Wen Shude, the pipe band of the Jinou ship, was awakened by the sound of artillery in the morning, and his professional habits kept him from sleeping on the shore, and he immediately let the engine ignite and increase the pressure when he heard the sound of the gun, while he ran out of the cabin and looked around with a telescope, and finally, he saw the continuous artillery fire in the direction of the narrow stream, and also saw the continuous splashing of water on the river because of the shelling. As the flagship of the river patrol fleet, he knew full well that these water columns could not be shot by the 37mm Haqikes five-barreled machine gun.

Since there was already a battle on the river, he was staring at the river, but the narrow stream was too far away, and he could only see the continuous splashing of water, and could not see the details of the gunboat engagement. Stomping his feet vigorously, Wen Shude, who knew that the situation was critical, couldn't help but run to the boiler room in person, and dragged his tube wheel Sun Dollar shouted without a hint of Sven: "Damn, how long will it take to leave the port?" ”

Sun Yuan, a native of Zhenhai, Zhejiang, like Wen Shude, is not on the right path with the Fujian Gang, so he will be squeezed into this garbage mosquito ship that is more than 30 years old and has a displacement of up to 200 tons, he didn't care about Wen Shude's rudeness, and even more so about the shelling outside, and saw Wen Shude just said quietly: "At least twenty minutes." ”

"Twenty minutes is too late!" Thinking of the constantly splashing water column on the other side of the narrow stream, Wen Shude shouted.

"It's too late, it's too late, and the revolutionary party doesn't kill people indiscriminately." Sun Yuanyuan is a native of Zhejiang, and he is a marginal figure in the navy, and he has no ill feelings towards the revolutionary party, but still likes it a little.

He is not in a hurry, Wen Shude is in a hurry, unlike Sun Yuan, he is an elite sailor who has just returned from the Greenwich Naval University in the United Kingdom, and it is the turn of the Manchu Qing Dynasty to expand the navy. Although he is now being squeezed out of this garbage ship by the Fujian Gang, he is still a pipe band no matter how he says it, it will take time. The future is limitless. When he heard that Sun Yuan said that it would take twenty minutes, he calmed down, looked at Sun Yuan and said, "You must leave the port in ten minutes, otherwise the military law will deal with it!" ”

There are not many stunned young people like Wen Shude in the navy, although Sun Yuan is just a small pipe band, he is also well-informed about the things in the sailor, and he operates according to the regulations. Even if it is dealt with by military law, it is at most dismissal, hehe, dismissal is exactly what he wants. With the kung fu in his hands, he went to the Tiantong freight company run by his fellow villagers, and it was twenty or thirty taels a month. Although he is no longer in the navy, he really has nothing to worry about in this smoky place. "Pipe band, sama. Ten minutes to leave the port. You can go to the shore and find a few pennies right now and see if you can hold the boat out. ”

"You!" Sun Dollar's ridicule only made Wen Shude look at each other angrily, and after the two looked at each other instantly, he was defeated, now is the time to rely on the pipe wheel, if he really kills him, then the ship will never get out, Wen Shude finally glared at Sun Dollar fiercely, and scolded in his heart: Look at how Lao Tzu will clean you up after this battle.

I don't know how long I spent my days and stood outside again. Only when there was no water column on the other side of the narrow stream, the Jinou ship finally moved. Wen Shude looked at his watch, at 6:23, he was a little grateful to Sun Yuanzhi in his heart, at least this guy who didn't eat hard and soft still got the ship out of port in advance within the standard time.

Wen Shude finally looked at the appearance of the enemy ship after the Golden Ou ship left the port, and the golden Ou ship was full of rust, the enemy ship was covered with gray iron armor, and the body of more than 300 tons had a field of more than 30 meters, more than six meters wide, and the slender hull was very similar to the shallow gunboat being built by the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau in Shanghai. The artillery saw two, but the barrel was extremely short, not quite like a naval gun, the most amazing thing was that the chimney of the ship was low, and what came out was not thick black smoke, but a faint smoke, Wen Shude couldn't understand it, is this ship burning oil? Wen Shude thought about it, and the enemy ship had also discovered the Jinou ship at this time, and the short barrel seemed to be right.

"My lord, let's withdraw." Chen Qingyin, the gunner, ran over and said hurriedly, he knew what was going on with the Jinou ship, and the other party's cannon was not something that his 37mmd machine gun could deal with.

"If you withdraw from the Sixth Town, there will be no way out." Wen Shude was also struggling with whether to withdraw or not to withdraw at this time, if he withdrew, he would have an uneasy conscience as he was from Shandong.

"My lord, the Jiang Yuan ship is on the other side of Hangzhou, it will be useless for me to wait here to fight to the death, if I go in the past, at least let the Jiang Yuan ship come to the rescue." Chen Qingyin was in a cold sweat on his head, what he said sounded good, and he only thought about running for his life in his heart, there was no way out for the Jinou ship to escape from the Sixth Town, but was he, a Fujianese, very familiar with the Sixth Town, which was full of northern Yankees? Two days ago, they were beaten by them for robbing the woman and brother in the kiln, and now in this situation, don't say that it really can't be saved, even if he can save him, he has to stand by for a while.

"Okay!" Seeing the two enemy ships getting closer and closer, Wen Shude finally waved weakly after several hesitations: "Go to Hangzhou!" ”

As soon as he said this, Chen Qingyin suddenly let out a long breath, and immediately let the driver turn around, and went down the river with full horsepower. At this time, the two wooden-hulled boats of the river patrol fleet also came out, and they knew each other very well, so they didn't look at the narrow stream at all, and went directly downstream as soon as they left the port. These three ships were not in good hands, but they escaped quickly, and even though the speed of the diesel engine ships was extremely fast, they were still allowed to run away from a distance of more than 10 kilometers.

The first time to do the pipe belt, the first time to escape, Wen Shude fidgeted in the cockpit, but Chen Qingyin, who had already escaped the catastrophe, was very relaxed, and said as a person who came over: "If you can fight, you can fight, if you can't fight, run, this is not too common, say Dali said, it is important to protect the ship, and to Xiaoli, it is important to save your life." My lord, you are still a newcomer, you don't know the rules of the water division, and among the deserters of the water division, Fang Bolian was beheaded, how can there be anyone else who lost his head? ”

Wen Shude had some regrets about escaping, but now that he was taught the rules by Chen Qingyin, he was suddenly irritable in his heart, and only shouted: "Don't talk nonsense!" It's important to go to Hangzhou to find helpers. ”

Wen Shude said, "Don't talk nonsense!" It only startled Chen Qingyin, he originally thought that this northern guy still had some knowledge of current affairs, but now he found out that he was wrong, and when he heard him say that he was going to find a rescuer, he suddenly held a grudge in his heart. A northern guy dares to speak loudly in the sailor, that is, he is tired of being alive, and he didn't inquire about how Liu Buyun got the foreign hairy admiral away in Beiyang back then. Chen Qingyin secretly hated it in his heart, but on the surface, he didn't argue with it. Instead, he stayed aside, just meditating in his heart that if he was to be held accountable for escaping this time, then the northern guy in front of him would be unlucky. And himself, even if he bites back, he is not afraid, he will pull a random person out of the ship, not a brother or a fellow countryman, what are you afraid of!

The Golden Ou ship rushed down, and the ship was moving at a high speed. The wooden-hulled ship did not leave when it arrived at Fuyang City, and only the Jinou ship went down the river. Wen Shude was uneasy, but he didn't expect God to open his eyes and didn't wait for Hangzhou. Only met Jiang Yuanjian at the mouth of the Qiantang River, and after the flag was played, Wen Shude, who was restless, leaned over the boat again, and then passed by on a sampan.

"Brother Qianjin. Revolutionary gunboats were spotted at the entrance of the field. Two of our wooden-hulled ships have been sunk, and now the revolutionary party is besieging the sixth town at the entrance of the field, and the shape is extremely critical, and I also ask Brother Qianjin to reinforce quickly. As soon as Wen Shude was in a hurry, the Shandong dialect came out, only to hear Rao Huaiwen, the Jiang Yuan ship's pipe, and Rao Huaiwen was harsh. He was in a hurry, but Rao Huaiwen must not be in a hurry, he was still in the afterglow of the big smoke just now. I just looked at him and smiled with some disdain: "Why should Zipei be in a hurry." Even if the revolutionary party called for 10,000 or 20,000 people, they were not vegetarians, besides. Where did the revolutionaries get their gunboats, aren't they all wooden ships and wooden cannons? ”

The mortars of the revolutionary army have always been considered by the Qing army to be wooden cannons, seeing that they are called so, Yang Rui, who is not afraid of trouble and only wants to hide, ordered all mortars to be pasted with a layer of wood, and ordered that half of the cannon will not be allowed to be captured by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, so it is even more solid the name of wooden cannons. Although Wen Shude was new to the battle, he still guessed that the caliber of the gunboat's cannon was between two inches and three inches, and he saw that Rao Huaiwen was unmoved, so he only pulled Chen Qingyin beside him and said: "Brother Qianjin, what I said is true, if the reinforcement is over, the situation will be out of control." Brother Chen, you can also tell me, does the revolutionary party's gunboat have cannons? ”

Chen Qingyin had already held a grudge, and he couldn't shirk it, so he had to say a Hokkien dialect to Rao Huaiwen, Wen Shude understands Japanese and English, but he doesn't understand the Hokkien dialect that is necessary for the navy at all, and he can only hear them chatter for a while, Rao Huaiwen's face sank with a humble smile, and he only stood up and said, "Someone's coming...... Arrest this coward who escaped from the battle! ”

As soon as Rao Huaiwen said this, Wen Shude only felt a thunderbolt above his head, and when he was stiff and didn't know how to justify, the sailors outside the door came over, and he hurriedly said: "Brother Qianjin, Brother Qianjin, listen to me......"

"My sailor has never escaped like you," Rao Huaiwen said in an official tone, to be honest, he had long been dissatisfied with this Wen Shude, who had eaten foreign ink, and he had learned the strange style from foreigners, and he only felt that the Great Qing Shui Master was the Great British Naval Master, and he was dissatisfied for a while. What is this? The Great Qingshui Division was the world of the Min people more than ten years ago, and it will definitely be the world of the Min people more than ten years later.

"Brother Zhen Jin......" Wen Shude's tears were about to come out, and while being held by the sailors, he looked at Chen Qingyin again, but he didn't want this person to be completely irrelevant to me, and there was a trace of contempt in his expression, and he suddenly understood that it was his ghost, so Wen Shude let go and shouted: "Chen Qingyin, if I am cut down, you will not be much better......

Wen Shude shouted while being dragged down by the sailors, and only when he was far away did Rao Huaiwen ask, "What's going on over there?" ”

"It's true that the revolutionary party has come over there, but it's not as strict as the one surnamed Wen said." Chen Qingyin has been thinking about fleeing for his life, and it can be seen that there are few revolutionaries, "There are two ironclad gunboats, both of which are equipped with three-inch land guns, and the firing range is short, but it is not something that our machine guns can beat." ”

"Oh, the cannon that the revolutionaries brought? Where did the iron armor come from? Rao Huaiwen was surprised for a while, "This is the sun coming out of the west." ”

"It's not that the army lost it, the iron armor guess is also a pig iron plate, I don't believe they can conjure steel armor." Chen Qingyin was very dismissive of the revolutionary party's gunboats, he didn't want to talk about the revolutionary party anymore, and only asked: "Big brother, what to do with the surname Wen?" ”

"What else can I do," Rao Huaiwen's face sank again, "It's good to do anything in the water division, just don't delay the brothers to make money, the last time I transported tobacco and soil, I suspect that it was anonymously reported by the surnamed Wen." If he doesn't get rid of it, it will be bad in the future. ”

Although the salary of the sailor is on par with that of the British, no matter how much money there is, it is not well spent, so it is common for ships to smuggle some tobacco while they are cruising. However, the adults above also have a part, and he has offended all the pipe belts.

"Brother Qianjin. What about that side? I'd better go. Chen Qingyin and Wen Shude don't have much friendship, but he is still worried that something big will happen at the entrance of the field.

"To go is to go." Rao Huaiwen was not in a hurry, he only took out the enamel gold watch tied to the silver chain on his chest, and looked at the time to know that it was only a quarter past nine o'clock, "I'll go down later." If something doesn't happen in the sixth town, can Wen Shude be strict? ”

Chen Qingyin saw that he was so old and spicy, and he was convinced in his heart. I was about to say a few kind words and pat myself on the back, but I didn't want the sailors outside to shout, "The prisoner has escaped." The prisoner has escaped......"

The two hurriedly looked outside, only to see Wen Shude, who was drenched in water, lying on the sampan, and was already about to arrive at the Golden Ou ship, Chen Qingyin was shocked. "Not good. The one surnamed Wen is going to run, catch him. ”

"What's the panic?" Rao Huaiwen looked at Wen Shude, who had already climbed to the Golden Ou ship with great interest, "Let's see what he wants to do first." ”

Wen Shude was locked in the cabin by the sailors, and he was unwilling to defeat the sailors and ran out, he only thought about dying on the battlefield in his heart, and as soon as he got on the ship, he let the Jinou ship speed up to the entrance of the field. Seeing that the Jinou ship was actually returning upstream, Rao Huaiwen was a little surprised, he thought that Wen Shude was going to Hangzhou to complain. At this time, seeing him going up alone, I felt that this person couldn't stay under admiration. Such a stubborn and death-defying person can't get rich with everyone with one heart and one mind, so he must resolutely do it!

"Let him go. Let's go up with it. Looking at Liang Weihuang, the first mate who was standing aside waiting for his artillery order, Rao Huaiwen said in Hokkien dialect. As soon as he said that he would follow the Jinou ship, Chen Qingyin was surprised, but Rao Huaiwen added: "Follow from a distance, don't fire a cannon, and see how the surname Wen dies." ”

"Big brother, but the brother on the ship?" It's good to borrow a knife to kill people, and he doesn't get his hands dirty, but Chen Qingyin thinks about his brother on the ship.

"They're not going to jump ship, are they?" Rao Huaiwen touched his beard and was very disapproving, "Besides, this Wen Shude will be promoted to the pipe of Jiang Heng's ship immediately, and he will be on an equal footing with me when the time comes, and it will not be so easy to get rid of him." ”

Jiang Yuan, Jiang Heng, and Jiang Li Jiang Zhen are all shallow water gunboats built by the Japanese Kawasaki for the Chinese; Jiang Yuan was built last year, Jiang Heng is the second, and it can be built and shipped to China this year. In the context of the expansion of the navy, Wen Shude, the students who have stayed abroad, are still very valued by the Minister of the Navy, and students like Rao Huaiwen who came out of the country's sailor academy will naturally be pressed by them, thinking that this northern guy who does not understand the rules will be on his head in a few years, Rao Huaiwen is very uncomfortable.

On the Qiantang River, the Jinou ship is in front, the Jiang Yuan ship is behind, and the two ships are in a hurry to the field, but the speed of the Jinou ship is only seven knots, and the Jiang Yuan ship can reach up to thirteen knots, but Jiang Yuan is behind the Jin Ou ship, and he follows far away without hurry. Wen Shude looked ahead and then at the back, not understanding what Rao Huaiwen, the old horseman, was going to do, but he didn't have any thoughts about what he was thinking about now, he just hoped to arrive earlier.

Li Chengyuan didn't know anything about the things on the river, he was not on the top of the mountain at this time, and captured more than 30 guns of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, most of which were immediately usable, and now these artillery pieces were pulled to the periphery of the field, and when the gunners were not enough, the observation point was cut and a group was removed, even if it was this group, the target was to visit the Fuchun River, and they only waited for the gunboats reinforced by the Qing army to come up. At this time, the artillery was arranged behind the ridge line of the hill facing the Fuchun River, and the gunboats of the Qing army in this position could not be hit.

"It's almost time, are you done?" Li Chengyuan asked Chen Dashan, who was stunned with a telescope beside him, and blamed him a little for not doing his business, for example, now, it is not something that a deputy commander of an artillery regiment should do if he is bent on holding a telescope to watch the excitement.

"Battalion...... Regiment commander, how do these infantry fight, I can't even turn my brain. Seeing Li Chengyuan ask, Chen Dashan was reluctant to put down the telescope, but the topic was still not far from what he had just seen.

"Psychological warfare, isn't it all like this?" Li Chengyuan had already known that the political department had come up with this set of things, and he was not surprised, he looked at Chen Dashan, who was still a little stunned, and pushed him hard, and said: "Go and check the artillery array, the Manchu gunboats are about to come up, and if we fight well, maybe we can capture one or two gunboats." ”

The head of the regiment spoke, and Chen Dashan had no choice but to go. At this time, the north wind blew, and only the radio sound from the other side of the mountain was heard: "...... Brethren of the Patrol. I am Zhang Gong, commander of the Second Brigade of the Revolutionary Army. They are all from Zhejiang, what kind of war are they fighting in their hometowns, and now I have ordered the gunboats to open the port. so that you can evacuate. However, time is limited, and in half an hour, our army will open fire, and the brothers who have not left by then will have to ask you to be prisoners.

…… Brothers, why should you die with the Tartars, and think of how much your monthly wages are. How much do they pay per month, and is it worth it? If you have three long and two short, what will happen to the family? Don't plant the land? Don't raise a home? Wife and children don't want you to hurt? You are not afraid of your wife remarrying. Parents and sons begging for food? In a hurry, either evacuate here immediately, or disarm and surrender, and the revolutionary army will give preferential treatment to the prisoners. Those who do not want to participate in the revolution. All pay for the passage home......"

Zhang Gong's broadcasts continued one after another, only saying that his mouth was dry, if it wasn't for the political commissar saying that it was so effective, he really wanted to carry a gun and wipe out all these Qing troops. He was tired of shouting here, and all the adults in the sixth town looked at each other, although Zhang Gong's words were in Zhejiang dialect, but under the interpretation of the translator, the adults still knew the meaning of the words. So everyone sighed how vicious this revolutionary party was, and knew that the soldiers of the sixth town were all northerners. will not listen to their nonsense, but only agitate the patrol. Those patrol teams are all Zhejiang natives, and now as soon as the revolutionary party says to let go of the port, then they will all rush to the dock to grab the ship, and as soon as the patrol team moves, the soldiers in the sixth town who are not strong will will also move, so that the military morale that has been finally stabilized will be chaotic again.

"Handsome?" Chief of Staff Jin Yunpeng also had nothing to do, who would have thought that the revolutionary party would come up with this trick.

"Go, take another battalion to the dock, if there is a non-stop order, deliberately disturbing the morale of the army, it will be killed!" Zhao Guoxian had already guessed that the revolutionary party would let go of the port, but it was so widely advertised, and it also instigated the patrol team to discord with the sixth town, but he did not expect it.

"Yes, Dashuai!" Jin Yunpeng replied, and when he wanted to get up, he said again: "Handsome...... This...... The adults should go to Fuyang first to strategize, and just guard here. ”

When Zhao Guoxian heard him say this, he glanced at him meaningfully and said, "The old man is staying here, and he won't go there." But you, you don't want to cross the river, right? ”

Jin Yunpeng was shocked, hurriedly knelt on the ground, and said: "The marshal, the humble post has no such intention, the humble post only thinks that the safety of the marshal is a major matter in the army, if the marshal is safe, then we will be much more relieved to fight." ”

As soon as Jin Yunpeng said this, Lu Jianzhang, Li Chun and others next to him said the same, only the Japanese Aoki Xuanchun said to his apprentice Sakanishi Rihachiro: "See, the people of China are so hypocritical and afraid of death, except for Zhao Guoxian, everyone else wants to leave here." The revolutionary army encircled three and lacked one, just to let the Qing army cause chaos on its own, and then go down with one blow. ”

"But what if Sixth Town doesn't retreat?" Rihachiro Sakanishi asked, he was also a consultant invited by Yuan Shikai with a high salary earlier, and this time he came to observe the combat strength of the Beiyang Army.

"An army without the spirit of bushido may unite in the face of despair, but in the face of livelihood, it will collapse. They only fight for money, only for officials, and even if such troops have advanced weapons, their combat effectiveness is very fragile. "I didn't see the last time Beiyang defeated Aoki Xuanjun, but this time he was there. I only feel that the generals of China do not understand war, and the soldiers of China have no faith. If the generals of China understood the war, then when they heard the fierce cannon sound of Narrow Creek, they should immediately send reinforcements and quickly occupy Tianzhong Mountain in the north to keep a land retreat, but Zhao Guoxian only sent people out to inquire about the news, and then waited for the news from the front, which was unwise; And the soldiers of China, in terms of will to fight is no different from more than ten years ago, if it is a soldier of the empire, even if he does not die in battle, he will have a complete weapon when he retires, but the soldiers of China, many people do not even have weapons when they retire, this is not believed. The generals are not wise, the soldiers do not believe, how can this win the war?

Hearing that the teacher looked down on the Beiyang Army, Rihachiro Sakanishi asked again: "What about the Revolutionary Army?" Can they say that they will be wise soldiers? ”

Sakanishi happened to ask Aoki what he thought, and he smiled: "That's why we're here, and I can only draw conclusions if I look at these revolutionary troops up close." (To be continued......)