Chapter 419: Help

On the fort on the riverbank, Yang Fuqing was very nervous looking at this long list of Hunan warships, although he changed into the binoculars and pocket watches issued by the Hongjun, but he still believed in his old partner: "Xiongqing, this time, you can withstand it!" ”

Although he already has the experience of organizing a water defense line many times, Yang Fuqing had to be nervous because of the lessons of the past several defeats by the Hunan army's sailors, and he said more: "If we can't hold it, I'm afraid that Li Xubin, the demon head, will gasp!" ”

That's right, as long as Peng Yulin's sailors can unite with Li Xubin's land division, then the sailors can not only transport supplies and reinforcements to Li Xubin, but also transport the wounded, and even directly provide fire support, in that case, the siege of Li Xubin's camp will naturally come to an end.

As long as Yang Xiongqing is very confident: "We have fought Nanchang three times, and now it is the fourth time, how can we not hear about it!" What's more, you and I still want to take this opportunity to make a name for ourselves in the rainbow army, here! ”

Peng Yulin's sailors came quickly, only to see the battle flags waving, dozens of warships rushing on the waves, and the artillery of both sides had already launched the first round of firing.

In terms of quantity, the Hunan army's naval division had the advantage, each of their warships had six to eight foreign guns, although only some of the guns fired, but dozens of warships joined forces to bombard, but more than 100 large and small guns fired at the same time, and for a time the shore was already on fire.

But in terms of momentum, it was the Hongjun side that had the upper hand, only to see countless solid bullets and incendiary bombs creating a huge momentum on the river, and one after another huge waves made the warships of the Hunan Army's naval division wet with oncoming waves.

It's just that the sailors of the Hunan army ignored the heavy waves in front of them, and they shouted: "Forward, forward!" Those who dare to fear the enemy and do not advance will be killed! ”

This is the experience of the past, and the artillery on the shore defense batteries is not effective in trying to shoot at the ships of the Hunan naval division moving at high speed. At such a distance, there was no hit rate at all, so the method of the Hunan army's naval division to deal with the dense artillery fire was to move forward bravely, ride the wind and waves, and ignore the fire net as if it were nothing.

What's more, now Peng Yulin's ship is also in the lead, taking the lead in heading downstream, and the large and small artillery of the Hunan army's naval division is even more powerful. Pouring all their firepower frantically, they completely suppressed the forts on the shore and the wooden water village that had been improvised on the water.

"Break the locks!" Peng Yulin shouted at the bow of the ship: "Break the iron lock!" ”

He had already seen with his own eyes the iron lock that locked the Ganjiang River, but such an iron lock would often be easily broken under the assault of the Hunan army's naval division's warships, and then the Hunan army's naval division could swarm down and smash the red thief's attack.

The two vanguard warships had already rushed towards the iron lock like arrows, and the Hunan army on board Shui Yong had prepared the tools to break the iron lock, although such an iron lock was a mortal threat to the warship. But they have broken such chains many times in actual combat.

It's just that at this time, the rain of bullets fired at the river suddenly became dense, and the bullets in front were like raindrops, although Shui Yong on the boat tried his best to avoid it, but he was still killed and injured several people, and for a while there were shouts again and again, and then Shui Yong shouted: "There is an ambush, and the red thief has an ambush!" ”

And Yang Fuqing and Yang Xiongqing's strings were tightened, and they had already used all the Mini infantry gunners of the 1st Battalion borrowed from the 1st Division. And whether the field artillery of this battalion will be effective or not depends on the present.

Compared with the camp guns, general guns and firing guns used by these old Taiping troops, this battalion of infantry and a battalion of field artillery of the first division of the Hong Army definitely played a huge role. …,

"Boom...... Rumble...... Boom ......"

A Qing warship that was advancing in the rain of bullets was suddenly hit by a shell from a nine-pounder field gun, and the nine-pounder solid bullet directly shook the entire warship from side to side, and the warship suddenly lost control and headed towards the right bank of the Ganjiang River, and the originally suppressed Hongjun artillery and infantry were now frantically exerting all their firepower.

For the Qing army. The twelve nine-pounder field guns did not pose a mortal threat. After all, there were not enough of them, but the salvo of the Mini infantry of that battalion caused many casualties on the ships of the Sailors.

The smoke of gunfire filled the entire Gan River, and there were damaged naval warships everywhere. There were Hunan navy ships that had fallen into the water everywhere, and until now the iron lock still straddles the Gan River, so that the Hunan navy naval division warships had to stop in front of the iron lock and withstand the intensive bombardment of artillery fire on the shore.

More artillery joined the fire, it was the newly transferred rifled gun of the Hong Army, and a Hunan Navy warship was already in flames. The water warriors on the ships jumped into the river one after another, and more warships were also in a passive situation.

"Damn it!" Peng Yulin scolded loudly: "The red thief actually has so many foreign cannons!" ”

The reason why the Hunan army's naval division was able to defeat the enemy. It is that they rely on their foreign artillery to defeat the Taiping army, and there are many of them, but I didn't expect that there were so many foreign cannons of the red thieves, and they were in a passive situation for a while, and there were already Hunan warships next to them that played the flag and retreated backwards.

Peng Yulin still wanted to insist, but saw that a warship on his side had turned over the entire warship, and after a while, the warship disappeared into the water, and he had to give an order: "Withdraw!" It's just that he has never been a good colleague, and he soon talked about today's battle on the ship: "Today's battle, it's not that the soldiers of our sailors don't need to die, but the land division is unwilling to send troops to support, so that the soldiers of our sailors fight hard alone and suffer heavy setbacks!" ”

Today, there are four warships of the Hunan Army and Naval Division in World War I that have not returned, in addition to more than a dozen warships that have been severely damaged, and there are as many as 260 people killed or missing in the battle, and even more are wounded.

But what did the Lu Division do, when Peng Yulin went to rescue Li Xubin, they didn't move at all, and even because of the dispatch of the Hunan Army's naval division, even the second division suspended the siege of Li Xubin, and they even transferred the field artillery at hand to bombard the warships of the Hunan Army's naval division, which made the Hunan Army's naval division suffer a big loss.

Therefore, Peng Yulin quickly expressed his determination in front of the Hunan army generals: "I will go to the court in front of the squire, their land division will not move, let our sailors fight hard alone, and suffer heavy setbacks, they have to give us justice!" ”

He has always said that he will move, so he immediately rushed back to Nanchang City overnight, and sent a fire in Zeng Guofan: "Shilang, today I am fighting hard, and the sailors have lost more than 700 people, since Jiujiang, the sailors have not experienced this big setback, but what did the land generals do, press the soldiers, sit back and watch me fight hard......"

Over there, Bao Chao had already stood up unceremoniously: "Peng Xueqin, what did you say yesterday, that's good, tomorrow my land division will fight, and you sailors don't need to get in the way!" ”

Peng Yulin was taken aback, he didn't expect Bao Chao's attitude to be so tough, and Wu Hongchuan, the general who broke through from Zhejiang to Jiangxi, also stood up: "That's right, the sailors and soldiers are working hard today, and tomorrow it will be the turn of my land division and soldiers to use their lives." ”

What the hell is going on, these Lu Shi generals are all like they have been beaten with chicken blood, so Peng Yulin immediately asked: "Squire, what do you mean by Wu Hongchuan?" ”

Zeng Guofan intended to mediate the contradiction between the sailor and the Lu master, and immediately said: "Xueqin, don't be angry, everyone is here to kill the thief, today the sailor is fighting, everyone is watching!" ”…,

Wu Hongchuan was unrelenting: "Peng Xueqin, I, Wu Hongchuan, have broken the red thief six times, and I will lead the headquarters to fight tomorrow and break the red thief again!" ”

Peng Yulin remembered that yesterday, the general of the Wu Red Boat didn't dare to say a word, for fear of fighting with the red thief, how did he suddenly have the courage today, and then looked at the army generals present, all of them were scrambling, and immediately asked: "But there are reinforcements?" ”

Zeng Guofan said happily: "Not only are there reinforcements, it's just a rain from heaven, Nanchang can be defended, Nanchang can be defended!" ”

"What's going on?" Peng Yulin immediately asked: "If there is any news, I am willing to march with Lu Shi tomorrow." ”

Zeng Guofan told him: "Runzhi sent three battalions of reinforcements in Hubei, not to mention, today Russia and France admire my achievements in fighting the red thieves in Jiangxi, and specially sent a foreign steamer to sail up from Shanghai to transport a whole ship of arms. ”

Peng Yulin immediately asked, "I wonder if the foreign steamer can help in the war?" ”

"Although the foreign steamer is equipped with artillery, the water of the Ganjiang River is shallow, and it may not be able to enter the Ganjiang River!" Zeng Guofan replied: "What's more, he was able to enter Poyang Lake entirely because of the British flag, and if he openly helped in the war, I am afraid that he will be hindered in Jiujiang in the future, but in the future, foreign arms can be sent in a steady stream!" ”

Peng Yulin suddenly understood, why these generals of the army division all seemed to be beaten with chicken blood, the sharpest thing about the original red thieves was that there were a lot of foreign guns and foreign cannons, and all these foreign guns and foreign cannons were purchased from foreigners, and now they can get a steady stream of foreigners' arms from the Yangtze River, which is equivalent to the biggest advantage of red thieves.

Therefore, he also immediately fought for the interests of his sailor: "Squire, the sailor is also short of sharp guns, today's hard battle, all because the red thief guns are raining, although our soldiers have advanced and not retreated, but they are not defeated by thousands of red thieves and foreign guns, as many as two or three hundred large and small artillery, this time there are foreigners to help arms, please consider a sailor." ”

Over there, Wu Hongchuan had already said: "Squire, the headquarters will fight the red thieves tomorrow, please send 500 fast guns and 50 foreign cannons to help the ......."

As soon as Wu Hongchuan spoke, the army generals were not polite, this one wanted a thousand foreign guns, that one wanted a hundred guns, and some wanted eighty barrels of foreign fire, so Zeng Guofan watched them quarrel and immediately said angrily: "Although the arms are received by foreigners, it is a drop in the bucket, and small guns and mountain cannons are the fundamental ...... of our Hunan army." Bring the cute girl

The King of Materia Medica

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