The sudden winter rain made many people in Liuzhou City feel a little relieved, and their peace of mind was based on the traditional understanding of firearms, but what they never expected was that the firearms equipped by their opponents had not only greatly reduced the possible disadvantages when fighting in rainy days, but also used their own sense of relaxation brought by rainy days to make a fuss!

In the early morning, on the upper reaches of the Liujiang River, about ten miles away from the wharf in the west of Liuzhou City, three small boats were drifting along the river, this rainy day made the water camp sergeants on the boat lazily hide in the canopy, because the boat was too small to be able to make a fire to keep warm, the already tattered mandarin duck jackets could not play a role in keeping out the cold, several people on each boat could only curl up and huddle together to keep warm, while cursing the rebels in the north so that they could not bake in the warm barracks and blow the wind and freeze here...... On the bank of the river, there are several small boats that make a living by fishing and are getting up early in the morning to fish, and the pressure of life makes them have to get up early and stay late to barely ensure the food and clothing of themselves and their families.

Just when everyone thought that the rain that began yesterday would allow everyone to rest for a day today, a teenage soldier who was squeezed out of the canopy because he had no qualifications and was thin blinked his little eyes, stared at the river for a while, and then poked the eldest brother next to him with his elbow and said:

"Big brother, big brother, it seems that the river is coming to the boat!"

"What a!! If you come to the ship, you go up and ask which ship it is, as long as it is the ship that has been reported, you will let it go, what so much nonsense! "The veteran who was changed guard early in the morning and came to the river to be on duty was stabbed impatiently, if the boat was not too small and afraid that he would kick the boat too much, he would have kicked people a long time ago.

"No, there are a lot of boats, almost dozens, and none of them have flags, and they look weird, and they look good!"

Xiao Bing's words finally made everyone on the boat sober up, and now there are people in the north, and he is not here to keep watch.

The other two small boats also seemed to notice the fleet of boats down the river upstream, and they lifted the uphill top, and one of them was ready to intercept and inspect it. One of the small boats, Ubong, lowered its oars, and if the situation was not right, they would quickly report it downstream.

Looking intently at the incoming ships upstream, dozens of ships were lining up down the river, and the ship at the front was very strange, not only much wider than ordinary ships, but also a few feet taller than ordinary ships, and at the same time there seemed to be something erected on the high bow of the ship. What's even more strange is that this ship and a small boat located next to it suddenly let out a roaring sound after seeing the three small boats on their side, and then suddenly rolled up a large amount of water behind the stern, and the large and small boats seemed to have gained some divine power and suddenly accelerated towards the small boat in the water camp.

"It's a flamboyant people! Hurry up and stroke!! Fast!!! ”

Although the other party did not reveal his name, when the two clippers propelled by divine power stood up, the colorful clothes on their bodies already spoke for themselves. The sergeants of the water battalion on the three small boats exclaimed one after another, and hurriedly prepared to run away, when they saw the big ship, they already knew that they did not have any chance of winning, fighting on the water, the size of the ship had basically decided the victory or defeat, and the ship with the advantage of height difference could only condescendingly bow down on those small boats......

However, before they could start to artificially accelerate the boat, the large and small flower-skin warships had already rushed to a distance of less than twenty paces, and at this time, the two rebels in flower-skin clothes raised a round round pipe about the thickness of an arm, about a foot and a half long, and put it on their shoulders, and aimed the black pipe heads in front of them at the two small boats.

"What's that?"

It was a common thought in the minds of those who saw this scene, but soon the two peg-skinned people gave an answer, and with two muffled thuds, two black lumps of stuff were squirted out of the round pipe; They don't fly very fast, and even the naked eye can see that they are flying in the air, and the stout round lump has a long tail at the end, and the yellow color of the copper coin on its head seems to indicate something bad...... Sure enough, when these two black lumps hit the bow of the boat, the black lumps suddenly erupted with a huge sound and impact, which directly blew up the bow less than three feet wide, and several water battalion sergeants near the bow were either swept away by the flying debris or thrown into the water by the impact......

Cleanly packed up the two boats, the ships of the Flower Skin Army did not stop, the small fast boat chased the last water camp boat like a sharp arrow, its speed was simply jaw-dropping, several water camp sergeants used their strength to eat milk and failed to run past the fast boat of the Flower Skin Army, a few sergeants saw that they couldn't run away and didn't know who shouted, a few people simply stood up and raised their hands no longer paddling, shouting surrender, letting the boat lose power The boat slowly floated; And the pursuing little fast boat did not hit the black lump again, but shouted for a few sergeants to row the boat upstream, and followed behind to escort him.

The big boat did not participate in the pursuit, and after cleanly killing an official ship, it began to approach the fishing boats on the shore, and the sight of the ship of the Flowerskin Army approaching itself made several fishermen's faces turn white with fright, and they didn't know what to do. But soon, from the shouts of the flower skin soldiers standing on it, the civilian boats docked on the shore knew that these ships were the Gutian Righteous Army who went to Liuzhou City to kill officials and help the people for Tianxingdao, and all the river ships were temporarily suspended and hired with the army, and those who did not obey the order were waiting for Tianlei!!

Although I don't understand what the thunder is, the fishermen who watched all this happening in front of them probably understood that the thunder was probably the thing that could be **** tuotuo, and the thunder hit their small fishing boat on this day...... Look at the two small boats that floated on the river with the buoyancy of wood, and the sailors next to them who were being fished up with pennies by other ships of the Fur Army...... No one wants to come and taste what it's like to be like this...... And soon, these apprehensive fishermen received a deposit, although each person has a fairy knife, although it is not a yellow and white thing, but the quality and reputation of the fairy knife has spread in Liuzhou, even if they can't use it, they can also exchange it for a lot of food, and a few smiling fishermen told everything they knew to the flower skin soldiers on the big ship......

However, on a large ship at the heart of the fleet, they were not surprised by the movement caused by the explosion just now, and the infantry was also equipped with this short-range throwing weapon of six centimeters, and a trained shooter could throw it into a five-by-five target range seventy meters away and use the impact fuse of its head to detonate it, like just now at a distance of about twenty meters...... As long as the person who can shoot the gun shoots directly, he will not miss the target! And what excites them is the iron bumps that make a roar from the two clippers!!

"! The engine that the teacher said is really a cow fork, which can run so fast without being paddled on a speedboat! I really want to go up there and have a good time......"

Luo Dan excitedly looked at the fast boat that was escorting the captive ship back in the distance, perhaps it had never run in such a wide place, the fast boat sometimes drew a white wave on the water in a straight line, and sometimes suddenly pushed a large splash of water, making Luo Dan excitedly eager to look at the last such spare speedboat next to him.

"Don't!" The awl next to him swept Luo Dan's interest very unceremoniously, maybe it was rare to have such an opportunity to overpower Luo Dan's head, and the awl's current expression made people feel very unflat: "The teacher said, the single-cylinder diesel engine on the big ship can now get diesel from coal and will be used, but the gasoline engine on these two speedboats can be saved, and now the gasoline we get is not up to standard and cannot be used temporarily......"

"I wipe ...... Bear with you......"

Although looking at the awl's flat expression made the roots of his teeth itch, if it was the teacher who said it, there must be a reason for him, Luo Dan could only hold back his emotions and watch the two warriors in the distance spread joy on the water.

As early as in the process of planning this operation, everyone found that because the included territory had the river Rongjiang, whether it was defense or the future expansion of the mountain village, it was necessary to form an inland water battalion to take charge of this matter, so there was another task of water defense in the army. Considering the actual situation of the mountain village at present, the number of people in the water camp cannot be too much, so the requirements for ships are higher, fortunately, before this, Deng Shifeng had already asked Zhao Carpenter and Sun Tiegang to start a small dock by the river, starting from the small boat in Wupeng to learn how to build ships. In addition to the traditional dhow and manpower provided by the large ships, there were also single-cylinder diesel engines from agricultural vehicles and generators as wartime power. This Yuchai 1115 engine was often used by ships modified to various inland lakes in later generations, and there were not many problems except for the loud noise...... There were a few river warships, and the remaining two speedboat-like boats used motorcycle engines, which were converted into hang-up engines at the machine shop.

Several modified warships performed well in their debut, although they were robbed of the limelight by speedboats, but the bed crossbow on the bow of the main warship indicated that it had not yet wielded its power, and this iron bed crossbow could deliver three catties or one pound of projectile ammunition to a distance of 300 to 600 meters, or block a river within 100 meters with direct fire.

However, for another person, no matter how the warship behaved, he expressed his displeasure, the final prize of this operation was not the infantry that had been beaten all the way in front, nor the inland water battalion that was in the limelight now, but the artillery that wanted to blast away Liuzhou City! This person is Huang Shicheng! (To be continued.) )