As the distance quickly approached, other Wu soldiers on the Wu army fleet also raised their firing guns and joined the battle. Bullets kept hitting the three strange boats. Although the accuracy could not be guaranteed, they continued to hit the three strange boats with high density and high firing speed. The Taiping soldiers on the three boats were so fierce that Wu Chaoyue couldn't help but be amazed. When the firepower intensity was far less than that of the Wu army's training, they dared to continue to launch an attack. One ship hit the tail of the Qing army's advisor ship, and the other two ships attacked on both sides. One left and one right, they rushed directly to Wu Chaoyue's ship, who was hanging the Shanghai regiment training flag. It seemed that they wanted to fight Wu Chaoyue's ship in close-up battle, and rushed onto the ship to capture the thief and capture the king first.

After secretly complimenting the Taiping Army, Wu Chaoyue was not afraid of it. He relied on his well-equipped equipment and did not make any adjustments. He just ordered the personal soldiers equipped with revolvers to prepare for close combat. Then he quickly went to see the situation of the Qing official who claimed to be Guangtai Daotai - of course, he also cared about the Xiao Luoli named Wanzhen.

At this time, relying on the advantage of the water, the Taiping Army Xiaoba Ship was approaching the Qing army's advisor ship, and threw out a hook rope to hook the side of the Qing army's advisor ship. The Qing officials were so anxious that they burst into tears, "Help! Help! Come! Come quickly!"

Wu Chaoyue's flagship was at least fifty or sixty meters away from the Qing military advisor ship. Seeing that the situation was not good, Wu Chaoyue could only shout quickly: "The big brother on the boat, get into the water quickly, find a wooden board to jump into the water, I'll come over to save you immediately!"

The Qing official could not do anything. Of course, he was hesitant when he heard Wu Chaoyue's shouts. However, seeing that the Taiping Army's small draw boat behind him had already pulled the rope and was about to lean on his side, he gritted his teeth and made up his mind. He rushed into the cabin and found a wooden barrel, rushed out and carried the little Luoli. Without saying a word, he jumped into the Yangtze River. The Taiping Army soldiers behind had already jumped onto the division ship and rushed over, but a little late, the knife he swung out to only hit the Qing official's braid, and watched him jump into the river with the little Luoli for a while and escaped for a while.

Then, the Qing Dynasty officials naturally struggled in the water to call for help. Fortunately, they held the wooden barrel tightly in their hands, but they did not sink immediately even if they didn't have water. Wu Chaoyue shouted loudly to speed up and ordered the sailors to prepare to go into the water to save people. At the same time, Wu Chaoyue quickly raised his Minnie gun and aimed at the Taiping soldier who almost hit the Qing Dynasty officials and fired - unfortunately he didn't hit him.

Fortunately, although Wu Chaoyue did not hit, several snipers next to him fired one after another. Among them, I don’t know who hit the Taiping soldier’s thigh with one shot, knocking him down on the deck, and there was no chance to dive and chase him. At the same time, other Wu soldiers also fired their firing guns and tried their best to aim and shoot, relying on the density of firepower to suppress the Taiping small ship beside the Qing military advisor ship.

The Taiping Army Small Draw Ship, which was directly opposite, was temporarily suppressed. However, the Taiping Army Small Draw Ship, who came from both sides, seized the opportunity and quickly narrowed the distance with Wu Chaoyue's ship. The small Draw Ship came to the right and even approached Wu Chaoyue's ship first. He threw out a hook rope to hook Wu Chaoyue's ship's side, and pulled it quickly approached.

Unfortunately, although the Taiping soldiers on this Xiaoba ship had rich experience in water battles, they seriously underestimated the fire density and shooting accuracy of the Wu army. Seeing that Wu Chaoyue's ship was in a hurry, Wu Chaoyue's ship had already fired fire, and the firing guns and Minni guns were continuously fired, killing the Taiping soldiers on the Xiaoba ship so that they did not dare to look up. What these Taiping soldiers did not expect was that while Wu Chaoyue's ship was concentrated on long-range firepower to suppress the ship coming from the front, the Wu soldiers next to the side of the ship suddenly showed their revolver and shot at the deck of the Xiaoba ship from a high point, but still had to shoot continuously without changing bullets. The Taiping soldiers on the Xiaoba ship were caught off guard and were killed and injured in a blink of an eye. They had to scream and let go of the hook rope and flee to the south bank of the Yangtze River with friendly troops.

The same was true for the Taiping Army's small draw ship that came to the left. It was first suppressed by the long-range firepower of other ships of the Wu army, and then was bombarded by Wu Chaoyue's personal soldiers with revolvers. They were shot while lying down. In the end, they couldn't stand it anymore. The small draw ship had to scream and escape to the south bank, "Qing Yao has too many muskets, and they will fire continuously. If you can't beat them, you can quickly withdraw!"

After repelling two enemy ships, the Wu army's morale increased greatly, and the firepower was even stronger during the continuous shooting, which made the enemy ship in front even more difficult to resist. At the same time, several sailors also went into the water one after another and swam to rescue the Qing official. After all, they finally rescued him from the water before drowning. Wu Chaoyue was more concerned about the little Luoli named Wanzhen and quickly shouted: "There is that little girl, save her! Save her!"

"Young Master Sun, rescue him!"

Wu Dasai reminded that Wu Chaoyue saw that the little Luoli had been lifted out of the water by the sailors and was being taken to swim towards his boat. Wu Chaoyue was overjoyed and hurriedly ordered the soldiers to put down the rope and pulled the little Luoli onto the boat. As a result, when the little Luoli was tied up and pulled it onto the boat, Wu Chaoyue couldn't wait to pounce on it. While facing the little Luoli facing him, he asked anxiously: "Wanzhen, are you okay? Are you not in the capital..."

Wu Chaoyue's concerning greeting came to an abrupt end because Wu Chaoyue had already seen the fainting appearance of the little Luoli, who was quite dignified and not ugly, but in terms of development potential, compared with Feng Wanzhen, it was purely as different as Mexico and America. Then, Wu Chaoyue of course cursed in his stomach, "Damn! I thought it was Feng Wanzhen, but it turned out to be just the same name!"

At this time, the Qing Dynasty official was also pulled onto the deck, and without saying a word, he rushed up and hugged the unconscious Xiao Luoli, shaking, and burst into tears, "Wanzhen, good daughter, are you okay? It's Ama's bad, Ama will send you away earlier, it's Ama's sorry for you! Wanzhen, are you okay? Are you okay?"

Crying, the Qing official hugged his daughter and kept shaking, but the little Luoli was still unconscious. When Wu Chaoyue saw it, he hurriedly went up to help, tried Xiao Luoli and breathing first, and then quickly pinched her people, and let the Qing official rub his daughter's chest to relieve his breath. After a while, the little Luoli finally woke up slowly and spit out a mouthful of river water. The Qing official was overjoyed and hugged his daughter and cried loudly. While crying, he thanked Wu Chaoyue, "Little brother, thank you, thank you, if it weren't for you today, our father and daughter would be dead. I will never forget it in my next life."

"Brother, you need to be polite." Wu Chaoyue waved his hand very generously and said, "Don't say that we are all officials of the Qing Dynasty, even ordinary people, you can't ignore this situation."

The Qing officials who had just been abandoned by their subordinates were extremely moved and couldn't help crying loudly. They were struggling to kowtow to Wu Chaoyue and thanked Wu Chaoyue. Wu Chaoyue hurriedly helped him. Seeing that he and his daughter were all wet and were trembling with cold in the early spring river water, Wu Chaoyue ordered again: "Come on, bring this adult and his daughter to my room and find some of my clothes for them to change."

The personal soldiers agreed and came to lead the way. The Qing Dynasty officials were even more grateful. They thanked Wu Chaoyue several times before helping his daughter to change clothes in the cabin, leaving Wu Chaoyue to mutter on the deck, "Fuck! An eight-coast wormfish, giving birth to an ugly daughter and having a face called Wanzhen, which made me happy."

After complaining in his stomach, Wu Chaoyue turned around and observed the situation on the river. He saw that the Taiping Army small ship opposite had fled to the south bank to meet with friendly forces. The upstream was also empty and no other ships were seen for the time being. After a little relieved, Wu Chaoyue hurried to see the situation on the south bank. He saw that the enemies on the shore were quite dense and they were gathering together and didn't know what to say.

In terms of force alone, the Taiping Army infantry on the south bank naturally had an absolute advantage, but they were obviously coming in a hurry, lacking long-range weapons such as artillery. The cowlin gun in their hands poses a pitiful threat to the Wu army fleet. Even if they are full of soldiers, they will be used as a living target for the Wu army to practice gun skills. With the absolute advantage of weapon range, Wu Chaoyue was not very polite. He ordered the fleet to approach the south bank again, lined up in a row only two hundred meters away from the river, and then ordered the soldiers to take out the Minnie gun and shoot freely, and practice gun skills with the enemies on the shore in actual combat.

In this way, the Taiping soldiers on the shore were naturally in great danger. The distance between two hundred meters, whether it was a cob, gun or a bow, had almost no accuracy. No matter how you fired the arrow, it would have almost no threat to the Wu army fleet. The Mini gun that Wu army trained bravely could still maintain a certain shooting accuracy at this distance, and took up almost all the advantages of shooting. It knocked the Taiping soldiers on the shore screaming and screaming, evading and dodging, and was so embarrassed that many Taiping soldiers were so angry that they cursed and yelled, "Dog Qing Yao, you have a kind of a kind of a land to come ashore! You have a kind of a land to fight us!"

When Wu Chaoyue was smirking, the Qing Dynasty official had crawled out of the cabin in dry clothes. He first looked at the battlefield situation and said to Wu Chaoyue: "Brother, don't fight? The long-haired navy may come to fight at any time, so let's go first."

After saying that, the Qing Dynasty official was afraid that Wu Chaoyue would not listen, so he quickly added, "Our Qing Dynasty's Wuhu Navy has been wiped out, and even the navy general Chen Shengyuan has been killed. The Changmao Navy is here, and you may not be able to withstand these ships."

"The Wuhu Navy has been wiped out?"

Even though he was mentally prepared, Wu Chaoyue was still slightly surprised and hurriedly asked the Qing officials about the situation. Only then did he learn that the Wuhu Navy fought with the Taiping Army yesterday in Sihe Mountain lower reaches of Wuhu. As a result, the Qing Navy was wiped out. General Chen Shengyuan died of the cannon in the water. The Qing army on the shore was even more miserable. He just saw the Taiping Army approaching and collapsed without fighting, and gave up the camp to flee in all directions - this is also the key reason why the Taiping Army Land Division ran faster than the Navy.

"What about Lu Jianying? How is he?" Wu Chaoyue quickly asked another important question.

"Lu Manufacturing Platform? He had already run away!" The Qing official said with a sad face: "On the 24th day of the first lunar month, Lu Manufacturing Platform went to Wuhu to arrange defenses and handed over the Wuhu defense line to General Chen Shengyuan and me. Then, before dawn the next day, he took a boat back to Jiangning."

Wu Chaoyue was speechless, and Wu Chaoyue, who was also afraid of death, did not hesitate, and immediately ordered the stop of shooting, and the fleet turned back to Jiangning. Then the Qing official said that his ship had tens of thousands of taels of silver on his ship. Wu Chaoyue, who was afraid of death and even more greedy for money and lust, did not hesitate. He immediately divided a boat to drag the basically scrapped division ship, and retreated eastward under the noses of the enemy who was several times his own.

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At the same time, when he saw the Wu army fleet turning arrogantly and domineeringly, Lin Fengxiang, the general of the Taiping Army on the shore, was so angry that he drew his sword and cut off a piece of the hard reef in front of him, and kept roaring, "Dog Qing Yao! Wait, wait for me! Wait until Jiangning, see how I deal with you?"

It is not for Lin Fengxiang to be so angry. In a short and hasty encounter, when he couldn't even see the enemy's appearance carefully, the Taiping Army actually sacrificed 19 elite soldiers who had been through battles one after another, injured more than 30 people, five of whom were seriously injured, but in the end they couldn't even touch a hair of the enemy. The Taiping Army had never encountered such a cowardly defeat since Wuchang went east! So not only Lin Fengxiang was furious, but when he received Lin Fengxiang's report, the Taiping Army's vanguard Li Kaifang was also surprised and said, "How is it possible? What Qing Yao is so capable of fighting without any loss, and can kill and injure so many of our soldiers? Who is the Qing Yao general who leads the team?"

"I don't know." Lin Fengxiang said very angry: "I only saw the word Wu on his flag, and I couldn't see it clearly in the small characters. Also, this group of Qing Yao's muskets are very powerful, and they hit far and accurately. I heard from the brothers of the navy that they seemed to be able to fire continuously, so we suffered a great loss."

"It's far and accurate? Can I still fire it continuously?" Li Kaifang, who had never seen such a musket, was a little disbelief, but to be cautious, Li Kaifang still ordered: "Send someone to contact friends from the Tiandihui to let them spy on the news about this group of Qing Yao for us. The more detailed the better."

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At the same time, Wu Chaoyue remembered to ask the Qing official who he saved for his name. As a result, the Qing official replied, "Yu brother Huizheng, Guangtai Daotai, dare you ask your brother Gao's name, what is the official position?"

"Hui Zheng?" Although Wu Chaoyue, who has a poor history, he felt that this name sounded familiar, he couldn't remember that he had heard it there for a moment. He just replied casually: "My name is Wu, his name is Weiting, and he is in charge of the Ministry of Rites. He is now in charge of the Songjiang Group Training."

"Wu Chaoyue?!" Huizheng was shocked and said in surprise: "Brother, are you just following Prince Gong to Dagukou to negotiate the Wu Chaoyue?"

Wu Chaoyue nodded depressedly, and then he realized that even the officials of Anhui had heard of his infamous reputation. Hui Zheng also bowed his hands repeatedly and said that he had long admired his brother's name. He met today and was lucky to see him for three lives. Wu Chaoyue became more and more depressed as he listened. He quickly changed the subject and asked what Hui Zheng planned next? Hui Zheng said with a sad face: "Brother Yu doesn't know what to do. Lu Jiantai asked Brother Yu to assist General Chen in guarding the Wuhu defense line. As a result, he lost the Liangshan camp that was ordered to stick to, and lost the Daozhuan Wuhu City, lost the city of city and land, lost the army and the country. Two serious crimes. Brother Yu really didn't know how to explain to Lu Jiantai and the court."

"Don't worry, it's okay." Wu Chaoyue comforted him indecently: "When I see Lu Jiantai in Jiangning, I will say a few more good things for you, and you will try to push the responsibility as much as possible. I will ask Lu Jiantai to give you a chance to make meritorious service and atone for your sins, and it should be fine."

"Brother, what is your relationship with Mainland Platform?"

Hui Zheng was really a little scared by Wu Chaoyue, so he quickly asked if Wu Chaoyue had any special friendship with his immediate boss Lu Jianying. Wu Chaoyue replied truthfully: "I have never seen him before, and it doesn't matter, but this time I was forced to help him by Lu Jiantai from Shanghai. I asked for mercy on you. I think Lu Jiantai will give me some face."

When Huizheng heard that Wu Chaoyue was actually a shameless cowhide, he was disappointed. However, he had just received Wu Chaoyue's great kindness and was not easy to show, so he could only thank him politely. At this time, the Qing soldiers who had previously escaped and escaped to pay their respects to Huizheng, but Huizheng was furious when he saw them, punched and kicked them, and scolded them, "Dog slave, turtle, what do I do to you in normal times? When you are in danger, you dare to leave me and run away, and almost kill my father and daughter. This is how do you repay me?"

Several Qing soldiers knew that they were in the wrong, so they didn't dare to fight back and just dodged, begging for mercy, but Hui Zheng was angry and kicked over a Qing soldier in front of him and shouted: "Get out! Get out of me! I don't need you anymore! Get out of here!"

"Master, this is on the boat. Do you tell us to get out?" A Qing soldier said with a sad face: "Besides, we are all out, who will protect you?"

"I hope you can protect me, I will have already fallen to the ground!" Hui Zheng yelled angrily, "Get out! I don't need you to protect me!"

Unable to stand Hui Zheng's beating and scolding, several Qing soldiers ran away in shame. Hui Zheng's anger stopped for a moment, then turned to Wu Chaoyue and said, "Brother Weiting, Brother Yu will trouble you for the time being, but brother, don't worry, save your life, the mountains and the sea are deep, and Brother Yu will definitely be rewarded."

Wu Chaoyue politely pushed her, but she was extremely disdainful. She thought that you, a Taoist platform that even lost Taoism, would you give me what reward? Marry your daughter named Wanzhen to me? Your daughter can't even catch up with Feng Wanzhen, and it's not necessary to give it to me as a concubine.

Seeing that Wu Chaoyue was dissatisfied with his words, Hui Zheng whispered again: "My brother, I'm going to tell you, although I am only in the fourth rank and have no title, I am actually barely considered a father-in-law. After my eldest daughter entered the palace for the imperial examination, she was accepted as a concubine by Long Live now. I heard that she is still very favored, so Brother Xiao, I can guarantee that Long Live the Emperor will know about saving me."

Before Hui Zheng finished speaking, Wu Chaoyue's face had completely changed - because Wu Chaoyue had already remembered who Hui Zheng was in front of him - the father of the old witch Cixi! Then, Wu Chaoyue's eyes turned again, and immediately changed his kind expression and said intimately: "Brother, don't worry, don't say that the Changmao Navy has not come yet, even if the Changmao Navy comes together, I will definitely guarantee that you will escort you back to Jiangning City safely, and guarantee that you will not be frightened by the previous one!"
Chapter completed!