"Report!" The spies broke into Lin Xingzhu's Chinese army camp and "found the Minggou fleet!" We've entered the small river that leads to our long lake! Coming to us! ”

"This official understands, you go down first!" Lin Xingzhu motioned for the spies to step back first. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"How's that, can we fight or not?" Luo Shizhen asked.

Lin Xingzhu said helplessly: "Let's fight, or the flag people will stare at it." But don't push too hard! If the Ming army hurts, it will definitely not let us go. ”

"Wow!" Luo Shizhen retreated.

After Luo Shizhen went down, he ordered the sailor to attack.

One of the flag men in the water division asked, "Minggou is going upstream, obviously to snatch the Changhu Dam." They don't have many rivers to walk, so why don't they cut them off and let them stop? ”

He Yingyuan said: "My lord, you don't know the hydrological situation, this small river is not only the source of our long lake, and now it is the rainy season that has just passed, and it is the peak season of water, so it is impossible to completely cut off the flow of the river." ”

The flag man nodded: "In that case, let's go and attack Minggou!" Our army can advance by land and water, and block the Ming Dog fleet with water divisions on the river; The two sides of the strait can also be intercepted by land divisions! ”

"Your Excellency is clever!" He Yingyuan praised with his hand.

This small river from the Yangtze River to Changhu Lake is not wide, and the average width is only about 20 zhang. The boats of the Qing army's sailors sailed down the river from the upstream to a section of the river. In this section of the river, which is the narrowest section of the river, only eight zhang wide, the Qing army threw a large number of stones into the water, causing the riverbed to rise and make the water shallower, and at the same time filling sandbags on both banks, making the river even narrower and the current faster.

At the same time, the Qing army also marched downstream along the river and reached this section of the river. The Qing army then threw sandbags and stones into the river to cut off the narrowest part of the river.

"There are Tartars upstream!" Kuroda Masao's pole minecraft approached the Qing line.

A small boat was found coming downstream, and the Qing soldiers on both sides of the river shouted and chased down the riverbank.

"Go back!" Although Kuroda Masao is not afraid of death, he will not be stupid enough to use the strength of his own boat to fight against the hundreds of Qing soldiers rushing out on both sides of the strait. Not to mention anything else, the Qing soldiers can shoot their own ships like hedgehogs when they stand on the shore and shoot arrows. Although the wooden baffle can block the bow and arrow, if the Qing army shoots rockets, there will be more rockets, and the wooden planks covered with wet cowhide will not be able to stop it, and sooner or later it will be ignited.

"Catch up with him! Put rockets! A Qing officer shouted.

More than 300 meritorious Qing soldiers were armed with bows and arrows and chased downstream.

Kuroda Masao picked up a rifled gun, aimed at a Qing soldier a hundred paces away and pulled the trigger, and a "bang" gunshot, a Qing soldier fell on his back. Three other Japanese samurai on the ship also stretched out their muskets from the shooting holes, and three more gunshots rang out, and three Qing soldiers were shot, spurting blood sprays from their bodies.

It's just that the rate of fire of the four rifled guns is too slow, the river is narrow, and the speed of the boat can't be raised. However, most of the arrows fell into the river, and only one was stuck in the boat, and the flames were quickly extinguished.

The Japanese on the boat pedaled desperately, and the pole mineboat retreated downstream.

The Qing troops on both sides of the strait were in hot pursuit, but after chasing them for some distance, they saw a large number of ships appear downstream.

"Let's go! Minggou's fleet is coming! The Qing soldiers didn't dare to continue the pursuit, so they turned around and ran.

The sub-cannon on the "boom boom" boat spewed fire, several shells fell in the crowd of Qing troops, and the solid shells bounced a few times on the river bank, pulling out a few blood lines in the crowd, and smashing over more than a dozen Qing soldiers.

"Send a flag signal, let them come up, we have explored the river in front!" Kuroda shouted.

Downstream, the Ming army's pole mineboats, Marine Corps boats, and the only small steamer went upstream. After sailing a short distance, you can see the Qing army blocking the river ahead.

"Our little steamer rushes ahead! The Tartars can't do anything about our ship! Emperor Hu Dedi ordered.

The Qing soldiers upstream blocked the river, and looking at the dense Ming ships downstream, the Qing army was ready to meet the battle. At this moment, suddenly a Qing soldier shouted: "Look, Minggou's big ship is on fire!" ”

The Qing soldiers looked downstream, and sure enough, they saw that the largest ship in the middle of the Ming fleet was emitting billowing black smoke, which looked like a ship was on fire. Strangely, however, the ship that caught fire became faster and rushed upstream. Before the Qing soldiers could understand, the gun in the bow of the ship spat out a tongue of fire, and a cannonball fell in the crowd of Qing troops.

The high-speed spinning cannonball smashed heavily on a large rock, and the stone shattered, flying everywhere like shrapnel, and the surrounding Qing soldiers fell one by one. Because of the hollow design structure inside the shell, the shell is cast from fragile pig iron, and after hitting the stone, the shell is also shattered, and the iron pieces fly sideways.

The cost of the rifled gun's flowering shells is too high, and it cannot be popularized with the current technology, so only solid shells or hollow shells can be made, but the lethality is already quite amazing.

The ship's guns were hidden in a tin room, under which a trolley with four iron wheels was mounted, and the gunners fired a shot, and the entire gun mount receded on the track inside the tin house, counteracting the recoil. After that, the gunner opened the bolt, cleaned the breech, loaded the shells and packs, closed the upper bolt, turned the muzzle to aim at the target, and then retreated far away, a gunner pulled the fire rope, the muzzle spewed fire again, and the bolt at the tail of the gun also emitted a puff of green smoke.

At present, the technology of pipe withdrawal cannot be realized, and the gun can only be withdrawn, and the problem of air leakage in the gun bolt is still relatively serious. However, this did not affect the accuracy and rate of fire of this gun, and the rate of fire of the rear-loading gun was much faster than that of the front-loading smoothbore gun.

The second shell fell into the crowd of Qing troops, the shell fell on a stone on the shore, the stone broke, the shell shattered, and a large area of Qing soldiers was hit by gravel and pieces of iron, and fell screaming.

"Get up there and kill this boat!" Someone shouted.

The Qing soldiers rushed forward, trying to rush into range, firing with bows and arrows and birds. At this moment, in the superstructure of the ship, tongues of fire spat out of the windows, and ten rifled guns opened fire one after another, knocking down many Qing soldiers. After firing the shots, the ten rifled gunners stepped back, and the ten musketeers behind stepped forward, stretched out their muskets from the window, and fired at both sides.

On both sides of the ship, two three-pounder guns also roared, and the shells drilled into the crowd of Qing troops, pulling out a slender blood line.

Finally, a Qing soldier approached, and the rocket hit the ship like a bird gun projectile raining down, but the rocket hit the hull of the ship and was immediately catapulted into the water; The bird's gun projectile hit the hull of the ship, spewing out sparks.

"There are too many tartars! Pull the whistle! Scare them! Hood shouted.

The ship pulled its whistle, a puff of white smoke came out of the chimney, and the small steamer let out a long whistle that resounded through the sky.