The sergeant, dressed in heavy full-body armor, searched, then took two steps, crouched down to look, and opened the mask of a corpse, which was his comrade-in-arms and fellow countryman.

This fellow villager who joined the army at the same time as him, a comrade-in-arms who had fought side by side for more than two years, had fallen in a pool of blood at this time, completely silent, although he was also wearing a well-protected full-body armor, but this full-body armor also has weaknesses, and the blade can be inserted from various connecting gaps, such as neck, mask and other places.

In the previous battle, the sergeant saw that an enemy directly inserted a knife through the armor junction at the position of his neck, and at that time the battle was urgent, and he did not have time to rescue and check the situation, but now it seems that he is too late.

Sighing, he didn't speak, he had experienced this kind of thing many times in the past two years, in the Battle of Nanao Island, the Battle of Wusonggang, and the Battle of Encirclement and Suppression, although the number of casualties was not large, but the Marine Corps he was in had been continuously replenished with more than 30 people.

This means that in the past two years, a quarter of the team has been killed or injured, resulting in a shortage of more than 30 people in the team.

After sighing, he stood up, and then at this time, a captain on the side also walked over: "Are you okay?" ”

The sergeant nodded, this person was his immediate boss, the captain of the Marine Corps on the frigate, Navy Captain Han Wangbao.

"Don't be stunned, go, kill with this officer, there are still some people left behind on their ship!" As he spoke, Navy Captain Han Wangbao also showed a hideous smile!

The captain was walking as he spoke, and at the same time gathered more than two dozen soldiers of the Marine Corps, and the sergeant just now was also among them, and then they jumped directly onto the ship of the Ming Army's sailors, and a new round of fighting began!

At the same time, on the Lianzhou, Ouyang Gui saw that an inland river gunboat in front of him was slowly sinking, and the sailors on the ship were jumping into the water to escape.

However, just now, this river gunboat, which was only more than 50 tons, finally became overwhelmed after it took the initiative to ram a 100-ton warship of the Ming army, and finally broke into a large amount of water.

However, the Ming ship that they had struck was no better, and the hull broke through a huge opening, and then a large amount of river water poured into it, and then began to sink gradually.

However, after this Ming warship was actively rammed and intercepted, there were still two Ming ships rushing up, trying to attack the Lianzhou left and right, and started a broadside battle.

But at this time, they did not choose to rush head-on, but approached from the side side left and right, and in this way, the side firepower of the Lianzhou was maximized, and at the same time, a frigate following behind also provided part of the support firepower.

Just a few rounds of salvos, one of the two Ming ships, was directly hit by a full fire, even with the sails were burned to the ground, the ship that lost its sails was basically no different from a dead fish in this era, and the Lianzhou was not even too lazy to shell it again, but aimed its side fire at another Ming ship.

On the other side, the Ming ships came over, but the hull was relatively intact, but the Ming sailors on the ship hit by intensive firepower were killed and wounded, especially they were already preparing to engage in a broadside battle, a large number of sailors crowded on the deck and prepared to jump, as a result, two howitzer shells of 48 pounds fell on the deck in a row, and the violent explosion caused dozens of Ming sailors to be killed and injured on the spot.

With such tragic casualties, the Ming army sailors were not Spartan warriors, so they were naturally timid, and the friendly warships on the other side had already been hit by fire, and they could not cooperate with the battle at all, so the Ming generals who led the team reluctantly ordered to distance themselves first, which was a disguised retreat.

However, the battle of the Lianzhou was only a small part of this battle, in fact, the ships on both sides of this battle combined more than 100, and it was a big scuffle.

The Datang Navy was able to maintain the formation at the beginning, but it was a complete mess when it was fighting, and in the end, each ship could only fight on its own, but Ouyang Gui still kept issuing flags, trying to reorganize the formation, and finally when he found that it was no longer possible to maintain a unified formation, he issued instructions again, requiring each detachment to maintain its own formation.

Even if they are fighting separately, but the detachments are fighting separately, and each ship is fighting, there is a huge difference.

At the same time, even if it is impossible to maintain the formation of an entire detachment, it is better to maintain the coordination between two or three warships.

At the same time, the remaining nearly 30 or so river gunboats were strictly ordered to actively fight, cooperate with and protect the main ships!

This large-scale, chaotic battle comes and goes fast!

After only half an hour, the rumbling of cannons had disappeared a lot, and the river was full of burning ships, ships that were slowly sinking, ships that had sunk, only one mast was exposed, and many sailors were floating on the river, some in small boats, and more could only float on the water with a plank or so on.

Fortunately, although it is already autumn at this time, the weather is a little cooler, but it is not the cold winter season after all, and the river water is not too cold, otherwise, these soldiers who fell into the water will soak for a while, even if someone rescues them in time, they will have to freeze to death and frostbite.

The sound of artillery gradually disappeared, but it was still there, but the broadside battle was completely gone, except for the many wrecks floating on the river, most of the remaining ships on both sides were also scarred.

There are less than twenty ships left in the Ming army that are intact and can still sail away, and behind them are the seven capital ships of the Tang Navy.

A small number of the remaining Ming ships have sunk or are sinking, of course, more are due to fires or broken masts, broken sails and other factors, so they have lost power and can only float along the river.

Ouyang Gui's ship Lianzhou, the injury was relatively light, this is not to say that there is no Ming army sailor to besiege this ship, on the contrary, there are many Ming ships besieging Lianzhou, there are three waves of Ming ships before and after trying to besiege the ship, but they are all blocked, and this is also the result of the escort of the river gunboats, three were sunk on the spot, and the frigate that followed the battle behind and provided cover was also seriously injured!

The Lianzhou itself was not seriously injured, only slightly slightly injured, and Ouyang Gui was not as unlucky as the Qiongzhou Naval Battle a few years ago, in fact, in this battle, Ouyang Gui's luck was amazing!

A solid shell from a Ming naval gun hit his conning tower directly and landed three meters behind him, seriously injuring a rear admiral, killing a colonel on the spot, and slightly wounding several others from sawdust.

But he didn't have any, not even sawdust flew to him!

After ordering people to treat the wounded, Ouyang Gui once again gave instructions: the seven warships to pursue should ensure the safety of the landing fleet, and after ensuring the safety of the landing fleet, choose the opportunity to pursue!

The other ships of the fleet, lightly wounded and intact, relined and transferred the wounded to the shore for treatment, and the seriously injured ships immediately docked and entered the port, and at the same time began a large-scale search and rescue of tax evaders, regardless of friend or foe!

Ouyang Gui himself continues to sit on the Lianzhou!

He has to guard against it, there is still a hidden Ming army sailor in Yangzhou.

The landing of the army has not yet ended, and the whole process will last at least two days, and in these two days, he Ouyang Gui will lead the fleet to ensure the safety of the army no matter what.

And the losses in this battle have not yet been counted, but this is mainly the loss of some small ships and transport ships, if it is a capital ship, each one is a key focus, whether it is sunk or injured, Ouyang Gui already knew it when he was fighting.

In this battle, they almost wiped out the attacking Ming naval divisions, and sank more than 200 Ming ships on the spot, although most of them were only a few tons, more than a dozen tons of fireships, said to be sunk, but in fact, once ignited, these fireships will eventually sink without hitting themselves.

The main ships of the Ming army that were sunk on the spot were probably only about a dozen, and most of the rest were beaten and lost power, or simply defeated the other party in the broadside battle and directly seized control of the opponent's ship.

About twenty ships escaped.

Their own losses, was sunk on the spot did not have one, but there was a frigate in the battle of the strength of the mercial, except for a few officers and soldiers on the ship jumped to escape, none of the rest survived, the ship was once controlled by the Ming army, but soon was recaptured by the ships of the other Tang Navy that came from the reinforcements.

There were many injured ships, almost every ship was more or less wounded, the most serious was another frigate, Shaoxing, which was attacked by the artillery fire of the Ming army, and was also attacked by the Ming army's fireboats, the hull was split into the water seriously, and there was a fire.

Although the officers and men on the ship tried their best to put out the fire and plug the gap, they were still not rescued in the end, and in the end they could only order the ship to be abandoned, and now all the officers of the ship have been evacuated, leaving only the Shaoxing alone floating on the river with raging fire and smoke.

Although the ship was not sunk on the spot, even if it was abandoned after the war, it could be regarded as a sunk.

This frigate is also the only capital ship lost by the Datang Navy, although the other capital ships are more or less injured, and one of them even has a broken mast, but it is still intact, as long as it is towed back to the port and replaced with a mast, it can quickly restore its combat effectiveness!

However, although there were not many sunken capital ships, there were so many wounds, and the losses of gunboats and armed merchant ships that assisted the operation were not small, and this battle was also a big loss for the navy.

However, despite the relatively large price, the victory was insignificant, and in this battle, they almost completely annihilated the Jiangbei Naval Division of the Ming Army in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, east of Jinling and Yangzhou.

At the same time, more importantly: after this battle, the Datang Army was finally able to cross the river safely on a large scale and get follow-up ammunition supplies!

And what does that mean?

This means that the army can launch an attack on Yangzhou with confidence!

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