Yang Jie counted the number of launches from the other side, and on the other hand, ordered the deputy general Liu Zhi to lead a battalion of ships to force over, and now when he saw that the other party had just finished firing the ninth round and was turning the bow of the ship to escape, he issued an attack order.

Liu Ji pulled out his sword and shouted loudly: "Brothers, rush over for me, the other party is now reloading the sub-guns, and the opponent's cannon is already very hot, and now it can't be fought at all." ”

The surrounding generals were infected, and everyone rushed over desperately rocking the big boat one by one, the two sides were more than 100 meters apart, and suddenly saw more than ten sampan boats jumping out of the big ship behind the big ship to block the way, and they were not afraid to face the big ship that rushed over, and returned fire with the No. 3 Franc cannon at the bow.

Liu Ji was so angry that his face was twisted, he stood at the bow of the boat and shouted loudly and crashed over, with a huge crashing sound, the big boat hit the small boat, although the small boat was not overturned, but there were two or three people on the side of the boat who couldn't grasp the fall on the rolling river.

Liu Gong roared again and again, making the soldiers on the ship condescendingly shoot, but to his surprise, the soldiers on the small boat were not afraid, and one by one they desperately threw the ignited thunderbolts with handles on the deck of the local ship.

Choked by the smoke from the earth-shattering thunder explosion, Liu Ji still desperately beckoned everyone to charge forward in order to rush towards the opposing ship that was turning around, but the surrounding green battalion soldiers were timid, worried about battlefield casualties.

Just like the puppet army during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in the previous life, most of the grassroots soldiers of the green battalion were southerners, and most of them were only forced to surrender to the Tartars.

But now it is completely different, although the Volunteer Navy looks like there are fewer ships (there are a lot of sampan boats), but the long-range combat uses a lot of Fran cannons, and the melee uses the handle of the earth-shaking thunder, in the face of such tactics, the green battalion soldiers are not very adaptable, and more importantly, the opponent also puts on a desperate posture.

The brave wins when they meet on a narrow road, not to mention that this heroic army is a well-equipped, well-trained and well-commanded army, compared with the infantry army, there is a generation gap between the naval army and the Tartar naval army, so the situation of the green battalion soldiers on the battlefield can be imagined.

But the other party's big ship was turning around, Liu Gong didn't want to give up such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and desperately encouraged everyone to shake the big boat and charge forward, but at this moment, everyone had an ominous premonition.

The other party had no intention of escaping at all, and in the face of the approaching Tartar ships, they had now aimed the other side of the ship at the Tartars, and just when everyone was surprised, the gunboat side opened fire on the Tartar ships at close range.

Shoot people first and capture the thief first capture the king, land warfare is so, water warfare is even more so, in the face of the opposing big ship rushing over, several shells fell on Liu Ji's command ship, because of the close distance, after a round of shelling, there were six or seven flowering shells on the boat, for a while the whole ship was full of explosions, thick smoke billowed out, a ghost on the ship cried wolf, and the soldiers on the ship jumped into the rolling Yangtze River.

Liu Zhi felt bad, but the ship he was on was indeed larger, and there were other small boats around, so it was really difficult to turn around, and before he could turn around, the deck was already in a mess, and a raging fire broke out on the ship, and Liu Zhi was hit by shrapnel and fell in a pool of blood.

The two sides fought together, and in less than half of the column, most of the assault team led by Liu Zhi of the Xiangwang Mansion had been annihilated, and the remaining small boats were forced to run around by the sampan boats.

Yang Jie, who was standing on a large ship behind him, secretly shouted badly, and repeatedly beckoned all his troops to retreat, but it was too late now, his flag ship was already within the range of the No. 3 Furlong machine gun, and after completely occupying the initiative on the field, more than 30 large Furlong machine guns of the three gunboats were continuously aimed and fired continuously.

The ship was full of firelight, Yang Jie was terrified and desperately tried his best to escape, but before he could turn around, four or five flowering bombs had fallen on the bow of the boat, and seeing the whole ship ignited a large fire, Yang Jie hurriedly fled in a small boat during the explosion.

Just boarded the small boat next to him, there were continuous explosions behind him, Yang Jie turned to look, and saw several flowering bombs falling on the big boat behind him, especially one that exploded next to the gunpowder, and now the whole ship has been ignited in flames.

Yang Jie fled to the boat next to him, which also caused the Tartar command system to get out of control, everyone fought separately, and the whole scene was chaotic.

The volunteers took the opportunity to kill and attacked the obscene He Doubu back and forth, everyone couldn't adapt to it at all, and many Qing generals set up ships and prepared to flee for their lives.

Seeing that the general trend had gone, Yang Jie was forced to turn the bow of the ship and flee for his life, but at this time, the volunteer army had already been killed, and saw more than a dozen Tartars on the ship with bright armor, probably a general of the Tartars, everyone shouted and rushed over, first with the No. 3 Fran cannon in a row, and then when the two ships were about to collide, one by one the ignited thunderbolts with handles were thrown into the boat.

Yang Jie couldn't dodge being hit by shrapnel, and the whole person fell in a pool of blood, and finally ended his life of crime so miserably.

The Tartars retreated on all fronts, and the Volunteers had encircled and pursued after the Volunteers, and now the command system suddenly lost their own battles, and in the end, although dozens of ships escaped from the encirclement, most of the others were annihilated by the Volunteers.

Standing on the bow of the Galen ship, after seeing the Tartars preparing to escape, Yang Xuan wanted to lead the team to pursue, but Chen Huaixi desperately obstructed him, and finally had to take the battalion and the brigade as a unit, everyone stepped on the Flying Tiger battleship, rocked the sampan boat, searched various harbors, and chased and killed the nearby Tartars.

Among them, the strongest combat power is the sampan boat, although the gunboat is very large, but the draft is deep, and it can only fight in the deeper river sections, and cannot enter the shallows.

The Flying Tiger ships had a waterwheel mounted on each of the bow and stern, and although the ship was very fast, it had a deep draft and could only patrol the river and not enter the shallow harbor.

The most powerful is the sampan boat, because it is a sand boat with a shallow draft, and a small Franc cannon is installed on the ship, which can drive freely in the shallow harbor of the big river, and there is no need to worry about running aground.

In addition to the Volunteers, the defeated Tartar Navy, now the Tartar Navy, which continues to appear large and small, transport ships are also quite a headache, after hearing that the Volunteers defeated the Tartar Navy, I don't know who was the first, and the local fishermen have been dispatched to participate in the round-up operation.

Although the big ships of the Tartar navy are equipped with artillery, and although the soldiers on the ships have rockets, bows, crossbows, and birds, there is no generation gap with some people who practice martial arts.

This is the famous Hutoutan water battle in history, the volunteers defeated the Yangtze River Naval Division of the Qing Dynasty with 2 battalions of soldiers and horses, and obtained 5 vehicles and ships that sank large ships, captured 10 large ships, and countless small boats.

Looking at the prisoners who were pushed up one by one, Chen Huaixi, the deputy general next to him, smiled and said: "Lord Wang, our army is equipped with gunboats, and it is not uncommon for the last general to think that our army has won a big victory over Liukou, but he didn't expect to achieve such a hearty victory, and more than half of the Tartar Yangtze River Naval Division was annihilated by us in this way." ”

Yang Xuan smiled, looked at the soldiers on both sides and said: "You need to keep in mind, just as the cavalry appeared to change the chariot war, the appearance of stirrups and saddles and hooves made the northern people completely press on the heads of our Han people, this battle shows that with the emergence and update of artillery technology, in the future, water warfare will be mainly achieved through artillery battles, rather than connecting wars."

Everyone must absorb the lessons and sum up the experience, because only when our naval army is truly invincible in the world can we gain a firm foothold in the Jiangnan region."

Chen Huaixi smiled and said: "What the prince said is reasonable, in the past, the main use of fire attack, mainly the use of rockets, mainly the use of connection warfare, today's battle only to know that this artillery effect is so great, this earth-shattering thunder attack effect is so great." ”

Yang Xuan pondered for a moment, the power of the large ships on this great river was really amazing, and the ordinary ships of the Tartars could not withstand a salvo of 10 large Furlong cannons.

In the future, larger ships were needed to fight in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, or to cross the sea, and it was decided to establish a shipyard in Yiling to continue to build larger Galen ships, larger vehicles and ships.

After the Battle of Hutoutan, the remnants of the Qing army on the Yangtze River fled to Jingzhou downstream, and Yang Xuan ordered Chen Huaixi to lead the main force down the river to Jingzhou, while he returned to the base camp by boat to solve the Tartars in Yaoting.

Not to mention that Chen Huaixi, He Dou and others led the navy to the east and went straight to Jingzhou, but Yang Xuan sat on a boat, and after half a day of sailing, he had just arrived at the ancient back, met with the main force of the eastward infantry army, and returned to the army.