On the river, white sails are dotted, and nearly 100 sloops of different sizes sail all the way down the river, and in the center are several multi-oared fast crab boats. On the fast crab boat, the paddle hand rows the paddle with the horn from time to time.

And in the sound of the pulpter's horn, Zhu Mingzhong, who was on the bow of the boat, just looked at the river silently, and standing next to him was Zhang Jinsheng, who had confessed at Tongji Gate before, which had completely eliminated the mustard of the two of them.

“…… It's me who is sorry for the military gate, the military gate promoted me to the rule of the right-wing army, not only did I fail to control the team for the military gate, but let the villain separate, almost cast a big disaster, and hurt the military gate, that is, the military gate now ordered someone to cut off my head, and I also recognized ......"

Zhang Jinsheng's expression looked a little cramped, and now he understands that the stupidest thing he did at the beginning was to believe in Li Ziyuan's villain and let him take over the brothers in the Houjin camp there, and as a result, not only did he almost harm the army, but even this loyal army was almost taken away.

"Jin Sheng, do you know, what is your biggest problem?"

Looking back at Zhang Jinsheng, Zhu Mingzhong said with a smile.

"The biggest problem with you is that you are too honest and always think about the good of people, but if it weren't for that, how could Zhu recognize you as a brother?"

patting Zhang Jinsheng on the shoulder, Zhu Mingzhong still had a smile on his face,

"Jin Sheng, you always say that you are to blame for this matter, but in fact, ......"

Seeing that he wanted to speak, Zhu Mingzhong interrupted him and said.

"Jin Sheng, listen to me, in fact, this matter is not necessarily a bad thing, Li Ziyuan ......"

Thinking about this person, Zhu Mingzhong shook his head and sighed/

"He is a person who is too ambitious, and it is not a bad thing to be ambitious, but the key is that he will do everything for the sake of ambition, and even hurriedly abandon the brotherhood between me and others, and this is too much. On the surface, he made this outcome, which seemed to hurt the vitality of my loyal army, but in fact, it was a good thing! ”

Meddlesome!

Unlike others, a very important reason why Zhu Mingzhong did not kill Li Ziyuan is that he believes that this is a good thing, rather than pulling out the sores and removing the poison by himself, it is better for him to take the initiative to expose it, the reason why he did not go to the barracks these days is to give Li Ziyuan a chance, give him a chance to jump up and down, only when he moves and pulls away those who have different ambitions, can the hidden dangers in the loyal army be cleared.

"It's a good thing, Junmen, this, what's a good thing?"

Zhang Jinsheng looked at the military gate puzzled, he didn't know what a good thing this was, hundreds of brothers from the backbone battalion had left, and those people were all officers in the army.

"Of course it's a good thing, Li Ziyuan pulled all the weak-willed people in the camp away, who are the rest?"

Looking at Zhang Jinsheng, Zhu Mingzhong sighed.

"The rest are life and death brothers like Jin Sheng, who are willing to live and die with Zhu, isn't this a great thing? Since then, all of my loyal and righteous soldiers are brothers who are willing to die with Zhu, such a good thing, I thank him for not being in a hurry......"

Maybe listening to other people's ears, this is a relief, but only Zhu Mingzhong himself knows that after this incident, the loyal army will not only become weaker, but even stronger, because the departure of those with different aspirations has made this army more pure, and it is precisely because of this that he is more willing to believe that his strength has not become weaker, but has become stronger.

Of course, more importantly, after this incident, he has successfully jumped out of the circle of right and wrong in Nanjing, as for the soldiers who left Nanjing with him...... Since Zhang Huangyan himself can't speak, who can say anything else?

"Jin Sheng, you go to rest first, heal your injuries, you won't be out in a few days, and when the time comes, you will have to ask for my first official!"

After he left, Zhu Mingzhong stood on the bow of the boat, sometimes looking at the river, and sometimes focusing on his eyes. Look at the jack cannon at the bow - it's the only ranged weapon on board! In fact, it can only be equipped with a small cannon in the bow, after all, the boat is flanked by rowers.

"Hey...... Ho"

When the sound of the oarsman's horn when he paddled the oars came into his ears, looking at the sailor who was paddling the boat shirtless, Zhu Mingzhong's expression became a little strange.

"This is the 4 warships we got in exchange for ten Hongyi cannons?"

The reason why Zhu Mingzhong asked this question was entirely because these four rowing boats, which were less than 20 meters long, were exchanged for a large amount of money from Gan Hui when he was in Nanjing, and the low price was ten Hongyi cannons.

"This is the ship?"

This is what is called a warship?

"Back to the military gate, it's these four fast crab boats!"

Wang Anmin, who was the commander of the Loyal and Righteous Army...... If the Loyal and Righteous Army has a naval army, of course, the Loyal and Righteous Army does not have a naval army, as for Wang Anmin, he was originally only responsible for commanding the ships that transported military food from Jiangyin to Nanjing, he grew up on the ship since he was a child, and has a certain understanding of shipping, and now he has become a battalion officer of the "Water Battalion".

"Junmen, although there are bigger fortune boats and sand boats in Nanjing, but the Yangtze River is not as good as the sea, the Yangtze River is dangerous, and there are many dark tides, especially in the Zhenjiang area, although the oarless Dafu boat seems to be huge and indestructible, but the last time the general entered Nanjing, after crossing the Zhenjiang River, the slurry boat can only be pulled by the slender man, but these pulp fast crab boats, although the boat is small, but with the oars it is the longest than the Yangtze River, since the water camp of my loyal army does not need to enter the sea, all subordinates will exchange for this fast crab boat, not the sea boat......"

When he heard the "fast crab boat", Zhu Mingzhong, who felt very familiar, immediately thought that more than 200 years later, the Hunan army and navy, Zeng Guofan, who had been defeated and fought repeatedly, faced the strength of the Taiping army's navy, and in order to strengthen the combat strength of the Hunan army's navy, he also ordered the shipyards in Hunan to imitate dozens of "fast crab boats".

Sea ships are not suitable for the Yangtze River!

This is the most basic common sense, but after seeing the huge ships of Zheng Jun's navy, and then seeing his own "small boat", especially this small boat with only one cannon, Zhu Mingzhong naturally fell behind, but after Wang Anmin's explanation, Zhu Mingzhong was relieved, looked at a small cannon on the bow of the ship, and then said.

"Yibai, this "fast crab boat" only has one cannon in the bow of the ship, which is obviously not good, well......"

After walking back and forth on the "fast crab boat", Zhu Mingzhong looked at the side bulwark, looked at the position between the paddlers, and then said.

"In this way, can you add a layer of hardwood brackets to this bulwark, well, I remember that we didn't capture dozens of small Franc cannons in Nanjing, we can install a few Franc cannons on the bulwark......

If the experience of three and a half centuries ahead of this era made Zhu Mingzhong understand something, that is, in water warfare, firepower is the most important, and no bow and arrow, or broadside, are inferior to firepower, and the range power of the Franc cannon may be equal to chicken ribs, but ......

Looking at the sampans full of soldiers on the side of the boat, in the Yangtze River, such ships are the so-called main force of the navy - Zhang Huangyan has hundreds of sampans of different sizes, and there are thousands of such sampans among Zheng Chenggong's sailors. I think the same should be true for the Qing Army's sailors.

The thickness of such a sampan is only an inch, that is, about three centimeters, and the bow and arrow do not pose any lethality to such a thick plank, but the Fran cannon can easily tear this sampan apart and sink it on the river.

"Although the range of the Franc cannon is only 100 paces, and the weight of the bullet is no more than a pound, it can be used to hit such a sampan but it is extremely effective, and the Franc cannon is relatively easy to aim......"

Speaking of the advantages of the Furlong cannon, Zhu Mingzhong himself was a little skeptical, but a fast crab boat equipped with a Furlong cannon is better than a fast crab boat with bows and arrows and bird guns!

"This Franc cannon has a very fast rate of fire, several times that of a bird's gun, and if a "fast crab ship" is equipped with 6-8 small Franc cannons on both sides, it is enough to withstand the siege of dozens of sampans......"

After thinking for a while, Wang Anmin's eyes stared at the bulwark, imagining the possibility of installing several Franc cannons, and then imagining how the gunners would attack the sampans on the water with the Franc cannons in a water battle, and how could those sampans block the cannons of the Franc cannons?

"What the military gate said is very true, and when he turned around, he ordered the shipwright to add a layer of horizontal walls and install the Franc cannon......"

Looking at the sampans on the river, after thinking for a while, Wang Anmin said again.

"The military gate, marked to think, not only the "fast crab boat" can be equipped with the Franc cannon, that is, a slightly larger sampan, but also can be equipped with the Franc cannon, which can be mounted on the bow of the ship, so in the water war, with the "fast crab boat" as the mainstay, dozens of sampans with small Franc cannons, can also besiege the enemy ship, although the power of the small Franc cannon is not great, but if these sampan boats are equipped with Franc cannons, once the water war starts, it is such a "fast crab boat" is afraid that it is not its opponent, indiscriminately punching the master to death, dozens of ships under siege, Who can resist it? ”

Although he was not born in the navy, Wang Anmin, who was born in a boat family, quickly mastered some tricks of water warfare because of his understanding of ships on the Yangtze River.

"I think it's okay, we don't have a ship now, so let's use these small boats to change to combat ships first, I think the Qing army is not much better than us, their naval army is at most some sampans and other small boats, compared to everyone, it is also half a catty and eight taels, but we have more franc machine guns than them......"

Wang Anmin's suggestion made Zhu Mingzhong nod thoughtfully, his suggestion was good, one or two hundred sampans equipped with Franco's cannons, maybe in the face of a fleet like Zheng Chenggong's naval army, there was no chance of victory, but compared to the Qing army, it was simply invincible.

"What the military gate said is very true, after returning to Jiangyin, I will order someone to give it a try!"

At this time, Wang Anmin even wanted to return to Jiangyin immediately and install the four "fast crab boats" and sampans in the shipyard with Franc machine guns.

"Jiangyin?"

Wang Anmin's words made Zhu Mingzhong suddenly laugh.

"Jiangyin, we won't go, let's go to another place this time!"

"Another place? Go there? ”

Go there?