The enemy's fleet sailed to the Nameless Ridge, and the huge hulls of the ships were swinging on the shore with reeds. Suddenly, a group of fires appeared on the shore, and patches of sky-high water columns appeared in the river, and in the violent rumbling of artillery, the enemy's fleet was violently bombarded by dozens of cannons on the shore, and countless shells violently smashed into the moving Qing warships.

The ships of the Qing army were a little confused for a while, where did these shells come from? Which artillery team are these cannons from? Before he could understand it, one ship after another blossomed. At that time, the most powerful thing was that two gunboats were hit by bullets and caught fire, the fire burned bigger and bigger, and in a blink of an eye, it was uncontrollable, the fire burned the ship black, and the high temperature of the flame also baked some sailors who really couldn't stay on the ship anymore, and the ship also lost power and floated on the water. The Qing soldiers on the ship were in a mess, and those who rescued the life circle jumped into the water to escape, and the ship immediately lost its combat effectiveness.

The rest of the ships saw that they were not good, and immediately turned around and fled for their lives, because the ship was large, and in the slow turn, it gave Gongren another opportunity to attack. Gong Ren yelled, "Bombard! Bombardment! Bombard, bombard! The more intense, the better - "There was a burst of heavy shelling, and 1 more gunboat was hit and caught fire. Gong Ren seized the fighter plane, continued to bombard, and never let the enemy have a chance to breathe. Amid the violent explosions, the two heavily wounded gunboats gradually tilted, entered the water, and then slowly sank into the river. Half of the ship sank to the bottom, but the other half of the hull was still on the water, like a pile of scrap copper and rotten iron, a living grave, and a dead body and Qing soldiers desperately struggling to escape on the muddy river.

Gong Ren ordered the ship to continue the pursuit and open fire. The enemy's fleet fled in a hurry, and one more transport steamer caught fire and ignited ammunition, and in a violent explosion, the small steamer quickly sank to the bottom of the river. After chasing for a while, the enemy's fleet gradually got out of the range of our artillery on the south bank, and without the support of shore artillery, the artillery fire of the small gunboats became much weaker. Gong Ren ordered to return, but 2 ships were reluctant to retreat because of the good fighting. Gong Ren immediately ordered the two ships through the flag soldiers: "Retreat, retreat immediately!" ”

However, the two ships still did not obey the order, and continued to pursue and advance. Gong Ren scolded: "If you don't listen to orders, what do you want to do?" Let me arrest your commander, and I can't shoot you!" ”

The two gunboats were in pursuit, and at the same time they were still firing their cannons at the enemy's fleet, and they were about to reach the north shore, but at this moment, only a cannon roar was heard on the north shore, and countless water columns were stirred up around the two ships, and the ships could not dodge, and soon they were shot and caught fire. There seemed to be countless Qing soldiers on the north shore shouting and cheering, Gong Ren took the binoculars to watch, there were several flags fluttering in the enemy army, and the three words "Hengzi Army" were written on the flag, and Gong Ren shouted: "Not good!" Presumably another reinforcement from the enemy, about 3 battalions arrived. This reinforcement really didn't think about it, and with the Qing army in the north, south and west waterways, we have become an enemy on all sides. ”

It turned out that Wang Zhichun was afraid that it would not be enough to attack the rebels on three sides, so he temporarily transferred 3 battalions of the "Hengzi Army" to help in the battle. The situation changed in an instant, from a great victory for the Self-Reliance Army to a disadvantage for the Independence Army.

The enemy's fleet suddenly stopped retreating, turned its bow again, and made a comeback, with shells exploding near the two ships of Gongren. When Gong Ren looked at the two ships that had caught fire after being shot, the ships had already begun to tilt and it seemed that they could no longer be rescued. The sailors on the boat jumped into the water one after another to flee for their lives, crying for their fathers and mothers, and those who were injured and gradually sank to the bottom of the water, which was miserable.

Gong Ren shook his head weakly and sighed: "It's late, it's late, I didn't expect the situation to change so quickly, and even these 2 ships will be finished if you save them again." "I can only endure the pain and order a retreat. The two ships were at full speed and retreated towards Nameless, with the enemy's combined fleet biting its ass and chasing after it. When they arrived near Wumingxia, the combined fleet of the Qing army was hit by the artillery commanded by Qin Lishan on the shore and did not dare to move forward.

Just when the two armies were unable to hold each other, suddenly rumbling artillery rang out behind Qin Lishan's position, presumably Li Benqin's army had killed again. This put great pressure on the Zili Army, which had already experienced confusion and retreat under Li Benqin's fierce attack. Gong Ren saw that the situation was irretrievable, so he had to say to the captain of his ship: "You tell the ship with the flag, you can withstand it, and if you can't resist it, you will retreat, please do it yourself." After instructing these two ships, Gong Ren immediately took a small boat back to the shore to find Qin Lishan.

Gong Ren lowered his head and ran quickly towards the main position with a hail of missiles in the air. Along the way, I only heard the enemy's shells whistling and exploding, but I didn't see Qin Lishan's cannon roaring. When I arrived at the artillery position, some of the artillery soldiers were shooting at the enemy with fast guns in their hands, and some of the soldiers were squatting in the trenches with their heads covered to avoid the enemy's bullets. Gong Ren brandished his pistol and shouted angrily: "Fire! Open fire! Why not fire. A soldier pointed to a pile of yellow whirring things next to the cannon, and when he got there, he saw that the ground was full of empty shell casings, and there was not a single shell that could be fired. Suddenly, a cannonball flew in, raising a cloud of dust and smoke, and by the time the smoke cleared and the public looked again, the cannon had already been blown apart.

Gong Ren looked at the other cannons, all of them were like that, and the shells had already run out.

Gong Ren arrived next to Qin Lishan and saw Qin Lishan's face covered in dust and sweating, directing the troops to shoot at the charging enemy. Although there were not many enemies, they were armed with fast guns, had sufficient ammunition, and had strong support from land artillery, so they had no fear, and the waves of attacks were higher and higher. Although Qin Lishan's troops were quite numerous, they had fewer fast guns, even less ammunition, and were hungry and hungry, coupled with the powerful fleet artillery, which smashed the position to pieces, and the firepower was completely suppressed. Qin Lishan saw that Gongren was coming, and without waiting for Gongren to report, he said: "You don't need to say it, I know everything, you have done your best." ”

By this time, the enemy had already rushed forward. Qin Lishan shouted: "Fight!" "There was a sparse burst of platoon guns, and a few of the enemy were knocked down, while the rest continued to rush upward. Qin Lishan picked up a big knife from the position, stood in, waved it vigorously, and shouted: "Kill-" led more than 300 brothers to fight hard to kill the enemy.

Gong Ren also held a gun in his left hand and a knife in his right hand, and followed Qin Lishan to rush towards the enemy. There was a Qing soldier who raised his gun and aimed at Qin Lishan, Gong Ren fired a shot at him, and the Qing soldier was suddenly removed from the Tianling cover, and suddenly leaned back, and his head was either white or red. Gong Ren slashed at a Qing soldier in front of him, pushed his fast gun aside, flipped his wrist, and stabbed him in the left arm, half of his arm fell like a lotus root, and red blood sprayed everywhere. The Qing soldier was like a fool in an instant, his eyes were staring, and he didn't move, until Gong Ren slammed his neck again, and he stared at the big eyes of infinite horror and slowly fell.

Gong Ren saw that Qin Lishan was fighting with a Qing soldier, and the Qing soldier was extremely agile and very skilled. Qin Lishan's face was bloody, sweating profusely, his movements were stiff, and a knife was as slow as a knife, and he was about to be chopped by the Qing soldiers. Gong Ren pounced on him and slashed at him indiscriminately before he could be considered to have relieved Qin Lishan's siege. Under the hard work of the volunteers, the Qing soldiers gradually retreated, and Gong Ren and Qin Lishan commanded the team not to chase and retreated to the trenches.

Gong Ren mechanically moved his tired legs, numbly saw that the fallen were either Qing soldiers or volunteers with yellow silk on their heads, some of them had no heads, blood was still dripping out of their cavities, their limbs seemed to be trembling slightly, and some of their bodies were beaten into bloody holes, which were simply a pile of rotten meat. There was a volunteer with a piece of flesh on his face, bloody, painful and frightened, he howled loudly, his body shook and swayed, his legs stiffened as if he were jumping, and a volunteer suddenly slashed off the piece of flesh on his face, and then quickly wrapped it in a cloth. In a few moments, the cloth was soaked with blood, and the volunteer was motionless.

Gong Ren looked at the situation of the position again, and it was almost a desperate situation, the rebel army had less than 200 people left, and many of them were hanging flowers again, and they were surrounded by more than 10 times the enemy. If it weren't for the dangerous terrain of the Datong Salt Bureau, and the condescending 4 pillboxes, the position would have been breached by the enemy long ago.

By this time, it was already dark, both the enemy and the enemy were exhausted, and the battlefield was temporarily quiet.

After a day of fierce fighting, the Independence Army was really sleepy and tired, with heavy casualties, and the trenches were full of dead soldiers who had not had time to carry them away, which gave the positions of the Independence Army a dark atmosphere of defeat. The paramedics were treating the wounds of the wounded, the "ouch" of the wounded soldiers was endless, and the kitchen brought food, and the soldiers who had been hungry for a day had time to eat the meal. Morale was also extremely low, whining, saying strange things, coming from one after another. "King Qin, King Qin, that's a strange thing, I didn't expect this battle to be so miserable!" "Those officials have honey on their mouths, but I didn't expect that when the war started, they couldn't find anyone." "I'll just say that King Qin is not so easy." "What does King Qin have to do with us, but it's our brothers who are working hard!"

Qin Lishan leaned against a dusty broken table, his face was tired, his lips were cracked, and he said to Gong Ren weakly: "I really regret it, if I had listened to you at the beginning, if our troops moved a little further south, those places could advance and retreat, and fight a sports war with the enemy, maybe we would not have been defeated so badly." Now we miscalculated, and fought hard with the Qing army, and as a result, we all wiped out our troops. This battle is really not worth fighting! Gong Ren comforted him and said: "That's not all to blame, originally Qiu Xianrong, Li Benqin plus the Wuwei Chu Army and the Anding Army, and the Qing army fleet that went down the river, the Qing army was strong enough, but I didn't expect that the enemy added 3 battalions of the 'Hengzi Army' to reinforcements, and we were almost attacked by the enemy in Anhui and Hubei provinces. I also complained that I was not persuasive enough, I only thought that the situation was critical, but I didn't expect the situation to be so critical, if I had made these interests clear at the beginning, we avoided strong enemies, and now we would not be so passive. ”

Qin Lishan sighed and said: "Yes, I thought about the situation too simply, who would have thought that when a war started, it would be so ever-changing, the situation would change so quickly, and I would not have enough experience in war!" ”

Gong Ren said: "Yes, I am also responsible, now to sum up, our main plan at the beginning was to use the Datong Salt Bureau as the main position, ambush the enemy's Yangtze River fleet, stabilize the situation on the water, and then our fleet will be used as a barrier to protect the main position of the Datong Salt Bureau in the north, hold on for a few days, and then withdraw or advance." However, in the course of the operation, there were also some unexpected situations, first of all, our ships did not listen to the command, and when the ambush was successful, some of them took the initiative to pursue the strong enemy, but as a result, they were attacked by the enemy's artillery on the north side of the shore, and suddenly turned from a great victory to a great defeat, and our entire fleet was implicated as a result. Then there was the lack of supplies in our rear, the ammunition of the artillery on the shore was insufficient, and there were no shells in the fighting, and the defeat of the entire artillery team deprived the infantry of the entire main position of heavy fire support. Another reason is the deep-seated reason, our army is mainly the officers and soldiers of the triad and the uprising, and the triad still lacks effective training, and the officers and soldiers of the uprising have just participated in such a fierce battle before the uprising has been reorganized, which also seems to be a little hasty......"

"If you go back in time, there is an afterlife, and you are the commander-in-chief, how should you command this war?" Qin Lishan asked.

"Actually, it's easy to say," Gong Ren said, "simply I will take advantage of our temporary advantage, and still have some gunboats in my hands, withdraw the main force to Jiangbei, avoid a strong enemy, and go to Jiangbei under the banner of King Qin to fight a mobile war with the enemy, whether to advance or retreat, whether to attack or defend, it all depends on the situation." ”

"What are we going to do tomorrow?" Qin Lishan asked.

Gong Ren shook his head and said, "I'm thinking of a way tomorrow...... But you really haven't come up with a good solution yet? ”

Qin Lishan nodded, sighed, and fell into darkness in his heart. The two of them discussed military affairs, the time had gradually reached the middle of the night, the positions of both sides were as if they were asleep, there was almost no movement, only the yin wind was blowing tightly, and the rotten wood that had not been extinguished in the near distance was still emitting wisps of black smoke, passing through the death zone in the middle of the battlefield, and then in the distance was the enemy's position, rows of bonfires were like ghosts, tightly surrounding the main position of the Datong Salt Bureau, like a monster in the sky, maybe it would pounce at any time and swallow up the Datong Salt Bureau.

What kind of battle will be tomorrow, the end has been foreshadowed......

Qin Lishan said to Gong Ren: "Isn't Wang Dayan moving around us, I don't know where this kid has gone." Gong Ren said worriedly: "Now that there are strong enemies on all sides, I am also afraid that Wang Dayan's team is trapped in the enemy's nest and cannot extricate itself, how can he have the ability to save us again?" ”

As the two were talking, suddenly, a dense burst of gunfire rang out in the distance, and the enemy, who had just quieted down, became frightened again, and chaos appeared. Gongren was suddenly overjoyed, and said to Qin Lishan: "It's really heaven that won't destroy me, Wang Dayan is here, take this opportunity, let's break through quickly, right?" Qin Lishan was also excited, and said excitedly to Gong Ren: "Okay, if you don't break through at this time, let alone when, there will be no such store in this village after that." But where do we break through? Gong Ren said: "More than 100 miles south from here, there is Jiuhua Mountain, where the mountains are high and dense, just enough to hide the army. Let's break through there! Qin Lishan nodded, and said to Gong Ren: "At this time, I can only do this, rush out and talk about it!" He immediately sent someone to contact Wu Luzhen in the bunker, and Wu Luzhen immediately agreed, asking Qin Lishan to lead the team to play the forward, and he took people to break the back.

Qin Lishan immediately organized the unwounded volunteers to be the assault team, and the lightly wounded in the back broke through with the seriously wounded who could walk. The first to come up was relatively smooth, but the more you rushed forward, the more the enemy came, and the casualties on this side gradually increased, and after rushing for less than 200 meters, you could no longer rush away, and the enemy was already densely blocked in a large area on the way forward.

Once again, the situation is critical, and the rebel army is about to be wiped out.

At this moment, gunfire suddenly rang out nearby, and the enemies blocking the front fell one after another, and the Qing army panicked for a while, and they dodged a way, and a group of men and horses suddenly killed. After a while, Wang Dayan led the people of the triad to rush to Qin Lishan and Gong Ren's side.

Qin Lishan was overjoyed, and Gongren was also very excited. Wang Dayan said to Qin Lishan: "Duke Dun, hurry up!" I'm leading you out. Gong Ren said to Wang Dayan: "Why did you come in such a timely manner? Wang Dayan said with a wry smile: "I often fight with your kid, and I have to soak a little bit of flavor, watch your tricks play." There are all suspicious soldiers in the distance, there are not many people, and the people in the distance are the centaurs of our triad. Qin Lishan said to Gong Ren: "It turns out that you have already given Wang Dayan a clever plan. ”

Ren smiled bitterly and said, "This is also a way to do it. ”

With such a new force, it finally broke through the enemy in front of it, and after another hour of impact, it was considered to have broken out of the enemy's encirclement.

Gong Ren looked at the team, and the two teams together did not have 200 people.

Qin Lishan said to Gong Ren: "You also know the situation here, I'm afraid we won't be able to last long." I wonder what the situation is like in the Hankow General Office? Did the other four rebels revolt? Please hurry to the Hankow headquarters and report the situation here to Commander-in-Chief Tang, so that he can send reinforcements to support us as soon as possible. ”

Gong Ren thought for a while and said, "It's only like this, Commander Qin, you take care of yourself and try to save this team." Without further ado, then I'll hurry up. Qin Lishan nodded, his eyes were red, and he said goodbye to Gong Ren warmly.

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