When the Annan side urgently deployed to respond, the huge fleet of the Ming army had already appeared on the ocean hundreds of miles east of Haiyang Water Village.
The naval division under the command of Wu Yuan collected almost all the warships of the Taiping Army that could be used for naval warfare, including 86 fortune ships with more than 600 materials, 126 warships with more than 400 materials, 135 fighting ships, sea falcons, patrol ships, and sentinel ships, and more than 50 large and foreign ships specially used to transport troops, and there were 8,400 officers and soldiers of the naval division alone, and more than 80 generals and colonels.
On this day, there is no wind on the sea, the blue waves are rippling, the blue sky and white clouds, and the line of sight is excellent.
Three fast sentry ships of the Annan Army are cruising along the sea horizon, and the sea area here is only more than 30 miles away from the water village.
Since being beaten twice by the Ming army's sailors "bullying the small", the Annan sailors have a fear of the Ming army.
Warships can't go to sea, but sentinel ships must go to sea, otherwise the Ming army won't know if they touch the water village Annan people, so they have to go.
The Annan sailors on the three fast sentry ships cruised for a long time, but did not find any ships on the sea, and just when the Annan sailors on board were glad that they would be able to return to the port immediately, and replaced the next group of people to "be frightened," a terrible cry suddenly sounded.
"The ship of the Ming army is coming" This terrible cry made all the Annan soldiers on the three ships nervous, and they all went to the deck to look, and soon, a spectacular scene appeared in their sight, and hundreds of masts appeared densely on the horizon in the distance.
After a short period of distraction, the general Annan who led the team came to his senses, shouted sharply and hurriedly turned around and went back to report the news.
On the ninth day of June in the thirteenth year of the Ming Dynasty, Zhao Ziqiang, the governor of the Taiping Expeditionary Army, led Wu Yuan, the commander of the naval division, Lu Guangzu, the deputy governor and concurrently the general of the eleventh town, and Niu Gensheng, the general of the twelfth town, led 325 warships of all sizes and more than 25,000 officers and soldiers to appear on the sea east of Haiyang Water Village in the port of the Annan Naval Division.
The Sentinel Boat of the Annam people sent back the warning news of the Ming army's attack, and Li Zhu was shocked and immediately ordered the sailors to wait on the water near the water village.
According to Li Zhu's deployment, the general army Ruan Guowei led 28 warships as the left wing, the general army Zheng Hai led 23 warships as the right wing, and the remaining 34 warships were led by Li Zhu himself, relying on the batteries on both sides of Haiyang Water Village to defend against the Ming army's naval division.
The Ming Army's sailors came directly to Haiyang Water Village, and this battle was not fought by Li Zhu.
However, after the battle order was issued, Li Zhu sent an order to Ruan Guowei and Zheng Hai, to the effect that if they could not resist the Ming army, the second general and he must break through the siege, and the main force of the naval division must not be wiped out here.
This order made Ruan and Zheng two generals worried, because since the Ming army came straight to Shuizhai, it obviously wanted to eat the main force of the Annan Navy Division in one bite, and how could they break through and leave.
Ruan Guowei said angrily to his subordinate generals: "The commander is an old fool, the Ming people are bullied to the doorstep, my Annan is not as strong as the Ming people, at this moment, only the blood is important, the soldiers are brave enough to have a chance of life, how can they have the idea of breaking through, isn't this self-demoralizing?"
Because he was afraid that the generals below would not obey the order and go to sea without authorization, the entrance to the sea of Haiyang Water Village was ordered by Li Zhu to be sealed with several iron locks two days ago, first, to implement the strategy of "protecting the ship and controlling the enemy", and second, to prevent the Ming army from going deep into the water village.
In the earth-shattering drums, the Annan soldiers guarding the two forts in Dongyang, Haiyang Water Village, also rushed to the forts, and the people of Annan near the sailor camp were also requisitioned and issued by the government to assist the officers and soldiers in defending their homes and the country under the name of "Volunteers".
The Ming army fleet arrived outside Haiyang Water Village without any resistance and attack, and seeing that the Annan Army was ready, Wu Yuan immediately ordered Zheng Chengkui, a partial general, to lead more than 100 warships to rush to Haiyang Water Village.
Seeing that the Ming army sent ships to attack, Li Zhu immediately waved the flag and blew the trumpet, and Ruan Guoxiong and Zheng Haibu immediately besieged the Ming army's naval division from the left and right directions.
The dozen or so ships of the Ming army with more than 600 materials in front of them were actually covered with large and small artillery on both sides of the hull, and under a round of salvo, they sank a warship of the Ruan Guowei Department on the spot.
Li Zhu didn't expect that the artillery fire of the Ming army's naval division would be so fierce, and he couldn't fight in close combat at all, and he couldn't fight against each other, but he put hope under the sea with several iron locks.
Finding that there was an iron lock blocking the estuary, Zheng Chengkui immediately sent more than 100 water ghost warriors to take a small boat and carry a large amount of fire oil to approach the iron lock, and braved the artillery fire of the Annam people to fish out the iron lock and burn it.
The iron locks used by the Annamite people were made urgently, not steel, and they melted quickly after the fire, and the Ming army successfully broke into the sea without spending much time on it.
The iron lock of the sea failed to stop the Ming army, coupled with the tall warships of the Ming army and the fierce artillery fire, the warships of the Annam Naval Division could not resist in terms of quantity or quality, and the battle soon became one-sided.
In the melee, Li Zhu fainted in the middle of the artillery, and the warships of his naval division hurriedly fled to the water village.
As the flag of Li Zhu Shuai disappeared along with the mast, the Zheng Haibu on the right flank lost command and became a mess, surrounded by the Ming warships that rushed up, first bombarded, then fired, and finally jumped to engage in the battle.
In just one hour, more than 1,000 soldiers of Zheng Hai's 20 warships were annihilated by the Ming army, and Zheng Hai himself was disemboweled, and his intestines were rotten when he died.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Ruan Guowei ordered the dead to approach the Ming warships in small boats loaded with fire oil and gunpowder, but the Ming army was caught off guard and six warships were destroyed by fire.
Seeing that the Annan people were stubbornly resisting, Wu Yuan immediately ordered the general Zhou Sheng to lead the second group of warships to engage in the battle, and at the same time ordered the rest of the warships to cover the landing of the 11th Town of the Army from the tidal flats east of Haiyang Water Village.
Haiyang Water Village, the fire soared into the sky, thick smoke rose everywhere, and the sound of explosions at sea continued.
Under the blow of the absolute superiority of the Ming army several times that of its own, the Annan naval division was already powerless to fight back.
Although the batteries on the mountains on both sides are still firing cannons, they are far away, and they are all solid bullets, so where is there any accuracy.
During the engagement, the Ming Army's naval division suddenly sacrificed the "fire dragon out of the water" and burned the ships of the Annan Naval Division one after another.
This "fire dragon out of the water" was called a rocket by the Ming army, with five feet of bamboo, to the knot, and scraped thin with an iron knife, and a wooden dragon head and dragon tail were installed before and after.
The mouth of the dragon's head is upward, and the dragon's belly is equipped with several rockets, which always connect the rocket's medicine line together and lead out of a hole in the lower part of the dragon's head.
Under the dragon's body and tilted in front and rear, two large bazooka were installed, and their medicine lines were always connected together, and the main medicine line of the dragon's belly containing the god machine fire creeping was connected to the bottom of the two rocket Janes in front.
In this way, when fighting in the water, the fire dragon arrow can be three or four feet away from the water to ignite the fire, that is, fly two or three miles away from the water, such as the fire dragon out of the river, specially used to burn the enemy's ships.
When Wanli was peaceful, after all the Japanese sailors entered the Luliang Sea, the Ming Dynasty general Deng Zilong led the Yu family army to cut off the back road of the Japanese sailors, and the Korean general Yi Sunsin led the Korean sailors to attack the flank of the Japanese fleet, and the Ming Admiral Chen Lan fully supported after the naval battle began, but the Japanese commander Shimazu Yoshihiro did not love to fight, and left the Luliang Sea at full speed, intending to cross Cat Island, but he did not know that the Ming army had laid mines on Cat Island, so he had to return to Luliang Sea to fight to the death.
After fierce battles, the Sino-Korean coalition destroyed more than 400 Japanese warships and killed more than 10,000 Japanese soldiers.
The commander of the Japanese army, Yoshihiro Shimazu, fled, and the elite Fifth Army of the Japanese army was completely annihilated.
Now, the "fire dragon out of the water," which had severely damaged the Japanese fleet in those years, has reappeared in the waters of Haiyang Shuizhai, and rockets have been fired at the ships of the Annan Navy Division like a fire dragon, causing the Annan Navy Division to collapse.
Seeing that the battle had been lost, some young and strong generals of the Annam Navy Division who were not afraid of death simply ordered the warships to speed up and rush towards the Ming ships, wanting to die with the Ming army.
But they were desperate to find that the Ming army did not give them a chance to get close at all.
If the Annan warship was still not destroyed, it immediately turned to move away, and with a speed much higher than that of the Annan warship, the "suicidal" attack of the Annan warship was thrown off, and then bombarded the opponent with intensive artillery fire again until the opponent was hit into the bottom of the sea.
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On the sea, many Annan soldiers fell into the water, howling and crying, some desperately swam to the shore, and some grabbed the planks on the sea to ask the Ming army for help, but after the Ming army's warship came up, the Ming army above did not put a rope to pull them up at all, but shot them with fire guns on it.
After destroying or burning the ships of Annam, some Ming warships turned to rush back and forth on the sea, and wherever there were many Annam soldiers falling into the water, they rushed to wherever they went, and there was no action to save people at all.
During the fierce battle at sea, the 11th Town of the Taiping Army had successfully landed on the beach under the command of Lu Guangzu, the deputy governor of the expeditionary force and the general of the town.
The Annan army did not expect that the Ming army's naval division would carry so many infantry, and for the first time, it was the first time that the naval division could transport troops to land on the beach, so the defenders were very surprised, and in a hurry, the batteries on the mountain above did not have time to turn their guns.
At this moment, both Zhao Ziqiang, the governor of the expeditionary force, and Wu Yuan, the commander of the naval division, had already shifted their eyes from the direction of Haiyang Water Village in Haikou to the direction of Dongshan where the eleventh town landed.
They have made the capture of the Dongshan Fort, which was defended by Annan's army, the focus of their attack now.
Guarding the Dongshan Fort were an elite army of about 2,000 soldiers, and the same number of volunteers, all of whom lived nearby, were fishermen.
There are more than 30 cannons on the Dong Son Fort, and the guard is Zheng Hua, the ancestor of the Zheng clan, who has taken the lead in all previous battles against the southern Nguyen clan, and is brave and tenacious, so he is deeply loved by the soldiers.
In addition, the army and civilians of Annam were defending the land and defending the homeland and the country, so the fighting was extremely fierce. oshow7 t1706231537: