Gao Jie was originally a rebel thief, and he did not lack blood and bravery. Most of his subordinates are Shaanxi refugees or Qin army soldiers, and their combat effectiveness cannot be underestimated.

If it is against the thriving Li Chuangjun, Gao Jie and his subordinates may still mumble, but in the opposite fleet is an ordinary Ming army, although there are rumors of the very powerful Ping Nanbo Chen Yue, but that is just a rumor.

Dozens of blazing fire boats illuminated the entire river, and also illuminated the nervous faces and stiff movements of the Ming soldiers on the boats.

Seeing the performance of the opposing soldiers, Gao Jie was relieved. It can be seen that the rumors are not accurate, what Ping Nanbo Chen Yue, and his army are just some recruits who have not fought much!

Under Gao Jie's command, a group of three or four hundred fishing boats rushed towards the boats in the river. In terms of the flexibility of vessels, the boats that carry goods are far less than those of fishing boats. There are more soldiers on three or four fishing boats than one boat, and it is easy to capture the opponent's boats with more fights and fewer fights.

As for Gao Jie himself, he stared at the largest two-story official boat in the middle of the river, looking at the style, the dog emperor Chongzhen must stay on the official boat, as long as the official boat is down, the war will end!

Under the command of Gao Jie, the deputy general Li Chengdong personally led a dozen fishing boats to the official boat, but was stopped by two boats blocking the periphery.

When fighting on a ship, the most important weapon is, of course, the bow and arrow. The archers on both sides desperately drew their crossbows and shot at each other, and the arrows flew and fell in the air like shuttles, and at every moment, soldiers screamed and fell into the canal.

Under the threat of steel knives, the fishermen who were carried by the coercion desperately rowed their oars, and the fishing boat quickly approached the boat.

At such a close distance, the ship's guns could no longer exert their power. The ship's archers and musketeers fired desperately at each other.

However, the main force of the Pingnan army was not on the ships now, and the number of musketeers in the fleet was small, and the well-trained archers were even less.

Half of Gao Jie's men who led the attack were his own soldiers, and the rest were mostly the main force in the army, so the equipment was quite complete, at least each soldier had a piece of armor on his body, even if it was leather armor with poor defensive power.

Although the bow and arrow at close range are powerful and can penetrate the armor, as long as they do not hit the vital point, it will not affect the continuation of the battle. Therefore, many soldiers have a few feathered arrows hanging on their bodies, but they are still drawing their swords and fighting.

As for the soldiers on the Cao boat, the water battalion under the Pingnan Army is fine, at least most of them can have a leather armor on them, but the equipment of the Huai'an Regiment is much worse in training.

Therefore, in the process of approaching the two sides, the number of arrow casualties in the regimental training on the Cao boat was far more than that of Gao Jie's army.

Seeing that there were companions around him screaming and falling under the rain of arrows from time to time, the other regimental training soldiers were already a little frightened.

Under the rapid rowing of the fishermen, the boats of the two sides leaned together, and the soldiers of Gao Jiejun shouted and killed the boats.

The officers and men on the cao boat stabbed with their spears to prevent the other side from jumping onto their own boats.

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There was a "bang" sound, and a tall and strong soldier of the Gaojie Army shook twice, fell on his back and fell into the canal.

"Hold on!" Chen Ping took a sharp breath, just now, the strong enemy soldier killed him with a steel knife, and after jumping up, he held the deck alone, and more enemy soldiers poured into the boat from behind him.

Most of Gao Jie's subordinates are from the northwest, taller than the southerners, and their fighting skills are better, and even the Pingnan army cannot compare with them if they fight alone.

Now more than a dozen boats have been captured by Gao Jie's army.

But Chen Ping knew that he couldn't retreat, because behind his boat was Emperor Chongzhen's official ship, and Hou Ye's father and his sister were also on the boat.

In the midst of the fierce battle, the sky gradually brightened, and the fireship was still burning, but now it was possible to see the faces of colleagues and enemy soldiers without the help of firelight.

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"How's it going? Where was the army attacking? In the official cabin, listening to the earth-shattering killing sound outside, Chongzhen fidgeted.

"It's the Ming army, look at their banner on the shore, it should be Gao Jie and Liu Liangzuo's troops." Wu Mengming walked into the cabin and whispered.

"The rebels are already on the verge of killing the official ship, Your Majesty, we should evacuate as soon as possible."

"What? Evacuate! Chongzhen was shocked and ordered repeatedly.

"Can't be withdrawn!" Lu Zhenfei on the side hurriedly stopped, "The Chinese army has ordered other ships to come over for reinforcements, our official ship is the flagship of the whole army, if we retreat in a hurry, I am afraid it will cause chaos in the whole army." ”

Wu Mengming and Chongzhen didn't understand, but Lu Zhenfei understood that if his army suffered a loss, it would suffer a loss in the formation, and more than 200 ships of the whole army stopped on the river in a line formation for four or five miles, and they couldn't take care of each other. However, the Gao Jie rebels stormed the center of their own fleet, forming a situation where they fought more and fought less.

Now that the sky is clear, as long as the officers and troops deal with it properly, and the ships from the north and south come to reinforce it, they can repel the rebel fleet, after all, the rebels are all small boats.

"Your Majesty, I'll go to Pingnanhou's boat and see if I can help." Lu Zhenfei asked Chongzhen for orders. More than half of the troops in the fleet are trained by the Huai'an regiment, and their own appearance will definitely boost morale.

"Okay, Aiqing go." Chongzhen nodded.

"Your Majesty will hand it over to the two." Lu Zhenfei went to Chen Jianghe and Wu Mengming.

"Please rest assured, Lord Lu, with Chen here, he will definitely protect His Majesty from harm!" Chen Jianghe made a solemn promise. Wu Mengming also assured repeatedly.

Lu Zhenfei nodded, jumped into a small boat, and the two personal soldiers rowed their oars and headed towards the flagship in charge of command.

At this moment, the entire river was filled with murderous sounds, blood had stained the river red, and there were floating corpses everywhere on the river.

After occupying a dozen boats, Gao Jie's army sent back fishing boats, and another group of 2,000 soldiers joined the attacking queue.

The boats from the north and south had turned around and entered the battlefield one after another, and all the ships on the entire river were caught in battle, and the battlefield was in chaos.

The rebels attacked from the west, Lu Zhenfei's boat avoided the fight from the east side of the fleet, and rowed towards the flagship.

Chongzhen's official ship and the flagship were not too far away, and it didn't take long for the boat to come over, and Lu Zhenfei climbed onto the boat and rushed directly to the bow.

"Pingnanhou!" Lu Zhenfei shouted at the general commanding at the bow of the ship, but stopped suddenly, the person in front of him was not Chen Yue at all, but his former subordinate Jin Shenghuan.

"You, you, you ......" Lu Zhenfei pointed at Jin Shenghuan and was speechless in surprise, "Why are you, Chen Yue?" Where is he? ”