"What did you say? The navy is finished?"

"Return... back to the prince, our navy was defeated..."

"Do you dare to disrupt our morale?"

Yuan Qi pulled out his sword and put the other person's neck with an angry look on his face. He couldn't believe his ears. The navy in Qiantang was finished. How could this be possible? His navy had more than 00 ships and more than 5,000 people. Hangzhou was about to be defeated. How could it be finished in a blink of an eye?

"I dare not lie about military information. Our navy was indeed defeated. Qinggou's navy went up along the river while our navy was unprepared. Our navy suddenly appeared. Our navy was defeated by a fire plan, and the remaining boats and ships had fled in all directions..."

The messenger explained urgently. After listening to the explanation, Yuan Qi realized that the Rebel Navy, which had been a blockade force since the war started, had never expected to encounter a battle directly. After all, the water gates in Hangzhou have been completely closed, and Hangzhou City has no power to compete with the Rebel Navy. Qiantang Navy has no opponent in the Hangzhou area.

But no one expected that just an hour ago, several boats came up from the river. It was normal for ordinary boats in Qiantang to appear. Generally, these boats were fishing boats for fishermen on both sides of the strait. Whenever they encountered such a boat, the navy basically directly detained the boat. This time, when they saw the boat they bumped into, the navy commander issued an order to get the boat closer to the detaining boat.

But the navy commander never expected that the ordinary procedures on weekdays were different today. He had no idea that these boats that appeared were fire ships sent by the Admiral of Jiangnan. After Zhang Yunyi had completed the deployment of troops, he led his army south. The part was water and land routes. The water route was accompanied by the deputy general commander and the Yangtze River Navy entered Qiantang through Hangzhou Bay, while the other route was directly commanded by Zhang Yunyi to reinforce Hangzhou.

The Qing Dynasty's navy was not comparable to the rebels who gathered together. Although the Qing Dynasty did not value the ocean and was also an promoter of the modern country-locking policy, the Qing Dynasty's navy, especially the Yangtze River navy, was quite combat-ready. You should know that Taiwan's Zheng Ming was exterminated, and the navy's tradition of fighting was still there.

Zhang Yunyi was very keen on the battle situation. Old Yu was planning and he also gave Yuan Qi a meeting gift. His main attack was not the land reinforcement that Yuan Qi imagined, but instead started with the navy first. He directly destroyed the navy of the rebel army and completely cut off the possibility of the rebel army fleeing south. Then Zhang Yunyi's main reinforcement did not appear in the north, but ran around in circles to the northwest direction, and the attacks from the front and back drew an encirclement for Yuan Qi.

The careless Rebel Navy was hit by the fire attack plan of the Jiangnan Navy. When the fire ships filled with gunpowder, sulfur and other objects burned and rushed to the anchorage of the Rebel Navy in an unstoppable manner, the Rebel Navy had no time to react. Immediately, several ships collided, and a raging fire burned directly on the river surface. The wind instantly swept across the entire Rebel Navy anchorage. Except for dozens of far-off boats to escape, more than 80% of the Rebel Navy were covered by fire.

What's even worse is that even the commander of the Rebel Navy failed to escape and was buried in the fish's belly in the first wave of fire. Immediately afterwards, the main force of the Jiangnan Navy appeared, and the overwhelming warships almost covered the entire river surface, sweeping across Qiantang.

"ah……!"

Yuan Qi shouted, heartache as if a knife was stirred up. Zhang Yunyi's navy appeared was something he had never expected, and even more unexpected was that his navy was burned to pieces before the formal battle was formally fought. At this time, Yuan Qi completely felt the pain of Cao Cao in the Red Cliff back then, but he had not really lost compared to Cao Cao.

"The situation is still saved, just take down Hangzhou City..." In a flash, Yuan Qi came to his senses and raised his sword. The messenger was in shock and was chopped off his head by Yuan Qi with a sword.

"Rumors confuse the public and disrupt our morale!" He spat and deducted the unlucky messenger accused of this unlucky messenger. Yuan Qi then uttered a loud order: "The whole army gathers to attack the city!"

Yuan Qi was betting that he bet on time that as long as he took down Hangzhou City before the officers and soldiers landed, he would have a chance to make a comeback even if he lost the navy. Unfortunately, although Yuan Qi thought well, the fire on the riverside of the navy had attracted various rebels. The appearance of the Qing army's Yangtze River Navy even caused panic in the riverside rebels, especially the more than 20,000 rebels close to there were suddenly chaos.

Originally, Hangzhou could not capture the troops for a long time, and the leaders of various divisions had plans to withdraw their troops. Yesterday, Yuan Qi insisted on attacking again, so everyone did not work hard to show off. Now that the destruction of the rebel naval army and the vast Yangtze River naval army appeared, the leaders of the rebel army immediately reacted that the reinforcements from the Qingting arrived.

Hangzhou could not be defeated, the navy was gone, and the opponent's reinforcements arrived again. Isn't it just waiting to die if you stay here? The rebels who lost their way to retreat to the south suddenly panicked. Under the leadership of their leaders, they could not even take care of the attack on the city. They immediately took their subordinates to seize the road.

The rebel army with more than 20,000 people had no organization at all, and rushed towards the west, and the west was where Yuan Qi's central army was located. Yuan Qi had no time to react and was rushed to the middle army by these rebels who ran away.

On the battlefield, if the elite troops are rushing by their own troops, the troops will also lose command. Now that's it, Yuan Qi was about to gather troops to make a last fight, the 20,000 rebels rushed over suddenly disrupted their command, and the entire camp was in chaos. As panic spread like shouting that the dog was coming, before Yuan Qi could make any other reaction, his troops also began to be in chaos.

At the same time, the sky-storming fire on the river attracted the attention of the city. When the Yangtze River Navy appeared, the city made the city cheer. The strong morale defenders saw that the reinforcements had finally arrived and burst out with unprecedented courage. The rebels on the city saw the scene, their morale plummeted, and looked around and hurriedly looked for a way out.

As soon as he advanced and retreated, the rebel army that had the upper hand just now was beaten back. Even Wang Yousan turned around and got out of the city when he saw that the situation was not good.

The instant changes in the battle situation made Yuan Qi stunned. When he realized that he had lost his entire advantage, his team not only retreated step by step, but even the camp showed signs of collapse.

"Waste...a group of waste...I...I want..."

Waving the sword, Yuan Qi stamped his feet and scolded him loudly. It was really God who would not bless him! Just give himself another hour...even if it was half an hour, this Hangzhou City would be his own, but now everything has become a bubble...

"Prince... retreat! Retreat quickly... It will be too late if you don't leave!"

Seeing that the situation was not good, several close friends hurriedly pulled Yuan Qi and turned around and ran away. Yuan Qi was helped on his horse and stumbled and followed the unrest army to the northwest for more than ten miles and then came to his senses and asked quickly: "Where is Your Highness, the Super League, the Super League, the Super League, the Super League, the Super League, the Super League?"

"I don't know, Prince, who can care about His Highness the Superintendent at this time? Let's go out and talk about it." As the old brother's confidant, they smiled bitterly, and there were chaos around them.

"No, hurry up and take the governor down!" Yuan Qi was still very sober. He knew that Zhu Yicheng was his biggest bargaining chip. Once Zhu Yicheng was gone, his loyal and brave Marshal would be gone. He quickly sent a few people to look for Zhu Yicheng and told them to take Zhu Yicheng to the north after finding him, because Gao Jin's troops were there. Then Yuan Qi tried to gather the troops around him. Before he could finish collecting, the northwest direction began to chaos. When he found a large number of regular Qing troops in the northwest, Yuan Qi was shocked and rushed to the north with more than a thousand people.
Chapter completed!