Yu Jackie Chan, who had been brewing for a long time, ran away on a moonless night. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the dead of night, the people who slept in the same grass hut were all asleep, listening to the snoring one after another, and knowing that they were all asleep, Yu Chenglong quietly got up and crept out of the grass hut.

The camp where the people lived was built according to the specifications of the barracks, and the camps were lit with bonfires outside, and there were several towers around them, on which archers stood so that in case of an accident, the archers could not only shoot arrows, but also blow horns to give signals.

It's just that the tower is mainly used to deal with possible sneak attacks by small groups of Qing troops, or bandits in the mountains. It is impossible for the Qing army of the brigade to go around to the Lingqu construction site in the rear, but it is still possible for a small group of Qing troops to come and make trouble.

In fact, Minzhuang is also a semi-military personnel, and if something really happens, everyone can take up arms and fight.

Yu Chenglong quietly walked out of the grass hut and walked outside the camp. When he was about to reach the wall, he did not alarm anyone, nor was he discovered by the soldiers on the tower. After many days of observation, he found that the tower was actually external, and as for the internal, there was really not much vigilance.

After all, no one who comes here wants to run, working here, the amount of labor is larger, but the food is good, and there is a tael of silver to get every month, why do the people run?

Yu Chenglong slipped to the edge of the wall, climbed over the wooden fence, and escaped from the camp.

As long as he gets out of the wall, he may be discovered by the soldiers on the tower, when he can't take care of so much, presumably a strong man escapes, and the Ming army will never be able to mobilize the people to arrest themselves. As for the escape route, I have already found it during the day, and I can run east along a small road on the edge of the Lingqu to reach the Xiangjiang River, and then go north.

As expected, as expected, as soon as Yu Chenglong climbed out of the wall, the soldiers on the tower found that someone had climbed the wall from the inside.

"Stop! Don't run! The roar of the soldiers came from the tower.

"Woo-" The low horn sounded, and the secret sentry patrolling outside the wall immediately rushed over.

"Damn, there's a sentry!" Yu Chenglong regretted it, and only hated himself for not paying attention to it, and the Ming army actually arranged secret sentinels around.

In the blink of an eye, countless torches surrounded Yu Chengchan.

"It's a Minzhuang who wants to escape!" The Ming soldiers grabbed Yu Chenglong and brought him to a petty officer.

The petty officer looked at Yu Chengchan: "Why did you run away?" Isn't it good to live here? We've been building the Spirit Canal here for so long, and you're still the first to run. When others come here, they don't want to leave, they have to eat, and they can get the same salary as the soldiers. ”

"I am from the north, and I fled to Guangxi back then. Now I miss my family. Yu Jackie Chan replied.

The little officer raised his hand: "Anyway, when the spirit canal is repaired, you will be able to leave!" You ran away tonight, violating military rules, and you must be punished! Someone! Pull it out and hit twenty military sticks! ”

Yu Chenglong didn't dare to argue anything, he was worried that it would not be cost-effective to lose his head, so he silently endured twenty military sticks. Since the junior officer said that he would be able to leave when the spiritual canal was completed, there was no need to risk running away.

But I didn't expect that the next day, the news that a Minzhuang was going to escape last night actually alarmed the Admiral Ma Xiong!

"My lord! That's it, this guy is going to run, he was caught by a lowly person, he was beaten with twenty military sticks, and he may not be able to go to the ground for three days, so let him lie down for three days, which is also regarded as a lesson. The petty officer reported to Ma Xiongyu.

This morning, Ma Xiong was very angry when he heard that someone had escaped. It's been almost half a year since the construction of the Lingqu, and I haven't heard of a person who escaped, but today he was the first person to run, and he wanted to see what kind of person this guy who wanted to escape!

Walking into the shack where Jackie Chan was imprisoned, Yu Jackie Chan, who was covered in blood, was still lying on top of the haystack and couldn't move.

"You old fellow! The Admirals have come to see you! You really have a face, too! The officer scolded.

Ma Xiong walked up to Yu Chenglong, and when he saw the pale and thin face, he immediately recognized it: "It turns out that you are Luo Chengxian Yu Chenglong!" ”

"Master Ma!" Yu Chengchan was shouted by someone, so he had to roll down from the straw mat and bow to Ma Xiong.

"Yu Zhixian, you are also a parent official, you have been in Luocheng for three years, you are honest and honest, and the local people are grateful to you, but why do you have to suffer here?" Ma Xiong sighed, "If you had come to this domain earlier, the position of Guilin Tongzhi would be yours, so why bother?" ”

Yu Chenglong smiled bitterly: "Master Ma, you and I are different!" Ma's family is all in Guilin, if you don't follow the thief, I'm afraid that Ma's family will suffer. But Xiaguan and Master Ma are the opposite, Xiaguan's family is in Shanxi, if the court knows that Xiaguan is a thief, will Xiaguan's family still have a life? ”

Ma Xiong nodded: "That's right!" Okay, Yu Zhixian will follow this official, first recuperate in this official mansion for a few days, and then send Yu Zhixian to Changsha to see the big handsome in a few days! ”

Yu Chenglong knew that he couldn't hide this time, so he had to thank him: "Thank you, Master Ma!" ”

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The Ling Canal had not yet been completed, and large warships could not enter the Xiangjiang River, and the Ming army's naval division in the Xiangjiang River only had a group of small boats.

The progress of the Ming army's attack on Yuezhou slowed down, and it had been two months since Changsha was taken, and it did not send troops to the north, but it seemed to be repairing in Changsha, and the Ming army was not in a hurry to attack Yuezhou in the north.

However, Shang Shan, the commander of the Qing army's sailors who patrolled in Dongting Lake, knew very well in his heart that the Ming army was afraid of his Dongting Lake sailors. Yuezhou is on the edge of Dongting Lake, guarding the passage of Dongting Lake into the Yangtze River, and the most powerful naval division of the Qing army: the Hunan Naval Division is stationed in Yuezhou.

A few months ago, the Hunan Naval Division of the Qing Army was defeated in Hengzhou, that was because fighting in the flowing river water, Shang Shan was not Liu Guoxuan's opponent at all, not to mention the assistance of the Ming army artillery on the shore.

But if the Ming army sailors want to enter Dongting Lake? The water flow of Dongting Lake is gentle, and there are no hydrological conditions to use at all, so the sailors of the two sides fight a big battle in Dongting Lake, completely relying on whose boat is bigger, who has more boats, and who has more cannons. Dongting Lake was wide, and the land artillery of the Ming army could not support the water division.

"Minggou Haikou, Minzhuang auxiliary soldiers are obviously a little less, their logistics are completely dependent on water transportation, as long as I am here with the Dongting Sailor of the Qing Dynasty, Minggou Haikou will not dare to come to Yuezhou!" Shang Shan swore and said.

Yuezhou is on the edge of Dongting Lake, and the Xiangjiang River flows into Dongting Lake in the south of Yuezhou. If the Ming army wanted to attack Yuezhou, the water division must enter Dongting Lake to fight a decisive battle with the Qing army's water division, otherwise the Dongting Lake water division would threaten the safety of the Ming army's logistics and transportation lines. Whether it was Bai Wenxuan or Liu Guoxuan, they did not dare to risk attacking Yuezhou before defeating the Qing army's naval division.

Yuezhou can be reached by land, but the land transportation is small in volume and consumes huge manpower and material resources, not to mention that the land transportation is easy to be attacked by the Eight Banners cavalry.

The biggest advantage of cavalry is that it is too mobile. In the battle of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Ming army was defeated several times, and the Houjin army attacked the transportation line behind it in a roundabout way. The Ming army, which was dominated by infantry, won the battle and could not catch up; If you beat it, you can't run away; The Houjin army could threaten the logistics and transportation lines of the Ming army at any time, but the Ming army had no way to take the Houjin army.

Although the Eight Banners Army of this era suffered heavy losses and suffered heavy losses and a serious decline in combat effectiveness, it was all won under the condition that the Ming army relied on water transportation and closely protected the logistics line.

It can be shown that if the army cannot win on the water, then if it rushes deep, it will be threatened by the Qing army to cut off the logistics line, which is a very unfavorable thing for the Ming army.

The Hunan Naval Division of the Qing Army had more than 100 large warships and thousands of small boats, with more than 30,000 officers and soldiers of the Navy. Moreover, Ao Bai also transferred the naval division stationed in Huguang and Wuchang to Yuezhou, and part of the Yangtze River naval division stationed in Anqing was also transferred to Yuezhou, and the Qing army in Yuezhou alone had more than 200 large warships.

As long as Shang Shan's mind is not broken, and he takes the sailor into the Xiangjiang River, which has complex hydrological conditions, to fight the Ming army, he only needs to hold the entrance of the Xiangjiang River into Dongting Lake, and the Ming army's sailor will not be able to enter at all.

However, there was something that made Shang Shan's heart very unhappy: the imperial court had already issued a holy decree, and he, the commander of the Hunan Navy who was also the commander of Manchuria, would not have a few days to be the commander, and after a while, Shang Shan would have to hand over the Hunan Navy Division, obediently go to be his Manchurian commander, and replace it with someone else to be the commander of the Hunan Navy.

Shang Shan is really reluctant to hand over the official seal of the Admiral of the Water Division, this Admiral of the Water Division is a fat shortage! The sailor is an extremely silver-expensive type of army, and it costs more money to build a sailor of 30,000 people than to build 30,000 cavalry. It costs silver to build a ship, silver to build a cannon, silver to make gunpowder, and the ship is not left there after it is built, but often needs to be repaired, and those all need silver. The cost of shipbuilding and repairing ships is quite a lot, after all, it is a warship, not an ordinary merchant ship.

The wood required to build a warship, especially a large warship, was a lot of silver, and the planks of the warship were much thicker than that of the merchant ships, and the wood used was much better than that of the merchant ships, and a larger ship cost thousands of taels of silver, not including the guns and weapons on it.

Although the salary of the sailor is not as good as that of the Eight Banners Cavalry, it is much higher than that of the ordinary infantry, and there are many flag soldiers in the sailor.

Although the proportion of the Eight Banners of the Hunan Navy Division is not as high as that of the Heilongjiang Navy Division, and the Heilongjiang Navy Division is 100 percent of the Eight Banners Sailors, there are also more than 1,000 bannermen among the Hunan Navy Division.

It is precisely because the water division consumes a huge amount of silver that it is said that the water master is a fat shortage. By embezzling shipbuilding and repair costs, eating empty salaries, and deducting the silver spent on training, these add up, and Shang Shan can earn a lot of silver every month.

Now he wants Shang Shan to hand over this water master, and he is really unwilling in his heart.

In the capital, Shi Lang, who was about to rush to Hunan to prepare to take up the post of Admiral of the Hunan Navy, was summoning Lin Xingzhu and a group of generals from Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Chenggong's old department at this time. (To be continued.) )