An oil lamp, the size of a soybean, illuminates half of the bedroom.

Li Laohan, whose hair was already half silver, sat at the head of the bed, and the tobacco in the cigarette pot in his hand had already been burned, and Li Laohan held it tightly in his hand, smoking it for a while. The wrinkles on his forehead are deep, his skin is dark, he is already in his sixties, and time has taken away his strength, but Li Laohan's energy is very good. In the Jiujiang Shipyard, he was one of the two masters in charge of the long dragon ship.

At the other end of the bed, sat Li Laohan's eldest son and third grandson, these two people are the next generation of Master Li and the next generation of Master Li who have inherited the shipbuilding knowledge in Li Laohan's mind. If it weren't for the Fu Han Army, how comfortable the Li family's small life would be. Relying on this craft, the Li family does not worry about eating and drinking, although they are not rich and expensive, but eating and drinking without worrying is already the life that many ordinary people dream of.

It was the Fu Han Army that changed all that. Their arrival made the three generations of the Li family have to go into the cabin, so that the three generations of the Li family have to work for them. Li Laohan got more money in two months in the shipyard than he got in two years in previous years. It was his third grandson, a most ordinary boatman, who also had two silver dollars a month.

But this money, three generations of the Li family, young and old, feel that it is hot.

How long can the Fu Han army hold out in Jiujiang? In the future, the imperial court will make a comeback, and a 'thief' like the Li family will be a disaster. Especially the sailors of the Fu Han Army will be killed on the river in the future, if this battle fails, hehe, the sin of a boatman and carpenter family like the Li family is not too big, but is that possible?

What kind of ships are the ships that came from Hubei? There seem to be hundreds of civilian boats and fishing boats, and there are a large area of black pressure, and if they really fight, half of the warships launched by Jiujiang Shipyard can be smashed if they collide.

The Fu Han army is very anxious for time and quality, and the ship materials also allow the selection of good materials as much as possible. For example, the wooden mast is made of straight cedar wood, and the people are not long enough to connect, and its surface is surrounded by iron hoops inch by inch. The Fu Han army is too long to say, cut it off; Beams and fangs are made of nanmu, oak, elm, and locust wood. Camphor wood is not used, because some of the camphor wood is cut in spring and summer, and there will be powder moth; The pallet is made of wood. The Fu Han army demanded that nanmu and teak be used as much as possible, which was extremely wasteful.

Li Laohan felt the urgency of coming out to restore the Han army, and they squandered and used the ship materials they captured in Wuhan and Jiujiang, which was obviously not a long-term appearance. How can this give confidence to Li Laohan?

"Don't act rashly." I don't know how long it took for Li Laohan to finally say these four words. The matter of ventilating and reporting the news is too risky, and the Li family can't do it. "The Fu Han Army has always locked us up in the shipyard, and they have also set a cool law in order to keep it secret. The news of the warship can be leaked by others, but we can't do it. ”

At the beginning, dozens of shipwrights and carpenters in the shipyard were implicated, and five people were killed on the spot when they were doing trouble, and the rest were all taken away by the Fu Han army, and no one knew whether they were dead or alive now. But those sneaky figures came alive again after a few days of silence. The Fu Han Army's supervision of officialdom is already very strict, but it can't catch the roots of those people and sweep them all out.

Now that the naval division of the Fu Han Army has formed an army, the water war is about to start, and those sneaky shadows are also jumping very actively, just like the New Year. The three members of the Li family have all received notes or behind-the-scenes messages and tricks, and with the establishment of the sailor battalion, each of these boatmen and masters is under tremendous pressure.

As a first-class master in the shipyard, Li Laohan has his own separate room, and after dinner today, his eldest son and third grandson came to the door to talk about this matter, but the two of them have been frightened by the six big words of 'the court will blame the coming day'.

The honest and responsible Chinese 'working people' don't know that there are still four words in this world, such as 'fishing law enforcement', but fortunately, the Li family was not fished away.

When the sailor battalion of the Fu Han Army sailed out of the lake, no one knew that a purge was also underway in the Jiujiang Shipyard.

Those shipwrights and carpenters who ate hooks, Chen Ming would not kill them all, but their status could only change from workers to prisoners of labor reform, which saved a lot of expenses for the Fu Han army.

It also greatly shocked everyone!

The existence of the sailor battalion is only the beginning, and the Fu Han army has to travel up and down the river, and warships are indispensable no matter what. Chen Ming also needs the second and third sailor battalions, and in the future, he will need warships that can cross the ocean, and the shipyard in Jiujiang will continue to exist.

In fact, 'fishing enforcement' is a killer. Kill the arrogance and strength of these shipwrights and carpenters.

Chen Ming wants a sail warship that can cross the ocean, not a traditional Chinese fortune ship. He also knows that the technology of shipbuilding needs to be accumulated day by day, but one more important thing is that the skills of the craftsmen who build ships must continue to improve. Otherwise, if they are left to hold on to their shortcomings, the progress will not be able to keep up with Chen Ming's expectations. The current scene of the 'Great Purge' is to offer a reward of a knife on the head of all the shipwrights and carpenters, and a thorn whip behind him, always reminding them of their 'humility'.

……

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

On the river with a width of no more than five miles, hundreds of large and small warships on both sides were intertwined, and the Qing army, which was completely a civilian warship, had no resistance at all in the face of the iron bullets and shotguns fired by the large sampan boats, the long dragon boats, and the fast crab boats, and had no backhand power.

At the beginning, the Qing army still wanted to rely on the strength of the boats, relying on the fact that they were in the upper reaches and had an advantage in speed down the river, and planned to get close to the Fuhan army sailors to fight hand-to-hand combat, or burn the ships with fireballs and oil, but the artillery and grenades of the Fuhan army made their ideas vain. Although the Qing army's initial fierce assault did cause a few large sampans at the head to suffer some minor injuries.

The arrows fired by the Qing soldiers, the guns they fired, and the fireballs they threw all caused damage to the sampans. However, this damage was far from enough to cause the sampan to sink. And the artillery released from the big sampan ship, each cannon can easily clear a boatload of clear soldiers. Those civilian ships have weak boards, and as long as they are hit by shotguns, they all become honeycombs.

……

At the same time as the big counterattack on the water, Chen Yongsheng drew the troops of the two battalions that had been stationed there from the shipyard, and now in the shipyard, a replacement battalion is enough to take care of everything, plus people.

And after the fresh forces of the two battalion leaders joined the battlefield in Jiujiangfu, on the south bank of the Yangtze River, plus a piece of 30 artillery pieces and sufficient ammunition sent by Yang Shijin and them, the Qing army immediately couldn't hold it.

Dozens of cannons bombarded hard, as if they wanted to vent all the depression they had suffered for more than a month.

The sound of artillery reflected half of the southern sky, and the sound of explosions came from the Chihu Lake not far away, and Arya Jiang was heartbroken. Chihu was the main battlefield of the Qing army's attack on Jiujiang after Chengzi Town, and it took them a lot of effort to force the Fu Han army to withdraw from the Chihu area step by step, but now the Qing army lost it so easily.

Relying on the help of artillery, the battle of the Fu Han army on land was completely like divine help, and easily broke the defense line of the Qing army in the east of Chihu, and then the war was burned by them to the west of Chihu. Arya Jiang is already unable to retreat at the moment, and the results of the battle on the river have not yet come out, but he can imagine that this is very unfavorable to the Qing army.

If he chooses to retreat now, and wait until the naval army of the Fu Han army wins the current battle, blockades Chengzi Town, and attacks Fuchi Town, Aryajiang's team will immediately be disheartened. Because no one wants to climb over the mountains that are hundreds of miles away and flee to Xingguozhou.

Now that the sun had set in the west, the army that had been chaotic and demoralized in the dark night was frightened by the news of the defeat in the water battle, and the army was really finished. He could only hope that Chen Yongsheng could also take care of the inconvenience of fighting again after dark, so he could drag him over tonight.

"Military gate, military gate, Xu Jiazui lost ......"

However, how can you think wishfully about your own good results in the war? At dusk, the Arya River connected to two bad news, first the Huowang Temple and then Xujiazui, and the Qing army's defenses in the area west of Chihu were completely torn apart by the Fu Han army. At this time, Chengzi Town had been blocked by the victorious sailor battalion of the Fu Han army.

An irrepressible heartache made Al Yajiang just want to faint, and before he could turn around, the Zhangjiazhuang where he was now could hear the guns and cannons of the Fu Han army. Then not long after, the huge sound of the flying thunder cannon sounded in his ears, and Zhangjiazhuang, where the Arya River had settled, was about to turn into a battlefield.

"Quickly lead the military gate to withdraw from Zhuang ......"

Aryajiang's ears were deafened by the sound of flying thunder cannons, and people were surrounded by his subordinate Goshha like puppets, ignoring the 2,000 men and horses gathered in Zhangjiazhuang, and fled straight towards the west road.

Al Yajiang's mind was in a mess, he couldn't figure out how the Fu Han Army could have such a powerful artillery team. Not only did the artillery on land completely overwhelm the artillery fire of the Qing army, but also on the water, dozens of warships, each of which had more or less large cannons and small cannons, which was hundreds of them, which was incredible.

And this can only be blamed on the fact that the level of Al Yajiang is too low, and the Qing army does not pay much attention to the communication of cooperation and military intelligence news, Al Yajiang is buried in the north and south of Jiujiang to fight, facing Chen Yongsheng, whose artillery strength has not changed greatly, is not difficult, and he does not know that the Fu Han army in the south of the Yangtze River has changed its guns, and its firepower has soared.

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

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

The shells of the Fu Han army rained down like no money, and the flying thunder cannons that flew into the air were densely packed, and before two quarters of an hour, Zhangjiazhuang was all in ruins. No matter how strong the house is, it can't stop the bombardment of the flying thunder cannons, and no amount of soldiers can stop the baptism of cannonballs. The 2,000 Hubei Green Battalions, most of which were raised by the Arya River, were either killed or wounded, and those who were still alive were completely herded and completely collapsed!

Waiting for the information from the front to come back, Chen Yongsheng didn't care about the darkness at all, and immediately guided the troops to continue to march towards Chengzi Town in the west, showing an almost reckless self-confidence. Beat the water dogs, and in his opinion, perhaps his own march was just a non-threatening pursuit of victory.

The Qing army lost one after another during the day, the area west of Chihu was scattered and scattered with the remnants of the Qing army, and the Fu Han army continued to attack and kill at night, and the water battle was lost, and the news that the Chengzi Zhenjiang was blocked by the Fu Han army also spread in an all-round way, and these defeated soldiers did not have a trace of fighting spirit, and fled to the west one by one. Under the cover of night, the whole army of the Huguang Green Battalion under the command of Arya Jiang was in chaos. One by one, they all turned around and fled westward, all the way west......

Even several military villages that blocked the way of the Fu Han army were thrown away by the Qing soldiers. The Fu Han army cautiously came to the front of the military village, but there was no one inside.

It is also seven or eight miles from Zhangjiazhuang to Chengzi Town, and if you march during the day, you can run it in half an hour. Now it's dark and blind, and Al Yajiang and his party are a lot slower, but no matter how slow they are, Chengzi Town is in front of them. Al Yajiang breathed a sigh of relief, and then looked around at the people behind him, his own personal army was still there, as well as the remnants of the soldiers gathered along the way, and a team that escaped from Zhangjiazhuang, a total of seven or eight hundred people. But everyone's face was full of sorrow. The flickering torch shines on their faces, and you don't see a glimmer of brilliance. They have lost faith in this battle. The sudden outbreak of combat power of the Fu Han army had already frightened them.

"You can't do anything. Ben Jiang's defeat was a complete defeat of the Huguang Green Battalion. I am ashamed of Huguang's father and everyone. Al Yajiang sighed, and tears flowed in his eyes: "Ladies and gentlemen, I am a general of the imperial court, and I have been greatly favored by the imperial court, and I have been defeated many times, and now there is only one death." But you don't need to burn with me. Let's go, all of you. The scourge of Chen Rebellion cannot be eliminated in a short period of time, and the imperial court will be used in many places in the future. Please also serve the country with loyalty! ”

"Chengzi Town is the place where I am buried, you can protect me so far, you are already worthy of me, you all go, go west, take care of yourself, and ask for more blessings!"

His words were completely different from the high-spirited people he usually had, and he was really weak. Everyone next to them looked at each other, and after a long while, one of them sighed and said, "Why did the military gate say this." The military gate is a nation, and we have enjoyed the kindness of the court for generations, so this life is naturally the court's. And since the autumn and winter of last year, repeated defeats have been able to save their lives and official bodies, thanks to the kindness of the military. At this time, if you abandon the army and leave, and flee when you see danger, is it still a human being? ”

"The military gate is fighting to the death in Chengzi Town as he wishes, and a certain wish will be left and right." This man's words are very comforting, but he is also faintly discouraged.

"Yes, Junmen, it's just a death, why be afraid? A wish is left and right. ”

"So and so."

A group of officers who followed him spoke one after another, whether they really thought so in their hearts or not, and they probably said so in their mouths.

Al Yajiang was moved to tears, he really didn't expect the people around him to repay him like this in the end, and choked up: "I, the general of the defeated army, an incompetent man, will cause you to die together...... A sad cry that only has the end of the road but not the tragedy sounded outside the city. (To be continued.) )