Chapter 184: The Smoke Rises Again on the Sea

Whether these armies can fight or not, it is not yet known. But this method did greatly reduce the cost of maintaining these soldiers and horses in the imperial court.

Now is the time to test the combat effectiveness of these armies.

Qu Liangcai sat in the rear, looking intently at the front.

saw these Japanese sacrificing their lives to attack Penghu City. Fought all afternoon. But nothing came of it, and even two battalion officers were killed in battle.

Qu Liangcai withdrew the four battalions, abolished the battalion officers who had died in battle, the Yamana battalion and the Ouchi battalion, and merged them into the Shimazu battalion and the Maori battalion.

Qu Liangcai himself felt that there were too many of these battalion-level units. Although he did not think of making a large camp of 5,000 men. But felt that the number of battalions below was too small. It doesn't come in handy when it's critical.

As for how to merge, it is natural to see who can survive.

Immediately, Qu Liangcai mobilized again, the Chisong camp, the Nanmu camp, the Hosokawa camp, and the Toki camp. Go on the offensive.

This time, Penghu City couldn't resist the attack.

In the end, it was still unprepared, and it was able to hold out at the beginning, and even the southern army was still fighting hand-to-hand at the head of the city. But after fighting for half a day, the follow-up was weak.

And Qu Liangcai still has a lot of chips, so there is no reason why he can't break it.

As soon as Penghu City is taken, Penghu Island will be won, and after Penghu Island is won, other islands other than Penghu Island will not be a problem.

Qu Liangcai immediately sent someone to Fang Chengfeng to win.

At the same time, Fang Chengfeng also won a big battle.

This great victory was against the Fujian sailors.

To be honest, the Fujian Navy Division is not weak. In terms of quantity and quality, it is the most important branch of the Southern Dynasty Water Division, and even above the Shandong Water Division, but it is helpless. Their fighting philosophy is too backward.

The Fujian Navy Division was obsessed with artillery to suppress the opponent and get close to the tactics of jumping gangs. And the Liaodong naval division has risen to the idea of destroying enemy ships with artillery.

Admittedly, today's artillery is somewhat weak.

In addition, wooden ships are naturally buoyant, and it is not easy to sink the ship with artillery.

It may even appear, bombarding hundreds of cannons, and the ship is still floating above the water.

But the ship, though unsinkable, lost control during the battle, whether it was the artillery bombardment of the ship's key positions, such as the rudder, or the fact that too many people died on the ship. The ship may not be sinkable. But the people on the ship are flesh and blood.

These ships that have lost control are very likely to drift smoothly with the wind, and in this case, what difference does it make between sinking and not sinking, and they will not be able to participate in the battle below.

Not to mention, the power of the cannon is increasing year by year, and the sinking of wooden ships in the future is also just around the corner.

In this battle, Fang Chengfeng took the initiative to attack the Fujian Navy Division with fewer enemies.

Several times crossed the fleet of the Fujian Naval Division.

It seems to be a hero, but in fact, Fang Chengfeng is very calculating. Because the number of artillery of the Fujian naval division was insufficient.

In fact, this cannot be blamed on the Fujian Naval Division, and it can even be said that the artillery supply of the Fujian Naval Division was actually very sufficient before the war between the north and the south. But sufficiency is relative. And not absolutely.

Not to mention, during the Hongwu period, Liaodong and Beijing had become the main bases for artillery production. At that time, the Liaodong Naval Division was close to the water tower and got the moon first. More than anyone else in artillery armament.

After the war between the north and the south, under the organization of He Xi, the north began to explode production capacity, and artillery was produced like an assembly line. Not only naval artillery, infantry artillery, city defense artillery, tiger squat artillery, and so on. There are tens of thousands of doors a year, and that's not all.

And Nanjing is too far behind in this regard.

Originally, the production of artillery at the Taiping Iron Works was slow, with hundreds of guns produced every year. But after the war, Fu Youde felt the importance of artillery, which was simply urging him to ask for artillery in the back.

But is this thing a thing that Fu Youde immediately had when he asked for it?

Taiping Steel Mill is not without expansion

Production, just to increase production, is also a process. The reason why Beijing is so easy to explode production capacity is actually because before the explosion of production capacity, Beijing Construction Project has allowed each factory to fill up its production capacity. The so-called burst capacity. It's just a change from the previous production of construction steel to the production of artillery. So the speed of transformation is very fast. But the Taiping Iron Works did not have such an advantage.

He has to come step by step to explode production capacity.

And it is also subject to various restrictions, and there is no problem with iron ore for a while. But there is a problem with the coal mines. On the one hand, there is the problem of transporting a large number of coal mines along the Yangtze River, and on the other hand, the coal mines themselves are not large coal mines. It is more difficult for coal mines to increase production capacity than iron mines.

After all, iron ore is an open-pit mine.

The coal mines in Wuhu are not.

It's all a problem. It's just that Fu Youde doesn't care about these, he only needs artillery.

Then the east wall can only be demolished to make up the west wall. Who is the East Wall? Except for the army of the Northern Expedition, all places are the east wall, and it is needless to say who is the west wall. Naturally, it is Fu Youde's department.

Even if the artillery of the Fujian Navy Division is in accordance with the establishment, it is not comparable to that of the Northern Army.

At present, there is still a lot of lack of artillery in the Fujian Naval Division.

Needless to say, what kind of result this will have.

The Fujian Navy Division was at a firepower disadvantage when facing Fang Chengfeng. And Fang Chengfeng bravely advanced three times, and then advanced again. It even beat the Fujian sailors to a dissipation, especially when the two sides were close to a distance of dozens of steps. When the Fujian sailors were about to jump into the gang, they were shot by Fang Chengfeng with artillery and washed the deck.

It's just miserable.

Throughout the deck, there was hardly a single place without blood.

It's what hell on earth looks like.

After coming like this several times, several generals were killed in battle, and the morale of the Fujian Navy Division completely collapsed. voluntarily withdrew from the battlefield.

Fang Chengfeng pursued all the way until he saw Xiamen Island. before returning home. It was also at this time that Fang Chengfeng knew Qu Liangcai's good news.

Fang Chengfeng secretly said in his heart; "Jingjiang is in my hands."

Although it is said that there are still 10,000 or 20,000 southern troops on the island of Taiwan. But Fang Chengfeng didn't pay attention to it at all. Without him, he only needs to control the Taiwan Strait, and these people are rootless trees and sourceless water.

No matter how long you persist and how tenacious you are, you can't change the outcome.

And the Navy Division is not the same as the Army.

As long as the army has money and people, it can recruit at any time. The sailor division is different, and the sailor fights by boat. And for a ship, production requires cycles. And replenishing artillery also takes time. And it takes time to train sailors who can skillfully handle ships.

In this battle, Fang Chengfeng only sank two ships, and even one of them, Fang Chengfeng didn't know if he sank it, or if he lost control and ran aground on the rocks.

But there are a lot of killings.

Every boat of the Fujian Navy Division was stained with blood. How many people died, Fang Chengfeng didn't know. But it is by no means a small amount, and there are not many shipwrecks. But most of the ships were battered.

In this case. If the Fujian Navy Division wants to restore its original combat strength, it will take several months. This is still the restoration of the original combat effectiveness. If you want to develop the combat effectiveness that surpasses Fang Chengfeng. Replenishing enough ships with artillery and a number of sailors is undercounted for a year.

This is still under the strong support of the rear, not at all discounted support. Once the rear has its own ideas, play its own calculations. Whether the Fujian sailors can recover or not is not easy to say.

Even if you use the least amount of time, three or five months. Fang Chengfeng fully believed that during this time period, he would be able to take Jingjiang City.

The situation has opened up.

After Jingjiang City was taken, it was connected from Liaodong, Korea, Japan, Ryukyu, Taiwan, Luzon, and Nanyang. The trade between the north and the South Seas is completely opened up, and it is still under the control of Beijing, which will bring too many advantages.

For example, the kings of the South Seas admit ***. The advantage of this legitimacy.

For example, if the Nanjing regime was completely expelled from sea trade, Nanjing's customs taxes would suddenly disappear. Even if there were, it wouldn't be hundreds per year

Yun Xiyue, "You're all right, right? Did you encounter any trouble when you came to the Zilan Continent?"

"Can I still sit here if there's something?" Yun Xiyue asked coldly.

Seeing her attitude, Xiao Ye hurriedly played a round, "Mother, we finally met Daddy, don't be angry with him!"

"My mother is angry?" Xiao Sen looked at Yun Xiyue and asked curiously, "Because we saw Daddy's fiancée, so you were angry?"

Yun Xiyue grimaced, "No life!".

Kazama's face also turned a lot colder, "She's not my fiancée, I have nothing to do with her."

Xiao Ye suddenly remembered something, "Daddy, Uncle Nangong's chopsticks just now...... What the hell are you doing?"

Kazama denied it unnaturally, "That's none of my business."

Xiao Ye and Xiao Mori glanced at each other, and they both smiled with their mouths covered.

"It seems that my father and mother are jealous!" The little girl's eyes were full of joy, and she looked at this, and then at that, and her smile became even brighter.

Because of Kazama's arrival, the two little milk balls are quite good at being human, and after packing some food, they went back to the space.

When they returned to the space, it was quiet.

Yun Xiyue squinted at Kazama Hee with a cold face, "You didn't stay at the inn to accompany your fiancée, aren't you afraid that she will be angry?"

Kazama didn't look at her, although she tried her best to pretend to be light, but the resentment in her eyes still couldn't be hidden, "I said, I have nothing to do with her!"

"It's you, it's you who found Nangong undefeated so quickly."

Yun Xiyue was stunned for a moment, he ...... Are you jealous?

Who was playing tricks on Nangong like a child just now?

Isn't that him?

Yun Xiyue glanced at him with a smile, "I met Nangong Undefeated in the square."

This time it was Kazama's turn to be stunned.

"My family is very strong, so I can only tell you that I am here by holding a thaumaturgical competition."

Kazama was silent for a while before continuing, "I've learned a lot in the past month, so I've learned the doppelganger method for a short time, but it can only last for half an hour, and the body left in the inn will disappear after half an hour."

"Xiao was shocked to reveal that my father and mother betrothed to my fiancée in my mother's womb, you don't have to take her seriously."

Yun Xiyue snorted softly, "I didn't take her to heart."

"So you're still mad at me just now?" Kazama's tone softened, and he looked at her with a smirk, "Are you jealous?"

Yun Xiyue raised her eyebrows, "Who just teased Nangong Undefeated like a child? Kazama, you're jealous, aren't you?"

Kazama coughed unnaturally, "Who made him so annoying!"

At this time, the door was kicked open, "Kazama, it's you!"

Nangong was undefeated and returned, and he heard what Kazama had just said.

He strode in angrily, and struck at Kazama with one palm.

It's a pity that his little strength, in front of Kazama, is like a milky child.

"Nangong is undefeated, you will not be my opponent if you cultivate for another hundred years." Kazama Xi was extremely cold, and with a slight wave of his hand, he fixed Nangong Undefeated and lived there.

Nangong Undefeated's eyes widened and scolded angrily: "Kazama Xi! You coward! Don't you dare to resist the marriage arranged by your family......

Before he finished speaking, he was frozen by Kazama.

"Let's eat together!" Kazama no longer looked at him, calmly sat down beside Yun Xiyue, and gave her a piece of roast chicken nugget with his own hands.