Tian Xingshu's heart was like ashes, and after glaring at Zhang Wende fiercely, that is, the culprit who proposed to kill Wang Feng, he hurriedly jumped off the horse, threw the knife and knelt down: "Tian is a ghost, begging Commander-in-Chief Wang to forgive me, I am willing to lead the army to surrender and make meritorious contributions!" ”

Plop, and the other three knelt down.

"Humph!" Zhou Xiuying snorted coldly: "If you can't beat it, you want to beg for mercy?" Think beautifully! ”

Wang Feng also said coldly: "I gave you a chance, but you don't cherish it, you dare to secretly prepare a knife, your character is so inferior, you are not qualified to live in the world, I will slaughter all the pole army, not a single one will be left!" Kill these four first! ”

"You're so vicious!" Tian Xingshu raised his head violently, but he just saw a pistol three or four meters away, and when he rolled over, he was about to take a pistol.

"Bang!" Zhou Xiuying shot without hesitation, a shot hit Tian Xingshu's wrist, Tian Xing snorted, and then, the gunfire rang out again, a blood flower bloomed on his forehead, and after unwillingly stretching out his arm and waving the pistol on the ground, he fell to the ground.

"Fight with them!" Zhang Wende knew that he was going to die, roared angrily, and was about to rush out, but the gunfire rang out for the third time, and a red blood hole was punched in his neck.

"Bang bang~~" two more shots, and those two people were also shot and killed!

"Sure enough, it's a woman who doesn't let her eyebrows!" Zhou Xiuying didn't even blink an eye when she killed five people, and Shi Dakai couldn't help but feel a feeling that the back waves of the Yangtze River pushed the front waves, and the front waves died on the beach.

"Brother Shi has won the prize!" Zhou Xiuying hugged her fists. Then he said: "Let's hurry up, there may be artillery on the mountain." ”

"Let's go!" Wang Feng beckoned, and everyone flew on their horses. Run away quickly.

The battle ended too quickly, and it wasn't until the five horses turned around that Hu Linyi came back to his senses and shouted, "Open the cannon, fire the cannon!" ”

"Bang Bang~~" The muzzles of the six Western cannons spat out tongues of fire, two of which hit three hundred meters behind the buttocks of Wang Feng and others, and the other four were deflected by two hundred to five hundred meters.

"Alas!" Hu Linyi sighed unwillingly. I could only watch the black dots get smaller and smaller for a while before I said, "The whole army is ready." Shorthair is about to attack, and the other pole army is in a hurry, each holding his position, and avenging Lord Tian! ”

"Yes!" The order was conveyed to Yamashita. A tense atmosphere immediately stirred up in the array. Sure enough, within half an hour, the first whistle sounded on the river, and the minesweeper opened the way, and the three frigates and gunboats were unhurriedly dotted in the rear, followed by the infantry units on land escorting the artillery slowly.

Hu Linyi couldn't take care of the land for the time being, and stared at the river tightly, for him. It is the warships on the river that pose the greatest threat.

The thirty minesweepers, though they were oared manually, were lightweight. The speed was extremely fast, and the rigging on both sides was fully opened, drawing white marks in the river, but after only six miles, he turned around, obviously cautious, for fear of entering the range of the mountain artillery.

After another half an hour, the minesweepers stopped at the upper limit of six miles and lined up, and the battleships behind also stopped in turn, and on the frigate, the muzzles of the six main guns slowly moved towards the top of the hill, putting on a bombardment posture.

Hu Linyi couldn't help asking: "From the foot of the mountain to the short-haired battleship about fourteen miles, isn't he preparing to fire at the top of the mountain?" Can his artillery hit the top of the mountain? ”

"This," said a general manager in charge of the artillery position, uncertainly: "According to the first-hand information obtained from the short-haired attack on Guangzhou, the range of the short-haired artillery is about thirteen miles, so it should not be able to hit." ”

That being said, but the warships below are indeed aiming and positioning, which makes everyone's hearts feel a kind of hairy, and the feeling is the most hairy, or the Lai Hanying Department next to the river, even if it is calculated by ten miles, the guns of the Democratic Alliance are enough to bombard the front of the position, but they have no means to counterattack.

"Bang Bang~~" Suddenly, six cannons were fired in unison, and six points of light rose on the river, and Lai Hanying immediately breathed a sigh of relief: "It's not coming at us." ”

These six points of light rushed straight towards Shizhong Mountain at an extremely fast speed, and in an instant, everyone's hearts on the mountain were suspended, and they all secretly shouted, falling, falling!

It's a pity that the wish is beautiful, the reality is cruel, the main guns on the three frigates have a maximum range of 8,500 meters, which is converted into miles in the Qing Dynasty, about fifteen miles, and the current distance between the battleship and Shizhong Mountain is fourteen miles!

"Boom~~" On the hillside, four fires rose, gravel and tree trunks were blown down into the river, and several corpses were lifted out, apparently four shells hit the mountain body, and the other two fell in the river at the foot of the mountain.

"Not good!" Hu Linyi's complexion suddenly changed again, and he also made a battle between heaven and man in his heart, whether to go or not, the range of the naval guns of the Democratic League was far better, and it was better than the Western cannons that Zeng Guofan had worked so hard to get, which was completely beyond his expectations.

"Lord Hu, even if the short-haired cannonball can only hit here, as long as you move forward slightly, you can hit the top of the mountain, you can go down the mountain quickly." The thousand general counseled.

"This" Hu Linyi was still hesitating, after all, he was entrusted by Zeng Guofan to guard Shizhong Mountain, and he was scared away, not only did he have a bad reputation, but it was also difficult to explain.

"Boom~~" At this time, a few more cannons bloomed on the mountain wall, and two more swept overhead, blasting on the other side of the mountain top with a whistling sound.

"Huh?" The Qian general suddenly blessed his soul and reminded: "Lord Hu, the short-haired cannonball doesn't seem to fall on our position, by the way, it must be yes, his cannonball trajectory is straight, either it can only blow up the mountain cliff, or it can only fly by, it seems that we are not without the power to counterattack!" ”

"Huh?" Hu Linyi's eyes flashed, and when he thought about it carefully, it was indeed the case, and after the third round of artillery hits, a few more rocks were flyed, and a deep pit was left in the open space behind, he was completely relieved, and couldn't help laughing.

"Hey~~" Yang Shuijiao, who was still on General Li Guang, sighed helplessly: "The cannon has a long range and great power, so it's good, but the trajectory is too straight, and it can't hit the battery on the top of the mountain, so it depends on the howitzer mounted on the side side, and it is not as far as the cannon to hit far, and it must enter the range of the mountaintop artillery, Wang Feng is really, when he designed the artillery, why didn't he think of combining the cannon and the howitzer?" ”

Chen Laosi, who actually commanded the fleet, smiled dumbly, having worked in the East China Sea Fleet for several years, of course he knew the many differences between cannons and howitzers, and it was simply impossible to use one barrel to produce the effect of a cannon and a howitzer at the same time, with the existing technical conditions at hand.

What's more, there is still a big gap between the cannon and howitzer used now and the requirements given by Wang Feng, and before it is perfected, it is impossible to invest in the study of how to combine the two cannons.

Chen Laosi looked at the shore and said: "The infantry army is already deploying artillery positions, we must rush up to suppress the artillery fire on the mountain, how can there be no artillery in a naval battle?" By the way, you can also test our armor, give the order, the fleet moves forward three miles to shoot, and we all avoid the ship's cabin! (To be continued......)