A group of ships, twelve of them, appeared in the waters ahead, and they were the kind of medium-sized canopy boats, and they were coming towards the fleet, while ordinary ships would avoid the shore when they saw the warships, and the observation post felt that it was inappropriate, and hastened to warn them.

Yan Le grabbed the binoculars and looked over, and found that the incoming ships were smooth sailing, the speed was very fast, their cabins were wrapped firmly, and they couldn't see anything, and the hull was light and floating in the water, not heavy, and it was approaching.

"It's a fireship!" His face changed suddenly, and he immediately gave orders.

A drum sounded on the flagship, and twenty frigates, not carrying the army, but sailors and marines, sped up to meet the suspicious ships, and then another drum sounded, and the ships behind slowed down.

Sure enough, seeing the military ship coming forward to intercept, the twelve ships on the canopy boat burst into flames, and the fire spread rapidly under the help of the wind, spreading to the whole ship at once.

The crew, all men dressed in short clothes, went down to the dinghy and desperately left the channel and headed for the shore.

They don't have to worry about their personal safety, the battle in ancient times was by no means arbitrary, there was no accurate firepower, if you wanted to catch up with them, you also had to row, and rowing against the current might even be able to move at a turtle speed, how could you catch up!

The officers and men of the forward cruiser stared nervously at the approaching fireship as if they were facing a great enemy.

They were also prepared for the fireships, and the cruisers were horizontal, and the muzzles of their guns were stretched out, pointing at the hull of the incoming ships.

At a distance of 100 meters, with the command or whistle of the officers on each ship, the artillery fired!

The deafening sound of "bang......" sounded on both sides of the river, and the shells whistled out, hitting the hull and constantly hitting the hull.

When it comes to the training level of the gunners of the cruiser, the ships on both sides are in a T-shape, the cruiser is horizontal, the fireship is vertical, and the cross-sectional area is small, but still half of the canopy ship was hit, the hull shook violently, starting from the bow, the cracks extended to the stern, and soon the water entered everywhere, and the ship's body fell apart and disintegrated in the river!

The canopy boat is a civilian ship, considering the cost of the production process, it is not strong, if the structure is strengthened by the plank boat, bombarded with solid bullets, it may not be able to sink for an hour or two.

With the officer's command, the three oarsmen on the cruiser quickly reversed the oars, from going up the current to going downstream, and the officers controlled the speed and tried to be as parallel to the awning boat as possible.

Although the galleys are considered by many to be a class lower than the sailboats, they have a unique advantage in maneuverability. As soon as the tide of battle changes, the oarsmen can immediately reverse the wheel. Or make a quick turn by accelerating with one oarsman on one side and resting on the other.

Because of this benefit, the Southeast Fleet developed large galleys, that is, shallow water heavy battleships, which were classified as "Yellow River class", and used 400 A-3 oarsmen.

Previously, a large number of corvettes were equipped, which was a reduced version of the sail cruiser, and the cruiser had oarsmen and was very agile in action.

Now it was the cruisers who were fighting, and after they had been parallel to the awning boat, they opened fire fiercely, and one shell after another smashed accurately on the hull of the awning boat, and soon, one after another, sank.

Not only that, but the sailors on board lit large bombs and threw them to blast the larger ones, causing them to become smaller or sink into the river under the shock wave of the bombs.

After a while, there were large and small fires all over the river, but if it was not the kind of large fire, it would not be able to ignite the boats in the river if it did not burn for a long time.

The soldiers on the ships watching the battle in the back praised the performance of the cruiser and applauded in unison!

And on the distant city walls, the rebels watched the battle through binoculars, which was not very good.

The fleet approached Wuzhou, and Fang Cai's attack came from the rebels stationed in Wuzhou.

Approaching the mountain city of Wuzhou, you can see the majestic city wall by the river, the wall is more than eight meters high, and there is a wide city gate tower overlooking the river bank, which is rare in inland areas and non-provincial capital cities.

In fact, in ancient times, the prefectures and counties were generally not large, such as Wanping City next to Beijing, the whole city is 640 meters long from east to west, and 320 meters wide from north to south!

The six-meter-high city wall is already considerable, after all, the ancient manpower, material and financial resources were limited, of course, even such a county town can almost do one county and one city in China, and in the world, no country can do it!

Large cities abroad have city walls, but foreign county towns often have no county cities, or at most they are surrounded by walls, or even wooden.

The construction of the county city wall shows the superb architectural level of ancient China and the strength beyond all countries!

Wuzhou, the east gate of Guangxi, has been known as the "confluence of the three rivers" since ancient times, and its geographical location is quite important!

In the sixth year of the Ming Dynasty (1470 AD), Ming Xianzong established the first governor's palace in Chinese history in Wuzhou, which played an important role in strengthening the rule of the Ming Dynasty in southwest China.

Governor-General, Governor of a certain place, Governor of military affairs, food and salary, and governors, the Governor on the horse to manage the army, dismount to manage the people, have the exclusive power, to avoid the disadvantage of being too slow to contact the central dynasty and unable to deal with military and political affairs in a timely manner, of course, the governors sent are the henchmen of the imperial court, the dry city of the country.

Wuzhou City is a famous city in Lingnan with a history of more than 2,100 years, with the reputation of "a century-old commercial port", the main stream of the Pearl River, the Xijiang River, meanders through the urban area, because of the benefits of the Xijiang River, it is deeply influenced by Guangzhou, and is the city with the most historical and cultural heritage in Guangxi!

Zhu Youlang's rebels invaded Guangzhou under the leadership of Zhu Youlang himself, but he fled alone, and the whole army fled back to Guangxi in disgrace.

He assigned 6,000 men and horses as a partial division, led by Lin Jiading and Ma Jixiang, but he did a good job, going straight to Guilin along the river, all the way down, and there was no difficulty.

Lin Jiading, the former political envoy of Guangdong, was an extremely qualified party to lead the way, he had been a political envoy to Guangxi, intentionally or unintentionally, formed a huge network of officials, which came in handy during the rebellion, and the officials were dissatisfied with the land policy of the imperial court, and the officials defected one after another.

After all, in the Ming Dynasty, there was not a lot of land privately owned by officials, and the court wanted to cut meat on them, Zhu Youlang rebelled, and those landed officials were concubines who met fat fans, and they hit it off!

After seizing Wuzhou City, he sent the general Tian Jianping to lead an army of 2,000 guards, and now he was on the city wall, put down the binoculars, and said regretfully: "It's a pity, it's a pity!" ”

Tian Jianping was in his thirties, originally a middle-level officer of the New Ming Army, and his family had a large estate.

He instigated a fireboat offensive, but it didn't seem to work very well, and a middle-aged man wearing a bulletproof vest of the Southeast Army next to him sneered: "I said that I should attack early in the morning, General Tian Shen didn't believe it, hehe, now I see it!" ”

spoke rudely enough, and openly parted with Tian Jianping, but Tian Jianping also had to endure it, because the middle-aged man was Li Daoan, the inland "ship king" who sent the boat to Zhu Youlang to Guangzhou

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