Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 348 Wu Sangui, hold on! (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)
"boom"

With a thunderous bang, Xia Guoxiang's ship was hit by two or three hot metal shells!Yes, it is a hot shell!They are all "iron bomb burns" that are burned red on the stove. If a person is hit by a shot, he will be half-baked on the spot, and he will walk away peacefully.It wouldn't be much better if the ship came for a shot. Even if the ship's hull didn't break, the hot shells would get stuck in the ship's hull, and it might cause a small fire.

If this kind of "iron bullet burning" falls on the superstructure of the building, or simply penetrates the wooden walls and windows of the thin superstructure and breaks into the cabin, it will be even more serious.There are a lot of combustibles in the cabin and on the superstructure of the ship, such as sails, flags, ropes, sundries, etc., there is almost nothing that cannot be ignited by a red "iron bullet"!If so, add a few more!
When the sailors on Xia Guoxiang's ship hadn't reacted from the shock of being bombarded for the first time, the old lock ship on the opposite side decisively launched another round of "iron bomb burning".This time, because the distance was closer and the aim was more accurate, four shots were hit at once, and one of them was a twelve-pound large "Iron Bullet", which hit Xia Guoxiang on the top of the head with a "click". The second floor!This "Iron Bullet Burning" flew over within three feet of Xia Guoxiang's head, and Governor Xia could feel a deadly hot wind rushing towards his face, which scared him into a cold sweat!If it had been lower, he would have been hit head-on by a red-hot iron ball weighing twelve catties, and he would not have died on the spot!

"Quick, quick, quick", the commander-in-chief of the Great Zhou Navy, couldn't speak very well. A "quick withdrawal" stuck on "quick", and he couldn't pronounce the word "quick".

The soldiers guarding him were quite brave. Hearing what the governor said, one of the soldiers shouted "yes", then turned around and rushed to the oarsman's cabin below the deck to convey the commander's order!
Although the superstructure of this warship has been burned by several "iron bombs", many cabins have already ignited.But no one knew about it in the oarsman's cabin on the lower floor. It was still full of enthusiasm and everyone was working hard.

Emperor Wu said: Great Zhou rises and falls, and in this battle, the soldiers of the Great Zhou will advance and never retreat!

Moreover, Wu Sangui is not the devil Dongxiang who only knows how to make people die with empty words, he actually gives benefits to the people below!The land deeds in Sichuan have all been prepared. As long as they are done this time, one of the government soldiers below will be counted as one, and there will be a big landlord in Sichuan, high and low!
If you row a boat and sell a little effort, you can get a big landlord in Sichuan. How can this group of oarsmen recruited from the countryside of Huguang not work hard?

And the soldier who passed the orders for the Xia Kingdom was also a clever ghost, knowing that telling lies to inspire the army, rushed into the oarsman's cabin and shouted: "Big guy, work harder, Li Datou's ship may be right ahead!"

Mr. Qian, the leading oarsman in the cabin, immediately yelled: "Brothers, work harder, row hard, and kill Li!"

"Keep going, row hard!"

The paddlers below got up all of their energy, and they all threw off their arms and paddled.This building boat was originally going smoothly, but now with the propulsion of the oars, the speed suddenly increased, and it seemed to be getting closer and closer to the old lock boat.

"boom"

The gunners of the Ming army on the old lock boat opposite were really rude to the target that came to their door, and fired another round of "iron bullet burning". The ambiguous ones are four holes, and they are also on fire. I don’t know what?This building ship was "furious"!

But this time it was not the old lock ship of the Ming army that fired alone, but two warships that were about to collide with each other with artillery.

Xia Guoxiang's ship also had two twelve-pound cannons on the bow. It had just fired the first round, which was also the penultimate round—because those gunners were going to die soon!Two six-pound solid bullets roared and hit the hull of the old lock boat opposite, opening two big holes on the spot, but these two solid bullets were good solid bullets in their own right, no? Unscrupulous with a smoking "iron bomb burn", so it didn't do much damage.

Xia Guoxiang has already been supported by two soldiers, he is preparing to run away!I had no choice but to run away, and I ran into it immediately, and the cannons of the old lock boat on the opposite side kept firing. I don't know if this building ship, which was bombarded by the enemy's shells and bursting into flames, would crash into pieces?He didn't want the eldest princess of Wu Sangui's family to be a widow. Just as he was supported by two personal soldiers along the veranda deck to the starboard side of the building, there was a series of roars behind him!

This time it was the two sides "confronting guns". The two cannons on the bow of Xia Guoxiang's ship honestly fired two solid bullets. Made two holes.

And the old lockboat responded with a wave of heartless shotgun!
These are twelve bronze cannons, including two 28-jin red cannons, which sent a wave of shotgun bullets to the bow of Xia Guoxiang's ship!The Daming Navy uses heavy shotguns with each bullet weighing three ounces. There are usually 400 to [-] bullets in a six-pound shotgun, and sixty bullets are usually stuffed into a twelve-pound shotgun. , Ten six-pound guns and two twelve-pound cannons fired more than [-] bullets in one round!Immediately, the bow of this large boat was beaten to the ground, almost no one was alive, and the death was unsightly, everyone had bloody holes, it was really miserable.

If Xia Guoxiang left a little later, Wu Sangui's eldest daughter would become a widow!And the soldiers and staff under his command walked a bit slower, and now they are all lying on the bow deck very peacefully!
Although the bow of this high-rise ship has been washed by the opponent's shotguns, and it has been hit by "iron bullets" to smoke everywhere, the oarsman's cabin below is still full of heat, and everyone is rowing profusely. With oars and labor chant, the boat is driven forward.

Suddenly, there was a "click" sound, and then there was a violent shaking. Everyone in the cabin and on the deck couldn't stand still and fell to the ground.Of course, Xia Guoxiang was no exception. He fell and gnawed shit on his face. He had a handsome face and slammed it on the hard wood of the deck. His nose was crooked and his front teeth fell off!
But now is the critical moment of escaping, Xia Guoying had no choice but to stand up in pain, and just as he stood still, he heard someone shouting in his ear: "We are colliding together!"

what collided?Xia Guoxiang turned his head and saw that it was broken!It was my building boat that collided with that old lock boat!Perhaps the old lock boat raised its anchor before the collision, and then dodged, but did not dodge completely, so the bow of the building ship did not hit the waist of the old lock boat, but hit up the ass of the old lock boat.

However, since Wu Zhoujun's building ships are all flat-headed, and there is no collision angle below the waterline, the collision did not cause much damage to the sturdy old lock ship, but there is a row of iron hooks installed on the flat head of Wu Zhoujun's building ships. When the impact occurred, the row of iron hooks inserted into the plank of the old lock boat under the action of huge momentum.With this insertion, the two warships were connected together, and no one could escape unless they jumped into the river to swim!

Xia Guoxiang covered his face and turned his head to look at the surface of the Yangtze River. It was so far away from the river bank, there was no hope of swimming there.At this time, he found a wave of heat coming from behind him, so he turned around and looked again, and found that the cabin on the second floor of the ship he was in was bursting with flames!

This is really terrible!
The ship is on fire, surrounded by water, and attached to an enemy ship!
This Xia Guoxiang was really unlucky. This time, he was either burned to death, drowned in water, or killed by the Ming army. He ran away without a place!
Just when Xia Guoxiang was in a hurry, the sound of shouting and killing suddenly rose, and then he saw a large group of barefoot sailors holding swords, carrying ladders, and wearing only single clothes, coming from the upper cabin or deck of the upper ship. The oarsman's compartment below rushed out. It seems that the morale is quite high!

Mr. Qian, who was in the oarsman's cabin, saw Xia Guoxiang with a bruised nose and swollen face, and hurried up to greet him: "My son-in-law, what's wrong with you? It's okay, right?"

"It doesn't matter what matters, you hurry up and take people to put out the fire, or you'll all be burned to death!" Xia Guoxiang stomped his feet, and hurriedly asked Mr. Qian from the oarsman's cabin to play a guest role as "damage management" and led his hands to put out the fire. hold back.On the other hand, he bit his head and led a group of knives and poker players who specialize in jumping gang battles to the bow to see how to fight water battles?
This is really embarrassing for Xia Guoxiang, the commander of the water army, but when Xia Guoxiang returned to the bow deck under the protection of a group of rattan soldiers, he suddenly found that he might fight in the water.Because he found that the poop of the old lock boat that blocked the bow of his ship looked almost like a castle, and there was even a crenel on the poop!
This water battle turned out to be the same as siege warfare!

When he finally understood the essence of water warfare, Xia Guolian hurriedly called another Chief Qian, and asked him to take his subordinates and carry ladders to attack the city, no, it was an attack ship!
He himself didn't dare to lead the way. He was afraid that the Ming army would hit him in the face with a shell, so he shrank on the veranda deck behind the bow deck, leaning on the wall of the superstructure of the building as a cover. He still felt unsafe, and let his hands Go down and find a wooden shield to block in front.

Just as he protected himself, a gunshot came from ahead!He quickly leaned his head on the wooden shield and looked forward. After a look, he realized that the gang of sailors below were really attacking the city!This has put the ladder on the rear poop of the house.

However, the Ming army was not a vegetarian either. They were condescending and were shooting targets with flintlock guns. It was like a rain of bullets, and immediately killed and injured the gang of high-moralized Wu and Zhou sailors!
The sailors who climbed up the ladder also knew the power of the Daming "defending the city" navy. Those people not only had muskets, but also had a wooden handle installed, which looked like a small hammer. It is made of cast iron, filled with granulated black gunpowder, a small hole is opened in the iron shell, and a wooden tube fuze is inserted. Just throw out a dozen or so!Some of them didn't explode, but what exploded was a large area. Even Wu Zhou's sailors who had already climbed the ladder were injured by the shrapnel flying from behind, and fell down screaming.

Wu Zhou's navy also had guns, but they didn't have flintlock guns, only large-caliber turtledove foot muskets, which were used to hit ship planks.However, the boards of the old lock boats were too thick, and the projectiles of the turtledove muskets could not hit them at all, and it was difficult for the Ming army musketeers to fire from the crenels.

So in a short while, Wu Jun's musketeers lost in the confrontation!

For a while, the bow of the building ship was full of dead bodies, and the blood stained the deck red, and this wave of attack on the poop of the old lock of the Ming army had suffered a disastrous defeat by this time!
The sailors of the Wu Zhou army who couldn't bear the loss finally knew that it was not easy to be a big landlord in Sichuan, so they had to retreat crying and retreating.

It seems that it is not easy to attack a city on the water of the Yangtze River!

Just when Xia Guo looked at the retreating sailors, looked at the poop of the old lock ship that was much higher than the bow of the building ship he was in, and didn't know what to do for a while, suddenly the top of the poop After throwing down a few ropes, batch after batch of vigorous sailors of the Ming army turned out from behind the crenel on the stern building, and slid along the ropes to the bow of the building where Xia Guoxiang was.

These sailors of the Ming army were all sword players. After sliding down, they stepped on the corpse of Wu Zhoujun and began to charge towards the veranda deck where Xia Guoxiang was!
The sailors of Wu Zhoujun just failed to "attack the ship" and suffered heavy losses. Now they are still suppressed by the musketeers on the stern of the old lock with flintlocks. How can they resist the attack of the Ming saber players?After reluctantly resisting for a while, he was defeated because more and more Ming soldiers came to join the gang!
Xia Guoxiang had no choice but to turn to the stern of the ship under the protection of his own soldiers. While running, he also groped on the river, hoping to find a boat that could rescue him.

Only after this groping did I realize that at this time, there are building boats and old lock boats fighting each other everywhere on the Yangtze River!Some building boats also crashed into the old lock boats, and they were inseparable!In some cases, two boats were joined together, and many ropes, perhaps with iron hooks, were thrown onto the Wu family's big boat.There are some buildings and ships that seem to have been captured by the Ming army, and the red flags are flying on the ships!There are also fierce battles on some large ships, with gunshots, explosions, and shouts of killing!There were also a few old lock boats and building boats that had collided with each other, and the fire on the building boats was out of control, and the sailors on both sides were jumping into the Yangtze River like dumplings!

In addition, there are several building boats that did not collide with the old lock boats, but were besieged by the fast crab boats of the Ming army, and it seemed difficult to escape!

Xia Guoxiang observed for a while, and his heart was already cold, because he didn't find any old lock ships engaged in fierce battles, and it seemed that none of the old lock ships had been breached. Obviously, the ships with high forecastle and high poop The old lock boat is easy to defend and difficult to attack, just like a castle floating on the water!
However, the building ships with low sides and low bow and stern are at a disadvantage in the battle with the old lock ships!The old lock boat is condescending and occupies an advantage in terrain!

This water battle actually has to talk about terrain and land occupation!

Xia Guoxiang has opened his eyes!
And those low-side building boats don't seem to have much advantage when encountering the siege of fast crab boats. Fast crab boats are much more flexible than high-rise boats, and their firepower is not low. It's not that difficult.
In addition, the fast crab boat seems to be able to hit the oars of the building boats - Xia Guoxiang saw that the oars on one side of the building boats were all broken, and it was spinning on the water!

Suddenly, he saw a boat flying the flag of Wu Zhou approaching. He might have discovered that he was the governor of the left, so he hurriedly shouted with his soldiers: "Hurry up, come here. The governor Xia Guoxiang is here!" this!"

As soon as they shouted, the bluffing boat really leaned up. Just when Xia Guoxiang thought he was about to be saved, he suddenly realized something was wrong!There were several sailors wrapped in red scarves standing on this ship, which was still flying the flag of Wu Zhou, and everyone was pointing at him with flintlock guns.One of them shouted loudly: "Xia Guoxiang, don't surrender yet!"

Hukou, down Zhongshan Fort.

The dragon flag of the Great Zhou Emperor has been flying on this fort on the bank of the Yangtze River for two days and two nights.

And Wu Sangui didn't sleep a wink for two days and two nights—ever since Xia Guoxiang and Hu Guozhu led the main force of the Zhou Navy to attack, he felt restless and couldn't sleep at all.

He is now deep into Jiangxi, stationed in Jiujiang and Hukou, and his logistics depends entirely on the navy.Once the Yangtze River Navy of the Great Zhou Dynasty was defeated, let alone take Jiangxi, it would be very difficult for him to return to Wuchang Fucheng with his whole body.

And once Wuchang Fucheng is recaptured by Li Zicheng and Li Zhongshan, the fate of the Great Zhou Dynasty may take a turn for the worse!
Wu Sangui, who was wandering around in a large tent with a golden roof, was staring at the thought of the possible loss of Wuchang Mansion.At this moment, someone outside his golden-roofed tent suddenly heard someone shouting: "Grandpa, Grandpa, our building boat is back!"

came back?
Just be back!
Wu Sangui breathed a sigh of relief, at this time Wu Shifan had already opened the curtain of the big tent and walked in.

"How is it? How many came back? Are there any warships from the Ming army following?"

"Come back, thirty or so old lock boats that didn't see the Ming army are following behind!"

"Thank God!" Wu Sangui heaved a sigh of relief, "Let's go and have a look with Grandpa!"

"Yes!" Wu Shifan hurriedly helped Wu Sangui out of the tent and came to the high place of Xiazhongshan Fort. At this time, the thirty or so building boats, which seemed to be somewhat injured, had already rowed to Xiazhongshan Fort. under.

At this moment, the triangular red-bottomed dragon flags of Wu Zhoujun on these large ships suddenly lowered one after another, and then raised a bright red rectangular flag—this is the bloody red flag of the Ming Dynasty!
Immediately afterwards, Wu Sangui, who was in shock, heard countless people shouting in unison: "Dinghu abandoned the world that day, defeated the enemy and took the capital to Yuguan. The six armies are mourning, and they are angry for the crown."

(End of this chapter)