There are 8,3179 warships modified from 8,300,03 warships participating in the war. Why are there only so many? Because most of the others are small wooden boats. They have weak navigation capabilities and no deterrence.

Even so, the two thousand warships on the officers and soldiers were chasing Li Zicheng's hundreds of warships and fighting around Dongting Lake.

Almost as soon as they met, the officers and soldiers' ships immediately divided and surrounded Li Zicheng. The Red Barbarian cannons bombed several cannons, but although they did not hit the target, they made the enemy's waters lose their souls.

The warships seized by Li Zicheng also had cannons on them, but they were far inferior to those of officers and soldiers. Their ships were equipped with the Flang machine cannons. Moreover, the slackness of the military equipment made the shells very short of shells.

It turned out that many navy soldiers had no food or salary. They were forced to take out iron balls of shells and sell them. Not only were they scarce shells, but the gunpowder used to fire iron balls was also very short of.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty had been developing firearms, and even spared no effort to develop firearms. However, by the end of the Ming Dynasty, the people were in poverty and the court was powerless. Even so, Emperor Chongzhen still sent people to learn the overseas artillery casting technology.

In the second year of Jiajing, the Ming navy and Portuguese warships broke out in Xicao Bay, Xinhui, Jiangmen, Guangdong. The Ming army finally captured 42 people including Bedulu, Shu Shili, beheaded 35 people, and seized 2 warships, known in history as the "War of Xicaowan". The scale of this naval battle was not large, and the Ming army gained a lot. On the captured Portuguese warship, the "Catching the cannon is called the Folang aircraft", thus opening the prelude to the Ming Dynasty's great leap forward in firepower.

In comparison, the Qing Dynasty, which was closed to the country, the Qianlong of the so-called Kangxi and Qianlong eras.

The British visited China in 1793. It was the time of Qianlong's birthday. The British delegation took this opportunity to come to Beijing, hoping to reach some cooperative relations with the Chinese. Macartney, the representative of the delegation, also came to Beijing with sincerity in order to reach friendly negotiations, and sent nearly 600 boxes of gifts to Qianlong for his birthday.

Among the gifts brought by the British this time, the most important and sincere one is the firearms brought by the British from Europe, and hope to show the beauty of the firearms to the Chinese.

Qianlong actually sealed these firearms, let alone studied them. When the British and French coalition forces entered the Old Summer Palace, they found that a curfew was filled with advanced firearms and muskets, which were almost moldy. They were all foreign tributes before and after Qianlong, which was much better than the weapons of the coalition forces. If the Qing Dynasty did not perish, who would perish? However, the Qing Dynasty controlled our China for more than 200 years and destroyed our civilization.

No wonder the British mission later said: "Since the conquest of the Manchurian Tatars, China has not improved, let alone advanced, and has retreated, to be precise. When we move forward every day in the fields of art and science, they are actually becoming semi-barbarians."

In the 45th year of Qianlong's reign, the American Academy of Sciences was established in Boston; Qianlong rejected the minister's request for the development of artillery. The reason was: "The evil artillery is contrary to the ancestral system."

In the fiftieth year of Qianlong's reign, Britain was improving the steam engine, and Qianlong was organizing a banquet for Qianshou;

In the 54th year of Qianlong's reign, a bourgeois revolution broke out in France and the Declaration of Human Rights was published, but Qianlong turned pale in his worries about establishing a crown prince.

No wonder Teacher Yi scolded Qianlong as a bastard emperor, Zhu Cilang deeply agreed with this. He had never had any good feelings for the Qing Dynasty, and Huang Taiji's style was extremely backward.

The reason why the Ming Dynasty suffered a loss in their hands was not that Huang Taiji was able to fight was entirely because the Ming Dynasty was already an old man at this time. Not to mention anything else, now you can ask Huang Taiji to attack Liaodong again.

The red cannons on the Jinzhou city walls promised to make Huang Taiji go back crying.

In fact, Huang Taiji tried it. Just as Zhu Cilang attacked Huguang, Huang Taiji took advantage of the internal troubles of the Ming Dynasty to send troops to Liaodong.

However, Huang Taiji was trying to test this time, but before he could touch the bricks and stones of the Jinzhou city wall, he was beaten up by Hong Chengchou's red cannons. Not only did he shock Huang Taiji's car, the Qing cavalry fled in a panic.

Because they discovered that at this time, there were more and more Ming army artillery on the Jinzhou city walls. Moreover, there were several flowering bullets mixed in. Once they fell into the position and exploded, it would be a life-threatening person.

Huang Taiji, who had panicked before he could get out of the army, had to flee back to Shengjing again, hiding in the quilt and trembling.

The water war was particularly fierce, with the artillery of the officers and soldiers slamming the few warships of Li Zicheng. Then, countless ships from all directions were killed and the sound of killing sounds shook the sky. The navy admiral Du Zhongren personally stood on the main ship and commanded the flag to fight. The arrows beside him were like locusts, but he did not move at all.

The morale of the officers and soldiers was greatly encouraged, and they heard the sound and launched a crazy attack on the bandits.

Li Zicheng was defeated again. His 500,000 army was not severely damaged by Zhu Cixuan's battle, but was eaten away little by little.

Just like at the beginning, Li Zicheng had a million soldiers. As a result, he was eroded by Zhu Cilang all the way, and gradually only 500,000 remaining soldiers were left.

One has increased and the other has declined, and instead, Zhu Cixuan's army has continued to grow. The 12th Regiment Battalion has grown from the initial 100,000 people to the current 300,000.

With the navy convened by Du Zhongren, Zhu Cixuan's army of nearly 400,000 people under his command. With the local troops in various places, the number of Ming troops was far greater than that of the bandits.

This kind of battle cannot be fought, Li Zicheng also knew that the Dongting Lake Navy was just his desperate struggle before his death, and the final defeat was himself.

Originally, Li Zicheng, who had the navy, thought that this was his chance to make a comeback. Zhu Cixuan also believed that if the water battle could not defeat Li Zicheng, it would be possible that this guy would make a comeback.

Unexpectedly, Du Zhongren formed a powerful navy in just over two months.

Power comes from appearance. In fact, Du Zhongren's navy and bandits are equally matched. They are unorganized and disciplined, without tactical cooperation, without concept of offense and defense coordination.

After all, in just two months of its establishment, the navy soldiers were all from all walks of life. If you want to follow orders, you can only go through rigorous training.

But when it was established in a hurry, there was no kung fu training. The advantage was that Li Zicheng's navy was also rookies. No one on both sides should say anything. At this time, the advantage of the number of people was the hope of winning.

Du Zhongren is very clear about this, so when he was recruiting troops, he would not only hurt the weak, the sick and the disabled, but also not whether you are fishing or ferrying, or whether you are farming or growing vegetables. As long as you are willing, we will collect it.

Years of disasters and the rampant bandits, the hungry people still care about so many things. It is dangerous to be a soldier, but there is food to be a soldier. As a result, Du Zhongren's navy responded.

The battle in Dongting Lake was only less than half a day. The treacherous naval forces were wiped out, and no one survived except the prisoners. The navy formed by Li Zicheng temporarily disappeared before he could warm up.
Chapter completed!