While the navy on the left was dealing with poisonous smoke and shells, its warships continued to move forward a certain distance based on inertia, while the warships of the Yangtze River Navy, pushed by the river current, also moved forward a certain distance.

Suddenly, the warships at the front of both sides were only a few dozen steps away.

The warship on the left at the front was least affected by the poisonous smoke, and immediately launched an attack on the Yangtze River Navy warship with long-range weapons such as flanges.

This time, the distance was close enough, and their accuracy was better.

However, the protective facilities on the three steel-armored battleships at the front were very complete, and most of the officers and men on board easily avoided the shells, bullets, and arrows that fell on the ship.

Only a few unlucky ones were injured, but they were immediately carried to the cabin for treatment by field nurses, which did not affect the morale of the soldiers at all.

Immediately afterwards, the three iron ships all sounded loud and sharp whistles.

Black smoke billowed out of the chimney, and the tail propeller rotated rapidly, causing water waves. It quickly picked up speed and rushed straight towards the naval warship on the left like a steel beast!

Not to mention the metallic glow of the steel-armored warship, the black smoke from the chimney and the loud whistle made many navy officers on the left tremble with fear.

In particular, this steel warship has no oars or paddle wheels at all, and it can sail at such a fast speed, which is beyond the understanding of many naval officers on the left.

Seeing it rushing towards him, some navy officers on the left couldn't help but murmured in fear: "Monster! This must be a monster!"

The general in charge of commanding the warship shouted anxiously: "Get out of the way!"

However, the navy officers on the left were all attacked by poisonous smoke before. Even though their lives were not in danger, they were also given a layer of negative status. Now many of them are frightened.

In addition, larger oars and oars are not flexible enough. How can they be avoided at a distance of dozens of steps?

Within a few seconds, a warship on the left was hit by a steel-armored warship commanded by Li Zhanchun himself.

The warship on the left was knocked crooked and tilted to one side!

Not only that, a steel ram was installed underneath the steel frame warship, which poked a hole directly under the waterline of the left warship.

The river water poured in, causing the left warship to sink faster.

"Help!"

"I surrender, save me!"

"ah!"

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For a time, except for a handful of soldiers on the left side of the warship, they desperately fought back in vain against the officers and soldiers on the steel-armored warship. The rest either jumped into the river or climbed higher up the warship.

Cries for help, cries and cries, extremely miserable.

Li Zhanchun paid no attention to these people, but shouted excitedly and ordered, "Give me more power! Keep charging forward!"

"Musketeers and squatting gunners, freely attack enemy ships on both sides!"

When they were bombarded before, many generals on the left, like Xu Ensheng, guessed that one warship of the Yangtze River Navy was equipped with at least four or five cannons.

Little did they know that each of the 400-material steel-armored warships of the Yangtze River Navy was equipped with at least 20 new cannons, small squatting cannons, 30 French guns, and 50 musketeers (one team)!

It can be said that a steel-armored warship is completely a mobile firepower fortress on the Yangtze River!

The remaining 400-seat warships and patrol ships without steel armor only lack ten new cannons.

As for why the previous long-range bombardment rounds looked like each ship only had four or five guns, it was entirely because it was not convenient to fire horizontally in salvos at that time. Otherwise, each warship could have at least ten new artillery guns fired at the same time.

Of course, this does not mean firing at the same time, so that even a ship with thousands of materials will roll over due to the recoil of the cannon, but it means firing in a specific order within a short period of time.

As for the small squatting cannons and Franchise guns, a single person can carry and operate them, and the impact of recoil warships is very small, so there are so many guns on one ship.

Of course, even a battleship with 400 materials can only carry one or two hundred people, and can only control so many firearms.

Although the "Firepower Fortress"-style warships of the Yangtze River Navy have many shortcomings, even obvious shortcomings, they are like a devil to the left navy, which still mainly uses cold weapons to engage in boarding warfare.

I saw two steel-armored battleships commanded by Li Zhanchun and Yu Dahai, and the steel-armored battleship commanded by Zeng Ying, forming a triangular formation, rushing into the left naval formation like a sharp blade cutting through butter.

Only a few warships were knocked down and destroyed by it, and most of the warships on both sides were hit by fire, shells, and bullets.

The Yangtze River Navy fired at them with handfuls of shotguns, but the navy on the left had more people on each warship (required for boarding battles), and they suffered heavy casualties immediately.

Those who are lucky enough to survive the bullets will also be taken care of by musketeers and a few archers.

It can be said that the navy on the left was beaten to the point of being unable to fight back!

When the subsequent warships of the Yangtze River Navy also rushed in, showing not much weaker firepower, the left navy finally couldn't hold it anymore and fled to both sides of the Yangtze River or downstream.

Chang Deng stood on the second deck of the ship and saw this scene, and he screamed in anger.

"Why are you running? The enemy has strong firepower, so they jump up and fight at close range! They are just a group of musketeers and artillerymen. If they get close, why don't they just let us kill them?!"

"Supervisory team? Where is the supervising team? Anyone who runs away to avoid the battle will be killed on the spot by me!"

"If a warship escapes, the whole ship will suffer after the war!"

Under Chang Deng's roaring command, some dumb warriors from the left wing desperately took advantage of the opportunity of each other's ships to connect and jumped onto the Yangtze River naval warships in an attempt to win with cold weapons.

However, the Yangtze River Navy did not completely abandon the melee arms.

Not to mention the musketeers who can fight with bayonets, they are also equipped with a team (50 people) of short-hand soldiers.

Therefore, those warriors on the left who dared to jump onto the Yangtze River Navy warship were often surrounded and killed by several people as soon as they landed.

The short-range soldiers of the Yangtze River Navy have never had a chance to take action. Now that their heads are being sent to them, how can they be polite?

Even before the war, the generals repeatedly emphasized that the main purpose was to take prisoners, but there were still many left warriors who jumped up and were killed on the spot...

The formation of naval warships on the left was completely disrupted by the Yangtze River Navy.

Not only were they unable to cause much damage to the Yangtze River Navy under Chang Deng's command, many warships even failed to escape - many of the soldiers on the warships were killed and wounded on the spot, including even the commanding general.

The officers and many oarsmen and oarsmen immediately made the warship lose its ability to move and float in the river.

The battle went on like this for a while, and the ship of Navy Commander Chang Deng on the left was "surrounded" by the steel-armored battleships commanded by Li Zhanchun and Yu Dahai.

The two men first used tiger crouching cannons and muskets to cover the fire, killing most of the officers on the left side of the ship.
Chapter completed!