Along with the flags from the signal soldiers on the ship under Shi Lang's command, and the signal lights produced by the lights made by the colorful silk covered with the windproof horse lanterns, dozens of ships of the Nanyue Army Naval Division anchored on the Xiaogushan River from Anqing to Jiujiang hung up all the colorful signal flags, and the gunners fired the main guns on the ships.

The rumbling cannons, the signal flags fluttering in the scorching river wind, all these are just to welcome the arrival of the huge fleet of ships that stretches for more than ten miles on the river.

In the fleet, the one that guards the middle of several gunboats is Li Shouhan's ship, which is also the flagship of the naval division of the Nanyue Army at this moment.

"Tom!"

"Tom!"

The Cron cannon placed on the bow of the guerrilla fleet led by Shi Lang emitted a dull roar, although it was not loaded with shells, only a salute was fired, but the loud sound, the dense smoke, and the flickering fire of the cannon could also bring great pressure to the onlookers.

What's more, dozens of ships are firing a salute continuously?!

"Quick! Put out the fire! Put out the fire! Unload all the gunpowder and cannons for Lao Tzu! Don't go off! "On the riverbank, among the several artillery forts of the Left Army, the artillery team of the Left Army, wearing red crotch and marking their gunners, under the orders of several officers with earth-colored faces, hurriedly unloaded the sub-guns of the Franc machine, dismantled the cartridge core, took out the gunpowder, and carefully dismantled the cannon in the sub-cannon and put it aside. Make the cannons, gunpowder, and ignition materials placed separately.

"Quick! Don't be there and watch the excitement! Go and cut reeds for Lao Tzu! Dig up the soil and put a straw bag to go! ”

The shock of the huge artillery firing made these officers of the Left Army feel uneasy. In order not to get into trouble, they hurriedly ordered their gunners with half a bottle of vinegar to unload the gunpowder and cannons in the barrel, lest any of the unsightly guys ignite the medicine letter in a daze and let the cannon out. At what point, I'm afraid that our handsome will not support us, maybe, he will use us first to make the old man angry!

At present, it has passed the small full solar term, and the folk proverb "small and full of rivers is full", and the river has entered a period of abundance. The ships sailing on the river were full of sails, fed with the wind, and walked faster than the galloping horses.

"One, two, three, four, five。。。。。。 Eighth, ninth, tenth。。。。。。 Twelve! "A soldier of the Left Army Artillery Corps was proud of his good eyes among the robes and brothers, and often boasted that a mosquito flying three miles away could distinguish between male and female. At this time, his eyes widened, and he carefully counted the gun window of a ship on the river.

"Head! Just facing our side, there must be twelve gun windows on the first deck! If this is such a big artillery, after this round, isn't it a county town that will be gone?! ”

The good-eyed gunner tried to control himself, so as not to let the people next to him see that his legs were shivering, and in fact, his crotch was already wet. Because of the reason for wearing a crotch, it was not discovered! These gunners can be regarded as the technical arms of the left army. They are not like those who use bows and horses, and are fierce and savage in exchange for their wealth and wealth. is not like those captured strong men, who have become cannon fodder used to fill the numbers in the left army. They belong to a group of people with a very special position in the left army. Not only can they enjoy the special treatment of military salaries, grain, grass, wine and meat, but they are not like the family, who is cruel and tyrannical, and takes slaughter and burning as a pleasure.

Because they are engaged in technical troops, they are much more sensitive to technical information and things than the battalion generals of the Left Army. Just now, from the salute fired by Shi Lang's fleet to welcome Li Shouhan's fleet, these people were keenly able to distinguish a lot of information.

The weight and caliber of the guns are calculated from the sound and fire of the guns, the number of guns is calculated from the number of gun windows on the ship, and the power effect of a shot is calculated from the caliber and number of guns.

"Now you know why Lao Tzu asked you to unload the gunpowder and cannons, right?" The officer of the artillery team is a thousand generals, although there are only a few dozen people under his command, and seven or eight mules, horses and donkeys, but the official head is very good.

"As soon as Lao Tzu saw the strength of the Southern Army, he knew that this idea was prickly, and it was not easy to provoke, so hurry up and let you withdraw the bomb, let's not cause trouble for ourselves! If you really go back and shoot out of the barrel, even if you take shit luck and overturn the banner of the marshal with one cannon, but, don't get the reward, but let the marshal take the head of our big guy and go to vent his anger to the old men of the Southern Army! ”

Mr. Qian pouted and lectured his subordinates from the demeanor of a general soldier. With his official status, he naturally can't know the full situation of the Left Army and the Nanyue Army at the moment, but he also vaguely has some rumors blowing in his ears.

Just when Li Shouhan was ordered to leave Beijing, a holy decree issued by the cabinet arrived in Zuo Liangyu's army. He ordered the Pingthief Town to be stationed in situ to resist Li Zicheng's Dashun army soldiers and horses who tried to advance along the river, and he Zuo Liangyu himself wanted to enter Beijing according to his will.

However, after Zuo Liangyu received this will, although he did not pull out the sword and cut the messenger into two pieces with one sword, he sneered, "This is a false edict issued by the traitorous party to coerce the saint!" Minister, you can't give an edict! ”

Then the inscription said, "The traitorous party coerced His Majesty, did reckless things, and the ministers sat on Huguang, and they did not obey the edict when they died...... Only the 800,000 Qing monarchs are on the side of Ming Zhier." Subsequently, Zuo Liangyu seized the time to gather his soldiers and horses, and after looting dozens of towns in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, he claimed to have raised 800,000 troops to go down the east side of the Qing Dynasty to the side of the Qing Dynasty, and was invincible all the way from Anqing to Jiujiang.

Although he screamed fiercely, the small Gushan Water Division battalion lying across the Anqing River became an obstacle on the way of Zuo Liangyu's army. Shi Lang's name, as well as the fact that he threw thousands of left army forwards into the Yangtze River not long ago, and the wontons in his heart were like a spell, blocking the advance of the left army.

However, Shi Lang, who was guarding his throat, because he received an official letter from the shogunate, knew that his father was about to come to the enemy, and he could only hold back the heart of the coal, which seemed to be planning to make meritorious contributions, and everything had to wait for the arrival of his father. Although his heart was full of wanting to cut off Zuo Liangyu's head, eliminate his army of hundreds of thousands of rabble, and let himself occupy more voice and higher status in the Li family in the future power pattern, Li Shouhan did not come, but Shi Lang never dared.

The two armies tensed their nerves and confronted each other across the river.

Therefore, half of the commanders of the artillery team are afraid of death, and half of them seem to be carrying out the military orders of the upper peak, and they dare not start the battle lightly.

But I saw a small boat flying out of the fleet of the naval division of the Nanyue Army, and the sail oars pushed the boat together and flew towards the river bank.

"The ship of the Southern Army is coming! What to do!? To fight or not to fight? The good-eyed gunner asked his Qian Zong in a low and nervous voice.

"Hit you donkey ball! You're a rammer! What number of guns on the gunboats of the Confederate Army was just now?! You still have to fight, if you want to die, don't pull Lao Tzu! ”

Mr. Qian scolded a few words and looked into the river, but when he saw that the small boat was not erected, there were only a dozen soldiers of the Southern Yue Army on the boat, each with a helmet and armor, holding a knife and a gun.

"On the shore is that part of the brothers of the Left Army?"

"We are the right post of the front battalion of the artillery team under the command of Zuo Mengeng, the commander of the inner battalion, dare to ask which part of the brother it is?"

Seeing that the person who came spoke politely, although his tone was very hard, he still called himself a brother, and Mr. Qian put a heart back in his stomach, so it wouldn't be too ugly. has always been dressed up, and on the water surface is as stable as Mount Tai, Mr. Qian guessed in his heart: "It's probably the group of guys from the land battalion of the Nanyue Army." They are all a group of ruthless people, all of them are murderous demons, and everyone dares to rush up against the guns of the Tartars! ”

The name of the Navy Division Land Battalion, after the Xiaogushan incident, was suddenly very loud in Zuo Liangyu's army. Although it can't be done to the point where it can cure children's night crying, when the officers and soldiers in Zuo Liangyu's army swear to each other, they all use the water division and land camp to talk about things.

"If Lao Tzu is out of the old man, let Lao Tzu go out and bump into the group of guys in the Navy Lu Ying!"

"If Lao Tzu doesn't pay back the money, let Lao Tzu be given wontons by the demons of the water master Lu Ying!"

"I don't know what I can do?"

Most people who advocate violence and bully the weak, and when they encounter people who are stronger and more evil than themselves, they will have a low-voiced violence worship mentality. Seeing that the boat of the sailor Lu Ying gradually arrived on the shore, and the people who came seemed to have no malicious intent, Mr. Qian strengthened his courage and walked up to talk.

The leader of the person who came to discuss a few words in a low voice with a few subordinates, and then nodded.

"There is something I want to ask your brother for help." The leader took out a small money bag from under the poncho, considered it for a moment, and ordered someone to take out a few things from the cabin.

"Our army came from afar, and the firewood and grass prepared on the ship were soaked a lot by the rain, so I would like to ask the brothers of the left army to help purchase some firewood and grass, and if there are chickens, ducks, vegetables and vegetables, they will also help to purchase one or two. These are the fees. ”

As he spoke, he saw that the officer at the head raised his hand, and drew a beautiful arc in the filaments of the spring rain, and landed in front of Mr. Qian's feet with a "click".

Hi! It turned out that I was purchasing firewood and grass and getting some chickens, ducks, vegetables and vegetables back! Suddenly, a stone fell to the ground. He took the money bag in his hand, tore open the mouth of the bag, and found that there were six or seven white and shiny silver dollars inside, and his heart was full of joy at the moment.

"The Southern Barbarians are really a group of wealthy people! This money, not to mention buying some firewood and grass, is to let Lao Tzu get a house and demolish it for them to use as firewood, that is enough! ”

Secretly happy in his heart, weighing this flying wealth in his hand, he was about to open his mouth and order his subordinates to go to the nearby village to grab some firewood and grass, look for a few chickens and ducks, and go to the people's garden to pull some vegetables and vegetables. No, the officer of the Marine Division on the opposite side opened his mouth again.

"We're all brothers, and it's embarrassing to have my brothers running around for us in this weather. A little meager heart, and please smile at the brothers. ”

As he spoke, a soldier from the Navy Division and the Land Battalion jumped from the bow of the boat, waded through the water, and found a dry place for a few items and placed them in front of Mr. Qian.

"Tobacco leaves! Sugar! And wine! It's all good stuff! Mr. Qian's eyes were about to pop out.

From the shape and packaging of those things, it was easy to tell what it was.

Tobacco, as early as the Apocalypse, was introduced from the south to Liaodong Town on the nine sides, and then quickly spread to several important military towns in the remnants, when people believed that tobacco had the medicinal value of removing cold and miasma. The special army often marches out to fight, eats and sleeps in the open, and the sergeants are prone to diseases such as rheumatism and malaria, and there are legends that tobacco can dispel miasma, treat head lice and kill insects, and treat wind, cold and dampness, so tobacco is very popular in the army at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

The cultivation of tobacco in the Ming Dynasty during the Chongzhen period has been widespread, especially in Junzhou and Xunyang Mansion in Hubei Province is the tobacco base, because the profit is far more lucrative than growing grain, so there are a lot of people who grow tobacco, Emperor Chongzhen strictly forbade several times, all of which have little effect.

The two main tobacco producing areas in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River are more familiar areas with Zuo Liangyu's army, and they have fought with Zhang Xianzhong and other troops in this area for many years, and there are countless smoking guns in the army.

However, since the eastward movement along the river, tobacco has become increasingly rare in the army. Countless old smokers complained, and some people heard that among the sailors of the Nanyue Army who confronted them, tobacco, like tea, rice, sugar, and sugarcane wine, was used as a daily supply, and this benefit made countless people in the left army envious. Today, I didn't want to, but I saw it with my own eyes.

Tobacco is valuable in the Central Plains, especially in the areas controlled by the Qing army, and a pound of good tobacco leaves can be exchanged for a good horse from the generals of the Eight Banners and the Mongolian princes. The price of fine pipes, tobacco pouches, flints, fire sickles and other items related to smoking is skyrocketing.

Qian is always an old smoking gun. It's just that the tobacco leaves in the purse have long been smoked, and they are reluctant to spend a lot of money to buy black market tobacco from smugglers, so they can only rub the cigarettes of their colleagues and search for a little bit of tobacco in their own cigarette purses to have a good time.

Now that he suddenly has a large handful of tobacco leaves in front of him, how can he not be overjoyed?! Judging from his old smoking gun, those tobacco leaves, if not the best tobacco from Luzon, are also produced in the mountainous areas of Fujian.

Since Li Shouhan seized the Luzon Islands from the Spaniards by means of war and established the Luzon Prefecture to administer it, he has consciously promoted monocrop cultivation on the islands. Rice, tobacco, pepper, are classified. Alternatively, an island is not engaged in agriculture and is engaged in logging or mining. Large numbers of trees are harvested from the primeval forests and turned into timber for the construction of boats and houses. The abundant copper ore in the Luzon region has become a good source of raw materials for casting Nanzhong Tongbao and chartering the bottom of the ship.

However, the Chinese people in the Central Plains, who were far away from the ocean, did not know what was happening on Luzon, they only knew that the Nanyue army was rich and had a lot of good copper coins. The tobacco produced in Luzon has a mellow taste, soft stamina and so on.

Therefore, the president in front of him has such a performance.

Looking at Mr. Qian, he couldn't wait to stretch out a pair of hands in his eyes to hold these things in his arms. The officer of the Marine Division and the Army Battalion who led the team smiled, "A little thing, don't laugh." ”

lit a bag of cigarettes, took a puff, then closed his eyes, enjoyed the refreshing feeling of not changing for a prince, and looked at the bag full of white sugar in his hand, as well as a jar of soju at his feet, Mr. Qian was a little reluctant.

"Look, they are all their own brothers, so why do they have to see the outside world like this! Come on, come on! Please sit inside! With a smile on his face, he took the hand of the officer of the Marine Division and entered his own artillery barracks. Although this fort was covered by a lot of reeds cut by the gunners, civilians, and drivers, but in the eyes of the officers of the naval division and the land battalion, this fort was simply bullshit!

If it is a field artillery position of the Nanyue Army, it is necessary to dig fortifications first, provide artillery positions for columns, and then put the excavated soil in cloth bags and stack the low walls of the city around the artillery. Behind the gun emplacement, a blocking rope net should be set up, and a slope should be built with earth ramming to slow down the recoil of the artillery. At the same time, outside the low wall, slender bamboo baskets and wattle baskets were also filled with earth, and piled up outside the low wall to withstand the impact of the shells falling outside the fort. Of course, if these large baskets made of bamboo and wattles are hit, the lethality of the swept bamboo fragments may not be small, so outside these bamboo baskets, a layer of soil bags must be piled up obliquely as a buffer. Around the gun emplacement, a ditch was dug shallowly, in order to let those shells that hit the earthen wall of the gun emplacement roll into the ditch to prevent them from bouncing up, thus causing secondary damage to their own soldiers and horses.

Judging by these standards, the artillery forts of Zuo Liangyu's army were built in a very simple way.

It was just a collection of bamboo baskets filled with soil and hastily placed them around the artillery to prevent the shells from bouncing after landing and hitting the artillery itself. However, there is almost zero distance between artillery and gunpowder and shells, and there is no consideration of safety distance at all.

"Lao Tzu doesn't need artillery fire, just use rockets to hit your artillery base, and your own gunpowder can send your artillery to the western sky!" Looking at the rain slowly flowing on the barrel of the gun, and visually measuring the distance between the artillery position and the gunpowder, the officers of the Marine Division and the Army Battalion smiled happily. Soon there was a hot fight with Mr. Qian of the artillery battalion of the Left Army.

As night fell, the firewood, grass, chickens, ducks, and vegetables collected for the Nanyue Army were also ready to stop, and the officers and men of the Left Army Artillery Corps reluctantly sent the brothers of the naval division and the land battalion onto the boat, and watched them go away on the twilight river.

Similar scenes were staged in the artillery forts and camps of the Left Army along the river.

。 Writing Chinese Network M.