"Eh~~" Huang Kaiguang waved his hand indifferently: "This official understands what you mean, this official also went to sea all the year round before serving the court, and he has fought with pirates many times, and he knows very well that firing a cannon on a ship is a fantasy!"

The reason why the first gun was fired was to boost the morale of the army, and secondly, to make the bandits panic, and our ships took the opportunity to quickly intersperse and use the sub-mother artillery to sink the bandits' ships. ”

Chen Laosan thought about it, and it was the same reason to fight fishing boats with red single boats and attack foot soldiers with cavalry, so he arched his hand with a slightly red face: "Lord Huang is high!" ”

"Hehehehe~~" Huang Kaiguang stroked his beard without any fuss, and laughed heartily.

"Bang!" A moment later, a dull cannon sound sounded on the river, a puff of fire bloomed in all directions, Huang Kaiguang's handsome ship fired the first cannon, and the other nineteen ships also fired one after another, hitting a column of water a few feet high, and the scene was magnificent.

"Lord Huang, look!" Chen Laosan suddenly pointed forward excitedly, it turned out that about a mile in front of the side, a fishing boat with bandits sank, although it was not directly sunk by a cannonball, but overturned by the huge waves stirred up, but it was a good sign!

Sure enough, the soldiers of the whole army saw this scene, their morale was greatly boosted, they shouted in unison, and some boats even beat their drums!

"Damn, the demons are really shit luck!" Ding Daquan scolded hatefully, then turned his head and asked, "Is it tight if the ship sinks, let me ask, have the brothers come up?" ”

A soldier waved a flag and asked from afar, and after a while, he said: "Two brothers were caught at the bottom of the boat, and they didn't have time to escape!" ”

"Chen Alin, let's compare marksmanship!" Ding Daquan blushed, snatched the Mini gun, and aimed forward.

Not to be outdone, Chen Alin also picked up the gun.

"Bang!" Ding Daquan took the lead in firing, about 400 meters in front, the drum of a fast crab boat stopped abruptly, it turned out that this shot pierced the drum, but did not hit anyone, the drummer did not understand what was going on at all, looked at the drum, and then looked down at the baton hammer, his face was full of confusion.

"Good marksmanship!" Chen Alin praised and followed the trigger!

"Bang!" There was a vague scream from the opposite side, and the drummer clutched his chest and fell into the river!

"You're still amazing, I originally wanted to play the drummer, but unfortunately I hit the drum!" Ding Daquan gave a thumbs up!

The first shot was successful, and the Taiping army was also demoralized, as long as it reached a range of 500 meters, it opened fire in ping-pong, while the Qing army restrained a little and did not dare to stand on a high place and beat the drum anymore.

The scene of the drummer playing the river was also seen by Chen Laosan, and he couldn't help exclaiming: "What kind of ghost gun is this?" How can you hit so far? That's impossible! ”

As if God was telling him that it was impossible, Chen Laosan's voice just fell, "Ah~~" Not far from him, a gunner screamed and fell off the bow of the boat!

Huang Kaiguang suddenly shrank into the corner in fright, hugged his head and shouted: "Lean up at full speed, hurry up and fire!" ”

Although only two people died in the Qing army, it brought a great psychological shock, unlike the oarsmen and the gunners who could cover their bodies and were safer, the gunners, oarmen, standard-bearers and foremen at the bow of the ship had to stand to operate, and no one dared to guarantee that they would not be hit by cold guns.

"Boom~~" It was only less than ten seconds before Huang Kaiguang gave the order, and two hundred meters to the right, the bow of a fast crab boat suddenly exploded with a strong explosion, and the narrow bow was shattered on the spot, and several corpses with missing arms and legs were thrown into the Yangtze River!

The fast crab is less than twenty meters long and a little more than three meters wide, which is completely incomparable with the size of the Hermes's huge size, and a single mine is enough to send it back to the sky!

I saw the fast crab boat that blew up the bow of the boat, as if it was dragged by a big hand under the water, from slow to fast, frantically turning on the river, and bringing out a whirlpool from shallow to deep, with sharp hands and feet, a few members of the crew with a nimble mind jumped into the river in time and escaped from the whirlpool range, but more sailors and gunners did not have time to jump ship, so they were spun into the bottom of the river with the boat!

In less than a minute, there was no trace left on the river, except for a few pieces of broken wood floating on the river, and the crew members who were full of horror and shouting for help, as if the fast crab boat had disappeared out of thin air.

"What kind of cannon is this? How can the artillery of the bandits be so sharp? Huang Kaiguang's forehead oozed beads of sweat the size of beans!

He has been doing business by sea for more than ten years, almost every year he encounters pirates, and there are often artillery battles, but he has never experienced a sinking situation, and he sank a fast crab boat with one shot.

It's just that the boat that sent the bandits is a small fishing boat, and there is no gun position at all, even the lightest sub-cannon cannot be installed, which is also confirmed by the sight, except for two or three soldiers in the bow of the other side who are shooting with guns, the rest is empty!

Where did this shell come from? The unknown is the most frightening, and before I know what's going on, my boat will boom and sink in the Yangtze River!

Chen Laosan obviously also thought of this, and said uncertainly: "Lord Huang, could it be that the gunner made a mistake and detonated the ammunition by himself?" ”

"Damn, I scared the officer, and gave orders to the ships, so be careful, brothers!" This is undoubtedly the most reasonable explanation, Huang Kaiguang's waist stiffened, he would rather believe that the sinking of the fast crab boat was due to the mistakes of his subordinates, rather than believe that it was sunk by bandits!

Is this reasonable, how can there be a reason to sink inexplicably?

But reality ruthlessly shattered his dream, the flag bearer was still waving the flag at the risk of being hit by a cold gun, four hundred meters to the left, there was another loud bang, several corpses rose into the sky, this time it was the right port of a large pickpocket boat that exploded!

Immediately next to the waterline, a half-zhang square hole was blown out, and the rolling river rushed in, and under the pressure of the water flow, the wooden planks that were blown into looseness around the hole were torn and expanded at the speed of destroying and decaying!

The boat was a mess, and the crew rushed out of the rear warehouse like crazy, staggering and jumping into the river, but the hull capsized quickly, and some people just climbed to a high place, like dumplings, rolled down the plank, and more did not even have a chance to climb to a high place, so they slid into the river.

It didn't take long for the "boom~~" a splash of water, the ship completely capsized, like a big pot lid buckled to the sky!

Unlike the previous fast crab boat, this pickpocket boat did not sink, and corpses were emerging from the water around the hull!

This is simply creepy, Huang Kaiguang only felt cold and swishing, if the sinking of the fast crab ship was due to the improper operation of the crew that caused the explosion of the ammunition depot, but the two ships in a row were the explosion of the ammunition depot, how is this possible?

The crew was recruited from Chen Village, Shunde, and they were experienced veteran sailors, and no one believed that they would make two low-level mistakes in a row!