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The previous Hangzhou Bay Green Camp Naval Division has already been taken by the Taiwan Naval Division, and the Qing Army's Naval Division is less than a part, and the strength of this part is too weak, only 1,200 people.

The main warships of the Qing court and Taiwan were typical Chinese ships, one side of which was a sand ship, and the other side was a fortune ship, both of which belonged to the four famous ships of ancient China. Speaking of these four famous ships are the Guangzhou ship, Zhejiang ship, Fu ship, sand ship, as for the Zhejiang ship on the Yangtze River to see not much, Fu ship is less, Guangzhou ship is not one, most of the big ships are sand ships and even smaller cargo ships and other modifications, in fact, the Qing court's sailors really belong to the warship or the warship, but the number of warships is really not much, can only use a large number of sand ships to modify the warship.

It can be said that the main body of Taiwan's naval divisions are all Fu ships, and Fu ships account for about eighty percent, and the rest are other types of ships, including Western warships. At this moment, Liu Guoxuan led the Taiwan Navy Division into the Yangtze River, although the number of warships could not be compared with the Qing Court's Jiangning Green Camp Naval Division, but the Taiwan Naval Division was stronger in terms of sufficient firepower, and the sailors had been trained for a long time, and the overall combat power was stronger than Wang Zhiding's Jiangning Green Camp Naval Division.

One of the two sailors went down the river, and the other went upstream, and finally met in a section of the Jingjiang River. The Qing Army's naval division was very smooth all the way down the river, but the Taiwanese naval division was not so easy, and it was intercepted when it first entered the Yangtze River estuary, and the Wusong Fort set up at the mouth of the Yangtze River made Liu Guoxuan suffer a lot. After losing thirteen large and small warships, it took the Wusong Fort and advanced along the lì. Among them is the main Daifuku ship. Therefore, this is not good for Taiwanese sailors.

Wusongkou should be more familiar in the impression of later generations, an important part of Shanghai. But Wusongkou has always been a fortress of China's coastal defense and river defense. Wusongkou was called so because it was once the mouth of the Wusong River into the Yangtze River, and it was the confluence of the Huangpu River and the Yangtze River. It is only more than 30 kilometers away from the mouth of the Yangtze River in the east, and Chongming Island in the north, Changxing and other islands in the east are confronted by water, and the main channel of the Yangtze River is on the flank, which is the gateway to the sea of Shanghai and Nanjing. In the nineteenth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang set up a thousand households in Wusongjiang. During the Jiajing period, a general army was set up.

After the Qing army entered the customs in the seventeenth year of Ming Chongzhen, he controlled most of the country. As the gateway of the Yangtze River, Wusong has been in fierce competition for a long time. The Qing court was even more defensive here, and Emperor Shunzhi first changed the Qianhu Office into the Wusong battalion, and placed warships to garrison it, and then added a battalion and placed it under the jurisdiction of the Jiangning Naval Division. In just four years from the eighth to the twelfth year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, the fleets of the Southern Ming generals Zhang Mingzhen and Zhang Huangyan attacked Wusong four times and entered the Yangtze River three times. In the sixteenth year of Shunzhi, Zheng Chenggong also led a large army into the Yangtze River and approached Nanjing. At that time, the Qing court was greatly shaken. Therefore, in the seventeenth year of Shunzhi, he ordered Lang Tingzuo, the governor of Jiangnan, to build a fort at the mouth of Yangjiazui in Wusong, on the west bank of the Huangpu River.

And so it goes. This Wusongkou not only increased the number of people, but also increased the number of artillery, especially after the outbreak of the Great War last year, Kangxi once again ordered the governor of Liangjiang to add forts on the original basis, so that now all the forts have been built on both sides of the estuary, divided into east and west forts, south Shitang south and north forts and Lion Forest forts, and there are more than 55 guns of various calibers. In this battle of Liu Guoxuan's invasion of the Yangtze River, it played a huge role. Although Liu Guoxuan broke through the defense line of Wusongkou, he also paid a lot of price, not to mention that the warship lost more than 800 people just by soldiers. The Wu Song battalion of the Qing court only lost more than 300 people, but all the artillery of the fort was destroyed.

Those who have walked across the Yangtze River should have some understanding of the surface of the Yangtze River, which is more than 1 kilometer wide even at its narrowest point, and the 107 warships of Taiwan's naval divisions and ships are only stretched out by less than 400 meters in front and behind. On the other hand, the fleet of the Jiangning Naval Division of the Qing Army has grown a lot, and the number of ships has nearly doubled. The location of the decisive battle between the two armies was also on this river, but due to the sudden arrival of the Taiwanese naval division, the Qing army's naval division was not fully prepared, and all the fireboats that responded were not in place.

The two armies soon formed an array, with the Qing fleet moving from west to east and the Taiwan fleet moving from east to west, both facing each other with one side of the hull, ready to bombard each other with the cannons in the gun windows lined up on the sides of the ships. This looks exactly the same as the array line bombardment tactics of the standard sail battleship era, but if you look closely, you will find that there are some differences, although a large number of ships on the Qing side are also lined up, but more than half of them are not equipped with cannons, and the soldiers on the deck are preparing to approach and jump into the gang to fight, hand-to-hand combat to rob the enemy ships. At this time, the wind direction was blowing to the south, which was slightly more favorable to the Qing fleet facing southeast.

At this time, Liu Guoxuan felt the difference between the Yangtze River Mountain and the sea, the sea is so wide, it doesn't matter how his fleet is moved, what kind of roundabout outflanking is what other tactics, it can be changed flexibly at any time, but it is not possible on this Yangtze River, it seems that the width of one or two kilometers is already quite wide, but the fleet has to be careful when it turns around. There are a lot of Qing ships on the opposite side, and the number of people must be large, and it seems that the scale is more than twice as strong as theirs, but he also saw from the clairvoyance that many ships of the Qing army are converted from ordinary merchant ships, and some of them have not even changed at all, and more importantly, many of their warships do not have cannons, and they are not on the Taiwan warships, there are ten on the upper and lower decks on both sides of the warship, and the smallest clipper is also equipped with two bowl-mouth guns, and the firepower is at least three times stronger than that of the Qing army.

It's just that at this time, the firepower is strong but only on the side, and there is no artillery in the bow, Liu Guoxuan originally wanted to put his big ship in a horizontal row to fire at the oncoming Qing ships, but today it was a north wind, and the Qing army was going down the river, the speed was too fast, and it was not good for them to form a line across the river. Sure enough, under the howling north wind, the Qing ships approached quickly from the Xuanzhi Arrow, and it seemed that Wang Zhiding had decided to implement the wolf pack tactics to trap the Taiwanese sailors here.

"Ready for battle!" Liu Guoxuan ordered loudly.

"Dangdang!"

A rapid bell rang, and the officers and men of Taiwan's naval division quickly began to operate and entered combat posts. At this time, Liu Guoxuan's own ship was a Western sail warship imitated by the Taiwan shipyard, and the order was transmitted, and soon all other warships were also ordered. Twenty warships on the left and right sides took advantage of the momentum of the rapid journey, and the sails were slightly adjusted, and the course was adjusted at a very fast speed, and they no longer moved forward against the river bank, but instead aimed the muzzles of the black holes at the northwest, and the Qing warships on the opposite side were far away.

For Liu Guoxuan, he did not fight with the Qing court sailors once or twice, but this was the first time he entered the Yangtze River to fight, although Zheng Chenggong had invaded the Yangtze River when he was reincarnated, but he was not in the army at that time.

Liu Guoxuan is still much stronger than Wang Zhiding in terms of combat awareness, and Liu Guoxuan's move is also to seize the opportunity, take the lead in setting up a formation, and enter the attack position first, and then see that the distance between the two sides is approaching the best range of their own artillery. Liu Guoxuan no longer hesitated, and immediately calmly ordered: "Fire!" ”。

"Tom Tom"

"Tom Tom"

"Tom Tom"

At the same time as the Taiwanese warships opened fire, some warships on the side of the Qing army's naval division also began to fire and began to fire at each other.

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, it can be seen that the problem of the training process of the sailors of both sides can be seen, a large number of shells flew out, most of them fell into the river, and almost one-tenth of the shells hit the enemy ships. The shells that fell into the river stirred up columns of water.

This was only the first round of shelling, all the soldiers on the Zheng army's side were accustomed to it, and there was no abnormality, but the Qing army's side was different, only a few Qing soldiers were killed and injured on the battleship that was hit, but the whole ship began to be chaotic. At least half of the soldiers of the Qing Army's Naval Division were engaged in a real water battle for the first time, and the soldiers of the Naval Division were obviously very nervous and flustered, which also showed that the Qing Army's Naval Division was not well trained, and they had not experienced real battles. On the other hand, Zheng Jun's naval division, even if it is a more tragic sea battle, they have also experienced several times, not to mention the battle of Cheng Dù.

Wang Zhiding also saw the scene on the battlefield and knew that if he continued to panic like this, even if he gave them more warships and better configurations, he was afraid that he would only become the target of Zheng Jun. The first round of launches was completed. The gunners on the ships of both armies quickly adjusted the range and accuracy, cleaned the chambers, reloaded the shells, and used their fastest speed, and the second round of artillery fire was soon fired again

The second round of artillery was fired first from Zheng Jun's side, and the hit rate has also improved a lot, at least twenty percent of the shells fell on the Qing warship, and the gunners on the Qing warship were much worse than Zheng Jun's side, and the reaction was slower, and the increase in their own losses was directly guided, and there was a Qing army's main warship Catch up with the ship was hit by two cannonballs, one of which happened to be hit on the deck and smashed on a cannon that was about to be launched, the cannon blew up and the shell in the barrel of this cannon was diagonally hitting the lower end of the mast of its own warship, The mast broke and the ship dropped anchor. (To be continued......)

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