Wen Shude, the Jinou ship's pilot, was awakened by the sound of cannons in the morning. His professional habits prevented him from sleeping on the shore. He immediately let the engine ignite and boost the pressure when he heard the cannons. He ran out of the cabin and looked around with his telescope. Finally, he saw the continuous artillery fire in the direction of the narrow stream, and also saw the water columns that were constantly splashing due to artillery attacks on the river. As the flagship of the river patrol fleet, he knew that these water columns were not something that the 37mm Haqikas five-barrel cannon could fire.

Since the river was already in war, he was staring at the river. However, the distance between the Zhaixi River was too far away. He could only see the splashing water columns and the details of the gunboats fighting. He stomped his feet hard, and knew that the situation was critical, and Wen Shude couldn't help but run to the boiler room himself, pulling his guard Sun Yuen and shouting without any gentleness: "Damn it, how long will it take to leave the port?"

Sun Yuen, a native of Zhenhai, Zhejiang, was incompatible with Fujian like Wen Shude, so he was squeezed out to the garbage mosquito ship with a age of more than 30 years and drainage of up to 200 tons. He was not concerned about Wen Shude's rudeness, and even more concerned about the shelling outside. When he saw Wen Shude asking, he just said calmly: "At least twenty minutes."

"It's too late in twenty minutes!" Wen Shude shouted when he thought of the water splashing on the narrow stream.

"It's too late, and the revolutionary party does not kill people indiscriminately." Sun Yuen is from Zhejiang and a marginal figure in the navy. He has no disgust towards the revolutionary party, but he likes it a little.

He was not in a hurry, Wen Shude was anxious to death. Unlike Sun Yui, he was a navy elite who had just returned from the Naval University of Greenwich in the UK. He was on the turn of the Qing Dynasty to expand the navy in large numbers. Although he was now excluded by the Fujian Gang, he was still a steward, and in time, his future will be limitless. He heard that Sun Yui said it would take twenty minutes, but he calmed down and looked at Sun Yui and said, "You must leave the port in ten minutes, otherwise the military law will deal with it!"

There are not many naughty young men like Wen Shude in the navy. Although Sun Yuen is just a small manager, he is knowledgeable about the things in the navy and operates according to the rules. Even if it is handled by military law, he will be dismissed at most. Haha, dismissal is exactly what he wants. With his skills, he went to Tiantong Freight Company, which he runs in his hometown, and said at least twenty or thirty taels a month. Although he is no longer a navy, he really has nothing to worry about about this smoky place. "Sir Guandao. You will leave the port in ten minutes. You can go to the shore to find a few bamboo poles to see if you can hold the boat out."

"You!" Sun Yuen's teasing made Wen Shude glar at him. After the two of them looked at each other in an instant, he retreated. Now it was time to rely on the wheel of the traffic. If he really killed him, the ship would never be able to get out. Wen Shude finally glared at Sun Yuen fiercely and cursed in his heart: Let's see how I deal with you after this battle.

I lived like a year and stood outside for a long time. When there was no water column on the side of the Narrow Creek, the Jinou ship finally moved. Wen Shude looked at the watch and at 6:23, he was a little grateful to Sun Yuen. At least this guy who was not good at eating soft and hard still pulled the ship out of the port in advance within standard time.

After the Jinou ship left the port, Wen Shude finally saw the appearance of the enemy ship. Unlike the Jinou ship full of rust, the enemy ship was covered with gray iron armor, with a body of more than 300 tons, which was more than 30 meters wide. The slender body looked like the shallow water gunboat built by the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau in Shanghai. I saw two guns, but the barrel was very short, not very similar to a naval gun. The most surprising thing was that the chimney of the ship was low, and what was coming out was not thick black smoke, but a faint smoke. Wen Shude couldn't understand it. Could this ship be burned oil? Wen Shude thought about it, the enemy ship had already discovered the Jinou ship at this time, and the short gun barrel seemed to be right.

"Sir, let's retreat." Chen Qingyin, a cannon leader, ran over and said anxiously. He knew what happened to the Jinou ship. At first glance, the other party's cannon was not something he could deal with.

"The retreat of Diliu Town will be gone." Wen Shude was also struggling with withdrawing or not at this time. If he retreated, he would be a Shandong native with Diliu Town, but he would be uneasy.

"Sir, the Jiang Yuan Ship is on the side of Hangzhou. It would be useless for us to fight to the death here. In the past, we could at least let the Jiang Yuan Ship come to rescue him." Chen Qingyin was sweating prone on his head. He said it nicely, and he was just thinking about escaping his life. There was no way out for the Jinou Ship to escape from the Sixth Town. But is he a Fujianese familiar with the Sixth Town, which is all the northerners? Two days ago, they were beaten by them to grab the women and brothers in the kiln. In the current situation, let alone not to mention that he could not save him, he would have to stand by and watch for a while even if he could save him.

"Okay!" Seeing the two enemy ships getting closer, Wen Shude finally waved powerlessly after hesitation: "Go to Hangzhou!"

As soon as he said this, Chen Qingyin immediately let out a long sigh, and immediately let the driver turn around and increase his strength to go along the river. At this time, the two wooden-hulled ships of the cruise ship also came out. They were very aware of it and did not look at the side of the Zhaixi. They went downstream as soon as they left the port. The three ships were not good at fighting, but they ran away quickly. Even though the diesel engine ships were extremely fast, they still ran away from more than ten kilometers.

When he was working as a trainer, he ran away from the first time. Wen Shude was restless in the cockpit. Chen Qingyin, who had already felt that he had escaped from the disaster, was very relaxed. He said as a person who had experienced it: "If you can beat it, fight it, run away if you can't beat it. If you can't beat it, you will run away. It's not too common. He said that protecting the boat is important, but to the little one, saving his life is important. You are still new here. You don't know the rules of the navy. Fang Bolian was also among the deserters of the navy. Where else can he lose his head?"

Wen Shude was a little regretful about escaping at the battle, but now Chen Qingyin was taught a lesson in the rules. He felt annoyed in his heart and shouted: "Don't yell! It's important to go to Hangzhou City to find reinforcements."

Wen Shude said, "Stop yelling!" and only scared Chen Qingyin. He originally thought that this northerner was a little sensible in the current affairs, but now he found out that he was wrong. When he heard that he was going to find a reinforcement, he immediately felt hatred. A northerner dared to speak loudly at the navy, which was to be tired of living. At that time, Liu Buchan didn't ask for inquiries about how Liu Buchan took away the foreign admiral. Chen Qingyin secretly hated him, but on the surface he didn't argue with him. Instead, he stayed aside honestly, just meditating on the mind that this time he escaped at the battle, if he wanted to hold him accountable, the northerner in front of him would be in trouble. Even if he bit him, he was not afraid. He would just pull someone out on the ship, either a brother or a fellow villager, what are you afraid of!

The Jinou ship was flowing down, and the ship was moving at a rapid speed. The wooden-hulled ship stopped leaving when it arrived in Fuyang City. Only Jinou and his ship went along the river. Wen Shude was uneasy but unexpectedly, God opened his eyes and did not wait for Hangzhou. He only met the Jiangyuan ship at the mouth of Qiantang River. After typing the flag language, Wen Shude, who was restless, leaned over the boat hard and then passed by on a sampan.

"Brother Zhi Jin. The gunboat of the revolutionary party was found at the entrance of the field. Two wooden hulled ships on our side have sunk. Now the revolutionary party is besieging the sixth town in the entrance of the field. The situation is extremely critical. Please ask Brother Zhi Jin to quickly reinforce." Wen Shude was anxious and Shandong dialect came out. He only heard the Jiang Yuan ship's steward Rao Huaiwen's harshness. He was anxious, but Rao Huaiwen must not be anxious. He was still savoring the afterglow of the big smoke just now. He only looked at him with a disdainful smile and said, "Why should Zi Pei be anxious? Even if the revolutionary party calls for 10,000 or 20,000 people, they are not vegetarians. Besides, where did the gunboats come from? They are not all wooden boats and wooden cannons?"

The mortars of the Revolutionary Army have always been considered by the Qing army as wooden cannons. Seeing that they were called this, Yang Rui was not afraid of trouble and only wanted to hide, so he ordered all mortars to be covered with a layer of wooden vase, and ordered that half of the cannons be allowed to be captured by the Qing Dynasty. This also confirmed the name of wooden cannons. Although Wen Shude had just passed the battle formation, the caliber of the gunboat was still guessed that the cannons were between two and three inches. Seeing that Rao Huaiwen was unmoved, he only pulled Chen Qingyin beside him and said, "Brother Zhijin, what I said is true. If I finish returning to the aid, the situation will be out of control. Brother Chen, tell me, do the gunboats of the Revolutionary Party have cannons?"

Chen Qingyin had already been resentful and refused to hear this, so he had to speak Minnan dialect to Rao Huaiwen. Wen Shude knew Japanese and English, but he didn't understand the Minnan dialect, which was essential to the Navy, at all. He heard them chatting for a while. Rao Huaiwen's face sank with a smile, and he stood up and said, "Catch this coward who escaped in the battle!"

When Rao Huaiwen said this, Wen Shude felt a bolt from the blue sounding from his head. When his hands and feet were stiff and he didn't know how to defend himself, the sailor outside the door came over and he hurriedly said, "Brother Zhijin, Brother Zhijin, listen to me..."

"I, the navy, never had you escaped like this," Rao Huaiwen spoke in an official voice. To be honest, he was dissatisfied with Wen Shude, who had eaten foreign ink. He had a strange style that he learned from foreigners. He only felt that the Qingshui Master was the Daying Navy, which made him feel dissatisfied. What is this? The Qingshui Master was the world of Fujian people more than ten years ago, and in more than ten years, it would be the world of Fujian people. How to drive the ship, it was not the turn of this northerner to command it.

"Brother Zhijin..." Wen Shude's tears were about to come out. While being held by the sailor, he looked at Chen Qingyin again, but he didn't expect that this person had a completely unrelated attitude towards me. There was a hint of contempt in his expression. He immediately realized that it was him who was striking the ghost. Wen Shude released the animals and shouted: "Chen Qingyin, if I was cut down, you wouldn't be much better..."

Wen Shude was dragged down by the sailors while shouting. Just waiting for him to leave, Rao Huaiwen asked, "What's going on in the entrance of the field?"

"The revolutionary party has indeed attacked the other side of the field, but it is not as serious as the one named Wen said." Chen Qingyin has been rushing to escape, and he could see that there are many revolutionaries. "There are two armored gunboats, which are equipped with three-inch land cannons with short range, but they are not something that our machine cannons can beat."

"Oh, the cannon brought by the Revolutionary Party? Where did the iron armor come from?" Rao Huaiwen was very surprised for a moment, "This is the sun coming out from the west."

"It was not lost by the army. I guess the iron armor is a pig iron plate. I don't believe they can turn out the steel armor." Chen Qingyin was very disdainful of the revolutionary party's gunboat. He didn't want to talk about the revolutionary party anymore, and just asked: "Brother, how should I deal with the person surnamed Wen?"

"What else can I do," Rao Huaiwen's face darkened again, "It's good to do anything in the navy, just don't delay the brothers' earning money. The last time I transported opium, I suspected that it was reported by Wen's anonymous person. If he didn't get rid of it, he would still have bad things in the future."

Although the navy's salary was in line with Daye's, no matter how much money was, it was not easy to spend. Therefore, it was common for each ship to smuggle some opium while on the cruise. Wen Shude had just returned from Britain and was very unacceptable. It was reasonable to write anonymous letters to complain. However, the adults above were also participants, so he offended all the stewards.

"Brother Zhijin. What should I do on the side of the court? You'll be better off." Chen Qingyin and Wen Shude had no relationship, but he was still worried that something would happen to the side of the court.

"I have to go there." Rao Huaiwen was calm and took out the enamel gold watch tied with the silver chain on his chest. After looking at the time, he realized that it was only less than 9:10. "Go up later. If nothing happens in the Sixth Town, can Wen Shude strictly do it?"

Seeing that he was so experienced, Chen Qingyin was amazed. He was about to say a few good words to flatter him, but the sailors outside shouted, "The prisoner has escaped. The prisoner has escaped..."

The two of them hurriedly looked outside, and saw Wen Shude, who was covered in water, lying on the sampan, almost reaching the Jinou ship. Chen Qingyin was shocked. "No, the man surnamed Wen is about to run away, hurry up and catch him."

"What are you panic?" Rao Huaiwen was very interested in looking at Wen Shude who had already climbed onto the Jinou ship, "Look at what he is going to do first."

Wen Shude was locked in the cabin by the sailors. Unwilling to accept it, he defeated the sailors and ran out. He thought that he would die on the battlefield. As soon as he got on the boat, he asked the Jinou ship to speed up to the entrance of the field. Seeing that the Jinou ship was actually returning to the upper reaches of the flight, Rao Huaiwen was a little surprised. He thought Wen Shude was going to Hangzhou to file a lawsuit. At this time, he saw him flowing upwards alone, and he was even more impressed that this person could not be kept. Such a stubborn and unafraid of death could not make a fortune with everyone, so he must do it resolutely!

"Let him go. Let's go up." Looking at Liang Weihuang, the first mate standing on the side waiting for his order to fire the fire, Rao Huaiwen said in Minnan dialect. As soon as he said that he followed the Jinou ship, Chen Qingyin was surprised, but Rao Huaiwen added: "From the distance, don't fire the fire, just see how the person surnamed Wen died."

"Brother, but the brothers on the boat?" It's good to kill someone with a knife, and it's not dirtying his hands, but Chen Qingyin thought about his brothers on the boat.

"Will they jump off the ship?" Rao Huaiwen touched his beard and disagreed. "Besides, Wen Shude will be promoted to the manager of Jiang Heng's ship. At that time, he will be on an equal footing with me. It will not be so easy to get rid of him."

Jiang Yuan, Jiang Heng, and Jiang Zhen are all shallow water gunboats made by Kawasaki Japan to help China. Jiang Yuan built last year and Jiang Heng was the second one, so they can be lucky to arrive in China this year. Against the background of expanding the navy, Wen Shude and other students who have been abroad are still highly valued by the Navy Minister Zaixun. Students like Rao Huaiwen from the country's naval school will naturally be suppressed by them. Thinking that this ruling man who does not understand the rules will be on his head in a few years, Rao Huaiwen felt very uncomfortable.

On the Qiantang River, the Jinou ship was in front and the Jiangyuan ship was behind. Both ships rushed to the entrance of the field, but the Jinou ship was only seven knots at speed, while the Jiangyuan ship could reach thirteen knots. However, Jiangyuan landed behind the Jinou ship, and followed from a distance slowly. Wen Shude looked ahead and then behind, not understanding what the old man Rao Huaiwen was going to do, but he had no worries to think about what he was thinking now, just hoped to arrive at the entrance earlier.

Li Chengyuan didn't know anything about the river. He was not at the top of the mountain at this time. He seized more than 30 Qing Dynasty guns, most of which could be used immediately. Now these guns were pulled to the outside of the field. With insufficient gunners, an observation point was cut off a group. Even if this group was in the target, the target was still to visit the Fuchun River. They were only waiting for the Qing army's reinforcements to come up. At this time, the artillery was arranged after facing the hillside line of the Fuchun River. The gunboats of Ren Qing army could not be hit at this position.

"Time is coming soon, is it done?" Li Chengyuan asked Chen Dashan beside him, who was stunned by his telescope, and a little blamed him for not doing serious business. For example, now, it is not something that a deputy artillery commander should do when he is focused on watching the fun with the telescope.

"Battlefield... Commander, why are these infantry fighting one by one? I can't even turn my mind." Seeing Li Chengyuan ask, Chen Dashan still reluctantly put down his telescope, but the topic is still the same as what he has just seen.

"Is psychological warfare? Isn't it all like this?" Li Chengyuan was not surprised to know about the set of things made by the Political Department. He looked at Chen Dashan, who was still a little stunned, and pushed him hard, saying, "Go and check the artillery array. The Qing Dynasty gunboats are coming. If you fight well, maybe we can seize one or two gunboats."

The regiment commander spoke, and Chen Dashan had to go there. At this time, the north wind blew, and only the radio came from the other side of the mountain: "...Brothers of the patrol team. I am Zhang Gong, the commander of the Second Brigade of the Revolutionary Army. They are all from Zhejiang. What kind of war are there for the local people in the hometown? Now I have ordered the gunboat to release the port so that you can evacuate. However, the time is limited. After half an hour, our army will fire. When the brothers who have not left will have to ask you to be prisoners.

...Brothers, why should you die with the Tartar soldiers? Think about how much money you pay for your monthly salary? How much does it cost? Is it worth it? If you have a few shortcomings, what should you do at home? Don’t plant the land? Don’t raise the family? Don’t care for your wife and children? Are you not afraid of your wife remarrying. Parents and sons begging for food? Hurry up, either evacuate here immediately or surrender. The revolutionary army treats prisoners preferential treatment. Those who don’t want to participate in the revolution will pay travel expenses to go home..."

Zhang Gong's radio was continuous, and he was only talking, and if the political commissar said it was effective, he would have wanted to destroy all the Qing troops with a gun. He was so tired that he shouted here. All the adults in the Sixth Town looked at each other. Although Zhang Gong's words were in Zhejiang dialect, the adults still knew what they meant by the translation. So everyone sighed that the revolutionary party was so vicious that they knew that the soldiers in the Sixth Town were all northerners. They would not listen to their nonsense, but only encouraged the patrol team. Those patrol teams were all natives from Zhejiang. Now that the revolutionary party said that they would let the port go, they would all rushed to the dock to grab the ship. Once the patrol team moved, the soldiers with weak will intensify in the Sixth Town. As a result, the army's morale that had finally stabilized would be in chaos again.

"Master General?" Chief of Staff Jin Yunpeng had no choice but to do anything. Who would have thought that the Revolutionary Party would do this trick?

"Go, take another battalion to the dock. If there is a constant order and deliberately disrupting the morale of the army, kill him or her!" Zhao Guoxian had already guessed that the revolutionary party opened the port, but he had been so ambitious that he even instigated the patrol team to disagree with the Sixth Town. He did not expect that for the sake of the present, he had to use a serious punishment.

"Yes, Grand Marshal!" Jin Yunpeng replied. When he was about to get up, he said again: "Master... This... I'd better go to Fuyang first to plan and plan, and just be here to guard the humble official."

When Zhao Guoxian heard him say this, he glanced at him meaningfully and said, "I just stay here and don't go there. But you are not thinking about crossing the river."

Jin Yunpeng was shocked and hurriedly fell to the ground, saying, "Master, you have no intention of being a humble official. It is a major military event to think about the safety of the Master. If the Master is safe, then we will feel much more at ease in the fight."

As soon as Jin Yunpeng said this, Lu Jianzhang, Li Chun and others said the same thing next to him. Only the Japanese Aoki Sunchun said to his apprentice Sakashiri Hachiro: "Did you see that? The Chinese people are so hypocritical and afraid of death. Except for Zhao Guoxian who doesn't want to retreat, everyone else wants to leave here. The revolutionary army sieges three times, one is to make the Qing army chaotic and then go down in one go."

"But what if the Sixth Town does not retreat?" asked Sakasai Rihachiro. He was also the consultant invited by Yuan Shikai earlier, and this time he came to observe the combat effectiveness of the Beiyang Army.

"An army without the spirit of Bushido may be united in the face of desperate situations, but will collapse in the face of livelihoods. They only fight for money and only for officials. Even if such troops have advanced weapons, their combat effectiveness is very fragile." The last time the Beiyang defeated Aoki Ryutsu was not seen, but this time he was in the scene. He only felt that the Chinese generals did not understand war, while the Chinese soldiers had no faith. If the Chinese generals understood war, then they would hear the violent sound of cannons in the Naixi River.

It was time to send reinforcements and quickly occupy Tianzhong Mountain in the north to retain a land retreat, but Zhao Guoxian just sent people out to inquire about the news and wait for the news in front of him, which was unwise for the general; and the Chinese soldiers had no different fighting will than ten years ago. If the soldiers of the empire were not killed in battle, they would have complete weapons after retreating, but many Chinese soldiers had no weapons after retreating, which was unbelievable. If the generals were not wise and the soldiers did not believe, how could they win a battle?

Hearing that the teacher looked down on the Beiyang Army, Sakashiri Hachiro asked again: "What about the revolutionary army? Can they say that they are the general Zhibing Nobuki?"
Chapter completed!