On the morning of 9 August, when the Second Brigade of the Han Army and the Third Route Army of the Qing Army in Zhouqu County, Siqi Province, a regiment of the Third Brigade, an artillery battalion directly under the Third Brigade, and a heavy artillery company hurriedly rushed from Yuanhe City to the (Chang) River under the leadership of Lin Hao, political commissar of the Third Brigade. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The Manchu Second Route Army, which had only 5,000 men and was equipped with the most advanced thermal weapons in modern times, was very strong, but it was not taken into account by the Han Army, but the Qing Army's Second Route Army was acting on foreign ships, and the Han Army did not have a naval division or navy, so it could not effectively block the advance of the Qing Army's Second Route Army.

Therefore, the Han army headquarters mobilized a heavy artillery company from Yuanhe City when Lin Hao had a regiment and an artillery battalion in his hands.

This heavy artillery company is not ordinary, and the artillery equipped with is not the 75 mm field gun commonly equipped by the Han army, but a 100 mm caliber cannon (cannon refers to a cannon with a long barrel, a small firing elevation angle, a low and flat trajectory, a direct aim for shooting, and a gun with high muzzle velocity, often used in the offensive battles of former enemy troops, anti-tank guns, tank guns, anti-aircraft guns, aviation guns, naval guns and coastal guns all belong to the cannon type).

The 100 mm caliber cannon is already considered a heavy artillery in this era, but it is a pity that the Yuanhe City Arsenal has only produced eight such artillery pieces, six of which form a heavy artillery company, which was taken to Wushan County by Dong Xiangshan (who served as the commander of the artillery battalion, and the Han army should be at least the commander of the artillery regiment after the expansion, because the Han army has not formed an artillery unit above the battalion level, so Dong Xiangshan ran to the new barracks to train recruits, and Dong Xiangshan and the cavalry battalion commander Dong Xiangfu are brothers) were brought to Wushan County.

Although the 24 75-mm field guns of the artillery battalion directly under the Third Brigade were enough to block this section of the river in Wushan County, the 75-mm field guns were not enough to completely sink the multi-hundred-ton steamer on which the Qing army was riding, and the 100-mm cannon was different, and the steamer would be seriously damaged by a shell from a 100-mm cannon.

6 100-mm cannons, 24 75-mm field guns, a total of 30 guns (even if the mortars are counted, the power is smaller, and the firing range is also short) under the control of the Han artillery aimed at the river, just waiting for the Qing army's steamship to appear.

It's close to noon.

"Report to the commissar that the enemy's steamer has been found five miles ahead." The operator in the Jiangbian command reported to the political commissar Lin Hao.

"Well, the order goes down, not a single enemy ship can be allowed to pass through the blockade line." Lin Hao ordered.

"Yes!"

At noon, more than a dozen steamers appeared in the field of vision of the Han artillerymen and slowly approached this side, unbeknownst to the people on board, who had no idea that there were already 30 guns on the shore aimed at the ship they were on.

It wasn't until the first ship entered the blockade area that Captain Smith suddenly noticed that something was wrong on the riverbank, and took out his binoculars to look at the riverbank.

"Oh my God, speed up the ship." Smith was stunned, he didn't expect that dozens of artillery pieces on the river bank were aimed at his side, and it must be the enemy who could do this, Smith regretted participating in this operation, but Smith still gave the right order at the first time, and it was too late to turn and retreat, so he had to speed up and rush out.

"Zhu Yuan prepares, five rapid fires, open the cannon!"

The next moment, the thirty guns of the Han army on the river bank opened fire in unison, aiming at the ships at the front of the fleet.

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!

Most of the shells, which were still dense, fell into the water, but four shells still hit the enemy ship, one of which was a shell from a 100-mm cannon.

Suddenly, the enemy ship hit by the 75 mm field gun shook strongly, and still stubbornly moved forward, but many people on the ship were killed and wounded, and the side of the ship hit by the 100 mm cannon was directly opened by the shell A big hole, there was constantly river water poured into the cabin, the Qing army in the cabin fell into bad luck, first killed a lot by the shells, and now it is going to be flooded, the Qing troops who can move rushed to the deck one after another, there are few people to plug the gap, the river water keeps pouring into the cabin, and the speed of the ship is also weakening.

But it's not over yet, the shells of the 75-mm field guns with a faster rate of fire of the Han army came round after round, and each ship was hit by multiple shells, fortunately this is only a shell from a 75-mm field gun and not a shell from a 100-mm cannon, otherwise it would be good not to have a steamer on which the Qing army is riding now, which is like now, in addition to the steamer hit by the shell of the 100-mm cannon, although the appearance of the remaining steamer was damaged, and many people died on board, but as long as the shells did not hit an important target, It didn't do much damage to the ship, at most it slowed down the ship.

Compared with the 75mm field guns, each salvo of the 100mm cannon caused great panic to the dozen ships on the opposite side, and many sailors on board prayed in their hearts: they must not be hit! Don't get hit!

However, every salvo of 6 100mm cannons, at least one shell will hit the target, the first salvo will hit the first ship, so that the ship flooded a lot, but also brought a lot of casualties, the second round of salvo target is still the head of the ship, a shell directly into the inside of the ship, the steam engine burst, the head of the ship completely stopped, and even the risk of sinking, it depends on whether the sailors on the ship can block the turbulent river.

One target was solved, 6 cannons quickly shifted the target and bombarded the other ships, while the opposite ship made various evasive maneuvers on the not wide river, and even two ships almost collided together.

Unfortunately, these were of no use, the width of the Han army's blockade of the river was only a little more than 1,000 meters, and the Han artillery was seven or eight hundred meters away from the steamers on the river.

More than a dozen steamers were smashed by the shells of 24 75mm field guns, and then 6 100mm cannons were named one by one, and the ships that were hit were either seriously damaged or sinking, and the Qing troops on the ship even took rifles to shoot at the Han artillery positions, not to mention that the bullets flew into the sky, and even if they hit, they were blocked by the Han army's fortifications.

The last three steamers of the flotilla quickly turned and retreated, and were smashed by 75-mm field guns, but they were not stopped, and the salvo of six 100-mm cannons only left one steamer behind, and the other two steamers still fled with their wrecked bodies, but none of the remaining steamers on the river could not escape, two steamers had already sunk, and there were a large number of Qing officers and soldiers and steamers floating on the river, and even some of the steamers that had not yet sunk had some people jumping into the water, in their opinion, it was definitely more dangerous on the boat than in the water.

The overall situation must be determined, Lin Hao completed the task of blocking the enemy, and the remaining steamers on the river that had no hope of escaping hung white flags and surrendered.