Chen Dingao ordered the soldiers to throw all the corpses on the cruiser "Saskehana" into the sea. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 It took a little half an hour to clean up a total of more than 100 corpses of foreigners, more than 300 corpses of the person himself, it seems that the battle situation was very tragic, and although the samurai finally occupied the cruiser, they also lost a lot.

According to several captured samurai, they killed the warship from the shore and had already controlled the warship, but because they could not drive the warship, they could not leave the dock for half a day. It is precisely because of this that the captives rushed directly onto the warship.

Chen Dingao did not have time to let the soldiers clean up too much, so he personally served as the captain of the ship, and commanded the soldiers of the capture army to start the cruiser "Saskehana" and directly approached the unwilling cruiser "Mississippi" next to him.

At this time, the official ship of the person next to him also discovered that the cruiser "Saskehana" had been occupied by the captives, and they divided more than 30 ships and approached.

Fortunately, the cruiser "Saskehana" did not suffer any damage, except for minor injuries caused by the fighting on board. Chen Dingao ordered the ship to be hung with full sails, and then the boiler was burned to prepare for the steam engine.

The "Saskehana" slowly started moving, smashing several official boats that had rushed over first, and one of them was also smashed through the front cabin on the spot, and the sea water poured in, and more than 20 samurai fell into the water and fled.

After the officers and men of the captured army were familiar with the cruiser, Chen Dingao ordered the ship to approach the "Mississippi" and prepare to seize the American flagship.

However, the "Mississippi" was surrounded by more than 30 official ships, and the entire warship was densely surrounded without the slightest gap.

Despite this, the "Mississippi" still fired two shells from time to time, blowing up the official boat next to it.

The two frigates kept cruising, firing shells and sinking the official boats.

If it weren't for the fact that there were only 60 Americans on board the "Mississippi" warship, there were only 60 people on board, and they would not be able to fire too many guns. This is a one-sided slaughter!

Gradually, the official boat became more and more dwarfed and difficult to support.

Moreover, although the "Mississippi" could not sail due to sailing, the boilers were slowly heating up, and after a while, the steam engine could be put into operation and the paddle ship could be started.

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And at this time, three or four miles away from the "Mississippi", two American cruisers and one frigate were in a major crisis!

I don't know when, nearly 100 warships without flags sailed in the open bay, and the leader turned out to be a fifth-class Western warship, blocking their retreat out of the bay, but they did not take the initiative to provoke them.

Major Charles was the captain of an American cruiser, and the commander of the two cruisers and the frigate.

Seeing that the difference in strength between the two sides was too great, he ordered all of them to lean to the dock first, and then make a decision with the flagship.

So, the two sides leaned towards the mouth of the river with a tacit understanding.

Two cruisers and one frigate soon approached the other two frigates, and the five warships opened fire on the Japanese official ships at the same time, and the Japanese official ships could no longer fight each other, so they withdrew one after another and fled along the estuary to the upper reaches of the river.

Suddenly, the entire estuary was left with the U.S. East India Fleet and the Capture Army Sailors.

Finally, the "Mississippi" started the paddle wheel and began to move. At this time, Rosen and others took Perry, Buchanan and other foreigners on the shore to the warship "Saskehana".

Approach the USS Mississippi, turn on the flag, and let the American soldiers come out to negotiate.

Rosen and several soldiers of the Capture Army, escorting Perry, stood on the top deck and shouted at the flagship, demanding that the flagship dock and stop sailing.

On the "Mississippi", two American soldiers went out of the deck and responded that there were dozens of Samurai on the ship, and asked General Perry to send troops to the rescue.

Rosen was overjoyed, and there was still a samurai in the flagship, and he was busy agreeing to come down instead of Perry.

The two ships approached, laid out sampans, and despite the shaking, Rosen accompanied the soldiers of the captive army to rush to the deck of the "Mississippi" with Perry and Buchanan. At this time, two frigates also headed for the "Mississippi".

Seeing this scene, Perry, who had been cooperating, suddenly took the opportunity to rush on the sampan and shouted: "Enemy! They are enemies! With that, he jumped into the sea.

Caught off guard, the two soldiers instinctively pulled and grabbed Perry's uniform, but because Perry was tall and strong, where could he pull it?

Perry, along with two captive soldiers, fell into the water.

Chen Dingao and Rosen couldn't have imagined that Perry would be so strong that he would dive into the water and want to escape. Fortunately, the sampan was finally laid out, and it was easy to rush to the USS Mississippi.

In desperation, while ordering the soldiers to rush along the sampan to the "Mississippi" and capture the flagship, he also had people throw down the planks and cables to rescue Perry and the two captured soldiers.

The American soldiers on the deck of the two frigates next to him had already recognized Perry who had fallen into the water and rushed over to rescue him.

Four warships mingled together. The American soldiers on the frigate even adjusted their angle and opened fire on the cruiser "Saskehana." Suddenly, the sampan between the "Saskehana" and the "Mississippi" was destroyed by artillery, and more than a dozen soldiers of the prisoners on it also fell into the sea.

Seeing this, Chen Dingao didn't care about searching for Perry and rescuing the soldiers who had fallen into the water, and hurriedly ordered the "Saaskehana" to return fire.

The artillery of both sides was bombarded with each other.

Fortunately, Rosen and dozens of soldiers had escorted Buchanan and several American soldiers to the deck of the USS Mississippi.

In order to prevent Buchanan and several other American soldiers from escaping like Perry, Rosen personally took care of Buchanan, who was tied up behind his back, and the other American soldiers also rushed to the deck of the "Mississippi" with foreign guns.

The American soldiers on the "Mississippi" already knew that Buchanan was being forced, and led the enemy over, all armed with foreign guns, but because several American soldiers had become meat shields in front of them, it was difficult to attack. However, the soldiers of the captive army were so reluctant that they slammed a few shots and shot first, wounding the American soldiers.

The Samurai who were still resisting on the deck of the "Mississippi" thought that they were friendly forces who had come to their rescue, and their morale was high, and they fought hard, and they even killed the American soldiers one after another, and the two sides fought desperately, suffering heavy casualties, and all the Samurai were killed in battle, and there were only more than ten American soldiers left, and all of them were seriously wounded.

The officers and men of the capture army seized the opportunity to storm the ship, captured the more than ten wounded US Navy soldiers, and easily occupied the cruiser "Mississippi".

Rosen was overjoyed and immediately ordered Buchanan and the American soldiers who were holding their guns in the back to sail the cruiser "Mississippi" to the shore to meet the more than 400 officers and men of the 3rd Battalion and the regimental headquarters who were still confronting the samurai.

One frigate entangled the "Saskehana", the other lowered the cable, and at some point, Perry, who jumped into the sea, did not drown, swam to the side of the frigate, and was rescued by the American soldiers on board.

Then, seeing that they could not please him, the two frigates bypassed the "Suskehana" and rushed towards the "Mississippi", hoping to attack while the newly captured "Mississippi" had not yet been completely mastered by the captives.

The "Saskehana" had already turned to the side of the ship, aimed at the frigate sideways, and a 150-pounder gun and six 8-inch smoothbore guns on one side opened heavy fire, but due to the distance of 100 meters, only one shell hit the American frigate and did not cause much damage.

Only then did Chen Dingao realize that naval warfare was not as good as that of inland river divisions, the sea was turbulent, the warships were always shaking, the distance was good, the distance was a little farther, and the hit rate of naval artillery bombardment was less than one percent.

But even so, it made Perry, who had just changed into clean clothes on the frigate, frightened, and hurriedly ordered the two frigates to stop caring about the flagship and the "Saskehana", and to merge the other three warships first.

So the two frigates turned a corner and headed out of the mouth at a speed of twelve knots.