When the Congreve rocket carrying Dana explosives flew to the head of the Tsarist fleet, the Tsarist Russian fleet composed of 15 steam gunboats was already in a great chaos, and the Wu army's shells loaded with new explosives exploded one after another, causing the Tsarist fleet to break its gunwales and broken cabins, and even the hull armor that the Tsarist fleet was proud of was shattered and fell off, losing its protective effect. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 When more than 500 Congreve rockets smashed into the head of the Tsarist fleet, the Tsarist fleet naturally resounded with a louder and more ghostly howl.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

The sound of the violent explosion was like thunder and lightning, and the continuous explosion in the Tsarist fleet was released, releasing a terrifying loud sound and an even more terrifying shock wave, and the shrapnel flew sideways and intertwined, like a dead butcher's knife to frantically harvest the Tsarist soldiers on the deck, and like a heavy iron fist, punch after punch smashed the Tsarist fleet full of holes. The smoke of gunpowder was filled, the flames were continuous, and the Russian soldiers were shouting and screaming, and they were killed and wounded, as if they were in hell.

The explosion caused by the Congreve rocket was not over, and the Wu army batteries on both sides of the Jin River, which had been gathering momentum for a long time, had already opened fire again, once again bombarding the shells full of Dana explosives into the enemy group, while the Tsarist fleet suffered because the rate of fire of the front-loading guns was too slow, and it was also caught off guard by the new explosives of the Wu army.

The first wave of artillery shells and Congreve rockets had already seriously weakened the armor protection of the Russian fleet, and the second wave of artillery shells of the Wu army naturally reaped more results. The building of a Russian steam cannon ship was directly hit by Wu Jun's shells, and the Dana explosives exploded violently, directly blowing up half of the ship's building and directly killing the Russian captain of the ship.

Another Russian steam-gunboat was even more unlucky with three shots, one of which hit the destroyed part of the armor, and the shell exploded into the cabin, directly blowing a large hole in the Russian ship. The other two shells blew up more of the armor of the Russian warship, also leaving serious wounds on the ship, and the Russian soldiers and officers on board screamed in disbelief, not believing that there could be a bomb with such a terrible explosion in the world.

Even the two new iron-hulled steamships that the Tsarist army snatched from the Taiping army close to the broadside battle were a little unable to parry the Wu army's shells, and the Wu army's shells were blown up a crater even if they hit the iron shell, and even a big hole was blown up on the deck of the ship, and many Tsarist soldiers lost consciousness forever without even knowing what had happened.

After all, it was the Tsarist Russian army that could compete with the British and French powers, no matter how panicked and caught off guard, after getting used to it a little, the Tsarist Russian fleet still began to fight back stubbornly, gritting its teeth and hitting the Wu army's position with bitter acid shells, desperately suppressing the Wu army's artillery fire, and striving to save the defeat. But at this time, Wu's Congreve rockets flew from both sides of the Jin River and smashed into the head of the Tsarist fleet.

At least three Congreve rockets hit the flagship of the Tsarist fleet in this attack, and the reason why it was impossible to judge the number of arrows was that there were too many explosions on the battlefield, full of flames, shrapnel, shock waves and billowing gunsmoke, and experienced Rear Admiral Novosilsky of the Tsarist Russian Navy could not know how many Wu Army rockets were hit, just saw three Wu Army rockets smashed on his flagship deck and exploded, killing many Russian soldiers.

"My God! Are Qing rebels the devil? How could there be such a terrible shell? The British army and the French army don't have such weapons either?! ”

After the exclamation, Novosilsky, who knew that the situation was not good, quickly made up his mind and immediately shouted for the flag station to raise the flag, ordering the Tsarist fleet to withdraw from the battlefield at the mouth of the river and avoid the terrible artillery fire of the Wu army. However, the battlefield was too chaotic, and the southern channel of the sandbank was narrower, so although the flag was played, the Russian steamship fleet was destined to not be able to turn around and flee quickly, and they still collided with each other in a panic, which slowed down the speed of turning around and fleeing.

Taking advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime precious opportunity, the officers and men of the Wu army of course exerted their strength to desperately open artillery bombardment on the enemy ships, and one after another individually packaged Dana shells were taken out of the wooden frames filled with shockproof materials at a speed far beyond the usual training, and at a faster speed, they were loaded with imported bump-trigger fuses that they were reluctant to use at ordinary times, stuffed into the barrel charge and blasted out, and bombarded the enemy ships one after another.

The shipbuilding blew up, pierced the deck, the mast broke, the copper and iron armor cracked and fell off, the sawdust flew sideways with the fire and shrapnel, and the sound of the explosion and the screams of the Russian soldiers merged into one and soared into the sky. There was even a shell that exploded and directly hit the left paddle wheel of the Russian flagship, blowing the paddle wheel to pieces and killing half of the steam mobile force of the Russian flagship in one fell swoop. The Russian soldiers and officers howled in despair, but they still couldn't dodge the Wu artillery shells and rockets that hit one after another.

At this time, the sailing fleet of the Qing and Russian coalition forces, which was responsible for suppressing the forts on the south bank of the Wu army, had also discovered that something was wrong, and hurriedly narrowed the distance between them and the forts on the south bank of the Wu army, and at the risk of being hit by the Wu army's batteries, they sacrificed their own troops in exchange for enhanced fire suppression, so as to cover the retreat of the Russian fleet of steam gunboats -- without the steam gunboats, the sail warships were like lambs to be slaughtered in front of the steam gunboats of the Wu army's naval divisions, and this truth was understood not only by the Russian soldiers, but also by the Qing army's naval divisions.

Although the decision of the sailing fleet of the Qing and Russian coalition forces was great, it was a pity that at this time, a large number of fishing nets released by the Wu army in the upper reaches of the Jinhe River had been pushed by the river water to rush out of the mouth of the Jinhe River and into the narrow waterway on the south bank of the sandbank. Finally......

Click! The sound of the rope stirring on the blades was not loud, and it was completely drowned in the thunderous cannon sound of the Wu army and the Qing Russian coalition army, but the effect was that the entire Russian steam gunboat was shaken, and the paddle wheel on one side stopped rotating, and the paddle wheel on the other side continued to rotate at high speed, directly pulling the entire hull of the ship.

"What's wrong?"

A Russian soldier on the boat hurriedly stretched out his head to check the situation, but in the last rays of the setting sun, the Russian soldier not only saw the blades of the paddle wheel that had been hanged by fishing nets, but also saw countless huge fishing nets floating in the water. The Russian soldier also suddenly screamed like a pig, "Fishing nets! There are countless fishing nets in the water! We have been tricked, and the yellow-skinned monkey deliberately put countless fishing nets in the water! ”

It was too late to find out that the plan was too late, although the fishing nets released by the Wu army had to rely on luck to entangle the enemy ships, but the fishing nets released by the soldiers of the Wu army were too many, and many enemy ships were caught by Mengdu, and soon, the blades of the nine Russian steam gunboats were entangled in the fishing nets, and the speed of losing steam power was greatly reduced, and they became live targets floating on the water, including the two iron-hulled steam gunboats with the highest technical content. Six other Russian steamboats were also trapped in it, and in order to escape from the southern channel of the sandbank, they had to ram the Japanese warships.

At this time, Huang Dasha also made a clever decision, decisively gave up the opportunity to use the distance advantage to effectively attack the sail warships of the Qing and Russian coalition forces, and ordered to concentrate all artillery fire to bombard the Russian steam gunboats, and in order to increase the density and intensity of firepower, all the field guns on land were used.

Of course, the southern bank battery of the Wu army fired picric acid shells, but the effect of picric acid shells and Dana shells in combination to bombard enemy ships was amazingly good, Dana shells could directly bombard the armor of the Russian steam gunboat and blow up the ship's side, and picric acid shells could release high-temperature flames and quickly ignite the wooden part behind the armor of the enemy ship. The two complement each other, and their power suddenly increases dramatically.

Whew! Bang!!!

The picric acid shells flying at high speed hit the Russian steam fleet whose armor had been seriously damaged, and successively ignited the deck and even the sails of the Russian warship, causing a mass of skyrocketing fires.

In fact, Wu Chaoyue had also considered the mixing of Dana explosives and picric acid weapons before the war, and he had already prepared a batch of picric acid shells and rockets for backup, but he was preempted by Huang Dasha's inspiration. Seeing that the effect is so good, Wu Chaoyue will of course be even more polite, and immediately ordered to send out a picric acid rocket to increase the arson effect.

In this way, it naturally suffered the poor Russian steam fleet, the hull armor could not block the Dana shells, and the armor could not stop the picric acid shells after the armor fell off, how to fight and how to be injured, except for the two fire-resistant iron-hulled ships, the remaining wooden-hulled armored steam gunboats were all on fire, and the fires of three of them were already destined to be impossible to extinguish.

"Rush out! Don't be afraid of accidental injury! Rush out first! ”

Novosilsky has been howling with red eyes on the Russian flagship, directing his flagship, which has lost half of its steam power, to rush out with all its might, and in order to seize the waterway, he also directly injured a Russian warship with its blades entangled in fishing nets on both sides. But at this time, Novosilsky was also lucky, a Wu army cannonball suddenly flew in, and it hit the bridge under his feet as accurately as if it had eyes, and exploded, spraying a large area of picric acid flames, the shock wave directly overturned him, and the picric acid flames directly enveloped him completely......

"Help! Help me! Save me! ”

Novosilsky, whose hair and beard were on fire together, howled even more fiercely, struggling to take off his major general's uniform, but still could not stop his clothes from burning together with his skin and hair, and the soldiers rushed up to put out the fire, and they could not extinguish the bitter acid flames that burned violently on Novosilsky's body, and Novosilsky's screams became weaker and weaker, and finally disappeared completely, and he died completely black, unrecognizable.

The shells and rockets of the Wu army continued to whistle and fly, and the Russian fleet that had lost its commander was completely chaotic, six warships were seriously tilted, two warships ran aground, and three other warships directly turned into huge fireballs, and the Russian soldiers on board were forced to abandon ships to escape, and many people went ashore directly to surrender to the Wu army. Although the remaining four Tsarist Russian steam routes were lucky enough to get along with the southern channel of the sandbank, they were all on fire and completely lost their combat capability.

It was still at this time, after repeatedly confirming that the Russian steamship fleet had no power to fight back, Wu Chaoyue said lightly: "Send a signal and ask the sailor to do it." ”

As soon as the signal was issued, the whistle roar of the Wu army's steam gunboats was heard in the upper reaches of the estuary, and the three small steam gunboats of Daodao, Renyi, and Shengli took the lead side by side, followed by the three medium-sized gunboats Zeng Guofan, Hua Shana, and Luo Weilin, and slaughtered the downstream with great momentum, killing the Russian steamship fleet, which had basically lost the ability to fight back. The Loyalty and Brave also followed out with the sampan fleet of the Wu army to assist the main warships in the battle.

As soon as I saw the Wu army's sailors killed, the two stranded Russian steam gunboats raised the white flag and surrendered, and three of the six seriously inclined Tsarist Russian warships were forced to fly the white flag because they lost their sails and steam power at the same time, and the remaining Tsarist Russian steam gunboats fled eastward in a hurry, and the sail fleet of the Qing and Russian coalition forces bravely protected the palace.

When the Wu army's naval division fought out of the southern channel of Shazhou, the decisive battle between the naval divisions began, but unfortunately, the Qing and Russian coalition forces only had the advantage of ships and firepower, but most of the ships were damaged, and many warships were no longer able to carry out water operations. The Wu army sailors were in the best condition, and the ships were intact, so ......

So it was purely a one-sided slaughter, the steam fleet of the Wu army, which had an absolute advantage in ship speed and tonnage, ran like the wind, and almost caught up with the sailing fleet of the Qing and Russian coalition forces in the blink of an eye.

Of course, the Qing-Russian combined fleet also fired back, but it was already difficult to hit a moving target while moving, and it was the steam warship of the Wu army that was responsible for the pursuit, which threw them off a lot in terms of ship speed, so the hit rate was even more pitiful. Two ships were sunk by the Wu army's steam warship, but they only hit a few shots of the Wu army's steam gunboat.

Seeing that the situation is not right, the fleet of the Qing army's sailors, which has a lot of smart people, naturally began to scatter and flee, trying to stay away from the brigade to avoid injury, and the combat purpose of the Wu army's sailors is also very clear, that is, to focus on attacking the Tsarist Russian warships, and the two Russian sail warships that have been heavily damaged before were hit one after another, and the sailors on board were forced to abandon the ship and flee for their lives. The remaining Russian sail warships barely fired back, but they still couldn't stop the momentum of Wu's steam gunboats charging downstream.

Finally, the Wu army's warships still caught up with the Russian steam gunboats that escaped from the south channel of the sandbank, and the frenzied bombardment of concentrated firepower fell, and the three heavily inclined steam gunboats quickly sank to the bottom of the river to feed the fish, and the remaining four were also shot one after another, and the situation was extremely critical.

At this time, the four Tsarist Russian steam gunboats that stayed in the rear to protect the transport fleet also rushed up to respond, but these Tsarist Russian warships quickly found out that they had done something stupid, and Wang Fu, who had learned a bad stomach with Wu Chaoyue, did not pay attention to them at all, but just commanded the Wu army's steam gunboats to continue to charge, and slaughtered the Russian transport fleet with no protective ability. The Tsarist fleet was shocked, and hurriedly retreated and fled downstream, and the Wu army's naval division, which had the advantage of steam combat forces, pursued closely, and had the opportunity to open artillery to bombard the enemy ships, but stayed away from the bombs if they had no chance, and slowly consumed the enemy's strength with great patience.

The huge and bulky barges seriously slowed down the retreat of the Qing and Russian coalition forces, and in the case of having to protect the food and supplies on board, the Russian steam gunboats did not dare to fight far away from the barges, while the Wu army's steam gunboats rushed back and forth with the advantage of maneuverability, while trying to avoid fighting with the enemy's intact steam gunboats, and on the other hand, they tried to bombard the enemy's steam gunboats that could still be repaired. In the rumbling of cannons, the four Russian steam gunboats that had temporarily lost their combat capability were constantly shot, and the hull of the ship was seriously on fire, and it seemed that it would not be protected, but the Wu army's steam gunboats were still unceremoniously opening up and bombarding, and they swore that they would never stop until all these four enemy ships were sunk!

At the same time, Wu Chaoyue, who has always liked to take precautions, also asked Dai Wenjie to ghostwrite a letter to Lin Qirong, the general of the Taiping Army sitting in Hukou, asking Lin Qirong to dispatch the Hukou Naval Division of the Taiping Army to help the self-army intercept the defeated troops of the Qing Russian Combined Fleet, and promised that after the matter was completed, he would give Lin Qirong a Russian steam warship that could still be repaired.

"Dashuai, will Lin Qirong agree?" Dai Wenjie asked with some concern: "The fleet of the Rakshasa people and the chaotic party is only seriously injured at present, but there is still the strength of a battle, if Lin Qirong helps us intercept it, I am afraid that it will have to pay a considerable price." ”

"Give it a try and see if you have the luck." Wu Chaoyue replied easily, "This is our only chance to annihilate the enemy, and it is also the best opportunity for Hukou Longhair to take advantage of the fire and rob, it depends on whether they want to seize it or not." ”