Chapter 239 Yangtze River Water Battle

The situation in northern Hunan changed, the banner of the king in the city was replaced by a brand-new banner fluttering in the wind, and the first phase of the Eastern Expedition was basically completed, leaving only the waterway to break through Yuezhou. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

It is said that after Zeng Guoquan left, Yang Yuebin was uneasy, if it wasn't for the important military affairs, he would want to command the sailors down the river.

Sure enough, a few days later, the war in Changsha came, and the bad news of Yishui came one after another.

At the same time, the Sanjiang Water Division of the New People's Army, which had been holding back for a long time, finally showed its head at the tip of the small lotus, and began to move further eastward from the upstream.

Attacking Shishou from Gangneung County, and then attacking Jianli County, the troops of the 3rd Division went down to the city from the land and land cooperation.

Go down to Junshan downstream.

Junshan is bordered by the Yangtze River in the north and Dongting Lake in the south, and its geographical location is extremely important. Yang Yuebin would never let the New People's Army occupy this place, because it is only more than 20 kilometers from Yuezhou, and it is only a matter of time to have a meal by water.

Therefore, Yang Yuebin's warship was waiting for the Sanjiang Naval Division here.

Yang Yuebin's warships of various types were more than 1,000 and the number of sailors was five or six thousand, and the scale was huge.

From a distance, it looks like countless ants are densely covered, magnificent, mighty, like a devouring demonic beast, in the Yangtze River waterway is a flood beast.

Their opponents, the Sanjiang Naval Division, a dozen boiler-driven converted warships and gunboats, followed by a river of all-wooden warships of different sizes, the total number of which was only more than forty, and by no means more than 50.

Such a small fleet dared to come down to challenge, Yang Yuebin and his generals were quite disdainful, showing a sense of contempt.

Divide the team into three groups, two groups spread out their wings, outflank them in a roundabout way, and then a frontal group thwarts their edge.

The speed of the more than a dozen boiler-driven boats of the Sanjiang Water Division is fast, but it can't stop the ants from gnawing on the trees.

Both sides beat drums to attack and launched an offensive, and the Sanjiang Naval Division used a sharp sword, a dozen boiler-driven modified warships and gunboats as arrows, using an awl formation, only attacking but not defending, and rushed directly,

Seeing that the New People's Army was desperately stance, Yang Yuebin also gave a plan, only to see that he ordered: "The enemy's warships are all in front of the fast, order the big ships to be in the middle, pile them in front, and block them for me, and we must reduce their speed." ”

After being experienced in water warfare, he could see at a glance the fighting style of the Sanjiang Naval Division, so he transferred the army to set up a formation, and let the big ships go up first, so as to weaken the offensive momentum of the New People's Army.

"Boom!"

Of course, the first confrontation was each other's shells, one after another hit the target, the water set off huge waves, people swayed left and right on the boat, one accidentally could fall, and then the nose and face were swollen, but the water war is more about cooperation, no matter when to complete the work in hand as soon as possible, and then continue to complete the same work.

Unless you are dead, or someone else is dead.

Speaking of which, the New People's Army suffered, after all, there were fewer ships, and there were relatively fewer artillery shells for bombardment, and there were constantly shells smashed into the water on the front, left and right.

Fortunately, the artillery of the Hunan army was not so powerful, the rate of fire was slow, the cannon was large and heavy, and the small cannon was flexible on a small warship, but the firing distance was shorter, only two or three hundred meters.

The artillery of the New People's Army was either French front-loading guns, or there were dozens of breech-loading guns.

Penetrated the dense Hunan army naval division, and soon achieved results.

"Boom" one warship after another was sunk. ’

After a long distance, dozens of people who injured the Hunan army ship in front of it overturned into the water, and the big ship tilted slightly and asked to withdraw from the battlefield.

"The warship cannons of the New People's Army turned out to be so powerful and could fight so far."

Seeing that Fang had lost dozens of boats first, Yang Yuebin was shocked and painful, the sailor is not as expensive as the army, the sailor is more expensive, just an ordinary water warrior is the top three Lu Yong.

"Shelling! Call me. Kill the first two ships. ”

"Let the boat rush up, the New People's Army is approaching the range of the shelling."

"Retreat! Turn the rudder! ”

Tang Xiaobao, commander of the Sanjiang Water Division, suddenly ordered the water division in the shape of an awl to retreat backward and not rush forward.

The New People's Army returned against the current as a whole, but the shells still shot out and continued to hit the warships of the Hunan Army's naval division.

Yang Yuebin looked surprised: "What's the matter, why didn't the sailors of the New People's Army attack, how did they retreat." ”

Yang Yuebin thought that the Sanjiang Naval Division really dared to rush in and fight bayonets, but he didn't expect the command of the New People's Army to be stupid, and he came to his senses halfway through, and laughed at the moment: "Attack, attack, catch up, the New People's Army is defeated, rush up for me to capture those black smoke warships, and the other wooden ones don't sneak attack, all of them are sunk for me." ”

Seeing that the naval division of the New People's Army had turned, the naval divisions of the Hunan Army were excited one by one.

What does this mean, it shows that the New People's Army is afraid, so they scream one by one and strive to row to the wood pulp and rush up.

It's a pity that the Sanjiang Naval Division was not surrounded, and the Hunan warships on both wings were only half out, so Tang Xiaobao asked people to retreat, otherwise they might really be surrounded.

But it was not comfortable, the speed of the dozen or so boiler battleship gunboats was fast, but as soon as they retreated, the dozens of warships rowed by manpower that followed behind were not so lucky, many of them were hit and destroyed, and the speed was extremely slow, and they quickly broke away from the brigade and fell behind.

What's even worse is that these people directly hung up the white flag and surrendered.

"Hahaha. This is the sailor of the New People's Army, a group of rabble. Yang Yuebin completely retracted his cautious posture, and the flagship rowed over, admiring the warship of the Sanjiang Water Division.

Only then did I find out that the Sanjiang Sailor was a with a light surface, and a bag of Kang inside. At the front was a large and fast Western boat, and at the back was this small boat with more than a dozen people.

After inquiry, I realized that the Sanjiang Naval Division was expanding its scale of shipbuilding and recruiting troops, and it would be dispatched at least three months later, but Li He, who wanted to save face, heard that the other directions were progressing rapidly, and the Sailor Division must occupy Yuezhou as scheduled, so the Sailor Division was sent to fight.

The sailor was forced, knowing that he couldn't beat him, he had to come out and make a show.

So hit it and ran away.

Yang Yuebin naturally believed that the performance of the Sanjiang Naval Division could not be doubted, and he was greedy for the smoking warship, and heard that the New People's Army was still recruiting, so he had even more plans in his heart, and he must kill all the naval divisions of the New People's Army as soon as possible, and he could not let it have a big chance.

So half of the ships were divided and continued the pursuit.

"Give me to continue chasing, I must completely annihilate the warships of the New People's Army."

Without the drag of the boats, the battleships of the Sanjiang Naval Division were more free, and they shelled the Hunan Naval Division that had caught up while retreating.

Their speed can be fast or slow, and it is not easy for the Hunan army's sailors to catch up with them, so they hang like this, using the advantage of the long range of the cannon to continuously sink the Hunan army's warships, provoking the Hunan army to scold their mothers.

Because they were only ten miles away from the waterway, fifty or sixty of their warships were sunk.

Where is this pursuit, it is simply giving meat buns to people.

Some generals wanted to stop the pursuit, but Yang Yuebin was behind to supervise the formation, and the red-eyed Hunan army could only continue to chase, and then hit the painless shells.

"The New People's Army is not all incompetent, and it knows how to use its advantages to fight back against our army, it seems that they still can't be underestimated, but these dozen or so clipper warships, keeping them will eventually be a scourge, and if they are not eliminated as soon as possible, they will suffer a big loss in the future." Yang Yuebin has made up his mind, people have no long-term worries, he doesn't want to **** night and night to watch out for the naval forces of the New People's Army to make trouble.

Therefore, the generals who dissuaded were sent back, raised the flag, and raised the command flag to continue the pursuit. (To be continued.) )