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The actions of a team of men and horses in Mengyun Mountain were not inconsiderate, but in the night, after all, something was missed, and one or two defenders fled back.

After receiving the report, Yang Yi immediately made a decision, and ordered the supply ship of 2,000 materials to stay at sea in the middle of the night, and the warship of 1,000 materials sailed into the complicated and dangerous Bangka Strait overnight;

The Bangka Strait is about 400 miles long and 30 miles wide, but fortunately, the mouth of the Moxi River is not far from the western end of the Bangka Strait.

After entering the Bangka Strait from the western end, he sailed a short distance to the mouth of the Moxi River, but despite this, Yang Yi still paid the price of a ship that ran aground and was damaged, and a ship that ran aground.

When the morning sun rises, the fleet has traveled nearly half the distance along the Moxi River, and the area from the mouth of the Moxi River to the capital city of Bolimbang (Palembang City) is mostly plain, covered with dense forests, and the area of swamps and lakes accounts for about 30%, and the water system is extremely developed.

The dwellings on both sides of the river are also very distinctive, most of them are on the raft with wooden frames, laid with wooden planks, the roof is covered with thatch, tied to the shore with pile cables, the raft floats when the water is long, there is no need to worry about the house being flooded, if you want to live elsewhere, then the pile is moved with the house, and it can be said that it is a real water-chasing residence, and the people go in and out by boat.

Therefore, both military and civilian forces in this area are extremely good at water warfare, and Yang Yi did not dare to take it lightly, and issued a first-level combat readiness to the fleet.

The fleet went all the way, and the men and women of the Three Buddhas were all combed in buns, wearing cotton and linen short shirts, and tied Dongchong cloth. Some rowed boats close to watch, while others were too frightened to stay away.

The fleet was still twenty miles away from Bolinbang, the capital of Srivijaya Qi, and suddenly saw a fleet of ships with black pressure coming downstream, and the largest ships were only two or three hundred materials. The remainder were mostly small boats, but numbered in the hundreds. Due to the distance, it is impossible to see the situation on the other side's ship with the naked eye.

Yang Yi took out a monocular. This thing was made by the Yang Academy of Sciences as early as a year ago, and now the captain of each ship has one, which is no longer a rare thing.

Through the binoculars, you can see the flags waving on the ship, the crowds are crowded, the swords and guns reflect the cold light, and the rumbling war drums are heard in the ears at the same time.

Things have come to this point, Yang Yi is not doing anything, and he is endless. The battle order was immediately issued, and the specific command was handed over to Le Tao.

Le Tao is twenty-eight years old, tall and fierce, with a resolute face, he has performed the most well in all previous naval battle training, which is also the main reason why Yang Yi asked him to lead the team to the south.

After getting Yang Yi's authorization, he immediately shouted to the heralds: "Order, order all ships to prepare strong horses and rockets." Prevent the enemy's small boats from wolf pack tactics, and also prepare cluster grenades, if the enemy sets fire to attack, use cluster grenades to quickly sink the fireboat. ”

"Whoa!"

"Order the gunboats in front to test fire one round with solid shells."

"Whoa!"

The herald is in the language of the flag. Le Tao's orders were constantly conveyed to the ships, and the gunboats in front received the order and immediately stuffed solid shells into the front main gun barrels. Light the fuse.

"Boom!" There was a loud bang, and the bow of the ship fell. A cannonball whizzes away, and a never-before-seen water battle begins.

The solid bomb flew almost five miles. smashed into a small boat, the boat was suddenly torn apart, sawdust flew, and the dozen or so soldiers on the boat all became water dogs, one of them was smashed into rotten flesh on the spot, and the rest were also injured to varying degrees, and the blood immediately stained the water near the boat.

The soldiers of the Three Buddhas around saw that they all changed their colors, at such a distance, even people didn't see clearly, the other party's shells had destroyed one of their own boats, how could such a battle be fought? The unprepared Sriwijaya soldiers couldn't help but feel timid.

The face of Bu Shaoluo, the general of the Three Buddhas who was in charge of commanding the battle, also changed instantly, because he had heard of the power of artillery, it is said that when the Great Song Dynasty conquered Jiaozhi, he had used artillery, and six artillery ships bombarded in a burst, and more than half of the 10,000 troops in Jiaozhi were killed and wounded, and they were defeated, and finally even the capital city of Shenglong City was bombed down.

Bu Shaoluo was full of confidence when he came, and he also issued a military order to Pu Ying to annihilate the invaders, but he never dreamed that he would encounter the most terrible artillery.

"Stop moving, stop moving forward." Bu Shaoluo immediately gave a loud order, and after receiving the order, the fleet of Sriwijaya stopped advancing.

Bu Shaoluo looked at the huge ships that were going upstream, and he had planned to take a broadside battle and capture them as much as possible, because even the smallest ships of the other side were three or four times larger than the largest ships of Sriwijaya.

Sriwijaya's current shipbuilding capacity can build up to two or three hundred ships. If the enemy's more than 30 large ships can be captured, it will be of great use to Srivijaya.

But now the enemy ships were equipped with terrible artillery, forcing Bushaolo to give an extremely painful order: set the ship on fire.

Dozens of small boats were filled with dry firewood, saltpeter, sulfur and other flammable materials, held in pairs with long iron chains, and then rowed down the river by two soldiers each.

Yang Yi saw it with a telescope, and reminded Le Tao with a smile: "Be careful, the other party's is going to set fire to the boat, this fire boat will go down the river, and the speed will be very fast." ”

Le Tao replied confidently: "Captain don't worry, the last general has already taken precautions." ”

Under the command of Le Tao's banner, the two gunboats in front slowly crossed over, facing the upstream river with their side sides.

The fireships that Bu Shaoluo laid down were all small boats, and if they were ignited too early, his own boats would be burned before they could drift among the enemy ships. Therefore, the fireboat usually has to wait for the two sides to be close to each other for about a mile before igniting the flammable materials on the ship.

However, the boats had only come two miles near, and the gunboats on this side immediately roared again, this time not with solid bullets, but with scattered bullets the size of grapes;

The two ships fired four guns at once, and countless iron balls with the whistling sound of death smashed all over the world, and after the first cannon was fired, the gunner immediately pulled out the sub-gun and quickly replaced it with another sub-gun loaded with ammunition, this kind of cannon designed by the sub-gun can increase the rate of fire several times, and an average of less than 20 seconds can fire a cannon.

The Sriwijaya soldiers on the small boat had just experienced a baptism of death, and the survivors had no time to react, the second cannon came again, and the whistling iron beads flew like raindrops, and the middle one was suddenly blurred with flesh and blood, and the death was extremely miserable, after several rounds of shelling, none of the dozens of small boats had time to ignite the flammable materials on the ship, and the soldiers who drove the boat were basically dead.

When Bu Shaoluo came out, he made a military order to Pu Ying, so far there was no way back, Bolin State was built on both sides of the Moxi River, if the enemy's gunboats sailed to Bolin State, the capital was afraid that it would not be protected.

In view of this, although the first round of fire attack failed, Bu Shaoluo gritted his teeth and issued the order for a general attack. Hundreds of ships, large and small, flew down to the rumbling drums of war.

Bu Shaoluo figured out that even if his hundreds of ships were lost, as long as he achieved victory, even if he could capture half of the enemy's warships, it would be a huge victory for Sriwijaya.

Due to the limited width of the river, Yang Jiajun's artillery ships could only fire two guns horizontally, and there were two more former main guns behind them.

The roaring sound of artillery was earth-shattering, and the whole face was filled with gunsmoke, and the tongue of fire was spewing non-stop. Scattershots do little damage to the hull, but the damage to the crew is staggering;

The srivijaya soldiers were killed and wounded very badly, and although these marbles could not open the hull, they were enough to blast the soldiers' heads open, making your brains splash and your flesh flying.

Downstream, the flames continued to erupt and rumble, as if there was no stop, the Srivijaya soldiers had never experienced such a terrible battle, and the river was soon filled with corpses, and the red blood stained the entire river red.

Many people were so frightened that they jumped into the water to escape, but they soon discovered that jumping into the water did not make them much less dangerous, and the threat of death followed them.

Some of the soldiers on the ship simply hid in the cabin and let the ship drift down the river, which still had some effect, because it was difficult for the shotgun to hit the thick deck, and it was relatively safe to hide in the cabin.

When the enemy ships entered a distance of one mile, Le Tao ordered the gunboats in front of him to retreat quickly, and the other battleships were on top, these gunboats were too precious for him to risk allowing the gunboats to engage in close combat.

After Bu Shaoluo found that the sound of the cannon stopped, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, personally beat the drums, and commanded the soldiers who survived the disaster to fight, and he ordered people to set fire to dozens of small boats, and the burning fire boats drifted down the river, and his large and small ships followed these fire boats, and the big ships of the Yang family army were entangled in the fire boats, and immediately besieged them from all sides.

At the same time, on the big ship of the Yang family's army, there was another sound of gunfire, and most of the 500 flintlock muskets brought this time were on the several battleships in front, and they were condescending, constantly shooting, and the whistling bullets continued to harvest the lives of the Sriwijaya soldiers, so that the Sriwijaya soldiers hid in the cabin again.

One mile away, the fireship was quickly approaching, and Yang Jiajun had experienced this kind of simulated battle many times, busy but not chaotic, with flintlock pistols and strong horses constantly shooting.

At this point, the Yang army had the advantage in terms of weapons, and the Yang army's flintlock pistols and strong swords could shoot at the enemy's ships, but the enemy's bows and arrows had not yet entered the range;

As soon as an enemy ship was ignited by a rocket, the flintlock gunners focused on shooting the soldiers on the burning ship to prevent them from putting out the fire.

In this case, Bushaoluo's side suffered extremely heavy losses, and before they could enter the firing range, twenty or thirty ships of their own side had already been ignited, and together with the dozens of fireboats in front, the raging fire almost cut off the entire river.

Although the losses were heavy, Bu Shaoluo was also secretly happy, because so many fireships kept going down the river, and sooner or later they would collide with the enemy's huge ships, and at that time, it would be the enemy's turn to cry.

One hundred zhang, fifty zhang, thirty zhang, the fireship is getting closer and closer to the giant ship of the Yang family's army, closer, closer, looking at the raging flames, Bu Shaoluo seems to see the dawn of victory

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