The matter of dealing with the rebel naval division was left to the Zheng family army naval division, and Li Guodong's land division had to clean up several cities. On the east bank of the Pearl River Estuary, there were also cities such as Dapeng Qianhu Instrument and Xin'an County (now Nanshan District, Shenzhen) that needed to be broken. The Huai Army was simply too easy to deal with those extremely bad Qianhu Instrument. After five thousand infantry arrived outside the Dapeng Qianhu Instrument, the defenders in the city took the initiative to open the city gate and surrender.

After taking down the Dapeng Qianhu Station, the Huai Army headed straight for Xin'an County.

When attacking the county town, the Huai Army suffered some resistance. After all, the nearby gentry fled into Xin'an City. These gentry fled into the city with their servants. It is not scary to have the Huai Army coming. The most terrifying thing is the Jinyiwei who followed behind the Huai Army. When the eunuchs arrived, they would have to fight the local tyrants and divide the land, so these gentry must resist to the end.

Just as the Huai Army headed south to clean up the nearby Qianhusuo and Xin'an County, the Zheng family navy, who rushed into the Pearl River while the tide had already launched a fierce battle with the rebel navy.

Shi Lang's Huai Army Navy did not participate in this battle, but went south to Humen to pick up Li Guodong and others. Shi Lang estimated that after he took back the Duke of Chu, the Pearl River War would end. At that time, the Huai Army Navy would be able to go upstream under the cover of the Zheng family Navy, enter Guangzhou, and launch an attack on the puppet dynasty in Guangzhou.

On the river surface of the Dongjiangkou, the sound of cannons rumbled, and the Zheng family navy launched a huge water battle with the rebel navy. Rather than saying it was a water battle, the Zheng family army was in fact madly tortured the rebel Guangdong navy.

The Zheng family navy took advantage of the astronomical tide and the fleet changed from going against the current to smooth water. Driven by the tide, the Zheng family army small fleet in front arranged a five-point plum blossom formation and rushed straight towards the rebel navy. The outer periphery of the Five-point plum blossom formation was a circle of small sampans used to protect the fire attack ship, and the middle was a fire attack ship. Behind the Five-point plum blossom formation was the Zheng family's large gunboats. However, the formations of those large gunboats were not a single-line snake formation, but also a five-point plum blossom formation. There were large warships in the middle, and the outer periphery was a fast ship ready to jump to the gang.

"The Zheng family army is really worthy of being a navy specializing in water battles. The arrangement of Jinghai Marquis's troops is indeed much stronger than that of our Huai Army Navy!" Zhang Shiwen, who stayed to inspect the Zheng family army, sighed, "Look at our navy again. What formation does it rank in every water battle? There are chaotic small boats and fast ships in front, and the big boats behind are in a straight line, which is simply out of order."

If Li Guodong was there, he would definitely not agree with Zhang Shiwen's words.

In fact, the Zheng family's water war tactics began to lag behind in this era. As the power of naval guns became increasingly powerful, the jumping gang combat mode in previous naval battles was gradually replaced by the battle line mode. The naval battle between European powers had adopted a straight line formation to facilitate warships of all sizes and big and small to exert firepower from beginning to end.

Moreover, the Western fleet has cancelled the Clippers that jumped to the gang to fight, and only retained the fire attack ships and small and medium-sized warships that protected the fire attack ships.

As early as the Battle of Gravolinne in 1588, the British defeated the Spanish invincible fleet with the joint attack of large warships, arson ships and three-masted clutches. The British tactic was that large ships were arranged with long snake formations, and lined up with columns of enemy ships, and then bombarded the enemy ships with fierce artillery fire. The British arson ships and small warships were arranged with seemingly messy formations, constantly attacking the Spanish giant ships.

During the Battle of Gravoline, the British army had a flexible and maneuverable tactics, and the Spanish were too lucky, so they suffered a crushing defeat. In the battle of the naval, more than a dozen warships were burned by the British army, and most of the warships of the Invincible Fleet after the retreat were destroyed by the storm.

The British artillery had a long range and high accuracy. Although the pirate ships used to protect the arson ships, although the ships were small, their firepower was not weak, and the ship speed was very fast. They maneuvered and flexibly attacked the large Spanish warships, and then burned the Spanish giant ships with the arson ships.

Li Guodong's Huai Army Navy actually adopted the tactics of the British, installing artillery on the boats, harassing the enemy's small boats, and then attacking the enemy's large boats with arson ships. The large boats on their sides were arranged in a column, so that the firepower of each ship can be fully utilized.

Therefore, Li Guodong's navy seems to have no formation, but it is actually a new naval battle mode. He gave up the jumping gang hand-to-hand combat and relied on artillery and fire attacks.

In contrast, the Zheng family's water battle was mainly based on hand-to-hand combat, which was the pirate's style of playing. Zheng Zhilong retained the pirate's style of playing in the navy.

Although Li Guodong's tactics are advanced, the scale of the Huai Army Navy is far from comparable to that of the Zheng family army. In the face of absolute strength, all conspiracies and tricks are all over the world. Therefore, the current strength of the Zheng family army is still crushing the Huai Army Navy.

The Zheng family army fought with the Guangdong Navy, and the Zheng family army's five-point plum blossom formation rushed straight towards the Guangdong Navy's warship fleet.

In fact, the five-point plum blossom formation needs to be arranged, and the sailors of each ship have very high requirements. On the turbulent water surface, each ship must maintain the same movements and the formation cannot be destroyed, which requires a very high level. From this point, it can be seen that the sailors of the Zheng Family Army Navy's naval artery are indeed very superb.

But to be honest, if the Huai Army Navy can reach the scale of the Zheng Family Navy, then the Zheng Family Army will definitely not be the opponent of the Huai Army Navy. Although the Zheng Family Navy's superb skills, the backward tactical thinking will definitely make the Zheng Family Navy lose to the Huai Army Navy.

Seeing the Zheng family navy coming, Xu Long was shocked when he looked at the Zheng family's formation: "Oh my God, the Five-point Plum Blossom Formation! They are arson ships in the middle!"

Although Xu Long had never fought with the Zheng family army, he knew about the Battle of the Liaoluo Bay. At the beginning, the Dutch attacked the enemy in the Liaoluo Bay army, and burned almost all of Zheng Zhilong's large warships with a fireboat. But the Zheng family army's counterattack was very sharp. The Zheng family army burned the Dutch ships with the five-point plum blossom formation and repelled the Dutch fleet.

The Zheng family army rushed towards the Guangdong Navy. The center of the five-point plum blossom formation in front was arson ship, and the center of the five-point plum blossom formation behind was the main warship. Xu Long knew the mystery of the five-point plum blossom formation, which could protect the arson ship and large warships. Any enemy navy trying to attack the arson ship and large warships must first pass the level of the small boats and the fast ships outside the Zheng family army. This formation was extremely sharp in naval battles. However, Xu Long could not line up such a formation, and he could not guarantee that the warships under his command could do this.

However, Xu Long was a famous navy general after all, and soon came up with a countermeasure. In the original time and space, after Xu Long later defected to the Qing Dynasty, he had repelled Zheng Chenggong, who went to Guangdong to harass him many times. His level of commanding naval battles was not bad.

"Use small boats to block enemy fireboats, use medium-sized warships to cover small boats, and deal with enemy boats!" Xu Long issued a series of orders, asking his personal soldiers to send orders with flag-language signals.

Seeing the Guangdong Navy warship coming towards us, Zheng Zhilong knew Xu Long’s intention, and he laughed: “Xu Long thought he could break my five-point plum blossom formation, so let them see how powerful our Zheng family navy is!”

The two five-point plum blossom formations in front and back of the Zheng family army, the front ones shrink and the back ones expand. In a short while, the two five-point plum blossom formations merged into a large circular formation. The outer edges are small sampans, clutches and small boats of jumping gangs. The middle of the large circular formation contains a five-point plum blossom formation, the five petals are a fireboat, and the core in the middle is a large gunboat.

The rapid changes in the naval battle formation made Zhang Shiwen stunned, and he admired the naval battle skills of the Zheng Family Army Navy even more.

The warships of both sides were getting closer. When the Guangdong Navy's small sampan attempted to come up and destroy the Zheng family's fireboat, the small sampans, the small sampans outside the Zheng family's army, the fast ships and the small sampans desperately blocked the rebel's small sampans and prevented them from entering the inside of their own formation. At the same time, the five-point plum blossom formation surrounded the large sampans of the Guangdong Navy's large sampan.
Chapter completed!