In Chizhou City, Jin Li had already fallen asleep, and when he heard the sound of the cannon, he was so startled that he suddenly got up from the bed, he grabbed a piece of clothing, and ran out before he could put on his shoes.

The Ming Dynasty was all over the south of the Yangtze River, and the Qing court also sent a large number of secret agents in Chu and Jiangxi.

Listening to the sound of the cannon, Jin Li broke out in a cold sweat as if he fell into an ice cave, could it be that Wang Yan's secret Chen Cang wanted to kill him by surprise and carry a large army down?

Jin Li hurriedly rushed out of the bedroom, and saw a thousand generals running in a hurry.

This person was obviously in a mess, he was tripped over a stone and ate, and the hat on his head fell to the side and leaked his bare scalp, and he didn't pick it up, he ran to Jin Li out of breath, and said in a panic: "The general is not good, the Ming army is going east, and the fort is fighting." ”

Jin Li listened, and while wearing his clothes, he walked out, and the guards behind him were already holding armor and carrying shoes to chase after him.

When he climbed the city wall in the sound of "booming" cannons, Jin Li had already dressed up, he looked at the river in the distance, only to see that in the hazy night, the artillery erupted, a hundred bullets fired in a volley, the shouting of killing shook the sky, the fort was in a mess in the firelight, and only fired back one or two cannons in the middle of the sound.

On the edge of the sandbar, a group of Ming troops had already rushed to the river beach from waist-high water.

"Order, let Hu Maozhen bring 2,000 people and support immediately."

The Qing troops in the city were urgently mobilized, the water gate of Chizhou was wide open, and the Qing army rowed a small boat, came out of the city, followed the moat and then entered the Qiupu River, and rushed to the sandbar by the water.

At this time, Xu Junsheng led the Ming army and had already rushed to the fort, and several Qing soldiers were fiddling with their artillery and firing at the fleet.

A thousand Qing soldiers were suddenly shelled, and it was dark night, and they were already in chaos, and they could not organize resistance at all.

The Qing general Hu Maozhen led nearly 100 small boats to rush out of the mouth of the Qiupu River.

The Qing army ships are small, and they are not fire boats, they are all fishing boats and cargo ships that have been collected, and the green battalion soldiers look at the lucky boats, as if they see high mountains, they will overturn when they collide, and they can't climb the side of the ship when they get close, and they can't restrain the Ming army sailors at all.

The big ship of the Ming army rammed on the river, and the Qing army, which rushed out of the estuary, saw this battle and immediately rocked the boat back.

On the big boat, the Ming soldiers held bird guns, stood on the side of the boat, and kept shooting the Qing soldiers who fell into the water, and the river was red.

2,000 Ming troops rushed to the fort, screaming on the sandbank, and in less than half an hour, except for more than 300 people who were captured alive, the rest of the Qing soldiers were all killed.

Man Dazhuang boarded the sandbank, Xu Junsheng greeted him and saluted with his fists, "Qiyu Governor, the fort has been taken, and the reinforcements from Chizhou have also returned to the city." ”

"How many people are we going to kill?"

"Of the three hundred and twenty prisoners, six hundred and eighty were killed, and not a single one escaped from the sandbank."

Man Dazhuang nodded, he looked at the night, it was almost dawn, and then ordered: "Order the sentinel ship to closely monitor Chizhou, and the brothers under him will rest on the spot and set off after dawn!" ”

In the city of Chizhou, the Qing army spent a night in fear, Jin Li and the Qing generals could not judge the situation outside the city, and they did not know whether it was the main force of the Ming army to attack, so they could only wait for dawn to investigate.

Jin Li did not go down to the city, until a trace of fish white appeared in the east, the hazy night slowly became clear, and finally saw the scene on the river, the huge fleet of Ming troops, anchored near the sandbar, and the sun and moon flags on the blue background had been planted on the fort.

The Ming warships were moored on both sides of the sandbar, the ships were hunting with flags, and the black pressure on the deck was full of Ming troops, no less than 10,000 people, exuding bursts of murderous aura.

Jin Li leaned on the wall and looked out, his heart was bottomless, at this time, a Qing general hurriedly rushed up to the city tower according to his sword, "General, the spies are back, and they have not found the main force of the Ming army, thirty miles along the river, only this water division on the river." ”

Jin Li breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this, and then he was a little annoyed, 10,000 Ming troops dared to attack Chizhou, and they inevitably didn't take him seriously.

"Order, give Ben General all the artillery to the river, let Hu Maozhen organize men, and give Ben General to take back the sandbank." Since the main force of the Ming army did not come, Jin Li had no scruples.

He ordered to convey that the Qing army was about to be moved, but a Qing general pointed to Shazhou and said: "General, the Ming army seems to be preparing to withdraw." ”

"Withdraw?" Hearing this, Jin Li and the Qing generals turned around and looked at the Ming fleet, and saw that the Ming army on the sandbar was boarding, and the artillery on the fort was also carried by the Ming army onto the big ship, and the materials on the sandbar were swept away by the Ming army.

"Count them as acquaintances." Jin Li snorted coldly, and at the same time breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, the Ming army took the initiative to retreat, which was a good thing for him.

At this time, he looked at the river, his gaze suddenly moved to the beach, and his brows immediately furrowed.

I saw more than 300 green battalion soldiers, whose hands were tied behind their backs, kneeling in a row at the beachhead, and a row of Ming soldiers behind them held war knives in their hands, raised their war knives high, and cut them down one by one, beheading more than 100 prisoners, and the corpses were kicked into the river and floated down the river.

This is a naked provocation, a naked demonstration, but the Qing soldiers did not have a way to take the Ming army, and the green battalion soldiers in the city watched this scene and fell silent.

Man Dazhuang pressed the hilt of the knife, looked at the city, his face was full of self-satisfaction, and all the prisoners were thrown into the corpse, he laughed, waved his hand, and said: "The whole army gets on the boat and continues to go east." ”

Half an hour later, the Ming army moved 30 artillery pieces, 2,000 catties of gunpowder, and 1,000 stones of rice and grain on the sandbank, and then a fire burned the barracks on the sandbar and sailed eastward.

Jin Li at the head of the city was slightly stunned when he saw this, he thought that the Ming army was going to withdraw to Huguang, but he didn't expect to continue to advance eastward, could it be that ten thousand people wanted to sneak attack Nanjing?

"Quick, send a fast horse to inform the Red Governor!" From Chizhou to Jiangning, the Qing army had no beacon tower, so it could only run on horseback.

Tongling County, Chizhou Prefecture, is the same as Tongren in Guizhou Province, and you can know that there must be copper mines in Tongling County just by looking at the place name.

In fact, Tongling not only produces copper but also iron, and in the southwest of Tongling City, there is a large mine Tongguan Mountain.

At this time, Fan Yongdou's Qing Yongchang firm hired nearly 10,000 workers to mine and smelt in the mine, and after the copper ore was smelted into copper ingots, it was transported into the Yangtze River along the Datong River by cargo ship.

At the mouth of the Datong River, after Yan Congnian transported the pig iron from Yangzhou into the Jiangning Cannon Foundry, he came to Chizhou Mansion to pick up the ore, and he led twenty large cargo ships to anchor at the mouth of the Datong River, loaded with copper ingots transported from the mine.

Iron and copper in the Ming Dynasty were both important materials for casting artillery, and with this batch of copper and iron, the Qing army was able to build a batch of artillery in a short time.

The Qing court occupied most of the world, as well as the richest Jiangnan, most of the Ming Dynasty's cannon casting workshops and craftsmen fell into the hands of the Qing court, as long as the Qing court wanted to build, the artillery must be endless.

Yan Congnian stood on the deck, watching the hired workers loading and unloading copper ingots, and at this moment, suddenly a hired worker pointed to the river and shouted: "There are dead people!" ”

Yan Congnian heard the commotion, hurriedly moved to the side of the boat, looked in the direction pointed by the hired man, and saw a few corpses floating down the river water, they were all tied behind their backs, and with the undulations of the waves, the word "soldier" on his clothes made him shocked.

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