"Cai Yurong, Sang E, Fang Zhengse, you three fools! Rubbish! Sinners through the ages! When you return to the capital, the master will definitely cut you with a thousand knives! Slaughter all over the house! Nine Clans! Even if I kill you a thousand times and chop you ten thousand times, it will not be able to eliminate the hatred in my heart! It's even more difficult to eliminate the hatred in the master's heart! You three stupid pigs! ”

Dancing and roaring hysterically, Tu Haisheng cut the table in front of him with the map and the table with the map into pieces, but the middle and senior generals of the Qing army next to him didn't even have the strength to persuade and comfort Tu Hai, they were all stunned and stunned, as if they were already flying out of the sky, and there was only one thought left in their minds, "It's over!" The Yangtze River defense line is over, and the Qing Dynasty is also over! ”

"Tu Zhongtang, please, send rescue troops to Hanyang! If you don't send reinforcements, I'm afraid Hanyang won't be able to keep it! Woo woo woo woo ....... ”

In the end, it was the crying voice of the Hanyang envoy for help that pulled Tu Hai back from the mad anger and fear, Tu Hai quickly threw down the steel knife again, limped to the messenger, and also grabbed him by the collar to lift him off the ground, and asked with red eyes: "Say, after Wu Gou successfully smuggled last night, how was the war later?" How many sneak attack troops does Wu Gou have? ”

"When the villain left Hanyang, Cai Butang and they were attacking the dock with all their might." The messenger for help replied truthfully: "Judging from the shouting and killing, Wu Gou's sneak attack army does not seem to be too much, probably only a thousand people will not exceed 1,000 and a half, but they killed us by surprise and seized the dock so that our warships could not sail, so Wu Gou's civilian ships can continue to transport troops to the shore." Later, because the villain was in a hurry to come to Luoshan for help, he didn't know. ”

"Fifteen hundred." Tu Hai calculated in his heart, "We have 6,000 troops in Hanyang, and it is very certain to block these 1,500 Wu Gou, even if Wu Gou's army can cross the river and land one after another, by noon this day at the latest, the sailors of Huangzhou can also rush to Hanyang to reinforce, Wu Gou has no warships in Wuchang, and Ge Bingzhen is also very sure of cutting off the channel of Wu Gou's troop transport fleet." That is to say, even if Wu Gou rushed to the north bank of the Yangtze River before Ge Bingzhen's fleet arrived, and carried the main force of Wuchang to the north bank of the Yangtze River, excluding the troops who stayed in Wuchang, Fan Wai and other places, the army crossing the river would definitely not exceed 7,000. ”

Thinking about this, Tu Hai hurriedly asked the messenger again: "Then I'll go back to you, your Cai Butang, have you found Wu Gou's army reinforcing Wuchang in the past few days?" ”

"Absolutely not." The messenger quickly replied: "If you find that there is something abnormal in Wuchang's Wu Dog army, you will borrow a hundred of our courage, and you will not dare to take it lightly last night." ”

"It's a shame that your mother still has the face to say this!" Tu Hai threw the messenger to the ground, kicked it angrily, and then turned to the Qing generals next to him and shouted: "There is still hope in Hanyang!" Immediately send someone to the river to contact Yang Jie, and order him to defeat Wu Goushui within three hours! Give Zhang Tao another order and let him ....... ”

"Boom!" The sudden sound of an explosion interrupted Tu Hai's order, although the sound of gunpowder explosion could be seen everywhere on the bloody water and land battlefield, but this time the explosion sound was really huge and terrifying, almost as loud and shocking as a thunder exploding in the ears of Tu Hai and other Qing army generals. Hearing this voice, Tu Hai and Chani and other Qing army generals all subconsciously followed the sound, but what surprised them even more was that this explosion actually came from the direction of the Yangtze River channel in the south of Jiangxin Island, but it was a pity that the cliffs on Jiangxin Island happened to block Tu Hai's sight, so what made such a violent explosion, Tu Hai and Chani and others would be difficult to know for a while.

"Boom! Bang! Two equally loud explosions came, although the cause of the explosion was still not visible, but seeing the Wu army on the south bank raising their arms and cheering and the Qing soldiers on Jiangxin Island holding their heads and screaming, Tuhai and Chani and other Qing army generals still had a premonition in their hearts at the same time, a serious premonition............

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At the beginning, when the Wu army artillery team suddenly stopped firing, although the Qing army sailor Zhang Tao's fleet was very strange, it still subconsciously seized this golden opportunity, and quickly turned the cliff corner at the east end of Jiangxin Island covered by Wu army's artillery. The Wu army's troop transport fleet, which was full of soldiers, was still struggling to approach the beach of Jiangxin Island, looking for a suitable landing site.

The great merit of annihilating the Wu army's troop transport fleet was within reach, and there was no interference and destruction of the Wu army's warships next to it, Zhang Tao, who had been riding on the head of Yang Jie for a long time, was so excited that his palms couldn't help sweating, and without thinking about it, he ordered the flagship to play the banner - the whole army charged! Rush into the Wu army's troop transport fleet and go on a killing spree! After seeing the flag order, the generals and soldiers of the Qing army ships also became as excited as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, howling and using their strength to row the pulp wheel, desperately rushing towards the Wu army's troop transport fleet.

Seeing that the Qing warships broke through the artillery blockade and approached, the Wu army troop transport fleet without the protection of the warships did have a lot of panic, and there were quite a lot of timid soldiers who jumped ship and fled for their lives, but what made Zhang Tao and other Qing army sailor generals laugh was that in the Wu army troop transport fleet, there were thirty or forty sampan boats, one person shook the pulp, one person was at the helm, lined up in an extremely loose formation, and the mantis arm rushed to Zhang Tao's fleet, which also had more than 20 large warships, and it seemed that he wanted to fight to the death with the Qing army fleet. Cover the retreat of the self-army troop transport fleet.

"Hahahahaha, Wu Dog jumped off the wall in a hurry, and dozens of sampans also wanted to stop Lao Tzu's fleet? What a real grasshopper shaking the tree! After laughing proudly, Zhang Tao roared wildly: "Spread Lao Tzu's order again, do not shoot guns, fire cannons and shoot arrows, rush up, and knock over all the sampans of these dozens of Wu dogs!" ”

"Brothers, don't shoot and fire, let alone shoot arrows, crash into them, and knock over all the sampans of Wu Dog!" The order was conveyed, the commanders and generals of the Qing army ships also all howled, and the Qing soldiers were all working bravely and desperately, paddling desperately, just at this time, the heavens fulfilled the wishes, and a southeast wind suddenly blew on the river, and the Qing army fleet was helping due west and north, riding the wind and waves, and driving was even faster, and rushed to a place less than half a mile away from the sampan of the Wu army in a moment.

"Why didn't the dog fleet shoot and fire?" Seeing the Qing warship on the south bank so big, Wu Laohan couldn't help but feel stunned, and almost suspected that the Qing army fleet was engaged in some conspiracy, but after waking up, Wu Laohan quickly laughed, "Want to knock over the old man's sampan?" Thank you, the old man is waiting for you to bump into it. ”

"Brothers, work hard, rush!" In the roar, a Qing army bird boat and a Wu army sampan met head-on, and when it was only a few feet away from hitting the Wu army's sampan, the two Wu soldiers on the sampan were probably extremely timid, and they jumped into the river together, swimming and fleeing for their lives, attracting the Qing army generals and soldiers on the warship to laugh proudly. But at this time, the Wu army sampan that had been unmanned went down the river and had already hit the Qing army warship, and it was at this time that a soldier on the Qing army warship finally found out that something was wrong and shouted: "General, Wu Gou's sampan is smoking, as if it is ......." ”

"Boom!" Before the words were finished, the Wu army sampan that had been unmanned suddenly exploded violently, and the explosion was so powerful that it not only stirred up a splash of more than ten zhang high, but also lifted the bow of the Qing army bird boat with the front end uplifted, and the objects and soldiers on the ship also fell backwards like a broken kite, crackling and falling into the water of the Yangtze River, and the Qing soldiers in the cabin were even more like being pushed by an invisible giant hand, rolling and falling in the cabin, and the screams also sounded, "What's wrong?" What's wrong? ”

"Peng!" When the bow of the Qing army bird boat fell to the surface of the water again, the bow of the ship had been blown out of a huge hole two or three zhang large, and the river water rushed into the cabin, instantly flooding the countless Qing soldiers in the cabin, and the bow of the ship sank rapidly, and the stern of the ship was upturned, and the Qing soldiers and generals around him were stunned, as if they were in a dream.

"What's wrong?" Hearing the sound of this fierce explosion, Zhang Tao, who had just sat down to catch his breath and rest, jumped up and stretched his neck to look at the river. At this time, two Wu army sampans, one after the other, drilled into the bow of the largest sand rushing ship in the Qing army's warship, and then, two equally deafening explosions sounded one after another, and the unlucky sand rushing boat seemed to be pushed by the power of gods and ghosts, directly jumped up and did a backflip, and smashed directly into the river with the bottom of the ship facing the sky, whether it was the Qing soldiers on the deck or in the cabin, they didn't even have a chance to escape, and they were directly submerged by the river with the warship.

Seeing this scene, the soldiers of the Wu army around the battlefield were naturally cheering, Wu Lao Hanjian simply jumped up from his seat, waved his arms and yelled loudly, and the generals next to him, Hu Guozhu and Ma Bao and other generals roared excitedly, "Good explosion!" Beautifully fried! Attaboy! ”

"Suicide ship?!" The Wu army cheered and danced, and the Qing army Zhang Tao's fleet was dumbfounded, never dreaming that there would be such a vicious and shameless tactic in this world, so that the sampan was loaded with explosives to hit the enemy's warship, and one or two sampans would be replaced by a behemoth? Such a desperate tactic that lacks morality and viciousness, in the end, was pondered by the bad species?

"Hit the mark!" Zhang Tao cried out heartbreakingly, "Turn around, turn around and run!" Shoot the arrows, release the arrows! Shoot, shoot! Don't let Kure Dog's sampan come near us! ”

"Boom! Bang! Bang! Zhang Tao's order was obviously issued a little late, and the Wu army's sampan that had rushed into the Qing army's fleet bloomed everywhere, igniting the fuses one after another, hitting the Qing army's warships and dying with the enemy, and the Qing army's fleet was completely chaotic, and the generals and soldiers ran on the deck shouting with a crying voice, or shot and fired arrows to block the Wu army's sampan from approaching, or turned the rudder and turned around, and fled to the downstream for refuge, and countless Qing soldiers jumped directly into the river to escape for their lives because of their timidity, and completely became a pot of porridge.

Taking advantage of the chaotic opportunity when the Qing army ships were difficult to turn around and collide with each other, one after another Wu army sampans hit the side of the Qing army's warship, and the sharp barb at the front end of the sampan drilled into the side of the ship, ignited and jumped into the water to escape for their lives. But on the other hand, the situation of the Qing warships directly stressed by the side of the ship was naturally a hundred times more miserable, and the lightest was that the side of the ship was blown out of a huge hole, entered the water and sank, and the heavy one was simply directly overturned and overturned.

In the face of the shameless tactics that the Wu army had appeared nearly three hundred years in advance, it was only so much time, and the Qing army fleet that was still murderous just now had only three warships left and barely escaped with injuries, and the remaining nearly twenty warships, including Zhang Tao's flagship, have never been able to return to the warm embrace of the Great Qing Kang Mazi, either directly capsized or sank into the water, and most of the hull was in the water, losing the value of rescue and repair, and the most unlucky was Zhang Tao's flagship, because it was targeted by the three Wu army sampans at the same time. The bow of the ship was directly blown into a state of parts, and Zhang Tao didn't even have a chance to escape by jumping into the water, so he was directly thrown into the air and fell to death, and none of the soldiers on the ship survived. The river is full of Qing warships that are burning and sinking into the water, as well as Qing soldiers and wreckage of warships struggling to call for help, which is so tragic that the author can hardly bear to describe it.

The large and small ships of the Qing army that fled downstream did not end well, first they were intimately entertained by the rockets that Wu Laohan had arranged on the embankment on the shore in advance, and then they were covered by the overwhelming artillery fire of the Wu army's artillery team, and the last three medium and large warships were sunk on the spot, and the small boats and sentinel ships suffered countless losses, and only less than ten small boats fled back to the north shore in embarrassment, and went to complain to Tuhai and Chani -- is there such a shameless water war tactic in the world? If you can't beat it, you will end up together, and a sampan wants to pull a warship of our Qing Dynasty to accompany the funeral?

Receiving the news that Zhang Tao's fleet was wiped out, Tu Hai sat on the ground, his crotch wet on the spot. However, after seeing the magnificent scene of the annihilation of Zhang Tao's fleet of the Qing army, and hearing that there were still thirteen daredevils alive, Wu Laohan shouted on the spot: "Prepare the silver, bring these thirteen brothers up, and this king will award a reward on the spot!" All the soldiers, also line up for the old man to meet our warriors! ”

After a while, the thirteen warriors of the Wu army who were still [***] were carried in front of Wu Lao Han by their companions, Wu Lao Han Jian's flags and drums sounded in unison, and the civil and military officials lined up on both sides to salute and greet the thirteen surviving warriors, and when Wu Lao Han Zhan personally put the thirteen boxes of silver with white flowers in front of the thirteen warriors, the thirteen surviving warriors howled on the spot and kowtowed to Wu Lao Han Jian, and there was applause and joy around them.

"Get up, for you deserve it." Wu Lao Han personally picked up the thirteen warriors one by one, and then ordered: "According to Wang Jun's decree, the sixty-seven warriors of our army who died today are also each with a thousand taels of silver, and the silver must be sent to their families as quickly as possible, and not a single cent of deduction is allowed!" Those who violate the order will be immediately killed! ”

"Order!" The generals of the Wu army hugged their fists together and agreed, and the thirteen warriors remembered that in just a few moments, the companions who fought side by side with them were gone, and they couldn't help but cry again, but the surrounding Wu soldiers were all envious, regretting that they did not take the initiative to ask to participate in the death squad, and missed this opportunity to make a fortune in vain, a thousand taels of silver, enough for their whole family to enjoy for a lifetime!

"Wu Yingjing, go and prepare forty sampans filled with explosives!" There are also those who have missed the opportunity to turn back, taking advantage of the high morale, Wu Laohan, who is addicted to using the Huitian torpedo, shouted again: "Soldiers, in the north of Jiangxin Island, our sailors are still fighting hard with the sailors full of dogs, who else wants to be a death squad?" Stand up, the reward is still the same! ”

"The villain is willing to go!" In the sound of the tsunami, countless soldiers of the Wu army stepped forward, saluted Wu Laohan, and asked to go to war. Wu Laohan laughed, and hurriedly ordered Wu Yingjing to carefully select, and then sent back to the heavenly sampan to break the deadlock on the northern battlefield that was still in a state of stalemate, and lay the victory in one fell swoop!

"Count the time, the news from Wuchang should also be transmitted here." Wu Laohan pinched his fingers and calculated, and after he had the bottom in his heart, Wu Laohan ordered Hu Guozhu again: "Guozhu, go and give the order, let the island attack army retreat, and then give you the order, the artillery team will be transferred, aimed at Jiangxin Island, open fire to cover, pull out this nail for the old man, and by the way, consume some more full dog troops." ”

Hu Guozhu followed the order, and quickly passed the order to all the departments of the Wu army, and the Qing army Han Daren and Zu Shushun troops who had landed on the island retreated in turn, either boarding the boat, or relying on the gourd on their waists to swim across the river, and soon all the troops withdrew from the beach position. Just as the Qing soldiers and generals on Jiangxin Island were cheering and celebrating, the Wu army's artillery array, which had hastily shifted its position, was once again powerful, and more than 200 cannons opened fire at the same time, smashing one after another flowering shells overwhelmingly on Jiangxin Island, where the Qing army's heavy troops were stationed, until the island was shaking and the mountains were shaking, trees and rocks were flying, and the Qing soldiers were crying wolves and howling in the artillery fire, holding their heads and running but there was nowhere to hide.

It was also at this time that Tu Hai, the commander of the Qing army, realized that he had made a fatal mistake, completely forgetting that the Wu army's artillery had greatly increased, and he had used the old experience to deploy heavy troops on Jiangxin Island in a vain attempt to hold the throat of the Wu army's crossing of the river. The more than 6,000 defenders on Jiangxin Island have nowhere to hide, and nowhere to hide, even if they send a boat to meet them immediately, how many of them can come back alive?

"Send a boat to pick up our soldiers guarding the island, Jiangxin Island has no value to guard." Tu Hai gave a faint order, and after letting his own soldiers go down to give the order, Tu Hai slowly pulled out the waist knife on his body, looked up at the sky, and sighed: "Luoshan fiasco, my sin is also with others...... Independent. ”

Trembling and sighing, Tu Hai trembled and returned the knife to his neck, fortunately, the Qing generals next to him had already seen that the situation was wrong, and hurriedly rushed up together, snatched back the steel knife in Tu Hai's hand, and cried: "Dashuai, can't, can't!" You can't do that! We still have hope, we still have hope! ”

"Tuzhongtang, you must not do this!" Chani was even more nervous, pulling Tu Hai's arm and crying: "Tu Zhongtang, you can't be like this, victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, we lost this time, there is next time, and next time we can make up for it!" If you're gone, if you're gone....... ”

"If you leave, then all the blame will be on my shoulders as an unlucky bastar." Chani added in his heart.

"Do I have a next time?" Tu Hai smiled miserably and said: "Wu Gou over there in Wuchang has landed in Hanyang, I have suffered heavy casualties here, and I have no strength to support Hanyang anymore, Wu Gou broke through the Yangtze River defense line, it is already a foregone conclusion." I don't die now, I return to the capital, and the emperor won't let me live. ”

"But we still have a sailor, and we still have a chance." Chani pointed to the decisive battle of the sailor in the distance, and cried and said: "Our sailor is still fighting with Wu Gou's sailor, and he still has a certain upper hand, as long as we defeat Wu Gou's sailor, we still have a chance to turn the tables!" ”

Tu Hai was silent, Tu Hai knew very well in his heart that the battle had reached this point, even if Yang Jie's sailors won the decisive battle with Wu Jun's sailors, it would definitely be just a miserable victory, and there was no strength to rescue Hanyang, Hanyang was lost, and the Yangtze River defense line was broken through by the Wu army, Kang Mazi still would not spare himself - and the idea of killing Wu Yingxiong to blame Ao Bai was also given to Kang Mazi by himself, and now that the matter is revealed, it is strange that Kang Mazi does not kill himself to kill himself. What's more, the suicide boat tactics on the Wu army's side have worked, and they will definitely be concocted in the same way to deal with the main force of Yang Jie's naval division, and whether Yang Jie can win or not is also a matter of two theories.

"Let's take another gamble." After thinking about it, Tu Hai couldn't bear to give up the last ray of hope after all, gritted his teeth and ordered: "Go and give Yang Jie an order again, let him definitely annihilate the Wu Dog Sailor, so that Wu Gou's main force will not be able to cross the river in Luoshan!" Also, tell Yang Jie that he must guard against Wu Gou's suicide ship and keep as many warships as possible! ”

As Chani said, the only thing that the Qing army can still occupy the advantage is the main force of the Qing army's naval division led by Yang Jie, and relying on the advantage of the number of warships and the experience of sailors that are far superior to the Wu army, Yang Jie's fleet has always occupied the initiative on the battlefield north of Jiangxin Island, and after half a day of fierce fighting, it has sunk nine new bird ships of the Wu army, captured and sank thirteen old ships of the Qing army that Yuezhou general Li Guodong dedicated to the Wu army, and countless small ships of the Wu army that were sunk and captured, which can be said to have severely damaged the Wu army's naval division.

Of course, the Wu army's new high-concentration alcohol incendiary bombs are not vegetarian, and there are also twenty-one Qing army warships burned by the Wu army, most of which are flexible and fast bird ships and thunder ships in the Qing army, which also makes Yang Jie gradually begin to worry, if the remaining medium-sized warships are destroyed by the Wu army, then as long as the Wu army still retains one-third of the warships, in the face of the heavy and slow Qing army's sand boats, as long as the generals command effectively, and the tactics are appropriate, there is still hope for a turnaround - and obviously, Back then, Zheng Chenggong's subordinate Du Hui was such a terrible general!

Strong and relatively sluggish on the one hand, weak but relatively flexible on the other, and the commanders on both sides were experienced and properly commanded, without making the slightest mistake, the decisive battle between the Qing army and the Wu army's naval divisions naturally became a protracted war of attrition. The Qing army relied on many ships and heavy loads of soldiers to fight, and always wanted to fight hand-to-hand combat with the Wu army; The Wu army relied on the warships to have a flexible draft and powerful firearms, and was always swimming and shuttling to fight, trying not to give the Qing army a chance to fight; The warships of the two sides came and went on the wide river, or collided with each other, or chased each other, or fired cannons, or dropped bombs at close range, the thick smoke on the river surface, the sound of killing shook the sky, the corpses and wreckage in the river drifted with the waves, and countless soldiers on both sides were churning and shouting for help.

If there is no Lu Fatzi's suicide boat lack of morality tactics, then in this decisive battle between the Wu Army Sailor and the Qing Army's Sailor, it is really impossible to say who will win and who will lose, and the Qing Army's Sailor will definitely have a greater chance of victory, but because of Lu Fatzi's lack of virtue tactics, the Qing Army Sailor who first learned this poisonous trick will inevitably be a little caught off guard. Even Yang Jie, the commander of the Qing Army's naval division, who was regarded by Wu Laohan and Lu Fatzi as the biggest stumbling block in the Wu army's battle to cross the river, inevitably had a feeling of being caught off guard after receiving the warning of the Wu army's suicide ship tactics, and even Yang Jie couldn't even make up his mind whether to send the warning to each warship.

"Do you want to warn all the ships?" Yang Jie hesitated, "If a warning is issued and all boats are asked to beware of Wu Gou's suicide sampan, then the melee is full of big ships and small boats, and the sailors and soldiers will definitely be distracted, and it will shake morale, which will be very disadvantageous in the decisive battle." If we don't give a warning, when Wu Gou's suicide ship rushes into the battlefield, our losses will be even greater! ”

"No, we still have to give a warning, otherwise when Wu Gou's suicide ship rushes into the battlefield and severely damages our main fleet, it will be too late!" After weighing the pros and cons for a long time, Yang Jie finally gritted his teeth and shouted: "Immediately send someone to notify the ship by boat to warn the boats to beware of Wu Gou's suicide sampan!" ”

At the same time, on the south bank of the Yangtze River, Wu Yingjing, who had already prepared the suicide sampan and selected the brave warriors, rushed to the Wu Laohan annihilation banner, knelt down on one knee, and asked if he would attack immediately. Wu Laohan, who was worried about the main battlefield of the naval division, did not hesitate, and immediately shouted: "Attack!" ”

"Wait!" Wang Shirong suddenly stood up and said to Wu Laohan: "Lord Wang, our army's suicide boat tactics have already severely damaged Mangou before, and now Mangou Sailor must have been prepared. ”

"What's the other way around?" Wu Lao Han asked.

"Let our death squads be dressed in dog-filled uniforms and boats full of dog flags." Wang Shirong said with a sneer: "Break it into pieces, use the island and smoke to cover, and quietly blend into the decisive battlefield of the main force of the naval division." ”

Wu Laohan smiled and said, "Quasi-play, should be correct, and act according to the plan for my uncle." ”

Note: The annotation that was omitted before, Lin Xingzhu, a good friend of Lord Wei in history, took advantage of the opportunity of Du Hui, the commander of the Wu Army's water division, to return to Yuezhou alone on a business trip, and led the Wu Army's Dongting Lake Water Division to surrender to Mites, and Du Hui accompanied Wu Yingqi to resist the siege of Mites in Yuezhou until his death.

(To be continued)