The vast Taihu Lake is hundreds of miles in circumference, the shore is full of reeds and ditches, and there are many islands in the lake, which has always been a paradise for lake bandits and thieves.

After the defeat of the rebels at the Battle of Suzhou, many rebels fled into Taihu Lake, including the rebel leader Ai Nengqi.

On the west bank of Taihu Lake in Yixing County, a few miles away from Taihu Lake, a figure quietly entered the mountain forest, dressed as an ordinary farmer.

Not far into the forest, two samurai with weapons jumped out from behind the trees, blocking the way.

The farmer did not speak, but took out a piece of his belt from his bosom and shook it, and the samurai silently moved out of the way.

Further inside, the scene changed abruptly, and I saw a temple hidden in the forest, and in the temple, there were dozens of heavily armed brocade guards.

"My lord, the spies sent out are back!" After listening to the advice of his subordinates, Lu Jianxing, who was resting with his eyes closed, opened his eyes and stared at the person with blazing eyes.

"My lord, my subordinates have found out, and the bandit leader Ai Nengqi is hiding in Maji Mountain in Taihu Lake!" The farmer-like spy said.

"Horse Trail Mountain!" Lu Jianxing stretched out his hand, and the guard beside him handed over a map, unfolded it on the table, and watched it intently. The so-called Maji Mountain is an island in the vast Taihu Lake, about six or seven miles from the shore of the lake.

"There are more than 1,000 people under Ai Nengqi, all of whom are from Wuxi, with a variety of weapons in their hands, and forty or fifty fishing boats." The spies gave detailed information about the investigation for Lu Jianxing to decide.

Carefully watching the situation of Ma Ji Mountain, Lu Jianxing nervously judged in his mind that Ma Ji Mountain was an island in the lake, surrounded by lake water, and it was not easy to annihilate the chaotic army and capture Ai Nengqi.

"Someone, send a letter to Changzhou, and ask the Changzhou garrison to send an army to come and encircle and suppress Ainengqi!" Lu Jianxing knew that with these brocade-clothed secret agents under him, he couldn't eat more than a thousand people of Ainengqi's chaotic army, so he had to ask the army for help.

Although Chen Yue led a large army to Hangzhou, he left thousands of troops in Zhenjiang and Changzhou to control the locality, arrest the rebellious people, and prevent the squires from rebounding.

Hearing that the traces of Ai Nengqi were discovered, the Changzhou garrison immediately sent 2,000 troops, and a battalion was in charge of leading it, and it came straight to Taihu Lake.

While waiting for the army, Lu Jianxing was not idle, and ordered people to search for a large number of ships in the countryside. In the water towns south of the Yangtze River, the most important thing is the boats, as long as you are willing to spend as many boats as you want. When the battalion was leading the army to arrive, a river on the west bank of Taihu Lake was densely packed with fishing boats and lake boats, and there were nearly 100 of them.

"Majishan Island has a radius of more than ten miles, most of which are mountains, and only the southwest two directions are suitable for landing. Ma Yingzheng, our soldiers divided into two routes, and went ashore from the southwest of Maji Mountain, blocking all the rebels on the island! After Lu Jianxing and Yingzheng introduced the situation, they suggested.

Ma Yingzheng nodded and agreed to Lu Jianxing's transfer. As a result, the 2,000 troops brought by Ma Yingzheng and a group of brocade guards under Lu Jianxing immediately got on the boats, and nearly 100 boats carrying more than 2,000 people sailed out of the river and into the Taihu Lake.

Nearly a hundred ships suddenly appeared, and the movement was so great that it immediately attracted the attention of the rebels on the island of Majishan.

One fishing boat rowed towards the island of Majishan like a fly, and several fishing boats were far away from the fleet.

Lu Jianxing and Ma Yingzheng ignored these obviously rebel fishing boats, and rushed towards Maji Mountain according to the established plan.

It took more than half an hour to arrive at the water distance of six or seven miles, and when I looked at it from a distance, I saw the chickens flying and the dogs jumping on Majishan Island, countless people were swaying, and many rebels were scrambling to get on the boat.

"A rabble!" Ma Yingzheng said disdainfully, and immediately ordered the whole army to attack!

More than 50 boats carrying more than 1,000 soldiers went straight to the direction of the wharf on the west side of Maji Mountain.

At this time, dozens of rebels also came over, and the rebels actually had plans to fight with officers and soldiers!

"Although the official army is powerful, but this is Taihu Lake, we are all men who grew up in the water town, and we are afraid of them in the water!" On a fishing boat, the leader of a rebel army shouted. At his instigation, the rebels roared and rushed towards the official ships.

The ships of the two sides gradually approached, and when the distance was still a mile, the formation of forty or fifty official and military ships changed, and four or five ships leaned together to form a small group, and more than ten groups actually formed a ship formation.

When the distance between the two sides approached thirty paces, Ma Yingzheng gave an order, and the heralds around him waved the order flag desperately, and received the order of the main general to attack, and the Ming gunners on each boat opened fire one after another.

There were twenty or thirty people on the big lake, two small flags, and more than ten people on the small fishing boat, just a small flag.

There are four musketeers in each bannermanship, and the rest are pikemen, sword and shield bearers. Following the order, the musketeers aimed at the rebel ships in front of them and opened fire.

The sound of "bang bang bang" fire guns resounded across the lake, and the smoke of gunpowder rose on the fishing boats, which was blown away by the lake wind in an instant.

Although the accuracy of the guns fired from the turbulent fishing boats was poor, more than 20 gunners from four or five boats fired at a rebel fishing boat at the same time, and the dense rain of bullets was still able to hit some of them.

After a round of firing, the rebels on the front five or six fishing boats were almost completely killed, and the fishing boats came to a horizontal stop above the lake.

The rebels were all peasants who had just laid down their hoes and rogue boys in the countryside, who had never seen such a battle, and saw that the accomplices on the boat in front of them were shot and killed by the officers and soldiers, and one after another the corpses fell into the lake, and they immediately panicked.

"Jump into the water and overturn their boat!" Seeing this, the rebel leader shouted!

So, dozens of rebels who thought they were good at water stood up, took off their clothes, and jumped naked into the lake.

"Humph!" Seeing this situation, Ma Yingzheng sneered, he wanted to win with this kind of trick, it was really a dream!

The officers and soldiers on the boat did not pay attention to the rebels swimming under the water on the opposite side, and the musketeers calmly loaded the gunpowder projectiles, and under the orders of the commander, they fired at the rebel ships not far away at the same time, and several rebels were shot in the lake in each round of shooting.

The spearmen, on the other hand, looked at the lake intently, holding their spears upside down, and when they saw a figure swimming in the lake, they decisively plunged their spears into the water.

"Poof" and "poof", several rebels under the water were stabbed by spears, and the blood immediately stained the surface of the lake.

More rebels dived deeper and managed to dive under the bottom of the ship.

However, there were more than ten twenty or thirty soldiers on each ship, and the weight of the ship added up to thousands of catties, so how easy was it to turn the top of the ship from the bottom of the ship. Because people can't exert their strength at the bottom of the ship.

Some rebel soldiers tried to overturn the boat by the boat gang, but as soon as they appeared, they were stabbed and killed in the water by the officer's saber.

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