The Red Chamber begins with a bastard

Chapter 242 The bad guys are chasing after you

The Yangzhou Guards carried a total of three Folang machine artillery pieces this time. They were all small and medium-sized artillery pieces, about one meter long and weighing three hundred kilograms. They were originally intended to be used to attack the city. However, when the Yangzhou Guards attacked Haimen County, the thieves The soldiers were vulnerable to a single blow and collapsed at the first touch, so the weapons were of no use.

Dai Li, the commander of the Yangzhou Guards, was eager to pursue Kang Dayong's "broken troops" and left all the baggage outside Haimen County, including these three Franco machine guns. As a result, he almost fell into the hands of the thieves led by Li Hongji. Fortunately, Under the constant pursuit of Jia Huan's two hundred cavalry, the thieves had no choice but to throw away the stolen food and three artillery pieces in the road. However, before Li Hongji abandoned the artillery, he had the mounts and wheels of the three artillery pieces destroyed.

Not long ago, Yi Hong, the commander of the Jinyi Guards, called Jia Huan to the central military tent for a meeting to discuss ways to attack Lu Si. Jia Huan suggested bringing the three artillery pieces and bombarding Lu Si at night, in order to intimidate them. On the one hand, the thief army also made it impossible for the thief army to rest peacefully. They waited until daybreak to capture Lu Sichang in one fell swoop.

Now Yi Hong did not dare to underestimate Jia Huan anymore and immediately adopted his suggestion. Although Dai Li, the commander of the Yangzhou Guard, had ulterior motives, Jia Huan's suggestion was undoubtedly a good idea. It could not only reduce his own casualties, but also It can bring great pressure to the thieves, so he agreed.

So they used a carriage to transport three French cannons to the front of the formation, re-erected a simple gun mount, and launched a round of artillery bombardment at the rebel camp in Lusi Field.

Because the gun mounts were temporarily erected, the accuracy was poor. The first round of shelling did not hit the buildings in Lusi Field. Two of the temporary gun mounts even shattered, injuring an artilleryman responsible for operating the artillery. However, the sound of the cannon still caused a commotion in the rebel camp opposite.

Yi Hong was overjoyed when he saw this, and immediately ordered the artillery to be set up again. About half an hour later, the second round of shelling was launched. The gunner was quite experienced. With the accurate placement of the first round, the accuracy of this round was obviously much higher. One shot hit the Yunsi Yamen stationed in Lusi Field, blowing down a piece of the roof. Suddenly the gunfire grew thicker, and screams and screams could be heard far away in the quiet night.

Yi Hong couldn't help laughing and said: "Good fight, come again!"

Boom boom boom...

The three Franco machine guns are all breech-loading smoothbore cannons. Each one is equipped with several sub-guns. After replacing the new sub-guns, the second round of shooting can be carried out immediately. In addition, the barrels are connected front and rear. It dissipates heat quickly, so the rate of fire is much faster than the traditional cannons of the Jin Dynasty, so several rounds were fired in just two minutes. Although the damage was limited, it also caused a strong psychological deterrent to the bandits, especially The newly joined bandits were originally ordinary people. They had never seen such a battle before. They were so frightened that they ran around in the camp and cried loudly.

Yi Hong couldn't help but said with joy: "After all, they are a bunch of rabble who have never seen the world, keep firing!"

Boom boom boom...

The three artillery roared again, and the hot shells carried the flowing fire and roared towards the bandit camp. The buildings in Lusi Field were collapsing at a speed visible to the naked eye, and then ignited a raging fire. The sea breeze blew down, and the fire became more and more intense. , quite likely to set fire to the company camp.

Dai Li couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded. If he had known that the effect of the shelling was so obvious, he would have pulled in three cannons, but it ended up being a bloody battle for a long time, killing and wounding nearly a thousand brothers, and the effect was not as good as a few rounds of shelling.

Jia Huan was also quite surprised at this moment. His original intention was to create some trouble and psychological deterrence for the bandits, but the effect turned out to be unexpectedly good. Unfortunately, although the Folang machine gun has a fast rate of fire, the current casting process is not good enough. The rear-loading artillery has poor air tightness, resulting in a short range. These three Franco machine guns can only shoot out to a distance of three hundred meters. If they have a range of one or two thousand meters, they can directly blow up a pirate ship anchored in the bay. Destroyed, leaving the thieves with no way to escape.

At this time, Kang Dayong in the bandit camp was so angry that he almost vomited blood. As soon as Qin Hongyu took away some of his men, the army began to shell the warehouse, which happened to hit the warehouse where kerosene was stored, causing a raging fire. This was simply: House The leak happened to be caused by continuous rain, and the ship was damaged by the wind!

Damn it, this guy is so unlucky that even if he drinks cold water, his teeth will get clogged!

Kang Dayong originally wanted to take advantage of the night to board the ship and withdraw the troops in batches, but the officers and soldiers suddenly made such a move, as if they were a prophet. Now the whole camp was in chaos, and he could not care so much at the moment, and immediately ordered his direct descendants to rush to Bay, grab the pirate ship and evacuate.

As soon as the other pirates saw Kang Dayong fleeing, they rushed to the bay east of Lu Sichang and grabbed the boat. Those who couldn't grab the boat simply jumped into the sea and swam directly to the big ship. Fortunately it is summer and the sea is calm, otherwise a large number of them would have died of cold and drowned.

"The thieves have escaped, the thieves have escaped!" Some sharp-eyed officers and soldiers shouted loudly, and the whole camp suddenly became excited.

Even Yi Hong was a little dumbfounded this time. After just a few rounds of bombardment, he actually defeated thousands of pirates without spending a single soldier? real or fake?

Commander Dai Li and others also looked at each other, what is going on?

Yi Hong subconsciously looked at Jia Huan, who was thoughtful, and asked doubtfully: "Jia Xiucai, what do you think?"

As the saying goes, if you are bitten by a snake with one move, you will be afraid of the well rope for ten years. Yi Hong is obviously worried that the bandits are trying to trick him again.

Jia Huan didn't know that there was internal strife within the rebel army. Qin Hongyu had taken away some of the rebel soldiers, so he was also a little hesitant at the moment, so he said: "Commander Yi can send a light cavalry to test the reality."

Yi Hong nodded and said: "That's right!"

"Third Master, let your subordinates and Brother Hu go!" Shitou, the boy, immediately volunteered.

Jia Huan naturally understood the reason why Xing Wei was so active. He was worried that Xiao Yuanyuan was in the enemy camp, so he hurriedly went to look for her, so he said: "Go, be careful. If the situation is not right, don't go deep in recklessly, otherwise military law will be dealt with. " Tiehu and Shitou received the order and immediately led two hundred cavalry to kill the bandit camp at lightning speed.

At this time, the bandits were all rushing to escape to the bay, and there was no one to stop them. So Tiehu and Shitou led two hundred cavalry and drove straight in. They killed the bandits in an instant and entered the camp. The new thieves who were running slowly threw away their weapons and knelt on the ground begging for mercy.

Seeing such a scene, Dai Li and Yi Hong no longer hesitated, and immediately ordered the entire army to attack. They rushed towards the enemy camp like a flood, and occupied Lu Si field with almost no effort.

Besides, Tiehu, Shitou and others fought their way to the seaside with great force, using sharp arrows and muskets to greet the thieves swimming in the water like raindrops. In an instant, they harvested a large number of lives like wheat. Under the silver moonlight, the entire bay was covered with blood. It was dyed red and filled with floating corpses, making it look like purgatory.

Kang Dayong fled to the big bow ship. Looking back, he couldn't help but feel terrified. At this moment, a wave of arrows hit him. He was so frightened that he hurriedly hid behind the side of the ship, while the two confidants next to him reacted a little slower. , Qingqi was hit by several arrows and died suddenly.

"Raise the sails and sail the boat!" Kang Dayong shouted sternly. He didn't care that there were many brothers who had not yet boarded the boat. He immediately ordered the boat to sail and tried to sail away from the shore.

boom……

A deafening sound of artillery was heard, which frightened Kang Dayong into a panic. He thought that the army had brought the artillery over so quickly. After taking a closer look, he realized that it was Qin Hongyu's ship that fired the artillery.

It turned out that Qin Hongyu had already sailed the ship a hundred meters away from the shore and was firing artillery to snipe the officers and soldiers on the shore. Only then did Kang Dayong suddenly realize that he also had artillery on the ship, so he immediately ordered to fire back.

bang bang...

The shell flew over the heads of Tiehu and others and fell into Lusi Field. At this moment, Yangzhou Guards was occupying Lusi Field, so it caused immediate casualties. Due to the angle problem, Tiehu and others who were on the shore at this moment were actually The safest, because the distance is too close and the shells cannot hit.

However, Tiehu knew that once the pirate ship sailed far enough from the shore, the cannonballs would be able to hit them, so he made a prompt decision and ordered all the cavalry to dismount, seize the small boat and rush towards the large ship dozens of meters away from the shore.

Tiehu and Shitou stayed with Jia Huan on the outskirts of Jinling for three years. They often swam in the river, and they had developed good water skills, and handling the boat was no problem, so they quickly captured one of the pirate boats and fought on the boat. The thieves started fighting.

At this time, people from the Yangzhou Guards also arrived one after another. The proportion of southern soldiers who knew water skills was still quite high. Seeing how fierce the iron tiger and the stone were, the other soldiers were greatly encouraged and they also rushed to the pirate ship to fight.

Kang Dayong saw more and more officers and soldiers, and several of the dozens of bow ships fell into the hands of the officers and soldiers. At the moment, he could only reluctantly abandon them and flee with the remaining ships.

At this time, the sky was brightening. Seeing the great victory, Yi Hong's old habit of greedy for merit returned. Regardless of exhaustion, he immediately ordered the sails to be set up to pursue and kill brother Kang Dayong. Jia Huan tried to persuade him, but he also tried to persuade him. Can't live.

Dai Li had a ulterior motive in his heart. He was afraid that brothers Kang Dayong would fall into Yi Hong's hands and their corruption and perversion of the law would be exposed, so he followed Yi Hong.

Jia Huan was hesitating when he saw a small boat approaching the shore like an arrow. Tiehu, who had lost his stick in his hand and was covered in blood and sweat, jumped down and ran straight to him and said: "Third Master, Shitou is chasing a group of brothers." Going up, he thought that little girl Yuanyuan was on one of the pirate boats."

Jia Huan frowned and said, "Why?"

Tiehu replied: "This boy asked several captured pirates and they all said that the person who played the flute last night was a maid from their fifth master, and she seems to be also named Yuanyuan."

Jia Huan's eyes flashed with surprise, which was a coincidence, and he said: "Get on the boat!"

At that moment, Jia Huan and Tie Hu boarded one of the captured pirate ships, raised the sails and chased after them. They used knives to force the captured pirates to take charge of driving the ship, which saved time and effort.

Soon, the big ship moved away from the coast and sailed into the vast sea. The land behind it became smaller and smaller, and finally disappeared from sight. In the direction of the ship's bow, a rising sun was rising into the sky, and the shadows of sails were scattered on the sea with golden snakes dancing. It was a large ship with seven or eight bows led by Yi Hong and Dai Li, riding the wind and waves.

(End of this chapter)