The Qing sailors rowed small boats and rushed to the fire rafts of Li Laiheng's army, trying to stop these weapons that posed the greatest threat to their own grain ships. At this moment, dozens of figures dressed in green and covered in turf leaves suddenly appeared on the hills on both sides, holding a strange kind of round wooden barrel in their hands, set on stones and facing the river.

"Ignition!" I heard only one shout.

Several green-clothed men took out the latest product from Ba Mo not long ago, matches, struck matches, and lit torches. Then the green-clad men picked up the torches and touched them behind the buttocks of the barrels, lighting the fuse.

The "swoop" fuse burned, and was soon shortened into the barrel.

Countless arrows were shot from the "whoosh" round barrels, flying all over the sky, and scattering them like torrential rain on the surface of the river a hundred paces away.

"Not good! It's a swarm! Seeing the white smoke spewing out from the riverbank, countless feather arrows with firelight, dragging a long white smoke to the river surface, Wang Yizheng, who had also been in the Ming army, knew that this weapon was a swarm of bee rockets from the original Da Ming God Machine Battalion, he was so frightened that his face turned pale and he screamed.

When Wang Yi was serving in the Ming Army, he had fought in Liaodong and Houjin, and some weapons in the Shenji Battalion were still quite good, such as a swarm of new weapons such as the Camel Fire Box and the Franc Machine Gun Truck. Later, Kong Youde surrendered to Houjin, which made the Houjin army have firearms that could confront the Ming army, and the new firearms with a short range of the Ming army's Shenji Battalion were bombarded by the new Portuguese-made artillery of the Houjin Tianyou Army.

However, now in eastern Sichuan, Li Guoying's naval division is basically still an old-style naval division that mainly focuses on broadside warfare, the Three Gorges River is narrow, and the Western Expeditionary Army attacks the naval division with a swarm of rockets on the shore, and the Qing army has no place to hide.

This kind of swarm bee is indeed the old-fashioned swarm of bees used by the Ming Army's Shenji Battalion back then. A pair of launching barrels contains 32 rockets, and the combined weight of the rockets and barrels is about 15 catties, and it can fire 32 feather arrows in a salvo. This weapon has been improved by Dai Cang's father and son, and its accuracy has improved a lot. Now it is being used by the Western Expeditionary Army to deal with the Qing Army's naval division, which can be described as a powerful weapon!

Thirty pairs of swarm rocket launchers shoot nearly a thousand rockets at one time.

Raindrops of feather arrows pierced the Qing army's boat. Dozens of Qing soldiers were pierced through their bodies by random arrows in an instant, and they fell into the cabin one after another, and the feather arrows pierced into their bodies were still spewing firelight, looking like human fireworks. Some of the feathered arrows pierced the ship's plank, and the unburned gunpowder at the end of the arrows spewed fire, scorching the surrounding Qing soldiers.

However, the nightmare of the Qing soldiers did not end here, and the green-clothed men on the shore took off their firearms from their backs one after another, aimed them at the river and pulled the trigger. The sound of "ping-pong" gunfire was endless, and the rainstorm of projectiles spilled in. The Qing soldiers were shot one after another, and blood mist erupted from their bodies.

"How can a thief's firebolt be fired continuously? Don't they need to reload? Wang Yizheng was very surprised to see that his opponent could inflict great losses on his own side with only a dozen firearms, and he was very surprised that this kind of firearms did not need to be reloaded, and could fire projectiles continuously.

The elite night is Wang Xinyu's special forces, and their hands are either rifled guns with long range and high accuracy, or electric guns that can shoot continuously. Of course, it's powerful.

The Qing soldiers on the ship counterattacked with feather arrows, but the Ming army did not accept it at night and fired condescendingly. There are also big rocks and mountains and forests to cover, the Qing soldiers are completely exposed to the surface of the river, the conditions for the two sides to shoot are not fair at all, the Qing soldiers shoot arrows for a long time, it is difficult to hit the target, even if there are a few who do not receive arrows at night. Their green clothes still have rattan armor underneath, and feather arrows can't penetrate them at all. And the bullets that are not collected at night hit the dense Qing soldiers on the ship, and they can bite the flesh without aiming at all, and every bullet can hit the target. The Qing soldiers and sailors did not wear armor, and those who were shot were either killed or wounded.

Sharpshooter Liu Baorui aimed at Wang Yizheng, who was shouting on the big boat of the Chinese army behind, and estimated the distance, which was about one hundred and eighty steps away. But this one can hit the target for him. So Liu Baorui took off the rifled gun from his back, picked up the gun, held his breath, aimed at the target one hundred and eighty steps away, and pressed the trigger with his fingers.

Wang Yizheng didn't expect that he was still one hundred and eighty steps away from the "thief", and he could be tricked! You must know that thieves do not have cannons, and the range of bows and arrows and bird guns is simply not that far.

"Bang" a gunshot, a high-speed rotating long bullet roared, pierced Wang Yizheng's right eye, strangled the intracranial tissue, spurted out of the back of the head with dirty blood and brains, and the general's official hat also flew out of the distance.

The Qing army's sailors, who had suffered heavy losses, finally collided with Li Laiheng's sailors, and Li Laiheng's troops, whose morale was like a rainbow, shot random arrows one after another, piercing the Qing army's sailors and even men and boats into hedgehogs. The ships of both sides approached, and the sailors and soldiers of the Qing army armed with axes and broadswords were still standing on the edge of the ship as usual, ready to jump into the gang battle. Who knew that the soldiers of Li Laiheng's sailor raised their hands and threw rows of ceramic bottles emitting green smoke and smashed them into the Qing army's boat.

"What is this?" The Qing army in eastern Sichuan had never met Zheng Jiajun, and they didn't know what kind of weapon this kind of weapon was, and everyone stood stunned, and they didn't know how to dodge. A few of them were more alert, thinking it was a lime bottle, and subconsciously picked up a shield to block their eyes.

"Boom" the national surname bottle exploded suddenly, bursting into countless fragments in the crowd of Qing soldiers, the sharp porcelain pieces and the iron beads filled in the national surname bottle flew sideways in all directions, piercing into the body of the Qing soldiers, and the gushing blood and flesh formed a layer of red fog barrier above the Qing soldiers' boats. The Qing soldiers who covered their eyes with shields were not much better, porcelain and iron beads pierced their bodies and legs, and a scream rang out from the ship, and blood stained large swathes of the deck.

Li Laiheng had seen that the weapons of the Qiongzhou army were extremely powerful, and only a few dozen people caused great losses to the Qing army. After the two armies met, the national surname bottle he obtained from the Qiongzhou army blew up the Qing army again, and he couldn't help shouting: "Okay! The Qiongzhou Army is worthy of being the elite of the Yanping Army! This weapon is indeed sharp! ”

After throwing the surname bottle, the sailor of the Kuidong Righteous Army jumped onto the Qing army's boat, waved his axe and sword, and slashed at the remaining Qing soldiers, cutting the flesh and blood of the Qing soldiers. Some of the Qing soldiers who were injured by the explosion of the national surname bottle, those who were injured by the electric switch, those who were shot by a swarm of bees, and those who had not yet died in the cabin were also buried under the swords and axes of the righteous soldiers.

The small boats used by the Qing army to block the fire attack raft were defeated, and the main general was also sniped, and the Qing army's naval division, which had lost its command, was powerless to stop the attack of the rebels. The Qing soldiers on the big ship could only shoot random arrows at the raft as they watched the blazing fire attack raft crash into their own boat.

Feathered arrows stuck to the raft could not stop the raft flowing down the water. After a while, there was a raft sharpened in front of it collided with a big ship of the Qing army, the river of the Three Gorges was very fast, under the action of the current, the sharpened wood was like a nail into the big ship of the Qing army, and the burning firewood and kerosene burned more and more, and soon ignited the big ship of the Qing army.

The Three Gorges River was very narrow, and the rafts lined up collided with it, and the big ships of the Qing army had nowhere to hide. One after another, the large ships of the Qing army were hit by the fire-attacking rafts and caught fire and burned.

The Qing soldiers on the boat were burned to the point of crying for their fathers and mothers, and they jumped into the raging river in a panic.

The water flow of the Three Gorges is particularly rapid, people jumping down are swept away by the river, and it is a very cold day, the person who jumps into the river can be said to be nine deaths, but jumping into the river is also much better than staying on the boat and being burned alive, almost all the Qing soldiers chose to jump into the river. The turbulent river roared, foaming with waves swept in, most of the Qing soldiers who jumped into the water were immediately swallowed by the huge waves, and only a few people were floating and struggling on the river, and were washed downstream by the river.

Because the main general Wang Yizheng was killed, the grain ships behind the Qing army's warfleet were panicked, and they did not know that they should immediately turn around and flee downstream, but were stunned. When they came to their senses, the grain ship turned around in a panic, but unfortunately the river surface of the Three Gorges was really narrow, and the boats of the Qing army collided with each other, and some of the boats rushed to the near shore and hit the underwater piles buried by the rebels into the water or the artificial reef made of stones, and a big hole was punctured in the bottom of the boat, and the river water poured in, and the grain ships began to sink slowly.

The large warships of the Qing army have been burned out, and the Dong Xueli sailors who came down were blocked by Liu Tichun, and Liu Jun arranged barrages and various obstacles in the water, stuck the Qing army's sailors on the narrow river, and rockets on the shore shot in rows to ignite the Qing warships. Because Dong Xueli was sniped, the Qing army, which had lost its command, was in chaos, and ships collided with each other.

After a fierce battle, Dong Xueli's sailors were annihilated, hundreds of large and small warships either sank to the bottom of the river or were burned, and the remaining dozens of warships surrendered to Liu Tichun.

The grain convoy of the Qing army downstream, all kinds of warships of all sizes were annihilated, part of the grain ships were burned, and all the rest surrendered to Li Laiheng. The grain loaded on these grain carriers became the trophies of the Kuidong Rebels. There is also a part of the grain ship sank near the river bank, and later was also salvaged by Li Laiheng, although the grain on the ship was soaked in water, but salvaged up, dried after the food can still be eaten, even if people can't eat, it is good to feed livestock.

"Hahaha! What a victory! Victory! When Li Laiheng saw Liu Tichun, the two looked at each other and laughed.

In this battle, with the help of the Western Expeditionary Army, the Kuidong Righteous Army annihilated more than 7,000 Li Guoying's naval divisions, including more than 1,000 enemy prisoners, sank and destroyed more than 500 large and small ships, and captured more than 3,000 stones of grain. Such a victory is indeed an exciting victory for the Kuidong Righteous Army, which has been suppressed by the Qing army for a long time!

More importantly, after the Qing army's naval division was heavily damaged, the Yangtze River route was regained control of the Kuidong rebels, and Yucheng became an isolated city, and the Qing army, which lacked food in the city, would soon be in chaos.

"Bring the food back! We can have a good year in peace! Liu Tichun laughed.

In stark contrast to the rebels, a few days later, Li Guoying learned the news of the defeat from the mouth of the sailor soldiers who escaped by luck, and shouted "I swear to kill all the thieves in eastern Sichuan" and vomited blood on the spot and fainted. (To be continued.) )

PS: There is one more chapter at noon