"Quick, fire!"

On the south bank of the Yellow River, on the newly built fort at Tianfeikou at the entrance of the Li Canal, the general of the Shun army guarding Tianfeikou, one of the eighteen cavalry who broke through with Li Zicheng after the defeat of the Nanyuan War, brandished the Yanling knife and shouted with despair. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Beside him, more than a dozen cannons spewed flames at the same time.

The whistling cannonballs pierced the sky, instantly hitting the yellow river surface of the surging waves, stirring up a faintly visible column of water, one of which even hit a small boat, more than a dozen pounds of lead balls with the kinetic energy of high-speed flight, stirred up countless fragments in the wooden boat, the captain and a soldier in red clothes on the boat were immediately beaten and fell into the river, and then the entire wooden boat sank rapidly on the river surface, and all the soldiers on the boat struggled a few times and disappeared into the yellow waves in a blink of an eye.

But it doesn't make any sense.

Because at this time there were many such boats on the wide surface of the Yellow River.

I don't know how much!

Densely packed and countless, just like the locusts that covered the arid land of Guanzhong in his memory, covering the rushing Yellow River, all the small boats were full of soldiers dressed in red, their silver helmets on their heads were like silver waves on the river, and those ragged captains stood firmly on the boat in the face of cannon fire, and kept approaching the south bank with all their might. Those ordinary people also helped them rampant all over the world and swept the Ming Dynasty.

And now, they are helping the Ming army.

"That's funny!"

He said with a wry smile helplessly.

The sparse artillery fire could not stop the forced crossing of more than 2,000 ships, and after the surrender of Qingkou City without a fight, not only those fishing boats on Hongze Lake, but also fishing boats on all the rivers and lakes around Huai'an, small ferries, and even some sand boats carrying goods, all joined the ranks of helping the imperial army. Even the fishermen of Baima Lake and Baoying Lake, south of Huai'an, have bothered to carry their boats to this water town, where they can come and go freely through any obstacle to where they want to go.

The emperor came up with the slogan of dividing the land, which was like a spell, and they all fell into a state of almost madness.

Why do these fishermen have to risk their lives to go into the water and struggle to survive in the waves of rivers and lakes?

Isn't it because of land annexation that they have no land to plant? Isn't it that all their land has been forcibly seized by the landlords? They have no land in the country, and even they struggle to survive in the rivers and lakes, and they have to carry a lot of taxes, such as a poll tax, a fish tax, and even a fish fry tax, and an additional tax on the salt for pickling fish, and a pile of taxes that wipe out the harvest of all fishermen.

When the emperor came, it was all canceled.

Can those fishermen not be crazy?

Those crazy fishermen drove more than 2,000 battered boats, and in this way, three infantry brigades of the Ming army began the battle to cross the river.

"Damn, what are you doing?"

Lan Yingcheng kicked an artilleryman to the ground, pulled out his knife and shouted.

The muzzle of the cannon in front of the latter burst out with a weak burst of fire, and then the shell fell into the mud less than a hundred zhang away in front of the fort as if it had been gently thrown by a hand, and even the nearest Ming army had to be more than a mile away, which startled the infantry of the Shun army who were preparing to meet the Ming army that landed under the fort.

"My lord, that gunpowder is damp!"

A veteran next to him pulled the artilleryman behind him, and then said with a smiling face.

At the same time, all the artillerymen stopped firing and looked at Lan Yingcheng expressionlessly.

Lan Yingcheng carried the knife, looked at the dry gunpowder in the barrel, and then looked at these guys with anger, when he saw that there were already soldiers touching the handle of the knife, he finally gave up his efforts completely, kicked on the cannon with hatred, and then waved his hand, and simply left the fort with dozens of personal soldiers, rode his war horse under the fort, and rushed to the main force of the five thousand Shun army that was arrayed, and the prancing horse waved his knife and shouted loudly: "Brothers, kill, fight for King Chuang!" ”

After saying that, he rushed straight to the Ming army, which had already begun to set foot on the south bank.

"Quick, array!"

In the mud and sand on the south bank of the Yellow River, Huang Xu, commander of the Second Infantry Brigade of the Ming Army, jumped out of the fishing boat, pulled out his saber and shouted.

Behind him, the standard-bearer quickly raised the brigade flag of the Second Infantry Brigade, a red background golden dragon hugging the white sun and yellow moon, but near the flagpole was a white vertical strip, embroidered with the flag of the Second Infantry Brigade of the Dangkou Army seven characters fluttering above his head, this flag and the three golden horizontal bars on his chest, the colonel logo with three golden four-pointed stars in a row on the middle horizontal bar, immediately became the center of all the landing soldiers on both sides, and soon the first batch of Ming troops to land before the arrival of the Shun army, completed a thousand-level formation.

"Raise the gun!"

At the roar of the officers identified by their ranks, all the soldiers raised their bayonets at the same time.

The forward of the Shun army went into range.

"Fire!"

The officer's roar rang out again.

A wave of Kou Gong instantly erupted into blazing flames, and the dense bullets kept hitting the soldiers of the Shun army on the opposite side, and the latter immediately fell to a piece, but the rest still waved the swords and guns in their hands and shouted forward, the mud barely reaching the ankles severely limited the speed of the Shun army, and in twenty seconds, they only advanced less than thirty meters. The soldiers of the Ming army, who fired the first round of bullets at the same time, completed the loading of the bullets one after another in about 20 seconds, and then aimed at the target again and opened fire, and the Shun army fell again in pieces, but the rest were still shouting and attacking. The soldiers of the Ming army quickly completed the third round of reloading, because of the difference in speed, in fact, there was no obvious separation of shooting at this time, in the formation of four teams in a dense arrangement, all the soldiers were just loading bullets at the fastest speed they could achieve and then shooting, the gunfire continued to sound on this empty river beach, and the attacking Shun army continued to fall in the gunfire.

Only half a minute later, the Shun army was defeated!

"Attack, keep attacking!"

Lan Yingcheng, who was commanding in the back, roared angrily.

Several familiar faces ran past him, and one of them gave him an apologetic look, then lowered his head and continued to run backwards.

At this time, behind the formation of the Ming army, more and more small boats were docking, and then the red-clothed soldiers on the boat quickly jumped out and rushed towards the two wings of the formation, where they stood to check their swinging guns and waited for them, and on the bank of the long river as far as Lan Yingcheng could see, there were more small boats docking, and the second line of infantry had even been formed, and under the leadership of a military flag and its officers, they were coming to this side with neat steps.

"Kill!"

He shouted in despair.

Then he urged his horses to rush to the formation in front, but the hundreds of cavalry behind him turned their horses' heads one after another.

Lan Yingcheng didn't care about them, he rushed towards the Ming army with the last four loyal subordinates, but the mud on the river beach soon stopped his advance, those war horses were getting slower and slower in the mud, Huang Xu's saber opposite him pointed forward, and the Ming army in the formation quickly held the rifle with bayonets, and moved forward in a neat horizontal formation, just when the war horses of Lan Yingcheng's five people were finally trapped by the mud and helplessly unable to move, the encirclement of more than a thousand bayonets quickly surrounded him.

"Those who descend will not die!"

Huang Xu said with a calm expression.

"Lao Tzu would rather die than surrender, he has the ability to come!"

Lan Yingcheng brandished his knife and roared angrily.

Huang Xu didn't say anything, then waved his hand downward, and then countless bayonets stabbed at Lan Yingcheng, the latter's resistance only lasted a few seconds, and those bayonets that flashed with cold light stabbed into their bodies one after another.

"The dead are sent back to the North Shore!"

When those soldiers pulled out their bayonets, Huang Xu looked at Lan Yingcheng's fallen corpse and said.

The two soldiers immediately stepped forward to lift Lan Yingcheng's dead body and send it to the boat on the shore, while Huang Xu pointed forward with the saber in his hand, and the rest of the Ming army marched towards the fort in formation. In fact, after Lan Yingcheng left the fort, the artillery there had stopped firing, and at this time, seeing the rout of the Shun army, the defenders on the fort ran down very simply, lined up under the fort and waited for the arrival of the Ming army. Soon Huang Xu and his men boarded the fort under the greeting of these people, and by this time most of the small boats had already approached the south bank, and groups of Ming troops were marching south in a neat formation on the river beach, and their resistance was almost insignificant.

In this way, the Ming army broke through the Yellow River.

By the time Yang Feng crossed the Yellow River, his vanguard had already reached the city of Huai'an.

However, the next battle of Huai'an did not happen, after Qingkou and Tianfeikou fell in a tearful way, Yuan Zongdi knew very well that there was no point in guarding Huai'an, as long as the Ming army's fleet entered the canal through Tianfeikou, then conquering Huai'an was just a matter of putting the Shenwei invincible general's cannon outside the city, and then shooting a few shells at the city wall. Huai'an is indeed a strong city, but in front of those hundreds of pounds of stone bullets and flowering bullets, there is no strong city to speak of, even those strong fortresses built for years of war in Liaodong can't stop this thing, not to mention Huai'an, which has not experienced war for hundreds of years, and the people in Huai'an City are already eager to try, ready to stab him in the back at any time.

In that case, it's a fart!

Just after the first boat of the Ming army carrying the cannon of the invincible general of Shenwei, dragged by hundreds of slender men, slowly passed through the lock of Tianfeikou, Yuan Zongdi led the main force of 5,000 Shun troops to escape from Huai'an and went straight south to Yangzhou. So after he left, there were 40,000 recruits in the city who were expanding in the south of the Yangtze River, and they simply cut down another former Ming army commander-in-chief, Li Yuchun, and Tian Xiong, who originally captured Hongguang with Ma Degong in history, and then opened the gate of Huai'an to welcome the holy driver into the city.

So far, Huai'an has been conquered, and the Ming army is pointing to Yangzhou.