After taking Changyang City, Kang Xiaozhong left only the Marines with the White Lotus Sect to defend the city, allowing Wei Zhixi to join the tenth

The company assisted the sects to start an attack on Liu Yongbiaoying in the east and the surrounding Tusi Township Warriors.

Although there were 1,500 people in Liu Yong's Biao camp, they were all recruited from the village warriors. They could not match the church members who were blessed by the Truqins. Naturally, they were about to collapse. In the end, Liu Yong, who was called "Luoguozi" by the church members, was defeated and captured.

The surrounding Tusi Township Yong must have been frightened after the fall of Fang Desheng Tusi soldiers. With the attack of Truqin's army, they finally scattered and most of them returned to Shinan Prefecture (Enshi).

Just when Kang Xiaozhong rescued the Hunyuan Yiqi Sect in Changyang County, the Qing court, who was neglecting Jiangfang, finally realized it.

They did not want to fight with the Truqin people, but they obviously did not want to continue to let Truqin's warships be free on the Yangtze River.

When we get in and out, where will we put my face in the Qing Dynasty?

The Qing court followed the position of the Ming Dynasty's admiral Cao Jiang and was in charge of the Yangtze River Navy. However, the Ming Dynasty's admiral Cao Jiang was a full-time civil servant with the title of Right Censor Censor. However, in the Qing Dynasty, this position was held by the Governor of Liangjiang (in charge of Jiangsu, Jiangxi and Anhui provinces).

However, the specific business was under the jurisdiction of the Jiangnan Admiral. The Qing court had a Jiangning General in Jiangning (Nanjing). In order to balance the Eight Banners soldiers with the Green Camp soldiers, it was finally divided. The navy east of Jiangning was under the jurisdiction of Jingkou, under the jurisdiction of Jiangning General, and the navy west of Jiangning (Jiangning to Yichang, Sichuan Navy single-line) was under the jurisdiction of the Jiangnan Admiral.

Like the Ming Dynasty, Jiangnan was also a major tax place for the Qing Dynasty. At that time, he served as the governor of Liangjiang, General Jiangning, and Admiral of Jiangnan, were all Manchurian Banners without exception.

The Governor of Liangjiang was Sazai of Zhenghuang Banner, who was fifty-nine years old at the time; the Admiral of Jiangnan was Changqing of the Blue Banner, who was forty-nine years old at the time, and the General Jiangning was Songchun (after Shurhaqi).

During the Qianlong period, except for Guangdong, there were only pirates in the area of ​​deputy generals. However, with the sudden emergence of Truqin, the Qing court strengthened the construction of coastal defense with the assistance of the Dutch, but only set up naval troops in important ports along the coastal areas, and did not pay more attention to the inland rivers that had never been turbulent.

So, when Kang Xiaozhong's squadron sailed into the Yangtze River from Wusongkou, they were not only shocked but also shocked. The tragic situation of the Hong Kong Battle is still vivid in their minds. They obviously did not dare to provoke it at will, so they had to report the situation to the court.

Emperor Qianlong was naturally furious after hearing the news and immediately attracted Zhang Henxue to question him. Zhang Henxue was naturally not afraid. Instead, he said: "Not only did warships enter the Yangtze River, but also warships are about to arrive in Tianjin!"

Only with pressure can there be negotiations. This is naturally the Truqins' reaction to the Qing court's delay in negotiations. However, such tricks were never expected by courts like the Qing Dynasty, so they had to reopen the negotiations.

But as the governor of Liangjiang, Sazai, who also serves as the important task of admiral Cao Jiang, obviously did not want to finish it like this. When he learned that there was another Truchen fleet, or a larger fleet was approaching Jiangning again, he immediately responded.

However, although Sazai wanted to make a "thunder strike", the Qing Dynasty's Yangtze River Navy was a little embarrassed. To this day, their naval ships on the Yangtze River were not only unable to compare with the Truqins, but probably even the Ming Dynasty could not compare with the Ming Dynasty. There were at least some large bird boats up to two levels.

Due to the long-term peace, the most naval masters in the Qing Dynasty were small bluff ships, which focused on mobility. The largest bluff ship was not as good as half of the Saiyin number, the smallest of the Truqins. The Yangtze River Navy had only 10,000 people, and it also had to cover the entire river from Yichang to Wusongkou. There were even fewer naval ships scattered everywhere.

But Sazai still came up with a solution. He plundered civilian ships and blocked the river between Jiangning and the town generals, preparing to come to a fire camp.

The Truqins' ironclad fleet has already been heading to Tianjin. The squadrons who came here are still wooden squadrons. However, the Truqins never fight unprepared battles. Although they are wooden squadrons, they are covered with copper skin below the waterline and fireproof coating above the waterline.

But this is just in case when the navy on both sides fights. If a wooden warship is surrounded by burning ships, these paints will definitely not be able to withstand it when baked in high temperatures.

The commander of the squadron came was a naval general who had participated in the Hong Kong Campaign. Azerbaijani Aziz, who was born in the Naval School of Lagan Port, and the commander of the army was Luo Taibo, the younger brother of Luo Fangbo, who also studied in the Hong Kong Military and Political School for three years.

Both of them came from Ryukyu and Keelung Port. Nowadays, both of them were in their thirties and did not take the Qing navy into consideration.

However, no matter how contempt is, normal investigation work is still indispensable.

With the telegraph machine, a magic weapon against the sky, it was not necessary to use two Saiyin numbers to detect in front of them, just use one Saiyin number.

To this day, Truqin's wooden squadron is naturally keeping pace with the times. If a thirty-meter-long warship was definitely a "giant boat" in the Qing Dynasty, it was just the smallest warship among the Truqins.

Although it is the smallest and its main purpose is to detect and communicate, its military equipment should not be underestimated.

There is a rotating turret near the main mast in the middle of the first deck, with a twelve centimeter cannon and two twelve centimeter cannon on both sides of the middle deck.

In addition, there are many short-barrel artillery and mortars wrapped in oil cloth on both sides of the first deck. They usually have little chance of using them, but when they first entered the Yangtze River, they obviously uncovered the oil cloth, exposing it.

In addition, a Saiyin ship also has a platoon of sailors, which can shoot with rifles on the gang of the ship. Although the Qing army now introduced flintlock rifles with the help of the Dutch, it was mainly used in the army. It was obviously not taken care of by the navy. They still had some ancient guns, clamps, bows, arrows, and big swords and spears.

Such military equipment is obviously not enough in front of the Saiyin number.

What's more, in order to ensure its mission of "fast transportation", Saiyin used two Truchen 1770-500 steam engines. Although it was built in the jurisdiction of the Bangladesh Governor, it was not much different from local construction.

Such horsepower is more than enough to push a streamlined 30-meter ship, so its speed is the fastest among the Truchen warships, with a maximum speed of 80 miles per hour!

Eighty miles, it was obviously a bit horrifying to the Qing army navy.

As soon as the Saiyin ship sailed into the Zhenjiang River, he immediately realized something was wrong.

To the north of Zhenjiang, there is a large sandbank, which was called Xinzhou at this time, and later in the world called Shiyezhou. Shazhou will divide the Yangtze River into two, with a length of about twenty miles, which is a place suitable for ambushing!

The reason why Saiyin felt something was wrong was that the defensive power on the Yangtze River was naturally clearly investigated by the spies. According to the spies' information, there were no large ports near Xinzhou, and they were just small ports for small fishing boats, and there were not many ships.

But when it entered the Yangtze River north of Xinzhou, it immediately saw ships moored on both sides!

When I reached the end of the west, I naturally turned back and ran from the south to the east of Xinzhou. The same is true on the south side, with dense ships on both sides!

The ships are covered with tarpaulin, and they naturally cannot see what is inside. But this scene is too strange. Xinzhou is not the place of a good port or a military important place. Why are there so many ships here?

When the Qing navy generals hesitated in the tower on Xinzhou, they saw only one enemy ship sailing in. Their fire ships obviously would not just deal with an enemy ship, but it was not appropriate to let the ship go back to report the news. So after thinking about it, he still dispatched five bluff ships.

Obviously I want to intercept this Saiyin number.

Seeing this, the captain of Saiyin was even more stupid and clear.

Just five bluffing ships were not in his eyes at all. Before these bluffing ships could approach, he suddenly issued an order!

These are obviously fire ships to be used to deal with the Truchen people, and the fastest Saiyin obviously has one of the powerful weapons of the Truchen warship - the fuel injection pipe!

The Saiyin began to approach the ships south of Xinzhou. After approaching, it immediately started to inject fuel, and as it walked, it was only twenty miles. For the Saiyin, which had a maximum speed of eighty miles per hour, it was just a flash of fingers, and it passed through the south of Shazhou in a short time.

Naturally, they would not spray oil on every fireboat, but only sprayed the two ends and the middle, shooting with rifles while walking, which naturally caused a fire in an instant.

When they reached the end, the five bluffing ships were still missing. Saiyin turned around and drove around the eastern end of Shazhou to the west, and then used the same trick again.

Just as the Qing navy was still hesitating, the Saiyin number had already circled Shazhou twice, and then a raging fire ignited on both sides of Shazhou. At this time, the navy finally received the news that it would leave the enemy ship at all costs.

But it was too late. When Saiyin number circled two rounds, the large number of fire ships carefully prepared by Saizai had turned into four huge fire dragons!

Even if Shazhou exists, the two Yangtze Rivers are divided into several hundred meters wide. Qing naval ships that occasionally emerge from the fire dragon wanted to catch up with their mobility and speed. It was completely impossible to surround Saiyin. In the end, they could only watch Saiyin go away.

After the news reached the Governor's Office of Liangjiang, Jiangning City, 59-year-old Sa Zai couldn't help but fall on the chair and sighed with regret.

Of course, he still has many ways, but now the Yangtze River is in the plum rainy season and the water is the most abundant. It is not realistic whether it is to lock the river or mobilize new ships again.

What's more, in addition to the squadron, there were also Garcia's thirty civilian Tengis. Such a huge fleet was unheard of by the Qing people. According to their estimates, it could be loaded with at least tens of thousands of people. So, in the end, Sazai simply stopped mobilizing the Land Division to intercept it, and had to keep ordering to guard it strictly, thinking that the Truqins came to Jiangning City.
Chapter completed!