Nanhui is on the north side of Zhoushan, which means that in more than two days, Luo Mingshou will be able to rush to the vicinity of the Qiantang River.

Ruan Jin then entered the cabin and kowtowed to Zheng Chenggong to thank him, who immediately smiled and helped him up, "General Ruan doesn't need to say thanks, we are both men of the Han family, how can we not help each other when the enemy is captured?" ”

Ruan Jin immediately thought that he had been standing on his own with King Lu and the domain, but he had many constraints on the Taizheng Dynasty, and he couldn't help but blush when he heard this, and hurriedly bowed his head and said: "The last general is willing to destroy the thieves with the Admiral, and I hope that the Lord will not give up!" ”

Zheng Chenggong was also overjoyed, "Okay! I am about to go to Hangzhou, and if I have General Ruan's help, I will get twice the result with half the effort. ”

According to the strategy of His Royal Highness the Auxiliary King, the main force of the Daming Navy Division could not stay in the Qiantang area for a long time, but most of Luo Ming's subordinates were river boats, and there were only thirteen or fourteen suitable for use at sea. With these boats, it is difficult to keep the Qiantang River foolproof.

Although many warships were captured in this defeat of the Kahabu, Zheng Chenggong could not spare people to drive them. However, the hundreds of soldiers in Wucaoyu were extremely familiar with these ships, because they originally belonged to their Zhejiang sailors.

As for the possibility of these people turning against the water, Zheng Chenggong is not very worried. First, he had just saved six or seven hundred lives of the Zhejiang Sailors, and Ruan Jin seemed to be quite righteous, and he would not do such a despicable thing. Second, the boats he allocated to Ruan Jin and the others were all small boats, and the several large boats he captured were seriously damaged and could not be used without repairing them for a month. And Luo Mingshou came with three large ships of thousands of materials, two of which are said to have carried twenty-four cannons cast by His Royal Highness the Auxiliary King. With these ships in town, Zhejiang sailors did not dare to make a mistake.

In addition, more than a dozen old-style warships, including the Yanping Daxi ship, were obviously difficult to cooperate with other main warships in this naval battle, and he decided to leave them to Luo Mingshou.

The Yanping was a 500-ton ship, equipped with two 18-pounder guns and two 12-pounder guns, and it was a sharp weapon to deter the Zhejiang army.

When Ruan Jin heard that Zheng Chenggong was going to hand over more than fifty captured warships to himself, he immediately excitedly arched his hand and said: "Thank you, Lord Admiral, the last general will be able to kill and slaughter Jiannu!" ”

……

In the early morning of the next day, about 50 warships quietly sailed into the north bank of the Qiantang River, carrying the Kaha flag on board.

The small boat patrolling outside the wharf of Hangzhou saw it from a distance, and hurriedly sailed over, and saw Yu Qingsheng, a guerrilla general of the Qing Army's naval division, standing behind him.

"General Yu!" The officer on patrol greeted with a smile on his face, "The army has won so quickly?" ”

"Hmm." Yu Qingsheng's expression was a little stiff, first, he was not very good at acting, and second, he had a dagger on his waist, so it was difficult to look natural, "The commander-in-chief and the commander-in-chief have orders, in order not to delay the military aircraft, they will quickly order the grain boat to set off, and the sailors will not enter the port, and they will directly protect each other and go south." ”

"This ...... The army is too hard, isn't it? ”

"Less verbose! The soldiers fought all day, and they were still waiting to rest early after sending grain and grass! ”

The patrol officer nodded hurriedly and said, "Yes, yes, the little one will go and urge the grain ship to leave!" ”

The grain ship had no status among the sailors, so he was busy asking Sun Min, who was in charge of the grain. When the latter heard the news, he personally took a look around the harbor and saw that it was indeed his own warship, so he immediately ordered more than 20 grain ships to leave the dock in a majestic manner.

As soon as they left, Shao Wu rushed into the harbor with thirty warships, large and small, and without saying a word, bombarded the coastal fortifications. Then the accompanying boat immediately docked, and the 500 sailors left the ship and landed, and went straight to the granary of the Qing army under the leadership of Yu Qingsheng and others.

The Qing army had previously gained control of the Qiantang River, so they had the audacity to pile grain and grass not far from the shore, and only sent less than 2,000 men to guard it.

The roar of more than 50 guns on the four Galen warships frightened the Qing army who guarded the grain and thought that the main force of the Ming Dynasty had killed them, and they all fled towards Hangzhou City for a while.

So Liu Guoxuan led the infantry all the way to Qingyuanli, two miles away, without hindrance, and scattered a small number of recalcitrant captives with a few flintlock salvos at the door, and then began to set fire in all directions.

On the other side, more than 20 grain ships leaving the port were quickly surrounded by warships.

After Ruan Jin had the heads of Kaha and the others hung on the bow of the boat, and fired a few more cannons into the sea, these grain ships honestly sailed with him to Wucaoyu. It will be temporarily used as the anchorage of the Ming army's Qiantang Water Division, and the Qing army on the grain ship will be directly used as coolies to rebuild Wucaoyu.

……

"Sun Min must have eaten too much flower wine this time." Ma Degong slapped the table and said angrily, "It's a day and a half later than the agreed grain delivery day, and the ship hasn't come yet, this time Lao Tzu will definitely join him!" ”

The general on the side stepped forward and said, "My lord, there are still five days of food and grass left in the army, do you want to reduce the rations slightly......

"Lose a fart!" Ma Degong pointed to the Xiaoshan Fortress, "The soldiers are working hard there, where can they have the strength to fight if they are not full?!"

"Send food as usual, and send another boat to Hangzhou to urge."

"Mark and obey."

As soon as the general turned to leave, a guard brought a person with an extremely embarrassed description into the account, "Lord Commander, this person said that he was from Hangzhou, and he had important things to do." ”

Ma Degong glanced at the man's dejected state, and snorted coldly, "Look at your bear-like appearance, it looks like a ...... swimming over."

Unexpectedly, the man turned over and knelt down, and said in a dumb voice: "My lord, the small one did swim over."

"The Qiantang Naval Division was defeated by the Ming army, and now the Ming warships have blocked the Qiantang River, and the grain ships cannot go south...... This is a handwritten letter by Lord Sun. ”

Even if the Qing soldiers who sent the letter had some tricks, several messenger boats sent by Sun Min were destroyed before, and this person sailed to the heart of the river by boat, so that the boat turned around and led away the Ming sailors, and he swam half of the river himself to get to the south bank.

If this were not the case, I am afraid that the horse would have starved to death and would still be waiting for the grain ship to come.

When Ma Degong heard this, he felt that the world was spinning, and he fell into the chair. After a moment, he forced himself to stabilize his mind, and first pointed to the messenger and said coldly to the guards: "Anyone who has contact with this person will be beheaded, and the matter of food shortage must not be leaked!" ”

"Obey!"

Tian Xiong, the deputy general of Ma Degong on the side, frowned and thought for a while, and said: "My lord, we must not continue to spend time in Xiaoshan at the moment. The upper reaches of Qiantang are narrow, and our army should go west to the Tonglu area, or have the opportunity to cross the river. ”

Another officer hurriedly chimed in: "My lord, what General Tian said is extremely true! And the last general heard the day before yesterday that the Zhejiang army was taking grain from Quzhou, and the grain truck should be in the Tonglu area at this time, and we could seize the grain and cross the river at the same time. ”

Ma Degong squinted his eyes and thought for a long time, but shook his head slightly, "It seems that our army only seems to have this way at the moment, but I want to bet on him." ”

He tapped on the location of Shaoxing on the map, "If that person is stupid enough, he may be able to help me get out of trouble......