Seeing that the Xian army had no reinforcements and did not counterattack, the main force of the armpit fleet successively carried out artillery bombardment on the coastal counties of Jinxian, Zhuxian, Haitong, and Yanjin on the 11th.

The previous Mianshui River armpit people had already suffered a big loss, but this time they came prepared, but they didn't expect Bailiyan to be prepared, this time waiting for them was Ye Xin's two 80-millicaliber mortar squadrons, a squadron of rapid-fire guns, using white phosphorus shells and ammonium nitrate ammunition.

Eight armpit ships were sunk, seven were damaged, and they fled under the artillery battle, and the overboard armpit sailors and infantry tried to go ashore, but at the beginning of the artillery battle of Bailiyan, gasoline was poured into the river from the upstream, and the fire swam down and burned countless people to death and burn, and four warships were burned together. At this point, the apotheosis of the armpit eye killing without death was broken.

By 17 September, 273 had been killed, 547 were lightly wounded, and 62 were seriously wounded.

1,632 corpses were burned to death, killed, and killed, and 79 people were captured.

In this battle, the armpit suffered heavy losses, the morale of the Xian army was greatly boosted, and their confidence increased greatly, most of them were shocked by the weapons and tactics of the Xian army, and the armpit fleet did not dare to continue to act rashly after several days of shelling, and the landing infantry on the front line of Jiaoping and Mianshui River switched from attack to defense, digging trenches and building fortifications on the spot, and their intentions changed.

On the twenty-third of September, the armpit fleet concentrated its firepower to carry out dense coverage of Jiaoping, and then increased its troops to the landing base, as if it was preparing to seize the county seat of Jiaoping.

Bailiyan didn't know whether his intentions were true or false, and after careful consideration, he decided to evacuate the remaining people, abandon Jiaoping County, and retreat to Gu County, the gateway to Mianshui City, in order to test his intentions.

As a result, on the second day after the Xian army abandoned Jiaoping, the armpit fleet immediately stopped increasing troops on land and sent a search team into Jiaoping County.

At the same time, 10,000 people from Bailiyan mobilized the reserve force to ride horses, mainly cold weapons mobile forces equipped with spears and horses, pulling more than 200 cannons of various types camouflaged with logs and 500 carts of fake ammunition, making a feint in the southeast of Jiaoping County, testing the armpit and the reality, until the end of September, the armpit people never dared to step into the county seat.

At this time, Bailiyan faintly found that armpit people were actually the same as human beings, they also bullied the weak and feared the hard, and they were also easy to shake their combat intentions, and once they encountered major military defeats and casualties, they would hesitate and hesitate.

In October, the two sides continued to stalemate near Jiaoping, but at sea, they also seemed to have no way to do it, and the Xian navy was slow to appear. Beihai, Dongyuan, Jiangdong and other places were calm, but on the seventh day of October, a large number of armpit fleets were found in the ocean north of Beihai County.

On the ninth day of October, the Second Battle of Guangxin began, and about 42 capital warships broke away from the fleet and arrived at the 15-mile sea area near the port, and took turns to bombard the port facilities and fortress batteries.

As Bai Liyan had expected, the armpit fleet lurking in the open sea was equipped with a faster breech-loading cannon rapid-fire gun, and the shells continued to use the key element to hit the copper cap with iron tetroxide to produce an electric spark to ignite the mechanical impact fuse of magnesium powder.

On the day of the artillery battle, the north of Guangxin fell into a sea of fire, and the Guangxin Mansion was destroyed, and Jiang Qian's whole mansion withdrew to the south of the city early in the morning without casualties, but the commercial area in the north of the city was completely finished.

On the sixth day of the first month of October, 10 more armpit battleships joined the bombardment, and this time an unprecedented number of huge fortress warships with four deck guns were dispatched, equipped with more than 130 guns, and the firing range was as far as 21 miles.

However, Guangxin has been in business for more than ten years, and the fortresses are reinforced with reinforced concrete and concrete, with a wall thickness of more than four feet, and some of them have reached six feet.

At the same time, the Xianjun fortress sank seven armpit warships one after another and damaged five.

Although the fortress was impregnable, the artillery battle continued until the sixth day, and the surface positions of the Xian army suffered heavy losses, with 56 cannons, 31 heavy guns, and 3 fortress guns either hit or damaged by the explosive ammunition.

By 12 October, 29 armpit warships had been sunk and damaged, and after a short cessation of fire for a day, they launched a killer attack on 14 October, when four frying pan steel ships rushed into the harbor and carried out a fierce artillery bombardment on the coastal fortress of Guangxin, which greatly shocked the defenders.

Jiang Qian then asked Xue Sheng for help, Xue Sheng urgently dispatched all four artillery brigades and two mortar squadrons, rushed to the aid of Guangxin, arrived in the west of the city on the 16th, and used heavy artillery to carry out a surprise attack on the ironclad ship fifteen miles away.

On the 18th, the news was quickly delivered to the headquarters of Bailiyan in Sheping City, Sangbei County, and he was stunned the moment he saw the photo.

Because these four ironclad ships are not the common ship type of human beings at all, they are more like two round cans stacked on top of each other, the rear of the hull is parallel to four large chimney pipes, the lower compartment is the steam power room, and there are four huge water wheels in the stern to push this ironclad ship to run on the sea, in the eyes of Bailiyan, it is an anomaly at all. [Solution 1]

"Oh my God, it's a shame they figured it out!"

At this time, Wild Lan said secretly

"It's the most time-saving and labor-saving, and it's the best they can achieve in the industry. Use the cross keel or the rice keel, enclose with a whole piece of extended hot-rolled plate, rivet it with large rivets and engineering fasteners after splicing at both ends, rivet it with a cone riveted with hot-rolled plate at the bottom of the ship, and then build and install the keel and steel structure with riveting, the same can achieve the effect of welding, and the second layer is superimposed on the first layer as a method, and the production is very convenient. ”

"It's easy to produce, but it's not fast at sea. And when encountering a shock wave of water current, it is not easy to manipulate, isn't it? ”

"That's the case, but there are pros and cons to everything, the volume ratio of this ship type is more than four times that of the traditional ship type, the load should reach 130,000 stones, the surface of the upper deck of the ship can be loaded with eighteen to twenty-four howitzers, and there are more than 100 cannon rapid-fire guns in a circle around the lower deck, which can hold a lot of people, I think there are no 4,000 people can fit 3,000 people, and four ships are 12,000 people.

Moreover, this kind of ship is easy to produce, and there are many people, but I am afraid that there are still a large number of people in the armpits, and if one or two hundred ships are used to transport troops, two or three hundred people can be transferred at a time, which is not counting traditional ships. ”

"Is there any way to get rid of this?"

"Yes, the armpit people, relying on their iron armor and invincibility, dared to approach the shore of the harbor and shell unscrupulously, just because they thought that human artillery was helpless. Didn't you train a group of frogmen, and sending frogmen to blow them up with explosives won't be over? ”

"You're crazy, this is outside the port, such a tall ironclad ship is sinking in the port, how can it be navigated as a barge in the future."

"There's not so much to care about at the moment, you have to block the port first and prevent them from destroying the coastal defenses of Guangxin, otherwise they will succeed and will soon land on a large scale. Only by blocking the shipping channel and abandoning this port can we relieve our worries once and for all. After the technology matures in the future, it will be salvaged and towed away.

The artillery bombardment they are carrying out now is to destroy the defense system of Guangxin, and it is not even ruled out that they will swarm into Guangxin City to continuously implement landing reinforcements, if so, their strength will reach more than 30,000, and there will be naval artillery support, with the current strength and firepower of Beihai County, they will not be able to repel them at all, let alone more than 30,000 at all. ”

Three years ago, a group of frogmen were experimentally trained for underwater engineering operations and special tasks, and there was no technical problem with blowing up the canning ship, but the problem was that such a large ship sank outside the port.

Before the salvage technology matures, Guangxin Port may not be able to use it for thirty or fifty years, relatively, Guangxin Port will also lose its strategic significance to the armpit people, and the war will come to an end temporarily, especially the inexplicable loss of four ironclad ships, they will definitely be mad.

But as soon as he gritted his teeth, Bai Liyan could only admit it, he clenched his fists and said to Ye Xin beside him

"General Ye, the commander of Sangbei County will be temporarily replaced by the general, and Benhou will immediately rush to Guangxin to solve this matter."

"Doesn't Master Hou have a good plan?"

"yes, but it's not a good idea."

Before the words fell, the soldiers outside the tent came to report

"Master Qiqi, Mr. Zhao Anling has arrived."

"Oh, Anling is here, please!"

"No!"

After the war began, Zhao Anling and Zong Botai basically couldn't help much, they were not suitable for modern warfare, and this time the opponent was not a human being, but an armpit person, and the thinking logic and way of doing things could not be inferred and thought by human thinking, plus they didn't understand each other's details and national strength at all, so the two of them could only wait.

Bai Liyan transferred the two of them to the Military Academy to give lectures, and took temporary positions in the Army Senate to provide intellectual services.

When Zhao Anling was young, he entered the account and raised his hand to give a slight salute

"Anling see Hou Ye."

"Mr. Zhao, hurry up and excuse me, come and sit."

"Master Xie."

When he sat down, Bai Liyan asked him

"Mr. Zhao is here, but Mr. Zongbo is here?"

"Oh, it's not, it's entrusted by the Ligong faction, and there is an important thing to hand over to the Hou Ye."

As he spoke, Zhao Anling took out a file bag from his entourage's leather satchel

Bai Liyan got it in his hand, and when he opened it, it was a stack of technical information and a few photos, which made his eyes light up when he looked closely.

"It's such a genius, it's crazy to want to make money, it's a shame that they can figure it out."

Ye Xin glanced down, and only saw that there were several kinds of crossbows in the photo, including hand crossbows, strong crossbows, stumbling, and a strange crossbow, but he couldn't see why, so he asked

"Master Hou, what's the mystery of this crossbow?"

"You see, this crossbow is equipped with an iron pipe, but it is actually a gun barrel, which can be loaded with a bullet, and the string of the crossbow is used to drive the mechanism to hit the primer, and then shoot the bullet. It was transformed by the Gonggong faction on the basis of the crossbow. ”

[Note 1] The original shape of the ironclad canned ship was taken from the "Fuka" round battleship built during the Tsarist period. Of course, in order to increase the visibility, the tonnage of the ironclad canning ship in the text is positioned a little larger.

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