Although Mr. Tian responded quickly enough and called someone in advance.
Although the escorts on the city wall were able to attack the sea.
Although the crew and sailors tried their best to put out the fire.
But once the fire spreads, it is not so easy to put out.
The ammunition magazine had only been moved a third of the way, and the fire had already spread to the bottom of the ship.
Thick smoke spread across all cabins, making the crew and escort unable to open their eyes.
"Captain, the fire is about to spread. Let everyone evacuate, otherwise we won't be able to leave!"
The deputy captain yelled with red eyes.
Jin Peng gritted his teeth, feeling deeply unwilling, but he could only bite the bullet and issue the retreat order.
At this time, the fire had almost spread to the ammunition depot. Once the ammunition depot was ignited, the power would be unimaginable.
Following Jin Peng's order, the crew, sailors, and bodyguards all quickly retreated to the city wall.
A moment later, a loud noise suddenly erupted on Zhenyuan No. 1.
boom!
A huge water column rose into the sky!
The sea surface is centered on the water column, setting off huge waves dozens of meters high!
The rafts surrounding Zhenyuan No. 1 have been overturned countless times!
Even the city wall not far away shook several times.
Not to mention Zhenyuan No. 1, it was directly blown into two halves from the middle and sank into the sea.
"I'm so damned good!"
Jin Peng knelt down with a thud and hit his head against the city wall.
At this time, his heart was full of guilt and self-blame, and he wished he could hit his head against the city wall and die!
"Dapeng..."
Liu Tie quickly grabbed Jin Peng.
But Jin Peng used too much force just now, and his head was still bruised and bloody.
If Liu Tie hadn't stopped him in time and let him hit him a few more times, he might have killed himself.
"Dapeng, you don't have to blame yourself, it's not your fault..." Mr. Tian followed suit.
"My husband gave me the Zhenyuan No. 1, which was a sign of his trust in me. However, I lost the Zhenyuan No. 1... It's not my fault. Whose fault is it?"
Even though the man was blind and didn't shed a single tear, now tears couldn't stop pouring out of his one eye: "I'm sorry, sir!"
"Don't worry, Dapeng, this matter is not your fault alone. I didn't find that the enemy had so many rafts. I should bear the main responsibility!"
Liu Tie comforted him: "Sir, if you take the blame, I will bear it with you!"
"Take Captain Dapeng down for a rest."
Mr. Tian called an escort and warned in a low voice: "Assign a few people to keep an eye on him. Be careful that he commits suicide."
"Yes!" The escort nodded and bent down to help Jin Peng.
"Go away!" Jin Peng pushed the bodyguard away and looked at Liu Tie: "Everyone is responsible for what he does. It's my fault, so I'll bear it. If you want to kill or cut into pieces, I'll admit it. You don't need to pretend."
hero!"
After saying that, he looked at Mr. Tian: "Don't worry, even if I die, I will help a few Eastern Barbarians to support me and will not seek short-sightedness!"
Although Liu Tie and Mr. Tian were scolded by Jin Peng, they felt relieved in their hearts.
They were really worried that Jin Peng couldn't bear the blow and committed suicide.
"You have the best idea," Liu Tie patted Jin Peng's shoulder and turned to look at the vice-captain: "Is everything okay on the speedboat?"
Now that Zhenyuan No. 1 has been bombed and sunk, the speedboat is their only hope.
"It's okay. I just saw that the situation was not good and asked someone to hoist the speedboat up in advance." the vice-captain replied.
Liu Tie nodded and arranged for the bodyguards and female soldiers to move the rescued ammunition and supplies away from the dock.
It's too cold in Yuguan City, and it's even colder on the sea.
The enemy thought that the speedboat and the Zhenyuan No. 1 were blown to pieces together. After the Zhenyuan No. 1 sank, the raft returned to the north.
After dark, after confirming that there were no more rafts on the sea, two speedboats secretly rowed out from the small dock on the pier.
In order to prevent being discovered by the enemy, the speedboat did not start the steam engine. Instead, it hung a black sail and sailed quietly into the sea with the help of the north wind, drifting southward.
There was a strong north wind that night, and the speedboat was not slow after setting up the sail.
After drifting south for more than ten miles and confirming that the enemy could no longer see it, the escort on the speedboat started the steam engine and sped south.
This day's battle was so brutal that not only the bodyguards and female soldiers were exhausted, but the Eastern Barbarians were also not relaxed.
Moreover, the Shanyu of the Eastern Barbarians knew that the bodyguards had just replenished their ammunition and it was difficult to take advantage of the siege at this time, so they did not launch an attack that night.
Liu Tie reassigned the bodyguards who were still able to fight, then sent a few scouts to lurk on the grassland, and ordered the night shift bodyguards to set up small cranes on the outside of the city wall and carry the bodies under the city wall.
There was nothing we could do. The corpses were piled as high as the city wall in several places. If we didn't clean them up, we would lose the terrain advantage of the city wall, which was not conducive to defense.
What's more, the houses in the city are almost completely demolished. The enemy's corpses can be moved to the city wall and used as ammunition for catapults.
Hundreds of bodyguards and female workers worked for most of the night. With the help of cranes, they finally cleared away the corpses within three feet of the city wall.
In the past, there were mountains of bricks and stones piled next to the catapults, but now they were piled up like mountains of enemy corpses.
After daybreak, the Shanyu of the Eastern Barbarians was awakened by his bodyguards. He ran to the high platform above the camp to take a look, and was so angry that he gritted his teeth.
After so many days of siege, tens of thousands of cannon fodder died before the city wall was leveled with a mountain of corpses. He originally planned to capture Yuguan City in one go today, but who knew that when he woke up one night, the mountain of corpses under the city wall had reached the city wall...
This means that the cannon fodder who attacks the city will have to face a city wall several feet high!
The Chanyu of the Eastern Barbarians regretted so much that he wanted to slap himself.
It would have been better if we had attacked the city overnight last night.
But there is no regret medicine in the world, so Shanyu gritted his teeth and jumped off the high platform with a dark face.
This time he decided that no matter how much it cost, even if he wiped out all the tribes he brought, he must capture Yuguan City in one go and not give the bodyguard any chance to breathe again!
Following the Shan Yu's order, the densely packed Eastern Barbarians were driven out by the supervisors like cattle and sheep, and rushed straight to the bottom of the city wall in a dark mass.
Without the mountain of corpses, the pressure on the bodyguards and female soldiers to defend the city is greatly reduced. With the ammunition reinforcements brought by Jin Peng, the pressure to defend the city is much easier.
After a day of fighting, less than half of the corpses accumulated on the city wall were thrown out by catapults. Liu Tie originally planned to steal some corpses outside the city to replenish the enemy after the enemy retreated at night, but who knew that Shan Yu did not give him this opportunity at all.
Although the offensive at night has weakened, there is no sign of stopping the attack!
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Hundreds of miles away, two speedboats also ran non-stop all night and day. At nightfall, the speedboats entered the East China Sea dock.
Although the speedboat is fast, Yuguan City is currently short of people and ammunition. They did not carry much supplies when they left, and they must replenish supplies and escorts here in the East China Sea.
There have been many bandits on the Yangtze River recently. Without Zhenyuan No. 1 to act as a deterrent, someone might be jealous and dare to take action against them.
They were not afraid, but they were afraid of being entangled by water bandits, which would delay the delivery of the letter.