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Sergeant Zheng on the Spanish-style sail battleship hurriedly began to put out the fires, trying to extinguish these fires, but they used sand and water, but it was difficult to extinguish these fires, and after a little delay, more fire canisters and fire bricks were smashed on their warships one after another, which immediately ignited a bigger fire. At this time, the soldiers of the Zheng Army's naval division on the warship panicked, shouting and screaming under the fire of the Qing army and scurrying around on the ship and trying to extinguish the fire, but they soon found that a large amount of fire oil was spread on the deck, burning too fiercely, and the sea water poured on the fire could not extinguish the flames, but on the contrary, it burned more vigorously, which they could not imagine.

As more and more fire pots and bricks were thrown onto their ships, the fire on the ships began to become uncontrollable, and in a short time the sails and masts were also burned by the fire, and the whole ship became a huge torch, which crackled, and then began to explode ammunition one after another. At this time, the soldiers of the Zheng Army's sailors became lively, and they no longer dared to stay on the boat, and one by one they jumped into the river to escape with a shout like a turkey.

But after they fell into the water, they were immediately shot by many soldiers on the small boat of the Qing army with bows and arrows as targets, and they didn't think about crossing the river at all and scooping them up as their prisoners, they only had killing in their eyes, and at this time the two armies were in a big battle and had not yet decided the winner, so it was really early to capture the prisoners. In front of him, the warship rushed left and right, trying to break out. But it's not that easy. The river is so wide. The Qing army's many small ships surrounded them like crazy, and even did not hesitate to use ships to block their way, preferring their own ships to be smashed by them rather than let them escape.

In front of this Zheng Jun's imitation of more than 400 sail warships, there were already eight sampans that were destroyed by them, and the twenty Qing army sailor soldiers on it were swimming hard in the river towards their own warships next to them, and two of them were swimming with daggers to the Zheng army's sailor soldiers who also fell into the water. Zheng Jun's imitation Spanish-style sail warship also seems to be sad, and the deck is full of fires. The sails were all set on fire, and the warship had completely lost its ability to maneuver, no matter how strong the firepower was, there was no way to get out of the battlefield, not to mention that if more soldiers came to put out the fire, it would only take about half an hour for the warship to sink into the river.

At this moment, Liu Guoxuan's head was big, and he knew only when he looked at these large and small sand boats of the Qing army gathered in all directions, as well as more sampan boats. The Qing Army Sailor was not as simple as he thought, this Qing Army Sailor had really thought of a whole set of ways to deal with them. At this moment, this arson tactic is really very effective on the Yangtze River, don't look at the fact that they did not use the usual configuration of the sailors - fireboats, but the Qing army really prepared a large number of flammable and explosive materials such as oil canisters and fire bricks in order to deal with them, which was really terrible for the Zheng army.

Today's weather is really favorable to the Qing army, the north wind is howling, and the small warships of the Qing army behind are densely packed and rapidly crashing into the battlefield, and one by one almost the entire river surface is completely blocked, and at this time more than half of the warships of the Zheng army are surrounded. This is also Liu Guoxuan's own carelessness, originally he didn't think about starting a big battle with the Qing army today, but the Qing army had already pounced, so he had to take the initiative to lead the army to meet it.

However, the dock on the other side of Shuangshan Island, where they had been stationed temporarily, was really a little crowded, and they were pressed for time and could not turn around, so they had to face the wind, but fortunately it was not directly facing the north. But even to the northwest, the northerly wind has a great impact on them. But fortunately, not all of the more than 100 warships of the Zheng army entered the direction of turning north, and nearly 40 warships, almost half of which did not enter the northward channel, engaged the Qing army. But looking at it like this, even if the later ones come up, it won't help much.

The battle continued, the two sides fought to this time, there was no suspense, among the fleet of the Zheng Army's sailors, the fifteen main ships at the front, Liu Guoxuan's ship was finished, and the same imitation Spanish sail battleship was also burned to the skeleton, and there were two other Dafu ships at this time, one was also captured, one was burned, and the other dozen or so No. 2 Fu ships and other large and small warships were surrounded by Qing warships and started a gang jumping, many of which were still fighting to the death at the moment.

However, it was not easy for the Qing army's many sand ships and other small boats to attack the Daifuku ship and other types of Fuku, the largest Daifuku ship was as tall as a building, and the number of people could reach 200 people. This kind of ship is different from the sand boat, the bottom tip is wide, the bow is raised and open, the tail is towering, the draft is deeper than the sand boat to reach 3.5 meters, the bow is equipped with a red-coated cannon, the two sides of the red-coated cannon are 10 each, there are 16 thousand pound Buddha machines, 5 bowl-mouth guns, there are 20 thunderbolts, more than 80 nozzles, 15 guns, 1,000 crossbow arrows, 10 gunpowder crossbows, 300 rockets, more than 150 fire bricks and fire canisters, and more than 1,000 other cold weapons.

There is no Daifuku ship in Fujian at the moment, and his shipyard and many other shipyards in Fujian have better drawings of ocean-going ships and do not continue to build Daifuku ships, plus Geng Jingzhong himself has not been to Taiwan, so he has not seen what the Daifuku ship looks like with his own eyes until the big box. However, he has seen the description of the Dafu ship in the "Wubei Zhi", and it is also equipped with an illustration, but the ancients splashed ink to make landscape ink paintings, but the realistic paintings are really not good, and they look very abstract. However, this kind of Daifuku ship can be regarded as a giant ship. There are three floors on board. There are guards on both sides, and there are also thatched bamboos, which are erected like a wall.

The ship has two sail masts, the middle hull has four layers, the bottom layer is filled with ballast stones, the third is used to place fresh water tanks, and the second floor is where soldiers live. The top floor is the terrace, but you need to climb up from the ladder on the third floor, and the wings on both sides are used as guardrails, and people lean on it to fight, and the arrows and guns are all overlooked. It is indeed a sharp weapon of war, and at this moment in the battle in front of them, many soldiers of the Qing army want to jump to the deck of the Daifuku ship to fight. But I didn't jump over. On the contrary, there were a large number of dead and wounded.

The sand boat is not small, though. But it's just fat, and the height is a little shorter than that of the Fu boat, and the Qing soldiers on the sand boat really have enough to suffer if they want to rush to the Dafu boat. Although the losses of the Qing army were very large, they could not hold the large number of Qing army ships, so they rushed up desperately, and the warships of the Zheng army could not parry. Liu Guoxuan had no choice but to order the remaining warships to break through to their deaths, and the forty warships that were released at the end were the least damaged, and there were not many Qing warships that rushed to the back. The Zheng army in the rear soon began to turn around and withdraw from the battlefield.

The other warships brought by Liu Guoxuan, many lucky ships at the forefront, and even the boats carried on board, had basically all been lost at this time, either destroyed or captured. There were only two clippers left on his side, and one of them was also damaged at this time, and the sailors of the Zheng Jun's sailor fleet on the ship, Liu Guoxuan and his personal guards, turned into a clipper, leaned against the Zheng Jun's gunboat on the right side, that is, on the north shore, and also drove the boat to the back with all his might, and then boarded a sail battleship in the rear and began to retreat as fast as possible.

When Liu Guoxuan sat on a sail battleship and sank an enemy ship with a disgraced face, he quickly broke out of the encirclement. When he turned his head to look at it again, Liu Guoxuan really wanted to cry. More than half of the fleet he brought with him was wiped out in the battle. Only forty ships remained behind him, and thirty others followed, each battered. And he brought with him fifteen professional gunboats that had been arranged on both sides of the river at the beginning of the war, but at this time they were all left in place and did not come back. Many of the Zheng warships were completely destroyed, or even the masts were broken by the other side and dumped in the river. The fallen half-mast of the warship was still wrapped in countless ropes, pressing on the deck of the ship, so that the ship with the broken mast completely lost the ability to sail, and in the blink of an eye it was drowned by many Qing ships, which was definitely impossible to escape.

Liu Guoxuan wanted to cry without tears at this time, this time he was completely finished, even if he ran back to Taiwan, Zheng Jing would definitely not be able to spare him. He is really unlucky, and he always encounters such misfortune every time. However, this is also to blame for his lack of preparation, if he doesn't feel too good about himself or thinks that his own fleet is too strong, he should retreat to the river dozens of miles to the east, so that the battle against the Qing army there will basically be victorious and undefeated. He brought more than 15,000 sailors and soldiers this time, and now it is estimated that the rest is barely half.

On the dock opposite Shuangshan Island, there were still a batch of Zheng Jun moving some supplies off the ship at this moment, and Liu Guoxuan couldn't take care of it at this time, so he ordered all the warships to raise their full sails, speed up, and escape from this hellish place at full speed. When Youai Yang began to turn red to the west, the gunfire on the river finally stopped, and the whole river gradually quieted down, leaving only the wreckage of a few ships that were still burning on the river, billowing smoke.

After a fierce battle for half a day, the entire fleet of the Zheng Army's naval division must have been wiped out except for Liu Guoxuan who ran away. In fact, it was the Zheng army that finally escaped from the battlefield with the strong fire protection and strong hull on the ship, otherwise if it was a little worse, Zheng Jun's warship would not want to run away, and the number of ships on the Qing army's side was really too much. Pursued by dozens of Qing speedboats or small boats, most of the Zheng warships fled the river, and it is estimated that they will not be killed again.

Nearly half of the warships left by the Zheng army that did not run away surrendered on the spot, but the remaining half resisted desperately, causing great casualties to the Qing army. Among them, the most tenacious is Liu Guoxuan's ship, but at this moment, the sail battleship was too seriously injured, seeing a large amount of water entering the hull, and was besieged by five or six Qing warships, knowing that he could not escape, he had to sail to the bank of the river, and finally sank in the shallow water, after sinking, the ship still has half a mast exposed to the water, and the people on board are large in the water, and finally they were fished up by the small boat of the Qing army and became prisoners, and a small number of people did not have time to escape, and sank into the water with the boat. At this time, the victory was decided, and Wang Zhiding did not give any more orders to kill in time, and he still arrested the Zheng soldiers who fell into the water.

The losses of the Qing army were not small, it can be said that they killed 1,000 enemies and lost 800 themselves. But it's okay not to count the results, but I only know that my side has won, but after learning the results, Wang Zhiding also spurted out a mouthful of blood angrily, and the loss far exceeded his expectations.

In this battle, the Qing army led by Wang Zhiding captured a total of about 1,300 sailors of the Zheng army's naval division. About five thousand people were killed. Among them, many of the captured Taiwanese soldiers included two captains. They are all captains of Daifuku ships. The Qing army also obtained 18 Zheng army warships in this battle. All the others sank, and it was a big win indeed.

But looking at its own losses, it is no longer enough to describe it with strict zhòng or quite strict zhòng, it is simply a few miserable. They put in a total of more than 600 ships, of course, this water is very large, the sand boat and other warships are only 220 in total, and the others are all small boats that can carry two to five people. According to final statistics, the Qing army killed no less than the Zheng army. It reached more than 5,600 people, and more than 2,400 people were seriously wounded, which can be said to be the largest and heaviest casualties since the Qing army had a naval division.

But in any case, the Qing army's naval division still won the final victory in this battle, which was caused by the gap in ship technology, the number of artillery and the sense of battle, Wang Zhiding himself as the commander he had no better way, to be able to play such a result, it was already the best result. Who called them Jiangning Sailor except to possess the advantage of collecting a large number of sand boats in advance, otherwise he would be the one who was miserable in this battle.

Seeing that it was too late, Wang Zhiding ordered the troops to be withdrawn. Leaving more than a dozen clippers to patrol the river and even downstream, in case the fleeing fleet of Zheng Jun's sailors was led by Liu Guoxuan to sneak back at night. Give them a surprise attack. The artillery fire of the Zheng army was fierce, as long as a dozen or so small number of gunboats were dispatched to bombard them desperately, it would be a great fun. The rest of the Qing warships took the captured ships and prisoners and temporarily rested in the port of Shuangshan Island, and those prisoners were all taken ashore and guarded. At the same time, although many of their own ships were not sunk, they were also damaged a lot, and five of the eighteen Zheng warships captured needed to be overhauled, but they could not go to the camp in the rear to repair them as much as possible, so they could only gather men to work temporarily at this station. If you don't want to fix it completely, you just barely be able to drive away tomorrow. Otherwise, I'm afraid that some ships won't even be able to insist on going back to Nan's own Jiangning camp.

However, although the Qing army suffered heavy losses in this battle, Wang Zhiding also established fuller confidence in his subordinates at the moment, these surviving sailors, in this battle, showed a strong tenacity and endurance, in the initial engagement, the Qing army sailors were completely at the bottom of the artillery battle, and many ships were destroyed by the enemy one after another, and many ships were injured by Yan zhòng, but all the ships did not appear to be afraid of the battle and avoid the battle.

However, under his order, the fleet has always maintained an impact position, a large number of warships of all kinds and sizes have entered the shelling area to carry out artillery battles and hand-to-hand battles with the enemy, and dare to continue to attack when the firepower of each ship is weaker than that of the other side, and even when there is no artillery fire on their own ships, and the strength of the ships is weaker than that of the other side, although they dare not say that everyone regards death as home, and goes forward one after another, but the vast majority of sailors are not frightened and overwhelmed, and the large and small miscellaneous guns on the ships of the Qing army sailors have never stopped, and they continue to quickly reload and return fire on the enemy. Such a will to fight was unprecedented, and it was not from the same ship, but from all the sailors on the ship, basically meeting such a requirement, which seemed to him to be incredible.

It is precisely by virtue of the will of the Qing army and the sailors that the Qing army and the sailors on the ship have the final victory in this war, if there are several ships on the ship, that is, the pipe band, or the sailors on the ship are afraid of the battle to escape, it is possible to lead to the defeat of the overall battle, because fear is contagious, once there are ships to escape, it will affect the morale of most people, and more people will abandon the military order and choose to flee the battlefield.

However, if you think about it carefully, you can understand a rough idea, mainly because the wind direction is favorable to the Qing warships, and there are too many ships of the Qing army, and the dense Jiang Zheng warships are surrounded, which also gives the Qing army a lot of confidence to the soldiers of the ships. However, it is not that all the Qing warships are so brave, and many ships are also very scared when they see their own warships destroyed by Zheng Junqing. But in the end, under the attack of a large number of Qing ships, the Zheng army fleet was defeated, which was also the first time that the Qing court had defeated the Taiwanese naval division since the founding of the country.

Therefore, although the Qing army suffered heavy losses in this battle, they gained a lot, and their biggest gain was not how many ships they captured, how many ships they destroyed, and how many prisoners they captured, but their biggest gain was to make them play majestic and build up stronger self-confidence. The most important thing for an army is their confidence, their honor and their fine traditions, and after this battle, Wang Zhiding seems to have seen the Qing army sailors grow into an honorary division that is good at fighting and daring to fight, he feels that as long as this confidence and tradition can be passed on, sooner or later, the Jiangning navy division led by him will grow into a strong army, is the strongest navy division in the Qing Dynasty, in the smile he has been hanging all afternoon, it seems that this is beyond doubt.

Wang Zhiding was also wounded in this battle, but it was not a cannon wound, nor an arrow wound or a gunshot wound, but he was burned to the arm, and at least a third of his entire left arm was splashed with fire oil, and Yan Zhan was burned. However, like Liu Guoxuan, he did not push out of the battlefield lightly, but did not disembark from the ship and go ashore with the support of his personal guards until the end of the battle, and accepted the treatment of his wounds by the military medical officer.

Burns are also very serious injuries in this era, and burns can cause different damage to human tissues, causing functional changes and metabolic disorders. The burned wound is locally red and swollen, and the exudate increases, making it easy to become infected; Fortunately, the water division and medical officer had already prepared for this, and the ointments were ready-made, and they washed the wound directly after getting off the boat and applied the medicine. However, although Wang Zhiding is in his early fifties, he is also quite hard, although even if he extinguishes the fire on his arms and clothes, and removes the burned clothes, he doesn't care about the rest. It wasn't until the end of the battle that he felt a little weak, but that wasn't much more important to him. As long as you recuperate for a period of time, as long as the nutrition can keep up, the wound will soon scab and heal, but it will definitely leave a scar. But for a military attaché, having a scar is really nothing.

The Qing army sailor escorted a large group of Zheng army prisoners ashore, and the officers of the infantry battalion on the shore also ran to congratulate, during which of course a burst of congratulations from everyone was indispensable, and it was also a lot of sycophants, Wang Zhiding also accepted it safely, and responded with a smile on his face, not caring at all that he was in an injury. However, at this time, as the commander of the first army, he also needs to make everyone happy and relax his nerves. Anyway, this battle is a victory, although it is said that the loss is a little bigger, but if you want to send it to the report, Kangxi will not only not reprimand him, but will definitely promote him.

The fruit of such a victory was indeed luscious, and the depression of the loss was swept away, and at this moment, including himself, he also enjoyed this feeling very much. But he didn't completely let his guard down, all the warships on this side of the dock were still in a state of combat readiness, and if he wanted to be completely relieved, he would have to wait until tomorrow daylight to be sure! After all, it will take time for the scouts to find out whether the remaining warships of the Zheng army have been pushed out of the Yangtze River.

The Qing army was lively here, but the Zheng army's naval fleet was miserable. Liu Guoxuan and the others didn't expect them to lose so badly at all. The army of sailors brought this time is considered to be wasted, and there is no way to enter the Yangtze River again, and it may be difficult to barely hold Hangzhou Bay. Liu Guoxuan didn't know how he was going to explain to Zheng Jing after he went back, this was already the second fleet of the Zheng army he lost, the last time it was folded in the Minjiang River in Fuzhou, and this time it was in the Yangtze River. (To be continued......)

PS: The big chapter is 6,000 words, and there is a small chapter