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The naval battle near the port of Xiamen in the west, the landing and anti-landing operations in the east and southeast, and the Gaoqi area, the Ming army broke out fierce battles on all four fronts. Shu Gaoqi was the smallest, the latest to break out, and the Qing army had the greatest advantage, but it was also the fastest battle to end.

In just half an hour, the landing Qing army was completely defeated, but when Chen Python and his companions rushed to the seashore, throwing away their armor and struggling to swim towards the sea, they were in disbelief at such a light victory.

When the Ming army launched a counterattack and defeated the Qing army, the Qing army ordered the eight warships that had just fallen into their hands to participate in the battle and shell the Ming army fighting on the coast. Without the cover of the battleship, it was undoubtedly a very reckless move for Chen Python and the others to rush to the uncovered near coast, but they didn't think too much about it at the time, they just simply tried to find a Qing army to fight.

However, after the Ming army, which was only one-fifth of the opponent's number of armor, bravely launched a counterattack, five of the eight surrendered Ming warships hesitated and refused to fire at the Ming army. While the other two approached the coast at the urging of the Qing army, two more sailors on the Ming warships revolted, regained control of the warships, and fought with the three ships near the coast. Soon the defeat of the Qing army was assured, and the three warships that were watching also joined the Ming army to fight, and the three warships that the Qing army still controlled also became a cover for the evacuation of the defeated army from Gaoqi, and one of them fled from the battlefield regardless of a single thing.

Under the pursuit of the Ming army, more than 3,000 Qing soldiers jumped into the sea, and the Qing soldiers with good water quality climbed into the boat, and those with bad water or bad luck floated and sank in the sea. As the last batch of supervising teams to land, only a very small number of horses passed through the guò beach, and most of the Eight Banners of the Forbidden Brigade had no chance to ride on horses and were hacked to death by the Ming army in the sea, let alone form a battle formation or play a role in supervising the battle.

Since the Ming army, which came with the idea of fighting to the death at the beginning, did not expect to win in the end, it did not consider accepting the surrender at all, and ordinary Qing officers and soldiers would be ruthlessly killed even if they begged for mercy, and the soldiers of the Green Battalion could not escape their lives like the Eight Banners of the Forbidden Brigade. After Chen Python and the others realized the victory, only dozens of very lucky Green Battalion soldiers survived, and the Eight Banners of the Forbidden Brigade were still not forgiven, only the commander of the Eight Banners of the Forbidden Brigade and the commander of the Qing army on this road, Lu Hara, was not immediately executed by the Ming army after surrendering, but tied up and prepared to be taken prisoner to the king of Yanping County.

Under the blow of the five battleships that returned to the Ming army's sequence, the other two Qing warships were also wounded one after another, although these two ships were difficult to turn back, but they had no will to cover the retreat of the Qing soldiers to fight to the end. In order to avoid being severely damaged and unable to evacuate, the two Qing warships also left the battlefield one after another and withdrew in the direction of Tong'an.

The ships of the Ming army began to turn around and attack the retreating Qing ferry, and from time to time the Qing army's ferry boat was knocked over, or the sail caught fire under the attack of the Ming army. From time to time, Qing soldiers jumped into the sea again from the immobile boats, trying to swim north, they might be able to reach or be swept into the deep sea by the ebb tide. If it weren't for the fact that only half of the Ming army's warships were left, and it had been delayed for a long time, although these retreating Qing troops escaped the big knife in the hands of Chen Python, it was difficult for them to escape from the chasing Ming army's sailors.

Half of the more than 3,000 Qing troops who escaped were killed at sea, and at this time, Chen Python and the others also counted 1,600 heads, including 300 heads of the Eight Banners of the Forbidden Brigade. Almost all of the nearly 1,000 Ming army armor soldiers who participated in the battle have been killed, and the auxiliary soldiers have also achieved a large number of results, and a few Ming army auxiliary soldiers in the top positions have even obtained more than two beheading feats -- even for the armor soldiers, this is also a record that can be boasted of. Compared with 1,700 officers and men who were killed and captured, commanders who were captured alive, and more than 1,500 people who were drowned on the way to retreat, the Ming army's losses were only a pitiful 50 people.

Soon after the battle, the envoys who had come to inquire about the situation of the battle arrived at the scene, and they were sent by Zheng Chenggong to reconnoiter why Takasaki was suddenly angry, only to see a mountain of enemy heads and captured equipment all over the mountain.

"Is Chen Peng planning to defect to the Tartars?" After this news was confirmed by a large number of soldiers, Zheng Chenggong's envoy's face became gloomy, and he no longer had the slightest respect for Chen Peng, and the officer led by him came to Chen Python - he had already learned from many soldiers that the former was the key to the reversal of Gao Qi's first battle: "Trouble Chen Qian, always get the traitor Chen Peng up first, and we will go back and tell the king." ”

After hearing this request, Chen Python shook his head again and again, and the victory made him and his companions feel sad and puzzled for a while: "Such a vulnerable enemy, why does the general want to surrender to the enemy?" ”

Chen Python stood beside Chen Peng's personal soldiers, earlier he obeyed Chen Peng's orders and helped call for the whole army to mutiny, but just now he and Chen Python fought side by side and killed three enemy soldiers with his own hands.

"General Chen is just confused for a while, he has not caused any evil consequences, dare to report this to the king, and take a light note on General Chen's past achievements." As he spoke, the soldier knelt down to the messenger, no matter what, Chen Peng was always his benefactor.

"I also ask the king to send General Chen lightly." Like the soldiers beside him, Chen Python has been taught to know how to repay his kindness since he was a child, and he himself is convinced that this is the bottom line that cannot be violated.

Many Ming soldiers also issued the same demand, they are all officers and veterans under Chen Peng, and they are also the main force and heroes of the first battle of Gaoqi, these Ming soldiers are willing to use their military exploits just now to win a chance for Chen Peng to be lenient -- it is impossible for treason to surrender to the enemy and escape death, but there is still a big difference between being killed by a thousand knives, shooting with random arrows, or beheading and hanging, and Chen Peng also has relatives and wives.

"The meaning of the kings, I must tell the king truthfully." The envoy also knew that this army was brought out by Chen Peng, and loyalty to the commander was also a virtue encouraged by Zheng Jun, seeing that Chen Peng's subordinates were so unforgetful, the envoy was also moved in his heart, and hugged his fists to Chen Python and the others: "The monarchs have beheaded more than 1,600 levels, captured 4 or 5,000 armors, such a great feat, it will definitely not be a problem to ask for a favor for Chen Peng, just rest assured." ”

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At the same time as the battle in the direction of Gaoqi ended, Huang Wu's main fleet was also in chaos, and Zheng Chenggong personally commanded the fleet to launch a surprise attack. Zheng Chenggong was not in a hurry to jump into the gang to seize a large number of huge ships of the Qing army, but attacked their sails with rockets and artillery - whether they succeeded or not, the Ming army would pass through these Qing warships at high speed and continue to attack the Qing warships behind, still taking the sails as the main target.

Both the Ming and Qing dynasties had hundreds of warships, and if the purpose was to destroy the opposing warships, the battle would become very long - it was very difficult to make hundreds of warships ineffective, even if the Zheng army was in high spirits and the Qing army was relatively tired, this would not be possible for a while.

Zheng Chenggong believed that if a conventional battle was adopted, although it was possible to achieve a good exchange ratio, the most likely outcome was that the Qing army could save the main force after losing a part of the fleet, and returned to Quanzhou from the battle. Before the war, Zheng Chenggong set the goal of annihilating the Qing army's naval division, of course, he refused to accept such a result, so Zheng Chenggong once again used novel tactics, not as traditional as the traditional head-on confrontation, but used tactics similar to cavalry hedging, and launched a melee on the sea.

"First they dropped anchor, they lowered their sails, and then they rushed in and fought." If it weren't for the familiar banner of Zheng Chenggong, Huang Wu would definitely think that his opponent was a novice and rookie who had no understanding of naval warfare. This is because the two sets of tactics of the other side have violated the basic principles of naval warfare -- naval warfare is more stressful than land warfare: "It is better to cut off one finger than to hurt 10 fingers." ”。

In land warfare, it is impossible for a wounded soldier to recover his combat effectiveness after a short rest, and he loses all his combat effectiveness when seriously wounded or killed, and the combat effectiveness of three soldiers who are slightly injured decreases, and it is not far from one killed, so there is no need to pursue killing the enemy one-sidedly, sometimes wounding is more effective than killing - such as Zhao Tianba's strategy when Zhong Xiang defended the city wall.

However, in naval warfare, especially in the era of sail warships, it is difficult for sea ships to be sunk, and as long as they are not captured, a ship can quickly be repaired to restore its combat effectiveness after withdrawing from combat effectiveness. Even minor mast injuries can be quickly repaired outside the battlefield, and it won't take long for the ship to regain most of its combat effectiveness; Even if the mast and rudder were badly damaged, as long as they could get out of the battlefield under the cover of friendly ships, the sailors on them could be saved - these soldiers could be transferred to other ships to fight, and the battered ships could be repaired in port, and in any case repairs were much faster than rebuilding.

Therefore, the most important thing in naval warfare is to capture enemy ships, and the capture of one enemy ship is much heavier than inflicting all kinds of light and serious damage on a dozen or twenty enemy ships. For example, just now, Zheng Jun held on to the same place, causing 20 warships to be captured by the Qing army, and losing all the officers and soldiers above, and the Qing army's losses were only some ships slightly injured and the soldiers were tired. When he saw Zheng Jun's tactics just now, Huang Wu couldn't believe that such a stupid tactic could be performed by Zheng Chenggong's subordinates.

And now Zheng Chenggong's tactics still make Huang Wu stunned, and the naval battle is also based on the same reason - the emphasis on destruction is far more important than wounded. Concentrate your firepower to completely destroy the badly damaged enemy ships, or cover each other so that your wounded ships have a chance to retreat to repair them.

Now the Ming fleet was like a charging horse team, passing at high speed from around the Qing fleet or between gaps, and would never slow down in order to increase the hit rate.

"It's just death." It didn't take long for Huang Wu to make a judgment about Zheng Chenggong's new tactics, and unlike the high-speed moving Ming naval divisions, the Qing army's fleet was more stable and cooperated more closely with each other, and this cooperation could even offset Zheng's superiority in physical fitness and combat skills in a considerable way—although the Ming army was in full swing and had the advantage of ocean currents, the damage they inflicted on the Qing army was not as great as the Qing army's return to them. And those wounded Qing ships were under the protection of the fleet, and the Ming army passed them at high speed and did not stop to continue the attack. In this case, there is nothing remarkable about the damage to the ships, and when the Ming fleet returns again, they will be repaired to a certain extent; The wounded ships of the Ming army are different, the same sails are damaged, which will immediately be reflected in the speed and control of the ships, and they will not be able to keep up with the fleet, and will be hit by the Qing ships even more, if the sails are heavily damaged and the Ming ships are stopped, then it will fall into the Qing army formation and be hit from all directions......

Therefore, Huang Wu's first method was that Zheng Chenggong went crazy and adopted a tactic of deliberately sending him to death, which was much bigger than the tactical mistake just now.

But after a while, Huang Wu found that things didn't seem to be so simple. The Qing fleet consisted of several provincial naval divisions from Tiannan, Haibei, and except for a small number of Fujian naval divisions, the others lacked knowledge of the ocean currents and wind direction near Xiamen. Even the sailors of Fujian, their understanding of the hydrology around Xiamen is also insufficient, after all, they have not had the opportunity to haunt near Xiamen for so many years, and Huang Wu and Shi Lang may be familiar with Xiamen in the Qing army, and none of the other officers is qualified.

Wounded Ming ships could break away from the battle and large forces and find suitable places to repair, while the Qing army could not do this at all, and the commanders of the ships had no idea where there would be undercurrents or reefs, or whether there were nearby islands that could anchor, or whether the islands had suitable shelters for mooring. In the vicinity of Xiamen, Qing ships did not have the ability to escape alone, and could only survive by staying in the fleet.

If this is the case, it is not unavoidable, Huang Wu only needs to maintain a strict formation, which is also consistent with the basic principles of naval warfare.

But the trouble is that the hastily assembled Qing army sailors still lack trust in each other. While Huang Wu was thinking, there were several Ming warships rushing towards his flagship, and the Ming army should have little chance to get close to attack Huang Wu's tightly guarded flagship, but this still made Huang Wu's heart tighten all of a sudden-he knew that his flagship must be the target of Zheng Chenggong's key attack, and in case the flagship was damaged, Huang Wu would not dare to guarantee that the surrounding warships would stay and protect himself - Huang Wu had no prestige in the Qing army's naval division, and he was able to command everyone only because of Dasu's authorization, Everyone can still obey Huang Wu's command when they are in Shunlì, but if the battle situation falls into disadvantage, Huang Wu is sure that the others will definitely abandon themselves and flee without any psychological burden.

And Zheng Chenggong may also suddenly stop this high-speed impact tactic, but slow down the speed and concentrate on attacking Huang Wu's flagship, which is nothing, under normal circumstances, it is not easy to break the flagship of the fleet and its guards, and at this time, the surrounding friendly fleets have already pounced, which can completely make Zheng Chenggong steal chickens and rice. However, Huang Wu didn't dare to bet that the surrounding frigates would desperately defend themselves, nor did he dare to put the treasure on the fact that the Qing army and naval divisions in several provinces would work together to relieve the siege of the flagship.

Since this is the case, Huang Wu did not dare to risk the concentrated blow that Zheng Chenggong might make: "Raise the full sails." Huang Wu pointed to the approaching Ming fleet in front and ordered the flagship to retreat and keep a safe distance from the Ming army.

The retreat of Huang Wu's flagship caused a chain reaction, although he ordered to continue to maintain the formation, but the Qing warships in all provinces appeared on their own, and the timid followed Huang Wu's flagship to retreat, and the bold began to evade the Ming army's shock fleet - these Qing commanders knew as well as Huang Wu that it was unlikely that the wounded and lone Qing warships would survive in this strange sea, and whether they were alone or not depended entirely on themselves, but also on what their companions around them thought-since the flagship could order the front team to remain as it was, On the one hand, he took the guards to avoid the enemy's edge, and it was a suspicion of extravagant hope to expect the flagship and his companions not to abandon themselves; And whether it is injured or not is easier to grasp, as long as you dodge the battleships of the Ming army.

As a large number of Qing fleets began to avoid, Zheng Chenggong specially tailored tactics for Huang Wu and Shi Lang, which seemed to be a tactic like sending them to death, and only one impact shook the entire Qing army.

After the movements of their companions in the back, the Qing troops in the front row refused to stay and die, they no longer tried to attack the Ming fleet that fell into the Qing army's formation, but pulled up the sails, trying to get out of the battlefield before their companions.

Half an hour after the Ming army took advantage of the favorable ocean current to rush out of Xiamen Port, the main force of the Quanzhou Naval Division commanded by Huang Wu fell into a total chaos, and after retreating to a safe distance, Huang Wu stopped the ship and ordered the whole army to stop retreating and restore the formation. But when Zheng Chenggong pursued, no boat was willing to leave the edge to resist the Ming army, and the damaged Qing ships in the front team just now were all under siege at this time, and no one was willing to follow in their footsteps.

From scattering and hiding to escaping, the powerful Quanzhou naval division collapsed in the Ming army's assault, and there was a rout and pursuit that was extremely rare in naval battles, similar to that in land battles.

From time to time, the Qing navy divisions were caught up, as long as their sails were damaged, they would fall into a heavy siege, and no friendly ships would turn back to try to cover them, all the Qing warships were full of sails, bent on running past their companions on both sides, and it was Huang Wu's flagship who took the lead.

But when Huang Wu fled to the southeast of Xiamen, the pursuing Ming army sailors and the fleeing Qing army sailors had been mixed together, and more than 300 of the 400 warships commanded by Huang Wu were surpassed by the vanguard of the Ming army.

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An hour later, the landing fleet commanded by Dasu, located southeast of Xiamen, was also affected by Huang Wu's defeated army, and a rout occurred. The ferry, which was in charge of transporting the troops, was frightened, and could not take the 15,000 horsemen who had already landed, so they began to retreat westward with Dasu.

From Xiamen to the Jin and Xiamen Straits, the distance of dozens of miles was full of artillery sounds, and more than 800 warships of the Ming and Qing armies were mixed and drove westward together, fighting in a chaotic battle on the whole line.

At this time, Zheng Chenggong's flagship had also crossed the coastline on the east coast of Xiamen, and his flagship signaled that the Ming warships whose sails had been damaged during the pursuit turned to prevent the Qing warships behind from retreating. There are also some who want to approach the shore - it is full of dense Qing landing troops, they have not been able to break through the Ming defense line or retreat to the ships not long after they have landed, and they are now crowded on the beach, and the Ming naval divisions will carry out simple repairs on the shore while shelling the enemy troops on these shores.

"Signal." Zheng Chenggong continued to pursue with the fastest ships, he thought that Shi Lang on the east bank should understand at this time, and it is estimated that he will also throw down more than 10,000 Qing troops who landed on the east bank and flee westward, and at this time it should be the time for Zheng Tai of Kinmen to attack. A moment later, in the direction of Kinmen, several fireworks also rose into the air - this was Zheng Tai's response.