The Sun Never Sets Great China

Inside the Manchu army camp in Yangzhou City, tens of thousands of soldiers were practicing, but their formation was very chaotic. Together, chatting about something in a low voice.Different from this gloomy and gloomy atmosphere, near the gate of the barracks, a flagpole more than ten feet high and surrounded by several people stands tall. On the top of the flagpole, a huge flag flutters in the wind. On the flag is a big The character "Qing" seemed to be staring closely at the dull and spiritless soldiers, but when it found that the soldiers didn't pay attention to it, it immediately lowered its head, looking a little dejected.

At this time, the north wind that had been blowing for almost half a day suddenly stopped, and the necks of the soldiers seemed to grow longer. They talked in low voices about how hot the skinny horses in Yangzhou were, and about the Chinese Revolutionary Army. It was time to attack Yangzhou and talk about whether Yangzhou could be held, and the noise around it became louder.

Seeing the chaos of the sergeants, the guard Dahari sighed in his heart and thought: "Hey! I really regret it! I regret that when the northern army went south, they didn't go to rescue them, and they took the lead in fleeing south. As a result, the old troops under him Almost all collapsed, and many generals and troops capable of fighting were incorporated by the Chinese Revolutionary Army. Later, although the imperial court made themselves guilty and meritorious, and continued to retreat to Yangzhou, the soldiers were all new recruits. Of course, I know what their combat effectiveness is. Ridiculous What's more, those soldiers really thought that they were old and confused, and they couldn't see that they were cheating during their training, but in fact they knew it very well! It was only because they were worried about stirring up another mutiny that they had to indulge them. Who made themselves short of money? These The soldiers have not been paid since they were recruited. If they hadn’t had food to eat, they would have broken up long ago! This time, it was because I promised that after Yangzhou was guarded, all the soldiers could rob nearby for three days, and Reissue the military salary, or else the troops would not even have their belts!" Thinking of the idea given to him by Lieutenant General Liu Fengqing to use the villagers as cannon fodder to defend Yangzhou, cold sweat broke out on Dahari's body immediately, he was shocked, opened his eyes, Turning his head to look at Lieutenant General Liu Fengqing, he thought, this Han Chinese is more cruel to Han Chinese than us Manchus.

Lieutenant General Liu Fengqing saw his superior looking at him. He felt that there was something wrong with him. He felt that Lieutenant General Liu Fengqing was a little embarrassed to be looked at by him. Dahari said: "It's not easy to take soldiers now! If you don’t come, they were all robbed by the Chinese Revolutionary Army, and this Yangzhou has been exploited many times and has become poor. The soldiers haven’t been paid for a long time! Last time, if the old man didn’t run fast, the men under his command I am afraid that the old man will be killed by the rebels long ago! This time, the old man agreed with the soldiers to fight the grassland near Yangzhou, just to raise the army's salary, but now I heard that the Chinese Revolutionary Army is coming soon, and the city was driven by us. There are as many as 10,000+ refugees, and they all need to eat, and the sergeants have no military pay, and the money and food are pitifully small, which is really difficult!" Lieutenant General Liu Fengqing just nodded attentively, expressing that the boss is indeed very difficult, But he knew that Dahari was just complaining to him, and if he wanted him to solve this problem, it was impossible for him to solve it.

On the misty embankment of the canal, the sound of rumbling guns continued. Tu Hai, a general of the Qing army and navy, stood on a mound beside the canal and looked into the distance.Although the canal was foggy and he couldn't see anything, he could feel the ships of the Chinese Revolutionary Army sailing up and down and the roaring cannons.He was a little strange in his heart, the navy under his command did not dare to move out in such a thick fog, why did the navy of the Chinese Revolutionary Army dare to move out?And their guns were so accurate that they had destroyed six of the mounds he had built along the canal.

Some time ago, thousands of Chinese Revolutionary Army troops attacked his fleet docked on the shore from land, and he repelled it later. In order to defend the Chinese Revolutionary Army troops on the shore and prevent the Chinese Revolutionary Army Navy from entering the canal, he hid in the canal Tuhai had to order his subordinates to block the canal on the side of the Yangtze River with three thick iron chains, and built 35 earth barriers along the canal and water villages, and placed a wall on each earth barrier. fired a cannon.

A few days ago, only a navy of the Chinese Revolutionary Army was sailing on the river. It is said that this navy was a part of the Chinese Revolutionary Army that surrendered in Nanming. Their ships were small and there were few guns on board. The division did not suffer against them, and sank an opposing ship.

But since last night, Tu Hai felt that something was wrong, because the ships he sent to patrol near the north bank of the Yangtze River encountered a fleet coming from the direction of the Yangtze River. identity of.When the navy generals who were confused about the reality of the opponent were about to withdraw into the canal, they were chased by the opponent's fleet and beaten up, losing more than ten ships and more than 300 soldiers.

When the blood-stained navy general ran back to the camp to report to Tuhai, Tuhai couldn't believe his ears. When did the Chinese Revolutionary Army have such a brave and capable navy?Due to the closure of the news and the secrecy of the naval forces of the Nakato Revolutionary Army, in Tuhai's impression of the Chinese Revolutionary Army, they seem to have never paid attention to the Navy Division, and only focused on building the Army, while the Navy was only built Some small boats, or navy ships received from the perishing Nanming, were used to transport supplies and fight water bandits.Tuhai decided to go to the riverside to have a look the next day, to see who is sacred here.

But it seemed that God deliberately played tricks on Tu Hai. When Tu Hai got up early in the morning, he realized that there was a fog, and the fog was so thick that he couldn't see anyone more than ten feet away.He didn't care about this much, and immediately led his soldiers to the mouth of the canal, stood on a mound, and waited for the fog to clear to see what happened.

What made Tuhai even more strange and angry was that there was no wind at all today, so the fog refused to dissipate for a long time.From the morning until almost noon, the river was completely quiet, only the sound of the rushing river hitting the bank came to people's ears from time to time, but no other sounds could be heard at all, and the surrounding was a bit unusually quiet.Just when Tu Hai thought everything was safe, the sound of "Boom" broke the silence.

Just as Tu Hai was stunned, with a "huh", a shell flew over three feet away from his head, and landed in the canal far away, splashing water more than half a foot high.Tuhai shrank his neck in fright, lay down on the spot with a few soldiers, and rolled down the slope behind the earth barrier.Just when they were halfway rolling, countless cannons sounded like setting off firecrackers, but the sound was much louder than firecrackers, and they were much more destructive.

Tu Hai has never heard so many cannons firing at the same time. In his opinion, even the artillery of the Chinese Revolutionary Army may not be able to match the density of firepower. What surprised him even more was that among the shells fired by these cannons At least half of them are flowering shells, blasting shells, and grape shells. At present, this kind of shells seems to be equipped in large quantities only in the Chinese Revolutionary Army. Of course, the Manchu Qing Army also has them, but the number is very small. Recently, they have a good relationship with the court in the whole north. The landlords and scholastics spent money to buy a lot of artillery, flowering bombs, blasting bombs, and grape bombs from Redbeard. They were used in Henan, but they all ended up in the hands of the Chinese Revolutionary Army. The first batch of lost new cannons is said to be the It was captured by a group of irregular militiamen. Of course, the leader of the other party's troops was Zhang Huahan who made the court issue the most wanted man with a heady price of 800 million taels of silver.

From time to time, the shells landed near the several earthen barriers on the bank of the canal, and there were constant explosions and soldiers' shouts and screams from around and on the top of the earthen barriers.The opponent's artillery fire was very accurate, and it seemed that they were very close to the shore, and nearly [-]% of the shells they fired hit the earth barrier accurately.

Seeing this scene, Tu Hai immediately ordered to fire back.The soldiers loaded gunpowder and shells in a hurry, and then roughly positioned the muzzle flash from the fog, and then fired back.However, these chaotic shots of the Tuhai artillery were quickly suppressed by the opponent's accurate and dense artillery fire, and because the opponent could also see their muzzle flashes, the opponent's artillery fire was more accurate. As a result, the base was hit by the opponent's flowering bomb and the gunpowder caused a big explosion.In order to avoid exposing their position due to the muzzle flash, the opponents adopted a salvo method. Often after a salvo, the ship immediately moved forward or turned around, so Tuhai's artillery could not accurately target them. It can only be blind shooting.

At this moment, Tuhai finally came to his senses, and he immediately ordered to stop shooting.This trick really worked, the opponent's shooting accuracy dropped a lot immediately, but quite a few shells still hit the earth barrier.Tu Hai was puzzled. He didn't know why the opponent's artillery was so accurate, and it seemed that only the earth fortifications by the river were hit, while those slightly behind the earth fortifications that mainly defended the Chinese Revolutionary Army were rarely hit. I don't understand, can the opponent's fleet still distinguish whether the earth fortress it built is mainly aimed at the navy or the army?Didn't he become a god? In order to find out the truth of the matter, he had to send troops to the riverside to investigate under fire.

Soon, the mystery was solved.It turned out that the other party sent many small boats, and these small boats rowed quietly to the shore. After finding the location of the earth barrier, they rowed back again, and soon after they left, new boats would come and continue explore.When Huang Degong heard the report from the soldiers, he immediately understood. He guessed that after the small boats found out the location of the earth barrier, they returned to the big ship to report, and the gunners on the big ship constantly corrected the shooting direction and range according to the report, so They can accurately hit the earth barriers in this heavy fog, but those small boats cannot get too close, so they can't see the earth barriers at the back clearly, which means those earth barriers at the back are rarely hit in the reason.

Knowing this, Tuhai immediately dispatched archers and musketeers to guard the riverside, and when they saw the opponent's boats, they would shoot them to keep them from approaching the riverside.As soon as this move was made, the opponent's shooting immediately became chaotic and blind, and stopped shooting after a while, and the river surface returned to calm.

Tu Hai returned to an earth barrier by the river again, and listened attentively, but he could still only hear the sound of the rushing river, but he knew that the other party had not left, they must still be wandering around, waiting for the opportunity, Then he took the opportunity to bite himself hard.He ordered the soldiers to step up patrols to prevent the other party from playing tricks again.Now he is just praying silently in his heart, hoping that this annoying fog will dissipate as soon as possible, because the cannons he has set up on the mound are all [-]-jin and [-]-jin heavy guns, which are far smaller than those on those ships. Cannons and Fulang machines have a long range, as long as the fog clears, the other party will not even try to take advantage of it!

Maybe it was Huang Degong's sincerity that moved the heavens, or maybe it was the arrival of the cold air from Siberia, a strong north wind blowing up the military flag standing on the earth barrier, and at the same time gathering all the soldiers on the river. The fog blowing away.Huang Degong shouted excitedly: "Haha! God help me too! Now I see what tricks those bastards in the navy of the Chinese Revolutionary Army can do?"

But when the fog finally dissipated completely, Tu Hai was stunned again, because a huge fleet appeared in front of his eyes on the river that was still foggy just now.He opened his mouth wide and looked at the river in disbelief, "Oh my God! Where did so many boats come from?" He secretly marveled, his eyes stared straight.

I saw that the huge fleet on the opposite side was divided into two teams, one was in the east and the other was in the west. Both fleets sailed up the canal, and each fleet had about a hundred large ships. , and more small boats were attached to those big ships. When the two fleets converged, thousands of sails competed and hundreds of boats competed. The scene was spectacular. This rare scene was enough to make Tu Hai dumbfounded.What surprised him even more was that among these big ships, there were thirty or fifty strange sailing boats mixed in. Their hulls were smooth, their bows were sharp, and each boat had two or three tall The mast, the mast is no longer a hard sail, but two or three white sails, and a triangular sail is hung on the bow of some ships, and the hulls of the ships are all hugging Wearing iron sheet steel armor, it looks very strong.What Tu Hai didn't know was that many of these ships were captured by the Chinese Revolutionary Army. There were all kinds of ships in the Zheng family's navy, including ships from the Ming Dynasty, Portuguese ships, and Dutch ships. Many ships were either robbed or bought from other Asian countries.

After the two fleets traveled a certain distance, they turned their bows and sailed in opposite directions, and the closer they got to the north bank of the Yangtze River, they didn't pay attention to Tuhai's cannon at all. "My God, when did the Chinese Revolutionary Army have such a powerful navy? Bastard! Let me show you how powerful I am!" Tuhai thought in his heart, and he turned his head to order: "Order all the cannons to fire, and give I will knock down their arrogance!"

There was a rumbling sound, and dozens of shells fell among those ships, most of them fell into the river, only a few shells hit a few ships, but the solid bullets only left a few on the steel coat of ships. Apart from a bump, it didn't pose much threat to it.Seeing that the number of cannons in Tuhai was scarce, those ships became more courageous. Instead of retreating, they moved closer to the river for tens of feet and fired.

At this time, Tu Hai finally saw the opponent's flag clearly, and saw two flags hung on the tallest mast of each ship, one was a red flag with the golden word "China" embroidered on it, and the other was also a red flag. A big "Zhang" was written on the flag.

Tu Hai thought about it for a long time, but he couldn't remember which Chinese Revolutionary Army navy general was named Zhang. He ordered the cannon to continue shooting, while thinking hard, searching for those generals he was familiar with in the depths of his memory.

Tuhai's fleet also began to attack, and the opponent's ships had many guns. However, under the confrontation at this distance, the Man Qingshui Army, which did not have the upper hand in the gun fire of the ships, could not gain the advantage. A series of artillery fire from the army shattered, and the river flooded into the boat.Seeing that he could not win, Tu Hai immediately sent the fleet to retreat quickly until it was out of the range of the Chinese Revolutionary Army fleet's cannons.

After a while, Tu Hai saw that the ships of the Chinese Revolutionary Army began to retreat. It seemed that they were specially dealing with the navy of the Qing army. As soon as the navy of the Manchu and Qing army retreated, they could not pursue them because of the chains blocking them. The naval fleet of the Chinese Revolutionary Army also retreated. Looking at the retreating ships, Tu Hai smiled triumphantly and said to himself: "See if you are the best or I am the best! I think you are a group of sailors on the water. I don’t know how to fight in water, hahaha!” He laughed for a while, then stopped suddenly, and suddenly remembered something, and said, “Little thief? The leader of the bandit? Could it be Zhang Huahan, the deputy commander of the Chinese Revolutionary Army?”

Tu Hai was not familiar with the generals of the Chinese Revolutionary Army. In Tu Hai's impression, he seemed to have never specifically learned about all the generals of the Chinese Revolutionary Army.Huang Degong also accidentally heard about some generals of the Chinese Revolutionary Army when he was talking with others. He only knew that many of them had mud legs and were later reused by the Chinese Revolutionary Army. He really couldn't think of any Chinese Revolutionary Army other than Zhang Huahan The famous general was surnamed Zhang.

"Hey! Zhang Huahan, Zhang Huahan, you, the person who commands the land battle, will never be able to make a big splash in the water battle. Apart from sneaking up on others, you have nothing to do!" However, he sank seven warships and injured two warships, and overturned the earthen fortress on the shore. As many as 800 soldiers of the Manchu Qing army were killed or injured. He saw the fleet of the Chinese Revolutionary Army go further The farther it went, it finally retreated along the canal to the direction of the Yangtze River.

Seeing that the threat had been lifted temporarily, Tuhai breathed a sigh of relief. He walked down the earth barrier, ordered the lieutenant to lead the sergeants to repair the damaged earth barrier as soon as possible, and then returned to the navy camp.As soon as he returned to the navy camp, he asked his master to write a letter to Dahari in Yangzhou, asking him to send [-] cannons as soon as possible, because he suddenly felt that the cannons he brought were too few, and he sent them from Dahari. I learned from a letter to him a few days ago that Dahari has collected nearly [-] cannons from various places, all of which are placed on the city wall of Yangzhou

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