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Chapter 209 go back

After the explosion, the dock was in a mess, the air was filled with choking smell of gunpowder, and burning fire balls were everywhere. The Qing soldiers who had survived the disaster stared at everything in front of them, and their ears were filled with the sound of their wounded companions.

The warships of all sizes and large docked at the dock were hit by the explosion to varying degrees. The nearest ships were blown away, causing the water to float on the surface of the boat boards. The sailors who fell into the water held the wooden boards and shouted for help. In the distance, the fire in the camp was still burning, making the entire fish market entrance red and bright. The sky-sky fire could be seen here for more than ten miles.

With the help of his personal soldiers, the scene in front of him made him feel as if he was struck by lightning, and he was stunned and murmured: "It's over, it's over, the navy is over."

Mr. Qian was thrown into the air when the explosion occurred, and he was really lucky. He did not fall to the ground but fell into the river. Although he did not break his bones, he actually choked several mouthfuls of water. If it weren't for the good water quality, I'm afraid he would have fed the turtle in the river. After climbing ashore, like Du De, he also had the idea of ​​"the water master is finished" in his heart, and his whole body lost his soul like a chicken.

Like Du De and Guo Tielong, most of the naval officers who survived the disaster were pessimistic about the future. The fire in the camp could not damage the foundation of the naval officer. After all, the naval officer's wealth was a ship, and the fire in the grain warehouse could not move the naval officer at all. At most, Guangzhou could only transport grain again. However, the warships washed up on the dock were really the lifeblood of the naval officer. Looking at the warships that had fallen apart, the naval officer was crying without tears.

I'm afraid the specific number of medicines stored in the medicine warehouse is Liang Biaoxiang, who is the general of the Guangdong Navy, doesn't know, but he is sure of one thing, that is, it will definitely not be less than 10,000 kilograms.

Since the old Hongqi Navy, because of his long-term life at sea, he had to fight with other pirates from time to time, and even had to fight with the white-skinned and high-nosed Franchisemen and Dutchmen. This made Liang Biaoxiang attach great importance to artillery. Basically, each ship was equipped with more than ten large and small cannons, and he even stocked up as much medicine as possible.

With the powerful firepower on the ship, coupled with the desperate brothers under his command, Liang Biaoxiang became the "Red Flag Thieves" mentioned by the sea merchants in just ten years, a bandit who was terrified by the sea ships in the past, and a stubborn sting in the eyes of the Guangdong authorities of the Ming Dynasty. Until Liang Biaoxiang was recruited by the Qing army and led the Red Flag Navy to change it to the Qing Guangdong Navy. Even the Zheng family, the largest pirate on the sea, was a little polite to him, and all this was based on his construction of the navy's combat power, and the most fundamental thing was the use of artillery.

Relying on the large and small artillery on the ship, Liang Biaoxiang led the Red Flag Navy to the South Ocean, not to mention being the king. But outside the South Ocean, which one does not give him face, and which passes by the sea boat does not pay him tribute, even the Dutch with a high nose bridge will still pay the money for the road, otherwise Mr. Liang can let you go to Taiwan smoothly? The Zheng family's fleet is large, but why don't he still say hello to Mr. Liang and send him peace money?

Over time, Liang Biaoxiang formed an inherent idea, that is, as long as there are too many cannons on the ship, there will be enough medicine. No matter which company dares to be an enemy of its own, they will fight whichever they want! However, what Liang Biaoxiang never expected was that the real naval battle was not the sea robbery he was used to, nor was it the medicine more than the cannons.

During the Battle of Xinhui, Chen Qice's troops in the Southern Ming Dynasty were not as many as Liang Biaoxiang, but they defeated the Guangdong Navy. Deng Yao, who was also inferior to the Guangdong Navy, used the terrain of Qinzhou Island to ambush Liang Biaoxiang. These two battles made all the Hongqi Navy, who had been relying on Liang Biaoxiang to start his career. If it weren't for the fact that he had barely pieced together more than 300 ships with merchant ships and fishing boats afterwards, the Guangdong Navy would have been wiped out long ago.

More than 300 ships were gathered, and each ship was improved as if it were decent. In order to make these merchant ships look more like warships, Liang Biaoxiang also racked up dirty juice to scrubbed cannons. He bought a large number of red artillery artillery with the Francasus at any cost, and even unloaded several of the Ming army's artillery batteries on the Pearl River. He reported more than 300 large and small cannons to King Shang Kexi of Pingnan. It sounded like he had recovered his strength overnight, but in his bones, the Guangdong navy had long been rotten, and most of the sailors were fishermen who were forced to come. The pirates who had followed Liang Biaoxiang to make a living on the sea had already died, and few people really understood water warfare.

After receiving the order of Shang Kexi to go to Xinhui River to intercept the Ming army reinforcements, Liang Biaoxiang gritted his teeth and led his troops to Yushikou. Because of the lessons learned from the two previous battles with the Ming Navy, he asked people to bring all the medicines he had stockpiled. As soon as the navy arrived at Yushikou, he asked people to unload dozens of cannons from the ship and put them on the shore, and they made a fort at Yushikou. Liang Biao said to his subordinates that once the Ming Navy really attacked, the navy would come to the whole army, and there would be a fort on the shore to suppress the Ming army. This is also true. There were a navy on the river and a fort on the shore. The water and land echoed, which could indeed suppress the invading Ming Navy. But he never thought that the Ming army reinforcements did not attack in large numbers, but were blown up by a fire.

The medicine warehouse was basically built in the fort. When the explosion occurred, the first thing that was hit was dozens of artillery unloaded from the ship. The violent explosion caused all of these artillery to scatter, and the barrels were scattered one by one in the east and one by one. Some unlucky Qing soldiers had just run out of the fire, but before they could take a breath, they were hit by the cannon barrel falling from the sky, turning into a ball of mud.

This sudden explosion was really stuck at the Guangdong Navy's life gate. Most of the warships docked on the dock were modified by merchant ships and fishing boats. The seams of this kind of ship were much worse than those of real warships. Most of them were ships running on the river. Few were ships that could withstand strong winds and waves. After the explosion, most of the ships were overturned, and the ships closest to the medicine warehouse were directly overturned. Liang Biaoxiang's ship was a real sea ship with a very solid hull, but even so, it broke several dragon pillars during the bumps. Fortunately, the rest of the parts were still working hard and they would not be able to disperse for a while.

No one from the navy had ever seen a big explosion of this size, and no one had ever seen the impact and destruction brought by the big explosion. When the smoke of gunpowder disappeared, the Qing soldiers who were still alive had not yet come back to their senses from the horror of the big explosion. Some timid Qing soldiers were already in a state of scattering their souls.

Liang Biaoxiang's deputy general Zheng Guanghe was even more distracted than those of the same scared personal soldiers, and he repeated the same sentence back and forth in front of Liang Biaoxiang, "Brother, it's over, the navy is over, it's over!"

Liang Biaoxiang was already frightened. Zheng Guanghe was upset with the shaking and heart-wrenching words. He shook his hand and slapped him in the face, cursing: "What a panic, the sky hasn't collapsed yet!"

"The ship has exploded like this, what else can we do?" Zheng Guanghe cried and covered half of his face with a grievance.

"What's the point when the ship is gone, as long as the person is there!"

When he said this, Liang Biaoxiang looked heartbroken. Seeing that his personal soldiers on both sides were as if they were dead, he immediately glared at Zheng Guanghe fiercely, angering him to ruin the morale of the army.

"Brother, what should we do now?"

Zheng Guanghe was afraid of Liang Biao's appearance on weekdays. Seeing that his elder brother looked ugly, he was so scared that he didn't dare to say more.

Liang Biaoxiang did not return to him, but stared at the dock with black smoke for a moment, before breathing, gritting his teeth and saying, "Go back to Changzhou Island!"

"go back?"

Zheng Guanghe was stunned. He thought his elder brother would say he would go out to sea, but he didn't expect his elder brother to go back. Thinking of the reaction of the King of Pingnan, Guangzhou after he went back, he hesitated a little.
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