The rumbling of cannons, the constant fire of enemy artillery falling on the surface of the river, stirring up columns of water, and the occasional concentration of shells on the boats could easily smash these improvised boats, killing and injuring the soldiers, and causing the surviving soldiers to fall overboard.

But even this did not stop the ships from forcibly crossing the river.

With the support of nearly 40 guns from the rear experimental artillery regiment and the forward-loading rifled artillery battalion, the soldiers of the 3rd Brigade under the command of the 2nd Division forced their way across the river in small boats.

Hundreds of small boats spread out on the river, and then rowed towards the opposite side, and the whole scene was like a charge of thousands of horses, so that others were shocked to see it.

Lin Ziran was closely watching the movements of the troops crossing the river in the rear!

In his line of sight, these ships crossed the river quickly, and soon the ships arrived at the opposite river, and at this time, the infantry of the opposing side also began to intercept and shell with muskets and small-caliber artillery.

Although their artillery support was very fierce, the enemy's defending troops were also given the order to hold on, trying to block the Luo'an army's river-crossing troops on the beachhead.

But all in vain!

Even in the process of crossing the river, the soldiers of the 3rd Brigade suffered relatively large casualties, but they still stubbornly crossed the Qiu River, as soon as the boat arrived on the opposite bank, the soldiers jumped off the boat directly and rushed forward, and established a fire point on the beach, suppressed the opponent with rifle fire in their hands, and then covered more soldiers in the rear to start crossing the river.

At about 11 o'clock in the afternoon, the 3rd Brigade landed in its entirety, occupied a stretch of about 1,000 meters of river beach, and deployed a solid defensive line.

Seeing this scene, Lin Ziran finally put his mind at ease.

Naturally, the risk of forcibly crossing the river this time is not small, and if a brigade of troops is directly sent to forcibly cross the river, it is impossible to successfully cross the river without the support of rifled artillery with a very long range, and it is impossible to stabilize the front after crossing the river.

Now, although the losses in the process of crossing the river are larger, the tactical goal is still successfully achieved, and the beachhead is seized, so that the follow-up troops can continue to cross the river, and at the same time, the engineer troops can continue to build pontoon bridges.

Once the pontoon bridge was erected, a large number of artillery, baggage, horses, and many more soldiers were able to cross the river quickly.

Lin Ziran can see this situation, and Shao Bing on the opposite side can also see it.

"Damn, order the troops to launch a counteroffensive, concentrate all the artillery and shell the beachhead, and drive them down the river again!"

"Also, on the side of the fleet, no matter what problems and difficulties I have, I must immediately rush over and shell the enemy positions and pontoon bridges!"

Shao Bing is worried now!

After losing the cover of the fleet, in the face of the enemy's fierce artillery fire across the river, it was difficult for the front-line troops to directly deploy on the beachhead, so they could only choose to retreat, and then the other side's river-crossing troops boarded the beachhead.

If this continues, the entire line of defense will collapse.

Therefore, the fleet must immediately strike again, break through the enemy's artillery interception, and directly attack and shell the enemy's pontoon bridges and beachheads.

In the face of Shao Bing's order, although the Luo Hai fleet had just suffered a small loss, directly losing three warships and many warships were injured, it was still more than a dozen warships organized again to attack again.

In fact, they could have organized more warships, but the Luo'an fleet in the upper reaches of the Luo River has always been eyeing it.

Although the tonnage of the warships in the Luoan fleet is relatively small, generally only a few hundred tons, there are also many of them, and there are as many as twenty or thirty warships.

Therefore, the Luohai fleet had to leave a considerable number of main warships to block the Luo River, otherwise the Luo An fleet would kill it in minutes, and then break into the Qiu River.

When the Luo Hai Fleet falls, it will have to face being flanked from the front and back.

The warships of the 2nd Baltic Fleet soon again went against the current.

But the next situation once again made Shao Bing feel helpless!

The enemy's rear-loading artillery began to shell from a distance by virtue of the advantage of range, so that as soon as its own warships entered a range of about 4,000 meters, they were subjected to heavy shelling.

The Luohai fleet had no choice, so it continued to go up the river with artillery bombardment, and many ships were heavily damaged on the way.

When they got a little closer, many of the front-loading smoothbore heavy guns of the Luo An Army also opened fire one after another, and the caliber of these heavy guns was not much worse than the guns on these river warships.

Although the warships of the Luohai Fleet were also able to use naval guns to fight back at these smoothbore heavy guns of Luo'an County deployed on the riverside, the battleships and land artillery fought against each other, and it was naturally the battleships that suffered.

As a result, the warships of the Luohai fleet were shot one after another, and even they shelled the smoothbore heavy artillery units in Luo'an County, bringing some casualties.

But it still can't change the huge disadvantage!

As one battleship after another was hit and exploded, some were ignited on fire, and some were even martyred, such a tragic situation made many captains of the Luo Hai fleet shake.

Fighting a war is a war, but it's not good to fight so badly, after all, everyone is from Daheng, they are all from Nanzhou, and there is no need to fight so ruthlessly in terms of fighting a strong territory.

If you want to fight, you can fight, Lao Tzu won't do it!

As a result, some of the warships that were seriously damaged simply abandoned the ships again, and some simply hung up the white flag and surrendered.

This scene made Shao Bing angry half to death and scolded the navy traitor.

However, this is no longer possible to change the fact that the Luo Hai Navy was unable to break through the blockade line under heavy artillery fire and then support the army in combat.

At around 12 o'clock in the afternoon, the second wave of the Luo Hai Navy's fleet retreated again, and unlike the last time, this time many wounded warships directly chose to fly the white flag on the spot and surrender.

If you don't surrender, you can't do it, if you don't surrender, other people's artillery will always be hitting them!

In response to this, Shao Bing directly dismissed several senior naval officers from their posts, and once again forcibly dispatched large-tonnage warships to the navy.

However, at this time, the senior generals of the Luo Hai Navy were shaken.

Because at this time, the fourth brigade in the Luo'an garrison army had also successfully crossed the river, and after tens of thousands of troops successfully crossed the river, they directly launched a fierce attack on the more than 20,000 garrison troops led by Shao Bing.

What swayed the senior generals of the Luo Hai Navy was not that the other party forcibly crossed the river with more than 10,000 people, but that the more than 20,000 troops led by Shao Bing personally were defeated and retreated.

Not only could they not stop it on the beachhead, but they retreated to the second line of defense and even the third line of defense, and still could not hold it.

At this time, in fact, the artillery in the experimental artillery regiment was no longer able to effectively support the operations of the second division.

The 2nd Division itself also had no artillery, and could only rely on some light mortar and rifle fire.

But even so, the more than 20,000 people led by Shao Bing couldn't stop it!

The opposing infantry attacked too quickly, and the way of fighting was very strange, fighting and fighting, often without seeing much of the enemy, but the enemy had already detoured to their flank.

At this time, if you don't retreat, you will be surrounded.

However, in the continuous retreat, they also lost all the artillery.

By three o'clock in the afternoon, Shao Bing's more than 20,000 people had basically collapsed.

This is why the senior generals of the Luo Hai Navy wavered and ignored Shao Bing's order to forcibly reinforce him.

Because Shao Bing is about to finish!

And no one wants to finish up with Shao Bing!

On the Ningchang, the flagship of the Luo Hai fleet, Ge Deqiu, the lieutenant secretary of the Luo Hai Navy, pondered for a long time, and then said to a large number of admirals on the bridge: "Now this situation is hopeless, the more than 20,000 main forces in the county have all collapsed, and it is impossible to stop Lin Ziran from entering the county town!" ”

"In the current situation, as soldiers of the Daheng Navy, we have the responsibility to preserve the family of our Daheng Navy, and we cannot let these precious ironclad ships, which have been carried at great cost, be lost in this senseless civil war."

A young secretary on the side also said: "That is, the warships of our Daheng Navy are used to fight in foreign races, especially those Orissa barbarians, to fight for the power of the endless sea, what is the matter of running to the inland river to fight their own people!" ”

"Alas, since the Hengao War, my Daheng Navy has been torn apart, and its strength is not as good as a year, if there are a few more infighting, when will it be able to fight back to the Endless Sea!"

Ge Chengbin saw that most of the people also had the same idea as him, and immediately said: "Since this is the case, immediately send someone to talk to them!" ”

Under the leadership of Zhongqing Ge Deqiu, the Luo Hai Navy took the initiative to convey the signal of the truce to Lin Ziran, and Lin Ziran naturally would not slack off after learning about this.

We sent people directly to the meeting.

"Hong Xiao, you personally go to talk to Ge Chengbin and see their specific conditions!"

With such a large fleet, it would naturally be a good thing if it could be accepted peacefully, but it also had to look at the specific conditions of the other party.

Duan Hongxiao Zhongqing immediately said: "Obey the order, let's go!" ”

Duan Hongxiao has also been very high-spirited recently, he used to be just a small naval doctor, but since he took refuge in Lin Zi, he first became the commander of the Sixth Artillery Fleet and was awarded the title of Navy Major.

Later, after Lin Ziran took the county seat and unified Luo'an County, the Sixth Artillery Fleet and other warships were reorganized and the Luo'an Fleet was re-established.

Duan Hongxiao soon went to find Ge Chengbin and came back with the corresponding conditions.

To Lin Ziran's surprise, Ge Chengbin's conditions were a bit special, and they did not say that they forcibly required all senior admirals to retain their posts, but asked the grassroots officers and soldiers of each ship to retain them.

At the same time, I hope that Lin Ziran will give them a month's salary.

These unlucky eggs were also owed wages by Shao Bing before.

In other words, Lin Ziran found that many feudal towns like to owe salaries to the troops, especially to the navy!

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