There is no mighty fleet of boats crossing the river, only the troops of the long stream, disguised as ordinary people, and even disguised as the appearance of the Huai army, one by one infantry battalions, passing in groups, that is, the very few boats on the Yangtze River, fishermen, did not pay too much attention to them, in the war years, there were too many such scenes, indifference was written on everyone's face,

Roll up the military flag, hide the target, try to avoid indifferent attention,

"Be careful, try to be careful, so as not to know about the Qing army." Luo Yang is like this, and the generals are also like this,

The army has already played a majestic role, but it is the first time to march on the water, Luo Yang knows that the Qing army has a Yangtze River water division, and often patrols this area, completely cutting off the Taiping Army's north and south of the Yangtze River, and the commander of the Qing army's water division is no one else, or the famous Peng Yulin in history, known as the great power of Xue Shuai,

Although in the Hukou area, Peng Yulin, who had been defeated by Shi Dakai's strange plan and quickly recovered his strength, still became a hero on the Yangtze River, they have fought many times, controlled the Yangtze River waterway, and also cut off the Taiping army's back and forth roads, so that it is increasingly in trouble, it can be said that Peng's sailors are an important force to defeat the Taiping Tian**, because this is the south of the Yangtze River, is the land of fish and rice, countless rivers and lakes, all need waterway action,

The naval division of the Hunan army in the Qing Dynasty is the cavalry of the south of the Yangtze River,

After the fall of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Manchu regime attached great importance to Peng Yulin's merits, and listed Zeng Guofan, Zuo Zongtang, and Li Hongzhang as the four heroes of Zhongxing.

This person is still very backbone, and in the later Sino-French war, he fought hard, but unfortunately, he was seriously ill and could not participate in the war.

I was extremely worried about the sneak attack of the Qing army's naval division, because Huaxia Tian ** did not have any reserves of the navy, and he only wanted to sneak attack Shanghai and kill the supply of maritime weapons and equipment of the Manchu army, and at the same time, seize a large number of weapons and ammunition there, especially the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, which had been founded by the Huai army.

Shaanxi's military industrial enterprises are working hard to develop new weapons under Luo Yang's instructions, the most important point is modern rifles, but unfortunately, many materials, many equipment are not available, it is too difficult, in fact, as long as there is a little decent equipment, Luo Yang can personally make better weapons,

Shanghai's Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, Luoyang is determined to win,

On the riverside, along the way, I have heard about the situation of the Qing army's naval division, every day, there are Qing army's big wooden boats patrolling on the river, and there are more than five Qing army steam ships coming and going, there are cannons on them, there are foreign guns, it is a typical light gunboat.

On the beachhead in Jiangbei, more than 20 foreign guns were set up, loaded with ammunition, and they were only waiting for the Qing army's fleet to pull them in, and they were going to intercept them.

Many people exaggerated the power of the Qing army's Neijiang Water Division, so Luo Yang was extra cautious.

Many people advocated changing the direction of the attack, directly attacking Nanjing, assisting the Taiping army, flanking the enemy inside and outside, and defeating the elite Hunan army under the city of Nanjing in one fell swoop, which could greatly change the situation.

Of course Luo Yang refused,

I don't know the situation in Tianjing City, once it converges, but because of the double-headed politics, it is impossible to deal with the relationship, and besides, the development equipment of weapons is the first, Luo Yang wants to fight a decisive battle with the foreign gun team in the Shanghai area, to see how capable these foreign rogue troops are,

Attaching importance to foreign strife and despising civil war is Luo Yang's principle, and what he wants most is not to compete with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but to fight with the great powers, and to open up a new road for the strength and prosperity of the Chinese nation.

The wooden boat, that is, all the requisitioned and issued, including the essence of the ships collected in the Huai'an area, the largest ship is about 100 tons, it is the grain trough ship on the canal, it is too broken,

Luo Yang personally boarded the ship, and when he was arming the fleet, he tried every possible way,

The largest ship was equipped with ten flying thunder cannons and a lot of explosives, and the other ships also had artillery fire, but there were not many.

The biggest advantage of the flying thunder cannon is that it is short, light, and basically an empty iron shell.

On each ship, there is also a considerable number of foreign guns,

Now, because of the annihilation of the Huai army, a total of 13,000 foreign guns have been captured, so that Luoyang's army has been unprecedentedly advanced in terms of foreign gun equipment.

At that time, foreign guns did not need much advanced gunpowder, they were still loaded in the breech, and iron sand was nothing, so the Luoyang Army, which was not short of gunpowder, was the real foreign gun team.

That's it, not counting the thousands of foreign guns captured by the troops who defeated Seng Lingqin,

The fleet was drifting gently, and some hands were rowing hard, and suddenly, someone in the bow of the ship dragged up the heavy iron anchor, and sank into the river little by little, and dropped anchor.

These are three large ships, armed to the teeth, but they are pretended to be merchant ships, and the rest of the smaller ships are rapidly advancing towards the south of the Yangtze River.

The Qing patrol fleet in the expected area finally appeared, from west to east, first a line of fast boats, then two steaming warships, and then behind, there were more than ten large wooden boats, which were leisurely coming down the river.

On the fleet of the Qing army, they had already observed the fleet in the river with a telescope, especially the three big ships that had anchored, which seemed very strange to them.

As a fleet mission to cut off traffic, the Qing army immediately came, "You guys stop, what are you doing?" "Gathering three big ships not far away, the warships of the Qing army surrounded these three big ships in a circle, first shouting, and then showing their weapons, threatening and luring,

"We are Lord Li's soldiers and horses." On the boat, many people showed their heads, all dressed in the clothes of the Huai army,

Annihilated so many Huai troops, is it still difficult to get a few sets of clothes?

"Didn't Master Li go to Jiangbei to reinforce Henan?" The Qing army's naval division was quite alert,

"Yes, we are from the Shengzi battalion, oh, those ships are from the Kaizi battalion, they all defeated the enemy in Henan, captured a large number of treasures, and are to be transported to Shanghai, oh, there are some dilapidated guns unloaded, ready to be transported to Shanghai to be melted down for guns."

On the fast ships of the Qing army, there were more than a dozen people on each boat, and they all had foreign guns, "Okay, I'll check." ”

"No, this is Lord Li's thing, who dares to check it." Luo Yang and the others were furious,

"Even the emperor's things have to be checked, this is what the Queen Mother Lafayette meant." The Qing officers of the clippers were quite principled,

"Brother, let's make it convenient, we, we have robbed a lot in Henan, and we want to transport it to Jiangnan for Lord Li."

"Hmph, no matter what, we have to check."

was talking, stalemate, the two big warships of the Qing army arrived, the kind of battleship that was spitting green smoke, which surprised the officers and soldiers of Huaxia Tian**,

Peng Yulin didn't come, he was a staff officer, he asked a few lakes vividly, and immediately ordered the Qing soldiers of the fast boat to board the ship for inspection.

On the battleship, three light small-caliber foreign guns were majestically pointing at the three large ships.

The gunners of the Qing army were very leisurely, and they didn't even stand at the location of the battery, and they didn't believe that the enemy dared to break through the Yangtze River defense line, wasn't that looking for death?

On the north bank of the river, the artillery of the Huaxia Army, which was covered, was adjusting its direction, aiming at the enemy, calculating the distance and launch angle.

"King Rui, you're so adventurous."

The officers and soldiers on the shore were worried about Luo Yang, but Luo Yang was not worried at all, because he had a way,

Personally got behind the so-called sacks of grain hidden around the ship, Luo Yang calculated the distance and direction, and personally opened fire.

More than a dozen flying thunder guns bombarded together, and among them, eight explosive packs hit two enemy battleships,