Don't look at Wu Jun's improvised warships are "disposable" warships made of undried wood, which will disintegrate into a pile of waste planks due to the deformation of wood after being used in the water a few times, but these emergency supplies are not bad at all in water warfare. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Wu Army's simple warship, is powered by two kinds of power, the water depth is rowed with oars, 28 people paddle, shallow places with pennies to support the boat, as long as eight people hold the penny, you can walk on the water surface like flying. In shallow waters, the oarsman can also shoot his opponent with a bow and arrow or a bird's gun. This type of ship had a Franc cannon in the bow and a Franc cannon in the stern, and the ship was extremely fast and quite agile.

The Qing army's sand ships were much larger than the Wu army's simple warships, and the number of guns on board was much larger, but the hull was bloated and clumsy, and the sailing speed was slow.

The speed of the improvised warship was like flying, the bow of the ship was aimed at the Qing army's sand boat, and a cannonball whistled out and smashed on the Qing army's sand boat, and immediately the wooden planks were broken and sawdust flew sideways, and many Qing soldiers on the ship were killed and wounded. However, the sand boats of the Qing army aimed at the improvised warships of the Wu army and opened fire, but they found that the speed of the improvised warships of the Wu army was too fast, and the accuracy of the smoothbore guns was not high, and the effect of dealing with high-speed targets was even worse.

"Boom, boom, boom" The cannon roared on the river, and the improvised warships of the Wu army opened fire one after another. Although the accuracy of the Franc cannon is not high, it is accurate to attack the huge and bulky sand ship at close range.

With the help of the cover of improvised warships, Wu's bamboo platoon rushed out at high speed. The bamboo raft with a baffle in front can block the feather arrows and bird gun projectiles on the big ships of the Qing army, and the Qing army's Franc machine gun is difficult to hit the small and fast bamboo row. The artillery shells fired by the Qing army continued to fall in the turbid river, raising columns of water that soared into the sky.

In the blink of an eye, a bamboo platoon rushed to a sand boat of the Qing army. Arrows and projectiles rained down on the Qing army's big boat, and there were many casualties on the bamboo raft. However, after this bamboo row collided with the Qing army's big ship, the Wu army daredevils on the bamboo row lit the mines, and then violently supported the penny, and the bamboo row quickly left.

"Boom" A column of water rose from the side of the Qing army's sand boat, and the sand boat was immediately blown into two pieces and began to sink into the water.

The Wu army's improvised warships and bamboo rows were like a pack of bloodthirsty wolves, tearing at the stupid sand boats of the Qing army. Although the Qing army's sand ships were huge, they were beaten to the point where they could only parry, and they had no power to fight back. Under the onslaught of the Wu army's improvised warships and bamboo platoons, the Qing army's sand boats caught fire one after another and slowly sank into the water.

Several small sampans of the Qing army approached one of the improvised warships of the Wu army, after all, the improvised warships had a Franc cannon at the bow and stern, which was difficult to deal with the small boats approaching from the side, and the small sampans of the Qing army were also very fast.

"Shoot the arrows!" The sailors of the Wu army on the improvised warship shot rows of random arrows, and blood splattered on the two small sampans, and many Qing soldiers fell from the arrows. However, the feather arrows still could not completely block the approach of the Qing army's small sampan, and some people on the Qing army's small sampan used wooden cards to block the arrows that were fired, and the Qing soldiers rowing hard rowed hard, getting closer and closer to the Wu army's improvised warship.

Just when the small sampan of the Qing army threw out a claw hook and grabbed the simple warship of the Wu army, several iron bumps with green smoke suddenly fell on the ship and landed in the small sampan of the Qing army.

The fire on the small sampan flashed, and the falling grenades exploded violently, and the stumps and broken arms and waves of blood flew all over the sky.

Eight of the thirteen sand boats, the main warships of the Qing army, have been sunk, and the remaining five sand boats are still firing fiercely, and from time to time shells hit the rafts of the Wu army. These wooden rafts, which looked like cages, could block feather arrows and bullets, but when they were hit by cannonballs, the wooden fence immediately shattered, and the Wu sailors on the raft suffered heavy casualties.

At the time when the five remaining sand boats of the Qing army were resisting stubbornly, the improvised warships of the Wu army with bamboo rows were outflanked from all directions, and more than ten improvised fast boats of the Wu army surrounded the sand boats of the Qing army, and the Franc machine guns on the bow and stern bombarded in turn, breaking the planks of the sand boats of the Qing army, and the Qing soldiers on the ships suffered heavy casualties.

The bamboo platoon, which was on the task of mine boats, took the opportunity to rush up and sank two more sand boats in succession.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of their own improvised clippers to entangle the Qing army's sand boats, the Wu army's two rafts approached a sand boat, and the Wu soldiers on the raft jumped onto the Qing army's sand boats, brandished axes and machetes, and launched a fierce hand-to-hand combat with the Qing soldiers on the sand boats. After a while, the sand boat fell into the hands of Wu Jun.

The last two Qing sand boats were besieged by more than a dozen warships and more than 20 bamboo rows of the Wu army, and they were also sunk into the water.

After all the main warships of the Qing army were destroyed, the clippers and rafts of the Wu army launched a final encirclement and suppression of the small sampans of the Qing army on the river. The raft knocked over the small sampan of the Qing army, or jumped on the small sampan of the Qing army in hand-to-hand combat. Wu's fast boats shot with bows and arrows and bird guns from a distance, and when they got closer, they exploded with grenades, sinking the small sampans of the Qing army to the bottom of the river one by one.

"Water overcomes! General Lin has made a great contribution! Now is the time for our land division to cross the river! Wu Sangui gave the order.

A large number of Wu soldiers gathered by the river, and from the upstream of the Huanshui River, countless rafts appeared, and the rafts that appeared this time were all ordinary rafts, without wooden fence protection. Sergeant Wu stood on the raft, propped up the raft, and drove downstream. The raft of the Wu army arrived at the place of crossing the river and stopped at the river.

"Prepare to erect a pontoon bridge!" Wu Sangui's personal soldiers gave the order.

Countless rafts stopped, the raft closest to the shore was attached to the riverbank, and the soldiers on the raft jumped off the raft. At the same time, the soldiers on the shore laid wooden stakes by the river, and then someone used thick hemp rope to connect the raft with the wooden stakes on the shore to fix the raft.

The rafts behind arrived one after another, one after another connected head to tail, and the Wu army on the raft was busy, connecting the rafts together with ropes. Soon, a pontoon bridge stretched from the south bank of the Yellow River to the north bank.

"Beware of the Tartars hitting them halfway! Prepare to suppress the Tartar artillery on the opposite bank! "Prime Minister Xia sent an order.

Wu Jun set up a new type of field artillery on the river bank that he had bought at a high price from the Nanyang Company, and the muzzle of the black hole was aimed at the opposite bank. These new twelve-pounder field guns had a range of up to three miles, enough to hit from the south bank of the Yellow River to the north bank. The Wu gunners hurriedly loaded the shells and prepared for the launch.

"Fire!" With Xia Guoxiang's loud roar, six twelve-pounder field guns erupted fire, and the shells smashed towards the Qing artillery positions on the opposite bank.

At the same time that the artillery of the Wu Army's land division opened artillery bombardment on the opposite bank, the Wu army's improvised warships also opened artillery bombardment on the Qing army on the shore. Although the Franc cannon on the improvised warship had a short firing range, the improvised warship was fast, and it was difficult for the Qing army's shore artillery to hit the improvised warship, while the artillery on the warship could bombard the Qing soldiers on the shore.

The artillery of the land division on the shore of the "boom" Qing army also opened fire and counterattacked, and the shells fell in the river, raising columns of water that rushed to the sky. One of the shells hit the pontoon, smashing a large hole in the deck.