(Yesterday there was a mistake in the name of a place in the two chapters.,Tu Zhong is written as Dangtu.,I'm sorry to everyone here.,The madman has revised it.。 When Tu is located on the south bank of the Yangtze River, and Tu Zhong is now Chuzhou is located on the north bank of the Yangtze River, the two are not the same place. In addition, thank you for the big commuter pass! ）

Gan Zhuo's deployment is correct, the fireships released by the Chaohu Navy are just to harass the Jiangdong Navy, and the Chaohu Navy is inferior to the Jiangdong Navy in terms of experience, and their real reliance is on the thirty-two new-style building ships. Liu Kun stood on the flagship and said in his heart: "Since Gan Zhuo is here to send him to death, then I should be merciless and destroy the main force of the Jiangdong Navy in one fell swoop, so that it cannot cause trouble again, and then go south to Tuzhong Town." ”

Three hundred yachts in Chaohu Lake ignited the fire boat and dodged both sides of the Yangtze River. At the same time, 400 Mengchong ships accelerated their advance to fill the vacancy left by the yacht in time, while the 32 new-style building ships turned around long before the yachts placed the fireboats, so that the six nine-pound artillery pieces were aimed at the main building ships of the Jiangdong Navy Army.

When the Jiangdonglou ship entered the range of the nine-pound artillery, the 141 gunners on one side immediately adjusted the firing angle and waited for the firing order. Although the number of artillery of the warships of the inland water division is not as large as that of the naval warships and the combat power is strong, it is enough to deal with the old-fashioned building ships of Jiangdong.

"Is the artillery ready?" Liu Kun stood on the stern and looked at the river with a monocular for a while, then turned his head and asked.

"Your Excellency, you're all set." The non-commissioned officer next to him replied.

"That's good, it's a pity we're too slow." Liu Kun looked at the weather vane on the mast and couldn't help muttering. Now the wind is blowing from the north, and the ship is heading southwest. Therefore, it is biased towards the wind, and the wind on the river is not comparable to the wind on the sea, so the huge new building ship can only move forward slowly.

"My lord, you have to take it easy to fight, the river is not as good as the land and the sea, we are not enough to turn and the wind, don't let the Jiangdong Sailor wrap it up." The army reminded with a smile beside him, "This is a treasure that Your Majesty has painstakingly created for the inland river water division, and if you miss it a little, we will be in trouble with the Huainan Governor's Mansion." ”

"Don't worry, sir. Our heavy artillery is powerful. The range is long, and this time I came to provide fire support to the fleet of the naval division. As long as the Jiangdong Sailors can't get close to us, they won't be able to hurt us no matter what. Besides, I don't care about the Jiangdong Sailors coming with a hundred and eighty ships. Liu Kun waved his hand.

Now he is a bit proud of changing shotguns for cannons. The nine-pound cannon is not a vegetarian. And in order to improve the ability to engage in broadside combat. The imperial court equipped the new ships with smoothbore musketeers and crossbows and long-range weapons. Coupled with the assistance of the warship next to him, Liu Kun is of course full of confidence.

As he spoke, he soon vaguely saw the dense ships of the Jiangdong Navy Division in the distance. Liu Kun took a closer look with a monocular, and now thousands of large and small ships were densely spread on the river, with giant boats in front and the rest of the ships behind. After a while, Liu Kun was now running on the opposite boat, and it seemed that they had already appeared to attack themselves and began to prepare for battle.

"The whole ship is ready for battle, and the flag is sent to the warships, saying that we are proceeding according to the original plan." Liu Kun put away the binoculars and ordered loudly.

"Yes!"

When the Chaohu Naval Division was about to start, Gan Zhuo was also ready to strike first, only to see him muttering for a while, and decisively ordered, the front army fleet met the battle, the Chinese army fleet greeted, and he led the brigade to press the formation in the back. Soon, more than 80 giant boats and more than 200 other ships sailed out of the battle formation of the Jiangdong Naval Division and rushed towards the Chaohu Naval Division.

The two armies were less than three miles apart, and the Jiangdong Naval Division saw that the warships on the opposite side suddenly crossed and exposed the starboard side. Vaguely seeing the two rows of black holes on the side of the ship, Gan Zhuo's heart began to beat the drum, over the years, with Sima Shu in power, every year there will be a lot of new weapons in the imperial court. Jiangdong people have also heard a lot, but I don't know what their sailor will come up with this time?

The two armies were separated by about a mile, and Liu Kun decisively ordered to open fire. Liu Kun knew what the structure of the Jiangdong Navy's giant boat was, and the nine-pound solid cannonball could still resist the ocean-going ships with iron sheets and various reinforcements, but for ordinary inland river vessels, one dozen was accurate.

The heavy artillery on the building ship was the first to fire, only to see the firelight flashing one by one, the huge cannon sound was torn out of the thick smoke, and there was a terrifying whistling tail, which came one after another from the river, so that the ears and whole body of the Jiangdong sailors were shocked.

There was a loud bang, and two shells hit the bow of the giant boat at the front. Where did the Jiangdong Navy Division experience such a blow, two nine-pound shells hit it, even if the Jiangdong warship was made of thick wood, it was still pierced through the wood by the shells, and two huge holes were punched. The huge impact shook the surrounding wooden planks into debris, and these high-flying wood chips were like scattered bullets, and immediately beat the dozen or so Jiangdong sergeants who were standing densely behind them with blood all over their faces, and they fell there and screamed in pain.

The cannonball flew through the planks under the hull and through the crowd of oarsmen, only to see the crumbs of the wooden oars and the broken flesh of the oarsmen flying together, and blood splattered all over a radius of several meters. The oarsmen, who were still rowing desperately just now, were frightened, and they dropped their oars and ran up to the upper floor, and the giant boat slowed down all of a sudden.

A few more shells flew over the bow of the ship and flew through the crowd of people standing on the deck of another huge ship, only to see flesh and blood flying sideways, showing a bloody path.

After the first round of heavy artillery strikes, the Jiangdong Naval Division gradually entered the range of fire of the warships, and Liu Kun immediately ordered to open fire. The 384 guns of the 32 warships opened fire one after another, and only the sound of cannons and shells was heard on the entire river, and thick smoke was constantly spewing out, and then rolling on the river, and then being blown to the south bank by the wind.

The powerful flowering bullets and the penetrating solid bullets all baptized the Jiangdong Naval Giant Boat that rushed to the front like a torrential rain, but countless sawdust splashed on the inside and deck, killing and injuring the Jiangdong sergeants standing behind, and hundreds of Koto sergeants covered their faces and wounds, howling there.

The Jiangdong soldiers with weapons in their hands were completely messy in the sound of the cannons, and the two trembling soldiers looked weak compared to the deafening cannon sound of the Chaohu Water Division, and the bows and arrows shot hit the water one after another, only splashing countless splashes.

"Fight horizontally, lean over, and engage in broadside battles!" Gandra was anxious and jumped to his feet to give the order. At present, we can only rely on the cross-facing battle to solve these new artillery warships of the Chaohu Naval Division, and relying only on the bow of the ship, the number of troops transported is insufficient, and of course it will suffer, so it is the best way to make the ships meet horizontally, which can fully exploit the advantages of the traditional tactics of the Jiangdong Naval Division.

Seeing that the main force of the Jiangdonglou ship was about to come over, the sailors commanded by Liu Kun also began to change their strategies. I saw thirty new-style building ships pulling back and distancing themselves from the enemy ships, preparing to concentrate on attacking the enemy's flagship.

"Bang!"

Several flowering shells smashed directly on the deck of Ganzhuo's ship, and with a loud bang, the soldiers around them were blown to death with broken limbs, which then caused a monstrous fire. Although the nine-pound artillery is not as powerful as the twelve-pound heavy artillery, how can its power be resisted by manpower?

Ganzhuo's main ship changed, and everyone in Jiangdong was shocked, they didn't expect that the artillery power of the Chaohu Water Army was so huge. Fortunately, Gan Zhuo has his own celebrity demeanor, Taishan collapsed in front of him and his face did not change, he glanced at the flames, and said flatly: "It should be the new firearm of the Chaohu Water Division, you don't need to panic, everyone will go to extinguish the fire, but the enemy's firearms hit rate is extremely low, and it is extremely difficult to hit us, this time it is just their shit luck, as long as we get close to the enemy ship, before it launches four or five rounds, our army has conquered its ship." You don't have to worry too much. ”

Who knows, before Gan Zhuo's words fell, the other ships had already adjusted their direction and fired nearly 100 flowering bombs again, roaring towards the Huanggai warship. This round of sixty flowering bombs exerted extraordinary effects, hitting nearly half of them. And one of the flowering bombs happened to land half a step away from Ganzhuo.

"Boom!"

The black smoke accompanied the sparks, directly covering Gan Zhuo, Gan Zhuo didn't have time to react, and was directly blown into pieces, and his flagship was completely buried at the bottom of the river after being hit by more than 100 flowering bombs. The destruction of the Ganzhuo warship, coupled with the death of himself in battle, completely destroyed the will to resist of the Jiangdong Naval Division.

Seeing the opportunity, Liu Kun ordered to engage in a broadside battle with the Jiangdong Naval Division, at this time the Jiangdong warships were all horizontal, just parallel to the artillery battleships of the Chaohu Naval Division, and the Jiangdong Battleships relied on inertia to squeeze towards the Chaohu Naval Division's ships, at first the wooden oars of both sides crackled together, and the huge impact force suddenly broke more than a dozen wooden oars on both sides.

The first to strike was the guns on the upper deck, which opened fire one after another, mercilessly raining thousands of scattered bullets on the deck of the Koto warship, sweeping everything like a torrential rain. The smoke was quickly blown away, and half of the people on the enemy warship had already fallen, and the wounded lying on the deck and groaning could be seen everywhere, and the lucky survivors stood there, their minds were completely confused, and they couldn't understand for a moment how the Chaohu sailors could shoot such a ferocious and dense rain of bullets.

Then the smoothbore gunners stepped forward in unison, aimed at the surviving Jiangdong naval army more than ten meters away, and "banged" another volley. In the splash of blood, dozens of Jiangdong sailors fell.

The sound of gunfire woke up the stunned Jiangdong naval army, and some brave men were enraged by the tragic scene in front of them, they ran to the plank with their knives, gritted their teeth and rushed towards the battleship of the Chaohu naval division, but they were greeted by a more dense salvo of muskets. After a burst of gunshots, the two dozen or so people turned over and fell into the water.

The river was pouring into the cabin of the Jiangdong Navy Division from all over the holes, causing it to sink slowly, and the Jiangdong Navy Army, who felt that something was wrong, began to panic and began to flee in all directions, and they jumped into the water one after another, just to save their lives.

With the death of Gan Zhuo in battle, the resistance of the Jiangdong Navy Division became weaker and weaker, and to be honest, this battle was really bad, and many Jiangdong Navy generals scolded angrily.

Thirty-two artillery battleships also dispersed, drawing circles one after another on the wide river. Using their mobility, they slowly retreated eastward, and circled with the Jiangdong naval division, first avoiding being surrounded, and then disabling the lone Jiangdong warships that were entangled by them at close range with scattered and solid bullets.

The lethality of artillery was enormous, and with only one or two rounds of scattered and solid bombardment, the warships of the Jiangdong Naval Division basically lost their power and more than half of their combat effectiveness, and stopped there alone, and many ships began to sink slowly. And the artillery battleships immediately abandoned them and looked for new targets in their maneuvers. (To be continued......)