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The remaining warships of the Qing army continued to rush straight towards the Mawei fleet by the southwest wind, but at this moment the number of the main warships of the Qing army was less than that of the Mawei army. The Qing army first sank and stopped 80 warships in the mine area, and after several rounds of shelling, more than 60 ships were lost, which was completely clear to the Mawei army, that is to say, the Qing army's warships had lost more than half of them in these two processes, and the rest was no threat to the Mawei army.

The speed of the Qing warships was very fast, and they were already approaching, and the warships of the Sixth Fleet were already in a state of staggering with the Qing warships at this moment.

"Command the ships and get moving!" Wang Zhenbang issued his order loudly, and the flag commander beside him quickly conveyed his order. The battleships of the Sixth Fleet, which was at the front of the left and close to Shuangshan Island, moved quickly, and the twenty warships in front of them turned to the north in turn, and the many small boats behind the river cut off from the large ships of the Qing army in front. The Qing army clippers and smaller sampans in the back, the longest is only ten meters, most of them are five or six meters, seven or eight meters long, and the width is no more than five meters, generally three meters, such a small boat in front of the horsetail battleship, that is the difference between a dog and an elephant. However, the Mawei battleship did not ram the Qing army's small ship with its own large ship, but continued to cover the past with heavy artillery fire.

"Fire!"

"Tom Tom"

"Tom Tom"

"Tom Tom"

The 20 warships of the Sixth Squadron inserted into Jiangxin still used flowering shells for the first round of shelling, far away. A platoon of more than 400 flowering shells flew out. Although the Qing army boat is small. However, the dense range dù was higher than the main warship of the Qing army, and a large number of shells fell in the small boat formation in the rear, and almost two of them directly hit the Qing army's small ships. This small boat is far inferior to the big ship, as long as it is hit by a cannonball, the small boat will be immediately exploded into a pile of broken wooden planks, sawdust and cannonball fragments fly across the Zhongjiang River, and the Qing sailors on the small boat are sent directly to the western sky.

At this time, the distance between the two sides was still eight or nine hundred meters, and the shelling on the side of the Mawei Army still did not stop, and many small boats of the Qing army were constantly hit and then exploded. Shells of the Mawei Army for these small boats. But if you really touch it, you will be injured and you will die, but a large number of shells fell in the river, and the waves stirred up by the river also overturned many small warships of the Qing army. Especially when the cannonballs of the beam fell almost to the same place, that small area of water rose up after the explosion of the cannonballs a column of water about ten meters high, and then set off a wave more than three meters high, and these small boats only had a draft of one meter, how could they withstand such a river wave, and then capsize.

By the time the ships of the Mawei Navy had just fired the third salvo, the distance between the small warships of the Qing army and the Sixth Fleet had been stretched to about 200 meters. However, the number of small warships that numbered more than 400 was more than a quarter less. Of the twenty warships of the Sixth Squadron of the Mawei Army inserted into the center of the river, six of them were fourth-class warships, and the others were all fifth-class warships. The total number of guns fired from the left side of the ship reached four hundred, and three salvos were more than 1,200 shells. On average, ten shells kill a small boat, and this record is not bad, but it is not bad.

"Attention guns, grapeshot ready! Target Qing army boat, one shot! "The captains of the twenty warships of the Sixth Fleet gave the same order in turn. The warships of the Qing army were still advancing rapidly, but when they reached this distance, it was not appropriate to fire shells with flowering shells. "Other soldiers reload their rifles! Bring grenades and oil bottles to the deck! ”

The close-range battle is about to begin, although the Mawei battleship will try its best to keep the Qing army boats from approaching, but due to the large number of Qing army boats, it is inevitable that some will still come over, and at this time, melee weapons such as grenades and oil bottles will come in handy.

"Fire!" The two sides had already approached within two hundred meters, and the captain of a fourth-class battleship in front of him took the lead in issuing the order.

"Tom Tom"

"Tom Tom"

"Tom Tom"

A large number of grapeshot shells of more than 1,000 bullets flew towards the small warships of the Qing army, although the Qing army had some precautions, but a large number of flowering shells fell on their warships, fragmented shrapnel, splashing flying sawdust, broken wood and other stabbing wounds, stabbing a large number of Qing sailors. As soon as they boarded, the ship was filled with panicked shouts, wails, groans, and all sorts of chaotic orders.

This grape bomb is much more powerful than the flowering bullet and the solid bullet at close range, a fourth-class battleship has 30 cannons on the upper and lower decks on one side, and each grape bomb contains 50 or 60 round bullets, this salvo is 15 or 600 bullets, and other warships also fire guns in turn, tens of thousands of bullets are fired in a close area, covering less than 100 small warships of the Qing army at the front. This small warship is not as big as a big ship, and it is divided into one deck and two decks, and all the soldiers are standing on the deck, carrying a large area of dense bullets on their backs, and the soldiers who are killed and seriously injured suddenly exceed more than half of the total number on board, while the remaining Qing sailors are frightened by the bullets, and do not dare to stay on the deck at all, like ducks jumping into the river, and then swim towards the river bank.

At this distance, the general's cannon, that is, the new Furlong cannon, exerted the greatest power, and one by one the guns were constantly replaced, and the shells were fired quickly and simply, resulting in the death of a large number of Qing sailors. On the side of the Qing army's small boat, there were no long-range weapons on the ship at all, at most there were one or two bowl-mouth guns, but the range of that thing was only sixty or seventy meters, and the farthest was less than 100 meters, and it did not work at all at this distance of 100 or tens of meters. But even so, some brave Qing sailors still manipulated the bowl mouth gun to launch at the side of the Mawei army.

In the next approach, the soldiers on the Mawei battleship also joined the ranks of shooting with rifles, and the rifle at a range of one hundred and fifty meters could be completely powerful, and suddenly in the continuous dull cannon sound, there was a crisp gunshot, and the gunfire was not inferior to the cannon sound at all, and the density was surpassed, after all, the total number of soldiers shooting with rifles reached more than six hundred, which was more than one side of the cannon. In addition, the speed of rifle fire is much faster than that of cannons, so the continuous sound of gunfire is really scary! (To be continued......)