Just when the battle was born outside the city, the battle in Wuchang City was also going on, He Renlong's cavalry killed from the parade ground and rushed straight to the Chuangzi battalion under the city wall, the Chuangzi battalion was an infantry unit composed of thieves, and He Renlong's cavalry had a gap to fight each other, I don't know how many times the enemy saw each other, the two sides were killed, and they didn't even notice the sound of the bean-like fire outside the city.

Many soldiers in the Chuang Zi Battalion were shot to death in the camp tent before they got up, their battalion officer was named Li Guo, the son of the early thief Li Zicheng, who led the troops quite a set, he quickly organized the soldiers to resist in the city, condescendingly returned fire with bed crossbows, and the cavalry did not have an advantage in the street battles in the city, but He Renlong had the assistance of Nanchang Fanzi in this regard, Zhong Shouyong found a few people, and used a large slingshot to shoot the ignited explosives package into the Chuang Zi Battalion, the power of the explosives was huge, and the soldiers were blown up to the limbs, and the bed crossbow also fell apart, and the cavalry attacked the city along the horse road, Li Guo had no choice but to lead the remnants back to the city and escape。

After Li Guo left the city, he went straight to the Wuchang shipyard, where it was not only the shipyard but also the fortress and the camp of the sailors, Zuo Liangyu's son Zuo Mengeng was sitting there, and He Renlong rebelled, and Zuo Dashuai's son would never rebel.

A group of unclothed remnants ran frantically and met Liu Ziguang's death camp. As soon as the two sides looked at each other, Li Guo was stunned, where is this troop, how to dress up and weapons such a strange thing, and now there is no way to control so much, as long as all the people who block the road are killed, the remnants of the Chuang Zi Battalion are all killed, no matter how you say it, there are more than 2,000 people to break this small force of a few hundred people, there should be no problem.

The reaction of the death battalion was extremely fast, seeing the formed troops out of the city, immediately lined up the troops, and under the officer's command, the following team shot a burst of white smoke, and after a burst of white smoke, the soldiers of the Chuang Zi battalion at the front planted a large piece of chest, there were no arrows, only a wound as big as a small wine cup, Li Guo was shocked, but at this time he could not retreat, He Renlong's cavalry had chased out, there were wolves in front and tigers in the back, so they could only go in the wilderness, fortunately, the soldiers of the death battalion could not stop the way of these defeated soldiers, plus the limited bullets did not stop them from escaping.

He Renlong's cavalry really followed closely and chased out, and when he saw the death camp, he was also shocked, although the death camp was equipped with advanced firearms, but in the wilderness of the suburbs, it was impossible to get advantage of the cavalry with an absolute advantage in troops, Liu Ziguang was shocked in his heart, and ordered to shoot the cavalry of the He army over there, regardless of the three, seven, twenty-one, first shot an arrow, the two armies were far apart, after all, the power of the bullets was greater, and knocked over dozens of cavalry, and most of the feather arrows shot by the cavalry were shot into the soil, even if there were those who flew far away, they were blocked by the shield.

When the cavalry saw that they encountered a strong enemy, they did not go to chase after the Chuangzi battalion, divided into two wings, and outflanked the death battalion, and the death battalion quickly changed its formation, pulled the artillery and machine guns to the front of the formation, and the soldiers were placed in the shape of goose wings, and the flat-ended guns were ready to shoot a fire, and they were about to live, and suddenly there was a sound of gold on the head of the city, it turned out to be He Renlong, who had seen the banner of the death camp and the Son of Heaven Fu Festival through the clairvoyant mirror, and recognized that this was the army of the imperial court.

Unexpectedly, the imperial army came so quickly and so bravely, He Renlong was pleasantly surprised, and went out of the city to meet Liu Ziguang, who knew that there was a mutiny in the city, and immediately praised He Renlong a few words, and then asked him how many remnants of Zuo Liangyu still needed to deal with.

He Renlong said: "The left thief left the city early in the morning and disappeared, presumably he went to Hanyang City, and our army must take the Wuchang Shipyard, otherwise there will be endless trouble." Liu Ziguang smiled and ordered someone to bring Zuo Liangyu's head from the carriage and said: "Zuo Liangyu has already ambushed his remnants, and when he sees the head, he will surrender and occupy the shipyard, so give it to General He." He Renlong saw Zuo Liangyu's head, and suddenly his heart was determined, what he was afraid of was Zuo Liangyu's ability to control the troops, this old guy's ability to use troops was strong, and He Renlong was defeated many times before surrendering, now Zuo Liangyu is dead, he has no scruples, and he has just defected, and needs a great achievement to establish his position, of course, he is willing to lead the troops to attack the shipyard, so He Renlong led the cavalry to the shipyard, and Liu Ziguang pressed the formation behind.

Zuo Mengeng is twenty years old this year, is Zuo Liangyu's eldest son, not very old, but in charge of the left army's sailors, sailors, there are hundreds of warships, most of which are stationed at the dock of the shipyard, this is the elite force of the left army, the ship is equipped with fire crossbows and heavy steam crossbows, the lethality is very huge, the shipyard reserves a large amount of coal, iron and grain, is an important base of the left army.

Early in the morning, it was not very peaceful, first there was a strange sound in the direction of the railway station in the distance, and then there were thousands of people in the city, and the routs rushed to the outside of the factory, and they heard that He Renlong was reversed, Zuo Mengeng hurriedly put on his armor and came out to watch, and the shipyard is also a small city with city walls. Battlements and watchtowers, Zuo Mengeng went up to see that it was his good friend Li Guo who led the team below, and he looked very miserable, his helmet was crooked, and his armor was slanted, not like a fake, so he hurriedly opened the door and let these people in, and then He Renlong's cavalry arrived, and there was a bloody level at the top of the flagpole in the hands of one person, and it was Zuo Liangyu.

Zuo Mengeng saw his father screaming with his eyes open, spitting blood, falling to the ground unconscious, and hurriedly stepped forward to help, pinch people, pour cold water and toss for a while, Zuo Mengeng woke up, and immediately gritted his teeth and ordered to move the heavy weapons in the factory up, and bombarded He Renlong, a traitor.

Don't look at the shipyard's city, the small is powerful, it is powerful, one person is more than long, the arrow with such a thick arm does not need money, and the ordinary arrow is like rain, and it is not a human shot, but a heavy weapon on the ship, He Renlong's cavalry was immediately killed and wounded, and even He Renlong himself was hit by an arrow, and his war horse was also shot through, if it weren't for his own soldiers desperately covering him, he would have followed Zuo Liangyu today.

The cavalry was immediately defeated, Zuo Mengeng personally led the troops to kill, snatched back Zuo Liangyu's rank, and quickly retracted into the city, although Zuo Mengeng was furious, but he did not get carried away, he knew that his strength was limited, and he could not get cheap in the field to fight against the cavalry, and now he had to gather the troops of Hanyang and Hankou to extinguish the rebellion, but his father was dead, such a big mess, how could he clean it up, and how could those uncles and uncles who had experienced a hundred battles listen to the dispatch of their nephews.

Zuo Mengengxun made a decision to personally cross the river to Hanyang, carry Hanyang's soldiers and warships over, and attack Wuchang, the news of his father's death will not be leaked for the time being, anyway, across the river, they can't spread the news, those elders if there are signs of disobedience, kill immediately, now is a very difficult time, there is no room for the slightest hesitation.

Zuo Mengeng crossed the river with a large number of warships to the shipyard, and the defense was handed over to his good brother Li Guo, Li Guo and Zuo Mengeng are of the same age, and the friendship is quite deep, he grew up among the thieves since he was a child, and his military quality is not low, it stands to reason that there is no problem in holding this small city armed to the teeth, but his enemy has changed, no longer the cavalry unit just now, but has become three hundred infantry wearing strange armor.

Liu Ziguang knew very well the power of the steam crossbow, so he restrained the soldiers not to get close to the shipyard, the main force of this battle was destined to be cannons, not soldiers, ten cannons lined up, aimed at Wuchang Shipyard, due to the increase in shooting distance, the projectile also increased from one to one and a half cannons, and anti-personnel shotguns were placed next to them, solid bullets and incendiary bombs loaded with ignition were fired in order.

The musketeers lined up behind the cannons, the bullets were loaded, and the cavalry of He Renlong was ready to advance at any time, and the cavalry of He Renlong also reorganized the formation, He Renlong, this guy was a man, he cut out the arrow with a knife, hastily bandaged it, and continued to command the battle, and the blow just now killed and injured him, and hundreds of his brothers remembered it, so they set fire and waited to take the shipyard, and they must cut down those workers.

Li Guo saw through the clairvoyant mirror that the death camp was busy loading shells in the distance, and he was very puzzled, he couldn't imagine that the tubular weapon about the size of the ballista bed could shoot himself, in Li Guo's heart, the range and power of the weapon should be proportional to the volume, you must know that the steam crossbow is as big as a house just a boiler, why can it shoot so far without such a big boiler.

Li Guo's knowledge is very poor, he only knows that steam cannons can fight far away, and he doesn't understand the power of gunpowder cannons, but Liu Ziguang immediately made up this lesson for him, a cannon shot first, the cannonball fell to the front of the city wall with a sharp whistle, bounced on the ground, and then rushed forward for a distance before smashing on the wall of the shipyard, Li Guo only felt a tremor under his feet, and his heart was also shaking, this thing is powerful!

The first cannon was only a test shot, and the sentry officer observed the impact point with binoculars, and ordered the cannon to raise the elevation angle by two degrees, so that it could be fired directly into the shipyard over the city walls.

The rest of the nine cannons roared at the same time, and the solid bullets roared out, swept through the sky with an invisible degree, crossed the city wall, and smashed into the shipyard, and the interior of the shipbuilding was all brick and wood buildings, and after the cannonballs were pierced, the craftsmen and soldiers inside fled in a panic, at this time the second round of shells flew over again, this time it was a long-range anti-personnel shotgun, and the steel nails that filled the sky made holes in the thinly clothed craftsmen, fortunately, Li Guo changed into Zuo Mengeng to provide the whole body armor, so it was still painful to be beaten, and even the heart goggles were smashed and dented.

Li Guo ordered the steam cannons to fire back, but their steam cannons and steam crossbows were fixed, the angle of fire was not big at all, and the iron balls and arrows shot out could only fall in vain on the open ground in front of the artillery of the death battalion, and the shipyard's return fire attracted more violent retaliation, and every time a cannonball was fired, the artillerymen dipped a wooden stick with a cotton cloth tied to the front end in water, cleaned the barrel, cleaned the gunpowder residue and sparks, and then used the same dry

The "mop" cleaned the chamber again, and after cleaning, filled the breech with shells and a half of gunpowder, and finally padd the mercury with mine, then closed the bolt and pulled the rope to fire.

Because the shipyard is a hard target, so the artillerymen shoot the most ordinary attack shells, this kind of solid ball has a great destructive force on all kinds of equipment in the shipyard, one of which hit the shipyard's large boiler, smashing this large boiler of hundreds of thousands of catties out of a hole, the huge steam pressure can not leak out of such a small space, and suddenly caused a big explosion.