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Zheng Jing arrived in Fujian, Geng Jingzhong greeted him personally, and the two met for the first time. Geng Jingzhong was not ready to let the Zheng children settle down in Fujian, but was ready to send them to Jinling. Jiangnan is rich and the world knows it, and the Zheng family can still be their own rich man when they go to Jiangnan, and Geng Jingzhong doesn't care what to do. Zheng's sailors can basically be said to have been wiped out, and the remaining hundred or so warships are also surnamed Geng.

Shi Lang in northern Zhejiang, due to the delivery of a handwritten letter from Zheng Jing, also led his troops to surrender. Although the northern part of Zhejiang has not been managed well by Shi Lang in the past two years, the foundation is there, and the soldiers and horses under Shi Lang have also developed to 40,000. Although these 40,000 soldiers and horses Geng Jingzhong didn't care too much, they were a help. Now there is no time to reorganize this army, and Geng Jingzhong has not dismantled the soldiers and horses under Shi Lang, giving Shi Lang full trust.

It's just that these four troops and horses are organized into 23 to 264 divisions, with this name, the officers are still the original officers, and the general commander-in-chief is still Shi Lang himself, with the rank of lieutenant general. This Haas was the first to surrender and became such a high-ranking general.

In addition, Chen Yonghua, a military officer of the Zheng clan who came from Taiwan, was warmly welcomed by Geng Jingzhong as soon as he arrived in Fujian, and he personally met with him, and talked for a long time at night, and the next day, Geng Jingzhong announced that Chen Yonghua was the deputy chief of the general staff of the Mawei Army, and the chief of the general staff was, of course, Li Guangdi. The big war is imminent, although Chen Yonghua is also good at internal affairs, but at this time, he still has to deal with the upcoming big war with Wu Sangui first.

In fact, now it is not only Geng Jingzhong who is constantly deploying troops, but also Wu Sangui. The remnants of the Qing court did not make much of a splash in Shanxi and further north. Now the world is going to decide the winner in Geng and Wu.

As a matter of fact. The current situation is still better for Geng Jingzhong. The overall strength of the Mawei Army was not less than Wu Sangui's soldiers and horses at all, and this was after adding the Zheng army's soldiers and horses. In addition, Geng Jingzhong is richer than Wu Sangui, has more abundant materials, and can withstand consumption when fighting. In addition, there is another important point, due to the attachment of the Confucian family in Shandong, most of the scholars in the world are on Geng Jingzhong's side. Now the place controlled by the Mawei Army is quiet, and the local gentry are quite cooperative.

On Wu Sangui's side, the gentry in many places are very passive and slacking off, nominally this is of course Wu Sangui's territory, but the yang and yin are everywhere below, things are procrastinating, and the efficiency is low. From these aspects, Geng Jingzhong is more confident in the upcoming war.

It's time to show off the sharp minions of the Ponytail Army!

The horsetail army has sharp rifles and infantry guns, strict military discipline, and a neat military appearance. The old troops of the Mawei Army have unparalleled offensive capabilities. There are 120,000 fully equipped troops, and that's all. Geng Jingzhong was confident that he could tear Wu Sangui's soldiers and horses to pieces in a very short period of time.

Within a month, Yao Qisheng, Chen Yonghua, Li Guangdi, Chen Menglei, and several major generals of the army, Zeng Yangxing, Wang Zhenbang, and Shi Lang, met and discussed, and decided that they would take the lead in launching an attack.

The army was divided into five routes. On the first road, the 10,000 soldiers and horses of the original Zheng clan were mobilized and the 6th Division of the Guangdong garrison and Taiwan were recruited, led by Liu Yinglin, the commander of the 1st Division, with a total of 30,000 people attacking Guangxi in an all-round way. Guangxi only has 20,000 or 30,000 soldiers and horses, although the number is about the same as that of the Mawei Army, but Geng Jingzhong believes that with the first division taking the lead, the Wu army in Guangxi will not have enough soldiers and horses to gnaw together.

The second road is to start from Jiangxi, with most of the soldiers and horses of the Fourth Division stationed in Fujian, and transferred back the eighth, ninth, and thirteenth divisions of the New Army, totaling 40,000 people, under the command of Bai Xianzhong, the commander of the First Army, to attack Hunan. Moreover, the terrain in Guizhou is also extremely complex.

The third way is that the first, second, fifth, and sixth detachments of the Mawei Navy are all over the Yangtze River, first destroying Wu Sangui's half-Lazi naval division, and then blockading the Yangtze River and trapping Wu Sangui in the north of the river. Jiangbei is not Wu Sangui's foundation, the foundation is unstable, and the balance of war will not fall in his favor.

The fifth road is in Shandong, Zhili's soldiers and horses, Shanxi does not care, the army with the second division as a fist, the nineteenth, twentieth, twenty-first three new divisions together 40,000 people directly to Kaifeng, Luoyang, Henan, from north to south to attack the Wu army, but also to hold the west of the Yellow River to prevent the entrenched in Xi'an, Shaanxi under the command of the general Wang Pingfan led by more than 50,000 Wu Sangui army.

The fourth road was the main force, and Geng Jingzhong personally led all the remaining troops, including 40,000 troops under Shi Lang, a total of 130,000 troops and Wu Sangui's army in the Central Plains. This was not chosen by Wu Sangui, and when the Mawei army began to converge north of the Huai River, Wu Sangui knew what the Mawei army wanted.

The first to arrive at the predetermined battlefield were the naval warships of the Fifth and Sixth Fleets, whose goal was to eliminate the only naval division under Wu Sangui's command entrenched around Dongting Lake. The other armies are still dispatching, and they can't go many miles a day to cross the mountains and mountains, but the naval warships are different, this early spring and February day, the east wind is coming one after another, and the two fleets have puffed up their sails on the Yangtze River, and they have taken turns to sail through Wuhan from the mouth of the Yangtze River in six days, and have come to the famous section of Chibi.

Wu Sangui's naval division had a total of more than 300 large and small warships, and the main warships were even smaller, only 65, and their size could not be compared with the Mawei warships. But the river in this section of Chibi is very narrow, just over a kilometer wide. The warships on both sides are densely packed on the river, and there is no need to put up a complicated formation at all, and rushing over to collide, shelling, and close combat is the basic battle.

A while ago, Wu Sangui's sailor had been training on Dongting Lake for a long time and training a battle formation for many minutes, but now it seems that only one or two can work.

This is the first place in the Yan formation, and the whole fleet uses the Yan type (that is, the pagoda type), so that a single layer or several consecutive layers maintain a good formation. Rush into enemy lines at high speed. In advance, it is better to pay attention to the firing angles of the front main gun and the side chord gun. Try to hit accurately or reduce the number of shots, and wait until you are 90% sure of hitting before firing to achieve the effect of one hit! The advantage of this formation is that almost every gun of each ship in the whole fleet is used, and once the opponent is out of order, it can almost achieve the effect of encircling and annihilating! But the disadvantage is that once this formation comes prepared, it is easy to be counter-annihilated.

Once this formation is disrupted or due to poor driving skills, the formation is chaotic. Then it will be a miserable defeat, because the cannon eats a lot, and when you turn around and fight again, it will naturally be difficult! The Battle of Dadonggou of the Beiyang Naval Division in later generations is a good example!

The second type is the vertical type. This formation is the earliest and most monotonous, and the advantage lies in the concentration of fire from the flanks. The disadvantage is in the front and rear, once the opponent is flanked before and after, not to mention the formation, it is good to save your life! Usually they will be surrounded, and then each one will be broken! Moreover, it is difficult for the injured ship to evacuate safely! But. This formation has good cruising performance because it can quickly transform into other formations! So. The fleets of various countries generally use this formation when cruising!

If this formation is lined up in two rows in a row, its attack effect will be significantly enhanced, but the enemy's hit rate will also be significantly increased, because due to the high density, the enemy's random shots are also easy to hit, so the captain needs to be careful to consider!

The third type is horizontal. This formation can be said to be the most inferior formation, there is no mobility and tactics to talk about, once attacked, the formation change is very difficult, and the firepower cannot be used, because the middle two ships can escape with the help of friendly ships, but will lose the outer ships. There is also the mission escort or escort for the wounded friendly ship, which is the best formation!

The fourth type is the slash. This formation can be said to be the most popular water battle formation in modern times, and its advantages lie in its strong mobility, relatively concentrated firepower, convenient change formation, moderate balance of front and rear firepower, and almost always able to attack the enemy with flank artillery fire. The flank was that the firepower on the flanks was not strong enough, because the firing range was limited. In addition, the technical requirements are very high, and it is difficult to maintain the distance between the front and back.

The fifth type is round. This formation is mainly used for the final defense or encirclement when surrounded, the whole fleet rotates in the center of the circle, and always maintains a flank salvo to bombard the enemy who comes to charge the formation, making it difficult for the enemy to aim and cope with the changing formation, and the own side is much better! However, this can be said to be the highest technical requirements for fleet commanders and captains.

When it is difficult for the enemy to inflict heavy damage on our fleet, take the opportunity to flee the battlefield, so that the enemy cannot concentrate on pursuit, and counterattack or counter-annihilate as soon as there is an opportunity! This formation is not practical for the current Wu army. Unless they use a real formation on Dongting Lake, they can barely do it.

Lin Xingzhu, the commander of Wu Sangui's water division, used a swallow-shaped formation, and he also wanted to test the results of training for most of the year, but he had also seen the battleships of the Mawei Army, but he had never fought against them. It is said that the Mawei Navy is extremely powerful, and he wants to try it this time.

The river was not wide, so the two armies were slowly approaching, and in the process of gradually approaching, the Mawei Army was already taking advantage of the artillery advantage to take the lead in firing artillery. The speed of the Mawei Army was extremely slow, almost maintaining the same speed as the current, and if you didn't look closely, you thought that the Mawei Army battleship was stopped there and didn't move. Far away, the naval guns of the Mawei Army had already begun to exert their might, but in the first round of shelling, more than ten warships in the front of the Wu army's battle team were hit.

"Tom Tom"

"Tom Tom"

"Tom Tom"

The artillery roared, the ship's side shook, and the river was suddenly filled with gunsmoke. At this distance, the first round of firing is usually of a calibrated gun position and a demonstrative and intimidating nature, with limited accuracy. However, at this time, the results of the usual extensive training could be seen, and a large number of shells flew out and most of them fell into the water, but almost a tenth of the shells still hit the enemy ships, and the shells that fell into the river stirred up columns of water.

Lin Xingzhu, who was at the rear of the naval fleet, couldn't help but widen his eyes after hearing this continuous deafening cannon sound. Isn't it a waste of shells that the Mawei Navy opened fire at such a distance? His reaction was the same as that of those Qing army generals last year and the year before last, it was unbelievable at all, as if many cannons in the Wu army were purchased from the Mawei Army, why was there so much difference between these cannons? It's just that he doesn't want to think about it, how can the Ponytail Army sell the best to their enemies?

As soon as he thought of this, he had clearly seen countless huge cannonballs accurately fall into the array of warships in front of him, only to see his dozen or so warships being hit by sawdust, and at the same time, after the cannonballs fell on the warship, there was a burst of explosion, and at the same time, he saw countless water columns rising left and right in front of and behind the warship, and he couldn't help but widen his eyes in horror. What kind of artillery is this? Able to accurately hit targets at a distance of almost two kilometers? Both himself and the prince were pitted by the Mawei Army, and their cannons couldn't reach others at all.

Now it is the main warships of the Wu army that are bombarded, and if it is the fireships of the Wu army or other small warships, then the Mawei army may be replaced with solid bullets. For those small boats, the power of solid bullets may be even greater. At such a distance, a solid bullet weighing more than ten pounds with huge kinetic energy smashed into a small warship, and if it was bombarded by a heavy artillery of thirty pounds and sixty pounds, it only took one moment to ensure that the sawdust of the small warship flew sideways, and the ship was destroyed immediately.

However, the captains of the Mawei battleships in front did not plan to use solid shells, and all the flowering shells were waiting. Whether the power of the flowering bomb is used against a large ship or a small ship, the power is very high.

"Boom Boom"

"Boom Boom"

"Boom Boom"

Violent explosions continued to sound from and around the Wu army's warship. Although the size of those Wu army warships is not small, after all, they are all wooden hulls, and how can they withstand the explosion of bombs. Only one flowering bomb landed on the warship, that is, it blew a big hole in the deck or damaged the ship's building, and the other was to injure the sailors and soldiers on the ship. And if more than two flowering shells fall on the ship at the same time, the ship will be traumatized. There was a lucky ship on Wu Jun's side, and it was hit by four flowering shells at the same time, and the whole warship could not withstand the explosion of the four flowering bombs in the same small area in a short time, and suddenly the front of the hull was shattered, and a large piece of the hull turned into scattered planks floating on the river. Then the whole warship was like a giant beast with its mouth open, swallowing the river with its big mouth, and the warship sank quickly.

It was just a round of shelling, and the distance between the two sides had not yet been nearly fifty meters, and there were already ten large and small warships on the Wu army's side that had been hit by shells, three warships were extremely damaged and were sinking, and three other warships or their hulls were opened, and the others were set on fire with broken masts and sails, all of which lost the ability to continue sailing. According to this progress, when the Wu warship approached the Mawei Navy warship and started close combat, nearly half of the Wu warship would be removed.

Immediately after a round of shelling, the Mawei naval fighters began a second round of reloading. And because the firing of each ship is not synchronized, there are first and last, but as long as it is within the range of the guns of their own battleship, the captains of each ship will decisively give an order to open fire immediately. Therefore, at this moment, the river is full of cannons, and every second stops. The sound of "boom boom" rang out, and Wu Jun warships were constantly shot. (To be continued......)