On the sea at night, the battleship Weiyuan sailed slowly......

It can't run fast.

Because behind this battleship, there is also a large flying clipping ship, which is used to transport the water demon fast sailing ship of the crowpian, and behind the water demon, the Dingyuan and the Zhenyuan are also towing a flying clipper ship, the Dingyuan is dragging the red pirate of the crow pian ship of Jardine Matheson, and the Zhenyuan is dragging the same clipping ship that has just been built in Guangzhou, six ships in a column, lowering all the sails under the almost positive and negative northeast wind, also against the Chinese coastal current, slowly moving forward at a speed of less than five knots. Like a ghost, it sails quietly to the dark shore in the distance.

"I love it!"

Yang Feng said with a smile while standing on the deck.

"Your Majesty, the city of Zhennan has reported that the British fleet has been assembled in Singapore, including the seventy-four gun battleships Willisley, Burranham, Gauchman, Melville, the fourth-class ship Endymion, and the fifth-class ship Childers, and the sixth-class ship Samaran, a total of seventeen warships, and forty gunboats, transports, and steamboats, one each of the forty-ninth and fifty-fifth regiments of the British Army, one of the eighteenth Irish Infantry Regiment, and the twenty-sixth Scotland rifle company, The 27th Regiment of the Madras Aborigines, plus some auxiliary soldiers, totaled 4,328 men, and the Marine Corps numbered about 1,500 men, and the fleet commander was the elder brother of Yilu, the commander of the Cape of Good Hope Fleet Commander George Murphy. Elliot. ”

Zeng Tao, who was beside him, said with a telegram.

"A mere brigade dares to come to seek death, but the British are fearless for the ignorant!"

Yang Feng sneered.

"Don't worry about them, they won't go north until our business is done, tell Mo Jie that if the British attack Zhennan City, just close the city gate and stick to it, they won't waste their strength there, if they cross Zhennan City and go north, don't worry about them anymore."

He went on to say.

At this time, it was winter, and the British fleet had to rely on the monsoon to go north, and the southwest monsoon in the South China Sea could not blow until May, when the monsoon and the southwest monsoon could reach Canton directly, but this season was the northeast monsoon, and it had to sail against the Chinese coastal current, and the sailing ships could sail but the speed was extremely slow, so the British could not choose to go north in this season. As for Zhennan City, although it is stuck on the South China Sea route, there are no warships there, and it will not interfere with the northward movement of the British army, and the British will not waste their strength to attack an island that has no value in itself, of course, even if they attack, they can only ask for their own hardships, and the fort in Zhennan City is full of rifled guns, and the second infantry brigade is also full of rifled guns.

"But aren't our three warships too few?"

Zeng Tao said cautiously.

The British army of several thousand was not worth mentioning, but that fleet was different, especially the four third-class ships, which were three hundred cannons, and most of them were thirty-two-pounders.

Of course, the three ships of Dingzhenwei are not afraid of going head-to-head, but once they fall into a melee, they will not be able to withstand the wolves.

"It's easy for me to destroy them!"

Yang Feng smiled indifferently and said.

Zeng Tao quickly shut up.

"Your Majesty, it's time to Langqi Gate!"

An officer behind them said.

Yang Feng immediately raised his head and looked into the distance, on the dark and dreary shore on the left, a narrow waterway was faintly discernible, and there were small hills on the left and right sides of the waterway.

"Untie the cable, the fleet turns, the time for battle has come, pass the order, I will see the city wall of Fuzhou before the sun rises, and I will have dinner in Fuzhou at noon tomorrow!"

He said excitedly.

"Obey the order!"

Zeng Tao immediately agreed.

"Order, untie the cable, Dingzhenwei three ships column turned to Langqi Gate, starboard guns aimed at the Nagamen battery, port guns aimed at the gold medal gate battery, all the cannons changed the time fuse arson and flower shells, all ships must open the gold medal door within an hour when they fire with all their might!"

Then he turned around and yelled.

Well, at this time they were at the mouth of the Min River.

The easiest way to deal with the Qing army was to light fires all over the coast, and weren't the gentry of Fujian and Zhejiang worried that the fire of gemming would spread to their territory? Then you don't have to wait for it to spread, just come over and light the fire, and at this time, almost all the Qing troops in Fujian are on the front line in Guangdong, including the Fuzhou generals, who led the main force of the Eight Banners Army to the south, just take the opportunity to raid their hometown, and then mobilize the people, and then establish a similar base area, and continue to ignite the fire if one is not enough, so that the fire of geming will continue to burn from the coast to the inland, and he will see what Daoguang can do to deal with it.

Immediately after that, all three ships untied their cables, and the clippers carrying a battalion of infantry remained on the surface of the sea and waited, and the three ships in column went straight to Langqi Gate.

Before entering the range of the ship's guns, the beacon fire on the Jinjinmen Fort on Langqi Island was the first to ignite, and then the beacon fire on the North Shore Changmen Fort was also lit. Immediately before they could reach the gun position to prepare for the battle, the cannons on the Weiyuan were the first to spew flames, and then Dingyuan and Zhenyuan, the three battleships on the left and right sides of a cannon alternately spewed flames, this scene was extremely spectacular on the dark sea,

Of course, the Gold Medal Fort and the Nagato Fort are equally spectacular.

Because it's all flowering bombs.

The flowering bomb equipped with the timed fuse of the medicine disc can basically control the explosion point to the greatest extent, and it contains aluminum powder in addition to gunpowder, which has always been Yang Feng's favorite, and he has a large amount of aluminum powder in his warehouse.

In addition, there is actually ferric oxide.

To say that it is more accurate to describe these are actually copycat versions of thermite bombs, the effect is definitely not as good as the genuine version, but it also makes the power of these shells directly improve a realm.

The shells that whistled towards the two batteries exploded into brilliant fireworks, and in the fireworks were the terrified Qing soldiers, who were shattered by the explosion of the shells, and their flesh and blood were blurred in the scattered shrapnel, and then they burned in the falling flames.

The flame had a temperature of 3,000 degrees.

The two batteries were completely turned into slaughterhouses of death, and the Qing army was already dead before a single shell could be fired, and then the fireworks that rained down began to ignite all the flammable materials on the batteries, especially the powder kegs that were being moved out of the warehouses and moved to the gun emplacements to prepare for a return fire. It is said that even the flame that can burn through the armor of the tank, it can almost be said that it will burn through instantly when it falls on the powder keg, and then the terrifying explosion flames rise one after another in the battery, these two ancient batteries were originally rebuilt until next year, and at this time they were even all open-air gun emplacements, which were purely for food delivery in front of the flowering shells.

Half an hour later.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks it's time to land."

Zeng Tao looked at the flames that suddenly exploded on the Golden Medal Gate Fort, and then said to His Majesty the God Emperor.

"Leave Zhenyuan to guard the mouth of the Min River, order the marines on Zhenyuan to land and destroy the battery, Weiyuan and Dingyuan and three troop carriers continue to advance, and they must arrive in Fuzhou before dawn!"

Yang Feng said with satisfaction.

In the explosion of the two forts of Jinpai and Changmen, the fleet slowly sailed through the Langqi Gate, officially entered the Minjiang River and sailed to the second pass, Min'anmen, where there were two forts facing each other from the north to the south, Tingjiang and Xiangyu, waiting for them, but these two forts built to resist Zheng Chenggong were the same as the two forts of Langqi Gate, which were the oldest open-air forts. This kind of old-fashioned fort is completely a food delivery in the face of the attack of the flowering bomb, not to mention that he is not just a flowering bomb, saying that he did not give the Qing army white phosphorus has already made the god emperor feel regretful, and the copycat version of the thermite bomb can be regarded as a comfort.

An hour later, Wu Wenrong, the top official in Fuzhou and the governor of Fujian, was finally woken up.

"Bastard, didn't you wake up?"

Governor Wu roared with sleepy eyes.

He was the governor who had just taken over, the original governor was Wei Yuanhong, the acting governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, and he was directly promoted to the governor after leading the army south, and he took over as the governor, in fact, he had just arrived in Fuzhou for less than a month!

"Lord Futai, the beacon fire, the beacon fire is all lit!"

It was the officer of the Marine Division who reported to him.

Governor Wu was sober at this time, but he was calm, first took the tea handed by the little maid and took a sip, and then said slowly: "What are you panicking about, the two forts of Langqimen are solid like chicken soup, even if there are thieves and soldiers, what can they do?" Could they still beat the Langqi Gate? Even if they have beaten Langqi Gate, there is still Min'an Gate! Even if you have fought Min'anmen and Yangyu's Eight Banners Sailors! How can the three lines of defense be easily breached, and it is not necessarily the case, maybe the defenders are frightened, and the thief army is beaten to the point that Guangzhou is shrinking, how can they invade Fuzhou in the north? What a system is it to panic at a little thing! ”

"The lesson of Lord Futai is that if Lord Futai commands a fixed place, he is really admirable!"

The officer hurriedly said with a smile on his face.

"Humph!"

Governor Wu snorted coldly.

Suddenly, like a series of dull loud noises like thunder during a summer rainstorm, Governor Wu's hand trembled, and the teacup immediately fell to the ground, and the officer was also stunned, he did not hesitate to rush to the door and look in the direction of the sound, and then Governor Wu also ran out.

"No, it's impossible for the sound of the gold medal fort to reach here, this is from Min'anmen, and the thief army has beaten Langqi Gate!"

The officer exclaimed subconsciously.

This was followed by an even louder explosion, and at this time not only them, but almost everyone in the governor's yamen was awakened, and they all looked to the east with disheveled faces and frightened faces, looking at the dark sky, and there seemed to be a little fiery red in the darkness, and then the huge explosion continued to come at very short intervals......

"This is not Min'anmen, this is the sailor battalion of Yangyu!"

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