The naval battle at the Pearl River Estuary lasted all day and night.
In this battle, the Ming Dynasty mobilized more than 50,000 soldiers to participate in the battle, and countless people from both sides of the Pearl River came to help.
Sixty percent of the fireboats that burned British ships were provided by these common people and organized voluntarily.
After all, they have suffered enough from the domineering British for more than ten years.
No one would be unwilling to fuck a British guy this time in a serious manner.
In the end, sixteen British warships were burned, eight were sunk, and the rest were all captured.
Also captured were 3,000 navy and 10,000 army soldiers.
As well as almost 80% of the British officers headed by Navy Commander Pottinger and Army Commander Lore.
I have to say that these people have some ability to be able to sit in such high positions today.
The artillery fire continued all night last night, but it was a miracle that these people survived.
For these British guys, although the officers headed by Pu Dingcha and Luo Er all hoped to pay the ransom and redeem themselves.
But Zhu Yuanzhang did not accept this trick. With a wave of his hand, he directly dragged all these people to the mines to mine.
In Lao Zhu's words, it is to dig for ten years to see how it performs.
Those who can do it will be kept for another ten years, and those who can't will be killed directly to avoid wasting food.
Lao Zhu has always had a bad attitude towards invaders, not to mention that these are foreigners.
After doing this, Lao Zhu patted his butt and went back to rest in the early Ming Dynasty.
Speaking of which, he hadn't gone back for a while because of this battle. If he didn't go back and take a look, he wouldn't be able to interact with the girl!
As for this, let's leave it to my son to take charge of the overall situation for a while.
Anyway, there should be no more wars in Guangdong for a long time to come.
Also leaving with Zhu Yuanzhang were Deng Yu's 20,000 infantry and Chang Yuchun's navy.
However, they did not return to the early Ming Dynasty, but went north.
At the same moment when the overall situation of the Pearl River Estuary naval battle was decided last night, Zhu Yuanzhang immediately dispatched Chang Yuchun and Deng Yu to go directly north with the elite of the Ming Navy and a troop transport carrying 20,000 infantry.
This trip has no other purpose than to promote the return of the king of the Ming Empire.
Let everyone know that the once glorious Han Dynasty is back.
One day later, the fleet passed by Hong Kong Island.
However, Chang Yuchun only glanced lightly and then withdrew his gaze.
With the complete destruction of the British Navy, no fleet on the entire southeastern coast was a match for the Ming Navy.
The British on Hong Kong Island can only be said to be the turtle in the urn, the kind that can be taken down at any time.
Chang Yuchun was not anxious at all.
He led the fleet to continue northward, sailing at full speed all the way, passing through Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shandong, and entering the Bohai Sea. Two months later, he directly arrived at the Dagukou Fort in Tianjin.
"Bring out the sun and moon flag of my Ming Dynasty. Everyone will wear my Ming Dynasty battle armor and red scarves. This battle will let everyone in the world know that my Ming Dynasty...is back!" Chang Yuchun stood there The bow of the ship spoke in a deep voice.
"boom……!"
The artillery burst suddenly in the early hours of the morning.
The defenders of Dagukou Fort were caught off guard and were stunned by the fierce artillery fire without any reaction. When they realized that this was an enemy attack and wanted to occupy the fort to counterattack, Mu Ying, who also came with the army, came with His Tiger Battalion has moved straight in.
The battle was over within an hour.
The Qing army left more than 200 corpses behind and then collapsed.
Deng Yu began to land with 20,000 troops, while Chang Yuchun led the navy to patrol the entire Bohai Bay to guard against the Qing navy that might attack them.
One day later, Tianjin was captured. Qi Shan, the governor of Zhili, fled in panic at the last moment and fled back to the imperial capital in embarrassment.
"Leave a thousand men to defend the city, while the rest continue to advance, aiming for Peiping!"
Deng Yu grinned and spoke for the first time about another goal of his trip.
In Zhu Yuanzhang's original words: "Deng Yu, go to Peking and capture the Tatar Emperor for us. We will personally chop off his head."
"Your Majesty, it's not good, it's not good!"
"The Pseudo-Ming Dynasty is here!" Qi Shan fled all the way back to Peiping, entered the Forbidden City, and met Emperor Xianfeng.
As soon as they met, they started crying.
"What?" Emperor Xianfeng was eating breakfast at this moment. Hearing this, his chopsticks fell to the ground with a clatter.
"Didn't it mean that the foreigners have agreed to attack Pseudo-Ming for us?"
"I just received a memorial from Li Hongzhang. It said that the British Empire's fleet is mighty and majestic. This time it will be invincible and sweep away Guangdong."
"He also said that after the matter is completed, he will bring Zhu Hongwu's head to see me." Emperor Xianfeng murmured to himself.
"My lord!"
"Then Li Hongzhang mistook me for the Qing Dynasty!"
"I was still sleeping last night when I suddenly heard the sound of cannon fire. Before I could get up to check, the city of Tianjin was captured. If I hadn't put on Han clothes and escaped from Tianjin, I probably wouldn't have seen it. Your Majesty."
As Qi Shan spoke, he began to wipe his tears with his sleeves.
He was acting for a third of this time, but most of it was scared to tears.
The rumbling sound of cannons last night really scared his soul away.
He originally thought they were British, but when he sent someone to investigate, he found that all those attacking the city were Chinese, wearing red armor and flying the banner of the Ming Dynasty.
This nearly scared him to death.
He had been running away crazily for his life, but he still didn't feel much. Standing here at this moment, he suddenly felt the urge to cry loudly for the rest of his life.
It’s not easy to survive by yourself!
"What should I do? What should I do?" Emperor Xianfeng looked around anxiously.
"Your Majesty, don't panic, our Qing Dynasty has elite Eight Banners to defend the imperial capital. They were able to beat the shit out of that fake Ming Dynasty two hundred years ago, and they can still do it now!" Qi Shan hurriedly put forward his opinion.
"Yep!"
"Quickly, summon me, Seng Gelinqin, the greatest warrior of the Qing Dynasty, and lead him to lead the Jianrui Battalion, the Firearms Battalion, and the elite cavalry of the Eight Banners to fight against the puppet Ming army. We must drive them out of Tianjin no matter what."
At the critical moment of life and death, the decaying and old machine of the Qing Dynasty finally began to operate at high speed. Soon, 50,000 elites, commanded by Seng Gelinqin, hastily assembled and headed for the battlefield.
On the other side, Deng Yu led 19,000 elite new army troops and also marched in the direction of Peiping.
Eventually the two sides met in the Tongzhou area.
"Du Tong, there are almost 20,000 people on the other side!"
"We are carrying muskets and artillery." His scouts quickly reported.
Hearing this, Seng Gelinqin had a serious look on his face: "So what, why do we, the Eight Banners warriors, fear this?"
"Besides, it's not like we don't have firearms and artillery!"
"Keep moving forward, I want to make it clear to the hypocrites that even after two hundred years, we, the Eight Banners Warriors, are still no match for them."
"The opponent's weapons are very backward!"
"I feel like I was fighting Nurhachi in the late Ming Dynasty!"
Deng Yu stood on the hillside and used a telescope to check the opponent's position. The more he looked at the expression on his face, the more surprised he became.
In two hundred years, have all these Manchu and Qing Tatars lived like dogs?
Firearms really have not improved at all, and they still use matchlock guns.
The artillery has changed somewhat, becoming bigger and bigger, but unfortunately it is still the Hongyi cannon that can only fire solid iron bullets.
At this moment, his army is equipped with all breech-loaded rifled field guns, and they also use more powerful explosive shells.
What are they using to fight with themselves?
