Today, the Nanjing River of the Yangtze River has turned red.

What caught people's eyes on the surface of the river was the corpses of Qing officers and soldiers who rose and fell in the waves, and sank to the bottom of the river in a blink of an eye. Because they had just surrendered, the color of their armor and uniforms was still the red fat jacket of the Ming army. From these corpses, streams of blood and water the size of basins continued to gush out of the river, and disappeared into the river in the blink of an eye.

The turbid river water, after the addition of countless people's blood, minced meat, internal organs, and body fluids, became a somewhat hideous and colorful color. The yellow and green body fluids add a strange color to the river in the twilight of spring, and the blue and purple intestines and internal organs are fleeting in the river and have become a delicacy for fish and turtles in the river.

On the river, countless boats with the flag of the Qing army on their bows turned into a bunch of flames floating on the water, adding a bright orange to the river, and then, the ship's planks and all the materials that could be burned were burned out and gradually sank into the river, and then, with a muffled sound, a whirlpool appeared on the river, swallowing the wreckage of the ship into the river and disappearing without a trace.

A large number of Qing ships were destroyed by rockets fired by the naval division of the Nanyue Army led by Li Huamei. Relying on its own tonnage, volume, rudder, sail and other technical advantages, as well as the speed advantage brought by going downstream, the naval division of the Nanyue Army carried out a real crushing of the Qing army's river-crossing fleet.

Under the whipping, punching and kicking of the officers, the sailors on the Qing army fleet burst out with a huge desire to survive, paddling and dropping the sails with almost crazy movements, holding up the points with pennies, and constantly doing what they thought was appropriate to avoid the impending collision, but where was the time? As soon as their ships staggered a few feet, they crowded each other and couldn't move, and they watched as the huge hulls of the Aomei, led by the Aomei, were like giant beasts in the wilderness, crashing straight towards them!

"Bang!"

There was a loud muffled sound, and a boat full of Qing soldiers became another bumper boat object of the Aomei. The fragile planks of the ship groaned in pain as the Aomei's copper-skinned, specially reinforced bow slammed into it. Trembling violently. Soon, the severely overcrowded and fragile hull could not resist the huge squeezing force, and made a toothbrush click, and with a loud bang, the hull disintegrated in an instant, and sank into the water with a whirl.

Most of the Qing officers and soldiers did not know the nature of water, and after a few struggles on the water, they were swept into the depths of the river and went to pay allegiance to the Dragon King of the River. There was the one who was lucky enough to float on the surface of the water with a plank in his arms, and under the huge waves rolled up by the Aomei, he was swept away by the waves with the broken plank, and he didn't know where he was going. The sailors on the boat were very familiar with this grandmother's boat, and when they saw this giant ship colliding head-on, they had already put a tripod made of bamboo on their bodies, and jumped into the river at once, and a few fierce men disappeared without a trace. The quicker ones jumped into the water before the collision, but a little later, the massive hull of the Aomei mercilessly plowed over their heads and sent them to the bottom of the river.

However, the Qing soldiers who surrendered on both sides of the Huai River and on the ground north of the river were not so lucky. Even if a few lucky people dodged the impact, they couldn't escape another wave of blows. The sailors and Li Huamei's personal soldiers standing on the side deck of the Aomei kept shooting condescendingly with muskets and short firearms, throwing grenades at crowded places where people were crowded and those who fell into the water, and projectiles were fired at them like wild ducks. Soon, blood flowers bloomed on the surface of the water. The sailors of the Nanyue Army led by the Aomei went on a rampage like a flock of sheep, and the ships of the Qing army quickly turned into floating debris on the sea. The desperate sailor jumped into the water like a dumpling and swam desperately towards the shore. The water was littered with drowning figures and corpses, but few lucky people escaped from the dense musket fire.

The Qing generals on both sides of the strait were stunned by this undoubted one-sided massacre, and their jaws could not be returned for a long time. It turned out that everyone only knew that the eldest lady of the Li family, this scarlet-winged tiger was fierce and invincible on the shore, and unexpectedly, it was even more brave and invincible on the water.

However, no one noticed that in the midst of the rush of dozens of gunboats, hundreds of sand boats and boats, under the cover of gunfire and gunsmoke, flew through the Nanjing River and rushed eastward.

Li Huamei used the offensive to attract attention and attract the attention of the Qing army to cover the retreating fleet of the Nanyue army. Although at this time, Jiangyin and Nanjing did not have the defensive facilities of the batteries along the river, but once they stayed on this section of the river for too long, it was bound to cause huge losses to the retreat of the Nanyue army. Since the retreat is easy to be taken advantage of by the Qing army, then, since childhood, he was taught by Zhang Xiaohu, "A career at sea is to attack!" Offensive! Attack again! "Li Huamei, who advocated making trouble for the enemy to alleviate her own difficulties, had no choice but to concentrate all the main forces of the fleet to carry out a sabotage battle, or rather, an attack on the Qing army in the Nanjing and Guazhou sections of the river, and cut off the north-south communication of the Yangtze River. To buy time and space for the south-eastern retreat of the Nanyue Army.

For cutting off the Yangtze River shipping, cutting off north-south communications, and cutting off Cao Yun, the Southern Guangdong Army has a complete set of mature plans, and it has gone through many deductions. As early as the beginning of Li Shouhan's first entry into Beijing, there was a plan for the sailors to immediately cut off the Yangtze River and cut off the north-south traffic in case something happened, so as to prevent Li Shouhan from becoming another Yuan Chonghuan.

In particular, after Emperor Hongguang ascended the throne in Nanjing, the naval division of the Nanyue Army conducted many drills in the Nanjing section of the Yangtze River, and was familiar with the hydrological situation in this area. Where there are undercurrents, where there are sandbanks, where there are shoals, where there are reefs, all of them are recorded in detail in the navigation charts and logbooks.

Unexpectedly, today came in handy.

"Miss! The rearguard ships of the fleet hoisted their flags, and they had all passed the Nanjing River section! ”

Li Huamei's personal soldier captain Fathead Fish, who didn't care that his fat face was stained with gunsmoke, pointed to a series of colorful flags at the junction of the river and the sky in the distance, and reported to Li Huamei excitedly.

"Good! After my father passed Nanjing, my Nanyue Army was not afraid of any bullshit Eight Banners! No matter how many local chickens and dogs he contains, what can he do to the old lady! Pass the order! Our ship turned around and got closer to the city of Nanjing, and we used cannons and rockets to congratulate our old friend, the badger on Tashan, and congratulated him on entering the city of Nanjing! ”

Duoduo's name means "placenta" in Manchu, and the name Dolgon is "badger" in Manchu, but unfortunately Li Huamei remembered it wrong. She only knows the name of the Nurhachi family, either a wild boar skin or a black bear and a yellow wolf, or a badger, a bird, a rabbit or the like, which is basically the wild animal lineage of Liaodong.

The brig gunboat was the forerunner, and a beautiful arc was drawn on the river, turning the bow from west to east to east to east, and the two dragon guns equipped on the ship were aimed at the direction of Nanjing City on the south bank.

"Let's get a shallower draft and try to get south as far as possible! Give the big ship behind you the main channel in the middle of the river! ”

More than a dozen brigs adjusted the angle of their guns, ready to fire their guns at any time to attack the artillery positions on the south bank, and on the other hand, adjusted the rudder and sail angles, trying to get closer to the south bank, and then closer!

However, the approach of the brigs brought great pressure to the Ning Erjia people in Guochengtou outside the south bank. Ning Erjia from Liaodong, and his subordinate officers, soldiers, Yu Ding, and Baoyi minions are basically northerners, and their knowledge of ships is almost blank, barely distinguishing between large ships, small boats, civilian ships and military gunboats. In Ning Erjia's view, these dozen or so small ships suddenly approached the south bank, and they were getting closer and closer, and nine times out of ten they were to put down the wolf-like and fearless Southern Barbarians carried on those ships in the shallow water position, and then, these Southern Barbarians would stand up with bright spurs and brave the artillery fire, even if you were under intensive artillery fire, they would rush all the way to you without stopping. Then, use the projectiles in the firecracker, and use the kind of earth-shaking thunder in the backpack that can be picked up and thrown in front of you to explode (the Qing army called the horsetail grenade the earth-shaking thunder.) Then use the stingers on the firecrackers to drive you and your minions out of the trenches one by one, turning the living into a corpse covered in sores.

Once this group of demon kings was allowed to go ashore, Ning Erjia couldn't help but tremble in his thighs when he thought of that terrible scene. He knew very well that the current city of Nanjing was not a well-guarded tower mountain crisscrossed by ravines and trenches. Even then, I was almost broken through the line of defense by the grandmother in front of me! Once these southern barbarians landed on the shore, at this time, there was no fortification in the city of Nanjing, and secondly, all the banners and departments were in a state of chaos entering the city to receive defense. I'm afraid that without Li Huamei's hands, these hundreds of thousands of people will trample on each other!

"Fire! Shoot Lao Tzu! Hit the boats that are close to the south shore! You must not let this group of fucking Nanban who don't want to die go ashore! ”

Lord Ning Erjiajia Lazhangjing glanced at the dozens of large and small artillery pieces lined up on the head of Guo Cheng outside, and he barely had some bottom in his heart. "The big Buddha Lang machine and the Hongyi cannon hit the Nanban gunboat, and the small Buddha Lang machine and the general's bronze cannon were aimed at Lao Tzu on the shore, as long as the Nanban went ashore, it would be bombarded by the official! They must not be allowed to go ashore! ”

Lord Ning Erjia has a lot of experience in the use and technical performance of various types of artillery. I know that according to the weight and firing range of the artillery, the echelon configuration should be made, and the section will be wrapped, so as not to make an arrangement where all the artillery is used to bombard the brigs.

"Fire!"

"Fire!"

"Fire!"

Seeing that the brig gunboat was getting closer and closer to the south shore, almost to the point where people could jump off the boat and wade on their own, Ning Erjiajia Lazhangjing could no longer control it. You know, there are almost no defenses along the river, and these southern barbarians can walk in the water and land on the south bank under the cover of artillery fire as long as they jump out of the boat, and at that time, it will be too difficult to stop them.

Under his orders, all the Big Buddha Franc machines were fired in turn by the six-pounder and eight-pounder cannons that he became Hongyi cannons! Thick smoke rose rapidly from Guo Chengtou outside.

"Not good!"

Li Huamei, who was far away on the Aomei and commanding the rest of the gunboats to turn the rudder and adjust the direction, saw the smoke rising in the distance, and her heart couldn't help but sink down. She knew that these brigs were too close to the south shore. Almost completely within the range of those guns! Once hit by artillery fire, the losses are huge! She couldn't help but blurt out.

"Miss!" The fathead fish on one side was happy, "Look! It should be fine! She pointed to the smoke rising in the distance and motioned for Li Huamei to take a closer look.

The smoke in the distance was not the gray-white smoke that rose from the gun emplacements after the artillery was fired, but a thick gray smoke.

"Miss! Look at the color of the muzzle flame! ”

The color of the muzzle flame is also fleeting. However, from this brief moment, and the smoke gradually rising and condensing from the gun position, Li Huamei judged very firmly: "This group of dog thieves should not be our gunpowder!" ”

Indeed it is. Li Huamei's judgment was not bad at all. Since the Nanyue Army signed a joint defense agreement with the nobles of Nanjing, the gunboats of the naval division have swaggered and appeared on the river from Wusongkou to Nanjing, and can even go upriver to the Anqing and Jiujiang sections. It was also thanks to this agreement that among the Nanjing garrison, there were also a lot of gunpowder produced by the Nanyue Army. Of course, it is not realistic that this gunpowder is used for combat, and training is naturally necessary. Otherwise, how should the gunpowder sold by the big guys in private be reimbursed?

However, there are other places, but this outer Jinchuan Gate, because it is a wharf and warehouse, where a large number of grain and rice materials are stored, and it is also a prosperous place where people come and go, similar to gunpowder, which is flammable and explosive, and is easy to cause losses to everyone's life and property, of course, it cannot appear here. In this regard, the guards of Waijinchuan Gate don't care very much, anyway, there are a large number of grain and rice materials in and out here, and a little loss and theft can make the big guy fart on his heels, and he can still use that little money? In the words of the deputy general of the Jinchuan Gate, who guarded the outer Jinchuan Gate: "There is the kung fu of secretly selling gunpowder, how can I find a few ways to increase the loss of grain and rice on the basis of insects, rats, birds, and transport, which is not more convenient than selling this bit of gunpowder?" Besides, there is more than one gunboat coming in and out here every day, and Lao Tzu still needs to worry about defense? "Therefore, the gunpowder stored and used here is still made by the workshop under the Nanjing Military Department, and the effect and technical performance are naturally far behind.

As a result, dozens of artillery pieces were fired with great momentum, which had a bit of an anticlimactic effect: when the artillery was fired, whether it was from the sound of cannons, smoke, flames and many other aspects, it was a huge momentum, and the pyrotechnic effect could completely kill all kinds of modern dramas with gasoline as effects. However, after the cannon was discharged, it was weak and flew a short distance along the trajectory before quickly falling into the water on the side of the brig.

Occasionally, a few guns of great character exploded landed on the deck of the brig, or hit the side of the ship, only to bounce on the deck a few times, and then quietly stopped.

"Demon law! Nanban must have used demon magic on their ship! Fast! Go find Black Dog Blood! Toilet! The woman's horseback sliver! "Some people's first reaction is to think of all kinds of gods and monsters, using all kinds of filth to crack these witchcraft.

"Bastard! Something I didn't know! That's the iron ship of the Southern Barbarians! Their boats, down to the bottom, are made of copper! Ordinary shells will definitely not move them! Some people also remembered the bottoms of the naval divisions and merchant ships of the Nanyue Army that they saw overhauling on the docks, all of which were wrapped in copper. Come to think of it, the gunboats used to fight are made of iron.

Whether it was a demon or an iron ship, there was only one thought in Lord Ning'erjiala's head, "We must not let this group of Nanban get close!" I can't let them go ashore, otherwise, Prince Yu's master will cut off my head!" ”

Under his strict orders, the artillery at the head of the city was filled with smoke and flying sand and rocks. In the river, countless running guns stirred up a dense column of water like raindrops. It's just that the effect is hard to say.

After three rounds of shelling, the artillery fire at the head of the city became sparse.

"You've run out of tricks, it's time for Lao Tzu!" The gunners on the brig began to operate the Kron, firing this destructive cannon at the head of Waiguo City.

"Captain! The Commander ship sent a signal and ordered us to open fire on the houses at the head of the city! On the rest of the ships, rockets and mortars will be used! The flag-whisperers on the brig conveyed the latest orders to their respective captains.

The naval division of the Nanyue Army, which had already adjusted the direction of the entire fleet, once again appeared in front of the Qing army in Nanjing City in a full-ship combat posture.

Under the command of the commander Li Huamei, the division of labor between the ships was tacit. Taking advantage of their speed advantage and technical advantage in shallow draft, the brig used the bow and stern of the Crane cannon to fire fiercely at the Yuejiang Pavilion, Jinghai Temple, Tianhou Temple and other buildings on the Lion Rock near Guo outside Nanjing. With the fall of cannonballs, buildings such as Tianhou Temple and Jinghai Temple, which were built in the Yongle period and had been rebuilt for a long time, began to burst into flames everywhere, and gradually, there were more and more fires, and they became bigger and bigger. After a while, thick smoke and fire raged in the outer city of Guo.

The main battleships, led by the Aomei, were baptized with mortar guns and rockets on the buildings in the outer castle and on the docks of Shimonoseki. The shells of the mortar artillery fell reluctantly along the arc-shaped trajectory over the head of the outer city and on the grassland warehouse in the city. The rockets, which are almost connected to cover the sky and the moon, are in the storehouses in the city, and the stacks and stacks on the docks outside the city fully play the role of professional arsonists.

From the Outer Jinchuan Gate to the two city gates near the left, the Shence Gate and the Zhongfu Gate, the inside and outside of the Outer Guo became a sea of fire.

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