Unlike the cloudburst bomb, the fuel filled inside the cloudburst bomb is burned in an instant, while the oil in the incendiary bomb can attach to the object and burn for a long time.

Where the aerial bombs fell, there was a fire, and the entire Qing army port was engulfed in flames, and the steam gunboats that set off from the port had not yet exchanged fire with the Chinese warships, but they saw the flames of their own military camp flying, and their fighting spirit was suddenly reduced by half.

The fleet of Jianglong-class steam gunboats was led by Cheng Biguang, a veteran general of the Beiyang Naval Division, a general named Cheng Biguang, who was also well-known in the era of Lin Fei, and in the First Sino-Japanese War, he led the Guangbing ship to damage the Japanese ship Xijing Maru, and in the battle of Liugong Island, where the Beiyang Naval Division was completely annihilated, he was forced by the situation to submit a surrender to the Japanese Navy Combined Fleet on behalf of the Beiyang Fleet.

After the First Sino-Japanese War, Cheng Biguang was convicted of submitting a surrender to the Japanese Navy Combined Fleet, was dismissed from all positions, and deported his hometown, after the South China World War, the Qing court felt that the navy was insufficient, so it hurriedly convened the old department, and Cheng Biguang was therefore reused, and served as the commander of the Yangtze River Fleet, that is, the fleet composed of Jianglong-class steam gunboats.

Although Cheng Biguang submitted a surrender in the First Sino-Japanese War, it does not mean that he is a soft bone, on the contrary, he is an iron-clad tough guy, especially when fighting, he is not ambiguous, he saw the fire in the military camp on the shore, and the sailors' fighting spirit was sharply reduced, so he ordered his subordinates to raise the handsome flag high, charge first, and take the lead.

Cheng Biguang's actions really inspired the Qing sailors, and the sailors were all high-spirited and killed the Huaxia fleet, and in terms of the Huaxia fleet, Hua Hai personally commanded on the Aolong ship, and when he saw the Qing army fleet killing, he gave an order - open fire!

At this time, the Qing fleet was discharged in a double line, thirty Jianglong-class battleships were lined up in two rows, and the rear battleships were diagonally behind the front row of battleships, so that the rear battleships could fire between the gaps in the front row of battleships, and the guns of the Jianglong-class steam gunboats were located in the bow and stern, which was convenient for them to develop their firepower.

The Huaxia fleet is discharged in a linear formation, four Dragon-class cruisers are lined up, and the side faces the Qing fleet, so that the powerful side firepower of the Dragon-class cruisers can be carried forward, and the Huaxia fleet also has ten Leopard-class transport ships, each of which is equipped with sixteen six-barreled Grimm guns, and their role is to shelter the two wings of the Huaxia fleet and prevent the Qing army's home-made torpedo boats from sneaking attack.

In terms of the number of warships, the Qing fleet and the Huaxia fleet were 30 to 14, but in terms of firepower, each dragon-class cruiser could gather six 120 mm rapid-fire guns, a total of 24 naval guns, each naval gun could fire 12 shells per minute, and 288 shells per minute, on the other hand, although the number of Qing warships had 30 guns, the rate of fire of these naval guns was only a pitiful five guns per minute, and the shells fired per minute were only half of those of the Huaxia fleet.

If you compare the power of the shells, the Qing fleet is even more pitiful, in order to save money, the Qing army only equipped the Jianglong-class steam gunboats with armor-piercing shells, the warhead of this armor-piercing shell is filled with sand, and the armor-piercing efficiency is not high, on the other hand, the Dragon-class cruisers, from the cap-piercing shells to high-explosive grenades, are all available.

Relying on the advantage of the fire control system, the Huaxia fleet preemptively opened fire when it was two kilometers away, and the shells were concentrated on Cheng Biguang's flagship, and a string of armor-piercing shells and high-explosive bombs passed, and Cheng Biguang's flagship exploded and caught fire, and the Jianglong-class steam gunboat was too small to withstand a few shells, so it sank quickly.

The Jianglong-class steam gunboat on the side came to rescue Cheng Biguang, but Cheng Biguang categorically refused and sank with the flagship.

The Qing fleet lost its flagship at the beginning of the war, which dealt a heavy blow to the morale of the army, and several Jianglong-class steam gunboats turned their bows and sneaked away.

The Huaxia fleet continued to open fire, and the shells fell one by one on the side of the Jianglong-class steam gunboats, and one after another, the Jianglong-class steam gunboats were shot, caught fire, and sank, and the Huaxia fleet only carried out the first round of shelling, and the Qing fleet lost more than half of its warships.

When the commander of the Qing army saw this scene, his brows tightened, the Qing army set up the headquarters in Goose Mountain, this mountain can overlook the battlefield, the Qing army originally wanted to set up a fort in Goose Mountain, but there was no money, so it had to give up.

The general of the Qing army who commanded the whole army in the command post was also a tiger general, this person was Liu Kunyi, the governor of Liangjiang, who had fought against the Taiping army, and in the First Sino-Japanese War, he led his subordinates to fight bloody battles with the Japanese army.

Liu Kun was beside Tan Sitong, who killed Luo Rongguang, although Tan Sitong did not understand military affairs, but he was loyal to the Qing court, could speak well, and played the role of "political commissar" in the Qing army.

As soon as Liu Kun saw that the Jianglong-class steam gunboats were powerless to resist the dragon-class cruisers, he hurriedly ordered the earthen torpedo boats to dispatch to flank the dragon-class cruisers, and as soon as the order was issued, more than 100 earth-made torpedo boats rushed out of the winding harbor by the river, including steam tugboats, sail fishing boats, and even paddle boats, these boats were of different speeds, and there was no formation on the river, and from a high place, it looked like a swarm of ants spread on the river.

I didn't want such a chaotic scene to make Liu Kun stroke his palm and laugh, and said loudly: "Wonderful, it's really wonderful, I have so many warships in the Qing Dynasty, so military might, can I scare the snitch, Brother Tan Xian, are you willing to write a poem?" ”

Tan Sitong is quite talented, in the era of Lin Fei, Tan Sitong died for the Wuxu change, and before his execution, he wrote immortal sentences in prison - I smiled at the sky from the horizontal knife, and went to leave the liver and gallbladder two Kunlun, but in this era, the Wuxu change did not happen, and Tan Sitong did not have the opportunity to write these two poems.

Tan Sitong heard Liu Kunyi say this, pondered for a moment, and said loudly: "I smiled to the sky from Hengjiang and swore to break the snitch to repay the grace of the saint!" ”

Liu Kunyi and all the staff members shouted loudly after hearing this, "Okay, good, great, what a 'I smile to the sky from the Hengjiang River'......" Before the words fell, suddenly a piece of fire rose on the surface of the river, and as far as the eye could see, those home-made torpedo boats actually exploded and caught fire one after another, and Liu Kun and the others were shocked.

Looking at the Leopard-class transport ships of the Huaxia Fleet, countless rays of light shot out from all directions of the hull, and those rays were shot by tracer bullets, and the Leopard-class transport ships fired strings of tracer catapults at the earthen torpedo boats, and as soon as those earth-made torpedo boats touched the shells, they either sank or exploded, and none of the earth-made torpedo boats could approach the Huaxia battleships and launch torpedoes.

At the same time, the remaining Jianglong-class steam gunboats were also completely annihilated under the heavy bombardment of the dragon-class cruisers, and soon, there was not a single battleship on the river that did not fly the blood and fire dragon flag.

The Yangtze River Fleet of the Qing Dynasty was completely wiped out in less than half an hour.

Liu Kunyi, Tan Sitong, and a group of staff members turned pale, and Tan Sitong hurriedly said: "My lord, please give an order immediately and organize a ground defense battle." ”

Liu Kunyi sighed helplessly, "That's all it takes." ”

Liu Kunyi then ordered to enter the ground defense operation, and more than 90,000 Qing soldiers immediately entered the trenches and fortifications to prepare for the landing operation of the Huaxia army.

Hua Hai saw that the enemy on the sea had been cleared, and immediately sent a message to Wei Zelong, who immediately ordered the army troops to land in full force and attack Jiangyin City.

Jiangyin City is about three kilometers away from the Yangtze River, and the Qing army deployed three defense lines between the Yangtze River and Jiangyin City, the first is the defense line along the river, the second is the middle defense line, and the third is the Jiangyin City defense.

The Qing army thought that these three lines of defense were impregnable, but they did not realize that they had made a big mistake when deploying these three lines of defense, that is, the three lines of defense were too close to each other and were completely covered by the artillery fire of the Huaxia army.

Hua Hai ordered the Dragon-class cruisers to launch an attack on the Qing positions on the ground, and the surface threat of the Qing army no longer existed, so there was no need for the Dragon-class cruisers to leave shells, and all shells began to pour down on the Qing positions.

Hua Hai felt that the Dragon-class cruisers lacked firepower, so he ordered two Emperor-class cruisers to enter the Yangtze River and jointly carry out ground strikes.

At this moment, the Monkey King's airship, which had just completed reloading, flew to the battlefield again and dropped aerial bombs on the Qing army's position.

Aerial bombs joined the battle group, the Qing army suddenly could not support it, the Qing soldiers jumped out of the trenches, scattered and fled, at this time, Tan Sitong often used generosity to inspire the Qing soldiers, but now, no matter how great the righteousness is not good, Huaxia's firepower is too strong.

The Dragon-class cruiser and the Emperor-class cruiser ran out of shells, the Monkey King airship threw out aerial bombs, the Qing army ran seven or eight out of ten, and the Chinese Army began to land, and the first batch of troops to land was the 14th Division, and half an hour after the landing, they captured the first and second lines of defense of the Qing army, and attacked Jiangyin City directly, surrounding the northern part of Jiangyin City.

The 13th and 12th Divisions followed closely behind, encircling Jiangyin City from the east and west sides, and Wei Zelong adopted the tactics of three missing one when attacking the city, vacating the south side of Jiangyin City and letting the Qing army escape.

The Qing army really hit the plan, Liu Kunyi and Tan Sitong saw that the Huaxia army was strong, and the Qing army had no chance of winning, so they decided to withdraw from the south side of Jiangyin City, and the Qing army immediately withdrew from Jiangyin City and rushed to Zhenjiang.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, the battle of Jiangyin, which had been fought fiercely for more than eight hours, was over, and the Huaxia army fully occupied Jiangyin City, while the Qing army retreated all the way to Zhenjiang.

Zhenjiang is another important military town on the Yangtze River, there is a ferry here, called Guazhou Ferry, this ferry is extremely famous because of the poems of Lu You, "Lou Boat Night Snow Guazhou Ferry, Iron Horse Autumn Wind Dasanguan" Guazhou Ferry is here.

In the ancient history of China, there have been many confrontations between the north and the south, and Guazhoudu is an important place for the northern regime to attack the southern regime.

However, to fight Zhenjiang, Lin Fei didn't want to use conventional means, he planned to use new tactics and new weapons.