Yang Xiaoshan looked at the Qing army warships all over the Yangtze River, the pressure was very great, and he knew that Zeng Guofan had bet on all the treasures this time.

He had expected that there would be such a moment, and there was actually no good way to bet on this kind of strength, so he could only resist hard. Of course, he also made some arrangements, but I don't know if the Qing army will cooperate, it depends on the will of heaven.

The gunboats of the Qing army had an advantage, and the batteries on the shore of the Taiping army and the water city stuck on the water were not vegetarians. The shelling on both sides came and went, and the losses on both sides were very large.

Peng Yuqi saw that the gunboats of his navy were sunk one by one, and his heart was dripping blood, but there was no way, Zeng Guofan gave a death order, he must break the water city of Poyang Lake, burn the boats under construction in the lake, and cut off their grain routes, this is the moment that determines the fate of both sides.

Luo Zenan's land division landed on Shangmeijiazhou and began shelling Shi Dakai's camp to interfere with Shi Dakai's support for Shuicheng. Yang Xiaoshan's lake mouth also had the landing of the land division of the Hunan army.

Peng Yuqi's gunboats finally gained the advantage in firepower. There were constantly shells hitting the water city of the Taiping army, and the wooden water city was full of holes, and finally it could not support it and fell apart. The water of the Yangtze River in winter is very cold, as long as it falls into the water, it is difficult to survive, and almost all the hundreds of Taiping soldiers on the water city died heroically.

The Qing army broke through the first water city, and then paid a lot of money to break through the second and third water cities, the Taiping army looked a little unable to resist, and after the last water city was breached, the remaining warships began to sink themselves.

"Rush in and burn their boats and food!" Peng Yuqi fought a little hot, because the losses were too great, and in order to break through these water cities, his sailors lost almost one-third. But the price is still worth it, the gateway to Poyang Lake has been opened, and his sailor has rushed in.

Xiao Jiesan is the head of Peng Yuqi's sampan team, and finally rushed in, and his murderous intent suddenly rose, burning the boat when he saw it along the shore of the lake, and killing people when he saw it, releasing the mood that had been suppressed these days.

The screams of the Taiping army were everywhere on Poyang Lake, the water around the lake was stained red with blood, and the fire was rushing as if it was about to burn half the sky. The corpses on the surface of the water were not one or two, but floating on the surface of the lake one by one.

"People are dying, and you still don't want to save them?" Luo Xuan was so angry that he couldn't help but question Yang Xiaoshan. Because Yang Xiaoshan didn't let him go to support the Hukou battleship team.

"Outline, calm down, it's not time yet!" Yang Xiaoshan was also very distressed, but there was no way, he had to be patient.

Gradually, Peng Yuqi noticed that something was wrong, and he followed the sampan team for a while and found that the water level was a little low, and his big boat could not pass. At this time, it was winter, the dry season of Poyang Lake, the water level was relatively shallow, and the sinking ship of the Taiping army just now also made it difficult for his large ship to pass through the water.

"Let Xiao Jiesan come back!" Peng Yuqi was a little anxious.

But at this moment, Xiao Jiesan's sampan was frantically pursuing the grain ship of the Taiping army, and he was chasing very fast, leaving Peng Yuqi's cannon ship behind, and he could no longer see the signal sent by Peng Yuqi. His entry into Poyang Lake was like a tiger entering a flock of sheep, and there was fat everywhere, and he had long forgotten about it.

"It's broken!" Peng Yuqi secretly said in his heart that it was not good, the separation of large and small boats was not a good thing, and he hurriedly asked the helmsman to withdraw from Poyang Lake.

"It's not easy for this leader of the Hunan army of the water division to retreat so quickly, it's a pity. When we reach the Yangtze River, it will not be easy for us to catch it again. Yang Xiaoshan shouted that it was a pity, he used this bitter trick in order to separate the large and small ships of the Hunan army. If Peng Yuqi does not withdraw, he will be shut down and beaten to death, and his entire water army will be crushed to death in Poyang Lake.

Although Peng Yuqi withdrew, Yang Xiaoshan's water army at the mouth of the lake still launched an attack on him.

Peng Yuqi, who had lost the protection of the small boat, suffered a hardship now, and Luo Xuan commanded dozens of small rowers to stick torches on his big boat.

Without the protection of the sampan, Peng Yuqi could not resist such a tactic at all. He hurriedly asked the sailor to retreat to Jiujiang.

After Yang Xiaoshan's sailors burned several large ships, they were called back by Yang Xiaoshan. Because the sampan team of the Hunan army is still in Poyang Lake.

The Taiping army rushed to repair the water city at the mouth of Poyang Lake at a very fast speed, and continued to block the waterway leading to the Yangtze River from Poyang Lake. Two hours later, Xiao Jiesan thought that he had won a big victory, and "returned triumphantly" and wanted to "return to the court", but found that he had been blocked by the Taiping army in Poyang Lake.

The artillery fire on the water city hit his small sampan powerless, and the Taiping army's water army hidden in the lake swarmed up again and wrapped Xiao Jiesan dumplings.

This Xiao Jiesan was still an executioner just now, but now he has become meat on the chopping board, and he is at the mercy of the Taiping army.

All kinds of small boats that came to help them in the war surrounded them, looking at the anger burning in the eyes of the Taiping army, Xiao Jiesan showed a desperate look, he knew that he was guilty, and the Taiping army would not let him go, so he pulled out his saber and cut himself off. When the remaining Qing troops saw that the main general committed suicide, they had no intention of resisting and surrendered one after another.

Zeng Guofan saw that Peng Yuqi's defeated army had returned to Jiu****, and he trembled with anger, this naval army has condensed a lot of his hard work, and it is the capital of his Hunan army, but the loss is so big, and the Taiping army has not been wiped out.

"Our navy doesn't have many boats anymore, and this battle can't be fought, so let's go back to Hunan to reorganize the army and fight again." Although Peng Yuqi was defeated, his suggestion was still very correct, and he was not afraid of running out of firewood.

"That's all there is to it. Tomorrow Luo Zenan will withdraw with Lu Shi, let's go! Zeng Guofan was still very sensible, he didn't blindly accuse Peng Yuqi, because he knew that he would also fall for Yang Xiaoshan's bitter tricks.

The most blaming person is Xiao Jiesan, if he wasn't too impulsive, he wouldn't have lost so badly. But others have already been martyred in Poyang Lake, and Zeng Guofan can't be burned anymore.

Zeng Guofan wanted to run, but Yang Xiaoshan moved faster, and that night he united with Shi Dakai and Lin Qirong to launch a sneak attack on Zeng Guofan's Jiujiang camp. Hundreds of small rowers took advantage of the night to burrow into the water camp of the Hunan army. They set fires everywhere and shot arrows everywhere, turning the Hunan army upside down.

The Hunan army's sailors were in chaos, scrambling to flee for their lives, and their vision was not good at night, and as a result, their own people and boats collided with the boat, and they suffered a lot of losses.

"The largest ship should be Zeng Guofan's flagship, hit it hard." Yang Xiaoshan commanded his own warships and concentrated all their firepower to attack Zeng Guofan's flagship.

This flagship was indeed sturdy, and it did not sink after several rounds of shelling. But the ship's sailors, Zeng Guofan's bodyguards, and his staff were all killed and wounded.

If Peng Yuqi hadn't temporarily found a small wooden boat to come to the rescue, Zeng Guofan would have sat in his own boat and waited to die.

The next day, at dawn, looking at the wreckage of his own warship floating on the Yangtze River, the water was full of corpses of Hunan soldiers. Zeng Guofan couldn't accept such a fiasco for a while, "God will kill me!" Zeng Guofan beat his feet and chest, wept bitterly, the Hunan army that had just been formed was defeated, and all his hard work was wasted, Zeng Guofan couldn't think about it for a while, and jumped into the water excitedly, wanting to commit suicide by throwing himself into the water.

The subordinates around him hurriedly jumped down and fished him up, so that he could be comforted, and only then did he dispel his desire for death. Yang Xiaoshan's battle was so beautiful that he almost killed Zeng Guofan, which was also the biggest defeat of the Hunan army since it became an army.