Outside the Dongjiang Huizhou City, more than 10 large warships and more than 100 small sampans of the Dongjiang Battalion of the Qing Army's Guangdong Navy Division were neatly moored on the shore wharf.

The so-called large warships of the Qing army were nothing more than 100 sand boats and eagle ships, with a displacement of more than 50 tons, and each of them had a small cannon weighing three or four hundred pounds.

Huizhou is deep inland, and it is the seat of the Admiral's Mansion of the Guangdong Navy, Wu Liuqi and his personal army lived in Huizhou, where the Qing army was relatively loosely guarded.

In the winter morning, the Dongjiang River is full of smoke, the rising sun shines on the river, and the icy river water rises countless water mist, only when the sun rises and the temperature rises, the water mist can become water vapor and completely integrate into the air.

On the upper river covered with smoke, neatly lined bamboo rows appeared, heading down the river towards the Qing army's naval division.

The bamboo raft is full of straw, and there is a pile of oil cans on the side. Zhang Dou stood on a bamboo row, maneuvered the bamboo row, and approached the Qing army's fleet.

Zhang Dou has been a fisherman on the Dongjiang River for generations, and his ancestors fished on the river every day and sold it on the shore, and his life was not bad. However, since the imperial court promulgated the ban on the sea, many fishermen who were originally seaside poured into the Dongjiang River, and the number of fishing boats suddenly increased, and Zhang Dou's life was almost unbearable. For this incident, local fishermen and foreign fishermen also fought many times, causing death. On one occasion, a local fisherman and a foreign fisherman almost had a large-scale fight, but they were stopped.

The people who came secretly gathered the fishermen and told them that there were no fish to catch, and the responsibility was not for the fishermen from outside, so there were so many fish in the sea, why couldn't they go and fish? The roots are in the Tartar court.

Later, Zhang Dou, like most fishermen, joined the Heaven and Earth Society.

I've heard a lot about what happened to fishermen at the seashore. Zhang Dou can be said to hate Wu Liuqi who was sitting in the Huizhou Governor's Mansion, and he couldn't wait to pick his skin and pull his tendons. And those foreign fishermen hated Wu Liuqi even more.

The bamboo raft went down the river, getting closer and closer to the dock of the Qing Army's sailors.

"Ignition!" A small leader of the Heaven and Earth Society shouted.

Zhang Dou grabbed the oil tank and opened the seal. Pour the oil over the straw and open the tinder jar. Several fishermen around the area put their torches into the tinder jars, lit them, and stretched them out to the straw pile.

"Huh" bamboo rows burst into flames and crashed into the Qing fleet.

Zhang Dou and the people of the Tiandihui quickly jumped onto the small fishing boat behind the bamboo raft, rowed the boat, and quickly went down the river. Under the city of Huizhou in the back, a sky-high fire broke out, and the Qing ships docked on the dock caught fire one after another.

At the entrance to the Dongjiang River. Two fifth-class ships with three sixth-rank ships were slaughtering the Qing fleet at the mouth of the Dongjiang River.

The left and right battalions of the Qing Army's Guangdong Naval Division Greenhouse Association have three warships of 200 materials, eight warships of 100 materials, and more than 200 small sampans under 50 materials. In the eyes of the Brave, Cormorant and Golden Deer-class warships, these ships are little more than hors d'oeuvres.

The two sides are not at all opponents of the same level, for example: the firepower of the Brave-class fifth-class ship is equivalent to that of the Dutchman's Hector-armed Galen ship, and in real history. The Hector alone caused the sinking of more than 30 ships of the Zheng Jiajun and more than 1,000 casualties! The strength of the Zheng family's army and sailors is above that of the Qing army. With this comparison, it can be seen that Wang Xinyu's Nanyang Navy is absolutely a one-sided massacre against the naval division of the Shangqing Army!

On the river, the battleships flying the flag of the Daming Navy Division sailed in a column, and white smoke spewed out from the gun doors. One salvo per battleship. sent a Qing army's 100-material dhow battleship to the bottom of the river. As for those small sampans, they were even more vulnerable, and the warships of the Ming army crashed directly into them, and the small sampans that were hit were either smashed in two or overturned to the bottom of the river.

The two-hundred-pounded battleship of the Qing army used the Franc cannon in the bow of the ship to weakly counterattack and shoot the shells. Only those battleships with multi-layered oak structures can only be scratched. The shells hit the Ming warships, all of them were bounced into the water, and most of the shells could not hit the target. The Ming Army's Brave-class fifth-class ships sailed past the Qing Army's 200 warships, and a row of grapeshot bombs made it impossible for the Qing Army to see a few people who could stand. The second fifth-class ship sailed by, and a row of solid bullets hit the Qing warship.

A Cormorant-class and two Jinlu-class sailed by, replenished the Qing warship, and after a round of bombardment, the Qing warship was sent to the bottom of the river to feed the fish.

The second Qing army's 200-00 warship was also beaten into thick smoke, and after being fired by a salvo of solid bullets from two fifth-class ships, it sank hopelessly under the water.

In the Xijiang River, the Qing army and naval divisions in Shunde, Xinhui, and Chixi were all attacked by the Nanyang Navy and the Tiandihui. The battleships of the Nanyang Navy, which detoured to the upper reaches, carried the wooden and bamboo rows of the Tiandihui, and went down the river to attack the Qing army.

The waterways of the Pearl River Delta are very complex, all kinds of large and small rivers criss-cross, dense as a spider web, there are three large outlets alone, the Pearl River Estuary we are talking about is not the largest water outlet, the real largest water outlet is in the Xijiang Estuary in the west of Macao, so the scale of the three water divisions of Xinhui, Shunde and Chixi is not small.

After the Ming fleet entered from the mouth of Dahushan Mountain, which is today's Humen estuary, under the leadership of the local Heaven and Earth Society, it entered from the waterway of Wuzhou Island, passed through the south of Shunde in a roundabout way, entered the Xijiang River, and then sailed from upstream to downstream.

Such a huge naval warship, if it was not led by the locals, it would not have been possible to enter the Xijiang River from Dahu Mountain, and the local river channels were not as familiar to the local fishermen as the Qing army sailors.

On the Xijiang River, the cannon roared, and the large and small warships of the Qing army were beaten to the sideways and sunk into the water. The Qing troops on the ship were swept away by grapeshot and shrapnel shells. The wooden and bamboo rafts that followed behind took the opportunity to kill them, pasted the Qing ships docked on the shore, and lit the straw.

Suddenly, the ships of the Qing army's naval division began to burn one after another, and the fire soon spread to the Qing army camp on the shore.

The members of the Heaven and Earth Society also seized dozens of small sampans and two hundred boats of the Qing army, they jumped on the ships of the Qing army, killed the Qing soldiers on them, tore the green camp flag on the ship to pieces, replaced it with the red flag of the Ming army, and then drove the captured ships and followed the Ming fleet all the way down the river to kill.

The Qing Army's Xiangshan Water Division Battalion, Zhang Guoxun, the commander-in-chief of the Qing Army stationed in Xiangshan, is Shang Kexi's confidant and favorite general.

The rumbling of artillery throughout the Pearl River woke Zhang Guoxun from his sleep. After he sat up, he calmly judged the situation, called his own soldiers, and ordered: "It is estimated that the Haikou and the anti-thieves have joined forces!" There was the sound of cannons everywhere, it didn't sound like someone was setting off firecrackers, and no one dared to set off them during the national funeral! It's the sound of cannons! ”

"Your Excellency. Let's send scouts and take a look! The soldier replied.

Soon after, the scouts sent by Zhang Guoxun came back and reported to him that there was really a fight around him, but because of the distance, he didn't know the losses of the surrounding sailors.

Zhang Guoxun immediately ordered: "The thief must be a combination of the inside and the outside to enter the Pearl River!" We must immediately order the Xiangshan Landscape Division Battalion to attack! Otherwise, as soon as the thieves arrive, our ships will be blocked in the water village and burned down! ”

The gate of the water village in the left and right camps of the Xiangshan Water Division of the Qing army was opened, and the large and small ships of the Qing army flying the green flag rushed out of the water village.

Wu Haodong, who had been patrolling nearby to monitor the movements of the Qing army's sailors, saw the Qing army's sailors dispatched. Immediately ordered: "Catch up!" Send all the Tartars to the bottom of the sea! ”

Wu Haodong has a 600-material Daifuku ship, 7 400-material Daifuku ships, and 11 300-material Haicang ships. Although this strength is far inferior to that of the Nanyang Navy fleet, it still has an overwhelming advantage over the Xiangshan Division of the Qing Army. The Qing army ships were no more than 200 large ships, and there were only six of them, and the remaining more than 100 were small sampan-level boats. What's more, the Ming army also had a big killing weapon in their hands: a flowering bullet with a wooden butt. Although the number is small, it can pose a great threat to the Qing army. It only takes one shell to explode and sink a ship.

"Boom, boom, boom" The bow cannons of the Ming warships spit out white smoke and rushed towards the Qing fleet.

The warships of the two sides approached rapidly, and a large number of small boats of the Qing army surrounded the large ships of the Ming army, trying to get close to each other for a broadside battle.

"With shotgun! Bombard the Tartar boats! Wu Haodong gave an order.

The Ming warships were replaced with shrapnel shells and aimed at the Qing boats that surrounded them in all directions. With a command to "fire". The gunners stabbed their torches into the fire door.

The guns on the side of the board let out a deafening roar, and shrapnel swept across the Qing boats, stirring up a thick mist of blood. The small boat of the Qing army that was swept by the shotgun, flesh and blood flew everywhere, and the Qing soldiers on it were swept away.

The Ming army's Dafu ship quickly approached the Qing army's 200 main ships. At a distance of one hundred and fifty paces, the bow cannons of the eight ships opened fire at the same time, and the shells with fixed wooden butts flew out of the muzzles, like a shuttlecock flying in the air, and the wooden butts maintained the stability of the shells.

Five of the eight shells hit, three more exploded.

A violent explosion sounded, and the big ship of the Qing army that was shot burst into flames, the mast broke, the flesh and blood on the ship flew sideways, and the planks of the ship were blown out, and the big ship of the Qing army began to sink in the raging flames.

In Guangzhou City, Shang Kexi heard the news of "Haikou attacking Guangzhou City", and immediately left the Buddhist hall and went straight to the city.

Ascend the Dinghai Gate Tower, Shang Kexi looked at both sides, only to see the smoke billowing into the sky on the Guangzhou Navy Wharf upstream, all the warships are burning, the smoke is rushing straight into the sky, the sailor camp under the south city wall of Guangzhou is also ignited by the fire, and the camp tent is burned into a piece.

Looking downstream to the east, Shang Kexi found that the sky in the direction of Fengpu downstream, rolling thick black smoke, although you can't see the situation in Fengpu, but it can be imagined that the five battalions of the Guangdong Navy Division Biaodu stationed in Fengpu must have been more auspicious!

Guangdong Naval Division, because of Wu Liuqi's merits, is the most well-preserved naval division in the Qing Army's naval division, and it is also the most powerful naval division of the Qing Army, but looking at this today, the five battalions of the Guangdong Naval Division's main standard supervising naval division should have been wiped out, and the other naval divisions are estimated to have been severely damaged.

Dozens of big boats, the sampans that came forward, they all took him and Wu Liuqi more than ten years to build, but they were all destroyed in one morning, how could this make Shang Kexi not feel sad.

"Ahh Shang Kexi was so angry that he screamed, a mouthful of blood spurted out, and he fell on the city tower on the spot.

"Lord Wang!" The surrounding soldiers, staff, and generals surrounded one after another.

Jin Guang pinched Shang Kexi's middle, and after a while, Shang Kexi, who was old and weak, slowly opened his eyes.

"Thieves destroy my sailor! If we let the thieves escape from the Pearl River today, how can we be worthy of the kindness of the imperial court! Shang Kexi yelled.

At this moment, someone shouted, "The thief is coming!" What a big ship! ”

On the upper reaches of the river, four huge white shadows slowly descended down the water, and in the gun doors on the side of the ship, clouds of white smoke were constantly spitting out, and the cannonballs smashed on the city wall of Guangzhou like hail, and smashed into the riverside Qing army camp under the city of Guangzhou.

The cannon roared, the blood and flesh in the Qing army camp flew everywhere, the flagpole was broken, and the tent was lodging.

The majestic soldiers of the Eight Banners of Guangzhou on weekdays were also at a loss at this time, and it was their strength to let them fight on land. But to deal with the warships on the water, these Eight Banners can only stare dryly. Some of the Eight Banners stood at the head of the city to see the huge ships of the Ming army, but they were hit by shells and were beaten to pieces.

"The bold pirates are too deceitful! Reload me with shells! This king will fire the cannon himself! Shang Kexi shouted.

Shang Kexi was already proficient in artillery, and it was precisely because he, Kong Youde and others took refuge in Huang Taiji that the Qing army had an elite firearms unit and a strong siege ability.

"Lord, danger! The thief's ship is too big! Jin Guang stepped forward to dissuade.

The people around him also dissuaded, Li Qifeng, Lu Xingzu, Yang Yuming and others dissuaded: "Lord Wang! The thief ship has strong guns, there are dozens of cannons on one ship, and there are only four cannons in our city, which is too dangerous! ”

Shang Kexi was furious, pulled out his waist knife, and pointed at the river: "Whoever dares to stop me will make others' heads fall to the ground!" ”

The four sixth-rank ships slowly descended the river, and the cannons in the gun doors continued to fire cannonballs, which filled the city of Guangzhou with smoke and dust. The remaining Qing army boats in the river were hit by the Ming army's giant ships and were immediately shattered. The small boat, which tried to escape, was also shattered by a burst of artillery fire.

Shang Kexi personally controlled a red-coated cannon and aimed it at a sixth-rank ship five hundred meters away, lighting the fuse.

"Boom" An eighteen-pound solid cannonball whistled out and smashed on the Ming warship.

"Hit! Hit! The Qing army at the head of the city cheered.

Yang Yuming said complimentarily: "The prince is as brave as he was back then!" The Heavenly Aid Army, known for its firearms, really deserves its name! ”

The sixth-class ship, which had been hit by a shell, shook a little, and the shell just hit the multi-layered oak plank, but did not penetrate the plank, but caused the inner board to crack, and the broken wooden plank splattered, injuring several Ming soldiers.

This sixth-level ship is Zhang Yukun's ship. Seeing that the Qing army at the head of the city actually counterattacked, Zhang Yukun picked up the binoculars and saw a large group of high-ranking Qing army officials standing on the tower of Dinghai Gate, and an old guy in a blue python robe was shouting.

"Aim at the castle tower and hit me hard!" Zhang Yukun roared.

The port side of the four sixth-rank ships was full of firepower, and the whistling shells smashed into the Dinghaimen tower.

Suddenly, the smoke and dust on the Dinghai Gate rolled, blood splashed on the city's head, the stumps flew into the sky, and the arrow tower also collapsed in the billowing smoke and dust. (To be continued......)

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