In that year, after Yu Zhong was sent to Sichuan by Kangxi, the position of Admiral of the Manchurian Navy Division was immediately taken by Isanga, and those old subordinates in Yu Zhong, except for those who were assigned to other major sailors, the rest became Isanga's subordinates.

Later, the crown prince Yinren plotted "chaos", and Kangxi's suspicion of the princes increased. And after keenly perceiving Kangxi's thoughts about himself, in order to avoid suspicion, the eldest brother Yinchu was unwilling to continue to entangle for a throne in Beijing, so he had already let go of his eyes and proposed to Kangxi to lead an expedition to North America. Before that, Isana had already reported to Kangxi and others about the discovery of a large gold mine in Alaska.

Therefore, on the one hand, in order to support his son, and on the other hand, in order to be able to transport some products from North America back to China, Kangxi formed a transport fleet. And the predecessor of this fleet, if you change the name to a more understandable one, is "...... The Beiyang Detachment of the Manchurian Naval Division"!

In the beginning, the fleet consisted of less than twenty ships, most of which were transport vessels. However, with the further development of Yinchu in North America, especially after he asked Kangxi for a large number of Japanese, Kangxi ordered to increase the size of this Beiyang transport fleet, and Kangxi also greatly strengthened the armed forces of this fleet. The reason for this is naturally that there are too many aliens under Yinchu's subordinates, in addition to the Japanese, there are also a large number of Indians, in order to prevent accidents, it is natural to ensure sufficient force deterrence. Although the existence of a fleet does not threaten those who have a continental depth to hide, a huge fleet can transport a large number of troops from Manchuria to North America at any time! Therefore, no matter who wants to rebel, they must first be prepared to be chased and beaten by Kangxi. You must know that although Yinchu's departure saved Kangxi a lot of unnecessary trouble, it also made Kangxi have an additional knot, which made him feel that he was always a little sorry for his eldest son, so he ensured Yinchu's safety. Providing him with support and reserve forces has become the only way Kangxi can alleviate this mood.

However, no one expected that in the end, this Beiyang detachment, which was under the name of the Manchurian Naval Division, ostensibly had to obey the orders of Admiral Isang'a, but had only obeyed the orders of Kangxi and Yinchu since its establishment, could grow to a scale of more than 80 ships. Of course, eighty ships are nothing at first glance. Even if it is only the weakest of the six major naval divisions, the Zhili naval division is much larger than the scale of this fleet. However, what makes people have to pay attention is that due to the long sea route from Manchuria to North America, in order to meet the needs of long-distance voyages, these 80 ships are all giant ships without exception!

Moreover, due to the fact that the climate conditions in the northern seas, especially in the Bering Sea, are not very good, the weather is unpredictable. So. These more than eighty ships are being built. All are done in accordance with the requirements of being able to withstand the strong winds and waves at sea. The thickness of the ship's planks was almost double that of the warships provided by the Haiweiwei shipyard for the rest of the major sailors. Coupled with the fact that the materials used to make these ships are the finest timber that has been grown in Siberia for thousands of years, it can be said that the hull is strong. I'm afraid that the ironclad ship that Old Man Fei rushed to build in order to verify the possibility of steel shipbuilding is also better, and the ships of the Beiyang Fleet are huge enough, if the two collide, I am afraid that the result will be one injury and one sinking...... Due to the level of craftsmanship, it is almost certain that it will be the ironclad ship that will sink. Moreover, the ironclad ships are now only able to sail from Dalian to Tianjin very riskily, and in terms of long-distance sailing ability, compared to the Beiyang Fleet warships that had reached the south of North America according to Yinchu's orders, and almost jumped to South America. It's more of a heaven and an underground. Although the ironclad ship is definitely the future maritime hegemon, at present, due to the level problem, it is far from enough.

Originally, if the Qing Dynasty had been developing so peacefully, this Beiyang detachment might have just honestly served as the role of the transport brigade between Kangxi and his son, and would never have had a bright future. Even, except for a limited number of people. Nor will many people know about its existence. But here the Europeans came! Moreover, as soon as the Europeans arrived, they crippled the two naval divisions in the South China Sea and the West Sea, and blocked the East China Sea and the North Sea divisions in Taihu Lake and prevented them from coming out. In order to prevent his Gyeonggi region and the Manchurian region where his ancestors had made their fortunes, Kangxi was reluctant to let the remaining two major sailors, especially the Manchurian sailors who had always been regarded as his hole cards, dispatch. So, when I think about it, I think of this quasi-fleet.

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When Yu Zhong was training Manchurian sailors in Vladivostok, he was particularly fond of the tactics of bullying the small with the big and bullying the weak with the strong, especially before the decisive battle, he liked to completely overwhelm the enemy with his strong strength first, and then launch a fierce attack in one fell swoop. The two tactics taught by Yu Zhong to his subordinates to deter the enemy with momentum should be dealt with the enemy on land and the enemy at sea respectively. For the enemy on land, it is to use the broadside platoon guns to carry out covering, carpet bombing, and exchange a momentary devastating blow for the enemy's fear and annihilation. And for the enemy at sea, Yu Zhong's favorite is "precision strike"! The existence of "sharpshooters" in the Manchurian naval divisions was prepared for this move.

In these days, sailing ships are the main force of naval warfare, and tall masts are a fragile but extremely important existence for sailing ships. Without masts, sailing ships would hardly be able to maneuver at sea, and would not only lose their main driving power, but would even be very troublesome to turn. If, in a naval battle, a sailing ship in such a situation is not even taken care of, I am afraid that it will die. Because, if it is not repaired, on the vast sea, this sailing ship is likely to perish with its passengers.

Therefore, if the enemy's mast can be broken from a distance at the beginning of the naval battle, then it is bound to seriously affect the enemy's morale.

As mentioned earlier, the Beiyang Fleet was under the command of the Manchurian Naval Division, so many of its generals, from the generals who commanded the troops to the small soldiers under its jurisdiction, were taught by Yu Zhong. And the commander of this fleet, that is, the supreme commander, is called Fucha Murcha! That is located in the middle of the "main house". Since Nian Qianyao left, he served as a young general with Yue Zhongqi as a deputy general. When he was first transferred to Vladivostok, this Murcha was not even twenty years old, but he was just a young man who had become a low-ranking officer by virtue of his ancestors. Therefore, at that time, Yu Zhong, who was already famous all over the world for killing the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, saving Kangxi, and guarding Fengtian. This kid has always been very admired. In addition, Yu Zhong seems to have always "looked at him differently", often taking him with him to teach, and he was also entrusted with important tasks when attacking Japan, so from the very beginning, Murcha listened to Yu Zhong's words and did everything he said. Although Yu Zhong was later transferred, but. The connection between the two has never been broken. And because he has been persuaded by Yu Zhong, even if Murcha was later transferred to the "transport captain", he did not feel disheartened by this, and almost never slacked off in the training of his subordinates.

Therefore, after receiving Kangxi's order to transfer troops this time, he led his troops to Vladivostok to refit those giant transport ships, asked for a batch of artillery and ammunition, and seconded a group of sharpshooters and a few troops, and immediately went south. At this time, the Beiyang Detachment of the Manchurian Naval Division had become the "Beiyang Naval Division" of the Qing Dynasty. Murcha also became the commander of the Beiyang Naval Division. According to Kangxi's will. As long as he wins the battle, he will also become the first commander of the Beiyang Navy Division and the seventh commander of the Qing Dynasty!

Waited for more than ten years. The opportunity has finally arrived! Now in his thirties, Murcha realized that he had finally waited for a chance to climb to the sky. He clearly knows that if he can successfully complete the task assigned by Kangxi, he will become a great hero who can turn the tide, and with his status as a man, maybe it won't be long before he will follow in the footsteps of Yu Zhong and become a great general who can stand alone.

However, he also knew very well that if he couldn't seize this opportunity, he would inevitably sink from now on. There will be no day of resurrection. Therefore, at the beginning of his southward journey, he issued a general order to the whole army that "if you don't succeed, you will become benevolent". In order to prevent the news of going south from leaking, he even issued a "kill order"! Sink all the ships that come along the way, whether they are friends or enemies.

The means are a bit grim! However, extraordinary times must be used in extraordinary times!

And in the end, it turned out that Murcha succeeded!

Although the Beiyang Naval Division led by him was very unlucky, they encountered nearly thirty coalition warships on the way. However, since there had always been clippers as scouts at sea, and the coalition fleet with more than 30 ships was too careless, it was easy for an encirclement to trap this enemy force. After that, in the first three rounds of attacks launched by the Beiyang Naval Division, more than half of the more than 30 poor coalition warships lost their ability to be flexible and maneuverable. After that, the precise and deadly blow enabled the Beiyang Naval Division to wipe out most of the enemy in a short period of time. However, the Beiyang Naval Division itself only had a few warships and suffered a few shots, and even its combat effectiveness was not weakened.

Then, while pursuing several coalition warships that had escaped from the encirclement, Murcha learned that a fierce battle was taking place near the island. So, he had an idea and let the few remaining coalition warships, which had been pitifully beaten, escape, while he only followed them in a neat formation. Then, as he approached the battlefield, he ordered the sharpshooters to sink the ships! …… With precise and deadly blows, it forms a shocking pressure on the coalition forces. At that time, Shi Shifu and Black were leading their respective fleets to face each other, which was equivalent to invisibly cooperating with him. …… In the empty environment, watching his battleship being easily sunk by the other party, coupled with the sense of oppression of the pitch-black and tall hull of the Beiyang Naval Division, Murcha once again reached his goal.

And after that, it was the Beiyang Naval Division and the East China Sea and the Beihai Naval Division that carried out a front and rear attack on the coalition fleet! Although Blake once wanted to change this situation, the narrowness of the sea made him have to give up this idea. Because, if a turn is made in such a narrow area, it will inevitably cause a certain amount of chaos, and if the Qing fleet takes the opportunity to launch a fierce attack at this time, the coalition forces will inevitably suffer huge losses. However, after the Beiyang Sailor appeared, Blake had to regret that he couldn't deal with things decisively on the spot. More than 30 ships were lost before, and 30 were wiped out by the Beiyang Naval Division, and more than 60 warships were lost at once, while the two fleets of the Qing army combined had 145 ships.

Still, as a soldier, Blake didn't back down. Although the situation is unfavorable. He still gave the order to fight back. The front team of the coalition fleet desperately resisted the Shi Shiqi fleet in front, and the rear team turned around in turn and attacked the Beiyang Naval Division coming from behind!

One side wants the other's life, and the other wants to desperately break through...... The length of Zhengming Island is about 47 miles, or about 150 miles, but there are nearly 200 warships and tens of thousands of horses, but they can only fight in a narrow space that is no more than 40 miles long and less than 20 miles wide. The intensity of the battle can be imagined.

Originally, there was a saying called "one man is desperate, ten thousand people can't stop it"! Surrounded by the Qing army in front and behind, and in such a crowded environment, it was almost impossible for the coalition forces to break through. Still, Blake and Toulouse were going to give it a try. However, despite the best efforts of the coalition forces, the situation continued to turn against their side as the battle progressed. First of all, Zhengming Island is located at the mouth of the Yangtze River.

And Shi Shi's fat department is just upstream. Therefore, as soon as the decisive battle began, Shi Shifu released dozens of small boats. Bombed and sank almost ten coalition warships blocking the front, and then led the army to break through Black's front defenses and "disrup" the coalition formation. Secondly, due to the narrowness of the sea area, if they wanted to break out of the encirclement of the Qing army, the warships of the coalition forces would naturally have to engage in close combat with the warships of the Beiyang Naval Division, but they did not expect that nearly half of the ships on the southward ship of Murcha could not carry too much artillery because they were temporarily refitted. In this case, there is naturally a lot of space. However, the remaining space on the battleship did not leave it idle, and he loaded it with three thousand muskets and five thousand soldiers for hand-to-hand combat, all of whom were very brave, even fierce! Because, these people are all from the extremely harsh training - the Imperial Army!

As a result, after the start of close combat, the casualties of the coalition officers and soldiers began to increase sharply. Better than the previous battle. And those imperial and Qing armies not only had a numerical advantage, but their ferocious fighting methods also made many coalition soldiers feel fearful. However, because the venue was too crowded, the scene after the close battle was too chaotic, coupled with the difference in language, neither Shi Shiqi nor Murcha and others could take advantage of this opportunity, plus there were many pirates in the coalition army, which was a group of outlaws, so after the initial panic, in the face of the ruthless killing of the Qing army, the coalition army also burst out with a tragic momentum and began to fight back desperately. And by this time, both sides had already killed the red eyes, and even if the king of heaven came, he could no longer separate them.

By the time the battle was over, corpses were floating almost everywhere on the sea near the entire island. And the vast majority of these corpses are mutilated. Among them, there are the corpses of the coalition army, and there are also those of the Qing army! On the surface of the sea, only a patch of bright red remains!

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The Battle of Tsumeijima was the most tragic battle in the East-West War. Although the Qing fleet was flanked from both sides, and the allied fleet with excellent quality was blocked in a narrow sea area, so that it could not exert its full strength, the Qing army still suffered huge losses, and the total number of casualties among officers and men alone was as high as more than 5,000, and the allied forces were even more incalculable, and in the end less than 1,000 people were captured. Among them, the British Major General Blake did not know which guy had half of his head cut off, and the Count of Toulouse, who had withdrawn from the coalition battle sequence before the decisive battle, was captured alive. However, fortunately, since a large part of the whole battle was spent in hand-to-hand combat between ships, the casualties were mainly people! Although the warships on both sides lost a number of warships compared to the beginning, in the end, the Qing army still captured more than 50 allied warships, plus their own remaining, the total number of warships of the Qing army reached about 200. However, this result also made the Qing army realize the combat effectiveness of the coalition army.

Especially in the midst of the tight encirclement, there are still several coalition warships that can break out of the layers of encirclement with scars all over their bodies, and this kind of combat power is inferior to many self-proclaimed Qing generals.

After all, the West has hardly stopped its wars for hundreds of years, and how can an army trained in such an environment be a herd of bears?

However, despite the fact that the opponent is powerful, the war is still going on.

After the Battle of Zhengming Island, the Qing fleet recuperated for a period of time, and then went south under the leadership of Shi Shiqi to sweep away! …… Since he was no longer sure that he would be able to defeat the coalition fleet, Shi Shiqiu changed his battle plan in a timely manner. Instead of thinking about taking Temasek first, he intended to concentrate on destroying the Western "Sao" fleet with the assistance of the Eastern pirates who had already been recruited. However, I don't know for what reason, after learning of their losses in the battle of Zonmyong, the top of the coalition forces did not rush to take revenge, but shrank their forces and pulled most of the main forces back to the Temasek area, making a posture of strictly preventing the Qing army from entering the Indian Ocean. In this way, the South China Sea Sailors, who were forced to retreat in Guangzhou, did not have to wait for Shi Shiji's department to come to the "rescue", but took the initiative to go to the convergence.

In this way, a Qing fleet with more than 200 main warships and more than 300 subordinate ships of various types took shape. However, even though his strength has been greatly enhanced, Shi Shifu still did not take the initiative to launch a counterattack, but confronted the coalition forces in Luzon from afar.

And at this time, there was also an urgent report from the Indian side.