Between the mountains and rivers of Poyang Lake, the land is still full of green even in autumn, and the water is as clean as a mirror.
The water surface was covered with a faint mist in the early morning, slowly rippling in the breeze.
There is a beautiful natural scenery here, without the pollution of smoke and dust, everything is so brightly colored; it is like a paradise, with a large population around it, but the local population of the small peasant economy has been hidden by the great natural environment.
Even in the distant county town, there are only more houses and not much noise.
So the earth was quiet and seemed particularly peaceful.
But as the shallow mist gradually dissipated, the paradise-like scenery was immediately completely broken by a spectacular scene.
The water in the north, from the Yangtze River to the entrance of the lake, seemed to be suddenly occupied by countless ships, which was just an illusion caused by the dissipation of the mist.
The ships were of different sizes and were lined up on the water, row after row, and countless ships were unknown.
After a while, the rising sun rose from the mountains to the east, and immediately coated the rippling water waves with an orange-red stream of light.
The quiet colors between the world suddenly became a little more gorgeous.
The sound quickly became noisy, mainly the drums everywhere, and there was still a faint noise among the waves.
On the side of Poyang Lake, there are also a large area of ships on the water surface, most of which have no sails because there is no wind.
The largest building ship in front, with wooden pulp on both sides like a fat centipede, is the command ship of the Jiujiang Army Navy.
There is a building at the stern of the boat, a wide deck in front, full of five-colored flags, and many soldiers.
On the boat building, there were several generals standing.A big bearded man in the middle is Yang Chengxiao, the admiral of the Jiujiang Army Navy, and Wu Zhongxun, the deputy admiral sent from Yongding Camp, who is responsible for supervising the chief general.
Admiral Yang Chengxiao covered his palm on his right side and looked at the scene on the west bank of the lake.Only some flags were seen, there was a cannon camp there, and it was said that the Hunan King Zhu Wenbiao was also watching the battle in the camp.
Wu Zhongxun, who was standing aside, said coldly: As long as General Yang blocks the imperial naval army in the first formation and prevents him from entering Poyang Lake, the official army may turn to attack Hukou City. At that time, the responsibility will not be with General Yang.
Yang Chengxiao said seriously: I will transfer all the ships here, so I will naturally block the enemy!
Wu Zhongxun said: This is very good. This battle is of great importance. If the battle is not effective, you will wait and see King Xiang.
Wu Zhongxun was just a deputy general, but he had no respect for the admiral's speech, because there was still a difference between the direct lineage of the Zhuque Army and the partial division of the same level.
The boats here were waiting for work on the water and drifted for a long time. Dozens of ships of all sizes of the government troops rushed over, without any intention of stopping.
There were about a dozen small boats moored in the middle of the lake, locked with hidden ropes, filled with firewood, tung oil and gunpowder, and lined up on the water.
When the official warships approached, the boat was suddenly lit, and the granulated gunpowder burned a few times. With a bang, the fire soared into the sky. Ten ships caught fire together, and the fire was even more dazzling than the rising sun.
An official warship rushed too far ahead and the fire did not stop sailing. It tried to cross the gap between the fire ships, but the bottom of the ship immediately hit the underwater iron chain. The fire ships on both sides slowly squeezed into the middle under force, and in an instant it stuck to the side strings of the warship. The raging fire immediately burned the warship.
People's shouts came from the water. After a while, the officers and soldiers on the ship saw that there was no hope of putting out the fire, jumped into the water one after another, and some people were ignited and screamed and rushed into the water in a panic.
Seeing this, the soldiers of the Jiujiang Navy were very excited. Cheers and shouts sounded on all the boats. The world suddenly became lively, and people seemed to be in high spirits.
The official navy did not stop because of this, and the ships circled from both sides of the burning water.
At this moment, the sound of drums on the shore came from afar, and then a rumbling thunder came from the mountains and rivers shining on the sun.
During the earthquake, white smoke rose from the mountains on both sides of the river, as if a forest fire was about to occur.
White waves splashed everywhere on the lake surface, and many shells fell into the water.
Suddenly, with a click, many broken wood pieces on a ship splashed into the water, and the bow of the ship immediately turned off, obviously being hit by shelling.
The Jiujiang Navy shouted again. Before the two armies approached, the government army had two ships damaged and destroyed, which was undoubtedly a good start.
However, the waters at the entrance of the lake are still relatively wide. Such artillery fire is very powerful, but the actual results are not great. In addition, the wheels of the government army sail very fast, and most of the artillery shells are hit into the water. Whether the ships are killed or not is entirely up to the will of heaven, and the artillery cannot block the assault formation of the government army.
Yang Chengxiao stood at a high place and saw that some official warships broke through the blockade of fire ships and artillery bombardment one after another. However, after such obstacles, the fleet could no longer be formed.
Yang Chengxiao immediately seized the fighter and ordered the front troops who were waiting for the battle to attack in a row, forming a formation that responded to the left and right to attack the scattered enemy warships.
Hey...yo!
The tycoons paddling on the warship shouted in unison, their naked arms exposed their powerful muscles, and the sound of the oars splashed truly white waves on the water.
People were full of confidence and drove warships toward the messy enemy fleet at this time.
The sound of cannons was still roaring, and the mountains and rivers were filled with liveliness and vitality.
Yang Chengxiao looked at the scene in front of him with satisfaction.
However, the official warships did not turn around and ran away, and seven or eight large ships scattered and rushed towards each other.
I saw that the boat was tall and large, with four water trucks on it, and the water trucks were spinning fast; there were also oars in the middle of the water trucks, and the two powers moved together and ran fast.
When the two armies approached, the ship of Jiujiang Army looked as slow as a snail.
An official warship rushed straight towards the Jiujiang army fleet like a crazy bull. When it was about to approach, the oars on it suddenly came in and stretched out with some sharp and sharp iron plows like plows.
The iron plow warship rushed in from the middle of the two densely arranged ships, and suddenly heard a crackling sound, and a slight friction sound. The oars on one side of the two warships of the Jiujiang Army were almost all broken, and the hull was also scarred by the iron plow.
Bang bang bang bang... The soldiers on both sides fired at each other with firearms on the side of the ship, and smoke suddenly covered the sky and screamed everywhere.
During this period, the firelight flashed, and some firecrackers-sized firecrackers flew around in the air with irregular trajectories and thick smoke burning gunpowder; it seemed that they were the divine firecrackers of the government naval divisions, which were also a common thing in Zheng He's naval fleet.
From time to time, a louder explosion than a bowl gun sounded, which was the government army threw thunder into the ship here, causing a mess on the deck.
The ships of the two armies passed by the side strings, which was only enough for the muskets to shoot two rounds in a short time, but the scene on the water surface was already very different from before.
Two Jiujiang Army warships caught fire and became a mess. The oars of more than ten ships were severely damaged, and the deck was in a mess and could not move across the water.
Other Jiujiang Army warships that were not attacked drifted out of formation and were surrounded by the official warships rushing up from behind. They could not even escape, and they could not escape the official warships at all.
The official warships first rushed to the corner with their speed advantage, and then hooked the ship to the side of the ship and set up a ladder to engage in the battle on the side of the ship.
The ships of the two armies were entangled together, and the distance between the two sides was only about ten steps. The firearms and lead bullets were placed like rain, and the wood chips on the deck flew and smoke filled the gunpowder.
All kinds of debris were floating on the water, and the waves hitting the boat side had begun to turn red.
Guns and cannons in front were ringing, fires flashed, and smoke was simmering; suddenly behind, a ship slowly turned around and left the fleet.
Soon, deputy general Wu Zhongxun noticed something strange and immediately pointed at him and asked loudly: What is the ship over there doing?
Admiral Yang Chengxiao had been commanding the ship and had not issued any orders to the ship. He immediately understood: they wanted to escape from the battlefield.
Without the need for the deputy general to question, Yang Chengxiao himself was also annoyed and shouted: Send the boat to chase after him immediately and order his general to return!
Deputy General Wu Zhongxun reminded: If you bring the order flag over, if the general refuses to follow, you will be killed for escape at the last minute!
The boat sent out came back soon, and reported that they did not allow us to board the boat, and even put firearms on threats to us.
After hearing this, Wu Zhongxun said angrily: Are you driven back like this?Then what do you want to eat!Everyone comes, behead them all!
At this moment, the giant ship of the left wing guarding the central army was suddenly turning around for no reason.Yang Chengxiao raised his throat in anger and shouted: Who told you to move?Come out and answer my questions!
Unexpectedly, someone really stood up and answered. The two ships were not far away. They could only hear the shouting from the other side: If you don’t leave now, you won’t be able to leave even if you want to.
I'm going to your mother!
Such a light sentence immediately made Yang Chengxiao angry and cursed, "You are the one who is a damn person!"I always treat you, you ungrateful dog guy!
The other side shouted again: Brother Yang, I'm sorry for you.You also advise 'that', what else can you fight in this situation? It is best for everyone to leave quickly!
When Yang Chengxiao was reminded, he noticed his situation again. The adult Wu Zhongxun stood beside him, and the nearby guards were all his people.
Wu Zhongxun looked at him coldly: General Yang, don’t think about that road. If this battle is defeated, no one present will think about living.There are more than 8,000 naval troops, and even if they fight to the last one, they cannot put an enemy ship over!
He paused and said: Immediately, the warship of the Later Association will block the ship that is about to escape. If he does not listen, attack it!The situation must be controlled.
Another clutch was sent out from the main ship to pass the order, but no one returned to report this time, and the clutch who passed the order and several warships in the rear-support fleet also fled westward.
Damn it!Wu Zhongxun could no longer contain his anger. What kind of army are you called?Run away as soon as you fight, the military order is like farting!
The water surface was covered with a faint mist in the early morning, slowly rippling in the breeze.
There is a beautiful natural scenery here, without the pollution of smoke and dust, everything is so brightly colored; it is like a paradise, with a large population around it, but the local population of the small peasant economy has been hidden by the great natural environment.
Even in the distant county town, there are only more houses and not much noise.
So the earth was quiet and seemed particularly peaceful.
But as the shallow mist gradually dissipated, the paradise-like scenery was immediately completely broken by a spectacular scene.
The water in the north, from the Yangtze River to the entrance of the lake, seemed to be suddenly occupied by countless ships, which was just an illusion caused by the dissipation of the mist.
The ships were of different sizes and were lined up on the water, row after row, and countless ships were unknown.
After a while, the rising sun rose from the mountains to the east, and immediately coated the rippling water waves with an orange-red stream of light.
The quiet colors between the world suddenly became a little more gorgeous.
The sound quickly became noisy, mainly the drums everywhere, and there was still a faint noise among the waves.
On the side of Poyang Lake, there are also a large area of ships on the water surface, most of which have no sails because there is no wind.
The largest building ship in front, with wooden pulp on both sides like a fat centipede, is the command ship of the Jiujiang Army Navy.
There is a building at the stern of the boat, a wide deck in front, full of five-colored flags, and many soldiers.
On the boat building, there were several generals standing.A big bearded man in the middle is Yang Chengxiao, the admiral of the Jiujiang Army Navy, and Wu Zhongxun, the deputy admiral sent from Yongding Camp, who is responsible for supervising the chief general.
Admiral Yang Chengxiao covered his palm on his right side and looked at the scene on the west bank of the lake.Only some flags were seen, there was a cannon camp there, and it was said that the Hunan King Zhu Wenbiao was also watching the battle in the camp.
Wu Zhongxun, who was standing aside, said coldly: As long as General Yang blocks the imperial naval army in the first formation and prevents him from entering Poyang Lake, the official army may turn to attack Hukou City. At that time, the responsibility will not be with General Yang.
Yang Chengxiao said seriously: I will transfer all the ships here, so I will naturally block the enemy!
Wu Zhongxun said: This is very good. This battle is of great importance. If the battle is not effective, you will wait and see King Xiang.
Wu Zhongxun was just a deputy general, but he had no respect for the admiral's speech, because there was still a difference between the direct lineage of the Zhuque Army and the partial division of the same level.
The boats here were waiting for work on the water and drifted for a long time. Dozens of ships of all sizes of the government troops rushed over, without any intention of stopping.
There were about a dozen small boats moored in the middle of the lake, locked with hidden ropes, filled with firewood, tung oil and gunpowder, and lined up on the water.
When the official warships approached, the boat was suddenly lit, and the granulated gunpowder burned a few times. With a bang, the fire soared into the sky. Ten ships caught fire together, and the fire was even more dazzling than the rising sun.
An official warship rushed too far ahead and the fire did not stop sailing. It tried to cross the gap between the fire ships, but the bottom of the ship immediately hit the underwater iron chain. The fire ships on both sides slowly squeezed into the middle under force, and in an instant it stuck to the side strings of the warship. The raging fire immediately burned the warship.
People's shouts came from the water. After a while, the officers and soldiers on the ship saw that there was no hope of putting out the fire, jumped into the water one after another, and some people were ignited and screamed and rushed into the water in a panic.
Seeing this, the soldiers of the Jiujiang Navy were very excited. Cheers and shouts sounded on all the boats. The world suddenly became lively, and people seemed to be in high spirits.
The official navy did not stop because of this, and the ships circled from both sides of the burning water.
At this moment, the sound of drums on the shore came from afar, and then a rumbling thunder came from the mountains and rivers shining on the sun.
During the earthquake, white smoke rose from the mountains on both sides of the river, as if a forest fire was about to occur.
White waves splashed everywhere on the lake surface, and many shells fell into the water.
Suddenly, with a click, many broken wood pieces on a ship splashed into the water, and the bow of the ship immediately turned off, obviously being hit by shelling.
The Jiujiang Navy shouted again. Before the two armies approached, the government army had two ships damaged and destroyed, which was undoubtedly a good start.
However, the waters at the entrance of the lake are still relatively wide. Such artillery fire is very powerful, but the actual results are not great. In addition, the wheels of the government army sail very fast, and most of the artillery shells are hit into the water. Whether the ships are killed or not is entirely up to the will of heaven, and the artillery cannot block the assault formation of the government army.
Yang Chengxiao stood at a high place and saw that some official warships broke through the blockade of fire ships and artillery bombardment one after another. However, after such obstacles, the fleet could no longer be formed.
Yang Chengxiao immediately seized the fighter and ordered the front troops who were waiting for the battle to attack in a row, forming a formation that responded to the left and right to attack the scattered enemy warships.
Hey...yo!
The tycoons paddling on the warship shouted in unison, their naked arms exposed their powerful muscles, and the sound of the oars splashed truly white waves on the water.
People were full of confidence and drove warships toward the messy enemy fleet at this time.
The sound of cannons was still roaring, and the mountains and rivers were filled with liveliness and vitality.
Yang Chengxiao looked at the scene in front of him with satisfaction.
However, the official warships did not turn around and ran away, and seven or eight large ships scattered and rushed towards each other.
I saw that the boat was tall and large, with four water trucks on it, and the water trucks were spinning fast; there were also oars in the middle of the water trucks, and the two powers moved together and ran fast.
When the two armies approached, the ship of Jiujiang Army looked as slow as a snail.
An official warship rushed straight towards the Jiujiang army fleet like a crazy bull. When it was about to approach, the oars on it suddenly came in and stretched out with some sharp and sharp iron plows like plows.
The iron plow warship rushed in from the middle of the two densely arranged ships, and suddenly heard a crackling sound, and a slight friction sound. The oars on one side of the two warships of the Jiujiang Army were almost all broken, and the hull was also scarred by the iron plow.
Bang bang bang bang... The soldiers on both sides fired at each other with firearms on the side of the ship, and smoke suddenly covered the sky and screamed everywhere.
During this period, the firelight flashed, and some firecrackers-sized firecrackers flew around in the air with irregular trajectories and thick smoke burning gunpowder; it seemed that they were the divine firecrackers of the government naval divisions, which were also a common thing in Zheng He's naval fleet.
From time to time, a louder explosion than a bowl gun sounded, which was the government army threw thunder into the ship here, causing a mess on the deck.
The ships of the two armies passed by the side strings, which was only enough for the muskets to shoot two rounds in a short time, but the scene on the water surface was already very different from before.
Two Jiujiang Army warships caught fire and became a mess. The oars of more than ten ships were severely damaged, and the deck was in a mess and could not move across the water.
Other Jiujiang Army warships that were not attacked drifted out of formation and were surrounded by the official warships rushing up from behind. They could not even escape, and they could not escape the official warships at all.
The official warships first rushed to the corner with their speed advantage, and then hooked the ship to the side of the ship and set up a ladder to engage in the battle on the side of the ship.
The ships of the two armies were entangled together, and the distance between the two sides was only about ten steps. The firearms and lead bullets were placed like rain, and the wood chips on the deck flew and smoke filled the gunpowder.
All kinds of debris were floating on the water, and the waves hitting the boat side had begun to turn red.
Guns and cannons in front were ringing, fires flashed, and smoke was simmering; suddenly behind, a ship slowly turned around and left the fleet.
Soon, deputy general Wu Zhongxun noticed something strange and immediately pointed at him and asked loudly: What is the ship over there doing?
Admiral Yang Chengxiao had been commanding the ship and had not issued any orders to the ship. He immediately understood: they wanted to escape from the battlefield.
Without the need for the deputy general to question, Yang Chengxiao himself was also annoyed and shouted: Send the boat to chase after him immediately and order his general to return!
Deputy General Wu Zhongxun reminded: If you bring the order flag over, if the general refuses to follow, you will be killed for escape at the last minute!
The boat sent out came back soon, and reported that they did not allow us to board the boat, and even put firearms on threats to us.
After hearing this, Wu Zhongxun said angrily: Are you driven back like this?Then what do you want to eat!Everyone comes, behead them all!
At this moment, the giant ship of the left wing guarding the central army was suddenly turning around for no reason.Yang Chengxiao raised his throat in anger and shouted: Who told you to move?Come out and answer my questions!
Unexpectedly, someone really stood up and answered. The two ships were not far away. They could only hear the shouting from the other side: If you don’t leave now, you won’t be able to leave even if you want to.
I'm going to your mother!
Such a light sentence immediately made Yang Chengxiao angry and cursed, "You are the one who is a damn person!"I always treat you, you ungrateful dog guy!
The other side shouted again: Brother Yang, I'm sorry for you.You also advise 'that', what else can you fight in this situation? It is best for everyone to leave quickly!
When Yang Chengxiao was reminded, he noticed his situation again. The adult Wu Zhongxun stood beside him, and the nearby guards were all his people.
Wu Zhongxun looked at him coldly: General Yang, don’t think about that road. If this battle is defeated, no one present will think about living.There are more than 8,000 naval troops, and even if they fight to the last one, they cannot put an enemy ship over!
He paused and said: Immediately, the warship of the Later Association will block the ship that is about to escape. If he does not listen, attack it!The situation must be controlled.
Another clutch was sent out from the main ship to pass the order, but no one returned to report this time, and the clutch who passed the order and several warships in the rear-support fleet also fled westward.
Damn it!Wu Zhongxun could no longer contain his anger. What kind of army are you called?Run away as soon as you fight, the military order is like farting!