Opening game, American Tycoon

Chapter 179 A crushing defeat (first update, please subscribe)
"Boom."

The gunners of the Xiang army camp on the bank of the river fired shells on the side of the "Taiping", and the shells hit the ship with a "bang" and bounced off.

Before the gunners in the Hunan Army camp recovered their senses, the foreign ship had already turned its hull, completely ignoring the fleeing Hunan Army sailors around it, and pointed its bow at the Hunan Army fortress on the shore.

"Then, what kind of cannon is that..."

The gunners of the Hunan Army on the camp looked at the giant cannons on board in horror, while Zeng Laojiu, known as "Zeng Tietong", directly picked up the binoculars. In the next moment, his face suddenly changed, and there was nothing on his dark face. Compared with other people, he could see more clearly. He clearly saw a dozen "foreigners" standing around the giant cannon with the height of a person on the bow. They stuffed the cannonballs the size of their heads into the cannon barrel.

"It's over..."

In the next moment, the deafening sound of cannons rang out on the river, and the roaring shells directly hit the thick earthen wall of the Hunan army camp. In an instant, Xiangyong on the wall felt that the earthen wall seemed to shake suddenly, Before they figure out what's going on. A loud "boom" exploded from the earth wall. In the violent explosion, Xiangyong on the earth wall was blown into the sky, and the earth wall collapsed in an instant.

……

"Zeng Tietong Jiangning was defeated, Zeng Tietong Jiangning was defeated..."

A few days later, the army was defeated under the city of Tianjing, and the navy was almost completely wiped out. The news that Zeng Jiushuai led the troops to escape from Jiangning reached the ears of Governor Li. In shock, he ordered to stop marching towards Suzhou, and at the same time Send someone to inquire about the news.

A few days later, after learning the news of Chang Mao's victory on the Yangtze River, he was even more dumbfounded.

"Iron, iron-clad ship, how is this possible?"

"My lord Futai, Jiushuai and Xueshuai saw it with their own eyes. Not only was the iron-clad ship invulnerable to weapons and guns, but the cannons couldn't even make a hole in it. The shell was more than a foot in size, like a small millstone. The ground was shaken, but it was just a single shot that knocked down the camp wall of the nine commanders, and then tens of thousands of long hairs took advantage of the momentum to enter. With the long hairs of the iron-clad ship, not only is it like a tiger with wings, but it is also very human. Enemy..."

Governor Li was dumbfounded by the information brought by the messenger.

"Then why does Long Mao have an ironclad ship?"

"I'm afraid Li Ni didn't buy it from foreign profiteers in Hangzhou,"

Since Changmao captured Jinshan and Hangzhou, in the past two years, he has bought foreign guns and cannons from foreign profiteers. How could Governor Li not know about this? Nothing new.

"Damn Western profiteers, you really deserve to be killed!"

While Governor Li scolded angrily, he thought about what Liu Kunpeng said that day.

"Oh, hurry up, prepare the sedan chair!"

Governor Li hurriedly stood up.

"We can't let the surname Wu be fooled by foreigners and buy crap that foreigners don't want!"

Four hundred thousand taels, what's the use of buying a few junks that foreigners don't want?Let Changmao play with the ironclad ship?

Sitting on the sedan chair, Governor Li secretly thought about another thing--now that the naval division on the side of the benefactor is newly defeated, if he takes the [-] taels and buys an iron-clad ship like a long-haired man, wouldn't the commander-in-chief of the navy fall into disrepair? It's on my side.

But everyone has ambitions, and Governor Li is no exception. When he was thinking about how to get the surname Wu to take out the [-] taels of silver for buying the boat, there was a message from outside the sedan chair selling "Shanghai New News" The cries of newsboys.

"Outsider, outsider, Zuo Zongtang, the governor of Zhejiang, was defeated in the city of Quzhou. His life and death are unknown, outsider..."

what!
Zuo Zongtang also lost!

How can this happen?
Governor Li hastily opened the car curtain and shouted.

"Quick, quick, stop the car, go, buy a newspaper!"

……

Amidst the deafening gunfire, Chu Yong was running around everywhere outside Quzhou City.While Chu Yong was fleeing in all directions, the Taiping Army in the distance continued to bombard Chu Yong with mortars. The fierce artillery fire from dozens of mortars destroyed Chu Yong's formation in an instant.

What was more deadly was the long-haired foreign gun team. The fierce firepower of thousands of foreign gun teams using seven-ring serial guns became the last straw that crushed the Chu army.Facing such a hail of bullets, Chu Yong, who only had a few foreign guns, could easily imagine his fate.

However, after several rounds of shelling, Chu Yong chose to flee in all directions due to the heavy casualties caused by the violent explosion.When Chu Yong was fleeing, shouts of "Catch the demon Zuo Zongtang alive" sounded from all directions, accompanied by the sound of cannons, gunshots, and footsteps, thousands of Chu Yong all ran away in all directions.

Zuo Zongtang was dumbfounded at the scene in front of him. He didn't expect that Chu Yong, who he had trained so hard, would be so vulnerable. Chu Yong completely ignored the officer's order and fled with his head in his arms.

"Master Futai, it's over..."

Jiang Yili, the number one brave general under Zuo Zongtang's command, was also stunned by the scene in front of him. What restrained him was not Kui Yong, but the fierce firepower from Changmao.

"I don't know where Chang Mao got the foreign cannons. A dozen can cost hundreds of cannons. Even Iron Man can't stand such a cannon fire..."

Standing blankly on the battlefield, Zuo Zongtang's expression was dull.

How could this be?
When did the long-haired firepower become so sharp?How could that cannon be fired continuously like a serial gun?

Strands of routs on the battlefield were like defeated leaves blown up by a gust of wind, fleeing in all directions without thinking.

One of them, Yong Ding, panicked, just ran for his life, didn't see Zuo Zongtang and others standing there, and ran towards him in a daze.Seeing Su Yong, Zuo Zongtang shouted loudly.

"Deserts should be executed!"

After saying that, he personally slashed over with a knife in his hand. Yong Ding, who was fleeing in front, screamed, and his head was decapitated. The field was stained red with blood. When they regrouped around the governor, the Taiping Army artillery team in the distance also saw this group of people and saw the handsome flag. They would hesitate there, and immediately concentrated their mortar firepower, and fired a burst of shelling at this group of people.

In the violent explosion, the handsome flag with the word "left" fell down, and the team that had just been reorganized fell down. The wounded screamed in the gunpowder smoke. Still caring about any military law, they all fled to the surroundings in a hurry. When they fled blindly, many Xiangyong who could not escape took advantage of the chaos to take off their jackets, then threw away their knives and guns, and hid in the grass and fields , and soon they became captives of Shaggy.

However, the only thing that made them rejoice was that, unlike in the past, Changmao didn't kill them this time, but yelled loudly at them to tie their braids, and then they were bound with their hands and became captives.

God bless, no prisoners were killed...

　A book friend group has been established: 335260551, everyone is welcome to join, discuss the plot together, and deduce the plot.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)