The end of March.

The last north wind is still affecting the South China Sea.

The Qing army navy finally arrived.

They had to come. In a few days it was time for the south wind to rise. It would be very difficult for their lucky ship and sand ship to move south smoothly.

The first batch of Qing army naval ships were all their largest blessed ships, with about fifty ships. They sailed into Daya Bay in eastern Hong Kong under the leadership of Chaozhou Navy's guerrilla warfare of tens of thousands!

The so-called largest blessed ship is only thirty meters long, but because it is tall and wide, it looks bigger than the Saiyin number of the Truqins. In fact, their length is about the same.

Fifty ships came at once, and the Qing Dynasty obviously took out all its assets.

Timur also thinks so.

After this period of understanding, he has probably obtained the scale of the Qing army naval division.

All its main forces are in Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong. The remaining areas are very small in scale. There are also lucky ships on the Yangtze River, but the number is not large. Together, there are only a hundred ships. This is the information provided to him by the Portuguese.

There are many large and small sand boats running along the coast, with nearly a thousand belonging to the Qing army naval division.

However, even though they knew that they were not strong at sea, why did they drive half of their lucky ship to Daya Bay?

Are you not afraid of being surrounded and annihilated by the Truchens?

However, for the Truechin Navy at this time, although it has the advantage of maneuvering and firepower that is proud of the world, it still cannot figure out the entire layout of enemy ships in terms of reconnaissance and communication.

Where and when will the remaining sea ships appear, they will not know more than the Westerners at this time.

Even if they can arrange spies in key ports in Zhejiang and Fujian in advance, they will not be faster than the Qing army if they want to pass the news back in time from those places.

As soon as he received this news, Timur's expression became solemn.

He immediately found Deng Quan.

"Your Highness, don't think about it. These fifty lucky ships must be bait, which attracts us to all of them to encircle and annihilate them. When we fight with these ships, the ships that are ambushing in secret will definitely be dispatched. There is their main force."

Timur shook his head, "They dragged it for half a year before they were dispatched. It is definitely more than that. When our warships enter Daya Bay, the subsequent ships will definitely come out and attack our army in front and behind."

Deng Quan seemed to have thought of something.

"Then they blocked the exit of Daya Bay with a large number of sand ships?"

"It's probably true, but in this way, their strength at sea will be almost completely lost, and the entire sea border will be completely exposed to the enemy. Is it appropriate for them to do this?"

"Your Highness, time is tight, so we must make up our minds first!"

"Well, we now have three complete squadrons, one iron-clad fleet, two wooden fleets, three Bogdas and twelve Batulus. In addition, among the two newly arrived wooden fleets, Tengis, in addition to the two turrets on the first deck, there are also six artillery on the middle deck, which can also be pulled out to fight"

"In this way, since this is not the main battlefield, leave three Tengis and one Saiyin number"

"No!" Deng Quan replied firmly, "The enemy navy arrived, and now its army was all gathered on the Shenzhen River. If they came overwhelmed, the Bogda of Victoria Harbor must use its tall hull to echo the offense and defense of Kowloon City on the sea."

Timur knew that he wanted to use the Bogda to protect himself, and deliberately said that it was echoing the Kowloon City. After thinking about it, he said, "Well, let's leave a wooden Bogda, two Tengis, and one Saiyin to send messages back and forth"

Deng Quan nodded, then saluted Timur and left.

He boarded a wooden Bogda, and set off with another wooden Bogda, twelve wooden Batulus, six wooden Tengis, two wooden Saiyin, a total of twenty-one warships.

And Timur left a Bogda, two Tengis, and one Saiyin.

Except for the shells of these modified warships, the firepower settings are exactly the same as those of the Iron Shell Warship.

Strangely, I didn't see that ironclad fleet in Victoria Harbor today. It seems that it is hidden somewhere to deal with the enemy in the dark.

Daya Bay is not far from the east side of Hong Kong Island. The fleet soon arrived here. Not far away, a wooden Saiyin number rushed over after seeing it.

"General"

After approaching Bogda, the captain of the Saiyin stood at the side of the ship and said loudly.

"There are 50 enemy ships in total, all of which are blessed ships, including twenty large blessed ships and thirty medium blessed ships. They are all the main battleships of the Qing army, and they have all sailed into Daya Bay!"

"Very good, have you seen their other ship?"

"No, the Ministry of Justice did not dare to stay away after seeing this large number of ships, so it did not find more ships. However, they could allow so many fleets that they regarded as the main ships into Daya Bay, which must be bait. Subsequent ships will appear at any time"

Deng Quan nodded, "Since we are here, you can patrol farther away now. Come back and report immediately when you find the enemy situation!"

“Yes!”

Deng Quan called another person over.

"Aziz, you bring one Bogda and four Batulus, go in and test their weight first!"

Aziz, an Azerbaijani, is a member of the Azerbaijani who is graduating from a first-level school and finally graduated from the Navy of Lagan Port. He is twenty-five years old this year. The family of Azerbaijani fishermen is one of the commanders of the two squadrons who came to assist.

“Yes!”

Aziz left after giving a military salute.

When he led his fleet into Daya Bay, another Saiyin ship came towards him.

"Commander, all the enemy ships sailed to the waters north of Daya Bay!"

"Oh?" Aziz couldn't help but smile and thought to himself: "I'm really willing to spend money. Do you really want to attract our army to the depths of the bay and make plans?"

The Daya Bay here refers to the sea area between the Dapeng Peninsula and the Kwai Chung Peninsula in later generations. It is about 60 miles long from north to south and about 40 miles wide from east to west. There are many islands inside. However, the Truqins have been here for half a year, and they have obviously made the geographical survey of nearby waters clear. The Qing army navy obviously thought too much about using complex islands and reefs to deal with the enemy.

Aziz suddenly thought of something again.

"North wind is still the main place here. They first drove the ships into the northern coastline. Is it so that they can take advantage of the north wind to go down at the beginning of the war?"

Then he asked, "Look clearly where their bow is facing?"

"Facing south, and their ships have obviously been modified, with large oars set up in the middle level, so they can turn around quickly. The sails have been lowered and are quietly mooring there"

"Oh?"

This was something Aziz didn't expect. He thought of it because the Qing navy was sailing, and the largest blessed ship had only two masts. They must have had fast cruisers patrolling the bay in the middle of the bay. When they learned that an enemy had arrived, they could quickly paddle to report the news.

Then it is very fast to raise the sail.

But he still can't figure out why the enemy did this.

The fleet continued to sail north. When he reached the middle of the bay, he asked him to connect the spare steam engines of all ships to the transmission shaft, and the roar suddenly became louder than before.

....

On the north of the bay, on the largest lucky ship, a thin and small Qing army general in armor immediately issued an order when he saw the fast-moving speedboat in front of him.

"Rise the sail! Open the cannon window!"

At this moment, a strange smile appeared on his face.

The Chaozhou Navy Guerrilla Generals, the Qing Dynasty Navy's most powerful naval division at this time were Guangdong, Fujian and Zhejiang, among which the strongest combat power was the Guangdong Navy, because there were the most pirates in the South China Sea at this time, so naturally a large number of excellent naval generals were trained.

The commander of the Qing army obviously understood this point. Although he was only a guerrilla general, he was asked to command fifty blessing ships. The Chaozhou Navy did not have many blessing ships, and there were obviously a large number of blessing ships from Fujian, Zhejiang, and even other places.

His strange smile was obviously not because of Shengfan, but because of the "opening the cannon window"!

In the impression of the Truqins, even if the Qing naval warships were lucky ships, their thickness was far less than that of European warships, and they did not go straight to the deck. The so-called middle and upper layers were actually ship towers, which were even thin and big stuffed.

But according to the order he just issued, they obviously installed artillery in the middle-floor ship building!

And there are paddle positions set up in the lower cabin!

It seems that the Qing army has not done anything except gathering military strength in the past six months. However, in the past six months, they cannot build so many new warships, they can only modify them, and with their ability, they cannot complete the installation of a complete set of artillery on the straight deck like on European warships, including a complete set of devices that can absorb rear-square forces on the straight deck.

So, two problems were exposed.

First, there must be Europeans who taught and guided it;

Second, in the past six months, they also made or bought artillery suitable for lucky ships from Europeans!

Otherwise, it would be impossible for the Qing army's lucky ship to install large cannons.

Neither Timur, Deng Quan, nor Aziz knew anything about this!

It seems that the people from the Intelligence Agency have been negligent.

However, they still underestimated the Truchens' abilities.

When the Saiyin returned to report to Aziz, he returned!

In addition to the shells, there is another difference between the wooden fleet and the ironclad fleet, that is, there is no corner collision. Therefore, when the Saiyin encountered the Qing army's clutch that was the same as him in front, it did not increase its horsepower and rushed over to hit the scene, but sat down to watch him go away.

At this time, all the lucky boats in front opened the cannon windows of the middle-floor ship building!

This information was unknown to the Saiyin ship, so it quickly turned and ran south.

Aziz also fell into deep thought after learning about it.

"Ball window? Did the Qing army build a new ship in the past six months? Impossible! Then it can only be modified, and heavy cannons cannot be placed on such ships, because the ship structure does not allow it, so it can only be short-barrel artillery"

At this time, he had already seen the Qing army warship in the telescope. There was no gun window on the bow of the ship, but the sailors on the deck did not have more Guangdong naval warships that they encountered when they first arrived here. Obviously, they learned the lessons of the last naval battle.

Aziz was not worried about the power of the enemy's artillery at this time, but about the impact of the opponent's short-barrel artillery on his ship exposed to the chimney. Once both chimneys are broken, his warship will become a living target.

When I looked again, I saw that the enemy obviously did not come completely for the purpose of being bait. The distance between their ships was also within the normal range. In other words, in addition to being bait, they also had to use their unexpected cannons to test their firepower output!
Chapter completed!