In addition to the construction of the Bashu Railway, which required a large number of slaves, the construction of the railway connecting Wan and the Yangtze River in the south also required the participation of a large number of slaves. And transport a lot of southern resources from the highway. For Qin's industry, the cost was too high. This required the Qin State to quickly open up the railway passage from the Yangtze River in the south to the north.

The limited section of the railway in the south, especially an important transit station of the Southern Railway, is where a large amount of industrial goods and raw materials are piled up. Qin's munitions, various industrial products, cameras, batteries, and even cars. In addition, there are various light industrial products, clothes, shoes and socks, leather shoes, and belts from Xinzheng, South Korea. as well as all kinds of blended fabrics and so on. A large amount of mineral sands and copper ingots transported from the south are piled up here. It became an important north-south cargo transit point.

Wan's position is so important, mainly because a section of railway was built here, and this is the relationship between the north-south transportation artery. Therefore, it has created the status of a traffic transit station in an extreme time. This also illustrates the importance of railways to southern transportation. Large-scale transportation can only be done by rail, not by car and horse-drawn carriage.

Just when the Qin State was planning their railway and road network step by step. The Yangtze River in the south has undergone tragic changes. This change has dyed the Yangtze River red.

"Fire." A rotating two-inch gun on a Qin armed merchant ship opened fire quickly.

"Bang." The cannonballs whistled out, striking a wooden ship of water pirates in the distance that was approaching another armed merchant ship of the Qin State.

A large group of armed merchant ships of the Qin State suddenly kept sailing at night and found the attack of the pirate ships. The armed merchant ships of the Qin State quickly adjusted their plans and began to respond.

Armed merchant ships will fire red flares for help whenever they detect a special situation. Then other armed merchant ships went into high alert. Then, armed merchant ships, in simple light language. When the Qin armed merchant ships sailed in formation, they found that if they wanted to maintain a dense formation, they had to carry out the necessary communications. But the radio was still extremely unstable at this time. And armed merchant ships could not be equipped with radio equipment. Because that thing is too expensive for an armed merchant ship. So, they didn't have a radio. To solve this problem. They used the language of lights as a simple way of communication.

However, the communication of the lantern language is more troublesome, because the Qin State communicates according to the common codebook of the Qin telegraph. This requires extremely tedious translation work. But this communication had to be used, because people could not shout to complete the combat mission. And this shouting is not of much practical use on the battlefield, because the sound cannot be transmitted to the opposite ship at all.

"Close. Strafing. The translator conveyed four simple commands to the captain.

"Alright, our ship four is ready to get close and strafe the pirates on the other side." The captain ordered. In fact, just as a ship equipped with a revolving cannon of the Qin State opened fire, another armed merchant ship of the Qin State had already been boarded by pirates. Not enough, the captain immediately gave the order to close all hatches. This order is given through a communication tube. All crew members immediately evacuated the deck and then took shelter in the cabin. The armed merchant ships of the Qin State were protected by a thick layer of iron plates, which could effectively resist the fire of machine gun bullets. It is precisely because of this characteristic that the Qin armed merchant ships have formulated a set of special plans to deal with pirates boarding ships. That is, the attacked armed merchant ship immediately took effective measures to evade the personnel, and then sent a signal. During the exercise, it was found that the messages sent using complex common ciphers were very long, so the armed merchant ships compiled them. But the volume of messages sent is still high. But that's enough.

Armed merchant ships numbered four immediately approached and strafed the attacked armed merchant ships.

"Rush, brethren. After robbing this Qin State iron ship, we will send it. "The armed merchant ships of the Qin State used the relatively cheap ironclad welding technology, which had great advantages in the less corrosive river surface and the lower cost of ironclad. Because the cost is lower, it is possible to manufacture ships in large quantities, and moreover, this technical requirement is low. Can be built quickly. Why was the Qin State able to build a large number of flat-bottomed armed merchant ships in a relatively short period of time. In fact, it is the use of this ironclad armed merchant ship, welding is extremely easy, electric welding is a little difficult to weld steel, but it is very easy to weld ironclad, ironclad can be welded directly, and steel needs to add a specific accelerant. This accelerant is a bit expensive. For shipbuilding, this also means that the price of the ship is high. Moreover, the manufacturing cost of ironclad is only one-third of the price of steel, and this cost advantage is equivalent to building a steelclad ship for an armed force, which is equivalent to building three ironclad ships. Therefore, the ironclad flat-bottomed fleet of Qin has an extremely practical ship.

"Bang bang." Bullets are fired continuously.

"Poof. Burst. "Machine gun bullets pierced flesh and smashed the body of the water pirates. Then the flying blood mist appeared unexpectedly red under the light of the searchlight. It's a very vivid red.

The armed merchant ships of the Qin State were equipped with some searchlights. These searchlights are designed to patrol at night to guard against water bandits. At the same time, countless flares were fired from the sky. These bombs illuminate the night as if it were day, and they look unusually white under the reflection of the river.

"Marines. Get ready. "A sergeant with a rear-pull revolving rifle with a bayonet already stuck in it. They had to use ropes to climb onto the opposite boat to eliminate the pirates. Or use the rifle in your hand to kill the water thieves who are trying to kill them.

"Bang bang." "Fire. Shoot. The sergeant shouted loudly.

Machine guns and rifles fired continuously, and the pirates who had just climbed onto the armed merchant ship of the Qin State had just realized the illumination of the searchlight when they were crushed by the burst of fire. Those water thieves who still wanted to make a fortune were devoured in their lives at once.

"Teach these grandchildren a good lesson." After stopping shooting, the crew members who had been temporarily dodging rushed out with their weapons again, killed the wounded water thieves, and then threw their bodies into the water, where a large patch of blood immediately dispersed.

In other respects, the killing of Qin's armed merchant ships is still not over. Water pirates are planned to take their actions. They would take advantage of the darkness to lay an ambush in advance, then sneak closer at night, and then use a kind of barb, similar to an iron anchor, and then quickly climb onto the ship. In this way, a boarding tactic was formed, but they did not expect that the cluster searchlights of the armed merchant ships of the Qin State would discover this tactic. Then they resorted to tactics that they had not thought of to solve the problem.

After the discovery, the armed merchant ships of the Qin State fired countless flares for illumination according to the pre-rehearsal, and even illuminated the small boats that were quickly closing the ambush, and then the armed merchant ships of the Qin State took more severe measures to retaliate against these water thieves.

"With a machine gun. Strafe those boats. Destroy them all. "Almost at the same time, all the captains gave such an order. The machine gun quickly lowered the muzzle for continuous strafing, and the machine gun spewed out vicious flames.

And the crew of the Qin State, the marines, also stood on the deck, holding their rifles and shooting calmly, as if they were shooting targets on the river.

"I'm afraid you've never seen such a disgusting scene in your life." A crew member recalls the situation.

"All of us, even the guys who helped us cook, stood on deck with shotguns. We were like hunting, and the pirate ships and the overboard pirates floated helplessly on the water. Next. We started our own killing. ”

"We kept firing with our rifles, and the targets on the ship were easy to hit, because we just had to aim in the general direction of the boat. And they have a limited place to hide. My marksmanship is terrible. I'm just shooting at those ship targets. ”

"Smack, a shot. I hit a water thief. I saw the water thief fall not far away, and I hit him in the chest. I was lucky to hit him. The bullet ran through his ribcage at high speed. Then splash its blood mist. I could see clearly under the flares and searchlights. ”

Soon, everyone on board realized the danger and they began to jump out of the boat. An entire boat was littered with corpses. We killed those people. The most terrible thing was the machine gun, which mainly hit. The entire ship of people will die. ”

"Blood, severed limbs, and belly-breaking entrails were all over the ship, and I was disgusted to watch."

"That's not all, those who jumped out of the boat tried to run for their lives. We hated these people to death. We are all fishermen on the Yangtze River, and we will have a good life before we come out to run the boat. However, these water thieves often kill us. There's no way around it. We want to live. It's true. We can't help it. ”

"We didn't let any of the thieves who jumped into the water, we kept shooting. Especially the guy who was cooking next to me, the guy, used a shotgun to open the head of a water thief who had just surfaced, and ** floated on the whole surface of the water on the spot. The scene is just disgusting. ”

The crew's memories are still long, but this undoubtedly confirms from the side that it was an extremely bloody night. With the help of flares and searchlights, the crew eventually discovered that corpses, severed limbs, and dragging internal organs were floating on the river. And the entire surface of the river turned red.

The red Yangtze River.