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Chapter 245 The Battle of the Yangtze River (Part 2)

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    "Cai Yurong, Sang E, Fang Zhengse, you three idiots! Trash! Sinners through the ages! When you return to the capital, the master will definitely cut you into pieces! You will be copied and executed! You will implicate the nine clans! Just kill you and cut you a thousand times!"  Ten thousand times, it¡¯s hard to get rid of the hatred in my heart! It¡¯s even harder to get rid of the hatred in the master¡¯s heart! You three stupid pigs¡ª¡ª!¡±

    Waving his waist knife wildly and roaring hysterically, Tu Haisheng chopped the table with the map and the table in front of him into pieces.  No more, all of them were stupefied in a daze, as if they had already lost their souls, and there was only one thought left in their minds, "It's over! The Yangtze River defense line is over, and the Qing Dynasty is also over!"

    "Tutang, please, send reinforcements to Hanyang! If you don't send reinforcements, Hanyang may not be able to keep it! Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo"

    In the end, it was the crying voice of the Hanyang envoy for help, which pulled Tu Hai back from the maddened anger and fear.  Lifting him off the ground with his collar on, he roared and asked with red eyes: "Tell me, after Wu Dog successfully smuggled out of the country last night, what happened in the subsequent battle? How many sneak attacks did Wu Dog have on the army?"

    "When the villain left Hanyang, Cai Butang and the others were attacking the wharf with all their strength." The rescue messenger replied truthfully: "Judging from the shouts of killing, it seems that Wu Gou's sneak attack army is not too many, probably only a few thousand people are the least  It will be more than 1500, but it just killed us by surprise and seized the pier so that our warships could not sail, so Wu Gou¡¯s civilian ships could continue to transport troops to the shore. Later, because the villain was in a hurry to come to Luoshan for help, he did not  knew."

    "Let's say 1,500 people." Tu Hai calculated in his mind, "We have 6,000 troops in Hanyang, and it is very safe to stop the 1,500 Wugou troops.  At noon today, the navy from Huangzhou can also rush to Hanyang for reinforcements. Wugou has no warships in Wuchang, and Ge Bingzhen is sure to cut off the channel of Wugou's troop convoy. That is to say, even if Wugou grabs Ge Bingzhen's ship  Before the troops arrived, they carried the main force of Wuchang to the north bank of the Yangtze River. Excluding the troops left behind in Wuchang, Fankui and other places, the number of troops crossing the river would never exceed 7,000.  Wugou has great hopes for a day or two!"

    After thinking up to this point, Tu Hai hurriedly asked the messenger again: "Then I'll get back to you, your Cai Butang, have you found Wu Dog's army to reinforce Wuchang in the past few days?"

    "Absolutely not." The messenger quickly replied: "If Wuchang's Wugou army is found to be abnormal, even if we lend us a hundred courage, we dare not take it lightly last night."

    "It's your mother's shame that you still have the face to say this!" Tu Hai threw the messenger to the ground, kicked it angrily, then turned to the Qing army generals next to him and shouted: "Hanyang still has hope! Send someone immediately  Go to the river to contact Yang Jie and order him to defeat the Wugou navy within three hours! Then send an order to Zhang Tao to let him be in"

    "Boom!" The sudden sound of an explosion interrupted Tu Hai's order. Although the sound of gunpowder explosion can be heard everywhere on the land and water battlefield where blood and blood are flying, the sound of the explosion this time was so loud that it was almost like  It was a thunderbolt as loud and shocking as it exploded in the ears of Tu Hai and other Qing army generals.  Hearing this sound, Tuhai, Chani and other generals of the Qing army followed the sound subconsciously, but what surprised them even more was that the explosion came from the direction of the Yangtze River channel in the south of Jiangxin Island.  It's a pity that the cliff on Jiangxin Island happened to block Tuhai's view, so it would be difficult for Tuhai, Chani and others to know what caused such a violent explosion.

    "Boom! Boom!" There were two equally loud explosions. Although the cause of the explosion was still unclear, seeing the Wu army on the south bank cheering and the soldiers of the Qing army on Jiangxin Island holding their heads and screaming, Tu Hai  A premonition arose in the hearts of Qing army generals such as Zhani and others, a serious and bad premonition

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    The one that can make such a loud noise is of course Wu Jun¡¯s Fat Man brand Huitian torpedo loaded with explosives. At the beginning, when Wu Jun¡¯s artillery team suddenly stopped firing, although the reason for the Qing Army¡¯s navy Zhang Tao¡¯s fleet was very strange, it was still subconscious.  Seizing this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, they quickly turned around the cliff corner at the east end of Jiangxin Island covered by the Wu army's artillery, and hurriedly gathered at this position to head north, rushing towards the narrow and long fish-like waterway in the middle of Jiangxin Island.  On this shipway, the Wu army troop transport fleet full of soldiers is still struggling to get close to the beach of Jiangxin Island, looking for a suitable landing place.

    ?The great achievement of annihilating the Wu army's troop transport fleet is within reach, and there is no Wu army next to it.Both experienced and commanded properly without making any mistakes. The decisive battle between the Qing army and the Wu army naturally became a long and protracted war of attrition.  The Qing army relied on many ships and heavy loads to fight, and always wanted to fight hand-to-hand with the Wu army; the Wu army relied on the flexibility of the warships, shallow draft, and powerful firearms, and they were always swimming and fighting, trying not to give the Qing army side-to-side combat.  Opportunity: The warships of both sides come and go on the wide river, or collide with each other, or chase each other, or shoot at each other, or drop bombs at close quarters, thick smoke billows on the river, the sound of killing is loud, and the corpses in the river  The wreckage drifted with the current, and there were countless soldiers from both sides churning and calling for help.

    Without Fatty Lu's unethical tactics of suicide boats, it is really uncertain who will win and who will lose in this decisive battle between the Wu Jun Navy and the Qing Army Navy, and the Qing Army Navy will definitely have a greater chance of winning, but it is  Because of Fatty Lu's unscrupulous tactics, the navy sailors of the Qing army who experienced this poisonous tactic for the first time were inevitably caught off guard.  Even Yang Jie, the navy commander of the Qing army, who was regarded by both the old traitor Wu and Fatty Lu as the biggest stumbling block in the Wu army's battle of crossing the river, inevitably felt caught off guard after receiving the tactical warning of the Wu army's suicide ship.  Yang Jie couldn't make up his mind to send the warning to all warships.

    "Should we warn all the warships?" Yang Jie was extremely hesitant, "If a warning is issued to tell all ships to be careful of Wu Gou's suicide sampan, then there will be large and small boats everywhere in the melee, and the sailors will definitely be distracted, even more so.  Shaking morale will be a big disadvantage in the decisive battle. If we don't issue a warning, and wait for Wu Gou's suicide ship to rush into the battlefield, our losses may be even greater!"

    "No, we still have to issue a warning, otherwise it will be too late when Wu Gou's suicide ship rushes into the battlefield and severely damages our main fleet!" After weighing the pros and cons for a long time, Yang Jie finally gritted his teeth and shouted: "Send the ship immediately!"  Notify people one by one, warning all boats to beware of Wu Gou's suicide sampan!"

    At the same time, on the south bank of the Yangtze River, Wu Yingjing, who had already prepared the suicide sampan and selected the brave men to die, flew to the old traitor Wu's banner, knelt down on one knee, and asked whether to attack immediately.  The old traitor Wu, who was worried about the stalemate in the main battlefield of the navy, did not hesitate, and immediately shouted: "Attack!"

    "Wait a minute!" Wang Shirong suddenly stood up, cupped his hands at the old traitor Wu, and said, "My lord, our army's suicide ship tactics have already severely injured Man Gou, and now Man Gou's navy must be prepared. If we do the same, I'm afraid it will be difficult  After receiving the miraculous effect, we must change the method.¡±

    "What's the alternative?" Old Traitor Wu asked.

    "Let our death squads wear dog uniforms and put dog flags on board." Wang Shirong said with a smirk: "Break the whole into pieces, and use the islands and smoke to cover up, and sneak into the decisive battle of the navy's main force."

    The old man Wu smiled sinisterly, and said: "Zu Zuo, Ying Jing, let uncle do according to plan."

    Note: The note that was omitted before, Lin Xingzhu, a good friend of Duke Wei in history, took advantage of the opportunity of Du Hui, the leader of Wu Jun's navy, to return to Yuezhou for official business, and led Wu Jun's Dongting Lake Navy to surrender. Du Hui has been with Wu Yingqi since then  Resisted the siege of Mite Qing in Yuezhou until he died.  (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point (qidian.com) to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation.) (Remember the website URL: www.hlnovel.com
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