After the entrance to the southern channel of the sandbank was blocked by a shipwreck, the retreat of the Qing-Russian coalition forces to the fleet upstream of the sandbank was not unexpected by Wu Chaoyue. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info Then the Qing-Russian combined fleet continued to suppress the batteries on the south bank of the Wu army with artillery fire, and took the opportunity to attack the estuary, the main defensive position of the Wu army, which was also expected by Wu Chaoyue's deduction.

Wu Chaoyue was only worried about one thing, that is, the Tsarist army continued to force the Qing army's naval division to be cannon fodder to attack the estuary, if this was the case, the Qing army's naval division could not withstand the pressure of the Tsarist army and was forced to attack the estuary on a large scale, then Wu Chaoyue would be in a dilemma -- he would definitely have to expose his strength to meet the battle with all his might, and if he gritted his teeth and did not attack the estuary defensive position, it would definitely be seriously damaged by the Qing army's artillery fire, which would affect the state of the Wu army in the decisive battle with the main force of the Tsarist Russian fleet.

After the Qing Russian fleet in the upper reaches of the sandbank withdrew downstream, in addition to bombarding the batteries on the south bank of the Wu army as Wu Chaoyue expected, the Qing army's naval division really divided a fleet composed of twelve red single boats, and killed the main position of the Wu army at the mouth of the river against the wind and water.

The most crucial reason why Wu Chaoyue personally sat in charge of the estuary and commanded the overall situation is, of course, that the geographical location of the estuary is wonderful; in addition to tightly choking the throat of the waterway for the Qing and Russian combined fleets to directly enter Daye, there is a sandbar Jiangxin Island in the north to protect the front, and the east is the mouth of the Jinhe River, and the surging water can effectively limit the enemy's ship speed, and the Shazhou Jiangxin Island also extends nearly two miles to the east, and the enemy from the downstream must go against the wind and water in order to enter the narrow waters between the sandbar and the south bank of the Yangtze River, threatening the safety of Wu's estuary position. During the march, it was destined to be a live target for the Wu army's position at the mouth of the river, and it could greatly increase the hit rate of the Wu army's shore artillery hitting the moving target.

One of the twelve red single boats of the Qing army has sailed into the narrow southern channel of the sandbank with difficulty, and the officers and men of the corps directly under the Wu army, who are ready to wait, have also taken their places, ready to open artillery to kill the enemy, but Wu Chaoyue has not made up his mind for a long time, and Qian Wei, the corps commander directly under the corps, has asked for instructions several times whether to open the cannon, and Wu Chaoyue has also hesitated not to answer.

"Boom!"

With a loud bang, the Qing army's red single boat, which was the first to rush into the southern channel of Shazhou, opened fire first, hitting a cannonball on the Wu army's position at the mouth of the river.

Seeing this scene, the officers and men of the Wu Army directly under the corps were all full of anger, scolded loudly, and asked for artillery to fire back. However, the artillery of the Qing army's sailors made Wu Chaoyue calm down, and looked at the Qing army's red single boats that were bombarding the estuary position one after another with a gloomy face, Wu Chaoyue also said word by word: "Order all positions in the estuary position, only avoid bombs, not fire!" Whoever fires without an order will be killed! ”

Dare not resist Wu Chaoyue's stern order, the Wu army officers and men can only take the method of crawling to avoid the enemy's shells, do not dare to fire a cannon and shoot at the incoming ships, the Qing army's red single fleet is an inch, crazy ** longitudinal guns bombarded the Wu army's estuary position indiscriminately, so that the Wu army's position is earth and rock, dusty, during which not only destroyed some Wu army's fortifications, but also killed and wounded some Wu army officers and soldiers who could not dodge, and successfully pulled the Wu army's soldiers to hate it.

In this regard, Wu Chaoyue, who was hiding in the safety of the rear, completely turned a blind eye, and snorted coldly: "If you like to fight, let you fight happily, just twelve red single boats, see what you can do with Lao Tzu's estuary position!" ”

In order to force the Wu army's estuary position to open artillery and return fire, the Qing army's red single boat not only kept firing artillery, but also went against the current to gradually narrow the distance with the Wu army's position, extending its firepower to the depths of the Wu army's position. Wu Chaoyue was expressionless and never paid any attention.

At the same time, the main force of the sailing fleet of the Qing-Russian combined fleet was also frantically pouring artillery fire on the position of the first corps of the Wu army, and in the case of being also equipped with secret weapons, Huang Dasha, one of the meritorious veterans of the Wu army, also had a cold expression, and only allowed the fort to return fire with picric acid shells, and was not allowed to use secret weapons without authorization. Responsible for guarding the key reason for Wu Jun's life, Genzi Daye Industrial Base.

No matter how fast the rate of fire of the three-pounder breech-loading rifled gun is, no matter how the picric acid shell is the nemesis of the wooden warship, it still changes the weakness of the caliber is too small and the charge is not enough, resulting in the explosive power and armor-piercing power of the Wu army's shells are insufficient, unless it happens to hit the enemy's ship, it is difficult to receive the effect of breaking the enemy in one fell swoop, plus it is a fixed battery to hit a moving target, and the hit rate is extremely low. Therefore, during the artillery fire, the Wu army fort was naturally at a disadvantage, and it paid a lot of price, but it only caught a few red single ships of the Qing army, and luckily hit the main mast of a third-class sail battleship of Tsarist Russia.

This was a battle of artillery fire on both sides, and after receiving the news that the Wu army's estuary position had not fired a single shot, the commander of the Tsarist Russian fleet, Novosilsky, sneered and waited patiently to command the main fleet to launch an attack. Seeing the artillery fire of the Qing army's Red Dan flotilla raging on the self-army's estuary position, Wu Chaoyue was expressionless, patiently waiting for the enemy to end the temptation and change tactics. The commanders of both warring sides are strong-willed and decisive in making up their minds.

As the artillery fire continued to rage, Wu Chaoyue gradually noticed an abnormal situation, that is, the artillery fire fired by the twelve red single boats of the Qing army was mostly concentrated near the 10,000-pound cannon that the army had temporarily prepared, and it seemed that it was focusing on that position. And then, a thought also appeared in Wu Chaoyue's mind, and he said secretly: "Could it be that the main purpose of the enemy's temptation is my waste cannon that is used as a blinding method?" ”

Speaking of which, this 10,000-jin cannon can appear on the battlefield of Hekou, in fact, it still comes from the creativity of the monk Lingqin - when fighting Tianjin, the monk and the prince had a whimsical idea and asked Shengbao to cast a 10,000-jin cannon to attack Tianjin City, although it was mercilessly ridiculed by Wu Chaoyue and Shengbao's categorical refusal. However, this time, in order to cover up the real secret weapon of the Wu army, Wu Chaoyue suddenly remembered the bad idea of the monk and the prince, and simply asked Daye Iron Works to really make such a 10,000-pound cannon and put it on the front line to attract the enemy's attention, so as to suddenly use the real secret weapon to break the enemy.

(PS: The 10,000-pound cannon is not fictional, in history, when the monk and the prince broke through the Jinghai City defended by the Taiping Army, he really used the people of several counties to create such a terrifying cannon. ）

After vaguely guessing the enemy's tentative purpose, Wu Chaoyue simply sent someone to give an order, ordering the useless giant cannon to uncamouflage and fire back. The soldiers of the Wu army guarding this giant cannon immediately took action when they heard the order, first removed the camouflage on the 10,000-pound cannon, revealing its terrifying volume, and then loaded more than 20 catties of gunpowder and a special cannonball in one go, installed the fuse, and aimed at the enemy ship to open fire.

The 10,000-pound cannon with a volume far beyond the ordinary cannon suddenly roared, of course, there was an extraordinary terrifying loud sound, and it also fired a powerful solid cannonball, which immediately attracted the attention of the audience. And then not to mention, this cannonball really hit the side of a Qing army red single boat, sawdust flew sideways, and the huge cannonball directly hit the cabin of the Qing army's red single boat, and protruded from the other side through the cabin, leaving a transparent hole in the unlucky Qing army red single boat.

Seeing this scene, the Qing army's red single fleet was of course taken aback first, but after carefully seeing the true appearance and true power of the Wu army's so-called secret weapon, the Qing army's sailors were all laughing and laughing, and Li Delin, who led the team, laughed directly and said, "This is the secret weapon of the Wu thief?" The secret weapon that can take out the Rakshasa iron-hulled steamer with one shot? But don't say it, if you get it, it's really possible. ”

Ridicule is ridicule, in order to figure out the true reality of Wu Jun's 10,000-jin cannon, Li Delin still did not rush to order a retreat, and has been patiently observing how the soldiers of Wu Army loaded the 10,000-jin cannon with binoculars, or after seeing the soldiers of Wu Army struggling to clean the barrel with a large cannon shaft to extinguish the residual fire, and after loading the charge with more difficulty, and firing the second shot that did not hit any target, Li Delin said with a smile: "Beat the flag, retreat, you can give an account to the Rakshasas." ”

There is no need for Li Delin to report in person, the Tsarist Russian technical troops who observed the situation of the Wu army's position on the island in the heart of the Shazhou River have already returned to the Tsarist Russian steam fleet by boat and reported the situation of the secret weapons in the estuary to the Russian commander Novosilsky. As a result, after learning that Wu Jun's so-called secret weapon turned out to be just a huge primitive smoothbore cannon, Novosilsky also immediately laughed, "The yellow-skinned monkey is really a yellow-skinned monkey, I thought it was an advanced weapon, but it turned out to be just a backward fortress cannon." ”

After laughing wildly, Novosilsky, who was no longer worried, did not hesitate, and immediately ordered: "Steam fleet, go, attack the main position of the rebels!" ”

The whistle roared, the paddle wheel broke the water, and at sunset, fifteen of the world's most advanced steam warships lined up in battle formation, opening the way with two iron-hulled warships that were scarce even in the British Royal Navy, and slaughtered the main position of the Wu army.

After confirming the dispatch of the steam gunboats of the Tsarist fleet, Wu Chaoyue breathed a sigh of relief, only to find that his palms were already full of sweat, and his underwear had been soaked with sweat.

"It's not that I'm not sure, why are you so nervous?" Laughing at himself in a low voice, Wu Chaoyue lightly instructed Qian Wei: "Order, get ready, as soon as you see the signal, fire immediately." ”

When the order was delivered, the officers and men of the Wu Army, who had been waiting impatiently for a long time, immediately took their places, carefully loaded the shells containing nitrate, acid, sweet, and oil explosives into the contact fuses imported from the United Kingdom, carefully loaded them into the guns, carefully corrected the high amount of charge, and waited patiently with bated breath for the order to fire. At the same time, the same is true of the Huang Dasha position on the other side of the Jinhe River, as well as the Wu army's rocket position hidden under camouflage.

Driven by steam paddle steamers, the rapid water formed at the mouth of the Jinhe River certainly had little impact on the Russian steam gunboats, and after the two iron-hulled steam gunboats rushed into the southern channel of the sandbank, they couldn't wait to bombard the Wu army's 10,000-pound cannon with bitter acid shells.

With a loud bang, the Russian army's picric acid shell landed and exploded, and the flames of the spray luckily ignited the pre-installed fuse of the Wu army's 10,000-jin cannon, causing the Wu army's 10,000-jin cannon to launch on its own, and also overturned a number of Wu soldiers around it, among which there were two particularly unlucky Wu soldiers who were covered in picric acid flames, and were burned all over the body, rolling all over the ground and unable to extinguish it, and finally died miserably.

Seeing this scene, the soldiers of the Wu army gritted their teeth, but the Russian soldiers laughed wildly one by one, and the two iron-hulled steam gunboats with strong defense were even more unscrupulous and fired wildly at the real and false fortifications of the Wu army on the shore, and the Russian steam gunboats behind also successively entered the narrow channel south of the sandbar, aiming their criminal guns at the positions of the Wu army on both sides of the Jin River.

It was also at this time that Wu Chaoyue issued a secret order, allowing the soldiers of the Wu army who were ambushed in the upper reaches of the Jin River to throw a large number of fishing nets in the river, so that the fishing nets drifted with the tide and gradually drifted into the southern channel of the sandbank. Then after all the Russian steamship fleets entered the southern channel of the sandbank, Wu Chaoyue gave a faint order: "Send a signal and fire." ”

The order was issued, and multiple fireworks quickly rose into the sky and exploded, giving a general attack signal, and almost at the same time, Novosilsky also gave a general attack signal on the Russian flagship, "Fire!" Blow up the position of the yellow-skinned monkeys! ”

Boom Boom! The deafening sound of continuous artillery sounded almost simultaneously on the water and on the land, the artillery fire shone brightly, and the shells fired by the Wu and Russian armies were interspersed and staggered, each hitting its own target! Then, an even more earth-shattering explosion suddenly echoed in the Russian steam fleet.

A Wu artillery shell was the first to accurately hit the hull of a medium-sized Russian steam gunboat, hitting the iron armor of the Russian steam gunboat, and the nearby Russian soldiers immediately fell to the ground to avoid the shock wave, and the captain of the Russian steam gunboat sneered, because he knew very well that Wu's picric acid cannonball could not penetrate the armor of his ship, and could only explode on the surface of the armor, and did little damage to his warship.

"Boom!"

The cannonball exploded, and the contemptuous ridicule was immediately solidified on the face of the Russian captain, because he was experienced in naval warfare, he immediately discovered that the explosion of Wu Jun's flowering cannonball was amazingly powerful, and the shock wave generated by the explosion was far greater than that of the picric acid cannonball, and a single cannonball directly blew through the armor of his warship, leaving a hole in his hull! Then, the Russian captain couldn't help but blurt out: "This is not a picric cannonball!" ”

"This is not a picric cannonball!"

Also making this exclamation was the commander of the Russian army, Novosilsky, because a shell from the Wu army also hit the tail of his flagship, instantly taking the lives of many Russian soldiers, and directly blowing out a gap in the stern of his flagship. At the same time, this Wu Army artillery shell did not emit the unique flames and yellow smoke of the picric acid weapon, but only emitted an explosion sound that was far louder than the explosion of the picric acid shell, and a more violent and rapid shock wave!

To explain, Wu Chaoyue, who is also poor in chemistry and history, only knows that picric acid can be used as explosives, but he doesn't know that picric acid needs to add some other chemical components to exert its real power, so Wu Jun's picric acid shells and Western countries that obtained Wu Chaoyue's technology in this era, picric acid weapons are all filled with primitive picric acid, and the explosive power is far less strong than the picric-derived explosives represented by Shimose explosives, and the active ingredients lack catalysis, and most of them are wasted in combustion.

Wu Jun's nitroglycerin weapon is different, thanks to the blessing of countless most basic popular science books in later generations, Wu Chaoyue not only knows that nitroglycerin can be used as diatomaceous earth as an inert substance, but also clearly remembers that the use of papermaking wood pulp instead of diatomaceous earth inert effect is better and safer to use. Therefore, Wu Jun's nitroglycerin weapon is actually directly the famous Dana explosive!

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Wu's Dana dynamite shells and Russian picric acid shells exploded in the opposing positions and flotillas at the same time, and the screams and screams of the soldiers on both sides also echoed on land and water, but it was obvious that the explosions in the Russian fleet were much more violent, and the screams and screams of the Russian soldiers were much more than those of the Wu soldiers.

At the same time, more than 500 improved Congreve rockets also flew up one after another on the rocket positions of the Wu army, carrying Dana explosives and smashing into the Russian steamship fleet. The countless fishing nets that specialized in the blades of the paddle wheel of the steam warship were also pushed by the water of the Jinshui River, and slowly poured into the Russian steamship fleet in a sinister and despicable way............