Zhoushan Islands, Daiqu Ocean.

Yue Le stood by the side of the boat, and the wet and cold mist poured into his neck, which was very uncomfortable. Under his feet, the deck was shaking, and the low trumpets of the oars rang out regularly. Everything was planned. Two years ago, when he led the Liaodong Navy to the Beiyang Fleet to compete, Yue Le was sweating profusely, but after the Beiyang Navy withdrew from the Bohai Bay, the big stone that lies in his heart finally landed. The ocean no longer belonged to the East Fan, and the Qing Dynasty also had a place. But today, in the East Fan, where the tigers were lying on the dragon, Yue Le attacked again, but his heart was calm.

In the thick fog, everything was hidden. Daishan Island not far away was just a black shadow in the thick fog. Yue Le controlled the speed to ensure that the sunlight dispels the thick fog and enters the battlefield.

After standing at the bow of the ship for a while, the thick fog made his nose feel astringent. Yue Le looked back at his fleet. There were a total of sixty ships, including 32 of which were Galle warships, and the other twenty-eight were sand ships with displacement of 300 to 400 tons. These sand ships were loaded with 6,000 soldiers from Han and Manchu flags, ten red barbarian cannons and a large amount of ammunition supply. The target of this battle was Daishan Island!

According to Yue Le's plan, the navy was divided into two routes, one of which was led by Wang Yi, the admiral of the Jiangnan Navy, and was equipped with twenty-two gallops, eight bird boats, and twenty other warships. The other was enhanced by the Zhejiang Admiral Tian Xiong tribe. He went south from the estuary of the Yangtze River and attracted the Jiangnan fleet stationed in the northern section of the Zhoushan Islands and Sijiao Mountain. He did not seek to fight but defeat it, but only wanted to involve the Jiangnan fleet.

The main force was commanded by Yue Le, Wang Zhiyuan and Jin Li. Yue Le personally led the navy in front and rushed straight to Daishan Island. When the wind and fog dissipated, the Han army flags came ashore to attack. Another assault team organized by Chen Jin set out from Xiangshan Bay. The fleet disguised as a smuggling fleet and cooperated with the secret talks that had already boarded Zhoushan to burn the ships in Zhoushan.

There are three reasons why Yue Le chose Daishan Island. One is more easy to attack. Daishan Island is located in the middle of the Labakou of Hangzhou Bay. From Hangzhou Bay, the entire journey is full of vast seas. It is not easy to encounter smuggling ships and patrol ships, which is conducive to sudden attacks. Zhoushan is different. Although Zhoushan Port faces the mainland, it has to pass through the narrow transverse ocean along the way. There are dense islands and many patrol ships, so it is impossible to suddenly attack. Secondly, although Daishan Island is not the main island, under the mediation of Li Mingxun, the Lu Jianguo and the honorary ministers were all on this island and assigned the main island of Zhoushan to Huang Binqing, who was the orthodox of Yongli. As long as he could capture the Lu Jianguo and his nobles and ministers, then most of the march into Zhoushan would be successful.

The third is the military force. This time, the Zhengfan of Fujian Province has sent more naval troops to support Guangdong and Guangxi. After all, its stronghold, Jinxia Island, is too close to the mainland, so it is not advisable to draw too many land divisions. The various vassal states in Zhoushan have produced more land divisions, especially the new army that once participated in the Korean War, almost the entire army attacked. Therefore, for the Qing army, as long as they defeated their navy, they could win a complete victory.

After coming out of Hangzhou Bay, it was not discovered. It was not until the early morning that a patrol ship belonging to the Ruan Jin army, the governor's lineage, sank a patrol ship. Daishan Port is located between the islands and is not a good harbor. Although the Ming army set up many forts on the islands around Daishan and Daishan Waterway, it was still impossible to block the waterway with a width of more than six miles. When the morning sunlight and sea breeze blew away the fog, the attack of the Liaodong Navy began.

The fire attack ship that broke into the Daishan River from the north with the help of the newly rising sea breeze, crashed into Daishan Port, which was covered with sea boats due to heavy fog. Six Gaste ships also approached the port, and with the artillery fire of the artillery batteries, attacked the ships in the harbor with hot shells. There was chaos in Daishan Port. Like all the troops that were raided, the soldiers lost their organization at the first time. The soldiers from various towns and vassals jumped on their own ships, collected their anchors and untied their cables, raised their sails, and wanted to leave the coast.

But the port ignited by the fireboat was extremely chaotic. The north wind swept away. The burned warship made bursts of explosions from time to time because of the detonated gunpowder. The warship in disorder is now messy, with cables wrapped around, sails overlapping, and even the oars are separated from each other, like a huge spider nest. In the flying shells, the general lost his patience. When the first person ordered the problem to be solved with a sword and axe, the chaos could not be stopped.

The coastal defense forces on the island were also weak. At the first time of the attack, the gunners in the fort chose to escape and threw down an unfired artillery. Half an hour after being attacked, the Lu Jianguo in Daishan City sent Zhang Mingzhen to assist the port. Zhang Mingzhen gathered the gunners who fled everywhere. Although the gunners in the artillery sank two warships in the artillery channel were sunk, they did not help. The navy on Daishan Island, except for some small paddle boats, had already burned into a large torch.

Until the navy stationed in Gaoting and Daixi area came to help, the Qing navy retreated, and the one who led the reinforcements was Ruan Jin, the Marquis of Danghu, who was considered the most naval combat capability among the country's lineage. His command was full of sailboats, but the largest one was the centipede ship, with only eight or nine ships, and the rest were eight oars and long dragons. Countless wooden oars were rising and falling at this moment, and the water was splashing. There were hundreds of ships of Ruan Jin, all of them rushed into the Daishan Waterway, chasing the Galei ships that were bombarding the port. However, when the oarsmen used their energy to chase them out, they found that there were more warships outside the waterway.

Yue Le ordered with the sound of drums and flags. Under his organization, the Garrison ship set up a horizontal formation, which was a bullying the weak. If he encountered an opponent of the same size, Yue Le would not dare to do so. Twenty-six Garrison ships lined up two horizontal formations, with only thirty meters apart, and they rushed straight to the captain's fleet. The gunners were covered in smoke and ashes. They touched them with their hands, like evil ghosts. The Bolang cannon leader screamed in broken Chinese, but the sound was far less effective than the whip. The solid shells loaded by the gunners were quickly fired out. The wool brush dipped in water to clean the cannon chamber. This time the loading was double shotgun.

The moment the horizontal formation crushed the fleet of the ruling country, shells flew across the water, and the steel rain created by the shotgun swept across the water. The hardwood of the Gareboat was directly inserted into the Ming army warship, capsizing the centipede ship on the sea. When the Gareboat sailed past, the archers and musketeers on the deck continued to shoot, and even the infantry used spears to kill several Ming soldiers who fell into the water.

The naval battle lasted until the afternoon. The Zhoushan Navy Division of the Jianguo was destroyed. At this time, the Qing army and Han flags that arrived had landed in Daixi under the leadership of Gushan Ezhen. They broke through the obstruction of Zhang Mingzhen's troops and took the lead in controlling the Daishan Port storage area, which contained more than 200,000 stones of smuggled grain and military rations. Only after surrounding Daishan City did they know that the Lu Jianguo had already taken a small boat to flee to Zhoushan Island under the escort of Zhang Mingzhen and Zhang Huangyan. Yue Le left Wang Zhiyuan to siege Daishan City and protect the storage area. He waited for the second wave of reinforcements led by General Zhang Jie of Dinghai, and led the navy and Jin Li's land division to Zhoushan directly.

The news of the attack on Daishan Island spread quickly. The first one to receive the news was Zhao Sandao and Gu San from Sijiao Mountain. In fact, before that, they received a report from Chongming Fortress that the Qing army's Jiangnan navy was in a state of going to sea. As for Huang Binqing, Gu Rong and Shen Tingyang's troops in Zhoushan, there was no longer any message from the Daishan defenders. The traitors and sneak attack fleets hidden in the group of smuggling merchants had burned more than ten of their warships.

Zhao Sandao's original plan was to go south to Zhoushan to provide assistance, because the news he received was that there were more than 30 large gallopy warships in the Qing navy. Zhao Sandao's first idea was that the Qing army's Jiangnan fleet must have slipped through the warning chain of the Jiangnan fleet under his nose. If it could not rescue the southeast vassal states, it would be his dereliction of duty. Zhao Sandao was not worried about Sijiao Mountain at all. The current Sijiao Mountain is completely a military fortress. The fortress group composed of prisms and forts armed the island. The port also has many fortress protection. There is also a garrison battalion and two brigades of marines on the island, with a total of more than 3,400 people. In addition, there are more than a thousand fleeing people from Jiangnan and Zhejiang. In Zhao Sandao's eyes, Sijiao Mountain is not foolproof, but it is definitely the hardest bone in the Zhoushan Islands. Only idiots will move it first.

The Jiangnan Fleet, which had been completed, left the port for less than half an hour, was informed by the notice ship that more than 20 warships of the Qing army's Jiangnan Fleet were attacking. Zhao Sandao did not believe it at all. The Jiangnan Navy was his old opponent. He knew very well when there were more than 50 sailing warships, but the information brought by the notice ship was swearing. When Zhao Sandao returned to the rescue, it was true. At this time, he had already doubted whether it was a fake alarm report from Zhoushan, but the Ming army who kept fleeing also swears. Zhao Sandao finally decided to protect himself. While sending the notification ship to Taipei and Jeju, he requested to obtain support from the Beiyang Fleet and the Navy Department, and while planning to fight against the Jiangnan Navy, Zhao Sandao's intention was very simple. Only by solving the enemy in front of him can he withdraw from other threats.

According to the results of Li Mingxun's adjustment, the main island of Zhoushan belongs to Huang Binqing, and Shen Tingyang has a good relationship with him, so the Shen family's fleet and military camp are also in Zhoushan. However, most of them have gone south to support Guangdong and Guangxi. Huang Binqing has the best port and location of the Zhoushan Islands, and Zhoushan can also cultivate some grain. With the help of smuggling and fishing and salt, Huang Binqing has a strong fleet and a 4,000 elite land division troops. Although the number of people is not much among the southeast vassal states, its combat power is second only to Zheng Fan. This time, because the country's surrogacy lineage has drawn too many troops, the Huangzhen army is stationed in Zhoushan, but the 4,000 elite troops cannot take care of Zhoushan Island, which is nearly 500 square kilometers.

Yue Le blocked the Huangzhen Navy at Zhoushan Port, while Jin Li led his army to land. After obtaining the sea control power, the Qing army was at ease. The good terrain and complex defense system of Zhoushan Port blocked the Qing army's navy. Yue Le attacked several times, damaged seven ships of all sizes and finally chose to give up. However, Jin Li's landing troops successfully went to the island and tied with Jin Li in the land battle.

Huang Zhen had a deep friendship with the United States. The army was equipped with heavy convex guns and light artillery eliminated by the army. In terms of combat effectiveness, it was not inferior to the Qing army. In addition to the initial panic, he defeated the Qing army twice in the field. However, the reinforcements organized by Chen Jin had already come to aid. Fujian Admiral Yang Minggao and the right generals made a total of 13,000 people. They landed on Zhoushan in various ships collected. They used Zhoushan smuggling grain as military rations. The logistics pressure dropped sharply. At this time, the Qing army on Zhoushan Island was four times that of the Ming army. Huang Binqing had to retreat to Zhoushan City and cooperate with the United States fortress stationed in Zhoushan. Huang Binqing was still righteous. Even though the monarch and ministers of the supervisor often had a lot of grudges with him, he saw that the supervisor was poor and came to surrender, so he gave up his past grudges and protected him into Zhoushan City.

It took only ten days from Yue Le leading his army to attacking the Zhoushan Islands to besieging Zhoushan City. In this process, the southeastern vassal states performed poorly. Most of its tens of thousands of troops were built up militias and had no way to fight back. After the Qing army landed, it surrendered on a large scale. In the end, even the civil officials who defended Daishan City offered the city to the Qing army.

Most of Zhoushan was destroyed, and the situation in the southeast anti-Qing collapsed for a moment.

The southeast collapsed and the battlefield in Guangdong and Guangxi was temporarily in turmoil. Li Mingxun used both soft and hard skills to shock the villains, appeased the dissidents, suspended the attack, and stabilized the situation. In fact, the one who wanted to return to the rescue was the various vassal states of the country, but they were a little powerless. Not to mention that these troops were only 20,000 troops, and they were not opponents of the Qing army at all. More importantly, they had no ships. Most of the southern aids of Zhoushan vassal states were helped by the mainland. The navy warships belonged to Zheng Fan, who was not in harmony with him. How could they go north to aid against the wind?

The real turmoil is the morale of the army rather than the generals. The reason is very simple. The generals and nobles have power and power. They are in the four battles, but their wives and children are mostly placed in the territory of the United States. Many generals and ministers even joined the nationality of the United States with their wives and children. In Taiwan, Luzon, they purchased land and houses to settle, while more people invested in the Borneo development company. After Jincheng opened up the situation, many relatives of generals and generals moved to Borneo. Only those civil officials talked about loyalty, righteousness, benevolence and filial piety all day long, and the whole family was in Zhoushan.

In fact, these old masters also wanted to follow the examples of the nobles and be "Naked Officers of the Ming Dynasty". Unfortunately, things went against their wishes. Some people did this and went to Taiwan's newspapers within five days. It was known to everyone that some officials were attacked by public opinion and even committed suicide. Civil officials were shameless, but the nobles didn't care. Therefore, civil servants could do what civil servants could do, but civil servants could not do it. It's a pity that most of the soldiers' families were in Zhoushan, and this time they had become cattle and sheep under the sword of the Qing sabre.
Chapter completed!