doesn't matter if you run North Korea.

The six warships of the First Fleet immediately pursued the Qing warships that fled to Liaodong Bay, and the two flying clippers in the fleet, one urgently reported to the Longkou Military Headquarters and the other to the Liaodong General Staff.

Just two hours later, Longkou received the news.

According to the estimate of the First Fleet, a total of more than 30 Qing warships were paralyzed by them, and more than 20 escaped. The more than 30 warships had no sails, so they could only drift with the waves, and they would not drift too far for a while and a half, and as long as they searched the Bohai Sea, they could all be found.

The more than 20 Qing warships that escaped are very likely to land on the Liaodong Peninsula, and some of them may run back to Korea, or even run to Shandong, and those Qing warships that drift may also drift to Shandong.

"My lord, the Qing army's naval division is full of men and horses, starting from North Korea, and if you want to return to Liaodong by sea, Huang Taiji is very likely to be on board." Mao Yuanyi said to Zhao Yan.

"It's very likely, it's probably cornered." Zhao Yan also felt that this speculation was very well-founded.

Mao Yuanyi suggested: "Although we don't have enough warships, we have seventy merchant ships and ten frigates, and judging from the news from the First Fleet, the naval division of Jianyu has no artillery and is not proficient in gang fighting. We can put all the eighty ships in our hands into the battle sequence, completely blockade Liaodong Bay, and capture the Jianyu warships. ”

"That's it." Zhao Yan deliberately explained: "Huang Taiji must be captured alive, and at the same time, let the Shandong Coastal Guard Station strengthen coastal vigilance." ”

…… The First Fleet pursued the Qing warships from morning to afternoon. By the time they reached Liaodong Bay, there were no Qing warships that had arrived here.

At this time, at the entrance of Liaodong Bay, there were already merchant ships carrying this soldier cruising back and forth. The Longkou military headquarters mobilized thirty ships to blockade the area.

There is an average of three kilometers of ships, and during the day, it is possible to detect any ship trying to enter Liaodong Bay, and after discovering it, it can attack the enemy ship with rockets, or jump into the gang to capture the enemy ship.

However, it was lost at night, so the Longkou Military Headquarters also distributed fifteen ships in Liaodong Bay to prevent any fish from slipping through the net.

At the same time, the ten frigates that had just been launched also came out of the dragon's mouth and joined the pursuit of the Qing army's naval divisions.

This is all the ships that Longkou can mobilize, and the other ships are in Liaodong, but the battle order has been transmitted to Liaodong, and those ships will also join the battle sequence one after another.

Dusk gradually came, and the First Fleet and ten frigates also began to clear the Qing warships drifting on the sea.

These ships had no sails and could only drift with the waves, and there was no way to run. When the First Fleet approached the drifting ships, they fired a few shots and shouted surrender without killing.

At sea, even the worm is not a Qing army, and under coercion it can only lay down its arms and surrender to the Shandong Navy, even if it is a stubborn Qing army, it can't help such coercion.

Before dark, the Shandong Navy captured a dozen Qing warships, nearly 1,500 Zhengbai Banners, and more than 1,500 horses.

At this time, the sky was dark, and it was impossible to move, so I could only wait for the next day to look for the Qing warship that was paralyzed on the sea.

The Liaodong General Staff received the battle report from the First Fleet and immediately ordered Lin Yi to transfer half of the cavalry and lead a cannon fodder force of 14,000 people to blockade the east coast of the Liaodong Peninsula. Zhao Yong, with 2,000 cavalry as a cover, continued to attack Fuzhou.

He also ordered all 35 transport ships in Liaodong to carry combat soldiers and rockets to conduct a dragnet search in the waters east of the Liaodong Peninsula.

Before nightfall, they captured three Qing ships.

When the dawn of dawn illuminated the sea the next day, the great purge of the Qing army's naval divisions began. The Shandong military headquarters stopped all transportation of personnel and materials, and sent all ships out in an effort to capture Huang Taiji in one fell swoop.

However, Zhao Yan's expectations were destined to be disappointed, and it was not Huang Taiji who returned to Liaodong by sea, but Dolgon. After being paralyzed in the ship on which Dolgon was traveling, he drifted and drifted that night, not knowing where he was going.

At dawn the next morning, Dorgon found that there was still a vast sea ahead, and he had no idea where he was. In this age of sailing, where you can only know the direction with a compass, you can't determine your position on the vast sea, and you can only keep driving in one direction.

This is also the reason why nautical charts were extremely important in ancient times, and why ships only took the route on the charts when they went to sea. However, although Dolgon did not know where he was, if the sails were still there, he could return to Liaodong as long as he continued to drive north.

Their sails were completely broken, though.

"In what direction are we drifting?" Dorgon asked.

"Prince Rui, we seem to be drifting south." The sailor general replied.

Dolgon's face changed suddenly, "To the south? Wouldn't that drift to Shandong? ”

"Yes, yes, possibly." The sailor general wiped the sweat and replied, but Dolgon was surprisingly calm, and saw him say in a half-loud voice: "Then we will go to Shandong." ”

"What?" Everyone was a little unable to keep up with Dolgon's thinking, and looked at this Dolgon in disbelief, only to see Dolgon say: "I am a man of the Ming Dynasty, but because some people are rebellious, I don't know that loyalty and filial piety have offended the kingdom." At this time, I realized that I was lost, and I made a sincere surrender to the country. ”

"Prince Rui......" Gu Shan beside Dolgon looked at Dolgon in puzzlement, not understanding why Dolgon suddenly took a 180-degree turn.

"You don't need to say more, write a letter to this king at once, and express our repentance." Dolgon said categorically, he couldn't return to Liao, but drifted to Shandong, Dolgon was already in a desperate situation, and naturally had to think about it for the future.

Last night, Dolgon thought about it for a night, whether it was on land or at sea, the Shandong army was stronger than the Qing Dynasty, Shandong was in the territory of the Ming Kingdom, and could call on huge manpower and material resources at any time, as long as it was trained in the way of the Shandong army, it would continuously put the source of the disease into the battlefield in Liaodong.

The greatest advantage of the Qing Dynasty over the Ming State was that it could concentrate its forces, while the Ming State had strong manpower and material resources but could not mobilize them, coupled with military corruption, the Qing Dynasty continued to achieve victories.

However, the emergence of the Shandong Army reversed this situation in one fell swoop.

Although Dolgon had never seen the combat effectiveness of the Shandong army on land, the sharpness of the firearms of the Shandong army mentioned by Duoduo exceeded that of all the Ming army, and the equipment of the Shandong army was better than that of the Ming army, and it was an elite division. This encounter at sea also gave Dolgon a glimpse of the strength of the Shandong army's artillery.

This time, Huang Taiji's 60,000-strong army was surrounded in Korea, and with his white flag, it reached 70,000. The wealth, people, and animals were not grabbed, but they were all lost. Even if Duoduo controlled most of the forces of the Qing Dynasty, he was already seriously injured.

The more Dorgon thought about it, the more he felt that the end of the Qing Dynasty had arrived. In normal times, even if he was at the end of his rope, Dorgon would choose to fight for it.

However, at this time, he was trapped in the ocean, but he had to drift to Shandong, and he didn't even have the capital to fight. In order not to become a prisoner, Dorgon had to surrender, hoping to be effective...... On 15 March, after a dragnet search of the Bohai Sea was launched, 23 Qing warships were captured in the Bohai Sea and 11 Qing troops landed on the Liaodong Peninsula.

Nearly 20 Qing warships were missing, and on the 16th, Dolgon drifted to Sea Donkey Island and ran aground directly on the beach.

Soon discovered by Cheng Shanwei, who was patrolling the sea area, Dolgon immediately ordered someone to send a good letter of surrender when Cheng Shanwei landed on the island.

Cheng Shanwei immediately controlled Dolgon and a boatload of people, and then urgently reported to Longkou.

Zhao Yan received a report on the 16th and learned from the captured Qing army that it was Dolgon's Zhengbai flag that went to sea this time, and Huang Taiji was still in Korea.

This greatly disappointed Zhao Yan, and that night he issued an order for the ships to stop the search for the Bohai Sea and continue to be transported.

Suddenly, he received a report from Cheng Shanwei again, saying that Dolgon came to surrender, Zhao Yan snorted coldly when he heard it: "If you are desperate, you want to surrender?" What do you think of me as Shandong? Let Cheng Shanwei release Dolgon to the Zhaojiabao military court. ”

"This Dolgon, there should be some use value. According to the report of the Liaodong Special Operations Brigade, now Duoduo has controlled most of the forces of the Puppet Qing Dynasty, and Dolgon is Duoduo's biological brother. The lord might as well save his dog's life first and send him to the construction site to repair the road. Mao Yuanyi said to Zhao Yan.

Zhao Yan didn't care much about this, in the face of absolute strength, such a conspiracy was irrelevant. He took the letter of confession written by Dolgon, looked at the heart-wrenching words of repentance on the letter of confession, and said lightly: "Let the military court try as it should be, if it is sentenced to death, it is not bad to read his repentance, and send it to the construction site to repair the road first, and postpone the execution of the final procedure." ”

"Hauge, Daishan, and Dolgon are all finished, and the next one will be Huang Taiji." Zhao Yan said murderously.

(To be continued)