Arriving near Thang Long City, Li Guo sent people to contact Li Twelve, Gu Ying and others, preparing to attack at the same time by land and water early the next morning. {3w.

The situation of the Nguyen Dynasty has now been investigated very clearly. A leader who went to Li Guo's ship to report to Li Guo on the military situation was introduced as follows:

On land, the Nguyen army did have artillery, but there were only a dozen artillery pieces of different sizes and calibers, and there was not a single large Franc machine cannon. There are also firecrackers, I don't know where I got them, but there are not many, not a thousand in total, and they are not illegal to use.

Among the naval forces, the Nguyễn navy division was weaker, and although the Nguyễn dynasty was close to the sea, there were no real warships, as the main threat of the Nguyễn dynasty came from land. Therefore, the Ruan Junshui Division was only a nominal naval division, and there was no way to deal with Li Guo's fleet at all.

"Does their sailor have a cannon?" Li asked, he was very concerned about this. Because it was an inland river, Li Guo's four warships were too large, but they were not as agile as small and medium-sized ships. If there were cannons on the enemy's small and medium-sized ships, it was likely to cause damage to Li Guo's large ship.

"Back to Lord Hu, their sailors don't have any cannons, not one, and all the dozen or so cannons are used to siege the city." The leader of the military briefing replied.

"Is the message accurate?" Li Guo asked him to change his tactics according to the enemy's firepower.

"Exactly, we caught several enemy officers, and they all said so."

Li Guo nodded, "Okay, you go back, tell Li Twelve and Gu Ying to attack together on time tomorrow!" Li Guo put his mind at ease, the firepower of the Ruan Dynasty was not worth mentioning in front of Li Guo.

At dawn the next day, Li Guo commanded the ship to move forward. When I arrived near Thang Long City, I saw a turn and the river widened. Hundreds of Ruan military ships of all kinds were just waiting for Li Guo's ship to fight him.

Li Guo laughed, he squinted at the Portuguese Matteo Ricci who had already submitted to him, "Ricci Occi, what do you say we should do?" ”

Ricci Ricci also learned some Chinese during this time, and although he couldn't speak it well, he could understand it. He stammered and said, "Master Tiger, the wind is good, rush!" ”

Li Guo listened to and understood Ricci's words. At this time, although it was facing the current, but the wind direction was favorable, Li Guo ordered people to raise the flag and direct the actions of all ships. I saw four Portuguese ships in order. Swing out of the long snake formation. Rushed towards the enemy ships.

At that time, naval or water warfare was about strong ships and huge cannons, and what was important was about solidity, hugeness, and firepower. It is not a simple matter to build such a Portuguese giant ship, in addition to comprehensive strength, it is necessary to have money, and it must also have considerable technology.

The Ruan Dynasty was a land of Dan Pills, and after years of fighting with the Later Li Dynasty, where could such a big ship be built! Now the largest ships of the Nguyen Dynasty can be said to be medium-sized. There were not even guns, and the ship's planks were thin. The driving is also slow, and there is no way to meet Li Guo's big boat.

Although the large ships of the Ruan army could also carry about 200 people, the soldiers were cold weapons with bows, arrows, knives and guns, which were used to hook the opponent's ships and kill them on the boats to fight and engage in hand-to-hand combat. The tactics of the Nguyen Army's naval division were still in the primitive stage.

In the face of the Portuguese warship that came with the wind downstream, the mighty and huge compared to the hill, the Ruan army did not even have the idea of fighting Li Guoshui's army on the mountaineering deck, and their current thought was only to hide. However, Ruan's warships were densely arranged, and they wanted to block Li Guo's fleet in a dense formation, but now they became a burden. It's not easy to dodge.

Just listening to the clattering sound, there were constantly Ruan warships being overturned or crashed apart.

Li Guo's four large ships entered the fleet of the Ruan army.

When the Ruan army was in a panic and didn't think of how to counterattack, the soldiers of the Ruan army found Li Guo, and the black holes in the portholes on both sides of the warship emitted black smoke, followed by a loud thunderclap.

The Francophone cannons, cannons, long cannons, rotary cannons, and all kinds of cannons on Li Guo's warship sprayed anger together, and the cannonballs of different powers had different ranges, just covering the entire river, and huge pills shot out like raindrops.

Solid shells, flowering bullets, and grape bombs hit the ships one after another, small ships were sunk in just one stroke, and medium-sized ships were also hit with planks flying around. Only the sound of rattling was heard, and the Ruan Jun's boats on the river were constantly hit.

Li Guo himself also aimed at it, personally lit a fire, and fired a cannon at a Ruan army warship that looked quite tall.

Li Guo aimed accurately, and a large cannonball weighing twenty-four pounds shot directly into the center of the Ruan army's warship!

Hearing only a loud bang, the medium-sized wooden boat carrying more than 200 people was hit by a solid cannonball, with a bang, wood chips flew one after another, and a huge hole was pierced in the center of the wooden boat, and the river water that I saw instantly poured into the cabin, and the boat slowly sank, and the Ruan Jun sailors on the boat were panicked, and they were looking for wooden planks and jumping into the river in order to escape.

After Li Guo's big ship fired a round of cannons, it did not stop. Li Guo was worried that the enemy would have a ship attacking by fire, and although this worry seemed a little redundant now, Li Guo did not want to take the risk. Moreover, for Li Guoshui, who had never experienced a water battle, it was just a practice to deal with a weak enemy like Ruan Jun, so Li Guo left the opportunity to attack to the seven or eight hundred warships behind.

These exercises were important, and they enabled Li Guo's navy to have its first actual combat experience in several important naval battles in the future.

Ruan Jun watched the big ship sail away, and was lucky not to be hit by the cannonballs on the big ship, but ushered in an even bigger nightmare.

Among Li Guo's seven or eight hundred warships, most of the medium-sized warships were also equipped with medium-sized guns and close-range rotary guns. The firepower of small and medium-sized warships that were not equipped with artillery was not weak, because there were still 10,000 elite soldiers of the army led by Liu Tichun on the warships. The infantry of the army is also equipped with artillery, tiger squat artillery!

The weight of the tiger squat cannon is very light, a tiger squat cannon is only thirty-six catties, two people can walk when they lift it, and the infantry is equipped with a lot. As a result, a large number of tiger squat cannons were fired one after another. Because of the proximity, the shells hit the ship accurately, or killed the enemy.

But the short-range shelling soon ended, as the ships on both sides were already approaching. The Ruan army's sailors, who had easily survived the shelling, were ready to kill Li Guo's ship. But to their horror, they found that rows of firearms were already aimed at them.

There was a crackling sound, and the Ruan Jun who beat him completely lost his temper, and he was either killed or knelt directly on the deck and surrendered!

Surrender is not accepted! The sailors finally fought a battle, but the soldiers refused to stop, so when the gunfire stopped, there was no shadow of the Nguyen army's ships on the river.

As a result, the Nguyen Army's naval division was completely annihilated, and the entire river was littered with broken planks and people shouting for help.

Li Guo didn't have time to save them, if he loved to die, if he loved to live, he wanted to hurry up and go ashore, he wanted to take Liu Tichun and Zheng Mian to cooperate with the army, and attack the hundreds of thousands of horses of the Ruan Dynasty before and after.

Li Guo was in a hurry, because there was a rumbling cannon sound from the battlefield not far away, and the battle began to start.

Li Guo hoped that Li Twelve and Gu Ying would not be in a hurry, and they would not take the risk of seeking progress, after all, the Ruan army had 300,000 soldiers and 200,000 cannon fodder! (To be continued......)