"Boom, boom, boom......"

The sound of artillery spread far inland from Wusongkou, and dozens of Qing warships, large and small, were like a nail protruding in, blocking the mouth of the river. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info The five big ships broke into the Huangpu River very heroically, Chen Ming no longer doubted the determination of the Qing army, Huang Zhenggang put all the warships in his hands into the artillery battle.

On the river, the stone pond by the river, the cannon roared, and the smoke of gunpowder was filled from afar.

It seems that when the naval division of the Fuhan Army captured Wusongkou, the artillery battle on both sides was not so fierce.

Wusongkou, a place that could not be bypassed in modern Chinese history, has now been completely submerged in the smoke of artillery fire.

"Boom ......"

A huge firework suddenly erupted from the Wusongkou Shitang position, and the black gunpowder smoke condensed into a mushroom-like shape, and the whiskers rose. An entire artillery crew was shattered to pieces by the sound of the gunpowder explosion.

Chen Ming, who was a few miles away, did not have a flash on his face. What is a few lives? He has seen more tragic things along the way. Jingzhou, Wuchang, Taizhou, Changsha ......, the patches of corpses refer to pure soldiers, not the real mountains of corpses and a sea of blood, but they are not far behind. As for the millions of people who fled the famine, is it strange that they are hungry all over the wilderness?

It was when the southward team attacked Hangzhou, and the vanguard fought for a while with the Qing army retreating there in the city of Zhapu, Hangzhou. Because one of the teams rushed too fast, they were surrounded by the Qing army with superior forces in the Yiqi outside the west gate, and when the friendly troops came up, there were less than 20 people in a team who could still move.

The chief and deputy officers were killed, the instructor was killed, and only one of the three platoon commanders remained.

The army had already conquered the city of Hangzhou at that time. Now the Fu Han army is dealing with the Qing warships with artillery positions at the mouth of the river and along the river, and the ammunition on the position is caused by the Qing army's artillery shells to produce a martyrdom, how normal!

The small cannons of the five large ships were all unloaded, and now they were loaded with eight two-thousand-pound cannons each. But these cannons are all old cannons, and it is really difficult to say whether they can compare with the three-catty guns of the Shangfu Han Army in terms of range.

The smallest cannon of the Fu Han Army is also a five-pound cannon, and the effective firing range is still within the range of two miles, but it is very powerful if you remove 'effective'.

The five warships of the Qing army that broke into the Huangpu River were armed with all their might, and each ship was equipped with eight 2,000-pound guns, all of which reached the limit of the cannons on board, and the hull of the ship would tremble violently with each round of cannon sounds.

Zhang Yougui, the general of the Dengzhou Navy Division, yelled: "Fire!" "Today is desperate, Zhang Yougui is not ready to die. His family is in Shandong, the emperor named him a knight of the capital captain, Zhang Yougui died in Wusongkou today, and his son attacked the knight, and he couldn't go anywhere. Even because of the desperate battle, the title can be pulled up again.

Zhang Yougui commanded the warship to approach the artillery position of the Fu Han Army on the west bank of the Huangpu River. Smoke fills the hull!

"Boom!"

The eleven-zhang long hull trembled violently again! The bow of the ship was shrouded in billowing smoke, and the cannonballs flew into the distance with the sound of the wind!

But it was not Zhang Yougui's boat, but the boat of Yang Wei, the deputy general of the Guangdong Qiongzhou Navy Division in front of him, and a burning spark was blooming. His boat had just been hit by an arson.

Yang Wei's heart is like a hammer! The sailors on the ship were nervously extinguishing the fire, and one of the two wounded sailors was already dead and could not die anymore, and the arson bomb hit him directly on the shoulder, and half of his shoulder was gone. Sensen's bones were stained with blood......

The other was pierced into a hedgehog by the burst of broken wood, but there was still a breath to go.

Dead sailors were thrown directly into the river, as has always been the case in battle formations; There was also a breath of sailors who were dragged into the cabin. Yang Wei looked at the rotten hole in the hull of the back section, and Chen Liang [Susong Town General Soldier], who had a broken left leg, appeared in front of him again, Chen Liang was hit off by a cannonball, and the warship he was on also suffered heavy losses, so he reluctantly withdrew from the battle group, and it was Yang Weichuan who came in to replace him.

Yang Wei was originally from a family of sailors in Yunxiao, Fujian, and was familiar with naval warfare, his ancestors had defeated Zheng Ming with Shi Lang, and then the Manchu Dynasty's maritime frontier was calm for a hundred years. Rather than being prominent.

"This Han army is really difficult to do."

There are too many of their cannons. Not only the stone pond near the mouth of Wusong was equipped with artillery, but also a series of cannons were arranged in the river. It's also that the Fu Han Army didn't think about setting up defenses and obstacles on the Huangpu River, and they still had to use it themselves, the military, the people, those floating platoons, dragon king cannons, and the like were all put away. Otherwise, it would be a question of whether they can enter the Huangpu River today.

Yang Wei was fortunate that the arson bomb did not hit the vital point of the warship. Just a hole was made in the cabin.

"Boom, boom!"

Messy shells were constantly falling on or around the artillery positions. It seems that every interval only needs to blink an eye, and it flies by. The vast majority of the shells fired by the Qing army were still solid shells, and there were very few flowering shells. The Qing army's technology in making flowering shells was not up to standard, and they did not use wooden cartridges and wooden letter tubes, the walls of flowering bullets were too thick, and the gunpowder was less loaded, and the explosion power was far less than that of the Fu Han army.

However, the falling shells still caused considerable losses to the artillery positions in the Shitang of Songkou in Dongwu [Huangpu River]. The most important thing is the mental pressure. There were dozens of Qing warships on the river, no matter whether the artillery on those warships was powerful or not, there were only two or three hundred cannons on the dozens of warships, and there were also one or two hundred on one side, which alone was more than the artillery positions of the Han army in the east and west Shitang artillery positions in Wusongkou. Commander Tian Yuan was fortunate that except for the gun crew that was unlucky to be killed, the other cannons were still intact. It's just that the gunners and logisticians transporting ammunition were killed and wounded.

Every shell that landed nearby made the hearts of the entire people up and down the position tremble! The impact of the martyrdom of Shicai is far from subsiding.

Tian Yuan gritted his teeth, his face tensed, and whenever the cannon of the Fu Han Army was loaded, he couldn't stop muttering in his heart: "God bless!" God forbid. Don't be hit, don't be hit......" And when the cannon of the Fu Han army hit the Qing warship on the river, Tian Yuan would jump three feet high and shout loudly: "Well fight, good fight......"

The artillery battle is such a sharpening of people's nerves.

The Fu Han army had just gained a foothold at Wusongkou, and the fort forts had not been built at all, and the latter used cement in an important way. But Tian Yuan knew that if things didn't happen, he would have to change careers to become a coastal defense artillery in the future.

It's a very new word, but the meaning is very straightforward.

Yang Wei also had the same expression as him, and he was also praying for God's blessing, but his warship would still be hit by cannonballs. The real gap in strength cannot be bridged by a single 'prayer'.

Yang Wei's big boat was entangled in the mainmast by a chain bullet, and the iron chain connected to the two balls was deeply struck into the mast at a speed visible to the naked eye, and then the whole ship heard a loud 'click', and the whole ship shook violently in this loud sound, as if a mainmast like Optimus Prime collapsed with a bang. But it was not completely broken, and there was a bit of iron stubble connected to the fracture, and then dragged by canvas and rope, and the mainmast hung on the left side of the big ship like a big burden, and the burden of the big boat suddenly increased, so that the ship immediately stopped moving.

Yang Wei was shocked to the deck, and when he got up from the deck, he first called the sailors who were rolling all over the ground to quickly cut off the mast and cut the sail rope, but as soon as the words fell, the sharp whistling sound came from far and near, and the four iron bullets only hit once, and three missed, making three big splashes, but then they were hit by the flowering bullets in a row.

Yang Wei was still shouting to boost morale, when suddenly the entire warship trembled, and a huge burst of flames ignited the fallen sails. Immediately, a sailor exclaimed: "Ah! Shot! The sails burned...... and more than one. The good luck of the Qing army seemed to have come to an end, and two successive flowering bombs bombarded the position of the big boat, and immediately blew a big hole in the side of the ship.

The ship's side and deck were blown to pieces, and the sails were on fire.

The scorching shrapnel shuttled left and right on the left side of the ship, cutting tofu into pieces, cutting the gunners from the cabin in front of them to the left and right gun emplacements. Then the powder kegs piled up on the gun emplacements were detonated.

A large burst of intense fire burst from the middle of the big boat, mixed with broken wood and water waves were lifted dozens of meters high, I don't know how many sailors were affected, and a corpse was blown up on the spot, and the limbs were scattered everywhere.

The whole big boat is like a mung bean cake that has been bitten, a hideous and scary-looking hole, and billowing smoke is coming out!

"Extinguish the fire, extinguish the fire quickly......"

Yang Wei's whole body was thrown to the bow of the ship, his head hit the deck hard, and his whole body was as if he had been crushed by a car, and he didn't know how many bones were broken. I didn't wake up for a long time, but the official shouted to ask someone to put out the fire. The boats are all wooden, and if the fire is not extinguished, the whole ship will be finished.

The explosion completely destroyed the four gun emplacements on the left side of the ship, which was already completely incapacitated. The main general was unconscious, the ship was seriously injured, and it was difficult to even learn Chen Liang to drive out of the Huangpu River.

Then, in a series of shells, the bloody ship was hit one after another, and the weak protection was completely powerless to resist, and the entire hull was continuously opened out of a deadly hole. The duty guard and others could only escape by jumping into the river with the unconscious Yang Wei, and in the end, with a series of martyrdom, the entire ship became the first to sink in this artillery battle. But this is by no means the last......

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An afternoon and a night passed, and the next day dawned, the glow shone on the mouth of the Yangtze River, and the water surface was still dim. It is connected to Zhoushan all the way, and the sea water of one or two hundred miles of sea route is mostly muddy yellow.

Chen Ming did not let Yang Shijin turn back, but ordered them to continue to kill Benzhoushan.

Zhu Lian stood on Yang Shijin's boat, and the oncoming sea breeze made his bare scalp cold. Compared with many people who only cut off their braids and left the hair on the back of their heads, Zhu Li shaved his bald scoop very directly. Yang Shijin's large thunder ship has a length of twelve zhang, compared to the sea ships that Zhu Lian has experienced before, this large thunder ship is definitely the largest. Sail full of sails and sail at the front of the fleet.

Zhu Lian is wearing the uniform of the Fuhan Army, but he has no military rank, his current identity is the pilot of the fleet, not just started yesterday afternoon, but he was the pilot of the Fuhan Army fleet a few days earlier, but it still does not belong to the regular establishment of the naval division, Zhu Mian really wants to join this army.

Soon after the sailors of the Fu Han army arrived at Wusongkou, he was sent by Chen Jigong. Yes, Chen Jigong has already clarified his identity to him, his father, and his brother, and Zhu Lian still can't forget his shocked eyes that were about to bulge out at that time.

I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it at all. Who would have thought that their proprietor, who would have a close connection with the officialdom of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, would be a member of the Fu Han Army? It was so unexpected, too unexpected.

But immediately after, the Zhu family's father and son were all excited.

When Chen Jigong made it clear to them, Chen Ming had already surrounded the Fengsheng army in Changzhou, and the Fu Han army was in full swing, and the Zhu family father and son really didn't have any loyalty to the Qing Dynasty, so they immediately 'joined the gang'!

Zhu Lian led a group of 'trustworthy' people in the fleet to Nanhui first, and then transferred from Nanhui to Wusongkou, and now they have all become the pilots of the fleet. His father Zhu Zhiwei did not come to Wusong with him, and Zhu Zhiwei also had to assist Chen Jigong in Dinghai to help prepare for the 'reception'. But Zhu Zhiwei attaches great importance to Zhu Li's 'transaction'. It's a godsend!

As long as they do a good job, the father and son of the Zhu family will be able to gain a foothold in the army.

The Fu Han Army sees that the future is limitless, and everyone who joins in at this time, isn't it all 'future' that their eyes are staring at?

A glittering future!

And if you want to make a career in troubled times, what better place to do it than the army? Especially at sea, the Zhu family has an inherent advantage. Zhu Lian is not very old, but he has run in the south and the north. If you enter the water division, isn't it easy to make a contribution?

Out of the mouth of the Yangtze River, the fleet went straight to Yangshan.

The latter is the Pinghan of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. Historically, pirates wanted to harass the coastal areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and sailing ships would anchor in Yangshan to avoid the wind and draw water, and then depending on the direction of the wind, the direction of the plunder. At that time, Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Huangyan also met here to prepare for the Northern Expedition, but they encountered strong winds, and the fleet suffered heavy losses and returned in vain.

Yangshan, the seaway must be the main road, but also the Manchu Qing River and Zhejiang Navy patrol outpost. The Manchus also had heavy troops here, but now all the soldiers on the mountains have already been withdrawn.

If the sailors led by Chai Daji come to Chongming from Zhoushan, Yangshan is their only way. And most of the fleet of the Fu Han army can't reach Yangshan, so it will collide with Chai Daji. The distance from Zhoushan to Yangshan is closer than half of the Fuhan Army's naval division from Wusongkou to Yangshan. Chai Daji set off so long ahead of schedule!

The huge fleet of the Fu Han army sailed along the south bank of the Yangtze River to Nanhui, and whenever they encountered fishing boats along the way, the local people were all shocked and shocked. As soon as the brigade left the mouth of the Yangtze River, Yang Shijin ordered the idea of guarding, and then moved forward in the yellow sea for two hours, and Yang Shijin was very surprised to hear the report of the lookout: a few masts appeared on the horizon ahead.

Although it was not immediately confirmed that it was the Qing army, he still gave the order to twist the rudder, charge the cannon, and call the rear team to the police. Could those ships be the Chai Daji Department who came from Zhoushan?

The heat in Yang Shijin's eyes could melt the steel, his hands were clutching the binoculars, and his knuckles were so white that there was no trace of blood. The distance between the two sides is getting closer and closer, and the two huge fleets 'meet' in the northwest sea area of Yangshan.

"Good, good, good!" It was determined that it was Chai Daji, and Yang Shijin was so excited that he couldn't help himself. Finally, there is a war to be fought! The entire sailor is waiting for this battle. "Pass the order, our generation will fight here, everyone must work hard to defeat the enemy in one battle!" Yang Shijin's excited voice changed. In front of him, he must take it down, kill the Qing army and sailors in Zhoushan, wipe them all out cleanly, and win a battle for Lu Gong to see. They are not waste!

Most of the subordinates of Chai Daji's subordinates are new ships that have just been launched, although the cannons are still old cannons.

At the head is a No. 1 Tong'an Suo ship, it is estimated that the paint has just dried for a few days, it is seven feet long and two feet long, one foot and nine feet wide, and 14 large and small cannons are placed!

Shi Xinxiong stood at the bow of the ship, holding a telescope to look at the Fu Han army that appeared in the sea in front of him, and the red flag could understand which side of the fleet it was at a glance.

He ordered the four warships behind him to rush forward and deploy together with the four forward ships beside him.

The course of the Chai Daji Naval Division was from southeast to northwest, and the eight thunder ships and sea ships in the forward were ready for battle, waiting for the team to change to the sawtooth direction of due west - due north while maneuvering. In this way, the cannons on both sides of the ship can always be in the position of firing angle, and they can also maintain a high speed. At this time, the southeast wind is blowing on the sea!

Chen Dai and Xu Youruo, the two deputy generals of the naval division, commanded the follow-up fleet to deploy the formation in a 'wild goose' formation, and swallowed the naval division of the Qing army with a 'big mouth', so that they could give full play to their naval and artillery firepower advantages.

In naval water warfare, the naval division battalion of the Fu Han Army is a novice. But what they dealt with was not the main force led by Huang Zhenggang, but only a partial division of Chai Daji's Zhoushan Shui Division - thirty warships. There are forty or fifty main warships dispatched by the Fu Han Army, all of which are big guys such as thunder ships and bird boats, plus some fast crab ships, which are at least twice the advantage of Chai Daji, and they have an advantage in artillery combat power. Yang Shijin just wants to eat Chai Daji.

When the follow-up fleet of the Fu Han Army was just halfway out, there was a muffled sound of more than a dozen cannons on the eastern sea. Chen Dai and Xu Youruo were all stunned when they heard this, and thought, this fight is too fast, right?

Shi Xinxiong's face was pale at this time, because Chai Daji in the rear gave the order to retreat. "He's going to retreat from this stall?" Shi Xinxiong's mind was stunned, and before he could finish his thoughts, a few shells had already come with the sound of a sigh. One of them hit a small sampan more than 100 meters south of him.

This kind of boat is used for fire attack! Because the sea blows from the southeast, are they downwind? When Chai Daji went out to Dinghai, he specially dragged fifty small sampan boats, which were filled with forage and wood, poured grease, and sprinkled with gunpowder, sulfur and other ignition materials.

Now in the midst of the firelight, the small sampan boat was sunk by a single shot. Only a few pieces of wood were left to float on the surface of the water with burning hay...... (To be continued.) )