Valley Emperor

In the past, the navy's Wuzhou-class frigates and Lianzhou-class cruisers were equipped with a large number of seven-jin naval guns. This is because when these two warships were designed, the Tang Dynasty could not even mass-produce nine-jin artillery, so it was not allowed. Not a lot of equipment seven catties artillery.

But now, the nine-jin artillery has been mass-produced, and the seven-jin artillery has been discontinued, so the Navy also took this opportunity to adjust the deployment of the seven-jin artillery.

By increasing the configuration of the nine-jin artillery and the five-jin artillery, the seven-jin artillery was removed, and the replaced seven-jin artillery was concentrated in several coastal defense forts.

After adjusting the layout of the artillery, the Wuzhou-class frigate will be equipped with two fourteen-jin artillery pieces, ten nine-jin artillery pieces, and eight five-jin artillery pieces, bringing the total number of anti-ship artillery pieces to twenty.

The Lianzhou-class cruiser, after adjusting the artillery layout, will be equipped with six fourteen-jin artillery, fourteen nine-jin artillery, and eight five-jin artillery, bringing the total number of anti-ship artillery to twenty-six.

At present, the Datang Navy has served three Lianzhou-class cruisers and six Wuzhou-class frigates. The total number of main battleships has reached nine, and these battleships have formed two squadrons, which are the first of the First Fleet. Squadron, Third Squadron of Second Fleet.

And these two squadrons are also the core main force of the Datang Navy at present, and they are going to be the main force for the strategy of Nan'ao Island.

At the beginning of July, at the Hong Kong Naval Base, a large group of admirals, including Rear Admiral Bao Yifen, saw off the sailors who were about to go to Nan'ao Island!

At noon that day, a mobile fleet consisting of nine main battleships as the core and 23 armed merchant ships as the auxiliary set sail to Nan'ao Island.

Leading this huge fleet is Vice Admiral Ouyang Gui, the Earl,

This person is also a veteran of the Datang Navy. When he was the commander of the Second Fleet earlier, he commanded the Second Fleet to successfully cover the army's landing on Qiongzhou Island, and was seriously injured in this battle.

For a long period of time, he was in Zhaoqing to recover from his injuries, and during the recovery period, because of his outstanding military exploits, and because of his loyalty to the emperor and his style of not being afraid of powerful enemies, Li Xuan rewarded him many times, and the title even mentioned Earl. .

After recovering from the injury, he first served as the chief of staff of the Naval Command for a period of time. In May, the Datang Navy officially prepared the Nan'ao Island plan, and for this purpose, the main ships were dispatched from the First Fleet and the Second Fleet, and then A mobile fleet dedicated to the strategy of Nan'ao Island was formed.

He was personally transferred by Li Xuan to serve as the commander of this mobile fleet, and was promoted to lieutenant admiral by Li Xuan at the same time, becoming the first lieutenant general of the Datang Navy and the fourth lieutenant general in the entire Tang Dynasty.

The first three were Hao Bainian, who was the first to be promoted, Li Chunjing, who was promoted last year, and Wang Chaohong, who was only promoted at the beginning of this year. They were all army generals.

As a vice-admiral, Ouyang Gui was able to suppress a group of major generals and brigadiers in the mobile fleet.

After the mobile fleet went to sea, Ouyang Gui summoned the commanders and captains of the various squadrons and captains of the mobile fleet to his flagship for a meeting on his flagship, the Lianzhou.

This meeting is not actually a strategy meeting or anything, but a rather old-fashioned mobilization meeting to stimulate morale!

After all, the general strategic plan has already been formulated, and the specific details will not be known until the Nan'ao Island. After all, although the Datang Dynasty continued to investigate the Nan'ao Island, after all, the There are many Ming troops, and they are separated by a sea, so the effect of the investigation is limited to the superficial situation.

According to the previous investigation, the Ming army on Nan'ao Island was composed of many parts, including the remnants of the Guangdong and Guangxi defeated and retreated, the navy, the original defenders on Nan'ao Island, and the reinforcements from Fujian.

Among the above-mentioned troops, the navy has more than 100 large and small ships. Of course, most of them are small ships, and there are only 20 or 30 sea ships of more than 100 tons.

The ground troops are about 13,000 people!

Although it seems that the total number of troops is not large, far less than the Ming army on the northern front line, but the Nan'ao Island is only so large, so many troops are crowded in, in fact, the density of troops is quite large.

At the same time, because the sea is separated, if you want to capture this place, you must first expel or destroy the navy of the Ming army, which is actually quite difficult for the Tang Navy in the past.

In order to capture Nan'ao Island and fight against the Ming army navy above, the Datang navy spent two years working hard, and then they formed a mobile fleet.

After the mobile fleet led by Ouyang Gui has expelled or simply annihilated the Ming army navy, then it is time to cover the army's large-scale landing! To this end, Ouyang Gui's mobile fleet also brought more than 1,000 soldiers from two marine battalions of the navy, and more than 1,000 soldiers from a mixed infantry battalion of the Guards.

In addition, the first mixed regiment on the Chaoshan side will also send a part of the troops to participate in the war, with a size of about 2,000 people.

That is to say, the ground force for the landing operation will reach more than 4,000 people. With so many troops, they want to capture Nan'ao Island in one fell swoop, especially before Yu Dayu in Fujian can react.

In this way, there will be enough time to deal with Yu Dayou's counterattack!

Three days after going to sea, the fleet had already arrived in the waters not far from Nan'ao Island. If it went further, it would enter the cordon of the Ming army navy on the island, but Ouyang Gui did not stop the fleet, but continued. go ahead.

This time, the main force of the Tang navy came out in full force, and the scale of the fleet was no longer weak. There was no reason to be sneaky. It was just so open and aboveboard, forcing the Ming army navy to leave or come out for a decisive battle.

However, as it gradually approached the waters of Nan'ao Island, the mobile fleet also increased its vigilance accordingly. The formation of the fleet was no longer the loose formation before, but formed a dense formation.

The leading force was the cruiser Qiongzhou and two frigates belonging to the Third Squadron, followed by the six main ships of the First Squadron. As for the armed merchant ships, they also carried a total of more than 2,000 people. The Marine Corps and the Guards, so it is still more backward.

The Datang Naval Mobile Fleet came murderously towards Nan'ao Island, and it was naturally discovered by the Ming army navy ships patrolling outside the island.

After discovering the huge pseudo-Tang pirate army navy in front of him, he didn't dare to stop at all, and ran back directly.

More than an hour later, even the Ming army on the island could see a huge fleet coming at high speed on the sea more than ten kilometers away.

At this time, the port on Nan'ao Island was full of chaos, and a large number of Ming army navy ships began to set sail, ready to leave the port to meet.

When Qin Zhifu heard that the puppet thieves from the Tang Dynasty were attacking in a large scale at the General Military Mansion of Nan'ao Island, he was so frightened that he slumped on the chair and muttered: "The puppet thieves of the Tang Dynasty who have been killed these days will not come sooner or later. , come at this time!"

Qin Zhifu's life on Nan'ao Island has always been unsatisfactory. In addition to his own thousands of direct line troops, he can't intervene in other Ming troops at all. He dare not say that he has no power at all, but it is absolutely not. The last real power soldier.

So he has always wanted to be transferred from this place, but the current Nan'ao Island is not a good place, and other people are not willing to come, so this transfer is quite difficult.

In the end, Qin Zhifu gritted his teeth, spent a lot of money to clear the relationship, and was ready to transfer to Shandong.

But at this point, the pseudo-Tang thieves attacked on a large scale, and the pseudo-Tang thieves deliberately couldn't get through with him!

But scolding mother is scolding mother, this resistance against the pseudo-Tang bandit army still has to be resisted, otherwise it will die.

He immediately stabilized his mind, and then said, "Let's go and let General Lin, General Chen, General Zhao fight against them."

The two people in his mouth, one is the commander of the navy, the other two are the commander of the remnants of Guangdong and Guangxi, and the commander of the Fujian reinforcements.

But just after he said these words, a thousand households beside him said with an embarrassed expression: "Reporting to your lord, General Lin has already gone to the pier to command the navy to meet the enemy, and General Chen and General Zhao are also there. Prepare yourself for battle!"

As soon as he heard this, Qin Zhifu was sullen, hesitant, he hadn't given the order yet, these people acted on their own, clearly not taking themselves seriously.

But at this time, the thousand households also said: "Our men and horses are also assembled, and we are waiting for your order!"

Hearing that his more than 1,000 direct descendants were still waiting for his order, Qin Zhifu was also relieved. After all, he still had soldiers under his command, and he immediately said in high spirits: "Then what are you waiting for? This officer kills the enemy!"

However, at this time~www.wuxiaspot.com~ the thousand households said again: "Sir, now the navy of the pseudo-Tang bandit army is coming over, I'm afraid it will take a few hours, and if they want to land, they have to pass through the forest first. Is it too early for the general's navy to wear armor now?"

After hearing the prompt from his subordinates, Qin Zhifu also reacted. Yes, although the pseudo-Tang thief army came, they had to break through the interception of the navy first if they wanted to land. It was impossible for a few hours before and after, and he You can't foolishly wear dozens of pounds of armor on the beach for so long!

However, the armor is not needed first, but the formation preparation is still needed!

Soon, Qin Zhifu took a group of his subordinates, first to the barracks of his own troops, and then to the port after bringing along more than 1,000 troops.

After arriving at the port, they boarded a highland and saw the sea in the distance. Although the fleet of the Pseudo-Tang Thief Army was small in number, it looked like there were only thirty or forty ships, but each of them was a big ship. , On the other hand, the navy of General Lin who went out to sea to meet, although there are hundreds of ships, but it is a huge number of small ships!

This fight, I don't know if General Lin's navy can stop it!