Start: Datang Wanli a lonely city

Chapter 876 Flying Daggers ([-])

Time: the evening of September 6.

wrong!Seriously calculating, it should be three o'clock in the morning on the 12th, which is only twenty hours before the complete end of this mission.

In this day, when the human body is most weak and tired, the counterattack from netizens and ordinary people has officially begun.

First of all, about four kilometers upstream of Baietan, we took advantage of the crescent moon above our heads.

Yuan Hai glanced at the position behind him, and saw a total of 120 small boats filled with flammable materials; there were also 120 fishermen operating the oars at the stern, including Ma Yusheng.

Suppressing his voice, he said something in his mouth: "Let's go~"

But before rocking the oar, he took an iron chain that had already been locked to the boat at one end and locked the other end to his right ankle.

After completing this action, Yuan Hai threw the key into the Pearl River without even a moment's hesitation.

In the blink of an eye, the key sank deep into the river bottom.

To be more precise, the people on all the boats were doing the same thing; they were completely locking themselves with the boat and throwing away the keys.

The reason for them to do this is actually very simple: using such an action to express that even if they risk their lives, they must sail as close to the Yin Army fleet as possible.

Disrupt their formation, and preferably burn a few ships' resolve.

Because only under manual control, these boats can be faster and more accurate when hitting them; in order to achieve this goal, these fishermen who have a blood feud with the Yin people have long put their lives aside.

After throwing away the key, Yuan Hai, a former game migrant worker from the modern plane, took the lead, gently rocking the oar, and began to approach the Yin Army fleet downstream.

At the same time, in a ruins northwest of Baietan.

The warehouse manager is constantly jumping up and down. So far, they have obtained a total of 235 "Congreve Rockets" from the Foshan area, where the private blacksmithing industry is quite developed.

As the commander-in-chief of the New Army's rocket artillery unit during the "Jingkang Shame of the Great Song Dynasty" mission, the specific erection, aiming, and launch of these gadgets naturally fell to the warehouse manager.

It's a pity that these are rockets made by several small blacksmith shops.

Even if there are unified drawings and dimensions, there are many differences such as the quality of gunpowder used and the amount of charge due to tolerances in specifications during production.

The warehouse manager understood one thing: after greeting him out later, if he could hit the target one out of ten times, that would be a blessing...

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Because of today's moonlight, even if Yuan Hai and others made the oar movements as gentle as possible, after setting off for at most 5 minutes, his small boat at that time was still three kilometers away from the Yin Army fleet.

They were on the river, such a dark boat, but they were still spotted by the Yin army's watchers.

After all, before the advent of radar, naval lookouts from various countries were all carefully selected and were quite powerful in terms of eyesight.

Even in the legend, the Japanese lookouts were always made of eel rice and cod liver oil. With the help of hand-held telescopes and weak starlight, they could detect enemy ships about 1 meters ahead of time in the dark.

Therefore, the above scene has been expected by Yuan Hai.

When a shrill 'assault' sounded faintly in his ears, he immediately no longer had to cover his tracks.

He shouted in his mouth: "Light the fire, speed up and rush over~"

While shouting, he had already taken out a kerosene lighter, slid the roller to light it, and then threw it straight into the pile of firewood in the cabin.

The scorching sun in eastern Guangdong had already dried the firewood to an extremely dry state, and after being doused with a lot of vegetable oil, it could be said that it was ignited as soon as it came into contact with the flame of the lighter.

And in a very short time, it burst into flames.

Then, the shirtless Yuan Hai used his greatest strength to start rocking the oar; the speed of the boat, which was originally slowly flowing down the river, began to soar.

And as time passed, the other fish sellers used matches or legendary fire sticks to light the firewood pile faster and faster. Although the speed of lighting the firewood pile was slower, it was only a little slower.

After lighting the firewood pile, they also used all their strength to rock the oars.

So soon after, the whole river turned into a sea of ​​fire; and it was quickly approaching the Yin Army fleet.

So much so that when the Yin Army sailors, who were yawning heavily and had thick dark circles under their eyes, accidentally saw such a scene, they immediately felt excited all over.

Immediately, their scalps were numb, and they all rushed to their respective posts.

At this point, they still couldn't tell that their opponent had already launched a general attack on them, and everything before was just an appetizer.

It's just because they have been tortured too much in the past few days.

So much so that even if they understood that it was a critical moment, everyone's movements and reactions were much slower than usual.

If it were normal times, with the number of sailors from the Yin Army, they could easily fire one or even two shots in one minute.

Because the distance is not far, the hit rate is still quite good.

But tonight, at least a minute and a half later, the first shot was fired from the Yin Army fleet, followed by continuous gunfire.

However, when these cannonballs greeted the fire ships going down the river, they passed by.

It was just that the two fire ships were accurately hit and then exploded on the spot.

In addition, there were five other boats because shells fell on the side. The boats were directly overturned by huge splashes of water. The fishermen on them were probably dead because they were locked.

But after seeing such a scene, Charlie Elliot, whose chin was covered with stubble from staying up late, almost didn't lift it up in one breath.

Cursing wildly in his mouth: "Damn it, is the gunner's head full of shit? If you can't hit again, I will stuff you into the cannon and shoot you..."

Such a sentence, he didn't even have time to finish shouting before he stopped abruptly and turned into "Brother Su is on top~"

Because when a large fire appeared in front of him, the warehouse manager who was hiding in the ruins stopped hiding. After jumping three feet high, he shouted:
"Ignite, ignite, release all these rockets, not a drop, no! Not a single shot will be left~"

Even his pet Erha... which should be the Sword-spined Ichthyosaurus also joined in the fun and shouted "Woof woof~".

Amidst the high-pitched barking of the warehouse management, accompanied by the barking of dogs, a total of 235 "Congreve rockets" were ignited; they soared into the sky one by one, and their tails dragged out strips of brilliant and beautiful flames, cutting through the The sky is dark.

Heading towards the Yin Army fleet, the location was shrouded.

Not only the Yin Army saw it, but also the more than [-] people outside Yangcheng who were awakened.

The common people reacted immediately. After the heroes of Xuange camp had been tinkering in secret for several days, they finally took action tonight.

For a while, based on their hatred for the Yin Army bandits, although they did not join the battle, they had no way to join the battle.

But when one by one stood on tiptoes, climbed up high, and looked in the direction of Baietan, the cheers and cheers from their mouths immediately resounded.

That movement was really like a roaring mountain and a tsunami.

They have always been the only ones to use rockets to greet and attack the Yin soldiers of Qingren. How could they have thought that one day they would be attacked by these things?

Amidst the deafening shouts of killing, they didn't know whether to give priority to avoiding the rockets in the sky or the fire ships flowing down the river.

What was originally a relatively tight formation suddenly became chaotic...

(End of this chapter)