Look at the enemy troops on the shore who were drowning in smoke and fire, and the launchers and rails on the ship, which had become empty. Bai Duolu, the leader of the craftsman team and the foreground monk, also ended his meditation of the eulogy of the transcendent death and changed it to a prayer to bless his comrades.

"Only praise the Supreme Bright Heaven, only praise the Lord of Ten Thousand Vehicles, the Imperial Father Aroke,

The lord of Wanren Guangshan, the heavenly deity who responds to all requests, and the saint who follows the principle of all things.

Thanksgiving and praise are all attributed to Si, may the light of God shine on the earth, and all the sufferings of the world will be liberated.

May the grace of God be upon the robe of the sea, and be free from the swords of water, fire, and water;

May the gods be imprisoned, and all the enemies of the other side will be blind, troubled, and afflicted with hunger, thirst, sickness, and disease;

May all the world feel its great power, trust in it, and obey it. ”

The prominent transmission wheels on both sides of the hull, with their metal-reinforced shafts and paddles, represent the extraordinary nature of the ship. This is what one has created and what power it brings.

This is the car and boat, which was pioneered by Cao Wanggao in the Tianbao period, and is not a new thing in the transportation of the northern Tang Dynasty; However, because of the redesign and improvement of the methods of the lord of the Taiping army, the rivers of the south have been revitalized and used.

It is said that on the main river arteries from Lingdong to Lingxi, there is now a new type of transportation that can be loaded with people and goods upriver without the need for wind vendors or fiber pulling. This has also greatly reduced and relaxed the names of traditional conscripts and miscellaneous envoys that need to be levied in the localities along the way.

According to the depth of the draft, the amount of cargo and the specific use, many modified versions have been derived from the original form. Among them, there are all kinds of flatbed cars and boats with dozens of stone civil simplifications, to mixed large vehicles and ships with five or six hundred stone high sides and sails on the river.

For example, the big ship they are using is actually a key component such as a water wheel and a shaft that cannot be produced elsewhere on the ship, and it is hauled from the land vehicle after crossing Wuling from Guizhou; Then find a suitable river boat on the spot and transform it.

Then, in order to install the firearms in the right place, they were specially modified accordingly; A large section of the canopy was removed, the corresponding projection equipment was erected according to the counterweight, and the anti-arrow baffle and shield were strengthened on the side trunk. Since then, it has become a watership that can carry troops and attack the enemy.

It was only halfway through the airworthiness and combat tests in the ridge that they received news of the outbreak of riots and turmoil in various states in Hunan; Even the river transportation once interrupted these endless river bandits, water bandits, and mountain sheds.

As all the armed forces in the local area that can be relied on nearby, Bai Duolu and his craftsmen and craftsmen also had to embark on the journey of supporting and assisting the localities along the river to quell the chaos with the freshly baked watership fleet and their corresponding escort armaments.

In the process, he experienced dozens of battles, large and small, and also saw many unsightly human tragedies, which even he, as a prospective monk with an obsession with compassion for the world, could not help but be indignant about it.

At least although the Taiping army killed the gentry and was as powerful as pigs and dogs, it was not an unprincipled and purposeless indiscriminate killing and thirsty killing. It is also a happy end after the punishment of the Ming Dynasty, and it does not harm women and children and gives them a way to accept reform and start a self-reliant life again.

But when it came to these counteroffensives, the gentry and the remnants of the wealthy clans, just for pure revenge venting and intimidation, Chiguoguo showed the ugliest scene in human nature.

Even if those leaders who were elected by the village under the rule of the Taiping Army and some of the leaders at both ends of the rats, and even those who secretly spoke out, they would inevitably be tortured by their own generation for a while, and they would still have to die after being tortured by all kinds of cruel means. Even the dead bodies were not spared.

In the frequent use of this special hydrotanker fleet, there have been various breakdowns, accidents and combat losses in this special fleet of water wheels, and the number of vehicles and ships that can continue to be used is gradually decreasing.

Eventually, by the time they stumbled into Dongting Lake, there were only about seven scarred waterwheels left; then ran aground at the mouth of Xiangshui Lake with a leaky stall; After dismantling and using spare parts, there are only six left that can be put into battle in good condition.

Fortunately, from the reconquest battles along the way, they not only received supplies and personnel supplements; It also brought together the Taiping Sailors and many affiliated ships to carry them, so the actual scale has not been reduced, but more than half of it.

After entering the Dongting Lake basin, he was assisted by the boatmen and fishermen of the fishing team of the local village community; The even better news was that the lord of the Taiping army had returned with a large army, and had allocated a batch of firearms for them to be transferred.

This is the time to gather the Taiping Army's all-out attack on the surface forces on Dongting Lake.

Obviously, the firearm strike in advance was very effective, and the Langzhou soldiers under Lei Man had never seen such a tragic battle formation, shouting loudly as if the sky was falling apart, rushing to dodge in all directions, and immediately showing a loose formation and collapsing.

"The enemy's flag has fallen."

"It's a godsend."

"Hurry up, let's go ashore."

"Call him sick and kill him."

Bai Duolu's side exploded even more, such a roar. Then I saw those dense turns, large and small, approaching the shore one after another, and there were groups of armed men of all kinds who rushed to jump down.

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In the eighth year of Qianfu, on the 27th day of July, Zhang Chengfan and others led the army to Huazhou. However, he was greeted by an empty, silent dead city; It was easy to find an old man hiding at home, and only then did he know what happened before from the other party's incompatible.

However, it happened that Pei Qianyu, the assassin of Huazhou, was ordered to move to other towns as an observer, but he left ahead of schedule without saying goodbye. As a result, the next day, when the soldiers and civilians heard the news, they all fled to Huashan to avoid disaster, leaving the city empty and depressed, and only dust and rat footprints remained in the treasury of the state city.

Fortunately, after collecting and collecting, there were still more than 1,000 pieces of old rice in the granary of a large family, and Zhang Chengfan immediately asked the sergeants to bring three days of food before they could continue to advance. However, along the way, there were empty villages and towns and post houses after fleeing.

On the first day of the eighth lunar month, Zhang Chengfan and others led the army to Tongguan and searched for a densely wooded place, only to find more than 100 villagers and ask them to move stones and draw water to prepare for the defense of the city.

It wasn't until he entered the city that Zhang Chengfan got another bad news, but Qi Kerang's army was about to run out of food, and the fighting spirit of the soldiers had already plummeted.

On the same day, the vanguard troops of Huangchao arrived at the city of Tongguan, only to see white and ochre yellow flags mixed together, and the mountains and fields could not be seen, which made people feel cold.

In the vicinity of the Daming Palace in Chang'an City, in the reassembled camp of the Shence Army, there was a situation of crying and shouting; And the prime minister Zheng Jin, who was looking at all this in the military city, had a distorted face and a trembling mouth, but he could no longer speak.

And Yang Fugong, the Flying Dragon Envoy and Privy Envoy and Deputy Envoy of the Eight Dao Recruitment, who was beside him, was full of embarrassment and helplessness, and didn't know how to explain and speak to him.

Because most of these soldiers of the Shence Army in Beijing are the children of rich families in Chang'an, bribing eunuchs and registering in the military in order to obtain generous gifts, but these people usually wear gorgeous clothes, gallop on fast horses, and are arrogant with the power of eunuchs, but they have never participated in the battle array;

Now I heard that I was going to the front line to fight against the anti-thieves, and the homes of people related to the Shence Army were full of fathers and sons gathering and crying, or family members pulling and shouting for days.

And just last night, some people walked over the camp wall in groups, and the sergeants on guard and patrol could not even stop it, and they were afraid of being held accountable afterwards, so they also took off their robes and lost their weapons and absconded.

Many of those who remained after dawn were slaves from large families to fill in the registers, or poor people hired with gold silk to live in the wards. Or simply there is nowhere to escape, nowhere to go to the scoundrels, evil teenagers, and they are temporarily filled.

These people often do not know how to handle weapons, and they find it difficult to carry heavy armor. As soon as he stood in the camp, not only did he have no formation in the queue to speak of, but even the weapons were crooked, revealing his original form on the spot.

Therefore, the so-called Jingzhong reinforcement army horses have become an unscrupulous joke here; Zheng Jin even suspected that if he continued to send them out of battle, he was afraid that as soon as he walked out of the gate of the capital, they would immediately disperse.

"Please also ask Zheng Tangshou to take care, after all, this has accumulated disadvantages over the years, and it is unthinkable for a while."

Although embarrassed and helpless, Yang Fugong still comforted him hard.

"Now the children of Shence in the eight towns of western Beijing are still on their way to the front, and according to the horse report, they have already passed Fengtian; As long as the soldiers in front can endure for a while; There is still a way to get it back. ”

"A certain has already taken the funds of the large internal treasury and set up a grain station in Weiqiao, thinking that it is necessary for transit and reception."

"After all, this place in the middle of the pass is the hometown and hometown for their generations; Even if the imperial court failed to allocate the food and money to the border, they had enough reasons to fight until the last moment. ”