"Damn! Damn it! ”

Bang!

Listening to the sound of crackling and smashing things in the study, the clothed slave outside the door couldn't help but shrink his body, and subconsciously held his breath, for fear that his breathing action would be too big, which would attract the attention of the prince in the house and cause death.

"Ahem, ahem—"

Suddenly, several clothed slaves heard a series of violent coughing sounds in the house, and several people hurriedly looked at the old slave who was staring at him and his scalp was numb, but he still pushed open the door and walked in with his head down.

I don't know what it said, but soon, the old slave asked a Bao Yi to ask the medical officer to come over, and after the medical officer made a diagnosis, there was bad news in Nanjing that day.

Bolo fell ill.

It is said that the reason for his illness was that the meridians were blocked due to the rapid fire and heart, so that he could only fall ill and recuperate on the bed during this time, and could not fight on horseback.

In addition, the Huguang Qing army was almost wiped out in the Yangtze River, most of them were fed with fish, and the remaining survivors were also panicked, and the army's morale was shaken.

At the same time, the news of the Ming army's shelling of Nanjing and the Guangqing army quickly spread across both sides of the Yangtze River.

The Yangtze River was like a central point of radiation, and the news spread in all directions, and the anti-Qing people in the Jiangnan area were even more shocked, believing that the day of Wang's restoration to the north was just around the corner.

And Su Yan's name has once again entered the eyes of many people, who highly praised Su Yan as the minister of the Ming court, as if without Su Yan, the court would collapse.

After sinking a large number of Qing military ships in World War I, Chen Yang and his fleet returned the same way, preparing to withdraw from the Yangtze River and return to Hangzhou to replenish ammunition.

However, after they shelled the port of Nanjing, in order to intercept the Ming army's naval divisions and prevent them from leaving safely, the Qing army immediately pulled up a thick and long iron chain on the wide water surface of the Yangtze River at any cost, and dismantled the Hongyi cannons at several other city gates and erected them on the shore, preparing to shell the Ming naval divisions after they appeared.

On the afternoon of the 27th, the sailors of the Ming army appeared outside Nanjing, and the sailors who were on the mast of the leading flagship "Min'an" were the first to discover the huge chain across the river and reported to Chen Yang, who did not know that this was a ghost of the Qing army.

He then led the flagship towards the chain, but before they could get close to the chain, they suddenly heard several cannon sounds on the shore on the Nanjing side, and then several columns of water were smashed on the water around the flagship, and one of the shells hit the side of the battleship, smashing the solid hull into a dent, and sawdust flew sideways.

"Enemy attack!"

The sailors on the deck reacted quickly, they ran to their respective combat posts as soon as possible, Chen Yang also walked quickly to the side of the shelling, picked up the monocular that came with the system, and looked towards the shore, and the next second he saw that there were many Qing soldiers on the shore surrounding several artillery, and at the muzzle of the artillery, the smoke had not completely dispersed.

"Damn Tartar."

Chen Yang cursed angrily, although the shell that had just been hit did not cause damage to the battleship itself, it still made him extremely angry, Chen Yang ordered in a loud voice:

"The starboard side is loaded with shells, ready to fire, and the flag bearer informs the other ships to move closer to me!"

"Reload the shells! Reload the shells! ”

The gunners who were deployed on the starboard side dragged the heavy guns out of the gun window, poured black powder and projectiles into the muzzle, and then compacted them with a tamper, and after each gun was loaded, Chen Yang roared angrily, and the 24 guns on the side of the fifth-level flagship immediately fired in unison, and the hull shook violently, and the shells quickly smashed into the artillery position of the Qing army.

"Dodge shelling!"

"Run!"

In the frightened shouts of the Qing artillery, twenty-four shells smashed the position into a mess, and several shells hit the Hongyi cannon on the shore, directly overturning the entire cannon body, smashing it to the side, pressing several artillery soldiers who could not dodge under the cannon body, they did not die immediately, they were still wailing in pain, begging someone to pull them out from under the barrel.

"Don't panic! Shoot back! ”

The Qing army general shouted loudly, wanting to let the panicked artillery return to the gun position, and continue to shell with intact artillery, but before they could return to the gun position, the other nine warships of the Ming army's naval division also came up and launched a saturation shelling of the Qing army's artillery position, and the Qing army's artillery was immediately defeated, abandoned those precious Hongyi cannons, turned around and fled.

Seeing that the Qing troops had fled, Chen Yang stopped the shelling, and he looked at the iron cable across the Yangtze River, knowing that if the iron cable was not destroyed, the entire fleet would be trapped in the Yangtze River valley until the Qing army transferred sailors from other places to destroy them.

At this moment, his first mate came over, pointed to the stone pillars tied at both ends of the iron cable, and said: "My lord, we can shell at the stone pillar, as long as the stone pillar is destroyed, the iron cable will naturally sink into the Yangtze River without a top." ”

"Can you hit the pillar with precision?" Chen Yang frowned and asked rhetorically: "Our black powder reserves are running out, if we fail, when the Qing army sailors arrive, we won't even have the ability to resist." ”

Having said that, Chen Yang also knew that this was the only way to break the obstruction of the iron cable, and he didn't wait for the first mate to answer, and said: "Okay, if you arrive at the approaching point to launch an artillery bombardment on the stone pillar, you must complete the task at the least cost." ”

"Whoa."

The first mate responded, and then turned around to convey his order, and the fifth-level flagship immediately dragged its heavy body and leaned towards the shore, but they had just approached, and they were shelled by the Hongyi cannons deployed on the fence gate and Jiangdong gate, Chen Yang saw that water columns were splashing around the hull, and he hurriedly ordered the battleship to speed up, until it was only less than 100 meters away from the shore, the starboard artillery fired in unison, and the stone pillar was shattered.

The next second when the stone pillar was destroyed, Chen Yang felt a shock to the hull of the ship, and a cannonball flew from the head of the fence gate and hit the starboard side of the battleship.

"Retreat, turn around, and go full speed!"

Chen Yang shouted an order, and the fifth-level flagship "Min'an" immediately accelerated away towards the water far from the shore, and at the same time as they left, the gunners on the starboard side were also urgently reloading, and after the loading was completed, they lit the fuse and launched a counterattack towards Guocheng.

For a time, the sound of artillery on the water surface of the Yangtze River was overwhelming, and dozens of shells whistled and smashed on the wall of Waiguo City in Nanjing, making the city wall tremble, and the Qing soldiers on the city wall also knew that the threat posed to them by the ship-borne artillery at this distance was minimal, so they were not too afraid, and they were still "heroically" operating the artillery to bombard the battleships in the distance.

In their eyes, no matter whether they inflict damage on the enemy or not, being able to fire a few shots is already loyal to His Majesty the Qing Emperor.

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Chapter 114 changed Shang Kexi's name to Queen Pingxi, and the ban was lifted......