"On the seventeenth day of the first month of the forty-first year of the Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty, the thieves invaded the mouth of the Yangtze River in a big way, the warships blocked the river, the sails covered the sun, and the ministers and soldiers were outnumbered and powerless to resist, so they only fought to the death to repay the favor of the saints. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Liang Nai, the commander of the south land route of Chenjiangnan, wept bloodily. ”

After Zhang Yunyi died in battle, Liang Nai, the new governor of Jiangnan, who was promoted by the general army of Susong Town, wrote the memo with a bitter face in the Admiral Yamen that he had just opened in Baoshan City, and then handed it to his own soldiers and said: "Quick, leave quickly with my wife and young master, and then send this memo to Suzhou to Prince Jian, and then return to my hometown in Shaanxi directly with my wife and young master, this Jiangnan can't stay, I'm afraid it won't be long before it all falls into the hands of thieves." ”

"Sir!"

The concubine who had just married the year before last was holding her son who was less than a year old in her arms, and shouted with a broken expression.

"Hurry up and tell Zhong'er that his father died on the battlefield for our Qing Dynasty!"

Admiral Liang held back tears and finished speaking, kissed the child again, drew his waist knife with the grief of separation of flesh and blood, resolutely turned around and rode straight to the newly built Wusongkou East Fort, on the Yangtze River on his right, a huge battleship full of sails against the current, the main mast of eye-catching red flags danced fiercely, facing the port side of the shore, under the rows of open gun doors, a terrifying front-loading rifled gun has been launched, and the muzzle of the black hole hole is facing the shore.

The Ming army counterattacked.

In order to give Yang Dashuai a gift to King Wu, on the battlefield in eastern Zhejiang, the Ming army began a counteroffensive on all fronts, although this was expected, but no one in the Qing army thought that their first target would be Wusongkou, which was completely outside the war zone.

Looking at the back of his old man who was far away, the little concubine shouted a few times sadly, until she saw that he had gone away, she quickly put on another face, looked at the pro-soldier tenderly and smiled, looked at the child in her arms again, got into the carriage that had been prepared long ago as fast as possible, and pulled the gold, silver and jewelry that Lord Liang had looted over the years out of the city and headed south......

Well, as for where they go only God knows.

Poor Lord Liang didn't know that the hat on his head had long been green, the late prince Shaobao, the governor of Jiangnan, the third-class Asihanifan, once defeated Zheng Chenggong under the city of Nanjing, and saved the southeast half of the country for Kang Mazi, the second son of Liang Zhongzhuanggong Liang Huafeng, at this time, just like his father when he fought Nanjing for the Qing Dynasty, he stood on the Wusongdong Fort with his waist knife, facing the river, including six battleships, nearly thirty Ming warships let out his roar as a loyal minister of our Qing Dynasty.

"Fire!"

A gunner beside him quickly ignited, and a 6,000-pound cannon roared angrily, and in the smoke of black powder, solid cast-iron cannonballs whistled through the air, punching out columns of water on the surface of the river, which looked spectacular.

But at the same time, on the Ming battleship opposite, blazing flames erupted from rows of gun doors, and then the terrifying forty-pound cannon shells smashed on the fort, and the terrifying flames exploded instantly, and the entire fort was drowned in the sea of fire in a blink of an eye. In the light of the shell explosion, those unlucky Qing soldiers desperately operated a 6,000-pound cannon to fire at the river, with scattered shrapnel and rubble that raged like cannonballs after being blown up.

But alas, everything was in vain.

"My lord, quickly retreat, the thief army is too fierce to hold on."

An officer knelt in front of Liang Nai and shouted.

They really can't hold it, the six-thousand-pound heavy gun has a gross use, and the cannonballs are only about twenty pounds, at most the level of a twenty-pound gun, and the twenty-four-pound gun is considered a medium-caliber gun on a battleship, if they really want to pose a threat to the battleship, they will have to be thirty or forty pounds, not to mention that they will have no energy to hit the Ming battleship three or four miles away, at most they will break a little wood slag, let alone penetrate the waterline protected by steel plates.

Speaking of which, killing a few Ming sailors is a huge gain.

But the Ming army's forty pounds of heavy artillery shells, a shell hit, almost no living people can be seen within ten zhang of the surrounding area, that is more than a dozen pounds of black powder, and it is also an improved formula, mixed with not the soil nitrate soaked out of the toilet soil, is a pure modern industrial product of high-purity potassium nitrate, the power of a forty pounds of artillery shells is almost comparable to the modern 105 mm high-explosive bomb, hit on the unsheltered open fort, which is this kind of Qing army green battalion without the will to fight can bear?

"Bastard, I, Liang Nai, am loyal to the Qing Dynasty and the emperor, and I will only die today, and those who dare to say that they will be killed!"

Admiral Liang roared majestically under the artillery fire.

At this moment, a cannonball suddenly exploded not far from him, but unlike others, this cannonball was much weaker, and after exploding, it was like a Lantern Festival fireworks, countless extremely bright sparks, flying out of the surroundings at once, and then falling like a rain of fire, the unlucky Lord Liang happened to be covered by the rain of fire, and then dozens of bright yellow flames stuck to his body.

"Quick, quick, extinguish!"

Lord Liang screamed in horror.

The soldiers on both sides hurriedly stepped forward and put out the fire with clothes, sand and water, but this strange yellow flame could not be extinguished, and almost in a blink of an eye, Lord Liang became a fire man, screaming in pain in the flames, looking extremely terrifying, and even the two Qing soldiers who put out the fire were also ignited. At the same time, more and more of these shells fell, and the entire battery was full of strange sparks falling like fireworks, and all the Qing troops who were splashed by the sparks were also like their commanders, and they were burned to the point that they let out a scream that was less and less human, and no matter how they extinguished it, they couldn't extinguish the fire.

"Demon fire, it is the kind of demon fire that the Ming army used at the mouth of Dagu."

The officer who persuaded Liang Nai to run away just now screamed in horror in the screams of Lord Liang, and then turned around without hesitation and rushed straight to the bottom of the fort.

"Madamn, this armor bullet is good!"

Looking at the fort that had turned into a sea of fire, Luo Zhang, the commander of the battle fleet on the Zhenhai, said with satisfaction.

This is the first time he has used white phosphorus shells in battle, in fact, this kind of thing is also the first time that this kind of thing has been issued to him, it is obvious that the effect of this thing shocked him, if this is not on the battery, but directly on the enemy's battleship, it is simply a lore, an absolute shell a battleship, not to mention the small cruiser of the Qing army, it is a battleship like Zhenhai, and a shell of this kind can only become a torch.

"Fifty yuan for a cannonball, of course it's good, can you make it hard if you hit more than five thousand taels of silver in the blink of an eye?"

Next to him, Feng Zhen, the commander of the Second Army of the Ming Army, said speechlessly.

At present, the currency of the Ming Dynasty is the dragon dollar, using the silver standard, of which the Ming heavy treasure is a silver coin, Tongbao is a copper plate, but also issued a dragon dollar banknote, a yuan banknote is equivalent to a Ming heavy treasure, that is, a tael of silver, and the official weights and measures are six hundred grams for a catty, of course, this standard is determined by Yang Feng himself, the concept of grams does not exist here, and a catty of sixteen taels, that is, one two thirty-seven .5 grams.

As for gold, this is not a currency in theory, but it is actually used in large quantities, the value is fluctuating, and there are great differences between countries, and the reason why Yang Feng does not mint gold coins is precisely because of this, it is easy for some foreign profiteers to come to speculate in foreign exchange.

According to the current market, at most three such shells can buy a good house in cities like Hangzhou and Ningbo. Of course, this purchase price is just a meaning, because the weapons and ammunition used by the Ming army are basically purchased from the prince's factory, and there are too many messy ways in it, to be honest, even Yang Wangye himself is almost unable to calculate this confused account now.

"Hurry up and do your job!"

Luo Zhang said to Feng Zhen angrily.

"Order the Seventh Brigade to send a battalion to land and take over Baoshan City, and all other troop carriers and river warships will come forward and prepare to enter Wusongkou."

Feng Zhen immediately said to the officer beside him.

At the same time, the four troop carriers lowered their boats and transported Ming soldiers to take over Baoshan City, while Luo Zhang's battlefleet crossed Wusongkou and began to pour shells on the western battery. However, it is obvious that the defenders on the west fort are more sober-minded than those on the east fort, and almost as soon as the Ming warships fire, these green battalions who ignore the grace of the Qing court quickly raised the white flag, and then walked down the fort in line and stood by the river to show their friendliness and enthusiasm to the Ming army.

On the other side of them, Ming cruisers, troop transports, and river warships sailed into Wusongkou and headed south along the Huangpu River to Shanghai.

Even Feng Zhen left the Zhenhai that was too deep to enter the Huangpu River, and then changed to an inland river warship and went straight to Shanghai, only two hours later, the army he led landed and occupied the almost undefended Shanghai City, and then without the slightest stop, he divided a battalion to attack Songjiang Mansion in the south, and he led a huge fleet composed of inland river warships and sand boats, and went straight to the rear base camp of the Qing army along the Wusong River, the largest logistics base, the headquarters of Prince Yabu, Prince Jian, the general of Anton......

Suzhou.

But Suzhou is not his end either.

After taking Suzhou, he would continue on into Taihu Lake and then south to his final stop......

Huzhou.

Then the two points of Huzhou and Suzhou were blocked, and Taihu Lake was used as a barrier to completely seal the entire eastern Zhejiang theater, like a prison cage, and the 100,000 Qing troops of Sabusu were locked inside.

Close the door and beat the dog. (To be continued.) )