Chapter 70: The Battle of Jingzhou III

A Qing firestorm ship hit a small steamer, but the nail on the bow of the ship could not penetrate the iron plate at all, and the Qing army's firestorm ship was hit by the small steamer instead, swirling on the surface of the lake, and burning. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Idiot! The thief is originally a fire dragon, is the fire attack ship effective? Break the enemy with items! Nesuken yelled anxiously for Goshha to signal the flag.

Many Qing soldiers tied white cloth smeared with menstrual blood to their bows and arrows, stretched out their bows and arrows, and shot round after round of arrows. The arrows with white cloth and belly pockets on them kept falling, but they couldn't penetrate the hull of the ship, and they hit the iron plate of the ship, and they were immediately bounced off. However, many feathered arrows landed on the deck of the ship, and the deck was immediately sprinkled with red white cloth and colorful belly pockets, turning it into a garbage dump.

"Shot! Shot! Seeing the feathered arrows sticking to the spell-breaking items on the ship, the Qing sailors cheered, and then they had to wait, the fire dragon technique was broken, and the ship could slow down.

Who knew that the speed of the small steamer did not slow down at all, but made a long roar that shook the sky, and the boilermen in the engine room were shirtless, braving the boiling heat, sweating and shoveling coal into the boiler, the furnace fire was blazing, and the speed of the small steamer was increased to the maximum speed of 14 knots.

"It's strange, why hasn't the thief fire dragon broken yet?" Nesuken muttered to himself in confusion.

It was also at this time that Emperor Hu Dedi saw the big Chinese ship that Nesuken was riding, and his finger pointed in the direction of the largest Chinese big ship of the Qing army, and signaled the helmsman to sail in that direction.

The helmsman gently rotated the wooden rudder plate, and with the rotation of the rudder, the connecting rod under the rudder pushed the transmission rod, which drove the gear-mechanical steering gear at the stern to rotate, and the stern rudder rotated at an angle, and the small steamer split the waves and rushed straight towards the big Chinese ship that Nesuken was riding.

The big ship of the Chinese army in Nesuken is a 350-material lucky ship, which is equivalent to about 170 tons, which is one size larger than the small steamer of about 100 tons of Emperor Hude, and the floor of the lucky ship is also high, compared to the low small steamer, it looks much larger.

"Oh no, my lord! The Thief Fire Dragon is here! Rushing at us! One Goshha exclaimed.

Nesuken sneered again and again: "Okay! Good! Gotta get it right! The old man is about to meet this fire dragon! When the thief approached, he immediately jumped on the thief ship, and the old man turned down to see what the thief was capable of! ”

The small steamer rushed all the way, and the Qing army's fast sentry ship and small sampan, which could not dodge, were knocked and sunk. At the same time as hitting the small boats of the Qing army, the front and rear main guns and the left and right secondary guns of the small steamer continued to wield, and the bows were fired left and right, as long as the small boats of the Qing army were shot, basically a shell was sent to the bottom of the water to feed the fish and shrimp.

The Qing army avoided one after another, and they didn't dare to come up and confront the fire dragon spitting black smoke.

The small steamer rushed straight to the big ship of the Chinese army in Nesuken, the main gun in the bow of the ship turned around, and spewed out a tongue of fire aimed at the big ship of the Qing army, and a cannonball whistled and hit the big ship of the Qing army, and the cannonball fired by the rifled gun rotated at high speed, and the plank was drilled at once, and the sawdust flew sideways. The head was hollow, and when the heavy cannonball behind hit the hard object and rotated and propulsed, the cannonball exploded, turning into countless pieces of iron and splashing in all directions, and the flesh and blood flew in the cabin.

However, Nesuken was fortunate not to be hit by the shards of the planks or hit by the iron sheets. But he saw with his own eyes that a Goshha beside him was hit in the head by a bouncing plank, and the lightning rod helmet was immediately smashed flat, and his whole head exploded like a watermelon falling to the ground.

Rifled guns, coupled with new gunpowder, the kinetic energy of the cannonballs is quite huge, and the smashed cannonballs can also lift up the planks on the ship one by one, and the one-inch-thick planks hit people's heads with strong force, and the effect is no worse than that of a hammer.

Before the small steamer approached the big ship of the Qing army, the front main gun fired another shell, which was fired horizontally, drilling through the head of the Fu ship, almost penetrating the whole ship, and the shell burst in the cabin, with broken iron and broken wood boards, penetrating the multi-storey cabin and hitting the cabin under the stern rudder.

Although the big ship of the Qing army was one size larger than the small steamer in terms of height and volume, the small steamer with iron sheet and sharp bow collided with the wooden ship, which was originally made of sturdy iron wood and covered with iron sheets; The large ships of the Chinese army of the Qing army were made of ordinary cedar wood, and the result of the collision can be imagined.

The big ship of the Qing army was hit and broke a big hole, plus the big hole left by the two cannons just now, this lucky boat finally lost its support, and began to sink on the lake, and the Qing soldiers on the boat jumped into the water one after another.

"Kill the thief!" However, Nesuken did not dive, but roared, brandished a big knife, and jumped from the rickety Dafu boat to the Ming army's small steamer the moment the two ships touched.

"Well done! There's a rival here! When Khadedi saw Nesuken jump onto his boat, he shouted excitedly, opened the door of the bridge and rushed out, waving the big knife in his hand and slashing at Nesuken's head.

At this moment, several Goshkha from Nesuken also jumped on the small steamer. When they saw a big black man entangled with his commander, and the battle was scoreless, the Goshha waved their swords and came up to help.

"Isn't it heads-up? Why did so many people come up? Hu Dedi felt a little regretful at this time. Just saw the Tartar general jump into his ship and solve it soon with a thunderbolt? Why bother? It's because I haven't used martial arts to kill the enemy for a long time, and my hands are a little itchy, so I abandoned the short gun and used cold weapons to fight with the Qing army.

However, more than a dozen sailors immediately rushed out of the cabin, rifled guns, double-barreled short guns, and single-barreled short guns roared continuously, and the six Qing soldiers who jumped on the deck all fell in a pool of blood.

Nesuken was startled by the sound of gunshots, and saw that all his Goshha had fallen, and then saw that more than a dozen Ming sailors had lost their guns, drew their knives and rushed towards him, and they were distracted at once, only to be slashed in the arm by Emperor Hude. The treasure knife in Emperor Hude's hand sharpened iron like clay, and with a single sword, he cut off Nesuken's arm by the roots. Then Emperor Hu Dedi stabbed again, and the result was Nasuken.

The pole and mine boats behind the Ming army and the small boats of the marines also rushed up, taking advantage of the opportunity of the Qing army's fleet being rushed into a big chaos by small steamers, one after another Ming army boats were like offline arrows, killing into the long lake.

The guns, rifled guns, and rockets continued to shoot at the Qing army's boats, and the Ming army's pole mineboats pursued closely behind the Qing army's boats, and the Japanese ashigaru on the boat desperately stepped on the pedals, and the pole mineboats pursued and killed the fleeing Qing soldiers on the lake.

The pursuit on the water continued for an afternoon, and not a single Qing boat was to be seen on the lake, except for the sunken and captured, the rest of the boats ran away and slipped along the river leading to the Han River.