The Qing Navy, who escaped from the waterway, did not take long to relax. After walking for three or four miles of waterways, the crying sounds of the Qing Army soldiers behind him echoed in his ears. Here, the Sanchakou where Yunzaogang merged into the Huangpu River was already at the intersection.

This place is different from the purgatory-like Shura battlefield behind me. It is quiet and peaceful. The reeds on the shore are swaying in the wind. The water of the Huangpu River flows endlessly. The two sides are surprisingly quiet. After walking for a few miles, you will reach Wusongkou.

Chen Guotai stood at the bow of the boat and watched his boat pass by, and obviously felt something was wrong. Lai Zhenhai frowned and said, "This pseudo-Western King is fierce and cunning in his military use. It is impossible for us to be allowed to go to Wusongkou so easily..."

As soon as he finished speaking, the three red single boats before boarding the boat were hulled heavily. The helmsman on the boat was unsteady. The hull straddled the river under the huge inertia of water flow and wind, and overturned several guards and fast crab boats beside him.

Chen Guotai's face changed and shouted loudly: "No, there are iron chains or wooden stakes under the water! There is an ambush of a long-haired thief here!"

At this moment, an arrow flew up from the reed marsh on the west bank and landed directly on the river with a shrill sound. The reed marsh on both sides and several harbors seemed to be magical. Countless firelights emerged, and the smoke filled the gunpowders. The dense cannons rushed towards the Qing army naval fleet in the river with a sharp whistling sound.

Because the three red single boats in the front were blocked by the underwater iron locks and crossed the river, the sailors hurriedly adjusted the sails and tried to adjust the direction of the water rudder. The paddlers were also trying to correct the hull, but the few red single boats behind could not dodge and directly hit them. Even Chen Guotai's boat was hit. Chen Guotai and Lai Zhenhai were hit and staggered. Fortunately, they were on the boat for a long time, and when they could not avoid it, they shouted loudly to order the whole boat to prepare for the collision.

Chen Guotai held a cable to stabilize his body. He then cursed loudly: "What a cunning long-haired thief, this time the iron lock Hengjiang River is actually hidden under the water!"

Lai Zhenhaitou said: "Not bad, and the iron chain is just enough to stop the bottom of the red single boat bed, but the other small boats such as sampans, fast crab boats, etc. can pass."

The cannon attacked, and Chen Guotai and Lai Zhenhai had no time to talk. They shouted and ordered the watchman to sing out a signal flag, and ordered the Hongdan big ship to fire a cannon to fight back. The other small boats were preparing to send some soldiers to clear out the long-haired thief cannon formation on the shore.

The lookout hand danced the flag a few times, and a cannon flew over. The lookout hand was right on the main mast of Chen Guotai, who was riding on the boat. The lookout hand screamed on the main mast and then fell into the water. Following more cannons, they flew towards Chen Guotai's boat. It seemed that the Taiping Army recognized that the ship was the head general of the Qing army naval division, so they concentrated on attacking the ship.

In an instant, the cannon came like rain, and big holes were smashed on the deck. The sailors had already fallen. The sailors on the boat were in chaos. Chen Guotai could not send out the order, and the entire fleet was in chaos. Some of the red single ships turned around and fired fire, some bumped together, some of the small boats were overturned by the big ships, some rushed through the iron chains, and more than a dozen sampans and fast crab boats were flying to the shore, preparing to fight ashore.

Several small sampan boats that were fighting the vanguard arrived on the shore. Countless Taiping Army musketeers, archers, dense leads and feather arrows flew out from the reed marshes on the shore. They immediately beat the Qing army on the boat to countless corpses. Seeing that they could not rush ashore, the small boats had to retreat.

Chen Guotai's boat had already penetrated thousands of holes. Chen Guotai and Lai Zhenhai protected Hechunji to board the small boat and hid on another red boat to hide. The artillery fire on the shore of the Taiping Army continued to attack, and the Qing army's large and small ships were congested together on the river surface, becoming the best targets for living. Before boarding the small boat to abandon the boat, Chen Guotai's life-saving command soldiers took several small boats to send orders, and ordered a small boat, a fast crab boat, and a sampan to advance first. The large and small ships acted separately, and went downstream to clear underwater obstacles for the big boat, otherwise they would have to wait for death if they were congested together.

After the Qing naval boats, fast crab boats and other shallow-drained boats were ordered, they immediately passed through the gaps of the Red Single Boat and drove downstream to avoid the artillery fire on the Taiping Army's shore. These boats were about to go through, and the Taiping Army's artillery fire did not chase these boats, but only attacked the Red Single Boat on the river. After the Red Single Boat's artillery began to fight back, the two armies' water and land artillery began a desperate battle.

The escaped Qing army boat, the fast crab boat, stopped at about the downstream. When he was about to drop the water ghost and dive over to cut the iron chain, a Qing army sailor shouted loudly: "There are long-haired pirate fleets coming downstream!"

The navy guerrilla Li Xinming, who was in charge of commanding the fleet of small boats, and Ye Changchun and the two were on a fast crab boat. He heard the shouts and looked up quickly. Sure enough, on the Huangpu River downstream, the Taiping Army fleet composed of dozens of large and large ships were sailed all over. Li Xinming was wearing a short suit, holding a short blade and turned back to Ye Changchun and shouted loudly: "Brother Ye, you take the young people here to go into the water to dig out the iron chains. I bring half of the small boats to the enemy. You can dig out the iron chains as soon as possible and let the big ships of Chen and the others come over. Otherwise, the separation of our large and small boats is a taboo in the water battle, and I am afraid that they will be defeated one by one by the long-haired navy."

Ye Changchun is also a person who is used to water wars. He knows that in water wars, large and small ships complement each other and support each other. If they fight separately, they often win less and lose more. He immediately responded loudly: "I understand that Brother Li will cut off the iron chain even if he fights to the death."

At the moment, the Qing army naval fleet was divided into two. Li Xinming brought more than ten fast crab boats, more than 30 small boats and sampans rushed forward to meet the enemy, and Ye Changchun personally led his people into the water to swim to the bottom of the Hongdan boat.

The navy fleet on the other side was the Taiping Navy led by Lu Shunde and Zhao Shunping. After raiding Wusong in the morning, the overall situation was decided by noon. Lu Shunde and Zhao Shunping followed Xiao Yungui's general order to lead the navy to Sanchakou to support Chen Yucheng who blocked the Qing army here. Xiao Yungui knew that once the Qing army learned that Wusong was occupied, they would return desperately. Chen Yucheng's land division had a chance of winning against the Qing army's land division, but he could not stop the Qing army's navy.

The Hengjiang River can only block it for a while. Once the iron chain is destroyed, the Qing army fleet may rush to Wusongkou. Now the Wusong Fortress has just been recovered, and many of them do not even have artillery. The two rivers at Sanchakou converge, with complex water flow and many port forks. The curves on the river surface are narrow, which is just suitable for ambushing, so you can only block the enemy at Sanchakou. You must never let the Qing navy escape from Sanchakou. Otherwise, the Wusongkou River's river surface is wide, and once the Qing navy warships are unfolded, it will be difficult to stop it.

When Lu Shunde and Zhao Shunping got orders, they immediately led the fleet upstream. When they were almost at Sanchakou, they heard the sound of cannons. The two urged the oarsmen to support themselves and came to the inside and outside Sanchakou. They saw the Qing army's large and small ships separated, and the small boats were in the downstream. Zhao Shunping said happily: "It is a good time to separate the Qing Yao Navy's large and small ships one by one."

Lu Shunde also said happily: "That's true, ordering the entire army to work hard to move forward and annihilate the Qing Yao small fleet first!"

The Qing army navy was not slow to react. When he saw the Taiping Navy fleet, the small fleet immediately divided half of the ships to fight. Seeing this, Zhao Shunping pulled out the sharp blade from his waist, took off his outer robe, exposed his short jacket and tightly slapped, and shouted to Lu Shunde: "Brother Lu, I will lead the boat forward to meet the enemy. You can lead the big ship with cannons and the muskets will help!"

Lu Shunde shouted: "Brother Zhao, please be careful." Zhao Shunping got off the boat and led the boat to protect the wings, and Lu Shunde ordered the boat to start firing cannons.

The Taiping Army's warships were mostly inland merchant ships and large grain ships, which were far less sharp than the red-single sea ships, but they could still suppress their firepower against the small fleet of the Shangqing Army. Among the small fleets of the Qing army, the largest ones were only a dozen fast crab ships. There were rows of oars on both sides of this fast crab ship, which looked like centipedes and crabs. The hull was usually painted red and black. It was called "centipede ship" in the Yuan and Ming dynasties and was called "fast crab" in the Qing Dynasty. In the Qing Dynasty, it often appeared in the golden waterway of foreign trade in the Pearl River Estuary in Guangdong, plundering the passing ships and property. Raise the oars without wind and set sail, and use sails when necessary. There are more than 20 oars on each side of the large "fast crab" and two strong men walking on the water as if they were flying, using the extraordinary speed of the fast ship to chase the "prey" and escape pursuit.

The fast crab ship was originally a ship used by pirates in the Pearl River Delta. When shaking, it was like a crab's legs stretching. It was extremely fast. Muskets, crossbows could be placed on both sides, and artillery could be equipped with bows. When the officers and soldiers were chased, they could escape if they could. If they could not escape, they would fire the cannon and resist arrest, which caused a headache for the official army. Later, the Qing government officials became aware of it and recruited some pirates. Xiang Lai Zhenhai and others were from pirates. With these people joining, the Qing government quickly imitated the fast crab ship, and the Qing government relied on the fast crab ship to fight poison with poison and arrest pirates and smugglers.

Lu Shunde was a powerful general under Luo Dagang. In his early years, he was a congregation of the heaven and earth. He had been in the craftsmen in Guangdong and Guangxi. He knew very well the speed advantage of the fast crab boat. At this moment, the fast crab boat was coming along and the speed was increased. Therefore, Lu Shunde ordered the gunners to aim at the direction of the fast crab boat several meters away to fire guns in advance. If he only wanted to aim at the fast crab boat, he would definitely not be able to hit the fast crab boat.

When Lu Shunde's order was issued, the artillery fire of the Taiping Army's large ships suddenly became accurate. Four fast crab boats were hit by flowering bullets, one was hit by the bow of the ship, and the entire bow was torn apart by a huge shock wave. The stern of the ship was raised high and quickly sank into the water. The other three were hit by the stern, the rudder was destroyed, and a large hole was torn open on the stern, and the stern was slapped several times on the river surface, and slowly sank into the water.

After four rounds of artillery, the Qing army's fast crab boats were the first to approach the Taiping Army fleet, but they lost eight fast crab boats, and the remaining six were still bravely advanced under the leadership of the Qing army's naval general Li Xinming.

Seeing that the Qing army's fast crabs had arrived, Zhao Shunping shouted loudly with a sharp blade, "Brother Lu and the others fought well. Brothers, Guangdong barbarians actually drove a boat to our inland river in the south of the Yangtze River to show off their power. Do they think there is no one in Wuzhong? Brothers follow me! Let Guangdong barbarians see the true nature of our Wuzhong navy!" Zhao Shunping's canal bandits shouted in unison, and they all rode their oars and hedged to the Qing army's fast crab boats. A battle of water and water is about to begin. To be continued, please search for astronomy, the novel is better and faster!
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