The guy's face immediately looked horrified, "Ah... it seems to be a torpedo... the enemy fired two torpedoes, hurry... the left rudder avoided it, hurry..."

The cannon commander served in Liugong Island, the Beiyang Navy. After all, he had seen the world and immediately understood that this was a torpedo.

But it was discovered that it was too late.

Even the captain didn't react and had no time to issue an order to let the helmsman perform regular maneuvers, the hull was hit directly.

"boom…"

"boom…"

Two huge explosions sounded on the lake.

I saw two huge fireballs in the ship No. 2, and a raging fire ignited, thick black smoke emerged, and the hull was blown into three pieces, and the wooden boards were flying all over the sky.

Although these nearly 2,000-ton gunboats are all wooden structures, they are much larger and thicker than those of six or seven hundred tons of armed fishing boats. They are hit by heavy artillery several shots. As long as they are not critical, they can continue sailing, at least they can escape.

But torpedo bombs are different. If you eat two at the same time, basically the ship will be reimbursed, and it will immediately split and catch a fire and sink.

Faced with this sudden situation, all the bandit leaders, including the third master Bai Fengchun, were shocked.

They never dreamed that the enemy's gunboat, which was also transformed by merchant ships, actually had advanced torpedo launch devices.

But before the bandits woke up from their horror, the Wild Wolf had already aimed at the enemy's No. 4 gunboat.

With two loud bangs, the outcome of the enemy No. 4 gunboat was exactly the same as that of the second gunboat.

"Hurry up... retreat and retreat back to the base!" Bai Fengchun, the third leader, woke up with a dream. He was so angry that he issued the general retreat order, not confused.

The flagship was the first to be hit. A right full rudder made a 180-degree turn and ran to the dragon king bandits' nest.

The other two gunboats were busy following the example, but how could Ding Changdong, the helmman on the Wild Wolf, missed this opportunity to avenge his grandfather? His third set of torpedoes were in the launch state.

"emission!"

With a command, the steam propulsion device was activated, and two torpedoes attacked and chased the enemy No. 5 gunboat five hundred meters away.

Half a minute later, the No. 5 gunboat was also shot and caught fire, and the hull was split. The bandits on the ship jumped into the lake and fled.

Fortunately, the No. 3 flagship and No. 1 ship escaped first. While they were running at full speed, they fired blindly with their tail cannons, trying to stop the Wild Wolf who was chasing him, and were not afraid of taking torpedoes again.

What’s strange is that the Wild Wolf was chasing and did not launch a torpedo again. This is not because Ding Changdong is compassionate, nor is it because he has no torpedoes available, so it is hard for a good cook to cook without rice.

The trigger torpedo is a dangerous big guy with special storage devices and launch areas, so it is not suitable for large loading.

Like the Blood Wolf, both the Wild Wolf uses the smallest configuration among British Navy ships and the Type Six loading.

In other words, there are only six torpedoes on the ship.

Now, Ding Changdong used up all of him, and he could only chase him at full speed and bombard him with a 105mm main ship gun. At the same time, the near-defense rapid-fire cannons and heavy machine guns on the deck were not idle, and the speedboats and bandits floating on the lake were fired.

The calculation started from the Wild Wolf receiving orders to attack. In less than an hour of fierce fighting, the strongest water bandits on Poyang Lake were destroyed by large gunboats No. 2, No. 4,5, and injured No. 1, including Bai Fengchun's flagship, and also received a shot.

So far, this mixed fleet led by Bai Fengchun has been destroyed by Chen Tianhua's heavy artillery battalion and severely damaged two fishing boats and earth gunboats. In addition, five large gunboats have been killed and injured, and his fleet has almost lost all its combat power.

"Retreat...retreat..."

"Escape quickly. If you can't fight, you will be wiped out if you continue to fight."

“…”

At the foot of Kanglang Mountain, on the vast lake, the ancient battlefield where the Zhu-Chen battle was already in chaos, like an ant on a hot pan.

Several ships with power began to turn around and run towards the rear.

The remaining more than forty speedboats ran away without a trace when they saw that the situation was not good. The unfortunate thing was that the hundreds of water bandits floating on the lake became targets of gunfire.

Chen Tianhua held up a high-power telescope to observe until the ships on the lake could not see the shadows. He put them down.

Unfortunately, there were fewer torpedoes this time. If there were three groups, the mixed fleet could be destroyed.

"Calculate the results of the battle and see if there are still ships that can only be used. We will drag them back for repairs. We just lack some small and medium-sized ships!"

Chen Tianhua asked the deacon to convey his orders.

He felt relieved after watching the threat on the lake retreat.

This time, the biggest bandit in Poyang Lake, Sailongwang, was a very pleasing thing.

Sailongwang's navy was crippled and he must be depressed for a long time. Even if the Japanese spend a lot of money on their support, they must recover slowly.

In this way, the risk of armed escort on the next water transport channel will be greatly reduced.

There is no need to divide the troops anymore. You just need to concentrate your troops to kill the enemies in the front of the Luoxiao Mountains Canyon, and strengthen the protection of mining areas such as Xihua Mountain, Daji Mountain, Pangu Mountain.

The casualties of the defenders were counted, and a little casualties occurred in this shallow offensive and defensive battle.

During the first beachhead battle, the retreat was slow and the artillery fire hit more than 20 soldiers, and three soldiers were blindly shot by bandits who climbed the beach.

Seven casualties were killed and no artillery damage was caused.

Seventeen casualties in the mortar company and five mortars were lost.

The beach head defense position needs to be repaired on site.

In short, this battle was a complete victory at a very small price, and the information delivered in time was the first to be rewarded.

Scientific and reasonable strategic and tactical ideas and execution are the core of victory in battle.

The Wild Wolf attack, especially the torpedo, is the key item to solve this lake battle.

In front of the local bunkers who do not have remote firepower and dodge skills, six torpedoes can massacre them in more than ten minutes. This is the advantage of weapons.

In the history of being a bandit in Poyang Lake, they pursued the number and speed of ships. First, they were dragon boats that were rowing for the water. Now they were motors, and the rest were not important.

It is more than enough to add a few large-caliber artillery to deal with merchant ships that do not have defense capabilities or have weak defense capabilities.

But the water bandits never expected that the weapons and equipment under the jurisdiction of a private enterprise in the Qing Dynasty were several times stronger than the Qing army, which was surprising and unbelievable.

In addition to the advanced artillery of large caliber, it also has more than 2,000 tons of modern gunboats. The shocking thing is also a large killer weapon like torpedo, which has to taste the bitter fruit of failure.

...

In the evening of that day, the island in the center of Poyang Lake.

The Weihu Hall at Sailongwang headquarters is brightly lit.
Chapter completed!