You don't know who the real winner is until the last moment in any battle, after all, everything on the battlefield is always changing in an instant.

Although he seemed to be at a disadvantage, Hu Shoujin's expression was still extremely calm, even if there was an occasional boat sinking into the icy river in the middle of the shelling, he still stood there calmly, staring at the Qing gunboats that were getting closer and closer.

He was calm, but several of the soldiers around him could not be calm, and joining the army was the name of the staff officer. However, in Zhu Guoqiang's army, joining the army is not just his staff officer, from the Chinese army to the general army and generals, each has joined the army, which is almost equivalent to the staff of later generations, although his army adopted the battalion and sentry system of the Ming Dynasty, but in essence it still draws on the military system of later generations.

Xu Wenjie, Li Wenfeng, and Zhao Xingbang are all scholars, and they are all in the army in Jinan. Even my legs will tremble involuntarily.

Of course, Hu Shoujin knows all this. But he didn't say anything about it.

"Water warfare is not something that can be fought with ships and cannons."

Knowing that the three of them were in battle for the first time, Hu Shoujin continued to smile and comfort.

"Although the art of war says that water warfare is a big ship beating a small ship, and a big gun is better than a small gun, but we also have to look at it specifically, on their side, the ships are just some salt ships, and the boats are smaller than ours, so we have an advantage in this point. As for the so-called people, they are just boatmen and some landlubbers, although there are cannons on the boat, but the accuracy of the cannons is poor, they will definitely approach the jumping gang in a while, they really treat the water station as a land battle to fight, hum, they don't know whether to live or die at all. ”

Sneering, Hu Shoujin said.

"That's, that's."

Xu Wenjie grinned, barely showing a smile.

"The generals are experts in water warfare, they, they are just Dongshi."

On the one hand, it is a matter of course to pat the general's ass at this time. After all, everyone loves to hear good things.

"I can't talk about it!"

Hu Shoujin said casually.

"The prince often says that we must give full play to the advantages of equipment, we don't have real gunboats here, otherwise we won't be beaten passively, so we must try our best to use the equipment in our hands to break the enemy."

Even Hu Shoujin has not been in contact for a long time, but now, Hu Shoujin is the same as others, he is the prince of the world at every turn, and he is also the prince of the world when he shuts up.

In fact, the reason why he is like this is easy to say. Because he is not yet a henchman of the master. That's why it's important to express loyalty in this way.

As for fighting, Hu Shoujin will definitely not be beaten passively, although there are no cannons on the ship, dozens of muskets can kill and injure the enemy to the greatest extent, and even to some extent are not inferior to small and medium-sized franc machines.

And for water warfare, he has other plans. Now just wait for the opportunity to present itself, if that's right. These slaves will definitely send the opportunity to the door.

"Here, a few people, when the fight starts for a while, remember to free one hand to hold the rope on the inside of the parapet, the boat is close and shakes greatly, be careful of falling."

As they spoke, the ship was already approaching, and the officers and men on board could even see each other's faces, and they stared at each other, and although the two sides were still attacking each other with their cannons and muskets, the infantry on both decks were ready for the final engagement.

The water war, it seems, at this moment, has returned to its most primitive state.

It was at this time that suddenly, accompanied by the shelling of the big Buddha Lang machine, a fist-sized cannonball accurately hit a Ming gunboat on the waterline, opening a hole the size of a coffee table on the side of the ship.

The icy river water immediately poured in, and in an instant, the boat tilted, and the ship was about to sink when the hull was tilted, and the Ming soldiers on the boat jumped into the water one after another, and when the soldiers jumped into the river to escape, the boat began to sink......

Seeing that the boat was about to sink into the river, the Qing army's boat let out bursts of cheers. However, in response to their cheers, the lead bullets were fired, and the Qing army's ship immediately fell to the ground at the fire of the Ming army's muskets.

However, the Qing army did not sit still, they also used Franc to return fire, and the shelling of Francie, who fired shotguns, always killed and wounded the Ming troops on the deck.

With such a close distance, no one can take advantage of it.

"Quick, quick, kill ......"

Gurmahui, who was wielding a steel knife, ordered the gunners to speed up the rate of fire while letting the boat speed up, and the Qing army on the ship also continued to approach the Ming army's boat with knives and guns in hand.

Although the ships of the Ming army were large, the Qing army thought that the ships were all Baturu, and as long as they were close to the Ming army for broadside battles, they could kill the Ming troops on the deck who were not wearing armor.

Fifty steps, thirty steps......

The two sides even reached the distance between nose to nose, and the Qing army on the ship was ready for the final engagement, even in the face of the black muzzle of the Ming army, their eyes burst out with bloodthirsty gaze......

However, they were suddenly surprised to see that the Ming army actually lowered the firearms.

What do they want to do?

Do you want to surrender?

They obviously underestimated their opponents too much.

Just when they were surprised that the Ming army had put down their muskets, they saw that those Ming soldiers suddenly moved, and they had an extra ...... in their hands Is that?

What's that?

Before Gurma Hui came back to his senses, hundreds of glass bottles were desperately thrown out by the Ming officers and soldiers on the ship, and the moment those glass bottles flew in the air for thirty or forty steps and then smashed into the ship, a ball of flames rose up, and the flames splashed everywhere, igniting everything around, the ship's planks, ropes, even if those splashing fire snakes fell on the armor and weapons, they would burn a fire, and even if they fell on the water, they would also burn.

Because there were many people standing on the ship, and even many Molotov cocktails were directly smashed on the bodies of the Qing army, turning them into burning people.

In an instant, the situation on the river was fundamentally reversed - but it was just a face-to-face effort, and at the moment when the two sides were nose against nose and saw that they were about to enter the broadside battle, the Qing army's ship landed!

At least more than half of the ships were set on fire! As for the Qing troops who were originally aggressive and wanted to kill the Ming army on the ship. One by one, almost all of them became fire men. Or else they are hiding from the flames around them on the deck.

This scene in front of him made Gurma Hun completely dumbfounded, he didn't even understand what was going on, what was going on?

The form on the battlefield is ever-changing, and there is an opportunity for people to think so much, and at the moment when the flames just rose, Hu Shoujin shouted.

"Rush up and burn them all!"

The boatmen and the officers and soldiers immediately desperately rocked the oars upstream, and the Qing ships that went down the river, because they didn't react for a while, simply sent them directly in front of them, and as soon as the two sides approached, a piece of incendiary bombs was thrown over! The flames engulfed everything on the ship in an instant.

There are no more doubts!

When the first flames burned on the ships of the Qing army, everything was doomed.

Flame!

Monstrous flames!

Unlike in this era, when napalm and other grease were used to start fires, the moment these napalm incendiary flasks shattered and ignited with white phosphorus, the flying oil cubes ignited everything around them like a fire dragon, not even water could extinguish it, and even carried the flames to all corners of the ship.

But it was only an instant, and the Jiannu on the ship, who were originally bloodthirsty and murderous, fell into an unprecedented panic, and they tried to escape in the sea of fire, but the ship was so big that there was nowhere to escape, and those lucky ones who were directly hit by Molotov cocktails. Because the armor was stained with oil, they constantly tried to extinguish the flames with their hands, but their actions were not only futile and even threw the oil around, only adding to the fire further.

"Ah...... Help ......"

"Help......"

In the miserable screams, there were constantly people on fire who jumped out of the boat, trying to extinguish the fire on their bodies with the cold river water, the cold river water did extinguish the flames on the fire man, but they did not know how to water but quickly sank into the water, in fact, for them, this is also lucky.

After all, drowning is undoubtedly more comfortable than burning......