"Cannons, cannons, there are a lot of cannons on the enemy's ships!"

"Hide, get out of the way!"

"There are boats on both sides, where can you hide, rush up, rush up if you want to live, jump ship with a hook, and you can win when you get on deck!"

The rabble is the rabble, and all of a sudden, a group of people screaming and shouting into a pot of porridge, some people want to turn, some people want to retreat, and some people want to step forward desperately...... As a result, before the shelling began, the formation of King Ning's sailors became a mess, and many ships sank directly in the collision with each other. 【】

Several water bandits were also dumbfounded.

They have been crisscrossing the rivers and lakes for a long time, opposing officers and soldiers, plundering merchants, internal fires, and I don't know how many large and small water battles have been fought, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they have experienced a hundred battles. If it weren't for the achievements and fame, King Ning would not have sent Baba's envoys to the door and asked them to go out of the mountain to help.

They have seen cannons, and there are dozens of general cannons in King Ning's army, which Zhu Chenhao has worked hard to pick out from the army over the years, and along with these cannons, there are thousands of bird guns. The source is, of course, the original super arms market Shenji Battalion, and these sharp weapons are also Zhu Chenhao's smug trump cards.

In front of the generals, Zhu Chenhao also boasted more than once, saying that his firearms unit, in addition to being slightly smaller in scale, but the equipment is not inferior at all, and the elite is still victorious.

After seeing the drill of the firearms unit, the soil buns also thought it was true, and the Taihu Overlord was even more itchy, and wanted to ask King Ning for a few cannons to be installed on the flagship of the water division. It's hard to say whether it's useful or not, but this majesty is suddenly revealed.

It's a pity that King Ning is very interested in firearms and refuses to agree to anything, and Taihu Overlord also feels that his whimsical idea is not very reliable, so he quickly gave up.

Unexpectedly, on the river outside Yingtian City, he verified with his own eyes the feasible surname of his idea, and not only can cannons be placed on the ship, but also a lot of them. Why is this ship so big? If it's not big enough, how can you place nearly a hundred cannons!

He was not a shipwright, nor had he entered a nautical academy, so he did not have the slightest joy in proving the new tactics, and his heart was full of fear and slander. He hadn't seen the Shenji Battalion in the capital, but he knew one thing very clearly, that is, King Ning's firearms army was a scum, the second in the world? The second in the world!

"Boom!" The muzzle of the cannon erupted with orange-red light, followed by a thunderous roar.

The firelight was connected into a piece, and the brilliance was dazzling, as if the rising sun in the sky had fallen into the river; The sound of the cannon rumbled, stirring up a stormy wave, as if the river was trembling.

Even against the enemy, who was already in disarray, the artillery of the Royal Navy showed no mercy. When facing enemies, pity is meant to be abandoned, and besides, these enemies are not worthy of pity. They were bandits before, and they were the ones who caused the troubles in the villages; Now he is a traitor, disregarding the safety of the world, and setting off a war when foreign enemies invade.

All those who hinder the rise of the Ming Dynasty are clowns, and they have only one end, that is, they are completely swept away, and the destruction of the enemy is the mission of the Royal Navy.

The salvo of four hundred cannons, even on the sea, is already a spectacle, on the surface of the river, it is enough to give people the feeling of thunder and fire covering the entire river, at least, this is the feeling of King Ning's navy.

They did not know that compared to the Battle of Arthur, the shells of the Royal Navy had been somewhat improved. Before firing, the round lead balls and iron balls were taken out of the furnace, and as soon as the cannonball was placed in the chamber, it was immediately fired, so that when it landed on the target ship, the temperature of the cannonball was still high enough to ignite the ship's planks and cause it to burn violently.

And in terms of appearance, this kind of cannonball is also very beautiful, like meteors, with a string of bright traces falling from the sky. However, these meteors have no wishing function, and they only bring a huge impact, and everywhere they go, all they can see are huge columns of water and waves, flying wood chips, cracked ship planks, scattered stumps and broken arms, and soaring flames.

The thunderous sound of the cannon muffled the other sounds that rang out almost simultaneously, and when the cannon fire stopped, the noise on the river surface was fully released. The biggest is the screams for help, followed by the crackling sound of the burning fire, mixed with some popping and falling into the water, under the terrible shelling, the boat has become the most unsafe place, jumping into the water and escaping is the way to live.

The deafening shouts of killing were completely silent, and even the most courageous bandits did not dare to speak of assault at this time, especially when they were horrified to see that before the dust of the first shelling had settled, the muzzle of the black hole poked out of the cannon door again, and then, the previous scene was repeated again, and then, again.

By the end of the three salvos, the deck of the Ning Wang's naval ship had become empty. When it was said that the Jiangnan coalition army was the main force of the naval army and private soldiers, and there was also a secret killer weapon, so in the face of the fire coverage of the Royal Navy, they could launch a decisive charge.

The bandits are only good at fighting with the wind, even pirates like the Xu brothers, in the Battle of Lushun, they were the first to escape, Taihu Lake overlord and other water bandits compared to pirates, the ferocity is a lot worse, just after three rounds of shelling, their morale has completely collapsed.

However, the ship was not completely empty, and Wang Jianzhi was still standing on the deck of the flagship. It was a building ship, which was moving slowly, and landed at the back of the queue before the shelling began, so it was lucky to escape.

The water bandits are very wise, they know that luck can't be relied on for a long time, and if they want to escape, they still have to rely on their own hands and feet, so although it is not the Dragon Boat Festival, they still jump into the river. But Wang Jianzhi did not have the surname Shui who could swim from the heart of the river to the shore, in fact, he did not have the intention of escaping.

Thinking about Gong Jin back then, the lupine scarf, talking and laughing, the canopy was wiped out, Su Shi's poem Chibi nostalgia shows how many literati Confucian complexes, for Wang Jianzhi, a person who is interested in military merits, he is even more emotional, and he has imagined similar scenes in his mind countless times.

Now, also on this river, he has finally waited for the moment when his dream comes true, but it is not him who talks and laughs, but the one who disappears.

The 10,000-strong army has fallen apart, and there may not be many people killed in the shelling, but without morale, these turtles who don't take military discipline very seriously will definitely scatter and flee, let alone close, I'm afraid it will be difficult to find a figure again.

Without this 10,000 naval army, he is destined to be unable to enter Nanjing City, unless he is a prisoner, but what is the use of entering like that? He didn't think that after the other party broke his vanguard naval army, he would stop there, with such a gunboat, the enemy could go upstream, take Anqing directly, and break the main force of King Ning with the combination of inside and outside.

Subsequently, the long-term plan of his own people came to an end and came to naught, and Wang Jianzhi's heart was sad for a while, and his heart was like ashes in an instant.

He already knew that the reason for the battle of Arthur, which had puzzled them, must be the credit of these gunboats, right? Although Jiangnan is prosperous, and attaches much more importance to craftsmen and skills than other places, it is not as good as Lushun after all, and the other party has promoted craftsmen to a status similar to that of scholars.

Therefore, although there are many more craftsmen on the Jiangnan side, especially shipwrights, than Lushun, in terms of warships, they can only be stunned, even if they carefully study the other party's methods and imitate them at any cost.

The artillery on the enemy ship is farther than the general cannon in the army, and the power is also greater, and the rate of fire is much more than that, the legend in the capital is really true, science and technology is productivity, science and technology is power, Wang Jianzhi is completely enlightened.

...... "So can't you help fighting?" Lu Xiaosi was a little confused, the enemy was too fragile, originally he thought that he would face a fierce battle similar to the Battle of Lushun, who would have thought that three rounds of volleys, no, in fact, since the first round, the problem has been solved.

He scratched his scalp, turned his head and asked, "Mr. Wang, what should I do next?" ”

"Give the rear a message, let them go up and surrender." Wang Shouren shook his head, the shelling also brought him some discomfort, the smoke of gunpowder was gone, and the river wind would quickly blow it away, but the loud sound of the cannon made his ears buzz all the time, and Lu Xiaosi's voice was a little blurry to him.

"Surrender? Mr. Wang, didn't you just say that you want to get rid of all evil? "Lushun people are accustomed to calling Wang Shouren by Mr., even if they know that the other party has become a member of the imperial court.

"Eliminating evil is not killing more, according to Lord Xie, these people can also be used for other purposes, and they can also redeem their merits."

Wang Shouren shook his head and raised his eyes to look west, "Since King Ning has already used a lone strategy to go deeper, in the face of condemnation everywhere, he must not retreat easily, and Anqing is also the key." If they can be defeated in Anqing, the damage caused by this chaos will be minimized. ”

...... "Those who surrender will not die, and those who raise their weapons and resist will be killed!" ”

Of course, Wang Jianzhi couldn't hear Wang Shouren's words, but when he saw that the ships behind the gunboats suddenly accelerated forward, and where they passed, all the way was smooth, he knew that everything was over, and now there were only two choices left for him, but there was only one destination.

Is it to be a prisoner, to be punished by a canonical person, or to simply cut himself off? He hesitated slightly, just like those people in the capital and Datong were counting on the battle in Jiangnan, the battle of Yingzhou was also Wang Jianzhi's lifeline.

However, he didn't hesitate for a long time, and soon, a wry smile appeared on his face, he couldn't use Xie Hong for this kind of thing at all, this person was indeed blessed by a hundred gods, otherwise, how could the situation in Jiangnan be overturned so quickly? It's foolproof!

He was dead.

As a result, there was another one more person who fell into the water of King Ning's navy, but this person was more special, he didn't know how to water, but he still refused to call for help, and soon became a floating corpse.

Almost at the same time, there was also a figure flashing at the head of Nanjing, and then the man fell heavily on the ground below the city like a broken pocket, and immediately became flattened.

In the cold winter, the ground is frozen quite solidly, and the grandeur of Nanjing's city wall is not inferior to that of the capital.

The anticlimactic Yingtian water battle came to an end.

(To be continued)