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Chapter 178 Iron Armor Invincible (Third update, please subscribe)
Rampage!

Without even needing to fire a cannon, the "Taiping" that rushed past Jiaoshan went on a rampage all the way, using a strong steel ram, and directly hit the fast crabs, long dragons, and sampans of the Hunan Army Navy. The targets are also small and fast like flying, sampans, and fast crabs, which completely become targets in front of the steamboat. The thin hull of the steamship will break when hit, so that Xiangyong on the boat can't even dodge in a hurry. The man led the boat and sank into the river.It can be said that it is invincible along the way.

On the third day of June, the "Taiping", which was traveling at high speed, finally arrived at Mufu Mountain. At this time, the navy led by Peng Xueshuai was mooring at the mouth of Jinling Moat, and Zeng Tietong had already built a camp at Yuhuatai.Although they had learned that Li Ni led troops to reinforce Jiangning, they knew nothing about the "Taiping".

At noon that day, when the "Taiping" arrived at Mufu Mountain, after being discovered by Xiangyong, a cannon shot broke the tranquility on the river. It was completely beyond their expectations.

They were almost dumbfounded as they watched the black foreign ship rushing straight towards them. Hundreds of sampans on the river and Xiangyong on the long dragon all took up the light foreign guns on the bow and aimed at them. This foreign ship shoots——In the past few years, the Hunan Army Navy relied on more than [-] foreign cannons purchased from Guangdong, and relied on them to win water battles in Xiangtan and Yuezhou. In the end, the Taiping Army navy was completely driven out of the Yangtze River, and its army was even divided on both sides of the Yangtze River, so that the troops on the north bank could not cross the river to reinforce Tianjing.

Seeing that the big ocean-going ship sank a long dragon at once, Chen Huhu on board the sampan immediately raised the foreign cannon on the bow.

"Quick, quick fire..."

After igniting the fuse, there was a "boom" sound in a moment. At the moment when the shells roared out, before he could react, he saw that the shells hit the foreign ship actually bounced away.

There was a muffled ringing like a bell, echoing on the river, even though the swarming Xiang army sailors were besieging the "Taiping" with foreign cannons, but the next scene made them all dumbfounded .The shells that hit the ship were all bounced off, and the shells even hit the sampan on the river, directly smashing a big hole in the sampan.

"My God, what kind of ship is this?"

Just when the Xiangyongs wondered if they were blind, the Gatling machine guns on both sides of the bridge burst into joy, and the lead bullets thick as fingers swayed like raindrops on the swarming sampans and oars. On the fast crab boat, the bullet directly split Xiangyong's body into two pieces, and the small sampan was covered in blood red. In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen ships sank.

At the same time, the huge 10-inch cannon was also aimed at the front under the gunner's operation.

"put!"

With the muffled roar of the gunner, the deafening noise even spread to the city of Tianjing, to Yuhuatai, and to Peng Xueshuai's ship by the river.

Accompanied by this loud noise, thousands of walnut-sized iron shotguns flew out of the muzzle, roaring and flying forward, and the shotguns swept across the ships in front of the "Taiping" like raindrops. The young sampan was even directly beaten into a honeycomb, and what was even more tragic was Xiangyong on board. His body was torn to pieces by huge shotgun shells. A pile of broken wood and bloody floating corpses were left behind.

With just one shot, in the blink of an eye, the ship sank on the surface of the water hundreds of meters ahead of the Taiping, and there were many casualties.This scene stunned everyone, not to mention those Xiangyong, even the gunners on the "Taiping", they did not expect the power of this cannon to be so powerful.

Xiangyong, who had never expected the long-haired cannon to be so powerful, didn't even dare to go up to it. Xiangyong on the boat was terrified.The officers on the ship had no choice but to suppress their positions and command Xiangyong to sail the boat to meet the enemy.But in the next moment, the armored gunship crashed into it without any scruples.

The impact, the bombardment of giant artillery and the strafing of machine guns, even though the Hunan Army Navy has hundreds of sampans and fast crabs, this meeting has completely become a target on the river.In a blink of an eye, those small boats that were hit were torn apart, and the boat and Xiangyong on board were sent to the bottom of the water.

"Bump! Hit!"

The rampant "Taiping" completely ignored the artillery shells of the Hunan Army Navy. As for the bullets fired by Xiangyong with foreign guns, they couldn't even scratch it.

From Muliao Mountain to the Qinhuai River, the sound of cannons and drums is like thunder and lightning in summer. Facing such a monster rushing out from nowhere, the Hunan Army Navy, which was exalted from Xiangtan and Yuezhou, was completely indifferent. Lost the domineering momentum of the past, even if they wanted to escape, they didn't know where to run, so they had to retreat all the way.

"what's going on?"

Seeing this scene, Peng Xueshuai was angry and anxious, but he was helpless. He was startled by the sound of gunfire, and before he got out of the cabin, before he could figure out how to get back, he saw a group of sampans of Hunan Army sailors scurrying across the river. , there was only one foreign boat on the river rushing straight here.

"Don't you know how to fire a cannon?"

Burning in anger, Peng Xueshuai drew out his knife, stood on the bow of the boat, and shouted loudly.

"Drums, tree flags!"

Then he shouted again:

"Whoever has this flag will be killed immediately! Charge up and fire the cannon..."

There was no need for him to charge at all, and before the gunners on the ship adjusted their gun positions, the foreign ship rushed straight towards Peng Xueshuai's ship, even though the foreign ship didn't recognize the "Peng" written on the side of the big ship. Shuaiqi with the word "handsome flag", but other people know it!
The fast-moving "Tai Ping" sank several sampans one after another, but did not slow down. Seeing that under its impact, the sampans turned into pieces of wood and floated on the river. But also realize that this ship seems to be different.

The cannon hit it, why is it like scratching an itch, completely useless?
What's even more frightening is that it continuously sank the sampans blocking the front of the ship into the river. Under the sun, there was a cold and stern light.

"Boom...crack."

In the next moment, Peng Xueshuai's ship on this floor was smashed in half by the "Taiping", directly disembowelled, and the hull was stabbed by the ram.The keel broke instantly, and the river quickly flooded into the broken cabin.

At the same time that Xiangyong, including Peng Xueshuai, was thrown down, he, like everyone else, fell from the deck into the river. People sank fast, and the boat sank even faster. On the other hand, the Xiangyongs who fell into the water hugged the broken boards, struggled and swam in the bloody water, howling and shouting loudly.

"Why, how could this be..."

Peng Xueshuai, who was holding a piece of broken wood, looked at the strange ocean-going ship in astonishment, his eyes full of doubts.

He couldn't figure out why the ship was neither bombarded nor shot.

Finally, when the strange-looking ship passed by him at this moment, he finally saw clearly this foreign ship that was running rampant like a crab in the Yangtze River.

The stunned Peng Xueshuai muttered.

"Iron, iron... this ship has iron armor!"

(End of this chapter)