Zhu Daolin heard the familiar sound of cannons, and knew that it was the 12-pounder and 24-pounder copper cannons on his own battleship that were firing continuously, guessing that the rebel warship was engaged in a battle with the two warships unloading the escort transport ship, and immediately explained a few words to the frightened Zhu Dadian and others, and after obtaining Xu Hongji's consent, he immediately turned over and rushed back to the Hekou camp.

On the sea north of the estuary camp, more than a dozen warships of the rebels failed to sneak attack, but were sunk by three, and the remaining warships quickly turned around and fled in the direction of Shuicheng.

The two 500-ton warships of the Tamsui fleet were in hot pursuit, and two transports unloading new officers and men soon joined the pursuit.

When Zhu Daolin rode his horse to the beach, the rebels' two 400-gauge ships were hit by the guns of the battleships that were chased within 200 meters, and the stern of the front one was shattered by a 24-pound projectile, and it capsized immediately, and the mast of the other warship was broken, and the ship was turning around in layers of waves.

In addition to this, most of the 1,200 ships that were hit in the east sank into the sea, and the two warships and two transports of the Tamsui Fleet accelerated their pursuit again.

The guards stationed on the horse to watch the battle couldn't help but cheer, pointing to the two 500-ton warships that were about to catch up with the enemy ship and talking excitedly.

Guo Zhongjun stepped forward, stood side by side with Zhu Daolin, pointed to the out-of-control enemy ship that was about to be captured in front of him, and said happily:

"The rebel sailor really doesn't have long eyes, and he dares to provoke our warship several times bigger than him, haha!"

"Look, the two 500-ton battleships in front are up to speed, the distance is well maintained, and if you catch up with two or three hundred meters, you can use a dozen guns on the port side to fire a salvo."

Zhu Daolin smiled and nodded: "It's really good, the freshwater fleet has finally been honed, I guess the rebels mistakenly thought that we were all big cargo ships docked to unload, and wanted to come out to pick up a bargain, I don't know the artillery installed on each of our warships." That's more than their seven warships combined, and even our 500-ton cargo ship has 8 large and small guns, and it is no problem to hit him three at all. ”

Guo Zhongjun laughed again, and then pointed to the 1,200 fortune ship in the east that was sinking and floating in the tide: "That enemy ship seems to have been beaten to the beach, not far from the coast, it is estimated that the hull was broken and entered the water and hit the bottom." ”

It was slowly getting dark. But Zhu Daolin's eyesight is very good: "It's on the beach, and the boat is quite new...... In this way, let the navy repair it tomorrow, and drag it to Liugong Island after the battle, which is still good as a short-distance transport ship. ”

At this time, the rumbling cannon sound sounded again intensively.

The two pursuing warships finally approached and fired a salvo at the ships in front, and Zhu Daolin could not see the sea scene two kilometers away at night, except for the fire fired by the artillery.

After sinking three enemy ships again, the two battleships stopped fighting, went around, turned around and calmly returned.

A cargo ship rushed around the rebel shipwreck. Dozens of Marines on another cargo ship raised their flintlock pistols and forced the rebels on the ship, whose mast had been broken, to surrender.

Zhu Daolin instructed Guo Zhongjun to go to the camp of the Chinese army, report the situation to the group of panicked civil and military officials, and ask Wei Guogong and Marquis Longping to drink with peace of mind, and stay behind to deal with the aftermath.

The two captured rebel warships and more than 160 drenched prisoners were taken to the Red Rock Mountain trestle.

On the coast, gunpowder, projectiles, and marching tents were unloaded, and 12 transport ships with navigation lights slowly sailed away from the offshore waters. Rushing to anchor on Long Island, 10 kilometers to the northwest, the soldiers of the New Army drove a loaded wagon. Returning to the estuary camp 5 km to the west, the two wrecked boats were tied to the wooden piles of the trestle.

More than 160 rebel prisoners gathered around the bonfire, terrified, surrounded by new officers and soldiers with loaded guns and well-equipped guns, and saw Zhu Daolin riding a tall white horse, followed by dozens of elite cavalry. The captives' bodies trembled even more.

Who knew that Zhu Daolin was very good at talking, and ordered the officers and soldiers under his command to send quilts and spirits to the prisoners, rest for a while and escort them back to the camp, and then turn the horse's head and leave quickly, and all the prisoners' hanging hearts were finally put down. I know that most of my cheap lives can be picked up.

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Just after ten o'clock in the evening, Xu Hongji, Zhang Gongwei and others returned to the Hekou camp, and Zhu Daolin immediately welcomed them into the large warehouse that served as a temporary headquarters.

Xu Hongji and Zhang Gongwei saw more than 30 generals sitting neatly in front of the two large maps, waved their hands to signal that everyone did not need to get up and salute, and then sat on the boxes brought by the guards, listening carefully to Zhu Daolin's pre-war deployment.

Zhu Daolin repeated the troop deployment plan and combat methods, and looked at Zhang Dezhong, whose eyes were shining:

"General Zhang's left-behind guard artillery battalion and General Jiang Yulong's artillery battalion should be used in a unified manner, arranged on a high ground 680 meters away from the east city wall, and launched an artillery bombardment of the rebels on the east city gate to the northeast corner of the city wall."

"The artillery position has been surveyed in advance, and the shooting Zhu Yuan will be sent to the two generals and the artillery battalion commander in a while, I hope everyone is ready."

"Yes!"

Jiang Yulong replied loudly.

Zhu Daolin asked the generals if they still had questions? After receiving a satisfactory reply, the meeting was adjourned, Xu Hongji and Zhang Gongwei and Zhang Gongwei and their sons did not move, and a group of guards quickly put together several large wooden boxes, quickly put refreshments on the table, moved the charcoal basin, and then retreated to both sides and stood solemnly.

Xu Hongji was in a good mood, took the hot tea handed over by Zhu Daolin, and laughed in a low voice: "Today you gave me a long face, when you first arrived, you sank 5 enemy ships, captured 2 ships and more than 100 rebels. ”

"Zhu Yanzhi and Chen Zuobai congratulated on their lips, but in fact, they didn't know how envious they were, and the credit was credited to my Jiangnan Sailor, haha!"

"Originally, it was the achievements of the Jiangnan Naval Division, isn't the current position of the junior still the commander of the Jiangnan Naval Division's Baoshanwei?"

Zhu Daolin replied modestly, and sent the poured hot tea to Zhang Gongwei and the three brothers in turn, he was still not very used to calling the name, and after thinking for a while, he remembered that Zhu Yanzhi was Zhu Dadian, the governor of Shandong, and Chen Zuobai was Chen Yingyuan, the governor of Denglai.

Xu Wenjue took off the silver helmet on his head and asked Zhu Daolin eagerly: "Brother Zhu, how will our sailors fight tomorrow?" ”

Zhu Daolin handed the battle plan sent by the generals of the Navy Division from Changdao to Xu Wenjue: "Your old man's generals, General Cheng, General Zhao and others, as well as several generals and colonels on our side, all advocate a quick victory, and they jointly formulated this battle plan and sent the 'Zhenjiang' to send it." ”

"Before dark, our army engaged in a battle with the rebel sailors, and I was worried that the rebels would flee after dawn, so I changed the time of their attack from 9 a.m. to 6:40 a.m."

"There are more than 200 large and small ships moored in Shuicheng, most of them are small rowing boats and fire dragon boats, and about 70 cargo ships and warships with more than 500 materials, including four 4,000 stone lucky ships, so I don't want to let it go, as long as I defeat a dozen small boats outside the water gate, these ships, including the rebels in the city, will become turtles in the urn."

"Let's talk about it first, one and a half."

Xu Wenjue was embarrassed to speak, and his father unceremoniously asked for it in advance.

Zhang Gongwei and his son laughed when they heard this, and Zhu Daolin shook his head, but he still readily agreed.

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