When Kang Mazi dispatched troops and prepared to fight Yang Feng again, the British sent the second batch of battleships to Yang Dashuai. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

This batch of small cruisers without battleships, all the same, a total of ten, displacement of more than 600 tons, each twenty-eight twelve-pounder guns, because there is only a single gun deck, so the ship type has to be elongated, compared with the fat battleships are obviously much more delicate, and these are newly built in Bombay, using Burmese teak, compared with Yang Feng's previous indiscriminate armed merchant ships, obviously much stronger.

The British exchanged this batch of battleships for another batch of shells, and by the way, they purchased a batch of treasures, and the most important thing, that is, the overall casting technology of flowering shells, and even Yang Feng specially let them visit and learn how his shells were cast. As for whether the British were reluctant to use steel and could cast the same shells with pig iron, this has nothing to do with him, anyway, they will have to use the next batch of warships to exchange the technology of crucible steel, and as for the question of crucible steel, which is also very expensive......

The British are reluctant to spend money on his.

"Dashuai, when are we going to build our own ship?"

Admiral Chen Zhi of the Ming Navy cruiser said.

He is the former officer of the Zheng family's navy, after the fall of Taiwan, he has been a pirate at the mouth of the Pearl River, and later came to Yang Feng with Zheng Jian, because of his outstanding performance, he was promoted to admiral by Yang Dashuai, and the question he is asking now is also what all the Ming army naval generals have always wanted to ask. After all, whether you buy a ship or grab a ship, this is definitely not as good as building your own ship, and after knowing the naval strength of the red-haired ghosts, especially knowing that there are more than 100 light battleships like the British, these Ming generals also have a sense of urgency.

"Build your own ship?"

Yang Feng pondered for a while, this problem is indeed necessary, there is no hurry to build warships, but it is necessary to build large merchant ships, he is not short of warships now, but there is a lack of transport ships, in fact, there are several armed merchant ships that have been used by him as transport ships, and the lack of transportation capacity has always been the main factor restricting his military production, after all, his current coke is all transported from Keelung, and after the steel plant began to produce, the demand for coke has increased sharply.

"Go, find an old cruiser from your men, and throw it to the ship repair yard, let them disassemble it, first study and understand the structure of the red-haired ghost, and then copy it as it is."

Then he said.

He already has a shipyard in Changguo, which is dedicated to repairing more and more of his warships, and those workers have more or less a certain foundation, and it should not be difficult to learn how to make European-style sailing ships, anyway, this thing is not a black technology, the biggest problem lies in the selection and treatment of wood, and this is precisely what he does not need to consider alone, because Chinese shipbuilders are no worse than their European counterparts in this regard, and all that remains is to give them a new set of drawings.

"Dashuai, Beacon!"

He was thinking about it when Chen Zhi suddenly shouted.

Yang Feng raised his head in amazement, on a small island more than ten miles away, the fire of the alarm was shining in the rain, it was obvious that something had happened, otherwise he would not have used the beacon fire.

"Quick, prepare the ship, go back to Ningbo!"

He said immediately.

At this time, in the city of Ningbo, Gao Huai, the chief of staff of the First Army who stayed behind, had a solemn face.

The counteroffensive of the Qing army began.

And it is a counteroffensive on the whole front, the Qing army on the northern front is attacking Zhangting, the Qing army on the west line is attacking Xikou, only the southern line is still calm for the time being, but according to intelligence, the Qing army from Guangdong to the north also arrived in Ninghai half a month ago, it is obvious that this Qing army will not be there to see the excitement, if it is another time, he will not be nervous, but now the rainy season has a great impact on the use of rifles, although the Qing army's firearms can not be used, but they have a sufficient numerical advantage.

"Ma, I'm really good at picking the time!"

He said hatefully.

"Ma, I'm really good at picking the time!"

Cao Yuan, commander of the first infantry battalion of the First Brigade of the Ming Army, said with the same hatred that in front of him, hundreds of Ming soldiers were hiding in the fortress surrounded by the chest wall, constantly firing at the Qing troops who were swarming outside.

On the opposite side, countless Qing troops were rushing up in the rain along the mountain, brandishing swords and spears, and then fell one by one under the bullets.

"Fire!"

Not far away he shouted, the captain of the artillery team.

Four four-and-a-half-pound guns that had just finished loading spewed flames almost at the same time, but they didn't shoot flowering shells, and the explosion rate of this kind of shells in the heavy rain was also not high, so now they all use scattered bullets, and the lead projectiles sprayed out from the muzzle of the guns swept across in an instant, and the dense formation of the Qing army suddenly dozens of people screamed and fell, almost at the same time, a series of nine-pound cannon solid bullets hit the Qing army, and the huge kinetic energy of the shells was like breaking a pile of porcelain, and a large number of Qing troops were beaten to pieces.

This is the artillery battalion that supports them overhead.

Zhangting is the forefront of the Ming army, the Qing army wants to attack Cixi, open the north gate of Ningbo, you must first open this town, the fortress of the Ming army is not in the town, but on the hill next to it, the core is the artillery battalion on the top of the mountain, the front is two infantry battalions, Cao Yuan this is under the artillery position, the other three battalions are at the ferry, with the water channel of the Cijiang River as the supply channel.

"Fortunately, Lao Tzu was prepared."

Cao Yuan looked at the top of his head proudly.

The grass shed above his head actually saved the battle, in this place there is straw, bamboo and wood are, it is too simple to build a circle of grass sheds based on the breast wall, this kind of thing successfully solves the problem of the use of flintlock pistols in the rain, but even so, the success rate of flowering is not more than sixty percent, you can imagine what the result would be if there is no grass shed in this circle.

Not only him, but also the three battalions of the ferry and the breastwork connecting the two places were also shaded by such straw huts.

Including the artillery, more than 2,000 elite Ming troops, even if only sixty percent of the successful firing rate, still beat their front into a sea of corpses and blood of the Qing army, those Qing soldiers wielding cold weapons, none of them were able to rush to within twenty steps in front of the Ming army, even the cavalry, because they were blocked by something else......

"What the hell is this?"

On the opposite side of the Ming army's defense line, Zhang Yunyi, the governor of Jiangnan, said in a trembling voice, his heart was dripping blood at this time.

Because his most elite cavalry was being slaughtered, the real slaughter, those kings who had dominated the land battlefield were crowded in front of the Ming army's position at this time, as if blocked by an invisible wall, and as if they were trapped in an invisible quagmire. They could not move forward and pierce the bodies of the Ming soldiers less than thirty paces away, nor could they retreat from the bullets that kept piercing their bodies, for under the hooves of their horses were countless wooden stakes smashed into the ground, and between these stakes were barbed wires.

The wires were wrapped around the legs of the horses that were supposed to gallop into battle like a vicious curse, sharp thorns pierced into their bodies, tearing at their flesh, and the horses screamed, without the wisdom to understand what barbed wire was, and only instinctively left this thing, and their struggles even pulled up the stakes. But this is meaningless, it will only make more wires hook their flesh and blood around them, and the most elite cavalry of the Qing army on their horses will desperately wave their sabers and slash at the wires, but what if they are cut off, this kind of thing will still be entangled in their horses.

Barbed wire is the best defensive weapon, and this kind of thing is not high-tech, even if he doesn't buy it from Lin Qian, Yang Feng can produce it himself, but the output is a little smaller......

Of course, it is most convenient to buy directly.

And this is the most important defensive weapon that Yang Feng gave to his subordinates in the rainy season, and now these unlucky Qing troops have become the first victims of this vicious tactic, they are desperate to struggle in the barbed wire, and then they are shot one by one by the Ming army behind the breastwork, easily shooting the target, and it didn't take long for the corpses of the man and the war horse to be piled up in front of the barbed wire into a terrifying corpse wall, and the wanton flow of rain mixed with their blood, and completely turned into blood and water into the surging river.

"Master Hou, you can't fight like this anymore."

A general soldier knelt in front of Zhang Yunyi and cried.

"Bastard, if you don't take advantage of this time to break through the thief barracks, once the rain stops, won't it be even more hopeless!"

Daniel Zhang's heir, the second-class Marquis of Jing Yunyi, stared at the blood-red eyes and shouted, of course he knew that he couldn't fight like this anymore, but the problem was that now was their best chance, if even this could not break through the Ming army camp, then I am afraid that there would never be a chance to break through.

"Don't even say it, I will receive the grace of the country in the world, and I can only sacrifice my life to repay the saints, attack, no matter how many people die, we will attack!"

He shouted as he brandished his sword.

The main thing, of course, is that he doesn't have to charge personally.

Well, since the commanders are so heroic, the soldiers have no choice but to fight for our Qing Dynasty, with loyalty to the Holy Lord Kangxi and our Qing Dynasty, the Qing army on the battlefield in front of them is still sacrificing their lives to impact the Ming army's defense line, and then let their blood flow into the surging Yao River.

Because of the large number of troops, they even bypassed the Ming army camp and launched an attack from behind.

However, this is useless, because the camp of the Ming army is a stickman without two arms, a section of the open hugging the river, the middle of the closed chest wall forms less than two miles of long road, and then there is the top of the mountain with eighteen nine-pound cannons as the core of the annular chest wall, the outer ring is a dense barbed wire, this camp is not to mention let the Qing army attack, even if it is replaced by the Ming army, it is difficult to attack, unless it is from the water......

But it's a pity that there are river warships of the Ming army on the water.

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