This battle is related to the future of the two of them, so no matter how reluctant they are, they must continue to attack.
After discussion, it was decided to focus on the fire attack.
After all, it is not easy to rob the enemy ship in the dark.
Since we have just achieved great results with the fire ship attack, we will just follow the example.
Although Liu Liangzuo was still thinking about the loot on the ship, the emperor must have brought a lot of wealth with him when he traveled.
But victory is the most important thing now, and we don't care about so many things.
At the worst, we can send soldiers with good water skills to the river to salvage after the war.
A large number of soldiers were sent out to look for firewood, dry firewood and thatch everywhere.
Fortunately, there was a dilapidated warehouse on the river bank not far away.
It was originally a merchant's warehouse, but it was later abandoned, and this place became The residence of the coolies who made a living by transporting and drawing fibers through the canal formed a small village.
Of course, the sudden war frightened these people, and they fled into the darkness with their families and far away from the canal.
The coalition soldiers rushed into the village with torches and began to demolish all kinds of wood in the village.
Most of the houses were made of wood and bamboo poles.
There were also many dry firewood and thatch piled in each courtyard to make fire for cooking.
Soon, a large amount of dry firewood was brought over and filled with fifty fishing boats, with seven or eight soldiers standing on each boat, plus four fishermen.
They were all brave men chosen from the coalition forces.
As for the fishermen, they had no choice.
Behind the fire ship, a smaller boat is tied.
Once the fire ship hits an enemy ship, the soldiers and fishermen on board can jump on the boat and evacuate.
In order to boost morale, Gao Jie took out all his personal silver taels and rewarded each soldier who went out with two taels of silver, including fishermen.
A glimmer of morning light appeared in the eastern sky, and the night was about to pass.
The attack must be launched before dawn to achieve the greatest results.
Under Gao Jie's order, all the fire boats were lit, and more than a hundred fishing boats lined up and rowed quickly towards the fleet in the canal.
After the fire ships, more than 3,000 soldiers boarded the remaining hundreds of fishing boats.
Following the fire ships, they wanted to use the chaos brought by the fire ships to the enemy fleet to launch an attack on the fleet.
In this attack, Gao Jie led the attack personally.
One thousand of the three thousand soldiers were his personal soldiers.
In order to win and for his own future, Gao Jie decided to make a desperate move.
On each fishing boat, four fishermen were responsible for rowing, and six or seven soldiers held their shields high to protect everyone.
The ignited fireship will definitely be discovered by the enemy, so how can they allow themselves to attack.
Sure enough, the fire ship hadn't rowed very far when a "whisking" sound broke through the air, and countless arrows crossed the dark sky and fell directly on the attacking fire ship.
The sounds of "bang bang" were heard one after another, as arrows shot into the hull of the ship and the shields in the hands of the soldiers.
Of course, more arrows fell into the river.
Thanks to the protection of shields, the soldiers and fishermen on the fireboat did not suffer much harm.
The speed of the more than fifty fire boats was getting faster and faster, and even most of the soldiers on board joined the rowing queue, no longer caring about the arrows flying in the air.
Because the fire burning in the firewood pile on the ship is getting bigger and bigger, and even they themselves can't bear the scorching temperature.
Maybe it won't be long before the flames will drive them nowhere to stay.
"Firing artillery" did not require another order from Jin Shenghuan.
The commanding officers on each tanker issued the attack order on their own.
The enemy's fire attack was too powerful, and the dozen or so water ships were still burning.
They absolutely did not dare to let the other party's fire ships get close to them.
The Tiger Crouching Cannon and Franchise Cannon on the ship each opened fire.
This time they no longer bombarded the enemy rocket attacks on the other side, but fired at the fireships approaching rapidly in the river.
However, the hit rate of artillery these days is really low, let alone attacking moving targets.
After one round of artillery fire, most of the fireships passed through the artillery fire and continued to rush over unharmed.
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Only two or three fireships happened to be hit by artillery fire.
Hit, countless sparks bloomed, and the hull began to spin on the river.
It happened to be hit by a solid shell from the French cannon.
There are more than a hundred artillery pieces in the fleet, the vast majority of which are squatting tiger artillery pieces, and about ten of them are artillery pieces removed from the Tianjin Acropolis fort.
They are all Franco machine artillery pieces ranging from 100 kilograms to 300 to 400 kilograms, because No matter how heavy the artillery is, it will not work well, so when retreating, the two 3,000-weight Hongyi cannons on the fort were blown up under Chen Yue's order.
In Chen Yue's view, although the Folang gun has a high rate of fire and a long range due to its structure of a mother-and-child gun, in terms of attack power, it is not as good as the Tiger Crouching Cannon, because the Tiger Crouching Cannon can install more than a hundred pieces at a time.
Projectiles, fire and blast a large area.
Of course, the Tiger Crouching Cannon has a range of only one mile, and often it can only fire one shot before being approached by the opponent.
But this time, it was the Crouching Tiger Cannon that did the trick again.
Nearly a hundred Crouching Tiger Cannons fired continuously at the river, and the small projectiles they fired were overwhelming.
The soldiers and fishermen of the Gao-Liu coalition forces who had not yet had time to evacuate the ship heard a "buzzing" sound in the air, as if a large number of wasps were flying towards them.
The soldier holding the shield felt a huge force hitting the shield.
His wrist holding the shield felt sore.
Although the shield was big, it was not enough to protect his whole body.
His exposed limbs suddenly felt a sharp pain.
This pain was bone-gnawing.
The marrow is countless times more painful than a wasp sting.
The screams of "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" were heard in agony.
The fishermen and soldiers rowing the boats dropped their oars and covered their faces with trembling hands.
If it were daytime, you could see several craters on their faces.
Small projectiles penetrated their skin and muscles and embedded deeply into their bones.
"Plop" and "Plop" couldn't bear the severe pain caused by the small projectiles.
The fishermen and soldiers fell into the river like dumplings.
However, the unmanned fire ship continued to rush toward the fleet of canal ships several feet away, relying on the huge inertia of its advance.
"Resist it."
Looking at the rapidly approaching fire ship, the soldiers on the canal, under the command of the commanding officer, raised their long bamboo spears and stabbed at the approaching fire ship.
Several three-foot-long bamboo spears were able to resist the incoming fire ship.
The bamboo poles were bent by the impact.
Other soldiers hurriedly used more bamboo spears to resist.
Finally, the fire ship was blocked by dozens of bamboo spears, and its momentum disappeared and stopped, burning alone three feet away from the ship.
Due to the sufficient preparation of the Pingnan fleet, the fire attack by the Gao-Liu coalition did not play its due role.
However, Gao Jie, who personally led the attack, could no longer care about this and commanded the fleet to rush towards the canal in the river.
Fortunately, all the artillery in the Pingnan fleet attacked the fireships, allowing the fleet led by Gao Jie to escape the wild fire of the Tiger Crouching Cannon.
Arrows were flying in the air, constantly falling on the ships and in the river.
More arrows passed over the attacking fleet, like a meteor, falling towards the Pingnan Army fleet in the river.
That was The archers commanded by Liu Liangzuo were covering the attack.
With more than a dozen fishermen and soldiers rowing together, the fishing boat moved very fast, and soon approached the burning fire ship that was blocked and rushed towards the Pingnan military fleet.
Looking at the fire ship blocked by the spear, Gao Jie narrowed his eyes, knowing that the fire attack strategy had failed, and his plan to cause chaos to the enemy fleet was in vain.
What was waiting for him now was probably a bloody battle.
However, this did not make him flinch, but instead aroused Gao Jie's bloody courage.
He held up a sharp steel knife and roared loudly at the enemy ship in front of him
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