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At the beginning of October, Britain, France, Denmark, and Spain, which were imminent by the Qing army, requested the closure of the four merchant halls, and the Ming and Zheng Commerce Department agreed, and the four merchant halls immediately retreated to Macao and Manila respectively. (The fastest update speed is on the Aishang Novel Network biquge.info)

After the British, French, and Danish merchants arrived in Macao, the Governor of Macau, António demesquita Pimentel, came forward to hold a welcome banquet, during which people asked about the strength of the Ming and Zheng sailors and the predicted results of the battle. In response, Benson, the owner of the British Merchant House, said, "If there is no Tessie Navy to help in the war, the big man will win." The news reached Fu Kui's ears, and Fu Kui, who witnessed the battle of Qionghai, thought it was true, but the march of the army had already been decided, and he had no right to change it at all

At the beginning of the morning of 17 October, the Qing army and naval divisions of the three provinces of Haitan, Kinmen, Xiamen, Tongshan, and Nanao simultaneously sacrificed their flags to fight. An hour and a half later, the Zhejiang Provincial Navy Division on the Haitan side took the lead in ordering 250 warships and 25,000 land and water officers and soldiers to sail out of the Haitan Strait and sail straight to the main island of Taiwan. After another half an hour, the 330 Fujian warships and 35,000 land and water green battalions that had been assembled off the coast of Kinmen also began to kill in the direction of Penghu; Only Fu Kui, who suffered from gains and losses, was still slowly gathering his 270 warships

"Damn maggots." Sitting on the first warship, Su Liang, the deputy general of the Fujian Provincial Naval Division, cursed loudly at the Zheng Jun report ship that appeared in his eyes from time to time, you must know that in the past two days, the Zheng Jun report ship seems to be like a maggot attached to the bones, and it has taken turns to follow the Qing army's ship group since the sea off Kinmen, and one has disappeared from time to time, which shows that the movement of the Qing army has been fully mastered by Zheng Jun. "If you have the guts, let the horse come and make a fight with your Master Su." Before Su Liang's words fell, a team of towering masts suddenly jumped into his eyes. "Damn, the good shouldn't, the bad shouldn't." Su Liang cursed again and ordered at the same time. "Inform the military gate, Zheng Jun is here."

In November, the north wind prevailed in the Taiwan Strait, and the Qing army's westward movement from west to east was originally unfavorable, but the Qing army's hard sailing ships could be affected by winds from all sides, so the wind direction did not affect them much. However, in order to seize the T-shaped position, the Zheng army, which intercepted from east to west, came from the southwest, and was completely in a state of headwind, so it suffered a big loss.

Perhaps seeing that the Zheng army in front of them was in an unfavorable wind, about 20 or so vanguard ships of the Qing army subconsciously made a move to seize the wind and meet the battle, but before the vanguard of the Qing army approached the six Zheng gunboats in a zigzag shape, a new group of Zheng gunboats suddenly came out from the upwind direction.

Under the action of the strong north wind, the 3,000 gunboats of the Zheng army, which were as fast as fierce horses, caught up with the vanguard fleet of the Qing army that had just turned at a jaw-dropping speed, and the butt of the Qing warship was a volley of cannons. The Qing vanguard fleet was caught off guard and just wanted to counterattack, but was flanked by the first six Zheng gunboats. In the face of the cathartic shells like rain, the Qing warships that were completely designed with the idea of jumping gang warfare could not resist at all, and soon caught fire one after another, and when the main ship group of the Qing army that caught up approached, less than half of the first 20 or so ships could still move.

A group of Qing generals tried their best to implore Wan Zhengse to agree to pursue him, but Wan Zhengse intuitively thought that Zheng Jun's actions were deceitful, but he had not yet said that he was ugly, and another team of Zheng army warships killed the Qing army's rear guard from the northeast.

"Damn it!" Wan Zhengse immediately understood. "Zheng Jun used the technique of cavalry warfare, constantly cutting our army in small teams, such as pomegranate peeling layer after layer, and like a rotary knife scraping circle after circle, and so on, constantly reducing the men and ships of the provincial sailors." But what if you understand it, in the vast sea, unless you can entangle the other party, the opponent who comes and goes like the wind can use the cavalry to deal with the infantry and slowly swallow the entire Fujian Provincial Water Division. "Order all ships to set up a circle formation with their own officers and commanders, and shoot at the sea with their muzzles." Wan Zhengse, who had already left Jinxia for half a day, could have ordered a breakthrough to Jinxia, but considering the consequences of failing to send troops, and taking into account factors such as the imminent arrival of the Guangdong Provincial Naval Division, he finally chose a path of no return after being unable to break his wrist. "Stick to the formation, avoid self-chaos, and give the sea an opportunity to take advantage of."

However, what is the use of forming a circle, not to mention how many Qing warships that braved the fire of Zheng Jun's artillery in the process of forming a formation, after the formation was successful, it was impossible for the Qing warships not to leave gaps between each other, so that the side of a warship facing Zheng Jun would also kill at most four or five bows, and with four or five guns of different weights and calibers, the results were naturally self-evident.

And the Zheng army is not moored and fighting with the Qing army to fight for casualties, in the face of the Zheng gunboat that sailed away with a salvo, the Qing gunners who were not even able to hit the dead target were even more blind, and the solid shells that were hurriedly fired out of ten ** deviated very far, only one or two that could pose a threat were just close misses, even if there was a hit by divine help, it would cause at most one or two casualties to the Zheng army, and one or two small fires that could be extinguished at hand.

Of course, because the Zheng army adopted the tactics of artillery bombardment on the march, the hit rate was not high, but the number of gunboats dispatched by the Zheng army was relatively large, and the 36 gunboats of 3,000 materials were divided into six groups and infested the Qing army ship regiment back and forth, which caused great pressure on the Qing army's peripheral warships on the north and south poles and the four string involute lines. Coupled with the extensive use of red-hot bombs by the Zheng army, after the battle lasted for half an hour, the Qing army was completely in dire straits.

The situation was even worse when the Qing warship, which burned downwind, ran into its accomplices after losing its pilot, causing even more chaos, especially by igniting some of the Qing army's own arsonist ships. Wan Zhengse saw that it was impossible to continue to maintain the round formation, so he had no choice but to order a breakthrough.

But the breakthrough was by no means a light achievement, and the gunboats of the Zheng army had enough numbers to carry out separate pursuits. The Qing warships that could not run and could not win either caught fire and sank in the process of breaking through the encirclement, or they took the initiative to lower their sails and announce their surrender, and only the Qing warships around the flagship of Wan Zhengse were still resisting stubbornly.

At this time, Zheng Jun's heavy treasure appeared on the scene, and the newly built 8,000-material three-masted all-sail gunboat "Li Weigong" and the 470-ton Galen warship "Huo Yanyao", originally named "Dongfang", captured from the Dutch, sailed into the war zone with a high-profile attitude, and in front of and behind these two large warships were six 4,000-material two-masted gunboats, three 5,000-material two-masted gunboats, and one 6,000-material three-masted gunboat and one 7,000-material three-masted gunboat.

The appearance of the main fleet of the Zheng army made Wan Zhengse, who was already at the end of his rope, face more and more pale: "Fooled, Zhu Qin'er can't bear it just for today, the Fujian Provincial Naval Division is finished, how long can the Guangdong Provincial Naval Division and the Zhejiang Provincial Naval Division last?" ”

Wan Zhengse pulled out his sword and pressed it on his neck under the gaze of a group of personal staff: "After the death of this official, you can ask Zheng Jun to surrender, there are too many dead, this is a sin done by this official!" ”

After that, Wan Zhengse pulled hard, and the second admiral who was martyred for the Qing court after Shi Lang appeared

Looking at the Qing warships that either surrendered or scattered, Ma Ying also had a great headache, and now there are still two groups of Qing army ships that have not yet been wiped out, and it is impossible to divide the troops to pursue lightly at this time, so it is certain to gather the troops, but the Qing ships that escaped are also counted, but what should be done if they surrender? Don't abandon it and let it flee back to the mainland to cause trouble again.

Therefore, Ma Yingtong Guò discussed with Gong Tianluo, and immediately decided to use a total of 30 double sailing gunboats belonging to the fast fleet and the main fleet to go north to meet the Zhejiang Provincial Naval Division, and six 3,000 double-sailing gunboats with minor injuries and two notification ships gathered and escorted the surrendered Qing warships back to Dongning, and the whole division of the main fleet turned to meet the Guangdong Naval Division.

Without further ado, in view of the greater threat of the Zhejiang Provincial Naval Division, Gong Tian immediately led his troops northward, Ma Ying, who was worried about the remnants of the Fujian Provincial Naval Division, reported to the Guangdong Provincial Naval Division, turned southwest, and the surrendered Qing naval ships, which had seen the speed and power of the Zheng army's gunboats, were reluctantly driven to the east.

In fact, Ma Ying's worries were justified, and in the process of sailing to the southwest to intercept the Guangdong Provincial Naval Division, he successively overtook four or five Fujian Provincial warships that had fled from the previous war zone.

Of course, the "Li Weigong" and "Huo Yao" were used to deal with these petty things, and it was a bit of a knife to kill chickens and overkill, so the six 4,000-material iron-skeleton double-sailing gunboats happily took over this errand of cleaning up the miscellaneous fish, and no matter how far the Fujian warships ran out or landed on the spot and begged, they were all named one by one by the Zheng gunboats that played with cats and mice.

After traveling southwest for more than half an hour, Ma Ying, who almost thought that he had missed the Guangdong Naval Division, finally received a report from the observation post: "The Warrior reports that the main force of the Guangdong Naval Division of the Qing Army is in the four waters in the right front of this fleet."

"Caught up." Ma Ying's first thought was this, and then he laughed and scolded. "Is this Fu Kui being cleaned up by the Qiongzhou detachment, and he climbs so slowly, Wan Zhengse is unlucky to have such allies." However, having said that, on the one hand, the Guangdong Provincial Naval Division is relatively close to the mainland, and the battle situation is slightly unfavorable and can retreat to the shallow sea, and on the other hand, the number of the main fleet in Ma Ying's hands is not enough to re-stage the previous cutting tactics to eliminate the Guangdong Provincial Naval Division, so Ma Ying thought for a while and ordered. "Order the fleet to turn southeast, and then to the west after half an hour, and after crossing the position of the Qing captive ship group, turn to the northeast to attack the Qing army's rearguard warships, and be sure to leave them all at sea and not escape!"

With Ma Ying's order, Zheng Jun's course changed, and the track he ploughed when he turned was so pleasing to the eye, but faintly, there was a deep blood color under the white waves

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