The flintlock gun used by Yang Zhen is still a percussion flintlock gun with a relatively simple structure. There is a flint in the dragon's mouth. When the trigger is pulled, the faucet is pressed down, causing the flint to rub against the scythe above the fire door to create a fire.

Then a large number of sparks fell into the fire door, igniting the ignition powder in the fire door, and then detonating the compacted black gunpowder particles in the gun chamber. Finally, the fire gas generated after detonating the black gunpowder expanded instantly, pushing the compacted projectiles in the front out of the gun at high speed.

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This firing process sounds complicated, but when the firing is actually successful, it only takes a moment.

However, after Yang Zhen's motive for buckling, there was a loud bang, and the knight who was riding his horse and whipping towards the turtle ship where Yang Zhen was was suddenly let out a scream and fell down from his horse.

The dock outside Zhenjiang Gate was completely silent. There was no sound except the sound of the wind, the sound of the river, and the clatter of the Tatar's horse's hooves.

But the explosion caused by Yang Zhen's sudden firing of his musket and the scream of the knight falling from his horse instantly broke the silence on the river bank of the pier.

"What's the noise?! What happened on the dock?!"

"Is that the sound of a firecracker?! Did someone fire a firecracker?!"

Jingjin Beilenikan, who had been waiting impatiently for Zheng Mingshou and Lin Qingye at the top of the Zhenjiang Gate, suddenly became alert when he heard a sudden strange noise coming from the river bank not far from the city gate.

Han Run, the traitor to the court, and Liu Lin, the military governor of Ping'an Road who were following him, also unanimously expressed their conjectures.

"The sound of gunfire?! Is there something wrong with Lin Qingye's fleet?!"

Hearing the conjectures expressed by Han Run and Liu Lin, Jingjin Beilenikan was a little confused for a moment.

However, before he could figure out what was going on, Jingjin Beilenikan, who was standing on the Zhenjiang Gate and looking down, suddenly saw a flash of fire on the bow of a large ship on the pier.

"not good!"

Nikan yelled and subconsciously hid behind him. In a hurry, he staggered and almost fell to the ground.

At this moment, a loud rumble came from the Jiangan Pier, and a huge solid iron bullet whizzed through the night fog and hit the wall below the Wengcheng with a muffled "dong" sound.

"Cannon, cannon! Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

At this time, how could Jingjin Beilenikan, who was being supported by someone, not understand what happened?

At that moment, he couldn't care less about the panic in his heart, and immediately jumped on the top of the city and started shouting.

However, at the same time that he jumped to his feet and shouted a warning in panic, other heavy gun ships that had already heard the flagship firing fired loud roars one after another.

While the muzzle flashes were shining, large and heavy solid bullets hit the city wall on the south side of Zhenjiang Gate with "dong", "dong", "dong" and "dong".

Seeing that more than one turtle ship in the fleet brought by Lin Qingye fired at Zhenjiang Fort, Nikan instantly realized the huge danger.

"Quick, go and report to Prince Zheng that the North Korean navy brought by Lin Qingye is not a friendly force, but an enemy!"

"Quickly, call up the Han army camp that is still happy to defend the city, and ask them to use the artillery on the city to counterattack!"

Han Run, the traitor who was following Nikan closely, heard Nikan's first order and was about to leave. However, after hearing his second order, he immediately stopped and spoke to Nikan eagerly.

said:

"Master, the heavy artillery of General Tianyou on Zhenjiangmen fort has been dismantled during the day. There are no heavy artillery on the city at this time!"

"Then tell Shang Kexi and the others to relocate General Tianyou to Zhenjiangmen Fort!"

"this--"

Even the traitor Han Run, who was loyal to the Qing Dynasty with all his heart, was speechless for a moment after hearing about Jingjin Beilenikan's tragic fate.

The cannon body alone weighs three to four thousand kilograms. There were originally two guns in the Zhenjiang Fort, both of which were placed on the Zhenjiang Gate facing the river bank.

At this moment, they have been disassembled from the city gate fort, and together with the other eight that have gone through all the hardships to arrive at Zhenjiang Fort, they are temporarily placed in the Wengcheng under the city, just waiting to be loaded onto the ship tomorrow.

Good luck.

Logically speaking, at this time, not only was there no shortage of heavy artillery in Zhenjiang Fort, but the number of heavy artillery they had was twice the number of heavy artillery brought by Yang Zhen.

However, there were as many as ten heavy artillery pieces in Zhenjiang Fort that supported the general Tianyou, but none of them were where they should be at this time.

Heavy artillery is not where it should be, so it's basically scrap metal.

Just as Nikan and Han Run were talking, Lin Qingye's flagship flashed a muzzle flash again, and then a loud noise came again, and a huge and heavy projectile crashed into the city wall.

"Go quickly, go quickly and pass on the order. Quickly ask Shang Kexi's Han army camp to deploy heavy artillery on the city to counterattack!"

Nikan issued an order again, how could Han Run dare to hesitate or disobey?

He immediately let out a "sh" sound, turned around and ran down the city, first going to report the warning to General Dinghai's office in the city.

"And you, Liu Bingshi, go quickly and summon your troops to the city to resist! Lin Qingye has ulterior motives and has evil plans. You, the Li Dynasty monarchs and ministers, cannot escape your responsibility!"

Jingjin Beilenikan also did not forget Liu Lin, the imperial officer of grain and grass, Ping'an Road military and horse festival, who was called by him to welcome Lin Qingye into the city.

It's just that Nikan's tone of giving orders was extremely unkind.

His original intention was to arouse Liu Lin's determination to participate in defending the enemy and quelling the rebellion, but the result was that Liu Lin's troops, who were also members of the imperial court, were clearly thrown into a different category.

"This, yes, I will obey your orders!"

Under the rumbling sound of cannons, facing Nikan who was furious and full of bad intentions, Liu Lin could not dare to refuse, so he could only accept the order first.

Then he was seen bowing his head and taking two steps back, then turned around to greet his followers and left in a hurry.

This sudden heavy artillery bombardment from the Yalu River shocked Liu Lin, the military commander of Ping'an Road.

There is no doubt that the huge fleet docked on the Yajiang River outside the city is indeed the Korean fleet commanded by Lin Qingye.

Although Liu Lin was not born in the navy, he had been in the court of the Li Dynasty for many years. Of course he knew the turtle ships that the emperors and ministers of the Li Dynasty were proud of.

Therefore, even under the cover of darkness, he could be identified by the lights of the dock and the fleet, and he was confident that he could not be mistaken.

However, what the North Korean navy fleet did that had just arrived and anchored on the river outside Zhenjiang Fort left him at a loss for a moment.

"Is the fleet still in the hands of Lin Qingye? If not Lin Qingye, how did they pass the verification of Gulmahun and Han Run?

"If it was him, Lin Qingye, then what courage did Lin Qingye have to dare to run to the river outside Zhenjiang Fort and bombard Zhenjiang Fort City? Could it be that-"

Liu Lin, the military commander of Ping'an Road, hurriedly went underground and along the horse path inside the city, heading south to where his troops were stationed, while thinking urgently about various possibilities.

This time, Li Zhu and his parliamentary government leader Hong Ruifeng, at the suggestion of Li Chao Bing Cao Shen Qiyuan, divided their troops into two groups and marched by land and water to "aid" the Qing Dynasty.

The first was to order Liu Lin, the envoy of the Ping An Dao Army and Horse Festival, to lead three thousand infantry and escort the 100,000 stones of military provisions to be provided to the Qing soldiers by land to Zhenjiang Fort for delivery.

Second, Lin Qingye, the newly appointed commander of the three naval forces, was ordered to command all the large and small ships and naval oarsmen collected to go to Zhenjiang Fort by sea.

Shen Qiyuan, in his capacity as a military judge, knew the public orders of Liu Lin and Lin Qingye, so of course the two parties involved knew each other.

However, Shen Qiyuan wrote letters to the two of them in private and arranged tasks for each of them.

And for the sake of safety, Shen Qiyuan also adopted a single-line communication method, so Liu Lin and Lin Qingye only knew their own tasks, but did not know what the other party was going to do.

Perhaps Shen Qiyuan, a military officer of the Li Dynasty, knew that his father-in-law was not very determined in his determination to fight against the Qing Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty. In his letter to Liu Lin, he stated that he had contacted Yang Zhen , and asked Lin Qingye to lead the fleet to respond internally, and did not mention the plan of cooperating with Yang Zhenli to respond externally.

In his letter to Liu Lin, Shen Qiyuan simply asked him to pay close attention to the movements of Lin Qingye's fleet and give Lin Qingye firm cooperation.

As for what Lin Qingye might do, and how the three thousand imperial infantry led by Liu Lin should cooperate with Lin Qingye's fleet, the sinking equipment was far from revealed, and Liu Lin naturally had no idea.

However, Liu Lin, who had been ups and downs in the officialdom for many years, was able to secure his position as the military governor of Ping'an Road and the governor of Pyongyang. He had his own merits.

His eldest son is Shen Qiyuan's son-in-law, and he himself is Shen Qiyuan's old confidant. How could he not know what kind of person Shen Qiyuan is? How could he not know that Shen Qiyuan secretly contacted anti-Qing and anti-Qing people? Plotting to restore the Kingdom of Heaven?

Ideas like this were a strong undercurrent among the scholars of the Li Dynasty at that time.

At that time, most of the civil servants and generals who were scholars in the Li Dynasty regarded it as a shame that Ding Chou went to the city after Bingzi's chaos and changed his position to Qingqing, and most of them had the idea of ​​​​revolting against the Qing Dynasty to avenge the humiliation.

The only difference between these people is whether they sized up the situation and hid their thoughts of fighting against the Ping Dynasty and avenged their shame, or whether they knew they couldn't do it and put their thoughts of fighting against the Ping Dynasty and avenging their shame into action.

And this is exactly the difference between Liu Lin and Shen Qiyuan.

Liu Lin, who was the military commander of Ping'an Road and the governor of Pyongyang, certainly wanted to fight against the Qing Dynasty and avenge its shame. However, his official position and headquarters were very close to Zhenjiang Fort and the Qing military garrison west of the Yalu River, and he also knew that his subordinates The troops and horses of the imperial court they led were simply not comparable to the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty.

Therefore, he just buried some of his anti-Qing and anti-capitalist thoughts deep in his heart and only revealed them in letters to relatives, friends, and old friends.

In stark contrast, Shen Qiyuan put his ideas into action, overtly and covertly courted benefactors, won over the morale of the military, and made friends with like-minded righteous people and benevolent people.

For example, Lin Qingye, An Yingchang, Jin Mingguo, and Zheng Shuoxun are all figures in Shen Qiyuan's camp.

Of course, Liu Lin could not be unclear about this.

However, Shen Qiyuan was his father-in-law, the father-in-law of his eldest son, and the grandfather of his eldest grandson. The fate of the two families could be said to share weal and woe, with both suffering losses and prosperity.
Chapter completed!