"Knock knock knock!" In the earth-shaking war drums, the Battle of Luoshan entered the key battle to determine the outcome from the very beginning, and three water and land battlefields were arranged around Jiangxin Island in the middle of the Luoshan River, and three bloody battles were launched at the same time, and the first battlefield that started first was the battle for the beachhead of Jiangxin Island between Han Daren, the general of the Wu army, and the Jiangxin Island guard general of the Qing army.

"Bang bang bang! Bang bang! What surprised Wu Laohan was that the firepower of the Qing army defenders on Jiangxin Island was quite intensive, judging from the continuity of the gunshots, the Qing army muskets on the island may even reach about six or seven hundred, which also made Wu Laohan Jian couldn't help but be stunned, and said in his heart: "How can Tuhai Xiaoer arrange so many muskets on Jiangxin Island?" Could it be that he sent half of the musketeers in the army to Jiangxin Island? ”

Wu Lao Han Jian's surprise is not unreasonable, because Wu Lao Han Jian is very clear about the Qing army's musket equipment, the average 100 infantry soldiers equipped with bird guns are not even ten (Kang Mazi thirteen years of data), Tu Hai has 20,000 troops in the Luoshan battalion This is repeatedly confirmed, it stands to reason that there are more than 2,000 muskets at most, but Tu Hai arranged so many muskets to Jiangxin Island at once, so the Qing army that reinforces Jiangxin Island and the Qing army guarding the north shore still want muskets?

"Father-in-law, please take a look." Confused, the young-eyed Hu Guozhu first saw the clue, holding a clairvoyant mirror in one hand and pointing at Jiangxin Island with the other and shouting: "Father-in-law, Mangou used a new musket, like a pipa, which can shoot continuously, is this the legendary Mangou's new equipment Shui Lianzhu?" ”

Wu Laohan Jian unhurriedly raised the clairvoyant mirror, and carefully searched on the beachhead of the Qing army on Jiangxin Island, and sure enough, Wu Laohan quickly found that there were several Qing soldiers hiding behind the antlers, and sure enough, they were holding a new musket that looked like a pipa, and they were firing at the Wu army fleet that was gradually approaching, without loading ammunition, and the rate of fire was very fast, almost without pause, and one gun could almost top the firing speed of seven or eight ordinary muskets. Wu Laohan suddenly realized, but he couldn't help but be a little timid--can his landing army on the island, can he break through such a new-style musket blockade?

Because the distance was too far away and the quality of the telescopes in this era was not very high, it was really difficult for Wu Laohan to carefully observe the specific power of the Qing army, so he had to put this matter aside for the time being and concentrate on observing the charge of Han Daren's army. And what made Wu Lao Han quite pleased was that Han Daren, who was expected to have high expectations by himself, did not live up to his expectations after all, and led the fleet in the face of the dense firepower of the Qing army, while protecting the bow with a shield, while shouting at full speed, the ship just docked, countless Wu soldiers had already jumped into the waist-deep river, waving shields to block the Qing army's ammunition bows and arrows, roaring to attack the island, even if the arrow was shot and fell, it was one after another to continue to move forward, charging towards the Qing army's fortifications.

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At this time, a new violent roar came, as the first Qing army warship appeared at the east end of Jiangxin Island, the Wu army artillery team led by Xia Guoxiang began to pour frantically, in the rumbling roar, one after another cannonballs soared into the air, whistling in the air to draw a terrifying trajectory, smashing the head and face to the Qing army fleet, the first Qing army thunder-class warship immediately hit five cannons, the deck mast was smashed to sawdust flying, and three of the flowering bombs exploded on the deck and in the cabin, The Qing sailors on the boat either flew in the air with a bloody scream or screamed, and fell far into the river, and the warship immediately lost control and was swept downstream by the river with a whirlpool.

"Boom! Bang! Bang! The powerful artillery of the Wu army roared and roared one after another, pouring artillery fire, but the Qing army's sailors with rich experience in water warfare also showed unimaginable courage and tenacity, and turned the rudder with difficulty in the raging artillery fire of the Wu army, and went up the current to kill the Wu army's troop transport fleet in the middle of the side of Jiangxin Island.

On the river, the continuous explosions and roars completely covered all other sounds, the firelight continued to bloom on the surface of the river, and the splashes aroused by the explosion rushed higher and higher, and the warships of the Qing army's naval division broke their masts and poles in this fierce artillery fire, struggling, I don't know how many Qing warships caught fire and burned, and I don't know how many Qing warships broke their decks and broke their sides.

At least two Qing warships were hit by Wu army's flowering shells at the side draft, blowing up several large holes of several feet, the river water surged into the cabin, the warship tilted suddenly, and the Qing sailors standing unsteadily on the deck screamed and fell into the river one after another.

What's more exciting is the scene of the Wu army's flowering bullet hitting the slurry cabin of the Qing army's warship, the Qing soldiers who were hiding in the cabin and shaking the pulp were sweating like rain and shaking well, but after a loud noise, a black iron ball with green smoke came in, and there was no time and opportunity to react and dodge, the iron ball exploded directly, and the violent shock wave sludge cabin, even if the Qing army oarsman was not shot by shrapnel, he would be shocked to death and injured by the shock wave, and the blood wave spewed out from the breach, just like the warship itself spewed blood arrows, dyeing a large area of river red.

The most unfortunate are small ships such as Qing army sentry ships, although these ships are light and flexible, but once they are hit by shells, even if they are hit by solid shells, they will be hit by the bottom of the ship on the spot, and they are not far from sinking.

For a time, the river was full of fires and splashes, and there were floating wooden corpses everywhere, but although the artillery fire of the Wu army was so fierce, Zhang Tao, the deputy chief of the Qing Army's naval division who led this fleet, still kept shouting and ordering, "Flag, flag, let all the ships speed up the charge, don't be afraid of Wu Gou's artillery, as long as you rush up and mix with Wu Gou's troop carrier, we will win!" Rush, rush to Lao Tzu! ”

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At the same time, the sound of an explosion finally came from the west end of the fishtail of Jiangxin Island, which was long and narrow into the fish, announcing the decisive battle between the main force of the Qing army's naval division and the newly formed Wu army's naval division. The fires on the river exploded endlessly, and shells of different sizes whistled in the sky, like flying locusts, which was extremely spectacular.

"Rocket ready!" When the Qing army fleet was less than four miles away from the Wu army's fleet, Du Hui, the commander of the Wu army's naval division, asked the flag platform to play the flag, and a moment later, when nearly half of the Qing army's ships entered the range of Wu army's rockets, Du Hui decisively shouted again, and a more spectacular and brilliant scene also appeared in front of the soldiers on both sides, hundreds of rockets dragged the gunsmoke, whistling and churning towards the Qing army's fleet.

After Xu Zhengming's skillful improvement, Wu Jun's rocket has obviously greatly improved in terms of accuracy and flight stability -- at least it will not fly and suddenly circle and turn around and hit Wu Jun. Of the nearly 300 rockets fired by the 35 Wu warships in one go, at least 70 percent of them penetrated into the Qing fleet and exploded, and quite a few of them directly hit the Qing warships and exploded, and at least eight of the masts of the Qing warships were blown up at the same time, and the Qing soldiers on the deck were even more unlucky, either killed and injured by rockets, or smashed by their own masts, and their heads were broken and bleeding, and their tendons were broken and fractured.

"Whoa-whoa!" The rockets of the Wu army's warships were constantly being fired, as if they wanted to launch all the rockets carried on board -- and this is exactly the case, once the two naval divisions were entangled, it was too easy for the Wu army's direct-fire rockets to accidentally injure friendly troops. And the Qing army sailors also knew very well that they couldn't fight the Wu army's warships in long-range weapons, so the Qing army's flagship that Yang Jie was sitting on had always played the same banner - charge! Rush up and fight with Wu Jun in hand-to-hand combat!

Although as early as the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming army had already used the world's earliest second-stage rocket fire dragon out of the water under the leadership of Qi Jiguang's pervert, but the power of the Wu army's improved rocket was obviously a hundred times better than the fire dragon out of the water. The small warships and boats destroyed by the Wu army's artillery and rockets were even more innumerable, and at least 20% of the ships had already withdrawn from the battle with hatred before they could even see what the Wu soldiers looked like.

On the Wu army's side, only four warships caught fire, and they were quickly extinguished by the soldiers, and the losses of the small warships and boats were also quite slight, and the soldiers who fell into the water also relied on the gourd tied around their waists to save their lives and fled to the friendly warships. However, in the face of the victory of long-range weapons shooting, Du Hui, the commander of the Wu Army's naval division, did not smile at all, but silently estimated the distance and the rocket consumption of the self-army, when the flagship rocket was about to run out and the Qing warship was less than a mile away from the self-army, Du Hui stood up and shouted: "Beat the flag, shoot all the rockets, beat the drums, and charge the whole army!" Scatter and rush up, mingle with the full dog fleet, and entertain the full dog with grenades and incendiary grenades! Remember, prioritize the bird boats and thunder boats that burn full of dogs! ”

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When the main force of the Wu army's naval division launched a counter-charge, the Wu army infantry led by Han Daren had all rushed to the beachhead of Jiangxin Island, while frantically returning fire with bows and muskets, shooting and killing the Qing soldiers behind the fortifications, while quickly seizing the beachhead to make room for the rear army to land, and the troop transports and civilian ships behind turned around one after another, rowing back to the south bank at full speed to carry the next wave of troops landing on the island. Seeing this scene, Tu Hai, who was observing the battle with a clairvoyant mirror from a high place, was also completely anxious, and shouted: "Immediately raise the flag and give the order, let the army in Hubei counter-charge, and drive the Wu Dog infantry off the beach!" Give Zhang Tao another flag, let his fleet speed up the charge, no matter how many warships are lost, I have to stop Wu Gou's second wave of troop carriers, and buy time for the defenders of Jiangxin Island to annihilate Wu Gou on the island! ”

The order was issued, and the Qing army on Jiangxin Island first made adjustments, and about 3,000 troops crossed out of their positions, shouting and charging at the Wu army Han Daren who occupied the beach, Han Daren also understood the intentions of the Qing army, tore off the gourd on his waist and threw it on the ground, raised his knife and shouted: "Brothers, tear all the gourds, and fight to the death with the dogs!" ”

Countless soldiers of the Wu army marched according to the order, pulled off the gourd on their waists that relied on floating across the river, and with the determination to break the cauldron and sink the boat, followed behind Han Daren, and launched a counter-charge towards the Qing army. The soldiers on both sides were like crazy, fighting separately in the sea of swords and guns, slashing and slashing at the enemy on the beach with red eyes, stabbing and smashing with spears and axes, stumps and broken arms and waves of blood flying all over the sky, so cruel that the pen and ink were completely indescribable.

At the same time, the Wu army's rifle weapon grenades also began to exert their might, although because of the limited number of grenades carried across the river, the Wu army could only use the grenades in a concentrated manner, and the Wu army's grenade thrower detachments hiding in the rear were divided into batches, specifically picking the Qing army's soldiers to throw them collectively in densely populated places, but the power of the explosion of dozens of grenades at a time was not covered, and the Qing soldiers cried wolf howls and ran around with their heads in their hands, not only the Wu army could not be washed off the beach, but was defeated and retreated by the Wu army. In desperation, Tu Hai had no choice but to send reinforcements in advance, using civilian fishing boats to carry them to the island, increasing the defense strength of Jiangxin Island, and dreaming of using superior forces to annihilate Han Daren, the lone army of Wu.

The cruelty is definitely not only a battlefield on Jiangxin Island, at the east end of Jiangxin Island, Zhang Taobu of the Qing Army's naval division has been in the cruel hell of steel and gunpowder, struggling under the concentration of Wu army's artillery, moving forward with difficulty, more than ten warships have been completely sunk by Wu Jun's artillery, and more than a dozen ships have been blown up slurry tanks or rudders, becoming waste islands floating on the river, not only becoming the practice target of Wu Jun's artillery, but also greatly delaying the westward pace of the remaining warships of the Qing army. It was also at this time that Tu Hai faintly regretted not following the advice of Yang Jie, the commander of the sailor, but for the sake of face, Tu Hai still kept urging the lookout to play the flag and urge Zhang Tao's fleet to move forward.

"Picture in the hall, look! Our sailor and Wu dog sailor are mixed together! Chani's exclamation interrupted Tuhai's remorse. When Tu Hai turned his head to look, he found that the situation was indeed the case, after the Wu army's sailor fleet launched a charge with a weak force, it took advantage of the upstream water to rush into the Qing army's fleet almost instantly, and completely mixed with the Qing army's fleet. Seeing this scene, Tu Hai couldn't help but be overjoyed, and said secretly: "Okay, as long as Wu Gou's sailor fleet is annihilated, this battle will be won!" ”

"Master! Du Hui is really worthy of Zheng Chenggong's favorite general, and there is really a set of water wars! Contrary to Tuhai, who had no experience in water warfare, seeing that the Wu army's warships did not use a diamond-shaped array to cut and charge, but instead scattered and charged the already insufficient warships, completely stirring them into the self-army fleet, Yang Jie, the chief general of the Qing army's naval division with experience in water warfare, couldn't help but sink in his heart, and understood that he had met an opponent -- Du Hui's move made it clear that he wanted to give full play to the flexible and mobile characteristics of the Wu army's bird ships, limit the steady and collision-resistant power of the main warships of the self-army, and restrain the main warships of the self-army with clumsiness.

"Raise the flag, the sand rushing boat continues to advance, leave the battlefield and assemble upstream!" Admiration is admiration, Yang Jie, who wiped out the entire army of Wu Jun Han in the battle of crossing the Jiujiang River in history, is not a vegetarian, and decisively ordered: "The bird boat, the thunder boat and the sentinel boat stay, entangle with the Wu dog fleet, and wait for the sand boat to turn around and meet the ......." ”

"General! Look! Wu Dog is using Molotov cocktails again! The heart-rending screams interrupted Yang Jie's order, Yang Jie jumped up and looked around, and found that the situation was indeed the case, as soon as the Wu army warship got close to the Qing army's warship, it was immediately more than ten or twenty incendiary bombs thrown out, and the Wu army's incendiary bombs were obviously more powerful than those in the Wuchang War, as long as an incendiary bomb hit the Qing army's warship, there was a sea of fire within a radius of several zhang, and it was not extinguished when it met with water, and the Qing soldiers were screaming, ghosts and wolves were howling, and they were holding their heads and rats.

What made Yang Jie even more frightened was that Wu Jun's incendiary bombs, grenades and other throwing weapons turned out to be bird boats and thunder boats that concentrated on greeting his own army, but he almost ignored the bulky, slow, and easy-to-burn sand boats. Yang Jie couldn't help but be furious and scolded: "Okay, you Du Hui child, you want to kill our flexible warship first, and then clean up our sand boat?" The abacus is very good, but alas, dreaming! Raising the flag, changing the order just now, the sand rushing boat stopped moving forward, approached the Wu Dog warship, and jumped on the deck to fight! ”

The flag was raised, and all the sand rushing boats of the Qing army, which carried the most troops, stopped advancing, turned the bow of the ship awkwardly, tried to get close to the Wu army's warship, and jumped on the deck to fight with the Wu soldiers. And after Du Hui found out about Yang Jie's evil intentions, he immediately shouted: "Raise the flag, try to avoid hand-to-hand combat, shuttle combat, use incendiary bombs to greet the full dog warship, and use grenades to greet the full dog soldiers!" ”

On the battlefield of the Yangtze River on the north side of Jiangxin Island, a rare melee of warships was staged, and the large and small warships of the Qing army desperately pursued and intercepted the warships that wanted to encircle the Wu army, while the Wu army relied on the light and flexible ships of the ships, shuttling and swimming among the enemy fleets, like swimming fish, and once they approached the Qing army's bird ships that could catch up with the self-army warships in terms of flexibility and speed, they immediately smashed a series of incendiary bombs and grenades, and they did not approach the sand boats with the most troops of the Qing army. Wouldn't it be easy to pack up the nimble bird boat, the thunder boat, rely on the ammunition and firearms on land to replenish it, and then pack up the heavy and slow sand boat? I'm afraid that the enemy won't have this chance to run if he wants to, right?

There are Wu army warships because they are too much enemy group to be surrounded by enemy ships, and the sailors on the enemy ships jump onto the Wu army warships like dumplings, and fight bloody battles with the Wu army soldiers on the deck, brutally slaughtering the Wu army sailors with outnumbered people, and the Wu army is holding grenade Molotov cocktails, holding the opposing soldiers and rolling into the river between rolling and crawling. However, more Qing warships caught fire in the face of the guerrilla tactics of the Wu warships, and the Qing soldiers who happened to be burned with high alcohol screamed and shook the sky, running around like headless flies, either jumping into the river with a scorched smell or being burned alive, and then igniting more parts of their own ships.

The melee battle was so fierce that Yang Jie, who had encountered such tactics on the water for the first time, found that he still despised the enemy army too much, and even more so the incendiary bomb, the magic weapon of Wu Army's water warfare. But the battle has reached this point, and it is impossible for Yang Jie to turn back and adjust, so he can only continue to fight hand-to-hand tactics head-on, relying on the ships and soldiers, planning to fight to lose half of the warships, and also pull the entire Wu army to accompany the funeral! As a result, the ship battle on the north side of Jiangxin Island naturally fell into a stalemate, and it was impossible to decide the winner in a short time.

The water war is in a stalemate, and it is impossible to distinguish the winner for the time being; Relying on reinforcements, the Qing army on Jiangxin Island has re-stabilized the front, and began to gradually compress the space for the activities of Han Daren's army inch by inch. For Tu Hai, the commander of the Qing army, the only thing that can break the deadlock is naturally the Qing army's Zhang Tao's fleet on the east side of Jiangxin Island -- if Zhang Tao can break through the Wu army's artillery blockade and cut off the channel for the Wu army to transport troops to the island, then the battle on Jiangxin Island is naturally a sure chance for the Qing army to win, annihilating the Wu army on the island, and freeing up Zhang Tao's fleet to reinforce Yang Jie.

Weighing the pros and cons of this, Tu Hai couldn't help but roar again, "Give Zhang Tao another order, within half an hour, you can't break through the Wu Gouhuo blockade, come and see you!" Also, send another 3,000 reinforcements to Jiangxin Island, and you must kill all the Wu dogs on the island to Lao Tzu, don't take them prisoner! ”

"Hooray!" The noisy cheers suddenly came, and it turned out that two Qing warships finally broke through the Wu army's artillery blockade and broke into the safe corner of the Jiangxin Island cliff cover. Seeing this scene, Wu Laohan, who knew that the Qing warships would break through the Wu army's artillery blockade sooner or later, gritted his teeth and shouted: "Order Xia Guoxiang, the artillery team will suspend firing, renovate the cannons, load ammunition, give the Mangou fleet time to assemble, and then clean them up when the Mangou warships flee down!" Send another 300 single-engine rocket vehicles to the shore to wait, wait for the full dog fleet to retreat, and once they escape into the range of the rockets, they will immediately blow up the old man! ”

The order was conveyed, and the Wu army's artillery array, which had just been firing non-stop, suddenly stopped firing, and seized the time to carry ammunition, cool and clean the cannon barrels, and Zhang Tao, who had only about 20 medium and large warships left, saw that the Wu army's artillery array suddenly ceased fire, and immediately ordered the whole army to charge, seize the time to bypass the cliff at the eastern end of Jiangxin Island, quickly assemble into a team, and pounce on the Wu army's troop transport route with murderous spirit.

However, what Yang Tao probably never dreamed of was that when the Wu army's troop transport fleet was in the middle of the Wu army's troop transport fleet, forty boats full of explosives of the Sanhao brand were already piloted by 80 Wu army daredevils with gourds hanging from their waists, quietly turned the bow of the boat, geared up, and aimed at the Qing army Zhang Tao's fleet, which was struggling to swim upstream............

"Why did Wu Sangui's old thief's artillery stop?" found that the Wu army's artillery stopped firing, and the commander of the Qing army, Tu Hai, was also a flurry, and said in his heart that Wu Sangui's old thief was kind, and he would stop firing artillery to give us time for the fleet to break through and assemble? Is there some conspiracy?

"Handsome! Picture handsome! At this time, on the river downstream of Luoshan, a Qing army sentry boat suddenly rushed to the shore, and before the boat docked, the Qing soldiers on the sentry boat had already shouted with a crying voice, "Tu Dashuai!" Big things are wrong! Last night, on the second watch, Wuchang Wugou suddenly crossed the river and had already killed Hanyang Wharf! ”

"Wuchang Wugou has broken through the Yangtze River defense line?" Tu Hai's head was dizzy and he almost fainted on the ground. Chani rushed up and grabbed the Hanyang messenger with both hands, directly grabbed him by the collar and lifted him up, and yelled in disbelief: "Wuchang Wugou has broken through the Yangtze River? How can it be?! How can it be? Wuchang Wugou doesn't even have a warship, what are Cai Yurong and Fang Zhengse eating?! ”

"Lord Belle, Wu Dog is a sneak attack at night!" The messenger cried and replied: "Because today is the exchange of prisoners of war, Governor Cai and Fang Junmen did not expect that Wu Gou would sneak attack last night, and did not arrange for warships to go out of the port to patrol, and they all drank and drank in Hanyang City. ”

Chani froze, his hands unconsciously released, and let the Hanyang messenger fall to the ground. And just behind Chani, Tu Hai had already jumped up like crazy, pulled out a knife and slashed at the table in front of him, and screamed wildly, "Cai Yurong! Positive color! Sanga! You brutes, all of you deserve to be destroyed! The sin should be delayed! ”

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Almost at the same time, Ge Bingzhen, the deputy general of the Huguangshui Division of the Qing Army stationed in Huangzhou, after receiving a request for help from the defenders of Hanyang, had already led the Huangzhou fleet with ten warships as the core to set sail, went upstream, and came to the surface of Shakou in Hanyang Mansion at full speed. Just as Ge Bingzhen ordered the whole army to speed up again, the scout ship in front suddenly turned around and flew a report, saying that it was a self-army warship found in front.

After a while, the scout ship turned around again and reported that the fleet that appeared in front was the fleet of Fang Zhengse, the deputy chief of the Hanyang Naval Division, but because of the sudden attack, the soldiers on board suffered heavy losses, and the governor Cai Yurong had retreated to Hanyang City, and there was nowhere to replenish the troops, so he had to go down the river and go to Huangzhou to replenish the troops in order to fight again. Ge Bingzhen was even more overjoyed when he heard the news, and hurriedly asked the whole army to speed up to meet the friendly fleet.

After another moment, eleven Qing warships flying the Qing army flag really appeared on the river, all of them were bloodstained, covered with bullet holes, arrows and scorch marks, and several warships were still emitting slight black smoke, obviously having just experienced a vicious battle. When Ge Bingzhen looked at it carefully, he found that although the eleven Qing warships were embarrassed, they were all quite complete and could continue to fight, and he couldn't help but be even more happy in his heart, and hurriedly ordered: "Flag the warships in front, let them stop and wait, and I will directly divide the troops to them." ”

When Ge Bingzhen's flagship leaned on the flagship flagship of the Qing army flying the flagship flag in this fleet, Ge Bingzhen, who was concerned about the Hanyang war, was the first to jump on the flagship of the friendly army, and shouted at the Qing soldiers who got up to greet him: "I am Ge Bingzhen, the deputy general of the Daqing Lake Guangshui Division, and the commander of the Huangzhou Water Division, who has the biggest official position here?" Come out and speak. ”

"Why don't you speak?" Ge Bingzhen suddenly found that the group of Qing generals and soldiers in front of him not only did not answer to him, but also looked at each other, as if they were all surprised by the incredibity. Ge Bingzhen couldn't help but be furious, and shouted again: "General Ben asks again, who of you has the biggest official position here?" Fang Junmen is not ...... ship? ”

"Hey! What do you do? Ouch, bold, whose subordinates are you to eat leopard gall? Dare to take this general? ”

(To be continued)