After easily defeating the Qing army's naval division, Chen Yang ordered people to fish up the Qing soldiers who were still floating on the water, and tortured them, hoping to get useful information.

After some torture, Chen Yang obtained some useful information - the Huguang Qing army did not enter Jiangnan Province by land, but collected a large number of ships in Huguang Province, and went down the river to Nanjing, preparing to join up with Boluo, the general of Zhengnan, and then go south to Zhejiang.

Now the fleet of the Qing army in Huguang has passed through Chizhou Mansion and will soon reach Taiping Mansion, although I don't know how many Qing troops there are, but at least it will not be less than 10,000.

In addition, Chen Yang also learned that the Jiangnan Provincial Naval Division was almost completely wiped out, and except for the eight warships that had escaped back, the Qing army had no other warships capable of fighting within the scope of Jiangnan Province.

In other words, the lower reaches of the Yangtze River are already the world of the Ming army!

After learning of this, Chen Yang quickly had an idea, he ordered those Qing soldiers to be picked up and thrown back into the Yangtze River, and then led the fleet to continue to advance, intending to intercept the fleet of the Huguang Qing army on the Yangtze River and reduce Su Yan's pressure as much as possible.

It is worth mentioning that there is no so-called fort in East Asia now, or in other words, neither side of the Ming and Qing dynasties has the idea of casting forts on the coast to guard against the sailors, and their common trick is to pull up a huge iron cable on the river surface, and want to cross an iron cable on the wide Yangtze River water surface, the manpower and material resources consumed are very huge, and it is impossible to complete it in a short time.

Therefore, Chen Yangcai boldly continued to move forward.

The sail warship sailed faster than the East Asian warships of the current era, so after Bolo learned that the sailors had been defeated again, and heard the terrible things about the Ming warships from Zhang Hui's mouth, he had just given the order to guard against the Ming navy, and the Ming navy had already appeared outside the shogunate mountain.

At this time, although it was getting late, the lights inside and outside Nanjing were still bright, which gave Chen Yang the target of their shelling, and the sailors quickly sailed across the Shogunate Mountain and arrived outside the former Longjiang Shipyard, slowing down a little.

Standing on the deck, Chen Yang looked at the ruins of the largest shipyard in the Ming Empire with mixed feelings, as a naval officer, he regretted the decline of this shipyard more than anyone else, if this shipyard had not declined, it was likely to become the cradle of the Ming Empire's navy, providing the empire with a steady stream of powerful and sturdy warships.

Unfortunately, due to the short-sightedness and selfish desires of the rulers and the Decision-Breaker, the largest royal shipyard of the same era has declined to the point where it is today, and most of the ruins have become farmland and ponds, and the original glory can no longer be seen.

In his heart silently mourned for this shipyard for a few seconds, Chen Yang cheered up again and led the sailor to continue to advance, that is, at this time, the Qing army had discovered this uninvited guest, but today's fiasco of the sailor made the Qing soldiers change their color, and the only eight remaining warships did not dare to leave the port to meet the enemy, and could only watch the Ming army sailors sail to the periphery of the port outside the fence gate and Jiangdong gate.

Immediately, the cannon roared!

"Fire!"

Amid the roar of the gunners, ten warships launched an artillery bombardment towards the bustling port, and a large number of shells whizzed into the port dock and the building complex, causing many ships moored at the pier to be injured and the building damaged in many places.

For a time, the port area cried and screamed, countless civilians screamed and ran out of the building, wanting to stay away from the shore, the Qing army garrison here hurriedly out of the camp, they pushed the artillery to the shore, intending to counterattack the Ming army, but where would the Ming army give them a chance, under the indiscriminate bombardment of the shells, the Qing army quickly collapsed and joined the wave of escape.

After ten rounds of shelling, Chen Yang ordered a halt, and the fleet continued to move west along the Yangtze River.

I don't know where it started, the fire gradually spread, and by the time the Qing soldiers in the city heard the news, the port area was already in flames, and many buildings and ships were set on fire.

After learning of the tragic situation in the port, Bolo, who was already lying down, was so angry that he smashed the precious porcelain in the room, how did he not know that this was the Ming army demonstrating to him, and what made him even more frightened was that the Ming army only had ten warships with such terrifying firepower, if these cannons were moved to land, what should he do with the Qing Dynasty?

Chen Yang didn't know what Bolo was thinking, and after passing through the range of Nanjing City, his gunners told him a not-so-good news - after these two consumptions, most of the ammunition reserves of each ship were consumed, and the shells reserved for each gun were sufficient, but the gunpowder consumption was too serious.

However, considering that there were not many Qing naval divisions on the Yangtze River, the remaining reserves should be more than enough to deal with the fleet of the Qing army in Huguang.

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The next day, the news of Nanjing's bombardment had not yet reached the ears of Zhang Chufan, the general soldier of Huguang, who was sailing in the middle of the Yangtze River, so this general soldier who had led his army from Huguang to Nanjing all the way to Nanjing led the fleet to sail to the shore and sail towards Nanjing early in the morning.

However, until noon that day, when the fleet was about to sail through the Taiping Mansion, a Ming army sailor suddenly appeared in front, and Zhang Chufan saw that the other side only had ten warships, and there was no collision angle in the bow, so he was careless for a moment and ordered the ships to surround it, intending to settle the battle with a broadside battle.

But soon, they were attacked by the Ming army, ten warships lined up one after another, to meet the enemy on the side, in an instant, hundreds of artillery guns fired at once, the Qing ships sailing towards them were heavily damaged, sunk several ships, heavy losses.

Only one salvo, the Qing army ships were in a big mess, regardless of the tail, the Qing soldiers on the sunken ships screamed and jumped into the water, begging the robes on the surrounding ships to rescue them, but the latter also took care of themselves, seeing several warships of the Ming army turn around and sail towards them, they quickly turned around and tried to escape.

However, the number of Qing warships was so large that there was no unified order, so that many warships collided with each other and became the live targets of the Ming army.

The Qing soldiers were the objects of slaughter, they were the army, the water war was not good, and they abandoned the boat and fell into the water after being frightened, but many of them regretted it after falling into the water, more than half of these Qing soldiers came from the north to surrender the soldiers, did not practice water nature, and struggled desperately for a long time after falling into the water and finally drowned.

Seeing the heavy losses of the fleet, Zhang Chufan suddenly woke up, ignoring the subordinates who were being slaughtered in front of him, and hurriedly ordered the remaining ships to dock quickly and land on the shore.

But where will Chen Yang let them dock smoothly, the ten warships have abandoned the warships in the chaos, and leaned towards the intact Qing warships, and when they got closer, they turned their bows and shelled the warships with their sideboards, all the warships that were shelled were seriously damaged, and they sank slowly, and even the soldiers on the boat also fed the fish of the Yangtze River.

A small number of warships saw that they couldn't escape, gritted their teeth and took the initiative to lean towards the Ming battleship, trying to pull the other party into the broadside battle, but when they got closer, they looked at the enemy ship that was a few meters higher than themselves and was dumbfounded, the Ming soldiers on the deck of the battleship did not give them time to react, they shot one after another, and the artillery on one side also adjusted the angle, directly to the face to give the opponent a round of shelling, and directly sank it.

The artillery battle lasted less than half an hour, and except for a few warships that fled ashore quickly, most of them sank to the bottom of the river with the sunken warships and became food for the fish in the river.