Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 253 Jiangxia Water Battle

When the navy on the left was dealing with the poisonous smoke and shotgun, its warships continued to move forward for a certain distance according to inertia, while the warships of the Yangtze River Navy were propelled by the river and also moved forward for a certain distance.

Immediately, the frontmost warships on both sides were only a few dozen paces away.

The front left warship was the least affected by the poisonous smoke, and immediately launched an attack on the Yangtze River Navy warship with long-range weapons such as Francophones.

This time, the distance was close enough that their aim was better.

However, the protective facilities on the three armored warships at the front were very complete, and most of the soldiers on board easily avoided the shells, bullets, and arrows that fell on the ship.

Only a few unlucky ones were injured, but they were immediately carried to the cabin by field nurses for treatment, which did not affect the morale of the soldiers at all.

Immediately afterwards, the three iron ships all let out loud and sharp whistles.

Billowing black smoke came out of the chimney, and the propeller at the tail rotated rapidly, setting off water waves, and quickly accelerated, rushing straight towards the naval warship on the left like a steel beast!
Not to mention the metallic glint on the steel armored warship, the black smoke from the chimney and the loud siren alone made many sailors on the left terrified.

In particular, this steel warship can sail at such a fast speed without seeing oars or paddle wheels at all, which is beyond the comprehension of many sailors on the left.

At this moment, when they saw it rushing towards them, some of the sailors from the left couldn't help but murmured, "Monster! This must be a monster!"

The general in charge of commanding the warship shouted anxiously: "Get out of here!"

However, the sailors on the left were all attacked by poisonous smoke before. Even though they were not life-threatening, they were also given a negative state, and now many of them are frightened.

In addition, the larger oars and scull warships are not flexible enough, how can they avoid it at a distance of dozens of steps?

In a few breaths, a warship on the left was hit by a steel armored warship commanded by Li Zhanchun himself.

The warship on the left was knocked askew, and it tilted to one side!

Not only that, a steel ram was installed under the steel-framed warship, and a hole was poked directly under the waterline of the left warship.

The river water poured in, causing the left warship to sink even faster.

"Help!"

"I surrender, save me!"

"what!"

"···"

For a while, except for a very small number of soldiers on the left side of the warship, they desperately made useless counterattacks to the officers and soldiers on the steel armored warship, and the rest either jumped into the river or climbed to the height of the warship.

Crying for help, crying and crying, it was extremely miserable.

Li Zhanchun didn't pay attention to these people at all, but excitedly shouted and ordered, "Give me full power! Continue to charge forward!"

"Musketeers, tiger squatting gunners, freely attack the enemy ships on both sides!"

When they were bombarded before, many generals on the left, like Xu Ensheng, guessed that a warship of the Yangtze River Navy was equipped with at least four or five cannons.

But I don’t know that each of the 50 steel armored warships of the Yangtze River Navy is equipped with at least [-] new-style cannons, [-] small tiger squat guns and Fron machines, and [-] musketeers (a team)!

It can be said that a steel armored warship is completely a mobile firepower fortress on the Yangtze River!
The rest of the [-]-seat warships and patrol ships without steel armor are only missing ten new artillery pieces.

As for why the previous rounds of long-range bombardment seemed to have only four or five cannons per ship, it was entirely because it was inconvenient to fire horizontal salvos at that time, otherwise each warship could have at least ten new artillery pieces together.

Of course, this one does not really fire at the same time, so that even thousands of ships will roll over due to the recoil of the cannon, but it means that they are fired in a specific order within a short period of time.

As for the small tiger squat guns and Francophones, they can be carried and operated by a single person, and the impact of recoil warships is very small, so there are only so many doors on a ship.

Of course, even if it is a warship of 200 materials, a ship can only carry [-] people, and there are only so many firearms that can be manipulated.

Although the "Firepower Fortress"-style warships of the Yangtze River Navy have many shortcomings, even obvious shortcomings, they are like demons to the left navy, which still mainly fights with cold weapons.

I saw the two armored warships commanded by Li Zhanchun and Yu Dahai, and the armored warship commanded by Zeng Ying, forming a triangle formation, rushing into the left naval formation like a sharp knife cutting through butter.

There were only a few warships knocked down and destroyed by it, and most of the warships on both sides of it were hit by shells and bullets.

The Yangtze River Navy fired handfuls of shotguns, but there were more people on each warship of the navy on the left (needed for boarding battles), and there were heavy casualties immediately.

Those lucky enough to survive the shotgun will also be taken care of by musketeers and a few archers.

It can be said that the left navy was beaten helplessly!
When the follow-up warships of the Yangtze River Navy also rushed in, showing not much weaker firepower, the left navy finally couldn't hold it anymore, and fled to both sides of the Yangtze River or downstream.

Standing on the second deck of the ship, Chang Deng was so angry that he saw this scene.

"Why are you running? The enemy's firepower is strong, so they jump up and fight close! It's just a group of musketeers and artillery. Why don't we let us kill them if we get close?!"

"Supervisor team? Where is the supervisor team? Anyone who escapes and avoids the battle will be killed on the spot!"

"If a warship escapes, the whole ship will be killed after the battle!"

Under Chang Deng's roaring command, there were really some left-sided warriors who desperately took advantage of the opportunity of each other's ships touching each other to jump onto the Yangtze River Navy warships and try to win by fighting with cold weapons.

However, the Yangtze River Navy did not completely abandon the melee arms.

Not to mention that musketeers can fight with bayonets, they are also equipped with a team (50 people) of short soldiers.

Therefore, those warriors on the left who dared to jump on the Yangtze River Navy warships were often surrounded and killed by several people as soon as they landed.

The short-handed soldiers of the Yangtze River Navy may have never taken the opportunity to make a move. Now that the heads are sent to you, how can you be polite?

Even before the war, the generals repeatedly emphasized that prisoners should be the main force, but there are still many left warriors who jumped up and were killed on the spot...
The formation of the naval warships on the left was completely disrupted by the Yangtze River Navy.

Not only was it impossible to cause much damage to the Yangtze River Navy under Chang Deng's command, many warships even failed to escape - many soldiers on the warships were killed and wounded on the spot, including the commanding generals. Officers and many oarsmen, so the warship directly lost its ability to move and floated in the river.

The battle went on like this for a while, and Chang Deng's ship was "surrounded" by the steel armored warships commanded by Li Zhanchun and Yu Dahai.

The two first covered the firepower with tiger crouching guns, shotguns and muskets, killing most of the soldiers on the left side of Chang Deng's ship.

Then they sent short soldiers to board the ship, cut off the general flag with the word "Chang", and captured Chang Deng, who was stubbornly resisting with his personal bravery!

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