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Chapter 878 Flying Daggers ([-])

After entering within 200 meters of the Yin Army fleet, a large area of ​​fine fire suddenly lit up in front of Yuan Hai and others.

That was on the four warships in front of them. Rows of Yin Army sailors standing behind the ship's side pulled the triggers on their fingertips.

Suddenly, amidst the loud sound of muskets like fried beans, dense bullets were fired in this direction.

He didn't know why he was so unlucky. The next second the gunshot sounded, Yuan Hai felt a pain in his shirtless chest and knew that he had been shot.

That kind of severe pain immediately overwhelmed the burning flames on the ship and the stinging pain after it burned on the skin.

At the same time, he could clearly hear a muffled hum coming from behind him.

Looking back, he could immediately see five or six fishermen collapsing on the boat after their bodies were shaken.

Suddenly, the speed of the fire ship, which was originally driven by their wildly shaking oars, also slowed down, and the threat to the Yin army was suddenly reduced.

What can Yuan Hai do?I could only grit my teeth, endure the severe pain from the wound on my chest, and continue to rock the oar vigorously.

Regardless of the sound of muskets, they sounded round after round in a very short gap, and dense bullets flew around him, even spraying blood on his body.

There are also cannons that fire almost at close range, and each cannon can take away one of his ships.

In the end, with a dozen wounds all over his body, Yuan Hai's knees softened and he knelt on the boat; the blood that continued to flow from those wounds seemed to have taken away all their strength.

But even so, Yuan Hai had a smile on his face.

Because in the next second, a group of sailors on a fifth-level battleship in front of them looked in extremely frightened eyes, and the fire ship he was on finally hit it.

During the impact, the fire ship shook violently, but it did not capsize.

However, the blazing flames above quickly dried up the water on the hull, causing the wooden hull to begin to burn.

Immediately afterwards, the sailors on the ship used buckets to fetch water, or used manual water presses to pour water to extinguish the growing fire mass.

Another fire ship also ran into it.

A fire also quickly broke out at another location on the hull.

Even on the lower deck, a gunpowder barrel next to a certain gun window was ignited by the raging flames poured in, and immediately triggered a chain of explosions.

A person can tell at a glance that this fifth-level battleship is hopeless.

In the end, only a fraction of the original more than 120 fire ships, that is, seventeen ships, broke through the Yin army's fire blockade.

There were several fishermen among them. The moment they rocked the oars and controlled the fire boat to hit them, their whole bodies were burned into flames.

Of these seventeen ships, only three capsized when they collided, or were narrowly dodged by the Yin soldiers. After the remaining fourteen fire ships were hit one by one, a total of four were set ablaze. Boat.

They are one transport ship and three serious warships.

The Yin Army sailors above jumped into the river like dumplings and then fled frantically. Everything meant that these four ships were hopeless.

It means that there are still 21 ships that Hu Biao and the others need to deal with at this moment.

In fact, if you think about it seriously, the previous fire ships and mines, no matter how tragic the scene was, can only be regarded as some appetizers before the main meal.

The truly cruel war has just begun at this moment...

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Go back a little bit in time, to 1 minute ago; when there were two explosions before and after, the two ships were devastated by the first explosion of the mine.

Seeing the pale faces of his men in the firelight and their panicked movements, Charlie Elliot, the rear admiral of the Yin Army, was panicking even in his heart.

But he still held on and roared at the top of his lungs, trying to boost the morale of his own personnel:
“Young men, don’t panic, Qing Ren’s rockets have been used up, and there aren’t many fire ships left.

Although our losses may be great after the fire ship attack, the fleet still retains most of the warships; the three strongest third-class warships are still there, and other warships also maintain considerable combat effectiveness.

The most important thing is to think about the landing force led by Sir Henry Yilu and what happened to them.

These barbaric Easterners do not accept any prisoners; so in order to survive, everyone must cheer up, as long as we stay up until dawn, we will survive~"

With the fleet in chaos, the semaphores originally used for command and such communication methods have long been of no use.

However, after Charlie Elliot shouted the above content, his psychic adjutant immediately called to the dozens of sailors around him and shouted at the top of his lungs.Let the content of the above paragraph reach the ears of other sailors in the fleet.

As for the effects, I can only say that there were still some at that time.

But after a very short period of time, it was of no use at all.

Because Charlie Elliot had just seen his sailors, his nervousness had eased a little, and everything was just developing in a better direction.

The adjutant who was originally leading a group of sailors shouted loudly.

The voice in his mouth suddenly changed, with obvious trembling and fear, and he shouted: "Brother Su! What is that? Are they monsters from the east? Are they going to kill us?"

At such a strange sentence, Charlie Elliot immediately looked towards the shore.

Under the firelight of White Goose Pond, you can see several strange creatures emerging from the night and approaching quickly.

wrong!From more exclamations, it seems that there are such monsters appearing on the surrounding shores.

After seeing the creature's head with its mouth wide open.

Charlie Elliot, who was more familiar with Eastern culture, could not help shouting at the first moment:
"Dragon, this is a dragon.

He is the totem and guardian beast of the flower grower, my God!Why did we encounter this? What did we do wrong? Has Brother Su given up on us..."

Hu Biao didn't know and didn't want to know whether Brother Su had given up on these Yin Army bandits.

What he could know was that they had collected a total of 33 dragon boats in the past few days.

Under their leadership, a total of 33 men, including their combat troops, will row these 781 dragon boats and set off from many places on the shore of Baietan at the same time.

Withstanding the guns of the Yin army, they rushed over as fast as they could, seizing and blowing up the ship.

What made him somewhat dissatisfied was that the combat troops under their command actually numbered 1527 by this time tonight.

But for some unknown reason, no matter how high the price they paid, many villages around Yangcheng were unwilling to sell them the dragon boats used by their families in competitions every year.

They even directly used the excuse that the dragon boat in their village had been completely destroyed by the Yin army's artillery fire.

Even if they insist on buying a broken ship, they can't buy it back and find someone to repair it themselves.

You can't have a fight with these rural clans who are closely united over a boat, right?For this reason, Hu Biao and the others could only give up.

A large part of these 33 dragon boats were bought from surrounding places such as Shunde and Guancheng, and were transported back with great difficulty.

Otherwise, they have more dragon boats now, and there is a high probability that they can rush over later.

In this way, a group of shirtless men carried the dragon boat and rushed straight into the shallow water on the shore. After putting down the dragon boat, everyone quickly climbed onto the dragon boat.

Other men picked up the oars one after another, while Hu Biao and other netizens stood in front of a big drum on the bow of the boat.

But just when they picked up the drumsticks and were about to beat the drum rhythmically, they couldn't help but open their eyes wide.

Because in front of them, an incredible scene also appeared, and it was still fresh in their memories long after.

Like them, groups of men rushed out of the night carrying dragon boats that had been repainted.

In terms of number, I'm afraid there are as many as seventy or eighty.

The difference is that these guys look like mud-legged guys at first glance.

They were wearing brightly colored gowns that were uniform in color, with a red silk tied around their waists; just like how they dressed up to participate in the dragon boat racing competition during the Dragon Boat Festival every year.

On the dragon boat they were carrying, there were large flags with different contents embroidered on them:
There are some place names in the Yangcheng area such as Langtou Village, Xiaozhou Village, Huangpu Village, Shenjing Village, Julong Village, Daling Village, etc.; there are also many family surnames such as Huang, Chen, Zhong, Liang, Qiu, and Lin.

After seeing such a scene, Hu Biao and others still didn't understand.

These people are unwilling to sell their family's dragon boats. Instead, they want to row the dragon boats used by their ancestors and fathers to personally avenge these Yin people and bandits.

After realizing this, Hu Biao and the others beat the big drum rhythmically with an exciting spirit, and the sound of "dong, dong, dong~" resounded throughout the Pearl River, the mother river in eastern Guangdong... …

(End of this chapter)