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On the foggy Yangtze River in the early morning, a small warship wanders slowly, the wide river surface seems to be boundless, the surging river water is flowing mightily all around, there is no sound except for the sound of water around, Yu Hong, a soldier of the water division battalion of Jin Shenghuan, the general soldier of Wuhu Town, Dashun, wrapped his clothes wet with the fog, trembled in the cold air of the early autumn and lay on the railing of the ship, looking blankly at the Yuxi Mouth that was faintly distinguishable in the black along the west bank.

"Baichang, look there!"

He pointed to Yuxikou and said.

Baichang walked over quickly, his eyes wide and he looked in the direction he was pointing.

At the mouth of Yuxi, which was shrouded in fog, something seemed to be shaking faintly, but it was too far away to see clearly.

"Fishing boats?"

Baichang said suspiciously.

At this time, more soldiers gathered and looked at it with the same blankness.

In a white background, the shaking thing is getting bigger, at first it was only at the mouth of Yuxi, but like an elongated line, the shaking faint shadow, constantly extending north along the Yangtze River, as if there is a huge boundless strange python, is in the mist of the river, gradually undulating and winding downstream......

"Northern Army!"

Baichang suddenly screamed.

Almost at the same time, a gust of wind blew across the river, and the fog that was blown away was like a curtain, revealing everything that was covered by it, on the west bank of the Yangtze River, from Chaohu Lake to the mouth of the Yuxi River connected to the Yangtze River, a huge fleet was pouring out like a giant python out of its nest, this fleet of small sand boats carrying countless goods, fishermen's fishing boats, and even painting boats swimming in the lake, along the Yangtze River, almost a straight line diagonally inserted into the downstream ......

Chen Qiaozhou.

"Turn around and go back to Wuhu!"

Baichang screamed.

"Don't hurry up, what are you grinding with!"

Immediately after that, he found that none of the dozens of soldiers on the ship moved, and they were all looking at him with a strange gaze, and the hundred elders panicked, and immediately pulled out their knives and shouted calmly: "Don't hurry up, don't forget the silver that the emperor just rewarded yesterday, and if you dare to join the enemy, you will punish the nine clans, ah......"

"We don't go to the enemy, we don't see anything!"

Yu Hong said.

Immediately afterwards, he pulled out a bloody knife from the chest of the hundred elder man, and another soldier cooperated very well to lift the dead body into the Yangtze River, and then all the soldiers lay on the railing, looking at the Ming army at most one or two hundred meters away, leisurely laughing and going down the river like that, avoiding Chen Qiaozhou and heading downstream, just when he was closest to the fleet, Yu Hong also subconsciously raised a hand.

On a painting boat opposite him, Feng Ping, the commander of the first battalion of the Fourth Infantry Brigade of the Ming Army, put down his binoculars and smiled and raised a hand, and then looked at the enemy warship that had just thrown the body of the commander and disappeared into the downstream fog so quickly. Immediately after that, a young and beautiful girl behind him walked to him with a plate of dim sum with a full face, Feng Ping picked up a piece of dim sum very casually and stuffed it into his mouth, and the girl said with a complaint: "General, you must not forget the concubine." ”

"Don't worry, just wait for the fattening, I've given you the medal, aren't you at ease?"

Feng Ping patted her pi stock and said.

At the same time, the flat-bottomed painting boat suddenly shook slightly, and then stopped directly.

"What are you laughing at, go ashore!"

Feng Ping blushed and roared.

Immediately after that, he jumped off the painting boat for the first time, and when he stepped on the shallow water of Chen Qiaozhou beach, dozens of soldiers in the cabin behind him swarmed out, jumping off the painting boat one after another, and countless various boats on both sides of them were constantly rushing onto the beach of Chen Qiaozhou, and the two infantry battalions and one artillery battalion soldiers full of soldiers on these boats also kept jumping down. Even on the largest sand ships, the nine-pound guns were being lowered by improvised booms and inverted chains, and were dragged ashore by hundreds of soldiers on the soft sand. Including this boat, all the ships that completed the unloading task quickly held off the shore and entered the deep water, continued to go down the river around Chen Qiaozhou and soon reached the mouth of the Niutun River downstream, and then turned around the Niutun River and returned to Chaohu Lake upstream.

The fog cleared two hours later.

Jin Shenghuan, the defender of Wuhu City, suddenly got the bad news that the Ming army occupied Chenqiaozhou.

He did not hesitate to give the order to attack.

Immediately after that, hundreds of warships sailed out of Wuhu, loaded with thousands of soldiers down the river, but before they could get close to Chen Qiaozhou, they were bombarded by twelve nine-pound guns and four four-and-a-half-pound guns, because their discovery was too late, during this time, the Ming army not only completed the landing, but also built an artillery position.

This kind of Napoleonic cannon imitated by Yang Feng is extremely accurate because the chamber of the cannon is processed, and it can be said that every shot must hit such a target as a warship at a distance of one thousand meters, and the small sand ships of the Shun army continue to sink with nine catties of solid bullets. Although with the advantage of going downstream, after losing more than a dozen warships, the Shun army still rushed to Chen Qiaozhou, but it was mercilessly fired by the Ming army platoon guns of two infantry battalions, and after leaving hundreds of corpses, those Shun soldiers had to run back in horror to board the ship and escape, and in the process of escaping, more than a dozen ships were sunk.

Then Jin Shenghuan reluctantly found that the Yangtze River channel was blocked in this way.

Sixteen cannons blocked the Yangtze River channel on both sides of Chenqiaozhou.

And this was just the beginning of his nightmare.

Because immediately after that, the Second Cavalry Brigade of the Ming Army appeared at Yuxikou, and then two infantry battalions of the Ming Army and a mortar artillery team appeared in the north of Chenqiaozhou, across the river from Xiliang Mountain, the latter and Dongliang Mountain on the east bank are called Tianmen Mountain, and Li Bai's sentence Tianmen interrupted the Tianmen in the opening of the Chu River. Then the five battalions under the eighth town on the right wing of the forbidden army also appeared in this small area, and this Ming army brought another artillery battalion, an artillery battalion equipped with twenty-four Hongyi cannons, the latter's cannons were erected at the foot of Xiliang Mountain, and Chen Qiaozhou's Ming army formed a second blockade of the Yangtze River. But this is not over, immediately after the two brigades of the Ming army commanded by Zheng Chenggong after seizing Chuzhou, did not occupy Pukou across the river from Nanjing to the south but went south to Hezhou, leaving the heavy cavalry brigade in Hezhou, Zheng Chenggong himself led the seventh infantry brigade and a battalion of the artillery brigade attached to it, and continued to the south to reach Xiliang Mountain, so that the total strength of the Ming army near this hill reached two infantry brigades and one cavalry brigade, plus the terrifying scale of half an infantry town, and the number of cannons exceeded seventy.

Li Zicheng was confused.

He didn't understand what Zheng Chenggong wanted to do?

It is understandable to cut off the Yangtze River waterway, but with the combat effectiveness of the Ming army, how can there be so many people needed to cut off the Yangtze River waterway, this is the entire Western Route Army, he has been worried that the West Route Army cut to Guazhou to cut off his connection with Yangzhou, not worried that the West Route Army will block the upstream Yangtze River waterway, even if he runs away from the land, it is not a difficult matter, this is completely inexplicable.

But then he didn't have the time to care what Zheng Chenggong wanted to do, because on the same day that Zheng Chenggong arrived at Xiliang Mountain, the cao boat transporting the Shenwei invincible general's cannon passed through the Shao Bo Gate.

Yangzhou, Guangchumen.

Liu Liangzuo, the envoy of the Great Shun Huaiyang Festival, was holding a telescope, looking into the distance with an almost desperate gaze, at the end of his sight, a large number of Ming soldiers were busy on a re-reinforced dock, and countless soldiers were also busy on a large cao ship docked at the dock, in the faintly audible sharp whistle, white smoke came out among those soldiers, and at the same time above their heads, a large boom was working, and a terrifying giant cannon was hanging under the boom, even if it was more than five miles away, Liu Liangzuo can still feel the heavy sense of oppression brought to him by this object.

It was a cannon that could easily get an adult into the muzzle.

Kamui is invincible and cannon.

On this ship, there are boxes of spherical shells, stacked on the plywood, white are stone shells, black are flowering shells, but no matter what shells are one box at a time, under another small crane arm on the ship, the soldiers are pulling the inverted chain, lifting boxes of shells and putting them on the four-wheeled carriage waiting on the shore, and soon these shells will hit the city wall of Yangzhou with a terrifying roar.

"Urban cannon, I didn't expect to see the urban cannon in China!"

An old ghost beside him sighed.

He said it in Latin.

"It should be smaller than the Urban cannon, the caliber of the Urban cannon is close to thirty inches, according to what I mean, the cannon of His Majesty the Emperor is only twenty inches, but it is longer than the Urban cannon, so its range far exceeds the Urban cannon, and it can even reach nearly four thousand yards, this is a very terrifying weapon, no city wall can block its shells, its record on the battlefield is that three cannons bombard the city wall, and what is even more terrifying is its flowering shell, which is said to contain more than a hundred pounds of gunpowder, and one shell can kill hundreds of people, fortunately it will not be used here, There are hundreds of thousands of his people in this beautiful city behind us. ”

A slightly smaller, but also about sixty ghosts said.

"Our enemies are strong!"

The old ghost guy said.

"But we have no choice, for God's sake we can only fight him, although I don't know why this emperor, who was kind to us before, changed his attitude, but since he has explicitly forbidden us to preach, and explicitly forbidden the glory of God to shine on his land, then as God's servants, we can only fight him, and now we can only pray that God willing, the defenders of this city can hold up for at least a month, Macau is too far from here."

Said a little younger.

As he spoke, he looked at the supreme commander of the city's defenders, looked at his two legs, which were trembling slightly, and couldn't help but sigh helplessly.

Obviously, this is not easy to do.

He was John Tong, a white man who was revered as a teacher by Kang Mazi, and the other was Bi Fangji.