Ever since the Manchurian Navy had stuck a pole in Taiwan, Guba had been very depressed, and his bad mood had brought him bad luck, as if the whole world was working against him. After being trapped in Penghu for a long time, Guba finally waited for the Nanyang Naval Division, but these hateful guys didn't have the courage to engage in battle at all, and ran away like the wind at a glance. Guba led the army to chase after him, Zhenhai was a big nail again, the hydrological situation at the mouth of the Yongjiang River was complicated, and the Qing army along the coast was also well defended, so the French army had no chance to attack at all.

The war is not going well, but this is not the most troublesome thing for Guba, there are still a lot of chores waiting for him! Since the French Far East Fleet entered the war in China, supply has been a headache, the coal from Vietnam has always been untimely, and the coal mine of the chicken coop has not been taken, so Guba can only buy it from the British in Hong Kong at a high price. Of course, the most annoying thing was the Manchurians, who originally planned to carry out a "rice blockade" plan to blockade the eastern coast, so as to disturb the southeastern half of the Qing Dynasty to the greatest extent. But the Manchurians pulled the Germans together to oppose it, and forced Guba to eat the plan. Moreover, the Manchurians had to sell well when they got cheap, and sent two destroyers to follow the French fleet in close proximity, which was called to protect the merchant ships coming and going from Manchuria.

"Have you hired a navigator?" Guba had a plan to attack Dinghai and then use Dinghai as a base to launch a full-scale attack on Zhejiang, but unfortunately Zhoushan, the gateway to Zhenhai, was in the hands of the Manchurian army, and Guba could only hang himself from a tree in Zhenhai. The experience of the chicken coop is very important, so looking at the Qing army's defense line, he had a headache and urgently ordered his subordinates to recruit navigators, and the fleet could only stand still for the time being, wasting precious fuel in vain.

"No, the bounty has been increased to sixty thousand taels of silver, but no one familiar with hydrology can recruit it. I heard that the Qing army had arrested all the missionaries and foreign navigators, so we couldn't hire anyone at all! "As a lonely deputy, Li Shibis understands the pain of the coach very well.

"Damn the Eastern barbarians, don't they have a little bit of the spirit of the rule of law? How can innocent people be detained! Gu Ba was very angry at what the Qing army had done, after all, the missionaries had not committed a crime, and the Qing army should wait for them to assist the French army before arresting people.

"The Qing army placed a large number of nail piles and sunken ships in Haikou, and placed *, completely blocking the Zhenhai Haikou to prevent our ships from invading, and further reinforcing and camouflaging the forts and fortifications at the front, it will definitely be very tricky to attack here!" Li Shibis was also very helpless, Zhenhai's preparations were very sufficient, by no means comparable to the previous French attack on Fuzhou, and the terrain was more dangerous.

"What are those damn Manchurians doing, it seems like a bastard was saluting us just now!" The Manchurian warships were anchored less than a nautical mile from the French fleet, and they could see each other clearly through binoculars. When both sides saw each other in the telescope, the Manchurian army would very gentlemanly salute the French commander-in-chief. It's a pity that Guba doesn't have any sense of respect, and the Manchurian Army is ridiculing him, and it's a mockery of eating fruit.

"Li Gen, commander of the Yangtze River Fleet of the Manchurian Empire, has arrived, and the person you see should be him. Their anchorage is in Zhoushan, which is not very far from here, and when the small boat patrols, it was discovered that the six capital ships of the Yangtze River Fleet were five nautical miles away, and the flagship was a giant battleship of more than 20,000 tons! Li Shibis was also disgusted by the Manchurian army, and his tone of voice was extremely resentful.

"These damn bastards, those cowards in the government should send the main fleet over, and we should attack Manchuria with the British!" Guba was so angry that he was about to go crazy, but he still helplessly raised his hand in the direction of the Manchurian destroyer and saluted in return.

"The Manchurian merchant ships are transporting arms to Zhenhai, and they are assisting the Qing army in transporting troops and supplies to Vietnam, and the Qing country's war is completely supported by the Manchurians!" Li Shibisi was not only angry with the Manchurian warship in front of him, but the Manchurian army was disgusted with their things and did a lot of things.

"The Qing State originally wanted to use Vietnam to fight a proxy war, and now Manchuria is using the Qing State to fight a proxy war, these cowards hiding behind the scenes!" Gu Ba didn't know that he had designed a complete set of interception plans for the shipping routes in northern Vietnam and China's Guangxi, Yunnan and other places, but unfortunately because of the establishment of the Manchurian Empire, all of them were rejected by the French government.

"The Manchurians have repeatedly provoked, will we fight back!" Li Shibis felt that his side was too weak, and he had to be tougher so that the Manchurians would no longer be so arrogant.

"There is no way, the Manchurian Navy is very strong, and with our current level of equipment and the number of warships, it is definitely not their opponent. Their army is even more powerful and unusually powerful, and it is the world's first-class combat force, and if they rashly start a war in distant Asia, the situation will be very unfavorable to us. Fortunately, the British consumed a lot of the strength of the Manchurian navy, and they also had to prevent the British from coming back to retaliate, so they did not dare to intervene easily. We can only try to avoid irritating them and giving them a reason to intervene, lest these damn guys have a reason to stand on stage. "It's not that he doesn't understand politics, he just hates that politicians often compromise.

"What should we do next?" Li Shibis shrugged helplessly, war is not a simple act, and soldiers have to serve politicians many times.

"The navigators make it easier for us to attack, but we can attack without them. I'm going to go and scout the situation of the Qing army at close range, and we're still going to have a chance! "Gu Ba gave up the means of tricks, and was ready to fight a real battle, and he wanted to personally investigate the deployment of the Qing army.

"My God, it's too dangerous!" Li Shibi exclaimed, as the commander of the first army, it was too dangerous for him to run under the nose of the enemy in person, if he made a mistake, the French army would have played.

"Don't worry! Where is the danger, my dear friend? Don't you yet understand our enemies? Our enemy, the Qing Empire, is always hesitating between war and peace, and they always have the greatest hope for peace. No matter how far the war goes, as long as we don't take the initiative to attack them, even if I stand in front of them, they will not take the initiative to attack me. "Guba eats his opponent very thoroughly, the Qing Dynasty has such a strange order, provoke not to open itself, even if a full-scale war has broken out, the Qing army everywhere still adheres to this principle. Regardless of whether Gu Ba went to reconnoiter the military situation or went to the front of the Qing army to scold the streets, as long as the French army did not take the initiative to attack, the Qing army would definitely not fire first.

"May God be with you!" Li Shipis recalled everything since the beginning of the war, and found that Gu Ba's judgment was very correct, even if the French army was under the nose of the Qing army, as long as the French army did not fire first, the Qing army would definitely not live.

In the afternoon, the French ships Baya, Newhuili, Danak, Deli, and several armed steamers anchored in the sea about seven miles from Zhenhai Harbor, and took a small steamer to the vicinity of Youshan and began to reconnoitre. As a veteran of the battlefield, Gu Ba quickly discovered the importance of the Zhaobaoshan Fort, and then the unlucky Gu Ba ordered the small steamer to approach the Zhaobaoshan Fort, he wanted to see the specific deployment of the Zhaobaoshan Fort.

"The French Yiren!" As soon as the lonely formation dropped anchor, the Qing troops on the Zhaobaoshan Fort immediately discovered them, and it was difficult for several huge warships to hide their figures.

The soldiers were ready to fight the French every day, but when they suddenly saw the French, they were inevitably a little flustered. They have heard too many stories of foreign devils with strong ships and repeated victories, and the soldiers are determined to sacrifice their lives to defend the country, but they are still inevitably afraid of the foreign devils who suddenly kill in front of them. The grassroots officer ran to report to the commander-in-chief Wu Jie in a panic, but he forgot to appease the soldiers because of his inexperience. The soldiers, who didn't know what the commander had done, only saw the commander run away in a panic, and then they had a feeling of abandonment.

The soldiers wanted to run, but they didn't even know where to run, the French ships were so close, the guns were so huge, where could they flee safely? The soldiers were at a loss, but when they saw the lonely little steamer getting closer and closer, they became angry with great fear, and the shells ran into the chambers.

"Fuck it!" A cannon commander who was already a little masterless, subconsciously pulled the cannon rope, and then a loud bang sounded in his ears.

What made the soldiers panic and fear was actually the lonely small steamer, but the soldiers who were too flustered did not aim at all. The hundred-millimeter shell flew out very freely, and then found a landing spot for itself, right in the stern of the New Return. As the butt of the New Huili blossomed, everyone was stunned, and no one thought that the Qing army would break the routine and fire first. The artillery commander who made a mistake for a while was even more confused, and Shangfeng did not have a military order, so he opened fire privately, which is a sin of killing his head.

The time when the gun commander was trembling lasted about five seconds, and then dozens of shells dried up. The arrogant French army had already aimed at the Qing army's battery, and when they were suddenly attacked, their first reaction was to return fire, and of course dozens of artillery pieces immediately hit back. However, these proud two hundred and five seem to have forgotten one thing, their commander is not on the battleship, and his little steamer is under the Qing army's battery!

"All the cannons are in place, return fire to meet the battle, and the foreign devils fire first!" Wu Jie, the garrison who commanded the forts on both sides of the strait, came to the front line to direct the battle, and he heard the sound of artillery not far away, but he did not see who fired first. As soon as he entered the fort, he saw the foreign devil's warship firing violently, and he thought that the French had fired first!

Lonely finally escaped back to the Baya, but he was embarrassed, and his whole body was like a chicken in soup. Moreover, less than a minute after he boarded the Baya, the small steamer he had just taken up residence in was sunk by the artillery fire of the Qing army, and Guba was even more afraid that if it was a little later, he would have to die today.