Chapter 327 Yangtze River Water Battle

The surface of the Yangtze River!

Today, there are no clouds and a clear eye, and the soldiers of the Hunan and Han naval forces downstream see the river surface upstream, black smoke billowing out, hundreds of pillars of smoke rising into the sky, black smoke straight up to the sky, there is a great feeling of covering the sky, like a beast. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The people who escaped from Jiujiang had already exaggerated the ferocity of the Sanjiang Naval Division, which could be compared to the river fleet of foreign devils, with excellent weapons, fast and sturdy ships.

This made them feel a little afraid, and many of them didn't want to continue the war anymore because their hometown had been wiped out, no! It is the hometown that has been liberated, Hunan, Hubei, and Jiangxi are in the hot field division, and their families are under the rule of the New People's Army, and they have concerns.

But the officers didn't care about this, they were still agitating and expelling high-ranking officials.

"Yes! Commander! ”

"Peng Shuai! The New People's Army is all clippers and Western ships, so this battle is not easy to fight? ”

After Peng Yupho saw it, his brows tightened, they had seen the power of foreign ships, the speed was fast, and the guns equipped were far away, and there were not many ships from the New People's Army, but they were all the most elite and best warships.

I have already guessed the fighting style of the New People's Army in my heart, this is to use the rogue fighting method, the enemy advances and I retreat, and the enemy retreats and I advance, I don't plan to fight hard but want to eat meat, and dig it away from myself piece by piece.

But he was helpless, because this was a battle that must be fought, otherwise the morale of the sailors and the morale of the Xianghan would be gone, and the New People's Army would attack the city of Anqing, and then the party had surrendered wave after wave.

So he gritted his teeth and ordered: "As soon as the battle starts, all the big ships will open fire for cover, all the pickpockets will rush out, and all kinds of small boats will rush out for me from the two rivers, no need to keep, approach the enemy ships as fast as possible, and entangle them in close combat." ”

Peng Yupho has rich combat experience, and immediately made the best preparations and gave the most appropriate orders.

Of course, all this depends on whether the New People's Army gives him a chance and the appetite of the Sanjiang Water Division.

"Boom ......!"

"Puff ......!" One shell after another fell into the water, the Sanjiang Naval Division took the lead in firing, and their fighting style had a characteristic, the ship was large and strong, and the cannon at the bow of the ship hit far, and it was a concentrated onslaught against the middle of the Hunan army.

The dense barrage did not bombard those big ships, but blew up the pickpockets that rushed up to pieces, and the goal was to destroy the clippers of the Hunan army's naval division first and weaken the mobility of the Hunan army.

The shells were concentrated in the middle lane, and more than half of the hundreds of pickpockets were killed in an instant, and the barrage of the New People's Army was always blocked within a red line, even if the ammunition was wasted, these clippers would not rush through the warning area.

The Hunan army was not given the slightest chance, and at the beginning of the war, it took a defensive position.

"Damn! The commander of the Sanjiang Naval Division is a bastard, and such a good ship is actually a shrunken turtle? ”

"These nouveau riche! Isn't it just a clipper with foreigners? There are a lot of artillery, I really don't know where they got it, didn't they say that they didn't get along with foreign devils? Why do these ghost animals still sell cannons to them, I really don't know what these ghost animals have in their heads? ”

"Don't look at the menacing Sanjiang Naval Division of the New People's Army, they also rely on good weapons, and the experience of water warfare can't be compared with us at all, so these bastards are afraid of death, otherwise they will fight bayonets!"

When Peng Yupho and his generals saw the New People's Army's approach, they gritted their teeth with hatred and scolded the New People's Army for being unkind and lacking the spirit of martial arts, but they forgot that the Hunan Army was able to be majestic at the beginning, and it didn't start as a shrinking turtle, relying on dog skin plasters, and grinding down the Taiping Army by relying on a war of attrition.

Soon all the pickpockets were killed! Wooden planks floated on the water, blood stained the river, and countless corpses were scattered.

The big ships of the Hunan Army's naval division also gradually approached, and the artillery had already threatened the warships of the New People's Army, several warships were seriously damaged and injured and could not move, and one of them was hit by three shells and sank directly.

The boats of the New People's Army were also rescuing the people who had fallen into the water, and the boats of the Hunan Army on both sides approached.

"The Xiangwa on both sides came closer, changed the grape bomb, and the inclination angle was 5! Fire! ”

"Bang!"

Melee combat against small boats, solid bullets and explosive bullets are not good!

The hit rate of one shot is too low, and there are many small boats, so it's not cost-effective!

But the Portuguese bomb is different, this is a cross against a sailboat and an unsheltered boat.

When the cannonball is shot, the emanation is a discharge, and the sail and mast are smashed to pieces, and the damage to the wooden ship itself is covering, and there is basically no need to aim.

As soon as the shot went down, a large number of targets, especially the sailors and musketeers of the boats, were shot and fell into the water.

Although the small boats of the Hunan army approached, they did not seem to take advantage, but the ships in front were attacked, and there were heavy casualties.

"Not good! Xiang Wazi's boat was mixed with a small steamer, half of which was grapes, and half of which was replaced by flowers. ”

Tang Xiaobao commanded the warships on the left, and ordered them one by one to kill the rushing Hunan Navy warships one by one, with brilliant results.

The Hunan army sailors are like sending them as live targets, giving experience to their subordinates and training their subordinates.

However, just as he was too hidden, he heard the whistle, and when he turned his head to look, the command ship in the middle raised the command flag to retreat.

Only then did I find that the right side of the sailor division had been rushed up by the Hunan army's sailor, and two battleships were entangled, and the small boat of the Hunan army was about to penetrate from the right to the middle, but they were all suppressed by the musket fire on the small boat that had been sided, and there were more casualties than on their own side, which shows the tragic situation.

Li Dewu had to give the order to retreat slowly, and began to really use the rogue tactics, using the high mobility of the existing side.

Sure enough, the ships received the order and began to move slowly upstream, widening the distance from the Hunan Army's naval division, and urgently supporting the right run, and the barrage was thrown to that side.

Because they are all manpower, rushing over all by one breath, and now the physical consumption is not much, and it is impossible to compare with the new people's army equipped with machine-driven warships.

It was only half an hour from the beginning of the water battle to now, all the small boats and clippers were all bombarded and killed to the point that there was no threat, Peng Yulin saw that the New People's Army retreated slightly, and knew that it was no longer able to compete with the New People's Army, and could not inflict heavy losses on the New People's Army, so he began to command the big ships to retreat.

"I want to run, but there is no door! Now it's our turn to attack, the right flank will give me the remnants of the Hunan army's small boats, the clippers and the wounded enemy ships, and the other warships will give me the horsepower to chase down Peng Yulin and kill his flagship! ”

The whining black smoke rose more diligently, and all the warships finally increased their speed to the maximum and chased after Peng Yulin's big ship.

Finally, it was time to hit the big boat, and while chasing and shelling, the gunners of the Sanjiang Water Division cheered, and hurriedly loaded and pushed the cannon, aiming and ignition.

"Boom!"

"The warships of the Chen Zi battalion cover and counterattack and open fire."

Several shells were aimed at the same Hunan warship, and all of them hit, directly blowing up the ship to pieces, disintegrating into small planks, and killing all the people on board.

"Run! Come on! Don't let these bastards catch up. ”

As soon as the warship of Chen Ziying's warship received this desperate mission, the warship behind it was blown up, and the timid sailors hurriedly rowed the warship to escape, or fell into the water and swam to the two shores, and no one cared about Peng Yulin's order.

Who cares so much at this time, it is important to escape, and it is true to leave this blood hole.

Peng Yulin wanted to break the tiger to survive, sacrificed a small part, and saved most of the troops but failed, and all the warships could only desperately retreat to Anqing.

As long as the Sanjiang Naval Division saw that one by one was fighting one by one, it chased and kept shelling, and the chasing and chasing Hunan Naval Division collapsed directly, but there were too many boats of the Hunan Naval Division, and Li Dewu did not bring the entire Sanjiang Naval Division this time, but only brought these machine-driven boats with good maneuverability, so naturally he couldn't keep chasing, so he had to stop the pursuit after capturing a part of the Hunan Naval Division.

In the last battle, Peng Yulin lost two-thirds of his ships, and his strength was not as good as one-quarter of the original, so he no longer dared to fight with the Sanjiang Naval Division, and retreated in the water village of Anqing, and was passively beaten.

Then the New People's Army opened up the Yangtze River waterway, went straight to Nanjing, and made direct contact with Jiang and Feng, and Tongling and Chizhou were also newly managed by the New People's Army.

Ten days later! The Sanjiang Water Division set out from Nanjing and attacked Jiangyin, and the Huai Army hurriedly withdrew to Jiangbei, and the south of the Yangtze River was really controlled by the New People's Army. (To be continued.) )