Dominate the Country

"Boom--"

A 70-jin large rocket landed on the deck of Gan Guobao's ship. The violent explosion seemed like a dazzling orange spark blooming on the hull. The powerful shock wave swept across the entire deck, and the gunners and sailors were blown into rolling gourds, and even the cannons were blown out.

Li Hui, the deputy general of the central army, was directly rolled up by the air wave and hit the bulkhead. His head banged, and his eyes went black and he was no longer interested.

Gan Guobao's right arm was hit by the fragments of the rocket, blood gushed out, and the bones seemed to be broken. The slightest movement was extremely painful. He didn't know what scratched a cut on his forehead, which was as long as a child's palm, and his face was covered with blood. In addition, the explosion also ignited the secondary sail on the second mast, and the entire admiral's ship was instantly wrapped in flames. The bow position that was hit was even more blazing.

"Put out the fire, put out the fire quickly. Be careful of the gunpowder barrels..." The hard sails above were on fire, and there were several barrels of cracked gunpowder on the ground. Gan Guobao, who had woken up, was terrified, fearing that if he was a little late, there would be a fire falling from above his head and igniting those deadly things!

He shouted and commanded the sailors to grab the gunpowder barrels, "Sprinkle water, splash water..." The safest thing at this time was to wet the gunpowder. Those gunpowder barrels were swept by the previous shock wave, and much gunpowder fell on the deck.

It was just that when it rained, it rained. Gan Guobao shouted to the sailors to put out the fire, and the flames on the secondary sail had already ignited the main sail. The speed of the warship was decreasing at a speed visible to the naked eye, and it kept decreasing. The admiral's ship, which had slowed down, was like a piece of fish on the chopping board, and could only be slaughtered by the Fu Han Army Navy.

Boom boom boom...

A series of rockets fell on the admiral's ship, which was slowing down. 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 Gan Guobao's ship. At the same time, most of the poop disappeared in a violent explosion.

"General, General..."

After waking up, Li Hui immediately asked someone to lower the boat, and then shouted to Gan Guobao that the ship was finished and Gan Guobao could not stay here anymore and had to move.

"You go." At this time, Gan Guobao opened Li Hui's hand. He was tired, really tired.

This battle has been fought since yesterday. Gan Guobao is exhausted. At the same time, the defeat of the Guangdong Navy is also obvious. He Sihe has lowered the sails and raised the white flag. Gan Guobao cursed at him. But what's the use?

Li Hui didn't know that before the ship was hit by bullets, Admiral Gan Guobao, who had been fully commanding the Qing warships and the Fu Han army, had lost confidence in his pursuit of victory in this naval battle.

This battle was lost!

He lost. Gan Guobao was just fighting like a trapped beast, fighting before his death, that's all. "Fire bomb, fire bomb..." Ignoring Li Hui's stunned look, Gan Guobao just watched the rockets that continued to be fired at the ship from the opposite side.

The Fu Han army did not win by numbers or firepower, but only by rockets.

The suppression and blow of that thing on the Qing warships was too great, too great. Li Hui burst into tears: "General..."

"Let's go, let's go. Don't stay here with the old man to die." Gan Guobao waved his hand and shook his head. Two turbid tears also flowed from his old eyes. The Guangdong Navy was defeated, Guangzhou was in danger, 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 generals of the Qing navy surrendered. The other two sank into the cold sea water with their admiral.

"Complete victory. They won this battle!"

"Dad, I think the navy will no longer need to build heavy ships such as Ganzhuo and Niaochuan in the future. Thunder ships and shuttle ships are not needed. Didn't His Royal Highness Lu Gong say that the foreigners' small sailboats run the fastest? I think we should build some fast small sailboats in the future. There is no need to equip them with many cannons. Just use fire dragon bombs. No matter how many cannons the foreigners' large sailboats are equipped with, they will die in a fight!"

In less than two days, after witnessing the power of fire dragon bombs with his own eyes, Ye Tingyang has completely become a supporter of fire dragon bombs. In his eyes, fire dragon bombs are invincible!

"Don't talk nonsense. Such military and national affairs, how can you, a small right lieutenant, make suggestions?"

Ye Xiangde rolled his eyes at his son in anger. When selecting the second batch of ‘seeds’, Ye Xiangde didn’t think that the Western-style sailing ships were really that great, but those people were obviously the direct descendants of Duke Lu. He persuaded Ye Tingyang to sign up, but Ye Tingyang was unwilling to do so, and he looked down on Western-style sailing ships. But after a day of fighting yesterday, he suddenly became interested in the speed of the foreign sailing ships at night. Now it seems that he is going to have wild ideas!

“Haven’t you heard what Your Highness said, that the potential of the fire dragon bomb has been exhausted, while the potential of the artillery is infinite. Now it can only be comparable to the fire dragon bomb in terms of distance, but it will definitely exceed the fire dragon bomb in the future.”

“Haven’t you seen the 20-jin cannon placed on the Mawei Battery? It can reach more than eight miles away. In the future, there will be artillery that can shoot farther, with faster firing speed and greater power, and they can all be moved onto warships. Fire dragon bombs have many advantages, but they are far from replacing artillery.” It is said that the largest foreign sailing ships can carry hundreds of cannons. Ye Xiangde has never seen the real thing, so he doesn’t know whether it is true or not. But if there really were hundreds of cannons, fifty on each side, firing them out, hitting the target, and destroying the boat his son was talking about at a distance of three or four hundred meters.

Ye Tingyang remained silent. He did not dare to argue with his father loudly, but he was not convinced at all in his heart.

"No matter how powerful the artillery is, if you can't hit it, are you blind? If you can have dozens of extremely fast small boats, use the method of rangers to attack infantry formations, disrupt their morale, exhaust their spirit, and waste their physical strength. In the end, the people eat the few and eat them bit by bit. As long as there are enough fire dragon bombs, no matter how many warships there are, there are still pigs and sheep waiting to be slaughtered..."

As long as people have thoughts, they will always put themselves in a powerful position to think. The thoughts of the Ye family father and son...the things are similar, but the conclusions are very different.

Ye Tingyang, who will leave a deep mark on China's naval history, is still a young man in his early twenties. Ye Tingyang didn't know how much influence his speculation would have on the future Chinese Navy. His father Ye Xiangde also 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 unparalleled glory at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries in the Christian era as he did in the original time and space.

…

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 piles of fire left - why use piles? That's because all that's left of their ship is a fire pile floating on the sea.

For example, Tan Xiu's ship, whose hull had been damaged beyond repair, was completely worthless for repair. After removing all the sailors and moving away all the materials that could be moved, a fire started to burn to the ground. There was a fire in the cabin. It is still the brightest torch in this sea area.

Gan Guobao and the ship sank together. Although they are hostile parties, Zhang Qiu and Ye Xiangde also want to say: Seek benevolence and get benevolence.

In this battle in the Guangdong waters, the Southeast Navy and the Guangdong Navy of the Qing Army fought against Daya Bay and reached the sea surface of Huilai, and Huilai County was the southwestmost county near the sea in Chaozhou Prefecture. It can be said that they fought from the coast of Huizhou to the sea of ​​Chaozhou.

The Fuhan Army lost a total of seven main warships before and after the battle, and suffered less than 1,000 casualties. Compared with the glorious record, these casualties are simply not worth mentioning.

But both Zhang Qiu and Ye Xiangde are very complicated inside. Because they all know that the protagonist of this victory is the Fire Dragon Bullet, not them.

Looking at the sea that had returned to calm, Zhang Qiu had a cold expression on his face. The Fuhan Army had been hiding such a powerful weapon like the Fire Dragon Bomb without even a trace of it being exposed. It’s so well hidden!

If I was wrong in my first thought, would the Guangdong Navy's bad luck also fall on the Zhang family?

Zhang Qiu couldn't help but think so. Chen Ming used deaf-mute people to cast the fire dragon bullets. Even the casting of the bullet casings was completed by deaf-mute people who had learned the casting skills. Outsiders did not hear a single bit of news about it. Now once it is used, it will kill everyone!

But what is certain is that news of this naval battle will quickly reach the Qing army. Many of the boats in the latter fleet sailed away when the situation was bad. The news in this battle would not be kept secret by the "sea".

In this all-out naval battle, the main force of the Fuhan Army's Southeast Navy sank more than fifty Qing warships, large and small, captured nearly a hundred warships of all types, and rescued and captured more than 4,000 prisoners of war. . There were at least 3,000 Qing soldiers who died in the sea.

Regardless of whether we look at the results or the progress, Southeast Navy undoubtedly wins Dafa.

In the lobby of a house near Shantou Port, two busy people, Xiong Bingzhang and Liu Wu, were sitting there with their heads buried in writing. The pile of documents on the desk at hand is already piled up, but the two of them are so busy that they always seem to be distracted when working, and they always look up at the door.

The water in the teacup was added one after another until the leaves turned white, but neither of them cared.

This house is Chen Ming's place of residence. He was now in the study room inside. As for what he was doing, although Liu Wu and Xiong Bingzhang didn't look at it, they knew that it must be the establishment of local governments.

But Chen Ming is always distracted and is no better than Xiong Bingzhang and Liu Wu. The Southeast Navy has been fighting again with the Qing Navy since early yesterday morning. The battlefield started from the Daya Bay area and extended all the way to the depths of the sea. No news has been sent back yet. Fortunately, there was no typhoon in the past two days, otherwise Chen Ming's "glass heart" would have been shattered.

Every time there were footsteps in front of the window, Liu Wu and Xiong Bingzhang in the outer room and Chen Ming in the inner room would always raise their heads at the same time. However, what was waiting for them were submissions from various places waiting for approval. The news they wanted to know was still No news.

There was another "thump, thump, thump" sound of footsteps. The teacup in Xiong Bingzhang's hand trembled. He and Liu Wu glanced at each other, and looked at the door again.

However, Gao Yanming, who was running all the way, was not as reserved as them. Before he arrived, he shouted loudly: "Big victory, great victory for the Navy. The Southeast Navy completely annihilated the Guangdong Navy and captured all of them." There are hundreds of warships and more than 4,000 soldiers."

Liu Wu walked to the door in three steps and two steps at a time, snatched the news from Gao Yanming's hand with one hand, and read it quickly. The news came from Huilai Feige, and it turned out to be a complete victory over the Guangdong Navy. Liu Wu couldn't help but burst into laughter and kept saying "good".

Xiong Bingzhang walked behind Liu Wu at this time, and after reading the contents of the letter and newspaper, it turned out that Shen Ning had cleared the clouds and saw the sun. All the bones in his body were three points lighter. He cupped his fists and bowed to Chen Ming, who stood up and walked to the outer room: "Congratulations to Your Highness, Congratulations to Your Highness. The overall situation of Guangdong has been decided, and there is no need to worry about recurrence."