Chapter 397: Congratulations to Your Highness, Congratulations to Your Highness
"Boom-"
A 70-pound rocket landed on the deck of Gan Guobao's ship. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe intense explosion of flames was like a dazzling orange spark blooming on the hull of the ship. A powerful shock wave swept across the deck, and the gunners and sailors were blown into a rolling hoist, and even the cannons were torn out.
Li Hui, the deputy general of the Chinese army, was directly swept up by the air wave and hit the bulkhead, his head slammed, and it was no longer interesting when it was dark in front of him.
Gan Guobao's right arm was hit by a rocket fragment, blood gushed out, and his bones appeared to be broken. The slightest movement was extremely painful, and he didn't know what had been wiped open on his forehead, as long as a child's palm, and his face was covered with blood. In addition, the explosion ignited the sail on the second mast, and in an instant, the entire Admiral's ship was enveloped in flames. The bow of the ship was hit by a raging flame.
"Extinguish the fire, extinguish the fire. Beware of the powder keg...... "The hard sail overhead is blazing, there are several barrels of cracked gunpowder underground, and Gan Guobao, who has come to his senses, is full of liver and gall, for fear that if he is a second late, there will be an open flame falling overhead, igniting those deadly things!"
He yelled at the sailors to grab the powder keg, "splash water, splash water...... "The safest thing at this time is to wet the gunpowder." The powder kegs were swept away by the previous shock wave, and many of them spilled onto the deck.
It's just that the house leak happened to rain overnight, and Gan Guobao shouted to the sailors to put out the fire, and the flame on the auxiliary sail had already ignited the main sail. The speed of the warship slowed down again and again at a speed that was visible to the naked eye, and it kept decreasing. And the Admiral's boat after reducing its speed is a piece of fish on a chopping board, which can only be slaughtered by the sailors of the Fu Han army.
Boom Boom Boom ......
A series of rockets fell on the Admiral's ship, which had been sharply reduced, and in just a few minutes, six large and small rockets hit, and a large hole and a large crater were opened on the deck and side of the Gan Guo's throne ship. At the same time, most of the aft building disappeared in a violent explosion.
"Military Gate, Military Gate ......"
After Li Hui woke up, he immediately asked someone to put down the boat, and then shouted Gan Guobao, this ship is about to end, Gan Guobao can't stay here anymore, and must be transferred.
"Let's go." At this time, Gan Guobao opened Li Hui's hand. He's tired, really tired.
From yesterday to now, Gan Guobao has been exhausted, and at the same time, the defeat of the Guangdong Navy Division has also been revealed, He Sihe has lowered the sails and raised the white flag. Gan Guobao scolded him. But what's the use?
Li Hui didn't know that before the ship was shot continuously, Gan Guobao Gan Admiral, who had been fully commanding the Qing army's warships and the turnover of the Han army, had lost confidence in the pursuit of victory in this naval battle in his heart.
This battle was lost!
He was defeated. Gan Guobao is just a trapped beast fighting, fighting to the death, that's all. "Fire bombs, fire bombs......" Ignoring Li Hui's stunned look, Gan Guobao only looked at the rockets that continued to be fired at the boat on the other side.
The Fu Han army did not win in terms of numbers, nor in terms of firepower, but only in rockets.
That thing suppressed and hit the Qing warships too much, too much. Li Hui burst into tears: "The military gate is ......"
"Let's go, let's go. Don't accompany the old man to death here. Gan Guobao waved his hand and shook his head. Two muddy tears also flowed out of his old eyes, the Guangdong sailors were defeated, Guangzhou was in danger, and Guangdong was in danger.
Ye Xiangde looked at the white flag raised by Wei Wenwei's ship in front of him and smiled silently. Three of the five general soldiers of the Qing army's naval division surrendered. The other two sank into the cool waters with their Admiral.
"Victory. They won this battle! ”
"Dad, I don't think sailors will have to build bulky boats such as reins and bird boats in the future. There is no need to build thunder boats and shuttle boats. Didn't His Royal Highness Duke Lu say that the foreigner's small sailboat runs the fastest, and his son thinks that we should build some fast sailboats in the future. You don't need to have many cannons. Only use fire dragon bullets, no matter how many sailing ships of foreigners are equipped with cannons, if they fight, they will also die! ”
In less than two days, after witnessing the power of the fire dragon bullet, Ye Tingyang has completely become a fan of the fire dragon bullet. In his eyes, the fire dragon bullet is invincible!
Hugh was gibberish. Such a major military event, how can you be a little right lieutenant who can make suggestions? ”
Ye Xiangde glanced at his son angrily. When the second batch of 'seeds' was selected before, although Ye Xiangde didn't think that Western-style sailing ships were really good, but those people would obviously be Lu Gong's descendants, he persuaded Ye Tingyang to sign up, Ye Tingyang was reluctant in every way, and he looked down on a hundred Western-style sailing ships in his words. But after a day of fighting last day, he suddenly became interested in the speed of the foreigner's sailing ship at night, and now he is about to be whimsical!
"Don't you hear Your Highness say that the potential of the fire dragon bullet has been exhausted, and the potential of the artillery is endless. Now it can only be compared to the fire dragon bullet in the distance, but in the future, it will far surpass the fire dragon bullet. ”
"Haven't you seen the twenty-pound cannon placed in the Mawei Fort? It can be more than eight miles away. In the future, there will be artillery, which will fight farther, with a faster rate of fire, and more powerful, and they will all be carried on the warship. Although the dragon bullet has many advantages, it is also far from replacing artillery. "The foreigner's galleon is said to be the largest that can carry hundreds of cannons, Ye Xiangde has never seen the real thing, and he doesn't know whether it's true or not. But if there were really hundreds of cannons, fifty cannons on one side, and they would be blasted out, and the hit would be dropping, and the boat in his son's mouth could be shattered at a distance of three or four hundred meters.
Ye Tingyang was silent, he didn't dare to compare himself with his father loudly, but he was not convinced at all psychologically.
"No matter how powerful the artillery is, if you can't hit it, aren't you blind? If there are dozens of extremely fast boats, with the method of guerrilla shooting against the infantry formation, the morale of the army will be confused, its spirit will be exhausted, and its physical strength will be wasted, and finally the crowd will eat less, and eat it little by little. As long as there are enough dragon bullets, no matter how many warships there are, there will be pigs and sheep to be slaughtered......"
As long as people think about it in their lives, they will always put themselves in a powerful position to think. The Ye family's father and son have ...... ideas, things are similar, but the conclusions are very different.
Ye Tingyang, who left a deep mark on the history of the Chinese Navy in the future, is still only a young man in his early twenties. Ye Tingyang didn't know how much the speculation in his heart would have a huge impact on the future Chinese Navy, and his father Ye Xiangde didn't know that his son's future was far brighter than his own.
Because no one knows the future!
Even Chen Ming, of course, when he intervened in Europe, he was not sure whether Napoleon, a small giant, could still leave his own incomparable brilliance at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries of the Western calendar, just like the original time and space.
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The sun finally set, and the sky turned from blood-red to boundless darkness.
Most of the fires on the Qing warships have been extinguished, and there are only a few fires left - why use piles? That's because there was only a fire left in their hull, still floating on the sea.
For example, the general military seat ship of Tanxiu, its hull has been damaged to the point that it has no repair value, and after removing all the sailors and removing all the materials that can be removed, a fire is ignited in the dilapidated cabin. It is still the brightest torch in this sea.
Gan Guobao sank with the ship, although they were enemies, but Zhang Qiu and Ye Xiangde also had to say: Seek benevolence and get benevolence.
In this battle in the waters of Guangdong, the Southeast Naval Division and the Guangdong Naval Division of the Qing Army fought Daya Bay and reached the surface of Huilai Sea, and Huilai County is the southwesternmost county in the coastal area of Chaozhou Prefecture. It can be said that they have hit the sea of Chaozhou from the coast of Huizhou.
The Fu Han army lost a total of seven main warships and suffered less than 1,000 casualties. Compared to the brilliant record, this casualty is simply not worth mentioning.
Whether it is Zhang Qiu or Ye Xiangde, they are all very complicated in their hearts. Because they all know that the protagonists of this great victory are the fire dragon bullets and not them.
Looking at the calm sea, the expression on Zhang Qiu's face was cold and hard. The fire dragon bullet is a powerful weapon, and the Fu Han army has been hiding it before, and the slightest wind has not been exposed. It's so hidden!
If I thought wrong at the beginning, would the bad luck of the Guangdong sailors also fall on the head of the Zhang family?
Zhang Qiu couldn't help but think so. Chen Ming used a deaf-mute person to operate the casting of the fire dragon bullet, and even the casting of the bullet case was completed by a deaf-mute person who had learned the casting technique, and no outsiders heard the slightest bit of news. Now once it is used, it will be a big killing!
However, it is certain that the news of this naval battle will quickly reach the Qing army. Many of the small ships in the latter's fleet sailed away when the situation was not good, and the news of this great battle would not be kept secret by the 'sea'.
In this all-out naval battle, the main force of the Southeast Naval Division of the Fu Han Army sank more than 50 large and small warships of the Qing army, captured nearly 100 warships of various types, and rescued and captured more than 4,000 prisoners of war. And the Qing soldiers who sank into the sea were at least 3,000 people.
Whether it is looking at the results or the process, the Southeast Water Division has undoubtedly won a big deal.
In the lobby of a house near Shantou Port, Xiong Bingzhang and Liu Wu, two busy people, are sitting inside and burying their heads in the book. The stack of paperwork on the bookcase at hand has been piled up for a long time, but the two of them are so busy, they always seem to be distracted when they are working, so they don't look up at the door.
The water in the tea bowl was added one after another, and the leaves were soaked white, and neither of them minded.
This mansion is where Chen Ming stayed. He is now in the study inside, as for what he is doing, although Liu Wu and Xiong Bingzhang have not seen it, they also know that it must be the formation of local governments.
But Chen Ming was always distracted, and he was no better than Xiong Bingzhang and Liu Wu. Since the southeast naval division fought again with the Qing army's naval division early yesterday morning, the battlefield was ignited from the area of Daya Bay and extended all the way to the depths of the sea, and no news has been transmitted back until now. Fortunately, I didn't see a typhoon hit in the past two days, otherwise Chen Ming's 'glass heart' would have been broken.
Every time there was a sound of footsteps in front of the window, Liu Wu and Xiong Bingzhang in the outhouse, and Chen Ming in the inner room would always raise their heads at the same time, but what they were waiting for were submissions from all over the country waiting for instructions, and there was still no news about the news they wanted to know.
There was another sound of footsteps of "oh, oh, oh", Xiong Bingzhang trembled the tea bowl in his hand, glanced at each other with Liu Wu, and looked at the door again.
However, Gao Yanming, who ran all the way, was not as reserved as them, and before he arrived, he had already shouted loudly: "Great victory, great victory of the sailor." The Southeast Naval Division completely annihilated the Guangdong Naval Division, capturing 100 of its warships and more than 4,000 soldiers. ”
Liu Wu walked to the door in three steps and two steps, snatched the news from Gao Yanming's hand with one hand, and looked at it quickly. The news came from Huilai Flying Pigeon, and it was indeed a Quansheng Guangdong sailor. Liu Wu couldn't help but laugh out loud, and said the word 'good' in his mouth.
Xiong Bingzhang walked behind Liu Wu at this time, and after reading the content of the short hundred crosses in the letter, it turned out that he was contemplating and seeing the sun. The whole person's bones are three points lighter. He bowed to Chen Ming, who got up and walked to the outhouse: "Congratulations to Your Highness, Congratulations to Your Highness." The overall situation of Guangdong has been decided, and there is no need to worry about repeatedly. (To be continued.) )