The Divine Emperor stayed in Fuzhou for only three days......

Actually, he came to add coal.

The Divine Emperor did not come to inspect Fuzhou to supervise the front-line war, and the battle of Shanguan seemed to be almost a sea of corpses and blood in the Qing army, which was already comparable to Stalingrad, but in terms of the Ming army, it was just a partial division that was blocked. The four infantry brigades of the Second Army on the Ganjiang River were sweeping down, and the two armies in Hunan combined with nine brigades had already arrived at Xiangtan, and even the brigade of the Sixth Army had already defeated the Mongolian cavalry that had come out to block the attack. 5,000 Mongolian cavalry against 5,000 Ming army horse infantry artillery, Mongolian cavalry again broken halberd, retreated by the Ming cavalry reconnaissance post followed pursuit, Spencer rifle a minute of nearly 20 rapid fire, the Mongolian cavalry frightened all the way back to Guangchang.

Compared to these, the Shanguan brigade is not worth mentioning at all.

As for the God Emperor, he was just passing by to refuel, and the huge fleet he brought with him......

This is the royal driver's own expedition.

He set out on the morning of the fourth day, and continued his voyage north with four battleships, four battlecruisers, sixteen frigates, and forty-two transports.

Also on board were two brigades of the Marine Corps.

And the goal of this Northern Expeditionary Army is, of course, Dagukou.

The Northern Expeditionary Fleet of the Emperor of the Emperor carried out the last replenishment in Fuzhou, and under the impetus of the southeast monsoon, against the Chinese coastal current, it soon crossed Zhoushan, which had become the British Concession, and in the midst of the British army's chickens and dogs, they sailed through their field of vision like a show of might, and on a British brig gunboat that was watching from a distance, the captain wiped the cold sweat on his head and ordered to return to Zhoushan as quickly as possible.

They were really frightened.

At this time, the deadline given by Yang Feng had actually been exceeded, but the reply of the British government had not yet come, and there were no British ships coming, so the British troops staying in Zhoushan could only inquire about the news through some Dutch merchant ships, but the latter could not give them anything really useful. The 2,000 British troops and four gunboats in Zhoushan were completely abandoned, and even more than 200 had died for various reasons, and the Tatars had not paid the reparations so far, so they could only rely on the gold, silver and jewels they had looted before to buy supplies from the Ningbo area to make a living. After all, it is impossible for two thousand British troops and four gunboats to threaten Jiangning anymore, and if those four gunboats really fight, the newly formed Yangtze River Naval Division can crush it, so it would be a fool to pay back 20 million.

Fortunately, the gentry didn't bully them much because they knew that they had a common enemy, and because these British troops were very suitable for hiring to train the regiment......

In other words, they have really fallen to the point where those gentry can bully.

It doesn't take much.

As long as the gentry in eastern Zhejiang did not sell them grain and meat, these guys would have to drive their four brigs to the sea to fish for food, and if the people of Zhoushan were to carry out an attack, then this less than 2,000 British troops would not be enough to cause trouble.

But fortunately, they were very useful to the gentry, the two sides actually engaged in Qingying goodwill, very tacitly put aside the matter of 20 million, not long ago the gentry of eastern Zhejiang also sent them a plaque to show friendship, the plaque was written with four big characters "Zhu Xiaohua Feng", and the British army also had hundreds of people scattered around eastern Zhejiang to help them train foreign guns. Obviously, the gentry in eastern Zhejiang have realized that the arrival of the British is not a bad thing, on the contrary, they have obtained a much more reliable ally than our Qing Dynasty, although they were also defeated by the bandits, but after all, they also beat the Qing army to a crushing defeat, which means that their combat effectiveness is between the bandits and the Qing army, which is already reliable. The British needed tea, silk and porcelain, and they also needed to continue to sell crows, and these needed a collaborator for both purchase and sale, and in Guangzhou their collaborator was the Thirteen Lines, but here their collaborator could only be the gentry of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

That's a good thing!

What's more, the British can also help them train their troops and even help them make new munitions.

The iron factory in Suzhou has begun to manufacture brown bass under the guidance of the British, the peak cooperation of new technology from the West and Eastern craftsmanship has produced a fully qualified product, the first Changsheng army armed with brown bass produced in Suzhou, has begun to practice in Suzhou to line up and shoot, the gentry of Jiangsu and Zhejiang have no hope for the return of our Qing Dynasty, they prefer to use mercenaries, anyway, they have silver, even the commander of this army is British......

Uh, not called Gordon.

At this time, Gordon was still in elementary school!

The captain of the British ship returning to Zhoushan quickly reported to the acting governor Johnston, and Johnston informed the governor of Zhejiang Wang Zhi as quickly as possible, and the governor Wang knew that there must be nothing wrong with him, and since the bandits did not attack Zhoushan, they were not coming to Zhejiang, so he quickly sent people to Suzhou to inform the governor of Jiangsu. Of course, their fastest speed is not faster than Yang Feng, and when Sun Shanbao, the governor of Jiangsu, received Wang Zhi's notice, he also received a report from the Chongming defenders that the bandit sailors crossed the Yangtze River estuary to the north, as for their target, as long as they are not fools, they can guess it, it is nothing more than the northern attack Denglai or Dagukou. I don't know why Sun Yuwen and his uncle felt extremely relieved, but then he realized that this was not the mentality that a courtier should have, and if he sent a bandit to Denglai, his hometown Jining might also be in trouble, and then quickly wrote a note to Daoguang while blaming himself, and at the same time sent someone to inform the new governor of Liangjiang, Li Xingyuan.

But it doesn't make much sense anymore.

Before Sun Shanbao's recital was delivered to Daoguang's hands, the Ming fleet had already appeared in the field of vision of Yuming, the chief soldier of Dengzhou Town.

And the jade army is at sea.

"Quick, run, the bandits are coming!"

Yuming, who had been the general of Sheng Jing in history, looked at the sky with a clairvoyant mirror, looked at the chimney that gradually cleared under the strange demonic fog, and urged his soldiers like crazy, and his soldiers drove the battleship with thirty cannons under his feet, and under the impetus of the southeast wind, rushed towards his own fleet not far away at an astonishing speed of seven knots.

And the latter also caught up at full speed.

It is said that Yang Feng has disturbed Jiangyin, and Daoguang naturally knows that he can go to Dagukou, so he also formed a large-scale sailor in Dengzhou.

And this sailor is all new ships.

The largest of these warships has reached the level of sixth-class ships, a total of twenty, today was brought out by the chief soldier of Yu to exercise, and even hired a few British as instructors, which Daoguang has to thank Lin Zexu, it is he who persuaded him to make Daoguang understand that this war still has to learn from foreigners. I don't know if it's good luck or bad luck, this fleet that spent money on training actually collided with the Ming fleet by coincidence, of course, it was definitely bad luck for General Yu, because he happened to leave the fleet and was ready to pick up a batch of goods in person. At this time, with the blockade of the Ming army, the British crow pian trade has been transferred to the Dutch, and part of the latter is transported to the island and then directly sent to Denglai, which is the main financial route of the Jade General Army, but he just broke away from the fleet and found the Ming fleet, which is really ......

What bad luck!

General Yu looked at the towering giant ships behind him with grief and indignation, and kept urging the sailors, but it was obvious that their speed was still too slow, just when he was still about a mile away from his own fleet, the bow of the five warships in the front of the Ming fleet that seemed to cover the sea, the fire was shining at the same time.

"Mada, there are still two miles!"

Chief Yu scolded angrily.

In the midst of his scolding, a series of piercing whistles shook his eardrums, and at the same time he felt a violent shock under his feet, and before he could see what was happening, it was like a volcano erupting under his feet, and the entire deck was spurted upwards in all parts, and his body was thrown up by a huge force, and the next moment he saw the fiery red under his feet, and then ......

Wood has then.

A ninety-pound flowering bomb entered the hold of the 400-ton ship, detonating the powder keg at the same time, and then the entire ship was blown to pieces.

"Ladies and gentlemen, our end has come!"

On a similar battleship a mile away, a British instructor smiled and looked at the officers and soldiers of the Qing Army's naval division with blank faces and said.

"We, we have nineteen warships!"

His nearest lieutenant said tremblingly.

"Then Your Excellency, please tell me how many of them there are? Also, could you tell me if this battleship of ours could hold off a shell like that? Also, could you please tell me, how does a sixth-rank frigate engage a battleship of the same rank? Ah, I shouldn't have asked this question, you don't know what a sixth-rank ship is and what a first-class battleship is. ”

The instructor said with a smile.

The vice-president will continue to tremble there.

At this time, the eight capital ships of the Ming fleet had already crossed the hull in the distance, and then showed the side gun ports, in addition to Ding Zhenwei, the other five new warships on the front and rear two six-inch guns also completed the turn, and the black hole hole gun muzzle was aimed at the Qing warship that was already in chaos.

"General, did you choose to fight?"

The instructor asked with a confident smile.

He knew very well that these Tatar generals would never have the courage to fight, and as long as they surrendered, he would naturally not have to die.

However......

The adjutant general trembled, suddenly let out a scream, grabbed the floating ring beside him, jumped into the sea without hesitation, and then as if he had received an order, those Qing officers and sailors all scrambled to seize everything that could help float and jumped into the sea, the same scene quickly spread to other battleships, and before the Ming army could open fire, all the officers and soldiers on these nineteen battleships had already jumped into the sea like dumplings, and then desperately swam to Changshan Island, which was actually five or six miles away.

The instructor was stupid.

"They don't even have the courage to surrender?"

He watched the scene and muttered to himself with grief and indignation.

At the same time, the dense firelight on the Ming warship in the distance shone brightly......