"General Qiyu, we found someone under the ship!" The first mate on his own ship, after urgently contacting the battleship just now, came to report, and while speaking, he pressed the specially lengthened Beiyang saber on his waist with his right hand, and seemed to be ready to kill at any time.

Someone under the ship? Li Jin was stunned for a moment, but immediately reacted, and said with the same murderous aura: "You mean, someone dived under our ship from the water and wanted to sink our ship?" ”

"The general is right, our brothers used to be fishermen in Weihaiwei, they have been at sea since they were children, and they took the boat as their home. I've already got my brother in the water just now, and I guess I'll be able to catch someone in a while! ”

When Li Jin heard this exact reply, he almost burst out laughing, what age is this, and he still wants to use the old trick of scuttling the ship, Lao Tzu This is a warship, a German warship, not that kind of wooden ship.

But before he could finish thinking about it, he listened to the sound of the water under the boat, Li Jin looked down and found that on the originally dark river, there were fierce white waves, some of which were bright red. And in the center of the waves, there is a fierce struggle. And before the two of them could decide the winner, with a few 'whooshing' sounds, more than a dozen pairs of people who were fighting surfaced.

"General, they're bombarding our rudders with mines!" One of them shouted at the risk of death, and was dragged into the water by the people in the water, never to surface again.

Seeing that his own people under the ship were suffering, without the orders of the commander of the direct army, dozens of people from the direct navy on the ship who had already been prepared jumped into the water, these were all old men in the Beiyang Naval Division, they had seen any strong winds and waves at sea, and the water was also strong, and the number of people was more than the other party, so the situation was turned over in the blink of an eye.

"Toot!" A dull sound of bull's horns spread on the empty river, and the unique mechanical sound of the "dodo" sailing ship came from far and near.

Just now, when Li Jin was busy "taking care" of the underwater, the Zhao navy on the opposite side also made a move, and a large number of sailing ships relied on their fast speed and quickly touched the warships. "Alert! Everyone is ready for battle! "I didn't expect that the other party didn't fight a regular naval battle at all, but still used the tactics of close combat by ship in the former Qing Dynasty.

Although the tactics are backward, but in the dark night, it is also extremely difficult to prevent, Li Jin is engrossed at the moment, his eyes have been staring at the surrounding water, and he soon found that there are several black boats heading towards this side.

"Get on the boat to meet it, and you must not let the other party get close to the big boat!" Seeing that this situation did not go away, Li Jin gave orders, and the first mate beside him immediately ordered.

And the well-trained direct navy also immediately jumped into the small boat on the big ship, lowered the rope and rushed up.

Just before everyone could see the trace of the other party's boat, they heard a loud sound of "bang~", and the seven or eight ships that rushed to collide with the boats of the direct navy collided together, and suddenly exploded, blowing up the small boats of the direct army. By the light of the fire burning on the water, Li Jin saw that there were large magnets on the bow of the other party's boats, and it was obvious that these boats were suicide boats.

Secretly wiping a handful of sweat, Li Jin knew that he had met a madman tonight, a madman who did not play cards according to common sense.

Suicide ships are fast, and there are definitely no less than them.

What the? You ask why Li Jin knows that there are so many such suicide boats, because Li Jin found that the dots that followed the gunboats of the Zhao Navy were all such suicide wooden boats.

"I have long heard that Zhao Yun is collecting wooden boats in Jiangnan, I didn't know why before, but now I finally know!" Li Jin smiled bitterly, but even if he knew it now, it would be too late.

Facing the suicide boat that covered the impact of the river, Li Jin's boat could not be stopped even if there was a escort ship willing to block the eye-catching for him.

Moreover, the other party obviously has a very clear goal and is very experienced, once it gets close to the warship of the direct navy, it will press the magnet on the bow of the ship to accelerate the impact of death.

Fortunately, the direct navy is still relatively united at the moment, and it also knows that Wu Peifu has crossed the river at this moment, and if the water battle on the Yangtze River is unfavorable, then Wu Peifu will be a total annihilation. Hurriedly commanded several larger boats to block the arsonist boat, and several other gunboats also quickly attacked the boat. The sound of machine guns and machine guns was incessant.

On some wooden boats, seeing that the direct warship was on fire and could not move, they quickly attached themselves to the direct warship, jumped on the ship fiercely, and fought against the direct navy above.

And the direct navy has always been regarded as a treasure by the direct line, and naturally it will not be restrained, and they have raised their swords and guns to face the battle, and for a while, the sound of the collision of the weapons on each ship and the screams of being cut down are connected.

The British warship had not gone far at this time, and the people on the warship were also awakened when they saw this scene, and they quickly accelerated to dodge in fright.

"Crazy! It's all a bunch of crazy people! William saw in the telescope that the Zhao Navy was actually fighting like this, and he couldn't help but feel worried. For many years, the navy of the British Empire has not had hand-to-hand combat, and there is still a group of people here who regard this tactic as a mainstream tactic, which is too terrifying.

"What about the cannons! Those Zhao troops in the city, why don't they use cannons! William thought, could it be that they were just fox and fake tigers, with very few shells!

Thinking of this, William slapped his thigh and thought that this was an opportunity, "The whole army will stop retreating, press with all your might, teach those wooden ships a good lesson with naval guns, and tell them that there is a real naval battle above!" ”

"Boom!" As soon as William adjusted the muzzle, a heavy shell fell from the sky and tore a half-meter-long hole in the port side of his ship.

"Retreat! Fall back! William Cheste shouted, "Oh my god, these guys don't need a cannon, they are waiting for themselves!" Life matters, safety first, safety first!

"Sea Chips! The General Hai Chip was boarded by the other party" Li Jin was busy commanding, and suddenly heard someone shouting.

I have to say that the Hai Chip is the second only warship to the flagship, and seeing that the Sea Chip fell into the hands of the Zhao Navy, the morale of the direct navy was also quite damaged, and many people began to surrender to the other party.

Looking at the situation in front of him, Li Jin had a hunch that tonight was probably over, and there were mines underwater, restricting the navigation of the warship. In front of me there are suicide boats, hand-to-hand combat boats. Looking behind the other party, there were forty or fifty more big sand boats approaching, and the deck was full of enemies wearing military uniforms on a red background and black edges, estimated at no less than four thousand.

And his own naval soldiers together are this number, if it is on the sea, Li Jin is not afraid of these small fish and shrimp, but after all, the hand-to-hand combat on the ship is different from that on land, and the overall cooperation requirements are not so high, but the requirements for individual and small group cooperation are extremely high, and the advantage of numbers is also more obvious.

Therefore, in Li Jin's own opinion, if he persists, he will deliver food, and with the idea of preserving his strength, he waved his hand helplessly, "Raise the white flag, we surrender!" ”

The surrender of the direct navy was like a heavy blow, and Wu Peifu, who had already set foot on the land in the south of the Yangtze River, was dizzy for a while and couldn't come back to his senses.

"I knew that Zhao Yun, a thief, was an arms dealer, why did he forget the endless weapons in his hand!" Wu Peifu was in the command post of the former enemy, listening to the continuous roar of heavy artillery outside, and muttered to himself.

Wu Peifu's biggest reliance on the Yangtze River, the British were frightened away by Zhao Yun, which was equivalent to cutting off Wu Peifu's tens of thousands of troops. But Nanjing City is high and deep, and it is not something that can be conquered in a short time, and now Wu Peifu and Zhao Yun have set their sights on another front.

As Wu Peifu's right-hand man, Sun Chuanfang is marching to Yixing with great difficulty at the moment.

This time, after Sun Chuanfang received Wu Peifu's instructions, he immediately retreated from Anhui non-stop and rushed to the shore of Taihu Lake, preparing to open an opening from here.

Yixing is Zhao Yun's most important base, and it is from here that Zhao Yun began to grasp the real power, which can be said to be his home here. The local popularity and the strength of the garrison are regarded as the descendants of the descendants among the people and horses under Zhao Yun.

Of course, in this place, Zhao Yun also hid a "mysterious" army that everyone didn't know except Shao Lao Er.

On the night when Wu Peifu launched an attack on Zhao Yun, Sun Chuanfang led his army to touch Zhao Yun's defense line on the periphery of Yixing, Fudong Town.

And Sun Chuanfang's henchman Li Dagang was also telling Sun Chuanfang about the battle situation of Wu and Zhao's armies in the Longpan area outside Nanjing.

When he heard that Zhao Yun was just taken by surprise, but he withstood the first wave of outlaw attacks of the Qi Inspectors, forcing the Qi Commanders to be in a dilemma, Sun Chuanfang's eyes showed a deep look of surprise.

"Good means...... The whole army was cut in two by the surnamed Qi, and it was still able to resist separately, and only 20,000 horses carried the attack of 40,000 horses, which is not bad.

Although he is a chick, he knows the disadvantages of changing generals in the battle, and it is not easy to do it! Putting oneself in such a dangerous place, but not moving the army to come back, well, yes, quite bold. From this point of view, the reason why Zhao Yun was able to gain a firm foothold under the suppression of the Qi Inspector Army and the Lu Supervisor Army before was not entirely dependent on his family relationship and special arms channels...... Wu Dashuai underestimated the Jiangnan people this time! ”